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Welcome to South East Today. Tonight's top stories: Back from

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Bali but still in a coma - the man who did not renew his health

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insurance is in Maidstone hospital tonight.

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Simon Jones is like to explain how it happened.

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After the fire, the work begins - scaffolders moving to stop bringing

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Hastings Pier back to life. It is part of the town. We love it. I am

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glad they are starting work. Also: 21 and he survived the cancer

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men don't want to think about - now, he is talking about it in detail to

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save lives. Getting ready for 2012 - we need

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three hopefuls having to put in the hours if they're going to make the

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grade next summer. And they did it - the Amex Stadium

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Good evening. A critically ill man from Kent who was injured in a

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motorbike accident in Bali has finally been flown back to the UK

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in an air ambulance after weeks of campaigning by his parents. Richard

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Plummer has been in a coma since the accident a month ago. He

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decided not to renew his travel or -- is travel insurance, but an

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anonymous benefactor has now learned his parents the money to

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get him home. It is a day they feared would never

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come. His parents finally have them back in Britain after a month in

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hospital in Indonesia following his accident. Absolutely amazing, it is

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amazing to have him in this hospital where we can see the

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excellent care he is receiving is out of this world. Especially

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coming from the country we have just been in. It is an

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understatement. We have got over a big hurdle. We are so relieved.

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Richard Plummer's journey began yesterday morning at 4:40am. He was

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flown into Sri Lanka where his condition deteriorated. The

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decision was taken to fly on to Dubai. Then he went through Turkey

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before reaching Stansted this morning. At times it was touch and

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go about whether he would be well enough to get to Maidstone.

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looked comfortable, he looks much more comfortable now. We just hope

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he comes out of all less -- out of all this and get back to how he was

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before. That is what we are praying for. He is a very caring person. We

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just hope he comes back. No damage to him. Assessing the damage is

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another priority. First, we will reassess him. We will do further

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investigations. He is very ill at the moment, it is too early to

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ascertain how severely injured he is. What was the first thing you

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said to him when you saw him back here? Hello, darling. We have got

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you back home. His parents know having him back is only the start.

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Simon Jones joins us now from the hospital. Clearly this is very good

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news but a long way to go yet. What is his condition tonight?

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I have spoken to his family in the past hour. They say he remains

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under sedation. The hospital say they will wait for him to emerge

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from that before carrying out major tests to ascertain exactly what is

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wrong. They do have at the hospital scans that were taken of his brain

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in Bali, but those are now two weeks old. As for the family, the

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battle goes on. The received �80,000 from a mystery don't as a

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loan to help Clive Richard home. They now have 86 days to help pay

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back that money. Otherwise, their home there will be put up for

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auction. They are campaigning for fund-raising and they are using

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this as a reminder to anyone travelling to make sure you do have

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adequate insurance. Work began today to try to prevent

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Hastings Pier from collapsing into the sea, nine months after it was

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almost destroyed by fire. The peer opened in August 1872. In October,

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95 % of the upper sections were destroyed. The blaze happened just

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a day after redevelopment plans had been invited for the structure. Our

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reporter Caroline Fereday spent the day in Hastings and discovered that

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in spite of the challenges hopes are now high for the future.

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In its heyday, it hosted Tom Jones, Cilla Black, Jimi Hendrix and the

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Rolling Stones. But since a fire last year left it unstable,

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Hastings Pier has been closed. An urgent works warning was issued to

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the owners - a Panamanian company called Ravenclaw - at the start of

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July, which had no response. Hastings Borough Council started

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work today thanks to an English Heritage grant. This is just the

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first step. We have a grant of a quarter million pounds from the

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lottery fund which will be spent restoring it. They have appointed

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architects and engineers. They now basically have two years to put a

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proper plan and designs into place. They need to get it all proved.

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Then the regeneration work will start. Many thought it was too

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optimistic to expect this local landmark to ever reopen. It will

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certainly be some time before there is any noticeable cosmetic

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improvement because the force -- the first step for the construction

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company is to make sure it is structurally safe. It has been part

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of the landscape here since 1872, and locals are welcoming the

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prospect of its return. It will be nice to get it sorted out.

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Hopefully, they will get the club open again. The amount of fun

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nights we had out and there... used to sit out here, have a drink

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and enjoy the sun. We miss that. It is part of the town. We love it.

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I'm glad they are rebuilding it. Hastings Borough Council say they

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are now pursuing a compulsory purchase order from owners

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Ravenclaw. We are joined now by Councillor

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Jeremy Birch, leader of Hastings Borough Council. What is your

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reaction? It is very important, because the middle part of the pier,

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the most vulnerable bit, we would not want anything to happen to it

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before we can start spending the millions of pounds we have been

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given. So this is really reinforcing that central part to

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make sure no extra damage takes place before the real work starts.

