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Promoted! Peacehaven and Telscombe stun Guernsey to win SCFL play-off final
Peacehaven and Telscombe will take their place in the Isthmian League South East division next season after stunning hosts and favourites Guernsey with a superb 4-1 in Saturday’s delayed SCFL Premier play-off final.
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Shakespeare’s Lost – Review
The show opens to reveal a desert island scene with what seems to be a body and, our own Robinson Crusoe, Blaine (Michael Knighton). He’s been alone on, as he’s called it, Blaine Island for a considerable time. His solace has been his copies of the collected works of William Shakespeare. We are ...
Sizzling Simpson sends sixes to all parts as Sussex hammer Essex
John Simpson hurried Sussex Sharks to an opening-night Vitality Blast success with eight sixes in a whirlwind 63 from 23 balls against Essex.
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Newick Amateur Dramatic Society offers murder/mystery evening
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East Sussex drivers face widespread bank holiday disruption: Incidents reported on A259, A27 and A23
Drivers in East Sussex have faced bank holiday disruption, with multiple incidents reported throughout the day.
Welbeck deserves a World Cup place, says Brighton and Hove Albion boss
Danny Welbeck deserves a place in the England World Cup squad, according to Brighton and Hove Albion head coach Fabian Hürzeler. Welbeck also deserves to face his boyhood club Manchester United in the final Premier league match of the season at the Amex tomorrow (Sunday 24 May), Hürzeler said. The...
Former Brighton teacher awaits sentence for ‘sexting’ boy of 13
A former Brighton teacher has admitted “sexting” or sending sexual messages to a 13-year-old boy and trying to arrange to meet. David Rogers, 48, who worked at Patcham High School as a teacher and assistant head and then at Littlehampton Academy as assistant head, admitted the offence in a heari...
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Jazz Hastings welcomes Matt Ridley’s Antidote
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Brighton date as Mark Daniels is back on the comedy circuit
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Mass community play celebrates Eastbourne past, present and future
Eastbourne Soup
Hospital marks £860m project’s helipad and cancer milestones
Hospital bosses, staff and patients marked two key milestones in the £860 million modernisation of Brighton and Hove’s main hospital today (Friday 22 May). And patients took centre stage for two formal ceremonies – officially opening the helipad at the Royal Sussex County Hospital and preparing...
Opposition overlooked and left in the dark, says councillor
Opposition councillors have been left in the dark, struggling to access basic information, a Green member said at a Brighton and Hove City Council meeting yesterday (Thursday 21 May). They have regularly complained about not being kept properly informed since Labour ditched decision-making by commit...
REVIEW: Finding Emily proves weirdly enjoyable
REVIEW: Finding Emily (12A), (111 mins), Cineworld Cinemas
Lifeguards return to beach for heatwave bank holiday weekend
Beachguards will be back on the beach tomorrow, to look after swimmers during the bank holiday weekend heatwave. The Met Office has issued an amber heatwave alert from 2pm today until 27 May as temperatures are set to soar into the mid 20s and higher. RNLI beach lifeguards will be back on duty at th...
Palm house turned into butterfly garden
A historic palm house in Stanmer Park has been transformed into a butterfly sanctuary. The Sussex Butterfly Garden was officially opened yesterday, ahead of its opening to the public tomorrow morning at 10am. It is a collaboration between Matthew Simmonds, who runs the Middleton Common Farm Butterly...
Pub tile developer asks court to make council pay his costs
A man who was prosecuted for failing to put back tiles he ripped off a Brighton pub has asked a court to make the council pay his costs after the case was withdrawn. Charlie Southall told Lewes Crown Court the council had been unreasonable to pursue the prosecution after a structural engineer it com...
RSPCA’s top pet advice as temperatures set to soar in Sussex and Surrey over bank holiday weekend
As the late May bank holiday rolls around, parts of the UK – including Sussex and Surrey – are preparing for the mercury to rise as high as 30°C as Brits prepare to bask in the long-awaited sunshine.
‘Serial burglar’ who used rail network to target homes across Surrey and Sussex jailed
A ‘serial burglar’ who used the rail network to target homes across Surrey and Sussex has been jailed, according to a Surrey Police press release.
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Party celebrating 50 years of University Radio Falmer
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Heat-health alert rises to amber for Sussex and South East over Bank Holiday weekend
The Government’s heat-health alert for Sussex and the South East over the Bank Holiday weekend (May 23-25) has risen to ‘amber’.