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Hello. For the first time today, a worker at Colchester Hospital in

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Essex has been giving an insider's account of what happened over the

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scandal of cancer records. It was only through fear led by the

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management and constant threat of having to report to the Chief

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Executive team that people didn't come out sooner, as far as I am

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aware. In football, Ipswich town have a new face. And stay with us

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for a live interview with the strictly come dancing judge. For the

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first time today, a worker at Colchester Hospital Trust at Essex

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has given an insiders account of what happened over the scandal of

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cancer records. The staff member makes it clear it was the hospital

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managers who insisted on fiddling the data on waiting times.

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There has already been a dramatic fall`out from the scandal. The chief

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executive has resigned and inspectors from the NHS say they

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will now check patient records, going back years, to establish the

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scale of the wrongdoing. But, today, we heard from somebody who was

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actually involved in making those false returns. In this report from

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Tom Barton, we have disguised the identity of that person. For six

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weeks, Colchester Hospital has been under scrutiny under `` and

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allegations it manipulated cancer waiting time data. Inspectors said

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the scandal may have affected patient care. But exactly how

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patients were affected remains unclear. We were told to book

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pensions that were not breached so our performance figures were ``

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would look better. We were only an out a certain number of breaches per

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month. Because the target had been missed, they had to wait even longer

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in order that it wouldn't look like the hospital had missed the

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targets? absolutely. Other patients had been waiting in excess of 15 or

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20 weeks. People watching this will be absolutely amazed to hear that. I

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can imagine they would be. We were absolutely distraught at this going

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on and I can promise the public that certainly everybody I worked with

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challenged this behaviour constantly and which is only through fear led

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by the management and constant threats of having to report to the

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Chief Executive team that people didn't come out sooner, as far as I

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am aware. The hospital admin worker is being supported by her union. She

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said when staff complained, management ignored them. They told

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all staff to get on with it. It was essential because of the trust was

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seen to be failing, the monitor would come in and everyone's lives

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will be made difficult. On Wednesday, the Chief Executive

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resigned and yesterday, NHS England said it was extending a review to

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cover all hospital department. Colchester Hospital Trust said, we

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take these claims extremely seriously and will take this

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accident `` and will take disciplinary action.

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One of Britain's biggest bookmakers has taken over a failed racecourse

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in Essex. Betfred is leading a consortium which is promising to

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breathe new life into the Great Leighs course. It opened five years

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ago but quickly collapsed. The new owners are planning to resume racing

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there by 2015. This was Great Leighs in the spring of 2008, the new

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weather racecourse nearing accomplished. A champagne moment was

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looming for a venue with floodlights shaped like glasses of bubbly. It

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was a moment to savour but celebration gave way to

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administration. Andy Waite was the former clerk of the course, a

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troubled past but he hopes a triumphant future. Everyone asks

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when is it going to open. They enjoyed it when it was open and they

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look forward to it opening in the future. The consortium is made up of

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three firms, boy`macro with a turnover of ?8 billion, SAS and the

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media company debt solution. There ideas of putting serious money into

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this racecourse will be very important because the industry needs

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it. The special track is still in top condition, two new grandstands

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are planned. They want a new name. Chelmsford city racecourse, it is to

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everybody's taste. Keep it as Great Leighs, let's be proud of that nice

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Essex man. Maybe it is a fresh start. Well, I can understand why

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they might be reasons for moving away from Great Leighs but

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Chelmsford city sounds like an airport and it is miles away from

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Chelmsford. Because audience there they mean business and will turn it

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into the best all`weather facility in Europe.

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Some of the most rundown churches in this region have been given an early

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Christmas present from the National Lottery. Churches across Essex,

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Suffolk and Norfolk will share in a grant of more than ?0.5 million for

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urgent repairs. All Saints Church is around 900 years old but that

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doesn't bother the woodpeckers, they have left their mark on the spire

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and now the roof leaks. We are entering the nave of the church and

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it is the south part of the nave on this site will we have the water

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problem. We find the water comes down this wall here and it hits the

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pews. It's that is everywhere and renders that area of the church

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useless for Sunday services. Now, long`awaited repairs should soon

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begin with the help of just under ?200,000 from the Heritage shortages

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and `` Heritage lottery fund. It the best Christmas present we could ever

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have. It enables us to do the repairs to make the building

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watertight so we can do community activities along with the worship

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that we need to do in this village for the parish. This church topped

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the list money being handed out. I was announced today are St Mary is,

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holy Trinity and St Margaret as well as St Peter and St Pauls Church and

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all Saints Church. The grant for churches have been given out to

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churches where they have to have the work done in two years. These are

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for the most urgent ones. Years of work has gone into securing funding

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to protect this grade one listed church. In a few weeks, with the

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decorations come down, the scaffolding will finally go up.

