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you might stay dry. The temperatures will still be in

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these flats after the gas mains is deliberately set on fire.

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New figures show a dramatic rise in stress levels for crews.

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Ministers singing the praises of single`storey. And the unexpected

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dangers on the beach. I picked up what looked like a store and I

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turned that around and realised it was not, it was a sort of hand

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grenades. Fire crews say people living

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at two blocks of flats in Essex are lucky to be alive

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after gas mains were deliberately set alight beneath their buildings.

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More than 50 people were told to leave their homes when flats

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at Westcliffe on Sea near Southend were evacuated.

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Engineers have spent the whole day trying to repair the mains.

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Tonight one person has been arrested on suspicion of arson.

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The details now from Richard Daniel. It was a deliberate fire that could

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easily have killed. Gas pipes were set alight. The alarm was raised

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just before 7pm yesterday. All 19 flats had to be evacuated as flames

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threatens the block. This resident rescued an elderly neighbour. I saw

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my motorbike on fire. I went back in but it was evacuated because I knew

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they were gas pipes. One resident with a heart condition was taken to

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hospital and treated for shock. The gas supply had to be made safe. The

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fire service says the gas main was deliberately broken and you can see

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the intensity of the fire. These are the supply pipes, buckled and fallen

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apart. Then just over three hours later another fire at another block

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of flats half a mile away. This time a gas cylinder was placed against

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the ruptured gas main and it was then ignited. 30 people had to be

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evacuated. Essex Fire and rescue service described this as

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potentially deadly. I smelt smoke and thought it was the boiler but I

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saw the orange glow outside so I came out and open the back door and

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we had this plume of smoke. It was something I have never experienced.

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Tonight a joint police and fire service investigation is underway

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and early this morning a 26`year`old man of no fixed address was

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arrested. A chain of academies

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in Norfolk has denied reports that some of its schools were tipped

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off about Ofsted visits. off about Ofsted visits.

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The Observer newspaper claimed it had evidence that three academies,

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connected with the so`called "Superhead"

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Dame Rachel de Souza, knew about the inspectors' visit days,

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and sometimes weeks, in advance. Now Labour's education spokesman has

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called for a full investigation. Rachel de Souza was May Day Dame for

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services to education. She has flown the flag for the academies

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programme. Sponsored academies improve at a faster rate than any

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other kind of school. She now finds herself at the centre of allegations

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firmly denied by the thrust of what she chief executive. She was

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formerly principal of an academy in Norwich and the Observer says the

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Academy knew the dates of its inspection at least two weeks in

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advance. A statement from the trust says...

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The newspaper says evidence from whistle`blowers suggest two

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inspiration trust schools also receive advance notice of impending

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inspection this summer. These are concerning allegations and we think

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Ofsted should inspect schools without fear or favour. We cannot

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have any politicised school inspectors it's `` inspectorate

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system. Ofsted itself have said if anyone has any allegations they

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should be raised. The point is we do not want some schools favoured over

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others. The inspiration trust told as its chief executive was

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unavailable for interview and it says Ofsted has made it clear none

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of its schools given advance notice of inspection. All our schools are

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managed on the basis that an inspection can car at any time. This

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discipline provides reissue and two pupils, parents and teachers.

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Figures obtained by the BBC show that stress`related sickness among

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workers in the public sector in this region has risen dramatically

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over the last five years. Under the Freedom Of Information

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Act, BBC Radio Suffolk analysed information from councils, the fire

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and police forces and hospitals. It found that 374,000

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days were lost. Last year, 3,800 council

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staff went sick. Tonight's special report is from

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Jon Wright. Meetings like this one used to be

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something of a taboo but no stress and anxiety are freely discussed.

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The culture surrounding mental health was like the rest of society.

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People just did not talk about it and if someone was off with

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depression it was, they are not very well. Now I feel that people talk

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about it. Among those sharing their experiences are Paul Charlton who

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works in social care and has twice had time for low mood. I found

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myself not really understanding that my behaviour was changing because of

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stress, but when it gets serious, I want to be to say to people with a

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ensure that we are discussing ensure that we are discussing

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people's well`being. But elsewhere in the public sector, sickness

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through stress is a growing issue. Last year, emergency services lost

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the equivalent of 182 years of work due to this and Norfolk lost over

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20,000 working days. 1600 council workers were stressed enough to be

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offset. Dealing with people in distress can have a personal impact.

