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Welcome to South East Today, I'm Rob Smith.

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And I'm Polly Evans. Tonight's top stories: Sussex Police is to trial

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the use of controversial surveillance drones to patrol

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Gatwick Airport. Opponents call them sinister.

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20,000 potholes repaired so far this year ` the costly legacy of the

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relentless winter rain. We're live on the Sussex street so badly

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damaged locals have been pl`nting flowers in the holes.

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Also in tonight's programme: Six anti`link road protestors are found

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not guilty of aggravated trdspass over last year's tree top

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demonstrations in Sussex. Wd remember the start of the ydar`long

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miners' strike and, how 30 xears on, some in Kent still can't forgive or

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forget. It changed my families life for ever

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and this community for ever. And, the cinema usherette who found

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out her Bill was coming homd safe from the First World War ` watching

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a newsreel film. Good evening. Sussex Police are to

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start using a controversial unmanned drone. The ?35,000 helicoptdrs will

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be used in an initial trial in and around Gatwick Airport. The force

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says they will help make thd county "even safer".

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But civil liberties groups `re deeply concerned, worried that the

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flying video cameras could be used to record and spy on people, with

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one MP branding them sinistdr and questioning whether they will be

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safe. Our home affairs reporter Rebecca Williams, reports.

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The unmanned aircraft, otherwise known as drones, are soon to be

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trialled by Sussex Police to make Gatwick Airport and the are` around

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it saved `` safer. They will be gathering film footage of G`twick

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and the surrounding area and it can be used to make sure that any

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unforeseen activity can be monitored. It can also be used where

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the safety of officers is p`ramount and weighed you can't necessarily

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deploy police officers. It will beam live pictures to police on the

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ground out allow them to assess incidents from above more qtickly.

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How will it work? An officer will control the aircraft from the ground

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using a portable console from up to 500 metres away. The craft hs

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expected to be used for the first time later this month. In 2012,

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Cologne `` Kent Police signdd up to a ?3 million project to devdlop a

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similar system claiming that patrolling Britain's shores would

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help fight in the `` would help in the fight against illegal

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immigrants. The chief deputx has reportedly not ruled out putting

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weapons on his drone. In Amdrica, the use of drones fought with `` by

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police is causing concern. @t the end of the day, these camer`s can

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indiscriminately capture im`ges so a lot of people will not feel

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comfortable. They would not expect to be `` they would not expdct the

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police force to use this sort of technology. I think serious privacy

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concerns exist with this. The question is will the new

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technology end up being and I or a spy?

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BBC South East Today has le`rned that more than 20,000 potholes have

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been repaired across Kent and Sussex since the start of the year. That's

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up by more than 20% on last year, when exceptionally cold weather and

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snow pounded road surfaces. Despite there having been no severe

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frosts this year, the AA saxs that the relentless rain has left the

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network crumbling and are c`lling on the government to provide councils

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with the necessary funds to repair the roads. Piers Hopkirk reports.

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Another car and another rep`ir bill put down to potholes. Basic`lly

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this bring on the front takds the weight of the car and everything up

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here and they split. One here is broken. As you can see, it has come

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off at the top. This garage has never seen a season like it. We have

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had forecast this week. It keeps going on. According to the @A, the

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wettest winter on record has wreaked havoc on our roads.

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We are getting reports that the situation in the south`east is much

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worse than the last couple of winters but we haven't had the snow.

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What we have had, though, is the relentless rain which appears to

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have eroded many small roads. Here, they have filled nearly 1 ,500

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potholes and in West Sussex, nearly 10,000. In Kent, the council has

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carried out over 3500 repair jobs with crews often fixing sevdral at a

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time. Councils are trying to keep up with repairs, but there is ?1

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billion shortfall nationwidd it is believed. If you want an extreme

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example of the impact the wdather has had on our roads, this hs

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callable Avenue in Peacehavdn. It is less a road and more a succdssion of

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craters. It is an unadopted road so pairs are down to the residdnts We

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levelled it all out, beautiful. It has all gone to pot. You have to go

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over the other side of the road and weave your way through. It hs the

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only way to go. You can hear people scrape their exhaust pipes `s they

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go. For those on two and fotr wheels, it is a year that h`s never

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been costlier going for a skin. Piers Hopkirk reporting and he joins

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us now live from Peacehaven. `` going for a spin. Piers, thd AA

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believes there is a massive shortfall for spending on rdpairs.

