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Southern says most of its service are operating as normal today but staff at Brighton Chippy near the station say the ongoing strike action is affecting business.  

I spoke to passengers at Brighton station during yesterday's 24-hour walkout.

One woman didn't think there was a strike being held today but was under the impression previous strikes had been held on Sundays because she'd suffered so much disruption at weekends.

It's going to be more of the same on Tuesday after a warm start to the week.

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Police have renewed their appeal for witnesses to a road crash in Uckfield in which two people died. 

They were in a white Peugeot Boxer van which was travelling along Eastbourne Road when it came off the road at Ridgewood and crashed into a tree. 

It happened at about 16:50 GMT yesterday.

A 22-year-old man and 27-year-old woman, both from Uckfield, died at the scene.

Southern says most of its service are operating as normal today but staff at Brighton Chippy near the station say the ongoing strike action is affecting business.

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The right-wing political activist Steve Uncles has been jailed for seven and a half months after being convicted of election fraud.

Steve Uncles was regional leader for the English Democrats and put forward fake candidates to stand in local government elections in Kent in 2013. 

Last year he stood as a candidate in the police and crime commissioner elecions, coming last in the vote

I spoke to passengers at Brighton station. 

One woman didn't think there was a strike being held today but was under the impression previous strikes had been held on Sundays because she'd suffered so much disruption at weekends.

Dog owners are being warned they could be prosecuted and their pets shot dead if they allow them to chase sheep.

It's lambing season, and farmers across the South East are already reporting cases of sheep worrying.

One Sussex farmer is counting the cost of an attack which saw 14 of his ewes killed. 

If so, get in touch with the award-winning BBC South East Today investigations team.     

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It's the South and the North today, but could this dispute keep spreading across England?

The government's made it clear that it wants an expansion of "driver-only-operated" trains and that puts it at loggerheads with the unions.

The Department for Transport talks about introducing them in the next two franchises about to be awarded, South Western and West Midlands.

The unions say it's a long-term ploy to get rid of all train guards and save money - they claim it puts passenger safety at risk.

But rail bosses argue it's about modernising the service, freeing up the second on-board person to deal with passengers rather than closing the train doors.

Handing all the safety jobs to the driver means you don't HAVE to have two people on every train before it can leave the station. That would shrink the power of the RMT, because more trains would be able to run if their guards went on strike in the future.