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  • Match report: Albion 1 Boston Utd 0

    It was hard work and it was a long time coming but Albion avoided another Carling Cup upset in professional fashion. The Seagulls had to wait until the 73rd minute to see off Boston's brave but limited challenge, Paul Reid sending them through to round

  • Brighton Eye wins vital backing

    Plans for a landmark 600ft seafront observation platform have won vital backing from a powerful Government conservation agency. English Heritage has come out in support of the proposed £20 million i360 tower at the land end of the derelict West Pier

  • Police board up 'drug den' home

    A home in a quiet residential street has been boarded up by police after complaints it was being run as a drugs den. Neighbours claimed the three-bedroom terraced house in Saxon Close, East Preston, near Littlehampton, was being used to deal drugs day

  • Hunt supporter denies attacking saboteurs

    A hunt supporter has been accused of giving two saboteurs serious head injuries on the final day of legal hunting with hounds. Wayne Spencer, 39, of Oakhurst Lane, Billingshurst, was involved in chaotic and violent clashes as hunt saboteurs tried to

  • Women win cancer drug fight

    The potentially life-saving breast cancer drug herceptin must be given to early stage cancer patients, the Government health watchdog has ruled. The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has issued final guidance to Primary Care Trusts

  • Brave girl begins cell treatment in China

    A five-year-old girl with a rare brain disorder has started a pioneering stem cell treatment in China which her family hope will save her life. Sacha Skinner, who lives with her mother Annette Dacosta and stepfather Graham Pearson in Firle Road, Brighton

  • First glimpse of film about Falconio murder

    The first image from a film depicting the ordeal of the girlfriend of a British backpacker murdered in the Australian Outback more than five years ago was released today. Joanne Lees from Brighton was abducted and assaulted at gun point by drug runner

  • !!! at the Concorde 2, Brighton

    Led by The Rapture and LCD Soundsystem, a new wave of dance-oriented bands has emerged from New York's stale garage-rock scene and with them comes eight-piece funk-punk act !!!, arriving at the Concorde on the last date of their two-month UK/European

  • Yardy picked for England

    Mike Yardy was in dreamland today after he was called up by England for the first time. The Sussex batsman is one of two debutants, along with Leicestershire fast bowler Stuart Broad, in a 16-man squad for the Twenty20 international against Pakistan

  • Roof-top protest at weapons system factory

    Two anti-war campaigners were staging a roof-top protest at a weapons factory today. The pair used a ladder to climb 40ft on to the roof of EDO MBM Defence Systems in Home Farm Road, Brighton, at 6am. EDO designs, develops and manufactures weapon carriage

  • Hunt for missing man

    Police are appealing for information about a missing man. John Waterfall was last seen by his wife at 2pm on Tuesday, August 22) at their home, in South Bank, Hassocks. The 58-year-old is said to know the local area well. His family describe him as

  • Sainsbury's plan upsets traders

    Traders have reacted angrily to plans for a new supermarket in a shopping street struggling to keep its individuality. The Argus has learnt that Sainsbury's is in advanced discussions to take over the disused JobCentre at the junction of St James's Street

  • TGWU claims safety checks are rushed through at Gatwick

    Union leaders claim safety is being compromised at Gatwick because of companies trying to cut the time aircraft spend on the ground. The Transport and General Workers Union, representing baggage handlers at Gatwick, is warning airlines are making them

  • It is not anti-Semitic to oppose Israeli war crime

    At the peace demonstration in Brighton last Saturday, Public Order restrictions were imposed and hundreds of police drafted in from Sussex and Surrey. One of the reasons given for the restrictions was that a serious racist assault against a Jewish person

  • Expenses are quite legitimate

    The article "Councillors claim more than £780,000" (The Argus, July 28) was misleading. As chair of the Independent Remuneration Panel (IRP), I would like to set the record straight. Firstly, the members of the IRPwere appointed following advertisements