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So what's being done about ht? I don't think anyone could have

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predicted the winter would be as wet nor that it would cause the sort of

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damage we have seen on the roads and the government has acknowledged

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that. It has created a fund this week of ?140 million to be

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distributed amongst councils in England. It once that money handed

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out within the next few days because it once the repairs carried out as

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quickly as possible. Just how far that money will spread we whll have

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to judge on our roads in thd coming weeks.

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In a moment: Royal recognithon for the Sussex woman who's overcome drug

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and alcohol addiction to win an award from the Princes' Trust.

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Six activists who held a trde`top protest against the building of the

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Bexhill Hastings Link road have been found NOT guilty of aggravated

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trespass. One of the demonstrators said it was a great day for the

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right to protest. Opponents of the road in East Sussex

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say it'll devastate the countryside, but the County Council belidves it

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will help the areas economy. Mark Sanders reports.

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`` the area's economy. Justice is done! Tom Druitt was

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dressed little differently when he was arrested last January alongst

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six defendants involved in ` tree top protest against the Bexhill

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Hastings link road. The judge today found him and others not guhlty of a

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crime which has a maximum pdnalty of three months in prison. And used,

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vindicated, motivated. Basically, it says we can legitimately protest. ``

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I am confused. It is really freely and pleased that justice was done

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for all of us. The judge fotnd they did not have any intention to

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disrupt or obstruct. They mdrely were protesting and they have the

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right to do that. The activists believe the three Mile

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Rd will devastate the countryside. East Sussex County Council would not

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comment on the verdict but hn a statement said the road is crucial

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to the regeneration of Hasthngs and Bexhill. It claims it will hmprove

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congestion on the busy coast road and that it will create mord than

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3000 new jobs and bring economic benefits valued at ?1 billion. If it

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takes traffic off the main road I think it will be a good thing.

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In some ways, I am in favour of it because the gap `` traffic gets

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snarled up. A lot of money for nothing. Let us hope it improves the

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seafront run because getting back from work is a nightmare. Today s

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verdict is seen as a victorx by the protests and more activists are due

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in court to hear their verdhcts next week.

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Mark has been at Brighton magistrates today. Mark, wh`t were

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the issues in this trial? At the heart of the case was the

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question, to what extent were there protesters disrupting activhty in

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terms of disrupt `` construction on the link road? In the end there

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wasn't the evidence to convhcted of aggravated trespass. Despitd the

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court case today and the protests last year and the appalling weather

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last winter, the link road remains on track and it is expected to open

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to traffic next spring. The leader of Hastings Borotgh

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Council has written to Network Rail to say it's unacceptable th`t no

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date has been set for the rdopening of the London to Hastings lhne. A

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full train service hasn't rtn on the line since before Christmas after

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several landslips. It was dte to re`open on March third, but repairs

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were delayed by more bad we`ther. Councillor Jeremy Birch has urged

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Network Rail to give the line "the importance it deserves."

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Two men allegedly posing as grooms are among six people arrestdd over

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sham marriages in Kent. Immhgration officers made the arrests at

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Maidstone Register Office ydsterday. Both weddings were stopped before

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they could take place. Several thousand pounds in cash was also

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recovered from the boot of ` car belonging to one of the suspects.

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Thirty years ago today, one of the bitterest industrial disputds the

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country has ever seen got under way ` the miners' strike. Margaret

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Thatcher's decision to closd uneconomic pits challenged `n entire

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way of life for tens of thotsands of people.

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The communities at the four Kent coal pits of Snowdown, Tilm`nstone,

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Chislet and Betteshanger were changed forever. Peter Whittlesea

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has been speaking to people who experienced it at first hand and he

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found the strike still affects them today.

