Eastbourne Eagles took a huge step towards the KO Cup final with a 46-44 win at Cradley tonight, writes Paul Watson. The Eagles came from behind to win the semi-final, first leg, with a 4-2 in the final heat from Adam Ellis and Ellis Perks.
Sam Allardyce’s time as England manager has come to a sensational end as his contract was terminated after just one match in charge. Allardyce was targeted in a Daily Telegraph investigation into alleged corruption in English football, and the
Chris Hughton said Albion got what they deserved at Ipswich tonight. The Seagulls boss agreed a 0-0 draw was a fair result from a dull contest at Portman Road. And he had sympathy for Dale Stephens, yellow-carded for dissent and then booked
A TENACIOUS police dog tracked down two suspected criminals to their hiding place - a plastic box. The pair were found lying top and tail in a small plastic container in Crowborough. They were squeezed into the unit – measuring just 2m x 60cm x
A playground has been vandalised with paint believed to have been stolen from a nearby portable cabin. Police are appealing for witnesses after bespoke playground equipment in Piddinghoe Sports Park, Peacehaven was daubed in paint. The vandalism
9:40pm 90+3 Murray booked for a comment after he was awarded a free-kick. And that's full-time. Poor game, decent
Albion have handed Sebastien Pocognoli his league debut for the club and brought back Ollie Norwood. The duo both come into the XI to face Ipswich at Portman Road tonight in place of the suspended Gaetan Bong and injured Beram Kayal. They are
FIVE people have been arrested after police swooped on suspected drug dealers in a town centre park.Officers seized a quantity of cocaine and cannabis along with a large quantity of cash after detained the three men and two boys on suspicion of supplying
A roofer has been jailed for the rape of a teenager 23 years ago.Jason Podesta was convicted of attacking his 13-year-old victim at a flat in Ferry Road on Shoreham Beach in September 1993.The 47-year-old, of Portland Road in Hove, was convicted at Chichester
POLICE have released a CCTV picture of a woman they want to speak to in connection with the theft a shop. A Lumea Precision Plus IPL hair removal kit costing £525 was stolen on Saturday, September 17 at about 12.50pm from Boots in the Arndale Centre,
A SINGLE parent from Hove is so appalled at the amount of dogs mess on pavements and in public parks she has set up a business to clear it all up!Mother-of-two Suzy Cook, 42, of Court Farm Road, has run out of patience with selfish owners who make no
WEST Sussex and Gatwick-based chartered accountants, Carpenter Box, has appointed six new trainees.They have joined the firm’s platinum accredited programme on the road to the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants’ (ACCA) qualification.Joshua
THE Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 league table – released each September – ranks Britain’s 100 private tech (TMT) companies with the fastest-growing sales over their latest three years.Two Brighton and Hove-based companies feature in this year’s
TODAY we turn the spotlight on Kelvin Newman, founder and Managing Director at Rough Agenda, the company behind the highly-successful Brighton SEO.What’s the first thing you do when you arrive at the office?I'm a huge Twitter addict. Our business
VENT-Axia the UK’s leading ventilation company has celebrated its 80th anniversary at its headquarters in Fleming Way, Crawley.Crawley MP Henry Smith and Mayor, councillor Raj Sharma, joined a celebration ceremony where a time capsule was buried in the
MARTIN Searle Solicitors - specialists in employment law and community care law - have been shortlisted for two prestigious Law Society awards.The two categories are Excellence in Business Development and Excellence in Marketing and Communications.Marketing
A NEWLY-refurbished co-working and office space specifically for those looking for a plug in and play work environment has launched in Worthing.New workspace initiative, Freedom Works, is based in the town centre. There are 12 offices available to rent
PETER Orpen - a director and founder of AVT Connect based at Stone Street, Brighton - has retired after more than 40 years. He was instrumental in the company’s evolution from a traditional AV supplier in 1975 to what is now a global provider for meetings
CAMPAIGNERS have launched a new bid to save their beloved pub with a petition calling for the venue to be given protected status. The Save The Dyke Pub petition calling on Brighton and Hove City Council to grant the establishment at the junction
THE English tourism industry is booming and is predicted to grow faster than the overall economy every year for the next decade, according to new research. The Local Government Association (LGA) said councils that harness new powers given to them
CITY College Brighton and Hove’s new Construction and Trades Centre has celebrated a significant milestone with a traditional topping out ceremony.This marked Osborne, the project’s building company, reaching the highest point of the new £9 million build
★★★★★ Jo Harman really deserves to be better known. She is a great soul singer with an understated but powerful presence and always seems to have great musicians around her. Add in a perfect sound mix and one of my favourite venues and one might
With a venue full of rapt Numanoids eager to see their idol revisit his creative peak, the live return of Gary Numan, focusing on his early LPs Replicas, The Pleasure Principle and Telekon, could really do no wrong. If he was an artist, Numan would
