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Good evening. The tonight's told stories: a controversial scheme to | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
run commuter trains for French people to get jobs in Kent. She | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
lost it 10 stone after a gastric bypass but died of malnutrition. An | :00:22. | :00:29. | |
inquest opens into the death of a local NASA. And a Sussex police to | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
go live with a 24 hours' steaming of everything they go on -- they do | :00:35. | :00:45. | |
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online. And the Happy birthday, Road to Hell. The celebration of | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
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Good evening. A scheme to allow hundreds of unemployed people from | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
France to use cut-price commuter trains to get jobs in Kent has been | :01:07. | :01:14. | |
unveiled. Calais has a 16% unemployment rate compared with a | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
2% rate in Ashford. The idea is that French residents can commute | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
daily. But at a time of rising unemployment the idea is bound to | :01:26. | :01:35. | |
be controversial in the UK. It is about making a living in one place | :01:35. | :01:45. | |
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and commuting from another. In the beginning it will advantage | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
more the people from Calais. But in the future it may be an opportunity | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
for young people to work internationally. Perhaps in the | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
north of France. That is what we think. | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
But for people like this Kent resident already looking for a job | :02:06. | :02:13. | |
and Ashford it is a concern. Only one application resulted in a | :02:13. | :02:20. | |
reply. They said I hadn't got the job and that was it. I think the | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
suggestion would mean even less jobs are for us. | :02:26. | :02:35. | |
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Her how do the towns compare? The It is a fantastic that Ashford is | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
being recognised as a town of opportunity but we must be | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
realistic. We are in difficult times and this place is no | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
different to other towns up and down the country. | :03:01. | :03:11. | |
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Next abuse in Ashford. -- mixed reviews. | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
It is a fantastic idea, opening it up for everybody. | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
There are very few people here who could go the other way and speak | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
French. There are not many jobs going. I am | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
not sure why people from France would want to come here for jobs. | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
It is hard enough for those who already live here to find a job. | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
Using the same tracks as Eurostar the idea is that the train would be | :03:42. | :03:49. | |
fast and affordable. Is this just the old argument, British jobs for | :03:49. | :03:56. | |
British workers? We have heard that phrase Lords | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
today. But the reality is that people in Europe have the right to | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
come here and get a job. -- we have heard that phrase a lot today. At | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
the moment, if you wanted to work in France there reality is that you | :04:13. | :04:21. | |
probably have to drive through the Eurotunnel. Take a car, get the | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
train, then use your car at the other men. This is all about taking | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
the character of the equation. But the question as how economic | :04:31. | :04:41. | |
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revival this is. -- a viable. What do you think? We want to know. Is | :04:48. | :04:57. | |
this a good idea. You can contact us using the e-mail address on | :04:57. | :05:07. | |
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screen. Many of you have already commented. Well unemployed people | :05:08. | :05:18. | |
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in Kent get the same deal to work in Kali asks one person. -- in | :05:25. | :05:32. | |
Calais, asks one person. And another person says if the | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
unemployment rates were reversed I am sure that people here would be | :05:35. | :05:42. | |
happy to have a cheap service to France. | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
A nurse who underwent a gastric bypass operation died after being | :05:47. | :05:54. | |
unable to absorb nutrients from her food. Virginia Humphrey lost 10 | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
stone after undergoing surgery to tackle diabetes and high blood | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
pressure. After, her condition deteriorated. She died in hospital | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
last May. How soon after such a rate did it become clear if | :06:09. | :06:17. | |
something had gone wrong? -- after surgery. | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
It took some months. She said she was feeling better and losing | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
weight. But just before Christmas, having lost seven stone, things | :06:28. | :06:36. | |
went downhill. Virginia Humphrey's son was only able to watch as his | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
mother died. Today he came looking for answers. She decided to have | :06:41. | :06:48. | |
radical surgery to improve her health. Instead, it led to death. | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
The surgeons effectively created a mini star Mark, the size of an egg. | :06:54. | :07:02. | |
It dramatically reduces the amount a patient can eat. -- a mini | :07:02. | :07:09. | |
stomach. But for Virginia Humphrey the coroner suggested today that | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
something had gone wrong. Over time she was unable to absorb essential | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
nutrients. Keyhole surgery was carried out in this a London | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
hospital where 250 similar procedures take place a year -- | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
every year. Four months later she began vomiting continually and was | :07:32. | :07:39. | |
unable to keep down foot or fluids. Her condition deteriorated over the | :07:39. | :07:47. | |
next few months. Eventually she died. The family has heard from the | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
surgeon and a dietician. Tomorrow they will hear what happened in the | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
days leading up to her death. The coroner was walking through the | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
case chronologically. Starting with the affair will, through to the | :08:01. | :08:08. | |
surgery, ending with the post mortem. -- starting with the | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
referral. It is all about finding out how Virginia Humphrey came to | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
die. Coming up: an opportunity to create | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
