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Welcome to South East Today I'm Bryony. I'm rob Smith.More backing

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for fracking. The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, gives his

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cautious support. It will not solve all the energy problems of this

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country, it might, it can play a role to keep people's bills stable

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and low. Vulnerable children are being placed in potentially

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dangerous situations. The new plan to prevent children from being sent

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from London to Kent's deprived seaside towns. We are live in Thanet

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with the story. Also tonight: Years of feeling ignorant and under

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confident. The mother campaigning for symptoms of dyslexia to be

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better recognised. The 19—year—old Afghan and his Foster family

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celebrating after he was given leave to stay in the UK. I always found

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that things got trickiest when you are off your feet. Comedy gold and

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still going on her 90th birthday. A new exhibition is opened in honour

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of Dora Bryan. Good evening. On the eve of the

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start of his party's conference, the Liberal Democrat leader, and keg

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Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, has gone further than ever before in

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backing the controversial process of fracking. Nick Clegg told this

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programme that so long as safeguards are put in place to minimise the

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impact then, considering their potential economic benefits, he

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would welcome fracking as part of our energy mix. The anger felt over

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fracking has found a focus here. protests have led to dozens being

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arrested, including the Green MP Caroline Lucas. The Liberal Democrat

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Energy Secretary has warned of the dangers of a dash for gas. His party

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leader spoke out in support of fracking. We shouldn't just ignore

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the whole technology and put a complete taboo on it and say there

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should never be any fracking. It will not solve all the energy

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problems of this country. It might and it can play a role m in what I

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would call a mixed array of different ways of producing energy

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to keep people's bills stable and low. Doesn't play out well with your

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supporters in places like Sussex? Well, look, if you are in a

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community where you are dead set against what is happening locally, I

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understand this provokes strong feelings. Most people in the country

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at large accept that we've got to wean ourselves off this over

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reliance on polluting, imported oil and gas from other parts of the

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country where the price goes up—and—down because of international

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price changes which then affect people's bills. Liberal Democrats

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coalition partners, the Conservatives, have always been more

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supportive of plans to frack, which they say could help secure future

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energy supplies and drive down bills. The Energy Minister is going

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on a fact—finding trip to America next week where a fracking boom is

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underway. Over the summer there has been a huge amount of hysteria in

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the UK over fracking. I want to cut through the shouting and see for

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myself what works, what doesn't, where is it effective and where we

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need to think carefully about the environment. I will talk to the

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people who have it in their community. Here in the UK, the

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public in the US is divided. I don't think the public in Britain

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are aware of how many wells this will involve in it gets the green

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light. It's an explore Tory well. This is symbolic, Balcombe. We are

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talking about thousands and thousands and thousands of wells.

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There will be environmental damage done no, question about it. Even the

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industry itself will accept that. Liberal Democrats meet for their

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annual conference this weekend. Backing from the leader may do

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little to win over some of the party's grassroot supporters. Louise

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is alongside me in the studio. It's a controversial issue. How difficult

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is this for Nick Clegg politically? Very difficult for Nick Clegg, isn't

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it? The Conservatives have always been much more up for fracking, if

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you like. The Liberal Democrats have shied away from it. Many in the

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party, including the Energy Secretary, believe it's the wrong

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way to go. They say it risks causing damage to the environment. Now that

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he is saying that he cautiously welcomes it, he could back fracking

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as part of the future energy supply. He has to walk that tightrope of

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trying to keep his coalition partners onside and not alienating

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grassroots supporters. An area like Sussex where they have only two

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Liberal Democrat MPs in the south—east by backing fracking they

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could lose a lot of support ahead of the next general election. Thank you

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very much. The MP for Thanet, Laura Sandys sand, a has said today that

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some looked after children in her constituency have been placed in a

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"potentially dangerous situation" by people who are supposed to be caring

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for them. Laura Sandys has welcomed a move by the Education Secretary to

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ensure that vulnerable children are not being place into homes miles

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away from their families, which is a particular issue in seaside resorts

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such as Thanet. Figures last year showed 1200 looked after children

