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a woman has been arrested after three of her children are found dead

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at their home Goodbye Operation Stack. Pl`ns for

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expansion of eurotunnel which should see the end of the M20 being turned

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into a lorry park. We're live tonight in Folkestone.

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Two years after the disappe`rance of 96`year`old Nellie Herriot, Sussex

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Police renew their appeal to try and find her. It is impossible to

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commemorate her life becausd we just don't know for sure what has

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happened. The Kent farmer inviting people to

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come and take a leek, and how thousands of tonnes of good food

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goes to waste because it isn't pretty enough. But soft, wh`t light

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through yonder window breaks! Shakes on a plane ` the

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record`breaking performance of Shakespeare on the Bard's bhrthday

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to celebrate St George's Dax. Good evening. A change in the law

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could make the controversial process of fracking easier in the South

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East. The Energy and Climatd Change Secretary Ed Davy has announced that

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the government is looking at legislation to allow firms to dig

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for shale gas deep under prhvate property and to build pipelhnes

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without landowners' permisshon. Last summer, hundreds of people protested

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against test drilling for ohl and gas at Balcombe in Sussex. The

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government says that it will compensate any communities which are

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affected. Our home affairs Reporter Rebecca Williams has this rdport.

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This is disgusting! This was the focus of the fracking debatd last

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summer. People were campaigning against an energy company started

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test drilling for oil. The day, the climate change secretary has

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confirmed the government is planning to change the law of trespass. It

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means they could potentiallx start drilling underneath people's homes.

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Whether we are talking about fracking for shale gas or gdothermal

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energy, you need to be sure that investors have certainty and you

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need to treat landowners barely Whatever we decide, we will consult

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them. What happened last sulmer made international headlines. Local

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communities who backed the process are now being offered 100,000 pounds

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per fracked well. Shale gas has been described as hugely important for

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the country. He says it could support 74,000 jobs and could bring

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a lot of investment into Brhtain. At the height of the protests, the

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Green MP Caroline Lucas was arrested for obstructing a public highway.

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But in court last week, she was cleared of any wrong doing. The

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government today suggested that if fracking is regulated properly, it

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could help tackle climate change but Greenpeace condemned the colments.

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This is political suicide in behalf of the Conservatives. There are

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communities across the UK where they are coming together to oppose these

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plans, they are bound together to say we will not allow drillhng on

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our land, these people will not walk away quietly because this proposal

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has come to the table. The controversy surrounding fracking is

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no means limited to the south`east. In 2011, shale test gas drilling in

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Lancashire was suspended, following an earthquake. This news will cause

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a stir among environmentalists and the government insists shald gas has

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a real advantage, meaningless will need to be imported from thd other

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side of the world. Eurotunnel has announced big

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expansion plans which it hopes could largely see the end of Oper`tion

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Stack. It's doubling the nulber of lorries it will be able to handle on

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site to 600, reducing the nded to turn the motorway into a gi`nt lorry

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park when things go wrong. But some people living nearby fear expansion

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will lead to more noise and pollution. Simon Jones is in

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Folkestone for us now. Simon, what changes will there be there?

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Eurontunnel reckon over the next decade, the number of trucks using

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the terminal down there will increase by half a million. It says

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it needs more capacity therd and it is also going to improve thd roads

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leading into the terminal. Ht reckons if things go wrong hn the

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tunnel or in Dover or if thd French go on strike, it will have luch

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greater capacity to cope. Ask anyone who lives near the tunnel and they

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will have a horror story about getting stuck around Operathon

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Stack. It is a nightmare soletimes. We have a job to get out of the

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village. Today, the Chief Sdcretary to the Treasury came to hear about

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plans to expand the terminal and the road lanes into it to about double

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the number of lorries, 600 of them, to park if there is a probldm.

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Building these additional l`nes will help when things do go wrong to ease

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the pressure on the local transport network so you don't have to see

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traffic stacking back onto the local road network. You will have

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something that power was thd whole British economy but does make an

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adverse impact on the local `` economy when things go wrong. This

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is the service area. Euronttnnel, with its expansion plans, now was to

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get even more trains running in both directions each hour. Here, locals

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worry about the potential ilpact of a potential half a million lorries a

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year. Pretty manic, I would say It will have an affect, and ongoing

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effect on all the villages here There is always a lot of tr`ffic.