  • Building at Falmer may open a Pandora's box

    By arranging for her photographer to be 1,000 feet in the air, V Lenihan (Letters, August 17) manages to make the concreted and litterstrewn A27 through Falmer look almost attractive. She mentions, rather wistfully, that some university buildings would

  • Tickets are legal

    It is totally incorrect for The Argus to claim on its front page (August 22) that Brighton and Hove City Council has admitted all the parking penalty charge notices it has issued since 2001 are "invalid", "flawed" or "illegal". At no time has the wording

  • Council crackdown in illegal child workers

    Results of employment checks aimed at protecting schoolchildren from illegal working during the summer holidays have been revealed. Child protection officers have been touring the seafronts in Eastbourne and Hastings to check where youngsters were working

  • Open as usual

    Anyone travelling within a mile of Portslade old village will have seen the yellow diversion signs. Buses have also been re-routed around our village, as the road is closed for three months while Southern Water attempts to alleviate the flooding the

  • Big Brother must be brought to book

    The right to protest is a hard-earned fundamental human right. But one could be forgiven for believing it has now become an act of subversion and protesters have become dissidents in today's Britain. I say this because of the ridiculous number of police

  • The majority should be heard

    Joan Ruddock MP, who chairs the all-party parliamentary group on compassion in dying, is asking all of us who want to see a change in the law to urge our MPs to sign Early Day Motion No 1494 on assisted dying. We feel thoroughly frustrated that when

  • Call me a dreamer

    Perhaps someone at Sussex Action for Peace could devote some protest time to stopping Shia Muslims from killing Sunnis and vice versa, or both sects killing Kurds? You can't blame all the ills of the Middle East on Israel, Bush and Blair, despite the

  • Cartography rules

    Gerald Oberman distorts the historical roots of the current Middle East conflict (Letters, August 15). The map of the Middle East was redrawn at the end of the First World War. Iraq and Transjordan (Jordan) came under a British mandate, with Lebanon

  • Support Christians

    Your report of the rally for peace (The Argus, August 21) mentions a small contingent of Christians demonstrating in defence of Israel. I have recently returned from a visit to Palestine where I saw many Christians suffering. I would have thought Christians

  • Nice to know

    It is heartening to know there is Christian support for the Jewish people of Israel and the UK. Thank you. Linda Boyask

  • Charity’s day at the races

    A charity racing event attracted huge crowds and plenty of generosity. Brighton Racecourse opened in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund, the army's national charity which provides financial and practical support to soldiers, former soldiers and their families

  • Lowe blow for Albion

    Loan defender Keith Lowe could return to Wolverhampton Wanderers without kicking a ball in Albion's first team. Lowe is unlikely to feature in the squad for tonight's Carling Cup first round clash at home to League Two strugglers Boston United. Wolves

  • Do not take this cup tie for granted

    Teams usually tighten up straight after a tonking, which suggests Albion can take nothing for granted against Boston tonight. It looks a straightforward task for the Seagulls on paper. Boston were thumped 5-0 at Shrewsbury on Saturday, their third

  • City is home to the world

    A wave of foreign workers has turned Brighton and Hove into one of the most cosmopolitan cities in Britain. Just under 13,000 people from 80 countries have come to work in the city in the past four years, many from the Eastern European countries that

  • Surgeon to pay family £500,000

    A surgeon has agreed to pay more than £500,000 compensation to the family of a woman who died during a routine operation. Catherine Ferguson, 41, who studied at Brighton University, bled to death after Davor Jurkovic punctured a major artery during a

  • Majeeds could be club's lifeline

    Supporters of troubled Crawley Town Football Club have accepted that the Majeed brothers running the club may be the only alternative to extinction. But they have called for a public apology from the owners for the "hurt" they have been caused over the

  • Pietersen's brother plays for Sussex

    Sussex are giving a trial to Brian Pietersen, brother of England star Kevin, in their current 2nd XI match against Surrey at Wimbledon Cricket Club. The lesser known Pietersen could not make a first day impression, being dismissed for only six as Sussex

