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

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

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?200,000 a year for a part time chairman ` an MP condemns the Medway

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We're live in Chatham with the details.

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A clerical blunder reveals Sussex police spied

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on anti`fracking protesters ` sparking further anger over their

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I am deeply concerned about the weight of these resources and for

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the way in which alleged th`t a the way in which alleged th`t a

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peaceful protest have been criminalised.

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96,000 back a petition callhng for CCTV on ferries, after ` Kent

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800 hours in the cockpit in WW2 but he never flew a spitfird.

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How a 91`year`old veteran's dream finally came true.

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And swapping their hammond organ for a church organ ` Jazz ftnk band,

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the James Taylor Quartet, compose mass at Rochester Cathedral.

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The decision to award the chairman of a Kent NHS Trust an

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annual package worth almost ?20 ,000 to work just one or two days a week

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has been condemned as "obscdne" tonight by a Conservative MP.

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Christopher Langley was appointed as chairman of the Medway Foundation

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NHS Trust in February after it was put into special measures.

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News of this NHS Trust is play `` paying it chairman more than the

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Prime Minister to work an average of just one or two days a week has

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punted surprise and disgust from patients and families. It's not

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exactly value for money on the NHS. Money could be put to far bdtter

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use. The hospital probably need far more put into it than they `re

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paying in. I don't really agree with the amount that is being pahd. I

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think it is diabolical, really. Christow Langley's pay deal amounts

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to ?190,000 which could buy eight nurses. I think the NHS would see it

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as very clear double standard. In terms of their position pay, the 1%

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that was recommended by the independent pay review, 6% of nurses

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will not be able to get that. Here you have an individual who hs

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getting that. The money is being made available, it seems to attract

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people to be organisation. Troubleshooter was appointed interim

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chairman by their public he`lth service monitor. They said the

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appointment came at the timd the chat `` trust was one of thd most

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challenging the country. Thd hospital needed the right pdople to

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do the job. They add that hhs pay is in line with terrible senior

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positions the NHS. This is the tricky job, there is no question

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about it. There are lots of things that make it difficult and

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propagated. He will command a premium to get the right person to

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do the job. Mr Langley is p`id more than four times what his prddecessor

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earned. This comes as a trust faces a ?3.6 million operating deficit. I

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have met Mr Langley and I al in no doubt whatsoever that he has a task

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and challenging job a head to turn around a very difficult sittation at

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the hospital. I do think th`t ?200,000 a day `` a year for one day

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a week is obscene when therd are times that nurses are facing

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financial present `` challenges Medway declined our request for an

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interview. His appointment hs due to continue until next Februarx. John,

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the Foundation trust has bedn making headlines for the wrong reason

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hasn't it. Yes, last year it was put into special measures because of

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concerns that mortality ratd. There was a review that identified major

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failings at the health watchdog decided that it had concerns about

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the safety of patients maternity services. These reasons, Monitor

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have appointed a new interil manager. Nigel Bellamy was `lso

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appointed. His packages ?300,00 a year for working four days ` week.

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That is double what his predecessor was earning. Monitor were not

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prepared to be interviewed today but they say that the new managdment

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team has a difficult and large task ahead of them any need to the right

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people there in the job. A blunder

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by Sussex Police has revealdd that they spied on anti`fracking

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protesters at Balcombe, and shared the information with oil

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exploration company Cuadrilla. The tactics,

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including the use of "covert means", were meant to be kept secret,

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but sections of a public document the force had tried to black out

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turned out to be legible online The Brighton MP, Caroline Ltcas

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has criticised the police, accusing them of trying to

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criminalise peaceful protest. Mark Sanders is at Sussex Police

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headquarters in Lewes. Marks, this highly embarrassing for

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the force. Something that w`s meant to be secret is now in the public

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domain because of a simple, clerical error. Sussex Police say thd

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surveillance was legitimate, other says it with intrusive. Shotting

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the protest about were hurldd `` hold in the public eye but now we

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have learned something the force wants to keep secret. They `re using

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covert mesh `` methods, spyhng essentially to find out what was

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going on. It feels at a timd in that police resources were under great

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pressure, to think that the people who were gathering an outcole,

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families coming young peopld, old people, somehow who were posing sums

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of existential threat, is ridiculous. A police blunder led to

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the tactics being disclosed. The surveillance was redacted or blacked

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out, but simply changing thd colour of the text in the election

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documents reveal the hidden sections. Once the operation moved

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into orbit, it was apparent that an appropriate range of intellhgence

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sources were being sourced. In other words, spying. These are sole of the

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views in Lewes today. Just because you disagree with one coursd of

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action doesn't mean police should be used. That like the secret police

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will stop it does smack of that I am not in favour of spying `s such,

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I think there was a need for something to be done. This shows

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underhand tactics, the police are using them in these situations. I

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think that is frankly appalling I notice very sensitive and I can

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understand public feeling that they should not happen, but it does. And

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it's very, barely and accur`tely recorded `` fairly and accurately

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recorded and passed on. The police state: We have a responsibility to

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gather intelligence and assdss risk and to pass on. Caroline Lucas has

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written to police to ensure that the monitoring of protesters is stopped.

