Call-in decision for Citywide Parking Review today was successful and the Cabinet Member will have to look at the matter again. This will make a short delay in the consultation for putting Canning St into Zone H. No mention of consultation
THE tireless workers and volunteers at Brighton’s many amazing charities and organisations deserve our heartfelt thanks for their vital efforts in supporting the city’s most vulnerable people. This was highlighted in a story about the recession hitting
SO, TORY education minister Michael Gove wants all five-year-olds to learn a second language when they start school. This is a laudable aim and is something we would support. However, Mr Gove surely realises that too many children are still starting
Gus Poyet has urged his Albion side to get ahead again against Hull at The Amex tomorrow night - but this time stay there. The Seagulls have thrown away leads in each of their last three Championship outings against Ipswich, Crystal Palace and Leeds.
HOW I agree with the recent letter from V Knight regarding the issue of fans standing up during Brighton and Hove Albion football matches at the American Express Community Stadium (The Argus, October 8). I have had words with these so-called “fans” standing
A teacher who claimed he helped students with their sexuality has been struck off after being caught having a meal with a pupil. The General Teaching Council said yesterday that Darren Gandley developed a “wholly unacceptable intimacy” with three students
Most children will agree peas are for playing with, not for eating. People used the legumes for throwing at the annual World Pea Throwing Championship in Lewes this week. The exisint record is believed to be 38.7m. Hove Park School student Lauren Stone
Albion boss Gus Poyet has hit out at TV commentators for not knowing more about his top striker Craig Mackail-Smith. Poyet was surprised and hurt by their lack of knowledge about Mackail-Smith’s strengths as he starred for Scotland in their
Joe Pasquale answers The Guide's big comedy questions - look out for more during the Brighton Comedy Festival What were you most scared of as a child? I was scared of the dentist and horses. I am still scared of the dentist. What
Jason Cook answers The Guide's big comedy questions - look out for more during the Brighton Comedy Festival What were you most scared of as a child? The clapping monkey toy my dad got me from Taiwan. It would just clap on its own during
Tony Hawks answers The Guide's big comedy questions - look out for more during the Brighton Comedy Festival What were you most scared of as a child? The dark. What is the funniest thing you've ever seen or heard? I'm still
When reading about pianist Julian Joseph, phrases like “one of the most important jazz musicians in the world” and “the undisputed heir to the global house of jazz” tend to resurface time and time again. There is no doubt about his talent
Adam Hess answers The Guide's big comedy questions - look out for more during the Brighton Comedy Festival What were you most scared of as a child? Idle marionettes. With their open eyes they look like little dead children on strings.
Carl Donnelly answers The Guide's big comedy questions - look out for more during the Brighton Comedy Festival What were you most scared of as a child? I remember being about six years old when I became fully aware of the concept and reality
It's not every day one gets to see a musical based on the sinking of the Titanic as seen from the eyes of the creatures who lived on the infamous iceberg. Or indeed sing along to tunes inspired by a form of asthma bought on by the consumption of unprepared
A thug broke the nose of a guard who asked his friend to step out the way of a train’s doors so it could leave a station. The victim, a 39-year-old, was left bloodied and bruised following the unprovoked attack onboard the early morning Southern
More than one in five mobile phones being used in Brighton are contaminated with human waste. A study by university researchers found the harmful bacteria was present on 21% of handsets in the city. It also found that the potentially
MORE than 2,300 schoolchildren put on their running shoes to take part in the first stage of a mass event. Students took over Preston Park in Brighton on Wednesday for the first stage of Run the World, a campaign to get primary school children
A mother jailed for a minimum of 32 years for murdering her two young children is appealing against her sentence. Fiona Donnison, 45, received two life sentences on August 9 for smothering Harry, three, and Elise, two, in an act of revenge against their
A total of 120 children will be without primary school places next year unless a brewing admissions crisis is solved. Brighton and Hove City Council has asked four schools to take on extra classes to plug the predicted shortfall. Some school governors
Love and Heartache is X Factor's theme this week, and Brighton's own Frankie Cocozza needs to shine to stay in contention. The Argus will be running a live blog during the weekend. Join us in the interactive blog with comments and polls
DOZENS of outdated lifts are to be replaced – but hundreds of householders must pay up to £10,000 for the privilege. Following a number of complaints from residents in high rise buildings, Brighton and Hove City Council has confirmed it will improve
A former legal secretary appeared in court charged with stealing nearly £500,000 from a client's account. Leanne Harris, 25, is also alleged to have stolen a further £62,000 from an elderly woman over whom she had power of attorney.