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Clearly, many high hopes today as the scaffolders turn up. But let us

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remember the West Pier in Brighton. That went up in smoke in 2003 and

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it has pretty much stayed that way. Could the same thing happened to

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Hastings Pier? I don't think so. The local community have really

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been campaigning hard for this. They have a promise of this money,

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they get �350,000 to develop their business plan, develop their

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structural programme, and also to make clear they can raise the

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million pounds they need to match funding to unlock the full heritage

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lottery bid. So the money is there to start and to stabilise the peer,

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to get a functioning structure. Then we need investors to come

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forward. And what about this company Ravenclaw? Could a step in

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and mess it all up? Well, if they did, it would be a first. We have

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been writing to them, telling than the state of the structure, serving

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them an urgent works notice which means they are supposed to be doing

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the work happening at the moment. No reply from their head office or

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from their dress, so we then had to attach a notice to the pit gates. I

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will be shocked if they appear. If they do, there will be some legal

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notices awaiting them. Thank you very much for speaking tours.

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Six would be illegal immigrants had been found trying to get into the

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country by hiding inside a lorry load of wheelie bins heading for

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Dover. The UK board agency said today that the four men and two

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women from Vietnam were discovered in a lorry at the port of Calais

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after officials noticed the trailer's security cord had been

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tampered with. Train services between Gatwick

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Airport and London Victoria have been seriously disrupted today

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after a water main burst between South and East Croydon. Services

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operated by Gatwick Express, Southern and First Capital Connect

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have all been affected after the water brought earth and debris down

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onto the track. A mother from Sussex simply could

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not bring us up to utter the names of the two young children after she

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allegedly murdered them, a court has heard. Fiona Donnison referred

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to three year-old Harry and two year-old Elise Donnison as "my

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younger children", according to a forensic psychiatrist. Their bodies

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were found in the boot of her car at near the former family home in

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East Sussex. She denies murder. The father of the singer Aimee one

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house he was found dead nine days ago that a Home Office Minister

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today to discuss plans to set up a drug rehabilitate -- rehabilitation

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centre. -- Amy Winehouse. Mitch Winehouse, who is from Dartford,

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asked for his support centre for young people to address a gap in

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treatment services. A man from Brighton who survived

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testicular cancer before he was even 21 is now dedicating himself

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to persuading boys and young men to talk about it. Testicular cancer is

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the most common cancer in men under 40 and also one of the most durable,

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with more than 90 % left cancer free if it is caught early enough.

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We met Ryan Walshe to find out about his campaign. I'm going to

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take these to schools and give them up to children. The parcel contents

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may be unusual, but for Ryan Walshe, their essential to the mission he

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is on since discovering he had testicular cancer. I watched a

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programme on Channel 4 about testicular cancer. That is what

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prompted me to check myself and it saved my life. His right testicle

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had to be removed, he needed chemotherapy and there were other

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complications. More than one year on he is still sensitive to light,

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and his career is on hold. His time is spent preparing his talks to

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schools. I did something about it and I saved my life. Now, I must go

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and save other's lives. He wants people to listen to enough. It is

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something he wants to do. consultant says more openness about

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the disease should overcome the embarrassment factor for young men.

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In general, men tend to hold back, they are reluctant to seek advice,

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possibly they will ask someone in the pub first. It would be a

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tragedy if someone was to die when it is so durable. Meanwhile, Brian

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has had some good news. Cancer Research UK is backing his research.

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It is 20-7. This is our top story tonight: The man from Kent who was

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in a coma in Bali after a motorbike accident has finally been flown

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home after his parents appealed for help.

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Richard Plummer is now in Maidstone Hospital where doctors are

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assessing his condition. His parents means -- must now pay back

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a loan of more than �80,000. And with the sunshine out all over

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the region, temperatures have reached 28 Celsius. Find out how

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much longer able last with me later. If you have a story you think we

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should be covering on South East Today, we would love to hear from

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You can hardly have missed it - we are now less than a year away from

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the greatest sporting show on Arthur just up the road. For the

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south-east's hopefuls in the Olympics, the real work is just

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beginning. Between now and next July, or only hard training and

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successful qualifying will ensure they can realise their dream of

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being at the Games in London. Although the next year we will be

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sizing up the hopefuls. Tonight we meet a shooter, a show jumper, and

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an athlete who does everything. For three hopefuls with one dream,

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to compete at the 2012 games. With superstars like Usain Bolt on show,

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athletics will dominate, but looking to dominate the track and

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field headlines will be track and field's Martin Brockman. He is

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looking to build on that. With a year coming up, the pressure is

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starting to build. I have had to take training more seriously and

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bought a few hobbies and interests aside. You only get one chance, and

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you have to train as hard as you can and hope for the best and get

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in shape for the competition. He is not the only one focusing on

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the positive. Sussex should to Steve Scott has his sights set on

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Olympic glory. It is a big achievement just to get there and

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compete for the country, but everyone has the same goal, to go

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there to win. It can happen, and hopefully it win -- it will.

