John Hastings dug Durham out of a hole with the bat on the second day of their County Championship match against Sussex, but was out of luck with the ball as the visitors opened up a 111-run lead at Chester-le-Street. In what remains an evenly-balanced
Albion will not be playing Bournemouth in the Championship next season. The Cherries effectively clinched promotion to the Premier League tonight with a 3-0 home win against Bolton Wanderers. Goals late in the first half by wingers Marc Pugh
CONCERN is growing for the safety of an autistic teenage boy who has gone missing from his home in St Leonards. Police say Reece Pateman, 14, is fascinated with trains and buses and has previously been found at railway stations in Sussex and London
MURDER detectives investigating the disappearance of a bomb disposal expert have renewed their appeal for information. Mark Manning, 54, from Brighton Road, Lancing, was last seen on April 19, 2014, and no-one has reported hearing or seeing from
Playwright and director Cherry Woodhouse has premiered a play to be proud of at Burgess Hill Theatre Club. In the world of deeply devious mothers trying to wreck a wedding Nicki Plank as the insecure Beth is a dark star among plotters. Right
A thief has brazenly stolen a charity box belonging to The Argus's charity. A white male walked into front reception of Argus House in Hollingbury this afternoon at 4.15pm. He looked around the reception area and after spotting the red Argus
CAMPAIGNERS are vowing to raise more than £400,000 to buy an under-threat pub and run it for the benefit of the community. Save The Rose Hill Tavern campaigners have voted in favour of trying to raise the money to save the 145-year-old Brighton
AN animal lover has developed a form of dog yoga to help rehabilitate rescued hounds. Animal behaviourist, Jo-Rosie Haffenden, 30, who works at School4Dogs which has bases in Brighton, Hailsham and Worthing, started Real Dog Yoga after adopting
IS this one of the country’s longest serving church organists? David Dennis can still be regularly heard playing in Brighton and Hove’s churches and shows no signs of slowing down. The 87-year-old from Patcham is celebrating 75 years of service
Albion 0, Watford 2 Amid the wreckage of an awful season for Albion, emphasised by a 19th defeat and 18th blank sheet, there is a chink of light. They may not have much of a team but they have a central midfield partnership to match most of
A British tourist volunteering at a school in Nepal is among those believed to be safe. Paula Nightingale, 45, is said to have escaped serious harm when the earthquake struck as she was helping out at the Mondo Challenge Foundation project in Helambu
A TEENAGE girl has been killed in a car crash that has also seriously injured three other people. She was a passenger in a grey Seat Ibiza that crashed with a silver Ford Fiesta on the A24 in Capel yesterday (Sunday April 26). The collision
THE Green Party has been exonerated from any wrongdoing over a student voter proxy row by election regulators. Green campaign group Students for Caroline had been criticised for encouraging students to sign proxy voter forms allowing them to vote
Southover High Street, Lewes, guide price £1,750,000 Southover Old House is an exceptional Grade II-listed house that has been home to the present owners for the last 30 years and is now in need of modernisation. The property offers extensive
TWO Sussex residents are still unaccounted for as the death toll from Nepal's earthquake has soared past 3,700 and is expected to rise further as rescue workers struggle to reach remote villages two days after the disaster. Ann McNeil, 66, and
The Leisure Society, Komedia, Gardner Street, Brighton, Monday, April 27 FOR the lead single to The Leisure Society’s fourth album in five years, chief songwriter Nick Hemming took inspiration from Hastings’ seafront. Tall Black Cabins is the
I LIKE the new format of The Argus. I’m especially pleased that The Argus has returned to a double page of debate with Letters to the Editor (pages 10-11) in the week. S Zapello Address supplied
BIG promises from the train operators. Trains from London to Brighton every two to four minutes, 1,000 more seats in the morning peak and trains to be lengthened from eight to 12 carriages. A total of £6.5 billion is being spent on the Thameslink
A 19th century bungalow built in the style of the Raj has gone on sale for just under £1 million. Pleasaunce Cottage in West Sussex is an early colonial pavilion that mimicked the style of the country retreats owned by wealthy colonialists in India
I would like to say a big thank you to all staff and carers at the Royal Sussex County Hospital on Vallance Ward for looking after one of my clients called Mr Jacobley. The care he received was first class. He could not have had better care anywhere
IN RESPONSE to a letter from Pete Gillman (Argus, April 22), in the run up to this local election we would like to focus on what has been achieved in the city over the last four years. Brighton and Hove Green party have delivered on 85% of our
Brighton and Hove City Council has asked the University of Brighton Academies Trust to plan a new secondary school for Brighton. The trust is a new organisation, formed in November 2014. It is not at all clear why this is the best organisation
As a kid I used to think six weeks was a long time – those glorious summer holidays when school was out. The only thing that mattered then was getting the ball back after kicking it into next door’s garden. That and making sure you were home
