As it's National Allotment Week I thought I would send you a personal view on allotment life. Along with millions of others across the country, I work in an office all week with telephones, emails and constant meetings. An allotment has no phones or computer
I have just spent a wonderful week with friends in Brighton and would like to praise the Brighton and Hove Bus and Coach Company for its excellent service. I was able to buy day tickets for just £2.60 and we travelled extensively within a large area.
As the proud parent of a student graduating in physiotherapy from Brighton University last week, I was shocked that most of the current batch nationwide have no jobs to go to due to the NHS mis-planning. Apparently a lot of last year's students are still
<imahe buses1008 Nick Benn wrote a warning about bushes in Preston Park> Revellers at Brighton's Pride festival have been accused of leaving a park covered in urine. One park user is so incensed he has cordoned off a section of Preston Park after
One of the country's leading literary figures has accused library services and arts festival organisers of neglecting poetry. Jackie Wills, shortlisted for the prestigious TS Eliot prize for her 1995 collection Powder Tower, criticised the new £14 million
Need to spend a penny? You'll be lucky. Customers caught short at Brighton station are being charged 20p to use the new public conveniences. With a potential clientele of seven million commuters a year, they could be among the most profitable loos in
In response to Trevor Pateman (Letters, August 2), I would like to point out the West Pier Trust is not defunct and is still working hard to save the pier - as can be seen by taking a look at a statement on its web site, www.westpier.co.uk: "The joint
Anti-war protesters threaten to bring the centre of Brighton to a halt as they protest against a factory providing parts for fighter jets. A march through the city centre will set off from Churchill Square on Saturday at noon. The event has been advertised
Like most people, I was saddened and angry about the BBC Panorama programme which featured the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton. However, like Christine Allen (Letters, August 4), I am really upset that when these programmes are screened all carers
The wrong kind of snow has infamously been responsible for holding up trains but now it seems the wrong kind of tarmac can have the same effect on cars. Dozens of speed humps installed during the spring and summer in Brighton - to the great inconvenience
My friends have just had the most fantastic Pride weekend ever. They travelled down from Luton and Northampton to join the celebrations and loved every moment of their time here. A huge thank you to everyone who worked so hard to make this the biggest
An architect is taking part in a national campaign to raise awareness of hepatitis C. A giant photo of Nimrod Ping will be among several portraits of people with the condition unveiled in Brighton on Friday. The photos are part of the Department of Health's
First Brussels brought on a national rebellion by making us weigh bananas in grammes. Now EU bureaucrats threaten to unleash a whole new breed of martyr - window cleaners who refuse to dump the ladder. Work at Height Regulations were agreed in Parliament
You report that Pride attracted 120,000 people into Brighton to boost our economy by £5.5 million (The Argus, August 8). You say this proves how tolerant and diverse the city really is and that this celebration of diversity costs £140,000 to stage. Yet
The Strategic Rail Authority (SRA) has come up with a plan to improve the train service between Brighton and London Victoria. The only snag being that Brighton will lose the direct service to Watford - a service which enables travellers to reach the Midlands
Villagers have formed a campaign group to get a nearby swingers club closed down. The over 18s Hamshaw club in Scaynes Hill, near Haywards Heath, is advertised as an adult health spa, but local visitors claimed people watched pornography and took part
Brighton and Hove City Council is owed more than £3.7 million in uncollected rent. An independent watchdog issued the authority with a one-star rating after finding the council's management of its housing income was weak and progress to improve it was
England were not the only team celebrating an historic victory on Sunday afternoon. While Michael Vaughan and his men were dancing around the Edgbaston pitch following their dramatic Ashes win over Australia there were similar scenes of jubilation at
As Brighton has been known as Little London for many years and is less than an hour away by train, we are ideally placed to provide training facilities for many athletes - before, during and after the 2012 Olympics. Our local sports people also need proper
Mark McGhee referred after Saturday's promising opening at Derby to the search for consistency which are bound to accompany Albion's Championship challenge. If the performance at Pride Park was the up side, this was most definitely the downside. McGhee