  • Train loos must work say MPs

    A campaign group, including two MPs, wants a law to make sure rail passengers have the right to spend a penny. The group, led by Brighton and Hove city councillor Craig Turton, has demanded the Government creates a new law to ensure train toilets

  • MPs step up battle to save hospital services

    Thousands of people are being urged to back a campaign to save hospital services. The Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath is one of several at risk of losing vital facilities as part of a review of all hospitals in Sussex. Mid Sussex MP

  • Conquerers of Everest take on polar challenge

    Record-breaking teenage adventurers Rob Gauntlett and James Hooper have announced their latest epic expedition. Just three months after becoming the youngest Britons to reach the summit of Mount Everest they are planning a 17,000-mile world-record

  • Women win fight to use cancer drug treatment

    Women suffering from breast cancer in Sussex will now have access to a potentially lifesaving drug if they need it. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) has given its final guidance on the use of the drug Herceptin

  • A good year for fungi leads to hunt for the black diamond

    To the untrained eye it looks like an ugly fungus, or worse, dog dirt. But mushroom experts say the rare delicacy lurking under the soil of the South Downs is an untapped gold mine. Better still, it could turn Sussex into the new Provence or Tuscany

  • Residents ‘in the dark’ over parking charges

    Parking protesters say people have been left in the dark over planned new parking zones in Brighton and Hove. They said most of the people who would be affected by the scheme, which would merge eight central zones into two, know little or nothing

  • Lottery scam beaten by post office workers

    Post office workers prevented an 85-year-old man from losing £2,000 in a lottery scam. Staff at the shop in Seaside, Eastbourne, uncovered the con when the man asked to withdraw the large sum to send to his daughter-in-law. Suspicious staff at

  • Eubank voted third silly celeb

    Eccentric Chris Eubank has been voted Britain's third favourite figure of fun. The former world boxing champion, who lives in Hove, was pipped to the post by Tory MP Boris Johnson at number two and rocker Ozzy Osbourne who came top. The Reader's

  • Sainsbury's plan upsets traders

    Traders have reacted angrily to plans for a new supermarket in a shopping street struggling to keep its individuality. The Argus has learnt that Sainsbury's is in advanced discussions to take over the disused JobCentre at the junction of St James's Street

  • TGWU claims safety checks are rushed through at Gatwick

    Union leaders claim safety is being compromised at Gatwick because of companies trying to cut the time aircraft spend on the ground. The Transport and General Workers Union, representing baggage handlers at Gatwick, is warning airlines are making them

  • Design for the future

    Businesses and community groups are being asked how far a city should insist on sustainable building design. Brighton and Hove City Council is inviting people to contribute to its new planning document, which will provide guidelines on what sustainable

  • TV couple’s Eye on Brighton

    Television golden couple Richard and Judy discussed plans to build a "London Eye" in Brighton. The proposal to build a 600ft viewing tower at the site of the West Pier was first revealed exclusively in The Argus in March. The i360 tower would

  • Death crash PC’s drive ban cut

    A policeman who shot through red lights and killed a mother-of-two has had his driving ban reduced. PC Nicholas Andrews-Faulkner, 45, was disqualified from driving for four years after a Winchester Crown Court jury convicted him of careless driving

  • Memorial to Indian soldiers to be repaired

    Work to repair and conserve a memorial to Indian soldiers who died in Brighton during the First World War will begin in September. The domed Chattri monument stands on the Downs near Patcham Court Farm and is made of white Sicilian marble. Some

  • Car thieves' trail of damage

    Thieves woke up residents as they crashed their stolen car into five parked vehicles. Two young men drove an Audi along Queen's Park Road in Brighton, leaving a trail of destruction at 3.30am on Tuesday. The vehicle smashed into a rare Alfa Romeo, bounced

  • Death crash PC's drive ban cut

    A policeman who drove through red lights and killed a mother-of-two has had his driving ban reduced. PC Nicholas Andrews-Faulkner, 45, was disqualified from driving for four years after a Winchester Crown Court jury convicted him of careless driving