Ups and downs of Brighton's fun pier

1:05pm Wednesday 3rd September 2008

The Palace Pier in Brighton has avoided most of the disasters which led to its rival, the West Pier, becoming no more than a forlorn wreck.

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This grisly trunk is never fully closed

3:08pm Tuesday 26th August 2008

Even though they took place more than 70 years ago, the two trunk murders of 1934 are among the most famous crimes ever to have been committed in Brighton.

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Towns by the sea made their mark

1:59pm Monday 11th August 2008

Bold new buildings, many of them a delight to the eye, studded seafronts in Sussex during the 1930s and some still survive.

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Future’s bright for well-planned town

10:02am Wednesday 6th August 2008

Eastbourne started life as a hamlet by the sea where the principal occupations were fishing, farming and smuggling.

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Two fine churches in an ancient town

10:09am Wednesday 23rd July 2008

Many centuries ago, when Brighton was still nothing but a poor, windswept fishing village, neighbouring Shoreham-by- Sea was a substantial town.

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Literary giant with a taste for motors

3:16pm Monday 7th July 2008

One of the biggest attractions at Bateman’s, the house near Burwash in East Sussex, where writer Rudyard Kipling lived for many years, is the great man’s Rolls-Royce.

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Still standing and serving the county

1:47pm Tuesday 1st July 2008

Who would have thought, 180 years ago, when a new hospital was built in Brighton, it would still be in the same place today?

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Fishing memories live on in museum

2:06pm Monday 23rd June 2008

Long before Brighton became one of Britain’s most fashionable resorts, it was a small fishing village.

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Monarch's surprise scarper via Sussex

2:44pm Monday 16th June 2008

Of all the famous people associated with Brighton, the one who spent the shortest time there was surely King Charles II.

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Pioneer of great women gardeners

3:26pm Monday 9th June 2008

When Frances Garnet Wolseley was born in 1872, her father was becoming one of the most famous men in England.

Teenager missing in Tenerife

Updated 2:08am Saturday 6th September 2008

A British teenager has gone missing while on holiday in Tenerife, the Foreign Office has said.

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