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Why couldn't Kent and Sussex cope in the floods? We have a special

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report. The secret underground town of

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Ramsgate in World War II. And when prostitutes are victims of

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crime. I'm Natalie Graham with untold

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stories, closer to home. From all round the South East, this hs Inside

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Out. Hi, I'm at Rock`a`Nore in Hastings

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where the recent bad weather actually brought down the cliffs

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last week. And there are plenty of people who

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think that is the perfect mdtaphor think that is the perfect mdtaphor

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for what happened to the electricity for what happened to the electricity

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network over Christmas. But as the clear up continues the question is,

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what went wrong? And what if it happens again? Vince Rogers reports.

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It was the night before the night before Christmas in Faversh`m.

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before Christmas in Faversham. Electricity failed.

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The electricity suppliers s`y Electricity failed.

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The electricity suppliers say that The electricity suppliers s`y that

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Kent and Sussex were the hardest hit. Their engineers dealt with more

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than 1300 incidents involving more than 200,000 customers.

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This was one of them. I decided than 200,000 customers.

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This was one of them. I dechded to This was one of them. I dechded to

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keep a diary of all the events as they unfolded.

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Spoke to Craig. Puts me on hold. Spoke to Craig. Puts me on hold.

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After five minus the line w`s cut After five minus the line was cut

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off. Some of the energy companies did not

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have enough the Pope for an emergency response. `` some of the

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energy companies did not have enough employees for an emergency response.

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It is not acceptable. UK power networks declined to be

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interviewed. But they point out that most homes were restored quickly and

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most homes were restored quhckly and that many employees gave up their

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Christmas holidays to help out. The companies think they did not do as

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badly as has made out. They do not control the weather.

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They do not control the weather They control how they respond to it.

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One of the networks has admitted One of the networks has admitted

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that they should not have ldt so that they should not have ldt so

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many people go on holiday. I was many people go on holiday. H was

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advised that an engineer had been assigned the job.

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The storms had different people in different ways. This was thd

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The storms had different people in different ways. This was the River

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different ways. This was thd River Medway on Christmas Day.

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Further downstream. Christmas Day was worse. People were

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warned to get off their boats. This is the level of my boat. Th`t

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warned to get off their boats. This is the level of my boat. That window

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was looking out onto the top of that tree. But what happened in the

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south`east was different to the storms that have been battlhng the

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storms that have been battling the rest of the country.

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There was lots of rain that caused localised flooding. We have had

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localised flooding from surface water. That is similar to what we

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saw in 2007. Phoned three times. Just got Ackroyd

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voices speaking. No wonder spoke to me.

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This professor says that one of our This professor says that ond of our

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priorities should be to makd our electricity supply waterproof.

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Is that easy to do? It is rdlatively Is that easy to do? It is relatively

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easy to do. Move the equipmdnt Is that easy to do? It is rdlatively

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easy to do. Move the equipment off easy to do. Move the equipment off

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the ground. Some of the measures can be as

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simple as that. Building thresholds at our slightly higher level could

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make a big difference to how resilient communities are to

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flooding. Worldly electricity companies do that? You cannot

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prepare for every eventuality. There is a trade off between resilience

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and cost. At Gatwick airport be built in flood

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defences for the South termhnal but defences for the South termhnal but

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not the North terminal, because they not the North terminal, bec`use they

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were advised that a flood there would be rare. But it did flood,

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would be rare. But it did flood resulting in chaos. We need to wake

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up to the fact that with clhmate up to the fact that with climate

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change this will be more frdquent. change this will be more frdquent.

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Back in Faversham... It is good news. Power switch on.

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Lights working. After 169 hours power is restored.

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Do you feel there is a lack of a sense of urgency? There is `lways

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Do you feel there is a lack of a sense of urgency? There is always a

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sense of urgency? There is `lways a sense of urgency when we experience

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flooding. Will the day come when we are

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prepared for any weather? Vince Rogers reporting. Coming up on

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Inside Out: Is enough being done to help prostitutes who are victims of

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crime? I remember his weight on top of me. I cannot remember his face.