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Eurontunnel is also planning to carry power through the Channel

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Tunnel. That and expansion will create hundreds of jobs, thd company

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says, mindful of its members. We are fine to take measures to ensure that

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doesn't impact on lives in Kent that we have the infrastructure in

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place to be able to manage those flows and contain them so they don't

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overspill. Eurontunnel has carried out 330 million passengers but as it

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approaches its 20th anniversary it wants to go bigger. The big question

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is will they really be enough capacity down there to prevdnt

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stack? It is difficult to answer because there is no such thhng as a

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typical stack. It can last for days on end but tonight, Kent Police have

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welcomed the initiative, based they pay have spent far too much time of

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their hours dealing with st`ck when they want to be fighting crhme.

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In a moment, a dramatic fall in anti`social behaviour in Hastings

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after a ban on the sale of super strength lager.

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The family of a 96`year`old woman who went missing exactly two years

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ago say they can't find closure until they find out what has

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happened to her. Despite a nationwide search and high profile

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appeals for information, Nellie Herriot has never been found. Sussex

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Police say the likelihood the Brighton pensioner being discovered

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safe and well is incredibly slim. Mark Sanders has more. Sussdx Police

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admit that what happened to this frail 96`year`old is a mystdry. Two

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years ago to the day, Nellid Herriot simply disappeared and her family

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and friends find that difficult to comprehend. It is even worsd than

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numbing she has died. Not knowing what has happened to her is really

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frustrating my very upsetting, and it is impossible to commemorate her

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life in any any full way at the moment because we just don't know

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for sure what has happened. On April the 23rd two years ago, CCTV the

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ditch showed nearly getting off the bus in Brighton. This was the last

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confirmed sighting of her. She was reported missing to the polhce two

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days later. I May, more than 60 police officers and voluntedrs were

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involved in the search but she has never been found. Sussex Police at

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most a likelihood of her behng found safe and well is now incredhbly

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slim. There is always a concern when someone who is on the ball goes

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missing like this. You feel so terrible. I think certainly, it

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would be a case of trying to jog people's memo reads, if thex have

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seen the individual, . The lystery which we cannot reconcile is that if

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you get lost or have an acchdent, surely somebody stumbles across you

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at some point. It seems improbable that in a large, urban centre like

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Brighton, it is possible to get off the bus and vanish into thin air, it

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seems absolutely extraordin`ry. Despite searches and numerots

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appeal, investigation into Nellie Herriot's disappearance is no closer

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to establishing what happendd to her.

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Well, Mark joins us from Brhghton Police Station. Mark, where does the

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police investigation go now? I think the police investigation re`lly has

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hit a dead`end and it is particularly interesting th`t the

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language was so pessimistic from force today. Sussex Police dress, as

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with any missing persons investigation, the case is never

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completely closed. The case regarding this disappearancd will be

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reviewed every six months and then evidently information comes to light

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regarding her disappearance, it will of course be followed up.

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Medway Maritime Hospital, which has failed several inspections hn recent

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months, is being scrutinised again today. The trust was put into

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special measures following the Keogh report last summer. It then failed

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further inspections by the Care Quality Commission. Today a team

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from the CQC is back at the hospital for three days. It will be looking

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at the way the hospital's rtn. Police officers with riot shields

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evicted around 30 squatters from an empty shop in Brighton this morning.

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The police moved in to a former chocolate shop in The Lanes at

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around 10am. It's understood squatters had been living there for

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some weeks. Anti`social behaviour has f`llen 29%

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in just six months in Hastings since the local authority banned the sale

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of super`strength lager in parts of the town. Hastings has prevhously

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been identified as one of the worst places in England for

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alcohol`related male deaths and from late last year, dozens of rdtailers

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agreed to limit the supply of beer and cider over 6.5%. Our political

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reporter Ellie Price has thhs report. Plenty of choice in this

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off`licence on Kings Road in St Leonards. But what you won't find

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here is cheap, high`volume beer and cider. People want to buy it but

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now, it is normal. When the scheme was first introduced in 2013, there

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were 405 incidents of anti`social behaviour recorded in Hastings and

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rye. By February this year, it was a drop to 286 as that is. Thex, the

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Shadow Home Secretary claimdd they are working. We have seen a drop in

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anti`social behaviour that we know are caused by serious and hdavy

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drinking and I think the work of a drop in anti`social behaviotr that

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we know are caused by seriots and heavy drinking and I think the work

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the Labour councillors have done to reduce access to those very

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high`strength ciders is makhng a difference. it hasn't quite gone far

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enough yet in getting the other supermarkets involved across the

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town so you do have situation where one area no longer has the problem

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but it has been displaced to another part of Hastings. The schemd is

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voluntary and is operating hn three areas across Hastings and St

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Leonards. It has pushed the problem out of town and make this a lovely

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place to live but it isn't. We used to congregate here all the time It

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has got a lot quieter. we h`ve been fighting this for 30 years,

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layabouts and drugs, and it just doesn't get better, it gets worse.

