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Welcome to South East Today. I'm Rob Smith. And I'm Natalie Graham.

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Tonight's top stories: Could the public sector strikes

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close Gatwick? Passengers are warned of major delays when border

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staff take industrial action next week. I certainly hope it would not

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mean the airport closing for a period of time. But it would be

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foolish of anyone to rule that Act. Highlighting domestic violence, as

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shocking figures show 15,000 women were abused just in Brighton last

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year. We report live from the city. Also in tonight's programme:

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Hoping they'll meet again - Dame Vera Lynn offers a reward, and high

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tea, for anyone who can find her treasured Remembrance brooch.

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The Sussex animal chairty working to free the bears kept caged in

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India. And ice dancing in the open air - a

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new attraction brings a touch of Good evening. Gatwick Airport could

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be forced to close because of next week's planned strikes by public-

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sector workers. That is Lydia of the call MP Henry Smith. He says

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the passengers, already likely to face significant destruction, could

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end up finding the airport closed. Tonight the UK Border Agency says

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it is examining all options to keep our borders saved and that the army

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could form part of the response. Delays seem inevitable for arriving

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passengers at Gatwick on Wednesday and that the area's MP thinks the

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area could, in the worst case, be forced to close. I certainly hope

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it would not mean the airport closing for any period of time but

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I think it would be foolish of anyone to rule that out. I have

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confidence in Gatwick Airport to manage these contingency problems.

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They are working closely with the Home Office and Department of

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Transport to ensure that airport operations remain as smooth as

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possible despite what I think is quite reckless strike action.

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the airport says it is creating extra at space and seating for

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arriving passengers and says it will be on hand to help the most

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vulnerable. Gatwick managers today did not raise the prospect that the

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airport may have to close but they did admit that it is going to be a

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challenge if the strikes go ahead and that they are preparing for the

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worst. They are drafting in hundreds of volunteers. They will

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not be able to staff the border but they will be able to manage any

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queues. The Government should pull out all the stops and bring in

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anyone who can help prices people and because, frankly, it is bad

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enough for foreign visitors getting through Heathrow anyway. If they

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are going to be subjected to delays unprecedented scale, and trapped in

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planes while it is happening, it will be awful. Not only is

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disruption expected at the UK border at Gatwick Airport,

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passengers at the port of Dover could face disruption and workers

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at the Dartford River Crossing may walk out, also. I think a lot of

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things will grind to a halt, particularly if you are going

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abroad. There will be chaos. understand that they want to get it

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all sorted but for God's sake, don't keep on going on strike. It

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upsets the whole country. The UK Border Agency says it is bring the

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managers, contractors and staff from overseas to help keep the

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borders running and they are even considering asking the army for

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help. Almost 15,000 women in Brighton and

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Hove experienced domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking in the

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last year according to the latest Home Office figures. Today the city

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hosted an event to highlight the issue. The White Ribbon Campaign is

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calling for the elimination of violence against women. Activists

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say it is the biggest issues affecting women today. They are

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calling for the Government to do more.

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I had been in their intimate relationship with my partner...

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Joanna is a survivor of domestic violence. I suffered a lot of abuse

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and it culminated in an attempt on my life, and rape. Over the last

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year in Brighton, it is estimated that 5,300 women experienced

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domestic violence. 2,700 were victims of sexual assault. 6,600

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experienced stalking. I have just got this. Don't talk to me like

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this. Hard-hitting campaigns have in recent years appeared more

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frequently on our screens. In Britain one organisation that

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supports victims of domestic abuse told us it's resources are being

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stretched. Things like poverty, unemployment, homelessness

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definitely have an impact on making it worse, exacerbating the problem.

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That is a fact. We cannot get away from the fact that these are issues

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at the moment. Joanna's experience of reporting her abuse was positive.

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It is a scary thing to do, to call the police. And I would like

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everybody to know that they are the most of where people right now.

