Worthing

June 23rd, 2023

Worthing committed to protecting its foreshore

New applications are being prepared to help protect two sections of foreshore in Worthing, in a move to improve the quality of the town’s coastal waters.

Worthing Borough Council and its team of citizen scientists are hard at work gathering data for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), in a bid to supplement the town’s single designated area of bathing water with two more.

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June 21st, 2023

New app helps residents in Adur and Worthing access Council services on the go

Forgetting your bin day should be a thing of the past thanks to a new smartphone app that has launched in Adur and Worthing.

The app, which has been created in partnership with West Sussex County Council, aims to make life simpler by allowing residents to check a range of Council services in one place.

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June 20th, 2023

Local Communities reject A27 improvement plans

Local residents agree with Adur & Worthing Councils that the current suggested improvements to the A27 between Worthing and Lancing will not even begin to address congestion problems.

National Highways, the government-owned company charged with operating, maintaining and improving motorways and major A-roads in England, has earmarked £20 million to improve this stretch of the A27. In contrast, improvements to the Arundel bypass further west on the A27 are expected to cost around £320m.

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June 15th, 2023

Councils launch investigation into new contractor data breaches

Adur & Worthing Councils have launched an investigation after two of their contractors were caught up in an international data breach.

Debt collection agencies Rundles and Jacobs have contacted the Councils to say that the data of 84 Adur and Worthing residents may have been accessed by a criminal gang as part of a cyber attack on businesses and organisations around the world.

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