What costs £36,000 and doesn't fly over West Sussex? A West Sussex CC drone. Yes, West Sussex CC just can't bear to be out of the news. Diary has learnt that the headline-prone county has come in for stick after forking out on a drone a year-and-a-half ago but leaving it on terra firma ever since. Despite splashing out £20,850 on the magnificent modern flying machine, £12,353 on training 15 people to use it and £2,753 on insurance, the council says it has ‘faced a number of difficulties, mainly around licensing' and is now ‘reviewing its future use'. And for a moment then West Sussex CC was almost a high-flying council.