AN EARLY death for the nuclear renaissance: but not in Brighton? Although still divided, global opinion is turning against nuclear power. In the 2012 World Nuclear Industry Status Report Mycle Schneider and Anthony Froggatt, authors of a world
A MAN has been found after going missing for nearly three weeks. David Hutchinson, 30, who went missing from Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey, made himself known to officers at 6pm on Wednesday August 6. Police had appealed for help finding him and
Sussex’s hopes of qualifying for the knockout stages of the Royal London One-Day Cup took a massive blow as they went down in a rain-affected match at home to Middlesex. Toby Roland-Jones took 4-42 to restrict Sussex to 248-9 having been 121-1
There are concerns for a missing 43-year-old who suffers from epilepsy. James Fairingside has been missing from his home in Nutbourne, near Chichester, since Monday (August 4). The 43-year-old is epileptic but is not thought to have his medication
Gordon Greer has hailed his move to Albion as the best decision of his career. Swindon were above the Seagulls in League One when Greer was signed by Gus Poyet four years ago. It has more or less been success all the way since then for Albion
A son has been charged with the attempted murder of his mother. Charlie Mann of The Oaks, Haywards Heath, will appear at Crawley Magistrates Court on August 8. The 20-year-old is charged with attempting to murder his mother at their home on
Josh Poysden admits he is still pinching himself after a whirlwind few weeks. The leg-spinner from Ditchling has burst from virtual obscurity to become a regular member of the limited overs side at Warwickshire. Poysden made his debut in the
A driver pulled up alongside a teenage girl and touched her bottom. The incident is one of three in which a driver of a blue hatchback car has been reported approaching girls in Brighton. The first was on August 5 at around 7pm when a 14-year-old
A restaurant supplier has warned pickers to steer clear of Shoreham Beach Local Nature Reserve after a ticking-off from police. But Mike de Stroumillo, from restaurant supply company Mash, said communities should make more of their thriving natural
Four of Albion's non-executive directors have bought shares in the club. Robert Comer, Adam Franks, Peter Godfrey and Marc Sugarman have each purchased 5,000 shares, at a cost of £1 per share to comply with company law. Chairman Tony Bloom
A missing woman is believed to be in Sussex. Anna Wysocka, who has been missing from Maidstone, Kent since July 31, may be in Hastings. The 37-year-old is described as white, 5' 6", of slim build with short, straight blonde hair. When last
A tubby man performed an indecent act in front of a dog walker. Police are appealing for witnesses after the incident in the woodland at the back of Torfield School, Hastings, on August 4 at 12.40pm. The woman was walking her dog when she passed
Witnesses are being sought to a suspected break-in. Police were called to reports of men trying to force their way into a home in Eriswell Road, Worthing, at 9am on August 2. Officers arrived to find three men in the street, one of whom, a
A teenager had her nose broken after being attacked by three girls. The 14-year-old girl, who was with a friend of the same age at the time, was also treated for deafness to one ear following the assault in Wolseley Road, Coldean, on July 19.
A celebration will be held to mark the 60th birthday of a much-loved public garden. A bird of prey display, entertainment and children’s rides will be among the fun on offer at Beech Hurst gardens on August 31. The Haywards Heath Town Team
A youth worker shed the pounds to raise pounds and give 16 children the sporting experience of a lifetime. Hastings Borough Council’s Ken Dullaway took on the personal challenge to lose 50lb to raise funds to take children to the Commonwealth Games
As a mother of two herself, Teresa Gillam knows how hard it can be to find summer activities for children. “There are lots of places to go like Drusillas and the Sealife Centre, but not a festival just for children,” she says from her Hastings
An international buskers’ fair will be held tomorrow. The Gilded Hand fair will be coming to Hastings as part of the borough council’s Stade Saturdays events programmes. Peter Chowney, Hastings Borough Council’s lead member for regeneration
Top buskers from around the globe will be strutting their stuff at a seafront open air event. Performers from the International Buskers Fair will be the next to take the stage as part of Hastings Borough Council’s Stade Saturdays programme this weekend
ROADWORKS are causing heavy traffic on the A27. One lane is shut westbound between Shoreham and West Worthing. Traffic is backed up east from Shoreham.
A man who is tired of rogue dog walkers and cyclists has spoken out and asked residents to follow his lead. Promenading Percy has unleashed his video to the world of YouTube and will be looking to collar those who are behaving pawly.
