This week’s Littlehampton Gazette out now

Pupils from schools and nurseries across our area spent Thursday dressed as their favourite characters from a book, as well as enjoying lots of literary-themed activities.

With Mother’s Day this Sunday, mums and daughters are being urged to spend more quality time together by entering Cancer Research UK’s Worthing Race for Life.

Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life, in partnership with Tesco, is a women-only series of 5k events which raise millions of pounds every year to help beat cancer sooner.

This year, the Worthing Race for Life takes place on Sunday, June 21, in Steyne Gardens.

And we’ve got the full details of how to enter in the today’s Gazette.

With March being Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, we take a look at the symptoms of the disease and interview Mr Faz Pakarian, a consultant gynaecologist at BMI Goring Hall Hospital, in Goring,

It is also time to vote for your Chip Ship of the Year, and all the details of how to do so are inside this week’s edition

And the entry form is now available for community groups to bid for a slice of £50,000 after independent family brewers Hall & Woodhouse launched its annual Community Chest event.

As usual, there is also the round-up of court results and a wide range of news, entertainment, nostalgia, sport and columnists.

The Gazette is out today (Thursday, March 12) for 80p.