Funding to get a night bus up and running has been refused.

Campaigners for the night bus in Worthing had organised a bus, driver, route and business plan but needed the council to provide £10,000 to get the project started.

Getting the night bus is among the aims of the Remember Hayley Come Home Safe Campaign.

The campaign was launched by Cynthia Owen after her 22-year-old daughter was electrocuted falling on a live rail line at Drayton crossing near Chichester in December 2004.

Hayley had left a nightclub near the city in the early hours and was walking to her Worthing home because there was no other means of transport.

Mrs Owen, 49, who is bringing up Hayley's three-year-old son at her home in Chester Avenue, wants all towns with nightclubs to have night buses.

She has focused the campaign on Worthing as a starting point and the bus has already been named Hayley's Comet.

But Worthing councillors decided against funding the project, opting instead to fund a fire prevention service project and an alcohol prevention officer, both to benefit young people.

Mrs Owen is determined the decision will not scupper her plans but said she was disgusted the council had not offered any funding or assistance in finding alternative solutions.