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  • Baitup nets two as Town open up gap at top

    Eastbourne Town took advantage of a surprise slip-up by Crowborough to go three points clear at the top of County League division one. Town made hard work of beating bottom club Worthing United 3-2 but Crows suffered their first home defeat of the season

  • Bloor tells boo-boys to be quiet

    Worthing boss Danny Bloor slammed the Rebels boo-boys after his struggling young team lost 3-0 against Heybridge Swifts at Woodside Road. Goalkeeper Rikki Banks was caught flat-footed as David Cowley put Swifts ahead in the second minute. Sean Marks

  • Promotion bid on track thanks to flying start

    Hastings United assistant manager Norman Kane today saluted his side for maintaining their bid for the automatic promotion spot with a 3-1 victory against fellow high-flyers Fleet at the Pilot Field. Second-placed United remain two points behind leaders

  • Hunt is on for 'dirty thieves'

    Detectives are hunting a pair of pensioners posing as good Samaritans, who have stolen thousands of pounds from bank customers after pelting them with excrement. One victim was robbed of £1,500 after being hit on the back of the head by a handful of

  • Landlords will be forced to tidy seaside gateway

    A run-down gateway into Brighton is to receive a revamp. Hundreds of thousands of pounds will be poured into Pool Valley coach station, Brighton, to improve the area. And the council will force owners of semi-derelict buildings to renovate their properties

  • Rampant Rooks sink Histon

    Acrobatic striker Craig O'Connor somersaulted Lewes back into Conference south play-off contention and said: "We're good enough to go up." The diminutive frontman starred alongside strike-partner Paul Booth as the Rooks swept aside title challengers

  • Defeat for battling Crawley

    Crawley suffered their second defeat in three games after going down to play-off chasing Morecambe on Saturday. Town were second best for long periods of the game but in the end came down to a single strike from Morecambe's man of the match Garry Thompson

  • Campaign launched against mini-moto menace

    The Argus today joins forces with an MP to demand action to tackle the "menace" of mini-motorbikes. Hove's Labour MP Celia Barlow MP has received a string of complaints from residents concerned by youths tearing around streets and parks, often late at

  • Complaints about 'rude police' on rise

    More and more complaints are being made about policemen being rude. Reports of PCs being impolite have rocketed by 25 per cent between 2005 and 2006. The soaring number of complaints have been revealed before Sussex Police Authority's complaints committee

  • MP calls for removal of Thatcher statue

    A statue of Margaret Thatcher should be removed from the House of Commons because of the "destructive effect" she had on society, a Sussex MP has said. Des Turner, Labour MP for Brighton Kemptown, said the £80,000 bronze sculpture, unveiled last month