Albion midfielder Jake Forster-Caskey produced a very tidy 90-minute midfield performance as England under-21s enjoyed an impressive win tonight. Two goals from Burnley striker Danny Ings on his home ground helped secure a 3-1 success over Portugal
Emergency services are on the scene of a crash involving a taxi and a van. The accident happened near the Brighton Wheel on Madeira Drive. Onlookers said the taxi and van met head-on, with the taxi facing the Palace Pier. Initial reports
A SERIOUS Case Review has been launched to look into the circumstances that led to a seven-year-old girl being shot dead by her father. Mary Shipstone was shot in the head by Yasser Alromisse in front of her house shortly before 4pm on Thursday
Eastbourne Borough have made a double swoop to bolster a squad hit by injury. Midfielder Frankie Raymond has returned to the club on loan from Dagenham and Redbridge while striker Moses Ashikodi has joined from AFC Hornchurch. Raymond joined
A TALENTED photographer at The Argus has won a major award. Liz Finlayson was yesterday crowned News Photographer of the Year at the EDF Energy London and South of England media awards. Judges were impressed by Liz's trio of entries including
Credit where credit is due. Fair play to Tony Bloom for fronting up in The Argus. Albion's chairman and owner ducked none of the testing questions we put to him in our exclusive interview, published in two parts yesterday and today. That does
POLITICIANS scaled the roof of a brewery to announce a £10 million boost to community energy schemes. Energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey was joined by fellow Lib Dem and Lewes MP Norman Baker on the roof of Harveys Brewery. Beer is
A CAT rescue charity has slammed the council as “heartless” after one of their rescue vehicles was given a parking ticket while they looked for an injured animal. A volunteer from Kitty in the City, a Brighton-based charity, was unable to find
A FIRE crew was called out after youths set fire to some toilet paper. Firefighters turned up to a National Trust site in Hodge Grove Lane, Moulsecoomb, just after 2.35pm today to record the incident. It was reported after the youths were caught
A BURGLAR felt the full force of the law after breaking into a house and fleeing wearing some of the occupant's clothes. Kashif Judge was arrested, prosecuted and then sentenced, all in less than 36 hours. He entered a home in Terminus Road
TWO people have been arrested in connection with a robbery in Brighton. A 20-year-old man from Brighton was walking through Pavilion Gardens at about 2am when he was punched and robbed of his phone last Friday. A 22-year-old man of no fixed
A CHEATING husband who hired a hit man to kill his wife in a “brutal and abhorrent” attack will serve a life sentence in prison. Bruce Killick, 63, who runs a horse and alpaca transport firm, sent hit man Karl Cruise, 55, of Brittany, to kill Susan
Culture Club have cancelled their much-anticipated reunion tour after lead singer Boy George was diagnosed with a serious throat condition. The Culture Club tour was due to come to the Brighton Centre on December 11 until the announcement today
A PENSIONER was left with two fractured fingers after being hit by a metal chair during a street fight. The 65-year-old woman was passing as two men were fighting outside a parade of shops in Findon Road, Worthing, at about 3.30pm last Saturday
A BUS driver strike has been suspended after last-minute talks. Brighton and Hove Bus and Coach Company met with the Unite union to thrash out terms to avoid industrial action. The suspension means services across Sussex will operate as normal
HUNDREDS more problem families will receive support with parenting under the expansion of a Government scheme. Thousands of families across Sussex have already been contacted by council officers in a bid to improve behaviour, lessen their disruptive
FESTIVAL organisers will turn the spotlight on burlesque as an entertaining art form with a celebration of the flesh. The Brighton Burlesque Festival is promising eight hours of burlesque, pole dancing and circus entertainment for attendees this
The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association was formed a few years back to find those who served in the Royal Navy dealing with electrical, radio, radar or computer installations either on ships or shore and reunite them with their old shipmates.
