Ebbsfleet United name former Woking and Dagenham & Redbridge boss Garry Hill as their new manager.

Part of a Morrisons supermarket roof has collapsed after a fire this morning.

The fire started in a deep fat fryer in the café, then spread to the rest of the store in Cheriton Road, Folkestone, Kent.

Kent Fire and Rescue was called at 07:34 GMT. There are 10 pumps at the scene with more resources on the way.

The store opened at 07:00 but everyone was safely evacuated with no casualties reported, according to the fire service.

Eyewitness Brad Hodgkinson filmed part of the roof collapsing.

The 21-year-old builder from Hawkinge, near Folkestone, said: “There are quite a few firefighters there as well as an ambulance and the road has been closed in both directions.

“The roof collapsed and tiles were also falling off the roof.

“We could feel the heat from the fire.

“We could see a few members of staff who had been evacuated in the car park.”

Lizzie Massey
BBC Live reporter

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A large pothole, repaired recently, reopened on a dual carriageway on Wednesday.

The hole on the A21 southbound, between the Haysden flyover and the Southborough turn off, reportedly reached around 3ft wide.

A number of people complained to Kent Highways after their cars suffered damage, and Kent's Road Policing Unit also attended.

Shortly before 15:00 GMT Kent Highways said: "We have had a number of tweets and calls to us regarding this pothole, our contractors have been deployed."

On Twitter, one road user, Scott Mills said: "The pothole... you repaired last week is starting to re-open again. Please repair it properly, before it punchers a load more car tyres."

Another user, James Perry said his mother hit the pothole and burst her tyre. When she pulled up, four other cars also had punctures.

He added: "The lane should have been closed."

Highways England confirmed the hole is now fixed.

Lizzie Massey
BBC Live reporter

The new Emergency Department building at Medway Maritime Hospital is opening to new patients today.

The new building is said to have "state-of-the-art facilities" and is one of the biggest redevelopment projects that the Trust has undertaken in over a decade.

It includes:

• Seven new resuscitation bays
• Four Rapid Assessment Area bays for faster diagnosis
• Four extra ‘majors’ bays on top of the 12 previous ones, to treat both ambulance and walk-in patients
• A dedicated entrance for ambulance crews to bring in their patients

Further refurbishment works to the existing emergency department space are planned for 2019 and 2020.

Lesley Dwyer, Trust chief executive, said she was "immensely proud".

South East Coast Ambulance Service was placed in special measures by a health watchdog in 2016.

More than 160 flats are to be built on a prime spot on Hove seafront after planners gave their backing this afternoon.

Almost 70 of them will be in King's House, the former headquarters building of Brighton and Hove City Council which was sold for £26 million last year.

Two new blocks will also be built as part of the scheme - one of them ten storeys high - along with an underground car park.

Residents in 15 flats will be eligible for on-street parking permits and the underground car park will have spaces for 80 cars.

There will also be extensive bicycle parking. But the council's Planning Committee raised concerns about what they said was a lack of parking, as well as the limited number of "affordable" homes and how developer contributions would be spent.

The committee nonetheless approved the planning application for the flats, in Queen's Gardens, Grand Avenue and Second Avenue.

A sixth form college can build new science labs after planning permission was granted this evening.

Varndean College plans to create a new block to teach science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in place of two temporary classrooms in Surrenden Road, Brighton.

Neighbours opposing the plans addressed the Brighton and Hove City Council planning committee at Hove Town Hall.

They said that an application had been submitted to designate an area of green space at the college site an asset of community value.

They said several temporary classrooms had been given temporary planning permission for five years but all remained on the site.

Planning manager Nicola Hurley told the committee that all temporary classrooms on the site had permission to be there until next year.

The application referred to a "masterplan", prompting Withdean Conservative councillor Nick Taylor, in a letter to the planning committee, to ask the college to share its plans.

Student numbers at Varndean College have soared since Central Sussex College closed its Haywards Heath campus in 2016. Students travel in from across Sussex to study for A-levels and post-16 qualifications.

A huge mass of soap suds flowed out from the memorial and on to the nearby street.

Eleven children and 10 adults, thought to be Vietnamese, were found in the vehicle at Newhaven port.

A passenger needed hospital treatment after a firework was thrown into a bus.

It was hurled through a bus window while at a bus stop in Witley just after 17:00 GMT on Tuesday, Surrey Police said.

One passenger was taken to hospital with burn injuries. Waverley Borough commander Gary Smith said the incident was being investigated as ABH.

He said: "We want to reassure the public that this despicable behaviour will not be tolerated and these actions could have been incredibly serious."

A spokesman for bus operator Stagecoach South said: "Our first thoughts are for the welfare of the passenger involved.

"Clearly this kind of behaviour is dangerous and completely unacceptable. We will assist the police in any way we can to help with the investigation to track down those responsible."

Rebecca Curley
Local Democracy Reporter

A report has criticised a mental health ward in a Surrey hospital for making patients sleep in mixed-sex dormitories.

One patient said the environment at the Abraham Cowley Unit at St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey was a "nightmare", with another saying they could not sleep as they always felt "in danger".

This is the second time regulators have raised concerns over the dormitory use at the hospital unit.

The latest report compiled by Healthwatch Surrey backed similar concerns raised by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in March 2016.