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Now, most people will think of Dover as being the most important town on

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the front line in Kent during World War II. But just along the coast is

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Ramsgate which also played ` War II. But just along the coast is

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Ramsgate which also played a huge Ramsgate which also played a huge

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role in the defence of the country. And yet many of the town's wartime

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secrets lie buried and forgotten deep below the ground.

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You could go all over Ramsgate You could go all over Ramsg`te

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underground. If you couldn't go outside you went underground.

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Everyone felt that sort of comfort when they were down here, that they

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were safe because of the depth of the tunnels.

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They put signposts up underneath. There were signposts there to King

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Street, Queen Street, Bound`ry Road, Street, Queen Street, Boundary Road,

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where the different entrances were. Everybody was chatting as though

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they were in the street. 60 feet underneath the town of

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Ramsgate is this network of tunnels. We're in a labyrinth which hs three

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and a half miles long and during the and a half miles long and during the

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war this became a refuge, a secret underground town which saved the

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lives of many people. The tunnels were dug in just nine

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months, at the beginning of the Second World War using mostly picks

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and shovels and provided shdlter for and shovels and provided shdlter for

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26,000 people. They have bedn abandoned for 75 years but Phil

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Spain and the Ramsgate Tunndls Team Spain and the Ramsgate Tunndls Team

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has been working on a project to restore them.

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Ramsgate's geology allowed a plan restore them.

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Ramsgate's geology allowed ` plan to Ramsgate's geology allowed a plan to

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build two and a half miles of tunnels around the town which would

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link up with this former railway link up with this former rahlway

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tunnel. Initially they couldn't get permission from the governmdnt

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because it was against government policy. But they kept putting

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forward this case and the mayor of forward this case and the mayor of

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Ramsgate at the time, ABC Kdmpe Ramsgate at the time, ABC Kdmpe

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took up the cause. He was known as the Mad Mayor. He pushed this

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the Mad Mayor. He pushed thhs project for the tunnels really hard

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and eventually he won permission for them to be dug. At that time they

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them to be dug. At that timd they were the only civilian tunnels

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were the only civilian tunndls sanctioned by central government.

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They refused everybody else. The tunnels were soon to prove their

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worth. Saturday August 24 1940 The tunnels were soon to prove their

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worth. Saturday August 24 1840 was The tunnels were soon to prove their

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worth. Saturday August 24 1940 was a worth. Saturday August 24 1840 was a

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day that's etched on the memory worth. Saturday August 24 1940 was a

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day that's etched on the melory of day that's etched on the memory of

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many people who lived in Ralsgate. many people who lived in Ralsgate.

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They dropped 500 bombs in five They dropped 500 bombs in fhve

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minutes and it devastated complete areas of the town. But it dhdn't

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areas of the town. But it didn't kill a large number of people? No,

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no they all had time to get down in the shelters. 28 people were

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no they all had time to get down in the shelters. 28 people werd killed.

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So that Mad Mayor's plan really the shelters. 28 people were killed.

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So that Mad Mayor's plan re`lly came So that Mad Mayor's plan really came

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into its own very early on? Over a 1,000 houses were destroyed during

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what became known as the murder raid and hundreds of people moved into

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the tunnels permanently. Marjorie Woodward was 17 in 194 and

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was training to be a teacher. For one of her assignments she wrote

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about the families who lived in the tunnels. They did not want to leave

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the tunnel. The main tunnel was a disusdd

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railway tunnel which had a mainline railway tunnel which had a lainline

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down the middle, but quite ample space each side. It was these that

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became the tunnel town. At first there were benches in the tunnel and

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people slept on those and then they took deckchairs and cushions and

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then camp beds. At that time most of the chhldren

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At that time most of the children from Ramsgate were evacuated, but

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the ones that stayed at home lived the ones that stayed at homd lived

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in the tunnels. Marjorie relembers that there wasn't school for 18

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months, and the children, who were left to run wild, were

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affectionately known as tunnel rats. And Gwendolyne Langridge was one of

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those children. She was 12 xears old and lived in the tunnel for two

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years. We used to sleep down there because

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we were getting disturbed nights. we were getting disturbed nhghts.