jobs or destroy the countryside? The arguments continue over Boris | :08:23. | :08:33. | |
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In what is believed to be a world first Sussex police will be | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
broadcasting non-stop live footage of its work for 24 hours tomorrow. | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
Using a live video application online debates in the Life account | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
of the force's activities will run on their website. -- Bay in the | :08:51. | :09:01. | |
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life. -- day in the life. From tomorrow we will see a day to day | :09:06. | :09:13. | |
reality. Officers will be filmed as they work. | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
It is your opportunity to follow the work I do. | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
And it will not just the front line staff but you can also see the dog | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
handling unit and the underwater divers. I asked this policeman why | :09:27. | :09:35. | |
he had volunteer. Watch the left of the screen. | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
Often in the human side is missed out. This is what the police are | :09:39. | :09:48. | |
all about. Can I ask you a quick question? | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
We did not set this up. But it illustrates what the police are all | :09:53. | :10:00. | |
about. If you have a mobile phone this is | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
clearly of the scheme for you. But what if you are one of the one in | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
four people in this region has never been on line and is unsure | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
about this kind of thing? I do not have a computer. Neither | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
does my friend. We're not interested. What is the facility | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
for people like that? You are correct, this does not | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
capture everybody. But it still gives a new access. It is like | :10:31. | :10:38. | |
Chinese whispers. We hope it flows through it in different ways. | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
The scheme will continue for one year. | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
The body of a Gurkha soldier who died in Afghanistan has been | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
repatriated to Brize Norton today. Rifle man Vijay Rai was killed by a | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
gunshot wound in the Helmand Provan Swinney came under fire on up to | :10:58. | :11:06. | |
over 15. -- Helmand province. | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
Robert Crawford, 48, is induced -- accused of indecent assault and was | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
arrested after a detailed review of forensic evidence over several | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
months carried out by Sussex police. Southern Water has been ordered to | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
pay back �5 million to their customers by the regulator. The | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
company has been criticised for failing to meet targets for the | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
second year running. 13 million litres of water was lost from pipes | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
in Sussex. People are live near the Battle of | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
Britain Memorial are angry about plans to build a helipad in their | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
village. It is so that customers can take a flight alongside aspect | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
fire but locals believe it would create unacceptable noise levels in | :11:56. | :12:03. | |
Capel-Le-Ferne. It is rare that a machine can symbolise a victory. | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
But the spit fire and the famous few are inseparable. Now the trust | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
which runs the memorial to the pilots who flew in the Battle of | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
Britain are in a dispute with a residence. The battle lines are no | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
longer across the Channel but overhead. Helicopters have been | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
taking paying customers to watch Spitfires fly along the white | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
cliffs. Residents claim that the noise is unacceptable. | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
It came literally out of the blue. We had helicopters landing and | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
taking off at the bottle of the garden. It's Care Bill living | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
daylights out of us all. When you have a stark light that you kind | :12:54. | :13:02. | |
off, you are unsettled. -- a start like that. | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
The Battle of Britain trust accepts that there has been problems and | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
say they are responding to concerns by changing take-off locations and | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
submitting an application for a helipad on land adjacent to the | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
memorial. We value the views of locals. We're | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
working very hard to resolve this situation. It is just a few | :13:28. | :13:38. | |
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This is our top story: a scheme to allow hundreds of unemployed people | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
from France to use cut-price commuter trains to get jobs in Kent | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
has been unveiled. Calais has the highest unemployment rate in France. | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
Critics say that Kent has its own unemployment problems. | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
Also tonight: 117 miles of Tarmac to bring you back to where you | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
started - Happy birthday M25. It has been a wet and cloudy day to | :14:11. | :14:21. | |
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day. Willett brighten up for the Business leaders in Kent have been | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
meeting to talk up the idea of building a controversial airport in | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
the Thames saying it could offer economic benefits. The scheme | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
nicknamed Boris island after the London met Boris Johnson would see | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
an artificial island be created in the history to house the airport, | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
which bid be linked to the mainland by tunnels in the Isle of Sheppey. | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
Aircraft with take-off and come into land over DC. You cannot build | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
another runway at Heathrow, Gatwick, what is the alternative? | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
airport proposal has proved to be controversial. Those in favour say | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
it could create up to 70,000 jobs in the area. It will also help deal | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
with increasing demand for air travel over the next 30 years and | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
