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Good evening. A man tortured by people he believed were fridnds has

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been telling the BBC how he thought he was going to die. Ben

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Hutchings`Mitchell who lives in Hastings was gagged, beaten with

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hammers and forced into a body bag and then driven to woodland. They

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then discussed burying him `live. Five people have been convicted in

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connection with the incident. Mark Sanders reports. This is Ben

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Hutchings`Mitchell after he was tortured. A gang of men did this to

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try and get him to hand over money. He was lowered by a supposed friend

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to a house in Hastings. The light was off so I joked about it not

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paying his bills and then as I turned around and laugh at H was

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smacked in the head with a hammer. I went down in shock. I was p`nicked

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and tried to get up and as H got up and got to the gate there w`s a

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padlock on the gate and thex had locked me in. That was just the

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start. They tied him up and gagged him and stuffed him in a body bag.

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They drove him to these woods where they talked about burying hhm alive.

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I thought I was going to did. They were talking about taking md to a

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forest and stuff and that h`ppened so I thought it was going to end.

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They put you in a body bag? Yes A plastic white bag. I was behng

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kicked in the head cause thdy put me in head first and I was behhnd the

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driver where the feet were so I could not see where we were going.

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What were they saying? They were saying things like have you got a

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shovel? The gang did not carry out the threat and released him onto the

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street in Hastings four men have been convicted of the assault and

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the fifth man has been found guilty of trying to get Ben to drop the

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case. The Sussex Police said about the gang...

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The police and other experts say that this sort of incident hs rare.

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It is a very dangerous way of exposing yourself and it re`lly

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raises the stakes for the vhctim because obviously the victil is then

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able to identify the attackdrs and that renders a prosecution luch more

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liable. Ben 's winds have now healed but he says he can never forgive

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what they gang did to him. `` then's wounds have now healdd.

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A Sussex soldier's death was avoidable and preventable. That is

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the verdict of a former Armx major on the death of Lance Corporal

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Michael Pritchard from Eastbourne who was killed by friendly fire in

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Afghanistan. Major Richard Streatfield makes the claims in a

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book to be published this wdek. Today Michael Pritchard's mother

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welcomed the claims as she strives to win an apology from the Linistry

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of Defence. Here's Piers Hopkirk. For Helen Perry, the grieving never

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stops. Today some relief th`t hearing confirmed from a senior

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military figure what she thought she knew all along. A lack of epuipment

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and a lack of training led to the death of her son. If you ard going

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to send a young soldier to war, it is like in any profession, hf they

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do not have the tools for the job things are going to go wrong. I find

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it incredible that they are not looked after and it is a duty of

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care. The duty of care was not there. Lance Corporal Michadl

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Pritchard died after being shot by friendly fire in Afghanistan in

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December 2009. His commanding officer has now written a book about

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his combat experiences, sayhng that Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard's

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family deserve a full apology from the Ministry of Defence for their

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failings over his death. Michael's death was, of course, avoid`ble

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There were mistakes individtal and collective, for which I apologised

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immediately after being quest and I believe should be apologised for

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publicly by the Ministry of Defence because there were MoD and `rmy

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chain of command mistakes as well. He believes the ministry fahled to

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upgrade essential kit and dhd not spend money on battlefield beacons

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to allow soldiers to identify their own troops. There was a lack of

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radios that meant poor communication. To be sent ott

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without the best kit that is available is disgusting. Evdry life

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is valuable and every soldidr deserves to be fully protected and

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that is a fundamental duty of care. The MoD said that the Armed Forces

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constantly review equipment requirements to ensure they are

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fully placed to meet the myriad of incidents they may meet an

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operations. All personnel ddserve the best protection that money can

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buy. I'm joined now by Stephen Lloyd who

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is the family's constituencx MP Mr Lloyd, you are putting your weight

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behind their campaign for an apology. I am. My heart goes out to

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the family, to Helen and Michael's sister and his father. The broader

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family have been fighting this for years and they have been working

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closely with them. It is an amazing family of great courage. It appears

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from what the commanding officer puts into this book that I have had

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a bit of a briefing about is that he is specifically criticising the

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equipment and there are two things that I want to do and I will do I

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want an assurance from the LOT that they have learned from this and the

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necessary equipment that cotld have saved Michael's life has now been

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implemented and is used by troops and that is an assurance th`t I

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want. The second thing is if the commanding officer says that the

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army and the MoD should givd a public apology to the familx then I

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think they should. I will bd pressing both of those cases. Do you

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think it is likely? It seems that the MoD is very reluctant to

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apologise about anything in these kind of environments. It dods seem

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to be a department that does struggle in this area. I do not

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know. I am not ex`Army and H have not been in the MoD but I bdlieve

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that where you happy former commanding officer of Michadl

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Pritchard demanding that thd MoD do a public apology, if they do not

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then I would want to know the reason why. There are two issues, the

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apology which I will be pressing and also I want assurances that there

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has been real learning here and this equipment that would or could have

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saved his life is now avail`ble for the troops in Afghanistan and

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elsewhere. Thank you very much.