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And it wasn't good for us. And we were getting disturbed nights.

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And it wasn't good for us. @nd so we were getting disturbed nhghts.

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And it wasn't good for us. And so we And it wasn't good for us. And so we

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used to stay but in the morning Mum and Dad came up because he had to go

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to work, but us children stayed and we had a wonderful time. We used to

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go up to Dumpton Park Drive. It had a lot of steps up to that one and it

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had an air raid warden's post at the top and he used to say, "Whdre are

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top and he used to say, "Where are you kids going?" "Oh we're just

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going out for some fresh air, so we're just going to stand at the

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top." And then popped down again. we're just going to stand at the

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top." And then popped down `gain. We top." And then popped down `gain. We

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were like rabbits. Elsie Stygale was 18 in 1940 and she

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remembers one particular man who lived down in the tunnels for longer

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than the others. His name was Shell. We called him

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Shell, I think, because he was shell shocked from the First World War.

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When the war broke out he w`s When the war broke out he was

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terrified so he went down into the tunnels and stayed there. And people

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used to take him down food, fish and chips, bring his washing up and do

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his washing for him. And he didn't come up for about four years. And

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then they managed to persuade him to come up. "It's all over, Shell.

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There is nothing happening, it's all finished." And he walked up lots of

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steps to come up. And he got to the top of the steps and dropped down

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dead. Soon the tunnels were the talk of the town. There's reports in

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papers around the world of how good the tunnels were, and people,

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papers around the world of how good the tunnels were, and peopld, famous

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the tunnels were, and people, famous people, came to visit, just to see

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what it was all about. Perh`ps the most famous was the Prime Minister,

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Winston Churchill. He came to Ramsgate to inspect the dam`ge on

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the August 24th raid, and actually got caught up in another attack. He

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had to take shelter in the tunnels. Right, so if it wasn't for these

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tunnels, we might not of had Churchill! Quite possibly! He was

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told by our rather flamboyant Mayor to put his cigar out before he

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entered, because there was no smoking. So he was put in hhs

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entered, because there was no smoking. So he was put in his place.

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smoking. So he was put in hhs place. # Forget your troubles, come on, get

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# Forget your troubles, comd on get happy.

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# You better chase all your cares away #. Every year, the people of

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Ramsgate remember the 1940s with a wartime event on the seafront. And

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many people living here believe wartime event on the seafront. And

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many people living here belheve its many people living here belheve its

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unique history shouldn't be forgotten. I think we should be well

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known for our harbour rescuing forgotten. I think we should be well

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known for our harbour rescuhng so known for our harbour rescuing so

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many men from Dunkirk, and the tunnels which were able to house our

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population during a bad time. I would like to see them opendd again

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would like to see them opened again to encourage people. It could be,

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from an educational perspective, very good. And also, from a tourist

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attraction, it could revitalise Ramsgate. It is so unique. I'm not

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going to say I'd like to go through it again. I wouldn't. But I wouldn't

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mind living down the tunnel. Now, women in prostitution `re the

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group at highest risk of rape and other violence. Yet they're often

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afraid to report these crimds to other violence. Yet they're often

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afraid to report these crimes to the afraid to report these crimds to the

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police for fear of arrest themselves. Author and campaigner

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Ruth Jacobs, who used to work in prostitution herself, investigates

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what can be done in the south`east. I should warn you some viewers

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what can be done in the south`east. I should warn you some viewdrs may

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I should warn you some viewers may find parts of this film disturbing.

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My interest in the safety of sex trade workers isn't academic. Until

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15 years ago, I was a prostitute in 15 years ago, I was a prosthtute in

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London. Even though I didn't know it at the time, the trauma of

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prostitution would always remain with me. Recourse to justicd

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prostitution would always rdmain with me. Recourse to justice after

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with me. Recourse to justicd after being the victim of a violent crime

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is extremely rare for people being the victim of a violent crime

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is extremely rare for peopld in is extremely rare for people in

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prostitution, as it was for me when I was in the sex trade. My report of

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rape was ignored, and that's the case for many others like md.

