10/03/2017 South East Today

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A Kent woman who's been told she has less than six months to live

claims tests failed to diagnose her pancreatic cancer despite her being

Elizabeth Parker says her inoperable condition was only spotted

when she was taken to hospital in extreme pain.

Elizabeth Parker this week began arranging her own funeral.

For the last two nights when we go to bed we just cry and hold

I can't believe it because because it is so...

I feel the world is turning but we have no part in it,

Mrs Parker says it took too long to diagnose

She first visited her GP practice in September last year,

where doctors thought she had acid reflux.

She declined an endoscopy because she has a sensitive gag reflex.

During four further visits to her GP she was referred for an ultrasound

test the following month and stomach x-rays, they all proved

inconclusive and the ultrasound did not detect the cancer.

It wasn't until January this year when in agony

she visited an emergency clinic and blood tests showed she

She visited a private hospital for a CT scan,

after which she was given 3-6 months to live.

Mrs Parker is not certain earlier diagnosis could

Certainly I would have had more warning of what was to come and then

I would have had longer time to spend with my family

One cancer charity says pancreatic cancer can

You do hear stories of people going back

and forth to the doctors and waiting for time

to get different scans and

things before they can get that diagnosis.

Delays like this mean pancreatic cancer can advance quite

quickly and by that stage it is often too

Mrs Parker says she is devastated that

she won't be around long enough to see her four-year-old grandson grow

Kent and Surrey's motorsport legend John Surtees has

Uniquely, Surtees was a world champion in both Formula One

He'd been admitted to hospital in London in February

He owned Buckmore Park circuit near Rochester,

and set up a foundation in memory of his son Henry, who was killed

in a freak accident, racing at Brands Hatch.

Piers Hopkirk reports on an extraordinary life and legacy.

Hot favourite after wins in 1958 and '59, number

John Surtees was a unique breed of sporting hero.

The only man to have won the Grand Prix World Championship

An achievement yet to be surpassed in more than half a century.

It is a hammer blow for me and for British

He is undoubtedly one of the greatest people ever lived

The son of a motorbike dealer, he won his first race aged 17.

A glittering career on two wheels followed, climaxing perhaps

with his hat-trick of Isle of Mann TT wins.

Is this your life ambition now achieved?

I don't set out with definite ambitions, I just try

In his Ferrari, John Surtees, number seven, going like a bomb

and eventually leading the ten cars that are still in the race.

In 1961 he switched the cars and won the Formula 1 crown

He was the only man to cross over from bikes to cars and I think that

just gives a very positive sign to people that anything is possible.

What John Surtees did, it was inspiring.

When his racing days were over, motorsport

It was the basis of his business in Edenbridge, and in 2015 he bought

His later life was touched by tragedy.

His son Henry was killed in a freak accident at Brands Hatch.

It prompted the creation of the Henry Surtees

John Surtees was awarded a CBE last year and he remains

a motorsport legend, with a permanent place

By the time I was retiring I still had not probably

reach my absolute peak, but I have achieved my main ambition

is because the most important thing I have to do in life is not satisfy

And you can see more reaction and leave your tributes

to John Surtees at our live page bbc.co.uk/kent or on

The neighbour of a young woman who was brutally murdered

in Portslade has told a jury at Lewes Crown Court how they heard

arguing and glass being smashed in the house a few weeks

The body of Shana Grice was discovered last August.

Her throat had been cut and the bedroom set on fire.

Her former boyfriend Michael Lane is on trial

A teacher from Faversham has been charged with child grooming.

James Hope, who's 38, is Assistant Head of

Kent County Council's Virtual School for children in care.

He was arrested in September last year.

He's due to appear at Maidstone Magistrates Court next month.

A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a man who's body

was found in a car park in Tunbridge Wells early on Tuesday.

Kent police have revealed that the victim was 43-year-old

Giles Metcalfe and a provisional post-mortem indicated he died

34-year-old Dean Lewis, of no fixed address, appeared before

Medway magistrates today and was remanded in custody.

Football, and Brighton took a step nearer to

The Seagulls beat Derby County 3-0 at the Amex.

They remain in second place in the Championship

table on goal difference, but are now level with

The national weather forecast coming up in a moment,

but first let's get the picture for the weekend in the south-east

It is a weekend of two halves. Sunny on Saturday but turning wet and

windy on Sunday. Through tonight is a good deal of clouds. To date

temperatures were only around 10 Celsius but they hardly change

overnight. Mild to start tomorrow. Staying dry and a good deal of

sunshine around. By the afternoon temperatures are widely in the mid

teens and highs of 17 Celsius. Turning wet into Sunday with

Where the sunshine broke through to the North of Cornwall temperatures

rose to 17 degrees under the blue skies. For many of us the cloud

didn't break up through the day, keeping temperatures pegged at

around about 13 degrees. That was the high today in the London region.

Mild over night with the blanket of cloud around. Most places dry. Rain

will work into parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland through the

early hours of Saturday. It will be