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

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And I'm Rob Smith. Tonight's top stories:

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Lawful killing - Sussex police are told they were justified in

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shooting Michael Fitzpatrick dead on a Brighton street. They had a

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moment to make that decision and they made absolutely the right one.

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An apology to the man sent home from hospital untreated - even

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though he was having a stroke. Also tonight:

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Bracing themselves - how our soup kitchens and hospitals are

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preparing to look after people left out in the cold.

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I cannot believe that I skied across Antarctica. It is ridiculous.

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The emotional moment Felicity Aston made it across Antarctica. The Kent

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explorer is live in the studio to tell us about her record-breaking

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adventure. And fine-tuning - the restorer

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who's been appointed to care for Good evening. Sussex Police took

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absolutely the right decision when they shot dead a convicted armed

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robber in broad daylight in Brighton a year ago, according to

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the coroner at the end of an inquest today.

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This afternoon, a jury returned a verdict of lawful killing after

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Michael Fitzpatrick was shot dead in the street. He'd been pointing a

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replica gun at officers who were about to arrest him. John Young

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reports. On A Brighton St one February

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lunchtime almost exactly a year ago, a convicted armed robber about to

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raise an unloaded replica gun at the police before being shot dead

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himself. It was something that could not be avoided, a jury

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decided today. They had a moment to make that decision and they made

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the right one. Was there no alternative? A case that perhaps?

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This inquest has gone through the details and shown unequivocally

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that the detail and the plan had they used was absolutely the right

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one, tragic though the outcome was. Michael Fitzpatrick was a very

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dangerous man, convicted of armed robbery and hostage-taking and had

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admitted conspiracy to murder Diana Goldsmith, who vanished from

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Sevenoaks in 1995. He was out in Brighton, released on licence after

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serving 17 the -- seven years of a 17 year sentence. Police suspected

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him of several other armed robberies. On the day he died, the

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coroner said the police officer had just two or three seconds to

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respond. The coroner made clear that there was no evidence Sussex

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Police had done anything wrong. The IPCC had in fact investigated and

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concluded they had done everything pretty much right. She went on to

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tell the jury that for those reasons she would not accept the

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verdict of unlawful killing. The verdict they unanimously returned

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was lawful killing. Police had been on standby to try and save

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Fitzpatrick's like before paramedics arrived but he died in

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minutes. John Young reporting and he joins

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us from the scene of the shooting. John, clearly an extremely

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sensitive inquest. It was, at one point I tried to go

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to the front of the courtroom to have a word with the clerk but

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found a plainclothes policeman telling me to not come any further

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forward, which has never happened to me in court before. All of the

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police there -- officers who gave evidence had to give so anonymously

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behind a screen. His sense a lot of sympathy for the police. The jury

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described their actions as exemplary and the coroner expressed

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sympathy not only for Mr Fitzpatrick's family but also for

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the police officers who were involved in this.

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Thank you, John. A Kent hospital has apologised to a

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man after he was turned away from its accident and emergency unit

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because the doctor failed to diagnose he was having a stroke.

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Damien Fawsett waited for five hours at Darent Valley hospital

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before being sent home without being treated. The next day his GP

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sent him straight to Medway Maritime Hospital where he was

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given appropriate treatment. Steve Gaisford reports.

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Damien was playing a geek at a Maidstone puddle when he suddenly

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collapsed on stage -- a concert at the Maidstone pub. He was rushed to

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Darent Valley Hospital. I couldn't remember my name or my date of

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birth or anything like that, Susan had to answer questions for me.

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They assessed the in-tray arch, gave me blood pressure, asked me a

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series of questions and left me on a bed for five hours -- a tree arch.

