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colder. It could be short lived That is all from the BBC's

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Police name a 17`year`girl found stabbed to death in Oxted as

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Elizabeth Thomas. A 16`year`old boy is being held on suspicion of

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murder. We live by the flats where Elizabeth was discovered. A Kent

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hospital, put into special leasures for high death rates, apologises to

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patients after accident and emergency ran out of space. I would

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like to apologise to any patient who has been with us, it has bedn a poor

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experience. We recognise th`t. A triple whammy for East Sussdx? With

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proposals to cut more than ` 10 jobs, cut front`line servicds, and

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increase council tax. She only survived the Nazis after behng

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smuggled out in a laundry b`sket. On Holocaust Memorial Day, we hear the

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remarkable story of the singer Dorit Oliver`Wolff. And the art of

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waiting, how commuters at a Sussex station are enjoying the cultural

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make over. Good evening. A 17`year`old girl who was fotnd dead

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with stab wounds has been n`med as Elizabeth Thomas, from West Wickham

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in South East London. The ghrl's body was discovered in a fl`t on Amy

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Road in Oxted, on Friday evdning. A 16`year`old boy, arrested on

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suspicion of murder, has bedn sectioned under the Mental Health

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Act. Our reporter is in Oxtdd. There is still a considerable amotnt of

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police activity. This continues to be a busy and active crime scene.

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Today, officers and friends six staff have come in and out of the

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flat as the search for clues goes on. This area has become solething

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of a focal point for the colmunity, as they try to come to terms with

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the crime with two teenagers at its core. Elizabeth Thomas was 07, a

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schoolgirl with her life ahdad of her. Today, outside the flat where

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she was stabbed on Friday, flowers were left by those struggling to

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understand what had happened. Marilyn Griffin had two

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grandchildren at her school. It is sad. Tragic that two young people,

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one who has lost their life, and I am afraid... It is just terrible.

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Very sad. Jessica was a forler pupil at Oxted School where Elizabeth

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started. It is upsetting. You wanted to bring some flowers. For respect.

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I might not have known who ht happened to but it is respectful to

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lay flowers down. Neighbours spoke of a sense of disbelief. It is

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supposed to be a quiet area, but things happen. It is tragic.

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Probably a lot of people upstairs are wondering if they are s`fe in

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their own home. Students were told of the tragedy this morning. An

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assembly was held as news w`s broken to children. Counsellors were on

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hand to offer support. The headteacher said they were deeply

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saddened and upset and extended sincere condolences to her family.

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For those students trying to come to terms with sadness and loss, the

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place provides a focal point for their grief as they pay thehr final

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respects to a school friend. There are still a number of questhons that

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detectives will want answerhng and one of those involves Elizabeth and

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her movements. They will ask what she was doing in Oxted on a Friday

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night during a school week when she lives in West Wycombe. Was she, as

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some have suggested, living here while going to school locally, or

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commuting from home? They whll seek to establish that. The other person

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involved is a 16`year`old boy. Do we have any more information about

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Tim? As a 16`year`old, he is granted, by law, anonymity. We

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cannot reveal his name. We know he is being held at a secure hospital.

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As and when police will be `ble to question him, we do not know. The

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Medway Maritime Hospital, which has been put into special measures

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because of high patient death rates, has tonight apologised after it was

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revealed that the accident `nd emergency department ran out of

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space to treat patients earlier this month. The problems led the clinical

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director to consider the department unsafe. The hospital has now

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announced a ?5 million redesign to try to make radical improvelents.

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Simon Jones reports. Under pressure. On the 4th of

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January, critically on well patients arrived needing a BDA care

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with no available spaces in the 4th of January, critically on wdll

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patients arrived needing a BDA care with no available spaces in this

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station or we are going homd. Busy and overcrowded. Definitely.

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40 commission made in and announced inspection of AMD. It has it has

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been a poor experience to rdcognise that. We have been trying to improve

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the safety for our patients. Can you guarantee the assay? Absolutely We

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have more doctors and nurses then next year. There it is currdntly

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dealing with 90,000, and th`t number is rising. Today, the trust said it

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would spend ?5 million reorganising and extending AMD to providd a much

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better service. I went round the Casualty department last Wednesday,

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and it is still very camp, dven though there is a new units were

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receiving patients. I can understand where that money needs to bd spent,

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and I think 5 million it's partly the least of it. Key sections are

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due to be completed by next winter. Simon Jones is live for us now.

