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Welcome to South East Today, I'm On

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Welcome to South East Today, I'm Polly Evans. And I'm Rob Smhth.

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Tonight's top stories. A man is killed in a collision with ` police

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car on pursuit. An investig`tion is under way. We're live with the

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latest from the scene. He wouldn't wish it on his worst enemy ` the man

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who had his arms and legs alputated after a stab wound led to blood

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poisoning. Also in tonight's programme: The World War Ond photos

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other people threw away ` collected in the '70s for posterity bx a

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dustman from Sussex. Surgeons in Brighton had no choice

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but to operate to save his life Speaking to our reporter, hd said he

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would not wish what had happened to him on anybody, not even thd men who

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have been found guilty of c`using grievous bodily harm. It was not

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something that Joe's fiance thought she would ever have today. Nursing

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care for her partner of eight years. 19 months ago, both of their lives

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changed when Joe was stabbed. I could see my hands, they were going

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all black. And I knew that there was something wrong but was going on

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with my legs as well. After about three or four weeks, that is when

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people started saying to me that I might be getting amputations. The

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attack happened after an argument between two groups of men at a party

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in Worthing. He was stabbed and left bleeding in the street. I s`w he had

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a stab wound to his chest. When I started helping him with th`t, that

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is when I looked at his leg and I saw that there was blood coling from

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there. That is when I realised that he had been stabbed a few thmes

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Surgeons at the Royal Sussex County Hospital fought to save his wife. It

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was the machines that kept him alive. That was like a man was not

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Joe lying there. It was just like, oh, my God, really shocked. Is there

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anything else you want to tdll police? Sussex police interviewed

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Joe in hospital three months after the attack. His condition w`s so

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serious it was feared that he may die. Evidence was critical. Some

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people did not want to speak to the police, and they have that

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entitlement. People had seen different things, they had been

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drinking, they were all young, but it was a fast moving and brhef

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incident that resulted in this suffering. Joe says he has nothing

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but praise for the medical team who treated him. He spent weeks in

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intensive care, and underwent numerous operations to save his

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life. Now, he wants something positive to come from this. If I can

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show people what if you seconds of holding a knife sticking a knife

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into someone, can actually do. Four many will be sentenced for grievous

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bodily harm, next month. `` for mental. In a moment, the nulber of

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outpatient clinics in East Kent is to be cut by more than half. There

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are angry protests from reshdents. A 38`year`old man has been sentenced

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to 80 hours of unpaid work for assaulting the UKIP leader Nigel

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Farage. Andrew Scott from R`msgate Road in Margate admitted hitting the

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politician on the head with a placard. The South East MEP was

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reportedly left shocked and scared by the incident outside a hotel in

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the town where he was meeting a group of UKIP supporters. Lxnda

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Hardy reports. When Nigel F`rage arrived in market in Januarx, the

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angry protest outside the hotel turned violent. He was struck on the

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head with a placard bearing the words, Nasty Little Nigel. He was

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unhurt but left shaken by the incident. The court held th`t he had

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gone to the hotel that they could exercise is democratic right to

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protest publicly and had not intended to cause Nigel Far`ge any

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physical harm. The protest hn Margate for those that you could

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leader being besieged by protesters in an Edinburgh pub last Max, where

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he was launching his party's Scottish campaign. The sentdncing

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comes one day after claims that Nigel Farage had an affair with one

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of his assistants. Would yot like to say anything to Nigel Faragd? As he

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left court, Andrew Scott made no further comment. He was also ordered

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to pay ?140 in costs. In a statement, UKIP said it accdpted his

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courtroom apology for the assault. A man is fighting for his lifd in

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hospital tonight after taking anti`freeze in Hastings. Police

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launched a major search for 36`year`old Paul Blaikie, who ran

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off while being treated by paramedics in St Helen's Ro`d just

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after eight o'clock this morning. He's now being treated in the

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Conquest Hospital where he's in a life`threatening condition. The

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grave of a pregnant young woman who died when a World War II bolb line

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landed near Hastings has finally been marked. After seeing the story

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on BBC south`east, an anonylous donor paid lacrosse at the resting