help make the UK more competitive economically and in comparison with | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
other European airports. However, many organisations such as the | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
Royal Protection of birds have criticised the plans saying it will | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
damage the vestry environment and the increase in jobs will put more | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
pressure on local housing. They also say there were more immediate | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
transport priorities in North Kent such as Roald and railways. Claudia | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
Sermbezis was at the meeting. Boris Johnson's right-hand man on | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
aviation was that the debate. What did he say? And one of the most | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
persuasive arguments was that in the future, because of the | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
predicted increase in demand, if we do not have this airport and if you | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
live here in Chatham and you want to go on holiday abroad, you might | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
end up travelling to Manchester in order to get your flight. It would | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
be 20 % bigger than Heathrow. Catering for 85 million passengers | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
a year. The Thames estuary would be the UK's biggest most important | :16:16. | :16:23. | |
airport. We need the business, investment that business brings us | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
and we need to be well connected with the rest of the world for that. | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
As our neighbours and competitors across the Channel are. There are | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
big airports, hub airports in Holland and France and we are | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
losing out on that because we do not have one. For 300,000 birds fly | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
here. Nothing could stop here so they would have to be shot to | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
prevent the bird strikes. Whenever a development takes place we have | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
to make a decision about where we draw the line. In terms of | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
protecting our heritage, landscapes and wildlife. I would argue that | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
the place to draw that line is a site that has an international | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
wildlife designation. Reports of a new airport had been around for | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
nearly a decade. This was the first time the opposing side came face- | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
to-face. People who live in Medway, those who moved to the area, did | :17:18. | :17:25. | |
not do so because there was an airport nearby. I think most people | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
they see this Boris Island proposal and consider it to be pie-in-the- | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
sky. But businesses say they want and need the opportunities to grow. | :17:34. | :17:41. | |
The economy is in a rut. This type of opportunity could kick | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
construction off quite considerably and if construction kicks off we | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
can get people back into work. new airport would create jobs and | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
better Connectivity but the opposition say the Garden of | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
England should not be reduced to the capital's car park. | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
The debate was very heated this morning. It is set to continue. | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
Boris Johnson will be publishing its next report in the middle of | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
November and the government will be responding with their new policy | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
for aviation by next March. You can learn more about the story | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
of Boris island on our website. Tomorrow Radio Kent will be looking | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
at the idea as they debate the programming to transport issues in | :18:25. | :18:35. | |
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What are you doing on 12th November? How about taking part in | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
making a film that will get a premiere on the BBC as part of the | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
build-up to the Olympics. A new project called Britain In A Day | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
launches hoping to paint a picture of life in the UK through the | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
lenses of amateur film-makers right up and down the country. We have | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
been to Margate to meet a teenager who plans to fold in hometown -- | :19:03. | :19:13. | |
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If they look closely into Margate and stop saying, that place, I | :19:15. | :19:22. | |
would not go there, it is rubbish there, if they look it is not just | :19:22. | :19:29. | |
the high street and Newtown. We have all this new buildings and | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
better things to do for people and they are all free. It is fantastic. | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
At this workshop in Margate, Diggory its learning how to turn | :19:37. | :19:44. | |
his local pride into film. The inspiration is the recent cinema | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
release life in a day which took over 4,000 hours of pictures like | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
these from China from ordinary people in 159 countries and edited | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
them into a full-length feature. On 12th November this year, the BBC | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
hopes to repeat the process, catching Britain In A Day and is | :20:03. | :20:10. | |
asking for footage from people like degree. I really enjoy filming. I | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
have done a couple of things Thom and with other people and a fitting | :20:15. | :20:23. | |
and it is fantastic. Everyone gets an opportunity to show what they do | :20:23. | :20:30. | |
in a day. People you will never know about. It is not as exciting | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
to people news about this old seaside town coming back to light. | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
The only time we have coverage is when we have a festival or | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
something. It would be fantastic to show people what goes on here. | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
finished film will be shown just before the London Olympics next | :20:46. | :20:54. | |
summer when the eyes of the world will be on the UK. | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
I love Margate! If you apply to take part and submit a film, all | :20:59. | :21:08. | |
the details are on our website. It is variously been called the | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
road to nowhere and the road to hell. The M25 and this weekend the | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
117 mile long London orbital motorway celebrates its 25th | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
