Sussex hospital bosses have defended standards following reports about poor hygiene. A national newspaper said rat droppings had been found in kitchen areas at Southlands Hospital in Shoreham and Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead. But both hospitals
A postcode lottery has emerged in the care of diabetic patients across Sussex. Figures show less than half of diabetics in Brighton and Hove and West Sussex are getting the recommended level of care, while the figure rose to just over half for East Sussex
Crawley have slapped a £1.5million price tag on Kyle McFadzean in a bid to scare off potential suitors. Reds took up the option of a one-year extension on McFadzean’s contract at the end of the season which will keep him at Broadfield Stadium until next
A young cyclist has been killed following a crash with a dustbin lorry. A Hastings man, believed to be in his 20s, collided with a refuse lorry just after 10.30am this morning in Haywood Way at the junction with Ivyhouse Lane, Hastings. The man was
A convicted murderer hopes to be cleared of killing a heroin addict and burning his body on a golf course. Sean Iran is taking his case to the Court of Appeal in June – 14 months after a jury found him guilty of bludgeoning Stefan Welch to death. Aged
A cyclist was killed after his bike was involved in a crash with a refuse lorry in Hastings this morning. The 20--year-old Hastings man collided with the lorry just after 10.30am in Haywood Way, junction with Ivyhouse Lane. A police spokesman said
A statue to celebrate one of Sussex’s most famous Olympians will be unveiled on the eve of the London 2012 games. City businessmen have come together and paid £50,000 for a permanent reminder to be created of Steve Ovett, who won 800m gold at the 1980
Adam El-Abd has seen his hopes of a World Cup debut with Egypt dashed. The Albion defender has been told passport registering procedures will not be completed in time for the qualifier against Mozambique on Friday. Egypt boss Bob Bradley revealed in
Young professionals are scouring a city looking for places to set up home. Brighton and Hove is the most popular place in the country, outside London, for successful urbanites. Research from Lloyds TSB looked at home sales made to professionals aged
A Porsche has smashed through the window of a shop in Hove. The vehicle crashed through the window of Sevenoaks Sound and Vision in Western Road at about 2pm. Sussex Police and firefighters are at the scene. On Twitter people
Thousands of NHS workers have been warned job cuts are among the drastic measures that may be needed if a trust does not get its spending under control. In a message to staff, the finance director of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
The man who died whilst saving a five-year old girl from the water at West Wittering beach on Saturday has been named. He was 32-year old Plamen Petkova, of Westmoreland Drive, Sutton, Surrey. A postmortem held today at St Richards Hospital
Police were called after reports that a seagull was shot in the head and killed in Peacehaven. The herring gull was brooding her newly hatched chicks when she was shot in Ashington Gardens, at about 3am on Saturday. Neighbours said they heard a shot
Gig goers have even more reason to lick their lips in anticipation of Big Beach Bootique 5 – the chance to get their mouth around a hot summer creation. Partygoers at Fatboy Slim’s gigs at American Express Community Stadium on Friday and Saturday will
Delays of up to an hour have been reported on a major coast road after a lorry broke down. Vehicles heading in both directions have been affected after the incident on the A259 South Coast Road in Peacehaven at about 7.30am this morning.
A Sussex father-of-three has been quizzed by US investigators as part of a Google privacy row. Former Lancing College pupil Marius Milner was named by the New York Times as an anonymous Google employee who wrote the computer code that allowed
Traders have warned that over-policing the city centre during the bank holiday could put people off visiting the shops. Sussex Police have said that some nationalist-affiliated groups are planning to meet in Brighton and Hove on Saturday. On the same
The American Express Community Stadium in Falmer plays host to leading international industry figures, pioneering business leaders and politicians, including local MPs Caroline Lucas, Greg Barker and Norman Baker, at the first Smart Business Conference
One in seven parking tickets issued in Brighton and Hove have been ripped up after being challenged. More than £1 million worth of fines have been cancelled in the past two years by council officials after angry drivers refused to pay them.
Football matches have been cancelled after travellers moved onto a pitch. An unauthorised encampment has been established on open space just off Mile Oak Gardens near the boundary between Portslade and Southwick. Mile Oak Wanderers football team, which
A performer in the Lady Boys of Bangkok has come second in a modelling competition. Angkookrat Rawangnam, known as Toon, pictured, was born a man but lives full time as a woman. She came second in Brighton’s Next Hot Model – a competition to find the
A rider is in a critical condition in hospital after falling off her bolting horse. The 28-year-old woman from Eastbourne was riding in Under Road, Magham Down, just before 6pm yesterday when the animal became startled and started galloping at
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley is expected to give a formal decision on a £420 million hospital redevelopment this week. If he gives the go-ahead to the proposals for Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton it will mean funding for the first
Cleaning up litter in Brighton and Hove costs the city more than £5m a year. After the busiest weekend of the year so far residents were disgusted to wake up to a beach strewn with litter. Today The Argus launches its Take It Home campaign, urging tourists
Tony Bloom believes Albion have pulled off a coup with the appointment of Paul Barber as chief executive. The former Football Association commercial director and Tottenham Hotspur executive director will join the Seagulls on June 18. Barber, 45, pictured
CLAIMS that moving schools over to academy status will enhance their performance is a fallacy. I challenge anyone to produce evidence to show schools which have been forced to become academies have automatically flourished. There is contrary
SO, Asda won the day over the Arrowcroft development for Newhaven’s port area following a planning meeting last Wednesday. The development is on a greenfield site. OK, I’ll accept the supermarket – it’s great for jobs for the unemployed and I’m all for
IN RESPONSE to the letter about having to work and not being able to celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee (The Argus, May 23), it makes me really angry when people complain about this. My son works in retail and he never gets a Bank Holiday off. The only days
Emergency services were called after a gas cylinder used to power a car started to leak. Fire crews were at the scene outside a house in Ginhams Road, Crawley, for more than four hours last night as they worked out how to tackle the fuel spill coming
A library has shelved its plans to install Wi-Fi – because of the Olympics. Council bosses had pledged to boost conference business in Jubilee Library in Brighton by upgrading its technology. Work was due to begin in March with the aim that
UPDATE: Police have confirmed they believe bones they have found next to the A23 are human. Several small pieces of bone were found at about 10.20am on Monday. The find was made by workmen clearing ground 100 metres south of the Slaugham
There is a point when shabby-chic becomes just shabby. Residents in Kemp Town have long been attracted to its reputation for an artistic alternative ambience. But when edgy merely means grim then it is time to take action. Business owners and community
