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Welcome to South East Today, I'm Rob Smith.

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And I'm Pollly Evans. Tonight's top stories.

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Thamesteel in Sheerness goes into administration threatening 400 jobs

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in the town. Unions call it devastating. To be told at a

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moment's notice you're not getting paid his extremely upsetting.

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live at the plant in North Kent with the latest.

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A tax on foreign lorry drivers arriving at Dover, but critics warn

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the Government's plans could force up prices for the consumer.

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Also in tonight's programme. Horse rescue charities say more animals

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than ever before are being abandoned as people struggle to

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cope with the expense. We are a bit disgruntled because we think people

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are jumping the gun too quickly. Let's get rid of this well, let's

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get rid of that one. The south east soldiers serving in

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Afghanistan - we have a report from Lashkar Gah.

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And too cute for its own good - the Sussex charity battling to save the

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slow loris from extinction in the Good evening. A steel-making plant

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which employs 400 workers in one of the most deprived parts of Kent,

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has gone into administration. Thamesteel is based in Sheerness,

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on the Isle of Sheppey, and is a significant employer in the area.

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The MP for the area, Gordon Henderson, has called the shock

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announcement an "employment disaster" for Sheppey. It comes on

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the day that steel maker Tata announced 110 jobs would go at its

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plant in Corby. In a moment we'll speak to our Political Editor, but

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first Fiona Irving is outside the Steel Plant now. Fiona - this is an

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awful blow for the town? Yes, it is, there has been a

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reaction of shock and anger at how it has been handled. People have

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been turning up for their shift at 6pm and were turned away, really.

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The news has called a devastating blow to the airy and to the

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industry. They employ 400 people and it is one of the largest

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employers in Sheerness. Sheerness is a deprived area with many of

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their children in poverty. Workers were told the news today, and many

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of them were not surprised. Some people have not even been paid yet

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this month. You can imagine the anger that was felt. People have

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mortgages, they have got their bills to pay, putting food on the

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table, and to be told at a moment's notice you're not getting paid is

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extremely upsetting. There is still hope that an investor may be found.

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There is a meeting tomorrow at 11am where workers will find out more.

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This has been a troubled plant in the past and it has bounced back,

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but this news on the day it was announced that the economy has

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contracted in the last quarter is a bitter blow.

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We can cross to our political editor in Westminster and this is

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particularly bad timing? It is never good timing when a

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company like this announces it is gone into administration with a

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threat to so many jobs in a deprived part of Kent. It comes on

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the day that the latest figures show the economy shrank more than

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expected in the last quarter and that points to the fact that we

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could be heading back into another recession, not good news for the

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economy. I spoke to the local MP who described it as an employment

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disaster for the airy and he is heading straight to the Isle of

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Sheppey to meet people and is hoping for an urgent meeting with

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the urgent business secretary Vince Cable.

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Adri will be speaking to the local MP Gordon Henderson at 10:25pm

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tonight. There's a warning tonight that

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government plans to charge foreign lorry drivers arriving in Dover to

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use Kent's roads could force prices up in our shops. Hauliers from

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abroad are set to pay �10 a day per lorry. Ministers believe this will

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make British firms more competitive. But as Simon Jones now reports,

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retail experts fear the cost could be passed onto the consumers.

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The freedom of the road looks set to end for foreign lorry drivers

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such as these German hauliers taking a break at the Ashford

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trucks stop. I have to pay. It is OK for me. British lorry drivers

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are used to paying to use roads abroad and they say that the

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proposals today will make things fairer. It is a good idea, to be

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perfectly honest. Richard had been done years ago. It is only right

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that they use the words -- the roads as much as we are. Some

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people say that foreign companies if they have to pay more to use our

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roads, then prices in the shops will go up. By itself, it is not

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particularly large, but when you add a great these things and do

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they did in the context of inflation and income is squeezed,

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it is another niggling cost that consumers have to bear. At this

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hole using Dover, there are questions as to how it will work? -

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- at these hauliers in Dover. have been proposals that were

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abandoned, the last situation we found ourselves in was abandoned

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because of the costs. Trucks from abroad make 1.5 million trips to

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the UK each year and the Government says charging them will raise �25

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million a year, but it will cost �5 million to administer. A be want to

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level the playing field. There are calls for the money raised in Kent

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to be spent in Kent. We would pay for some of the damage caused by

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these foreign trucks and who have also use this for Operation Stack.

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The Government says the Revenue will go to the Treasury.

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Simon Jones reporting - he joins us now from Dover. Simon, how exactly

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would the system work? The idea is that the foreign lorry drivers

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would pay in advance through the engine and when they are on a ferry

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to Dover are or are arriving at the port before they get on the road.

