Pilot Kit Maharajh with reporter Isabella Cipirska ahead of a flight from Shoreham Airport to Brighton in July
As we begin 2019, we are taking a look back at the Shoreham Herald's biggest stories of last year.
Read on for the top 15 articles which captured your imaginations in 2018. For the full stories, copy the caption next to each picture and search for it in Google.
Published at the end of July, this story was the Shoreham Herald's most-read of 2018. Reporter Isabella Cipirska tried out a flight from Shoreham Airport to Brighton in a new scheme launched by Wingly - a company which connects private pilots and passengers to share the cost of flying in small planes.
Tributes were paid to a popular Steyning shop owner who passed away in September. Seventy-three-year-old Peter Humphreys was well known in the town for his shop Steyning Motor Spares, which he closed in 2015. Family friend Brandon Clive Cooper said Mr Humphreys passed away peacefully in his flat in High Street. Everybody in Steyning knew Pete, his shop was as full of character as he was, said Mr Cooper.
In June, a Shoreham mother urged women to attend their cervical screening appointment after losing her daughter, aged 28, to cervical cancer. Samantha Chapman died in 2016 just five months after being diagnosed by doctors, leaving behind three young children. Her mother, Mandy Stephenson of Church Green, Shoreham, said Samantha had not attended a cervical screening appointment. She said: She was invited at 25 but didnt like the thought of it. We didnt know she hadnt gone.
In October, a portrait bench which celebrated three people who made a difference to Shoreham was installed at the Shoreham Beach end of the Adur Ferry Bridge. The portraits were created as a partnership between Adur District Council and cycling charity Sustrans as part of a national art scheme to celebrate local heroes. They depict Joan Morgan, the last star of British silent cinema who was the leading actress of the Shoreham Beach Glasshouse Studio, Peter Huxtable, who volunteered for the RNLI in Shoreham for 43 years and saved 449 lives at sea, and King Charles II, who fled to France from Shoreham following the defeat of the royalists in the English Civil War.
In October, Adur District Council announced that a scheme to alternate the collections of perishable and non-recyclable waste with recycled waste could instead be introduced across the area. The councils said it would help boost recycling rates, which need to reach a government target of 50 per cent by 2020. Currently, only 36 per cent of waste collected in Adur and Worthing is recycled which is below the average across West Sussex. Some opposition councillors said it marked a massive u-turn for the Tory administration which had repeatedly hailed its success in protecting weekly collections in the past.
In October, a Shoreham barber captured the 'amazing' moment 10 dolphins joined his boat trip off the Shoreham coast. Simon Gardner was enjoying a boat trip on Saturday with his friend and his 16-month-old son Etienne when they were joined by a pod of 'incredibly friendly' dolphins at around 9.30am. Picture: Sax Rohmer