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  • Airports operator BAA is bracing itself for a

    £25 million sales drop through the abolition of Duty Free sales inside the European Union. The revision to its forecasts will take the total cost of the new rules to £60 million this year, although the company said sales were starting to pick up again

  • Stand up for the elderly

    Today we launch a campaign to save the French Convalescent Home which has stood for more than a century on the seafront in Brighton. It is a beautiful building and the home received a glowing report from Brighton and Hove Council's social services in

  • BOTTLE PLANT IS BOOST FOR JOBS

    UP TO 50 jobs could be created after plans for a bottle-making plant at Express Dairies in Sheff-ield Park were given the go-ahead. The blow moulding factory will manufacture plastic bottles used by the dairy, which currently employs about 270 people

  • TORY ELECTION HOPES RIDE ON THEOBALD

    Geoffrey Theobald, opposition leader on Brighton and Hove Council, was last night chosen as the Tory candidate for Brighton Kemp Town at the next general election. Coun Theobald, 53, beat a London-based candidate for the right to take on sitting Labour

  • Rebels leave it late to secure victory

    Worthing scored three times in the last 26 minutes to pull off an impressive 4-2 win at Premier Division side Hampton & Richmond in the Ryman League Full Members Cup. Rebels put up a spirited display after twice falling behind and now visit Bromley

  • Adams: Midfield cost us victory

    Albion manager Micky Adams has pointed the finger at his midfield for a rare away defeat. Southend came from behind to beat the Seagulls 2-1 with a powerful second-half performance at Roots Hall last night. They became only the second side to beat Albion

  • PANTHER SPOTTED BY DOG WALKER

    THE Sussex panther could be back on the prowl. The latest sighting of a black panther-like animal happened at Redford, near Midhurst. Police say a man walking his dogs spotted a large black cat. A spokesman said: "He described it as a black panther about

  • THE DIRTY DOZEN

    THE GREAT WASTE DEBATE - AN EVENING ARGUS CAMPAIGN DAY 3: Press and public kept out of secret meeting to decide the fate of the 350 proposed sites for waste disposal THESE are the 12 councillors who will today discuss in secret which of 350 sites across

  • THE BOY'S A GENIE-US

    WITH the panto season almost upon us, REBECCA DROUGHT takes a look at what's on offer this season WELL slap my thigh and tickle me with a feather duster if it isn't panto season again. Sussex theatres will be resounding once more to the raucous cries

  • LITTLE LAURA'S CRIES WERE LOCKED UP INSIDE

    FOR the first year of her life Laura Greenfield used to laugh, cry and lose her temper in silence. She would grin with happiness or wipe tears from her cheeks, but the emotions were never accompanied by sounds because Laura was born with a condition that

  • DOGS MAULED THREE CATS TO DEATH

    TWO dangerous dogs were allowed to run free and kill three pet cats, a court heard. On three occasions Staffordshire bull terriers Kizy and Dred were allowed out of the Hailsham home of owners Rebecca Taylor and Chaz Welch, of Mortain Park. Eastbourne

  • Airports operator BAA is bracing itself for a

    £25 million sales drop through the abolition of Duty Free sales inside the European Union. The revision to its forecasts will take the total cost of the new rules to £60 million this year, although the company said sales were starting to pick up again

  • Stand up for the elderly

    Today we launch a campaign to save the French Convalescent Home which has stood for more than a century on the seafront in Brighton. It is a beautiful building and the home received a glowing report from Brighton and Hove Council's social services in

  • Sussex chasing a new House

    SUSSEX want to give young Kent all-rounder Will House a new home at Hove. They are keen to capture the left-handed middle order batsman and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler. Dave Gilbert, Sussex's general manager, revealed: "We have notified Kent

  • Adams: Midfield cost us victory

    Albion manager Micky Adams has pointed the finger at his midfield for a rare away defeat. Southend came from behind to beat the Seagulls 2-1 with a powerful second-half performance at Roots Hall last night. They became only the second side to beat Albion

