An aggressive bowling display put league leaders Sussex in control of their LV County Championship match against Lancashire as the visitors finished the second day with a strong lead of 141. Sussex added 22 to their overnight score before being
A main Sussex road is shut following a two-vehicle crash - the air ambulance has landed. two motorcyclists have crashed on the A259 near Pevensey. The road is closed between Pevensey and Little Common and is likely to remain closed for some
An injured swan gave wildlife officers the slip – three times. The swan was reported to East Sussex Wildlife Rescue and Ambulance Service (WRAS) by concerned members of the public. But every time members of WRAS attempted to rescue the swan
Brighton and Hove Albion club officials are being inundated with passionate fans desperate to see their team’s promotion push. The club has confirmed the sale of 22,000 tickets for the home play-off semi-final first leg against Derby County this
A GROWING number of ambulance workers are being attacked or verbally abused and threatened while doing their job in Sussex. Paramedics and technicians, some of whom were left with injuries including bruises or cuts, reported 55 physical assaults
ANGRY parents have hit out at a school’s no shoes policy. Holmbush Primary School in Shoreham implemented a shoeless classroom after the school’s learning council, made up of year six pupils, carried out research on the best learning environments.
PETER Andre fans were kept back from making a supermarket dash for their pop idol at a Sussex store – by a line of strategically placed trolleys. Hundreds queued to meet the Mysterious Girl singer when he called in at the Three Bridges branch of
East Preston have won their second trophy of the season. The County League champions collected the John O’Hara League Cup this morning by beating Crowborough 1-0 at Shoreham. Skipper Joe Shelley scored the only goal of the contest on 57 minutes
Police were called after two cars were set alight in a Sussex town. The cars were torched in Park Avenue, Hastings, at 11.30pm on Sunday, East Sussex Fire and Rescue said. Fire fighters and police attended. A fire spokeswoman confirmed: “It
Today is the second day of Magnificent Motors, as around 600 vintage and classic vehicles take part in the largest free motoring spectacular on the south coast
A man has been airlifted to hospital after the motorcycle he was riding struck a tree. The incident took place at 9.50am on the A259 in Bexhill. A Sussex Police spokesman this morning said the adult man hit a tree and had been taken to King
Leo Ulloa has dedicated the goal which secured Albion’s place in the play-offs to his brother Pichu, who supports him from afar in Argentina. He was straight on the phone back home after the game to give the good news after Albion’s 2-1 win at
A prestigious independent school is to become the first in the country to make history compulsory for sixth-form pupils. Pupils at Brighton College will spend an hour a week studying history on top of their chosen A Levels but will not have sit
NEEDLES and hospitals can be a scary experience for young patients but a new film could go a long way to easing those fears. Staff at the Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital in Brighton have created a DVD explaining what happens when a child needs
Derby head coach Steve McClaren has predicted another close battle with Albion in the play-offs. The Rams won won 2-1 at the Amex in August in Oscar Garcia's first home league game in charge of the Seagulls, thanks to Chris Martin’s two goals.
Crawley Town have shown the door to 11 players including Billy Clarke, Paul Jones and Gary Dicker. Mark Connolly, Paul Connolly, Rory Fallon and Sergio Torres have also not been offered new contracts by the League One club. Dannie Bulman, Mike
AROUND 100 staff, students and union representatives joined a protest against cuts to jobs and courses at City College Brighton and Hove. The college is undergoing a consultation period and has announced losses of up to 50 full- time jobs and cuts
Tennis stars past and present will take part in a fundraising event at Eastbourne next month in memory of Elena Baltacha. The former British No. 1 has died of liver cancer, aged 30. Baltacha was a stalwart of the Aegon International at Devonshire
Craig Mackail-Smith wants to score the winning goal in the play-off final for Albion to make full amends for 13 months of injury misery. The striker has targeted an even bigger reward after coming off the bench late on to set up Leo Ulloa’s injury-time
The news that the £420 million needed to redevelop the Royal Sussex County Hospital has finally been released can only be welcomed (The Argus, May 2). My front door is one minute from the site and as far as I am concerned it cannot begin soon enough
Councillor Phelim Mac Cafferty quotes the Government inspector (The Argus, April 29), who has rightly said Brighton and Hove City Council needed to look under every stone for (places to build) housing. We should build housing on the urban fringe
Last Monday and Tuesday I made four very slow journeys through the contra-flow at the junction of the A259 and West Street in Brighton, and it was only at the last one that I realised the junction traffic lights were going through their control sequences
Crawley Town are facing a mass exodus of players this summer as the financial cutbacks at the club begin to bite. Reds will announce which of their 12 out-of-contract players will be offered new deals this morning with chief executive Michael Dunford
It is disappointing that both councillors Warren Morgan (Labour) and Geoffrey Theobald (Conservative) have chosen to make cheap political capital out of the problems affecting Brighton’s seafront. We highlighted the problems across the seafront
I was sad to learn of the passing of Bob Gunnell, the founder of BBC Radio Brighton (The Argus, April 26). In the mid 1970s, as a precocious schoolboy in his early teens, I wrote to Bob asking for a job at the station. I had no skills and no experience
Albion boss Oscar Garcia told his players the play-offs would be in their hands BEFORE pipping Reading. And the psychic Spaniard knew Leo Ulloa would come up trumps when the chance came in injury time to snatch victory at Nottingham Forest and
