Stuart Maisner
BBC Live reporter

That's all from us for another busy week.

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The Royal National Lifeboat Institution explains how to keep safe in the sea

Kathryn Langley
BBC Live reporter

The deaths of seven men at Camber Sands beach last summer were through misadventure, a coroner has concluded.

Image source, Rob Groves

Rob Groves, 61, is getting ready to handcycle 2,500 miles around the coast of England and Wales, starting off in Brighton this Sunday, 2 July and finishing in London on Friday, 28 July.

Read all about Rob's former life as a bodybuilder, his journey into handcycling, his aims for the ride and how you can keep up with it here.

Jane Witherspoon
BBC South East Today reporter

Legendary group The Jacksons are on their way to Sussex to play in the Love Supreme Festival in Glynde this weekend. I went to meet them.

Kathryn Langley
BBC Live reporter

British number one Johanna Konta has withdrawn from the Aegon International tournament in her home town of Eastbourne after injuring her spine.

Konta was through to the semi-finals after beating world number one Angelique Kerber yesterday, despite slipping and falling in the second set.

But today she announced she has a spinal injury and will not be able to continue.

Nina Ridge
BBC Weather

There'll be a bit of rain, some sun and reasonable temperatures. Here's my forecast.

The deaths of two men at Camber last July and five friends a month later were through misadventure.

Kathryn Langley
BBC Live reporter

Rother District Council says it has made improvements after the deaths of seven men at Camber beach last year.

In a statement, Dr Anthony Leonard, the council's executive director of business operations, said lifeguards were now in place working alongside the existing beach patrol team.

Families of some of the victims blamed the absence of lifeguards for their deaths.

Today a coroner recorded verdicts of misadventure and said it wasn't clear whether deploying lifeguards at Camber Sands would have prevented the deaths.

Stuart Maisner
BBC Live reporter

The Home Secretary and MP for Hastings and Rye Amber Rudd issued this statement following today's inquest verdict.

Image source, Reuters

Kathryn Langley
BBC Live reporter

The sister of one of the men who died at Camber last summer has told a press conference the beach wasn't safe.

Earlier a coroner concluded the deaths of seven men there were due to misadventure.

The coroner said it was "not known" whether having lifeguards at the time would have prevented the deaths.

Rother District Council said it has made improvements "year on year" at Camber in response to risks identified. But even with lifeguards, the council said the sea can be unpredictable.

Kathryn Langley
BBC Live reporter

A lawyer for relatives of a group of five men who died at Camber has told a press conference Rother District Council still has questions to answer.

The young men died in August last year, just a month after two other men drowned in the same area.

A coroner has concluded all seven deaths were due to misadventure.

The coroner said it wasn't clear whether deploying lifeguards at Camber Sands would have prevented the deaths.

Rother District Council said it has made improvements "year on year" at Camber in response to risks identified.

Dr Anthony Leonard, the council's executive director of business operations, said lifeguards were now in place working alongside the existing beach patrol team.

He said in a statement: "Like their families, we would not want anyone else to have to suffer the tragedy of losing a loved one in these circumstances."

Five men who died at Camber Sands could have got into trouble as the tide came in, an inquest hears.

Stuart Maisner
BBC Live reporter

The deaths of seven men at Camber Sands last summer were through misadventure, a coroner has concluded. Here's some of the evidence the inquest was given.

Crawley sign ex-Newport midfielder Mark Randall on a two-year deal and Doncaster defender Cedric Evina on loan.

Kathryn Langley
BBC Live reporter

The deaths of seven men at Camber Sands beach last summer were through misadventure, a coroner has concluded.

Tragedy struck as Mohit Dupar, 36, tried to reach Brazilian Gustavo Silva Da Cruz, 19, as he got into difficulty on 24 July, but both died.

A month later five young friends aged between 18 and 27 drowned at the same beach after being seen playing volleyball in the sea.

Simon Boxall from the National Oceanography Centre gave evidence at the inquest.

As the inquest into seven men's deaths at Camber Sands ends, the BBC looks at what happened.

Bob Dale
BBC Live reporter

• Camber Sands gets 1.5M visitors a year, with as many as 25,000 on a busy summer day.
• It's three miles long and stretches half a mile out to sea.
• Swimmers' safety is controlled with yellow, orange or red flags, although risk assessment's in 2013 and 2016 recommended that Rother District Council should consider lifeguards.
• On August 24 2016, the day of the tragedy which cost the five men their lives, there was no rip tide, but the current would have been strong, moving at a metre a second, about 2mph, towards the beach.
• At that speed, a sandbar could be covered in three feet of water inside 15 minutes. The power of the current would have been the equivalent of 2 tonnes of water pushing against someone in the water.
• There were no fatalities at Camber between 1974 and 2012, but since then nine people have died, including the seven men who were killed last summer.
• Since then a daily lifeguard patrol of six has been introduced.

Image source, PA

Bryony MacKenzie
BBC South East Today correspondent

'Death by misadventure' verdict at the inquest on all seven people who died at Camber Sands last summer.

Elizabeth Rizzini
BBC Weather

Sunshine and showers throughout the South East, but it looks dry for Saturday.