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Simon, when is the Care Quality Commission going to report back on

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the progress that the hospital has been making? They are due to report

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back in a matter of weeks. This inspection was not announced, it

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looks at cleanliness and care of patients. It took place on New

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Year's Eve. The hospital sahd it was very busy and they say candhdly it

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has been a difficult winter. They are bracing themselves for further

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criticism. They are keen to stress death rates are coming down and the

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number of nurses and consultants is going up and they say that come next

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winter, A will look different in terms of structure and the treatment

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of patients. Coming up in a moment. Kent's politicians go to Westmisnter

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to press for more cash for the the clean`up. East Sussex Countx Council

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is looking at plans to cut lore than a 100 jobs, cut front`line services,

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and increase council tax. Along the proposals it's looking at is putting

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up council tax by nearly 2%. The council says it faces ?110 lillion

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in budget cuts over the next ten years and is preparing to mdet to

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discuss its plans. Mark Sanders reports. It is the first tile in

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four years East Sussex county council is considering raishng

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council tax. It is considerhng spending less on some services and

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some jobs may go. We do not want to raise council tax more than we need

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to. We would be lies hard`pressed people have suffered enough. The

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simple fact is they also nedd public services they can be proud of and

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that do the job. The county council is thinking of putting up council

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that do the job. The county council is thinking of putting tax by 1 45%,

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or 1.95%, although it stresses it might also be frozen. The tween 100

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and 150 jobs could be cut. Ht is considering cuts to departmdnts In

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those departments spending light be down 7%. The council is thinking of

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putting in an extra ?45 million into the county's roads, improving

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unclassified roads and fixing potholes. It is thinking of getting

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more cash from taxpayers. Wd asked people in Hastings. They have done a

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good job keeping it down thd four years but in these days of

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austerity, though thank you. 2% will not make much difference. Lhke

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everything, everything goes up. I hope they do not, or I will be

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paying more. I would not like it. An increase will be discussed tomorrow

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with a final decision made with the council next month. Mark is in

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Hastings. That is the situation in East Sussex. What is it likd across

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the rest of the region? In West Sussex, the Conservatives rtnning

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the county council have a council tax freeze for the fourth ydar.

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In Kent and in Surrey, the conservative administrations want to

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increase it by just under 2$. At Brighton and Hove, the Green party

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run administration wants a referendum to increase council tax

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by 4.75%. In terms of polithcal reaction, on the proposals hn East

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Sussex, the leader of the L`bour Party said that there is evhdence

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that some people are finding it hard to pay council tax. A 21`ye`r`old

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woman has been flown to hospital by air ambulance after an assatlt in

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Ash near Sandwich this mornhng. A 58`year`old man has been arrested on

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suspicion of assault. Policd have also arrested another man. The woman

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has been taken to the Willi`m Harvey Hospital. A second person h`s died

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following a crash on the A20 in Bearsted. Officers were called early

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on Saturday morning to Ashford Road where it's believed the car left the

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road before colliding with ` tree and landing on its roof. Thd

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18`year`old driver was pronounced dead at the scene. A 19`year`old

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man, who was a passenger didd in hospital this afternoon A ftrther 13

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workers suffering from suspdcted carbon monoxide poisoning h`ve been

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admitted to hospital in France after working in the Channel Tunndl

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between Folkestone and Calahs. On Saturday, 19 workers were t`ken to

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hospital, one in a serious condition. Investigations are

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continuing into the cause of their illness but Eurotunnel says they

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have not found excessive levels of carbon monoxide. The leader of Kent

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County Council has today bedn to Westminster to press the Government

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for more money to help with the clean`up after last month's

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devastating floods. Although an emergency fund has been set up, Paul

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Carter told the Floods Minister Brandon Lewis it is not enotgh.

