South East news

• Man dies after falling overboard from Channel boat

  30-11-2025 20:57 via bbc.com
  The man’s body has been recovered off the coast of Newhaven following a search led by the coastguard.
  
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• Is my tap water safe? Kent health worries explained

  05-12-2025 07:00 via bbc.com
  Homes in Tunbridge Wells and East Sussex have been told to boil tap water before drinking it.
  
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• Kent to get £78.2m to 'restore trust in buses'

  05-12-2025 06:59 via bbc.com
  The money is Kent's share of £3bn being given to local councils across the country over three years.
  
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• Strictly's Balvinder Sopal wants Gillingham votes

  05-12-2025 06:58 via bbc.com
  The EastEnders actor, from Gillingham, is through to the final five of Strictly Come Dancing.
  
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• Killer jailed over city centre stabbing

  04-12-2025 22:29 via bbc.com
  Police say they believe Mohammed Hgar knew his victim, Samare Gerezgihir, before the attack.
  
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• Anger and frustration after six days of water chaos

  04-12-2025 21:03 via bbc.com
  Households in areas of Kent and East Sussex have been told to boil water by South East Water.
  
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• Freezing fog warning issued for South East - Petersfield Post

  04-12-2025 17:16 via news.google.com
  Freezing fog warning issued for South East  Petersfield Post
  
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• Is tap water safe following Kent and Sussex supply chaos?

  04-12-2025 17:10 via bbc.com
  The BBC answers your questions about the South East Water disruption affecting Kent and East Sussex.
  
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• Grant awarded to help repair 'real local icon'

  04-12-2025 07:22 via bbc.com
  The Grade II-listed building is on the Heritage at Risk Register due to its poor condition.
  
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• 'We can't wash': Families hit by Kent water crisis

  04-12-2025 07:13 via bbc.com
  Families in Kent and East Sussex are having to boil drinking water as supply issues continue.
  
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• Refugees 'living in anxiety' amid asylum reform plans

  04-12-2025 07:09 via bbc.com
  Ukrainian and Syrian refugees in the South East say they are living in uncertainty.
  
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• A speeding driver killed my parents - there needs to be a cultural change

  04-12-2025 01:05 via bbc.com
  Claire Corkery wants attitudes to change on road safety after her parents were killed by a speeding driver.
  
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• Boil water warning after Kent and Sussex supply failure

  03-12-2025 23:05 via bbc.com
  The Prime Minister calls Kent water crisis “shocking” as 24,000 homes are warned to boil water.
  
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• Man killed with 'chilling brutality', court hears

  03-12-2025 20:57 via bbc.com
  Donald Excell denies killing Rita Lambourne with an axe at her home in Bexhill, East Sussex.
  
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• Genesis guitarist joins solar farm protest

  03-12-2025 17:45 via bbc.com
  The Genesis star is among residents disappointed at the approval of a 61-acre solar farm.
  
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• Is tap water safe for 24,000 cut-off households?

  03-12-2025 16:43 via bbc.com
  The BBC answers your questions about the South East Water disruption affecting Kent and East Sussex.
  
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• Over £13k donated after family cottage burns down

  03-12-2025 16:31 via bbc.com
  Olly Room pays tribute to the "beauty of kind people's offers" after his Sussex home burns down.
  
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• 'I rushed into the inferno, but couldn't save them'

  03-12-2025 16:14 via bbc.co.uk
  A family cottage in Nutley, on the edge of the Ashdown Forest, was destroyed by fire.
  
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• Prime suspect named in unsolved woman's murder from 2005

  03-12-2025 16:01 via bbc.com
  Jennifer Kiely, 35, was murdered in a seafront shelter in Eastbourne, East Sussex, in January 2005.
  
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• Sixteen treated after carbon monoxide leak at flats

  03-12-2025 15:13 via bbc.com
  South East Coast Ambulance Service says seven people were hospitalised after the leak in Hastings.
  
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• Why is South East Water under so much pressure now?

  03-12-2025 13:32 via bbc.com
  Why is South East Water facing repeated supply failures and growing criticism from customers and MPs?
  
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• Suspected killer named in 20-year-old cold case

  03-12-2025 13:02 via bbc.co.uk
  35 year old Jennifer Keily was found dead in a shelter on Eastbourne Seafront in 2005.
  
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• Gravestone and decorations vandalised at church

  03-12-2025 07:18 via bbc.com
  The church's vicar described seeing the anti-social behaviour through CCTV as a "shock".
  
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• Love Island star issues warning over Christmas scams

  03-12-2025 07:14 via bbc.com
  Amy Hart, from Worthing, is warning people about scams after she lost £5,000 to fraudsters.
  
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• Former Conservative MP Sir John Stanley dies at 83

  02-12-2025 20:58 via bbc.com
  Sir John was MP for Tonbridge and Malling from 1974 to 2015, holding several government posts.
  
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• 'Send in the army' to help with water chaos - Davey

  02-12-2025 19:00 via bbc.com
  Thousands of households in Tunbridge Wells, Pembury and Frant will be without water for a fifth day.
  
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• Eubank reveals 'health issues' but hopes to return

  02-12-2025 18:11 via bbc.com
  Chris Eubank Jr says he will not box again until he is "100%" fit after revealing he has been dealing with "health issues".
  
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• Murder investigation launched after fatal stabbing

  02-12-2025 17:27 via bbc.com
  A man in his 30s has been arrested in connection with the stabbing in Kent.
  
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• Man who killed baby daughter has sentence increased

  02-12-2025 17:04 via bbc.com
  Thomas Holford shook daughter Everleigh Stroud with "excessive and severe force", the court heard.
  
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• Kent seamer Quinn signs new two-year contract

  02-12-2025 13:00 via bbc.com
  Kent seam bowler Matt Quinn signs a new two-year contract with the club.
  
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