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  • Albion star's contract delight

    Gary Hart today hailed a testimonial granted by Albion to accompany his new one-year contract as a "massive achievement". Next season will be Hart's tenth year with the Seagulls after making just enough appearances last season to trigger an appearance-related

  • Albion likely to miss out on Leon

    Albion are still interested in Leon Constantine but boss Dean Wilkins expects the former Port Vale marksman to be snapped up by a Championship club. Constantine, now a free agent, rejected a move to Albion during the January transfer window after a £135,000

  • Warne spices up the derby

    The players may have settled their differences over a pint at the end of last season but the rivalry between Sussex and Hampshire is still there. While not exactly fanning the flames again in his national newspaper column yesterday, Shane Warne certainly

  • Football: Reds can cope with low budget

    Assistant manager Paul Raynor is confident Crawley can still challenge for promotion next season despite having their playing budget slashed by more than £100,000. Reds owner Azwar Majeed cut funds available to Raynor and new boss Steve Evans by £2,000

  • Saqlain asks MP for help

    Saqlain Mushtaq has enlisted the help of his MP to end his frustrating wait to make his Sussex bow. The 30-year-old former Pakistan off-spinner is not able to make his first-class debut after signing a two-year contract in March until his British citizenship

  • Comment: Moores getting it right

    Peter Moores could not have asked for a better start to his career as England coach. His two big selection gambles have both paid off spectacularly. Moores knows Matt Prior's game better than most but he still took a big punt when he selected the Sussex

  • New college plans go on display

    A college has unveiled multi-million pound plans for a new campus catering for up to 13,000 students. Northbrook College is currently based at three locations around the town at Union Place, Broadwater Road and Littlehampton Road but wants to put all

  • Nursery youngsters enter a virtual world

    When Little Oaks nursery invited parents to come and talk about what they do for a living, they expected to hear from teachers, postmen or firefighters. But the first parent to take them up on the offer had a much more unusual job - helping turn people

  • Soldier charged over army bullets sale

    A 27-year-old Sussex-based soldier has been charged with the illegal possession of ammunition, Scotland Yard said. Private Christopher Trussler was arrested by anti-gun crime police over the sale of Army-issue bullets. The arrest was part of an operation

  • Popular reporter found dead in bed

    The sports community in Sussex has been thrown into mourning after the death of a well known reporter. Ben Steppel, 37, was found dead in his bed at his Worthing property on Tuesday morning. Mr Steppel, the sports editor of the Chichester Observer and

  • Future growth of town thrown into doubt

    The future growth of a town over the next 20 years could be thrown into doubt. A Government inspector has raised concerns about Adur District Council's core strategy plan for Shoreham. It outlines the future development of key sites in Adur, including

  • Women forced to travel 20 miles after maternity unit closed

    Women in labour had to travel up to 20 miles away to give birth when a maternity unit was forced to close. Staff shortages due to sickness meant the unit at Eastbourne District General Hospital could not take in any patients for nine hours. Women had

  • Sussex Environment Agency jobs in danger

    Dozens of Environment Agency jobs could be axed as part of a shake-up of the organisation in Sussex. Bosses are considering merging its operations in the South to save money which could mean the closure of its Worthing site. The agency's board of directors

  • Electronic voice to remind hospital visitors to clean hands

    An electronic voice will remind hospital visitors to clean their hands before they go on to a ward. The system is being installed at lifts in the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton and the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath as part of their

  • Boogie Nights, Theatre Royal, Brighton, until Sat, June 9

    If it's a party you're after, get down to the Theatre Royal this week. Boogie Nights is crammed full of the hits from the disco world of the Seventies. Right from the start you're left in no doubt as to what to expect - an evening of audience participation

  • Six held in campsite sex assault probe

    A 20-year-old man from Hove along with five other men were arrested after a teenager claimed she was sexually assaulted in a seaside town. The 19-year-old told officers in the early hours of Tuesday that she was the victim of a serious sexual assault

  • Tributes paid to wartime air hero

    A wartime air ace has died just weeks after meeting up with a German bomber pilot he shot down. Edward Lawley McMillan, known as Peter, was visited in May by Willi Schludecker. Mr Schludecker was on a raid on July 23/24 1942, when his Bedford-bound

  • Council leader angry at retirement homes scheme

    A council leader has spoken of his dismay after retirement home developers won a controversial town centre planning appeal. Dozens of flats for the frail elderly can now be built in Union Place, Worthing, after the shock decision. But coun Keith Mercer

  • Unusual seafront property goes on eBay

    It is custom-built with fantastic views in one of the most desirable locations in Sussex. Yet its owners are not expecting to make a fortune when they put this rare property on the market. Potential buyers will be warned there is a catch - they will

  • RAF flypast to honour Henry

    East Sussex resident Henry Allingham - Britain's oldest man - celebrated his 111th birthday on board HMS Victory watching a military flypast. Mr Allingham was aboard Lord Nelson's flagship moored at Portsmouth during the Royal Navy flypast. The Second

