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  • Plea for help from mother of detainee

    The mother of Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Deghayes has begged people to keep fighting for justice for her son. Zohra Zewawi's 37-year-old son has been imprisoned in the American military jail for almost four years. She spoke tearfully of her devastation

  • Letter: Roadside rage

    Despite the frequent congestion, Falmer Road, between the Farm Shop and car park, with its outstanding views has always been a great "welcome" to our city. So I was dismayed during the past week or two to see dozens of plastic bags snagged on fences,

  • May 5: Prior's ton puts Sussex in the driving seat

    Matt Prior's 12th and arguably best first-class hundred of his career rescued Sussex on a fluctuating second day at Headingley which ended with the county on top. Prior defied some high quality bowling, notably from Matthew Hoggard and Jason Gillespie

  • Letter: Read the paper

    In reply to the gentleman in Peacehaven who complained he was not informed of the early collection of refuse, the dates for refuse collection for Easter, May Bank Holiday and Spring Bank Holiday appeared on the back of the spring edition of Lewes District

  • Don't miss in the Spiegel Garden...

    Our guide to what's on at the Speigeltent and Gaiete (Speigel Garden) during the Festival Camille - La Fille Du Cirque, Spiegeltent, May 10-14, 7pm & May 15, 9,15pm - Fresh from sell-out seasons in both Blighty and the Antipodes, French-Irish chanteuse

  • Rama Vaidyanathan, Pavilion Theatre, Brighton Dome, Sat May 6

    Bharata Natyam is one of the oldest dance forms of India. It is a devotional dance which was performed in the temples and courts of southern India for centuries. This style of dance is a piece of living history, as the dances are passed down from mother

  • Embrace film video for World Cup song in Brighton

    Chart-topping band Embrace stirred up a patriotic air across Brighton as they filmed the video to their World Cup anthem. The group descended on the city to create the video to World At Your Feet. They starred alongside other excited fans who are gearing

  • Letter: Burning up

    Regarding Rod Mein's article about the proposed incinerator for Newhaven (The Argus, April 25), Eastbourne once had an incinerator which was a brick-built chimney like a furnace, at St Phillips Avenue on the household site. It burned domestic waste from

  • Letter: Pick a card

    It often amuses me when I read of plans for a National Identity Card. Due to a misspelling of my name by the clerk registering my birth, an incorrect birth certificate was issued. It was only many years later I noticed this error but, when I applied to

  • Train stations lose safe status

    Only one railway station in Sussex has signed up to a passenger safety scheme. Gatwick is the county's sole member of the national Secure Stations Scheme launched six years ago by the Department of Transport and British Transport Police. Eastbourne station

  • Letter: Stars of another age bring back memories

    When I was in my midteens, back in the Fifties, I went to an open air school in St Leonards for health reasons and, most Saturday evenings, we would have a film show in the main hall. The films were ancient and several starred Bobby Breen, who was a singer

  • Theatre Truck, Hove Esplanade, May 6-28

    While working backstage for opera and ballet companies, and lugging scenery on and off trailers, production director Nick Kidd had an idea: Why not save time, effort and cash and perform the shows in the trailers? So he did. The result is the Theatre

  • The Nose, The Opera Group, Theatre Royal, Wed May 17

    Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back - that's a plot we're all familiar with. How about this - man has nose, man loses nose, nose has an adventure. Strange as it may seem, this is the plot of one of the operas showing at the Brighton Festival

  • Our baby joy, by woman, 62

    A woman has defended her decision to give birth at the age of 63 after she was accused of being irresponsible. Dr Patricia Rashbrook spoke of her and her husband's joy at giving life to a baby amid criticism from pro-life groups who called her "selfish

  • Letter: Inspired by trees, displayed in church

    Beautiful - and redundant old St Peter's Church by Preston Manor is now cared for by the Churches Conservation Trust, which has just re-roofed the building. It was a great thrill for my sister (who was married at the church) and I to receive an invitation

