Environment

A £130,000 scheme to improve the reliability of the drinking water supply to properties along Hailsham’s Ersham Road will get underway next month.

Council officers hope to borrow nearly £30 million in order to build more council houses – including developments in Polegate.

Action needs to be taken to prevent water supply in the South East only matching 50 per cent of demand by 2030, Southern Water has warned.

FareShare, the UK’s largest food redistribution charity, needs you, your family and your friends to come and help them feed the most vulnerable people in your community.

A rehoming event is coming up soon to save thousands of hens destined for slaughter.

A row has broken out over proposals to build a road on protected downland.

Hundreds of hens can expect a free range retirement, with the help of a Sussex re-homing event.

The Birling Gap steps are going to be reopened to the public soon.

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Following further minor rock falls over the weekend, the steps at Birling Gap remain closed.

A stunned photographer captured a number of people sat under the cliffs and a man ignore the barriers to fly a kite at Birling Gap – just days after a massive cliff fall at the same spot.

Up to 100 sheep have been stolen from a farm in Hailsham.

The head of the Government’s review into national parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty (AONBs) visited the South Downs last week as part of a fact-finding tour.

Staff at a beach office were called to assist a woman who reported being stung by a jellyfish on the Sussex coast last week.

It is looking like a bumper year for pests, with the heatwave providing perfect conditions for wasps, rats and mice to thrive, according to industry experts.

East Sussex County Council is set to decide on a controversial planning application to build a concrete and aggregates plant in Newhaven.

Several pods of dolphins have been spotted off the coast in the last few days.

The country’s largest ever colony of ‘electric ants’ has been discovered in a Sussex town.

Marks & Spencer has launched a summer-long food campaign that shines a spotlight on M&S’ beef traceability standards.