I read your letters on November 6. I agreed with all of them. The question I would like to ask of the Brighton Council is where does the money come from to pay for all these road schemes. They don’t work, the cycle lanes clog up the town, the
Laura King is spot on in her comments about King Alfred Leisure Centre (Argus, 8 November). Councillor Bowden’s project board ought at least to be considering the retention or partial retention of the existing centre, which would still leave plenty
Your article, Residents oppose plans for town bypass (November 8), is welcome but needs adding to. The proposal to build an Arundel bypass has, as you say, sparked concerns among residents of Walberton and Binsted, but you don’t give the reason
Fatboy Slim fans are in for the chance of a Wonderful Night of VIP treatment if they donate Right Here, Right Now to a charity helping kids in Africa. For a £100 donation you can help Fatboy play a Song for Shelter and get to Eat Sleep Rave Repeat
Communities are teaming up with an energy company to shave money off their bills and take the power back. Grassroots energy partnerships are teaming up with energy firm Ovo to help lower prices by localising energy production and buying power wholesale
Brighton Pride is already one of the biggest events of its kind in the country but now plans have been revealed to extend it further. With 160,000 people already in attendance this year including 35,000 heading to Preston Park and the same number
Tony Bloom says Albion have "over-achieved" to finish in the top six of the Championship in the last two seasons. But that does not mean he will be happy with slipping into mid-table this time around. Albion made the play-offs under Gus Poyet
Crawley have reacted to their recent slump by placing club captain Josh Simpson and four other players on the transfer list. Simpson has been stripped of the captaincy with immediate effect and made available for loan along with Conor Henderson
THE director of a £10,000 a week rehab clinic that treated Amy Winehouse has been found guilty of a catalogue of failings. Brendan Quinn, of Lewes, claimed to be “one of Britain’s 250 best private doctors”, but he was not even a qualified doctor
AN IRISH pub has retained its licence despite being called before the council for serving under-age customers. Management at Molly Malone’s had review application papers served on them by Sussex Police after two 17-year-olds were served at the
Albion fans have voted for Sami Hyypia to be given time to prove himself as Albion manager. But they are divided in how long that should be. And 40% of readers who voted on our online poll reckon he is not up to the job. We asked you a
A police appeal has been launched for a missing teenager who disappeared from his new neighbourhood after heading to a mosque. Hosam Alsayed left the Hastings address he had been staying at to go to the mosque in Mercatoria, St Leonards, around
A 160,000 hectare national park has gone missing - from Google maps. The South Downs National Park has gone missing from Google maps and authority staff say they have had no joy in getting the internet giant to reinsert it. The park authority
A MARRIED couple will take a trip half way around the world to see their daughter and grandchild after striking it lucky in a EuroMillions draw. Reg and Stell Holman from Brighton were shocked to find they had not only won £1,000,000 but also scooped
FATBOY Slim is offering exclusive VIP tickets and backstage passes to a club show on Brighton seafront in aid of a football-orientated charity. The house music legend will perform a sold-out nightclub gig at Coliseum in King’s Road. Twenty
Connells Estate Agency has been pleased by the success to date of this exciting new development currently being built by A2 Dominion New Homes. The Grove offers beautifully designed three and four-bedroom properties that have been built to a high
“Somebody told me I’d be playing in a horse stable!” Gregory Porter chuckled, gesturing appreciatively around the sold-out Dome. In his signature jazz hat, one hand in the waistcoat pocket of his shiny three-piece suit, Porter cut a calm, imposing
On a standard Wednesday night, the hallways and stairs of Komedia aren’t packed with men in tuxedos and ladies in evening gowns. But this wasn’t a standard evening, nor a standard comedy show: it was the annual celebration held by the Afro-Caribbean
It seems each year, this regular showcase of new and intensely hyped acts delves further into the 1990s indie scene for inspiration. This time, it was the turn of Britpop to make a comeback of sorts on this last night of the tour. Glaswegian
Yerma was a moving interpretation of Lorca’s classic piece about a woman trapped within an oppressive marriage, yearning for a child which cannot be conceived. The marriage and society bear down on her until she resolves to rebel and discover her
