Worthing's annual mayoral ball may be scrapped for good.

Fewer people are buying tickets for the event, which resulted in this year's ball honouring Mayor James Doyle being cancelled two weeks before it was due to take place.

Now an advisory group is being set up to work out a way forward after the borough council revealed the ball had been making a loss in recent years.

The event, traditionally staged at the Assembly Hall, was formerly regarded as the highlight of the civic calendar in both East Sussex and West Sussex.