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  • Patcham High's £4m sports upgrade will go ahead

    A SCHOOL’S plans for a new sports hall, artificial football pitch and floodlit netball courts have been approved.Patcham High School’s £4 million scheme won the unanimous backing of the Brighton and Hove City Council Planning Committee.Former Conservative

  • Close of play: Sussex eight wickets from away win

    Sussex need eight wickets on the final day to secure their first away Championship win of the season. They had hosts Gloucestershire, chasing 276 to win, struggling on 30-2 at close of the third day at Cheltenham. Having top-scored with 76

  • Young soldier shot himself five times in the chest

    A YOUNG soldier fatally shot himself at Deepcut barracks hours after he was told he would be discharged from the Army, a coroner has ruled.Private Sean Benton, 20, was found on June 9 1995 with five bullet wounds to his chest at the Surrey military base

  • BREAKING: Plans to develop former Amex building approved

    CONTROVERSIAL plans for the former site of Amex House have been approved despite 96 letters of objection from local residents. In what councillors described as a “difficult decision”, the proposal by developer First Base was approved eight to four

  • Search for woman who went missing in her pyjamas

    CONCERNS are growing for a woman who went missing in her pyjamas. Sarah Brill left her home in Bolney in on Tuesday evening this week. The blonde 32-year-old is 5ft 4ins and was last seen at her home in Spronketts Lane before 7pm. She was

  • Fraudster tried to take £2,000 off pensioner

    A TEENAGE fraudster has been told to write an apology to his 80-year-old victim after trying to fleece her out of thousands of pounds.Harun Mohamed travelled from London to Hove in the expectation of picking up £2,000 from the pensioner in May last year.The

  • Gogglebox duo open new hi-fi shop

    A DUO from Channel 4’s Gogglebox opened a new store for sound recordists in Shoreham on Monday night. Stephen Webb and his mother Pat cut the ribbon for SAB – Sound & Lifestyle, a new store specialising in audio equipment and lifestyle items

  • Meet the incredible hairdresser who is retiring after 61 years

    THE hairdresser who brought the blow-dry to Worthing is retiring and closing his salon after 61 years. Tony Papouis, 79, has been trading as Anthony Michael Hair in Goring Road for 45 years but began working as a hairdresser when he was 14, immediately

  • Law firm makes three new promotions within its team

    LAW firm DMH Stallard has made three promotions. Camilla Bishop, Chloe Karamian and Justine Tocher join more than 70 partners based in offices across Sussex, Surrey and London. Camilla joined DMH Stallard from Irwin Mitchell at the beginning

  • How 80 people lost their sight... but only temporarily

    RESIDENTS in Brighton were treated to an interactive sight loss experience in Ship Street. The Eye Pod is a joint initiative between the Royal National Institute for the Blind and Specsavers. The team from Specsavers Brighton in North Street

  • Here's a great chance to learn Japanese...

    A JAPANESE language school is running a new course in Brighton from July 26. The Tadoku course at Step Up Japanese will offer easy books, picture books, and manga comics, all in Japanese. Tadoku means “read a lot” in Japanese and is a method

  • Lifelong friends come together to open new care firm

    TWO lifelong friends have launched a new care business. Susannah Deuk and Anita Bramley, both 43, have many years experience in the health and social care industry. The new firm is called Caremark Brighton and Hove. Susannah, a mother to

  • Albion striker Baldock could make Amex exit

    SAM BALDOCK could be on his way out of the Amex. The Argus understands Albion have had discussions with another club interested in signing the former Bristol City striker, pictured. Reading have been linked with a move for the forward who dropped

  • Trade show is coming to Sussex for first time

    CONSTRUCTION Expo South East 2018 will be held in Sussex for the first time on September 13 at the South of England Event Centre in Ardingly. The trade show, founded ten years ago and previously held in Kent, will showcase the region’s largest

  • Bissouma wants to make a name for himself at Albion

    YVES BISSOUMA wants to make a name for himself with Albion – after shrugging off comparisons with Paul Pogba. The Mali international midfielder completed a five-year-deal with the Seagulls yesterday. He arrives from Lille for an undisclosed

  • Comment: community teams up to find lost wedding ring

    WHEN something appears impossible to find it is often described as “looking for a needle in a haystack”.Well, that is how it must have seemed for Malcolm Bateup after he lost his prized wedding ring while swimming off the beach at Shoreham.The chances

  • Drug addict admits racist assault

    AN ADDICT who stole steaks before launching a racist assault has been ordered to clean up his act.Lee Hurse appeared in court accused of taking £61 worth of meat from the Lidl supermarket in Arundel Road in Brighton in March this year.The 35-year-old

  • Festival organisers back Pussy Riot's World Cup final protest

    THE organisers of a Sussex Festival where Russian protest performance group Pussy Riot will headline have supported their pitch invasion of the World Cup final last Sunday.Members of the anarcho-punk group wearing police uniforms ran on to the pitch as

  • How a burned out bus was brought back to life at a school

    A BURNED-OUT bus has been brought back to life at a school.The route 50 bus has been transformed into a relaxing space and quiet learning area for children at St Nicolas CE Primary School in Portslade after a three-year labour of love by Brighton and

  • Column: managing our beauty spots is so vital

    STAND IN the Seven Sisters country park and enjoy one of the most majestic views in southern England.As you admire the towering chalk cliffs and the steep stretches of downland, you may not immediately wonder who manages this beauty spot. But it is a

  • Argus hands funds to help support teams

    THE Argus has handed out a grant to help staff and volunteers save suicidal people who go to Beachy Head.The Argus Appeal, the charity arm of the newspaper, handed £1,200 to help the Beachy Head Chaplaincy team to buy two computers. The computers will

  • Worthing charity gets support to help the homeless

    A NEW homeless project has received a donation to support rough sleepers.The Worthing Churches Homeless Project runs a property in Lyndhurst Road to provide accommodation for 40 men and women who have previously been on the streets.This week volunteers

  • Daily Guide Reviews: Owls, The Little Shop of Horrors

    OWLSHHHHRialto Theatre, Brighton, Friday, July 13OWLS tells the story of a night watchman trapped in a futile and depressing routine until the night he talks a young woman out of an attempted suicide bid.It is only as he gets the victim to open-up about

  • Big decision on new sports facilities at school

    A DECISION is expected on Wednesday on new state-of-the-art sports facilities at a school.A decision is due to be made on when Brighton and Hove City Council Planning Committee discusses the plans for Patcham High School.The school has applied for planning