The number of Sussex students applying to Oxford or Cambridge University is sharply in decline. About 100 fewer students applied to Oxbridge universities from local authority schools in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex and West Sussex in 2011 compared
ROBOTS are set to replace humans at some roadworks. East Sussex County Council is trialling a system which replaces the traditional workman holding a stop-go sign with a robotic equivalent. The authority says a set of robo-boards cost
The ceiling at Sticky Mike’s might have been mere inches above their heads, but if you built a roof over the Amex Stadium it would have struggled to contain the intensity of We Were Promised Jetpacks. Singer-guitarist Adam Thompson didn’t so much launch
The absence of unsigned band gig-a-thon Brighton Live on the city's calendar has left a gap for Exquisite Noise. This new three-day festival is intent on turfing up bands you're unlikely to have heard of, but probably should. Dan Shears opened up on
POLICE are examining a video of a woman racially abusing staff at KFC because they wouldn’t give her more butter. The woman swore loudly and shouted racist insults at staff when she was refused an extra piece of butter for her corn on the cob
Dressed in bishops’ robes and wearing hairy gorilla hands, Bridget Christie peels a banana. “Evolution!” she snorts. “I don’t know what people are talking about.” She slowly eats the banana, letting the joke register, a big, silly grin creeping across
After 20 years, Show of Hands’ Phil Beer and Steve Knightley decided to go back in time on this Backlog tour, revisiting tracks from their first decade together, as selected by their fans, the Longdogs. Both sets featured sea songs, such
Police are investigating a second robbery in two days at a Brighton shop. Just before 4.40pm on Thursday, the shopkeeper at the Happy Shopper in Upper Bevendean Avenue, Brighton, attempted to stop a man stealing alcohol from the store. During the
Pictures of ten men wanted for questioning over Sussex bike crime have been released. British Transport Police (BTP) has called on the public to name the people in the CCTV images. The force said bike crime across the Southern network
Valuable dental equipment and general anaesthetic was stolen during a break in at a surgery. My Brilliant Smile, My Dental Clinic in Green Hedges Avenue, East Grinstead, was targeted sometime between September 24 and October 3. The surgery was broke
Parents have been issued with a warning that they will be forced to foot the bill for any buses damaged by their children. Brighton and Hove Bus Company has told staff to record evidence of any vandalism made on its daily services to the city’s schools
UNUSUAL activity was spotted in the skies along Hove seafront. Richard Holland, a Brighton resident, was out walking when he spotted this strange shape in the clouds. He said: “It was a very bright day. I couldn't see the sun so I used
The country's first Green council has been asked not to use the word “green” - for fear of being too political. Shortly after being elected, Brighton and Hove City Council’s administration pledged one of its three aims was to create the UK’s greenest
Pupils at Heyworth Primary School in New England Road, Haywards Heath, have been told they can no longer play the games because they were distracting youngsters from their work. Yesterday no one at the school – which has about 220 pupils –
ALBION boss Gus Poyet plans to mould the midfield around Vicente now that he is up and running. As revealed online yesterday, Vicente will make his first home start tomorrow when Hull visit. Poyet is confident that Vicente has the qualities to be a
A man has been deported from Thailand and will appear in court today. Paul Ridden of Mallard Close, Eastbourne, will appear at the town’s magistrates’ court. A Sussex Police statement said: “Following a lengthy investigation and work with officers
A woman left her washing up bowl on the hob, causing a fire. The blaze broke out at the elderly lady’s home in The Orchards, off Moulsecoomb Way in Brighton on Thursday at 9.30pm. A firefighter said: “It was only a small fire but her flat became totally
A drunken student clambered over railings and onto the roof of a nightclub. The woman, believed to be in her late teens, pulled herself onto the curved roof of Concorde 2 along Brighton’s seafront at 2am today. She could not get off and was crying.
Apple Inc's new iPhone went on sale in stores across the globe today with a huge crowd currently gathered outside the Brighton store in Churchill Square. A massive queue has lined up outside the shop – eager to get their hands on the final
Four men are due to be sentenced for trying to smuggle cannabis worth an estimated £12 million into Newhaven on board a luxury yacht. Four tonnes of the drug were found by investigators on July 24 after they tracked Dutch-registered vessel MV Majestic
With their second album, The First Days Of Spring, songwriter Charlie Fink led his band Noah And The Whale away from the jaunty folk pop of their debut to a much darker place. Apparently inspired by his relationship break-up with Brit Award-winning
