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  • Health care trust to invest £1.6m in extra A&E nurses

    More nurses and healthcare assistants are to be hired for the A&E departments at two hospitals. East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has announced it will put in an extra £1.6 million for the Conquest in St Leonards and Eastbourne District General

  • Boy, 15, admits stealing BMW motorbike in Brighton

    A 15-YEAR-OLD boy has admitted stealing a BMW motorbike and driving it illegally around the city.The youth, from Brighton, was caught on CCTV riding the 650cc bike around Vogue Gyratory in Lewes Road with three other passengers on board on February 2.

  • Gang who blew up Sussex cashpoints sentenced

    GANG members who stole more than £145,000 in cash machine raids have been jailed for 53 years between them. Ermias Fekade, Stephen Fahri and Joel Spears blew up four cashpoints around Sussex from January to March last year. They caused “substantial

  • Dealer caught with Class A drugs in Brighton jailed

    A DRUG dealer has been jailed for two years for possessing and selling cocaine and heroin. Diogo Vaz, 22, was caught with 68 wraps of the drugs stashed in his underpants after police arrested him in Kings Road, Brighton, on suspicion of possession

  • New Labour team divides councillors

    THE newly-elected leader of the Brighton and Hove Labour minority administration has promised to win a majority at next year’s city council elections.On Monday night the AGM of Brighton and Hove Labour Councillors elected Dan Yates, Councillor for Moulsecoomb

  • Man threatened person with shotgun

    A man was threatened by a gunman who was believed to be armed with a shotgun. The incident happened on Monday, April 23 at at 4.40pm in Old London Road, Hastings, where a man armed with what appeared to be a shotgun pointed it at another man inside

  • Goodwood under starter's orders for new season

    Top female jockey Hollie Doyle and clerk of the course Ed Arkell have hard acts to follow as Goodwood prepares for its new flat racing season. Doyle has succeeded 2016 champion jockey Jim Crowley as the Sussex track's 2018 ambassador. Arkell

  • Hit the jack! Bowling season gets underway in the sunshine

    THE 2018 Lawn Bowls season has started. The Deputy Mayor of Brighton and Hove, Councillor Dee Simson, was greeted by the Chairman of Portslade Bowls Club Ray Aylward and members of the Club. She delivered the first bowl of the season and then had tea

  • Man arrested after restaurants' windows are smashed

    A man has been arrested after restaurants in Brighton city centre had their windows smashed in. A number of restaurants in The Lanes and one in New Road were targeted around 8am by a man smashing windows on Tuesday (April 24). Police arrested

  • Comment: Seagulls are part of our life

    We all fear the prospect of our cars being vandalised, especially when we don’t have the luxury of off-street parking. Leaving your pride and joy at the side of the road is worrying enough and we always do what we are advised to do, namely make

  • Hove's Louie the Little Pig stealing hearts of city

    A FOUR-LEGGED friend with a difference is stealing hearts wherever he goes. Louie the pig has sparked a flood of social media posts from people who cannot believe their eyes when they see him strolling through the streets of Brighton and Hove.

  • Picture of the day: The Wheel in Steyne Gardens

    Linda Barker took this picture of temporary attraction The Wheel in Steyne Gardens, Worthing. If you want to see your photograph featured here, email picturedesk@theargus.co.uk and include your name, address and some details about it.

  • Bong puts club before country

    ALBION defender Gaetan Bong has put club before country. The left-back has resisted attempts by Samuel Eto’o to persuade him out of his self-imposed international retirement with Cameroon. Bong, 29, is concentrating instead on his Albion career

  • Crowds turn out for Hove Plinth launch

    Hundreds of people gathered on the seafront to see the launch of Hove Plinth. The sculpture Constellation, based on a model of the solar system and featuring emblems of Hove, is the first artwork to grace the plinth. Artist Jonathan Wright

  • Public toilets 'stink to high heaven'

    Public toilets have come under fire for being dirty and out of use.The toilets near the Pavilion Gardens Cafe in Brighton have been branded “a disgrace” by a woman who lives nearby.Rita Huth, 67, who lives off St James’s Street, said: “I am a regular

  • Schools in East Sussex close over pay row

    Five schools across East Sussex are to close as teachers strike over a pay row. Staff within the National Education Union (NEU) are pushing for a 2 per cent rise from East Sussex County Council. At Priory School, Lewes, 61 members have walked

  • Fiveways murder trial: Day one in full

    A UNIVERSITY worker stabbed his boss 15 times after becoming obsessed with her as she tried to help him overcome the death of his father, a court was told. Samaritans volunteer Jillian Howell was stabbed to death in her home by David Browning who

  • On loan striker's future up in the air

    LEO ULLOA’S future is up in the air as he aims for another big finish with Albion and an end to his Premier League goal famine. It is unclear where the Argentinian striker on-loan from Leicester will be next season. Ulloa rejoined the Seagulls

  • Cult Hero record shop is closing its doors for now

    Music lovers have voiced their sadness and disappointment that a leading music and film shop is closing its doors. Cult Hero, in North Street, Brighton, will close on Saturday after the landlord sold the premises for the Hannington’s Lane redevelopment

  • Teen jailed for knife attack on homeless addict

    A THUG has been jailed for slashing a homeless woman with a knife after she tried to call the police from a locked bathroom.Niyah Ivey broke the door down at the squalid drug den in Grand Parade in Brighton, where homeless drug addict Sarah Marrill had

  • Royal seal of approval for software company

    A BUSINESS is to receive the Queen’s Award for Innovation for a software programme which its team developed for the military. tlmNEXUS, based in Telecom House in Preston Road, Brighton, was named as one of the recipients by the Queen as part of her birthday