The Lewis family from Hove were looking forward to their two-week holiday in a hotel in Majorca, enjoying the sun and swimming in the pool.

Instead, they spent most of their time sick and ill after being infected by a dangerous water-borne parasite in the pool. The hotel which owns the pool has had a previous health scare, different from the one which ruined the Lewis's holiday.

They feel that they, and many other families who were also affected by the sickness, were not treated properly by the tour operators.

They have been offered compensation, but nothing can make up for a holiday during which they became so sick.

This story is a warning to the millions of families thinking of booking holidays abroad that they can't be too careful when choosing both tour operators and hotels. We may moan in this country about strict environmental health regulations, but they do mean health scares are much rarer than in many other countries.

A disgrace A dying mother was left for ten hours on a trolley in the Royal Sussex County Hospital before being found a bed.

No wonder relatives of 63-year Doreen Barley are hopping mad about the indignity and trauma she had to suffer during one of her last days.

It is absolutely disgraceful that this woman was kept all that time lying in pain on a trolley in a cubicle.

What makes it so much worse is that this sort of wait is by no means unusual at a hospital which should be one of the best in Sussex.

Accident and emergency cases have hit unusually high levels in Brighton and this has caused problems. But patients in this department, more than any other, should be given the very best and speediest treatment, even if that means diverting doctors, nurses and other staff from less urgent cases.

What happened to Doreen Barley must not happen again and Brighton Health Care NHS Trust must conduct an urgent and public review.

Art-full heaps Rubbish building up in Brighton is a problem for many people, but not for Darvish Fakrh.

The Kemp Town artist has been busy painting refuse ever since problems with dustbin collections began at the start of the month.

Darvish intends to hold an exhibition of his paintings in next year's Brighton Festival, an offer they can't refuse.

The paintings are helping to increase his artistic reputation, so that he is anything but a has-bin.