Latest: Chemical cloud across UK coastline 'unlikely' to have come from France, police say

Latest: A chemical cloud which forced coastline evacuations across East Sussex in England on Sunday is "very unlikely" to have floated over from northern France, authorities said.

Latest: Chemical cloud across UK coastline 'unlikely' to have come from France, police say

Update: 12.58pm: A chemical cloud which forced coastline evacuations across East Sussex in England on Sunday is "very unlikely" to have floated over from northern France, authorities said.

Some 150 people required treatment for stinging eyes, sore throats and vomiting, but the effects of the unknown substance were "mostly minor", Sussex police said.

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