Brighton bin fine: 'I think it's entrapment'published at 14:57 Greenwich Mean Time 28 November 2017
A Brighton businessman says he's ready to go to court over a row between him and Brighton City Council about a single cardboard box.
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Brighton bin fine: 'I think it's entrapment'published at 14:57 Greenwich Mean Time 28 November 2017
Injuries as car crashes into pubpublished at 13:55 Greenwich Mean Time 28 November 2017
Stuart Maisner
BBC Live reporterA 24-year-old man has been charged with nine offences after a car crashed into a pub in New Romney.
Man dies after playground stabbingpublished at 13:23 Greenwich Mean Time 28 November 2017
Police are investigating after the death of a man who was stabbed in a playground.
Officers were called to Cherry Lane Adventure Playground in Cherry Lane, Crawley, at about 10:30 GMT on Tuesday 28 November.
A man believed to be in his 60s was treated by paramedics for serious injuries, but was later pronounced dead.
The scene was cordoned off while forensics were carried out, and police are appealing for witnesses.
A 22-year-old man from Crawley has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
Jail for Brighton hit and run driverpublished at 13:06 Greenwich Mean Time 28 November 2017
A man's been jailed for six-and-a-half-years for this hit and run attack.
Adam McDermott was guilty of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and perverting the course of justice.
Should reindeer be banned from Christmas fairs?published at 12:20 Greenwich Mean Time 28 November 2017
Stuart Maisner
BBC Live reporterLeeds Castle has defended its use of reindeer as part of its Christmas events after the animal charity PETA wrote to the Kent attraction urging it to stop using them.
Lighthouse images to go under the hammerpublished at 11:31 Greenwich Mean Time 28 November 2017
Kathryn Langley
BBC Live reporterThis collection of never-before-seen images of the Beachy Head lighthouse are to be sold at auction.
The slides were taken between 1900 and 1902 and show workers scaling rickety ladders down the cliff face as well as taking a cable car down to the construction site.
The lot goes under the hammer in Cornwall on Thursday and is expected to fetch up to £5,000.
Former Crawley boss Drummy dies aged 56published at 11:00 Greenwich Mean Time 28 November 2017
Former Crawley Town manager Dermot Drummy dies at the age of 56.
Read MoreParents in special needs school rowpublished at 10:19 Greenwich Mean Time 28 November 2017
Lauren Moss
Education and social affairs correspondent, BBC South EastCouncil failures to place autistic children in suitable schools have left some out of education for years, according to parents in East Sussex.
Fraudster ex-councillor avoids jailpublished at 09:56 Greenwich Mean Time 28 November 2017
Bob Dale
BBC Live reporterA former councillor from north Kent has been given a suspended sentence for benefit fraud, after investigators filmed him carrying out tasks he claimed he was incapable of.
Seagulls mural vandalisedpublished at 09:05 Greenwich Mean Time 28 November 2017
Kathryn Langley
BBC Live reporter
Image source, Jon AdamsA giant mural of Brighton and Hove Albion captain Bruno has been daubed with red paint overnight.
The picture, which is on the side of ice cream shop Gelato Gusto in the North Laine, was originally unveiled in September.
The paint was discovered by the shop's owner on Tuesday 28 November.
The Seagulls take on Crystal Palace at the Amex tonight at 19:45 GMT.
Quote MessageWhen I arrived at the shop this morning there was still red paint running down the walls. The council guys have done a pretty amazing job in cleaning it up but there are still remnants of paint there.
Quote MessageThe mural's so good for morale and for the city as a whole. It's just really sad and a real shame when things like this happen."
Jon Adams, Owner, Gelato Gusto
CCTV image released of missing teenagerpublished at 08:55 Greenwich Mean Time 28 November 2017
Image source, Thames Valley PolicePolice have issued CCTV images of a missing teenager with a man in Kent.
Alex Willoughby, 17, who is from Cowley in Oxford, is pictured in Canterbury at about 17:30 GMT on Thursday 23 November.
She was last seen in Verbena Way, Oxford, at about 21:00 GMT on Tuesday 14 November.
Alex is from Oxford but also has links to Kent and Thames Valley Police think that Alex has used public transport in the last week.
Quote MessageAs well as Canterbury, Alex also has connections to other areas in Kent, specifically Faversham, Whitstable, Sandwich, Margate and Sheerness. I would urge residents to keep a look out for Alex and the man she is seen with in the CCTV. If you see them please contact police immediately."
Superintendent Joe Kidman, Thames Valley Police
Wanted: Suspected rapist fails to attend courtpublished at 08:43 Greenwich Mean Time 28 November 2017
Yasmine Djadoudi
BBC Live reporterPolice are looking for a man charged with a string of sexual offences, after he failed to appear at court.
Image source, Sussex PoliceStephen Beal, 54, of Claremont Road, Seaford, is charged with a total of eight historic sexual offences including rape.
A warrant has been issued for his arrest after he failed to attend Lewes Crown Court on 30 October.
Beal was last seen in Staffordshire and is also known to have links to Cambridgeshire.
New patrols to stop river deathspublished at 07:57 Greenwich Mean Time 28 November 2017
Stuart Maisner
BBC Live reporterNight-time patrols on the River Medway are being launched for the first time in the run up to Christmas to try to prevent revellers drowning.
BA owner wins Monarch's Gatwick slotspublished at 23:47 Greenwich Mean Time 27 November 2017
Airline group IAG has secured most of the collapsed carrier's take-off slots at Gatwick.
Read MoreMan died from too-tight hospital bandagepublished at 21:32 Greenwich Mean Time 27 November 2017
Paul Gander, a district councillor for 10 years, died after having a heart bypass operation.
Read MoreCall for objections to 'dirty oil' planspublished at 20:52 Greenwich Mean Time 27 November 2017
Cuadrilla Resources drilled a well in Balcombe in 2013 to test for oil flow.
Read MoreFormer councillor avoids jailpublished at 20:22 Greenwich Mean Time 27 November 2017
Bob Dale
BBC Live reporterA former councillor from north Kent has been given a suspended sentence for benefit fraud, after investigators filmed him carrying out tasks he claimed he was incapable of.
Brothers quit city job to make modelspublished at 19:35 Greenwich Mean Time 27 November 2017
Bob Dale
BBC Live reporterBrothers Gavin and Robert Paisley gave up their jobs in the city and set up business in the Ashdown Forest, making precise plaster cast miniature versions of famous buildings.
Former councillor sentenced for fraudpublished at 18:51 Greenwich Mean Time 27 November 2017
Robert Woodbridge claimed disability allowance, but was filmed pushing a wheelbarrow near his home.
Read MoreNo misconduct in police restraint deathpublished at 17:54 Greenwich Mean Time 27 November 2017
Sean Wilkes died after a house party when members of the public and then four officers restrained him.
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