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Celebrities like Keira Knightley have lent their support to raise

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the profile of the consequences of domestic violence, a crime said to

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affect one in four women. Sorry, we did not agree to that. That was not

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in the script. Our reporter is live in Brighton.

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Is it the same picture across the county? The charity that respect to

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here in Brighton are adamant that there has been an increase in the

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number of referrals here in Brighton. The figures Sussex Police

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have given us appear to show a slightly different picture. Over

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the last year 16,000 women have got in contact with Sussex Police to

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report domestic violence. The year before there were 17,000 calls.

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Sussex Police said this has nothing to do with a decrease in the ground

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but everything to do with the crime being and reported which is why

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they are urging victims to get in contact with them.

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Coming up, a huge imbalance in Kent's adoption services. The local

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authorities strongly criticised again.

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Dame Vera Lynn is offering a reward and the chance to have afternoon

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tea with her to anyone who helps find a much treasured bridge that

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she lost earlier this month, one which was given to her by Field

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Marshal Montgomery 35 years ago. Dame be read lives in Sussex and

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she was wearing the brooch at the Royal Albert Hall during the

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Festival of Remembrance before she noticed it was missing.

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This is the bridge that has gone missing. The number eight it stands

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for the aides army the Desert Rats and it was presented to Dame Vera

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Lynn by their wartime commander Field Marshal Montgomery. It is a

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little gold pin, an oblong, and amid on the front is a little eight

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in little diamonds. Monty had it made in honour of Dame Vera Lynn's

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role in boosting trips' morale during the vital campaigns in North

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Africa. She was known as the forces' sweetheart then and now.

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Will meet again... Aged 94, she was wearing it at this year's Festival

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of Remembrance. I was out there with the boys and Montgomery

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presented it to me at the Albert for many years ago. And I was

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wearing in this year at the Armistice Night and it obviously it

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came off and was lost. distinctive, unique and of course

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highly personal. But the bridge is not particularly valuable in its

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own right. Dame Vera Lynn is offering a nominal award of �150

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but also something no amount of money could buy, afternoon tea with

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her to celebrate its return. A legal secretary from East Sussex

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has admitted stealing almost �500,000 from clients' accounts.

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25-year-old Leanne Harris from Whitesmith near Lewes worked at

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Arscotts Solicitors in Hove from 2008 until last year. Hove Crown

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Court was told one of her two victims was an elderly woman. The

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owner of the East Kent Gazette and Medway News has announced that both

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newspapers are likely to be closed down next month following an

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attempt to sell them to the Kent Messenger Group falling through.

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Northcliffe Media said it was no longer financially viable to

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continue publishing the papers. More than 35 people will be

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affected and closure is subject to staff consultation.

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A stolen van at dumped in -- dog dumped in Kent last week has been

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reunited with its owner. Staff at the RSPCA Leybourne Animal Centre

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where it was treated said it was the theorist dog they had ever seen.

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Overall, young people in the South East of the least affected by

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unemployment in the UK, 5% compared to Archers % nationally, but there

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are areas that so that the worst rates in the UK. In one area, 11%

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of in people are unemployed. In Hastings it is 11.8 % and in Thanet,

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13.8 %, compared to places like Tandridge in Surrey, Tunbridge

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Wells and Canterbury, which have little use in Parliament. In Medway

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there are more than 2,300 people currently looking for work.

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Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, was there today

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and the Government have said they are going to put �1 billion into

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solving used in employment. -- youth unemployment. The young

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people I have been speaking to do not really understand the politics

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behind this scheme or how it will be paid but they understand the

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figures and they say if the Government is going to guarantee

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half their wages for six months companies will find that very

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attractive and employ them. For the last three years Luke

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Parsons has been unemployed. He believes the Government's plan to

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give employers pay a subsidy of �2,275 will help young people like

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him get a job. I would love it, so I am not sitting indoors doing

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nothing to. I would rather be in a job. Everyone would appreciate that.

