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  • Funding boost for tennis club

    Tennis club members are serving with a smile after a funding boost for their bid to build three clay courts. The Pavilion and Avenue Tennis Club in The Droveway, Hove, has been awarded £44,617 towards their £128,000 project to develop the club’

  • Albion have the play-offs in their own hands

    Albion will be in the play-offs if they win their last three games. Oscar Garcia's side have their destiny in their own hands after a 3-1 defeat for Ipswich at Watford today. The Seagulls will finish in the top six if they beat Blackpool at

  • Four men wanted after aggravated burglary

    Four burglars broke into a house before being scared off by someone living there. The men forced entry to the house in Wellington Road, Hastings at about 12.15pm on Wednesday, April 16. They began stealing property before one of the occupants

  • In video - Albion grab a point at Huddersfield

    This is how Albion grabbed a point at Huddersfield yesterday. Bruno produced a controlled finish to secure a 1-1 draw for the Seagulls. But highlights also underline the lack of clear-cut chances for the Seagulls, despite a lot of possession

  • Teenager attacked while playing football

    A teenager was attacked while playing football in Hastings. The incident happened on Monday, April 14 at 1.30pm in a wooded area of Alexandra Park. The 17-year-old boy was set upon by a man and suffered cuts to his face and arm. He went to

  • Sports clubs targeted by burglars

    Burglars have targeted a series of sports clubs across the south coast. They have hit Peacehaven and Telscombe Bowls Club three times in a month and broken into the nearby football club. The club in Piddinghoe Avenue, Peacehaven, has been broken

  • Special report: The wonder of Record Store Day

    Music shops in Brighton and Hove will be joining others across the country in appreciation of vinyl sound today. Record Store Day is a nationwide campaign being held for the seventh year which encourages independent record stores to come together

  • So we’re living longer – but for what?

    Suddenly there is all this hype of how one can live to a great old age. Every type of media, from TV and radio to magazines and newspapers, is telling us to eat seven and more of something, take these pills, jump, run, hop or drink a foul-tasting

  • Win tickets to watch Albion v Yeovil in The Argus on Monday

    You could win tickets to watch Albion play Yeovil on Friday night (April 25) by entering our fun Albion shirts competition in The Argus on Monday. To mark the end  of Errea’s involvement with the club, we will ask fans to match a selection of shirts

  • Crawley to offer Bulman deal

    Dannie Bulman has been told he will be offered a new deal with Crawley Town. The long-serving Bulman is one of a number of players who are out-of-contract at the Checkatrade.com Stadium at the end of the season. But the 35-year-old revealed

  • Van-dwellers caught in the act...

    I thought it would be an idea to take my two girls down to Stanmer Park in Brighton for a runaround as I was feeling rough and I could watch them from my car. We parked up on the right as you go into one of those concrete bays. A couple of traveller

  • Praise for hospitals for weekend care

    Hospitals have won national acclaim for their efforts in providing better and safer care at weekends. Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of only 12 in the country to be highly commended by the influential healthcare information

  • Yes, take ownership of your dogs

    I was shocked to read your front page of April 11 about the boy whose dog was attacked by two other dogs. That poor dog. As a dog-owner myself, you always have to be in control of your dogs when you are out. It is your responsibility as a dog-owner

  • Union’s plea to help save 125 job cuts

    A union has called on the public to help save the jobs of 125 plant experts. The GMB union is looking for residents to back a campaign aiming to save the jobs under threat at Wakehurst Place near Haywards Heath and Kew Gardens in London where up

  • ‘Eyesore’ tower to be revamped in multi-million pound plan

    A nine-storey “eyesore” will be the subject of a multi-million pound development after escaping the clutches of a demolition team. The former Lloyds TSB building in The Causeway in Field Place, Worthing, will be converted into 44 affordable flats

  • Taking home Miss Sussex title

    Beauty judges were sold on a pitch by a marketing assistant who claimed the title of Miss Sussex 2014. The 24-year-old Stephanie Prior from Brighton clinched the coveted title in a fiercely contested heat at Dale Hill Hotel and Golf Club in Ticehurst

  • Memories of machine-gunning in Portslade

    During the war I lived with my family in Gladstone Road in Portslade. Early one evening, returning home from the local shops with my sister, above us flying low over the town was a German bomber. I can still see the large crosses under its wings

  • Police compensation claims revealed

    A police officer received £9,000 of taxpayers' money after getting her foot trapped in a pothole in a station car park. The unnamed female officer is just one of a number of officers who sued Sussex Police for compensation. Sussex Police agreed

  • Label meat clearly according to method of slaughter

    I write regarding the letter about the school pig being sent for slaughter and to be eaten (Letters, April 14). A topic which concerns me greatly amid the great meat debate is the fact that vast amounts of the meat we buy in supermarkets and from

  • Polegate to Hailsham

    1 - From Polegate Station, exit on to High Street and turn right. At the top of the road, cross at the traffic lights and turn right along Station Road. (Bus users and car drivers follow the route from either of these roads.) Until the coming of

  • Bruno hailed as the unlikely goal hero for Albion

    Bruno has been hailed an unlikely goal hero for Albion after rescuing a precious point in their challenge for the Championship play-offs. The veteran Spanish defender popped up with an 83rd-minute equaliser in yesterday’s 1-1 draw at Huddersfield

  • Friend describes teen fairground ride horror

    A teenager plunged 15ft after slipping out of a moving fairground ride. Horrified witnesses feared 18-year-old Brighton and Hove City College student Beth Thorpe had died after seeing her “flung like a rag doll” from the Rocker ride on Thursday

  • Taking a closer look

    "I sometimes think that, as residents of Littlehampton, we take our town for granted, never really looking at it,” says photographer Emma Storey, who aims to challenge that complacency with her digitally altered images which reframe gentle rows