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  • No international record yet for Albion defender Duffy

    Shane Duffy will have to wait until next month to equal or create an Albion international record. The central defender was an unused substitute for the Republic of Ireland's 1-1 friendly draw in Poland tonight. Duffy has won 16 caps as an Albion

  • Sussex struggle as Durham dominate

    Sussex were left reeling after brilliant performances from Chris Rushworth and Cameron Steel led Durham's fightback on day two of their Specsavers County Championship division two clash at Emirates Riverside. After being bowled out for 103, Rushworth

  • Full PL debut the next step for Albion award winner Alireza

    It will happen somewhere - but probably not at Southampton. The next step for Albion's record signing Alireza Jahanbakhsh will be his full Premier League debut. He may still have to wait a little while for that after a reminder during the international

  • Man smashed over head with bottle in bloody attack

    POLICE were called to a quiet housing estate after a man was reportedly bottled. A 30-year-old man suffered injuries to his head and was "bleeding heavily" after the incident in Fitzherbert Drive off Bevendean Road in Brighton on Monday. He

  • Van Zyl looks to next year after injury blow

    Sussex hope to see Stiaan Van Zyl fit and ready for action ahead of the 2019 season. But head coach Jason Gillespie has confirmed his 2018 campaign is over. The South African batsman has been absent due to a knee injury since early in the campaign

  • Paedophile sexually abused six-year-old girl

    A DRIVER who sexually abused a six-year-old girl has been sent back to prison for seven years. Ian Skilling was sentenced to his second jail term for child sex offences in less than ten years after being found guilty of abusing the girl in the village

  • The Levellers announce Brighton show in five-date winter run

    THE Levellers have announced a special 30th anniversary tour. The news comes a week after an inquest into the death of drummer Charlie Heather’s teenage son Alfie Harbord. Alfie, 15, died after being hit by a bus on Brighton seafront in February

  • Five for Robinson, then Sussex collapse

    Chris Rushworth produced an outstanding seven-wicket spell to have Sussex reeling today - after Ollie Robinson completed his third successive five-for. Sussex reached lunch at the Riverside on 96-8, only seven runs adrift of first-innings parity

  • Obituary: Queen’s relative dies in tragic car crash

    A RELATIVE of The Queen was killed alongside her daughter in a tragic car crash during a holiday in South Africa. Louise Sword, 53, and her 13-year-old daughter Tabitha, of Lurgashall, West Sussex, died on August 10 after their SUV crashed with

  • Suicide survivors share stories to help give hope

    SURVIVORS of suicide attempts and support workers shared emotional stories as part of World Suicide Prevention Day yesterday. The occasion was marked by stalls, workshops, photo exhibitions and a range of other activities across Brighton and Hove

  • Tortoise 'stolen from family farm' is returned safe and well

    THIEVES stole a tortoise from a children's educational farm by stuffing it into a pocket. Two-year-old Fergie went missing from Blackberry Farm Park in Whitesmith, near Uckfield, on Saturday. Police launched an appeal for witnesses and issued

  • Brighton's Beeman meets Bake Off winner for BBC programme

    THE beekeeping councillor nicknamed “Bee Man” has made a prime-time television appearance alongside Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain. Councillor for Wish Ward, Robert Nemeth, donned his Hove T-Shirt as he appeared on BBC2’s Nadiya’s Family Favourites

  • Volunteer vets are saving the city's homeless dogs

    PROFESSIONAL vets are giving their time to help sick dogs belonging to rough sleepers. Brighton StreetVet launched in 2017 and since then has treated countless dogs at no cost to the homeless community. The expert vets work at the Clock Tower

  • Caribbean business rises from the ashes after fire

    A JAMAICAN cook has opened a new restaurant, just months after his business was gutted by a fire. Kevin Sappleton had gone to the bank but returned to find firefighters battling a blaze in his yellow food truck, which he used in Selborne Road in

  • Column: Don’t believe all the drama, it’s just fake news

    TRADITIONALLY, newspaper reporters are the bad guys in dramas, always sleazy and sneaky, unprincipled, ruthless, hard as nails and liars. In particular, reporters on local newspapers are depicted as behaving as though they are national newspaper

  • Businessman gets investment from Peter Jones at Dragons' Den

    A DRAGONS’ DEN contestant has secured an investment from business titan Peter Jones who will help his drone hire company take flight. Mark Boyt, owner of Drone Safe Register in Bognor, faced the Dragons on the hit BBC2 show Sunday night. His

  • Neighbours fight plans to replace house with four flats

    AFTER 11 years trying to replace a house in Brighton with a block of flats, a developer may have cracked it. Several applications to build flats at 6 Cliff Approach, in East Brighton, have been turned down by planners and failed on appeal.

  • Comment: Brighton is top choice for musicians

    POP star Michael Rosenberg, aka Passenger, told the Brighton Dome audience on Sunday how proud he was to be back in his home town, especially with its rich musical heritage. He is dead right. Brighton and Hove’s music scene has always flourished

  • Black Honey celebrate debut album with intimate filmed gig

    Black Honey The Hope and Ruin, Brighton, Friday, September 7 BRIGHTON band Black Honey brought it home – and the house down – with their intimate gig at the Hope and Ruin on Friday night. Playing as part of Red Stripe presents: This Feeling

  • Passenger praises Brighton in emotional homecoming show

    TWO thousand people packed Brighton Dome on Sunday to witness the homecoming of number one selling artist Passenger. The star, real name Michael Rosenberg, topped the charts in 2013 with the internationally best-selling song Let Her Go. An emotional

  • Letter: Staff at A&E department were absolutely brilliant

    BEING a regular reader of The Argus letters pages I felt I must reply to a letter from a reader who had difficulty getting a GP to see their 11-month old baby over a weekend. At a recent barbecue in my daughter’s garden on the Saturday of the Pride