The measure of success in the money-mad world of football is linked more than ever before to financial clout. Finishing runners-up in the Premier League and losing the Champions League final will count as failure for Manchester United or Chelsea with
Sussex coach Mark Robinson wants some of his lesser lights to share the load today in the absence of Matt Prior and Luke Wright. Both men are on England Lions' duty against New Zealand and miss Sussex's floodlit Friends Provident Trophy tie against Surrey
Sussex all-rounder Luke Wright is comfortable with his decision to reject a six-figure offer to play in the Indian Premier League. The 23-year-old, who plays for England Lions against New Zealand today, was approached by Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar
Albion youngster Wes Fogden has hailed another contract offer as a "great achievement" after fighting back from a spine tumour which threatened his career. Fogden was awarded a one-year pro deal last summer in recognition of his brave recovery from the
Scott Nicholls twice beat two-time world champion Jason Crump as Eastbourne notched their second Elite League away win of the season, beating Belle Vue 48-42. Nicholls got the Eagles off to a terrific start by heading home Crump in heat one with Lewis
Dick Knight has underlined the "urgent need" for a new stadium after Albion reported pre-tax losses of £2.8 million for the year ending June 2007. Knight said the losses were predictable given the club were relegated to League One and spent more than
A paedophile killed himself with cyanide to prevent himself being extradited to the Netherlands for importing child porn. Chemistry teacher Keith Hudson, 54, who lived in Crowborough, was due to fly out to serve five months in a Dutch prison but failed
Giant holes are again appearing in the county's roads. Thieves are creating potentially fatal hazards for pedestrians, cyclists and motorists across East Sussex by stealing protective metal grates from road drains. More than 150 grates were stolen
Dozens of firefighters battled for hours against a blaze in a farm warehouse. At least six engines were called to the farm in Thakeham, near Pulborough at about 6pm on Wednesday. One hour later 40% of the 40m by 10m storage shed was well alight. It
A town has been given light at the end of the tunnel after an eight year wait for flood defences. The Environment Agency has applied for planning permission to build a flood wall in Uckfield. The move signals the end of a long-running battle for residents
The most senior policeman in Brighton and Hove has accused politicians of "fiddling while Rome burns" by reclassifying cannabis as a Class B drug. Chief Superintendent Paul Pearce said the Government's decision would have no effect on the vast majority
A traveller in disaster-torn Burma has emailed his family as they prepared to give him up for dead. Tom Bourden, 29, from Eastbourne, had not made contact with his family since a cyclone hit the city of Rangoon on Saturday. At least 22,000 people are
Charity fundraiser Simon Spinks showed bear-faced cheek when he trekked 18,000ft up the world's tallest mountain. The Brightonian stunned fellow climbers at Mount Everest Base Camp when he reached the landmark - only to hold a teddy bears' picnic
The qualities of certain players have always been the subject for much debate among supporters but I expect there would have been a lot of mutual head scratching among Albion fans this week. Only the most romantic among them would have held out much
The future of St Peter's is still hanging in the balance. Church commissioners today told the Bishop of Chichester to have a rethink. He was also asked to hold talks with Holy Trinity Brompton about a rescue plan for Brighton's best-known place of worship
The man who helped develop Gareth Barry's career has quit with a broadside at the Football Association Les Rogers is retiring after 25 years coaching at Albion's centre of excellence. Rogers has been at the forefront when it comes to unearthing and
Body-in-the-box killer Andre Genestin has told how he bludgeoned his wife to death just seconds after she told him she was pregnant. In a day of dramatic evidence, Genestin, 49, told Lewes Crown Court Catherine, 38, had intended to tell him the news
Had a rather baffling conversation on Monday when presenting my first Argus Angel award to the Tom Tom Club. I accidentally rang the newsdesk of my old paper, instead of The Argus's, to ask where the photographer had got to. After five minutes of telling
A row over funding between city headteachers and their council bosses has intensified. In a joint letter the heads of all nine state secondary schools in Brighton and Hove have demanded urgent action to stop them from falling into debt or being
The ruthless Mr Big behind a £5million plot to flood the streets of Brighton with cocaine was been jailed for 24 years today. Lorenzo Sirignano, 51, was the mastermind behind the biggest ever drugs ring to be smashed in Sussex. He put up the money to