  • Howling at the moon

    Great, so we have gangs of youths who are known to police and who run riot and we have to gate streets off rather than increase policing in those areas. But that's OK because Inspector Parr is adjusting our police distribution according to

  • Bus lanes are responsible planning

    I have to disagree with Peter James (Letters, May 28). As a motorist who wanted to reduce my carbon footprint, I find I no longer need my car in Brighton. Far from being a "ridiculous bus lane" the London Road bus lane has given me a reliable bus

  • Local Tories in tune with party’s academy plans

    I am very disappointed at the comments made by Councillor Pat Hawkes, the previous chair of children, families and schools (Letters, June 2). They were a deliberate attempt to try to show that the Tory Party locally is not in tune with the

  • Zimmer down now

    I am amused and amazed how many people responded to my letter (Letters, May 24) telling me and even scolding me for not making the effort of returning the zimmer frame and foot stool to the hospital. The simple answer is that they don't want

  • Flat-out recycling

    To recycle carrier bags and polythene wrappers, I fill plastic bottles with the bags and polythene, using the handle of a wooden spoon and then squash the bottle flat. This means there is no more space wasted once the bottle is flattened. John

  • Raise a glass

    Ten out of ten to Komedia for all the different acts they put on during the Brighton Festival. The amazing range of comedy and music fully deserved the accolade given recently by The Argus. Nought out of ten, however, for the cost of drinks.

  • Kind hearts

    I would like to endorse the letter from Ann Tizzard (Letters, June 4) which thanks the WRVS volunteers who deliver Meals on Wheels day in, day out despite extremes of weather and personal inconvenience. I have come to rely on these excellent

  • Lunar madness

    Some years ago I worked as head commissionaire at Covent Garden. One Saturday evening was particularly fraught - people pushing and shoving, complaining about every little thing, staff really tetchy. I felt totally unable to relax - similar to

  • Be responsible

    I was intrigued by the letters from Debbie Jordan, Susan Funnell and Sylvia Harwood (Letters, June 1) The original writer condemned shooting at cats with an air weapon as "a sad reflection on society" and had not condoned it. Nor did I see anything

  • Church of deceptive reporting

    As a former magistrate and retired justice of the peace, it was interesting to watch the recent media contest between John Sweeney of Panorama and members of the Church of Scientology, culminating in Paul Bracchi's tirade in your pages (

  • No truck with it

    We have had two travellers' caravans on the grass verge in Elm Grove. They were there for less than two weeks and have departed leaving a huge amount of garbage; an old armchair, a mattress and piles of detritus. Have they been fined? I think

  • Yobs to be banned from town centre

    Gangs of teenage yobs are to be banned from a town centre after police were given more powers to tackle antisocial behaviour. Police asked Rother District Council for a dispersal order in Bexhill town centre to combat the rise in violence and vandalism

  • Wildlife charity under threat

    A wildlife charity that rescues thousands of animals a year is under threat because it cannot meet its rising costs. East Sussex Wildlife and Rescue Service volunteers dash across the county every day to the aid of injured foxes, badgers, deer, hedgehogs

  • Theatre company performs same play - 50 years later

    The boards might not be the only things creaking when a theatre company stages a comedy 50 years after initially performing the play. Ray Hopper, 57, of Burgess Hill, was a teenager when he took the role of Hopcroft in The Happiest Days of Your Life

  • Tommy Allsup and Kevin Montgomery, The Greys, Brighton

    Tommy Allsup is a fine western guitarist with a distinguished history. Not dying in the air crash which killed Buddy Holly should not be his only claim to fame. However, without that connection, it's unlikely he would have been in Brighton.

  • More families forced to pay for school transport

    Christian families have been struck with another blow after a second council decided to start charging them for their children's transport to school. East Sussex County Council has angered religious leaders by following the lead of its counterparts in

  • Accidents at blackspots down thanks to road schemes

    Car crashes at notorious accident blackspots have been slashed by half thanks to a £2.4 million road improvement blitz. Huge investment since 1999 has more than halved the number of smashes at danger areas across East Sussex. The results have delighted

  • Council backs down in disability fight

    A blind man with hearing difficulties has forced a council into paying £2,500 to charity after he claimed the authority did not comply with disability legislation. Colin Bennett, 66, of Lansdowne Place, Hove, complained in early 2005 that Brighton and

  • One-to-one tuition pilot boost for pupils

    Pupils slipping behind in the classroom will receive one-to-one tuition under a new Government experiment at dozens of schools across East Sussex. The Argus can today reveal the names of 51 primary and secondary schools taking part in the scheme

  • Fight for national park status back on

    The Government should honour a proposal to make the South Downs a national park, the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) said today. The organisation has called for the area, which runs from Eastbourne to Winchester, to be given the status

  • Parking plan fears

    Hundreds of worried residents packed a public meeting about proposals to introduce a controversial parking scheme around their homes. People from Bolsover Road, Hove, Grange Road and some neighbouring streets confronted their ward councillors