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  • Sun is shining on First Choice

    Tour operator First Choice Holidays has seen a sunny start to the year with sales for the winter and summer seasons jumping ahead. The Crawley-based group said sales of its winter holidays to people in the UK and Ireland for the 2000/2001 season were

  • Champion of marine firms

    Fraser Nash, specialist in economic development and business competitiveness has been appointed as co-ordinator of the newly-formed Marine Industries' Taskforce. The taskforce has been set up by the South East England Development Agency (Seeda). Mr Nash

  • Marie's end of the pier project

    Having had eight years' experience of marketing Brighton Pier, Marie Henley has branched out on her own and is now marketing the whole city. Her new business, All Things Brighton, aims to offer marketing and public relations services to companies based

  • College opens up a business venue

    A landmark public school in Brighton is opening up as a venue for business events. In an enterprising move and in response to requests, historic Brighton College is throwing open the facilities of its campus. College head Dr Anthony Seldon said: "We are

  • Storming to success with £2m turnover

    A Sussex company led by two young entrepreneurs is taking the market by storm. Karen Cole and Neil Quarendon, co-founders of Alexander Lloyd, are heading for a nought-to-£2million turnover by the firm's second birthday in July. The phenomenal success

  • Building goodwill for charities

    A Brighton builder has set up a gang of skilled workers to renovate charity premises for free. Paul Gallagher, of North Laine Decorating, has gathered a group of decorators and builders all willing to give their time to help non-profit making organisations

  • Strategic partners in solving IT problems

    What was just a good idea 12 years ago has grown into one of the UK's leading business solutions and IT training companies. Set up in a Burgess Hill dining room back in 1989, ADA Computer Systems has seen phenomenal growth and recently moved into new

  • Tomboy - Footie

    Brighton and Hove football club have made a clock face for charity. Tomboy appears daily in The Argus and is updated each day on this website. You can see more of Tomboy on www.moontoon.co.uk The Moontoon website also has comic strips, greeting cards,

  • What a relief

    It was a relief to learn recently that it has been appreciated that the location for a new parking office in Brighton would be inappropriate in Pavilion Buildings. With Al Duomo restaurant wishing to expand business into No 6, it would be a fitting reward

  • Golfers' sacrifice

    A Miles (Opinion, March 16) may not be aware that adjacent to Seaford Head golf course is an area with large flocks of sheep with lambs. Surely the golfers can sacrifice a few games for the lives of these animals? Well done, Lewes District Council. -G

  • Welcome start

    Keith Taylor will no doubt have helped the forming of a pensioners' council in our city by voicing his opposition to it (Argus, March 16). I hope, like myself, he has provoked enough over 60-year-olds to join. Pensioners have had little to say in council

  • Blast from pop star Bryan's past

    Bryan Ferry was the most stylish singer of his generation, but his dress-sense was colourful to say the least. Now a relic from the former Roxy Music singer's Seventies stage wardrobe is going on show in a new exhibition in Brighton. Ferry, who lives

  • Jury told of Australian death smash

    A truck driver accused of causing the death of four Sussex tourists in a road crash in Australia hit their station wagon at 50mph, a court heard. Martyn Hebblethwaite, 22, of Slinfold, his brother Benjamin, 26, of Horsham, Peter Standing, 21, of Hove,

  • Teenage stowaways' fatal mistake

    Two Cuban schoolboys who died when they stowed away in an airliner's wheel bay had taken the wrong plane, an inquest heard today. They slipped unnoticed in to the wheel bay of a BA flight from Cuba to Gatwick, "fell asleep" and died as the jet soared

  • Where's our local telly?

