Gary Dobbie taught at Christ's Hospital School when he indecently assaulted a young teenage boy.

Bob Dale
BBC Live reporter

Police are searching for a woman who's gone missing while visiting Eastbourne.

Image source, Sussex Police

Valeria Funtez-Vazquez, who's 41, hasn't been seen since around 15:00 BST on 2 May.

She's said to speak little English and there's concern she could become confused by her surroundings.

Jack Fiehn
Political reporter

Drama at Tunbridge Wells, where they had to draw lots to determine the winner of the Paddock Wood West seat.

Conservative Matthew Bailey and Labour's Raymond Moon both received the same number of votes - 289 - but Mr Bailey was elected after the pair drew lots.

The Tories have regained control of the borough council, although not all results are yet in.

The Conservatives, who have a healthy majority in Tunbridge Wells, have retained control of the council.

But Conservative Canterbury City Council leader Simon Cook has lost his seat.

The full result there is not expected until later.

The Conservatives have held on to power in Worthing, although they have lost six of their seats on the borough council.

They were defending 11 seats, with five going to Labour and one being lost to the Lib Dems

The Conservatives now have 21 seats on the council, Labour have 10 and the Lib Dems three.

The Tories needed a majority of 19 in order to keep control..

Lauren Moss
Education and social affairs correspondent, BBC South East

The Kent charity Hygiene Bank is helping families struggling to afford basic toiletries.

Stuart Maisner
BBC Live reporter

The Conservatives have lost control of Tandridge after almost two decades.

The Tories were running the council with a majority of just one, but lost six seats overnight.

Ian Marchant visits the Sussex Weald, once the epicentre of the international arms trade, owing to its ironstone reserves and subsequent iron-making expertise. It's a personal story too: 'Marchant' is one of the Sussex names associated with metal-working migrants from Belgium in the late 15th century.

Hammer and furnace ponds and former forges are now dotted about the landscape, rich habitat for wildlife, according to naturalist Richard Jones. A walk on the Weald is a treasure hunt for history-of-iron enthusiasts (of whom there are an unusual number in Sussex). They frequently come across previously undiscovered remains, some dating back to medieval times.

Ian takes a walk at Newbridge with Jeremy Hodgkinson and Roger Prus, who can interpret the bumps in the woodland that most people would pass without noticing. They might be old furnace sites or even remains of buildings used by iron workers.

He meets Emma O'Connor to explore the Anne of Cleves House collection of iron artefacts in Lewes. These range from items with military uses to all kinds of domestic and industrial products, most of which are beautifully preserved and attest to our ancestors' habits of recycling, repairing and preserving the things they owned.

Ian visits Glynde Forge, where blacksmith Ricky Delaney demonstrates the living craft of working with metal in Sussex. Will Ian discover that forging metal is in his blood?

Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery

Stuart Maisner
BBC Live reporter

The Conservatives have lost overall control of Folkestone & Hythe after 15 years in power.

The party lost 10 seats, and UKIP lost five, while Labour, the Greens and the Liberal Democrats made gains.

The arts prize faced criticism for the deal with a company linked to an anti-gay rights campaigner.

Caroline Williams
Political reporter

At the end of a long night of counting, both Labour and the Conservatives are claiming a sort of victory in Medway.

Leader of the council Alan Jarrett, though disappointed at the few losses the Conservatives experienced, saw the result as a vindication of the way he and his group has run the council and the fact that he has distanced himself from the national party.

No-one who ever heard him speak could have been in any doubt about his dissatisfaction with the way the national party was handling Brexit. For Mr Jarrett though, the low turnout was a concern.

Meanwhile leader of the Labour group Vince Maple was quietly pleased with his party’s result. They would have liked to do better, but with five extra councillors, there’s a consolidation of Labour’s position on the council.

It’s their best council result since 1997, but with a couple of near-misses in some seats, he couldn’t help but rue the ones that got away.

Medway has to all intents and purposes returned to two-party politics with UKIP gone from the council, and only a couple of independents.

Caroline Williams
Political reporter

For the Conservatives to have lost control of Folkestone and Hythe is a big story. Going into this election, the Conservative leader of the council could have been forgiven for expecting a different result to that which emerged.

