RB Health and Safety Solutions, based at Blacklands Business Centre on Fearon Road, has offered funding to the United Kingdom Rescue Organisation (UKRO) extrication team from East Sussex Fire and Rescue service (ESFRS), for them to compete in national competitions.

A spokesman from RB Health and Safety Solutions said: "We have offered sponsorship to local sports teams in the past however this is the first time we have sponsored an organisation such as ESFRS.

"The fire and rescue service play an important part in health and safety and we have always had a good relationship with such organisations.

"We wish the extrication team good luck in the competitions, we have seen them working and the professionalism is second to none."

The UKRO team will be competing against eight other teams in the Regional Extrication competition in Hampshire in July, demonstrating how efficiently and quickly they can remove casualties from road traffic collisions.