Experts are checking a golf course that is up for sale in case it is contaminated.

Brooklands Leisure Park in East Worthing, which has a nine-hole golf course and a pitch-and-putt course, was built on the site of an old rubbish dump.

Workmen have been digging trenches and boreholes for soil samples, which have been sent to a laboratory for analysis.

Worthing Borough Council, which wants to sell the golf facilities to a private operator, is spending £18,000 on the tests.

The results will be made known to any potential buyer, although council officials are confident nothing unpleasant will be found.

Cliff Harrison, the council's assistant director of property services, said: "Because it is a former landfill site we have to carry out investigations and declare the results.

"It is part and parcel of the selling process. It is not being done because of any problem."