East Sussex ice-skating legend Jayne Torvill has been made a dame in the New Year Honours.

Plans to alter coastal defences at Apuldram Meadow to create a saltmarsh habitat have been submitted to Chichester District Council.

Horsham District Council is set to consider plans to convert the town’s old ambulance station into a workshop for servicing food waste collection vehicles.

Hospices across the South East are offering Christmas tree collection services in January to help raise vital funds for local care.

A new policy could see 20mph become the maximum speed limit on roads built within future housing developments across parts of East Sussex.

Police are appealing for information following a report that a man in his 30s was raped in Lewes.

Officers would like to speak with the man seen in CCTV following a report that shop staff and a member of the public were assaulted in a Chichester supermarket.

A man who “didn’t feel drunk” – but still managed to crash his car into a barrier – is among the first seven people to be convicted of drink or drug-driving this Christmas.