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  • Updates on Tuesday 1 November

Live Reporting

  1. Good night from Sussex Live

    Stuart Maisner
    BBC Live reporter

    That's all for our live coverage today, thanks for joining us!

    We'll be back tomorrow at 06:00 GMT with all the news, travel, weather and sport for the county.

    Remember you can send us your news, videos or pictures on Twitter, on Facebook or by sending us an email.

  2. £600,000 funding to help the severely impaired

    Claire Cottingham
    BBC Live reporter

    A Hastings arts organisation has been awarded a major grant to help disabled people, after winning wide recognition for its pioneering approach to visual art created by people with severe physical and mental impairments.

  3. Coperforma: 'We've agreed an exit arrangement'

    Stuart Maisner
    BBC Live reporter

    The private company responsible for non-emergency ambulance services in Sussex has lost its £90m  contract for 'unacceptable levels of performance'. 

  4. Man died trying in vain to save sea swimmer

    A man died after trying to rescue a day-tripper from the sea at Camber Sands a month before five friends died at the same beach, an inquest hears.

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  5. Temperatures finally set to drop

    Rachel Mackley
    Weather Presenter

    Frosty start, but a clear and crisp morning - here is my forecast for tomorrow.   

  6. Southern dispute: Both sides remain entrenched

    Stuart Maisner
    BBC Live reporter

    Hundreds of members of the RMT Union descended on Parliament today to protest against changes to the role of conductors 

  7. No trains from Brighton to Haywards Heath
    Breaking

    Urgent repairs to the track mean that trains currently can't run from Brighton and Lewes towards Haywards Heath.

    There are also delays along the same line going in the other direction, although services are running.

    Disruption is expected to last until the end of the day.

    One of our reporters in Brighton just sent this video of queuing passengers.

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  8. Sussex Jockey happy to see Crowley on the mend

    Claire Cottingham
    BBC Live reporter

    Sussex jockey Jamie Moore says he's happy to see Pullborough's Jim Crowley discharged from hospital after a 4-horse pile-up at Kempton yesterday. 

    Freddie Tylicki remains in a stable condition in intensive care with suspected spinal injuries, but racing continues at 4 courses - including Kempton park- today.  

    Jim Crowley was crowned British flat racing's champion jockey earlier in OctoberGetty Images

  9. Police searching for wanted Crawley man

    Stuart Maisner
    BBC Live reporter

    Sussex Police are searching for Johnny Glasheen, 30, concerning breaches of bail during enquiries into an alleged assault at an address in Crawley.

    Glasheen, also known as Johnny Martin Lee, may be in the Crawley area but also has links with Brighton and the Midlands. 

    He may be driving a white pick-up truck. He has an Irish accent.

    Johnny GlasheenSussex Police

  10. 'It was just another job because Harry Potter wasn't famous'

    Briohny Williams
    Reporter, BBC South East Today

    An exhibition of Harry Potter artwork went on display in Sheffield Green today. I spoke to illustrator Cliff Wright, the man who drew two of the covers of JK Rowling's famous books.

  11. Do you know anything about this bike?

    Kathryn Langley
    BBC Live reporter

    This motorbike was involved in a collision with a car in Littlehampton. 

    The bike was abandoned after the crash at 16:10 BST on 28 October. 

    Police say it happened at the junctions of the A259 Worthing Road and Highdown Drive, and they're looking for witnesses. 

    Broken motorbikeSussex Police

  12. Camber inquests: 'Neither man was a strong swimmer'

    Natalie Graham
    South East Today reporter

    An inquest has been hearing how two men died after getting into difficulties in the sea at Camber Sands on one of the busiest days of the year.  

    I'm at inquest into the deaths of Gustavo Silva da Cruz and Mohit Dupar.

  13. ICYMI: 'Prince Harry has a lot to learn about goalkeeping'

    Claire Cottingham
    BBC Live reporter

    Luckily he has a full time job... 

    Great Britain goalkeeper Maddie Hinch says Prince Harry has a lot to learn if he ever wants to become a hockey keeper. 

    Olympic champions Hinch and former East Grinstead player Sophie Bray have recalled their time at the Palace with the Royal family and it seems Maddie was less than impressed at his impressions...

  14. Coperforma loses hospital contract

    A patient transport service criticised over delays in taking patients to hospital in Sussex loses its contract.

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  15. Get those jumpers out!

    Lucy Martin
    BBC Weather

    Autumn's arrived this week!

    Here's my forecast.

  16. Coperforma: So how did we get to this point?

    Ben Weisz
    Political reporter, BBC Sussex

    With the hospital patient transport service service for Sussex, Coperforma, losing its contract, I've been looking at how this chain of events came about.

  17. Lucas: 'Ministers must be held to account'

    Caroline Lucas

    Brighton Pavilion MP and Green Party co-leader, Caroline Lucas, says the Coperforma saga shows a need for new powers for the health regulators.

    This service should never have been outsourced to the private sector in the first place and patients and staff will be relieved that at last there is a plan to bring the service back into the NHS.

    There are some very grave questions to be asked about how it was possible for a fleet of 30 ambulances to be run without a licence during the summer. Ministers must be held to account for this appalling patient transport scandal that has gone on for 7 months. I believe we may need new powers from Parliament to give the regulators the teeth to stop this happening again."

  18. Coperforma: 'It's been a long time coming'

    Ben Weisz
    Political reporter, BBC Sussex

    Ambulance

    1st April 2017. Put it in your diary. That’s when the South Central Ambulance Service will formally take over Sussex’s beleaguered patient transport service from Coperforma.

    For some, it’s been a long time coming. Delays for patients and drivers’ frustrations with awkward technology seemingly abating, only to be replaced by serious concerns about some of the ambulance firms Coperforma hired to transport its patients.

    When news broke this morning, it took some at Coperforma by surprise. But I understand its management has signed off on the transfer.

    That transfer will be gradual, over a period of months. Unions, MPs and patients alike will be watching closely, hoping it is far smoother than it was this spring.

  19. CCTV image released after assault on two boys

    Kathryn Langley
    BBC Live reporter

    Investigations are continuing after two young boys were sexually assaulted in an alleyway in Brighton.

  20. 'We think many Conservative MPs are instrumental in keeping this dispute going'

    Bob Dale
    BBC Live reporter

    Striking rail workers will stage a lunchtime demonstration outside Parliament, as their dispute with Southern over the future role of guards continues.