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Police carrying out an investigation into the stabbing of a 16-year-old boy outside the Waitrose store in Eastgate Street, Lewes, last Saturday evening (3rd March) have made significant headway and arrested two suspects. Read a full account of the incident here. Two local teenage boys (one 14 and one 15...
Police have issued a reminder to motorists of the potentially fatal consequences of driving whilst under the influence of both legal and illegal narcotics. The Government passed a new law on March 2nd 2015, that rendered it illegal to drive while over the specified limits of 17 legal and illegal...
On Saturday 3rd of March, just after 6pm, a violent incident involving a stabbing occurred outside Waitrose supermarket in Eastgate street, Lewes. The incident resulted in one youth being stabbed and two others sustaining minor injuries. Around 20 young people had gathered outside the supermarket when the incident happened. The boy who...
MyCharleston are an organisation that run adult Charlston dance workshops and classes open to everyone. Beginners are more than welcome; the only requirement is an enthusiasm for dance! 6 weekly courses and more regular workshops take place in various venues in Brighton, Hove, Lewes, Portslade and Worthing. Before long...
A man has been arrested in connection with two incidents at knife-point that recently occurred in Horsham. The first incident took place at about 11.10am on Thursday 15th February, when a man tried to steal a handbag from a woman in New Street. The attempted theft took place close to...
In the early hours of Saturday morning, on the 24th February, a bus collision took place. The teenage boy that was involved sadly died afterwards. At 12:51am emergency services were called to the scene on Marine Parade, next to the junction with Burlington Street. The boy was rushed to the...
On Thursday 22nd February, at about 10:30am, a fire started in a flat on the fourth floor of the six storey Victoria Court building in Clifton Road, Worthing. The scene was afterwards cordoned off, and police are now investigating the blaze. The origins of the fire remain unexplained, and a...
On Tuesday 20th February, shortly before 4pm, police prevention enforcement officers stopped a white Mercedes-Benz A200 car within the Denne Road car park, Horsham, and searched the car. A 21-year-old man from Horsham was driving the car, and was arrested on suspicion of possessing cannabis, a Class B drug, with...
Following an investigation by Sussex Police and a nine day trial, 73-year-old Ifor Whittaker, a former Church of England priest, has been given a 16-year prison sentence. The sentence was given for sexual offences against a young boy in his East Sussex vicarage, between 25 and 30 years ago. The...
In the early hours of Saturday, 10th February, a 68-year-old man was attacked in his own home, in the West Hill area of Hastings. He was left with life-changing injuries to his face and will require plastic surgery. The victim had spend most of the evening with another man in...