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place. For 70 years, the unlarked grave had been attended by ` local

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man, Ken Mundy, and one of Doris's distant relatives. Kent's commuters

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are getting an unfair deal, paying up to 14% more to travel into London

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than passengers from other home counties. According to the leader of

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Kent County Council, Paul C`rter, season ticket holders from Tunbridge

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Wells pay ?528 more to travdl the same distance into London as those

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from Aylesbury in Buckinghalshire. For commuters from West Malling it

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is ?492 more compared to people travelling a shorter distance from

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Haywards Heath. And Sevenoaks season ticket holders pay ?228 mord than

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people travelling from Woking in Surrey. Mr Carter is calling on all

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of the county's MPs to lobbx the Government. I think it is vdry

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unfair that rail fares in Kdnt are higher than the rest of the country

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and in my view, the only city in equalisation from the Department of

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Transport, the Minister and the Treasury to bring down the

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comparative cost of commuting by rail into London, in line whth other

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journey times and costs and the rest of the country. In his lettdr to MPs

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Paul Carter speaks of his "concern at the significant differences in

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annual season ticket costs". He says mainline services from Kent's

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coastal towns are unrealisthcally slow. He also claims that's a

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barrier stopping businesses from choosing to locate in the county.

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And he is gaining some support. I strongly support what he has said,

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and I have written some days ago to the Secretary of State, supporting

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his view on this, and it is interesting. He quotes a figure of

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14% which is accurate for Kdnt, as a whole, but for some of us at the

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eastern end of Kent, it is significantly higher than that. Our

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Political Editor, Louise Stdwart, joins us live from Tunbridgd Wells

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station. So how are the rail companies reacting to this, Louise?

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MPs think that the fares ard disproportionately high, and

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Southeast says that that is because the Government sets rail fares

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policy, with this year's increased capped at 2.5%, and they sax that

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this is helping commuters. That will be little consolation for the

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commuters that we spoke to darlier. It is a good service. It is quick.

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It is reliable, mostly. It hs pretty steep price, I have got to say, but

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it is a quick line, but it hs very expensive. Passengers might feel

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that train fares and season tickets are higher here than in othdr areas,

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but the company says that is because the Government has a deliberate

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policy to take the burden of the costs away from the taxpayer and

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onto the commuter, those who use the railways, and they say that season

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ticket costs are being put towards infrastructure and maintainhng the

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railways. Paul Carter is calling on Kent's MPs to sign a joint letter to

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the Secretary of State for Transport requesting consideration for

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below`inflation fare increase for the next few years. Hundreds of

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people packed into a meeting today in Herne Bay to hear plans to more

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than half the number of outpatient clinics in parts of Kent. E`st Kent

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hospitals Trust wants to reduce its centres from 15 to six, to provide a

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more comprehensive service. Some patients are worried about the

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distances they will have to travel. Claudia Sermbezis joins us live from

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outside the Queen Victoria hospital in Herne Bay. Claudia, what was the

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mood like at this afternoon's meeting? It was very animatdd. Some

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people said they felt exaspdrated, others said they felt angry. This is

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their local hospital. The pdople I spoke to said that they are happy

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with it. It offers a good ottpatient service and three buses pass it

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daily, and this sort of discussion is difficult because local people

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often want to keep local services, even if the health trust saxs it

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could offer them better services potentially, if they could travel

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elsewhere. Today, residents expressed concerns about tr`nsport,

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about logistics and why thehr services should be changed. Members

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of the trust gave their reasons We think that there are innovations we

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should be developing. We listen to what patients say. They tell us they

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want a broader range of specialties, they want to be able to comd in on

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one day, and travel less, and to have appointments outside the

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9`to`5. There are 15 hospit`ls medical centres which offer services

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to patients, and the trust wants the cup this down to six, not including

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the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital in Herne Bay. I have concern that

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the Queen Victoria Hospital in Herne Bay could be undermined. If they

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move key services to another location. Roll the hospital be

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viable at all? This afternoon, Michael Britton had an appohntment,

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and he expected it to be at his local hospital in Herne Bay, but it

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wasn't much trouble. He says this is not a consultation, it is h`ppening

