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• £800k granted for Crowborough asylum site policing

  The Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner, Katy Bourne, has successfully secured £795,898.55 in Home Office funding to manage the ongoing operational costs of policing the Crowborough asylum seeker accommodation site.

• Veterans walk 100 miles for The Gurkha Welfare Trust

  JANE Slater and John Wilton are both aged 84 - and decided they wanted to walk to raise funds for people desperate for water.

• Council responds to Government decision to pursue extension of Crowborough Army Training Camp use

  Wealden District Council is deeply disappointed by the Government’s decision to pursue the extension of the use of Crowborough Army Training Camp and remains clear that large-scale accommodation sites are not the right approach for either local residents or those seeking asylum.

• Schoolgirl shot with BB gun at Uckfield bus station

  Sussex Police are appealing for witnesses after a 13-year-old schoolgirl was shot with a BB gun at Uckfield bus station

• Gas cylinder explodes in heat at caravan site in Hailsham

  No one was injured after a gas cylinder exploded in the intense heat at a caravan site on Downash Road in Hailsham.

• Person taken to hospital after crash on A27 Pevensey Bypass

  A single-vehicle crash on the A27 Pevensey Bypass on Wednesday, 24 June 2026, resulted in one person being taken to the Conquest Hospital with minor injuries.

• The Sussex family who have helped RNLI for 100 years

  The Sussex family that has supported the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) for over a century is the Guy family from Eastbourne

• Mims Davies MP comments on new South East Water CEO, John Halsall

  “I welcome that South East Water has chosen their new CEO and urge a swift and effective handover"

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