Council bid for campus bus from Rottingdean
Brighton & Hove Council has made a bid to finance a new bus route from Rottingdean to Falmer. The council has applied to the government's Rural Challenge Fund for a service via Ovingdean and Woodingdean to the Universities of Brighton and then Sussex. The service would then continue through Coldean to Asda at Hollingbury.
Staff expenses to be paid direct to bank accounts
From 1 January, all staff expenses will be paid directly into bank accounts, the Finance Division has announced. This mostly affects claims for travel expenses but also covers a small number of salary advances and other occasional payments. The procedure for filling in and submitting an expense claim will remain the same, but staff will receive a remittance advice instead of a cheque. For details, see www.susx.ac.uk/Units/finance/documentation/bacs.shtml.
87 or 67?
External callers are getting confused about the new direct-dial numbers, according to Switchboard staff. They would like to remind readers that for any extension between 2500 and 3999, the prefix is 87, not 67. For example, ext. 2500 can be dialled off campus on 872500.
Lib Dems vote for Mbeki
Liberal Democrats in Brighton say the town's new library (being constructed on the Jubilee Street site) should be named after Sussex graduate Thabo Mbeki, who has gone on to greater things as President of South Africa. Lib Dem leader Paul Elgood told the Evening Argus: "President Mbeki is one of the town's most famous former residents and one who ranks with George IV."