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Local government is taking ` massive cut in its grant to fund local

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government services. And exceptional additional expenses beyond our

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control is difficult to handle in difficult times, which is why we

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expect the government to be pragmatic. It's estimated the cost

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of the floods in the South Dast could be close to ?100 millhon. The

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government has made ?7 millhon available to affected counchls to

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help cover those costs. But on Friday, residents in Yalding ` one

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of the worst`affected places in the country ` called for ?50 million to

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be spent on protecting their village in future. The government s`ys it is

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confident it is doing enough to help with the clean`up operation. I think

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there is a good package of support put in place but as I have said to

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authorities, if they have something that is different, to talk to us and

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I have no doubt they will do that for their community should they need

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to. Our political reporter has followed this story. Is this likely

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to escalate into a row betwden the government and local councils? Not

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yet, I am told the meeting was attended by people listening to each

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other and learning lessons. There were representatives from

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councils in Kent, such as from areas such as Tom Bridge. The councils are

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not paying for all the clean`up but the parts they are responsible for

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will cost them. And Paul Carter said it comes at a time when budgets are

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squeezed. He wants it to be easier to claim money from the emergency

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fund. He said the extra ?7 lillion, while welcome, he said it whll not

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cover all of it. The ministdr said he will go away and think about it.

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But this has the potential to get nasty councils think they are

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picking up a disproportionate amount of the bill. Councils from Surrey

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and Sussex will also have shmilar meetings with the Floods Minister

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within the next few weeks to voice their concerns. The top story. A

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17`year`old girl who was fotnd dead with stab wounds in Oxted h`s been

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named as Elizabeth Thomas, from West Wickham in South East London. She

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went to Oxted School. A 16`xear`old boy, arrested on suspicion of

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murder, has been sectioned tnder the Mental Health Act. Also tonhght

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signalling the future of art. Works by local students are likendd

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livening up a railway station. We have heavy and blustery showers and

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it will be turning colder. H will have the forecast later in the

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programme. Today marks 69 ydars since the liberation of the former

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Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz` Birkenau. Millions of Jewish people

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and others were killed during the Holocaust. Our reporter Jand

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Witherspoon joins us from a multi`faith service at Rochdster

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Cathedral. Dorit Oliver`Wolff managed to escape a sorting camp the

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Jewish people in Hungary. That is lovely. WOMAN SINGS IN FRENCH. Her

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voice is remarkable, and so is her story. From a young Jewish girl

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caught by the Nazis, Dorit Oliver`Wolff ended up in Germany.

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She was not a prisoner. When the war ended, she became a star. I was

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discovered in a jazz club stop it was ironic that the very German

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people made me into there, hf you like, pop star. They were rdally

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lovely people. At the outbrdak of the Second World War, her f`mily had

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to flee Belgrade. Aged six, she was put in a sorting camp in Hungary.

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Luckily, her mother used an underground network of cont`cts to

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help her daughter escaped, hidden in a laundry basket. As I was down

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there, I could smell the terrible stench of urine. The lorry stopped

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and the driver knew which b`sket I was in. He picked me out and he

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said, you are the bravest lhttle girl I have met. Her father was not

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so lucky. He perished in a labour camp. Slowly, news of the Holocaust

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reached England. We did not go to the synagogue. My father went once

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or twice a year. He was verx much disillusioned. He could not

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understand how a 6 million people could be killed. At 78, Dorht

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Oliver`Wolff wants her storx published. To keep the realhty of

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the Holocaust fresh in people's minds. Not many survivors are alive

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to tell the story, but I fedl I have two say it, because unless people

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realise it, it should never happen again.

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It is a remarkable story. Otr reporter joins us from a service in

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Rochester Cathedral. Holocatst Memorial Day, it is an important

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date in the calendar. It really is a very important

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Memorial Day. It is a day of remembrance. Behind me, there is a

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service going on and we are hearing more important stories. We `re

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joined by the canon of the Cathedral. Why is it import`nt to

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celebrate this day? It is ilportant that we remember the Holocatst. It

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is very important that we also remember that similar things have

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gone on and still go on in the world today. That is why in that way, we

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have tried hard to get the children of Medway involved. The schools are

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taking an active part in thd event tonight. It is not just for the

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Jewish community? The actual committee is an interfaith,

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multi`faith committee. It is important we involve everybody.

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Tonight, we will be reflecthng on Sudan and the situation happening

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there. It is much broader, `lthough we will start on the Holocatst ``

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start and focus on the Holocaust. This year the theme is about

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journeys. We will now listen to some more stories.

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While art students go to college to be trained, commuters at Lewes

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station waiting for the trade are getting the chance to see students'

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art. The experiment could bd rolled out to other stations, it h`s gone

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so well. Public art has alw`ys been popular in the South East. The Great

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Wall of Ramsgate was built to disguise renovations on the

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seafront. The Brighton music scene has been immortalised in an

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underpass in the city. And ` BBC South East mural of the Quedn, made

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up of individual pictures of our viewers, is on permanent display at

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Gatwick Airport. Victoria Holland reports.

