This port is in a storm

People in Newhaven are worried their town could become a dumping ground for all the waste and rubbish from other parts of East Sussex.

County council officials originally earmarked Newhaven for one of the incinerators planned to deal with waste. Now they're looking to the portas a possible sewage works site to replace Portobello at Telscombe Cliffs.

Newhaven has had a tough time over the last ten years with the loss of its conventional ferry service, but there are signs things are picking up.

The new fast ferry is proving a success and Newhaven has plans for industrial regeneration, more housing and a yachting centre.

It would be madness to jeopardise all this for a sewage works which could cause some developers to think twice about going there.

And while modern incinerators are a far cry from the dirty monsters of the past, there's a good case for placing one at the existing waste site in Beddingham rather than near the port.

Newhaven people are right to tell councillors they don't want the town regarded as a dump.

They may yet win the day; for in each case, decisions won't be made bythe county council but by Government planning inspectors after public inquiries.

Out of order

Councillors and businesses

want to brighten up a dismal part

of Queen's Road near Brighton Station.

As part of the plan, they asked tomove a couple of metal boxes a few yards away from the junction with Gloucester Road at the entrance to the North Laine area.

Yet BT wants to charge the council the ridiculous figure of £130,000 for this job.

As a major company in the

town, BT should be proud of this renovation instead of making outrageous charges.

Weir's world

Nick Weir, the new presenter of the popular TV show Catchphrase, broke his leg in three places while filming the new series.

But like a true professional, he carried on with three recordings even though he was in agony and did the rest of them with his leg in plaster.

Contestants would never

have guessed from his happy expression the show business phrase "break a leg."

Converted for the new archive on 30 June 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.