- Taylor paintings sold for £14m
- O2 staff in Olympics rehearsal
- Job vacancies up, but more applying
- TUC warns over pension reforms
- MPs warn over Libyan operation
- More scrutiny for Lansley reforms
- Elderly suffering from care cuts
- Argentina takes Falklands row to UN
- Calls for health reforms to be axed
- Prescott hails hacking 'justice'
- Levi Bellfield seeks Milly appeal
- US printer wins Olympic ticket deal
- 'Last' war service member dies
- Jury goes out in Redknapp trial
- 1,000 more jobs go at Lloyds Bank
- Tributes to boy who died in snow
- Qatada decision 'not acceptable'
- Kylie raises Twitter stalker alert
- Jacket potato ad smells of success
- McCartney to headline Jubilee show
Nostalgia
A true heroine of the town
ELISABETH Howard, who died in 2006, was a familiar face in the county town. A great friend of the Rouser, she could be cantankerous and dour, but she loved Lewes and its environs and the town owes her a debt it can never repay.
A Light For Those In Peril
LANTERNS tied to Sussex grazing livestock could be seen well out to sea and easily mistaken for the lights of another vessel. Danger indeed. Jonathon Darby was Parson of East Dean in the late 17th century and his duties included the burial of bodies washed up from ship wrecks.
Nostalgia: When Dr Who filmed in Sussex video
SEARCHING through the Sussex Newspapers Ltd archives, our Head of Photography Steve Cobb stumbled across these photos of a special episode of Dr Who being filmed in Sussex.
When the Ouse is not the Ouse
A LITTLE way up the River Ouse is the village of Northease. This is what A A Evans, once Vicar of East Dean and Friston, had to say about it in his On Foot In Sussex: ‘It is now a farm with dwindled lands - in fact the whole district strikes one as dwindled.
A slice of Lewes as it was
THIS interesting photograph, sent in by Terry Shearing, shows the eastern end of Lewes High Street, near Library Corner, in the 1960s.
A local villager who became a world star
IN 1914, an 11-year-old orphan boy travelled up to Denton, near Newhaven, from Somerset, to be looked after by one of his uncles.
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Weather for Lewes
Wednesday 08 February 2012
Today
Cloudy
Temperature: -2 C to 2 C
Wind Speed: 18 mph
Wind direction: North east
Tomorrow
Sunny spells
Temperature: -1 C to 3 C
Wind Speed: 9 mph
Wind direction: North east
