Jury clears police officer of causing serious injury when driving
A police officer has been cleared of causing serious injury by driving without due care and attention. PC Ben Carslake,...
East Sussex
Online child abuser given 13-year sentence
A 21-year-old man has been given a sentence totalling 13 and a half years for more than 30 separate offences...
Golf teacher rapist given 21-year sentence
A golf instructor who groomed a teenage girl and raped her has been given a 21-year extended sentence. George Scott,...
Woman suffers potentially life-changing injuries in crash
A woman suffered potentially life-changing injuries in a crash yesterday afternoon (Friday 14 August). Sussex Police said that the woman...
Derailed train passenger tells of ‘most frightening experience of my life’
One of the passengers on the train that derailed in Lewes yesterday (Thursday 13 August) has posted about her experince...
Line to stay closed as investigators look into why train derailed
A stretch of railway line will stay closed while accident investigators try to work out why a train derailed in...
Police declare major incident as two people badly hurt when train derails
Two people have been seriously injured and nine more were hurt after a train with about 150 people on board...
Fire crews tackle two field fires
Fire crews tackled two fires in fields in East Sussex this afternoon (Thursday 13 August). The fire service said: “East...
Teenager arrested after sex attack on train
A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl on train from the Sussex coast to...
Drought declared across all of Sussex – it’s official
Brighton and Hove and the whole of the rest of Sussex are now officially suffering from drought conditions, the Environment...