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Graham James, the Bishop of Norwich, is with us now. ?500,000, quite

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nice. Very good, very encouraging but it needs to be put in the

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context of many millions of pounds which church congregations raise

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each year to maintain our wonderful listed and beautiful parish

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churches. I thought the church disapproved of the National water

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rich. There are no shortages of raffles. The lottery funding is

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something that has replaced English Heritage grants every largely and

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the problem of the lottery is that the size of the prizes can cause

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people who are far too poor to spend too much money on it so, yes, there

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are difficulties with it. That in principle, gambling is never a

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brilliant idea but we recognise the reality of it and this funding

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stream has been created and we are grateful for it. Are memory usage in

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here a year ago and the scene has changed. We have a new Archbishop of

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Canterbury, the new Pope and we will get women ships. well, we hope we

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will get women bishops. Yes, things have changed enormously. I think the

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spirit of the church has been renewed, as it often is as `` with

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new people in process who bring fresh imagination. But Francis, it

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is said he has not changed the words but he has changed the music of the

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Catholic church and I think that Archbishop Justin has done things

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that are different for us. Challenge to that company wasn't one of

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condemnation. We're not into condemnation. It is actually, how

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can you serve the poor debtor. That is the challenge she put to the

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church and the rest of us. As you look towards Christmas, what are

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your thoughts for the New Year? One of the things I love about Christmas

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is it always renews hope. The reason I think more and more people come to

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church at Christmas, the cassette has been a big change, it is that

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they see the hope in the birth of a child, got a fax from coming to

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Earth. `` God's son coming to. If you're on the move this weekend,

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a quick look at the travel. At the airports:

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A former shoe factory in Norwich is to become home to the city's newest

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secondary school. The Jane Austen College opens its

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doors next September to students aged between 11 and 19. Work is now

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underway to re`fit the building and recruit teachers. It was once the

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home to this shoe factory. Now, this historic building incorporating the

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city of Norwich will have another face`lift. The paperwork has been

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signed off. This is to become northward's latest free school. It

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was a particular location that they were after. we think this building

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is fantastic, it will be inspiring for our students, it combines

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tradition, heritage, it is on a historical street and has fantastic

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modern facilities inside. 11 to 16`year`olds will follow the

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national curriculum but then they can specialise in humanities and

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science and maths through the partner school. The inspiration

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trust who sponsored this college want to help northward's education

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standards improve. It is about brilliant teacher learning and about

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outstanding leadership and if you can get those two things right,

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there really is no barrier to why our children cannot be the top of

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the national tables, not bottom. The College opens in September with two

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year groups. I2020, it will be fully operational. `` by 2020.

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Still to come, the best sporting bits of 2013. And the Strictly judge

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as you have never seen him before. Earlier this year we met T

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Sandeman`Charles who had set up a campaign to get 10,000 people to

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sign up to the organ donor register. Two weeks ago, she reached her

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target. T's campaign called Save5 goes on.

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It's a subject she's passionate about because in 2010 T was

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diagnosed with two terminal lung diseases. She desperately needs a

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lung transplant and is on the waiting list at Papworth Hospital.

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Today, T was there for a regular check`up. For T Sandeman`Charles,

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the simple things in life are hard to do. Getting out of the car leaves

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her grasping for breath. She has her husband to help but four years after

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being diagnosed with two progressive lung diseases, a transplant is now

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her only hope. Like everybody, I just want to live. I want to live my

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life. So much I want to do, so much I feel I have to do. We first met T

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five years ago when she first launched her campaign. With the help

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of friends and family, two weeks ago, she reached her target of

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getting 10,000 people on the register. We did it. And when I say

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we, I do want to say that if it wasn't for my lovely husband, my

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fantastic family, the friends, the 10,000 people who signed up, it

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would never have happened. Today, T was here to see Doctor Thomas to see

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if she is fit enough for a transplant. we have a tricky balance

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because we want to have you doing everything you can to be fit enough

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to get a transplant. Your breathing is not just your lungs, it is your

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muscles, your diaphragm. In 2011, 20 six `` 26 people joined the list.

