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  • Hawks call for support as they chase play-off spot

    Whitehawk co-owner Peter McDonnell has appealed to Sussex football fans to support the club on what could be their biggest day to date. Hawks will clinch a place in the Conference south play-offs if they beat Hemel Hempstead at home tomorrow –

  • Waiter charged over money laundering and fraud offences

    A waiter has been remanded in custody after being charged with money laundering and fraud offences. Safikul Islam faced Brighton Magistrates' Court over two offences of money laundering and with conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation

  • The Sussex woman who tells the world what to wear

    THIS is the face of the woman who is telling the world what to wear. You may have heard of Kate Foley, the New York based stylist and creative consultant. And you almost certainly will have seen pictures of her in Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire and

  • All aboard for the 2015 season of stage spectacles

    Katy Rice and Hannah Collisson speak to director Nadia Fall and actress Sarah Parish about Way Upstream and look at what other stage spectacles are on offer There's a cast of stars including Cutting It actress Sarah Parish and Jill Halfpenny from

  • A truly slapstick production

    Peter Pan Goes Wrong Theatre Royal Brighton, New Road, Brighton, Monday, April 20 to Friday, April 25 SLAPSTICK is alive and well as the spectacle of a bunch of amateur dramatists who are driven to distraction as their panto falls apart around

  • Clare finds her porpoise in life

    A LIFELONG love of dolphins and whales has landed Clare Owen the job of her dreams. The 26-year-old spends large parts of her time sailing on ferries between the UK and Spain and observing and monitoring the sea-living mammals in their natural

  • Five reasons to go out:

    1... Satan’s Circus The Joker, Preston Road, Brighton, Friday, April 17 Madness, magic and mayhem as circus performers, live body art, belly dancers and DJ Peter von Sleaze host a night of fancy dress and rock and roll. 9pm till 2am, £8 in advance

  • On the Radar: The Fiction Aisle

    BRIGHTON-BASED Electric Soft Parade and Brakes co-founder Thomas White introduces his new ten-piece epic pop project who are performing at a Spectrum special for Record Store Day tomorrow. “The band first got together in early 2014. We’ve all known

  • Launch success for Your Move’s charity campaign

    Your Move, which is proudly supporting the Sussex Beacon for the whole of 2015, had a fantastic launch day on April 1, raising much needed funds for the charity. Your Move area director Nicholas Goulden said it was just the start to the team’s

  • Agent opens new office

    With more than ten years of successfully selling and letting homes throughout Brighton and Hove, Spencer Turner and Leigh Brand are proud to announce the launch of their new Spencer & Leigh office in Portslade Old Village. Having been the market

  • Chairman Mao would have been pleased

    In the 1960s, striped shirts were all the scene and today it is trendy for politicians not to wear ties and to leave shirt collars unbuttoned. What’s next? Will we see them wearing Mandarin shirts? Chairman Mao would have been pleased! Although

  • Valley Gardens plan is disgusting

    I am sick and disgusted about the plans to change the Valley Gardens. Is there no shame to this Green council with their horrendous agenda. I urge all city voters who care about this city – mothers, fathers, grandparents, teenagers, aunts, uncles

  • Be careful, ladies

    Back in 1969, on being sworn in as a Sussex Police officer, I had to learn the following definition: ‘A constable is a citizen locally appointed, but having authority under the crown for the ‘protection of life and property, prevention and detection

  • People won’t gain from oil finds

    One of the problems with finding oil under the Weald is that local householders have no right to the oil found under their house. Who benefits? Firstly, any oil discovered by the oil company goes on to the world market and the oil company gains

  • Trains are chaotic

    Regarding ‘I fear for our environment’ – A27 thoughts from Dr Tony Whitehead, Sussex Wildlife Trust, Saturday SoapBox, May 4. Post Second World War, the nationalisation of Britain’s worn-out railway forced massive motorway construction, leaving

  • Poster was not blaming women for being raped

    I refer to the controversy created by the police poster on rape as printed in the Argus, April 8. I fully sympathise with the anger and frustration felt by women when it comes to the matter of rape. However, I did not see that the police message

  • They are starmen

    A SELF-CONFESSED science fiction geek Public Service Broadcasting mainman J Willgoose admits focusing on the space race for the band’s second full-length album was a rewarding experience. As with the band’s previous work The Race For Space uses

  • Fast food fish on the menu

      The Set of Scales Regency Square, Hove, book online Things move quickly, we get bored quite easily so we are always trying something new” says chef-owner of Dan Kenny a little over a month since The Set of Scales first opened overlooking

  • From busking to bass lines

    PORTICO began life busking on the South Bank, but founding member Jack Wyllie admits they wouldn’t be able to do so now with their new electronic-influenced album Living Fields. “It would take a generator and a sound system to play there now,”

  • Hughton demands quick verdict on Millers' fate

    Albion boss Chris Hughton has demanded a quick decision by the Football League on Rotherham fielding the ineligible Farrend Rawson against his team. The Millers were charged on Monday with using the on-loan Derby defender in their 1-0 win over

  • Film Diary 2015: John Wick

    Keanu Reeves' third John* (after Neumonic and Constantine) is probably his most successful, but lacks the slightly askew shenanigans (Dolph Lundgren as a musclebound Jesus, Peter Stormare as a whistle-while-you-work Satan) to keep drawing me back for

  • Grinstead golden great calls time on career

    Mark Pearn has announced his retirement from top level hockey, admitting he could not have envisaged the golden period he enjoyed with East Grinstead. The former Olympian was 28 and had just retired from international hockey when he joined the

  • Derailed train driver ran red light

    A derailed train which left thousands of passengers delayed has been blamed on “driver error”. Chaos was caused on the rail network after the driver went through a red light at around 2pm on Wednesday. The blunder caused disruption across the network

  • Argus launches manifesto for the fight to Save our Seafronts

    Business giants have been called upon to invest in our seafronts to save them from decades of decline. With councils facing massive spending cuts, visionary ideas are desperately needed to prevent a deterioration of the south coast’s fortunes.

  • Katie Price faces court over red light case

    KATIE Price is facing a court trial after her car was allegedly caught jumping a red light. The star is also accused of not telling police if she had been driving the vehicle. Price’s £120,000 Bentley Continental was caught by a camera on the

  • Seagulls scouring Europe for another Ulloa

    Albion are scouring Europe in the hunt for goals. They are concentrating their efforts abroad in a bid to unearth another Leo Ulloa. The Argentinian talisman was sold to Leicester in the summer for £8 million. Ulloa scored 26 goals in