    The advance in electronics is amazing. In the last 20 years we have had computers, mobile phones, the internet and live TV pictures from as far afield as Sri Lanka, Australia and Moscow. I still wonder, however, why we haven't got a TV transmitter in

  • A fine mess

    I sympathise with Mrs Gillespie of Ovingdean. I have lived in Portslade Old Village for about ten years and walk my dog twice a day on the village green. I always clear up after him and so do most people I see walking their dogs there. But lately it has

  • Blind ambition

    Sue Ridge from Brighton became a professional dancer despite the huge handicap of being partially sighted. She managed to perform complicated and athletic dance routines for 15 years without her employers ever knowing just how poor her eyesight was. Now

  • Tributes to council stalwart

    More than 400 people attended a thanksgiving service for the life of former Tory councillor Steve Langston. Mr Langston died earlier this month at his home in Avondale Road from a pulmonary embolism after a short illness. Coun Langston, 52, was the husband

  • See pictures

    Adur District Council needs every penny it can get to sort out both the mess it was left and under-funding by central government. No political group or councillor objected to the sale of the paintings at the council tax-setting meeting. Since the publicity

  • Woman beat up two men

    A woman who beat up two men as they looked through a bag of clothes left outside a charity shop has been jailed for six months. Samantha Pollard, 25, launched an unprovoked attack on disabled Stephen Hughes and his friend Andrew Pledge outside the Mind

  • Adams' dugout ban

    Albion boss Micky Adams has been banned from the dugout for the next two matches. The Football Association have imposed a 14-day punishment for his second misconduct charge in a year. It means he will be forced to watch Saturday's table-topping showdown

  • Parking policy revolt warning

    Hostile motorists could give parking attendants more than they bargain for when tough policies are brought in, police have warned. Brighton and Hove City Council will take over responsibility for parking enforcement from Sussex Police this summer. However

  • Focus on media learning

    Converged learning will be the focus of a media event in Brighton. Wired Sussex, the University of Brighton and the Society for Screen-based Learning have combined forces with the BBC to present an evening dedicated to the latest developments in online

  • Reviews: -D way to easy models

    Three-dimensional computer models are tricky to construct, but are part of almost every computer game. Now photographs can be turned directly into 3D models without massive expense or high-powered hardware. New software called D Sculptor allows complex

  • Reviews: Editing photographs is in your own hands

    If you really want your Palm handheld computer to stand up and do tricks, then rush out and buy a copy of MGI PhotoSuite Mobile Edition. This amazing low- cost application even allows users to play video on a Palm device and can deliver full colour images

  • Hardware: Trackball mouse is smooth

    evolution has just laid hands on an advance release of the new Expert Mouse Pro trackball from Kensington. This incredible-looking piece of kit features powerful new Direct Launch technology for single-click access to web sites and applications while

  • £1m funding for games specialist

    A company which tests software for computer games has received funding to help its expansion into world markets. Hove-based Babel Media, which also translates games into a range of languages, is already Europe's leading localisation and testing specialist

  • Tech date for royals

    The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will see Sussex-based technology advances when they visit the new city of Brighton and Hove on March 29. The Duke will visit the Innovation Centre at Sussex University to learn how commercial applications are developed

  • Health check-ups on interactive TV

    A digital production company has won a contract to produce an interactive television channel providing Government health advice. Brighton-based Communicopia Productions has been commissioned by the Department of Health to produce a fully-interactive television

  • Snow brings flood threat

    The first day of spring brought heavy snow to Sussex - and a renewed threat of flooding. The Environment Agency is warning of more bad weather to come in the next 48 hours. The agency said groundwater levels were extremely high and many fields still sodden

  • Sun is shining on First Choice

    Tour operator First Choice Holidays has seen a sunny start to the year with sales for the winter and summer seasons jumping ahead. The Crawley-based group said sales of its winter holidays to people in the UK and Ireland for the 2000/2001 season were

  • Champion of marine firms

    Fraser Nash, specialist in economic development and business competitiveness has been appointed as co-ordinator of the newly-formed Marine Industries' Taskforce. The taskforce has been set up by the South East England Development Agency (Seeda). Mr Nash

  • Marie's end of the pier project

    Having had eight years' experience of marketing Brighton Pier, Marie Henley has branched out on her own and is now marketing the whole city. Her new business, All Things Brighton, aims to offer marketing and public relations services to companies based

  • Out for the evening? Jeeves will get you safely home

    Planning a night out in Brighton inspired a family to start a new business. The getting home safely part of the evening gave Barry Williams and Gina and Meg Heyworth the idea for Jeeves. Mrs Heyworth said: "For various reasons we couldn't decide who was