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But the Labour Party says the devil is in the detail and only one in 20

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youngsters will qualify for the new scheme. The scheme that is being

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done on the cheap. But worse, I hear they're going to try to pay

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for it by squeezing working people's tax credits. That is all

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wrong. We should have a proper tax and bankers' bonuses to fund a

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proper skin to get 100,000 young people back to year. Gavin says a

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Prince's Trust work programme changed his life. The 12 week

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course gave him the skills he needed to get a job. Cash

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injections only work if they are backed up by training. When I

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started the course I was hanging around with a lot of gangs and

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stuff. On the streets all the time. I lived in a derelict house. I was

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panicking because I had got my girlfriend pregnant and I did not

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know what to do with no job. Very low income on benefits and most at

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forwards for me at all. I walked out of the cause with a full-time

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job. The course Gavin went on is not cheap. With one of career

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specialist for every job seekers. But the charity which runs them

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says the success rate is high so long term it is value for money.

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The careers specialists I have spoken to said they welcomed the

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subsidy companies will get for employing 16-24 year-olds but to

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ensure this is not just a short- term quick fix for six months it

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needs to be backed up by training and it also needs to be centred in

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the places where unemployment is the highest.

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Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, joins us now.

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As you know, there are many areas of deprivation in the South East,

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alongside the prosperous parts. There are many young people at

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their with few prospects. Who will take them on as a result of your

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incentives? For the first thing is you need to see this in the light

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of a few features. Using employment is not something that started when

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this Government arrived. -- youths unemployment. It was already at

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record levels so we have a big programme to resolve. If one of the

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things that we know is that employers tell us constantly it is

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a bit too expensive to employ somebody who has never had any real

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work experience, so the idea behind the package is to build on some of

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the stuff we are doing, first and foremost, CBI asked for a National

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Insurance holiday. This �2,275 will go wrong way to clear out that

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national insurance payment. They will not have to make that and

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there will be a bit of extra money besides. I agree about the training

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point made earlier. It is not enough to get somebody a job and

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subsidise it, which is why the Future Jobs Fund that the last

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Government did was such a disaster. You need to increase the number of

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work-experience places so people go into a business for two months

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are... I am afraid we have lost Iain Duncan Smith.

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A highly critical report into adoption services in Kent says the

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authority has lost its grip and that the deterioration in services

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should have been recognised. The report by the former head of

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Barnardo's, Martin Narey, pointed out a huge imbalance between the

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number of children waiting to be adopted and the number of families

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available to take them. Our social affairs correspondent

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reports. Ron Mills runs a successful dog

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kennels. Ten years ago, he and his wife wanted to start a family. They

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began the adoption process but gave up. It was too complex and lengthy.

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Three years ago they tried again, wanting a brother or sister for

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their daughter. It was very exciting to start with because you

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think, there is a chance of us getting a child. Hopefully, that

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would not take that long. But we were just totally disillusioned by

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the whole process. The time taken for a family to adopt a child he is

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just one of many criticisms contained in today's damning report.

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It highlights a desperate imbalance between the number of children

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wanting and the number of families waiting. The situation has been

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worsening. In the year ending 2007, the number of children adopted in

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Kent stood at 93. In 2009 it had fallen to 78. By 2011, the figure

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had plummeted to 57. The council had lost a grip. It is not my

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suggestion that staff are not working hard, but they are not

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working productively. There needs to be more urgency in getting

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parents in Kent to adopt the children in Kent who are waiting

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for adoption. If they do not do this there will BA prices.

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council admits improvements must be made. I think there has been a lack

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of brokers across the council to support in the adoption service.

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Seven years ago 135 children were adopted. Last year it was 59. With

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renewed energy, focus and forget we can get back to those numbers.

