Like Preston Village, the people of Ovingdean will soon be losing their only direct weekday evening bus link with the outside world.

The wonderfully useful evening No 57 bus route which connects the village to Brighton and the station is being axed from the end of September, due, it seems, to Brighton and Hove Council's refusal to subsidise Brighton and Hove Bus Company running this "unprofitable" route.

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