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  • DEREK JAMESON

    OUR poor youngsters. What a bleak picture. The worst record in Europe for drugs, abortions and unwanted pregnancies, heavy drinking and smoking and a high incidence of sexually transmitted diseases. So says the British Medical Association in reports issued

  • PRUDENT ESTATE MANAGEMENT

    JAMES Smith Estates, the Horsham-based property investment company, has reported a 23 per cent rise in profits. Preliminary results for the year to March show a profit of £3.1 million, compared with £2.5 million for 1997. The news was greeted on the stock

  • BUS AND VAN CRASH DRAMA

    FIVE passengers escaped injury today when a bus and a removal van crashed at Slinfold, Horsham. The bus driver was thrown to the floor by the impact leaving him unable to brake as the vehicle careered out of control. The bus was stopped by concrete bollards

  • ARSONISTS TO BLAME FOR BLAZE AT HALL

    ARSONISTS have been blamed for a fire that destroyed a church hall. More than 20 firefighters tackled the blaze which reduced the building next to St Peter's Church, in Fishersgate, to a blackened shell. Crews from Hove and Shoreham said the fire was

  • HOME TRUTHS WITH JACQUI BEALING

    THE other morning we were greeted by several uninvited house guests in the living room. They included five ants, three woodlice and a disgruntled wasp, all apparently waiting for breakfast. My husband also discovered what looked like a spider's nest attached

  • Lewry blow for Sussex

    SUSSEX are planning to make do without star bowler Jason Lewry for another two Championship matches. The England A left-armer is not ready to make his long-awaited return against Gloucestershire at Hove, starting tomorrow. He is also expected to miss

  • CHILLING BACKDROP TO SHOW STARRING A CHAMP

    SOME of the world's most gifted athletes just skated through this week's rehearsals at Worthing's Pavilion Theatre. The Russian Ice Stars are performing Cinderella on Ice until Saturday. The £3.5 million production is being put on by the Wild Rose Ice

  • TWITCHERS FLOCK TO RIVERBANK

    TWITCHERS from all over the South of England descended on a Sussex riverbank yesterday to catch a glimpse of a rare falcon. The Cuckmere River near Seaford became a haven for birdwatchers when the rare Eastern European falcon dropped in. Dozens of twitchers

  • LIZZIE ENFIELD

    LAST week must have notched up several hours sitting on trains and tubes stranded in the middle of fields and tunnels, for reasons explained by conductors in meaningless numbles such as "grrrr grrr delay... grrr snfff hffff failure... mnnnn frrr da da

  • POP STAR MOBBED AT BUTLINS

    BOYZONE star Ronan Keating was mobbed today as he went walkabouts at a Sussex holiday camp. Chart-topping Ronan was at Butlins' new Family Entertainment Resort in Bognor to help the company launch its new image. The pop star was besieged by holidaymakers

  • SEEBOARD TAKES ON

    200 MORE WORKERS SEEBOARD today announced plans to create almost 200 more jobs in Hove. The news takes the total number of new jobs at the company to 480. Seeboard announced in February it was turning its customer services base in Portland Road into a

  • HUNT AFTER KIDNAP CLAIM

    POLICE have launched a manhunt after an eight-year-old boy claimed he was kidnapped outside his Brighton school. The boy, found crying in a nearby park yesterday, told police he had been forced to go with a man who put a hand over his mouth to stop him

  • EYESORE CINEMA FACES DEMOLITION

    A NEW £10 million multiplex cinema is being planned for the centre of Brighton. Odeon Cinemas wants to demolish its current building in West Street and put up a ten-screen, 2,550-seat complex in its place within the next three years. If the cinema goes

  • MPS WILL HEAR OF CRISIS ON THE WARDS

    THE BATTLE to end a staffing crisis at a hospital is to be taken to Parliament. Nursing shortages at Eastbourne District General Hospital were highlighted as a factor at the inquest into the death of a patient. And it has also been revealed that the hospital

  • GIRLFRIEND'S CRASH AGONY

    THE girlfriend of a crash victim told of the moment she found her boyfriend dead by the roadside. Ceri Morgan, driving on the A272 at Hadlow Down, slowed as she approached the accident scene. She was shocked to discover that one of the victims was her

  • BUS AND VAN CRASH DRAMA

    FIVE passengers escaped injury today when a bus and a removal van crashed at Slinfold, Horsham. The bus driver was thrown to the floor by the impact leaving him unable to brake as the vehicle careered out of control. The bus was stopped by concrete bollards

  • ARSONISTS TO BLAME FOR BLAZE AT HALL

    ARSONISTS have been blamed for a fire that destroyed a church hall. More than 20 firefighters tackled the blaze which reduced the building next to St Peter's Church, in Fishersgate, to a blackened shell. Crews from Hove and Shoreham said the fire was

  • Carpenter chips away

    JAMIE Carpenter struck an undefeated 86 as Sussex Second XI took charge on the opening day of their championship match against Lancashire at Middleton-on-Sea. Carpenter's 153-ball innings helped Sussex reach 178-5 after Lancashire were dismissed for only

  • CHURCH HALL IS DAMAGED IN BLAZE

    CHURCH leaders were counting the cost today after fire badly damaged their hall. The blaze broke out at the back of St Margaret's Church, in Arundel Road, Angmering, last night. Fire crews from East Preston said the fire badly damaged the roof and ground