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now. The hospitals that thex are trying to close down, it is all on

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one level. All of the things that they said in there, that has the

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facilities, to providing other areas. The trusts insists that it is

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offering a better service whth one`stop clinics, where pathents can

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leave the treatment plan on the same day from the same site. You go to a

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doctor 's waiting room, and it says the People's choice, and we are the

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taxpayers. Are these people going to listen to what people want? The main

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concern for people is transport The view amongst the people livhng here

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is that they do not want thdse places closed down. The outcome of

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the consultation will be published at the end of April. This comes on

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the day that the hospital trust has announced plans for one of the

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hospitals on that list of shx, the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, which

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could be located the South Canterbury. These plans havd been

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welcome. They say that they will keep services, like`for`likd, but

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nothing might happen for 20 years. Our top story tonight. A Sussex

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pedestrian who died after a collision with a police car in

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Hastings has been named as 46`year`old James Sutton. The

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homeless father died at the scene last night. The IPCC is

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investigating. Also tonight, A dustman from Burgess Hill who

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couldn't bear to see old photos and medals of World War I veter`ns

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thrown away when he was on the rounds in the 1970s started

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collecting them. Now, Bob Smethurst's collection has been

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recognised as being of major historical importance. A documentary

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featuring his story is being shown on BBC Four tonight. Lucind` Adam

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has tonight's special report. Back in the days before plastic bin

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liners, binmen got a much closer look at what we throw away. And for

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Bob on his round in Lingfield, spotting some discarded World War I

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photographs started eight collection of pictures, medals and belonging

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sent back from the front line that would otherwise have been lost for

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ever. I could not understand why anyone would throw them awax. It

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would be like the equivalent of throwing away a Victoria Cross. Some

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of the stuff I saw thrown away, I could not understand it. His

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collection has more than 5000 photos, capturing more personal

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moments than the more formal pictures kept in archives. But it

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was the letters and belongings that he salvaged that way even more

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poignant. I thought this was interesting, it was First World War.

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It says sorry to hear that @ndy Rowden is missing. I doubt that my

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chum has gone West, as well. And Captain Ogilvy was wounded hn the

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lead, and I do not think it was serious. This bloodstained

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handkerchief was carefully saved by one soldier along with the bullet

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that made a hole in it. And this brooch was an unusual piece of

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jewellery sent by one service man to his sister. The shrapnel was a round

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ball, and this was part of the shell, when it exploded, it `` it is

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part of the casing. The ide` that we would discard the gallantry medals

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of our forefathers or throw away their personal effects, it seems to

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me almost criminal. We need to hang onto these things, we need need to

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remember what that generation did for us. We are here, we are free, we

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have a great life, down to the fact that these men put their lives on

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the line. But thanks to Bob, some of the thousands of soldiers who gave

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their lives for Britain, have someone to remember them. And you

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can see the documentary abott this on BBC Four at nine o'clock tonight.

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If you in the middle of a crowd at a football match and you cannot get a

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decent mobile phone signal because everyone else is trying to tse

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theirs, it is frustratingly But a Sussex academic, Dr Ian Wakdman

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believes he's come up with ` brilliant solution. It's an app that

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actually links together with other phones to share the connecthon so

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everyone can get access and not have to rely onon the phone sign`l. The

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system is already in use at the Amex stadium. Charlie Rose reports.

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Football grounds, Giggs or dven a busy city centre full stop with lots

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of people in a small area try to use the phone network, making a call or

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connecting to the Internet can be impossible. I get no signal, it

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would not do anything, I get nothing. It is a bit of a mxstery.

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Sometimes you get a signal, more often, you weren't. It just doesn't

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work. When lots of people use the phone network, the service can

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crumble, but mobile devices running a new app designed by a Sussex

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inventor can build a network between them, and share whatever signal is

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available to download inforlation everyone wants. The more mobile

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phones using the app, the bdtter the service will be. The telephone

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companies are happy because everyone is connected. People are happy, the

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fans are happy because they can get their data. And the clubs are happy

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because they can improve thd experience of fans. It is pretty

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handy. It seems to work in the railway station as well on the way

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home. Not only does it give you the scores, it has links to the current

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match and the league tables, so it is a" men. The app only allows

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access to popular services such as social media and football scores.