No crime was committed in the creation of an effigy mocking former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond at this year’s Lewes Bonfire. Sussex Police received a number of complaints about the portrayal of former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond
WITH just six weeks until Christmas day, a tree-mendous effort is being made to get ready for the big day. Visitors to Wakehurst Place in the festive period can put themselves in the running for a bespoke Christmas tree. Kew’s Sussex country
First it was coffee and now Brighton and Hove residents have been revealed as the biggest chocolate obsessives in the country. The city’s residents spend on average £672 a year on chocolate according to new research by online food retailers Yumbles
A former Albion footballer will be braving the elements as he spends a night sleeping rough on the streets for charity. Former Seagulls defender Guy Butters, who played more than 180 games for the club during a six year spell in the 2000s, will
CAMPAIGNERS are refusing to take rising rents lying down. Living Rent campaigners created a bedroom outside Hove Town Hall yesterday to highlight what they describe as a “crisis in the private rented sector which is causing poverty and homelessness
An energy provider is promising to shave £200 off people’s annual electricity and gas bills by putting control into the hands of communities. Ovo Energy, in partnership with Community Energy South, is pledging to “cut out the middle man” to save
Another day could be added on to the Pride event – a family friendly event in Preston Park on the Sunday for up to 15,000 people. Brighton Pride Community Interest Company wants to secure the future of the event in Preston Park and St James’s Street
An anaesthetist has been struck off after a patient turned blue on the operating table. Sebastian Fernando failed to notice that a patient’s oxygen mask had slipped during an operation at Worthing Hospital. The Medical Practitioners Tribunal
The Salvation Army in Hove was given a boost when another charity gave it a cheque for £3,500. Captains Doug and Michelle Hayter received the money from Hove and Portslade Aid in Sickness to help with rebuilding work. Mrs Hayter said: “It was
The world’s most famous folk warbler got out his paintbrush for an exhibition of paintings going on show in Brighton. Bob Dylan’s pictures will be hanging on the walls, rather than blowing in the wind, at the Castle Fine Art gallery. Eight
Hundreds of ceramic poppies used in an emotive First World War tribute that has moved millions could come to Brighton and Hove. Some of the 888,246 poppies ‘planted’ around the Tower of London to mark the deaths of every British and Commonwealth
A popular community hall has been given a boost by getting a new roof. Exeter Street Hall in Brighton was facing a fight for survival when it was put on the market by former owners St Luke’s Church. It was bought by a group of determined locals
David Terrance Connell, 33, of Linley Drive, Hastings, pleaded guilty to two counts of stealing a total of five pairs of jeans worth a total of £290 from Marks and Spencer in Hastings and possessing heroin while on a conditional discharge for a similar
A club owner has stepped down after 30 years in charge of a seafront venue. John Holland has overseen Brighton’s popular dance music club, first known as The Escape Club and latterly as Audio. It featured an early appearance from The Stone
Passengers were left bemused when a train driver “forgot” to stop at a station. People on the train hoping to get off the 17.06 London Victoria to Brighton service at Preston Park Station were forced to stay on the train until it terminated a stop
Boss John Gregory believes he still has the support of the dressing room as he bids to turn Crawley’s season around. Gregory questioned his own ability to get the best of his players following the 1-1 draw with Crewe 12 days ago but subsequently
Sussex have ended their interest in signing England spinner James Tredwell. Tredwell played five Championship matches for Sussex on loan last season – taking 12 wickets – after falling behind Adam Riley as first choice spinner at Kent. Sussex
Albion chairman Tony Bloom has defended the club’s player recruitment. But he has admitted time constraints made due diligence “less perfect” when Sami Hyypia was first appointed as manager. The Seagulls finished fourth in the Championship
A HELPINE for customers experiencing power cuts has been launched today. UK Power Networks, which runs the electricity network across the South East, hopes the phone number will help customers with any concerns about their power supply as winter
Lewes have set their sights on the Amex after two Tom Davis crackers knocked Albion’s development squad out of the Sussex Senior Cup. Davis struck right at the end of normal time and early in extra-time as Rooks won 2-1 in a second round tie at