  • Cricket: Prior's ton puts Sussex in the driving seat

    Matt Prior's 12th and arguably best first-class hundred of his career rescued Sussex on a fluctuating second day at Headingley which ended with the county on top. Prior defied some high quality bowling, notably from Matthew Hoggard and Jason Gillespie

  • Speedway: Nicki thinks big

    Nicki Pedersen admits he cannot settle for semis in his quest to be world champion. The Eastbourne Eagles star returns to action at the European GP in Wroclaw, Poland, tomorrow after recovering from surgery. He will be looking to follow his dramatic win

  • Chris Wood, Pavilion Theatre, Brighton Dome, Tue May 23

    Chris Wood returned from the 2006 BBC Folk Awards loaded with plaudits. His song One In A Million written with Hugh Lupton, won Best New Song and he received nominations for Best Album, Best Traditional Track and Folk Singer of the Year. His album Lark

  • The Big Splash, Brighton Marina, Sat May 27 and Sun May 28

    Fire-breathing horses, stiltwalking lobsters, escapology, samba music, magic - it's all too much! This year, The Big Splash is so enormous, it has become a whole weekend. For two full days, the Brighton Festival gets a double-send off as the Brighton

  • Cafe sign falls foul of council

    The owners of a juice bar in a quirky shopping district have been ordered to remove a sign above their cafe because planners say it clutters the street. The sign includes a wooden cut-out of a curvaceous redhead reclining in her bathing suit. It has marked

  • It's time for little shops to go on the offensive

    Invasion of the clones sounds more like a Hollywood blockbuster than a reality. But as more chain stores move into areas traditionally characterised by independent traders, are our shopping areas in danger of losing their soul? It is like the story of

  • Roadworks hit trade hard

    Traders claim they have been badly hit by a £500,000 road improvement scheme. They say business is down by as much as half because of roadworks at the Floral Clock in Church Road, Hove. Work started in December to improve crossing facilities, reduce traffic

  • Mission: Impossible III

    (12A, 125mins) Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ving Rhames, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Monaghan, Maggie Q, Keri Russell. Directed by J. J. Abrams Lalo Schifrin's theme tune given a contemporary spin by Kanye West... CHECK. Tom Cruise abseiling on

  • Audioporn, Komedia, Brighton, Friday, May 5

    Audioporn's music has "the balls of punk and the cleverness of Seventies stuff", even if frontman Adrien Munden says so himself. Munden used to be an actor. Although he doesn't like to talk about it, his past career does have one plus - the band boasts

  • Golf plan to benefit all

    A public golf course could undergo a multi-million pound transformation. Plans to revitalise Benfield Valley Golf Course in Hove have been submitted to Brighton and Hove City Council and will be considered by the planning committee in the coming months

  • Mother's wedding tribute to daughter

    Little Abbie Livingstone-Nurse, who died in a tragic beach accident, was remembered by her mum Pippa when she married her partner of two years. Three-year-old Abbie died on a Cornish beach last summer when she jumped into a 5ft deep sand hole dug by her

  • Pupils to stage a tasty display

    Thousands of children will be taking to the streets dressed as pizzas and various fruits and salads, to kickstart the Brighton Festival. Pupils from more than 70 schools in Brighton and Hove will be joined by community groups and samba bands for the annual

  • Dirty Pretty Things, Concorde 2, Brighton

    Carl Barat and Pete Doherty may never be Lennon and McCartney but they've certainly got an interesting tale to tell. People of a certain age can scoff all they want, but for a glimmer of a sliver of a minute it looked as if the likely lads who fronted

  • Letter: Amazing medical advances

    To make a change from my complaints about the King Alfred plans, I write to give the highest praise to the staff of the Regency Digestive Diseases Centre of the Royal Sussex County Hospital who are caring for my brother, Bob Fines of Woodingdean. Bob

  • Letter: Fair dibs for all?

