Sussex World Morning Update 5 December, 2024

The headlines from across the county today

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00:00This is your morning update for Thursday, the 5th of December, 2024.

00:06Brought to you by Sussex World.

00:10East Sussex town named prettiest in UK.

00:14Telegraph article praises picturesque scenery and spectacular annual event.

00:19The Telegraph has named Lewes the prettiest town in the UK

00:23in a new article that praises its annual firework display,

00:27medieval streets and radical and literary history.

00:32Major retailer Marks & Spencer put Sussex store up for sale.

00:37Marks & Spencer has put its Crawley store up for sale for £3 million.

00:43CCTV footage has captured trespassers in a Sussex town posing for photos on the railway track.

00:51Network Rail said the shocking footage shows two cyclists entering the level crossing

00:56so that one of them can take a picture of the other on a stretch of the railway

01:00where trains pass through at up to 60mph.

01:06Rolls-Royce Motorcars transforms Footpath as part of its mission to create

01:11circular Clean Boots route near Chichester, West Sussex.

01:15Jess Brown-Fuller, Member of Parliament for Chichester and Councillor Windsor Holden,

01:21Chair of West Hamptonet Parish Council, were guests of honour during a ceremonial walk

01:26hosted by Gunter Boner, Director of Manufacturing at Rolls-Royce Motorcars

01:31to mark the official opening of the newly upgraded Footpath 417.

01:38Dismay as life-saving defibrillator vandalised and stolen at Ashdown Forest Centre car park.

01:45Ashdown Forest officials have expressed dismay after reporting that a life-saving defibrillator

01:51was vandalised and stolen.

01:55Pantomime fun comes to Chichester's Priory Park this Christmas.

02:00Katie Bennett and Vicki Edwards are the writers of the specially commissioned

02:04Priory Park Panto Experience, which will add a very special extra sparkle

02:09to Christmas in Chichester this year.

02:13Worth School cricketer earns Academy Place.

02:16Worth School first, Exeter Cricket Captain George McLoughlin has been taken on by the Surrey Academy

02:23ahead of the 2025 season.

02:27Horsham Airline pilot drives 300 miles to rescue two cats after online appeal.

02:33A Horsham Airline pilot drove 300 miles to collect two rescue cats she fell in love with

02:39after seeing an adoption appeal on social media.

02:44Madness! EV charging points block entrance to Horsham Church.

02:49Electric vehicle charging points being installed at the entrance to a Horsham Church

02:54have been denounced as madness.

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