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Amanda, whose name we've changed, was raped by a punter who rdfused to

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wear a condom. When I met her, she'd just stopped working as a c`ll

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wear a condom. When I met hdr, she'd just stopped working as a call girl,

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just stopped working as a c`ll girl, from Eastbourne to Southampton. I

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said, "Look, here's the protection. Put the condom on." But then all I

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remember after that is just flashes. I remember saying no. And I remember

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his weight on top of me. I can't even remember his face. I ndver ever

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fought back because he was a big, fat, disgusting, greasy man, and I

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knew if I went to the police, all they'd think is, "You were there for

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sex anyway, so what difference does it make?" But I never told anyone,

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because I thought, "Who's going to believe a prostitute?" I'd heard so

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many times that, the thing hs, if you rape a prostitute, it's just

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shoplifting. Oh, God, I haven't even heard that before. Amanda s`ys

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shoplifting. Oh, God, I havdn't even heard that before. Amanda says that

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heard that before. Amanda s`ys that when she reported the rape, it was

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never investigated properly by the police. Did they do anything to

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pursue the rapist? No. It w`s probably a year after the incident.

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They sent me the rape alarm by post. They sent me a leaflet for domestic

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abuse ` help, support in that respect, but they never phoned me.

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They never contacted. They never asked me anything about what had

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happened. But, because you were in prostitution, you get a rapd

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happened. But, because you were in prostitution, you get a rape alarm,

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prostitution, you get a rapd alarm, and the other women get all this

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other stuff. That's how it feels, anyway. It makes me feel like I'm

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anyway. It makes me feel like I m not human. It makes me feel that I'm

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not entitled to the same level of care and respect as anybody else.

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There's one part of the country where they are doing things

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differently. Merseyside. Until seven years ago the same distrust had

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existed between people in the sex trade and the police. I want to find

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out about the initiative whhch turned the tide on violence against

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people in the sex trade. Merseyside Police Detective Tracy O'Hara

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regularly patrols the areas where women in street prostitution

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operate. I only work at the nick over there, I'm going back on duty

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now. So I can get a car and come and make you safe and get you somewhere.

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My role is to keep people s`fe and is to protect people. I'm not there

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to put her in a car and take is to protect people. I'm not there

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to put her in a car and takd her is to protect people. I'm not there

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to put her in a car and take her to a police station then and there I'm

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a police station then and there. I'm there to find out what's gohng on

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there to find out what's going on for her. Tracy works closelx

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there to find out what's gohng on for her. Tracy works closely with

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for her. Tracy works closelx with specialist health workers from an

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NHS drop`in centre in Liverpool. NHS drop`in centre in Liverpool.

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They offer advice to sex tr`de They offer advice to sex trade

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workers, and they have seen numbers on the streets drop by half since a

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Hate Crime Model was adopted. In the 80s and into the 90s, this `rea was

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80s and into the 90s, this area was worked. It isn't now. So it really

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hoes how things like policing and regeneration can really change a

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street beat. So you're dealing regeneration can really change a

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street beat. So you're dealhng with street beat. So you're dealhng with

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a constantly changing situation. street beat. So you're dealing with

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a constantly changing situation And a constantly changing situation. And

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this was quite a dangerous `rea We had a lot of women who were

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attacked. So there was a huge drive then to really do something quickly,

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and get something happening to protect sex workers. It was the

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murder of Ann Marie Foye th`t protect sex workers. It was the

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murder of Ann Marie Foye that proved murder of Ann Marie Foye that proved

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the catalyst to get the polhce in the catalyst to get the police in

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Liverpool to declare all crhmes Liverpool to declare all crimes

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against people in prostituthon as hate crimes. Back in 2006, we

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invoked what we call the Hate Crime Model. So in the same way that we

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address issues around homophobic attacks on people, or racially

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motivated attacks, or attacks on people for other discriminatory

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reasons... We decided that `ttacks reasons... We decided that `ttacks

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on sex workers, if these attacks occurred during their work as a sex

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worker, we would devote a shmilar worker, we would devote a shmilar

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approach to that which we do with other strands of hate crime. May was

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also working alone she was attacked and raped. He slapped me, and he

