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  • News, sport, weather and travel updates for the South East of England

  1. Join me on BBC Sussex and BBC Surreypublished at 08:25 Greenwich Mean Time 20 December 2017

    Danny Pike
    Presenter, BBC Sussex and Surrey

    This morning I'll be talking to a mum of deaf twins who has criticised Odeon Cinema after it failed to show the subtitled version of Star Wars which was billed on their tickets.

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  2. Today's local newspaper headlinespublished at 07:54 Greenwich Mean Time 20 December 2017

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    The Argus, external: Under pressure: A&E patients forced to wait in ambulances

    Kent Online, external: Family left homeless after house fire

    Get Surrey, external: Community raises more than £4,000 for family whose home was gutted by blaze

    Brighton and Hove Independent, external: Popular lantern parade set to light up city’s streets

    Kent Live, external: Stagecoach applauds the bus driver who helped an elderly passenger cross a busy road in Dymchurch

    Worthing Herald, external: Council ‘leading the way’ on Teville Gate demolition

    Crawley and Horley Observer, external: Frightened kingfisher saved ... with help from international wildlife charity

    Chichester Observer, external: Stonepillow stops five youngsters from being homeless ahead of Chichester Foyer closure

    Hastings Observer, external: Ten years of saving Sussex lives with innovative heart procedure

    Mid Sussex Times, external: Cause of fire at Domino’s in Haywards Heath ‘under investigation’

  3. Family of missing Sussex explorer hopeful he is still alivepublished at 07:23 Greenwich Mean Time 20 December 2017

    Christian Velten has been missing in Africa for 14 years. His family hopes he will return home.

  4. 'Life stopped' says missing woman's husbandpublished at 00:09 Greenwich Mean Time 20 December 2017

    Family in Christmas plea for missing grandmother Fatima Mohamed-Ali to return home to Newhaven.

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  5. Carlisle United 3-1 Gillinghampublished at 21:47 Greenwich Mean Time 19 December 2017

    Hallam Hope's brace helps Carlisle to a 3-1 win over Gillingham and an FA Cup third round visit by Sheffield Wednesday.

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  6. Dropped Channel lorry park 'cost £13m'published at 20:51 Greenwich Mean Time 19 December 2017

    Other schemes are being considered with a promise to not exceed the allocated £250m overall.

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  7. Family heartbreak over stolen dogpublished at 19:55 Greenwich Mean Time 19 December 2017

    A Marden family face telling their toddler their nine-month-old puppy has been stolen a week before Christmas.

  8. Kent family set up fund in daughter's memorypublished at 19:06 Greenwich Mean Time 19 December 2017

    Yasmine Djadoudi
    BBC Live reporter

    The family of Kelly Turner, who died last month, are campaigning to find a cure for the rare form of cancer that killed her.

  9. On patrol with the traffic copspublished at 18:40 Greenwich Mean Time 19 December 2017

    Last year three people died and 16 others were seriously injured on Kent's roads because of drivers who'd been using drugs.

    We've been on patrol with the officers who are on the front line in the fight against drug-driving.

    You can see more on the Sunday Politics for the South Easthere.

  10. Meet the South East's Christmas heroespublished at 17:51 Greenwich Mean Time 19 December 2017

    Kathryn Langley
    BBC Live reporter

    These people have decided to reach out to strangers in Kent and Sussex this festive season.

  11. Stone-throwing delivery driver jailedpublished at 16:39 Greenwich Mean Time 19 December 2017

    UPS driver Glynn Williams threw stones at passing motorists as he delivered parcels in Kent villages.

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  12. Star Wars subtitles screening rowpublished at 16:05 Greenwich Mean Time 19 December 2017

    Deaf film fans say they had no choice but to leave a screening after subtitles were turned off.

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  13. Three girls missing since weekend foundpublished at 16:04 Greenwich Mean Time 19 December 2017

    Joliebelle Wheeldon, 13, Sophie Norris, 12, Clarice Hall, 13, are all "safe and well", police say.

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  14. Missing Worthing girls foundpublished at 15:56 Greenwich Mean Time 19 December 2017

    Hamish Mureddu-Reid
    BBC News Online, South East

    Three girls who went missing from the Worthing area over the weekend have been found.

    Joliebelle Wheeldon, 13, Sophie Norris, 12, and Clarice Hall, 13, travelled into Brighton but did not return home.

    Clarice and Joliebelle left for Brighton on Saturday and Sophie on Sunday.

    All three girls were found in Worthing and are "safe and well", a spokesman for Sussex Police said.

  15. Bogus police officers scam residentspublished at 15:36 Greenwich Mean Time 19 December 2017

    Two Brighton residents have been scammed out of thousands of pounds by bogus police officers who called at their homes.

    Sussex Police said the fraudsters convinced the two victims that work on their homes had been carried out by bogus builders who had since been in court.

    Both were told they needed to transfer large sums of money for court costs and compensation.

    One victim, a 72-year-old woman, transferred £6,000 on Friday while the other, a man aged 74, withdrew more than £3,000 cash. An "officer" called at his home to collect the money on Thursday.

    When he went to his bank to withdraw more cash, staff became suspicious and contacted police.

    The suspect at the woman's home was described as a tall white man in his 30s, with a long oval-shaped face and light brown hair. He wore dark trousers, a black jacket, work boots and provided a badge in a wallet with Metropolitan Police written on the inside.

    Det Sgt Helen Paine said: "The police would never contact people and ask them to withdraw or hand over cash to officers.... If speaking to callers at the door, always ask for ID."

  16. Family of missing Sussex explorer hopeful he is still alivepublished at 14:18 Greenwich Mean Time 19 December 2017

    Christian Velten has been missing in Africa for 14 years. His family hopes he will return home.

  17. Brighton school creates haven for rare butterfliespublished at 13:29 Greenwich Mean Time 19 December 2017

    Kathryn Langley
    BBC Live reporter

    Children at a school in Brighton are working with scientists from Kew's Millennium Seed Bank to help protect rare butterflies.

  18. 'Danger' paedophile jailed for 14 yearspublished at 13:02 Greenwich Mean Time 19 December 2017

    Timothy Smith admitted 16 sex offences including abusing a girl, 2, in the Philippines in 2015.

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  19. Thousands hit as fog disrupts flightspublished at 12:33 Greenwich Mean Time 19 December 2017

    Flights from London airports are cancelled as freezing fog hits the UK.

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  20. Deck the hall... and the landing... and the lounge... and the kitchenpublished at 11:48 Greenwich Mean Time 19 December 2017

    The owner of this house needs every inch of space, and several trees, to display his collection of baubles, gathered over more than half a century.