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  • No Withdean this season?

    ALBION may not play at Withdean this season after the postponement of a welcome home dinner. The celebration of the Seagulls' return to Brighton had been scheduled for March 22. That is five days before the club's target date for their first Withdean

  • 100 EXTRA JOBS MAY BE LOST

    AROUND 300 jobs could be lost when giant Norwich Union completes its reorganisation of a Sussex-based insurance company, The Argus can reveal. Employees at the ITT London and Edinburgh head office in Worthing were originally told around 200 positions

  • A CHANCE TO SCORE TWICE FOR SEAGULLS

    THE Argus can today reveal the two questions that Brighton and Hove residents will be asked about the Albion's planned move to Falmer. A referendum is taking place on May 6 to gauge public opinion on proposals to build the Seagulls' new stadium in the

  • HAVE YOU SEEN MY BRIGHTON ROCK?

    TOP DJ Norman Cook plans to wed his fiancee Zoe Ball as soon as her hectic schedule allows. Norman revealed he "ran around the flat screaming" after the Radio One DJ accepted his Valentine's Day proposal. Speaking from the balcony of his luxury home on

  • THE PREDATOR

    FORMER soldier Peter Derek Jones was today starting seven life sentences for sex crimes against children in a reign of terror which spanned three decades. His victims, now mostly in their 30s, wept with joy as a jury convicted Jones, dubbed "a sexual

  • PHONE TERROR WOMEN JAILED FOR DEATH THREATS

    TWO women who left terrifying messages on the voice mail of a 26-year-old woman's mobile phone have been jailed. Unemployed Ivana Mancini and Pamela Magaby left dozens of messages on Rachel Carson's mobile calling her names and threatening to kill her

  • £600,000 BOOST FOR HOSPITAL

    CRAWLEY Hospital is to receive a Government cash boost to improve its casualty department, it was announced today. The East Surrey and Sussex NHS Trust, which runs the hospital, has been told it will receive part of a £2.5 million sum allocated by the

  • RAP OVER ATTACK FOR SIT-TIGHT BUS DRIVER

    A PASSENGER today criticised a bus driver she says failed to act when she and another woman were attacked. Joanna Williamson, 30, was struck in the eye when she stepped in to help a woman and her young son on the 81A bus in Brighton last night. Postwoman

  • Worthing into last eight

    WORTHING are through to the quarter-finals of the Hockey Association Trophy after they produced a sensational comeback to tame Lions on Sunday. The visitors trailed 3-0 at half-time to the west Londoners but roared back with three goals in a ten minute

  • Ottley off as Albion lose

    Portsmouth Res 1 Albion Res 0 Teenage defender Matt Ottley was sent off after just 18 minutes as Albion suffered an unfortunate Combination defeat at Fratton Park last night. Ottley was booked on 13 minutes following an innocuous foul, then slid in from

  • SIGNAL FAILURE BY LIZZIE ENFIELD

    HAVE perfect and surreal excuse for being late at work. Initially eyes refused to open and body to move when alarm went off, and when they did it was so slowly that they didn't quite get me to station in time for planned train but only in time for 8.18

  • HUGE HOTEL REVAMPSTARTS IN GRAND STYLE

    ONE of the best-known hotels in Sussex is getting a multi-million pound facelift. It is one of the biggest-ever revamps for Brighton's Grand Hotel. The work includes replacing the 135-year-old domed glass canopy over the stairwell, hanging £9,000 curtains

  • SCOUTS' £12,000 FINEFOR DEATH OF GIRL, 16

    A SCOUT group has been ordered to pay £12,000 following the death of a 16-year-old camp leader. But today the devastated parents of Michelle Stanley said no amount of money could ever bring back their precious daughter. Lewes Crown Court heard how Michelle

  • THE PREDATOR

    FORMER soldier Peter Derek Jones was today starting seven life sentences for sex crimes against children in a reign of terror which spanned three decades. His victims, now mostly in their 30s, wept with joy as a jury convicted Jones, dubbed "a sexual

  • PHONE TERROR WOMEN JAILED FOR DEATH THREATS

    TWO women who left terrifying messages on the voice mail of a 26-year-old woman's mobile phone have been jailed. Unemployed Ivana Mancini and Pamela Magaby left dozens of messages on Rachel Carson's mobile calling her names and threatening to kill her

  • DEREK JAMESON - DO THEY MEAN ME?

