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Taking her case to the High Court. The Kent woman who has been refused

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funding to freeze her eggs before having chemotherapy. With everything

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else I have had done I have never been upset is that letter m`de me.

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We have heard that Bob Geldof's daughter Peaches Geldof has been

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found dead in Kent. Armed police investigate reports of a gunman in a

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Brighton block of flats and a route into the city is closed off. We

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exclusively reveal how vulndrable people might lose the familhar face

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they have become used to. And three years on, what has the Turndr

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gallery done for Thanet? A lurder suspect best forgotten, all, a punk

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rock hero? Plans to honour Sid Vicious with a plaque in Tunbridge

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Wells. Good evening. A Kent woman with a debilitating disease is

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taking legal action after bding refused funding for her eggs to be

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frozen before she undergoes chemotherapy. Lizzie Rose, from

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Margate, is receiving treatlent for Crohn's disease, which could leave

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her infertile. The NHS, thotgh, says it won't pay to freeze and store her

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eggs, claiming there's extrdmely limited evidence to demonstrate

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effectiveness. Simon Jones has our exclusive report.

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She says she is fighting for her future. Lizzie Rose is waithng for a

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bone marrow transplant and chemotherapy. She has had ftnding

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for her eggs to be frozen ttrned down three times. You have been told

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you cannot have your own chhldren. It is like another level of

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upsetting thing I have not experienced before. With evdrything

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else I have had done, I havd never been as upset as that letter made

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me. I have only just recovered in the past few months to put the case

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forward without getting physically upset. Crohn's disease is a disorder

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of the immune system. It can be treated with chemotherapy, but that

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can leave the patient infertile Eggs are stored in liquid nhtrogen

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that can be used at a later date so the patient can have childrdn. We

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believe the policy is outdated. It works in such a way that if Lizzie

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Rose was male, she would receive NHS funding for fertility preservation

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treatment and we consider that not lawful. The treatment costs ?5, 00

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plus storage costs. The commissioning group based in Margate

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said this procedure would not normally be funded by the NHS in

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Kent due to insufficient evhdence about its efficacy. It said it

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needed to make difficult decisions. What do you say to the argulent the

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NHS cannot afford this? I al grateful to the NHS. They h`ve

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looked after me well. I am ` complicated case and unforttnately I

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have had to use them a lot hn my life. They need a fair policy that

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does not discriminate. Health bosses insist the policy applies to those

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relationships, also. This is coming to a head, the cases

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being in court tomorrow. Yes, and she will travel from Margatd to the

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High Court to make her case. She is set to be one of the first hn the

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country `` said to be one of the first with Crohn's disease to be

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treated with chemotherapy. She put the treatment on hold while legal

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proceedings continue and shd hopes for a swift decision. NHS bosses in

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Kent Saver have made the right choice. At the end of 2012 only 20

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babies had been born using frozen eggs. We move on to breaking news.

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Within the last few minutes it was revealed that Peaches Geldof has

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been found dead in Kent. Thd 25`year`old was the daughter of Bob

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Geldof and the late TV presdnter Paula Yates. Our corresponddnt joins

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me. You have been following this. What more do we know about what

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happened? Incredibly sad news. The police were called to an address in

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Kent following the report of a concern for the welfare of ` young

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woman this afternoon. She w`s pronounced dead at the scend by the

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Ambulance Service. Police s`y the death is being treated as stdden and

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unexplained. Peaches Geldof lost her mother when she was 11 years old

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with Paula Yates dying of a drugs overdose in 2000. Peaches h`s said

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it is difficult to talk abott her mother's death. We found thhs out

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recently but there has been a lot of reaction already. We can sed a

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picture of the last tweet that she put on Twitter of a picture of

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herself with her mother, whhch will resonate with people. We he`rd from

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Lily Allen, saying her thoughts are with her family at this awftl time

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and she hopes that they get to grieve in peace. Denise Van Outen,

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she said it was distressing news. In a moment. She didn't have a terminal

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illness, so why did this Sussex pensioner travel to the Dignitas

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Clinic to die? Armed police officers say they have

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arrested a man on suspicion of firearms offences inside a block of

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flats in Brighton. They werd called to the city at 2pm after reports a

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man had been seen with a gun. What more can you tell us? No ond was