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There will be a national database to check that people had paid. If

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they do not, the idea is that could be a �1,000 fine. The idea is that

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like many speeding drivers from abroad, they head back across the

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Channel without paying the fine, and this is too costly to pursue

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them. British drivers are also going to have to pay this �10 feet

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every day under European law, because it would be unfair to

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exempt them from that, but the Government is making it clear they

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will get the money back by a reduction in road tax. Thank you.

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Coming up: The warning about sung cancer from a couple that for both

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battling the disease. -- son can The Thanet Windfarm has been forced

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to operate at a reduced output, after a potentially catastrophic

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fault was discovered on one of the two cables used to export

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electricity back to the national grid, which could have led to a

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meltdown and explosions. That fault, at what is the worlds biggest

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offshore windfarm, has now been repaired - but ongoing problems

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mean output has had to be capped. Our environment correspondent

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Yvette Austin reports. Officially opened to a fanfare of

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publicity in 2010, the energy secretary was the guest of honour.

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18 months later, the vessels are back at the wind farm to deal with

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serious underwater cable problems, firstly in one, he pupils found

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with the potential to cause a catastrophic failure. They are

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trying to find another fault on the same line. When it is Khan, the

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wind farms don't generate much electricity, but on a windy day,

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they can be very productive. At the moment, this wind farm, even when

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it is windy, and it can generate a maximum had put, only half of the

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electricity can be harnessed. Those concerned over the level of support

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for wind farms are not surprised that falls are occurring.

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problem is the scale and the pace of the plans and we need time to

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learn. The Government is forcing the industry to do things ahead of

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the learning curve which is not very sensible. It is not known

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exactly how much electricity has been wasted, but the fault will

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have cost the company dearly in subsidies, payments for the power

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and repairs. The wind farm is more than seven miles out at sea with

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two main cables bringing electricity ashore. When the fault

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was discovered on the sudden cable, it had to be shut down, so

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production at the wind farm had to be capped at 150 megawatts which is

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half power. The company is not overly concerned. It has generally

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been operating well, I'll be it with the limitations of the faults

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on the export cable. You need to but this into the context of the

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fact that the wind farm will operate for the next 25 years.

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is, the repairs will be made by the end of February.

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About 50 people have held a protest outside Hailsham Police station

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today after a 25-year-old man was stabbed to death following a fight

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on Sunday. The demonstration comes after an 18-year-old man arrested

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on suspicion of murdering Darren Croxton was released on bail. Two

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teenagers and a 20-year-old man remain in custody.

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More than 1,000 nurses and health professionals in Sussex face a pay

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cut as NHS bosses try to cut spending. Brighton and Sussex

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Hospitals Trust plans to scrap a �480 annual recruitment and

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retention premium paid to a fifth of its staff. It says it's part of

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a strategy to minimise job cuts but the GMB union says it's a "shoddy

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way" to treat staff. An independent report into allowing

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night flights at Manston airport in Kent has found it would have a

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worse noise impact on residents than estimated. The study -

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commissioned by Thanet District Council - also says it wouldn't

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create the number of jobs forecast. It comes after the news that main

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airline operator FlyBe is stopping its operations from March. It means

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there will now be just one regular passenger flight a week operating

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from the airport. Horse rescue charities across the

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South East say they have never been so busy, as more and more animals

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are handed into their care. There are currently about one million

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horses in the UK. But because there are so many, horses have changed

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hands in some cases for as little as �2.50. But keeping a horse

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properly is expensive - in the region of �3,000 a year. Peter

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Whittlesea reports. This animal sanctuary was given

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charitable status last year because it proved to the charity's

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commission that it was providing a service that was urgently needed by

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re-homing horses that otherwise would have been destroyed. In 12

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months, the number we home to has gone up by 50 %. People leave them

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in the field, the abandon them which makes it worse because there

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medical problems they deal with, starvation. Last year, we saw the

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worst cruelty ABA. -- ever. One of the horses was left in the field

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weighing 200 kilos. She was only two years old. Previous people had

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abandoned her and she spent four months recovering in the clinic.

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This is not an unusual story and many charities are struggling to

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meet the additional costs of extra animals combined with that and

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rebels. One centre in Sussex says it is inundated with courses that

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owners no longer want but they will not pay to have them destroyed. --

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with horses. When I say, do you not think it would be better to put

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them down, their answer any duty is, you're a rescue centre, how do you

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say that to me?! Do we know how much it will cost them to put down

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a horse? We know all of that! they have no destruction policy but

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they feared that cruelty will increase and so they stop treating

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them like sports equipment that can be disregarded.