Nnew laws which reclassify hundreds of household items as hazardous waste will increase fly-tipping, according to a leading business group. The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has written to Baroness Young, chief executive of the Environment Agency
Epic Group, a provider of online learning programmes, is being sold to the London-based publisher Huveaux for £22.7 million. Brighton-based Epic was snapped up by the revision guide specialist shortly after announcing a 53 per cent jump in annual profits
"I do it standing up," says Hugh Cornwell. "I once saw Roger McGuinn from The Byrds do something like this at a festival and he was sat down the whole time, and I can remember thinking how wrong it was for all those classic songs. So I have a stool next
At last someone is opening a club for the over-30s (The Argus, August 6). I am a young 61 and long for somewhere to dance and socialise. I hate going to most clubs to get deafened and listen to drunken idiots. Is the Hanbury Ballrooms in St George's Road
An application for funding worth £1.5 million to boost cycling has been made. Brighton and Hove City Council has submitted a bid to become a "cycling demonstration town". The city was invited to apply for the status by specialist group Cycling England
An MP has cautioned the Government against watering down rules which help fight elm disease. Brighton Pavilion MP David Lepper has written to the environment secretary, Margaret Beckett, urging her to reject any proposal by the Forestry Commission to
Transport bosses are proposing to spend £1 million slashing fares to give thousands of youngsters half-price public transport. Currently, just ten per cent of the 120,000 pupils in West Sussex receive help with transport and qualification for concessions
Brewers have been raising their glasses after their Harveys Sussex Best Bitter was voted the best in Britain at the Campaign for Real Ale's Champion Beer Competition last week. Reporter Lucy Brinicombe spoke with the Lewes brewery's head brewer and joint
A store which sells household goods at a standard interest rate of 29.9 per cent has opened on a busy shopping street. BrightHouse, a new store in London Road, Brighton, sells electrical goods and furniture to people whose credit is not checked through
The designer of a £48 million leisure centre has hit back at critics of the scheme. John Barrow, director of HOK Sport, said his plans for the King Alfred Centre on Hove seafront would provide more swimming space than that currently provided by the dilapidated
Councillor Geoffrey Theobald is to be congratulated on highlighting the preferability of re-opening the Uckfield to Lewes railway line to creating more park-and-ride (The Argus, July 23). He correctly observes that travel from Brighton to Uckfield or
I write to enquire whether any readers can shed any light on a rather odd sight - even for Brighton - spotted on Monday. I had to walk along Eastern Road at Sussex Square a few times that morning and each time high on a wall stood a glamorous but bedraggled
What a shame your correspondent, who moans that his money is being wasted on coloured lightbulbs (ie "gays"), cannot opt out of that bit of his council tax - or insist it goes on street cleaning or rough sleepers. He could then suggest that the thousands
Mark McGhee today questioned the mental strength of his players following Albion's first Championship defeat of the season against Reading. Goals in each half from Glen Little and Dave Kitson gave Steve Coppell's Royals victory at Withdean last night.
Electricity is being replaced at busy bus shelters for a trial period following the success of a solar-powered bus stop. Engineers installed Brighton and Hove's first solar-powered bus timetable in Queen's Park Terrace in Brighton last month following
A team of helpers is working to guide travellers through Gatwick during the hectic summer season. More than 30 people have been hired as welcome hosts to take people through Gatwick's check- in area and provide information about the airport's facilities
A company bidding for new rail routes linking Sussex to East Anglia and the Midlands says it would reduce travel times and make journeys more comfortable. CapitalTrains is one of five companies hoping to take on the routes. The new franchise will take
More than 20 jobs were created this week when the travel operator behind the Club 18-30 brand opened a new call centre in Brighton. UP Trips bosses have invested £500,000 on new facilities at the company's administrative headquarters in Locksview, Brighton
If the names of Henry Prego, Alonzo Saunders and Nigel Casey are not exactly on the tip of your tongue, they should be. Because when they don their stage personas of Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Junior and Dean Martin they will astonish you. They bring
When a West End musical comes to Eastbourne it is always exciting but when it is as stunning as Bill Kenwright's production of Jesus Christ Superstar it is a real treat. This show has everything. Slick direction by Bob Tomson and Bill Kenwright, a great
