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  • Car used in the kidnapping of a man discovered by police

    Detectives investigating the kidnapping of a man in Brighton have found the car he was driven away in. A man was bundled into a Vauxhall Astra with the registration number HN05 FPY in Princes Terrace, Brighton, on Sunday just moments after he got

  • Biggles takes a flight to safety

    It would be safe to say that the crew of the West Sussex fire and rescue service technical rescue unit are one of the busiest in the country. With at least one animal rescue a week, the crew hadn't been back for long at their Horley base from another

  • Kane Haysman agrees new deal at Eastbourne Borough

    Kane Haysman is the latest Eastbourne Borough player to commit his future to the club. The young midfielder has agreed a deal which will keep him at Priory Lane until the end of next season. Haysman has impressed since signing from Sutton United

  • CCTV: Man wanted over burglary in Brighton

    Detectives are trying to identify a man who they want to speak to about a burglary in which a man forced his way into a home in Brighton. A man forced his way into a flat in Bloomsbury Place, off St George's Road, and threatened the 47-year-old

  • Second Alan Partridge autobiography to be released next year

    A RADIO DJ will make "new Monkey Tennis revelations" in the second volume of his autobiography due for release next year. Alan Partridge is penning a second volume of his autobiography according to an announcement made by his "ghostwriter" Neil

  • Woman charged with shoplifting

    A woman has been charged with shoplifting ten times in three weeks. Holly Pennington, 28, is accused of stealing a wide range of goods including cosmetics, food and clothes from seven different shops in the Hastings and St Leonards area. The

  • Concert was a joy

    What a joy to spend Good Friday at the Dome hearing Brighton Festival Chorus’ semi-staged version of St John’s Passion. It was absolutely wonderful, especially as they had only had one rehearsal in the morning with the excellent Chamber Domaine

  • They didn’t consult

    Gatwick Airport say they ‘regularly engaged with... community groups and representatives’ (Gatwick appoints runway builder, Argus, April 8). But I say this is propaganda nonsense. Gatwick Infrastructure Partners-Gatwick Airport Limited (GIP-GAL

  • A genuine inspiration

    SHE only lived a short life but Hayley Okines managed to pack everything in. From meeting royalty, pop and TV stars to appearing on TV documentaries, writing autobiographies and travelling around the world, the teenager was well known for exceptional

  • Not all are fiddlers

    I’M sure most people condemn welfare cheats, fiddlers who work the system and families that refuse to work. But in a democratic and caring society we should conversely acknowledge that there are people who at some point in their life, and through

  • Labour realises the damage town’s bypass would cause

    Labour’s announcement (April 13) that they would not go ahead with the Arundel Bypass until environmental issues have been ‘resolved’ is welcomed by the Arundel Bypass Neighbourhood Committee. We are glad Labour have taken note of the widespread

  • Enjoy it for now

    SUSSEX has avoided April showers as temperatures rose higher than Athens, Ibiza and Alicante. Ice cream parlours found their business heating up as the mercury rose. But the sun is not set to last and the drop in temperature may make an April

  • Sickle graffiti is sick

    IF THE hammer and sickle graffitied on to a popular café was a homophobic gesture as suspected, that is almost beyond belief. In 2015 in Brighton is this really happening? The owners of the Compass Point Eatery in St George’s Road moved here from

  • DJ Neil Fox denies sex charges

    DJ Neil Fox has denied sex offences involving six woman over a period spanning more than two decades. The 53-year-old Magic presenter, known as Dr Fox, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London and spoke only to confirm his name and

  • Discover the Green and Pleasant Bus

    Already regarded as one of Britain’s most beautiful bus rides the Coaster 12 route (along with 12A, 12X or 13X) between Brighton and Eastbourne has been given extra gloss by the introduction of twenty-four fantastic new Euro 6 buses by bus operators

  • Hughton expects Rotherham points deduction

    Albion boss Chris Hughton expects Rotherham to be docked three points for fielding an ineligible player against his team. The Seagulls faced on-loan Farrend Rawson in their 1-0 defeat at Rotherham on Easter Monday when the 18-year-old Derby defender

  • Missing teenagers found safe and well

    Two teenagers missing from Crawley have been found. Chloe Woolsey and Amasia Patel both from Crawley were discovered in Kent safe and well. Amasia 13, and Chloe, 14, had failed to arrive at their schools in Crawley as planned on Monday morning

  • Taxi driver may have seen car involved in fatal accident

    Police are appealing for a taxi driver who may have seen a car before it was involved in a fatal accident. Michael Owen, 21, and Kyle Careford, 20, died when the red Renault Clio they were in collided with a church wall and overturned in Crowborough

  • Reopening of fire-hit pier delayed

    A seaside pier being revived following a devastating fire five years ago will not open until a year later than planned, it has been announced. Storms last year are being blamed for delaying the opening of the Grade-II listed Hastings Pier in East

  • UPDATE: Cause of derailed train "appears" to be driver error

    The cause of yesterday's derailed train at Brighton station "appears" to be driver error, the train operating company has said. Southern told The Argus that the incident, which lead to the complete closure of all lines out of Brighton station yesterday

  • Guest director of festival is up for writer prize

    THE guest director of Brighton Festival has been shortlisted for a writer's award. Author Ali Smith, who helps curate this year's festival, is among a six-strong shortlist for this year's Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. The Scottish writer

  • Legendary hotel is put on the market for £8m

    The seaside hotel where Ian Fleming wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is up for sale for an expected £8 million. The Lansdowne Hotel, formerly the Dudley Hotel, has welcomed illustrious guests such as Sir Winston Churchill and Noel Coward. But

  • Porker so kune up the sunshine

    If you thought humans were the only ones that boar the brunt of yesterday’s sun you would be wrong. As the hottest day of the year seared Sussex yesterday, spare a thought for Porker at Drusillas Park, who can’t even apply his own oink-ment.

  • He’s Albion fans’ long-term Gull friend

    “HE’S fat, he’s round, but he gave us our ground.” They were the words John Prescott fondly remembers Seagulls fans singing to him on his first visit to the ground he commissioned. The former deputy Prime Minister was the man who gave the green

  • Brave recovering cancer victim to run London Marathon

    A postwoman is rising to one of the UK’s biggest sporting challenges after battling cancer for five years. Kerry Campbell, 36, is taking part in the London Marathon in aid of Cancer Research UK – the event’s official charity partner. Ms Campbell

  • Was café Russian graffiti motivated by homophobia?

    POLICE are investigating after a hammer and sickle emblem was graffitied onto a popular café. The owners of Compass Point Eatery, in St George’s Road, Brighton, told The Argus they fear the vandalism was motivated by homophobia. Alex Kinaj