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Despite slurred speech and leading -- losing feeling in his body, he

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was discharged. The next day, his GP sent him to Medway Maritime,

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where he continues to receive treatment. To spot the signs of a

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stroke, you have to act fast. to campaigns like this, more people

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can spot the tell-tale signs of a stroke. Should we be concerned that

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a trained doctor failed to diagnose Damien Fawsett? Things are

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improving all the time, but what is important is that if people are

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Rattle confused by the symptoms being present board not, they

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should treat it as an M -- a medical emergency. Darent Valley

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But Dr's excuse at the time was that at Damien's age, he is too

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young to have a stroke -- but the doctor's. But it is quite common

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now for people in their 30 and forties. I am lucky that the stroke

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was quite minor. If I had had a plot borrowed lead on a brain,

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which most strokes do occur from, I wouldn't be talking to you now -- a

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clot or a lesion. Damien is already back performing with his band.

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Despite the ordeal, they are thankful he did finally get the

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treatment he needed. In a moment:

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Sailing by - the Medway boats joining a huge Thames flotilla to

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celebrate the Queen's Diamond The first snow of the winter is

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forecast to land this weekend, and organisations that look after the

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elderly and the vulnerable are already gearing up to deal with the

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problems the freezing temperatures may bring.

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Last winter, there were significant problems caused by the prolonged

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icy conditions, with hospitals having to deal with a huge rise in

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injuries from slips and falls. Our social affairs correspondent Yvette

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Austin reports. 20th December 10, and a prolonged

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period of snow and ice cost individuals and local authorities

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deer -- 2010. With snow predicted in the next few days, preparation

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is key. Some of the most reliable are the elderly. Cheery now, but

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behind the scenes, carers are gearing up to keep it that way.

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Because the bus will skid around too much, we cannot go out on the

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tiny roads in Canterbury where we pick people up from. It will mean

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people will be isolated and not be able to get out and have this hot

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meal, which will have warmed them up well. So we will have to ring

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all those people and be absolutely confident that they do have

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provisions for themselves and if they don't, we will take meals to

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them. All hospitals and health workers, it is a tough period. -- 4.

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Around 27,000 more people die in England during the winter months

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than at other times and in severe weather, the number rises. In 2008-

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2009, 34,000 more people died, mostly down to heart disease,

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strokes and breathing problems. In East Kent, the hospitals have an

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action plan. We had tractors and a snow plough and a vehicle Macro to

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make sure the sites are clear to allow ambulances to commend -- and

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gritter. We also have vehicles to bring in staff members and bring

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them in to ensure patients can still have their treatment.

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shelters are preparing to taking the homeless. We are running a

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winter shelter from the three months, December, January and

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February. I don't think I am overstating it when I say that

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without us, some people would die. In fact, I know I am not. At least

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with the snow predicted to fall at the weekend, commuters will be

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spared the worst, although Network Rail says this year, it has an

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armoury of snow trains to keep lines clear.

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Yvette Austin joins us now from the Catching Lives day shelter in

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Canterbury. Yvette, how are people coping there?

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Well, it is cosy and warm in here and people are getting a good meal,

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but this is just a day centre, no one can sleepier. So what is going

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to happen is people will be taken to church halls across the city.

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Each night, a church hall opens its doors, Baxter volunteers and it

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takes and the homeless. -- takes in. Lee, you have slept rough before,

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what is it like our notes like this? It is quite cold, it is a

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place like this that we all depend on. The staff, the people,

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everything, because without them and without this place, we would

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all be really cold, sleeping rough and we would have nowhere to go. We

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all depend on coming to this place to wash our clothes, to wash, had

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showers, and usually, we would have blankets to go out with if we

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needed to. Thanks very much. We also have Helen. You don't look

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typically homeless, it has done a lot the year. I did this morning

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when I came in, I love really terrible. -- it has done a lot for

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you. Our I have had a shower, and clean clothes, done all my washing.

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Good luck, thank you very much. We have a happier that the snow does

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not materialise. A new ferry service from Dover to

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Calais will open in two week's time, but the 300 jobs it will create

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will mainly go to French workers. DFDS have joined forces with LD

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Lines to take over the route previously operated by SeaFrance,

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which went into liquidation in January.

