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  • Reid says give job to Wilkins

    Paul Reid has added his name to the growing clammer for Dean Wilkins to be named Albion manager on a permanent basis. The versatile Australian saluted the impact made by caretaker-chief Wilkins after launching the Seagulls' impressive victory against

  • Match report: Albion 4 Leyton Orient 1

    Dean Wilkins is beginning to build a pretty strong case to be named Albion's new manager. It is probably still a little early yet and there is no rush, with matches coming thick and fast, but Albion made it two wins and a draw under caretaker Wilkins

  • Motorsport: Hunt can learn on the big stage

    Leon Hunt has stepped up to the international stage just weeks after pulling out of a British championship. The 18-year-old Brighton racer has linked up with the Somerset-based Beowulf Racing team to contest the European Superstock 600 Championship

  • Kate Rusby, Brighton Dome, Concert Hall, Wednesday, Sept 20

    For a decade she has been combining a fresh approach to folk with a traditionalist's respect for the music. And her engaging stage manner, now bolstered by a regular coterie of skilled musicians, was recently recognised when she was voted Best

  • The Orb, Concorde 2, Brighton, Wednesday, Sept 20

    In 1990, The Orb sampled a woman recounting her childhood watching clouds in Arizona. They were little, and fluffy, apparently, and the skies went on forever. The woman, it turned out, was American vocalist Rickie Lee Jones, who promptly proceeded

  • Master of the bath was also curry king

    Sake Deen Mahomed is celebrated in Brighton for having been the owner of fashionable baths on the seafront. But it was revealed earlier this year that before his move to Brighton, he was the founder of Indian curry houses in Britain. The Lord

  • Donkey days

    It has been a long time since there were donkeys on the beach in Brighton and at a guess this picture dates from Edwardian times. The Lower Esplanade is recognisably the same today but a clue to the date is given by the bathing machines on the right

  • Rock star relatives

    Could you be related to a rock star? Lead singer for the outrageous American band The Tubes, Fee Waybill (pictured), reckons he could have Brighton connections. In an interview on the band's latest DVD, The Tubes Wild West Show, Fee (who was born

  • Gipsies beat the bailiffs

    Defiant travellers' children staged a sit-in on caravan tow bars to stop bailiffs evicting an illegal camp. The youngsters beat the bailiffs by crowding around their mobile homes, chanting: "We shall not, we shall not be moved." Laxley Pennant and Lawrence

  • Parking zone plan blocked

    A political row has broken out after a last minute decision by groups of councillors to reject controversial parking proposals for central Brighton and Hove. Plans to create two parking zones to replace eight in the city centre were scuppered by Green

  • Raiders scared off by food throwing

    Armed robbers were forced to flee a post office halfway through a raid when a customer started hurling cans of food. Two men brandishing a shotgun and a knife were chased off by a man as the pair tried to rob Islingword Road Post Office in Brighton.

  • ‘Not enough evidence’ for a new murder trial

    The family of murdered "Babes in the Wood" victim Nicola Fellows have spoken of their anger after police said there was not enough evidence to prosecute anyone. Karen Hadaway, ten, and Nicola, nine, were strangled in Wild Park, Brighton, in 1986. Russell

  • Furious nurses hold emergency talks with MP

    Morale among nurses in a city hospital has hit an all-time low after a raft of transfers and threatened redundancies were announced. Cardiac staff at the Royal Sussex County Hospital met Des Turner, MP for Brighton Kemptown, yesterday to protest against

  • Hospital nursery staff tested for deadly bug

    Staff at a hospital nursery are being tested for the E.coli virus. It is thought three toddlers have already contracted the potentially deadly bug from the Hilltop Nursery at Brighton General Hospital. A three-year-old child has tested positive for

  • Hart: We're on target

    Gary Hart insists the goals will come as he bids to celebrate a landmark appearance against the club that rejected him before he joined Albion. Hart plays his 350th game for the Seagulls today against Leyton Orient at Withdean. The versatile stalwart

  • Whatever happens, we're a good side

    Chris Adams believes Sussex are among the top four one-day sides in the country even if they do not land the Pro40 League title tomorrow. The C&G Trophy winners are chasing the second part of a treble at Trent Bridge against Nottinghamshire. If they