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repeatedly raped me, and I still have nightmares today. You thought,

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when you were in there, that he was going to kill you? I did. The only

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reason I managed to escape was because he fell asleep. So I crept

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down the stairs, and as I w`s down the stairs, and as I w`s

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opening the bolt, it started squeaking really loud. I felt him

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touch the back of my hair. So I just opened the door and ran. I phoned

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the police straightaway, as I thought I was going to die that

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night. May was introduced to Shelly Stoops, who was to help her all the

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way through her case. This led to the rapist being sentenced to ten

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years without parole. I really wanted him off the street as I

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didn't want other girls to go through what I went through. It was

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absolutely horrendous. So that's how they do things on Merseysidd. But

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what about somewhere like Medway? what about somewhere like Medway?

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Ann Barnes, the Police and Crime Commissioner, wanted to tell me

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about an award`winning schele they about an award`winning schele they

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have here called Safe Exit. As you can see, this is a really lovely

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part of the Medway Towns. It's one of my favourite bits of it. Over

:22:18.:22:19.

there, there's some lovely @lms there, there's some lovely Alms

:22:20.:22:21.

houses. It's a really nice `rea to houses. It's a really nice area to

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live. There used to be a lot of street workers around this

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particular area. Kent Policd, working with the local council and

:22:32.:22:34.

with the health service, have really turned this place around. So where

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are they are they? Are they working in a different area of Kent? Are

:22:42.:22:45.

they in brothels? Are they on the internet? I don't have any evidence

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internet? I don't have any dvidence to say they've been dispersed

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to say they've been dispersdd elsewhere. I think about 120 women

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were working the streets, this area, in 2007`8, when this Safe Exit

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programme started. There are now programme started. There are now

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about 17. It worried me that these women were unaccounted for, and

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making contact with the people running the scheme was to prove

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difficult. After repeatedly asking for access to the Safe Exit scheme

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over several months, I still couldn't establish how many women

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had been helped by it. With no help from the press office, we sdnt Kent

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Police a freedom of information request. What became clear was that,

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during the time the Safe Exit request. What became clear was that,

:23:31.:23:32.

during the time the Safe Exht scheme during the time the Safe Exit scheme

:23:33.:23:34.

was running, arrests of women in prostitution in this area rocketed.

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That said to me the police weren't acting in the women's interests.

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That said to me the police weren't acting in the women's interdsts A

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acting in the women's interests. A criminal record is a major obstacle

:23:43.:23:45.

when seeking employment and keeps women trapped in prostitution. This

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is nothing like the police approach is nothing like the police `pproach

:23:50.:23:53.

in Merseyside. So I managed to make contact with two public servants

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associated with Safe Exit who were willing to tell me what happened, as

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long as their identities could willing to tell me what happened, as

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long as their identities could be protected. They went around and

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pulled the girls off New Ro`d, protected. They went around and

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pulled the girls off New Road, with pulled the girls off New Ro`d, with

:24:07.:24:11.

ASBOs. They set up two houses in Medway. They were kind of s`fe

:24:12.:24:16.

houses. It was very much a police initiative. I remember there was

:24:17.:24:19.

houses. It was very much a police initiative. I remember therd was no

:24:20.:24:22.

aftercare. So the women who have experience of the Safe Exit scheme `

:24:23.:24:26.

did anyone actually get helped by that? Any counselling, help out of

:24:27.:24:31.

poverty... There was one girl who managed to get clean and st`y clean,

:24:32.:24:37.

but unfortunately she died. It seemed more like social engineering,

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where they thought they could put a quick and dirty ill`thought out

:24:42.:24:44.

programme in place, and two plus two would equal four. They would all

:24:45.:24:50.

exit prostitution and lead happy, safe lives thereafter. But there was

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no real extra funding for this and it was ill`thought out. What was

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happening was that the women that we had been working with suddenly

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stopped talking to us, so we had been working with suddenly

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stopped talking to us, so wd weren't stopped talking to us, so we weren't

:25:05.:25:05.

able to help them keep themselves safe on the streets. For all of the

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furore about how successful this scheme was, it has had no ilpact

:25:13.:25:13.

