Sussex News

Plans to demolish and rebuild a major Crawley secondary school are set to be considered by the borough council in the new year.

A hotel in Hove was evacuated after a fire broke out on Tuesday afternoon, with firefighters later confirming it was caused by a faulty extractor fan.

Christmas Eve marks 100 years since Winnie-the-Pooh first appeared in print – and the milestone has a special resonance here in Sussex.

FreeShop Crawley has received a £5,500 grant from Crawley Borough Council to help provide extra Christmas presents for children across the town.

The leader of Hastings Borough Council says repairs to the burst water main have now been completed, with work underway to restore full water supplies.

Three shipping containers remain missing more than two weeks after falling into the sea and washing up along the West Sussex coastline.

A Newhaven man who posed as a teenage girl on social media to groom several young girls has been jailed.

Around 15,000 vulnerable customers in Hastings and surrounding areas have already received bottled water as a precaution.

A Heathfield man found with thousands of illicit pictures has become one of the first in the county to be sentenced for creating AI-generated child sexual abuse material.

A St Leonards drug dealer has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment following a trial at Lewes Crown Court.

A man has been sentenced following a series of serious sexual offences against children in both Sussex and Suffolk.

A drugs suspect was the first person to be arrested in Sussex by officers using new Live Facial Recognition technology.

A mother of four and long-standing environmental campaigner has been selected as the next Mayor of Brighton and Hove.

Homeowners in Horsham who have gone all out with their Christmas decorations are being showcased on a new interactive online map.

Unison says ambulance workers are facing “completely unacceptable” levels of abuse.

Volunteers are helping to renovate a home so a family whose cottage was destroyed by fire can have somewhere permanent to live by Christmas.

A man is in hospital with life-threatening injuries following a crash involving an electric scooter in Brighton.

Police in Brighton have arrested a man on suspicion of indecent exposure following an incident at The Level.

Organisers have confirmed the much-loved event is taking a fallow year, with the full parade set to return in 2026.

The collision involved a black Mercedes A-Class and a woman in her 40s, who was taken to hospital with serious injuries.