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By Les Chatfield from Brighton, England – Portrait of Seaford station, CC BY 2.0, Link

The past 2 months have been pretty tough for Seaford commuters and many have had to switch to using buses to get to and from work. But the extra hassle for many is set to come to an end next Monday as many services will be restored.

The new service will herald the return of half-hourly train services for passengers, bringing a sigh of relief for many weary commuters.

One of the most important services that Southern provide between Seaford and Brighton will also be restored in full from next Monday and passengers can now look forward to a half hourly service.

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Please note: This is an old article. For the lastest traffic information on M23 or A27 road closures and other traffic news, please visit the Highways Agency Information page.

As we’re out on the roads delivering and collecting skips throughout Sussex 6 days a week, we thought we’d let our local community know that there are a couple of very busy roads that will be getting a facelift this week.

Firstly, Highways England has announced that the M23 between junctions 9 and 11 around the Crawley area will be undergoing resurfacing work during the night.

It’ll only affect traffic on the northbound carriageway of the M23 heading towards London and will be closed between the hours of 9pm and 6am until Sunday night.

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On Monday September 19th, Beachy Head Road in Eastbourne will be closing for around eight weeks whilst the road surface is being “recycled”.

The popular road will be shut from the junction of Warren Hill along to Birling Gap.

There will be diversions in place but contractors say they will do their best to maintain access to properties including the Beachy Head Pub, Countryside Centre and coastguard and chaplain stations as well as farms.

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A National Trust team began an important archaeological dig on Tuesday at Belle Tout (on top of the Seven Sisters cliffs, near Beachy Head, Eastbourne) and will be excavating trenches close to the cliff edge until the 21st September.

If you fancy a trip down there whilst the weather is still good, then members of the public are being invited to take part in free daily tours of the site.

You’ll get to see the archaeologists at work in the trenches and also examine what they find; all in all, a great opportunity to learn more about this fascinating, historic site.

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A reseacher at Brighton University’s Aquatic Research Centre is supporting calls by MPs to ban plastic microbeads in cosmetics.

PhD student Matt Turley has said:
“Microplastics do not biodegrade, and so they accumulate in the marine environment and are extremely costly and difficult, if not impossible, to clean up.

A ban on the use of microplastics in personal care products in the UK is a step in the right direction to reducing further inputs of plastic to the marine environment and to begin to address the wider problems of marine plastic pollution”.

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Along with much of the country, Sussex is in the midst of a summer holiday heatwave for the next few days and perhaps even longer.

The Met Office issued a Level 2 heat health watch alert for Sussex and the South East in general as temperatures continue to soar.

The hot weather is expected to continue throughout today reaching 27 degress C and there is the very real possibility that it will continue right throughout the entire Bank Holiday weekend.

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A recent fire at the Burgess Hill Household Waste Recycling Site is being treated as an accident.

Firefighters took around an hour and a half to put out the blaze which started at 8.15pm on August 4th but they stayed on site until around 3.30am to make sure the fire was fully extinguished.

The huge fire, which broke out in a corner of the 75 x 25 metre structure, took eleven fire crews to deal with it – Seven crews from West Sussex and one crew from East Sussex attended the inferno together with an aerial ladder platform, a water tender carrier and a command unit.

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The 250ft long trail of household rubbish was dumped in broad daylight and included a toilet, a mattress, a wheelie bin and even a bath. There was also an assortment of toys, bits of furniture and old wood.

Because the trail of rubbish was dumped right down the centre of the street in Chadfield Road, Blackpool, residents were unable to leave the road in their cars until the mess was cleaned up by the local council.

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Here’s a story from the summer of 2012 that caught our eye. It tells the story of a battered old skip (with added neon lights) placed outside Brighton Town Hall.

This art installation has the incredibly creative title of “Skip” and is the work of British artist David Batchelor. It was displayed on the streets of Brighton in the summer of 2012 as part of the city’s annual arts festival.

The intention of the installation was supposed to make people “stop and think” and apparently, it was also OK if you wanted to throw your own rubbish in it.

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By Dr-Mx at the English language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

**We now have an updated 2019 article regarding Hastings Pier; read it here.

After closing to the public in 2008, Hastings Pier was destroyed by a huge fire in 2010. The future of the Pier was looking bleak until a compulsory purchase order implemented by Hastings Borough Council allowed the Hastings Pier Charity (HPC) to buy the Pier for £1 in August 2013.

A plan for redevelopment was submitted to the Heritage Lottery Fund, who awarded a project grant of £11.4m towards the estimated £14.2m that was required to restore the pier to the former glory of its Victorian heyday.

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