    A HEATED CHALLENGE KINDLY bear with me today as I land you with a load of rubbish. Not the verbal kind, of which we possess more than enough, but the other sort you throw in the dustbin most days. It arises from a head-on challenge delivered by Coun John

  • SUSSEX FIRM BUYS OUT GROCERY GIANT

    THE deal announced yesterday in which Hove-based wholesale grocer Palmer & Harvey McLane has taken over the goodwill and assets of industry giant Booker Wholesale Foods marks a massive expansion for the Sussex company. But a spokesman at Palmer &

  • £600,000 BOOST FOR HOSPITAL

    CRAWLEY Hospital is to receive a Government cash boost to improve its casualty department, it was announced today. The East Surrey and Sussex NHS Trust, which runs the hospital, has been told it will receive part of a £2.5 million sum allocated by the

  • RAP OVER ATTACK FOR SIT-TIGHT BUS DRIVER

    A PASSENGER today criticised a bus driver she says failed to act when she and another woman were attacked. Joanna Williamson, 30, was struck in the eye when she stepped in to help a woman and her young son on the 81A bus in Brighton last night. Postwoman

  • Worthing into last eight

    WORTHING are through to the quarter-finals of the Hockey Association Trophy after they produced a sensational comeback to tame Lions on Sunday. The visitors trailed 3-0 at half-time to the west Londoners but roared back with three goals in a ten minute

  • Ottley off as Albion lose

    Portsmouth Res 1 Albion Res 0 Teenage defender Matt Ottley was sent off after just 18 minutes as Albion suffered an unfortunate Combination defeat at Fratton Park last night. Ottley was booked on 13 minutes following an innocuous foul, then slid in from

  • SIGNAL FAILURE BY LIZZIE ENFIELD

    HAVE perfect and surreal excuse for being late at work. Initially eyes refused to open and body to move when alarm went off, and when they did it was so slowly that they didn't quite get me to station in time for planned train but only in time for 8.18

  • HUGE HOTEL REVAMPSTARTS IN GRAND STYLE

    ONE of the best-known hotels in Sussex is getting a multi-million pound facelift. It is one of the biggest-ever revamps for Brighton's Grand Hotel. The work includes replacing the 135-year-old domed glass canopy over the stairwell, hanging £9,000 curtains

  • SCOUTS' £12,000 FINEFOR DEATH OF GIRL, 16

    A SCOUT group has been ordered to pay £12,000 following the death of a 16-year-old camp leader. But today the devastated parents of Michelle Stanley said no amount of money could ever bring back their precious daughter. Lewes Crown Court heard how Michelle

  • DEREK JAMESON - DO THEY MEAN ME?

    A HEATED CHALLENGE KINDLY bear with me today as I land you with a load of rubbish. Not the verbal kind, of which we possess more than enough, but the other sort you throw in the dustbin most days. It arises from a head-on challenge delivered by Coun John

  • SUSSEX FIRM BUYS OUT GROCERY GIANT

    THE deal announced yesterday in which Hove-based wholesale grocer Palmer & Harvey McLane has taken over the goodwill and assets of industry giant Booker Wholesale Foods marks a massive expansion for the Sussex company. But a spokesman at Palmer &

  • No Withdean this season?

    ALBION may not play at Withdean this season after the postponement of a welcome home dinner. The celebration of the Seagulls' return to Brighton had been scheduled for March 22. That is five days before the club's target date for their first Withdean

  • 100 EXTRA JOBS MAY BE LOST

    AROUND 300 jobs could be lost when giant Norwich Union completes its reorganisation of a Sussex-based insurance company, The Argus can reveal. Employees at the ITT London and Edinburgh head office in Worthing were originally told around 200 positions

  • A CHANCE TO SCORE TWICE FOR SEAGULLS

    THE Argus can today reveal the two questions that Brighton and Hove residents will be asked about the Albion's planned move to Falmer. A referendum is taking place on May 6 to gauge public opinion on proposals to build the Seagulls' new stadium in the

  • HAVE YOU SEEN MY BRIGHTON ROCK?

    TOP DJ Norman Cook plans to wed his fiancee Zoe Ball as soon as her hectic schedule allows. Norman revealed he "ran around the flat screaming" after the Radio One DJ accepted his Valentine's Day proposal. Speaking from the balcony of his luxury home on