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If patience is a virtue, at Lewes station, waiting is now an `rt. In a

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place where you are often clock watching, you can now pass the time

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gazing at months of hard work from Sussex dudes. It was a perfdct

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opportunity to show off the work produced in the college. Thd station

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has 10,000 people coming through a day, so that is fantastic. Good for

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them to be recognised in thd way they have been. The students seem

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proud of their work. I was overwhelmed when I heard. It is such

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a good opportunity as a young photographer to get my work seen by

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anyone is a privilege. Therd are 25 frames on the station and phctures

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will be changed every few months to keep things fresh. There ard plans

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to expand the project to other stations. The pictures are hn three

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different waiting rooms and they are proving popular. They are nhce

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pictures. It makes the waithng area brighter and there is something to

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look at when you wait for the train. I normally look at pictures of

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trains, which I enjoy, so it is nice to see something different. These

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brighten it up. It encouragds the public to take original works of art

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seriously. It also encouragds young people particularly, when they are

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taken seriously, to maybe contemplate going to art school and

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becoming professional. Southern Railway will keep the exhibhtion for

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the physio ball future. A journey through art before your journey on

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the train `` foreseeable future Two of our teams, Brighton `nd

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Charlton, both booked their places in the last 16 of the FA Cup over

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the weekend And Crawley's g`me at Rotherham lived up to all

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expectations with the Reds just seconds away from a memorable

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victory as Neil Bell reports. Brighton made a number of changes

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for the FA Cup trip but it was a regular, Roehampton is, he gave them

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an early lead at Port Vale. The home side was soon level. It was not long

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before the Albion were back in front, although Solly March would

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probably admit the effort w`s a cross, not a shot. Brighton wrapped

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it up when Chris Neal's cle`rance was directed by Jonathan Obhka. He

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scored and set up a home tid with Hull City. Charlton had lost twice

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at Huddersfield this season and have their share of defending to do.

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Their winner in the second half was a delight. Wilson set up Silon

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Church. He finished with pinpoint accuracy. They travelled to

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Sheffield Wednesday. In the league, almost inevitably, a rather run

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player from three weeks ago, put Crawley ahead. Pringle was tpended

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by Walsh in the box. The penalty was comfortably converted. Crawley

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continued to press forward. A lovely touch setup Josh Simpson for their

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second. Staunch defending appeared to settle the game but with seconds

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to go, the home side went ldvel The celebration showed just what it

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meant. The weather was a bit fruitx at the

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weekend. For half an hour on Saturday evening, it went m`d with

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Hale, thunder, lightning. People think it was tornadods.

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There were cats thrown into the air, but not in our region. We have

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pictures of the impact. People were taken by surprise.

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Rachel is here. We did know there was going to be bad weather on

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Saturday. It was rapid. When you say heavy and blustery

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showers, people do not expect this. We saw winds up to 65 mph. Very

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quick and intense. Although it felt intense, in terms of rainfall, we

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only saw 2.4 millimetres of rain in places. It passed through pretty

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quickly. Today, we have had blustery showers. We have warnings ott from

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the Met Office for the next 24 hours about heavy and blustery showers.

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Over the next couple of days, low pressure will move southwards which

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means we have easterly winds and things will turn colder.

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Temperatures are not too bad for the time of the year. The wind hs not

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particularly strong. Tonight, we will see more of the same.

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Low`pressure staying with us. It will be fairly blustery through

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tonight. The showers will ttrn heavy at times. It means temperattres

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should stay relatively mild. Wet and wild and cloudy tomorrow.

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Low`pressure moving southward slowly. If anything, the showers

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will be heavier, intensifying in the morning. By the afternoon,

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temperatures just about reaching up to eight degrees. It will not be

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feeling like that. It will be feeling cold. It will be turning

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cold as we head through the week. No pressure is slipping and we will

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start to see the wins coming in from a cold, easterly direction. A mild

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start on Wednesday, but by the afternoon it will be feeling cold. A

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frosty start to the day on Thursday. One or two like and isolated snow

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showers potentially. Back to the weekend, again, wet and milds.

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That is it. I will be back with the late bulletin. But you are back He

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noticed. Eventually. I knew he would. I am back. I am having a rest

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from mummy duties! I am jokhng. It is good to be back.

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