Summary

  • Our live coverage has now ended

  • Live updates on Friday 24 March

Live Reporting

  1. The victims of the Westminster terror attack

    The stories of Khalid Masood's victims reveal the diversity of London and its visitors.

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  2. Police appeal over Westminster attacker

    Police seek the public's help in establishing if Westminster attacker Khalid Masood acted alone.

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  3. Good night from the BBC Live team

    Tom Darby
    BBC Live reporter

    That's all from us for another week, we'll be back on Monday from 06:00 GMT with more of the county's news, sport, travel and weather.

    Thanks for joining us, and have a lovely weekend.

  4. Views sought on Hastings street drinking

    Kathryn Langley
    BBC Live reporter

    People in Hastings are being asked for their views on banning begging and street drinking in the town centre.

    It's after complaints antisocial behaviour is having a serious impact on businesses and the local economy. 

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  5. Train complaints soar

    Kathryn Langley
    BBC Live reporter

    Southern trainPA

    Passenger complaints about trains operated by Southern rail's parent company soared at the end of last year, according to new figures. 

    Four times as many complaints were received by Govia Thameslink Railway between October and December, compared to the same period a year earlier. 

    The operator says the figures are "disappointing but not surprising" in light of industrial action. 

    It claims complaint rates have since started to fall as the performance of its trains has improved. 

  6. It's Red Nose Day!

    To celebrate, we asked Crawley comedian Romesh Ranganathan to give us a joke.  

    We'd love to hear what you've done to raise money for Comic Relief. Let us know on  Twitter , on  Facebook , or by sending us an  email .    

  7. A lovely but slightly chilly weekend

    Sarah Keith-Lucas
    Weather presenter

    It'll be dry and bright. But wrap up warm in those chilly winds.   

  8. The Seagulls' promotion race: Your thoughts

    Johnny Cantor
    BBC Sussex commentator

    Brighton and Hove Albion have just eight games to secure automatic promotion to the Premier League. 

    So how are Seagulls supporters across the globe feeling ahead of the Championship run-in?

    We’ve been asking for your videos. 

    Here's another of our friends from Seagulls Downunder . Richard Parker lives in Auckland, New Zealand.

    If you'd like to send us your thoughts in 45 seconds, email me at  sussexsport@bbc.co.uk

  9. Dame Vera Lynn becomes first ever 100-year-old to hit the charts

    Vera LynnDecca Records/PA

    Dame Vera Lynn, who celebrated her 100th birthday this week, has become the first 100-year-old to have an album not only in the Official UK Album Charts, but in the Top 3. 

    Vera Lynn dominated the charts when they first launched in 1952. 65 years ago the 'Forces' Sweetheart' had three singles in the Top 10 simultaneously. 

  10. Westminster attacker: The Northiam years

    Stuart Maisner
    BBC Live reporter

    The Westminster terrorist, Khalid Masood, lived in Northiam for a while, on the Sussex-Kent border, where he attacked an innocent man with a knife in the village pub.

  11. Westminster attacker: 'Pleasant kid'

    The Westminster killer, Khalid Masood has been described as a 'pleasant kid'. John Harvey went to school with Masood in Tunbridge Wells. 

  12. Westminster attacker described as violent cocaine user by former acquaintance

    A man who claimed he knew Westminster terror suspect Khalid Masood, when he was known as Adrian Elms, as a casual acquaintance in the early 2000s in Eastbourne told the BBC that he was a cocaine abuser with a reputation for violence. 

    The 41-year-old former electrician, who did not want to be named, said: 

    I first met him in a pub around Christmas Eve 2001 around the time my father died. I was introduced to him as 'black Ady'. We weren't good friends. I believe he had just got out of jail at the time. Some mutual friends had had a call from his cousin saying 'this guy has just got out of prison, come meet him, he's alright.' I didn't speak to him much that evening. He was very polite. He was an angry guy, you could tell. He wasn't the kind of guy you would want to upset. I didn't see him again for a few months, by then he was living temporarily with a friend."

    He described visiting them both in the flat they shared in Eastbourne between 2002- 2003.

    The next time I saw him it was summer 2002 then he was on steroids, though he wasn't huge. There was a brothel a few doors down and I remember Ady saying he had seen prostitutes sleeping in the back garden. He didn't talk much. One time I noticed a Koran and I made a joke like: 'Are you reading that?' He did not seem the religious type at all. He never talked about religion ever. He took quite a lot of cocaine and he seemed to like women with pink hair . He had one girlfriend, maybe she was his wife later on, and she had silicone breasts., So I didn't think he was a religious Muslim at all. But I spoke to my friend who lived with him for a while and he said he used to read the Koran all the time." He continued: 'He was really polite. Everyone who met him said he was really polite, but he had a reputation for being a bit of a psychopath. He was in a pub one night and two guys were playing pool something was said and he battered them both with pool cues."

    He described a minor mix-up over whether they had accidentally dated the same woman. 

    It wasn't the same girl but they worked in the same shop that was how it happened. When it got cleared up Ady said something like: 'If I didn't know you, I would stab you in the face'. I mean he was joking, then he stabbed that guy Dan Smith in the face."

    The pair lost touch in the mid 2000s until he noticed the name 'Adrian Elms' in a newspaper report following the attack on Wednesday.

    I saw the name, but the photo didn't look like him. Then I messaged a friend of Facebook and he was like 'yeah, that's the same guy, that's Ady'."

  13. Puppy stolen during Barnham break-in

    A 13-week-old puppy called Barney has been stolen from a house in Barnham, as well as a blue Vauxhall Meriva car - later found set alight - two laptop computers, £400 cash and a handbag.  

    Stolen puppySussex Police

    The Golden Retriever puppy was taken during the burglary that happen in the early hours of Thursday morning 23 March.  

  14. A settled picture for the weekend

    Elizabeth Rizzini
    Weather presenter

    It'll stay dry with some brightness for the weekend, although a bit breezy at times. 

  15. Westminster terrorist with South East links

    The man who killed at least four people in an attack in London was born in Kent, and was previously jailed over a knife crime in Eastbourne.

    Before he ploughed a rented car through pedestrians on Westminster Bridge and fatally stabbed a police officer outside Parliament, Khalid Masood, was born in Dartford under the name Adrian Russell Elms. 

  16. Arson damages school near Arundel

    Arson damages school near ArundelSussex Police

    Extensive damage has been caused to a primary school in Yapton. 

    The fire started around 02:00 GMT on Saturday March 11 in a bin next to the school on North End Road and caused extensive damage to the building and playground.

  17. 'First picture' of Westminster attacker revealed

    This photo of Huntleys School for Boys football team in Tunbridge Wells is believed to include Westminster attacker Khalid Masood. 

    At the time he was called Adrian Ajao.

    Adrian AjaoHuntleys School for Boys

  18. Hotel room Westminster attacker stayed in

    This is the room Khalid Masood stayed in at Preston Park Hotel before carrying out an attack on London.

  19. 'He was calm, yet he was on his way to commit mass murder'

    Juliette Parkin
    BBC South East Today reporter

    Michael Petersen told me he met the London attacker at a hotel in Brighton the day before it happened.

  20. Hotel manager says attacker 'checked out peacefully'

    Khalid Masood stayed at the Preston Park Hotel in Brighton before he travelled to Westminster to launch his attack.

    The hotel's manager, Sabeur Tuomi, said he was "joking and smiling" and "checked out peacefully".