Craig Mackail-Smith grabbed a 50th-minute winner as Albion made it four victories on the spin tonight. The top scorer won and converted the penalty which secured a very hard fought 1-0 win at Watford. But the Seagulls had to be at their best
Crawley make one change as they bid to make it back-to-back away wins at Colchester United tonight. Midfielder Hope Akpan returns from a one-match ban and replaces Dannie Bulman who performed well in the 2-1 victory at Preston on Saturday.
Albion have handed recent signing Andrea Orlandi a first start for the club. The former Swansea winger comes in for Ashley Barnes at Watford this evening. It is the only change from the side which started against Sheffield Wednesday on Friday
A woman escaped from a terrifying attack from a knife-wielding robber. A 36-year old local woman was walking along Chawbrook Road, Eastbourne, at about 3.10pm on Monday when she was approached from behind by a man wearing a grey hooded top
Police have launched a campaign following a rise in the number of burglaries in a seafront town. Eighteen homes have been broken into in an area of Shoreham between July and September with laptops, ipads, ipods and gaming consoles machines
Police suspect this man of being part of a burglary gang who tied a woman up in her own home. Sussex Police have released an efit of a suspect for an aggravated burglary in Titnore Lane, Worthing at around 9.30pm on Wednesday September 5.
A coroner ruled that a hospital’s safeguards were “inadequate” when a pensioner was killed with a massive overdose of heart medication. Joan Dixon was given ten times too much digoxin at St Richard’s Hospital in Chichester after a junior doctor
Nearly 1,500 homeless families have been forced to live in temporary accommodation in the past year in Sussex. New figures have revealed that there were 1,482 households living in temporary accommodation in 2012 – up from 1,197 in 2011. In
Vacant office space behind Brighton's London Road could be converted into nine flats. Developers have put forward plans to refurbish 25 to 28 Elder Place. The site is opposite New England House and will form part of the masterplan to transform
A Brighton church will celebrate its 150th anniversary by staging a special arts lecture. Dr Carol Jacobi, curator of Tate Britain, will talk about the Pre Raphaelite Avant Garde period from 1850-1915 at the St Michael and All Angels
A music project will face its final curtain at a special goodbye performance. The final Shine show will take place at The Brunswick in Hove from 2pm to 5pm on Sunday, September 30. The three-month project has given gifted musicians with disabilities
A caravan was torched in a suspected arson attack in Carden Park on Sunday night. Emergency services were called to the park in Hollingbury, Brighton, at about 9pm. The vehicle was empty at the time. A witness, who asked not to be named
Residents of Grove Street, Hanover, Brighton, reinvented and re-imagined their street on Saturday. The event, attended by Mayor Bill Randall , was organised by Hanover Action for Sustainable Living with support from Hanover Community Association
Three generations of Albion fans believe they might have the highest combined age of a family watching the Seagulls. The three generations of the Everest family line up alongside each other in the East Stand of the American Express Community Stadium
A hospital radio station which launched the career of Simon Mayo, pictured, is celebrating 40 years on the airwaves. Seaside Hospital Radio is marking the milestone with a special day of broadcasting on Monday September 24. All day the volunteer-run
“Lonely factory worker Frederick Phillips sought the spotlight as a solo disco dancer. “But he will be remembered as the victim of one of the most gruesome killings in Sussex criminal history.” So began the Evening Argus’s report on the murder
A “Mr Big” stabbed a defenceless sixth former to death in front of his older brother, a court was told. Levi Woudstra, 19, watched as 42-year-old Adam Skilton stabbed his 17-year-old brother Jake as he lay weakened in a pub beer garden, Hove Crown
A Brighton man has won a legal battle over an insurance company’s refusal to pay up for a fire it claimed was deliberately started by his partner. St Andrew’s Insurance said the blaze at Jonathan Smyth and Tony Howe’s home in Margaret Street, Kemp
Sussex players Monty Panesar and Matt Prior have been included in England's Test squad to tour India, but there is no place for Kevin Pietersen. Two uncapped batsmen, Somerset's Nick Compton and Yorkshire's Joe Root, have won places. Spinner
Those of us who read the national news feed will be astonished to learn that South East Water is already talking about water shortages. It says the aquifers which provide 75% of our water are still low and we may see another hosepipe ban. Well
Tomasz Kuszczak has revealed he joined Albion after rejecting Watford. The Seagulls’ Polish keeper could have made a permanent move to Vicarage Road early into a loan spell at the end of last season. Former Watford chief Sean Dyche wanted Kuszczak
A water company is warning that some of its sources remain very low despite the wettest summer in half a century. South East Water said groundwater levels are still recovering from record lows earlier this year and some of the firm’s deepest aquifers
A dog warden has been hailed a hero for reuniting an owner with the pet she lost three years ago. Animal warden Cathy Ede-Morley was called to pick up some stray dogs including a Bichon Frise in Hailsham. After giving the animal a wash and
By Benjamin Leo A talented film and theatre composer from Brighton has won a prestigious Emmy award. Paul Englishby, 42, stormed to success in the Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music category for his title theme track in David Hare’
Somebody hacked into my friend’s email account and sent every person on her contact list a message saying she was stuck in Mallorca. It claimed that, because her passport and credit card had been stolen, she urgently needed money to take the first
Boss Richie Barker has warned Crawley not to underestimate Colchester United tonight. The Us are rooted to the bottom of League One without a victory in six games while Reds could go top of the table if they win at the Weston Homes Community Stadium.
