Gus Poyet insisted he was to blame for Albion's 1-0 home defeat to West Ham. Kevin Nolan fired home to secure a smash-and-grab win for the well-organised Hammers, who gave keeper Manuel Almunia great protection as Albion enjoyed copious amounts
Albion suffered a second home defeat of the season as West Ham's Kevin Nolan beat an old mate tonight. Nolan rifled a terrific finish past his former Newcastle colleague Steve Harper on 17 minutes to give West Ham a 1-0 success at The Amex.
Stephen Young is right about the many problems caused by pavement parking. In Elm Grove, where parking has been tolerated (and even facilitated) on what used to be grass verges, we have ended up with a situation where there are no commonly
I absolutely agree with Jean Calder’s article in The Argus (October 15). In fact, I was composing a letter to The Argus regarding Brighton and Hove City Council catering for more and more students, English and foreign. There are hundreds of flats, built
Recently, a development in the New England Quarter was approved which, among other things, contained 147 homes, only 53 of which were classed as affordable. During its years in opposition, the Green party was always very loud in its support of at least
I WOULD like to say a huge thank you to everyone who contributed to our collection along Brighton and Hove seafront on Sunday, September 25, as part of our annual Memory Walk for the Alzheimer’s Society. We collected £612.04 en route, with more than
I FEEL that June Szypulski puts words in my mouth I did not say (Letters, October 18). Nowhere in my letter about the new project for the Royal Sussex County Hospital did I say I opposed the building of it. What I clearly opposed was the building of
I FIND it concerning that a Sussex Police helicopter could be moved from its base at Shoreham Airport to Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey (The Argus, October 17). This would see a significant reduction in emergency cover for Sussex. At present, the whole
Fatboy Slim will become the first music artist to play at the American Express Community Stadium. The Hove resident and die-hard Albion fan said the gigs to be held on June 1 and June 2 next year will be the “biggest event of his life".
Loan signings Steve Harper and Gonzalo Jara Reyes make their first Albion starts as Gus Poyet rings the changes tonight. They come in as two of four changes for the clash with West Ham at The Amex. Goalkeeper Harper was brought in from
Hundreds of visitors flocked to the seafront to enjoy its latest tourist attraction. The Brighton Wheel started turning and was declared open for business. Those lucky enough to take a ride on the 45-metre high attraction were treated to clear skies
Fill your car up for less with The Argus' handy guide to the lowest priced unleaded and diesel at supermarkets and on garage forecourts around Sussex. Brighton Asda Marina, Brighton, Unleaded: 132.7p Diesel: 137.7p Hove Hove
A commitment to co-operative schools as a way to solve the place crisis has been voted down by councillors. Brighton and Hove City Council’s Labour and Co-op group hoped the local authority would support the introduction of a not-for-profit school run
Carol singers could be stopped from making door-to-door collections under proposals which would treat them like salesmen. A ballot asking people in Seaford to vote on accepting a no cold-calling zone ends today with the results expected on Thursday (
“They were the defining times of my life. I’m never going to be known as an art teacher – I will always be knownas that bloke in The Specials.” So says Horace Panter, bassist with the UK ska band which is returning to the Brighton Centre tomorrow
Brighton’s Royal Pavilion Real Ice Rink and Restaurant is back by popular demand following its debut last year. It will open its gates on November 12 until January 22. The 800 square metre rink has space for 250 skaters per session with child-friendly
Support for children educated at home to take college courses could cost a council more than £300,000 a year. An opposition leader at West Sussex County Council claims the authority has brought in the costly scheme for the benefit of ‘just four families
A teenage care home worker killed an elderly resident in East Sussex after she deliberately set fire to her room so she could "act as the heroine", a court has heard. Irene Herring, 85, was rescued by firefighters from her top-floor, single-occupancy
An elderly pedestrian was airlifted to hospital after she was hit by a car. The 72-year-old woman from Lewes suffered serious leg injuries following a collision with a Ford Galaxy driven by a 43-year-old man also from Lewes. Emergency
New additions to the Roadworks watch map today: A259 Barnhorn Road, Bexhill: Resurfacing work between the junction with Sandhurst Lane and Little Common Roundabout until the end of the month. A27 near Polegate: Resurfacing work will take