It will probably come as no surprise that inspectors have found services at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust require improvement. Issues such as long waits in accident and emergency, staff shortages and problems with outpatient
Stop pouring your waste in drains. After the problems of blocked drains, gully suckers do not come to clean them out on a regular basis but too many people mostly builders pour their waste down them, This waste goes hard and then blocks the drain
Dogs Trust Shoreham is looking for volunteers who would be willing to give up one day a week on a regular basis to help with the care of the rescue dogs. The volunteers are needed to help sort the dogs’ laundry, clean the kennels and be involved
New figures show council workers are feeling the strain of having to do more with less in these times of tightening belts. Unlike other illnesses, stress can be a difficult one to spot, often without noticeable exterior symptoms. Often this
We were one of the 2,000 Brighton households that were affected by the total loss of power the other night due to a local electricity substation fire. It really makes one aware of how we take electricity for granted and how lost we can be without
Whilst I applaud all those generous souls who clean up their beaches and their surrounding, I fear they are fighting a losing battle. For as many people who care about their environment, there are alas just as many who don't, and probably could
Sami Hyypia used to get butterflies when he played for Liverpool. He will be even more nervous when he takes charge of Albion in a competitive fixture for the first time at the Amex tomorrow. Sheffield Wednesday's visit on the opening weekend
Sussex Police’s Police and Crime Commissioner thanked the force for their work at this year’s “special” Pride. Katy Bourne, attending her second Pride, chaperoned a colleague from Surrey around the festival and said this year’s event was particularly
A investigation has been launched into a fire which started outside a shop. Six people had to be evacuated following the fire in the open outside a shop in North Road, Brighton, in the early hours of this morning Firefighters from Brighton
A ROBBER has been charged with escaping from prison. Police say Lewis Berry, 22, absconded from Ford Open Prison at some point between 1pm and 5pm on Wednesday, but was back in prison less than 24 hours later. Berry, formerly of Test Road,
A skate park has been given its only small place in rock ’n’ roll history after it provided the backdrop for the video of an up and coming new band. London-based four piece Kid Wave shot the video for their new single All I Want, which has been
An award-winning pub is looking to put a new spin on the traditional pub – by opening up in a former laundrette. Owners at the eight-time Camra pub of the year winning Stanley Arms in Portslade are due to open a satellite micropub in Lancing in
Plans to replace a dilapidated bungalow with a two storey house have been refused. An application was made for the detached property at 17 Old Fort Road, Shoreham, to be demolished so a new four-bedroom house could be built in its place. A
Repair work will start on a bridge after a year-long delay. The work to make Broadwater Bridge in Worthing safe will begin at the start of next month after inspections revealed sections of the structure are starting to crumble. The work will
Paul Hollywood: Congress Theatre, Carlisle Road, Eastbourne, Monday, November 10 AS the cult BBC cooking show returns to television screens its unlikely sex symbol star, silver fox Paul Hollywood, is visiting Eastbourne to encourage fans to get their
The Fall: Concorde 2, Madeira Drive, Brighton, Thursday, September 25 ALMOST 40 years on from launching the seminal band, Mark E Smith is fronting The Fall’s most stable line-up in its history. It’s yet to be seen whether last year’s addition
Sunset Screenings: De La Warr Pavilion, Marina, Bexhill, Saturday, August 9, to Saturday, September 6 THE sea-facing wall of Bexhill’s art deco landmark is providing the big screen for a summer season of classic movies every Saturday night.
