Sussex Police doesn't have a very good record when it comes to finding the bodies of elderly people.

Two officers have been given warnings after failing to find an elderly woman who had died. Her body was not discovered until three months later.

This follows the case of pensioner Walter Bellman, who died in a garage at Wellington Road in Brighton.

His body was not discovered for a long time because police mistakenly searched the wrong garage.

A review of complaints also shows one officer was sacked and another forced to quit for taking a woman on a joyride and making inappropriate remarks to her.

It also reveals that the number of complaints has doubled since 1998, although only a small proportion of them were substantiated.

People are complaining more about other public services as well as the police. The numbers of serious complaints is still small.

But failing to find a dead body and taking a woman on a joyride are both serious matters.

These are worrying cases, but it's reassuring to see that in each instance Sussex Police took strong action against the offenders.

The legs have it Armed robber John Saunders wore gloves so that he left no fingerprints behind and a mask to disguise his face.

But he was convicted at the Old Bailey after security films of raids on jewellers shops showed his unusual bow legs.

It's the first time that an expert on the way in which the body moves has been called to give evidence in a trial.

But it will not be the last as other despicable crooks are caught literally walking into trouble.

Memorable An expert at the University of Sussex has proved the truth of the old adage that elephants never forget.

It took behavioural ecologist Karen McComb a trip to a national park in Kenya to undertake research to back her case.

Nice work if you can get it, but the information on elephants might have been available simply by making a trunk call.