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Remembrance Sunday - 8 November
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Community News is back!
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Film festival returns for fourth year with documentaries and emerging talent
A film festival featuring an unscripted iPhone-shot film set to take place in Worthing.
BBC's Charity Shop Girl opens new charity superstore
A charity shop superstore has officially opened its doors in Worthing.
Murder case which gripped the world shows pitfalls of the jury system
It's sometimes said that the jury model is the least worst system of justice available. Certainly in terms of public participation and, in theory, independence it provides important safeguards against governmental, police or judicial overreach.
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