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In a moment: A campaign to ward Walter Tull a posthumous medal for

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his bravery. Ambitious plans to build a 05,0 0

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home garden city in Kent received luke warm reception from thd County

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Council today which warned that it had been trying to push for

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development in the area for years. The leader of Kent County Council

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says he's had little success in getting the company which owns the

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land in Ebbsfleet to start building. For seven years the developdr, Land

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Securities, has had planning permission for thousands of homes,

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but has only started work on 15 . Our business correspondent Lark

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Norman reports. Through the trees you can m`ke out

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the quarry. The landowners have planning permission to build 16 000

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homes here and it is where the government want to see a new garden

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city. Hold on, shouldn't we see some houses over there? 18 months ago the

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leader of the council told le they had done a deal to see building work

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start in the quarry. Land Sdcurities have suggested they will st`rt to

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build the first phase of holes. . This is Paul Carter today, still

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believing that hounds will eventually be built here. To be fair

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to Land Securities may have started to build 150 homes. It is a small

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number compared to the potential for that side and we now want to see

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accelerated progress by Land Securities, the landowners, with a

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bit of help and a challenge from the central government develop the

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corporation. The politicians want to see 15,000 homes built on l`nd

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already earmarked for development. There is ?200 million avail`ble for

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new homes and `` new roads `nd schools. Will this actually be a

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garden city? Here at Letchworth the first garden city in the cotntry...

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Letchworth was the first garden city in the country but to qualify you

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have to adhere to certain principles and in particular the land hs held

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in trust for the community with profits from things such as factory

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rentals being used for the community. Development has been slow

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and that is why we are taking the step the cost of element

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corporations can make things happen more quickly and critically the

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Chancellor has said that he will put in up to ?200 million of additional

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capital investment which will create the infrastructure to unlock

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house`building. The owners of the land say they welcomed the

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announcement yesterday but `dd that the valley still resembles the

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quality `` quarry and needs significant further investmdnt

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before homes can be built in any quantity.

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Well, our business correspondent Mark Norman is in Ebbsfleet now at

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the site of the Eurostar terminal. That is a very clear piece of

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infrastructure in the area but when you are building 15,000 new homes,

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you need roads and schools `nd health facilities and what `bout

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those? Absolutely. This is ` centrepiece and there is a planned

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?2 billion investment in a theme park in Swans command the potential

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of another Thames crossing. This will put huge pressure on schools

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and roads locally and that will be part of what the money is about

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Yesterday's announcement probably came as a bit of a surprise, a bit

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too early for some of the players in this game and people want to see how

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the urban developer incorporation is constituted and to see if it has the

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teeth and the clout to push through the plans where other plans have

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failed in the past decade. Well, we want to know what xou

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think. Is the Government right in its plans to create a Garden City in

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Kent or is the South East already too crowded?

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Three women and a dog have been rescued after becoming trapped

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waist`deep in mud on the Kent coast. The first woman had been walking to

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Reculver on Sunday morning. A fellow walker and two dogs had man`ged to

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free themselves after becomhng stuck. She was rescued by the RNLI.

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About 90 minutes later two women and a dog were rescued from the same

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place. Some of the people affected by the

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winter flooding are to recehve a royal visit this week. The Prince of

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Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall will be in Yalding in Kent on

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Wednesday meeting local reshdents. They then travel to Burwash in East

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Sussex. Beaches at two of the South East's

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holiday destinations could be closed due to pollution. The Environment

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Agency says raw sewage is flowing into the sea off Hastings Bdach in

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East Sussex and in Kent rotting seaweed is causing problems. In a

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moment we'll speak to Charlhe Rose in Hastings but first Peter

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Whittlesea reports from Walpole Bay in Margate.

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The water quality here simply is not clean enough to meet new EU

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regulations. Instead of sticking up a sign saying there is no swimming

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here the local council has `pplied to delist this beach so bathers do

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not come here. It is not right not to warm people and we have had 0

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positive testing is since 2011. That and the negative publicity `nd no

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swimming sign could bring is why this beach will be delisted. Is it

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the right decision? If people want to swim there they will swil but

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they should be notified correctly, not just delisted. If you ptt a sign

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saying not to swim it will put people off. The council says it

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cannot risk putting people off in an area with so many blue flags.

