Albion scored three goals in a late nine-minute blast to clinch their place in the third round of the League Cup tonight. They also welcomed back defender Uwe Huenemeier from a long-term groin injury as they won 4-2 at Oxford. Huenemeier played
Uwe Huenemeier is back for Albion tonight as they make 11 changes for League Cup action. The German, ruled out since just before last Christmas with a serious groin problem, is in the heart of the defence for the second round tie at Oxford United
Sam Adekugbe has got something in common with many of Albion’s diehard bunch of travelling fans. He got up at a very silly time in the morning to watch the Seagulls’ promotion decider at Middlesbrough. The young Anglo-Canadian left-back did
A MAN was found lying in a park after being raped by two men. A passerby phoned an ambulance when they saw the 27-year-old victim in distress in Goffs Park in Crawley. The man said he was walking through the park at sometime between 9.35am
A CYCLIST was grabbed and punched repeatedly by a pedestrian after a row. The 23-year-old victim was cycling along the promenade on King's Road, Brighton, just after 10am on Saturday, August 6. He braked to avoid a man, then rode past him.
A TEENAGE boy with learning difficulties has gone missing. Peter Grimshaw was last seen at his home in Angmering on Saturday at 10.55am. It is thought the 17-year-old may be in Brighton. He is white, 5ft 6in tall, slim with sandy coloured
A FUGITIVE waste firm boss has been handed a 12 month jail sentence for illegally stockpiling more than 700 tonnes of wood. Tom McCabe pleaded guilty to breaching Environment Agency regulations at his Uckfield waste wood site at Lewes Crown Court
A MAN was left with head, arm and leg injuries after being stabbed in a Kemp Town street. Emergency services were called to Atlingworth Street in Brighton to report a man had been stabbed. The 28-year-old had injuries to his head, arms and
MORE industrial action has been announced by the RMT. Within the last few minutes the rail union announced members agreed to take strike action on Wednesday, September 7, and Thursday, September 8, in the ongoing row with Southern Railway's parent
A LORRY has crashed into a historic building. The bay window of Bull House, which used to be lived in by the writer Thomas Paine, was damaged following the crash at 10.10am on Tuesday. Emergency services were called to Lewes High Street and
SUSSEX is bracing itself for a heatwave over the next few days. The Met Office issued a Level 2 heat health watch alert for Sussex and the south east as temperatures rose today. They are expected to continue throughout today reaching 27c and
IT WOULD seem 1936 was the year to get your feet wet in Sussex.That is if our filing system is to be believed. In any case, the pictures at the very least range from 1935 to 1938.They conjure up images of the great novels – there must be something about
SOMETIMES a bit of detective work is in order to figure out a group of pictures.This selection from our glass plate archive, purportedly "circa 1950s", came with a tag saying "batch 51".Another slide before the next run of plates reads
THE DRIVER of a gold convertible drove across traffic and onto the pavement to attack and intimidate a cyclist. A man has now been arrested on charges including making threats to kill, following the incident which resulted in damage to the victim's
A cyclist is in hospital with serious injuries after he was involved in a suspected hit-and-run collision. The 34-year-old man from High Hurstwood, was found at 10pm on Sunday on the A26 just north of Uckfield, in Five Ash Down. No other vehicle
A TAXI passenger got the ride of his life when his driver interrupted the journey to help a police officer chase a suspected drug dealer. The driver spotted the officer chasing a man and helped by giving him a lift through the streets of Hove. With the
The embryonic Premier League table will bring a smile to the faces of Albion fans. Bournemouth at the bottom, Crystal Palace next-to-bottom. South Coast rivals and arch enemies propping up the rest. Good news eh? Not really, not if you
Albion boss Chris Hughton has warned his trio of defensive prospects to expect a stiffer examination on their aways debuts in the League Cup at Oxord United. Full-backs Rob Hunt (below) and Sam Adekugbe, along with centre-half Ben White, were promoted
WHAT if Brighton and Hove City Council banned burkinis on its beaches, a la France? Would its citizens rise up and protest in support of Muslim women having the freedom to wear the body-covering swimwear (a combination of a burka and a bikini)?
