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  • AIRLINE MOVES TO GATWICK

    IRISH airline Aer Lingus is switching part of its UK operation from Stansted to Gatwick. The carrier currently operates six flights a day from the Essex airport to the Irish capital. But from January 2000, Aer Lingus will transfer Dublin flights to Gatwick

  • HEARTBROKEN AND HOMELESS: FIGHT HOTS UP TO SAVE CARE HOME

    Dozens of frail pensioners will be homeless and more than 40 jobs will be lost if plans to demolish a rest home go ahead. Residents and staff at the French Convalescent Home in Kemp Town, Brighton, only found out about the proposals when a notice was

  • Albion waiting on Oatway

    ALBION duo Kerry Mayo and Paul Armstrong are in contention for their first starts of the season. The midfielders are on standby for tonight's trip to Southend, because Charlie Oatway has only a 50-50 chance of being fit. Oatway hurt his right ankle in

  • DEADLY GAMES AT THE STATION

    shocking security camera pictures show youths dicing with death at a Sussex railway station British Transport Police say it is incredible no one has been killed, and have released the photographs, which were taken by security cameras at Goring station

  • SPARKLING WIN LEAVES FRENCH FEELING FLAT

    PATRIOTIC David Carr Taylor has beaten the French at their own game. His sparkling white wine has been voted the best of its kind in the world, leaving top French vineyards in a fizz. And his success is particularly sweet, following the Anglo-French beef

  • MYSTERY OF WHY A MAN TURNED KILLER

    CAMPER van killer Denis Mulder was beginning a life sentence today as police admitted they were still mystified as to why he turned to violence. Businessman Tony Robinson, 61, who owned the Spectrum Copy Shop in Brighton, was shot in the head after taking

  • BET RETURNS WITH A PLOT THAT'S RIGHT UP OUR STREET

    EATING fish and chips in the back of a limousine is not most people's idea of a good night out. So when the first episode of a new Coronation Street special was unveiled, it could only have been one character. Brassy landlady Bet Gilroy, played by Julie

  • EXPOSED: SECRET VOTE ON BURNERS

    PLANS for waste incinerator sites in Sussex are to be discussed in secret, it was revealed today. Campaigners have demanded that the "hit-list" being drawn up is made public. Labour councillors in Adur are furious that talks on the future of the sites

  • TOWN SNUBS PIER IN PERIL

    THE council was today branded a disgrace for refusing to take action to save Hastings Pier. The National Piers Society accused it of "doing nothing" to breathe new life into the ailing pier, now closed and up for sale. Receivers are inviting offers for

  • AIRLINE MOVES TO GATWICK

    IRISH airline Aer Lingus is switching part of its UK operation from Stansted to Gatwick. The carrier currently operates six flights a day from the Essex airport to the Irish capital. But from January 2000, Aer Lingus will transfer Dublin flights to Gatwick

  • Albion waiting on Oatway

    ALBION duo Kerry Mayo and Paul Armstrong are in contention for their first starts of the season. The midfielders are on standby for tonight's trip to Southend, because Charlie Oatway has only a 50-50 chance of being fit. Oatway hurt his right ankle in

  • Police suspension to last another year

    SUSSEX Police could be without a Deputy Chief Constable for at least another year due to legal action over the fatal shooting of an unarmed man. The news has been condemned as an "appalling waste" of the deputy's £80,000 salary and his work. Mark Jordan

  • BET RETURNS WITH A PLOT THAT'S RIGHT UP OUR STREET

    EATING fish and chips in the back of a limousine is not most people's idea of a good night out. So when the first episode of a new Coronation Street special was unveiled, it could only have been one character. Brassy landlady Bet Gilroy, played by Julie

  • TOWN SNUBS PIER IN PERIL

    THE council was today branded a disgrace for refusing to take action to save Hastings Pier. The National Piers Society accused it of "doing nothing" to breathe new life into the ailing pier, now closed and up for sale. Receivers are inviting offers for

  • DAD'S DEATH DRIVE DENIAL

    A FATHER of four sat drinking champagne in a bar only hours after he was involved in a fatal road accident, a court heard. Darin Brownlee-Jones, 33, was involved in the collision with motorcyclist Trevor Shearman in Poynings on September 29 last year.

  • Mighty Lewes go top of the class

    LEWES went top of National League division one after trouncing Hounslow 8-2. The victory took their goals tally to 16 in two games and confirmed Lewes' growing reputation in the highest echelons of English hockey. But the first half gave no indication

  • Police suspension to last another year

    SUSSEX Police could be without a Deputy Chief Constable for at least another year due to legal action over the fatal shooting of an unarmed man. The news has been condemned as an "appalling waste" of the deputy's £80,000 salary and his work. Mark Jordan

  • DAD'S DEATH DRIVE DENIAL

    A FATHER of four sat drinking champagne in a bar only hours after he was involved in a fatal road accident, a court heard. Darin Brownlee-Jones, 33, was involved in the collision with motorcyclist Trevor Shearman in Poynings on September 29 last year.

  • HEARTBROKEN AND HOMELESS: FIGHT HOTS UP TO SAVE CARE HOME

    Dozens of frail pensioners will be homeless and more than 40 jobs will be lost if plans to demolish a rest home go ahead. Residents and staff at the French Convalescent Home in Kemp Town, Brighton, only found out about the proposals when a notice was

  • Mighty Lewes go top of the class

    LEWES went top of National League division one after trouncing Hounslow 8-2. The victory took their goals tally to 16 in two games and confirmed Lewes' growing reputation in the highest echelons of English hockey. But the first half gave no indication

  • DEADLY GAMES AT THE STATION

    shocking security camera pictures show youths dicing with death at a Sussex railway station British Transport Police say it is incredible no one has been killed, and have released the photographs, which were taken by security cameras at Goring station

  • SPARKLING WIN LEAVES FRENCH FEELING FLAT

    PATRIOTIC David Carr Taylor has beaten the French at their own game. His sparkling white wine has been voted the best of its kind in the world, leaving top French vineyards in a fizz. And his success is particularly sweet, following the Anglo-French beef

  • MYSTERY OF WHY A MAN TURNED KILLER

    CAMPER van killer Denis Mulder was beginning a life sentence today as police admitted they were still mystified as to why he turned to violence. Businessman Tony Robinson, 61, who owned the Spectrum Copy Shop in Brighton, was shot in the head after taking

  • EXPOSED: SECRET VOTE ON BURNERS

    PLANS for waste incinerator sites in Sussex are to be discussed in secret, it was revealed today. Campaigners have demanded that the "hit-list" being drawn up is made public. Labour councillors in Adur are furious that talks on the future of the sites