East Sussex on The Independent

From fridges to loo seats – things we’ve left on the beach

Tuesday 16 July 2013

Teams clear up anything from cigarette butts to medical waste

Gus Poyet loses appeal over dismissal by Brighton

Tuesday 16 July 2013

Poyet was axed for gross misconduct last month

Protesters warn against new road plans: Critics say Chancellor's £18bn scheme will harm environment and do nothing to ease congestion

Sunday 14 July 2013

Hundreds of protesters walked the length of a controversial planned road route through the Sussex countryside yesterday on a national rally against the Government's £18bn road-building plans.

‘I love you,’ maths teacher guilty of abduction tells pupil in court

Thursday 20 June 2013

Jury dismisses Jeremy Forrest’s claim he took 15-year-old girl to France to keep her safe

Tony Martin pictured outside his farm in 2003

'I couldn't face going through that all again': Tony Martin – Norfolk farmer jailed for killing intruder – confronts would-be burglar at farm

Friday 10 May 2013

His was the case that prompted a national debate on the measures home owners could take to protect themselves. Now Tony Martin, the Norfolk farmer who shot dead a burglar in his home in 1999, has revealed he had only failed to try to stop another intruder because he “couldn’t face all that hassle again”.

Campaigners brand police plan to fit dementia patients with GPS tracking devices to reduce costly call-outs as 'inhumane'

Tuesday 30 April 2013

The tracking device can be worn around patients’ necks, clipped to belts and attached to house keys and features a button which would allow its wearer to speak to a 24-hour call centre

Wolves teetering on brink of relegation from the Championship - a second drop in as many years

Monday 29 April 2013

Molineux witnesses angry scenes as famous old club slips closer to place in League One

Ukip in chaos after leaked emails threaten to derail party on eve of election

Sunday 28 April 2013

Ukip’s ability to vet its own election candidates has come under intense questioning after a series of embarrassing leaked emails, campaign trail blunders, and allegedly racist and homophobic comments from their would-be councillors ahead of local elections this week.

Crystal Palace 2 Leicester City 2 match report: Defensive frailties on show at Palace

Sunday 21 April 2013

Crystal Palace's manager Ian Holloway is struggling to defend himself. His gung-ho style has had some success after Dougie Freedman's passing game travelled 230 miles north to Bolton. But three points from a possible 21 has taken Holloway's side from automatic promotion contention to clinging on to the top six.

'Shooting galleries': The drug plan that could be too liberal even for Brighton

Wednesday 17 April 2013

Plans for Britain’s first legal ‘consumption rooms’ are unsettling the resort widely touted as a prime location

Brighton & Hove Albion 1 Leicester City 1 match report: Frustrated Nigel Pearson laments late Kazenga LuaLua leveller

Sunday 07 April 2013

Too many draws have bedevilled Brighton's campaign for a play-off place for most of this season, but yesterday's will feel like a victory after a late goal salvaged a point they hardly deserved.

Liberal Democrat minister Norman Baker releases pop single 'Piccadilly Circus'

Monday 18 March 2013

Liberal Democrat junior transport minister Norman Baker has released a pop single with his band The Reform Club.

'Police surveillance of this kind undermines our democracy': Judges rule that action against peaceful protester John Catt was unlawful

Thursday 14 March 2013

Police face having to rethink their whole strategy for public demonstrations after judges ruled today that the surveillance they placed a peaceful protester under was unlawful.