Eastbourne, England News

Ashley Ellis, 21, of Seaside Road, failed to attend the hearing but was found guilty in his absence for the offence of fly-tipping. The charge related to the dumping of a three-seater sofa which was found by a skip on the pavement outside Treasure Island.

A MAN who plunged to his death from Beachy Head had made two previous suicide bids on railway lines, an inquest has heard.

Felicity Goodson from Bespoke, Cllr Steve Wallis, Richard Thomas and Sue Tarrant, also from Bespoke, celebrate the council s new cycling strategy.

EASTBOURNE became the centre of the UK political circus as high-ranking Lib Dems, television news crews and the Deputy Prime Minister descended on the town for a seminar by the sea.

A 60-YEAR-OLD man who was born in Eastbourne is calling on the town's people to help him find out who is father was.

Eastbourne has benefited from the devolved budget scheme, an amount of money set aside for councillors to spend on worthwhile community projects in their wards.

They led the opposition to Wealden District Council's proposals to allow development on land around Eastbourne at a public inquiry.

A BEREAVED 20-year-old who got drunk near the anniversary of his brother's death has been jailed for breaching his anti-social behaviour order .

Look at a map of Sussex and your eye is likely to be drawn to Brighton in the centre, with its party town reputation, or perhaps to upscale Lewes or slightly brassy Eastbourne.

A homeless man who stabbed his Russian love rival to death has been jailed for life with a minimum of 18 years.

A COUPLE who planned a bracing walk along the Eastbourne shoreline to celebrate a birthday ended up being rescued by the town's lifeboat crew.

AN ARMED robber who wore fancy dress - including an Elvis outfit - when he struck at betting shops in Eastbourne has been warned he will be jailed.

THE CAMPAIGN to save the Beachy Head Lighthouse stripes has been given a boost with the news a local firm has offered to repaint the iconic red and white stripes.

Eastbourne and District Enterprise Agency Ltd , based at a business centre in Dittons Road, Polegate, applied to erect a 20m high by 1.4m width lattice communications mast, coloured dark green and enclosed by a two metre high security metal fence, on a single car parking space in the south west corner of the business site.

Yesterday fancy dress bookmakers bandit Martin Reilly, who dressed up as Elvis for one raid, admitted a series of gunpoint robberies.

The 38-year-old, known as Russian Alex, had been in Eastbourne for 14 years and spent the majority of those sleeping rough on the town's streets.

RESIDENTS at an Eastbourne retirement home are calling on the public's support to help save their favourite old recipes.

Demolition work on the former Anglo Dutch Meats site has started to make way for the new Morrisons store, due to open later this year.

PLANS TO REVIEW some boundaries of Wealden, Rother and Eastbourne have been scrapped after the latter authority said it had little desire to undertake such a review.

AN EASTBOURNE father-of-two is the first candidate in Sussex to declare his intention to run for the office of police and crime commissioner.