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It has emerged that Sussex Police gave a security briefing to the

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energy company and as result of that, the company temporarily

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suspend the drilling. Howevdr, the independent review into polhcing in

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bulk and found that the intdlligent briefing was fully appropri`te. ``

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Balcombe. Coming up, reaction as Johanna Konta crashes out of

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Wimbledon in the first round. Supporters of Kent's beleaguered

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Police and Crime Commissiondr have accused the Prime Minister of

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criticising her performance in the David Cameron told the BBC that Ann

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Barnes, who stood as an Inddpendent, Our political reporter Ellid Price

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has the details. His is the most high`profild voice

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profile yet. Tonight, supporters of Ann Barnes and accuse a prile

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minister of political mischiefmaking. No, I wasn't

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particularly happy with what I heard. I don't she is making a very

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good job of her job. I do think `` people in Kent have an answdr which

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is to elect a new commissioner. You saying that because you don't think

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she is very conservative or because you have heard what is being said in

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Kent? I'm saying it because I don't think what I have heard is

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impressive. Even supporters say she had had a difficult few weeks. There

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was a cause her resignation following that four documentary Mrs

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Barnes said taking part was a wrong decision and she was, truly sorry.

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Then there was controversy over use the commissioners. Just a fdw weeks

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ago, it was claimed that Ms Brown's replacement had been involvdd in a

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relationship with a 50`year`old youth leader. In my opinion, David

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Cameron is doing this for ptrely big party political reasons. I can only

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see it from that point of vhew. I would like to challenge him, did he

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actually see the documentarx from start to finish on Channel four I

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think he's responding to a number of people who are out to get Ann

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Barnes. We have to look into this very closely. Please, Mr prhme

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minister, stay out of Kent business. It would be difficult for hdr to

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operate effectively after w`tching done. Ultimately, it's up to her to

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decide about her position. We have approached Ann Barnes for comment,

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but having told she is currdntly on leave out the country. A

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spokesperson says it is up to her to answer any questions on how she has

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performed her role. Eddie, Mrs Barnes will be a holidax

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tomorrow. There is likely to be a restructuring for the force. And she

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still will be away. It's not just her critics who say should be back.

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Even her former campaign manager say she ought to be back, if nothing

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else, to front up to some of the criticisms that she has facdd over

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the last few days. That said, this is an operational change tolorrow

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that has been brought about by the Chief Constable and it's his baby.

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We have heard from his `` hdr office denied that Mrs Barnes has been

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regularly briefed by him and that she supports all the changes.

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There's been a significant increase in the number of parents taken to

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court in Kent because their children have missed school.

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Kent County Council prosecuted 34 families in the 2012 school year,

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The Government is considering reducing child benefit for parents

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An adventurer has become the first person to cross

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The Government is considering reducing child benefit for parents

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An adventurer has become the first person to cross

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the English Channel on a boat powered directly by the sun.

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Simon Milward set off from Dungeness at 8.30am in a 15`foot catalaran,

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The boat's equipped with six solar panels that feed

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150 iPads worth over?30,000 have been stolen from Hove Park School.

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They were due to be handed out to pupils in September.

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Sussex Police say it's likely the thieves knew where

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The family of a man who vanhshed while travelling home from holiday

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on a night ferry to Dover s`y nearly a 100,000 people have now shgned

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their petition calling for CCTV cameras to be set up on uppdr decks.

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As we first reported in Novdmber, Richard Fearnside from Whitstable

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went on deck for a cigarettd and never returned.

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His family say they'll never know whether he fell or jumped

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because there were no camer`s to capture what happened.

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Human life is so important. They are campaigning for ferry passengers to

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be protected by installing CCTV A year after their son's death, nearly

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100,000 people agree with them. We can't assume, when someone goes

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missing. Anything could happen. There could have been a gatd left

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open or someone could have come up behind him. He was apparently on his

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own in the middle of the night on deck. Richard Fearnside dis`ppeared

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whilst on deck almost a year ago. In November, his production calpaign

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demanding that CCTV cameras were fitted on deck. Today, almost 1 0

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and `` 100,000 people have signed position. `` petition. P and O say

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it would be impossible to cover outside decks with CCTV. It would be

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impossible to monitor. To bring up an argument that is not

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cost`effective just does not hold water. It is a relatively cheap

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thing to do. In maritime safety expert says a feasibility study

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should be carried out. To actually have the switch respectivelx fitted

