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Brighton and Hove councillors have voted to revert to a one-week October half term holiday after trialling a two-week holiday for the past two years.
The trial was brought in to give families the opportunity to go on holiday outside the peak period.
But the latest public consultation found nearly two-thirds of people were against making the two-week holiday a permanent fixture.
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Image source, South East WaterSouth East Water has been providing bottled water to some areas.
Thousands of homes and businesses across the South East are still without water this morning, with some now being told it could be Thursday before normal service is resumed.
Mains pipes froze during last week's extreme weather then burst in the rapid thaw.
Overnight Southern Water deliberately cut off the supply in and around Crawley to work on providing a reliable service today.
South East Water says it's restored supplies to Mayfield and Bolnore Village in Sussex overnight.
The firm also says reservoirs in Cuckfield, Rotherfield and Wadhurst are being refilled.
Pipes which feed customers in those areas are due to be opened later today.
We're being asked to avoid non-essential use.
Luke Allum opened his business in Sheerness last September after washing cars.
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Bob Dale
BBC Live reporter
If you're travelling on a Southeastern train this morning, there's a good chance you've now got access to wi-fi.
Two-thirds of the operator's trains have been fitted with the technology to allow passengers to surf as they travel, with a daily allowance of 50mb.
The entire fleet will be wi-fi enabled by June of next year, with the Medway Valley, Isle of Sheppey and Bromley North lines coming on line in April 2018.
You can find out how to connect and check your signal strength using this map, external.
Water supply problems started on Saturday as snow and ice began to melt, affecting frozen pipes.
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Sue Nicholson
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Image source, South East WaterResidents in Crawley, West Sussex, have been told they will have their water supplies deliberately cut off in order to restore supplies for the morning.
Southern Water said customers in the RH10 and RH11 areas would "experience interruption to their supply this evening and overnight".
Up to 25,000 properties across south-east England were without water earlier after thawing frozen mains pipes burst.
More than 100 schools were forced to close across Kent and Sussex.
Kelly Dimmock was sent a message from the singer after finding out she has ovarian cancer.
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Nina Ridge
BBC Weather
The snow has gone, and now come the showers.
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Image source, KFRSA dog survived a 12ft (3.6m) fall into a soakaway drain and was rescued by Kent Fire and Rescue Service.
The long-haired terrier called Misty was enjoying a snowy walk in woodland on Bluebell Hill, near Robin Hood Lane, in Chatham, on Sunday, when she entered a concrete pipe and did not come back out.
Firefighters went in after the dog and could hear her crying.
They found Misty had fallen from the pipe, into the soakaway chamber.
A member of the team was lowered into the hole and managed to scoop her out.
Misty is now safely back with her owner and escaped uninjured.
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse begins its investigation of cases in the Church of England.
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A rapid thaw of last week's snow means burst water pipes, shortages and flood damage across the South East.
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National League side Woking have set up a fundraising campaign after midfielder Damon Lathrope was forced to retire.
The 28-year-old suffered "life changing damage to a number of major arteries and veins" after badly breaking his leg against Boreham Wood on 24 February.
It was just his fourth game for the club after joining from Torquay United at the end of January.
"I have no regrets but the facts are that this injury will end my playing career," he told the Woking website., external
"I will continue to move forward to the future and have a career in another area of football, off the field, maybe helping to develop players.
"I know I have a lot to offer to the game in other ways than me physically being on the pitch."
A generator that fell from a lorry and killed a woman hadn't been secured, a court hears.
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Kathryn Langley
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John Da Silva has been sleeping rough on the streets for a month and a half.
Building more homes in the "overheated" south east of England would give "false hope" but not improve affordability, says the CPRE.
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A stolen dog has been reunited with its owners after being found by a police patrol.
Ruby the spaniel was found in the back of a Volkswagen Golf which was stopped on the A20 in Wrotham Heath in the early hours of 2 March.
Image source, Sussex PoliceRuby was identified thanks to her microchip
By the time the dog had been identified by a microchip, her owner was already at Uckfield police station reporting that she had been stolen the previous evening.
Two men have been arrested and released on bail.
Image source, Sussex PoliceAmy Ruocco has gone missing from home in Hastings.
Police say the 33-year-old, who also goes by the surname of Henham, was last seen on Saturday afternoon.
She has purple hair and tattoos on her arms.
Officers are asking anyone who sees Amy to call 999 immediately.
Southern Water, which covers Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent and Sussex, has urged customers only to use water "when it is essential to".
Image source, gettThe warning comes after multiple burst mains across the region due to Storm Emma and recent snowfall, the firm said.
"Where possible, take short showers rather than baths, do not leave taps running unnecessarily and only run washing machines and dish washers when you have a full load," a spokeswoman added.
"This will make a real difference."
Homes across the UK are facing water supply problems.
Dean Kilpatrick
Local Democracy Reporter
The number of urgent operations cancelled in Medway has more than trebled since 2015.
Medway NHS Foundation Trust – which runs the Medway Maritime Hospital in Gillingham – cancelled 57 urgent operations in 2017, with 21 of those being postponed on at least two separate occasions.
The summer months saw the highest number of potentially life-saving surgery procedures cancelled – 12 and nine in August and July respectively.
NHS England data, compiled by the Local Democracy Reporter Service, shows the number of cancelled urgent operations stood at just 15 in 2015 before rising suddenly to 45 in 2016.
Urgent operations include immediate life, limb and organ-saving intervention, as well as surgery for those with acute onset or deterioration of conditions which threaten life, limb or organ survival.
The trust says surgery can be cancelled for a variety of reasons – such as health condition changes or when patients cancel the operation – but it only does so when it is “impossible to avoid”.
Ben Stevens, executive director of clinical operations at Medway NHS Foundation Trust, said: "We recognise the impact, disruption and concern to patients when their procedure is cancelled and we always aim to rebook these patients on the next available date."