An elderly war veteran has made a desperate plea for news of his missing daughter. Elaine Taggart, a mother of two from Ferring, near Worthing, has not been seen for nearly two months. Detectives say they fear for the safety of the 48-year-old because
Brighton and Hove Albion are set to unveil new blueprints for the Falmer stadium. The club has been forced to remodel its plans for the £50 million project to take into account new laws which have been passed since the original designs were unveiled.
Albion boss Dean Wilkins has praised Frenchman David Martot for giving him another midfield option. Wilkins started with Tommy Fraser in the centre of the park alongside Steve Thomson against Oldham at Withdean on Saturday. A calf injury forced Fraser
Children as young as one are having to attend anti-arson courses because they are starting fires. In the last year scores of children involved in either setting fires or making hoax 999 calls were sent to experts to try to warn them away from the danger
The first pictures of the proposed £100 million redevelopment of a trading estate have been revealed. Developers want to transform the Sackville Trading Estate in Hove into a public square surrounded by homes, shops, restaurants, offices and a supermarket
East Grinstead remain on course for European hockey and have not given up on the title either. A 6-3 win at home to Havant consolidated second place in the Slazenger National premier division and moved them eight points clear of the chasing pack in
Gareth Lendrum scored a hat-trick to give Brighton and Hove renewed hope of avoiding relegation. Matt McNeill and Sam Forster were also on target as Brighton won 5-1 away to old enemies Lewes. They remain in the bottom three in South Premier division
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"Bite me Vampire Weekend!" came the adoring shout midway through the New York four-piece's Brighton debut. The band seemed intent on casting a spell over the sold-out crowd with a tight and instantly infectious set drawing from their eponymous first
Sunday's sold-out Dome performance was something of a treat. Birthday boy Barry Wordsworth has been at the helm of the BPO for more than 19 years. It was a rousing occasion, and Dvorák's Symphony No. 9 From The New World was the perfect finale to bring
A mentally ill man who stabbed a police officer in the chest in front of terrified shoppers has been detained for treatment in hospital. Ayhan Kilavuz, 37, ran around streets in Hove brandishing a large kitchen knife and threatening to kill English people
It's true, you never do know what's around the corner. A couple of weeks ago I got a call at work asking me to go on a live radio show to talk about The Argus Book Club. Wow! My mind went into a kind of excited panicky overdrive - until I realised the
It's true, you never do know what's around the corner. A couple of weeks ago I got a call at work asking me to go on a live radio show to talk about The Argus Book Club. Wow! My mind went into a kind of excited panicky overdrive - until I realised the
Council bosses are opposing 15,000 new homes in a neighbouring county because of the effects on traffic and jobs. East Sussex County Council has objected to the Mid Sussex District Council core strategy, a document to decide where housing will be built
I was initially incensed when I read your piece about the proposal to ban dogs from Brighton and Hove beaches during the summer. How much time, money, effort and manpower has Brighton and Hove City Council wasted on yet another rule that affects
The other evening I walked to the Foredown Tower to hear a fascinating talk about the nature of eclipses around the world. It was cheering to find that the tower has been attracting record attendances recently. As we peered across the solar system
Why couldn't the spiegeltent be sited in Hove Park for the duration of the Brighton Festival? This would bring the added advantage of raising the profile of Hove in the annual festival and fringe activities which have always been presented as if
I have just returned from Egypt and while I understand no country is perfect wherever we went the people were very kind and polite saying hello to us as complete strangers, asking us if we liked their country and revealing pride in their nation.
Brighton and Hove City Council is considering banning dogs from all the city's beaches from May to September and from other public places all year round. Many dog owners are bitterly opposed to the idea and say they are being penalised. They say litter
Martin Hagon has ruled out a quick-fix loan option as he prepares to complete his first Eastbourne line-up. The Eagles promoter is poised to make a permanent British-based signing, likely to be a young rider, to fill the vacant No. 7 spot. He is expected
Dennis Burke emails: "I am wondering if any relatives of a Second World War airman from Portslade might still be in the area. "He was F/Sgt Leslie George Jordan 905148 and he died in a Liberator bomber crash in Ireland in March 1942, along with
The family in Canada of Peter (Pete) Robertson Young are hoping a friend in the Brighton region has seen him recently or knows of his whereabouts. His father writes: "He has been out of touch with us for some time and we are concerned. He lived
John Bartlett left his job in style, turning up to work on the last day at Brighton in a Rolls-Royce. He was borough estates surveyor for the council in Brighton, in charge of property and land worth millions of pounds. John was also a long-serving
I'm 19 and I get dreadful period pain. My GP doesn't want to know. And my mum says I just have to smile and put up with it, like she did. But it that really so? No, it's not. These days, young women shouldn't have to fight against menstrual pain.
