Kathryn Langley
BBC Live reporter

Image source, Beata Maria Khoo

A woman from Saltdean has made a striking wedding cake of the Royal Pavilion in Brighton.

Beata Khoo, who runs Brighton-based My Sweet Passion Cakes, worked four 10-hour days to create the masterpiece for Steven and Jon Warner-Gould.

The couple got married at the Grand Hotel on Saturday.

Steven said: "We originally suggested it in jest. We expected Beata to laugh but she didn't, she was up for it.

"We didn't actually see the cake until the day, but when we did we were speechless. It made our day.

"It comes to something when you're upstaged by your wedding cake."

Image source, Steven and Jon Warner-Gould

The creation featured three different fillings.

One section was filled with strawberry jam and cream, another with vanilla and lemon curd, and the third with chocolate salted caramel.

The "dome" was made of chocolate cake.

Beata said: "I've been waiting such a long time for someone to ask me to do the Royal Pavilion.

"I put my heart into every single cake I make and I'm so grateful to be able to do what I love," she added.

"I don't think Steven and Jon expected me to say yes but I did, and the rest is history."

Image source, Beata Maria Khoo

Image source, Steven and Jon Warner-Gould

Lindsay Parker is being sought by Sussex Police after allegedly agreeing to book a club in Brighton.

Karen Dunn
Local Democracy Reporter

Calls for an ice rink in Bognor Regis are to be discussed thanks to a petition signed by more than 2,400 people.

The petition, from the Bognor Regis Civic Society, was presented to Arun District Council in May.

It asked for a permanent rink to be incorporated into the town's regeneration plans following the success of a temporary rink which was put up over Christmas.

Because the petition was signed by more than 1,500 people, it has to be debated by the full council, and has been placed on the agenda for Wednesday 12 September.

A football club has turned to a fundraising website in an attempt to replace dugouts at its ground which have been destroyed by vandals.

The structures, at Parkwood Rangers in Dartford, have been targeted several times since club volunteers and players raised the money to build them, with the help of the local community.

But in the latest attack, on Friday night – the second this month - the dugouts were completely wrecked.

Now the club plans to buy portable dugouts that can be stored away from the pitch after matches.

Andrew Morton, secretary of Parkwood Ladies, who are required by league regulations to provide two dugouts to shelter coaches and substitutes, says they are more than halfway to their £4,000 target and can now buy one of them.

Mr Morton said: “The response from the local and football community has been great.”

South Western Railway and the RMT union are in dispute over the future role of guards.

Piers Hopkirk
Reporter, BBC South East Today

Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh, external completed his journey along the length of the English Channel when he climbed out of the sea at Dover.

Children and young people with mental health problems are having to travel up to 285 miles for treatment, figures show.

Some 1,039 children and adolescents in England were admitted to an "out-of-area" bed in 2017/18, with dozens of cases seeing youngsters having to travel more than 100 miles from home.

Campaigners say patients are having to go out-of-area due to bed shortages, but the Government has said it can also be down to patient choice or particular needs.

The latest figures, obtained by Labour MP Barbara Keeley, showed a 24% fall in the number of children having to travel out-of-area in 2017/18, down from 1,365 in 2016/17.

The figures, obtained under freedom of information laws, gave the maximum distance a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) patient had to travel from their home.

In 2017/18, the furthest a patient from the Canterbury and Coastal area in Kent had to travel from their home was 285 miles.

A watchdog has called on the Home Office to examine why planned removals of detained immigrant families "routinely" fail.

Chief Inspector of Prisons Peter Clarke recommended the step as he revealed that nearly four in five groups of adults and children placed in one facility were ultimately released, rather than leaving the UK.

He also highlighted how the unit near Gatwick Airport was being used even less than the centre it replaced, which was shut by the Government on value-for-money grounds.

Mr Clarke said: "Detaining families is very costly and carries a considerable human impact, especially for children.

"The bar for detaining children with their families has rightly been set high.

"However, the routine failure of detention to achieve the objective of removal suggests that it could be set still higher, and careful consideration should be given to the purpose served by pre-departure accommodation."

Mr Clarke recommended that the Home Office analyse why so many removals fail as he published a report on pre-departure accommodation (PDA) at Tinsley House immigration removal centre (IRC) in West Sussex.

Lucinda Adam
BBC South East Today reporter

Two men, including one from Sussex and one who's visually impaired, have completed one of the toughest challenges on earth.

Elizabeth Rizzini
BBC Look East weather

Paul Allen paid just £420 of the £1.2m he was ordered to pay for the Securitas depot raid in 2006.

Sussex bowl out Middlesex but are pegged back as 16 wickets fall on day one at Lord's in difficult batting conditions.

Mark Stoneman is 99 not out when bad light ends play as Surrey reach 256-6 on day one against Nottinghamshire.

Joe Denly scores a century and Zak Crawley makes 96 on a dominant first day for Kent against Derbyshire.

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A man has died in a collision between his motorbike and a van on the A26 near Newhaven.

It happened at about 13:20 BST on Tuesday 28 August.

The motorcyclist, a 57-year-old man from Seaford, died at the scene.

The van driver, a 31-year-old man from Lewes, was not hurt.

The A26 at Tarring Neville was closed in both directions for several hours.

Police are asking any drivers who have dash-cam footage to come forward.

Lewis Pugh finishes the 560km gruelling swim from Land's End to Dover in 49 days.

Brighton has the most internet searches for the word lonely. Plymouth is top for debt problems. Aldershot has the most Buddhists. Jenny Kleeman explores locations at the extremes of UK society, uncovering the stories behind a revealing statistic.

The Office for National Statistics gathers data on everything - the economy, employment, even our wellbeing. We have more data available than ever before, including from search engines, and increasingly the government and big businesses are making crucial judgments based on these statistics. But these numbers can't tell us everything. In this series, Jenny explores the true stories behind the figures.

Episode 1: Loneliness Why does Brighton have the highest rate of internet searches for the word lonely? Jenny starts her investigation by meeting 87-year-old widow Pat O'Byrne whose post on Facebook last year went viral. Her plea for someone to take her out for a Sunday roast dinner attracted responses from as far afield as Japan and Canada. But could Brighton's history of internet searches reveal an isolation epidemic in the city that's hidden from view?

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.

The RMT Union has confirmed a three-day strike will go ahead on South Western Railway this weekend.

The rail firm says it has held "a number of productive meetings", however the RMT claim SWR have "refused to engage in serious talks."

The latest batch of strike action comes amid the long-running dispute over the role of guards on trains.

The RMT's General secretary Mick Cash said: "We are angry and frustrated that the company's cavalier and contemptuous approach to talks leaves us no option but to continue our programme of industrial action.

"We know that passengers will share that anger."

A reduced service will run on most of the SWR network during the strike, with some routes not having any trains.

In response SWR said said: "We have held a number of productive meetings with our local union representatives to discuss the best method of operation of trains to deliver the most passenger benefits in terms of performance and customer benefits.

"We have also offered repeated reassurances that we are guaranteeing jobs, salaries and terms and conditions of guards."

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Three men and three women are being sought by police on suspicion of trying to con vulnerable victims out of their cash.

Officers say they have been seen to approach elderly people using the ATM at Barclays Bank in Queens Road, Hastings, on two occasions.

Both times they were unsuccessful.

Police are asking anyone who recognises them to come forward.

Connor Ashworth-Driver is jailed for killing a pedestrian and stabbing a man during a burglary.