Commuters using Southern’s London to Brighton rail services have staged a protest over continuing disruption as another strike on the network looms.

Commuters described being “turfed off trains”, left with no social life, seeing two services cancelled in a row, seeing their work suffer and feeling “incredibly stressed” and “utterly powerless”.

The union is in dispute with Southern over the introduction of driver-only trains on which guards will no longer open and close doors.

A strike which is scheduled next tuesday is expected to cause more cancellations and disruption.

The Martlet Tree Sculpture in Crawley has been unveiled at its new location outside Crawley Library.

The sculpture, which had resided in Queens Square since 1999, has moved to make way for the regeneration of Queens Square to take place and provide a more appropriate location for the artwork.

The sculpture was cleaned and repaired off-site before being relocated outside the library on Southgate Avenue.

It celebrates the heraldic origin of the Martlets, which feature in the town’s coat of arms, and includes more than 100 tiny Martlet birds.

A new Manor Royal retail park housing three major shops is nearing completion – with the first tenant set to open in September.

Acorn Retail Park, in Betts Way near County Oak, will become home to Aldi, Marks and Spencer Simply Food and Smyths Toys later this year and is expected to provide hundreds of jobs for local people.

Kier, a leading property, residential, construction and services group with a regional office in Manor Royal Business District, is expecting to complete the building of Acorn Retail Park in July.

The first retailer is expected to open its doors in September, following fit-out of the individual stores.

Gatwick Airport has marked its busiest May ever by opening the new Pier 1. The biggest single investment since new ownership.

The month’s figures took Gatwick’s moving annual total passenger numbers to just over 41 million – a new world record for a single runway airport.

The Pier 1 facility which replaces the old Pier 1, houses an entirely new baggage system for the South Terminal and state-of-the-art passenger gate rooms with views across the runway.

The development hopes to improve efficiency and reduces delays both on and off the airfield.

The Crawley teenager who went missing last Friday has been found Safe and Well.

Beth Lloyd was believed to have got on a train at Lancing railway station to travel to Nottingham to meet a friend.

She was found at 10am on Monday (13 June).