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  • Shops lose Christmas parking fight

    COUNCIL chiefs have been branded Scrooges after they threw out a plea for free Christmas parking. Brighton's London Road Traders' Association wanted free afternoon parking for 24 days in the run-up to Christmas. They hoped the move would boost trade and

  • FESTIVE TILLS ARE RINGING

    RETAILERS do not expect Christmas business to take off until the week leading up to the festival. According to accountants Deloitte & Touche's annual Christmas retail survey shoppers will gamble on an early start to the sales. Richard Lloyd-Owen,

  • CONTRACT SNAG HITS WEST PIER

    WORK on restoring Brighton's West Pier is unlikely to start before next spring. And West Pier Trust chief executive Geoff Lockwood says it could even be delayed until the autumn. Trust officials had hoped to have made a start by now following the £10.5

  • Gunmen drill their way into wine store

    RAIDERS drilled through a wall and hid overnight before holding up two shop managers. The three gunmen forced the managers to open a safe and then bundled them into two tiny cupboards. As the hunt for the three gunmen continued in East Grinstead today

  • FESTIVE TILLS ARE RINGING

    RETAILERS do not expect Christmas business to take off until the week leading up to the festival. According to accountants Deloitte & Touche's annual Christmas retail survey shoppers will gamble on an early start to the sales. Richard Lloyd-Owen,

  • CONTRACT SNAG HITS WEST PIER

    WORK on restoring Brighton's West Pier is unlikely to start before next spring. And West Pier Trust chief executive Geoff Lockwood says it could even be delayed until the autumn. Trust officials had hoped to have made a start by now following the £10.5

  • Gunmen drill their way into wine store

    RAIDERS drilled through a wall and hid overnight before holding up two shop managers. The three gunmen forced the managers to open a safe and then bundled them into two tiny cupboards. As the hunt for the three gunmen continued in East Grinstead today

  • Folk who live on a cliff threaten to sue the Trust

    THE National Trust is to meet worried cliff-top residents threatening legal action against the organisation for doing nothing to stop their homes crashing into the sea. Each year, the cliff edge at Birling Gap creeps one yard closer to a row of cottages

  • MUM SAVES GIRL FROM ROAD RAGE ATTACK

    BRAVE Jane Purkis stepped in front of a car to stop a road-rage motorist driving at her daughter. The motorist rammed his car into the back of Sherry Purkis's Fiat Uno when she stopped for a few seconds to drop off her mother. The driver then reversed

  • Folk who live on a cliff threaten to sue the Trust

    THE National Trust is to meet worried cliff-top residents threatening legal action against the organisation for doing nothing to stop their homes crashing into the sea. Each year, the cliff edge at Birling Gap creeps one yard closer to a row of cottages

  • Shops lose Christmas parking fight

    COUNCIL chiefs have been branded Scrooges after they threw out a plea for free Christmas parking. Brighton's London Road Traders' Association wanted free afternoon parking for 24 days in the run-up to Christmas. They hoped the move would boost trade and

  • MUM SAVES GIRL FROM ROAD RAGE ATTACK

    BRAVE Jane Purkis stepped in front of a car to stop a road-rage motorist driving at her daughter. The motorist rammed his car into the back of Sherry Purkis's Fiat Uno when she stopped for a few seconds to drop off her mother. The driver then reversed