Pensioner Ivy Beck may have to leave the nursing home she has known and loved for many years because of problems over fees.

Ivy, who is 83 and has had a stroke, is on income support.

The fees are about to rise at the Rottingdean Nursing Home and her contribution will not cover the costs.

She is not the only resident who may have to leave. Four others in this home face similar problems.

You can't blame the owner of the home. He has to raise the fees or he will go out of business in the same way as dozens of other proprietors in Sussex over the last five years.

Yet both Brighton and Hove Council and the Department of Social Security seem unable or unwilling to help.

It's yet another example of old people suffering because the Government has not got it right over care for the elderly.

Thousands of old people are having their savings whittled away through having to pay care homes fees. Yet many owners are finding these fees are not enough to keep them in business, leading to closures and misery.

New legislation is needed to ensure elderly people who can no longer look after themselves have the opportunity to remain wherever possible in homes they have chosen personally.

Unless action is taken to ensure their financial security and those of the owners, there will be many more sad cases such as Ivy's.

A sad day Many people will be sad that the Preston Aquarium in Brighton is to close after 55 years.

It was a family business run by nature lovers which started dealing with fish and expanded until it became almost a small zoo.

They also had know-how which attracted fishermen, and women, from across Sussex to their shop to chat as well as buy.

Sadly, shops of this nature which started in more tranquil times are not always able to survive in today's busier commercial waters.

The closure is the end of an era but the business will be remembered fondly for many years yet.

Pumpkin palace Toos Jeuken may have to tear down her vegetable storage house near Cuckfield, which is used for squash and pumpkins.

Mid Sussex Council claims the building is too extravagant to house the vegetables, which will be the most cosseted in the country.

She claims the council doesn't understand the problems of storing vegetables. Obviously anything smaller would be a bit of a squash.