Sussex daily news bulletin - Wednesday, September 13 - video Dailymotion

SussexWorld reporter Sam Morton brings you the news making the headlines on Wednesday, September 13

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00:00 Hello, I'm Sam Morton and here is your daily Sussex News Bulletin on Wednesday, September

00:04 13th.

00:06 Three Wilko stores in Sussex are set to close due to the lack of viable offers for the whole

00:10 business. Eastbourne's Sovereign Harbour Wilko store, as well as The Branches in Crawley

00:14 and Bobna Regis will close this Sunday, with the last day for employees being Tuesday,

00:19 September 19th.

00:21 The other Sussex stores in Worthing, De Beek and Eastbourne, Burgess Hill and Horsham will

00:25 remain open for the time being, however closing down sales are beginning to be put in place.

00:31 Administrators PwC said they had explored all opportunities to save the business, but

00:35 despite extensive efforts, no significant part of Wilko's operations can be rescued.

00:40 In a statement, the administrators confirmed that all Wilko stores and its two distribution

00:43 centres will close. It is anticipated that all stores will close by early October, resulting

00:48 in redundancies of 9,100 employees.

00:51 Meanwhile, a holidaymaker believes he spotted a shark in the sea off Bexhill.

00:56 Stephen Owen from Cheshire was staying with his wife in the town recently when he said

00:59 he saw a fin in the water and took video footage of it. He said he believes what he saw was

01:03 a basking shark. Stephen said "I took the video footage from Marina Court Avenue in

01:07 Bexhill. We saw the fin and we watched for around half an hour, unsure if it was a basking

01:12 shark or a seal. My wife and I thought it was a shark in the end."

01:16 Finally, the hospital in West Sussex has received top marks from its patients, making it one

01:20 of the best in the country.

01:22 Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead scored highly in the latest Care Quality Commission

01:27 Adult Inpatient Survey released on Tuesday, September 12th. The results showed that across

01:32 51 questions, the hospital received the highest score in the country from patients who had

01:36 received inpatient care.

01:38 For all of those stories and much more, you can see our website, sussexworld.co.uk.