Lewes Car Club has officially opened for business. Members of the council run club are now able to hire two fuel-efficient Ford Fiestas 24 hours a day, seven days a week from off street car park spaces in Pinwell Rd and East Street car parks. Bookings
Sections of a popular nature walk are to be temporarily closed to allow improvement works to be carried out. Work to relay part of the Cuckoo Trail around one mile south of Horam is being carried out after heavy winter rain and fierce summer sun caused
Unprofitable phone boxes are gradually being removed from the county. BT bosses say that although there are no plans to phase out the iconic booths, there are now only 1,300 left in the county – a reduction of around a third in just six years
A motorcylist has been hospitalised with broken bones after he collided with a lorry. The 60-year-old man was taken to Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton with a suspected broken leg, arm and collar bone. His motorcycle collided with a 7.5 tonne
Tourism is booming in an East Sussex resort after record numbers used its visitor information centre. More than 36,300 visitors passed through the doors of Eastbourne Tourist Information Centre in July – a 25% increase on last year. The town’s official
Police officers discovered a body in a Brighton home. Officers gained entry into a house in Lincoln Street at around 1.45pm this afternoon after reports that a resident had not been seen for a while. Sussex Police said they are treating the death as
Residents are being asked whether they want a new village market. Southwater Parish Council wants residents to fill in an online survey to gauge whether there is sufficient interest in a regular market in the village. A market held in Litnot Square
The mother of hero Guardsman Jamie Janes is continuing her fight to help soldiers who suffer from a condition branded the unseen injury. Jacqui Janes joined a walk by servicemen trying to help colleagues who suffer from post traumatic stress
Once upon a time, in a land far far away, there was a BIG football club .... fire breathing dragons sent throngs of burning flames at all that crossed their path and many a foe shuddered at the mere thought of being visited by such a monster! It is a
Commuters are facing delays to their route home after two incidents on the lines. Southern Rail are reporting delays of around ten minutes on trains north of Gatwick Airport due to reports of someone trespassing on the line. National
GUS Poyet is unhappy with Albion’s points tally from the first three league games of the season. The manager admits they must start turning promising performances into positive results to mount a promotion challenge. Poyet believes his side wasted an
A city centre gym was closed by a chemical leak yesterday. Staff arrived at LA Fitness in Spring Gardens, Brighton, to find a chlorine alarm had been activated. Police closed surrounding streets as a precaution as a chemical incident expert was called
Having been in New Road twice recently, I am so disappointed that all the money spent on its refurbishment seems to have been wasted. What should be one of Brighton’s most pleasant streets is nothing more than a rat-run for taxis and and a hang-out
I was tickled to read that Brighton and Hove City Council is advertising on its website for independant [sic] members for it Standards Committee! I wonder what their first job will be? MT Moocher Queen’s Park, Brighton
Your Give A Pet A Home campaign is an interesting response to a huge problem that has been around for many years (The Argus, August 19). All the rehoming agencies have been dealing with this situation for decades. The campaign should go further and
I believe all readers will share my sadness at Adam Trimingham being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. I congratulate Adam in writing about this. I believe it is beneficial for a well-known person to go public with what many regard as a taboo subject
I’m one of the footsore masses to indulge myself in the pointless but very enjoyable sport of running. When I return home from my daily run, more often than not I have to make sure the soles of my expensive running shoes aren’t caked with the deposits
I do not condone racial abuse in any way, shape or form and despise racism of any kind. However, it is incredible to me that Sussex Police are willing to go to the effort of releasing descriptions of an elderly couple suspected of racial abuse (The
To the thief who stole the purse from a 14-year-old schoolgirl’s bag last Thursday, August 12: This was her first unaccompanied trip without an adult present, to do her geography project. It took me more than four hours to earn that money and you stole
I refer to letter in which Anthea Ross asserts that there should be no reduction in hospital beds as support to people living with mental health problems is increased in the community (Letters, August 17). In my opinion, admission to a psychiatric
