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  • Businesses spend 600

    million hours dealing with red tape every year. A NatWest report found regulatory burdens on smaller companies were increasing. Sole traders suffered most with one-man-band managers spending nearly eight hours a month on red tape. The average firm with

  • VOICE OF THE ARGUS

    Keep Sussex beautiful Sussex faces a nightmare in the next century of having thousands of new homes foisted on its its precious countryside by the Government. An independent panel appointed by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott says more than 135,000

  • CLOSURE THREAT TO WOMEN'S CENTRE

    THE Brighton Women's Centre is facing closure unless it can find a new home and extra funding by the end of November. Its current home in St George's Mews is being sold and the group has been served notice to leave. A three-year funding programme from

  • REGULARS RALLY BEHIND PUB CAT BONNIE

    FOR ALMOST a decade, Bonnie the cat has sidled up to customers in their local and offered them some friendly company as they sip their pints. Regulars at the popular Vine pub in Tarring, Worthing, have followed her progress from meek kitten to bar-stool

  • RETIRING LIFESAVERS KEEP HISTORY ALIVE

    When John Dann and Richard Worsell followed in their fathers' footsteps and became coastguards they added 40 years of bravery to a family tradition. Their fathers, uncles and grandfathers had dedicated their lives to saving others during 265 years of

  • TWO QUIT AS REPORT SLAMS HOSPITAL

    TWO health bosses resigned today as a damning report slated their running of a hospital. An inquiry into levels of care at Eastbourne District General Hospital was ordered after the deaths of two patients on wards. The report, published today, identified

  • TA COLONEL DIES AT BEACHY HEAD

    A Territorial Army colonel and honorary aide-de-camp to the Queen has been found dead at Beachy Head. A car believed to belong to Euan Morrow was found with its lights on in a nearby car park by a Downs ranger yesterday. A car park pass to a Buckingham

  • BETWEEN YOU AND ME - VANORA LEIGH

    IT was while I was cleaning the fish bowl that the goldfish's eye fell out. I pushed it back in, replaced the fish, Marlon, in the clean water . . . and seconds later the eye floated to the surface. "This calls for a spot of superglue," I thought. Now

  • CLOSURE THREAT TO WOMEN'S CENTRE

    THE Brighton Women's Centre is facing closure unless it can find a new home and extra funding by the end of November. Its current home in St George's Mews is being sold and the group has been served notice to leave. A three-year funding programme from

  • REGULARS RALLY BEHIND PUB CAT BONNIE

    FOR ALMOST a decade, Bonnie the cat has sidled up to customers in their local and offered them some friendly company as they sip their pints. Regulars at the popular Vine pub in Tarring, Worthing, have followed her progress from meek kitten to bar-stool

  • RETIRING LIFESAVERS KEEP HISTORY ALIVE

    When John Dann and Richard Worsell followed in their fathers' footsteps and became coastguards they added 40 years of bravery to a family tradition. Their fathers, uncles and grandfathers had dedicated their lives to saving others during 265 years of

  • I'LL BE LOST IF I CAN'T LIVE ON THE SEAFRONT

    A MAN who suffers from memory loss says he must live on the seafront or he will never find his way home. David Lazarus was due to move out of his flat in Marine Parade, Kemp Town, Brighton, yesterday because his landlord wants to sell it. Brighton and

  • SCHOOLGIRL WINS BATTLE TO MAKE HER BUSY STREET SAFER

    VICTORIA Smith's life was made miserable by a busy main road. Unable to cross it alone she could not reach her friends, the Brownies or get to the local shops. So, 18 months ago, the then nine-year-old wrote to a councillor demanding a new crossing in

  • TA COLONEL DIES AT BEACHY HEAD

    A Territorial Army colonel and honorary aide-de-camp to the Queen has been found dead at Beachy Head. A car believed to belong to Euan Morrow was found with its lights on in a nearby car park by a Downs ranger yesterday. A car park pass to a Buckingham

  • CASH BOOST AIMS TO CURB PUPIL TRUANCY

    A SUSSEX school is in line for more than £300,000 under a new crackdown on truancy and crime among pupils. Hampden Park School in Eastbourne, where truancy is above average, will receive £320,000 over two years under the Government's new Crime Reduction

  • Businesses spend 600

    million hours dealing with red tape every year. A NatWest report found regulatory burdens on smaller companies were increasing. Sole traders suffered most with one-man-band managers spending nearly eight hours a month on red tape. The average firm with

  • VOICE OF THE ARGUS

    Keep Sussex beautiful Sussex faces a nightmare in the next century of having thousands of new homes foisted on its its precious countryside by the Government. An independent panel appointed by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott says more than 135,000

  • BULLY VICTIM'S £50,000 CLAIM

    A FORMER schoolgirl who claims she was a victim of bullying is suing West Sussex County Council for more than £50,000. Leah Bradford Smart has issued a High Court writ for personal injuries and losses, alleging she was not provided with a safe educational

  • ALL PUPILS ARE INVITED TO LUNCH

    A SCHOOL packed lunch service will be available to all West Sussex pupils. The county council axed hot school meals and replaced them with packed lunches, but the service has only been available to pupils who qualify for free meals. Now all other pupils

  • TWO QUIT AS REPORT SLAMS HOSPITAL

    TWO health bosses resigned today as a damning report slated their running of a hospital. An inquiry into levels of care at Eastbourne District General Hospital was ordered after the deaths of two patients on wards. The report, published today, identified

  • BETWEEN YOU AND ME - VANORA LEIGH

    IT was while I was cleaning the fish bowl that the goldfish's eye fell out. I pushed it back in, replaced the fish, Marlon, in the clean water . . . and seconds later the eye floated to the surface. "This calls for a spot of superglue," I thought. Now

  • BULLY VICTIM'S £50,000 CLAIM

    A FORMER schoolgirl who claims she was a victim of bullying is suing West Sussex County Council for more than £50,000. Leah Bradford Smart has issued a High Court writ for personal injuries and losses, alleging she was not provided with a safe educational

  • I'LL BE LOST IF I CAN'T LIVE ON THE SEAFRONT

    A MAN who suffers from memory loss says he must live on the seafront or he will never find his way home. David Lazarus was due to move out of his flat in Marine Parade, Kemp Town, Brighton, yesterday because his landlord wants to sell it. Brighton and

  • ALL PUPILS ARE INVITED TO LUNCH

    A SCHOOL packed lunch service will be available to all West Sussex pupils. The county council axed hot school meals and replaced them with packed lunches, but the service has only been available to pupils who qualify for free meals. Now all other pupils

  • SCHOOLGIRL WINS BATTLE TO MAKE HER BUSY STREET SAFER

    VICTORIA Smith's life was made miserable by a busy main road. Unable to cross it alone she could not reach her friends, the Brownies or get to the local shops. So, 18 months ago, the then nine-year-old wrote to a councillor demanding a new crossing in

  • CASH BOOST AIMS TO CURB PUPIL TRUANCY

    A SUSSEX school is in line for more than £300,000 under a new crackdown on truancy and crime among pupils. Hampden Park School in Eastbourne, where truancy is above average, will receive £320,000 over two years under the Government's new Crime Reduction