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  • SUITS YOU WHAT YOU WEAR TO WORK

    OFFICE dress codes are changing fast, according to a new study. The suit and tie is no longer de rigeuer in places of business, with one in two employees no longer being required to conform to the rule. The research, conducted by Harris for business organisation

  • £20,000 BILL TO REPEL BOARDERS

    A NEW £90 million shopping centre is having to spend an extra £20,000 to stop skateboarders an in-line skaters using its forecourt. Churchill Square, Brighton, owners Standard Life are installing granite flower-bed walls at the entrance in an attempt

  • ADAM TRIMINGHAM

    TONY Blair's New Labour Government will have been in office for two years this May and according to the opinion polls, its love affair with the electorate shows no sign of waning. It's a different story when it comes to actual elections which have been

  • Sussex stay in top flight

    SUSSEX comfortably preserved their Premier Division status in the national Inter-Counties Championships by finishing top in the play-off group at Manchester. They beat Lancashire 4-1 and both Middlesex and Northumberland 5-0. The only match Sussex lost

  • Mason eyes England spot

    NICKY MASON is in the sort of form that could earn him a recall to the England table tennis team at the age of 34 after a five-year absence. The Eastbourne ace returned to the Grand Prix circuit after a three-month absence at Great Yarmouth last week

  • Savages trio record wins

    SOL Gilbert, Matty Watts and Scott Grigg provided Hove-based Savages ABC with three winners in an explosive 12-bout dinner bill at Hove Town Hall. Gilbert, 23, made it nine victories in 12 starts after his nail-biting battle with Norwich middleweight

  • Albion face French test

    ALBION come across another foreigner with an illustrious at the Priestfield Stadium on Saturday. Last week it was former German under-21 inetrnational midfielder Lars Unger, who is on loan to Southend for the rest of the season from Fortuna Dusseldorf

  • Wood: Culvs is a natural

    ALBION manager Jeff Wood is adamant that Ian Culverhouse can cope with the dual demands of playing and coaching. The Seagulls' cultured skipper and sweeper took his first training session this week in his new role as reserve team boss. Kevin Keegan is

  • D-day for Hastings

    HASTINGS Town will go into administration on Monday unless a new buyer can be found by tomorrow. Owner Mark Gardiner is adamant that he won't sink another penny of his lottery fortune into the 105-year-old football club. Gardiner, who saved Town from

  • WOMAN BREAKS SILENCE ON 20-YEAR-OLD MURDER

    TWENTY years ago a group of birdwatchers set off from Sussex on a day trip to Kent. decades later two of that party could hold vital information about an unsolved murder. One woman on that innocent outing spoke for the first time today about what could

  • FAMILY HIT BY SNOW HORROR

    A FAMILY trapped in the avalanche-hit ski resort of Galtur spoke today of the terrifying moment a blanket of snow struck the village. Sixteen people died when two massive avalanches hit the outskirts of Galtur on Monday night. Cliff Marks, 50, his wife

  • GAMES BAN FOR SEAGULLS FANS

    BRIGHTON and Hove Albion has banned four fans from all games for the foreseeable future. Three are the men arrested and charged following crowd trouble during last Saturday's match at Southend. The fourth is butcher Neil Underhill, who ran on to the pitch

  • FLATMATE FINDS MAN STABBED

    TWO men are being questioned by police after the body of a 44-year-old man was found at a block of flats. The man, who has not been identified, had stab wounds to the stomach. The body was discovered by the victim's flatmate at Manton Court, Rotunda Road

  • SUITS YOU WHAT YOU WEAR TO WORK

    OFFICE dress codes are changing fast, according to a new study. The suit and tie is no longer de rigeuer in places of business, with one in two employees no longer being required to conform to the rule. The research, conducted by Harris for business organisation

  • CLEANER ATTACKED BY OFFICE RAID GANG

    AN OFFICE cleaner is recovering in hospital after three men attacked him with a baseball bat. The victim, from Crawley, was left with a broken shoulder blade, a gash to the back of his head, broken ribs and a suspected punctured lung. Police think the

  • £20,000 BILL TO REPEL BOARDERS

    A NEW £90 million shopping centre is having to spend an extra £20,000 to stop skateboarders an in-line skaters using its forecourt. Churchill Square, Brighton, owners Standard Life are installing granite flower-bed walls at the entrance in an attempt

  • Sussex stay in top flight

    SUSSEX comfortably preserved their Premier Division status in the national Inter-Counties Championships by finishing top in the play-off group at Manchester. They beat Lancashire 4-1 and both Middlesex and Northumberland 5-0. The only match Sussex lost

  • Mason eyes England spot

    NICKY MASON is in the sort of form that could earn him a recall to the England table tennis team at the age of 34 after a five-year absence. The Eastbourne ace returned to the Grand Prix circuit after a three-month absence at Great Yarmouth last week

  • Savages trio record wins

    SOL Gilbert, Matty Watts and Scott Grigg provided Hove-based Savages ABC with three winners in an explosive 12-bout dinner bill at Hove Town Hall. Gilbert, 23, made it nine victories in 12 starts after his nail-biting battle with Norwich middleweight

  • Lewry feared for his life

    JASON LEWRY says he feared for his life when his plane was caught in a tropical thunderstorm during a recent sightseeing trip in Zimbabwe. Lewry, team-mates Vikram Solanki and Graeme Swann and two members of the England A team's medical staff, were returning

  • Reserves are beaten

    IAN Culverhouse made a losing start as reserve team coach last night. But there was plenty of cause for encouragement in Albion's unfortunate 1-0 defeat by Charlton at boggy Woodside Road. Charlton, coached by former Albion favourite Gary Stevens, snatched

