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University sit in ends with eviction

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Police move in to evict protesters Credit: @occupy_sussex

A sit in at the University of Sussex ended in eviction today.

The protest occupation was in the Terrace Room in Bramber House - the main student services building on the Sussex campus.

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Eviction underway at University of Sussexc Credit: @occupy_sussex

The eviction of the 25 remaining occupiers followed a High Court hearing where an eviction order was issued.

The protest was in relation to the University's plans to work with external partners for catering and facilities management.

University buys author Virginia Woolf's diaries

The diaries of the writer Virginia Woolf have been bought by the University of Sussex at a Sotheby's auction. The diaries reveal personal details of the author's final years, giving an insight into her daily life.

Virginia Woolf lived in Lewes in Sussex in the early 1900s.

The University of Sussex was able to raise the £60,000 for the journals with the help of the V&A/MLA Purchase Grant Fund, the Friends of the National Libraries and individual donors.

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Man arrested over assault on MP

A man has been arrested in connection with an attack on a Conservative MP near Brighton as he arrived at a talk on squatting.

Mike Weatherley, MP for Hove in East Sussex, had rocks and tomatoes thrown at him as he attended the event at the University of Sussex on November 14.

He was invited to talk about his involvement in changing the law to criminalise squatting but was surrounded by a mob of non-students before the debate could start.

Security officials barricaded him and his staff in a room until the police arrived and took him away to safety in a van.

One of Mr Weatherley's team suffered a slight injury caused by a stone which had been thrown, according to police.

Sussex Police said that a 24-year-old man from Brighton was arrested on suspicion of affray and he remains in custody.

Mr Weatherley has been campaigning for squatting to be criminalised since his election to Parliament in 2010.

Furry friends prepare for radio debut

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One of the hedgehogs helping with research. Credit: Andy Dickenson

A herd of rescue hedgehogs who were nursed back to health at the RSPCA Mallydams Wood Wildlife Centre in Hastings are helping with pioneering research. The hedgehogs are being tagged with tiny little radio transmitters and then released into the woods around the University of Sussex. campus.

The species is reported to be in decline in some parts of the south.

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