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

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And I'm John Young. Tonight's top stories.

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Over 80 and now she's in debt - the woman from Sussex who's care

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funding has been withdrawn. I am now sitting here waiting to die.

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That sounds awful, I know. Compensation tonight for the widows

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of the two fire officers killed in the Lewes Fireworks disaster.

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Also in tonight's programme: The mystery of why dozens of

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seagulls have been found dead on a Sussex beach. We're live in

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Saltdean tonight with the latest. The greatest show on earth deserves

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the best storytellers. The Kent artist picked to tell tales for the

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Olympics. And feeling flush - the 22-year-old

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poker ace hoping to hit a �5 A disabled pensioner from East

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Sussex says she's "waiting to die" after social services withdrew her

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care funding. Pam Bartlett, who's in her eighties, used to get �240 a

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week to spend on carers. But after a re-assessment, that

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money has been stopped and she says that funding her own care has now

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left her in debt. Sara Smith reports.

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Only me. Three times a week, somebody comes to help Pam Bartlett.

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Whereas she was a paid carer for years, now she does it for free.

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She is one of three women who continue to visit, despite Pam

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Bartlett's care funding been stopped. We will get some breakfast

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and then do your other bits and pieces.

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I cannot live there without care, she is 82 and I cannot go to bed

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tonight thinking she has had an accident, she might not have had

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anything to eat or drink or seen anybody all day. A very active

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woman into her seventies, Pam Bartlett was that disabled by a car

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accident. She was assessed at nine years ago as needing care by East

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Sussex social services and given funding. So she is puzzled and

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dismayed that it nine years on, with her eyesight deteriorating it,

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that that money has been taken away. I am not able to do as much as I

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used to be able to do, because I am much lower, I am Mulder. So without

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the carers coming in, I really don't know -- I am all that. Social

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services did not want to talk about the case, but says that only those

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whose needs are assessed as critical or substantial would now

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get the support. She is classed as only having moderate needs. It is a

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way of rationing social care. Critical and substantial are high

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levels of need and they are almost designed to exclude people who need

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some support to live independently. And the back row Women's needs seem

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to have increased, has had Macro degeneration has increased. They

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will have difficulty moving around their homes. They will have

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difficulty taking a shower. I am now sitting here waiting to die. If

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I haven't got any care, then that is the only thing I can look

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forward to, dying as peacefully as I can. At the moment, she says the

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only thing keeping her going is the The families of two firefighters

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killed in an explosion at a fireworks factory have won the

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right to substantial damages payments from the factory owner.

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The widows of Geoff Wicker and Brian Wembridge were told by a High

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Court judge earlier that they, along with 12 other firefighters

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and police officers who were injured, were entitled to payouts

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from Martin Winter. The two men were killed in the fire

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at Marlie Farm in Shortgate near Lewes in December 2006.

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Three years later, the owner of the factory - Martin Winter - and his

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son Nathan, were jailed for their manslaughter.

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The Winters' company, Alpha Fireworks, was then fined �30,000

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for breaching health and safety legislation. Our News Correspondent

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Mark Norman joins me now. The judge had some pretty strong words today.

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He did indeed. He made that order after ruling that Mr Winter had no

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hope of defending the damages claims. He said that Mr Winter had

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known there were highly dangerous for facilities torched -- store

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that the site and yet urged the fire fighters on. Geoff Wicker Moss

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a serving fire fighter, Brian Wembridge was a retired officer who

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was working for the service. What has been the action this

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evening? The fire service said this had come

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out of the blue and because it involves so many officers and they

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had only just heard of this that they were not prepared to comment,

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but it does come just a few hours before they release their report

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into what happened and I understand it will have a number of

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recommendations and detail about what happened on the day.

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We will be looking out for that. Thank you very much.

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In a moment: is it an innovation or a blight on the landscape? The

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controversial new scheme to encourage long-distance runners on

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the South Downs. The commanding officer of three

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Kent soldiers killed by a rogue member of the Afghan National Army

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has told an inquest their deaths were "shocking".