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injured during this. The man was arrested at 5:30pm by policd

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officers. He was led away from the building behind me into a w`iting

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police car. It took about three hours with police called to 15 PM

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following reports of a man with a gun. This area was cordoned off

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because police were not surd where the man was. Tonight they are

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searching the property behind me. The incident has caused problems

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during the rush hour. We ard here, the joining of major roads hn

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Brighton. Lewes Road is busx at rush hour. That has reopened and police

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tonight thanked people for their patients. A 21`year`old man has been

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jailed for five years after admitting inciting a 13``ye`r`old

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girl to engage in sexual activity. Terry Loader, who's from Margate,

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also admitted possessing indecent images of children. Police found 55

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indecent videos on his phond. A woman who fraudulently clailed

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benefits by saying she was housebound in Brighton has been

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warned to expect a jail sentence. Tracy Johnson claimed to be unable

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to leave her house through agoraphobia, but was actually

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travelling the world as a tour guide. Hundreds of the most

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vulnerable people in Kent could lose their current carers as the result

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of a major shake`up in the way home visits are funded. Kent County

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Council is planning to cut the number of companies it gives

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contracts to from 120 now, to around 20 in future. That means elderly

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people may find they are now cared for by a string of different people,

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rather than someone they're used to. But the County Council says it's

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confident high standards will be maintained. Piers Hopkirk joins us

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from County Hall in Maidstone. There are fears of a decline in standards

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as a result of this? That is right. The other main worry for people is

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the loss of trusted relationships. People who rely on carers invest a

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huge amount of trust in thel, inviting them into their holes and

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allowing them to carry out personal and intimate care. It appears many

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of these relationships, somd of which have taken years to forge

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will come to an end. This woman admits she is at breaking

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point. Her 92`year`old husb`nd is getting increasingly forgetful and

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she faces losing the carers she knows and trusts. I think it is

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unfair. Why after all this time After all this time they decide to

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change. Kent County Council is poised to cut back the numbdr of

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home care providers it gives contracts to debt help the

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vulnerable and elderly. Aftdr tendering, it will use 20 companies

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from 120. Kay, from Mason, has multiple sclerosis and says she is

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terrified the changes might mean she loses the carers she has grown to

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trust. If I lose my carers, I will take my own life. I feel strongly

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about it. Care providers believe the changes are driven by cuts to

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funding. I think quality has been sacrificed to cost. Quality has to

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be paramount to reach dignity and respect for the service user. My

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concern is we will end up whth vulnerable people not getting the

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support they need at the tile they need it. That is not only

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catastrophic for the individual but also down the line for socidty. Kent

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Caddy council admits people might see a changing carers but s`ys the

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sort of care people receive will not change. It claims the contr`cts will

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provide quality and greater value for money. There will be fewer

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providers but individuals whll continue to receive the samd

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high`quality care they recehved in the past. I hope there will be a

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higher quality of care becatse there will only be 20, 25 providers.

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Presently we have up to 130, which means we as the County Council will

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be able to monitor care people provide more closely. This couple

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say they will face the changes together.

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Kent County Council has divhded the county into a number of reghons and

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each region will have a set number of care providers. The county says

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it will make the system mord efficient and carers will spend less

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time travelling and more tile caring. Whether it will havd an

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impact on the quality of care will be played out in the next months.

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She was not terminally ill `nd did not have a serious disability, but

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in 89`year`old woman from Stssex chose to end her life at thd

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Dignitas Clinic. The retired art teachers feared going into ` care

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home after suffering heart `nd lung problems. She said she was `lso

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disillusioned with modern lhfe and society's increasing dependdncy on

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computers. Anne decided to dnd her life because, it is understood, her

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frustration with the modern world and she feared her disease could

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worsen. A former doctor who campaigns for the right to die

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helped the 89`year`old Sussdx woman with her application to the clinic.

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She got to the point where the combination of physical problems

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restricted her activities and the combination of her age, 89, meant

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she did not have many more xears she could expect to live and shd felt

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she had come to the completdd live stage. Shortly before she ended her

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life, she told her `` of her weariness with the non`age. She

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talked about becoming robots and a lack of humanity. `` modern age I

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suppose it is an individual decision. I do not want to see the

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wholesale slaughter of all people. They do not have a good quality of

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life and we should put them out of their misery. She was in her right

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mind. I do not see an issue. It is her life and she is free to do with

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it what she wishes. It is probably something most people would not

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understand in terms of not dngaging with computers but it is her choice.

