Just a short delay for bad light here.

Four overs lost.

Adam Hose plays out a maiden comfortably enough to Anderson Phillip after the break.

Lovely shot! Matthew Waite is off the mark second ball as he cuts Will Williams away for four.

He drives the final ball of the over for four more with some nice timing.

Good start for Sussex! The first ball is steered to deep third by James Coles for four runs. Seven more needed.

Coles defends down the ground and then flicks the next ball through mid wicket for a couple. Five more required.

The final ball of the over is blocked down the ground.

Leg spinner Luke Hollman will bowl next.

Sam Hain turns a single into the legside to get the scoreboard ticking after lunch.

Ed Barnard then skips down the wicket and steers Farhan Ahmed to mid-on for the single to seal the first batting point.

It means, barring a spectacular Notts win, that they will finish above their hosts in the Division One table this season.

The Division Two trophy could potentially be secured in two or three strokes here!

11 runs needed.

That batting point will put Sussex out of reach in first place.

James Coles will have first dibs so to speak, facing Ethan Bamber from the Sea End unbeaten on eight.

His batting partner and captain John Simpson has two not out.

It's been gloomy here for a while and the floodlights were on as early as the first hour of play today.

As you were on this one.

We resume with more spin after lunch as Farhan Ahmed bowls to Sam Hain.

The Bears are just two away from a first batting point.

Anderson Phillip (2-21) gets the afternoon session under way at New Road, bowling to Adam Hose (23)

New batter Matthew Waite is at the non-striker's end after Ethan Brookes fell to the final ball before lunch.

Ged Scott
BBC Sport at Worcester

It's the final lunch on the final day of the longest-running County Championship - and the sixth Worcestershire wicket of the morning has everyone shuffling off at pace for their burger and chips.

Worcestershire are already safe - and homing in on their highest Championship finish since two-division cricket was invented in the year 2000.

Lancashire are already relegated - but fighting hard to at least preserve their dignity.

So, on this history-making first-ever Sunday finish to a Championship season, there is still a game on here.

Div One

• Durham 360 v Kent 192-4
• Notts 487 v Warwickshire 248-4
• Worcestershire 180 & 78-6 v Lancashire 177
• Essex 508-8 dec v Surrey 138-4

Div Two

• Leicestershire 280 v Derbyshire 79-1
• Sussex 239-4 v Middlesex 271
• Yorkshire 559-3 v Northants 147

It looks as though Kent are on their way to ending a fairly disastrous season with an honourable draw - they need just another 19 runs to banish the possibility of having to follow on.

Jack Leaning and Joe Denly, unbeaten on 70 and 51 respectively, have shared a stand of 96 so far since nightwatchman Jas Singh was out in the second over of the day.

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Farhan Ahmed's 21st over costs just a single to Sam Hain and that's lunch.

A good morning for Warwickshire who look to have removed the prospect of defeat.

Early wickets would have given the home side faint hope of forcing a result, but Ed Barnard (77) and Hain (104) survived a few early scares and have batted well to add 105 runs in the session.

Their partnership is up to 143 and handshakes all around an hour after tea look more than likely.

John Simpson defends Luke Hollman down the ground and Sussex go to lunch 11 runs short of the Division Two Championship title.

Tom Haines was the mainstay of the Sussex batting, scoring 105 - which is his third century of the season.

James Coles is eight not out and Simpson has two.

Dom Sibley is going along nicely, using his feet to the spinners and dispatching them over the rope on the leg side on more than one occasion to reach 84 at lunch.

Former Essex player Dan Lawrence is 18 not out at the other end as Surrey look to bat their way to safety after losing three wickets earlier this morning.

Perhaps surprisingly there is no declaration from Yorkshire, who now lead by a gargantuan 412 with James Wharton on 268 not out and Jonny Bairstow unbeaten on 65.

Yorkshire pass 550 in 107.1 overs as Jonny Bairstow is back and across to Fateh Singh, drilling the spinner with a flat-batted slap down the ground for four runs.

No declaration from the hosts yet.

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Durham 360 v Kent 189-4

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Having been stuck in the 40s for a while, Joe Denly takes advantage of a wide delivery from James Minto to steer him from an off-side single and bring up his 50 from 82 balls.

It's a fourth half-century of the campaign for the former England player.

Ethan Brookes is in full-on wall mode, reaching three off 35 balls as the Pears look to see off the spectre of defeat.

But out of nowhere he throws his hands at a George Balderson delivery. Fortunately for him the ball bounces just in front of Anderson Phillip at backward point.

Balderson then traps Brookes in front, but the umpire rejects the noisy appeal before the batter then cracks him away through the covers.

Good work on the boundary from Tom Hartley saves a run as Brookes picks up three more.