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- 🚨 Police, coastguard and lifeboat crews launched a search for missing Hove man Gareth Jones last night
- 🚨 The search was launched yesterday evening and was suspended in the early hours before being resumed this morning
- 🚨The 69-year-old was last seen with his brown cockapoo at Fish, a fishmongers in Basin Road South, Portslade, at 1pm yesterday
- 🚨 Shortly after 4pm, police confirmed the search was being scaled down after officers viewed CCTV which appears to show Gareth and his dog being swept out to sea in Hove
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