Former nightclub owner Lee Mills has started a project to help independent businesses.

He moved to Worthing to take a break from the night scene in Manchester and has spent his free time creating the Big Yellow Community Cheque Book.

The book, shaped like payslips, contains adverts for small companies that could not normally afford to market themselves.

Mr Mills, 32, of Bath Road, said: "I came up with the idea when I was talking to a publican at The Crabtree and he said it was so expensive to advertise here. That got my mind thinking there must be a way to help independent businesses in Worthing."

Worthing printers Impress and Mr Mills have donated their time for free to produce the chequebook. Fifty thousand copies are being printed. Some will be handed out on the streets, others distributed door-to-door.

Chequebooks will also be sold in some shops and proceeds given to Chestnut Tree House children's hospice near Arundel.

For more information, contact Mr Mills on 07856 748973.