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Police are investigating a report of apples which were literally “spiked” then thrown into a field of horses in Rottingdean. Horse owner, Sarah Williams, reported finding more than 15 apples which had dressmaking pins and 2in screws and nails pushed into them. She told Sussex...

A Portslade youth group has been given a £400 cheque after police sold unclaimed lost property. The cheque was handed over to the Crusader Youth Group, which is based at the Southern Cross Evangelical Church in Trafalgar Road, Portslade. The money will be spent on a laptop  so...

Law chiefs from around the world have come to Brighton for a four-day conference. More than 180 chief justices, judges and magistrates converged for their annual conference at Brighton University. The 40th Commonwealth Magistrates’ and Judges’ Association conference...

A teenage boy from Hove who went missing for more than a fortnight has been found safe and well. Sussex Police made a public appeal for help to find Drew Knight last week, concerned that he had no money, no phone and was increasingly vulnerable. The 15-year-old had been staying...

A Brighton man chased his own van up the A23 after a thief drove off in it. He spotted the van while in a friend’s car on the A27 and followed the thief for 20 miles. He also put in a call to Sussex Police – at 1.45am this morning – and guided officers to the...

A suspected bike thief has been captured on CCTV. Now police are asking the public to turn him in. British Transport Police released this image of the suspect who is believed to have taken the bike from Brighton railway station on Thursday 26 August. Sergeant Judd Hinchliffe, the...

Brighton and Hove’s hospital trust has kept MRSA infections down to the lowest level in years but is still struggling to meet its annual target. The trust which runs the Royal Sussex County Hospital has a target of no more than eight MRSA cases from April this year to March next...

Hove businessman Tony Adams has been re-elected to the advisory board of a national trade organisation. Mr Adams will serve another two years as a member of the Catalogue Exchange’s advisory board. He has already served two years in the voluntary role while working as creative...