I am writing to convey my concern and anger over the recent changes made to the grade boundaries in GCSE English language. Unfortunately, my son, and many others at his school, have been adversely affected by this. In simple terms, had he taken
Stephen Young argues a rise of 24% in the number of killed and seriously injured (KSI) accidents in 20mph zones is due to an increase in their length (Letters, September 8). The important point is that an increase in these zones has resulted in
A famous landmark is to get a new name. The Pavilion Theatre in New Road, Brighton, is to be renamed Brighton Dome Studio Theatre. The move is part of a rebrand at one of the city’s foremost entertainment centres. The planning committee at Brighton
Youngsters have to catch up to three buses in the morning on the way to school – in a journey that lasts 70 minutes. As it looks to combat Government cuts, Brighton and Hove City Council has reduced its spending on routes across the city.
Hundreds of jobs are up for grabs across Sussex. Supermarkets and an insurance firm are bucking the recession and creating a jobs boom. Asda is creating at least 500 jobs at its new store in Ferring, near Worthing, which is due to open in November
Albion manager Gus Poyet turned back the clock to show he has lost none of his skills. Poyet, who was famed for his acrobatic volleys during a career with Chelsea and Spurs, proved he still had it when he took part in a game of footvolley along
Albion boss Gus Poyet is eager to erase the memory of one of the worst matches of his reign. He takes his high-flying Seagulls back to Watford tonight, where they suffered a lacklustre 1-0 defeat last November. Poyet said: “It was one of the worst games
I travelled to Hove last Thursday night. If it wasn’t inconvenient enough having to dodge the various film company vans and trucks on the seafront, being blinded by a huge spotlight 20ft in the air on the journey back was the last straw. It
A planning committee will probably decide tomorrow whether to allow the Grade I-listed Brighton Dome to be used as a giant advertising hoarding. The proposals are for festooning the building with giant Ds for Dome, and black signs and banners
Rick Wilson highlights the problem of having too many car parking spaces in the city centre, and then wonders why there are huge traffic jams entering and leaving the city (Letters, September 12). Indeed only last Sunday, the A23/M23 was virtually
While applauding recent efforts to improve the state of beaches in Brighton and Hove, may I point out this requires a consistent level of endeavour; one-off efforts are productive but the litter soon comes back. In 2006 the Friends Of Tidemills
The city of Brighton and Hove is losing valuable and treasured facilities and icons, apparently through a collective apathy. Currently, the West Pier market is under threat of closure. It provides an active attraction on the seafront and a
"IT’S a really classic first play – there are so many ideas crammed into one thing.” For Haley McGee, Oh My Irma began as a two-minute poem at acting school, before developing into a multi-award-winning one-woman show. “I used to do three hours
With reference to Dr Prashen Pillay’s error in prescribing an incorrect level of medication, surely other people must be equally to blame (The Argus, September 12)? If his prescription of 500 milligrams had been given in full, it would have meant
A widespread hunt has been started for a pensioner missing from her home. Sylvia Long left her home in Roundstone Drive in East Preston, near Littlehampton, at 11.30am yesterday, The 75-year-old, who suffers from dementia, was last seen by
It's official – we are a county of animal lovers. Dogs, cats, reptiles and pigs all have been rehomed thanks to The Argus Give a Pet a Home campaign. Brighton and Hove has even been named the dog capital of the country. So, why, oh why
An army of volunteers swapped a Sunday lie-in for swooping Brighton beach for litter as part of The Argus' Take it Home campaign. Tim Ridgway reports. Thank you all – this was the message to the army of people who pulled on their gloves
A man was taken to hospital after a bus crash. Emergency services were called to Brighton Road in Monk’s Gate, near Horsham, at about 6.30pm last night. The single decker Stagecoach vehicle, which had about 20 people on board, left the road
The expulsion of a Christian councillor could lead to a major shake-up in the running of a council. Christina Summers was officially kicked out of the Green group on Brighton and Hove City Council in a behind closed doors meeting last night
Buses will be diverted as a busy thoroughfare is shut for two days. Traffic in central Brighton was brought to a standstill in April when Brighton and Hove Bus Company stopped its drivers from using North Street amid safety concerns. Brighton
There is much to be applauded in this second attempt at adapting the 2000 AD comic character to the big screen that one almost wants to overlook the film's flaws, which, by and large, seem more a product of coincidence and budgetary constraints than
