A community transport team will have to wait until next week to see if funding for a bus service used by the elderly and disabled will be axed.

A decision on the dial-a-ride services in Lewes and Seaford, run by Community Transport for the Lewes Area (CTLA), should have been made on Monday. Transport officers at East Sussex County Council have asked for more time to see if they can reassess the decision.

It was recommended funds for dial-a-ride in Lewes and Seaford were cut and the Eastbourne dial-a-ride was axed in a bid to save money.

The county council had assessed dial-a-ride as one of its worst performing services.

Gill Hart, officer manager for CTLA, said 1,000 pensioners and disabled people who use the service would be left housebound and unable to shop for food or to go to the doctor if the service was axed.

She said: "There are so many people who rely on us. Seaford is so busy on a Thursday we have had to put on an extra bus.

"We have been trying to appease the customers by telling them it will not be too bad and we're looking for other funding. We wrote to the big supermarkets and they all said they could not help so we will have to see how things pan out."

East Sussex County Council officers will make a decision some time next week.