  • Storming to success with £2m turnover

    A Sussex company led by two young entrepreneurs is taking the market by storm. Karen Cole and Neil Quarendon, co-founders of Alexander Lloyd, are heading for a nought-to-£2million turnover by the firm's second birthday in July. The phenomenal success

  • Building goodwill for charities

    A Brighton builder has set up a gang of skilled workers to renovate charity premises for free. Paul Gallagher, of North Laine Decorating, has gathered a group of decorators and builders all willing to give their time to help non-profit making organisations

  • Trade delegation disaster warning

    A Brighton businessman has slammed a Government trade initiative as an ill thought-out scheme that could cost British jobs. Brian Owen, managing director of engineering company Precision Products, says a trade mission to the Czech Republic, could result

  • What a relief

    It was a relief to learn recently that it has been appreciated that the location for a new parking office in Brighton would be inappropriate in Pavilion Buildings. With Al Duomo restaurant wishing to expand business into No 6, it would be a fitting reward

  • I'm grateful

    How can G Harold of Hove say "all pensioners are blue with cold" (Opinion, March 15)? What utter nonsense. The £200 we received in December is very adequately keeping us cosily warm this winter and I am grateful to the government. -Mrs D Blaylock, Lancing

  • Welcome start

    Keith Taylor will no doubt have helped the forming of a pensioners' council in our city by voicing his opposition to it (Argus, March 16). I hope, like myself, he has provoked enough over 60-year-olds to join. Pensioners have had little to say in council

  • Signal Failure, by Lizzie Enfield

    "I thought we absolutely agreed that you would be here with time to spare," said editor. She was waiting for me at unearthly hour in the morning, in hotel foyer where we were meeting celebrity fitness guru. "I got the first train there was..." I tried

  • Blast from pop star Bryan's past

    Bryan Ferry was the most stylish singer of his generation, but his dress-sense was colourful to say the least. Now a relic from the former Roxy Music singer's Seventies stage wardrobe is going on show in a new exhibition in Brighton. Ferry, who lives

  • School bus firm shuts down

    Emergency buses were called in to take children to school this morning after the normal operator closed without warning. Tillingbourne Buses, which operated half the services in the Horsham area, stopped trading last night. West Sussex County Council

  • Jury told of Australian death smash

    A truck driver accused of causing the death of four Sussex tourists in a road crash in Australia hit their station wagon at 50mph, a court heard. Martyn Hebblethwaite, 22, of Slinfold, his brother Benjamin, 26, of Horsham, Peter Standing, 21, of Hove,

  • Disease on our border

    A farm on the Surrey-Sussex border is being investigated for foot-and-mouth disease. The Ministry of Agriculture has closed down Whiteleaf Farm in Smallfield, near Horley, after a possible outbreak in a herd of sheep. Today a sign on the farm gate says

  • Where's our local telly?

    The advance in electronics is amazing. In the last 20 years we have had computers, mobile phones, the internet and live TV pictures from as far afield as Sri Lanka, Australia and Moscow. I still wonder, however, why we haven't got a TV transmitter in

  • The truth will out

    In objecting to my letters on animal welfare matters, Peter Allen from Heathfield accuses me of giving "incorrect facts" (Opinion, March 15). As all such facts are gleaned from official government sources or from the livestock and dairy industries themselves

  • A fine mess

    I sympathise with Mrs Gillespie of Ovingdean. I have lived in Portslade Old Village for about ten years and walk my dog twice a day on the village green. I always clear up after him and so do most people I see walking their dogs there. But lately it has

  • Welcome them

    Ronald Childs misses the point about immigration to Europe (Opinion, March 13). It is not a question of European countries needing to share the "burden" of immigration but, rather, recognising that many European countries, including the UK, need immigration

  • Home done

    Mrs June Sutton states that a council flat in Benson Court, Ingram Crescent, Brighton, has been left unoccupied since January 29 (Opinion, March 14). This property was allocated to another tenant within a couple of days and the new tenancy began on February

  • Driven to revolt?