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The 12th of March 1984 is a date etched in every Welsh miners

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memory. The beginning of thd strike that started peacefully but led to

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bitter divisions. The decishon by some to return to work sign`lled the

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end of lifelong friendships. They were friends of mine when they

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worked with me and then thex transferred. One person I s`w in

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Canterbury and I couldn't even talk to him. You have never talkdd in 30

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years on? Never. Time is not a healer? Not on this issue.

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Luckily, we didn't have any scabs in our village. Everybody was

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organised, United, believed in what they were standing up for. This gaps

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came from outside the village `` the scabs. That was where there was a

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need for a picket down at the colliery. Many still feel it was a

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fight to save their way of life We followed our fathers into the

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pits and then the threat cale of that all coming to an end bdcause we

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knew all the pit closure `` closures would mean the closures of the

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communities as well. Many would argue that prophdcy came

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true. This former mining colmunity wants to preserve the history of the

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Kent collieries though. Peter, clearly feelings run high

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today? That's right. The miners who went on

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strike for the year can reel off the names of those who broke thd strike

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in 84. It is even more deep`seated than that because many of these men

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or second or third generation miners. They can tell you those who

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went to work in the general strike of years before. There are plans to

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redevelop the colliery and create a green energy plant and 1000 jobs in

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an area that has been dormant for a generation.

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Our top story tonight: Sussdx Police is to trial the use of unmanned spy

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drones in and around Gatwick Airport. It says the remote

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controlled aircraft will make policing more effective, be`ming

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high quality pictures to officers on the ground. But civil liberties

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groups fear that drones could ultimately be used to spy on the

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population. Also, how a cinema usherettd found

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out her Bill was coming homd safe from the wall whilst watching a

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newsreel film. Clearer skies and lighter whnds mean

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good weather for tonight. A former drug user from Sussex has

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been recognised at the Prince's Trust awards. Tia moved to Brighton

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18 months ago after her daughter was taken away because of her drug

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abuse. With the help of the Prince's Trust, she is now working and

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studying for a degree. The Prince's Trust was formed in 1976, stpporting

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vulnerable young people between 13 and 30. The trust has helped more

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than 750,000 young people in the UK. Ian Palmer has tonight spechal

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report. Less than two years ago, shd took a

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drugs overdose. She had dond it before but this time they took away

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her daughter, Ruby. I am not proud, I went and got drugs then and

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carried on. I think it was `bout a week before the court day and I

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looked around at my life and thought, what have I got? I haven't

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got any thing. Do I want to carry on down this road and leave my daughter

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without me. After years of abuse, Tia w`s

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brought up in care and was dxpelled from countless schools. Within weeks

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on the Prince's Trust she w`s working as a mental.

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I have worked with a lot of young people on the programme and I have

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never met any learner who h`s shown such commitment and determination

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and bravery. Nominated for a national aw`rd, she

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was a guest at a glittering invest in London. We got to the situation

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which I know is that the Prhnce s principal dream is for a yotng

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person taken from a terribld situation is helped by the trust and

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ends up supporting, financi`lly or whatever, someone in the future You

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are the one who have to makd that first step and go, I want to change

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my life. Unless you want it and believe in yourself then yot are not

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going to. You have to find that fight.

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Tia is working and studying for a degree in social care. She says she

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just wants her daughter to be proud of her.

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During the First World War, getting information back from the front line

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was extremely difficult. Falilies were in constant fear of receiving

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the dreaded telegram. One cinema usherette `` ushdrette,

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saw her husband heading homd safe and well in a newsreel `` in a

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newsreel film. Her daughter still remembers it.

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The photo includes my dad in a column of troops returning hn 1 17

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in `` 1917 after the big push. There is a screen grab shown in the

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newsreel in the local cinem` and my mum was working there as an

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usherette. The newsreel camd on and suddenly she realised my dad was

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coming right up into the screen `` screen. She screamed, "that is my

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Bill! " And the whole cinem` erupted in cheers. That was the first thing

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she knew and it must've been a truly wonderful moment. This photo is

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really to me because of what it describes. The ecstasy of everyone

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and the joy that he came back. Dot e`mailed us details of her

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story. If you have a story xou want is to know, contact us.

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The Elizabethan playwright Chris at `` Christopher Marlowe was born 450

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years ago this year. Three of his plays are being staged in C`nterbury

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to mark the anniversary. He lived a mysterious life.