    Well done for the lovely article showing the Scout movement celebrating St George's Day (The Argus, April 24). It was a shame only Newhaven was mentioned, as Brighton Scouts held their parade at the Dome, the first time for several years. We hope we will

  • Letter: Sincere thanks

    Last week, I had a fall in Brighton, cutting my head and ending up at the hospital. I would like to thank all the kind people who helped me and especially to one particular lady who stayed by my side until the ambuland came. Once again, my sincere thanks

  • Letter: Well said Kath

    Brighton nurse Kathy Doughty makes a damning criticism of the unnecessarily disgraceful state of the NHS (The Argus, May 2). Well said, Kath. We need someone like you to run our health service - and not only at head office. -Ray Wootton, Saltdean

  • Tea Dance, Spiegeltent, Old Steine Lawns, Brighton, Sun, May 7

    A bone-fide tea dance, complete with tea, cake and cucumber sandwiches, glides into the Spiegeltent. With its glorious chandelier, spangley glitter ball and wooden dancefloor, the legendary "tent of mirrors" is the perfect place to recreate the heady

  • Viktoria Mullova Ensemble, Glyndebourne, Sun May 7

    Violinist Viktoria Mullova's passion for classical and baroque music has developed since she toured with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in 2000. Her devotion to playing in style of the period is shared by the members of her Ensemble, through

  • Great-grandsons keep the Spiegel spirit alive

    The great-grandsons of the man who built the first travelling Spiegeltent are continuing his legacy in Brighton and Hove. Johnny and Tom Klessens, from the Flemish town of Rijkevorsel in Belgium, are the fourth generation of one family whose lives have

  • Airline left luggage at airport

    An airline left luggage belonging to 200 passengers behind after a power cut. Furious easyJet passengers are demanding compensation after their flight to Milan took off from Gatwick without any of their bags in the hold. The airline decided to send the

  • Warm hearted pensioner saves church

    A 91-year-old man has helped to save an historic church which has been part of his life since childhood. Bert Hobden, of Overhill Drive, Brighton, has pledged to donate thousands of pounds to St Andrew's Church in Waterloo Street, Hove, where he was a

  • The Light Players: Groupe F, Preston Park, Sat, May 13

    A Fireworks group which famously set the Eiffel Tower alight and brought flame to the Olympics is giving a unique premiere performance at the Brighton Festival. French company Groupe F uses fire like an artist uses paint, hurling it across the sky to

  • £10k for cancer dad

    An appeal to help a father dying of cancer to spend more time with his family has hit the £10,000 mark in just one week. Donations have been pouring in since The Argus told the story of Neil Cooper and his desperate battle to stay alive for his family

  • Detainee's mum in plea

    The mother of Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Deghayes has begged people to keep fighting for justice for her son. Zohra Zewawi's 37-year-old son has been imprisoned in the American military jail for almost four years. She spoke tearfully of her devastation

  • Letter: Correcting mistakes

    I enjoy the weekly articles about Hollywood supporting actors but the one on George Tobias (Letters, April 29) contained two mistakes. The Glenn Miller Story came out in 1953 but, more to the point, Glen Miller was played by James Stewart, not Gary Cooper

  • Trustees 'forced man out of job'

    A former technical manager of an arts centre who swore and drunk on the job has won his case for unfair dismissal. Bosses at The Old Market arts centre in Upper Market Street, Hove, were guilty of plotting a "fait accompli" in their bid to force David

  • Letter: Exhibition is outstanding

    Having just returned home from the preview day of the Red Hen Artists' May Festival exhibition in St Peter's Church Preston Park, I feel compelled to write to tell you the exhibition is outstanding and the use of this beautiful building admirable. It

  • Chinese State Circus, Preston Park, Brighton, May 11-22

    Martial arts and the opera combine with acrobats, jugglers and contortionists for the first time in the State Circus's history. The two-hour production from the Chinese State Circus has taken three years to produce and features a cast schooled in the