Albion are not going to smash their way to the Premier League. The Championship is too competitive and tight from top to bottom for that to happen. It will be about fine margins again, just as it was last season when ten of their 24 wins were
Arnold Palmer has been hailed as the most influential sportsman ever – by the man who wound him up by regularly out-driving him. Legendary Sussex golfer Brian Barnes has added his own tribute to those which poured in following the death of seven-time
The landscape is breathtaking, dark and foreboding, a harvest moon sits over ragged cliffs reflecting in icy, still seas. A tinkling piano and mournful cello tells you this is no holiday. As you wander over this uninhabited island a stranger reads
Boss Chris Hughton feels at ease with Albion’s central midfield options at Ipswich tonight, in spite of the absence of Beram Kayal. The Israeli, involved in 51 of the last 55 Championship fixtures, is sidelined by the ankle injury he sustained
A PERSONALISED card business has launched a new charity range to raise money poorly children. Hickory Dickory Designs, which is based in Conway Street, Hove, specialises in wooden motif cards and gifts. Founded by its creative director Lisa
THE golden key to Brighton's Clock Tower has been returned to the city after decades Down Under. The mayor of Brighton and Hove was on hand to collect the key from the Dubois family who flew in from Australia to hand it over. The Clock Tower
SHOULD there be regulations to control cats when they’re outdoors, just as there are for dogs?One man thinks so. Dr Peter Marra, of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Centre in the US, says the roaming of cats has to stop because they are responsible for
ON Sunday police officers up and down the country remembered colleagues who had lost their lives in their work as part of National Police Memorial Day. Around 2,000 officers and family members travelled to St Pauls Cathedral on Sunday to take part
NEWS that the public consultation over plans for the King Alfred leisure centre are to be delayed for up to six months will produce predictable groans.Quite why council officers need so much more time to look at contractual and legal issues before letting
POLICE want to speak to this woman following a handbag theft. The victim, a 62-year-old woman from Billingshurst, was attending a social event at the Ralli Hall Community Centre in Denmark Villas, Hove, last Wednesday evening. She left her
A WOMAN was grabbed from behind in a sexual assault. Police are appealing for witnesses after the was assaulted in Hollingbury, Brighton, last Wednesday. The 18-year-old victim was walking along Braybon Avenue between 10.30pm and 10.45pm when
SIX cuddly canines are the newest boarders at Brighton College.The Eastern Road school introduced Monsieur Saucisson, Madame Jellybean, Seamus, Rufus, Pepper and Lucy to mark the end of National Dog Week. The dogs will be looked after by the five heads
Anthony Knockaert says the team spirit at Albion is better than when he was a Championship winner with Leicester. The Seagulls’ French star helped Leicester romp to the title three seasons ago - but the unity in the dressing room at the Amex is
RELATIVES have blamed social workers for the death of a 17-year-old who was moved 100 miles to live with the neighbour of a father he had never met. The foster parent and birth father of Kyle Birchall claim the teenager would still be alive if
ZOE BALL and Norman Cook have insisted they will remain great friends following their split. The couple will live next door but one to each other in Millionaire’s Row, Western Esplanade, Hove, where they own a number of properties. But just
AMBULANCE drivers who take Sussex patients to non-urgent hospital appointments have still not been paid since July despite receiving assurances they would be. The NHS will now pay the privately-employed staff today, and seek to recoup the money
THE daughter of a man murdered in the street 23 years ago is angry that his killer is on the run again. Mary-Beth McCue was three years old when her father Stuart McCue was gunned down in Whitehawk by a rival who had escaped from prison and now
THE £40 million project to redevelop the King Alfred has been hit by a six month delay Continuing discussions over legal, financial and contractual issues have put back completion of the contract between the city council, developers and the construction
A MAN disguised himself as a waiter and snuck onboard to a cruise ship to propose to his childhood sweetheart. Richard Peach made the surprise proposal to Joanna Hicks, who was enjoying a six-night cruise to Guernsey, France and Spain with her
LOVE them or hate them, no-one can imagine our seaside without seagulls. They have been known to steal our food, make a mess of our bins and one Brighton resident said she was attacked in her garden. But most of us get on fine with them and
AN animal centre is urging the public to sign a petition demanding puppy farming to be banned. Raystede is anticipating a rise in flat-faced breeds arriving at its centre in Ringmer near Lewes in the coming months as the London trend of carrying
A NEW creative hub spread over five different venues is to be launched in a deprived part of Eastbourne. The Devonshire Collective, to be based along Seaside Road, will provide artists’ studios, a workshop, gallery and cafe. They will all be
