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Football champions face eviction
The most successful football club in Mid Sussex is warning it could fold after being served with an eviction notice by its landlord.
Bosses at Burgess Hill Town Football Club appealed today for extra time to find a new ground after being given only until October 13 to leave Leylands Park.
The club says it has no time to arrange a ground-sharing arrangement or move into another senior league by next season because of May deadlines on such changes.
Ground landlord Mid Sussex District Council has invoked a clause in the lease to give the club six months' notice. It has 15 years left on its ground lease and 28 years on its pavilion lease.
Chief executive Gary Croydon told the Mid Sussex Times: "The time scale is ludicrous. It is ridiculous and if it goes ahead it will only see the death of the football club as it is today.
For the full story see this week's Mid Sussex Times.
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