Garry Wilson is confident Eastbourne Borough will not buckle under the pressure in tomorrow's Blue Square south play-off final - three years after they froze on the big stage. Borough take on Hampton and Richmond in front of the television cameras at
It is hard to believe that not so long ago I spent nights crying myself to sleep at the thought of not being around for my children as they grow up. Now I find myself writing as the mother of a teenager. Jacob had his 13th birthday during the Easter
A postcode lottery has emerged on the availability of drug addiction services in Sussex. A report released today by health watchdogs rates services in Brighton and Hove good but East and West Sussex only fair. West Sussex was ranked among the
Charlie, our beautiful newborn baby boy, received front page coverage (The Argus, April 12). As loving parents to Alfie, our eldest son, and Charlie, we were stunned, as any parents would be, to see our baby, three days old appear on the front
I agree with Jean Calder that The Lady Boys of Bangkok is a bit of a freak show (The Argus, May 3) and it does make you wonder if these boys were forced into this lifestyle by poverty. Ms Calder's comments that "What we do know is that in
Our daughter is four years old and we live at the top end of Hartington Road, Brighton. She has spent time at two of the local nurseries and has lots of friends within the area. We have a limited choice of schools because we have a cemetery and
Every week I visit my disabled father in Hove. On March 15, I went as usual but unfortunately, in error, I scratched off March 14 on my visitors parking permit. When I left I noticed I had received a fixed penalty charge of £60. I wrote and explained
With reference to Adam Price's comments about BT charging customers to pay by cheque or direct debit (Letters, April 17), I have been in touch with Hove MP Celia Barlow who looked into the matter of the £4.50 charge. She wrote to Ofcom and it said
As well as the recent alterations to The Drive in Hove to accommodate two cycle lanes, a busy business street and residential road - Cambridge Grove and adjacent Cambridge Mews - has lost its "Keep clear" box at the junction with The Drive. This
Producer Chris Moreno is on to a winner with Hello, Dolly! - which in addition to the title song has other show-stoppers in Put On Your Sunday Clothes, Before The Parade Passes By and It Only Takes A Moment. Anita Dobson is superb as meddling matchmaker
Anyone who grew up watching television in the 1980s couldn't fail to get excited about Fraggle Rock co-creator Jocelyn Stevenson, the first guest for Space's second birthday party. As well as pointing out the sorry state of kids' TV in the UK, where
My family has been visiting Newhaven harbour and beach since before the Second World War. My dad tells me that they used to drive down every weekend in the summers of the 1930s. My grandfather had a launch moored there until it sank. It was always
Chief Superintendent Paul Pearce, Sussex Police's divisional commander for Brighton and Hove, puts the 15% fall in recorded crime last year down to the relentless pressure by the police on criminals. How come when there is not a single policeman
Brian Oxley, leader of Brighton and Hove City Council (Letters, May 5), claims that: "Research in Scotland, where Greens are pushing to get land value taxation introduced, shows that areas where land values are high, eg, Brighton and Hove, would
In reply to Malcolm Martindale's letter entitled "Blooming shame" (Letters, May 1), all has become clear as to why the polyanthus were removed from the Old Steine. It was to allow the Udderbelly to be erected. I have witnessed its staff digging
I would like to say a big thank you to all the people who kindly stopped to help my husband and I when we both fell while out walking in London Road, Brighton, at noon on Monday, April 28. A particular thank you to the lady who stayed with my husband
An elderly woman has been left trapped after a car and a minibus collided. The accident happened at about 1.20pm today on the A26 at Clay Hill near the junction with Barkham Mills Road. The road was blocked southbound as firefighters from Lewes and
Britain's nuclear weapons system Trident will reach the end of its lifespan in 2024. The Government plans to renew it. This would be a huge mistake. The problem is not just Britain's nuclear weapons or those of any one country. It is nuclear weapons
I am researching the Lane Magnetic Recorder Company, of Dyke Road, Brighton, which made tape recorder decks from about 1950 to 1959 when it went into liquidation. I believe it was founded by G Tack who may also have offered decks under his own name
The Tom-Tom Club are a group of daredevil acrobats and their accompanying street sound, rhythmic musicians. The acrobats wore jeans and trainers whilst tumbling, flying, flipping each other and leaping through the air. The nearest to a costume was
Vandals have caused more than £15,000 of damage by smashing almost 100 windows at a school. Staff at Hove Park School discovered the wreckage when they opened the lower school campus in Hangleton Way, Hove, at 7am today. Yobs appeared to have jumped
