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I read with interest the plans to reinvent the Promettes (The Argus, January 15). What a good idea. They were always distinctive and a great advertisement for Brighton and Hove. However, the thought that they will be dressed in T-shirts and

The A23 has been partially blocked this evening (Friday) after a collision. There are delays southbound at Handcross because of the incident, which is thought to involve numerous vehicles.  

Albion's development squad defender Vitalijs Maksimenko has completed his loan move to Scottish Premier League side Kilmarnock for the rest of the season. The versatile 23-year-old Latvian international is likely to make his debut against Inverness

Ifield Drive in Crawley is closed both ways between Warren Drive and Parham Road after a young boy was hit by a car. It is believed a 10-year-old  suffered leg injuries. The Kent, Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance landed near the scene but the

Trains between Hove and Brighton are set to be disrupted until about 4.30pm as engineers try to remove a tree. The offending tree is in danger of falling onto the railway line between the two stations and so the line will be blocked while work

Kevin Keehan has been named as caretaker manager of Whitehawk. The former Lewes boss, who is now a Hawks director, will take charge of tomorrow’s trip to Bishop’s Stortford following the departure last night of Darren Freeman. Freeman was axed

Fracking has been ruled out in the Sussex village which became the focal point of demonstrations in the summer. Drilling firm Cuadrilla wrote to villagers in Balcombe yesterday to tell them the site, which they spent more than a month testing last

An ambulance Land Rover headed the funeral cortege of one of Europe’s first paramedics. Douglas Brown was among the first six ambulance workers to be specially trained in life-saving resuscitation skills by pioneering consultant cardiologist Douglas

Secondary schools across Sussex are celebrating their best GCSE results in years. West Sussex schools topped last year's GCSE results and East Sussex pupils hit a four year high. In East Sussex 59.9% of leavers achieved five A* to C GCSE grades

Sussex schools were celebrating their best GCSE results in years.   EAST SUSSEX       GCSE      

A busy road was closed for nearly eight hours yesterday after a three-car horror crash led to an arrest. A 33-year-old man from Crawley was arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving after the incident on the A29 near

Albion are gearing themselves up for a potential Premier League bidding war for Liam Bridcutt in the final week of the January transfer window. Sunderland remain favourites to reach an agreement with the Seagulls over the want-away midfielder,

A collection of more than 200 Roman, late Roman, British and world coins has sold for just under £30,000 at auction. The coins were passed down through the generations of a Sussex family for more than a century after being originally bought as

An off-duty police officer helped to capture a man suspected of drink-driving. The man gave chase after two men fled from a black Volkswagen Golf GTI which crashed into a tree on the side of the A264 in Broadbridge Heath near Horsham at 11.20pm

Sheltered accommodation residents say they are being asked to foot the £40,000 bill for “unnecessary” improvements to their homes against their will. Residents say the expensive fire safety improvements are being forced through by managing agents

Albion have MK Dons centre-half Shaun Williams in their sights as another possible replacement for Adam El-Abd. The Seagulls have already targeted experienced Northern Ireland international Chris Baird to compensate for El-Abd's departure to Bristol

Police officers have launched a crackdown on misbehaving motorists and criminal cyclists. Up to 30 police officers were joined by immigration and trading standards colleagues, traffic wardens and city ambassadors in a day of action against rogue

The Prime Minister came to Sussex to show that business is booming in Britain. A day after official figures showed the national unemployment rate had dropped sharply to 7.1%, David Cameron visited the headquarters of ventilation manufacturer Vent-Axia

Two drivers are being treated following a crash. Police and fire services are currently attending Sussex Way in Burgess Hill following a crash between two cars at 7.55am this morning. The road has been closed while the incident is cleared away

A country road has been closed after a three car crash. Bordehill Lane has been blocked by the accident near to the junction with Copyhold Lane between Haywards Heath and Balcombe from just after 7am this morning. Recovery vehicles are currently

Firefighters have worked through the night at the scene of a devastating fire at a listed home. Crew from Haywards Heath Fire Station were on scene at Ormonde Hall in Cowfold Road, Bolney, from 12.30am this morning and remained on scene for more

Firefighters were called to flooding in a block of flats after a resident left their bath running. Crew from Eastbourne Fire Station were called to a block of flats in Spencer Road in the town at 2.30am this morning after water from an overflowing

A motorist was taken to hospital after being injured in a two vehicle crash. Emergency services were called to the A24 roundabout junction between Broadwater Street West and Ardsheal Road in Worthing at just before 6.45pm last night. Firefighters

Fire crews were called after a bin was on fire outside a popular night spot as revellers made their way home for the night. Firefighters from Preston Circus station were called to the bin on fire in Middle Street, Brighton, at just before 2.30am