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A married couple... Cases of skin cancer are on the

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rise, but in an unusual case, a couple from West Sussex have both

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contracted the disease. Karen and Steve Porch attended the McIndoe

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Hospital today in East Grinstead to have their lesions removed. Alex

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Beard went along to meet them. Karen is a self-confessed sun

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worshipper but her husband is not, yet both of them are having

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cancerous lumps removed to date. Every time the sun was out, I would

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be in the back garden, and then have when I was working, I would

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hit the sun bed after words. husband doesn't go out on the Sun,

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but when his wife spotted a lump on his neck, he had it checked. I was

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amazed. But I stay away from the Sun, so I was astonished to find

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that I had cancer. Specialists say it is about staying safe in the sun,

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avoiding sunburn and using sunscreen, even here in the UK, as

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skin cancer is on the rise. It is important that we are aware of what

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to look out for, this couple are unusual in that they are young.

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They are presenting at the same time, with simultaneously having

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skin cancers. Karen knows that her obsession with a tan is the reason

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why she has had a number of lesions removed in the last few years. She

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worries there will be moored in the future. I am 39, I do not know what

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will happen, I could be worse down the road, were they have to build

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another part of me somewhere? Expat if I had known now I would not have

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been so stupid. Be warned that striving for the best Tanner can

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come at the serious cost. The top story tonight, a steel

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plant in Sheerness has gone into administration threatening 400 jobs.

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Thamesteel is one of the main employers in the airy and the union

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has described the news is devastating.

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Also tonight's, the farmer celebrating their victory in the

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battle to keep the historic market in Hailsham.

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And the weirdest primate in the world with two tongs and poise and

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teeth and the Sussex charity trying to save the slow loris from

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The war in Afghanistan has now been going on for a decade - and almost

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400 British soldiers have lost their lives. The coalition

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government has said they want to secure Afghanistan to the point

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where troops can come home by the end of 2014. The 1st Battalion The

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Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment recruit almost exclusively from the

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south east of England, and they're currently in Lashkar Gah in Helmand

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Province helping to create that security. Our Correspondent Mark

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Norman is with soldiers from PWRR, as they are known, and has sent

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We had a period of three weeks with heavy fighting. It is a battle for

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a hearts and minds of these people. The company of the Royal Regiment

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are right to end-October. It was tough a from the start and within

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days they were fighting and surgeons and infantry soldiers

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patrolling the area was a part of their strategy. We had just secured

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the population and displace the insurgents, so when we push out the

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insurgents and hold them at arm's length as did the fighting away

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from the people, that improves their security, so we can get on

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with the job at hand which is to offer them something better.

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Patrolling in that way has been quite successful. They opened a

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local school next to the base and they sat at the beginnings of a

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local police force. But everyone is aware that a major incident could

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happen at any time. One did back in November. This is the memorial to

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Private Thomas laker was killed on one of the patrols. He was in the

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company, a colleague and a friend. We heard the explosion from here

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and your heart sank because immediately you knew it was too

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close for comfort. I was in the Welfare tent and they briefed us

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all and told us what had happened. You're just in a stunned silence.

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It is the loss of a friend, just like normal life, he had just got

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to get on with stuff. That is what you would want us to do as well. He

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did not want us moping around, he would want us to do what we came

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out here to do. When you hear there is a man down, you're just waiting

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to find out who it is and what the score is? At the OK? What you get

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here is not a sense of grief, but a genuine sense of tried to make a

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difference. They have to open a local school, start a local police

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force and bring together local leaders and government officials.

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We had hard times and I am sure there will be tough times in the

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years to come, but we have success and the boys have something they

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can hang their hat on, they have created something year. It is

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reciprocal, the Good Will we have got from delivering tangible

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services and benefits which the insurgents never offered, we have

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got a reciprocal good will that we are feeding from. The word here is

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far from over and a finish patrolling twice a day what ever

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the weather and whatever the risk. Market is in Afghanistan now and

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joins us on an internet connection. As we heard, apart from frontline

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duties, they have a major role in entering the local police force?

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Yes, it is a huge part of their role in Afghanistan and there is

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one word you hear a lot of, transition, transitions from

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international forces to the Afghan police and the army being

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responsible for security. They are paying a huge part in this because

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if British forces are to return home in 2014, 2015, then the Afghan

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people need to be able to trust their own police and army and the

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company are committed to making that happen. Thank you.

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There has been a Market in Hailsham since the year 1252. But despite

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having 760 years of history on their side, the market very nearly

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closed down recently, with redevelopment to make way for

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supermarkets a very real possibility.

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But after a series of legal battles, a buyout by a local farmers co-

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operative has secured its future. And today they've been celebrating

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their victory with the first livestock market of the year. Ian

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Palmer was there. Here's to the future! Thank you.