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comes a year after a highly critical Ofsted report into

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children's services as a whole left the council in shock. It has been

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working to put matters right since then and this latest report is part

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of that process of identifying the problems and tackling them. It is

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expecting a drop sheer numbers will increase significantly over the

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next few years. -- adoption numbers. This is our top story tonight:

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Gatwick Airport could be forced to close because of next week's

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planned strikes by public sector workers. Crawley MP Henry Smith

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says that passengers, who are already likely to face significant

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disruption, could end up finding the airport closed.

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Also tonight, the world powerboat champion and world speed record

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holder, and he is only 11! And will it be cold and icy or warm

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and spicy this weekend? If you want to know the weekend weather, join

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me later in the programme. A Sussex charity has begun a

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mission to rescue bears kept in appalling conditions in zoos in

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India. There are 198 zoos in the country and at least half contain

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captive sloth bears. Two years ago our reporter joined the team from

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International Animal Rescue as they went out to save the last dancing

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bears from the streets. Now they have turned their attention to

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malnourished bears kept in cramped cages.

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They were once a familiar sight on the streets of India. But years ago,

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once they stopped dancing, there was nowhere for them to go, so many

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ended up in zoos in very poor conditions. Like these two. When

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the team from Sussex and then there were severely malnourished. They

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should have weighed 85 kilos. has taken nearly a year to get them

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out. We had to go through all the rigmarole of going through each of

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the Government, getting permission to do it. These are four bears that

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we do go out at the weekend that are just living in a small box.

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They can't even get in the cage to clean the cage out so they are just

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living on their own faeces, which is awful. Now at the bears have

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been taken to a rescue centre. I travelled to India with Alan Knight

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two years ago to witness the end of a 400 year-old tradition of dancing

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bears. We said we would help you and we did. The handlers were

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offered new jobs, the best -- bears given freedom to roam in the

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centuries. I think you will remember when we arrested that last

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there. He has fitted in beautifully and there'll be pictures of him a

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romping around in the wonderful sanctuary. The charity has a lot of

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support from people in Kent and Sussex. We have a fantastic trustee

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in Sussex to is a dentist and he has been out to India and carried

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out a writ canal treatment on the up bears. One Kent benefactor

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recently donated half a million pounds. The charity now it hopes to

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rescue dancing bears in Nepal. It is just a month to go until

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Christmas and what could be more Christmassy than a real outdoor ice

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rink, all lit up like Santa's grotto? Rob has dashed outside the

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studios here in Tunbridge Wells into the Calverley Grounds, where

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they have built an ice rink, and they have some celebrity skaters to

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open it with a gala event this evening. Rob, it all sounds very

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glamourous. It is a bit chilly. I wish I had

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potato John! This is real ice. It is not a plastic ice rink. -- I

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wish I had a coat on. You can see how good the ice is because we have

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Jodeyne Higgins and so Sean Rice skating here. Jodeyne was Johnson

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Beharry's partner in the latest series of dancing on ice. Come over

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here and say hello. They reached the semi-finals in that competition.

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Jodeyne, what do you think of this? It is lovely to be outside skating

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like this. What a privilege and, to get to try it. You are Canadian by

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birth, so skating outside is how it should be done? I learned how to

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skate on the outdoor rink. Said to be right this when I am told it is

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amazing. Let's talk quickly about Johnson Beharry. He's a hero, isn't

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he? Unbelievable gentleman. To get a chance to work with him is

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incredible. He taught me a lot about life. Sean, you're a champion

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skater as well. U2 have competed internationally. You are also on

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the ice dancing tour. Wheat grew up together. We have been together for

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20 years. It is like we are brother and sister but not really! I love

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my wife. We have are the youngsters from one of the local schools

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singing carols here tonight. What do you think of this? It is really

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festive and Christmassy, isn't it? Yet, it is. There is the ice rink

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here and we have all the choir's singing here. It is very nice and a

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really good atmosphere. completely agree. It is all really

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great that they are opening an ice rink here in Tunbridge Wells.

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great hat as well. Some of these people have come down to watch. Why

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have you come down here tonight? is very exciting for Tunbridge

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Wells to have the ice rink. Really looking forward to going on it.

