20/04/2014 South East Today


20/04/2014

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Good evening. That's it.

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Good evening. A woman has been charged with three

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counts of attempted murder `nd arson with intent to endanger lifd

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following a house fire in C`nterbury on Friday. Pearl Ivy Thomas and

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three children were taken to hospital suffering smoke inhalation

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and minor burns. Piers Hopkhrk reports.

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Police continuing their investigations at this housd this

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morning. Neighbours here spdaking of their shop. You just don't dxpect

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it, do you, on your doorstep? Firefighters were called to this

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quiet cul`de`sac at about 3:30pm on Friday. The kids were out playing

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and they said, there is a house on fire. We came out and had a look. We

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could see smoke coming out the window. The fire brigade cale and

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kicked the door down. It was contained in the kitchen I think

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that I don't know much more. There were police out here. We went

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allowed to close. One woman and three children were taken to

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hospital and treated for smoke inhalation and minor burns. Pearl

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Ivy Thomas has been charged with three counts of attempted mtrder and

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arson with intent to endangdr life. She will appear before magistrates

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tomorrow morning. Police are carrying out an

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investigation after a man's body was found in a crashed car in Wdst Kent.

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The 46`year`old's body was discovered on Friday afternoon in a

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silver BMW which had gone down an embankment on the A229 in

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Knoxbridge. An investigation is now underway to try and find out how the

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car crashed and Kent Police are appealing for witnesses.

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The energy firm Cuadrilla could carry out further exploration for

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oil and gas in Balcombe, if the County Council approves new plans.

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Last summer saw weeks of protests against the company's decishon to

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test`drill for oil in the vhllage, but planning consent has since

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expired. West Sussex County Council will look at the new recommdnded

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proposals later this month. Several homes were flooded today

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after a water main burst in Crawley. 15 properties were affected when the

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mains burst on Scory Close hn Bewbush. Fire, police and the

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council were all at the scene. The pipe has been repaired and the water

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has now receded. The former Kent MP Jonathan Aitkin,

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who was jailed in 1999 for perverting the course of justice,

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says prisoners need mentors to bring down re`offending rates. In a new

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report, Aitkin, who used to be the MP for South Thanet, says the prison

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service needs to recruit a network of 15,000 mentors to help offenders.

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The Government has admitted that re`offending rates have bardly

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changed in a decade. Figures obtained by the BBC show

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that hospital patients in Kdnt are missing nearly one in ten

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appointments. 150,000 patients failed to show up at health trusts

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in the county last year. Experts have calculated the cost of each

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missed appointment is ?100, costing the NHS ?1 billion a year.

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The husband of a Kent woman who died in a boating tragedy in Brazil has

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returned to the country to campaign for justice. Gillian Metcalf from

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Tenterden was killed when two boats collided on a tributary of the

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Amazon river last September. Jon Hunt reports.

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It's the first time Mr Metc`lfe has been back to the country since his

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wife died. Gillian, a lawyer, was killed when two boats collided on

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the river. More than six months on, the family is concerned no one will

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ever be prosecuted. It is vdry frustrating to sit here and not be

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able to do anything. We just felt we were doing something for her by

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getting there, we were trying to push to get some justice. Brazilian

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TV and newspapers picked up on the story and aired their concerns about

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the time prosecutions were taking. It seems to us they do not really

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care that much. I don't likd the idea of our boat drivers continuing

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to be on the river because ht could happen again to anyone else. They

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were both very irresponsibld. The family say that returning fdlt right

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and they were able to reflect on the happiness they had shared bdfore the

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travelling. We were happy btnch and that is some consolation. It was

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quick and we were together `nd we were happy. Mr Metcalfe hopds his

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visit will prompt prosecutors to bring the case to court.

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Well, there may have been a few indoor Easter egg hunts tod`y. Let's

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get a check on the weather. With the rain clearing to the north

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we can expected to be a mostly dry night with quite a lot of cloud at

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times. It will be a fairly lild night as well, temperatures down to

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seven or eight Celsius. For bank holiday Monday, expect quitd a nice

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dead. There will be a lot of low cloud to start the day but that

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should break throughout the morning to give decent spells of brhghtness

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and eventually some sunshind as well. The air is mild and

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temperatures rise accordingly, all the way up to 17 Celsius perhaps for

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some spots, which is 63 in Fahrenheit. But watch out for some

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heavy, thundery showers as we head into the afternoon. More April

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showers on the way for the rest of the week. Some good spells of

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sunshine and staying fairly mild throughout. That's all from us.

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Hello. Well, it was another lovely sunny day across the north of the

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UK. What a difference over the south. The rain set in for the

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course of the afternoon. There's more of that to come. It has been

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getting heavy across southern

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