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There has been a marketeers is that her theme century. -- there has

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been a market here since the 13th century. This is key to the

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employment. Yes, you learn all the different prices, the size of the

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animals, all of the different breeds. It is a good place to come.

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The supermarket chain already bought the site in 2004. It sort

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planning permission to build a store in 2007 and 2009 and both

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requests were refused. In 2011, they Hailsham Market bought the

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site into control. How has a market has been under threat since 1996

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and is situated in the heart of the town. Why have campaign has been so

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successful in their fight? company gave up because they were

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planning an appeal and the reason it has turned down was the

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importance of the market to the rural economy. He would not allow

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them to develop the site without providing a new market. Why is this

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market so important? The nearest place to buy and sell livestock is

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is in at Ashford in Kent Torrance Salisbury in Wiltshire more than 60

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miles away. If you go to another market to have less buyers and the

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prices driven down. The farmers here are delighted by the victory.

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It makes my business safe, I would be honest with you, the last five

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years, certainly, I have been looking at options and if this

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market closed I would have to stop farming where I was. I would have

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to move. The plan is to develop the site and turn it into something

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that will attract buyers from outside traditional rural

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communities, but there is no rush. Ownership has been secured.

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Two south east table tennis players have been selected for this year's

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Paralympic Games. Will Bayley who recently became world number one in

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his class, said he was delighted to be taking part in the games only 40

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minutes from home. He will be joined by Kent teenager, Ross

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Wilsonat this summer's games. A team of conservationists based in

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Uckfield will feature on a BBC Wildlife documentary tonight as

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they try and save the endangered Slow Loris in Indonesia. Slow

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lorises are very unusual primates - found in South and South East Asia.

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But they're on the verge of extinction in the wild, partly

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because of their popularity as pets. According to ancient folklore, they

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have the power to ward off evil spirits, perhaps because of the

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fact that they have two tongues and are the world's only venomous

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mammal. Katherine Downes has been finding out more.

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This is the slow loris. Undeniably cute, but their cuteness - and

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viral videos like this one on the internet - mean they're one of the

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most endangered animals in the world. In the last 20 years, there

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has been a huge number taken for pets. I can take you to a market in

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Jakarta and show you 30 slow Lawrences for sale. From their

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offices in Uckfield, International Animal Rescue are doing their best

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to conserve the species. In Java, in Indonesia, they run a sanctuary

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for slow lorises, where they're working with expert Anna Nekaris to

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find out more about these mysterious animals - like, why

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they're they worlds only venomous mammal? It could be because they

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are taking out prayed. It could be because they are protecting

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themselves from predators or it could be because they're killing

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rivals and possibly a combination of all of these things. Cuteness

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means people want them as pets - but no-one wants to cuddle a

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venomous loris. The pull-out the teeth with pliers and nail clippers

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in order to avoid being bitten by them, so the animals, when they are

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in the trade, they cannot be reintroduced to the wild because

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they have no teeth. One solution International Animal Rescue is

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exploring - is the possibility of fitting slow lorises with false

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teeth - groundbreaking animal dentistry. It is ground-breaking,

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but funnily enough, I was on a train discussing with a colleague

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about doing root canal treatment on players and they got some very

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strange looks. We did over 60 Reid cannot Freeman sun bears now, so

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anything is possible these days. The slow loris - and the work being

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done to save it - is the subject of Natural World, at 8:00 tonight on

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That was one of the more surreal stories we have had for a while!

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A great picture to say, it has been mild and cloudy and will stay like

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that into tonight. A band of rain spreading his. A wet start for

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tomorrow. A fresh south-westerly wind. Today, temperatures above

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average. In the next few days, it will cool down. Plenty of cloud

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around today and that has been thickening ahead of the rain that

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was spreading eastwards. Temperatures today in double

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figures. Ten degrees. A light south-westerly breeze of 10 mph.

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Initially, cloudy and trying to tonight. Outbreaks of rain. Into

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tomorrow morning, this rain will spread to the east with heavy

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pulses. Ferry might for this time of the year. Above average. -- very

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mild for this time. A wet start for tomorrow. The brain appear to the

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east and behind it, cooler picture. A wet start and into the afternoon,

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increasingly bright with winter sunshine about. 10 to 15 mph, the

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wind. Kira skies into tomorrow night with scattered showers.

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Temperatures dropping to a 3 degrees. A touch of ground frost on

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Friday. A similar picture for the weekend. Plenty of sunshine, but

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fiver six degrees. Thank you.

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The top stories, the renewed fears that Britain could slip into

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recession. The economy shrank by 0.2 % in the last few months of

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2011. In Kent, a steel plant that employs

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