  • Letter: Street thanks

    We would like to thank all who supported our street collection in Brighton on Saturday, April 22. Shoppers gave generously and £852.34 was raised to give practical help to local cancer patients. We are most grateful to all concerned. -Marjorie King, Brighton

  • Letter: Painted delight

    I was pleased to see boards with murals on them being put up at the former hardware shop next to the Jobcentre in Newhaven last week. I discovered these were painted by local school children. Apparently, more will be sited at the old local Post Office

  • Letter: Ask those who take it how hard an exam is

    In response to Liz Telcs (Letters, April 24), it is amazing that, in all the years of debate over whether school exams are getting easier, no one ever thinks to ask the students. Upon being handed a mass of past papers for GCSE science in 1999, it was

  • Cooped: Spymonkey, Theatre Royal, Tue May 23 to Sat May 27

    Fresh from performing with Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas, Brighton-based physical comedy sensation Spymonkey return home with a new version of their pulp gothic extravaganza, Cooped. The high jinks begin when beautiful Laura Du Lay arrives at the creepy

  • Cricket: Prior ton boosts Sussex

    Matt Prior boosted Sussex with his 11th hundred for the county yesterday and declared: "That has to be my best yet." In his first Championship appearance of the season, the 24-year-old wicketkeeper-batsman made 124 before he was last out as Sussex made

  • Warp Moves, Random Dance, Brighton Dome, Wed May 24

    Randow Dance Company's mantra is innovation, innovation, innovation! One of the UK's most highly-regarded companies, they have gained a reputation for ripping up the rulebook and creating something entirely new and entirely now. In a unique challenge,

  • Hart: Sort this mess out

    Gary Hart has spoken out about the uncertainty hanging over Albion's nine out-of-contract players as a result of the boardroom power struggle. The players have been left in limbo, their futures undecided until the fate of manager Mark McGhee is resolved

  • Veil of the Temple, Concert Hall, Brighton Dome, Sat May 27

    Less a concert, more an experience, John Tavener's awe-inspiring Veil Of The Temple was originally created to be performed in the church of the Knights Templar as a sevenhour vigil. Prepare to be dazzled by this shorter Proms-style presentation, featuring

  • Confetti (15, 99mins)

    Martin Freeman, Jessica Stevenson, Stephen Mangan, Vincent Franklin, Jason Watkins, Felicity Montagu, Jimmy Carr, Alison Steadman, Sarah Hadland, Marc Wootton. Directed by Debbie Isitt. Following the lead of Christopher Guest and his improvisatory style

  • Mystery Jets, Concorde 2, Brighton, Tues, May 9

    Mystery Jets have been touring for what seems like forever and singer Blaine Harrison is tired. Not of the gigging, or life on a tour bus - which he says "smells like a zoo" - but of the band being pigeon-holed. Labels such as "dad rock" and "prog rock

  • Dresden Dolls, Concorde 2, Brighton, Thurs, May 11

    With little more than some white makeup and a bowler hat, The Dresden Dolls burst out of the Boston art scene in 2000. The theatrical duo, who have garnered comparisons from Patti Smith and Nick Cave to The Violent Femmes, are singer/pianist Amanda Palmer

  • DJ Yoda Live, Concorde 2, Brighton, Friday, May 5

    How many North London Jewish scratch DJs who play George Formby can you name? DJ Yoda, one of the UK's biggest hip-hop mix tape and club DJs, has certainly found his unique-selling-point. "I'm a hip-hop DJ but I'll play anything that inspires me," says

  • Noise Ensemble, Theatre Royal, Brighton

    The ten talented percussionists of Noise Ensemble provided an evening that not only fused remarkable sound with brilliant colours but also wove into the routines extraordinary choreographed movement. At times the fervour of the young players echoed the