Emergency services are on alert after a woman who has sparked 56 sea rescues costing £1 million moved to Sussex - next to a reservoir.

Amy Dalla Mura is banned from going within 50m of the sea in Britain after jumping off piers, jetties and cliffs.

She has been slapped with an Asbo for playing a "game of cat-and-mouse"

with police and "causing harassment, alarm and distress".

Now she has moved from Wales to Ardingly, near Haywards Heath, and there are fears she will head for the reservoir or the coast.

Her move east comes days after she breached a court order by causing four alerts in five days in June. A judge has banned her from going near Ardingly Reservoir. She is not allowed to move to her mother's house in Kingsway, Hove, because it is too near the sea, so she is staying with her sister.

Since 2001 she has made scores of attempts to apparently drown herself in the Irish Sea at Aberystwyth. Emergency services believe painful hip and back problems have driven her to attempt to drown herself as a "cry for help".

Ms Dalla Mura told The Argus the number of rescues had been exaggerated by the authorities.

She said: "It is a very complicated and bitter story. I had a very active and special life which has, over the last few years, been taken away from me."

The 45-year-old former professional golfer is on first-name terms with lifeboat crews, police, coastguards and RAF air-sea rescue helicopter crews in Wales. One PC won a bravery award in 2003 after swimming 300m out to sea to save her.

When The Argus contacted Dover and Solent coastguard headquarters, which patrol East and West Sussex., staff had not been informed of her arrival in the area. They pledged to circulate her details to crews along the coast.

Ron Barclay, of Aberystwyth Lifeboat Station, said he hoped the latest Asbo would put an end to her behaviour.

He said: "She has caused us quite a few problems. While we're being dragged out looking for her, resources are being tied up which could be needed at another emergency."

As a golfer Dalla Mura taught in the US but was forced to give up because of a back injury. She damaged her spine as a child when thrown by a horse but the injury went undetected for many years. She has undergone several unsuccessful operations.

On Friday her defence barrister Peter Wigan told Swansea Crown Court the pain of her back and hip problems prompted the suicide attempts.

But at an earlier hearing prosecutor Chris James said: "She is playing an elaborate game of cat-and-mouse with police. Jumping into the sea from the pier and hanging off the jetty to give the impression of suicide is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress."

Judge Keith Thomas adjourned the case until October 19 while a psychiatric report on Ms Dalla Mura is prepared.

He told her: "The court wants to help you, not punish you.

"The court is anxious that you access the proper care that you need."