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  • Updates on Tuesday 3 October

  1. Rail strikes: What you need to knowpublished at 13:47 British Summer Time 4 October 2017

    As rail strike action continues across England here are some answers to your questions.

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  2. That's it from uspublished at 22:00 British Summer Time 3 October 2017

    Yasmine Djadoudi
    BBC Live reporter

    We're finished for the evening but we'll be back from 06:00 BST tomorrow with all your news, travel, sport and weather.

    Is there anything you'd like to tell us about?

    You can get in touch on Twitter, external, on Facebook, external or by sending us an email.

  3. Dutch man unearths message in a bottle from Kent manpublished at 21:52 British Summer Time 3 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.

  4. Road to recoverypublished at 21:34 British Summer Time 3 October 2017

    Bob Dale
    BBC Live reporter

    These young people, who are facing serious illness or bereavement, are learning to cope and grow with the help of a breast cancer survivor.

  5. Stevens and Tredwell sign Kent dealspublished at 21:19 British Summer Time 3 October 2017

    Veteran Kent all-rounder Darren Stevens and spinner James Tredwell extend their contracts with the club.

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  6. Amputee teen racer completes charity walkpublished at 21:00 British Summer Time 3 October 2017

    Stuart Maisner
    BBC Live reporter

    Billy Monger, who lost both legs in a crash, has walked the pit lane at Brands Hatch to raise money for the air ambulance that helped him.

  7. #PhotoOfTheDay regulars: Meet Scottpublished at 21:00 British Summer Time 3 October 2017

    Stuart Maisner
    BBC Live reporter

    Meet the former policeman with a rare neuromuscular disease who's now an award-winning amateur photographer.

    Scott Sinden is the latest to appear in our series meeting our #PhotoOfTheDay regulars.

  8. Bug from Europe threatens Kent's pear croppublished at 20:43 British Summer Time 3 October 2017

    Hamish Mureddu-Reid
    BBC News Online, South East

    A tiny insect which has devastated pear crops in Europe has been found in Kent for the first time.

    The Anthonomus Spilotus bug was identified by scientists at East Malling Research using a French text book published in the 1930s.

    Farmers say up to a quarter of their pear crop is being destroyed by the insect.

  9. Flu jab pleapublished at 20:20 British Summer Time 3 October 2017

    Yasmine Djadoudi
    BBC Live reporter

    Vulnerable people across the South East could die unless more people take up the free flu jab.

    That's the stark warning from NHS managers.

  10. Wednesday's weatherpublished at 20:01 British Summer Time 3 October 2017

    Rachel Mackley
    Weather Presenter, BBC South East

    It's a sunny start, but what does the rest of the day have in store?

  11. Driver admits hit-and-run viewed by 3mpublished at 19:39 British Summer Time 3 October 2017

    Millions have viewed CCTV footage of a crash in which the driver "left his victim for dead".

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  12. Rail strikes hit services across Englandpublished at 18:19 British Summer Time 3 October 2017

    RMT strike action is hitting Southern, Merseyrail, Arriva Rail North and Greater Anglia services.

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  13. Mother wrongly accused of drugging her babypublished at 16:06 British Summer Time 3 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.

  14. Sixty seconds with the PMpublished at 15:13 British Summer Time 3 October 2017

    Helen Catt
    Political editor, BBC South East

    Ahead of her speech to the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, I spoke to Prime Minister Theresa May about elections, the economy and rail strikes.

  15. Stags reject Gills approach for Evanspublished at 13:45 British Summer Time 3 October 2017

    Mansfield Town reject an approach from League One strugglers Gillingham to speak to manager Steve Evans.

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  16. Council ramps up pressure on governmentpublished at 13:34 British Summer Time 3 October 2017

    Helen Catt
    Political editor, BBC South East

    It's a tactic you would expect from the opposition.

    But as Theresa May and her Cabinet focus on unity and how she intends to build a "country that works for everyone", this is another Tory council which is telling her that it just doesn't.

    Quite apart from launching its campaign slap-bang in the middle of party conference, East Sussex County Council is also using the method the Conservatives currently fear most: social media.

    All in all, it feels like a pretty hard-ball approach from a council that's only just come back into Conservative control.

  17. 'We're at the point where we're going to be cutting into front line services'published at 13:14 British Summer Time 3 October 2017

    Bob Dale
    BBC Live reporter

    After £112m of cuts since 2010, and with a further £58m in savings to be found in the next four years, East Sussex County Council is now calling on the government to provide more money for local services.

    It's launched an online petition, external, asking the government for "an urgent re-think about the resources it gives to East Sussex and the real difficulties that cuts in funding mean for many people who live here."

  18. How impersonating the King helps Kent man's bipolarpublished at 12:39 British Summer Time 3 October 2017

    Yasmine Djadoudi
    BBC Live reporter

    Aaron Richie from Deal uses music and performing as a way to cope with his Bipolar disorder.

  19. Monarch collapse fails to stop weddingpublished at 12:12 British Summer Time 3 October 2017

    The couple and half their guests find replacement flights to take them to Gran Canaria.

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  20. Newly elected UKIP leader talks about changes in communitiespublished at 11:52 British Summer Time 3 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.

    He spoke with Natalie Graham about reversing UKIP's electoral decline.