For more than 60 years, a former school has informed Polish people in Britain of events in their homeland and around the world.

From the terrible atrocities of the Second World War to the destruction of the World Trade Centre, it has all been covered by The Polish Daily.

Since 1940, the newspaper has been printed in a building in Coleridge Street, Hove.

Next month the last edition to be printed there will roll off the press.

Tad Phillips-Filipowicz, managing director of Caldra House, publishers and printers, said: "We have operated from this building since 1935 and printed The Polish Daily since 1940. It will be the end of an era.

"The paper is produced by the Polish Cultural Foundation and is what keeps the Polish community in Britain informed and in touch.

"Unfortunately it has been running at a loss and was being heavily subsidised by the publishing side of the business."

In future the newspaper will be printed in London. The former annexe of Cardinal Newman School has been sold for redevelopment.

There are plans for workshops with homes above to provide much-needed accommodation in Brighton and Hove.

money from the sale will be used to keep the newspaper, which has a circulation of 3,000, going for the next ten years.

Mr Phillips-Filipowicz will continue to run the publishing side of the business from his home near Hove seafront.

He said: "We produce books in Polish by leading authors in Poland and also books about Poland in English.

"By selling the building and printing in London, we can use the money to keep the paper going."

At its height, the newspaper sold 50,000 copies six days a week and employed 80 staff.

But with the average age of readers being 75, it has shrunk to just 3,000 copies a day and only has eight staff.

Mr Phillips-Filipowicz, 64, was born in what is now Belarus but was forced to flee during the ethnic cleansing of his homeland in 1940.

He went with his family to Russia, Iran and Africa before coming to Britain in 1948 when he was just 12.

He moved to Hove in the Sixties when he started work as an apprentice printer, working his way up to become managing director.

In that time he has forged close links with The Argus and The Polish Daily has been printed three times on our presses.

When there was a serious fire in the Eighties at our former base in North Road, Brighton, the tables were turned and copies of The Argus were printed on their presses.

Mr Phillips-Filipowicz said: "I rang all of our staff who came in and we printed as many copies as we could.

"With the help of The Argus we have never missed a single edition in 61 years, which is a wonderful achievement.

"Part of that has been down to the great rapport we have always had with our staff.

"Although the paper will carry on, it is the end of an era for us in Hove."