Sussex News from Friday, March 14th, 2025

Shane ‘Blue’ Gibbs, who drugged and raped multiple women and girls across Sussex, has been given a life sentence.

Students from East Sussex College Group have been getting hands-on work experience while delivering improvements for the local community, thanks to a collaboration with Eastbourne Borough Council and Mears, the council's maintenance contractor.

David Whines, 61, is sleeping outside for the entire month of March to raise awareness for homeless veterans and to raise funds for SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity.

A burglar has been jailed after committing multiple offences in Brighton.

Plans to convert a former police station into 33 flats have been approved by Mid Sussex District Council.

The council’s cabinet is being asked to back spending £2.4 million of developers’ cash on seafront projects including Black Rock, the Madeira Terraces and Hove Beach Park.

A government planning inspector has backed a decision to delay people moving into a new housing development in Horam until essential wastewater infrastructure upgrades are completed.

Patients across Sussex can now access a new, cutting-edge transplant procedure to help restore sight loss for patients with a damaged cornea, which is the outer layer at the front of the eye that helps your eye to focus light and see clearly.