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The soldiers, from the Royal Gurkha Rifles Regiment in Folkestone, were

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killed in the middle of the night, in an attack at a base in Helmand,

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in an incident described at the time as "a betrayal" of British

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forces. Members of all three men's families

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were in court for the start of the inquest, including mothers, widows

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and sons. The three men were serving with Royal Gurkha Rifles

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Regiment, based in Folkestone. Off earlier this year, the Battalion

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received its Afghan campaign medal from the Prince of Wales. Like

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these British troops in Helmand, they have been patrolling and

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fighting alongside soldiers of the Afghan National Army, and they were

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betrayed and murdered by a man they thought were -- was an ally. They

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were in a compound near Nahr-e Saraj. In the small hours of the

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morning, the rogue Afghan a soldier at shot major Bowmen in his

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sleeping quarters, wounded several others and then it through a small

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grenade into the centre, before fleeing in the darkness. James Bone

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man was 34 and had been in Afghanistan for several months. One

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man was just a replacement for an injured colleague and had been

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there for one month. Lieutenant Colonel General Strickland admitted

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there had been a risk co-operating with the Afghan army but treating

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their bus hostile would have presented another risk. Colonel

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Strickland was asked why he lessons weren't learnt from British

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soldiers killed by an Afghan police that they were supposed to be

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training in 2005. The Afghan army and police, he said, were very

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different and the Army was much more professional and accountable.

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The men's assailant is still a wanted man, who has since claimed

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to have joined the Taliban. A cyclist has suffered serious head

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injuries after being involved in a collision with a milk float in

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Brighton. The man was taken to a specialist neurological unit in

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Haywards Heath with life- threatening injuries after the

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incident on Madeira Drive. The milk float driver, a 22-year-old man,

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has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving.

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A man from Eastbourne has been jailed for four and a half years

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for robbing a group of foreign students at knifepoint. Angelo

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Kyprianou, who's 25, demanded money from the Austrian teenagers at a

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bus stop in Terminus Road in April. He threatened to kill them with a

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knife hidden in a bandage on his arm until money was handed over.

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An immigration removal centre in Sussex has been criticised by The

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Prisons Inspectorate for an "objectionable and distressing

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practice" in which replacement detainees are taken to Gatwick

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airport, in case those intended to be deported gain a reprieve. But

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Tinsley House has been praised for the quality of its staff.

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Dozens of mutilated and dying seagulls found along a stretch of

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Sussex beach have shocked and horrified animal rescuers. Nearly

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30 birds have been found in the last fortnight.

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Many have been shot and some appeared to have had their heads

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cut off. Robin Gibson is at the beach now. Robin, it sounds like an

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extremely distressing case. It it certainly does. What

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characterises it are two main elements, one is the level of

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cruelty. As you say, birds have been mutilated and left dying,

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rather than dead, and it also appears that somebody might be

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systematically targeting what is a protected bird. That has appalled

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compensation list -- conservationists. You might find

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some of the shops at the beginning of the report disturbing.

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-- shops. It is harrowing. Of birds have been

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shot with air pellets and ball bearings and some have been

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beheaded. It has escalated over recent weeks and conservationists

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fear this is calculated cruelty. find animals that I done that

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healthy that have just been shot down or caused injury by the public,

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it is just heartbreaking and we don't like to see it. That is what

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we are here for. They are on the Red List, so it is vitally

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important that the young Bar preserve band nobody hurts them.

