Members of the East Grinstead Mums Facebook group donated 5,000 mince pies.

Caitlin Webb
Local Democracy Reporter

Plans to convert old farmland into homes in a village near Tenterden have been accepted.

Developers at Southern Space are set to build 10 houses in Woodchurch following a unanimous vote of approval.

Councillors at Ashford Borough Council endorsed the proposal in Front Road, which would also bring four "affordable homes" into the area.

The designs include four homes with two or three bedrooms and two houses with four bedrooms and gardens, as well as eight parking spots.

This Rochester family turn their front window into a work of art every Christmas.

Businessman Zahid Naseem claims he bludgeoned Christina Abbotts with a pestle in self-defence.

Karen Dunn
Local Democracy Reporter

Footballers in Worthing could soon be playing on a 3G pitch.

The borough council has given permission for a planning application to be submitted for the artificial pitch, floodlights and car park at Palatine Park.

The plan is to work with Worthing Town FC to apply for £500,000 of funding from the Football Foundation, with £340,000 of Section 106 money being made available to make up any shortfall.

The council will build the pitch, with the project added to the 2019/20 capital programme.

If the Football Foundation bid is to have a chance of being successful, planning permission has to be given before April.

Forty-one football teams, made up of 500 players of all ages, play at Worthing Town.

A tribunal backs health inspectors taking action against private care provider Sussex Health Care.

Fifty firefighters tackled the fire that broke out in a flat above a chiropractor's practice.

Amanda Crane is giving up part of her Christmas Day to serve lunch to homeless people.

Caitlin Webb
Local Democracy Reporter

Plans for a 100-house development in Tenterden have been sent back to the drawing board after councillors refused to approve it.

Concerns over affordable housing and the neighbouring listed buildings are among the reasons why the development was not given the go ahead by Ashford Borough Council this week.

Chatham-based Redrow Homes designed a housing estate filled with two-storey homes and three blocks of flats in Tilden Gill Road.

However elected officials on the planning committee at Ashford Borough Council rejected the plans and deferred the application because of objections relating to its proximity to listed buildings and noise concerns.

Dozens of well-preserved dinosaur footprints from at least seven species have been uncovered.

Four-year-old Adie was discovered by a dog walker in a field near Ashford, Kent, a year ago.

Jeff Alcock lost his hearing after he was assaulted at Lewes railway station in 2017.

Dean Kilpatrick
Local Democracy Reporter

Children in Medway are being taught how to give cardiac compressions as part of a pilot health scheme.

The "push project", developed by Kent County Council's design and learning centre, gives children the chance to learn the correct technique using a small plastic heart-shaped cushion.

Dr Robert Stewart, clinical design director, told the Kent and Medway joint health and wellbeing board: "We're trying to encourage people to give cardiac compressions, when somebody has a cardiac arrest, in the 10 minutes they are waiting for an ambulance of defibrillator.

"Unfortunately we're 50% less likely for people to intervene in this country, so that's why we're trying to increase this."

The sessions, delivered in classrooms and out-of-school clubs, train children to perform between 100 and 120 compressions every 60 seconds for a 10-minute period.

Certificates are presented to those who participate, with the scheme set to be reviewed before it gets rolled out across the whole county.

A school in Maidstone is seeing girls taking up weightlifting after introducing a club for the sport.

Traffic will be busiest on Thursday and Friday before rail engineering and strikes cause cancellations.

Sue Nicholson
BBC News

Image source, University of Cambridge

More than 85 well preserved dinosaur footprints, made by at least seven different species, have been uncovered in East Sussex.

The footprints were identified by University of Cambridge researchers during the past four winters, following periods of coastal erosion along the cliffs near Hastings.

They range in size from less than 2cm to more than 60cm across, and are so well preserved that the skin, scales and claws are easily visible.

The footprints date from the Lower Cretaceous period, between 145 and 100 million years ago.

Those discovered include Iguanodon and Ankylosaurus, a species of stegosaurus, possible examples from the sauropod group, and meat-eating theropods.

Hastings has long been a site of special interest for fossil hunters with items ranging from fragments of dinosaur bones to complete fish being previously uncovered.

Image source, Getty Images

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Seaford Head is working alongside a local charity to provide the service for its students.

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An elderly woman has died after she was hit by a car in West Sussex.

The 86-year-old was struck at the junction of the A281 Brighton Road and St Leonards Road, Horsham, at about 09:00 GMT on Sunday. She died at the scene.

The driver - a 57-year-old Horsham man - was uninjured, Sussex Police said.

Elizabeth Rizzini
BBC Weather