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were moved to Kent from 95 different local authorities. The numbers are

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highest in Thanet, where 243 of the children were sent. Simon Jones is

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there tonight, why is it happening? I'm in Cliftonville, this is the

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main shopping street, off it are many residential streets with large

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houses which can be ra bought extremely cheaply. Some have been

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bought by people wanting to set up childrens homes. Others have been

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bought by agencies wanting to set up sex offenders and paedophiles. For

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vulnerable children to be cheek by jowl with problem environments. It's

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dangerous. What we should be doing is putting them in the safest

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environment we can possibly find. That is our responsibility. The

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London councils could be putting these children in danger? I think

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they could be. This man spent many years in care. He repeatedly

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suffered abuse. I tried running away. I was classed as a problem

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child I wanted to run away from the situation. I called the police. What

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did the police do? They brought me straight back. Social workers never

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believed what was going on. In Cliftonville feel it's not a

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suitable place for vulnerable children. If I had a kid, I'd move

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away. I wouldn't say it was a good area at all. It's a nice place. At

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the same time, I don't think so, we have a high percentage of

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paedophiles here. Really, have the children and get rid of the

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paedophiles. Moved from Manchester. I like it here. My kids are happy

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where they are. The Government announced Ofsted would only allow

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new homes to be opened in safe areas. And those in less safe areas

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must demonstrate they can protect children. Senior council officials

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must approve out of area placements. There are too many councils placing

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children many miles away from home in childrens homes. They are plating

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children with foster carers. At long last I'm hopeful we will see action

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to require authorities to place children as close to home as

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possible except by exception to protect them. The MP brought the

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Education Secretary, Michael Goef, to Cliftonville to show him one

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particular street we have been asked not to identify where you have

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several childrens homes and where it houses paedophiles. That may have

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influenced his decision today to describe the situation of children

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being sent from London to Kent as "indefensivable." Thank you. Coming

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up: The terrifying manned flying bomb that the Germans never got the

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chance to use. Restored and on display at the Southern Model

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Airshow this weekend. A mother from East Sussex is calling for more

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training for teachers so they can better recognise the symptoms of

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dyslexia. It took four years for Shereen Bower's son, Bradley, to be

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diagnosed. She ended up having to pay privately for him to be tested.

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Those years of feeling unconfident and even ignorant now mean the

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12—year—old is too afraid to go to school. The tests, how did you find

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the tests? This mother battled for four years to get her son's dyslexia

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recognised by the authorities. Bradley finds it difficult to read

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and write. The 12—year—old no longer likes going to school. I asked him

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why it's so hard attending class? I don't want to embarrass myself.

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Bradley was screened by a special needs teacher at primary school.

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Nothing was picked up. After years of asking for help, his mother paid

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£450 to an educational psychologist to test her son. Within 24—hours

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Bradley was diagnosed as being severely dyslexia. The worst part

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for me is knowing all along that no matter how much I asked for help, I

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didn't get it. How much he suffered because I can't imagine what he must

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have gone through in every subject, not being able to understand what

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was put in front of him. How hard... No wonder he made himself sick. No

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wonder he gave himself migrains about going to school. In a

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statement Bradley's school said: He is having a great deal of

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difficulty reading for comprehension. He would have

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difficulty reading work sheets. His spelling would be deeply irregular.

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He would feel bad about the work he produced, even if he managed to

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produce any. A lot of teachers aren't trained to spot dyslexia in

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the classroom. It gets missed. We are trying to campaign hard for

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teacher training to include a component about dyslexia so teachers

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are equipped to spot the signs in the classroom. Armed with her

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independent diagnosis, she wants her son to go to a special needs school

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where she says Bradley can begin to catch up on the four years of

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education he has lost. An airgun attack, which left a cat blind and

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with pellets embedded in his body, has been described as "owl wardly

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and vicious" by animal welfare experts. Billy, a two—year—old

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stray, was found with severe injuries in Lingfield in Surrey.