  • Albion face French test

    ALBION come across another foreigner with an illustrious at the Priestfield Stadium on Saturday. Last week it was former German under-21 inetrnational midfielder Lars Unger, who is on loan to Southend for the rest of the season from Fortuna Dusseldorf

  • Ormerod in for Walton

    Albion will be without SIX players for Saturday's showdown against Leyton Orient after an injury to goalkeeper Mark Walton. The big Welshman hurt a hamstring in last Saturday's 3-0 defeat at Southend. It has not responded to treatment, so Mark Ormerod

  • GAMES BAN FOR SEAGULLS FANS

    BRIGHTON and Hove Albion has banned four fans from all games for the foreseeable future. Three are the men arrested and charged following crowd trouble during last Saturday's match at Southend. The fourth is butcher Neil Underhill, who ran on to the pitch

  • CLEANER ATTACKED BY OFFICE RAID GANG

    AN OFFICE cleaner is recovering in hospital after three men attacked him with a baseball bat. The victim, from Crawley, was left with a broken shoulder blade, a gash to the back of his head, broken ribs and a suspected punctured lung. Police think the

  • Lewry feared for his life

    JASON LEWRY says he feared for his life when his plane was caught in a tropical thunderstorm during a recent sightseeing trip in Zimbabwe. Lewry, team-mates Vikram Solanki and Graeme Swann and two members of the England A team's medical staff, were returning

  • Lewry hit by injury

    SUSSEX fast bowler Jason Lewry may miss the start of the new season after suffering another injury setback. Lewry has had a second scan on the shoulder problem which forced him to return two weeks early from England A's tour of Zimbabwe and South Africa

  • Reserves are beaten

    IAN Culverhouse made a losing start as reserve team coach last night. But there was plenty of cause for encouragement in Albion's unfortunate 1-0 defeat by Charlton at boggy Woodside Road. Charlton, coached by former Albion favourite Gary Stevens, snatched

  • Ormerod in for Walton

    Albion will be without SIX players for Saturday's showdown against Leyton Orient after an injury to goalkeeper Mark Walton. The big Welshman hurt a hamstring in last Saturday's 3-0 defeat at Southend. It has not responded to treatment, so Mark Ormerod

  • £200,000 COST OF CROSSING CRASH

    THE bill for repairing a train that ploughed into a Land Rover on a level crossing will be at least £200,000. And it is believed that repairs to the track and crossing could add at at least another £130,000 to the bill. Fifty-four passengers escaped unhurt

  • HE'S GOT FIVE A-LEVELS AND HE'S ONLY 16

    LIKE most boys when they are young, Meryck Franklin-Ryan spent ages glued to the television. But while most youngsters were enjoying programmes like Sesame Street, he was transfixed by Open University. He was just 11 when he passed his first GCSE exams

  • TV BLACKOUT

    FURIOUS viewers jammed telephone switchboards today after the plug was pulled on TVs in more than 240,000 homes. Screens throughout the Brighton and Hove area went blank at 7am after the shared main transmitter was shut down. Service was not due to be

  • ADAM TRIMINGHAM

    TONY Blair's New Labour Government will have been in office for two years this May and according to the opinion polls, its love affair with the electorate shows no sign of waning. It's a different story when it comes to actual elections which have been

  • Lewry hit by injury

    SUSSEX fast bowler Jason Lewry may miss the start of the new season after suffering another injury setback. Lewry has had a second scan on the shoulder problem which forced him to return two weeks early from England A's tour of Zimbabwe and South Africa

  • Wood: Culvs is a natural

    ALBION manager Jeff Wood is adamant that Ian Culverhouse can cope with the dual demands of playing and coaching. The Seagulls' cultured skipper and sweeper took his first training session this week in his new role as reserve team boss. Kevin Keegan is

  • D-day for Hastings

    HASTINGS Town will go into administration on Monday unless a new buyer can be found by tomorrow. Owner Mark Gardiner is adamant that he won't sink another penny of his lottery fortune into the 105-year-old football club. Gardiner, who saved Town from

  • £200,000 COST OF CROSSING CRASH

    THE bill for repairing a train that ploughed into a Land Rover on a level crossing will be at least £200,000. And it is believed that repairs to the track and crossing could add at at least another £130,000 to the bill. Fifty-four passengers escaped unhurt

  • HE'S GOT FIVE A-LEVELS AND HE'S ONLY 16

    LIKE most boys when they are young, Meryck Franklin-Ryan spent ages glued to the television. But while most youngsters were enjoying programmes like Sesame Street, he was transfixed by Open University. He was just 11 when he passed his first GCSE exams

  • WOMAN BREAKS SILENCE ON 20-YEAR-OLD MURDER

    TWENTY years ago a group of birdwatchers set off from Sussex on a day trip to Kent. decades later two of that party could hold vital information about an unsolved murder. One woman on that innocent outing spoke for the first time today about what could

  • FAMILY HIT BY SNOW HORROR

    A FAMILY trapped in the avalanche-hit ski resort of Galtur spoke today of the terrifying moment a blanket of snow struck the village. Sixteen people died when two massive avalanches hit the outskirts of Galtur on Monday night. Cliff Marks, 50, his wife

  • TV BLACKOUT

    FURIOUS viewers jammed telephone switchboards today after the plug was pulled on TVs in more than 240,000 homes. Screens throughout the Brighton and Hove area went blank at 7am after the shared main transmitter was shut down. Service was not due to be

  • FLATMATE FINDS MAN STABBED

    TWO men are being questioned by police after the body of a 44-year-old man was found at a block of flats. The man, who has not been identified, had stab wounds to the stomach. The body was discovered by the victim's flatmate at Manton Court, Rotunda Road