A mother will find out today if her campaign to get a night bus reinstated has been successful.

Cynthia Owen, 49, launched the Remember Hayley - Come Home Safe Campaign after her 22-year-old daughter was electrocuted after falling on a live rail line at Drayton crossing near Chichester in December 2004.

Hayley, from Worthing, had left a nightclub near the city in the early hours of the morning and was walking home to Worthing because there was no transport available.

Mrs Owen, who is bringing up Hayley's three-year-old son Kieran at her home in Chester Avenue, believes every town with nightclubs should have a night bus service but the campaign has focused on Worthing so far.

According to campaigners, a survey of clubbers shows there is a demand and more than 1,200 people of all ages have signed a petition in support.

Worthing councillors will decide whether to allocate £10,000 to set up the night bus service at a meeting this evening.

The council ran a similar service between August 2004 and February 2005 but transferred the cash to fund taxi marshals to maintain order in the town at closing time.

Mrs Owen said the service would be able to fund itself but the money from the council was necessary to get things started.

She said: "It would be a fitting memorial. One of the reasons Hayley died is because she couldn't get home, so at least it may save some other child and prevent parents having to go through what we've gone through.

"We have the bus, we have the driver and the route sorted out. What we need is the initial payment and after that we should be able to make it self-funding.

"I'm hopeful the council will help."

The bus, which is called Hayley's Comet, would operate from 11pm until about 4.30am, covering a figure of eight route from the seafront to Durrington via the station, back to the seafront and out to Lancing.

It would also be used by people to reach the town.

Alan Hilliar, campaign co-ordinator, said the night bus would make transport safer in the town and would cater in particular for people who had run out of money or those who had been refused transport by taxi drivers because they had drunk too much.

Similar services operate in Hastings and Haywards Heath.

Community safety councillor Ann Barlow said half of the money the campaign wanted was planned for a fire prevention service project and the rest for an alcohol prevention officer, both of which would benefit young people.

She said the night bus service had not worked before when it was piloted and the crime reduction partnership had twice rejected setting it up.

She said: "While transport is important, education is key.

"We need to educate people that they can go out for a drink but they need to know their limits and how to stay safe.

"I do support the issues the campaign is raising but I wouldn't support the council paying for a night bus. If the nightclubs wanted to pay then that's a different story."

The council has invited campaigners to get involved in discussions about a safety haven, where people could go to sober up before making their way home.

The campaign is also calling for safer level crossings and chill out rooms in nightclubs for those who have had too much to drink. For details visit www.remember-hayley.org.uk