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All the competitors will have to clear many hurdles to get selected.

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Guy Williams from Canterbury is Britain's best show jumper, but

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that will count for nothing unless he can get a man and horse to peak

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at the same time. You have got to keep working hard and hopefully you

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will get a chance. Everybody thinks about it quite a lot at the moment.

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I have got a lot -- a good team of horses. When you are very close now,

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you think about it a lot. The next year will see many highs

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and lows for the hopefuls as they aim for the Olympic field of dreams.

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You will be able to keep up-to-date with highs and lows of the Olympic

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hopefuls from the South East as they trained for 2012 through our

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Olympic dreams series across our radio stations, here on South East

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Today and online. The Sussex wicket keeper Matt Prior

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has helped England secure a comprehensive victory over India at

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Trent Bridge. Prior hit an impressive 73 off just 60 balls

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this morning, before catching Rahul Dravid of the bowling of Stuart

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Broad, as the visitors slumped to a 319 run defeat.

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It may have ended at 2 - 1 defeat, but bright manholes Albion are

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celebrating after their victory over Tottenham. It marked the

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official opening of the �93 million Amex Community Stadium, and the

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club's new permanent home as their fans dreaming of future success.

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Imagine you are five again and waiting to visit Santa for the

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first time. That is what it was like for many Brighton supporters.

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Just seeing the stadium and going through the dark times and the

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campaigning, just to get this point now it is amazing. It is mind-

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blowing. We are very excited! has been really moving, we have

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been just surviving, and this is a big day.

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It was difficult not to be impressed by the �90 million

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The game may have been a pre-season friendly, but it meant more than

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that to the Brighton fans, as their reaction to the opening goal

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demonstrated. Losing to Tottenham is no disgrace,

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and today was all about coming to this remarkable new stadium for the

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first time. A I am very pleased with everything today. I hope they

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do well in the league. We made one mistake which cost us the game, but

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if we improve on that we may be able to move higher up the ranks.

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No one was happier with the day than the club chairman.

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It is everyone in Sussex. It took so much hard work, perseverance by

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so many people, and the fans were amazing to get us here. This is for

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everyone. I think it was a fantastic day for Brighton, and a

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good day for me. The next milestone is the first

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home game victory, and that surely will not take long.

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The sun is out, the kids are off school, it is August, so this

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Friday will see the start of four very special programmes coming up

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this month. When the sun is shining, there is

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nothing better than getting out of the Office for a trip to the

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seaside. That is what we have got planned every Friday in August.

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We are entering the first false buried by taking South East Today

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out on the road to join some of the biggest celebrations.

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We will be live on location each Friday, and would love as many of

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you as possible to come along and join in the fund.

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Polly and Rob will be starting at Broadstairs Folk Week this Friday,

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then the head to Eastbourne Airbourne on the 12th, it is

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Spexhall's De La Warr Pavilion on the 19th, and Herne Bay on the 26.

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De our fingers are crossed for the weather, but it is our biggest day

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It is 150 years today since the first weather forecast was

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published in the Times newspaper force top it was only a couple of

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lines long it, but for today it was a great day. 28 degrees nearly in

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Gravesend, not quite 33.1 that we saw at the beginning of the month,

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but only a few degrees of that. It will be hotter and sunny tomorrow.

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Plenty more sunshine for the next few days. Tonight, we will see

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plenty of late sunny spells around. But then some patchy cloud of a

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night, but mainly clear skies. A little bit of rain to the west, but

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most places around the south-east will stay dry. It will be a hot and

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sticky night, with temperatures falling no lower than 17 or 18

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Celsius. A nice bright and sunny start to tomorrow morning, blue

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skies and sunshine for much of the day, and temperatures reaching 29

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Celsius, which is getting into the 80s in Fahrenheit. Even warmer than

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today. We might catch a shower or two over the Thames estuary, but

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most places will stay dry. Only very light winds. Wednesday will

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feel even hotter - highs of 30 degrees, but it will break on

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Thursday. A front will come across, for outbreaks of heavy rain. I

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think it will come as a relief after all this hot weather. Do that

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is just about it for now. Because of today's industrial

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