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Phil Mills reports on swine flu, a more relaxed Mexico, and the anti-war demonstration

The swine flu pandemic has been hyped out of proportion by TV news channels, according to a Hove woman living in Mexico where the outbreak has claimed more than 100 lives. Ronnie Barker and her husband Tony have their own company repairing and managing yachts in the scenic holiday resort of Bucerias on the Pacific coast.
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A demonstration will mark the first anniversary of a local campaign against Starbucks.
The protest will take place outside the coffeehouse in St James’s Street, Kemp Town, Brighton on Saturday 9 May at midday. Everyone who objects to the retailer‘s behaviour in opening and continuing to trade without planning permission is invited to attend.
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A new Brighton Festival Fringe venue has had to pull out at the eleventh hour because of unexpected costs.
The Sundown Show Bar was to be located next to St Peter’s Church, where the Parlure Spiegeltent was last year. Put on by the people behind Beachdown Festival, the Sundown was to showcase many of the acts seen at Beachdown’s cabaret tent last year. Read the rest of this article »

A cheeky meerkat is taking over as Britain’s favourite TV animal – and drawing crowds at a Sussex zoo. Aleksandr Orlov, the Russian ‘sophisticat’ who advertises an insurance market comparison website, now has almost 270,000 fans on the social networking site Facebook.
Zoos say the commercials have attracted thousands more visitors to see the small mammals in their dens and one, Drusillas at Alfriston near Eastbourne, has named a new baby meerkat after Aleks.
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