Quilter leads Sussex award stars

Visually impaired world judo champion Ben Quilter accepts the Sports Personality of the Year award at the Sussex Sports Awards Brighton judo player Ben Quilter won the Sports Personality of the Year award at the 2010 Sussex Sports Awards. World champion Quilter, who is visually impaired, was…

Defender plays down LuaLua loss

Painter has been an ever-present in the League for Brighton this season Brighton left-back Marcos Painter says they will be able to cope without winger Kazenga LuaLua. The 19-year-old’s loan spell with the Seagulls from Newcastle has been cut short after he broke his ankle against Hartlepool last…

FA Cup second round draw details

FC United of Manchester, who overcame League One Rochdale, will play Brighton, who beat Woking on penalties. Ties will be played on the weekend of 27 and 28 November.

Goodbye to the Noughties

Margy, as she is known, with more than 20 years of nursing experience, wore a hidden camera and microphone as she did nursing shifts on a ward at Brighton’s Royal Sussex County Hospital. Over the course of her three month investigation, Margy exposed suffering and a series of indignities at the…

The even-less-awaited Moss Missives 2009 Review – Part Three

Meanwhile, steelworkers travel to the Labour Conference in Brighton to press for action to save the Redcar steelworks , but Lord Mandelson fails to show for their Save our Steel debate . And Gordon Brown shows up so early at Labour’s Conference Northern Night that he arrives ahead of it’s…

Coast – 1. Whitstable to Isle of Wight

Neil also becomes a silent movie director as he films a scene from The Mayor of Casterbridge using an antique camera, to reveal how pioneers in Brighton taught the world to make movies long before Hollywood shot a frame. In Dover, Alice Roberts relives the glamour days of the hovercraft crossing…

Documentaries: pistons and seaweed

It seems his obsession with sea water led to Brighton becoming a trendy spa resort, then a popular bathing spot and eventually a place for bikinis, sticks of rock and saucy postcards. Suggs is your tour-guide for this programme and there are plenty of objects tracing the history of the seaside…

Losing the game

Ed Vaizey is speaking at the Develop conference in Brighton – he may want to sharpen up his first-person shooter skills in advance. …

Woman, 21, is raped in Brighton street

A 21-year-old woman was raped in Brighton by a man she met earlier in the evening, according to police. Detectives said the woman from the Moulsecoomb area of the city was attacked in Temple Gardens at about 0220 GMT on Tuesday.

Rewind the 60s – 3. 1964-65

” Nevertheless, he tells us about witnessing the infamous tussles between mods and rockers on Brighton Beach, and describes how he feels the media blew it out of all proportion. Also in today’s episode, Charlie Ross discovers how the mods achieved ‘Lambrettability’ with that most groovy of fashion…