A council's charge of £3,800 for installing a disabled parking bay is branded "completely unfair".

Bob Dale
BBC Live reporter

A 35-year-old rape case is being reopened after new technology produced a DNA profile of the offender.

A 16-year-old girl was attacked near Godalming Town Football Club's ground on 20 June 1983.

She described her attacker as white, aged between 40 and 50, slim but with a paunch and around 5ft 10in tall, and was carrying a small terrier dog under his arm.

Detectives are also trying to trace a woman who was passing nearby and may have witnessed what happened.

A quantity of chemicals was discovered when police were called to an address in Hythe.

Officers were called to Paraker Way in the early hours of yesterday where a 35-year-old man was arrested on domestic abuse offences.

During a search of the property the chemicals were discovered and the Army's bomb disposal team was called in.

The man remains in custody and enquiries are ongoing.

Tools worth £30,000 have been stolen from a Sussex garage.

They were taken during a break-in at the Kingfisher Motor Company in the Street, Selmeston sometime between 18:15 GMT on 17 January and 08:15 GMT the following day.

Sussex Police are appealing for witnesses.

Photographer David Burr regularly warns tourists about the dangers of the chalk cliffs.

The party has been through a number of leadership changes recently.

The Archbishop of Canterbury says he cannot rescind a statement in row over a bishop's alleged abuse.

Yasmine Djadoudi
BBC Live reporter

The sister of a teenager who died after taking fentanyl wants to become a drug counsellor to help others.

Amy Fraser, 24, from Deal in Kent, was addicted to mephedrone herself, but said her brother's death is keeping her clean.

Inside Out South East is on BBC One on Monday at 19:30 GMT and on iPlayer afterwards.

UKIP’s leader says he will not be standing down and wants to change the way the party is governed

John McEnery, the ex-husband of Stephanie Beacham, is facing a second imitation firearm charge.

The travel pass for children in Kent is expected to get more expensive this year.

Kent County Council has announced it will be putting up the price of its Young Person's Travel Cards if bus companies increase fares.

The price of the pass for 11 to 16 year olds has increased several times since its creation. An annual weekday ticket, not valid on weekends, costs £280.

This potential hike was included in the draft budget papers, published last week.

KCC policy states that parents will foot the bill of all fare increases by bus companies, not taxpayers.

In a statement, the council said: “Each year KCC must consult on its Post-16 Transport Policy Statement and this will take place in the coming weeks, and provide an opportunity for Kent residents to feedback to the consultation.”

Bob Dale
BBC Live reporter

Police are hunting two men who forced their way into a house in Dover and attacked the owner.

He handed over a large amount of cash when the pair threatened him, along with a laptop and mobile.

The robbery happened in Tower Hill at about 22:30 GMT on 7 December.

A man has been rescued from the sea off Brighton Palace Pier.

At about 13:00 GMT today, Sussex Police asked HM Coastguard for assistance after receiving reports that there was a person in the water.

Shoreham Coastguard Rescue Team along with the Shoreham RNLI Lifeboats were sent to the scene, with Sussex Police and the South East Coast Ambulance Service.

A man, believed to be in his 20s, has been rescued and detained under the Mental Health Act.

UKIP's leader is "not facing reality" as several party spokespeople have stood down, says MEP Gerard Batten.

Olympic skeleton champion Lizzy Yarnold recalls racing in front of "no-one" in 2014, while fellow Briton Laura Deas wants to make "the step up" in Pyeongchang.

National League side Maidstone United re-sign QPR centre-back Alex Finney on loan until the end of the season.

Andrew Sinclair
BBC Look East political correspondent

One of the region's UKIP Euro MPs has stood down from his party position as local government spokesman.

In a statement on his website Tim Aker says: "I cannot continue to serve under Henry Bolton. I hope he does the right thing and resigns before the EGM, so the Party can move forward with a new leader.

Mr Aker, who became an MEP for the East of England in 2014, is one of several senior party figures to stand down today following Mr Bolton's refusal to resign but will still be a UKIP MEP.

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Meanwhile another of UKIP's MEPs, Norfolk farmer Stuart Agnew, has said he will not be resigning as the party's agriculture spokesman, because the party needed someone in the role "at this important time".

The East of England's other UKIP MEP, Patrick O'Flynn, resigned as the party's economic spokesman last year.

Joshua Stimpson admits the manslaughter of Molly McLaren, but denies her murder.

Hamish Mureddu-Reid
BBC News Online, South East

A pilot taken off a flight from Gatwick Airport over fears he was drunk has been released while investigations continue, Sussex Police said.

A 49-year-old man was removed from the plane on Thursday after concerns were raised by a member of airline staff.

The man from Harmondsworth, West Drayton in West London was arrested on suspicion of performing an aviation function when the level of alcohol was over the prescribed limit.

The Boeing 777 which was scheduled to depart at 20:50 GMT took off just before 23:00 after the pilot was replaced, British Airways said.

An airline spokesman said: "We are taking this matter extremely seriously."

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The families of the Shoreham air disaster victims have been refused legal aid ahead of an inquest.