Summary

  • Updates on Wednesday 20 September

  1. That's all folkspublished at 21:56 BST 20 September 2017

    Stuart Maisner
    BBC Live reporter

    We're off now after another busy day of news in the South East.

    Thanks for joining us.

    We're back at 06:00 BST with all the latest news, travel, sport and weather.

  2. Family fundraising for girl with rare conditionpublished at 21:51 BST 20 September 2017

    Yasmine Djadoudi
    BBC Live reporter

    Meet the girl who dislocates her joints 40 times a day.

  3. Masterful Sangakkara hits eighth tonpublished at 21:38 BST 20 September 2017

    Kumar Sangakkara continues his remarkable form with an eighth County Championship of the season for Surrey against relegation rivals Somerset.

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  4. Sussex clinic helps people who hear voicespublished at 21:15 BST 20 September 2017

    People who hear voices in their heads are getting help at a special clinic run by mental health experts in Sussex.

    The sessions are designed to help people understand their voice-hearing experiences which may have been triggered by trauma or distress.

  5. Sunshine on a rainy daypublished at 20:58 BST 20 September 2017

    Rachel Mackley
    Weather Presenter, BBC South East

    There's a mixed forecast ahead with some sunshine and a bit of rain.

  6. Concerns over school sex abuse 'ignored'published at 20:52 BST 20 September 2017

    Amanda Akass
    Reporter, BBC South East Today

    Concerns about an alleged sex offender who families believe abused boys at a Sussex school went ignored by the authorities, parents have claimed.

    Darren Turk, ex-head of care at Frewen College, killed himself a day before he was convicted. The verdicts were later overturned but appeal judges found nothing to suggest they were unsafe.

    Media caption,

    Concerns over alleged child abuser Darren Turk 'ignored'

  7. Bumper harvest for watermelonspublished at 20:38 BST 20 September 2017

    Stuart Maisner
    BBC Live reporter

    Britain's largest ever batch of watermelons has been produced at a farm in Kent.

  8. Blowin' in the windpublished at 20:25 BST 20 September 2017

    Stuart Maisner
    BBC Live reporter

    The last of the 116 turbines making up the Rampion Wind Farm in the channel off Brighton has now been installed.

  9. Unearthing Thanet's lost treasurespublished at 19:51 BST 20 September 2017

    Yasmine Djadoudi
    BBC Live reporter

    Margate's mysterious caves are set to re-open after a 13-year closure.

  10. Durham edge day two against Sussexpublished at 19:28 BST 20 September 2017

    Graham Clark's unbeaten 73 ensures Durham close just 25 runs behind Sussex on day two at Chester-le-Street.

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  11. Fourth arrest over fatal stabbingpublished at 18:57 BST 20 September 2017

    Anthony Williams was attacked at a property in Horsham, where he was pronounced dead.

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  12. Inquest 'to probe Army bullying claims'published at 18:34 BST 20 September 2017

    A new inquest into Pte Sean Benton's death will look at claims of bullying by Army instructors.

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  13. Fourth person arrested over Horsham stab deathpublished at 17:56 BST 20 September 2017

    Hamish Mureddu-Reid
    BBC News Online, South East

    A fourth person has been arrested over the death of 37-year-old Anthony Williams who was stabbed in Horsham on Tuesday afternoon.

    Two men aged 18 and 22 and a woman aged 22 were arrested 40 minutes later at Littlehaven railway station.

    The men, from London, were detained on suspicion of murder and the woman was held on suspicion of assisting an offender.

    A 30-year-old man was arrested later on Tuesday on suspicion of murder.

    HorshamImage source, Google
  14. Unseen Hollywood photos to be auctionedpublished at 17:46 BST 20 September 2017

    The collection, including snaps of Dame Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, sat in a drawer for 16 years.

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  15. Sussex doctors first in region to fit new pacemakerpublished at 17:35 BST 20 September 2017

    Yasmine Djadoudi
    BBC Live reporter

    Surgeons at the Eastbourne District General Hospital are believed to be the first in the South East to fit a new type of heart pacemaker.

  16. Primrose flower takes the stage in Brighton performancepublished at 17:03 BST 20 September 2017

    Yasmine Djadoudi
    BBC Live reporter

    What music would a flower make as it bursts into bloom? That's the question a group of experimental sound artists are trying to answer in a former church in Brighton.

  17. A treasure trove of memoriespublished at 16:37 BST 20 September 2017

    Yasmine Djadoudi
    BBC Live reporter

    They say today's news is tomorrow's fish and chip paper and in Brighton and Hove one of the city's newspaper archives nearly went that way, until one local man stepped in to save it.

  18. Britain First leader and deputy chargedpublished at 15:59 BST 20 September 2017

    Paul Golding, 35, and Jayda Fransen, 31, both from south-east London, were arrested in May.

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  19. New statue will make historypublished at 15:27 BST 20 September 2017

    Bob Dale
    BBC Live reporter

    The first statue of a woman to be built in Parliament Square has been given planning permission.

    A bronze casting of Millicent Fawcett, who campaigned for women to be given the vote, will be unveiled next year to coincide with the centenary of women winning the right to vote.

    Parliament square statues
    Image caption,

    Sir Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and Nelson Mandela are among those with statues in Parliament Square

    She gave some of her earliest speeches in Brighton, where her husband Henry Fawcett was MP.

    The statue will be designed by Turner Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing - the first female sculptor to have a work displayed in the square.

    More on this story here.

  20. Brighton sign Krul on one-year contractpublished at 15:18 BST 20 September 2017

    Dutch goalkeeper Tim Krul ends his 12-year association with Newcastle and signs a one-year deal with Brighton.

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