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Laws have to be made for thd whole population. The number of Ron rouble

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people, elderly, disabled, chronically sick, socially

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isolated, mentally ill, hard up the number of those people far outweighs

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these small population of the ideological you determined. Assisted

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suicide remains a crime herd, though prosecution service guidelines say

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that those motivated by compassion are less likely to be chargdd. The

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top story. A Margate woman with a debilitating diseases taking action

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after being refused funding for her eggs to be frozen before undergoing

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chemotherapy. Lizzie Rose's treatment is likely to leavd her

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infertile. Also tonight. Should the punk rock star Sid Vicious be

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commemorated with a plaque hn Royal Tunbridge Wells? And this wdek will

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be increasingly dry, but it remains fresh. Join me later for thd

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details. Margate's Turner Contemporary art

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gallery celebrates its third birthday this month and durhng that

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time it's seen more than a lillion people through the doors, attracting

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an influx of new money to Thanet. It's tuned into a shift in tastes

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which now sees more people going to art galleries than Premier League

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football matches. Supporters say Margate's venture into art hs

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transforming lives, but there are also detractors, as Robin Ghbson has

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been finding out for tonight's Special Report. `` there ard also

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critics. It is a landmark in many waxs. It

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dominates the view and has brought a step change in Margate's bucket and

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spade heritage and put art on the news agenda. They have excedded the

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brief, but nip around the corner and... I do not think anythhng will

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make Margate better. I have no intention of going in there. It is

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clear there are plenty of pdople who will not be impressed but over the

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last three years the Turner has tried to improve it is not just a

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palace of art. It goes outshde, it tries to change lives. In otr first

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two`year is we generated ?20 million for the local economy with 35 new

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businesses opening in the fhrst 18 months. We have an impact on

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economic regeneration. But ht is more than that. Jason is 18 and has

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Asperger's syndrome. All his life it has made him shy away from social

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situations. At the turn, he discovered the joy of making music

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from looking at pictures. It is taking a diverse bunch of pdople

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with some kind of social interaction design ability, putting thel in a

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room with contemporary art `nd saying you can do anything, you need

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to create music using this `rt. I say to do anything in relathon to

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the art and go wild. It has given a chance to step outside my lhfe.

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Being a part of the gallery choir and community helped Sue Tolpkins

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rediscover herself following the loss of her father and spending

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years as a carer. I feel it has given me a chance to be a ndw me,

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and, also, recapture who were used to be when I was younger. The task

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of bringing the outside in to enjoy what is here has been ticked off.

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The work of inspiring through art, taking the Inside Out, remahns a

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work in progress. Think of punk rock, and think of the

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genteel surroundings of Roy`l Tunbridge Wells and you might

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imagine the two don't mix. But the controversial punk musician Sid

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Vicious could be honoured whth a commemorative plaque in the Kent

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town. As plain John Ritchie, he attended Sandown Court School in

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Tunbridge Wells in the 1960s. He went onto join The Sex Pistols, who

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released their controversial cover version of God Save The Quedn to

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subvert the nation's Jubiled celebrations in 1977. The following

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year he was accised of killhng his girlfriend Nancy Spungen in a New

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York hotel room and subsequdntly took his own life. Jane Witherspoon

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joins us from Tunbridge Wells. Not who you would expect to be

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celebrated in Tunbridge Wells? He had a colourful life and made

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headlines, not always for the right reasons. I have found out what

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people think about this potdntial plaque.

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He was the anarchist with attitude. Sid Vicious was a controversial icon

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and is remembered as much for his personal life as his music. A heroin

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addict, he was arrested on suspicion of murdering his girlfriend and

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killed himself while on bail. The suggestion he could be given a blue

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plaque in Tunbridge Wells h`s been met with mixed reaction. Thd way he

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changed pop music, got rid of the disco fever in the 1970s and

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completely fractured pop music to where we are today, he should have a

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blue plaque will stop I think someone like Sid Vicious,

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could be spent on other things. Sid Vicious was really called John

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Ritchie and went to school here for three years from 1969. Back then, it

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was not an academy but Sandown Court School. The blue plaque is our

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council funded and cost ?300. But certain criteria must be met. For a

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period of town, he was the look of punk rock, which was an important

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movement. It feels very str`nge given the way his life ended. The

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open ended nurse of whether he committed a crime or not, `` how

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open ended it was, whether he committed a crime or not, that he

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would be celebrated in this way You will have to wait until latdr this

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year to find out, when the final list is due to be agreed.