Protesters marched in the rain to campaign against the potential closure of a fire station. Findon fire station, near Worthing, is just one of those under threat as fire services in West and East Sussex look to make 'efficiency savings' across the county
Sheffield Wednesday 1, Albion 0. Gus Poyet’s glass was half-empty after a narrow and unfortunate defeat against the biggest club in League One. That may seem a little harsh, considering Albion went to Hillsborough without three key players in Gordon
One lane of the A27 has been blocked by a car after it was involved in a collision with a lorry. Officers from Sussex and Hampshire Police are directing traffic at the A27 roundabout with the A259 Fishbourne Road West in Chichester. A police spokeswoman
A sports pavillion has been badly damaged in a suspected arson attack. Sussex Police are treating the blaze at the Rye Football and Cricket ground in Fishmarket Road, Rye in the early hours of Saturday as arson. Anyone with information should contact
Spearheading the new musical genre arbitrarily dubbed “Chillwave’ by blogger Carles in his Hipster Runoff blog and defined as something you might hear “playing in the background of an old VHS cassette from the late 1980s/early 1990s”, Neon
Which is more daunting: 100 million people watching you on TV? Sharon Osbourne attempting to flirt? Or trotting on horseback down Brighton’s New Road dressed in a cowboy hat singing arias? For Marcus Collins, one third of vocal group The Texas Tenors
Parts of Sussex could become “retirement communities” within a generation. Experts have warned a number of districts in the county could have three retired people for every four in work in two decades time. They add the significant increase in the number
Two armed robbers who hid in a school have been jailed. Dominic Mendy and Danny Palmer, both 31 and from London, were arrested at The Vale First and Middle School in Findon Valley, Worthing, in March, after holding a security van up at gunpoint at a
Police have made two arrests in connection with the racist abuse of a mother on a Brighton bus in front of her young children. A 70-year-old man and 67-year-old woman from Brighton have been arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated intentional harassment
Almost 90 children have been excluded from city schools for bullying. Nearly 25 pupils every year over the last four years have been removed from Brighton and Hove classrooms for the safety and protection of other pupils. In one period between September
Vulnerable residents have been warned about a scam in which fraudsters pretend to be council officials to steal their details. Con artists have been posing as council workers warning residents about a change in tax banding in order to get obtain financial
A teacher is leaving behind a life of timetables and lesson plans for one of puns and punch lines. Andy Thomas has swapped textbooks for sketches, after deciding to pursue a career as a comedian. Teaching is a thing of the past for the
A mother was left with severe facial injuries after she was mauled by a dog. It’s thought the woman had been looking after the animal for her son when the attack happened at her home in Hove. Horrified neighbours said they saw the woman
A Thief let himself into a pensioner’s house and stole money while she was watching television. Detectives have issued an urgent appeal for information following the burglary in Greys Road, Eastbourne, just after 9pm on Friday. The elderly
ADAM EL-ABD reckons referee Andy Woolmer bowed to pressure from the Hillsborough crowd. The Albion defender is convinced Sheffield Wednesday striker Neil Mellor should have been dismissed after only eight minutes. He also believes Chris
Firefighters were called out to help after the ceiling of a house in Eastbourne collapsed in the middle of the night. The ceiling on the first floor of the property in Victoria Drive caved in at 1.30am while the occupants were asleep. A spokesman
Firefighters were called out to a hospital and police station in Shoreham in the early hours of this morning, but both turned out to be false alarms. Shortly after 4am a crew was called out to Southlands Hospital in Upper Shoreham Road.
NAME: Cash Bases BUSINESS NATURE: Manufacturer of bespoke cash machines ESTABLISHED: 1981 LOCATION: Newhaven, plus offices in France, Germany and Spain NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: About 200 ANNUAL TURNOVER: £15 million Newhaven has been hit harder
Met Office forecasters said Brighton and Hove and rest of the county would escape the wet and wild weather predicted for large parts of the country today. The county experienced heavy overnight rain, but there are no reports of any flash flooding.
David Harrower’s Blackbird caused waves when it premiered at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival. The story of 28-year-old Una and 56-year-old Ray revisiting their cataclysmic affair, the play was acclaimed for its intelligent exploration of the outer