furore about how successful this scheme was, it has had no impact on

:25:14.:25:16.

the lives of women working hn the sex industry in Chatham. It was just

:25:17.:25:23.

a big political PR stunt. When we told Kent Police about what our

:25:24.:25:27.

sources had said, they then agreed to an interview. They say that they

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have to balance what is best for both the sex workers and the

:25:32.:25:35.

community at large. Soliciting and kerb crawling both are crimhnal

:25:36.:25:37.

kerb crawling both are criminal offences, and Kent will alw`ys

:25:38.:25:38.

kerb crawling both are crimhnal offences, and Kent will always take

:25:39.:25:38.

offences, and Kent will alw`ys take a strong, hard`line approach to any

:25:39.:25:40.

criminal offences. We will `lso a strong, hard`line approach to any

:25:41.:25:44.

criminal offences. We will also deal criminal offences. We will `lso deal

:25:45.:25:46.

very robustly with any anti`social behaviour issues. But what we

:25:47.:25:50.

mustn't lose sight of is the behaviour issues. But what we

:25:51.:25:51.

mustn't lose sight of is thd fact mustn't lose sight of is the fact

:25:52.:25:52.

that the sex workers are thdmselves that the sex workers are themselves

:25:53.:25:53.

vunerable. For me, it's a fhne vunerable. For me, it's a fine

:25:54.:25:58.

balance between enforcing the law, but also providing support `nd

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but also providing support and engagement. Well, were the women in

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Medway given a Safe Exit or are they still working? I found over 1000

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people advertising sexual sdrvices people advertising sexual sdrvices

:26:17.:26:19.

in Kent and Sussex on one prominent adult internet site. In Thanet, I

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met a local councillor, Ian Driver, who sees street sex work happening

:26:27.:26:36.

on his patch every day. You could drive round here most evenings, and

:26:37.:26:40.

you can see people at work from the sex industry. How do you feel police

:26:41.:26:44.

sex industry. How do you fedl police treat people in the sex trade? I

:26:45.:26:50.

think pretty badly. They've got very old`fashioned views. My impression

:26:51.:26:57.

is that the police in Thanet, and probably in Kent as a whole, are

:26:58.:27:03.

less than sympathetic. They still have the view that the sex trade is

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something to be clamped down upon, something to be forced out `s much

:27:12.:27:20.

as they can, so they take a very punitive and a very aggresshve

:27:21.:27:21.

punitive and a very aggressive stance towards the sex tradd in

:27:22.:27:28.

Thanet, which I think is totally wrong. White back my contacts

:27:29.:27:32.

associated with Safe Exit s`y it's about to be relaunched. If it is,

:27:33.:27:39.

will the new version followdd the Merseyside model of prioritising

:27:40.:27:42.

protection and building trusting relationships with the police and

:27:43.:27:47.

outreach services? I am sceptical about this. They haven't involved

:27:48.:27:50.

outreach projects, and it sdems about this. They haven't involved

:27:51.:27:52.

outreach projects, and it sdems 1 million miles away from the

:27:53.:27:59.

Merseyside approach. Now, if you want any more

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information about tonight's show, you can visit our local Kent or

:28:02.:28:05.

Sussex websites. You can also watch the show again on iPlayer. Coming up

:28:06.:28:16.

next week: An energy special. The meter has definitely been interfered

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with, because it has a fake seal. Hunting down the power thieves ` we

:28:21.:28:27.

join the British Gas Detecthves This is a huge problem. We feel

:28:28.:28:32.

about ?500 million worth of gas and electricity are stolen a ye`r. What

:28:33.:28:33.

electricity are stolen a year. What happens when the elderly get cold?

:28:34.:28:37.

We turn pensioners into guinea pigs to find out. We just live in this

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room to keep warm. It's just enough to keep you warm. And two years

:28:44.:28:46.

room to keep warm. It's just enough to keep you warm. And two ydars of

:28:47.:28:47.

the controversial Glynde wind turbine. Was it worth it, or is it

:28:48.:28:53.

just spin? That's it from us for tonight from

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Hastings. Thanks for watching, and see you next week.

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