Something Left to do

There are plans to build more than one million houses in the South East over the next 16 years.

Many of those homes would be built in Sussex, changing our beautiful landscape forever.

Now 70 Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs from the region have sent a letter to Environment Minister John Prescott urging him to reject this "disastrous" target.

But not a single Labour MP has signed the letter.

Maybe the handful of Labour MPs in Sussex, all of whom occupy urban seats, think it isn't their

problem.

Well, they had better get involved soon, because this issue is building up a head of steam that will make the Anglo-French beef row look like a playground spat.

Whatever our political views, we must all act to save Sussex now, otherwise our children and grandchildren will be living not in the most beautiful county in England, but a miserable concrete jungle.

Them again

Wherever travellers go, people seem to kick up a stink.

Now they have set up camp at Withdean Park, Brighton, parking just feet from a rare lilac collection which the council is trying to protect by putting up fencing.

Residents, drawing on past experience, are also worried about the rubbish the travellers will leave behind.

That's two more reasons to start a row in what seems to be an endless saga.

Weight to go!

Mike Archer is living proof of pensioner power.

At the age of 66 he jetted out to Australia and came home with an international weightlifting championship title, beating strongmen decades younger.

It's a good job Mike doesn't play bowls like many men of his

generation, because there might

be scorch marks on the green caused by his wood whizzing past the jack.

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