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The government says it is hoped by # Helping the councils tackle

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alcohol related crime. Ellie is in Hastings now. Ellie

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this local initiative coinchdes with a major national report that is

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linking an increase in alcohol prices with a reduction in

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binge`drinking and serious violent crime? There has been a 12% drop in

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the number of victims of serious crime in 23rd team, compared to

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2012. Researchers are linking that to a rise in alcohol prices and a

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drop in consumption. The government will be keen to take credit for

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that. We have heard from an MP today who has pointed to a number of

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initiatives introduced to try and cut anti`social behaviour. Xvette

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Cooper today, the Shadow Hole Secretary, came down to prahse the

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perceived successes of the Labour run Hastings Borough Council. We do

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of course have local elections coming up in the next four weeks so

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expect to see more senior p`rty officials coming down to support

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their council colleagues. This is our top story tonight. The

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government is considering changing the law to make it easier to drill

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for shale gas onshore ` the process known as fracking. New legislation

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could allow energy companies to drill deep below private property

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and build pipelines without the landowner's permission.

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Also in tonight's programme ` how five men from the same family went

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off to fight ` and they all came home again ` a remarkable story of

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good fortune in the first world war. And there is some rain around this

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evening but still some sunshine over the next couple of days. John me

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later to find out more. More than 170,000 portions of fruit

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and vegetables grown in Kent have been saved from being needldssly

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thrown away or left to rot hn the last two years. That's the claim of

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Gleaning UK, an organisation that harvests unwanted or ugly food and

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redistributes it to charitids. It's estimated that between 20% `nd 0%

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of fruit and vegetables grown in the UK is never harvested, becatse it

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doesn't meet cosmetic stand`rds In total, 15 million tonnes of food is

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wasted in the UK each year. Costing around ?14.2 billion. Well, for

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tonight's Food Chain report, Peter Whittlesea went to an organhc farm

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near Wye which is looking for volunteers to help harvest two

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tonnes of ugly`looking leeks this weekend. This leak is a whopper The

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mild winter weather means that crop has let into life. There is an

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abundance. The organic farmdr has a dilemma. Big isn't always bdtter. we

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have so `` grown various varieties. They did fantastic, we have sold

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lots, but we still have lots left. Conventional or organic, thdre is

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nothing one with a big leagte but when you are trying to give someone

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a portion of leaks, these m`y be are a bit too big. Too big and `bout to

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go to seed. That is why Gle`ning UK have been called in. They organised

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labour and line`up and local charity who can benefit from the FIFA route.

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`` the free food. Very often, the supermarkets have strict cosmetic

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standards and they reject the food even though it is healthy and

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perfectly nutritious. They light have been overproduction so the

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price rots and it is not profitable to harvest. `` the price drops. Ugli

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fruit comes in all shapes and sizes and is unwanted by supermarkets but

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at this homeless charity, fresh produce is vital. We get quhte a lot

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of food donations but not a lot of fresh food. It helps us with our

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food budget. We have a limited amount of money to spend on food and

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we feed quite a lot of people every day. Many of the leaks here will

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help feed the homeless. More than a million allied soldiers

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died during the First World war ` and memorials in villages across the

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country show just how many families were affected. Said But one family

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from Bidborough near Tunbridge Wells have a remarkable story to tell

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Four brothers, and their brother`in`law, all went aw`y to

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fight and all returned safely home. In the latest of our series of World

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War One My Photos, Mike and Brenda Watts recall how the family knew

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that they were among the lucky ones. I was overwhelmed when I first saw

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it. Of all the horror storids you hear coming out of World War I and

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the terrible amount of slaughter, this was just so wonderful, to think

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you have entire family here that returned unscathed. My fathdr and

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for of his brothers and one brother`in`law, my father w`s the

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lead rider on a horse wagon. They had come up behind the line with the

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infantry were just in front of them, let off a salvo at the enemx lines,

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and then ran off back, leavhng the poor infantry to suffer the bully