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Three people are still waiting. If T gets it, it can happen quickly. it

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could be in the region of 12 to 14 hours wait from the call. When I am

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in bed, I can't do anything and I sometimes say to myself, will recall

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ever come? Will it end like this? And then I shed a tear stop then I

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picked myself up and I say, come on, T, come on, you have got to believe

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it will come. T is looking forward to Christmas and is positive about

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the future but when you are on a transplant waiting list, there is no

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other way to be. If you are interested in the organ donor

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register, you can call the donor line. You can log on to T's website

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at save5.org.uk. Let's move on to sport, now, and

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there's a packed programme of fixtures over the Christmas break.

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Here's Tom. Starting with Norwich, Chris Hughton

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insists it's one match at a time despite a crucial Christmas period

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which presents a real opportunity. City play all three teams currently

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in the Premier League relegation zone starting with bottom club

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Sunderland tomorrow. Then it's Fulham and Man U at home before

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Palace on New Year's Day. A productive Christmas could mean a

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giant leap towards survival? We played two games in two days over

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the Christmas period and it is difficult to plan for a second game

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when you're not quite sure what will happen in the first game. So, that

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is how it has to be. It is very much focusing on the next game.

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Ipswich's new signing Sylvan Ebanks`Blake isn't ruling out a

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promotion push in 2014. The striker has agreed a contract until the end

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of the season. Ipswich are tenth in the Championship heading into

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tomorrow's match with Watford. The forward says Mick McCarthy played a

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huge part in his decision to come. He is an honest man. I don't like to

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keep harking on about how honest he is, he is a good manager and has had

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a lot of success. I think I have had my most successful years under him

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so I think that shows you that he is good for me and I have been good for

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him. Now what's in store for the rest of

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our sides over Christmas? Here's a few key matches. MK Dons' form has

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been iffy and tomorrow the first of several games against sides eyeing

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the play`offs, home to Port Vale. On Boxing Day, Colchester`Stevenage. It

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could be crucial in both sides' fight against the drop. Peterborough

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host promotion rivals Brentford on New Year's Day. They lost against

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them last month. In League Two, Southend's biggest

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match of the festive period comes tonight. Home to Rochdale who are

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the place below them. And Northampton will hope to drag

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Portsmouth into the relegation mix when they meet between Christmas and

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New Year. Now, as we approach the end of the

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year, time to reflect on the sporting highs and lows from the

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last 12 months. It started in the FA Cup, features finals galore for

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Northampton and leading roles for our gymnasts. In the 50s, Luton beat

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Norwich to reach the FA Cup final. In 25th team, they but the first top

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flight. The Hatters reaching the fifth round at the expense of the

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Canaries. Suited and booted, later in the month, Greg Rutherford

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received an MBE from the Queen. I was not `` more nervous going into

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the palace that I have ever been in my career. This gymnast won the

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vault at the English championships. She is now targeting next year's

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Commonwealth Games. 30,000 Southend fans were disappointed as they

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lost. Former manager Paul Thurrock, sacked despite meeting the final.

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Newmarket trainer Gerard Butler was questioned over doping offences. In

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gymnast is, the plaudits went to Max Whitlock and Daniel Keating is, gold

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medals at the European Championships. She shouts! Max would

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later get silver. Northampton Saints lost to Arch rivals Leicester Tigers

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in the premiership final. Norwich had secured their premiership

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survival before they beat Manchester city and the club's youth team were

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winners in the FA youth cup. Henry Cecil had so many triumphs in his

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career but he lost a long, brave fight against cancer in June.

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Northampton Saints also lost their chairman to the same disease.

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Formula one came to Northamptonshire. It was an

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explosive occasion. Johnny Peacock did deliver, becoming world and

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Paralympic champion. Northamptonshire's cricketers, a

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dream summer, 2020 winners, champions and promotion to division

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one. `` Twenty20. Finally, at a different pace, Neil Robertson

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completed Snooker's report Crown, winning the UK Championships. So,

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23rd Dean, done and dusted. `` 2013. And we heard in there about Gerard

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Butler. News today the Newmarket trainer has withdrawn his appeal

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against a five`year ban. He admitted injecting racehorses with banned

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drugs. Butler described the incident as one disastrous lapse.

