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The killer of Mohamed al-Majed, a Qatari foreign language student, who died in a racially-motivated attack in Hastings in the UK about a year ago, was yesterday sentenced to four and a half years in prison.

It has been more than 60 years in the making but this week sees the South Downs finally become England's ninth national park.

Two men held up a garage at knifepoint to steal cash and cigarettes. The robbery took place at Piltdown Service Station on the A272 at Piltdown, near Uckfield, at around 4.30pm on Monday afternoon.

FIVE relatives of Polegate men killed in action were at the unveiling of a brand new plaque honouring the town's war dead.

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Two people have been arrested on suspicion of drugs offences after a 14-year-old East Sussex girl died in hospital.

A senior government minister has urged Hastings to 'get on' with building the controversial Jerwood Gallery at the Stade.

Richard Harris, the director of the Weald and Downland Museum, will talk about the present role and future of the museum to the Midhurst Society tonight at 7pm.

Ben Elton has declared his love for Britain - " after launching a tirade against his home country, including criticism of his kids' Sussex school.

Drug addicts committing crime to feed their habits have cost society an estimated A 17 million over the last four years.

Today is the Eleventh International Transgender Day of Remembrance , which commemorates the deaths of the people who were killed because they were transgender or perceived as such.

Shoppers watched in horror as a motorist ran over his screaming wife and dragged her 20ft along a car park in a freak accident, an inquest was told.

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The same gang may be responsible for two violent raids on elderly people at their homes in East Sussex.

CONCERN is growing for a Latvian woman who went missing last month. Nadezda Nikitina was last seen on October 9 before she took a weeka s holiday from her job at Tesco in Pound Hill in Crawley.

JUSTICE Secretary Jack Straw claims courts in Sussex provide a good example for the rest of the country.

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The British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates fear they will be killed within a week unless British officials open negotiations with their captors.

Campaigners called for the Glyndebourne Opera House in East Sussex to abandon plans to build a wind turbine in its grounds.

The British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean are ill and refusing to eat or drink, according to one of their captors.