    Parking attendants will replace traffic wardens in Brighton and Hove later this year when the city council takes over from the police. They're being sold to a sceptical public as a good thing for the city since there will be many more people enforcing

  • Don't delay it, Mr Prescott

    Environment Secretary John Prescott has a difficult decision to make over the future of the Portobello plant at Telscombe Cliffs. He may be trying to put off a verdict, which affects two marginal seats, until after the General Election has been held.

  • Those in need

    I was watching a TV report from Rwanda by Comic Relief reporters in a village built by widows who are dying of Aids after having been raped by the men who killed their husbands and children. These women are collectively caring for the remaining children

  • Why should nurses get housing before locals?

    I am sure countless others know what Ian James (Opinion, March 16) means about costly housing. My daughter and her husband are also thinking about leaving Brighton and Hove because they cannot afford to buy here. If they stay and rent they won't be able

  • Albion stretched to limit

    Albion manager Micky Adams is scouring the loan market to shore up his severely depleted squad. He is hunting for at least two new faces before Thursday's transfer deadline, with a centre half and midfielder the main targets. The promotion-chasing Seagulls

  • Parking policy revolt warning

    Hostile motorists could give parking attendants more than they bargain for when tough policies are brought in, police have warned. Brighton and Hove City Council will take over responsibility for parking enforcement from Sussex Police this summer. However

  • Dancing in the dark

    Partially-sighted Sue Ridge told today how she joined the glamorous dancers at the famous Folies Bergre - and hid her deteriorating vision from bosses. As a child, Mrs Ridge was nicknamed Bloodhound because she had to peer so closely at her schoolbooks

  • Focus on media learning

    Converged learning will be the focus of a media event in Brighton. Wired Sussex, the University of Brighton and the Society for Screen-based Learning have combined forces with the BBC to present an evening dedicated to the latest developments in online

  • Reviews: -D way to easy models

    Three-dimensional computer models are tricky to construct, but are part of almost every computer game. Now photographs can be turned directly into 3D models without massive expense or high-powered hardware. New software called D Sculptor allows complex

  • Net Solutions with Andrew Hardy

    Q: A colleague of mine recently gave me a CD-ROM business card that contained his CV and examples of his work. Can you tell me where I might get one of these? A: It is quite amazing how these little "cards" have caught on. There are several types; the

  • The high cost of techno-fishing

    As a self-confessed gadget freak I cannot help picking up new and exciting bits of kit and playing with them. Having broken more expensive bits of electrickery than I care to remember, it was a real delight to get hold of some relatively indestructible

  • £1m funding for games specialist

    A company which tests software for computer games has received funding to help its expansion into world markets. Hove-based Babel Media, which also translates games into a range of languages, is already Europe's leading localisation and testing specialist

  • Tech date for royals

    The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will see Sussex-based technology advances when they visit the new city of Brighton and Hove on March 29. The Duke will visit the Innovation Centre at Sussex University to learn how commercial applications are developed

  • Health check-ups on interactive TV

    A digital production company has won a contract to produce an interactive television channel providing Government health advice. Brighton-based Communicopia Productions has been commissioned by the Department of Health to produce a fully-interactive television

  • Couple's ordeal in rail horror

    A couple who survived a fatal train crash that claimed five lives and left another 17 people injured spoke today of their ordeal. Matthew Hedges, 29, and his girlfriend Julie Brown, 34, from Kemp Town, Brighton, were on a three-week holiday in Cuba and

  • Child molester is jailed

    A 53-year-old man who admitted sexually molesting a teenage boy has been jailed for a year. Stuart Anderson, of the Brow, Woodingdean, Brighton, pleaded guilty to three charges relating to attacks on the 15-year-old. Giles Curtis-Rayleigh, prosecuting

  • Out for the evening? Jeeves will get you safely home

    Planning a night out in Brighton inspired a family to start a new business. The getting home safely part of the evening gave Barry Williams and Gina and Meg Heyworth the idea for Jeeves. Mrs Heyworth said: "For various reasons we couldn't decide who was

  • Small businesses urge banks to help over foot and mouth

    Sussex business owners are calling on banks and government departments to exercise discretion when dealing with firms affected by the foot and mouth crisis. The Sussex branch of tbe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has written to the major banks,