Shappi Khorsandi delivered a delightful range of subject matters and humorous observations to the full theatre. Shappi’s brand of comedy didn’t usually produce belly-laughs. The audience listened with interest to her fascinating stories and the
SIX members of West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service's have flown out to earthquake-hit Nepal to help in an international rescue mission. The six West Sussex firefighters, who have responsibility for the UK's logistics operation, are part of a UK
A major overhaul is needed into how hospitals identify and treat a life-threatening disease, a leading doctor has warned. Sepsis, known as the silent killer, affects thousands of people every year in the UK. However it often goes undetected
If their synths fell silent and their bleeps dissolved, Canadian electro duo Purity Ring would still have a stage show to sway their crowds like moths to an intergalactic flame. Singer Megan James – who reputedly sews the clothes which she and
The play takes a backward look at a story we know: or do we? Amanda Whittington’s drama of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in England for murder, suggests that not all was quite what it seemed. Certainly Inspector Jack Gale thought
Godspell, a musical, was hailed in the 1970s when staged off-Broadway after a student production in Pennsylvania was spotted; perhaps it should have stayed there rather than risk time travel. The cast was at pains to bring humour to their telling
Private landlords would be banned from above-inflation rent rises over a three-year period if Labour wins power, Ed Miliband has announced. The move is part of a promised package of measures to help the growing numbers unable to afford to buy their
ALBION midfielder Jake Forster-Caskey says teaming up with Harry Kane and other top English talent this summer would make him a better player. Forster-Caskey has been a regular for Gareth Southgate’s under-21s and is on course to make the squad
It was a long time before any anti-jihadist satire emerged from the smoke of 9/11 and when it first opened in 2005, Mark Ravenhill’s Product was still not it. Ravenhill took the very British line that it is cleverer to laugh at ourselves. Product
Freddie Starr looked a shadow of the hilarious performer he used to be when appearing at the Royal Hippodrome on Saturday, but proved he still has a rich singing voice. The strain of spending 18 months on bail before 13 sexual offence allegations
“Well we’ve been brilliant tonight!” As he closed his band’s Concorde 2 visit I Am Kloot’s frontman and lyricist John Bramwell didn’t need any sort of outside reviewer to tell him how well his band had played. Stripped back down to a three-piece
Josh Simpson believes Crawley can still pull off a great escape. Reds were thrust back into the relegation zone after letting a 3-2 lead slip at Peterborough United on Saturday. The result means they need to beat Coventry City in their final
A WANTED man seen driving through Brighton was caught when he was involved in a crash with a taxi. On Saturday police saw an Audi A6 being driven by Jacques Challoner Venneck in Bristol Gardens at 9.35pm. The 24-year-old, of no fixed address
A series of events are to be held in Brighton and Hove to mark the 70th anniversary of VE Day. As well as a special concert at Brighton’s Royal Pavilion a beacon will be lit at the Blind Veterans UK centre in Ovingdean. A former radio presenter
JAGUARS old and new descended on Brighton seafront yesterday. The London to Brighton Jaguar Run saw 300 cars on Madeira Drive. The oldest model on show at the free event was a Mk5 Jaguar, dating from 1950. The newest was a Jaguar XE, a
THE Brighton Mainline is set for bigger and better trains with more seats and more services for customers, rail bosses have promised. The improvements are set to be rolled out across the next three years thanks to the £6.5 billion Thameslink programme
MYSTERY surrounds a folder full of landscape watercolour paintings which was discovered on a bus. David Dalziel, from Newhaven, came across the beautiful artworks on the number 12 service and he is keen to try and trace the artist and reunite him
THE boyfriend of a woman feared killed in the Nepal earthquake has spoken of his “massive relief” at discovering she is alive and well. Tara Bradshaw from Brighton had been planning to go to a festival in Kathmandu when the 7.8 magnitude quake
Two drivers escaped unhurt following a crash in the centre of Brighton. The accident happened in Lewes Road near the junction with Hartington Road when a red taxi was involved in a collision with a burgundy Audi, which ended up hitting a lamppost
A STOP smoking course for people trying to kick the habit is proving a success. People across Brighton and Hove have been signing up for Smoke Free Me after it was commissioned by health bosses in the city. The course was created by psychologists
UNDERWEAR, broken glass, rusty nails and takeaway forks were found during a beach clean. A total of 30 people gathered on Brighton seafront yesterday morning to clear up the rubbish left behind by beachgoers. Co-ordinated by 22-year-old Georgie
THE MOTIONLESS corpse of a dead shark caught on a fisherman’s hook to the flutter of a bird perfectly captured mid flight. These are some of the world’s best wildlife photography which will be on show in Brighton from Saturday for the first time
ALBION boss Chris Hughton will build his bid to turn the club back into Championship promotion contenders next season around Beram Kayal and Dale Stephens. The displays of the midfield duo offered Hughton hope in the 2-0 defeat by Premier League-bound