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A French ship flying under the French flag and employing French

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seafarers. The Norman ferries will take people from Calais this month.

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A boost for the port of Dover, but there is disappointment that the

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jobs will not go to the British. Why can't the people who have been

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based with DFDS here be relocated over the site? When you have a

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specialised industry, as with shipping, where else will they find

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them? They cannot go to Margate. January 9th, 100 and -- several

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hundred workers were made redundant when SeaFrance went into

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liquidation. Aberdeen and back row company announced a deal to take

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over the group and they announced their new schedule today -- to DFDS

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and LD Lines. Plenty believe this announcement is political.

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believe DFDS should consider having a UK flag and using the UK workers

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and we all understand about the French presidential election, but

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after that is out of the way, I hope they can look at it on a

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commercial rather than political basis and do the right thing.

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don't think it is fair to say that has been the main influence in

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Where the jobs have gone. The main influence is that there are 1,000

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French seafarers who have been made redundant and are available to

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imply in France and the joint initiative is with LD Lines, who

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are bad French company. DFDS will eventually run two ferries. They

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will have to see what jobs it brings the locals.

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Fiona Irving with that report and she joins us now in Dover. Fiona,

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is there any hope tonight for SeaFrance workers made redundant

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These extra ferries mean they will have to staff up the DFDS of this

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in Dover, but they do not know how many extra jobs that will mean.

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Earlier I spoke to the vice- president of DFDS who told me the

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ferry they are using is a French ferry, it is owned by the French

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company LD Lines, so they will have to have an operation in Calais.

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They do not know how many people they will meet. They will have to

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start from scratch. SeaFrance went into liquidation despite having to

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be bailed out by millions, so I think that there will be more jobs

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here in the future, we just do not know how many.

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This is our top story tonight, Sussex Police took absolutely the

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right decision when they shot dead a convicted armed robber in broad

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daylight in Brighton a year ago. That is according to the coroner at

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the end of an inquest. The jury returned a verdict of lawful

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killing over Michael Fitzpatrick who had been pointing a replica gun

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at officers who were about to arrest him.

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The piano man, how a Kent restorer was picked to fine-tune the Queen's

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musical instrument. Poles apart, Felicity Aston, the

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first woman to cross the Antarctic alone, joins us live in the studio

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to talk about her incredible achievement.

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In exactly four months, one of the largest public events ever held in

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London takes place, to mark 60 years of the Queen's reign. It is

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the Thames Diamond Jubilee flotilla, and it will sailed up the river on

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June 3rd. 1,000 boats will take part in the parade, which will

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measure seven miles long. It will be manned by a 20,000 people. Five

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boats will be coming from the Medway Maritime Trust.

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The Queen makes her way along the Thames, surrounded by a flotilla of

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boats to celebrate her jubilee year. This was 1977. The Silver Jubilee.

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In 2012, the Thames will once again be a focus for celebration, boats

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following the Queen's barge, others lining the route. Among them, this

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dhow. She belongs to a man who met the Queen was -- when she was

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Princess in 1951. Now the but he has restored over 25 years will

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play a role in her Diamond Jubilee. It is enormously exciting, not so

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much for me as for the dhow. It is the dhow that is the centre of the

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focus. I just happened to be the custodian. -- the dhow. Billed as a

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gentleman's yacht, his life as a leisure craft was soon interrupted

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in the war, armed with machine guns. She patrolled the Thames. While the

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ship was never built with war in mind, many others were. So

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desperate was the need for it tugs, ones like this were being made at

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the rate of one a week. It is a very special craft. It does not

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look like much but they had to build them in a real hurry in the

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war. They were not allowed to use shipyard labour so they built them

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in well we workshops. That is the way it has happened ever since. --

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railway workshops. This one was made too late for the Normandy

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landings. But she served the Navy until 1974. Could Chatham neighbour

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is also taking part in the River Festival. -- her Chatham neighbour.

