The True Stories Told Live (Brighton) event is on 9th March at 7.30 pm at The Ginger Dog in Kemp Town. Last month the story club heard from: Terry Conway, who had a tough North London upbringing which included gang-style shootings and mind
The 2nd Brighton Marathon is on Sunday 10th April and to kick off the festivities Portslade Community Forum are organising the 2nd Portslade Marafun! It will be held in Vale Park on Saturday 9th April. Attractions on the day include The Climbing
Albion 4 Carlisle 3. ALBION have often been described this season as the Arsenal of League One. Now they have turned into the Manchester United of League One. The campaign has, for the most part, been memorable for Gus Poyet’s passing style of football
WEAVING fact with fiction, local writer, director and actor Jonathan Brown tells the story of digging a 900ft well in Woodingdean. It also relates Jack Tompkins’s search for the truth about his mother who died when he was a child – a search that uncovers
LIAM Bridcutt has targeted more goals after breaking his career duck in the league to snatch another Withdean win for Albion. The midfielder’s stunning left-foot volley deep into injury time completed a dramatic 4-3 victory over Carlisle, who had just
I HAD the same difficulty as Alan Randall buying train tickets on Southern Railway’s website (Letters, March 4) and gave up. By contrast, I had no difficulty in buying a train ticket from Copenhagen to Stockholm on the Swedish Railways website and was
I ATTENDED the City In Bloom working group meeting last week and left feeling rather disappointed. I appreciate cuts are a fact of life, but do we really need to take the axe to parts of the City In Bloom competition? This year there
I OPENED the front door to go to work yesterday morning and found a book on the doorstep. I love a good read and the opportunity to try something new that I wouldn’t necessarily choose myself. My son is also looking forward to choosing a book with which
I KEEP seeing the term “Boris bikes” appearing in The Argus. Surely these should be more correctly referred to as “Paris bikes” as that city had them long before the present mayor of London appropriated the idea and claimed it for his own. Also, in
FOLLOWING your coverage of our petition asking the council to improve pedestrian safety in the Hollingdean Dip (The Argus, March 4), we would like to encourage residents who may have experienced or witnessed an incident in the dip to come forward.
ALTHOUGH the question “Do you want the United Kingdom to adopt the alternative vote” is fairly put, no one, not even Nick Clegg, pretends this is the moment the British people have been waiting for. Few of us knew there was such a thing
RATHER than “falling at the first fence” (The Argus, March 5), it was Labour and not the Green Party that finally helped ensure an additional £2.5m went back into essential services such as bus routes, Connexions youth guidance, elderly care and
A planning application has been made to close the footpath through Stanmer House garden which, if successful, will deny public access. Stanmer Park was purchased by the then Brighton Corporation in 1947 and was designated a public park in perpetuity
Promotion-chasing Crawley have signed 19-year-old central defender Charlie Wassmer from Blue Square Bet premier rivals Hayes & Yeading. Wassmer, a regular in the Hayes side this campaign, has joined Reds on loan until the end of the season
A lifeboat crew has already responded to double the number of incidents it normally would at this time of year. On Saturday, Brighton lifeboat crew volunteers were called to help four people who were thought to be in difficulty on a small craft close
People worried that their Facebook friends are suicidal will be able to alert the Samaritans via the social networking site. It comes after the friends and family of a Brighton woman who announced on Facebook that she would be taking her own
They hope to go from silver screen to at least silver anniversary and that the credits will never roll on marital bliss. Carolyn Silkowski and her partner Chris Layzell, 31, were so determined to get married at the historic Duke of York’s Picturehouse
Albion have been motoring in the fast lane so far this season and now the perfect gift has come on the market for any Seagulls supporter. Rob Jupp will drive a hard bargain but he’s looking to sell his Albion-based licence plate C6ULS and is
Cannabis plants with a potential street value of £18,000 were on a farm. The 450 plants were discovered in outbuildings at 9.30am on Sunday in Down Street, Nutley, near Uckfield. The plants were at various stages of cultivation. Two men, aged 60
Two men have been released on bail after a woman and man were injured in a stabbing. Officers were called to Jubilee Road, Bexhill, at about 1am on Saturday after reports of a dispute in the street. On arrival they found that a 20-year old local man
More job losses have been announced as youth cuts deepen. West Sussex County Council has announced a further 37 jobs will go in children and young people’s services this year as the authority struggles to make more than £7 million of savings over the
The widow of a man whose body was found in a burnt out car has paid tribute to her “loyal and devoted” husband. Steve Kent, who was found dead in his Rover saloon, had been due to celebrate his 25th wedding anniversary to his wife Jacqui.