It's not the kind of meal that Jamie Oliver would serve up down the road. But Moira Buffini's stylised allegory is agreeable fare, which slips down rather well. The set is the home of social Darwinist Lars and his acerbic wife, Paige, who has thrown
More than 150 students staged a mock outdoor exam to protest at others being banned from taking tests because they could not afford fees. The protest in a courtyard at the University of Sussex last Friday was the latest stage in an escalating
A love-laden tribute to the late Scottish-born, Canadian animator and filmmaker Norman McLaren, 4d Art's production dazzles in its intensity and vision. Prior to seeing this, I knew nothing of McLaren's work. Within minutes I was a rapt student. Masterfully
As a revelatory phenomenon, light often distorts as much as it illuminates, making strange what is familiar to us. Urban areas seem particularly susceptible to this process, consisting as they do of a multitude of lines, angles and surfaces and Brighton
The Dome Concert Hall was transformed into an Afro-funk party for this explosive world premiere which paid tribute to James Brown. The godfather of soul inspired a whole generation of African artists when he played a show in Zaire in advance of Muhammad
Never organise festival tickets for your friends – especially when there’s a stampeding herd of 30 of them! You may be counting on a surge of good karma from your gesture of goodwill but when there’s a mix up at the box office and the ticket envelope
Hundreds of students have been evacuated after a suspected unexploded bomb was discovered at a university building site. Classes have been emptied and buildings closed at the University of Brighton in Falmer following the discovery shortly after 11am
They've got beats, rhythm and style, what other ingredient do you need to create the perfect show? Well, try throwing more than a few life-threatening stunts into the mix and there you have it, at least that's what the guys of the Tom Tom Club seem to
Smartwater allotment holders who have been plagued by thieves and vandals are fighting back with an innovative deterrent - water. The green-fingered growers from Littlehampton have seen their plots trashed by yobs and their tools stolen in a series of
A star of reality TV show Wife Swap has been found dead after a suspected drug overdose. The body of Simon Foster was found in a flat in Whitehawk after his marriage collapsed. Mr Foster, a father of two, appeared in the eighth series of the Channel
Many might hesitate to call two hours of drumming "music", and with the Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers, they'd be right - it's so much more. Fusing the grace of dance with the pounding beat of the Taiko drums, a unique kind of theatre is created, and it's a
A terrified 11-year-old girl woke up to find a burglar in her bedroom. The raider ordered Lauren Reid to be quiet and then locked himself and the child in an upstairs flat above the Albion Inn, Fishersgate. The distraught girl did as she was
He may have only been in the job a few days but Brighton Festival's new chief executive is already looking to the future. Andrew Comben took on the head role of the Brighton Festival and Dome on Friday and kicked off his official engagements
The world famous Bognor Birdman rally will be hosted by Worthing this year barring last minute health and safety hitches. The town has stumped up the £25,000 needed to stage the annual seaside extravaganza over the weekend of July 5 and 6. A
A doting woman who visited her sick sister every day in hospital while she recovered from a brain haemorrhage has died suddenly from the same condition. Tributes have been paid to mother-of-two Lisa Mears, 39, after she collapsed at her home
A council has decided to ditch its historic formal robes in a bid to modernise. Eastbourne Borough Council will sell its gowns - but use the money to buy more. Councillors agreed to scrap the gowns following a motion put forward by Andrew Goodwin.
Historic buildings dating from centuries back are likely to be lost to the sea. A bid to have tank traps and pill boxes at Cuckmere Haven listed will not stop plans to flood the valley and turn it into mudflats, Environment Agency officials have insisted
Coastguards launched a major rescue operation after a man went for a late night dip. The man, who was said to have been drinking, went swimming off the coast of Worthing late on Tuesday night. Solent Coastguard launched a helicopter and a lifeboat after
Health bosses will today back plans that will lead to accident and emergency services at West Sussex's three main hospitals being saved. Members of the West Sussex Primary Care Trust are expected to agree a recommendation ensuring services stay at Worthing
Paul Reid has directed a parting shot at Albion boss Dean Wilkins and his management style. The normally mild-mannered Australian is seething over the the handling of his departure from the Seagulls. Reid claims Wilkins: l Does not communicate enough