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And don't forget racing over the jumps at Huntingdon on Boxing Day.

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8,000 expected. Always popular. More sport on the website plus all the

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build`up to Saints' trip to Wasps tomorrow in the rugby.

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This time tomorrow evening, an estimated 14 million television

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viewers will be glued to their screens for the final of Strictly

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Come Dancing. In a blizzard of sequins and sambas, it's an

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all`female contest between Susanna, Abby, Sophie and Natalie. Of course

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the judges will have their say. The one who is hardest to please is

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Craig Revel Horwood. Tonight, he is appearing in Snow White and the

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Seven Dwarfs in Southend, playing the Wicked Witch And I'm delighted

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to say he joins us now. Marks out of ten for your performance as the evil

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Queen? It has to be a ten. You look fabulous, darling. Thank you. It's

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an all`female final, I thought I would join the clan. You are the

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evil Queen, are you being typecast or are you a softy? I am an arm

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salute softy. It is only with bad dancing that I am really honest. I

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love the show, it is the nominal and has been for the last ten years. It

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is just amazing and it just gets better and better and this year has

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been extremely exciting. I don't know how you were taking me

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seriously with this face on, darling, but it is an amazing show

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and it deserves all the millions of people you is that it gets. And I am

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sure everyone at home is absolutely loving it and revving up for this

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final tomorrow night. I cannot wait to get there but I have one more

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show and I am starring in Snow White and the seven dwarfs alongside Lisa

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Riley who was on the show last year and she is fantastic as well. On

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Saturday nights coming you go to London and then you come back to do

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more panto? yes, I do. I do panto every single day that I am not at

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Strictly. Lisa is going on tour with that as well. She will be hosting

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it. We go to Wembley and all over the country. Glasgow Exeter. And

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that is the next day after we finish panto. It is very, very busy.

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Strictly takes six months of everyone's time. Obviously, you are

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known for being into the detail of the dancing and begin dancing is the

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most important thing, so who do you think is going to win tomorrow? If

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you want my honest opinion, I think Natalie probably should win but

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probably won't. I think because the final is very much of you this

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choice, `` the viewers choice, I think Susanna has a fair go at it

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because she has a lot of followers and at Abbey I think is really good.

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She has worked her way out. It is sensational to see someone who has

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never been able to dance before really to fly and go into the final,

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that is what is really exciting for me. I cannot wait to know the

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outcome. That was a good diplomatic answer because you nearly mentioned

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everybody. I can't wait to find the outcome as well. You do look

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gorgeous. Thank you for being on the show. Love from panto land. Break a

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leg. Let's get the weather. show. Love from panto land. Break a

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You are probably wondering about the weather. Wet and windy over the next

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few days. Windy on its way, wet, later. We have a slow`moving weather

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front, moving in our direction. It is making quite slow progress across

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the country. Some patchy rain across the West Country and Wales. It will

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get to us late at night. We have increasing amounts of clouds across

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the West. Already, the winds freshening with some gusts of around

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30 miles an hour recorded in places. After midnight, perhaps something a

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bit for persistent and heavy. Certainly, it promises a wet end to

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the night. That weather front is bringing in much wilder Atlantic

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air. Below is our five to seven degrees. That is on the mild side.

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Looking at the average wind speeds, it will continue to pick up over the

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next few hours, reaching its peak around midnight and into the early

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hours. Expect a fresh to strong south`westerly wind. It may well

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touch gale force wait that's between 40, perhaps 50 mph are possible. We

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start tomorrow is still quite wet and windy because this weather front

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is not in any rush to go anywhere. Certainly, a tight squeeze on the

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ice baths in this chart. The weather front, particularly in the eastern

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half, it is not going anywhere fast so expect a wet and windy morning.

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There will be some try interludes during the day but certainly not the

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best of days. It is technically milder because our temperatures will

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be in double figures but factor in the moderates to south`westerly ``

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moderate wind and it will not yield much milder. Another band of rain is

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lighted to come through both the night so that promises a wet start

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to Sunday. Looking ahead as we approach Christmas, this slow

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spinning in for Monday, late on Monday, some rain and certainly for

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Christmas eve, it is looking wet and windy. You can see the wind speeds

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there. Looking largely dry on Sunday. Into Monday, we have some

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rain arriving on that below later and West and windy day on windy ``

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on Christmas eve. Have a great weekend. Goodbye.

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