Although they remain the largest party, the Conservatives are outnumbered by the opposition so will there be some sort of rainbow coalition?

How much of a factor Brexit played is up for debate, but there are local issues around housing developments that could have fed into this election.

Labour and the Greens will be celebrating making in-roads, but for UKIP their two seats tell the story of the party’s troubles at the polls.

These are the first district elections under the new name of Folkestone and Hythe, the council formerly known as Shepway changed its name in 2018. Now it’s changing its political colours too.

Jack Fiehn
Political reporter

Reflecting on the Conservative party’s losses in Tandridge, the Tory council's now former leader, Martin Fisher, who lost his seat overnight, is calling for leadership at Westminster on the issue of housing.

Although he supports the idea of new affordable homes, he says they have been under pressure to build thousands more and that means development on the green belt and he believes this has cost them seats.

There is also concern that the handling of Brexit has meant a drop in support.

The Independents and Oxted and Limpsfield Residents Group now have more power than they have ever had before in Tandridge.

But the Liberal Democrat’s also have more seats and they will certainly have a part to play in determining which parties or groups get to run this Council.

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Conservative councillors have criticised Theresa May after losing hundreds of seats in the local elections.

A council leader who lost his majority said the prime minister should "consider her position" and others said they made gains "despite" the government.

The Conservatives and Labour faced a backlash over Brexit, with smaller parties and independents taking seats.

Counting of votes continues today. Read the full story here.

A man has been arrested after two people were assaulted by a man seen carrying a machete in Shoreham.

The man and woman suffered minor injuries after the assault at a house in Stoney Lane at about 10:00 BST on Thursday.

Det Sgt David Dowells said the assaults were an "isolated incident involving two people known to the suspect". He said the victims' injuries were not caused by a machete.

A 28-year-old man was arrested at an address in Brighton on suspicion of aggravated burglary and attempted grievous bodily harm.

Laura Kuenssberg
BBC political editor

Image source, PA

It's not over - it's far, far from over.

Many hundreds of seats are yet to declare. Many individual political stories yet to be told. So be very aware - the final shape of wins and losses for the government and the main opposition is unclear.

But at this stage of the morning, there is one message to both of the main parties at Westminster from this enormous set of elections - it's not us, it's both of you.

Read more of Laura Kuenssberg's blog here.

Helen Catt
Political editor, BBC South East

In a night dominated by Brexit and the impact of Westminster politics on local elections, the Conservative loss of Tandridge stands out as something different.

Wealthy East Surrey is traditionally Tory territory but the Conservatives have seen their control there steadily ebb away over several years.

The beneficiaries have largely been Independents and Residents Groups.

It’s not Brexit that’s done that but a failure to balance house-building with concerns over the greenbelt.

That is solid Tory policy territory in the South East and could suggest there may be more for the party to worry about than their immediate Brexit concerns.

(We've re-posted this in case you missed it earlier).

Lizzie Massey
BBC Live reporter

Overnight we have seen the Tories lose overall control in Tandridge, Surrey.

In Kent, the Conservatives have lost control of Folkestone and Hythe but the party has held Medway and Dartford.

These are the estimated results times for each county in the South East:

Kent

1. Maidstone 12:45
2. Dover District 13:00
3. Ashford 14:00
4. Thanet 14:00
5. Sevenoaks 15:30
6. Swale 15:30
7. Tonbridge & Malling 16:00 -18:00
8. Canterbury City 17:00
9. Tunbridge Wells 17:00
10. Gravesham Borough 18:00

East Sussex:

1. Eastbourne 16:00
2. Rother 16:00
3. Brighton & Hove 17:00
4. Lewes 17:00
5. Wealden 17:00

West Sussex

1. Worthing 11:00
2. Chichester 12:00
3. Crawley 16:00
4. Horsham 16:00
5. Arun 16:00
6. Mid Sussex 19:00

Surrey

1. Mole Valley 15:00
2. Woking 15:00
3. Spelthorne 15:00
4. Reigate and Banstead 16:30
5. Waverley 18:00
6. Runnymede 18:00
7. Elmbridge - Unsure