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People cheered as a helicopter touched down on the long-awaited £14 million helipad at the Royal Sussex County Hospital for the first time. The aircraft landed shortly after 5pm on Tuesday, February 24, marking what health leaders described as a major breakthrough in a project that has faced years of delays. The helipad, constructed in […]

A Horsham man has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for a series of serious child sexual offences committed against a young girl over many years. Keith Clifton, of Tanyard Close in Horsham, West Sussex, was convicted after a trial at Lewes Crown Court (sitting at Hove Trial Centre). The offences involved repeated rapes […]

A 64-year-old man has been jailed after carrying out a series of violent attacks and attempting to smother a woman in Crowborough. Ashley Gaunt, of Poplar Crescent in West Ewell, was sentenced to three years in prison following repeated incidents of physical and verbal abuse against a woman in her 60s between April 2024 and […]

Two men have been sentenced to significant prison terms after being convicted of running an illegal drug line known locally as the ‘Charlie’ drugs line, Sussex Police have confirmed. Officers first became aware of the drug line in May 2025 through intelligence gathered from mobile phone activity linked to suspected drug distribution. Subsequent enquiries revealed […]

Six fire engines were sent to an industrial building fire in Berwick in the early hours of this morning (24 February). East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service said it was called at 3.06am to reports of a blaze at a premises on Alfriston Road. By 3.57am, six fire engines, a Command Support Unit and officers […]

The A29 remains closed in both directions following a serious early-morning crash involving an overturned HGV at Fairmile Bottom, near Madehurst. Emergency services were called to the scene at around 2am after reports of a road traffic collision. The heavy goods vehicle overturned, prompting a large emergency response. Three fire crews and a heavy rescue […]

Two men who admitted killing a sheep in a shocking attack on the South Downs have been jailed. Leighton Ashby, 22, of Beckett Road, Ashford, Kent, and Oakley Hollands, 20, of Mussenden Lane, Horton Kirby, Kent, targeted livestock in a field near Ditchling Beacon on the evening of 2 November 2023. The pair drove to […]

A prolific shoplifter has been handed a two-year Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO) after admitting 26 theft offences. Chloe Hemmings, 35, of Marline Road, St Leonards, appeared before Brighton & Hove Magistrates’ Court on 19 February 2026, where she pleaded guilty to 26 counts of theft. The court imposed a two-year Criminal Behaviour Order designed to […]