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He is said to have been murdered in a brawl in London at 29. Drdss

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rehearsals for Faustus, the first in a trio of his plays to be pdrformed

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in Canterbury to celebrate the anniversary of his birth in the city

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450 years ago. Leave us the victory!

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It is a post`modern interprdtation of his classic.

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We are trying to reinvigorate it and make it more contemporary. Ht adds a

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whole different dimension to the dynamic.

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The Marlowe Theatre is also running the Massacre Of Paris. He wrote

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about bold and dangerous iddas. He was innovative and laid the

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foundations for bold and interesting work in theatre.

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He was born in Canterbury in 15 4 the son of a shoemaker. This tower

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is all that remains of the church where he was baptised. The Larlowe

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family home is thought to h`ve stood on the opposite side of the street.

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As a boy, he won a scholarship to King 's School in Canterburx where

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he left at aged 15 to read theology at Cambridge. He wrote six plays but

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died in Deptford aged just 29 in mysterious circumstances.

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So much focus is on Shakespdare and he is the forgotten half brother, if

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you like, but his work is epually rich and it speaks to now. We

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struggle with the Shakespearean language but Marlowe speaks in a

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much more contemporary idiol which makes it easier for audiencds.

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Faustus opens tonight but the celebration of his works and plays

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lasts a fortnight. Canterbury teenager Millie Knight

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finished an impressive fifth in her first ever Winter Paralympics race.

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The visually impaired 15`ye`r`old, Team GB's youngest ever competitor,

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beat a number of experienced skiers in the slalom this morning despite

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the poor conditions to match her pre`race target.

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Charlton Athletic play their first match under new Belgian man`ger Jose

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Riga this evening, but in l`st night's league games there were

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plenty of goals and impresshve performances. None more so than

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Gillingham's match at the Priestfield, which had absolutely

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everything ` six goals, four of them penalties, a sending off and one of

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the best goals you will ever see. Neil Bell reports.

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It was an extraordinary gamd but one moment stood out. This remarkable

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strike. It was the 19`year`old s first league goal although 05 years

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ago, this programme recorded a diminutive boy rolling the ball home

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at the same end. It was anndxed on fishing match. Which began with a

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rugby tackle and then moments later a red card. The big defender put

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them ahead. Then Coventry drew level. Another penalty is stretched

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the lead to 3`1 and then relarkably, a fourth penalty which put the game

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back in the balance. All th`t was left was the moment of brilliance

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from the teenager. Whatever he goes on to achieve, this will be

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remembered as one of the most extraordinary goals seen at this

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stadium. Writer knew just how import`nt

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victory was. The deadlock w`s broken deep into the second half when the

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pass was perfectly picked ott. Shortly afterwards, a low corner was

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whipped in and converted. It is a massive three points for us

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and I am extremely proud of the players. Crawley Town took `n early

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need when this was fired hole after a free kick hit the wall.

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That goal was incredible, w`sn't it? We will get a check on the weather

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now. Is it too soon to menthon barbecue weather?

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Fingers crossed it will stax that way for the weekend. It was a

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glorious afternoon with cle`r blue skies. Early mist and fog btt it

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cleared by the afternoon. Whnds were from an northerly direction. All of

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us saw a pleasantly warm afternoon. High pressure stays with us tonight

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and the wind will ease. We `re expecting to see dense mist and fog

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patches forming. Temperaturds will tumble under clear skies.

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Temperatures holding up along the coast. We have warnings out about

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the dense fog. It will be slow to clear so potentially some problems

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for the first part of the rtsh hour and possibly delayed flights as

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well. Eventually, by the afternoon, we start to see some breaks in the

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cloud cover and by the afternoon some decent spells of sunshhne.

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Light wind. The best of the brightness around the coast. A

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similar night with temperattres dropping to three or four Cdlsius

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and a misty or foggy start to the day on Friday. Brightening by the

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afternoon. The weekend will be settled. Dare we say, a barbecue

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weekend? I will not dust off the picnic

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blanket just off! That is it from us for the loment.

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See you tomorrow.

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