  • Trade delegation disaster warning

    A Brighton businessman has slammed a Government trade initiative as an ill thought-out scheme that could cost British jobs. Brian Owen, managing director of engineering company Precision Products, says a trade mission to the Czech Republic, could result

  • MFI profits up by half

    Strong sales of kitchen and bedroom ranges helped MFI, the furniture retailer and manufacturer, post a profits jump of 55 per cent last year. Chief executive John Hancock said sales of redesigned products within both ranges were particularly good, and

  • Family birthday party ends in violence

    A man who ended his birthday by beating up his mother and step-father has been jailed for four months. Robert Dunlop-Miller, 20, went "berserk" after a drinking session and attacked his mother Sarah, 36, and her husband David Armstrong, 35, Lewes Crown

  • I'm grateful

    How can G Harold of Hove say "all pensioners are blue with cold" (Opinion, March 15)? What utter nonsense. The £200 we received in December is very adequately keeping us cosily warm this winter and I am grateful to the government. -Mrs D Blaylock, Lancing

  • Signal Failure, by Lizzie Enfield

    "I thought we absolutely agreed that you would be here with time to spare," said editor. She was waiting for me at unearthly hour in the morning, in hotel foyer where we were meeting celebrity fitness guru. "I got the first train there was..." I tried

  • Disease on our border

    A farm on the Surrey-Sussex border is being investigated for foot-and-mouth disease. The Ministry of Agriculture has closed down Whiteleaf Farm in Smallfield, near Horley, after a possible outbreak in a herd of sheep. Today a sign on the farm gate says

  • The truth will out

    In objecting to my letters on animal welfare matters, Peter Allen from Heathfield accuses me of giving "incorrect facts" (Opinion, March 15). As all such facts are gleaned from official government sources or from the livestock and dairy industries themselves

  • Clean up

    How I agree with Mrs A Gillespie of Ovingdean (Opinion, March 14). I am lucky enough to live backing on to a park, where lots of people walk their dogs. I am dismayed to see, particularly since the foot-and-mouth outbreak, when people cannot go into the

  • Welcome them

    Ronald Childs misses the point about immigration to Europe (Opinion, March 13). It is not a question of European countries needing to share the "burden" of immigration but, rather, recognising that many European countries, including the UK, need immigration

  • Home done

    Mrs June Sutton states that a council flat in Benson Court, Ingram Crescent, Brighton, has been left unoccupied since January 29 (Opinion, March 14). This property was allocated to another tenant within a couple of days and the new tenancy began on February

  • Driven to revolt?

    Parking attendants will replace traffic wardens in Brighton and Hove later this year when the city council takes over from the police. They're being sold to a sceptical public as a good thing for the city since there will be many more people enforcing

  • Don't delay it, Mr Prescott

    Environment Secretary John Prescott has a difficult decision to make over the future of the Portobello plant at Telscombe Cliffs. He may be trying to put off a verdict, which affects two marginal seats, until after the General Election has been held.

  • Those in need

    I was watching a TV report from Rwanda by Comic Relief reporters in a village built by widows who are dying of Aids after having been raped by the men who killed their husbands and children. These women are collectively caring for the remaining children

  • Hove edge towards safety

    HOVE have taken a massive step towards London Four South East survival thanks to a rare success on the road. Phil Ward's men scored only their second away win in 17 attempts since returning to regional league rugby as they saw off Chichester 18-3. The

  • Why should nurses get housing before locals?

    I am sure countless others know what Ian James (Opinion, March 16) means about costly housing. My daughter and her husband are also thinking about leaving Brighton and Hove because they cannot afford to buy here. If they stay and rent they won't be able

  • Mixed fortunes for Worthing

    WORTHING skipper Simon Holloway declared, "We got the one we wanted" after his side endured a weekend of mixed emotions. On Saturday Worthing clinched the Kent/Sussex division one league title with a comfortable 4-0 win over Cliftonville. But 24 hours

  • Albion stretched to limit

    Albion manager Micky Adams is scouring the loan market to shore up his severely depleted squad. He is hunting for at least two new faces before Thursday's transfer deadline, with a centre half and midfielder the main targets. The promotion-chasing Seagulls