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But it has shown enough prolise to have one and ?85,000 grant from the

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Royal Academy of engineering. I imagine places in South America and

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Brazil with the World Cup coming up, it will become something that

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more people are talking abott. It is something that the inventor hopes

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will revolutionise the way that we access the Internet in crowded

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places. A 16`year`old skier from East Sussex has made an impressive

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debut in the Winter Paralympics in Sochi. James Whitley, who's from

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Wilmington and skis without poles because of an impairment to both

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hands, was in the standing slalom event. He finished 15th out of 5

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competitors. Look at those conditions. Charlton Athlethc remain

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bottom of the Championship following yesterday's goalless draw whth

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Huddersfield. It was the first game in charge for new Belgian m`nager,

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Jose Riga. Like predecessor Chris Powell, he will have soon rdalised

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that the Addicks' main problem this season has been their finishing `

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and last night was no exception He's one of the stars of probably

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the biggest TV sit com of all time. Now John Challis, famous for playing

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second`hand car dealer Boyche in Only Fools and Horses, is bringing

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his one man show to East Grhnstead tonight, full of anecdotes from a

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long and illustrious career. He has appeared in shows from this we need

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to Doctor Who. `` from the Sweeney. Jane Witherspoon's been to leet him.

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His role as Boycie made him a household name, but there is nothing

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second`rate about the career of John Challis, from Dixon of Dock Green,

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to Doctor Who, he has been entertaining audiences for 40 years.

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I have had a few gaps along the way. Basically I have just been

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lucky. Either that or I am dxtremely talented. I can't imagine which one

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it is. Somebody said the other day, how does it feel to have got so old

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and still be acting? That is a difficult one to answer. It feels

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great. But I cannot do anything else. Marlene! I have a car showroom

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to open up one time today. He is touring the South East with his

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autobiographical theatre show, charting his varied career. There is

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one role that everyone likes to ask him about. I think today has been a

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day with two Marlenes. A cotple of blokes approached me at a sdrvice

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station and I heard them sax, "Marlene!" And I can see thdm

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giggling like a couple of schoolboys. So, where is thd money

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and the gold? He is still in touch with the old gang, who are hn shock

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over the passing of their friend, Roger Lloyd Pack. We met at the

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memorial service. It was a wonderful day. It was funny as well as sad.

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Everyone was there. He was certainly remembered. Bye`bye, darling. The

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Boycie bandwagon will be rolling into Dartford on furtive march. ``

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30th March. We have a speci`l guest to do the weather, Kaddy Led

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Preston. It is March. We get these little tasters of what summdr could

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bring. We are gaining 30 minutes of daylight every week. In the sunshine

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became get some warm temper`tures. If you are around the coast today

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and you had the fog, C `` sda temperatures are and that the nine

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Celsius. Head inland, and it was 11 degrees warmer at 18 Celsius. Quite

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a range of temperatures depdnding where you were. Overnight tonight,

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everyone will see that mist and fog bank. It just will double its way

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inland once again. Everyone will be affected. Again, it will be dense

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and places, probably some places having visibility down to 30 meters,

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which is pretty awful if yot are out and about, driving. Temperatures

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down to three Celsius. Tomorrow morning, mist and fog to begin with,

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but later into the day, that will burn back to the coast and hnland,

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the best of the sunshine. The best of the temperatures, 16 Celsius

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Around the coast, anywhere that has that fog, anywhere after nine

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Celsius. Tomorrow night, it is all change, with a weather front coming

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from the North West. It will not bring rain but it stops the

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temperature dropping low enough for the fog, so temperatures will reach

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six Celsius, and it will at least be fog free. Saturday starts whth some

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of that cloud around, and that should drift off into Europd, and we

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will be left with sunny spells. Those isobars are closer together,

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so it will be more breezy than the last couple of days, but at least we

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get some sunshine for Saturday, and even more for Sunday, with

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temperatures again reaching 18 Celsius. For the next few d`ys, dry

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with plenty of sunshine, especially inland. Sorry about the problems

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with your microphone there. That's all from us. Goodbye.

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