  • Albion beaten at Southend

    Albion suffered only their second away League defeat of the season at Roots Hall last night. Defender Nathan Jones gave Southend the points with his first senior goal three minutes from time. He slammed in the rebound when Neil Tolson headed against the

  • DEFIANT COUNCILLORS MEET IN SECRET

    DEFIANT councillors today refused to back down on their decision to ban the public from a debate on possible sites for waste disposal. In Chichester this morning, 12 West Sussex county councillors were meeting in private to consider the future of 350

  • PANTHER SPOTTED BY DOG WALKER

    THE Sussex panther could be back on the prowl. The latest sighting of a black panther-like animal happened at Redford, near Midhurst. Police say a man walking his dogs spotted a large black cat. A spokesman said: "He described it as a black panther about

  • THE DIRTY DOZEN

    THE GREAT WASTE DEBATE - AN EVENING ARGUS CAMPAIGN DAY 3: Press and public kept out of secret meeting to decide the fate of the 350 proposed sites for waste disposal THESE are the 12 councillors who will today discuss in secret which of 350 sites across

  • THE BOY'S A GENIE-US

    WITH the panto season almost upon us, REBECCA DROUGHT takes a look at what's on offer this season WELL slap my thigh and tickle me with a feather duster if it isn't panto season again. Sussex theatres will be resounding once more to the raucous cries

  • LITTLE LAURA'S CRIES WERE LOCKED UP INSIDE

    FOR the first year of her life Laura Greenfield used to laugh, cry and lose her temper in silence. She would grin with happiness or wipe tears from her cheeks, but the emotions were never accompanied by sounds because Laura was born with a condition that

  • DOGS MAULED THREE CATS TO DEATH

    TWO dangerous dogs were allowed to run free and kill three pet cats, a court heard. On three occasions Staffordshire bull terriers Kizy and Dred were allowed out of the Hailsham home of owners Rebecca Taylor and Chaz Welch, of Mortain Park. Eastbourne

  • Sussex chasing a new House

    SUSSEX want to give young Kent all-rounder Will House a new home at Hove. They are keen to capture the left-handed middle order batsman and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler. Dave Gilbert, Sussex's general manager, revealed: "We have notified Kent

  • Albion beaten at Southend

    Albion suffered only their second away League defeat of the season at Roots Hall last night. Defender Nathan Jones gave Southend the points with his first senior goal three minutes from time. He slammed in the rebound when Neil Tolson headed against the

  • DEFIANT COUNCILLORS MEET IN SECRET

    DEFIANT councillors today refused to back down on their decision to ban the public from a debate on possible sites for waste disposal. In Chichester this morning, 12 West Sussex county councillors were meeting in private to consider the future of 350

  • FRENCH REVOLUTION

    POLITICIANS, celebrities and residents today joined the fight to save a threatened Brighton nursing home from the bulldozers. The French Convalescent Home in Brighton, one of the town's most striking and historically-important buildings, will be razed

  • BOTTLE PLANT IS BOOST FOR JOBS

    UP TO 50 jobs could be created after plans for a bottle-making plant at Express Dairies in Sheff-ield Park were given the go-ahead. The blow moulding factory will manufacture plastic bottles used by the dairy, which currently employs about 270 people

  • TORY ELECTION HOPES RIDE ON THEOBALD

    Geoffrey Theobald, opposition leader on Brighton and Hove Council, was last night chosen as the Tory candidate for Brighton Kemp Town at the next general election. Coun Theobald, 53, beat a London-based candidate for the right to take on sitting Labour

  • Rebels leave it late to secure victory

    Worthing scored three times in the last 26 minutes to pull off an impressive 4-2 win at Premier Division side Hampton & Richmond in the Ryman League Full Members Cup. Rebels put up a spirited display after twice falling behind and now visit Bromley

  • FRENCH REVOLUTION

    POLITICIANS, celebrities and residents today joined the fight to save a threatened Brighton nursing home from the bulldozers. The French Convalescent Home in Brighton, one of the town's most striking and historically-important buildings, will be razed