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X—rays showed he had at least four pellets in his skull and a number of

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others in his body. A veterinary officer said it was remarkable the

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animal survived the attack. The Government's being urged to give the

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go hayed to the bewildered of the main rail route between Kent and

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East Sussex. Did the Ashford to Hastings line was closed for nine

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weeks last year while maintenance work took place on the Ore Tunnel.

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The Conservative MP for Hastings, Amber Rudd, told the Commons that

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the track should be upgraded. Three men who carried out a spate of

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burglaries and robberies in Kent have been jailed for a tote l a ——

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total of 30 years. Jeremy Waller and Anthony Wood and George Dunn from

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Marden carried out two burglaries and two robberies in less than

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two—days in January this year. In one case a woman was threatened with

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a large knife and pulled to the floor by her hair while the men

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stole jewellery from her. The family of 69—year—old Chatham woman who

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vanished without trace from a busy street more than a week ago say they

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are distraught and electrification by her disappearance. Harjit Chaggar

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has not been seen since she visited a doctor's surgery a few minutes

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walk from her home. The family have made another emotional appeal for

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help in finding her. Every day we are just thinking something will

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come up. Something... We will get a lead as to where she might be. That

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hasn't happened. I think the longer it keeps going on, the more and more

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frantic we are getting. Her family describe her as a confident person

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who has lived in Chatham for 40 years. There is no way she could

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have got lost after going to an Asian women's group and this

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doctor's surgery. She was captured on CCTV cameras and then suddenly

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disappeared. She carried on down Luton Road. Gone into the hotel

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globe food shop and walked to Luton Archers. She is caught at Maplin

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Stores, that was the last we saw Archers. She is caught at Maplin

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her. Have helped the family to piece together her last movements. It's so

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out of character. If she is going to go anywhere, it's well planned. We

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know where she is going to go and who she would be with. This is

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just... It's such a mystery that nobody has seen her. The police

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believe someone must have and that nobody has seen her. The police

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could provide a vital clue to her whereabouts. Peter is in Chatham.

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What is the next step? The police are worried about Mrs Chaggar's

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welfare. Her bank accounts haven't been accessed —— accessed since she

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went missing. The police are also appealing for information saying

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anyone who saw her after 4.00pm on September 2nd should contact them

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saying even insignificant pieces of information could be important and

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provide a vital lead so they can find her. Thank you. Our top story.

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The Liberal Democrat leader and Deputy Prime Minister has gone

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further than ever before in backing the controversial process of

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fracking. Nick Clegg told this programme that so long as safeguards

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are put in place to minimise the impact he would welcome fracking as

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part of our energy mix. Also tonight: You're hurting me.BAFTA

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and Olivier for a career spanning decades. The new exhibition

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dedicated to Sussex actress, Dora Bryan. This weekend is looking wet

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and windy. Join me later in the programme for the details.

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Naj Hashimi fled Afghanistan after the Taliban had killed his father

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and brother. He ended up living with a Foster family in Kent, passed 13

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GCSE's and place cricket for his local club side. Last year, his new

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found stability was thrown into turmoil, when he turned 18, the

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Government told him he had to return to Afghanistan. After a long

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campaign Naj has now been told he can stay. We have been to meet him

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for tonight's story update. He fled the Taliban and left his family when

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he was 14 years old. Now 19, Naj Hashimi says he has another family

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here in Kent. For more than two years, he has been battling to stay

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in the UK. This morning, he got some good news. It was amazing. I

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couldn't believe it when the solicitor phoned me up and said,

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"you won the appeal. The judge allowed you you to stay in this

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country. He thinks you should be allowed to stay in this country." I

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was jumping around like crazy. I didn't know. It was so exciting for

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me. He arrived in the UK illegally in 2009 and spent four years living

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with a Foster family. He was told he would be deport deported in March.

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He was granted a temporary reprieve on the 21st. Legal proceedings

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began. His application was initially rejected because Afghanistan was

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seen as a safe place. I do think generally we should be looking to

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get people back to Afghanistan and to reestablish a life there. It was

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his relationship with his Foster family and particularly his Foster

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brothers that helped him win his appeal. My sons are quite young.