Health bosses said there was an ongoing improvement plan to refurbish the wards and blamed challenges around recruitment of nurses for concerns with staffing issues.

Healthwatch Surrey carried out the inspection in July after hearing about "significant concerns" from patients who had used the service.

Volunteers found patients with soiled trousers, heard stories of them self harming and witnessed security issues and inconsistencies with staffing and nurses knowing where patients were at all times.

Matthew Parris, deputy chief executive for Healthwatch Surrey, said: "There appears to be some persistent long-term underlying problems with the service that have had some serious consequences."

He said the last two CQC inspections of the unit were prompted by deaths and there have been a number of breaches around safety, staffing and governance reported since 2016.

In particular, he said the use of dormitories had been highlighted as a problem two years ago.

Mr Parris added: "These people have mental health conditions and they are in dormitories with other people with mental health conditions. I think it's really difficult to over emphasise the impact that can have on people."

Lorna Payne, chief operating officer at Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SaBP) which runs the Abraham Cowley Unit, said they have developed a patient board and commissioned an independent review.

A new-build and refurbishment of the unit at St Peter's is expected to cost between £40-50 million but will not start until 2019.

The report was presented to members of Surrey County Council's health, integration and commissioning select committee on Wednesday.

Councillor Graham Ellwood said: "It seems to me there are an awful lot of excuses and well meaning talk."

Sarah Booker-Lewis
Local Democracy Reporter

Fewer children died in Brighton and Hove last year although the number with a "child protection plan" rose by almost 10 per cent.

The number of child deaths went down to eight from eleven while the number of children subject to a child protection plan went up from 367 to 397.

The figures are contained in a new report which also said that 418 children were in care in Brighton and Hove at the end of March.

The figure is slightly above the recent historic low of 409, in January, and down from 454 at the end of March 2017.

The report - drawn up by the Brighton and Hove Local Safeguarding Children Board - also sets out the lessons learnt from the deaths of three teenagers.

Abdullah Deghayes and his brother Jaffar died in fighting in Syria in 2014 while Steffan Bonnot, who was in the council's care, killed himself on New Year's Day 2016.

They were the subject of two serious case reviews which were published in 2017-18, the safeguarding board said.

Seventeen-year-old Steffan's body was found on railway tracks. He had spent 12 years in care, moving 31 times, and was anxious about leaving a residential therapeutic unit where he had enjoyed a relatively stable period of his life.

He had previously had a number of unsuccessful foster placements and had concerns about going back into foster care.

Fergus Smith, who carried out the serious case review after Steffan's death, said that better liaison and communication was needed.

The safeguarding board's annual report said: "All social work staff were reminded of the importance of providing carers with written information when making placements for children in care … and reminded to ensure that children are fully briefed about the information shared."

It also said that, as a result of the review, contingency plans should be put in place in case foster placements break down.

Karen Dunn
Local Democracy Reporter

Plans for a temporary ice rink in Chichester's Priory Park have continued to attract some decidedly un-festive feelings.

While the idea of a rink in the city over Christmas was largely welcomed, proposals by S3K to place it in the park were viewed by some as so much humbug.

Now members of the district council's cabinet have been bombarded with questions from the public about everything from the financial viability of the rink, the damage it could cause to the park, and the safety of customers in bad weather.

During the meeting, at East Pallant House on Tuesday (6 November) members were also told a group of regular park users and nearby residents had appointed a barrister to look into the matter, and that a letter had been sent to chief executive Diane Shepherd.

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Leader Tony Dignum said the letter was being considered by the council's principal solicitor and divisional development manager and a reply would be sent "as soon as possible".

Regarding the question of safety, Mr Dignum said the council had "strict requirements" when it came to the hiring of land for events and that all health and safety standards had to be met.

As for the financial viability of the rink, the meeting was told that it was up to the contractor to assess the relevant risks and bear any losses.

There would be no comeback on the council if the rink was not a financial success.

A planning application, to run the rink from late November to early January, was supported by district councillors in October delegating a decision to officers - although it only got through on the chairman's casting vote.

However, because significant changes to the plans have been made in the last month, it will be reconsidered by the committee on 14 November.

Four fishermen have been rescued after their boat capsized off Eastbourne, a coastguard spokesman said.

The coastguard said it was called at about 16:00 GMT by the crew of a merchant ship who said they could see two people sitting on the hull and two more in the water.

They dispatched the Lydd search and rescue helicopter and the Eastbourne and Newhaven RNLI lifeboats.

The merchant ship picked up the two people from the water and the other two crew members were rescued from the upturned hull by the helicopter.

Kaimes Beasley, from HM Coastguard said: "This was a very successful outcome to what could have been a tragic one.

"There was a huge effort to rescue these four men in near-gale force conditions in the English Channel.

"Thankfully, all four fishermen have been picked up and despite being cold and wet are otherwise safe and well."

Image source, RNLI

A cold case specialist used new techniques to examine fibres from 32 years ago, a jury hears.

Michael Thornton is arrested and jailed after failing to turn up in court for sentencing.

A 27-year-old man from Surrey died after being found with a stab wound on a road in Crowthorne, Berkshire.

Charlotte Wright
Reporter, BBC South East

That's a lot of light bulbs to check!

The country's tallest living Christmas tree has been decorated for the festive season.