birthday. It is etched into the culture of the south-east and | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
rarely fails to get a mention in our traffic bulletins. It is hard | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
to imagine our road network without it but getting off the drawing | :21:31. | :21:38. | |
board was an uphill struggle. There is an accident on the | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
southbound carriageway causing serious delays. It is one of the | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
most verbally abused roads in history, which for a motorway it is | :21:47. | :21:56. | |
It is often said to transform drivers into monsters and when it | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
turns up, it is called the longest car park in Europe. 25 years ago, | :22:02. | :22:10. | |
the PM was having none of this. must say I cannot stand those who | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
carp and criticise when they ought to be congratulating Britain on a | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
magnificent achievement and beating of the jumble Britain all over the | :22:19. | :22:26. | |
world! For years we had believed they had good cause about | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
complaining about the mode where ploughing through the countryside. | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
The village was pretty United. The feeling was very strong that this | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
was an unnecessary proposal. A wrong proposal. There were angry | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
scenes at the 1970 a public enquiry. One of the Department of Transport | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
barrister and would later and leave the Conservative party. It was | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
heated. People protested and did all sorts of things like chaining | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
themselves to railings. People did feel very strongly about it. From | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
here you can see how the M25 looks as if it were slapped down across | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
beautiful countryside, but the trade of at the time it was | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
conceived was that it would protect villagers all around this area. | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
Half-a-dozen times a year when they raised a bad accident on the M25, | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
the traffic comes through here on the A25 and often it is nose to | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
tail for the whole day. If it was not for the M25, we would have that | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
for every day. It is the world's longest orbital motorway, a river | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
of tarmac and concrete bringing people together. Like Chris and Sue | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
from Ashford, who had their wedding reception on it. They cordoned off | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
a section in a restaurant. Took us out of here on a coach and we went | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
round for the first time, which was about four hours. With all the | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
guests celebrating our wedding. There is no going back on this road. | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
It is still controversial. A case of cannot live with it, cannot live | :24:06. | :24:15. | |
without it. The glamour and the romance! There | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
is no going back and sometimes there is no going for it! Quite | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
often! Tomorrow's programme we will look at what the future holds for | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
the M25 and ask if it is fit for purpose. Now let's get a check on | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
the weather. the weather. | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
It has been a wet, cloudy, autumnal day. That rain clears three tonight | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
but tomorrow another dull picture. Mostly dry it and those winds | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
easing off a touch. The reason for today's weather, low pressure in | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
control of things. The bulk of this unsettled weather has been to the | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
west but methinks the early Easter. Some heavy and persistent rain | :24:57. | :25:05. | |
around and even in parts of eastern Kent, a good deal of cloud around. | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
Breezy for us all, around 20 miles per hour. Highs of 14 degrees. | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
Feeling cool with the wind and rain. That rain Lingus for a time tonight. | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
Eventually it will dry up. Tomorrow morning is a tried picture but a | :25:22. | :25:29. | |
good deal of cloud around. A mild night with temperatures between 11 | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
and 14 degrees. Some mist and fog patches forming as well. Tamara, a | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
good deal of cloud around. High pressure building so mostly settled | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
and dry but the chance of some drizzle particularly through the | :25:43. | :25:50. | |
morning. Those mist and fog patches lingering as well. The winds are | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
swinging to a north-easterly direction. Top temperatures | :25:53. | :26:03. | |
tomorrow, highs of 15 degrees. Into tomorrow night, a mostly dry | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
picture. Bits and pieces of drizzle and a mild night. Temperatures no | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
blow-up -- lower than 11 or 12 blow-up -- lower than 11 or 12 | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
degrees. Our top story: the scheme to allow hundreds of unemployed | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
people from France to use cut-price commuter trains in order to get | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
jobs in Kent has been unveiled. French residents living in Calais | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
which has more than 20 % unemployment will be able to | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
commute into the UK on a daily basis. We asked for your thoughts | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
and we had quite a response. Tony from Ramsgate says, it is | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
ridiculous. White can we not stop being politically correct and sort | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
out our own employment issues? I expect the scheme will be | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
subsidised by detached payers. David says, this sounds like a good | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
idea but it is not fair on those looking for work. It is hard times | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
out there and there are two jobs going. Another says, there are too | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
many people in Kent unemployed. Ashford is not typical. There are | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
some who do think it is a good idea. Dennis says it is a brilliant idea. | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
Perhaps people could then afford the cheaper housing over there. | :27:21. | :27:31. | |
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