Summary

  • Updates on Tuesday 17 October

Live Reporting

  1. Great Storm stories: The baby

    Stuart Maisner
    BBC Live reporter

    Andrea was born in dramatic circumstances, 30 years ago, during the Great Storm of '87.

  2. Marathon man chalks up another milestone

    Bob Dale
    BBC Live reporter

    Six months after completing the London Marathon, a disabled man from Shorne has notched up another long-distance triumph.

  3. Police concern for missing man

    Peter SparkesSussex Police

    Police and family are concerned for the welfare of 65-year-old Peter Sparkes, from Rustington.

    On Tuesday 10 October he travelled by train from Angmering to Brighton, and had told a neighbour he was going to visit relatives in Sutton, South London.

    Anyone with information should contact Sussex Police on 101 or online quoting serial 387 of 13/10.

  4. Great Storm stories: The victim

    Tanya Gupta
    BBC News Online

    Bob Homewood was killed in his bed at home when the roof collapsed during the Great Storm of '87, 30 years ago.

  5. Standing up to the body shamers

    Jonathan Morris
    BBC News Online

    This burlesque dancer and former teacher from Tonbridge has been a hit at the Bodykind Festival in Devon.

  6. Anger over Katie Hopkins festival talk

    Attempts are being made to get the controversial columnist withdrawn from Lewes Speakers Festival.

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  7. 'You can't get scared of what you can't see'

    Bob Dale
    BBC Live reporter

    The visually impaired teenager from Canterbury who's going for gold in downhill skiing at next year's Winter Paralympics.

  8. Tube drivers to vote over strike action

    London Underground drivers are considering industrial action in a dispute over career progression.

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  9. Great Storm stories: The gardener

    Stuart Maisner
    BBC Live reporter

    The landscape of the South East was decimated by the Great Storm of 87', 30 years ago.

    One Sussex garden, Wakehurst, lost 20,000 trees overnight.

  10. 'List closure' GPs ordered to stay open

    The seven practices planned to close their lists amid a shortage of doctors in Folkestone.

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  11. New laws not enough, says acid attack victim

    Bob Dale
    BBC Live reporter

    After reports of possible acid throwing in Sussex this weekend, a Reigate man scarred for life two years ago is welcoming tough new laws.

  12. House prices higher in Kent, but lower elsewhere

    Lizzie Massey
    BBC Live reporter

    House prices in more than 80% of Kent are higher, in real terms, than they were a decade ago, the BBC has discovered.

    Research shows that in one part of Tunbridge Wells prices doubled. Meanwhile in Sussex, houses in the Preston Park area of Brighton increased by 35%.

    This comes in stark contrast to the figures for all of England and Wales, which show that house prices had fallen in real terms in more than 50% of neighbourhoods.

  13. Crimewatch axed after 33 years

    Lizzie Massey
    BBC Live reporter

    Crimewatch logo

    The BBC is calling time on the night time edition of Crimewatch, after 33 years of helping police solve some of Britain's most notorious crimes.

    In 1996 a 45-year-old woman, her two daughters and dog were tied up and beaten with a hammer in a savage attack in Chillenden, Kent.

    Lin Russell and her six-year-old daughter Megan both died. Nine-year-old Josie miraculously recovered and the Crimewatch reconstruction featured a description of the attacker.

    He was identified as Michael Stone after a tip-off from a psychiatrist. Stone was sentenced to at least 25 years in prison.

    The show was first broadcast in 1984.

    The BBC will now increase the number of episodes it makes of the Crimewatch Roadshow, which will be broadcast during the day.

  14. Mother and son rescued from coastal mud

    A woman and her young child had to be rescued after getting into difficulty at Herne Bay.

    The Coastguard rescue team were called at about 16:00 BST on Sunday to help the pair who were stuck in thick mud.

    Inflatable stretchers were used to take them back to the beach.

    Both mother and son were unharmed.

    (Video from Neil Green)

  15. How should we treat the homeless?

    Do you give money or food to homeless people, or just walk on by?

    On this morning's phone-in Jeni Barnett is discussing the growing issue of homelessness.

    Join her on BBC Sussex and BBC Surrey from 09:00 BST.

  16. Thieves strip community orchard

    Bob Dale
    BBC Live reporter

    Thieves have taken almost every single apple from a community orchard, fruit that was destined for local food banks.

  17. Fancy a duvet day?

    Yasmine Djadoudi
    BBC Live reporter

    Nominated for the Turner Prize, it changed hands for over £2m.

    Now one of the world's most famous pieces of conceptual art is on display in the South East.

  18. Man fighting for his life after telephone pole smash

    Lizzie Massey
    BBC Live reporter

    A man has life-threatening injuries after the car he was driving came off the road and collided with a tree and a telephone pole.

    Surrey Police is appealing for witnesses after the crash on Prey Heath Road, Worplesdon, towards the A320 at about 21:00 BST on Monday.

    A man in his 30s was driving the blue Seat and his passenger, a man in his 40s, suffered serious injuries.

    Both men were taken to hospital.

    The road is currently closed while investigations take place.

  19. Four little miracles

    This couple were told they couldn't have children, but four babies had very different ideas.

  20. Doggy paddle comes to Saltdean Lido

    Kathryn Langley
    BBC Live reporter

    If your swimming stroke is more doggy paddle than breast stroke you'd have been right at home at Saltdean Lido this weekend.

    The art deco pool just outside Brighton celebrated the close of season by opening up to dogs and their owners.