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Four years of a young person's life is a lot. They have grown... They

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are brothers. Suddenly, to lose a brother, and they can see no good

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reason for it, would be very traumatising and they wouldn't

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understand it. A keen sportsman, Naj wants to go to university and teach

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PE. This country gave me so much. I want to give it back to them. It's

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not just about my life, it's about giving back to this country as well.

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That's the thing I want to do. For the last four years this country has

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given me so much. He has a nervous two week wait to see if the Home

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Office will (inaudible) the ruling. As the Second World War drew to a

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close, the Germans developed a terrifying new weapon of mass

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destruction, a manned V1 rocket bomb to be used to target high profile

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buildings like Buckingham Palace. They were never actually used.

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Almost all of them have been destroyed. This weekend, at the

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Southern Model Airshow, one of the few that has survived is going on

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display. They were feared and hated flying

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bombs which came from nowhere and felony where. —— fell anywhere. This

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would have been still more deadly, a piloted V1, deadly for its victims,

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deadly, presumably, to its crew. The idea was that they could hit a

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pinpoint target as opposed to being random, as with a normal V1. The

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pilot could aim them at a target and bail out. You have a sideways

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opening canopy. If you opened that at 450mph, the first thing you hit

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is the jet pipe. Operation Crossbow drama advertised tests of the weapon

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flown by the German test pilot. Today, there are six left in the

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world. This one was saved from the scrap heap. They only realised what

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they had after taking the rusty remains apart. That is where the

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explosives? Two fuses.What are these? That is used as a sight. It

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folds down. This is the shackle, which is attached to the under

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underside. This bomb was launched from underneath an aeroplane. That

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is all that held it on? Yes.This War Museum has had the bomb

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restored. They say You're hurting me. What is this? A

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ring. I can see it's a ring. Dora Bryan herself knew hard times. She

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turned this hotel into flats and it cost her and her husband a fortune.

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Dora suffered her own fair share, it has to be said. What is incredible,

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despite all the setbacks she was able to rise above everything. What

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will it mean to your mother? A lot. Some of the photographs she won't

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have seen for ages. She will be over the moon. Dora Bryan is used to

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going down memory lane. Tonight, Dora Bryan, this is your life.

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Tonight, perhaps, more than 50 years later, something similar.

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She is fabulous. Happy birthday, Dora. Love that pink outfit as well,

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those feathers. Now, the weather: How is it looking, wet? The weather

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is less exciting. Lots of rain over the weekend. There will be dry

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weather around particularly for Saturday afternoon. As we go into

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Sunday the winds will pick up. We have a wet afternoon particularly.

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Those gale force winds stay with us into the new week as well. First

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thing this morning we had outbreaks of rain. We were dry for a time.

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There was quite a bit of cloud cover around. Tonight, you can see what is

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heading our way, it will turn wet and chilly. Temperatures today not

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feeling too bad. A muggy start to the day. Temperatures reaching 19—20

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degrees. Winds up to 15—20mph in Brighton. Tonight, it will turn

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increasingly unsettled and chilly as well. The winds will strengthen. It

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will be a wet picture as we head over into Saturday. Temperatures

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widely dropping to around 10 or 11 degrees. As you start the day on

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Saturday it will be overcast and wet. It is an improving story. The

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rain will be clearing its way eastwards. By the afternoon it will

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feel chilly. Top temperatures of 14—15 degrees. There may be breaks

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in the cloud cover. We might see a little bit of sunshine. There will

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be cloud around and a chance of one or two lighter showers. The winds

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from a northerly direction. The highs 12—13 degrees. Sunday, we have

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clearer skies. Temperatures will be chilly. They will be widely in

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single figures. Lows of seven or eight degrees. First thing on Sunday

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you will see sunshine. Look what is syncing southwards, low pressure. We

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will have gale force winds, temperatures 12—13 degrees. Into

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Monday, highs of 13, 14 degrees a chance to of outbreaks of rain. A

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tricky rush—hour. Tuesday, cool with outbreaks of rain. Over the weekend

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itself the best chance of brighter weather will be Saturday afternoon.

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