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We have excellent monitoring arrangements in place and we follow

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that up with counselling, support that up with counselling, support

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for staff, and we you use and occupational health service. And it

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is not just the public sector. This man was an engineer for 30 years

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before he became stressed. You cannot say something is going wrong

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because it just gets darker and darker and takes the joy out of

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things. Small challenges become difficult to handle. At the worst

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point, ringing up a supplier was really hard and it took a lot to be

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able to get it together to do that. Two years ago he took redundancy and

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is living simply but stress free. I have my own time back and it is

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fantastic. That is one of the things I hold against work and it is that

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for 30 years I did not have my time. And the good life is something

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mental health charities recommend. Some managers are lacking the

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confidence to address mental health, so they avoid having the

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discussion because they are perhaps concerned about triggering something

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or making an existing situation worse. It has taken over an

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allotment for an equal therapy project. `` ecotherapy.

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And if you've got experience of stress in the workplace,

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do give us a call. The phone number is 0845 7 630 630.

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The email address is [email protected].

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You can also get in touch via Facebook and Twitter.

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A dog walker has described the moment she found a grenade

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on a beach in Essex. Clair Watson was walking her dog

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on the beach in Harwich yesterday when she picked it up by accident.

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There have now been five grenades found on the beach since July.

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Gareth George is there now, Gareth. I am at Dovercourt here than there

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are still a few people on the beach but they are being encouraged to be

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careful because grenades have been found in recent weeks. We spoke to a

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dog walker who found the most recent. Not only is Bonnie I could

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get all, she is lucky as well. She loves chasing after stones and what

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looked to be a perfect stone turned out to be more dangerous. I turned

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it around and realised it was not a stolen but a grenade, and it was

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quite corroded. I put it gently down in the sand and kept my dog away. I

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panicked because I thought if this goes off, I am

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Just 24 hours earlier this grenade was found on the same beach

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Firefighters are still tackling The total phone so

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a blaze near Brentwood. It involves about 5,000 tonnes

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of wood. Crews were called to Mount Nessing

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just before 7pm this morning. People living nearby were told to

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keep windows and doors closed because of smoke.

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The fire is in a pile of disused timber which is 15 metres tall.

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Still to come, wearable technology. And what to do when running a

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marathon is not tough enough. This man is going for 40 marathon ons in

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40 days. Did you know the word bungalow comes

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from the Indian words ?bangla Ghar,? meaning house in the Bengali style?

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Bungalows became very popular between the wars but

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in recent years they have fallen out of favour with builders.

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Now the Planning Minister Brandon Lewis

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believes we should think again. The Minister, who's also the MP

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for Great Yarmouth, says we need to build more bungalows.

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He says they're ideal for people in their 60s and 70s who want to

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down`size but don't need sheltered housing or retirement homes.

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1970s bungalows, quintessentially British, and according to the

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housing minister overlooked. This couple have lived in their bungalow

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since it was built 42 years ago and they absolutely love it. We enjoyed

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it. My wife finds it easy to keep the place clean because we have not

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got any stairs. I find it easy to paint and decorate. The nice thing

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is we do not have to go upstairs to sleep. As you can see we have a big

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garden. The footprint of the bungalow is bigger than a house but

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we have big plot of land which enabled us to build extensions onto

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the back. Just down the road, a development of 30 bungalows is being

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built to meet an increase in demand. We often think about bungalows for

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older people who want to downsize but still want their own home and

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garden, and an apartment is not always available. It frees up houses

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for a younger population and they are also appealing to younger

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people. They can play an important role across the scale. The boom in

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the building of bungalows came in the 1950s and 1960s when they were

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almost as popular as houses. In 1986, 15% of new builds were

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bungalows but that's reduced to 7% ten years later and by 2012, just

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2%. Traditionally builders are not so keen because they can make more

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money off the land by creating flats or larger family homes. One estate

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agency says they are in dire need of bungalows because many older couples

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want smaller properties. We do not have anywhere to get people to go

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next, because they want to move from the big houses and downsize. A lot

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of the time the is nothing to go when two. Prince Charles once called

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them have modernised boxes but with an ageing population it could soon

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be boom time for bungalows again. As we all know, computers are

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getting smaller and more portable. In the last ten years many people

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have gone from a massive desktop PC to a tablet or smartphone.

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So what will be next? The latest buzz phrase is "wearable

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technology," or the smart watch. Now rescue teams in Cambridgeshire

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are hoping it could help them save lives.

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A team of volunteers prepay a four`day training exercise in March.

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Today rescuers have a new tool, a smart watch, that can help them find

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people more quickly. We can see where every individual has been and

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we have quick navigational reference is so worth we find any evidence we

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can look at the watch and see the red reference straightaway and give

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that to our support. In today's exercise, someone has

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gone missing in the water. The team will kayak across the river and

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focus on the way ahead. All the navigation elements are on the

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watch, which means they can use it hands`free and they do not have to

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be looking at the watch constantly but can tell speeds and everything

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by looking at the watch. For rescuers, these smart watches

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represent a new tool. We can track Aliens that have been searched and

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that need searching again. Ultimately this can minimise the

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potential of people being out and at harm. This maximises the opportunity

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of finding people. The smart watch runs navigation software developed

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in Cambridge that can be used on Waterland. It is hoped the trial can

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be expanded to other areas to save lives.