Safety incidents at Sussex hospitals resulted in the deaths of ten patients and harmed almost 1,500 others in just six months. Information published by the National Patient Safety Agency gives details of mistakes, accidents and other problems reported
A man will appear in court today charged with attempting to rob a Brighton newsagents. Stephen William Jones, 49, of Redvers Road, Brighton, has been charged with attempted robbery and possessing an offensive weapon. Following a search of his property
A man who allegedly wielded a kitchen knife inside a home has been charged with affray. James Dennett, 18, of Bexleigh Avenue, St Leonards, was charged following the incident on Saturday and bailed to appear at Hastings Magistrates Court on
A road was closed after a man collapsed. The man, who has not been named, collapsed as he walked in Lion Lane, Turners Hill, near Crawley, at about 10am today. Sussex Police said Lion Lane and North Street were temporarily closed. The man was taken
A Jack Russell is fighting for his life after being attacked by three other dogs. Meanwhile the animal’s owner suffered a puncture wound to her hand while she attempted to rescue her pet. The incident took place in Holly Place, Eastbourne, between
Activists are trying to stop landowners clearing them from a "community garden" on waste ground in Brighton. About 30 people have gathered at a site they have named The Mound, at the corner of Church Street and Portland Street in North Laine
Revellers were forced to flee a party in terror after a man wielding an axe tried to attack them. Some people were injured after the man smashed his way into the rave in the early hours of Saturday. Police were called to the basement of a disused office
Albion chief Gus Poyet says there will be no problems between him and rival manager Nicky Forster at Brentford tomorrow night. The pair fell out last season, when skipper Forster pressed for a new contract. The stepfather of Albion
Two dogs were spotted harassing sheep in East Sussex. A police spokesman issued an appeal for information about the animals, saying: “Do you own or know who owns two cross breed labs gold and black, in the Catsfield area? They were seen harassing sheep
A man in his 30s died after suffering a cardiac arrest in Hastings. Kent’s Air Ambulance flew to the scene but the man, who has not been named, could not be resuscitated. The tragedy took place at 10.30am on Saturday. The air ambulance did not provide
Three Bridges boss Paul Faili saw his side win 6-1 to keep their title hopes alive but admitted it is Crawley Down’s to lose. Down remain two points clear with four games in hand after Tom Burton scored a goal in each half to secure a 2-0 home win over
ALBION boss Gus Poyet is glad to have Radostin Kishishev back for the final promotion push. The 36-year-old midfielder made his first appearance since the end of January in Saturday’s thriller against Carlisle. Kishishev only returned
Three men are due in court today charged with the murder of a man whose badly-burned body was found on a golf course in Brighton. Stefan Welch, 37, was discovered by golfers as they walked between the 17th and 18th holes at Dyke Golf Club just before
A missing 59-year-old has been found safe and well. Elizabeth Cummings, who had been missing from her address in Cantelupe Road, Bexhill since Wednesday 2 March, has now returned home.
Police and firefighters are at the scene of a crash in East Sussex. A vehicle has overturned on the B2188 Marden’s Hill in Friar Gate, near Crowborough. Local road closures are on place at the moment.
Firefighters helped pull a car from a ditch near Crawley. The driver went off the road, down a ditch and hit a tree at 1.55pm on Saturday, Crawley firefighters said. The crash took place outside the Copthorne Hotel in Copthorne Way, Copthorne.
In January 1980, Athina B became an unlikely tourist attraction when it beached near the Palace Pier in Brighton. In today's Looking Back feature in The Argus, we take a look back to the day the beached ship attracted scores of visitors to
These children did not need the Paparazzi to feel like stars. Trying out her Poker Face at Fairlight Primary and Nursery School in St Leonard’s Road, Brighton, was singer Lady Gaga and a mini comedian Harry Hill gave his classmates a few giggles
Two fire and rescue services will receive grants of £31,380 from the government to help deal with flood emergencies. West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service will be given £26,700 to spend on training and equipment for a powered rescue team.