  • Dance site gets in the vinyl and CD groove

    A Sussex-based dance music web site already has sales around the world. Chris Carter and Alex Brind found a shared passion for dance music while studying at Sussex University. They graduated in 1998 and have set up a Brighton-based e-commerce web site

  • Dancing in the dark

    Partially-sighted Sue Ridge told today how she joined the glamorous dancers at the famous Folies Bergre - and hid her deteriorating vision from bosses. As a child, Mrs Ridge was nicknamed Bloodhound because she had to peer so closely at her schoolbooks

  • Cross-channel clubbing makes an internet debut

    An Anglo-French clubbing experience linking venues live on the internet will take place in Brighton this Saturday. Clubbers heading to the Paradox nightspot will share the experience with party-goers at Manouchka, a venue in the French town of Vesoul.

  • Net Solutions with Andrew Hardy

    Q: A colleague of mine recently gave me a CD-ROM business card that contained his CV and examples of his work. Can you tell me where I might get one of these? A: It is quite amazing how these little "cards" have caught on. There are several types; the

  • The high cost of techno-fishing

    As a self-confessed gadget freak I cannot help picking up new and exciting bits of kit and playing with them. Having broken more expensive bits of electrickery than I care to remember, it was a real delight to get hold of some relatively indestructible

  • Gas firm aids traders' party

    A gas firm has offered to be a main sponsor for a major community event to make up for disruption caused by repairs to a pipeline. Shops and businesses saw their takings drop dramatically when the main shopping street in Rottingdean was closed for the

  • Couple's ordeal in rail horror

    A couple who survived a fatal train crash that claimed five lives and left another 17 people injured spoke today of their ordeal. Matthew Hedges, 29, and his girlfriend Julie Brown, 34, from Kemp Town, Brighton, were on a three-week holiday in Cuba and

  • Child molester is jailed

    A 53-year-old man who admitted sexually molesting a teenage boy has been jailed for a year. Stuart Anderson, of the Brow, Woodingdean, Brighton, pleaded guilty to three charges relating to attacks on the 15-year-old. Giles Curtis-Rayleigh, prosecuting

  • College opens up a business venue

    A landmark public school in Brighton is opening up as a venue for business events. In an enterprising move and in response to requests, historic Brighton College is throwing open the facilities of its campus. College head Dr Anthony Seldon said: "We are

  • Small businesses urge banks to help over foot and mouth

    Sussex business owners are calling on banks and government departments to exercise discretion when dealing with firms affected by the foot and mouth crisis. The Sussex branch of tbe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has written to the major banks,

  • Strategic partners in solving IT problems

    What was just a good idea 12 years ago has grown into one of the UK's leading business solutions and IT training companies. Set up in a Burgess Hill dining room back in 1989, ADA Computer Systems has seen phenomenal growth and recently moved into new

  • MFI profits up by half

    Strong sales of kitchen and bedroom ranges helped MFI, the furniture retailer and manufacturer, post a profits jump of 55 per cent last year. Chief executive John Hancock said sales of redesigned products within both ranges were particularly good, and

  • Family birthday party ends in violence

    A man who ended his birthday by beating up his mother and step-father has been jailed for four months. Robert Dunlop-Miller, 20, went "berserk" after a drinking session and attacked his mother Sarah, 36, and her husband David Armstrong, 35, Lewes Crown

  • Tomboy - Footie

    Brighton and Hove football club have made a clock face for charity. Tomboy appears daily in The Argus and is updated each day on this website. You can see more of Tomboy on www.moontoon.co.uk The Moontoon website also has comic strips, greeting cards,

  • Golfers' sacrifice

    A Miles (Opinion, March 16) may not be aware that adjacent to Seaford Head golf course is an area with large flocks of sheep with lambs. Surely the golfers can sacrifice a few games for the lives of these animals? Well done, Lewes District Council. -G

  • Teenage stowaways' fatal mistake

    Two Cuban schoolboys who died when they stowed away in an airliner's wheel bay had taken the wrong plane, an inquest heard today. They slipped unnoticed in to the wheel bay of a BA flight from Cuba to Gatwick, "fell asleep" and died as the jet soared

