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"Winter Blunderland" prompts 2,000 complaints
9:22am Wednesday 3rd December 2008
A Brighton company promised a winter wonderland complete with snow-covered log cabins, reindeer and Father Christmas handing out gifts helped by his elves. The reality turned out to be rather different.
Comments (37)Service failure left girl, 8, living with body-in-the-box murderer
9:27am Wednesday 3rd December 2008
A string of failures by Brighton social services left an eight-year-old living unprotected with her murderer father in the house where he bludgeoned her mother to death.
Pedestrian receives life-threatening injuries in collision with motorbike
4:01pm Wednesday 3rd December 2008
A woman was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries after she was hit by a motorbike in Grand Parade Brighton.
Councillors' snacks could fall victim to cost-cutting
2:20pm Wednesday 3rd December 2008
Councillors are to be deprived of sandwiches and cakes to cut costs during the credit crunch.
Spitting mad over parking
12:44pm Wednesday 3rd December 2008
A motorist has been convicted for spitting at a parking attendant as she gave him a ticket.
Junction now a 'death trap'
12:39pm Wednesday 3rd December 2008
Drivers have accused officials of creating “deadly” conditions with a new road layout.
Man who stabbed neighbour sent to jail
12:22pm Wednesday 3rd December 2008
A noisy neighbour has been jailed for two years for knifing a man who asked him to be quiet.
Exclusive: School's entire board resigns
11:48am Wednesday 3rd December 2008
An entire board of 16 governors has resigned in protest at being accused of mishandling their school’s budget and branded “incompetent”
Assault did not kill handyman
10:26am Wednesday 3rd December 2008
A handyman died of a heart attack a month after he was viciously assaulted in an unprovoked attack.
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Eco-dilemmas solved
All the top tip columns make being green sound so easy: just change your light bulbs, walk to the shops and do your recycling, but it never really works out like that. SARAH LEWIS turns agony aunt and answers some of your pressing eco-questions.
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When the new NHS dental contract was introduced, large numbers of dentists left the NHS and focused on private patients.
Woe of Woolies
Woolworths, one of the best-known names on the British high street, has been put into administration with £385 million of debt. As company bosses and administrators Deloitte wrestle with the task of rescuing the business, RICHARD GURNER takes a look back at the company’s history in Sussex and asks business leaders what needs to be done to revive its fortunes.
This week's walk: Horsted Keynes and Furner's Green
From the village of Horsted Keynes, this walk heads eastwards to encircle the nearby settlement of Danehill, crossing and recrossing two well-wooded valleys before returning along part of the Sussex Border Path, a longdistance walking route which sticks fairly closely to the boundary between East and West Sussex.
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