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He takes two days to get this Steamboat on the move, but during

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her working life, she rarely stopped. Supplying ships up and

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down the east coast. It worked and served Chatham dockyard and to lead

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close in the early 1970s, then it was retired and when to do

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dereliction, we saved it about five years ago. Along with fellow took

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the Kent, she will be moored in London as the Queen's barge and its

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thousands of followers go by. And as part of the Jubilee

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celebrations, we are running a special series of My Photo. Do you

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have a photo or video of when you It took her 59 days in storm-force

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winds with temperatures dropping to minus 30, but Felicity Aston from

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Birchington has become the first woman to cross Antarctica alone.

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The 33-year-old explorer let her home last October and began her

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solo trip at the end of November. She skied for 1084 miles from the

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Ross Ice Shelf, arriving at the Hercules Inlet on January 22nd to

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achieve the record. She has returned to Kent now and we will be

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talking to her in a moment. First, let us take a look at the emotional

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moment she reached the end of an I cannot believe it. I cannot

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believe I skied across Antarctica, it is so ridiculous! I do not

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really know what I was expecting. It all seems to have come to an end

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a bit quick. The only thing I can think of that I want right now is

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the hub my father had to let him know I am here. -- hug. I am really

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shell-shocked that it is over. I am done. I am on my way home.

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It is an amazing achievement, and you said watching that, it was

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actually quite emotional. Yes, watching those pictures back again,

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it still makes me go a bit tearful. How do you feel now you are back

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and can step back and think about your achievement? I do not think a

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it has really sunk in yet. I had to focus on the day, day-by-day, I

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could not focus on how long the entire journey was, so when I look

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at a map of Antarctica and think I have skied across it, it still

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seems a bit silly. It is not just like skiing downhill, this is

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really seriously hard work. Particularly at the beginning. The

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South Pole sits at about 10,000 feet, so you have to climb from sea

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level right up to that height, then back down again. When you are going

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uphill into winds towards the South Pole, it is very hard work. And you

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were on your own for days on end, in this barren landscape. You

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describe your shadow has you on the companion and you were talking to

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the sun. How do you cope with it mentally? There is different ways.

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It surprised me how instinctive it is that your brain finds coping

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mechanisms, the plane was not even out of sight and I was already

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talking to myself! If a very natural just to talk to myself and

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top myself through what I was doing. Further on in the journey, I was

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not doing that any more. I was having an internal conversation.

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You had to literally drag everything behind you.

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How much did it way? When I started, it was 85 kilograms. I had to

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sledges. That is a fully grown man. When you came in and he said you

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were wearing that jacket, we were quite shocked. That is what you

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were wearing. A lot of people are quite surprised when they see my

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jacket, that it is quite thin, there is no padding or insulation.

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Underrate, I would mostly where have thermal cagoule. That is

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because it goes against your intuition, even in those really

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cold temperatures, you do not pile on lots of clothes, because you do

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not want to sweat, because that is dangerous. The challenge was

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actually keeping cool in Antarctica, not necessarily keeping warm.

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sounds bizarre! And you have come back in one piece, congratulations.

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He has proven his credentials by restoring pianos once owned by some

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of the world's most famous composers, including Beethoven.

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David Winston has now been awarded the Royal Warrant as conservator

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and restorer of pianos to the Queen. His converted barn in Biddenden is

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a treasure-trove of antique instruments and Katherine Downes

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has been to see him at work. A century for special pianos.

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Unusual, beautiful, but ravaged by time into silence. Until David

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Winston brings them back to life. Then, they sing again. It is very

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personal, the relationship I have the these instruments. Each one has

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its own atmosphere and personality. And they gradually reveal

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themselves to you if you are sensitive. You have to believe in

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ghosts as well to work on these things. And David has restored

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piano as belonging to some of music's most famous ghosts. Chopin

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and Beethoven. Why was first taken into the room were Beethoven's

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piano was and they have a look at it, it was just sitting in this

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room on its own in a museum in Budapest. And really, it made my

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hair stand on end. The history of this piano and what stories it

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could tell. It is just mind- boggling. So, when concert pianist

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draw at -- Daniel Greenwood bought a piano that belonged to a famous

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19th century composer, he knew he had to leave it to David to restore.