West Dean Chilli Fiesta West Dean Gardens, near Chichester, Friday, August 8, to Sunday, August 10. CELEBRITY chefs, a vintage steam fair and more than 250 varieties of chilli are all descending on West Dean for the 19th celebration of
A road restriction which took nearly two years to put in place is causing chaos for drivers and cyclists. Willbury Villas was reopened with a new width restriction on August 1 by Brighton and Hove City Council. The new measures have been put
Fear And Misery Of The Third Reich, Brighton Dome Studio Theatre, New Road, Friday, August 8, to Saturday, August 9, 7.30pm, 2.30pm matinee Sat, £8/£5, 01273 709709: FIRECRACKER Youth Theatre recreate Bertolt Brecht’s examination of how the Nazis rose
1... The Artful Dodger and Oxide And Neutrino Concorde 2, Madeira Drive, Brighton, Friday, August 8. A DOUBLE bill blast from the past courtesy of Back2basics from the two acts which brought UK garage to the top of the charts. 11pm to 4am,
AHEAD of a support slot with Carrie Tree at Brighton Dome Studio Theatre this weekend Warsaw Radio introduce themselves: “We’re from Brighton and Limerick in Ireland. We got together in early 2013 and we have been writing, performing and gigging since
A man and a woman have been arrested in connection with a series of burglaries at rural homes. The 26-year-old man and 24-year-old woman, both from Worthing, were questioned after homes in Crawley, Henfield, Storrington and Billingshurst were broken
A government rollout of superfast broadband has now reached people in Sussex. Hadlow Down was the first village in East Sussex to benefit from the government superfast broadband programme. Brighton and Hove is excluded from the rollout as it
Lewes House, High Street, Lewes, Friday, August 8, to Sunday, August 10 FOLLOWING the Duke Of York’s Picturehouse open-air screenings at Preston Manor earlier this year, the temporary big screen is setting up in Lewes again this weekend. On the
INSPIRED by the underworld stories of Damon Runyon, Guys And Dolls never pretended to be a realistic depiction of New York in the 1950s – even adding the subtitle of “a musical fable of Broadway”. “It was made in the golden era of Broadway shows
LONDON Road theatre Emporium has joined forces with The Young Actors Group to offer weekly term-time acting classes mentored by Brighton’s own Hollywood star Dakota Blue Richards. The classes, which are aimed at young actors aged from eight to
SOME bands arrive on the music scene in a blaze of pre-publicity and critical acclaim. But while the likes of The Strokes, The Darkness and Gay Dad enjoyed their brief period in the sun (often only to crash and burn just as quickly) it took time
Travellers were moved on from Waterhall Golf Course yesterday and set up camp in Surrenden Park in Brighton. A group of 11 caravans turned up at about 9am. The gate to the field was wide open, though the council says it was secured overnight
Children's favourite Paddington Bear paid a visit to young hospital patients to help promote a charity campaign. The marmalade-loving bear is the official mascot of Horsham-based Action Medical Research. The charity funds vital research taking
Chas And Dave Concorde 2, Madeira Drive, Brighton, Saturday, August 9 THE ROCKNEY rascals return more than 40 years on from writing their first songs together, following two sold-out Brighton shows last year. Expect to hear the hits including
Tim Lenkiewicz’s Square Peg have recast and redeveloped the show which won the company a 2012 Bank of Scotland Herald Angel Award. He says the aim was to hone its adaptation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s epic poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Airbourne Eastbourne Seafront, Thursday, August 14, to Sunday, August 17 THE Red Arrows celebrate their 50th anniversary as part of this year’s Eastbourne airshow, which starts from Thursday. As well as the finest vintage and modern aircraft
A concerned resident is so frustrated by people breaking promenade rules that he has written a protest song. Phillip Davies, from Hove, created the alter ego Promenading Percy to shame unruly dog walkers and cyclists on Hove seafront. The walking
Albion target Adam Clayton's proposed move to Middlesbrough from Huddersfield has yet to be finalised. Huddersfield manager Mark Robins says Clayton will train with the Terriers today and is expected to be available for their opening game against
An investigation has been launched after a fire broke out last night. Five crews from Brighton, Hove and Roedean were called to Park Apartments, London Road, Brighton, at about 11.45pm. First reports indicated people were trapped in the fire
Motorists are being warned to expect delays in parts of Sussex tomorrow morning because of a long vehicle making its way across the county. Officers from the roads policing unit and the Highways Agency will be accompanying the vehicle from the
Butlins, Bognor Regis, Friday, January 16, to Sunday, January 18, 2015 STREETS founder Mike Skinner and dubstep pioneer Skream are among the big names announced for the 20th Bugged Out Weekender, which is returning to Bognor for the fourth year
Bryan Adams, Brighton Centre, King’s Road, Brighton, Wednesday, September 10 TICKETS go on sale today at 9am for a stripped back show by one of Canada’s most successful international exports. Bare Bones will see Bryan Adams accompanied by an
FILMS to commemorate the First World War include Renoir’s 1937 masterpiece La Grande Illusion (Friday, August 22, 11am) and an adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell To Arms (Monday, August 25, 11am) made in 1932 and starring Gary Cooper. One-off
