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  • Albion add pre-season date - but tickets will be scarce

    Albion have added a date against Fortuna Dusseldorf to their pre-season programme. But very few of their fans will be there to see it. The Seagulls will meet second-tier German opponents during their training trip to Austria. They will

  • Port hosts customers at races

    SHOREHAM Port welcomed customers and contractors to its annual hospitality day at Fontwell Park racecourse. The afternoon started with a welcome from port chief executive Rodney Lunn, who thanked everyone present for their ongoing support and gave a brief

  • Zoo is named best family attraction

    DRUSILLAS Park has been named Best Family Attraction in the Sussex Muddy Stillettos’ awards.The popular zoo in Alfriston received 53.9 per cent of the votes for its category. Muddy Stilettos, ‘The Urban Guide to the Countryside’, is a series of lifestyle

  • Buses’ worker wins top award

    THE only Accessibility Officer at any bus company in the country – who works for Brighton and Hove Buses – has been awarded a national Everywoman award for services to the customer. Victoria Garcia was honoured at a ceremony at the Marriot Hotel in Grosvenor

  • Third cliff fall reported at Seaford Head

    Emergency services were called to a third cliff fall at Seaford Head yesterday evening. The incident happened shortly before 8.30pm, close to where two major cliff falls had taken place in the previous 24 hours. Members of the Newhaven and Birling Gap

  • Albion keeper Ryan comes under fire

    THIS IS the moment Maty Ryan was caught in No Man’s Land for his country – and earned criticism from a predecessor. Albion’s record signing was lobbed by Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa as Australia went behind against Cameroon right on half-time.

  • Take a nibble and sip at Metrodeco

    Metrodeco in Upper St James’s Street, Kemp Town, launches its new Nibble and Sip tonight.Created by manager Andy Hall, tea and coffee cocktails will be combined with canapés and small plates to offer a more savoury evening twist on Metrodeco’s daytime

  • Pupils try their hand at being beach lifeguards

    SCHOOLCHILDREN were put through their paces when they became lifeguards for the day. Hove Park School pupils headed to Brighton beach where they learned about what it takes to be a lifeguard.Twenty eight youngsters met the lifesavers who taught them rescue

  • Picture of the Day: Oriental poppies

    Sheila Sharman, from Sompting, took this lovely shot of oriental poppies in her garden. For the chance to see your photo featured here, please email it to picture.desk@theargus.co.uk and include your name, address and some information about the picture

  • Man in court after police chase ends in A27 crash

    A MAN is due to appear in court following a police chase that resulted in him allegedly crashing a stolen car into a police car.David Crossley, 25, a labourer, of Trafalgar Close, Peacehaven, will appear in custody at Crawley Magistrates’ Court today.He

  • Former Argus journalist awarded MBE

    A FORMER journalist has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Tony Gearing has been honoured for his services to young people in the UK. The 57-year-old was a reporter for The Argus in the early 1980s. He set up the Young

  • Nostalgia: Looking back at postmen and Sussex sorting offices

    TODAY’s Timeout is full of mystery as we have no captions to indicate where any of these archived photographs were taken or who is featured in them. Since the first national postal service was founded in the UK in 1653, the country has gone through

  • 60 seconds with: Charlie Rallings

    Charlie Rallings is a Sussex artist who is holding an art exhibition at The Rawson Hall in Bolney this evening.What is your favourite place in Sussex?The South Downs. I have been lucky enough to help out at stables near Bolney and get to know the horses

  • Sussex goes swim crazy

    PEOPLE have gone mad for outdoor swimming in the glorious sunshine.Saltdean Lido opened to great fanfare last weekend with about 4,000 swimmers jumping in at the seafront attraction. Such was the success of the opening weekend, bosses at the Grade II*

  • We regret it now, say Leavers

    ALMOST half of Leave voters in Brighton and Hove have buyer’s remorse over their decision 12 months on, an Argus straw poll has received. Eleven out of 24 Leave voters The Argus spoke to yesterday revealed they would vote differently if the referendum

  • Church helped to cover up sexual abuse

    THE Church of England “colluded” with and helped to hide the long-term sexual abuse of young men by one its bishops rather than help his victims, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said. The Most Rev Justin Welby’s statement came as the Church published

  • Abuse report shame

    THE report into the Church’s handling of the Bishop Peter Ball case makes for uncomfortable reading.It reads like the crazed mind of a conspiracy theorist.But shockingly, all this happened not so long ago on our doorstep.The impact of his abuse has had

  • Police officer cleared of lying

    A POLICE officer accused of withdrawing hundreds of pounds from his grandmother-in-law’s account before reporting it to the bank as fraud has been cleared of gross misconduct by a professional standards hearing. PC Stephen Watson, who is based

  • Children try out host of new sports at special event

    SCHOOLCHILDREN tried out new a variety of new sports during a fun-filled day of activities. More than 200 pupils at St Margaret’s C of E Primary School in Rottingdean took part in the special event yesterday which introduced them to sports they might

  • Another shop on village high street set to close down

    SHOP owners have raised concerns about the future of their high street as at least two shops are being forced to close down due to a lack of footfall. Marie France, owner of the Marie France antiques shop in Hurstpierpoint High Street, will not

  • Transport service 'let down dying woman'

    A MOTHER has criticised ambulance provider Coperforma for failing to get her daughter to hospital for dialysis in the lead up to her death. Laura Louise Moye, known as Lolz, 25, from St Leonards, was receiving dialysis treatment at the Royal Sussex