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  • EMPLOYERS need to offer benefits to attract suitable staff.

    A survey by the Institute of Personnel and Development found that almost one in three employers could not find a single applicant to apply for a job. The research found that seven out of ten were having problems finding new staff, compared with six out

  • LIZZIE ENFIELD

    OVERSLEPT this morning and, despite running entire half mile from home to station, failed to make it onto the 8.18 - my last chance if I were to make vital (if I am to hold on to my job) meeting at 10.15. As I was scouring timetable, desperately wondering

  • BUSTLING AIRPORT TO PROVIDE 40 NEW JOBS

    DOZENS of new jobs are being created at Shoreham Airport with the opening of two new businesses. Transair UK Ltd, which supplies aviation equipment, is opening a new shop, warehouse and office, with 30 full and part-time posts. The firm is spending hundreds

  • TV STAR'S VILLAGE WEDDING

    TELEVISION star Nicholas Lyndhurst is to marry his girlfriend, Lucy Smith, in Sussex in September. And the clergyman who is to perform the ceremony said today: "I will be treating them as I would any other couple." The publicity-shy Only Fools and Horses

  • THINK THIN! JULIA'S NARROWEST HOUSE

    EVEN the most ambitious estate agent would struggle to describe teacher Julia Wood's home as anything more than "compact". Her cosy home in the heart of Brighton measures just a mere six feet across, making it one of the narrowest houses in the country

  • AXE VANDALS' RAID OF HATE

    VANDALS caused more than £20,000 damage during a wrecking spree in Brighton town centre. Sculptures displayed in Victoria Gardens and Old Steine as part of the Brighton Fringe Festival were destroyed with axes. Police suspect someone has a grudge against

  • COUPLE IN HALF-HOUR SUITCASE ALERT VIGIL

    A PENSIONER who stood guard over a suspect suitcase in a busy street today criticised police for taking almost half an hour to arrive. Jerry Laurie, 70, was walking along Portland Road, Hove, when he noticed a motorcyclist riding off, leaving a suitcase

  • TV STAR'S VILLAGE WEDDING

    TELEVISION star Nicholas Lyndhurst is to marry his girlfriend, Lucy Smith, in Sussex in September. And the clergyman who is to perform the ceremony said today: "I will be treating them as I would any other couple." The publicity-shy Only Fools and Horses

  • THINK THIN! JULIA'S NARROWEST HOUSE

    EVEN the most ambitious estate agent would struggle to describe teacher Julia Wood's home as anything more than "compact". Her cosy home in the heart of Brighton measures just a mere six feet across, making it one of the narrowest houses in the country

  • LOUISE COULD DIE FROM EATING

    WHEN Louise Newham was only three months old her parents instinctively knew something was wrong. She had been tube-fed at birth but developed no interest in food in the months after. Poor muscle strength meant she could not suck milk from a bottle and

  • AXE VANDALS' RAID OF HATE

    VANDALS caused more than £20,000 damage during a wrecking spree in Brighton town centre. Sculptures displayed in Victoria Gardens and Old Steine as part of the Brighton Fringe Festival were destroyed with axes. Police suspect someone has a grudge against

  • LIS SOLKHON

    IF YOU ever shop at one of those large edge-of-town stores (and who doesn't these days?) you will no doubt have noticed a proliferation of 'special' parking places. All stores nowadays, quite rightly, seem to have parking for the disabled as close to

  • FEARS FOR JOBS IN MASSIVE DEAL

    AN emergency board meeting will take place this week after Crawley-based First Choice Holidays lost its fight to prevent a takeover. Manchester firm Airtours announced yesterday it was on the verge of taking control of the company in a £1 billion deal

  • COUPLE IN HALF-HOUR SUITCASE ALERT VIGIL

    A PENSIONER who stood guard over a suspect suitcase in a busy street today criticised police for taking almost half an hour to arrive. Jerry Laurie, 70, was walking along Portland Road, Hove, when he noticed a motorcyclist riding off, leaving a suitcase

  • SCHOOLS' STEW OVER DINNERS

    HOT meals could be back on the menu at West Sussex schools after a controversial deal to provide cold snacks collapsed. The county council had scrapped hot dinners for children and offeredthe contract to provide cold meals to catering firm Gardner Merchant

  • £64M QUESTION OF TRANSFORMING OUR HEALTH CARE

    THE building is fitted, wired and ready to be equipped. Six floors of state-of-the-art technology are destined to transform health care in Brighton. The only thing missing is the patients. After decades in the pipeline, the first phase of a major redevelopment

  • LOUISE COULD DIE FROM EATING

    WHEN Louise Newham was only three months old her parents instinctively knew something was wrong. She had been tube-fed at birth but developed no interest in food in the months after. Poor muscle strength meant she could not suck milk from a bottle and

  • MYSTERY OF BODY IN SEA

    A HUMAN torso was washed up on the beach at Eastbourne today. A walker called the emergency services yesterday after spotting the body in the sea. This morning, coastguards from Eastbourne spent two hours recovering the body. They confirmed it was without

  • EMPLOYERS need to offer benefits to attract suitable staff.

    A survey by the Institute of Personnel and Development found that almost one in three employers could not find a single applicant to apply for a job. The research found that seven out of ten were having problems finding new staff, compared with six out

  • LIS SOLKHON

    IF YOU ever shop at one of those large edge-of-town stores (and who doesn't these days?) you will no doubt have noticed a proliferation of 'special' parking places. All stores nowadays, quite rightly, seem to have parking for the disabled as close to

  • FEARS FOR JOBS IN MASSIVE DEAL

    AN emergency board meeting will take place this week after Crawley-based First Choice Holidays lost its fight to prevent a takeover. Manchester firm Airtours announced yesterday it was on the verge of taking control of the company in a £1 billion deal

  • SCHOOLS' STEW OVER DINNERS

    HOT meals could be back on the menu at West Sussex schools after a controversial deal to provide cold snacks collapsed. The county council had scrapped hot dinners for children and offeredthe contract to provide cold meals to catering firm Gardner Merchant

  • LIZZIE ENFIELD

    OVERSLEPT this morning and, despite running entire half mile from home to station, failed to make it onto the 8.18 - my last chance if I were to make vital (if I am to hold on to my job) meeting at 10.15. As I was scouring timetable, desperately wondering

  • BUSTLING AIRPORT TO PROVIDE 40 NEW JOBS

    DOZENS of new jobs are being created at Shoreham Airport with the opening of two new businesses. Transair UK Ltd, which supplies aviation equipment, is opening a new shop, warehouse and office, with 30 full and part-time posts. The firm is spending hundreds

  • £64M QUESTION OF TRANSFORMING OUR HEALTH CARE

    THE building is fitted, wired and ready to be equipped. Six floors of state-of-the-art technology are destined to transform health care in Brighton. The only thing missing is the patients. After decades in the pipeline, the first phase of a major redevelopment

  • MYSTERY OF BODY IN SEA

    A HUMAN torso was washed up on the beach at Eastbourne today. A walker called the emergency services yesterday after spotting the body in the sea. This morning, coastguards from Eastbourne spent two hours recovering the body. They confirmed it was without