Train operators should fully compensate travellers for delays and cancellations following the introduction of new timetables.

Labour said it be would wrong for the state-owned Network Rail to foot the bill leaving passengers to - in effect - pay their own compensation.

Simon Jones reports.

And you can more from Today in Parliament at 11.30pm on BBC Radio 4.

A senior Conservative says his party has allowed the event to be taken over by Labour in the past.

A corner of Surrey is in the grip of a "swarm" of earthquakes after seven tremors since April.

Hundreds of unhappy Britney fans are criticising the website problems on social media.

Karen Dunn
Local Democracy Reporter

Domino's Pizza has been given permission to relocate to a new premises in Horsham's Springfield Road despite concerns being raised about road safety.

The takeaway company applied to Horsham District Council to move from number 41 to number 45, Mr Li's Chinese Restaurant.

At a meeting of the council's planning committee on 3 July, many members expressed concerns about road safety in the area, and some were unhappy that West Sussex County Council's highways team had raised no objection to the application.

A man whose home in Kent has been hit by lorries seven times in just ten months says he's been left in a state of constant anxiety as a result.

Mark Kilby says he fears the increase in HGV traffic through the village of Wingham near Canterbury since the recent expansion of a nearby industrial estate will lead to a fatality.

Kent County Council says it is working hard to find a solution.

Two former teachers at a Christ's Hospital School in West Sussex had denied sexually abusing pupils.

Crawley Town sign Bradford City forward Dominic Poleon for an undisclosed fee on a two-year deal.

Karen Dunn
Local Democracy Reporter

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Crawley Borough Council has approved an application to expand the number of parking spaces at the K2 leisure centre.

The council's planning committee heard that demand for parking at the centre, in Brighton Road, regularly exceeded the number of spaces available.

The centre currently has 472 parking spaces, but a survey carried out in February said demand was so high that 26 cars were seen to be parked in unauthorised areas on one Monday evening alone.

In addition, it said parking stress for drivers using regular bays and parent and child bays was "100%" all day Saturday and almost all of Monday.

The figure was 73% for people using the disabled bays.

Additional spaces will be found by removing 27 trees and the landscaped islands dotted throughout the car park, while changing the layout of the parking bays.

Councillors in Brighton and Hove have unanimously backed plans to continue with the £60,000 ward budgets project for 2019-20.

So far more than 65 organisations in the city have benefited from donations.

Moulsecoomb and Bevendean Labour councillors Mo Marsh, Anne Meadows and Daniel Yates pooled their resources to support the work of the free lunch and activity club charity Chomp in their ward and a project to revive the children's playground at Farm Green.

Mr Yates said: "As a ward with over 40 per cent of children living in poverty we decided to focus our monies on projects working specifically with these children in the first instance.

In Hangleton and Knoll, the three ward councillors combined their money to put £3,000 towards security fencing by the entrance to Hove Medical Centre.

Conservative councillor Dawn Barnett said: "There's been so much anti-social behaviour along the pathway down to Hangleton Road.

"It's causing problems and frightening the elderly living in sheltered housing by knocking on windows. People were up all night."

The £3,000 was topped up with a donation from the medical centre.

An innovative project to harvest rain run-off from buildings in Norfolk Square and fill the water butts in the gardens had support from Green councillors Phélim Mac Cafferty, Ollie Sykes, Tom Druitt and Alex Phillips.

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Local Democracy Reporter

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Campaigners seeking to stop major cuts to East Sussex's music service have secured a debate at a full council meeting next Tuesday.

East Sussex County Council is currently holding a consultation on plans to close its instrumental service, which teaches children to play musical instruments in small groups or through one-to-one lessons.

The council says the cuts, due to come into force in September 2019, are required as the East Sussex Music Service budget needs to save £180,000.

More than 12,000 people have signed a petition opposing the cuts.

They have called on the council to continue funding the service as well as protecting the jobs of music teachers and administrative staff.

A spokesman for the campaign will address councillors at the beginning of the meeting followed by a debate by members.

A public consultation runs until 27 July.