Contrary to performances in The Trip and lots of press reports, which pitch the pair as benign stags, Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan do like each other. The Trip’s producer Andrew Eaton believes filming the series brought the duo together. “I
Roger Gibson hopes UKIP’s proclamations are correct. For the first time since 1991, he’s made European cinema the focus of the annual Chichester International Film Festival. “The big emphasis is on east meets west,” he says, before joking, “If
Fashionable apprentice Cam Hardie helped the frosts4cars.co.uk Brighton Challenge Cup remain in Sussex hands by guiding Lady Herries' Barwick to success. It is only 20 miles from the course to the trainer's historic establishment at Angmering Park
Alan McGee, the man who brought the world Oasis, My Bloody Valentine and Primal Scream, compares acting to managing a band. “It is a bit like when you first start managing a band and you have no idea if you could actually do it. I had no idea if
"We thought it would be really easy as half the job would be done – it would just be an edit job. It turned out to be far more difficult than we had anticipated...” Watching Terence Davies’ The Time and the City, which tells the story of growing
A quick-thinking shop customer followed a would-be robber back to a nearby house before alerting police. The incident happened just before 2.10pm yesterday when a man entered The Paper Shop in Silchester Road, St Leonards. He threatened a member
CHRIS LIDDLE has been backed to put a nightmare summer behind him and finish the season on a high. The left-arm seamer has endured his worst campaign since joining Sussex eight years ago but offered a timely reminder of his talent with a superb
A cyclist was taken to hospital after being involved in a collision with a car. The accident happened in Kingsway, Hove, at about 8.40am yesterday. The cyclist, a 24-year-old woman from Worthing, treated at the Royal Sussex County Hospital
Eastbourne Borough have confirmed the signings of four players as they prepare for their Conference south opener at Wealdstone. Former Norwich, Barnet and Charlton midfielder Dean Sinclair has agreed a short-term deal at Priory Lane with a view
Worthing have completed two new signings ahead of the new Ryman south season. Former Albion winger Elliott Levy has joined on dual-registration forms from Eastbourne Borough. Meanwhile, Luke Kilner has signed from Chichester after impressing
Whitehawk have signed a former England under-18 international on the eve of the new season. Manager Steven King has swooped to snap up highly-rated midfielder John-Paul Kissock from Macclesfield. Kissock began his career at Everton where he
A COUPLE sacrificed their wedding gifts to provide toys and games for young hospital patients. Gemma and Matt Morris were married last weekend but asked guests to bring gifts for the Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital in Brighton instead of buying
Trains were disrupted along the Sussex coast this morning after a tresspasser was spotted on the line. The incident happened between Fishersgate and Portslade. Southern Railway said there would be delays of up to 30 minutes to trains between
A man rescued his neighbour from a burning flat early this morning. The alarm was raised shortly before 1am when a blaze broke out in a ground floor flat in Manor Way, Elmer, near Bognor. Firefighters arrived to find the flat, which is in a
A GLITZ of glamour descended on Brighton Racecourse for the 13th annual Ladies’ Day. Spectators were treated to a glorious day of sunshine as well as a top quality card of racing. The highlight of the day was the Best Dressed Lady award, awarded
Boss John Gregory has challenged Charles Banya to prove he is worth a long-term deal at Crawley. Banya became Gregory’s 17th signing of the summer when he was rewarded for a successful trial with an initial one-month contract. The former Fulham
COUNCIL staff are taking more than two weeks off sick a year – a rise of 18% in the past two years. Ill employees took a total of 46,184 days off in 2013/14 – an average of more than 11 sick days a year each. Union officials claim increasing
WEATHER warnings have been issued as Sussex braces itself for tropical storm Bertha. The Met Office yesterday increased the likeliness of Bertha hitting the south coast from 30% to 60%. Downpours on Sunday could see three-quarters of the average
A HOSPITAL'S accident and emergency department is struggling to cope with unexpected surges in demand, inspectors found. A report published today by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) said improvements were needed at the department at the Royal
CAMPAIGNERS are looking to take a controversial decision over hospital maternity and children’s services in East Sussex to judicial review. Protesters were left furious when a temporary shake-up introduced more than a year ago was made permanent
Albion's new Nike kit has attracted record sales to fans on the internet and in the club store at the Amex. The Seagulls had record advance online orders for the home and away kits and the best-ever sales in store at the Southampton friendly last
Sami Hyypia has vowed not to give referees a hard time as he prepares for his managerial debut in English football. The Albion boss has also urged other managers to follow suit and let the whistle blowers get on with their job. Hyypia’s Seagulls