ALBION boss Gus Poyet has hailed tonight’s showdown against West Ham as a sign of the club’s progress. The Seagulls take on the Championship promotion favourites in front of a full house at The Amex and the Sky cameras. The clash comes
A students’ union is looking for a chief executive to lead it into the future. The University of Brighton Students’ Union became a charity about a year ago and the new role has been created to reflect the changes which are being made in the way it is
The number of children being excluded from schools in East Sussex has soared. In the last academic year – 2010/2011 – 70 schoolchildren were excluded from primary and secondary schools across the county. This is an average of nearly
Anyone offended by Ricky Gervais’s recent Twitter gaffe might want to stop reading. For those familiar with Scottish stand-up Jerry Sadowitz, you know the score. What new to say about the big-haired, foul-mouthed Sadowitz and his wilfully controversial
Sauntering on stage sipping from a large glass of red wine, Marcel Lucont congratulated his lucky audience on their taste in comedy. The world’s finest faux-French womaniser had a new show to perform, building on his repertoire of softly-mused mockery
Anyone nostalgic for the Breton musician Yann Tiersen’s accordion days, which produced the music that made the soundtrack to the movie Amélie, would have been disappointed by his latest album Skyline. Gone are the Francophone quirks in place
A triumph of the Brighton Philharmonic on Sunday was their presentation of classical music with a popular style. Haydn’s Symphony No 82, The Bear and The Jupiter Symphony by Mozart both fuse accessible melodic invention with the highest of musical art
Not so much stand-up as sit-down comedy, John Moloney relied mainly on the power of his carefully constructed observational routines to win over his Pavilion Theatre audience. His opening remarks were almost like a confessional – admitting his early
Jason Byrne stood stock-still in his bright red jacket as the theme to 2001 A Space Odyssey boomed out, before breaking into a very passable Riverdance as the lights came up. And so the mayhem began. His show is entitled Cirque du Byrne. To
Five years ago, Seann Walsh was starting out on the comedy circuit in Brighton, having completed a comedy course at Komedia. Since then he has appeared on TV programmes such as The Comedy Roadshow and Eight Out Of Ten Cats, to name a few. He stepped
There’s no single word for vaginas – but an assortment of strange epithets, euphemisms and endearments. And no standard way to describe them, for they are as individual as the experiences that stem from them. As such, revealed Eve Ensler’s
A CAMPAIGN to save an arts centre from closure has received more than £12,000 in donations. It has taken just one week to raise more than half of the £20,000 the Ropetackle Arts Centre in Shoreham needs in order to make it through the next
Police are hunting a conman who is wanted for recall by Sussex Police. Adam Dovey, whose last known address was Trafalgar Road, Portslade, has connections to Brighton and Liverpool. Dovey, 29, was jailed in 2008 after he offered cameras, laptops and
Lewes, 2-1 winners over Cray Wanderers at the weekend, have been drawn away to Ryman division one north side Harlow Town in the second qualifying round of the FA Trophy. Worthing will entertain either Marlow or Didcot Town in they can overcome Bashley
A woman was kicked and punched as she walked her dog. She was attacked by another woman as she walked in a field near the Village Hall Nursery, Coolham, near Horsham, at noon on Friday (21). Children and their parents were leaving the nursery at the
A VISIT to the theatre could become more leisurely if it is allowed to serve drinks to people in their seats. The Theatre Royal, in New Road, Brighton, wants to provide a seat-side service at selected shows so people will no longer have to leave the
Two teenagers were stabbed in Lewes The incident took place following the Nevill bonfire celebrations in Prince Edwards Road, Lewes, at 10.50pm on Saturday. An 18-year-old Eastbourne man and a 17-year-old Lindfield boy each received a
Zombies marching through the city for the fifth Beach of the Dead were slow to leave Victoria Gardens as they had to wait for the traffic. But they took it in good humour and waved at shocked looking bus passengers as they sailed past.
HOSPITAL bosses have issued a review after a patient was refused help to cover the cost of getting to an operation early in the morning. The patient, from the Worthing area, was told they had to get to St Richard’s Hospital in Chichester by 6.45am for
More than 200 protesters turned up outside a hall near St Leonards ahead of a speech by BNP leader Nick Griffin. Mr Griffin had been due to speak at a private meeting at Baldslow Memorial Hall in St Leonards yesterday (October 23) evening.
