Live updates: Rescue teams search for two people after fishing boat sinks near Newhaven
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HM Coastguard received an emergency call at 6am, from a fishing vessel, three miles off the coast at Seaford.
Three people were initially reported missing but the Coastguard confirmed that one man was recovered from the water by the Newhaven RNLI lifeboat, found clinging to a lifebuoy. He has been transferred to hospital.
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