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Sport now and it's been another tough day in a tough season

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for Northamptonshire's cricketers. Last summer they won the double,

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promotion to Division One and the T20 Trophy.

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But this year it has been a struggle.

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Here we are in the middle of August and they are still waiting for

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their first win in the top flight. Today another defeat.

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This report from our Sports Editor, Jonathan Park.

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When you play against the best, you need to be at your best, and these

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players have endured a summer to forget. It has been hard for

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everyone. People would have thought we would be more competitive. It is

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how we come back that is the critical thing. Last season they

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could not put a foot wrong but this season it is completely different.

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They have lost nine of 11 matches, and the step up in class has proved

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too steep. Operating with one of the country's smallest budgets, they are

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favourites to be relegated. Today they had the chance to break their

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duck, but Nottingham chased down to win with five wickets to spare. You

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have to perform and if you do not perform you call, and we have not

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done our jobs and have had some injuries that have limited things.

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It has been difficult and obviously trying to play the same players all

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season is hard and that is probably why the bigger clubs can compete in

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all competitions. They need to somehow recapture the

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spirit of 2013, a historic season. Nine losses became ten defeats after

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today's game, and the sober reality of the league table. On their way

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back down. I expected a tough fight. I didn't expect them to be so much

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had left. `` addressed. I think they can build it back up again because

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they have an excellent coach. I think it is just bouncing back next

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year. Relegation will not kill them because the big money comes from the

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T20 these days but the challenge is to keep the fans aboard. Attendance

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is up considerably on last year and I am hoping we can coalesce around

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and people will stick with us. Tonight the season is nearly over.

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Beaten, battered and bruised. If the thought of running a marathon

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fills you with dread, spare a thought for the man who's running 40

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in 40 days ` more than 1,000 miles. Dave Hall from Stopsley

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in Bedfordshire started his first marathon in John O'Groats

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this morning.The final one should take him to

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Lands End at the end of September. And just to make it a bit tougher,

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he'll be sleeping in a mobile shack. Running a marathon is nothing new

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for Dave Hall. Over the last 15 years he has taken part in 130 but

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he has set himself a new challenge, to run 40 and 40 days. It starts at

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John O'Groats and the whole team is flying up or being transported

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there, and then we are stopping at 35 venues and churches and places to

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inform people on what the project is and hopefully to raise money and by

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the end of it all we should end up in Land's End. And this is his

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motivation. In Sierra Leone, hundreds of thousands live in

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poverty. It is a charity designed to build homes for people who live here

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and it is for this reason that he is living `` raising money and sleeping

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in a shack for each night. He was ready to do a major challenge and

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asked to work with us because he had seen the effects of poverty in these

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places. I was overwhelmed because to do this challenge is just an

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incredible feat. The marathon challenge started this morning, and

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covering 1000 miles he will head from John O'Groats before finishing

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at Land's End on Friday 26 September. He is hoping to raise

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?2000 for the charity. He is already a quarter of the way to his target

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but with many more miles to run. I am exhausted just thinking about

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it! And we've just had these pictures in

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showing Dave Hall setting off from John O'Groats this morning on the

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first leg of that first marathon. We'll let you know how he gets

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on over the next few weeks. We will not ask you about the

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weather at John O'Groats but will it be nice?

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It was blustery yesterday, I lost some washing off the line. Between

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about 35 and 45 mph. The strongest on the north Norfolk coast. The

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strongest today as well, but generally less windy today. You can

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see some good breaks in the cloud particularly in the north`east

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corner and a few showers proving to be quite heavy. Still some to move

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through over the next few hours but once most of those have gone, it

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should be a dying night. It will be on the chilly side. These are the

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expected lows but in some rural spots we could be down to around

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eight Celsius. Light to moderate westerly. For the next few days,

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chilly a feeding down from the North. Tomorrow is a dry start with

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brightness and sunshine and we are likely to see some showers but fine

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and but I generally but not very warm. Called are moving unsold

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temperatures struggling to 18 Celsius but many others will not

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even get that high, so be low average, and we hold on to moderate

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westerly winds. We finish with a scattering of showers but quite a

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lot of fine, dry weather. On Wednesday, still a scattering of

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showers but again, temperatures should recover to 17 Celsius and it

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looks as though it will be a repeat performance on Thursday. Friday will

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see showers and longer outbreaks of rain but hopefully some sunshine. We

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will be into a run of chilly nights. In rural spots, temperatures could

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drop even lower so particularly on Tuesday night, it could hurt five

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Celsius. Perhaps time to dig out the heavy pyjamas.

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I hope you find all your washing. Good night.

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