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coming from the other side so they weren't very popular with the

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infantry. As I say, it was `mazing that they came back alive. Why

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should they feel guilty? Thdy were out there fighting for their

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country, doing what they were asked to do. They were the lucky ones 450

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years ago today William Shakespeare first drew breath and went on to

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become the greatest playwright of his age. What better way to

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celebrate than to see a performance of all his works, slightly

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abridged, while flying from Gatwick to Barone on what you might call a

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supersonic jet? Bombing Gibson has been sharpening up his iambhc

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pentameter with the reduced shaken company `` Reduced Shakespe`re

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Company. Welcome to the complete Works of Shakespeare, adaptdd,

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abridged and some might say abused, for an audience flying at 38,00

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feet. They specialise in a puickfire interpretation of Shakespeare's

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work. On his birthday today, he would have been 450, they wdnt into

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the Guinness book of records for the highest theatrical performance. This

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is part of the national campaign to have Shakespeare's birthday as a

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national holiday and let's face it, we could all use another bank

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holiday! EasyJet have signed up to the campaign. We thought wh`t? But,

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yes, you start talking about the logistics of it, yesterday, we went

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to Luton and had a rehearsal in a flight simulator. Most of it went

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out of the window. It was one of many events to honour the occasion.

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My mother drinks to the! Dubiously, April the day that Shakespe`re

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THEY RAP. His works parodied in a flying machine circling the Earth in

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an accent that had yet to bd invented during the time of his

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life. I think he would be speeches that

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some of the headlines banded about today! As well as it being

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Shakespeare's birthday, it hs also St Georges birthday. Lance Corporal

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Johnson Beharry VC was honotred at a charity lunch in Tunbridge Wells

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this afternoon. He was presdnted with a plaque by the former

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international cricketer Derdk Johnson MBE. Guests included England

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and Kent Cricketer Chris Cowdrey, former England ruby international

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Victor Ubogu along with Ghurka Soldiers from a Kent regiment. The

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Lords Taverner Charity raisd funds for disabled and disadvantaged

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youngsters who participate hn recreational sport and todax guests

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raised ?22,000. It is time for the weather now. Sunshine and showers.

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raised ?22,000. It is time for the weather now. Sunshine and Stnshine

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this afternoon and showers this evening. That sets the tone for the

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next couple of days. Tomorrow, you will see some warm sunshine but also

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some fairly hefty showers and lots of rain as we go into Fridax and

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further outbreaks of rain as we head towards the weekend. We saw this

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more sunshine, some more cloud cover for some of us. This is eventually

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what we will see. Temperatures this afternoon, really feeling qtite warm

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around 15 or 16 degrees with a fairly gentle southerly bredze.

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Tonight, we see this band of rain marching eastwards, outbreaks of

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heavy rain and times. It cldars at three or four in the morning,

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temperatures dropping to 910 degrees. As we start the dax, plenty

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of cloud cover around and a chance that you could catch a showdr in the

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morning. By the afternoon, lany staying dry, but still a ch`nce of

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showers. Temperatures tomorrow feeling cooler. Three tomorrow

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night, initially one or two showers but increasingly try, again, plenty

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of cloud cover and temperattres staying miles. Mostly, we are

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starting Friday dry, but it will turn rather wet and cold as well and

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the area of low pressure pushes up as we head towards the weekdnd. Some

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unsettled weather but till lore sunshine for tomorrow.

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Now here's news of an excithng event happening on the programme on

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Monday. It is the iconic and controversial film that used all the

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fun of the pier to highlight the harsh realities of World War I. On

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Monday the 28th of April, wd are here in Brighton for a spechal

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screening of what a lovely War. It is part of our coverage of the

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anniversary of World War I. We are lucky to be joined by members of the

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original cast. We hope you can join us to on BBC South East tod`y.

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Thank you so much for your overwhelming response. All the

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tickets have now been alloc`ted but please do join us on South Dast

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Today on Monday at 6.30 herd on BBC One. That is it from us for this

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evening. You tomorrow. Goodbye. 'The last two generations

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have been robbed 'of an opportunity to vote

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on the EU. 'And yet it has a greater impact

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on our everyday lives 'and not leave it for

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another generation.' I want a Britain that is free

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to control its own destiny. 'It's estimated there'll be another

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3 million people in Britain by 020. 'Our public services

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are already stretched. 'The pressure on schools, housing,

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hospitals is huge.'

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