The trial continues.

Councillor Jim Garner encouraged residents to report any concerns about suspected illegal products to the authority."Almost all" residents affected by a sinkhole in Surrey are set to return home, a local authority has said.

Lloyd Allen, Surrey County Council's infrastructure team manager, said those impacted by the road collapse in Godstone High Street could return to their homes this weekend.But he warned this depended on a "couple of issues" still under investigation, such as whether water quality was up to the right standard.Mr Allen said the local authority was still trying to establish what caused the collapse in February.

He said a GPR survey, which involves sending radar pulses through the ground, had detected "quite a lot of anomalies" in the area."We are calling them anomalies at the moment because until we investigate further, we don't actually know what they are," he said.

Mr Allen suggested they could be a "series of tunnels under the road", "deep sewers", or "potentially soakways from properties".

He said the council would continue its investigations over the coming weeks to determine what is happening underground.ESCC said there was a miscalculation of Mr Kelynack's allowances which meant he should have been contributing more towards the cost of his care. Despite this, the council said it would not be asking him to make up the shortfall from the previous year.

Mr Kelynack, who required care following a spinal injury and complications from Covid, said he already owed the council £3,000 and only had £1,000 in savings."To be told now that we are expected to now pay over £105 a week, it's a shock to the system because my savings, and our savings, went in between when I had the back problems," he said.

Ms Kelynack said she was worried about the future."We were comfy when we first come down [to Rye], but now we're having to watch every penny to get us through a week," she said.