Update: Officers investigating a fatal hit and run in Hassocks would like to speak to a Worthing man in connection with the incident. Police are seeking to speak to Imran Shaukat, 26, in relation to the fatal collision on the A273, London Road
Albion have beaten off competition from Championship rivals to sign new No. 1 Steve Harper on loan from Newcastle. Boss Gus Poyet revealed to The Argus: "There were plenty of teams interested in Steve. It wasn't easy. "We are very pleased
The daily price of the Argus is now 45p, an increase of 3p. This represents an increase of over 7% of the previous price of 42p. The week-end Saturday - Sunday bumper edition, which includes the magazine TV&leisure, will be 60p from October
Police officers are increasingly turning to secondary jobs as marriage registrars, ballet teachers and Tai Chi instructors. Since June last year, more than 75 officers with Sussex Police have applied for permission to have a secondary income
Albion have signed veteran Newcastle keeper Steve Harper on a month's loan. The 36-year-old is expected to make his debut against West Ham at The Amex tonight at the expense of Casper Ankergren and alongside the Seagulls' other Premier League
MORE than 100 people have protested against welfare cuts for the disabled. Demonstrators from across Sussex and the south east gathered at Jubilee Square in Brighton as part of the Hardest Hit campaign. The campaign is organised by the Disability Benefits
The shock of thick curls, drooping moustache and puppy dog eyes which gave character to his sentimental songs of 1970s teenage love may now be but a memory but after several years off stage, Dean Friedman is ever the Rumpled Romeo. There was no mistaking
Richard Cameron's bittersweet comedy could easily bear the subtitle “The Pitman Singers” for this is about Northern miners occupying their spare time with close harmony rather than painting. Set in 1962 the play tells of the club’s preparation for
Brighton and Hove Albion fans will be the first to hear a special announcement from Fatboy Slim aka Norman Cook before kick off tonight. The DJ will be on the pitch at the Amex Stadium at 7.40pm before the game against West Ham. Anyone
Singing Adams is the third coming of singer-songwriter Steven Adams. The former Broken Family Band frontman put the group together six months after a split befitting the cult country-cum-indie band’s name. “On the whole most people from the Broken
1 - From the roadside in Ashurst, cross a stile that is left of a wooden barn, opposite The Fountain Inn. Walk down the right hedgerow to a stile, continuing on an enclosed path. Cross plank bridges at the end of the footpath, into a quiet road.
GUS Poyet has backed his Albion players to turnaround the worst run of his reign when West Ham visit The Amex tonight. The Seagulls have lost three and drawn three of their last six matches after leading the Championship early on. They
A museum will receive a donation of a valuable vase depicting Princess Charlotte of Wales, the only child of the Prince Regent. The vase will be officially handed over to Brighton and Hove Museums Service by its owner Ronald Pedley on Wednesday. It
Almost exactly a century ago, a powerful plea for Brighton to have its own university was made at a mayoral banquet. Distinguished architect Charles Clayton gave a compelling case for it on November 9, 1911, but it took another 50 years for his vision
When Wellesley House in Waterloo Place, Brighton, was built in 1970, it had to be in two halves. This was because 89-year-old Harriet Sylvester refused to move from her house, despite many offers to go. The block was only completed in 1974 after
Next to the Roman Baths pub in York is a narrow doorway. It would be easy to miss – at first glance it looks like the entrance to the pub. But a sign declares there are Roman remains inside, which seem too good to miss, and so I descend the stairs
Hundreds of people will take part in a city's own Tour de France on a park's cycle track. Cyclists aim to cover the distance of 1,500 miles by together pedalling a total of 3,500 laps of the Preston Park cycle track in Brighton. Pedal
There are few things to make one feel more like a hapless Englishman abroad than the realisation one has the wrong currency. Worse still is when the realisation you’ve been given Norwegian Krona at the airport occurs in a crowded Danish restaurant
If there is one thing that Brighton and Hove lacks, it’s space. Squeezed into small apartments or maisonettes, gardening and growing are out of the question. However, one keen gardener has found a way around the tight city constraints, and Jenny
A woman was grabbed and sexually assaulted as she made her way to the railway station. The 36-year-old was walking along Temple Street, into Montpelier Place, Brighton, when she was attacked at about 7am on Sunday. Nothing was stolen from her and sustained
A couple have been jailed for ten months after their sham marriage was exposed. Kristyna Salaseviciute, 28, and Vitalii Zhytnyk, 24, married at Worthing Register Office after Salaseviciute was offered £3,000 to take part in the scam which was
A man was attacked by three men who punched him to the floor and took his mobile phone. The 25-year-old victim was walking home when he was robbed in Southover Road, at the unction with Garden Street, Lewes, at about 7.40pm on October 13. He
A motorcyclist was killed when his bike collided with a car travelling in the opposite direction. The 33-year-old, from London, died at the scene following the crash in School Hill, Maresfield, at midday yesterday. The 59-year-old man
A pensioner died after a fire broke out in the porch of his home. Emergency services rushed to the man’s home in Firle Road, Peacehaven, at about 12.30pm on Saturday, after receiving a call from a person who is believed to have been one of
A care home worker will go on trial today accused of killing an elderly resident by setting fire to her room. Irene Herring, 86, was rescued by firefighters from her top-floor, single-occupancy room at Ancaster Court in Hastings Road, Bexhill, on February
DEVELOPMENT plans to provide some of the greenest homes in Europe have been amended. Architects and planners have spent the last four years completing designs for the zero-carbon, climate-neutral community of buildings known as PortZED. The multi-million
