Sussex World daily bulletin | Thursday, July 4 2024 - video Dailymotion

Today's Sussex World daily news bulletin.

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00:00Hi, I'm Mark Dunford and I'm here with today's Sussex World Daily Bulletin on Thursday, July

00:054th 2024. An East Sussex hotel has been sold in a multi-million pound deal. Estate agents

00:12on Savills said the hotel was sold on behalf of a private client following a confidential

00:16marketing process. A spokesperson for Savills confirmed that Powder Mills Hotel in Powder

00:21Mill Lane, Battle was sold in a multi-million pound deal. Proposals are being outlined to

00:27open a new Marks and Spencer store in a Sussex village. The plans, said to be in the preliminary

00:32stages, are for an M&S food hall to be built on land off the A29 Staines Street in Billingshurst.

00:40An outline of the proposals is to be presented at a meeting of the Billingshurst Parish Council

00:46on Wednesday, July 3rd by planning consultants ELG Planning and developers Bride Hall Developments.

00:52Concerned residents are speaking out against a plan for a vast 93.4 acre solar farm stretching

00:59from Runcton to South Mundon ahead of their submission to Chichester District Council.

01:04Proposed by a joint venture between the Langmead Group and BNRG, a renewable energy company,

01:10the plans would see the construction of a solar farm and associated supporting infrastructure

01:14built on the Greenfield site where it will stay for at least 40 years. Developers at Langmead

01:20BNRG said that if approved and built the farm could generate more than 25,500,000 kilowatts of

01:28electricity per year, enough to power almost 10,000 homes. A police operation seized thousands

01:35of pounds worth of drugs during warrants across Sussex. Acting on intelligence, Sussex Police's

01:41West Sussex Community Investigation Team, which specialises in organised crime and disrupting

01:46county drug lines, conducted 11 warrants and searches at addresses in Arundel, Brighton,

01:51Crawley, Peacehaven and Shoreham on Wednesday, June 26th. Sussex Police said a total of eight

01:57people were arrested in connection with the importation of cannabis and being concerned in

02:04the supply of cannabis. You can read more about these stories, the latest breaking news, sport

02:09and what's on, and also today being General Election Day, you can follow our live blog

02:14and follow the results as they come in and all the happenings on polling day at sussexworld.co.uk