South East news

• What could this week's budget mean for Kent?

  25-11-2025 07:00 via bbc.com
  How will this week's annual budget affect Kent businesses and the money in our pockets?
  
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• Author's 'dream-like' Golden Globes nomination

  09-01-2026 19:58 via bbc.com
  Wadhurst writer Michelle Frances' debut novel was adapted into an Amazon TV series.
  
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• Patient 'only receiving paracetamol' for fractures

  09-01-2026 18:55 via bbc.com
  A coroner says David Dugdale died after care at NHS hospitals in Eastbourne and Hastings.
  
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• Storm causes flooding, water outages and travel chaos

  09-01-2026 18:49 via bbc.com
  Storm Goretti is causing flooding, power cuts and travel disruption across parts of Sussex and Kent.
  
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• Plastic pellet pollution incident upgraded

  09-01-2026 17:58 via bbc.com
  MP Helena Dollimore is launching a petition to end the use of plastic beads in wastewater treatment.
  
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• Man jailed for 32 years after 'frenzied' stabbing

  09-01-2026 16:19 via bbc.com
  David Clarke stabbed his victim multiple times in the head, neck and body in February 2025.
  
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• Posh's Lolos & Arsenal's Copley join Crawley

  09-01-2026 15:51 via bbc.com
  Crawley sign Peterborough United midfielder Klaidi Lolos and Arsenal teenager Louie Copley on loan.
  
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• Hundreds object to proposed sports pitch

  09-01-2026 13:49 via bbc.com
  An extended noise impact analysis will be carried out by the college proposing the pitch.
  
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• 'Nerve-wracking drama' around Traitors ex-detective

  09-01-2026 13:37 via bbc.com
  Amanda Collier, from Brighton, is one of 22 people who entered The Traitors Castle this series.
  
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• Family unearth 3,000-year-old 'treasure'

  09-01-2026 07:14 via bbc.com
  Simon Weller, his nine-year-old daughter and 79-year-old dad made the find while metal detecting.
  
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• Will anyone get to vote in Sussex this year?

  09-01-2026 07:13 via bbc.com
  All 2026 local elections in Sussex face being scrapped after vote for mayor postponed amid changes.
  
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• Man arrested after reports of stolen vehicle

  08-01-2026 19:25 via bbc.com
  The A259 Marine Drive is closed in both directions while investigations take place.
  
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• Birling Gap safety warning for Storm Goretti

  08-01-2026 16:31 via bbc.com
  The Met Office issues a yellow warning for wind including some coastal areas of Kent and Sussex.
  
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• Record number arrested in drink-drive crackdown

  08-01-2026 12:54 via bbc.com
  Sussex Police says its officers arrested 279 people in December in its annual drink-drive campaign.
  
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• Smart glasses: 'I was filmed then trolled online'

  07-01-2026 16:44 via bbc.co.uk
  Oonagh says she was approached by a man wearing sunglasses in Brighton last June.
  
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• Debating the fate of Canterbury's lamp-posts

  07-01-2026 15:11 via bbc.co.uk
  Canterbury is one of the few places left with a strong collection of cast‑iron lampposts.
  
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• Stunning weather shots from around Kent

  07-01-2026 13:34 via bbc.com
  Here are some of the best shots from across the region.
  
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• Man jailed for supplying gangs with thousands of Channel small boats

  07-01-2026 13:11 via bbc.com
  Police described Adem Savas as "without a doubt the most significant supplier" to Channel people smugglers between 2019 and 2024.
  
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• School bus crashes in ditch 'after black ice skid'

  07-01-2026 13:06 via bbc.com
  Police and paramedics help children off the bus after it leaves the road at Chilmington Green.
  
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• South East Water apologises to customers cut off again

  07-01-2026 10:45 via bbc.com
  The company says water is returning on Wednesday but supplies are likely to be intermittent.
  
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• Rail passengers urged to plan ahead of major works

  07-01-2026 07:10 via bbc.com
  Network Rail says the works will take place across three weekends in January.
  
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• Seven-week-old smuggled puppy finds forever home

  07-01-2026 07:05 via bbc.com
  Elsa the Yorkshire terrier was illegally smuggled into the UK but has found a home in Yorkshire.
  
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• Play on teens' phone addiction debuts at Commons

  07-01-2026 07:05 via bbc.com
  Generation Fomo is based on interviews by Kent theatre director Isabelle Defaut with young people.
  
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• Lorry driver denies causing death of man in crash

  06-01-2026 20:49 via bbc.com
  Arran McManus, 36, was killed when two lorries and a Nissan Qashqai crashed on the M20 in Kent.
  
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• Water firm flying blind before crisis - regulator

  06-01-2026 20:25 via bbc.com
  MPs question South East Water boss David Hinton after 24,000 properties faced supply disruption.
  
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• Theatre in 'jeopardy' due to football pitch plans

  06-01-2026 16:55 via bbc.com
  The theatre manager says noise from the proposed pitch will "overwhelm anything on our stage".
  
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• Evicted on our 100th birthday

  06-01-2026 16:23 via bbc.co.uk
  A golf course near Crawley has been evicted just before its centenary year.
  
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• Victorian lamp-posts to be removed, campaigners say

  06-01-2026 15:38 via bbc.com
  Kent council is accused of seeking to replace Canterbury's lamp-posts with "hideous-looking things".
  
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• The Sussex triangle that inspired Camberwick Green

  06-01-2026 15:38 via bbc.co.uk
  Three villages near Burgess Hill are said to have inspired children's TV classics.
  
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• Sussex struggles in sub zero weather

  06-01-2026 15:02 via bbc.com
  A weather warning for ice is in place across Kent, Sussex and Surrey for Wednesday morning.
  
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