"Shoestring, Taggart, Spender, Bergerac, Morse. What does that say to you about regional detective series?” “There’s too many of them?” “That’s one way of looking at it, another way of looking at it is, people like them – let’s make some more

London Road is rapidly turning into a meat-lover’s paradise. There’s the much-loved barbecue shack at The World’s End and a few doors down is the Jamaican joint Cummin’ Up, whose exotic smells float across Preston Circus, making it feel like central

Crawley Town boss John Gregory is keen to add another two players to his squad before the transfer window closes after signing Gary Dicker on a short-term deal yesterday. Former Albion midfielder Dicker has joined Reds from Rochdale until the end

I recently received a parking ticket. I drive a vehicle with an air circulation vent that runs the entire length of my dashboard and windscreen. This continues to circulate air when my vehicle is parked. Due to the lack of adhesive (money

Despite fierce opposition from doctors, the British Medical Association and charities, the Government is trying to rush through changes to make it far easier to close hospitals without proper consultation. If one hospital, even outside of our county

Award-winning Swedish photographer and film-maker John Skoog returned to his roots for his first commission for a UK public gallery. He travelled to southern Sweden’s flat farmlands to make the short film Värn, which will premiere at Eastbourne’s Towner

The idea that the Green Party’s proposed referendum on council tax is a cunning plan to wrong-foot their political opponents is quite bizarre (The Argus, January 17). But if that is why the Greens have done this, they’re in for a shock. In

While admitting that “there is no such thing as a completely safe facility”, Brighton and Hove City Council is proposing to go ahead with the construction of a new cycle lane in the Vogue Gyratory area of Lewes Road (The Argus, January 16). This

Like many who try to score political points in your letters column, Mr P Carter-Johnson (The Argus, January 14) takes issue with the Greens without making reference to the failure of previous Labour and Tory administrations. In particular Mr Carter-Johnson

As the cost of a packet of cigarettes continues to rocket, cheaper and illegal alternatives are flooding the market. During one day of test purchasing in Brighton and Hove on October 10 last year The Argus found seven shops selling illegal tobacco

I was amused by Councillor Christopher Hawtree’s recent letter defending his leader’s lack of a tie (The Argus, January 14). Coun Hawtree, I’m sure, has many virtues but fashion is not his forte. Should schoolchildren at St Christopher’s in Hove

Micky Adams says he has no axe to grind with Nathan Jones as they go head-to-head in the FA Cup. The Port Vale chief had a spat with Albion assistant Jones during his second spell in charge of the Seagulls when the Welshman was playing for Yeovil

Votes for The Argus referendum on a planned council tax rise of 4.75% are flooding in. Brighton and Hove City Council’s minority Green administration revealed its proposal for a 4.75% council tax rise for 2014/15 last week. It claimed the move

A man who saw his brother shot dead in the street told a court the gunman “looked pretty trained – like he was an army man”. Ismail Zeneli yesterday gave evidence at the trial of Edmund Nela, accused of murdering Xhem Krasniqi. Mr Zeneli was

"I wanted to make a record that sounded like a record called Caramel. Not a record that sounded like caramel – a record that sounded like a record called Caramel.” When he began work on his second album, with just the title as his starting point

Part of the soundtrack to Alexandrina Hemsley and Jamila Johnson-Small’s dance performance O is a piece of text written and read by Hemsley’s father based on incidents and abuse both women have experienced. “People think it’s a piece of text we

Gordon Greer could have a new partner for his 150th Albion appearance. Head coach Oscar Garcia is weighing up whether to rest the captain’s regular sidekick Matt Upson from cup action again. Upson has played every minute of every Championship

Joseph Mount is in a good place. He’s a recent father with a ten-month old son and life is getting busy again thanks to the soon-to-arrive follow-up to Metronomy’s Mercury Music Prize-nominated third album, The English Riviera. He’s also standing

Uckfield singer-songwriter Kathryn Anderson has just released The Road Less Travelled, an EP recorded in the titular home of American country music, Nashville. The 23-year-old, who started writing songs at 16 after getting her first guitar as a

Swindon's limited cultural scene proved a boon for writer Matt Fox when it came to casting and producing his play To Sleep. “I basically run one theatre company in Swindon and Peter Hynds runs the other,” says Fox as the play goes on a national

Historians could dig up public land in the search of World War One artefacts. Sussex Archaeological Society (SAS) has approached Seaford Town Council about excavating land in the area. Potential sites include Chyngton Farm, where rubbish from

Developers have to resubmit £35 million plans to bring a historic theatre back into use. After 18 months in planning Alaska Development Consultants has submitted designs to turn the Grade II* listed Brighton Hippodrome into an eight-screen cinema

A bus service serving the Hanover and Elm Grove area of Brighton is to be scrapped and replaced with two new routes. Hundreds of people in the so-called “muesli mountain” rely on the 81 to scale the hills. But from April 13 the service will