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They are a living and breathing it creature and deserve to be here as

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much as we do. -- that the young are preserved. Wildlife rescuers

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used this beach to release young seagulls they have nursed back to

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help. At this stage, they have not learned to be afraid of man. It is

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pretty abhorrent and terrible that you have to think we you can let

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birds go for their own safety. -- where. The beach is their

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environment and you should be able to release somebody wherever. This

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is happening all along the coast, it isn't just Saltdean. We have had

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birds brought to us during the year that have been shot on people's

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roofs. Unfortunately, nobody ever seems to be prosecuted. Seagulls

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have been placed on the red list of endangered species. Under wildlife

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protection laws, Harding seagulls is punishable by up to six months

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in prison and a maximum fine of �20,000 -- harming. We are going to

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get a petition to get a camera put up under wildlife of the South, so

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we can communicate with them -- and a wildlife officer. We want to find

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out who is doing this. They hope that does the school holidays begin,

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those who love band used this beach will act as a vigilant pairs of

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Has to be said that man, who is the biggest predator on seagulls, has

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an uneasy relationship with them. Many people will vouch that they

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are a pest, they Pooh on cars and buildings, they steal food and they

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can be aggressive. Some people may not realise that they are

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endangered. But nobody, even in that love-hate relationship, would

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like to see this measure of cruelty being perpetrated on birds like

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these. Questions have been asked in court

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today about whether a woman accused of murdering her two young children

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is faking her lack of memory about how they died. Fiona Donnison is

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accused of murdering three year old Harry and Elise, who was two, in

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January last year. From Lewes, Jon Hunt reports.

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Fiona Donnison claims she has no memory of killing Harry and Elise,

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but questions were raised in court today about whether she is faking

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her memory loss and symptoms of depression. Dr Amory Clarke, a

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clinical forensic psychologist, had conducted a series of tests earlier

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this year. Defending, Mr Simon But later, the prosecuting QC

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claimed that one of the many tests conducted was directly appropriate

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for exposing a patient that was fading symptoms. The result of this

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one test was directly at odds with the of conclusions of Dr Amory

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Clarke. Dr Clark was asked back where on this recognised test did

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Fiona Donnison's children were found dead in the boot of her car

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in Heathfield in January last year. She denies murdering them. The

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It is just coming up to a quarter to seven. Our top story tonight:

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A disabled pensioner from East Sussex says she's "waiting to die"

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after social services withdrew her care funding. Pam Bartlett, who's

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in her eighties, was reassessed and the council decided she simply no

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longer qualifies. Also tonight:

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Telling Olympic tales; the lucky few chosen to relay the story of

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the 2012 games as the countdown begins.

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And will he fold under pressure? The poker ace from Kent hoping to

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hit a �5 million jackpot in Vegas. And if you have a story you think

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we should be covering, we would They're graphic images which show

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the consequences of trespassing on the live railway tracks. As the

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summer holidays begin, Network Rail has released pictures showing the

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burns people have suffered in the hope it prevents more people being

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killed or injured. Here in the south-east, there were

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more than 760 cases of trespass on the rails last year alone. You may

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find some of the images in Simon Jones' report distressing.

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It is designed to shock for the internet generation. But most of

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the footage did this YouTube campaign is to graphic to broadcast

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on TV. If it enters one Armand goes out of the other wrong, it will

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cross a heart and caused it to stop. It has won the backing of the

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mother of a girl who was electrocuted taking a short cut

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home in it's not planned. Into they's Society, their plate graphic

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games. -- in today's Society, children played graphic games, they

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are desensitised to death. So in order to really get the message

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across, it has got to be quite graphic. I know parents at home may

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say, that is my kid that has got to come home with nightmares, but I

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have had every night having nightmares to change the situation

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I am in. In the past year, there have been 290 incidents of

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trespassing in Kent. In Sussex, 232. In Surrey, 241. One of the things

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people don't realise is the electricity in the third rail is

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always switched on. It is important we raised this message, because as

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we reached the summer holidays, we see a peak in the number of

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involving a third rail, and we think it is because young people

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are tempted to mess around with the railway because they have more time

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on their hands. Trespass, vandalism by the tracks, making a run for it,

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even clinging to trains. Shocking images in the campaign backed by

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one man who lost his girlfriend to taking a short cut on the tracks.

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The police and the paramedics were unable to get to us because the

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line was still electrified. Unfortunately, by the time they had

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reached us, she had passed away. The power of the live rail to

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change lives forever. Simon Jones is at Tunbridge Wells

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station now. This is the latest campaign by Network Rail, but that

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suggests so far the message hasn't been getting through?

