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  • Ryman League round up: Hastings impress

    Hastings made it two Ryman Premier wins from two on a busy night of non-league action. Ade Olorunda (2), Sam Adams and Kenny Pogue secured a 4-2 success at Maidstone while Horsham lost 2-0 to Sutton. Bognor and Burgess Hill took Sussex honours in division

  • Preston and Chantelle reunited on Big Brother

    Tonight viewers enjoyed the moment Brighton singer Preston was reunited with ex wife Chantelle Houghton. The face-to-face meeting on Ultimate Big Brother was kept top secret until the show aired. The couple met on the celeb version of Big Brother in

  • Borough denied by late strike

    Eastbourne Borough were denied a third successive win when Histon scored three minutes from time to salvage a 1-1 draw at the Glass World Stadium. Ross Treleaven's first goal for Borough looked like being enough for a well-deserved win but

  • Sussex faces Bank Holiday washout

    Summer could be over for Sussex after predictions of another Bank Holiday washout. The gloomy forecast, which will put a dampener on scores of weekend events, has been only been tempered by hopes of an Indian summer and a bright September.

  • Reds make hard work of win

    Crawley made it two successive Conference wins after a hard-earned 2-1 success over Bath City at the Broadfield Stadium. Reds looked to be cruising after going into a 2-0 half-time lead with both their strikers on target. Matt Tubbs

  • Smart starts for Borough

    Matt Smart replaces the injured Simon Johnson as Eastbourne Borough chase a third successive win away to Histon tonight. The experienced midfielder came on for Johnson against Wrexham on Saturday and starts his first came of the season with

  • Man admits killing Brighton clubber

    A man has admitted killing a nightclubber on New Year’s Day. Chancey Cummings, 26, pleaded guilty yesterday to the manslaughter of Ricky Brown outside the Ocean Rooms nightclub in the early hours of January 1. Mr Brown, 25, was punched

  • Glider crashes at Shoreham Airshow

    This is the moment when a rare stunt glider slammed into the runway in front of thousands of fans at Shoreham Airshow. An investigation by the Civil Aviation Authority has now been launched into the crash at Shoreham Airport at around 11.30am

  • Man remanded in custody after East Grinstead police chase

    A man who was arrested after a police car chase has been remanded in custody. William Burgess was charged with stealing a car after a blue Ford Sierra allegedly rammed a Sussex Police car near East Grinstead on Saturday morning. One police officer suffered

  • Poyet: Season could hinge on siging striker

    Gus Poyet has used 70 per cent of his budget. He wants to splash the rest on a goalscorer because he believes it could make all the difference to Albion’s season. If the Seagulls do not land the striker they have been searching for all

  • Histon v Eastbourne Borough LIVE

    Eastbourne Borough take on Histon in the Blue Square Bet premier season this evening and you can follow all the action right here. We'll bring you team news as soon as it's in and then regular updates once the game gets under way. It's a fully

  • Drug crimes

    It’s admirable that Hove Conservative councillor Dawn Barnett should seek to defend local MP Mike Weatherley and his controversial assertion that drug addicts who commit criminal activities should be spared jail (Letters, August 7). But Coun Barnett

  • Expert advice

    I am astonished to learn that cash-strapped Brighton and Hove City Council has given £300,000 to a private company to learn how to save money, especially at a time when they deem it necessary to shed 200 jobs (The Argus, August 16). I think council tax

  • Cutting Connexions is a brutal and unnecessary economy

    I was very interested to read your recent article regarding the closure of the Connexions service, which among other things provides young people with careers advice (The Argus, August 12). After being made redundant some years ago, I used

  • Preventing the parking problem

    The birds-eye view of the busy gateway to the city (The Argus, July 24), shows Brighton Station’s multi-storey car park nearly empty. For decades before the New England Quarter development there was waste land, left by the vacated Brighton Railway

  • Share value

    Councils around the county are keen to implement a shared road space scheme (The Argus, August 14). One idea is to switch off traffic lights at certain junctions. Why not allow cars to also drive on pavements? Then pedestrians can continue to dodge

  • It’s a squeeze

    Perhaps the time has come for the public to consider the plight of bus drivers. Cars parked on both sides of narrow roads, on bus routes, often make it almost impossible for bus drivers to squeeze through narrow gaps. Would it not be sensible to pass

  • Hove woman has reconstructive facial surgery after dog attack

    A woman who was left with severe facial injuries after being mauled by her son’s dog has successfully undergone emergency reconstructive surgery. The 51-year-old mother was asleep when the dog – thought to be a Staffordshire bull terrier – savaged her

  • Crawley v Bath City

    Join me from 7.15pm tonight for live updates on Reds' BSB premier tussle with Bath City.