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The Tunbridge Wells Civic Society are compiling the short list on

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behalf of the council. At the moment, Sid Vicious is one of 3

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names being considered. We will find out soon whether he makes the final

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cut. We have had comments on the story. Some strong opinions.

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Thanks for your comments. Football, and it was another grim weekend for

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our top teams. A goalless draw for Brighton was as good as it got.

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Meanwhile, Charlton, Gillingham and Crawley all suffered home ddfeats.

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Juliette Parkin has our round`up of the action.

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With Brighton chasing a place in the championship play`offs and Barnsley

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battling to avoid the drop, it was set to be a tense trip north.

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Brighton had possession but failed to carve out a meaningful chance

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until 36 minutes, when this effort was deflected wide. Another chance,

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a free kick on went inches wide The seagulls have not won five games. We

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deserved to win today. We created the best chances. In the second half

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we played better than the opposition. After a dreary first

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half, the second half was not much better the Charlton with thhs

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attempt gathered up quickly and it was visitors Reading who took

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command. Danny Williams finhshed from 12 yards in the 74th mhnute

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only to heighten the relegation woes for Charlton. Defeat left them two

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points off the bottom three. In league one, Crewe Alexandra opened

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the scoring. Jamie Proctor levelled the Crawley on 69 minutes. But a

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late goal earned Crewe Alex`ndra a vital win to aid their fight to beat

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the drop. Rather room went `head before `` rather united. ``

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Rotherham. Gillingham went hn front. But their opposition equalised again

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a minute later and secured the win in stoppage time.

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On Friday, we gave details of our special screening of O what a lovely

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War, later this month. It is the iconic and controversial film that

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used all the fun of the pier to highlight the harsh realitids of the

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First World War. On Monday the 8th of April we are in Brighton for a

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special screening of Oh What a Lovely War. We are lucky enough to

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be joined by members of the original cast and we hope you will join us

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also. Thanks for your overwhelming

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response. The tickets went within five minutes. Well done if xou got

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one. If you were successful you should receive them in the next few

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days. You might have noticed the appearance of the sunshine when I

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was down in Brighton, but not so much today.

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much It is improving. It has been hefty,

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the rain, but it will tear. It will say breezy through the week. It will

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be increasingly settled. We will see some sunshine, particularly on

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Wednesday and Thursday. Earlier a lot of cloud cover and the rain has

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intensified through the aftdrnoon. Temperatures have been feelhng

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cooler. The wind from a westerly direction, that will ease off a

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little bit tonight but the rate will remain until midnight. Behind that,

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here are skies around. Tempdratures in single figures. Down to four

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degrees. Clear skies means we will see sunshine from the word go on

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Tuesday. It will be a breezx picture as we head through the day. From a

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westerly direction, up to 20 mph. Drier and brighter tomorrow. You

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could catch a sharp shower `nd temperatures will feel fresher. The

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westerly breezes taking the edge of the temperatures. We will bd settled

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as we go through tomorrow nhght Potentially mist and fog as we start

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Wednesday. A cooler start from midweek. High pressure will stay

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with us and we should see ddcent amounts of sunshine on Wedndsday and

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temperatures recovering, around 14 degrees and potentially up to 1 .

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Settled as we go into Thursday. Perhaps more cloud cover. A chance

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you could see drizzle as we head into Friday, but it clears hn time

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for the weekend. Temperaturds will be feeling a little warmer.

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Before we go, tonight's top stories. Oscar Pistorius apologised hn court

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to the family of his girlfrhend who he is alleged to have murdered.

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A woman from Margate about to undergo medical treatment that could

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leave her in fertile is takhng legal action against the NHS after being

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refused funding for her eggs to be frozen. And Bob Geldof said he is

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beyond pain after the death of his daughter Peaches Geldof. Thd mother

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of two was found dead in Kent. She is 25 years old. I will be back with

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the late news at 10:30pm.

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