  • TWITCHERS FLOCK TO RIVERBANK

    TWITCHERS from all over the South of England descended on a Sussex riverbank yesterday to catch a glimpse of a rare falcon. The Cuckmere River near Seaford became a haven for birdwatchers when the rare Eastern European falcon dropped in. Dozens of twitchers

  • POP STAR MOBBED AT BUTLINS

    BOYZONE star Ronan Keating was mobbed today as he went walkabouts at a Sussex holiday camp. Chart-topping Ronan was at Butlins' new Family Entertainment Resort in Bognor to help the company launch its new image. The pop star was besieged by holidaymakers

  • SEEBOARD TAKES ON

    200 MORE WORKERS SEEBOARD today announced plans to create almost 200 more jobs in Hove. The news takes the total number of new jobs at the company to 480. Seeboard announced in February it was turning its customer services base in Portland Road into a

  • EYESORE CINEMA FACES DEMOLITION

    A NEW £10 million multiplex cinema is being planned for the centre of Brighton. Odeon Cinemas wants to demolish its current building in West Street and put up a ten-screen, 2,550-seat complex in its place within the next three years. If the cinema goes

  • PC ACCUSED OF DEATH SMASH

    A POLICE officer answering a 999 call killed a financial adviser in a head-on collision by driving with "no regard" for others, a court was told. John Channell, 34, died after after PC Gareth Coomber's marked Peugeot 406 ploughed into a car driven by

  • GIRLFRIEND'S CRASH AGONY

    THE girlfriend of a crash victim told of the moment she found her boyfriend dead by the roadside. Ceri Morgan, driving on the A272 at Hadlow Down, slowed as she approached the accident scene. She was shocked to discover that one of the victims was her

  • Carpenter chips away

    JAMIE Carpenter struck an undefeated 86 as Sussex Second XI took charge on the opening day of their championship match against Lancashire at Middleton-on-Sea. Carpenter's 153-ball innings helped Sussex reach 178-5 after Lancashire were dismissed for only

  • CHURCH HALL IS DAMAGED IN BLAZE

    CHURCH leaders were counting the cost today after fire badly damaged their hall. The blaze broke out at the back of St Margaret's Church, in Arundel Road, Angmering, last night. Fire crews from East Preston said the fire badly damaged the roof and ground

  • BY GEORGE, HAS THE ANIMAL FARM LAND BEEN FOUND?

    Evidence is forming that a sleepy quarter of East Sussex could well be the inspiration for one of the 20th century's greatest political novels. There is a growing belief that Chalk Farm, on Coopers Hill, Willingdon, was the inspiration for George Orwell's

  • PC ACCUSED OF DEATH SMASH

    A POLICE officer answering a 999 call killed a financial adviser in a head-on collision by driving with "no regard" for others, a court was told. John Channell, 34, died after after PC Gareth Coomber's marked Peugeot 406 ploughed into a car driven by

  • DEREK JAMESON

    OUR poor youngsters. What a bleak picture. The worst record in Europe for drugs, abortions and unwanted pregnancies, heavy drinking and smoking and a high incidence of sexually transmitted diseases. So says the British Medical Association in reports issued

  • PRUDENT ESTATE MANAGEMENT

    JAMES Smith Estates, the Horsham-based property investment company, has reported a 23 per cent rise in profits. Preliminary results for the year to March show a profit of £3.1 million, compared with £2.5 million for 1997. The news was greeted on the stock

  • HOME TRUTHS WITH JACQUI BEALING

    THE other morning we were greeted by several uninvited house guests in the living room. They included five ants, three woodlice and a disgruntled wasp, all apparently waiting for breakfast. My husband also discovered what looked like a spider's nest attached

  • Lewry blow for Sussex

    SUSSEX are planning to make do without star bowler Jason Lewry for another two Championship matches. The England A left-armer is not ready to make his long-awaited return against Gloucestershire at Hove, starting tomorrow. He is also expected to miss

  • CHILLING BACKDROP TO SHOW STARRING A CHAMP

    SOME of the world's most gifted athletes just skated through this week's rehearsals at Worthing's Pavilion Theatre. The Russian Ice Stars are performing Cinderella on Ice until Saturday. The £3.5 million production is being put on by the Wild Rose Ice

  • LIZZIE ENFIELD

    LAST week must have notched up several hours sitting on trains and tubes stranded in the middle of fields and tunnels, for reasons explained by conductors in meaningless numbles such as "grrrr grrr delay... grrr snfff hffff failure... mnnnn frrr da da

  • BY GEORGE, HAS THE ANIMAL FARM LAND BEEN FOUND?

    Evidence is forming that a sleepy quarter of East Sussex could well be the inspiration for one of the 20th century's greatest political novels. There is a growing belief that Chalk Farm, on Coopers Hill, Willingdon, was the inspiration for George Orwell's

  • HUNT AFTER KIDNAP CLAIM

    POLICE have launched a manhunt after an eight-year-old boy claimed he was kidnapped outside his Brighton school. The boy, found crying in a nearby park yesterday, told police he had been forced to go with a man who put a hand over his mouth to stop him

  • MPS WILL HEAR OF CRISIS ON THE WARDS

    THE BATTLE to end a staffing crisis at a hospital is to be taken to Parliament. Nursing shortages at Eastbourne District General Hospital were highlighted as a factor at the inquest into the death of a patient. And it has also been revealed that the hospital