  • Poyet can't spend transfer fund just on striker

    Albion boss Gus Poyet has 30 per cent of his budget left – but he cannot spend it all on a goalscorer. The Seagulls want him to use the money to strengthen other areas of the squad as well. Poyet has been hunting all summer for a striker

  • The Low Anthem, Komedia, Brighton, August 25

    Some albums appear over the horizon on a wave of hype and ecstatic five-star reviews. Others take a slower, more circuitous route to get noticed – such as The Low Anthem’s career-making second album Oh My God, Charlie Darwin, which helped earn them

  • Some Enchanted Evening, Arundel Castle, Arundel, August 23

    How fitting that, in the year of the 50th anniversary of the death of Oscar Hammerstein, the Arundel Festival should celebrate his successful writing partnership with Richard Rodgers. Their glorious words and music were performed in concert form

  • Give a Pet a Home gathers pace across Sussex

    Animal shelters across Sussex have been flocking to take part in The Argus’ Give A Pet A Home campaign. Our drive to find loving homes for the thousands of pets dumped across the county has struck a chord with readers and rescuers. Today we feature

  • Man arrested after suspected sexual attack in a graveyard

    Police have arrested a 24-year-old man after a teenage girl claimed she was raped in the early hours of this morning. The 18-year-old female went to police and said she had been the victim of a 'serious sexual attack' in the graveyard of The

  • Brighton store serves up avocado and olive oil ice cream

    Avocado, olive oil and liquorice may not be the flavours that would normally spring to mind to cool you down on a hot day. But one ice-cream maker is breaking the mould when it comes to unusual flavours and has created more than 100 different tastes

  • Phobia drives St Leonard mum bananas

    A phobia of fruit is sending one mother bananas. Fran Dando, is so terrified of bananas she has to wear rubber gloves to unpeel one and panics about reading her son any bedtime story involving monkeys. If the 21-year-old has the slightest contact with

  • Brighton massage parlour blamed for late night noise

    A massage parlour boss has told fed up residents to move if they don’t like sounds coming from their establishment. Neighbours of Kittens in Montpelier Road, Brighton, claim their lives are being blighted by anti-social noise. Brighton

  • Brighton council u-turn on parking ticket

    An eight-month battle over a parking ticket ended with a council performing a u-turn. Dan Parkes, a Brighton-based businessman forced the city council to back down over a ticket issued to him for parking outside one of its own buildings.

  • Second man arrested after Crawley club attack

    A second man has been arrested following an attack outside a social club that left a man seriously injured. A 30-year-old Polish man remains in a critical condition in hospital after the fight outside the Centaur Club in Martyrs Avenue, Crawley. A

  • Two miles of tail backs on the M23

    Drivers are being warned to avoid the M23 northbound at Gatwick because of long delays. Police were called to an overturned caravan shortly before 12pm. It has blocked both northbound lanes causing two-miles of tail backs. A spokeswoman said: "It is

  • Plymouth game off

    Albion's League One visit to Plymouth on Saturday September 4 has been postponed. Argyle have been allowed to call the game off because of three international call-ups. The Seagulls next three games will now all be at home, against Walsall

  • We can master league says Steve

    Steve Masterton does not believe it will be long before Crawley start to fulfil their potential. The Scottish midfielder opened his account for Reds with the winner from a free-kick as Reds claimed their first win of the season at Altrincham

  • Worthing boy dies after asthma attack

    An 11-year-old boy died after suffering an asthma attack during a trip to the cinema. Paramedics tried to help Max Samaras after he suffered sudden respiratory failure during an early morning film screening at the Connaught Theatre in Worthing. He

  • Appeal for information after Chichester nightclub attack

    Police are appealing for witnesses after a man was assaulted outside a nightclub. A 29-year-old man was punched and his car vandalised outside Thursday’s nightclub in Drayton near Chichester. He was attacked through the open driver’s window at about

  • Nash to play Twenty20 in New Zealand

    Sussex's Chris Nash is to play Twenty20 cricket this winter in New Zealand. Nash has agreed to join Otago Volts for their five-week domestic tournament from Novemberv 26-January 4. His new team-mates include Brendon McCullum, who had

  • Langston hopes for happy return

    Matt Langston will put personal feelings to one side in a bid to help Eastbourne Borough to three wins in a row at Histon tonight. The 29-year-old centre-back spent four largely happy seasons at Histon before switching to Priory Lane in the summer.

  • Hove man admits being a bigamist

    A heartbroken woman has described how she is still in love with her husband despite discovering he is a bigamist. Sonia Kerwin said her husband John repeatedly denied that he was still married to his second wife. The truth was discovered

  • MP backs campaign to save Lancing fire crews

    A MP has backed a campaign to save a fire station from service cuts. West Sussex County Council is proposing to half the number of retained firefighters at Lancing because it says the number of incidents does not warrant two crews.

  • Motorcyclist seriously injured in Ditchling lorry crash

    A motorcyclist is seriously injured after colliding with a 7.5 tonne lorry. Sussex Police and South East Coast Ambulance crews were called to Folders Lane East, Ditchling, at around 11.10am yesterday. The 60-year-old man was taken to the Royal Sussex

  • Car overturns on Eastbourne road

    A car overturned after a crash on a country road. Emergency services were called to Herbrand Walk at Normans Bay near Eastbourne at about 4am today. Fire crews from Eastbourne and Pevensey fire stations attended after the car rolled

  • Sussex pupils collect GCSE results today

    There will be celebrations across Sussex today as students collect their GCSE results. Many schools have announced record-breaking results, with pass rates increasing dramatically from last year. Portslade Community College (PCC) was