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Normally the contents of thhs outflow pipe are relatively harmless

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but because of a few disconnected residential pipes, some of ht could

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be sewage. I am a bit disgusted I think it is insignificant, the money

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would be better sent `` better spent tracing the source of the sdwage

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rather than fencing it off. The beaches used by a lot of language

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students who are great for the local economy and called on the bdach off

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does not look great for tourism The source of the problem is about 0

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properties to the north of Hastings. It is not clear yet who is to blame

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but because of strict new Etropean rules on water quality the council

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has to act. One of our ideas is because the monitoring takes place

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close to the outfall, if we discourage bathers from swilming in

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that area and get them to move about 50 metres or so to the East and we

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change the monitoring point so it is further from the outfall whdre it is

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clear some material is going out that we would rather it did not The

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council hoped to get the messages out and get a warning in pl`ce in

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time for the busy season. Well, our reporter Charlie Rose

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joins us live now from Hasthngs Closing the beach could do dnormous

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harm to the image of the town. How soon do they think they can get this

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problem sorted? These new rtles on a safe levels of faecal matter in

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bathing water come into effdct next year so the authorities are

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identifying the homes that have their say was mistakenly connected

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to the storm drains. They w`nt to get the problem sorted before 2 15

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because Spring is here and the weather is warming up and the last

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thing the council want is for people to be put off from visiting the

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beach. This is our top story tonight: A

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21`year`old man who was tortured by people he believed were fridnds has

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been telling the BBC how he thought he was going to die.

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Ben Hutchings, who lives in Hastings, was gagged, beaten with

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hammers and forced into a body bag and then driven to woodland. Five

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people have been convicted hn connection with the incident.

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Also in tonight's programme: The Sussex athlete who first sw`m a mile

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at the age of four, now abott to compete in the world winter

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championships in Finland. After the weekend sunshine this week

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includes more cloud and the wind will pick up and there is r`in as

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well. Join me later for the details. Pressure is growing for Britain s

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first black army officer to be given the Military Cross. Walter Tull who

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was from Folkestone, was killed during the second Battle of the

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Somme but wasn't officially honoured for his bravery. Tull was also a

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professional footballer and played for Tottenham Hotspurs. Now ahead of

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the centenary of the First World War, one of his descendants has made

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an emotional journey across the Channel to the place where he died.

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Nafisa Sayani went along. This man was extraordinary. He just

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happened to be half black. He was very humbling all the things he

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did. He lived his life for other people. He is an inspiration because

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he did it at a time when attitudes were very different. He was a

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working`class orphan from Kdnt but against all odds Walter Tull became

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the first black combat officer in the British Army. Now his great

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niece has come from Maidstone here to northern France where he was

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killed in action. Because I am one of the last of the family I just

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wanted to sort of come and see for myself and be able to pass tp and

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down to my children. Born in Folkestone and the grandson of a

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slave he became well`known `s a player at a top football cltb,

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Tottenham Hotspur. He gave tp his sporting career to join the British

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Army even before conscription and he grows up the ranks despite the

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colour of his skin. He was seen as a good soldier and promoted three

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times and eventually by 1917 he became an officer and the m`nual of

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military law forbade any colmissions to people that were not of pure

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European descent so they threw the rule book away for him. You would

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make an excellent commissioned officer... Walter made history and

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inspired books and plays and films including this BBC television drama.

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Soldiers on the front line were expected to live no more th`n six or

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eight weeks. Walter outlastdd that by many months. In March 1908,

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during the last major German offensive of the war, he was fatally

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shot. His body was never fotnd but in this cemetery not far from the

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battlefield where it is thotght he was killed more than 300 Brhtish

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soldiers are buried and ten of them are unidentified bodies. Rita

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suspect that one of them cotld be Walter Tull but she will never know

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for sure. Those, like Walter, whose bodies were never recovered have

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their names inscribed here on this memorial to the missing. Whdn I saw

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his name on there it really choked me up. I did not think it would be

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that way because I never kndw him as a person but to suddenly sed that, I

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just wanted to cry. I am just absolutely proud that I am part of

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the family. Walter was recolmended for a military Cross but never

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received it. For Rita this reunion with her great uncle is a mdmory

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that she will treasure for the rest of her life.

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And you can find out more about the centenary of the First World War on

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our website. A Kent teenager is starting his

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final training today for thd World Winter Swimming Championships in

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Finland. BBC South East Tod`y first filmed Alan Luckhurst in 2001, when

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he swam a mile for charity `t Maidstone Leisure Centre. Hd's now

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17 and Ian Palmer has been to see him again.

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Training in the Serpentine lake in London in February. In Finl`nd Alan

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Luckhurst will have two bre`k the ice before he gets into the water.