  • Clean up

    How I agree with Mrs A Gillespie of Ovingdean (Opinion, March 14). I am lucky enough to live backing on to a park, where lots of people walk their dogs. I am dismayed to see, particularly since the foot-and-mouth outbreak, when people cannot go into the

  • Blind ambition

    Sue Ridge from Brighton became a professional dancer despite the huge handicap of being partially sighted. She managed to perform complicated and athletic dance routines for 15 years without her employers ever knowing just how poor her eyesight was. Now

  • Tributes to council stalwart

    More than 400 people attended a thanksgiving service for the life of former Tory councillor Steve Langston. Mr Langston died earlier this month at his home in Avondale Road from a pulmonary embolism after a short illness. Coun Langston, 52, was the husband

  • See pictures

    Adur District Council needs every penny it can get to sort out both the mess it was left and under-funding by central government. No political group or councillor objected to the sale of the paintings at the council tax-setting meeting. Since the publicity

  • Hove edge towards safety

    HOVE have taken a massive step towards London Four South East survival thanks to a rare success on the road. Phil Ward's men scored only their second away win in 17 attempts since returning to regional league rugby as they saw off Chichester 18-3. The

  • Woman beat up two men

    A woman who beat up two men as they looked through a bag of clothes left outside a charity shop has been jailed for six months. Samantha Pollard, 25, launched an unprovoked attack on disabled Stephen Hughes and his friend Andrew Pledge outside the Mind

  • Mixed fortunes for Worthing

    WORTHING skipper Simon Holloway declared, "We got the one we wanted" after his side endured a weekend of mixed emotions. On Saturday Worthing clinched the Kent/Sussex division one league title with a comfortable 4-0 win over Cliftonville. But 24 hours

  • Firm's blind faith in Eastbourne

    A European blind-making firm is basing its UK headquarters in Eastbourne, it was announced today. Winsol will create up to 35 new jobs over three years at the former Parker Pen building on the Hampden Park industrial estate. The firm has sunk £1.5 million

  • Adams' dugout ban

    Albion boss Micky Adams has been banned from the dugout for the next two matches. The Football Association have imposed a 14-day punishment for his second misconduct charge in a year. It means he will be forced to watch Saturday's table-topping showdown

  • Dance site gets in the vinyl and CD groove

    A Sussex-based dance music web site already has sales around the world. Chris Carter and Alex Brind found a shared passion for dance music while studying at Sussex University. They graduated in 1998 and have set up a Brighton-based e-commerce web site

  • Cross-channel clubbing makes an internet debut

    An Anglo-French clubbing experience linking venues live on the internet will take place in Brighton this Saturday. Clubbers heading to the Paradox nightspot will share the experience with party-goers at Manouchka, a venue in the French town of Vesoul.

  • Hippodrome threat on hold

    Plans to close a popular playhouse are to be rethought after pleas from theatregoers. The Royal Hippodrome Theatre is under threat after a report for Eastbourne Borough Council said it was not cost effective. But councillors criticised the document at

  • Reviews: Editing photographs is in your own hands

    If you really want your Palm handheld computer to stand up and do tricks, then rush out and buy a copy of MGI PhotoSuite Mobile Edition. This amazing low- cost application even allows users to play video on a Palm device and can deliver full colour images

  • Hardware: Trackball mouse is smooth

    evolution has just laid hands on an advance release of the new Expert Mouse Pro trackball from Kensington. This incredible-looking piece of kit features powerful new Direct Launch technology for single-click access to web sites and applications while

  • Gas firm aids traders' party

    A gas firm has offered to be a main sponsor for a major community event to make up for disruption caused by repairs to a pipeline. Shops and businesses saw their takings drop dramatically when the main shopping street in Rottingdean was closed for the

  • Snow brings flood threat

    The first day of spring brought heavy snow to Sussex - and a renewed threat of flooding. The Environment Agency is warning of more bad weather to come in the next 48 hours. The agency said groundwater levels were extremely high and many fields still sodden