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Maybe not benedict! Tunbridge Wells is the place to be. We will be back

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here in three or four minutes because Kaddy is going to be doing

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the weather for us from here and it will be a first from SAD is today,

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the weather on ice. We cannot wait! Brighton and Hove Albion manager

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Gus Poyet admits that several of his players have been playing with

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injuries recently. The Seagulls suffered a demoralising defeat at

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south coast rivals Southampton last weekend and Poyet wants his team to

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respond against Coventry at the Amex.

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Crawley will be hoping to keep the pressure on League Two leaders

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Southend with victory at Rotherham. The Reds' 4-1 win over Oxford last

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weekend took their unbeaten run to 11 games. Tyrone Barnett and Matt

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Tubbs both now have ten goals for Frank Nouble and Jo Kuffour come

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back into contention for Gillingham's home clash against

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Bradford. The strike pair were unavailable for the FA Cup first-

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round replay as part of their loan agreement. Midfielder Chris

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Whelpdale may miss out after picking up a chest infection.

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He may not be old enough to drive a car, but Ben Jelf from Kent has a

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string of power boating championships to his name, at the

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age of just 11. He has been driving power boats since he was just eight

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years old. Now an old hand, he has won both the 2011 World and

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European Powerboat Championships in the under 16 category. And he is

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also the world speed record holder. He is the third generation of

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powerboat racers in the family. He may still need his father's help.

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But once 11-year-old Ben Jelf gets on the water, he is very much his

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own man. His racing has taken him all over the UK and now far beyond.

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This one, this is my world champion won. And this one up here is the

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European one. How I have been so successful is my father helping me

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and the whole of the team. And how I have won it is trying to be the

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best. Ben is following in the family's footsteps. His grandfather

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began the tradition and his father and uncle were both world-class

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powerboat racers, but the signs are that bent maybe the best in the

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family yet. -- Ben. He has grown up with it, the same as I did. As soon

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as he was old enough, I bought him his first boat, which was not a

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very good one, but he took to it very well. He has just gone on and

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got better and better. You must be very proud? Of course. For him,

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what he has done this year is fantastic. There is there more he

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could have won. Not content with winning the British, European and

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world titles, a couple of years -- weeks ago, he spent a new speed

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record. I met Gina Campbell while I was there and she was the daughter

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to might speed idle Donald Campbell. I never did it to him all my racing

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career and he is just setting new records all the time.

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remarkable achievements may well be unique. His goal in 2012 is to win

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the sailor of the year award at the Boat Show, then defend all the

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titles he won this year. That is all from me this evening

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but we did promise you weather on ice so let's go back to rock and at

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the elite Kaddy in Tunbridge Wells. The how is she getting on? I do not

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think I should have told the The weather across this weekend.

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The wind is going to be very strong. On Saturday nights they are going

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to be gusting up to 45mph or 50mph but the only time it is not windy

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is this evening and that is where the temperature is dropping very

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quickly. In the last few hours it has dropped about five degrees so

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it is getting colder. Could get mist patches, even a tiny hint of

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frost on the ground, but most places are going to be frost-free

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and by the end of the night the wind is increasing and the air will

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get mixed up and temperatures we only get down to 5-7 degrees. So it

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just a tiny chance of frost. Into tomorrow, it will be a lovely day

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if you can get out of the wind. The wind starts of at 50mph, by the end

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of the day it will be 20mph, by tomorrow night, even stronger. But

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it will be a lovely sunny day with temperatures getting up to even 14

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degrees, so it is still mild for the time of year. Into tomorrow

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night, this is when the wind will peak. This is when I am expecting

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gusts of even 50mph. Although we get a weak weather front and the

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end of the night, it will only give us a sprinkle of rain. Other than

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that, most places will stay dry and leave us with a lovely sunny day

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for Sunday. So windy for the next few days but plenty of sunshine and

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And you did not sit over at all! really like it! That is as before

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