Many years ago, I had a termination. I have heard the authorities are planning to store everybody's medical histories in a centralised computer. So will the details of my abortion be available to lots of people working in the NHS? I'm afraid so
I'm 20 and thinking of going on the Pill. But I read in my daily paper the Government has told GPs to put women on the contraceptive injection, instead. Does this mean I won't be able to get the Pill at all? This report in a national daily is nonsense
I'm 45 and have never reached a climax. But now I have met a new man and have hopes this is going to be a permanent relationship. So do you think there is any hope I could learn to orgasm at my late age? That isn't a "late age" at all. Lots of women
I've been very jittery recently and when I took my pulse it was 120 per minute. I also have a slight lump in my neck. A friend suggested my nerviness might be due to thyroid trouble. Is this possible? Certainly. An over-active thyroid is associated
During sex last week, I noticed a hard lump in my boyfriend's testicle. He says it couldn't possibly be cancer, because he is only 26. Should I accept this? Or should I try and insist he sees a doctor? The peak age for testicular cancer is actually
Valerie Paynter and John Davy have got it right (Letters, February 22). Future taxpayers will face massive sea wall enhancement costs at the King Alfred site in Hove. Even the proposed new West Pier plans have decking several metres higher. Sadly
Since my husband left me, I have been getting terrible panic attacks and the tranquilisers which I have been given are not helping. I'm not surprised. Tranquilisers aren't much of a treatment for panic attacks. Instead, try and get yourself some counselling
Lingfield boss Steve Perkins says the division two promotion race will go down to the wire. Perkins' second-placed side took another step towards going up with a 3-1 win at relegation-battling Southwick. They are four points behind leaders East Grinstead
Tim Loughton MP's belief that the heart of the problem with cannabis is that it was downgraded to a class C drug defies logic (The Argus, February 20). Perhaps Mr Loughton forgets the performance of Ann Widdicombe a few years ago at the Conservative
Tim Loughton MP's belief that the heart of the problem with cannabis is that it was downgraded to a class C drug defies logic (The Argus, February 20). Perhaps Mr Loughton forgets the performance of Ann Widdicombe a few years ago at the Conservative
I have just received a copy of Vibe, Worthing Borough Council's free magazine. Within this edition is the council's breakdown of next year's council tax spending and proposed percentage increase in charges. The page is split into two with the
Tears, tantrums and embarrassing scenes in Tesco - in the run up to Mother's Day, Ruth Addicott talks to the star-studded cast of popular comedy show Mum's The Word about their own traumatic, amusing and heart-warming experiences of having children PAULINE
After five attempts at getting published, novelist Iain Banks finally reached a wider audience with The Wasp Factory - largely because he discovered the concept of the second draft. "Previously I had this idea that publishers getting my manuscript
Hungover seemed, in retrospect, the ideal state in which to watch French collective Nouvelle Vague. Had we been sharper and more demanding, their loungey, mellow, bossa nova sound would probably have been frustratingly, rather than pleasantly,
Red tape is stopping hospitals using a new cleaning system that could dramatically cut numbers of a potentially fatal infection. Eastbourne District General Hospital and the Conquest Hospital in St Leonards are among only a handful in the South East
Hope must have got the better of experience for Celia Barlow MP when she called on the Prime Minister to "continue taking the lead in tackling climate change" (The Argus, February 20). He hasn't started yet. This is a Government under whom greenhouse
Since their Mercury Music Prize nomination last year, Basquiat Strings are finally getting the attention they so rightly deserve. Fronted by chilled cellist Ben Davies and guest-starring Polar Bear's shock-haired Seb Rochford on drums, the experimental
I am sure that all the members of the Southwick Society share G Williams' concerns for the sad condition of Kingston Barn and would wish to see it saved as the vital piece of local history that it is (Letters, February 21). I am sure that if the
A man today denied murdering his wife, whose body was discovered in a car roof box in their garden. French national Andre Genestin, 48, appeared before Lewes Crown Court accused of murdering his wife Catherine, 37. Mrs Genestin, whose body was found
A man has been jailed after an horrific attack left a teenage student seriously injured. Lewis Ransom punched the youth in the face after he attempted to intervene in a domestic dispute between the 27-year-old and his girlfriend. The incident
All four Sussex players involved were in good form as England Ladies squared their five-match series 1-1 with a nine-wicket win over New Zealand at Lincoln University today. Caroline Atkins made an unbeaten 69 in a second-wicket stand of 178 as England
It was probably one of Albion's goals of the season. Glenn Murray's superb finish after Matt Richards' charge downfield and nice pass deserved to be the match winner on an entertaining, upbeat Withdean afternoon. But the goal was born deeper than that
An art deco bingo hall could be knocked down and replaced with a GPs' surgery and 38 flats. Neighbours of the Gala bingo building in Portland Road, Hove, have branded the planning proposal "madness" and are raising concerns about the development's
A second controversial waste incinerator could be built in Sussex. Negotiations are under way for a waste-to-energy plant to be built in West Sussex to tackle the region's mounting waste problem. West Sussex County Council has announced it wants to
Matt Richards has saluted the work ethic of Albion's man of the moment Glenn Murray, as well as his goalscoring prowess. Murray's fourth goal in five starts since his £300,000 switch from Rochdale last month secured a 1-0 victory over Oldham at Withdean
Pensioners and disabled people face a postcode lottery when it comes to using their new, free bus passes. A national scheme will replace the existing Sussex County Card, which allows the over-60s and people with certain disabilities free bus travel
Albion manager Dean Wilkins is bracing himself for the looming series of tests which will determine whether his side can make the play-offs in the closing stages of the campaign or will be confined to mid-table. Last Tuesday's comeback victory over Cheltenham