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Your body starts to shut down the minor organs so it is the m`jor

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organs that keep working and after a while your fingers note `` xour

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fingers go numb and your tods go numb and everything starts to go and

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with me my chest starts to go really numb and that becomes quite painful

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if I am in for too long. Thd 17`year`old is a veteran whdn it

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comes to swimming because at the age of four he completed a mile in his

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local pool. It was a record at the time so who will bet against him

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breaking more in the future. Not too tired? Body shaping up well? Think

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you can do it? Yes. Alan Luckhurst will compete in the under 18

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category of the world Champhonships. To prepare for this challenge she

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has had to do something rather extreme. This is Alan trainhng last

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night in an ice bath at homd. He lasted for five minutes. His parents

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say they admire his dedicathon. We are incredibly proud, particularly

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as the cold water swimming hn particular he has done of hhs own

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volition and he has wanted to do it as opposed to us having to dncourage

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them to do it initially. If you do not live life in the comfort zone

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you achieve more and facing challenges helps him grow. The

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17`year`old has been short listed for a cross`channel relay swim.

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Shola attempts will shortly follow. For now the focus is on the

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Scandinavian winter can throw at him. `` solo attempt will shortly

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follow. I feel cold just looking at it!

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Sooner him than me. Followers of the South East's

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football league clubs can t`ke some comfort from the weekend's results.

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There were away draws for Charlton and Gillingham but useful vhctories

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for both Crawley and Brighton as Neil Bell reports.

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Rather like last year Brighton looked like gaining momentul just at

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the right time and they might have found the answer to their

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goal`scoring issues. Will Btckley showed what they had missed with a

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cool finish to put them ahe`d. His second after the interval w`s

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simplicity itself with a deft flick and a burst of speed and ard

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confident finish to cap a htgely impressive performance. It was

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fantastic and a fantastic s`ve. He had the quality to finish the second

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one. He showed good place and a cool heads to finish it. They max have a

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new manager but Charlton's lack of firepower continues to haunt them.

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They were lifted off the bottom of the championship. Chillingh`m found

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themselves a goal down earlx on but they went ahead. A deft sub from ``

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a deft touch from a Saab me`nt they equalised and stayed in 13th place.

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Mike Jones made a decisive finish each to give Crawley victorx over

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Colchester. A teenage Kent footballer h`s joined

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Premier League Hull City. The rapid progress of 18`year`old Joh`n Ter

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Horst was being monitored bx a number of clubs following a

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successful season with home team Folkestone Invicta.

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Summer is over. That is it. Wasn't it glorious? It

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will mostly be dry this week so it is not a write`off.

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The sunshine from the weekend we will have less of it the next few

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days. Temperatures will cool and by Friday it will be turning wdt as

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well. Earlier there was somd sunshine around but plenty of cloud

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cover and the temperatures `re down from the weekend values but still in

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the low teens. Not bad for the time of year. The winner will be picking

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up in the next couple of daxs. Tonight they will mostly st`y

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light. We will have cloud cover thickening and there could be some

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patchy rain and drizzle. Temperatures only dropping 26 or

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seven degrees. It will be mhld as we start the tomorrow. Cloud cover and

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we stay mild in the morning but in the afternoon there are light

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showers. The ice above are tightening which means the wind is

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picking up. The morning is the best chance of seeing sunshine whth more

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clouded the afternoon. Therd are some fast moving showers. Top

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temperatures 13 degrees and it will feel cooler than today. As we go

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through tomorrow night it is more of the same. We stay dry with plenty of

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cloud cover and temperatures stay mild. They only dropped to six or

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seven degrees. On Wednesday the temperatures climbed slightly. It

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stays breezy with cloud covdr. We will see the temperatures in the

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midst teams and highs of 16 or 7 degrees. In more sheltered shots ``

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spots it will be the best d`y of the week. On Thursday more cloud cover.

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The wind will strengthen. It is uncertain when we will see this rain

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but it turns wet and windy `s we go over into Friday. The weekend will

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be nothing like this weekend with cloud cover and outbreaks of rain

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but it will be warm on Wedndsday. Plans to build a garden citx with

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15,000 new homes in Apsley had a lukewarm reception from the County

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Council. The leader says th`t he has had little success in getting the

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company who owns the land already to start building.

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We ask for your views. David says in our household we are worried that

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this development will stretch the inadequate infrastructure of roads

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and schools and hospitals in the area which cannot cope now so how

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will they manage with anothdr 1 ,000 homes?

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They will not. Similar thoughts from Julia.

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She says the infrastructure needs major investment. Anyone who lives

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here knows that when there `re problems on the M25 the whole area

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becomes gridlocked, more holes, more traffic, the area cannot help ``

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code. This one says it sounds good but

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they should look at the boarded`up properties first because thdre are

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thousands. The nearest hosphtal is Darren Valley which is alre`dy too

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small and cannot cope. The schools are oversubscribed and

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the roads around blue water can be at a standstill so she is not

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looking forward to it being built. Chris asked if there was public

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consultation over the construction of the new town.

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It seems it is an opportunity area but for who? Developers and

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builders. That is it for now. I will be back

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with the late bulletins and the 8pm update. I will see you tomorrow

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Goodbye.

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