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  • Live updates on Thursday 14 September

Live Reporting

  1. Widow calls for schools asbestos register

    Kathryn Langley
    BBC Live reporter

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    A widow from Uckfield will join health professionals and legal experts in Chatham later at a seminar about asbestos-related illness.

    Clair York's husband Brian was exposed to asbestos during his time as a teacher in East Grinstead.

    She will join charity Mesothelioma UK in renewing calls for a national "at risk" register for schools where asbestos is present.

    In the past 10 years 140 teachers have died as a result of similar exposure.

  2. A treasure trove of memories

    Yasmine Djadoudi
    BBC Live reporter

    They say today's news is tomorrow's fish and chip paper and in Brighton and Hove one of the city's newspaper archives nearly went that way, until one local man stepped in to save it.

    You can see more on this story on Inside Out on BBC iPlayer here.

  3. 'We thought the door was opening by itself'

    Ian Palmer
    Reporter, BBC South East Today

    A Burgess Hill couple's dream honeymoon in Florida was rudely interrupted by Hurricane Irma.

  4. Sussex MP's family threatened

    Wealden MP Nus Ghani says since she was elected she and her family have receieved online threats from radicals.

    Nearly half the MPs who responed to a BBC South East Today questionnaire reported receiving death threats.

  5. Sussex's local newspaper headlines

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    The Argus: A mother fears someone tried to snatch her four-month-old baby while she was shopping in a supermarket.

    West Sussex County Times: Police are hunting a knifeman who racially abused and threatened a taxi driver in Billingshurst at the weekend.

    Eastbourne Herald: Gold for Eastbourne windsurfers at national championships

    Crawley Observer: ‘Beloved’ family dog killed in fire was about to appear in a musical

  6. Who wears the trousers?

    Bob Dale
    BBC Live reporter

    Should every child have to wear trousers to school?

    A Lewes headteacher has introduced a "gender neutral" uniform, and it's sharply dividing opinion.

  7. Lewes MP: 'End the public sector pay cap'

    Kathryn Langley
    BBC Live reporter

    A Sussex Conservative MP, who continues to work as an NHS nurse, says the time has come to end the public sector pay cap.

    Lewes MP Maria Caulfield argues the banding system is used to "downgrade nurses and pay them the least amount of money as possible".

  8. Half a billion development proposed for Hastings

    Bob Dale
    BBC Live reporter

    Developers are promising Hastings a golden future, with a new harbour and marina bringing hundreds of millions of pounds to the town.

  9. Look out for more rainbows today

    Elizabeth Rizzini
    BBC Look East weather

    It's going to be another day of sunny spells and showers.

    Here's my latest forecast.

  10. A midnight train going anywhere

    We loved this shot of a train heading over the Ouse Valley viaduct by Adrian Backshall. It's our #PhotoOfTheDay (and a great excuse to quote Journey).

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