A Crowdfunding campaign has been launched in the wake of a devastating fire which has destroyed three-quarters of a school. Residents, pupils’ families and ex-pupils are all digging into their pockets to pay for a new fund which has been set-up
★★★★ Icons of the stage and screen Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart have joined forces once again with a revival of Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land at the Theatre Royal Brighton. Having played the parts on Broadway, it was exciting to see them
AN NHS trust has appointed a new director to its board.Mike Jennings will take up his post as director of finance and estates at Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust in October.He is currently commercial director at Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation
A huge fire which swept through an academy was likely to have been caused by workmen, fireifghters have said. Around three-quarters of Selsey Academy was destroyed in a huge inferno on Sunday which required 100 firefighters tackling the fire over
Solly March has shrugged off transfer interest and set his sights on a first-team comeback for Albion. The winger comfortably negotiated 45 minutes for the Seagulls’ under-23s against Aston Villa on his return to action at Crawley last night.
THE premature death of musician Tom Searle was a huge shock to those who knew him.His band, Architects, have a fan base around the world as well as a devoted following in his home town of Brighton.Tom had been living with cancer for three years and he
ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners are being urged to bare all in a cheeky protest. The World Cetacean Alliance is attempting to get into the record books for the most naked people cleaning a beach on September 18 to highlight the dangers of littering beaches
HOCKEY star Maddie Hinch has been given odds of 50/1 to win BBC Sports Personality of the Year. The goalkeeper from West Chiltington became an overnight sensation after her heroic performance in the gold medal shootout on Friday against the Netherlands
SEPARATE homes have often been cited as the secret to a happy marriage – but the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk appear to have made do with separate wings. When the couple decided to start living separate lives in 2011, their Arundel Castle home meant
CAMPAIGNERS have launched a fresh legal challenge to the £250 million development of Brighton Marina. Residents opposed to further works have been given leave by a High Court judge to a judicial review hearing. Campaigners complain the building
Dale Stephens faces a fight to prove to manager Chris Hughton he is back up to speed for Albion’s big clash at Newcastle United on Saturday. The midfielder misses out for the second game running at Oxford United tonight in the second round of the
A FIRE which destroyed three-quarters of a school and required 100 firefighters to bring under control was the biggest in the county in five years. Two fire crews remained at Selsey Academy yesterday afternoon damping down smouldering hotspots
THE hospice that cared for a much loved rock star has hailed the flood of online donations from his fans as the biggest they have ever seen. Tom Searle, guitarist of the Brighton-based internationally successful metal band Architects, died at the
SUSSEX fell silent yesterday afternoon to remember the victims of the Shoreham Airshow disaster. A minute's silence was held across the county at 1.22pm - the exact moment one year ago when the Hawker Hunter crashed into the A27, killing 11.
MORE than 30 members of a Sussex family gathered outside their firm’s offices to unveil a plaque in honour of one of their relatives. The team from Local Fuels PLC at Shoreham Port placed the plaque on the Sussex Hospices Trail in memory of Yvonne
A CHAMPION kite surfer who was left in a coma after a stunt went wrong is back competing at the top level. Friends and family of Lewis Crathern, 31, feared for his life after a kitesurfing accident while competing in South Africa in February.
MORE mothers are breastfeeding their babies in Brighton and Hove than anywhere else in the country. New figures from Public Health England reveal 57 per cent of six to eight-week old babies are being breastfed without any other supplements compared
A TEENAGER is giving up her title as the country’s youngest councillor to go on a gap year. Isabelle Murray has resigned from Seaford Town Council as she prepares to travel the globe as part of her break from studies. The Liberal Democrat made
A HOSPITAL trust has experienced “institutional racism” for many years, a support network says.The BME Network for Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust spoke out following the publication of a Care Quality Commission (CQC) report which branded
