The ''Littlehampton Gazette'' is a British local newspaper, serving the

West Sussex West Sussex is a county in South East England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the shire districts of Adur, Arun, Chichester, Horsham, and Mid Sussex, and the boroughs of Crawley and Worthing. Covering an ...

town of

Littlehampton Littlehampton is a town, seaside resort, and pleasure harbour, and the most populous civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It lies on the English Channel on the eastern bank of the mouth of the River Arun. It is south sout ...

and surrounding towns and villages such as

Angmering Angmering is a village and civil parish between Littlehampton and Worthing in West Sussex on the southern edge of the South Downs National Park, England; about two-thirds of the parish (mostly north of the A27 road) fall within the Park. It is ...

, Arundel,

Clapham Clapham () is a suburb in south west London, England, lying mostly within the London Borough of Lambeth, but with some areas (most notably Clapham Common) extending into the neighbouring London Borough of Wandsworth. History Early history ...

, East Preston, Patching and

Rustington Rustington is a small town and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex. Rustington is approximately at the midpoint of the West Sussex coast and midway between the county town of Chichester and Brighton. The A259 runs along the nor ...

. It is a weekly newspaper published on Thursdays, and has been published since 1893, although from 1977 until 1990 it was renamed the ''Arun Gazette''. It is owned by JPIMedia Ltd, and is a sister paper to the '' Worthing Herald''. The ''Gazettes main offices are located with the ''Herald'' in nearby

Worthing Worthing () is a seaside town in West Sussex, England, at the foot of the South Downs, west of Brighton, and east of Chichester. With a population of 111,400 and an area of , the borough is the second largest component of the Brighton and Ho ...

, but it does also have an office in the town of Littlehampton itself. Among the important stories the paper has covered is the

murder of Sarah Payne Sarah Evelyn Isobel Payne (13 October 1991 – c. 1 July 2000), was the victim of a high-profile abduction and murder in West Sussex, England in July 2000. Her disappearance and the subsequent investigation into her murder became a prominent c ...

and the subsequent trial of her killer in 2000 and 2001.

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External links

Official website
Newspapers published in Sussex Littlehampton Newspapers published by Johnston Press