The last remaining resident of a closing care home is having to move out of Sussex and away from her 101-year-old sister.

Alice Pink, 93, left Dresden House in Medina Villas, Hove, today. She was among five elderly women left at the retirement home after 33 residents were given 11 weeks to quit.

Four women were moved to accommodation in Cheltenham yesterday, leaving Mrs Pink alone at the home, which is being sold by trustees for up to £8 million.

Today she made the 60-mile journey with all her possessions to Woking, away from her sister Ellen Peirson, who lives at Regent House in The Drive, Hove.

Nick Steadman, her nephew, said: "Alice is in a bit of a mood at the moment. Obviously she's very upset and quite angry.

"She went into Dresden House expecting never to move again and then got told after only living there five months she'd have to leave. It's a shocking business.

"They are already clearing out the furniture and no doubt the staff are getting their pink slips."

Dresden House, a care home for 96 years, was due to close on March 31 after its trustees said they could no longer afford to run the business.

But a Commission for Social Care Inspection report, compiled after a December inspection, concluded standards at the home were high and there were no major problems in any part of its operation.

Another of the residents, Edna Henshall, died aged 84 in February on the day she was being moved out of the care home. Relatives blamed her death from a suspected stroke on stress she suffered in the run-up to her eviction from Dresden House. Mr Steadman said his aunt had been torn apart by the decision of where to move, finally deciding to go to Woking where she could be near relatives, but leaving behind her elderly sister.

Helen Fairfax, one of the home's trustees, said: "I'm delighted everyone has been fixed up so quickly. Of course it's sad to see people go."

Campaigners are waiting on a report by the Charity Commission, which will indicate whether the trustees are to be allowed to sell the home.

The commission can stop the sale and said it wants to be sure any money made from Dresden House is channelled into other charitable trusts, not private bank accounts.

Hove MP Celia Barlow is due to raise the question of the trustees' accountability in the House of Commons.