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  • Sussex happy to go Dutch

    SUSSEX have gone Dutch to bolster their batting line-up. They have snapped up highly rated right-hander Bas Zuiderent on a one-year contract. Sussex have beaten several other counties to the 21-year-old's signature. Zuiderent shot to prominence in the

  • Davies vows to hit the net

    ALBION new boy Lawrence Davies has pledged to put pressure on the 20-goal strike partnership of Richard Barker and Gary Hart. Davies will be on the bench for tomorrow's home game against Exeter. But the 21-year-old Welshman, signed for the rest of the

  • HI-DE-HIKE IN HOLIDAY PRICES

    HOLIDAY firm Butlins is raising prices to help pay for a multi-million pound revamp at its new-look centre in Bognor. The company announced yesterday that prices will rise by up to eight per cent when it reopens at the end of March. It says the added

  • HUNT FOR 'MR COOL' WHO PREYS ON GAYS

    THIS is the mystery conman, dubbed by police "Mr Cool", who is ripping off gays in Brighton to the tune of tens of thousands of pounds. Detectives today took the unusual step of releasing his photograph in the hope of tracking him down and to warn the

  • OUR PERSONAL WOOD IS STRICTLY FOR THE BIRDS

    BIRDWATCHERS Roland and Margaret Hall always dreamed of getting closer to nature. And now the couple can indulge in their hobby to their hearts' content after buying their own private wood. Roland and Margaret, of Grand Avenue, Withdean, Brighton, have

  • PARENTS DEMAND MENINGITIS JABS FOR KIDS

    HEALTH chiefs were today coming under increasing pressure to vaccinate all children after a five-year-old boy was struck down by meningitis. Nathan Rushin, a pupil at St Mark's Primary School in Whitehawk, Brighton, was last night "comfortable" after

  • TOWN CHIEFS' CRIME CRACKDOWN

    A SEASIDE resort is fighting to rid itself of the drug problem that is plaguing the town and the fear of crime felt by its residents. Eastbourne is popular as one of Sussex's top holiday spots and police and council bosses are eager for it to stay that

  • STANDARDS ON RAILWAY SLAMMED

    MP NICHOLAS Soames has called for urgent Government action to end the "misery" suffered by Mid Sussex commuters. He spoke out after Sussex rail operators Connex SouthCentral were slammed for their standards in an official report published yesterday. The

  • Davies vows to hit the net

    ALBION new boy Lawrence Davies has pledged to put pressure on the 20-goal strike partnership of Richard Barker and Gary Hart. Davies will be on the bench for tomorrow's home game against Exeter. But the 21-year-old Welshman, signed for the rest of the

  • HI-DE-HIKE IN HOLIDAY PRICES

    HOLIDAY firm Butlins is raising prices to help pay for a multi-million pound revamp at its new-look centre in Bognor. The company announced yesterday that prices will rise by up to eight per cent when it reopens at the end of March. It says the added

  • LET US ENTERTAIN YOU AT TEATIME

    YOUR Argus is getting bigger and better. From Monday there will be a new four-page TV and leisure section every day. We've redesigned our TV pages to make them brighter and easier to use. Following TV, you will find our new Teatime section with two pages

  • SPACE...MY FINAL FRONTIER

    AT the age of four, Piers Sellers was asked what he wanted to be when he grew up. Along with other boys in his class at Tytten Hanger Lodge preparatory school in Seaford, Piers told his teacher he wanted to be an astronaut. It was dismissed as a flight

  • HUNT FOR 'MR COOL' WHO PREYS ON GAYS

    THIS is the mystery conman, dubbed by police "Mr Cool", who is ripping off gays in Brighton to the tune of tens of thousands of pounds. Detectives today took the unusual step of releasing his photograph in the hope of tracking him down and to warn the

  • PARENTS DEMAND MENINGITIS JABS FOR KIDS

    HEALTH chiefs were today coming under increasing pressure to vaccinate all children after a five-year-old boy was struck down by meningitis. Nathan Rushin, a pupil at St Mark's Primary School in Whitehawk, Brighton, was last night "comfortable" after

  • TOWN CHIEFS' CRIME CRACKDOWN

    A SEASIDE resort is fighting to rid itself of the drug problem that is plaguing the town and the fear of crime felt by its residents. Eastbourne is popular as one of Sussex's top holiday spots and police and council bosses are eager for it to stay that

  • MOBILES NET A BIG BOOST FOR TELECOM

    THE growing use of the Internet and mobile phones helped drive business ahead at BT in the run-up to Christmas. But despite persistent rumours, the company said it had no immediate plans to increase its stake in the mobile phone group Cellnet. The Government

  • STANDARDS ON RAILWAY SLAMMED

    MP NICHOLAS Soames has called for urgent Government action to end the "misery" suffered by Mid Sussex commuters. He spoke out after Sussex rail operators Connex SouthCentral were slammed for their standards in an official report published yesterday. The

  • FEEDBACK

    IT'S all right, Holmes, you can go back to Baker Street. I've solved the Mystery of the Missing Map. Elementary, well, an elementary mistake anyway. It irritated Michael Harris from Shoreham. The intro to a story in some editions on Monday last week about

  • HOW I BEAT MENINGITIS

    A NURSERY nurse who nearly died from meningitis spoke today of the most frightening hours of her life. Kerry Hemsley says she might not be alive today but for the actions of her family in continually calling for advice and demanding a doctor. Kerry's

  • LET US ENTERTAIN YOU AT TEATIME

    YOUR Argus is getting bigger and better. From Monday there will be a new four-page TV and leisure section every day. We've redesigned our TV pages to make them brighter and easier to use. Following TV, you will find our new Teatime section with two pages

  • SPACE...MY FINAL FRONTIER

    AT the age of four, Piers Sellers was asked what he wanted to be when he grew up. Along with other boys in his class at Tytten Hanger Lodge preparatory school in Seaford, Piers told his teacher he wanted to be an astronaut. It was dismissed as a flight

  • MOBILES NET A BIG BOOST FOR TELECOM

    THE growing use of the Internet and mobile phones helped drive business ahead at BT in the run-up to Christmas. But despite persistent rumours, the company said it had no immediate plans to increase its stake in the mobile phone group Cellnet. The Government

  • FEEDBACK

    IT'S all right, Holmes, you can go back to Baker Street. I've solved the Mystery of the Missing Map. Elementary, well, an elementary mistake anyway. It irritated Michael Harris from Shoreham. The intro to a story in some editions on Monday last week about

  • HOW I BEAT MENINGITIS

    A NURSERY nurse who nearly died from meningitis spoke today of the most frightening hours of her life. Kerry Hemsley says she might not be alive today but for the actions of her family in continually calling for advice and demanding a doctor. Kerry's

  • Sussex happy to go Dutch

    SUSSEX have gone Dutch to bolster their batting line-up. They have snapped up highly rated right-hander Bas Zuiderent on a one-year contract. Sussex have beaten several other counties to the 21-year-old's signature. Zuiderent shot to prominence in the

  • OUR PERSONAL WOOD IS STRICTLY FOR THE BIRDS

    BIRDWATCHERS Roland and Margaret Hall always dreamed of getting closer to nature. And now the couple can indulge in their hobby to their hearts' content after buying their own private wood. Roland and Margaret, of Grand Avenue, Withdean, Brighton, have