Crime

A 77-year-old lollipop man was left ‘shaken’ after a hammer was thrown at him from a passing van while he was helping children to cross the road.

Local shopkeepers are banding together to offer ‘safe havens’ for children following reports that a man tried to lure a boy into a car in a South Downs village.

A Burgess Hill bricklayer and a Haywards Heath teenager accused of a ‘racially aggravated assault’ in Brighton are to stand trial next month.

New warnings over vandalism have gone out from Horsham District Council after a spate of graffiti daubed around Horsham town centre.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life after a blaze at a Crawley block of flats.

Police have arrested two men in the car park of a Sussex primary school.

Footage released by British Transport Police shows the moment officers arrested a murderer who had attempted to evade capture by fleeing to West Sussex.

Burglars fled with ‘high value items’ when they broke into a house in Storrington.

A warning has gone out from police following a spate of vans being broken into in Broadbridge Heath.

A prolific offender has been given an indefinite Criminal Behaviour Order, which includes banning him from knocking on strangers’ doors and attending properties without prior invitation, says Surrey Police.

A truck driver from Sussex who paid for Filipino children to be abducted, drugged and raped so he would watch the videos online has been jailed, police said.

Police are appealing for witnesses after a teenage girl was sexually assaulted in Crawley.

A Horsham artist has been left ‘devastated’ after her sculpture, part of a charity art trail, was vandalised.

Police have renewed an appeal for witnesses after a hit and run in Steyning last month.

Sussex Police has announced its theory of how a fire at a block of flats which killed two puppies was started.

A man has forced his way into a woman's home near Crawley and sexually assaulted her, according to police.

The landlady of a village pub targetted in a terror raid has told how her daughter ‘feared for her life’ during the break-in.

A string of cars have been targetted by thieves while parked at a village rail station.