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There are few people in the world like David in that there are very

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few people specialising to this level, so there are not very many

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more sought-after. It is a special thing. David has now been given the

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Royal Warrant, he has been working on instruments for the royal family

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for 11 years, to warrant his recognition of the quality of his

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work, though it means he cannot talk about as well commissions.

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are not allowed to say exactly what specific instrument you worked on,

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or where. Can you not tell me if any of these pianos belonged to the

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Queen? I cannot tell you anything. So which one do you think looks

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like the Queen's piano? David is not letting on.

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One of the best jobs of July, you just cannot talk about it! -- jobs

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of your life. The weather has already claimed a

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sporting casualty this weekend, Gillingham's home tie against

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Hereford has been called off. Despite the pitch being covered

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since Monday, it has frozen. For the games scheduled to go ahead,

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Brighton and Hove Albion could move closer to the Championship play-off

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places with victory over Leicester at the Amex. The Albion are

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undefeated in their last seven League and cup games and they will

:24:50.:24:53.

hope Will Buckley can continue his good form.

:24:53.:24:57.

A in League 1, Charlton going to their home game with Rochdale with

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a ten-point lead at the top of the table. There midweek draw ended

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their run of four successive league winds.

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Crawley Town will hope that the sale of top scorer Matt Tubbs will

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not derail their promotion challenge. They travel to Bradford

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having dropped out of the promotion play-off places for the first time

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since September. But will they get snowed off? That

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But will they get snowed off? That is the question.

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We can run but we cannot hide, winter is catching up. For the last

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few weeks, it has been galloping towards spring. Every week, we are

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gaining 25 minutes of daylight, in fact just today, we had just over

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nine hours worth of delight. In four weeks' time, he can add

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another two hours on to that. An extra hour in the morning and one

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in the evening, just in four weeks' time. But of course, winter is now

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slowly working its way into us. Last night was the coldest night we

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have had, for some of us, for 13 months. It got down to minus seven

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or minus eight. Similar temperatures tonight. You may also

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have heard the rumour of snow, it is not really a rumour any more.

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Tomorrow night, around eight or nine in the evening, we will see

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some snow falling, lasting all through the night and we could we

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Cup on Sunday to five to ten centimetres of snow. Because it is

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a weather front, it is likely to affect all of us in the south-east.

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That is Saturday night into Sunday. Before then, some thicker cloud,

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there could be the occasional flick or two. But many of us will her

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have clear skies and temperatures once again in towns, minus three or

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minus four. In the countryside, minus six or minus seven. Yet again,

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a bitterly cold start to the day tomorrow. We will still see some

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sunshine but there will be a bit more cloud tomorrow. You could

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still see the odd snowflake here or there. He it is tomorrow evening

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when the proper snow starts to arrive. It will be eight or nine

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o'clock tomorrow evening. It could turned to sleet or even rain

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halfway through the night, but by Sunday, it turns back to snow again.

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Starting to settle as well, up to ten centimetres. Through the day on

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Sunday, we could still see another couple of centimetres. This weekend,

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we could be needing to get the sledges out. If you are at all

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worried and need more information on the weather or travels where you

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are, tune into your local BBC Kent, are, tune into your local BBC Kent,

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Surrey or Sussex radio. I just feel cold thinking about it!

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On Monday, what happens when former EastEnders star Tamsin athlete went

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down to Gravesend to find out what people there had to say about

:27:57.:28:03.

Charles Dickens. We're trying to find out what

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people know about Charles Dickens. Do you know Oliver Twist?

:28:12.:28:18.

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