Long waits when calling the 101 non-emergency police number have been criticised by Brighton and Hove city councillors.

Brighton and Hove's divisional commander Chief Superintendent Lisa Bell was on hand to answer questions about crime statistics and policing at the neighbourhood, inclusion, communities and equality committee meeting.

Labour councillor Mo Marsh, who is also a member of the police and crime panel, expressed her concern about callers waiting for the non-emergency 101 service.

She said: "This obviously has to get better because it is not fit for purpose as people are holding on for too long."

Ch Supt Bell said: "There is increasing demand. Some is legitimate, some people use us as a taxi service or contact is not related to policing.

"We are seeing an increase in 999 calls over 101."

The average wait on 101, according to figures supplied to Ch Supt Bell, is seven minutes and 56 seconds.

She pointed out there is a "significant shift" to people reporting crime online.

A biker told police his attacker built up a "storm of ferocity", a court hears.

Sarah Booker-Lewis
Local Democracy Reporter

Spending a penny looks likely to cost 30p at a dozen public toilets across Brighton and Hove, with contactless payment on the cards as well as cash.

The move comes as Brighton and Hove City Council aims to save tens of thousands of pounds in running costs while preparing for a £1.15 million refurbishment programme.

A report to councillors points out that people already pay 30p to use the public toilets at the West Pier Arches.

The trial entry fee started in 2014 and has raised almost £25,000 with "little or no evidence from users to indicate they are dissatisfied with this charge".

Now the same charge will be brought in at 11 more toilets if the council's policy, resources and growth committee agrees the move at a meeting next Thursday.

Huw Oxburgh
Local Democracy Reporter

Plans to open a lap dancing club in Eastbourne are set to be discussed by councillors next week.

On Monday, members of Eastbourne Borough Council's licensing sub-committee are to decide on an application to open an as-yet-unnamed lap-dancing club above the Embassy nightclub in Pevensey Road.

The application - put forward by F Forte Developments Ltd - seeks a licence to use the club as a "sexual entertainment venue", with the performance of exotic dancing from 22:00 to 04:00 Monday to Saturday and until 03:00 on Sundays and bank holidays.

Eastbourne council previously granted the venue planning permission in August last year. If the licence is granted, the self-contained club would be the only such venue in the town.

Objections to the application have been raised by the Eastbourne Town Centre Neighbourhood Panel, which argues the area is "not suitable" for such a licensed venue.

In a letter to the committee, a spokesman for the group said: "On behalf of the Town Centre Neighbourhood Panel, I wish to object to the granting of a sex establishment venue licence for the above named premises.

"This location is in the heart of the town centre and is therefore highly visible. It is not appropriate to site a sex entertainment venue in this location which is so close to Terminus Road, the main retail street in Eastbourne, our major tourist area, tourist accommodation, (and) residential properties."

Sussex Police raised no objections to the proposal after owners agreed to impose a strict code-of-conduct for customers, management and performers.

Among a range of other conditions, the code-of-conduct prohibits full-nudity within the club and requires owners to provide security staff at all times. No other objections have been raised in connection to the application.

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She bears the name of the father of the NHS and, like her great-uncle, the health service has been the dominant feature of her career.

Now, Nygaire Bevan is part of a commission looking at the future of the NHS and how it needs to adapt, 70 years after it was founded by Ebbw Vale MP and Tredegar native Aneurin Bevan.

Her name - pronounced nigh-ree - is based on a Maori word and had the benefit of sharing the sound of Aneurin Bevan's popular moniker - Nye.

The youngest of four children, Miss Bevan, 59, got her name after her father made an impromptu stop at The Crown pub on his way to register her birth and decided to honour his uncle. Read the full story here.

Commuters across south and south-east England struggle to get to work in London.

Middlesex host Surrey in the T20 Blast – listen to BBC local radio commentary.

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On 5 July 1948, 70 years ago today, the National Health Service (NHS) was born.

We look at seven decades of the development of the NHS, alongside medical advancements, highlighting events that have been documented with archive photography.

Read the full story here.

Public confidence was jeopardised by "shortcomings" in the recruitment process, a watchdog finds.