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In the past year, for people have been electrocuted on the line in

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Kent and Sussex. -- four. As you saw in that report, the mother of

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Jade Kenyan, who was killed in 2006, has campaigned ever since for rail

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safety, but Network Rail say to of the most recent deaths have been in

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the same place that it Jade Kenyan died. A survey suggests that two-

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thirds of parents have never spoken to have their children at about

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dangers of the line. They say that how you can receive from the shock

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would be 10 times that you would receive from the electric chair.

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-- the power. The South Downs Way has long been

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enjoyed by ramblers, with its fine views over the Sussex Downs, but a

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row is now underway over efforts to market it to long-distance runners.

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The Trailblaze scheme sees runners swiping a white plastic box at

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various stages of their run - blighting the landscape, according

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to some objectors, and commercialising a beautiful stretch

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of countryside. Rebecca Barry's been listening to both sides of the

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debate. For people like Stewart, this is

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the only way to enjoy the South Downs. Now a new way of

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experiencing the countryside is keeping him going further and

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faster. A string of electronic checkpoints means he can block his

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road. Runners pay �70 for a year's subscription.

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Why not time yourself? You could do that, but the added bonuses you are

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looking for the checkpoints, and it is a bit like a treasure hunt. You

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find the checkpoint, it gives you a little beep and you go off to the

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next one. It is just that added extra. It is a bit like

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orienteering. You used a tad like this to register at one of the

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checkpoints. There are around 10 across 100 miles. It records your

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speed and distance and posted on line.

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But not everybody is happen -- happy, arguing it is

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commercialising public land. Hundreds have signed a petition.

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is the boxes themselves, they are running true shed on the ethos and

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the feel of the place. -- an intrusion. They are more at home on

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a public lavatory ban on gateposts in the South Downs. It is intrusive,

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it simply doesn't go. Government's adviser on the

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Environment, natural England, says it is listening to feed back, but

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it needs to find new ways of raising money. They are studying

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roads and we want people to experience it and running and

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walking is a good way are staying fit. If you do it in this

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environment, you may continue, so therefore these routes need

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maintaining. They are under pressure in some. So we need

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opportunities to raise money. Betrayal place scheme is running as

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a pilot for a year. -- the Trailblaze. The company is looking

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at ways of keeping it more in keeping with the landscape.

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Tomorrow, it'll be one year to go until the start of the London

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Olympics. And to celebrate the countdown, 100 people have been

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chosen as 2012 "storytellers". Their task - to use their creative

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skills to document the build-up to both the Olympics and Paralympics.

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And as Neil Bell reports, among them is a painter from Tonbridge.

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For sheer drama and spectacle, the Olympic Games are hard to beat. For

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10 days next summer, a record will be broken, new heroes will be

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discovered and for competitors, hopes will be -- or dreams will

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come true. Tonbridge artist Sarah Ledger, who met today with her

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fellow storytellers, it is a fantastic opportunity. I am also

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happy to be involved, I am very passionate about sport, so to be

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able to combine that with my work and being involved in this event,

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it is amazing. I am very excited. Sarah and her artistic colleagues

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will be given a free rein to celebrate the game's highlights --

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the Games's. They will be encouraged to go behind the scenes

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as well. What it will give us after the Games is a fantastic record of

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all of the stuff that has really gone on before, and during the

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games. So in 50 years' time, we can show our grandchildren what fun we

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all had in 2012. For us, a great nation of storytellers, a fantastic

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history from Geoffrey Chaucer onwards, this is a great

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opportunity just to tell the story with a regional flavour as well. We

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always said the Olympic Games needed to be staged in London, but

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they were not just a London story, they were a UK story. Here comes

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Chris Hoy, turning on the style. will not just be the exploits of

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the medal winners that the storytellers will celebrate, but

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the passion, pageantry and colour. The London Games can hardly fail to

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inspire some memorable words and images.

