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  • Updates on Monday 2 October

  1. That's it for todaypublished at 22:00 British Summer Time 2 October 2017

    Yasmine Djadoudi
    BBC Live reporter

    Thanks for joining us - we'll be back tomorrow from 06:00 BST with all your news, travel, sport and weather.

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  2. Work with 'gorgeous EU women', MP sayspublished at 21:55 British Summer Time 2 October 2017

    Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay has been branded "misogynistic" and "patronising" by other MPs.

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  3. Mother wrongly accused of drugging her babypublished at 21:54 British Summer Time 2 October 2017

    A young mother says she feared she would never see her sick baby again after she was wrongly accused of drugging her.

    Emma Chatfield says she was handcuffed on a hospital ward, locked up for several hours and not allowed to see her baby daughter Freya for three days.

    Emma, who's from Margate, says she's angry with both the police and the hospital for the way she was treated.

  4. Dutch man unearths message in a bottle from Kent manpublished at 21:43 British Summer Time 2 October 2017

    Yasmine Djadoudi
    BBC Live reporter

    A radio presenter from the Netherlands has discovered a message in a bottle from a Kent man who penned it 30 years ago at the age of five.

  5. Take a trip through Sussexpublished at 21:32 British Summer Time 2 October 2017

    Check out this poem called Twitten by James Brookes, which was written for last week's National Poetry day.

    It's been spoken by the people of Brighton and was commissioned by BBC Local Radio.

    #freetheword

  6. Newly elected UKIP leader talks about changes in communitiespublished at 21:20 British Summer Time 2 October 2017

    Yasmine Djadoudi
    BBC Live reporter

    Henry Bolton, who is a former army officer from Folkestone, has been elected the new leader of UKIP. Tonight he spoke with Natalie Graham about reversing UKIP's electoral decline.

  7. Work with "gorgeous women", MP sayspublished at 21:05 British Summer Time 2 October 2017

    Hamish Mureddu-Reid
    BBC News Online, South East

    Craig Mackinlay

    Craig Mackinlay, the MP for South Thanet, has been reported claiming unemployed young people should "get on their bikes" and take a job farm-working alongside "gorgeous EU women".

    He told a fringe meeting at the Conservatives' conference in Manchester that British youngsters should show the same motivation to work as low-skilled workers from elsewhere in Europe, the Business Insider reported.

    "I was struggling to think why wouldn't a youngster from Glasgow without a job come down to the south to work for a farm for the summer with loads of gorgeous EU women working there?", he was quoted as saying.

    "What's not to like? Get on your bike and find a job."

    Mr Mackinlay said his "flippant" remarks had been taken out of context and he was saying people in the UK should be more willing to move to find work.

  8. Chilly start to Tuesdaypublished at 20:36 British Summer Time 2 October 2017

    Rachel Mackley
    Weather Presenter, BBC South East

    The weather will remain on the cool side over the next couple of days.

  9. 'Devastation' at Monarch collapsepublished at 20:35 British Summer Time 2 October 2017

    Holidaymakers arrive at airports to find their flights cancelled and staff are made redundant by email.

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  10. The Eastbourne exhibition looking at British landscapes in very different lightpublished at 20:23 British Summer Time 2 October 2017

    Yasmine Djadoudi
    BBC Live reporter

    The latest exhibition at Eastbourne's Towner Gallery consists of more than 50 artists, each taking a hard look at the landscapes that surround us and our impact on them.

  11. 'Tears' as wedding flight cancelledpublished at 19:52 British Summer Time 2 October 2017

    The bride and groom-to-be were about to board their flight to Gran Canaria.

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  12. Pier charity in 'financial difficulties'published at 19:38 British Summer Time 2 October 2017

    Shareholders are told the Hastings Pier Charity made insufficient money this summer to cover costs.

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  13. Could cold water swimming change your life?published at 18:55 British Summer Time 2 October 2017

    Kathryn Langley
    BBC Live reporter

    Researchers in Brighton are planning to launch a sea swimming course for patients experiencing mental health issues.

    They believe putting the body through such stress helps reduce inflammation, which is closely related to mental health.

    If they can agree funding the trial will get underway next summer.

  14. Hastings Pier facing 'financial difficulties'published at 18:30 British Summer Time 2 October 2017

    Sue Nicholson
    BBC News

    Hastings Pier

    The charity that runs Hastings Pier has revealed it made insufficient money this summer to cover costs and will have to make some staff redundant.

    In a letter to shareholders, chair of the trustees Maria Ludkin, said: "As ever, we were up against the weather."

    She said trustees had been looking at what had been successful this year and were working on a new business plan for the pier with a restructuring expert.

    Cuts would be in areas which will "be fundamentally altered in the future".

    The 19th century pier was almost destroyed by a fire in 2010.

    Six years later, following a two-year restoration project, it was officially reopened to the public.

    Earlier this year, it was voted Pier of the Year in a competition judged by the National Piers Society.

  15. Marriage fraud victim from Kent 'let down' by Home Officepublished at 17:42 British Summer Time 2 October 2017

    Yasmine Djadoudi
    BBC Live reporter

    A woman whose husband only married her to secure a UK visa says the ordeal has left her feeling suicidal and that her pleas to get him deported have amounted to nothing.

  16. Pothole pain for motoristpublished at 17:23 British Summer Time 2 October 2017

    Bob Dale
    BBC Live reporter

    A pre-winter blitz on Kent's potholes has come too late for one motorist.

  17. Driver badly injured in Haslemerepublished at 17:08 British Summer Time 2 October 2017

    Bob Dale
    BBC Live reporter

    A man in his 80s is in hospital in London, after his car hit a brick wall and another car in Haslemere.

    It happened around 12:15 BST on Saturday, in Lower Street.

    It involved the elderly man's Honda Jazz and a Ford Focus.

    He's been taken to St George's Hospital in Tooting, while a passenger in the Focus suffered minor injuries.

  18. Prickly warning about hedgehogspublished at 16:42 British Summer Time 2 October 2017

    Yasmine Djadoudi
    BBC Live reporter

    Queen guitarist Brian May has visited school children to tell them why hedgehogs should be protected.

  19. Roundabout collision puts woman in hospitalpublished at 16:22 British Summer Time 2 October 2017

    Bob Dale
    BBC Live reporter

    A woman's in hospital with serious injuries, after her car hit a barrier in Lightwater.

    It happened on Saturday morning, on a roundabout in Broadway Road, near the Gordon School.

    The woman's been taken to St George's Hospital in Tooting.

  20. More of a handful than your average kittenpublished at 15:55 British Summer Time 2 October 2017

    Hamish Mureddu-Reid
    BBC News Online, South East

    This jaguar cub is about to move home, after spending her first few weeks living with humans.