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I cannot wait, a year from now. Meanwhile, members of the Nepalese

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Paralympic Committee are in Kent visiting prospective training

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facilities ahead of London 2012. A delegation is looking at facilities

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in Ashford and Canterbury, as well as signing a formal contract with

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Kent County Council about using the county in the run-up to the Games.

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It's just a few days to go now until another big day for sport,

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when Brighton & Hove Albion take on Premier League Spurs at the Amex

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stadium. Tonight, BBC Sussex are broadcasting live from the stadium

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with a special pre-season fan Forum, taking place from 7pm. The panel

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includes club chairman Tony Bloom and manager Gus Poyet.

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He's just 22 but in a few months' time, a young poker player from

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Kent could be feeling flush to the tune of �5.3 million.

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Sam Holden from Canterbury has only been playing his hand for a year

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but he's proven to be something of an ace at the game. Now he's made

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it to the finals of a top competition in Las Vegas. But will

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he fold under pressure? Peter Whittlesea reports.

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While at university in Canterbury, Sam Holden not only studied for a

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degree, but learned to play poker. Now he is in the third largest life

:23:45.:23:51.

Tournament in their history of the game. It was all very surreal, it

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is what every poker player aspires to, to make this tournament and it

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did feel like winning a tournament, but it certainly didn't sink in. Up

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until that point, you just take it hand by hand and day-by-day. It

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suddenly sneaks up by new that you are in the final. So how did the

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qualifies? The first step was raising the entry fee of $10,000.

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His friends and investors contributed $6,100, and he made up

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the rest. That means he will only keep 39% of his winnings. It is not

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the first young graduate to make it big. Last year, a young lady from

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Kent won �1.1 million playing poker in San remote. Sam is best Sam's

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father is proud of his sons past -- San's achievement. He is very good,

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but this poker face, I don't know where he gets up from for all stop

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Sam Holden has been professional for a year but keeps his cards

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close to his chest when talking about weddings. I'm very much in

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profit. Tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands question mark

:25:02.:25:07.

I would rather not say, but I was doing fine.

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If he wins in Las Vegas in November, he really will be doing well. Even

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have their up -- even after paying his investors, the top prize would

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see him taking home a call �2 million.

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-- cool. Something tells me we will be

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seeing him again. Good luck to him. Let's get a check on the weather.

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If you have got any outdoor plants, you are taking a better their

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gamble, because the weather is gamble, because the weather is

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pretty unexciting and dreary -- plans. Tonight, much more cloud

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cover and the chance of some drizzle but nothing event for.

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Today has been any East-West divide, and the east were the ones to get

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the cloud cover. There is still a fair bit around added seems to

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continue over the next few days. Tonight, that we could see the odd

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bit of drizzle towards the coast but it should be dry and the just a

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lot of cloud around. Those temperatures round to around 12

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degrees, so at least those figures are holding up. Tomorrow, another

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cloudy day. There may be a little bit of drizzle once again towards

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the east Kent coast, but other fund that cover a dry picture with not

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much sunshine. -- other than that. Nothing to substantial.

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Temperatures up to around 21 degrees at their highest. Tomorrow

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night, similar weather continuing it, a lot more cloud and there

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could be a little bit of drizzle, the odd shower, but for most of us,

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a dry picture. By Thursday morning, we will see some more breaks and

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that cloud. Temperatures down to around 12 degrees and high pressure

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is not far away. We will start to see a little bit more sunshine.

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Still nothing that eventful, but those temperatures will be up ever-

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so-slightly. The next few days will bring us a mixture. Just a recap

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tomorrow, those temperatures getting up to around 20, 21 degrees.

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As you can see, a lot of cloud. Come Thursday, a bit more sunshine.

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Those temperatures up as well. It may actually feel like you like for

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the day, but come Friday, the wet weather is back. We could see some

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heavy showers in places, at those temperatures down as well, but by

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the weekend things are improving. They may not be the highest of

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They may not be the highest of temperatures but there should be

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