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onto ferries, I believe would be, may be feasible but would bd

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extremely expensive. I think the best way ahead is that a fe`sibility

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study to be done to see whether it is practical, logistically

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possible, and financially worth it. The UK chamber of shipping hs

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examining the issue. The review must ask questions like how many cameras

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would you need to cover the vulnerable point in a vessel and

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also, crucially, can it ever be more than a forensics item to tell you

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what happened afterwards. Whthout full`time manning, there wotld be no

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way of averting a charity. The firm side family have the support of the

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MP, Catherine Beard. Fearnshde ``. Fearnside the's petition has got

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almost 100,000 signatures now. Do they have any realistic chance of

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convincing the ferry companhes? A difficult question to answer.

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Success would be enhanced if there was industrywide agreement. We are

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not there yet. What is agredd that is if a measure should go forward

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and would get through, it would certainly not stop people from,

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unfortunately, jumping in `` and dying in some circumstances. It

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could go some way towards e`sing the pain of the old families.

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The decision to award the chairman of a Kent NHS Trust an

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annual package worth almost ?20 ,000 to work just one or two days a week

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has been condemned as "obscdne" tonight by a Conservative MP.

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Christopher Langley was appointed as chairman of the Medway Foundation

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NHS Trust in February after it was put into special measures.

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MUSIC PLAYS Midway's James Taylor Quartdt have

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swapped Jazz for classical lusic as a composing UMass from Rochdster

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Cathedral. It's been another glorious summer great `` dax but

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will this great were the last? Neville Croucher is,

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by his own admission, a lucky man. Now 91,

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he flew over 800 combat hours in Hurricanes during the Second World

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War, surviving being shot down. But his only regret was that he

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never had the chance to fly Yesterday, the veteran from Chartham

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near Canterbury was finally given the chance to take the controls

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even doing barrel rolls and Robin Gibson was there to sde it

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for tonight's Special Report. Either stand on their,

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put your leg over, we can hdlp you. Clambering into his first Spitfire

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at the age of 91. A little slower than when

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Neville Croucher raced into the air But he was perhaps even mord

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determined today, Does it bring back memories,

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Neville? Well, not in this cockpit, no,

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it is all so different. But I don't know why they are

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doing this, I am a nobody, really. A Dover baker's body, who vowed to

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join the RAF after seeing a German His helmet is on

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and he is ready to go. At the age of 91, Neville Croucher

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finally sits in a Spitfire. Neville was to fly 800 comb`t hours

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and was shot down and shot tp. Amazing.

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Yes, very emotional. This happened

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because a new company is now running flights in historic aircraft

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from the aerodrome at Headcorn. Amazing.

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Yes, very emotional. And I am only a youngster,

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relatively speaking. LAUGHTER I am not sure who's

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happier, me or Neville. It is a delight to see him

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in a Spitfire after all this time. He has want to do it for all

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of his life. It is a privilege to get in

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the back of one of these aircraft. Yes we did aerobatics.

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We flew around. We did formation.

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He hasn't lost it. He is absolutely as sharp

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as a cookie. It is like a dream He went through hundreds of hours

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of air combat. I think that deserves a flight

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in a Spitfire. You can find out more on our

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Facebook page. He's renowned for a string of jazz

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funk hits, playing alongsidd the likes of Tom Jones, the Pogues

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and the Manic Street Preachdrs, and even composing music for thd Austin

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Powers movie. But today, Jales Taylor, and his eponymous Qtartet,

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have been turning their hand to Born and bred in Rochester,

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he's been working with the choir of Rochester Cathedral

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for a new Mass that James h`s written, as he increasingly branches

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out into more classical mushc. Peter Whittlesea's been to

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see them in rehearsal. He has written music for films like

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Austin Powers, invented acid jazz in the late 1980s and performs of his

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namesake Quartet. After his father developed Alzheimers, James Taylor

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started attending evening song in Rochester Cathedral. He is now

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composing a song. When my f`ther got ill from Alzheimers, and th`t was an

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absolutely cruel, devastating thing that happened to our family, which

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whipped us apart actually. Eventually, you died. `` ripped

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Eventually he died. I startdd going to evening song to seek sol`ce and

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eventually found that. James's music might be away `` a

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world away from the choral lood but the chorister welcomes that. I think

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that is a wonderful thing to do More and more, cathedrals are having

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to actually say we are not old fuddy`duddies and get out there and

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do things differently. The choristers are enjoying doing

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something different. It's vdry up and down, up and down. I like the

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way it is that choir music. Sometimes if you just keep singing

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classical music it can get puite boring. Now, we sing jazz mtsic with

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James Taylor, and it's quitd fun and different. It certainly will be

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different. James Taylor says the concert on Friday night with the

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choristers and a big band whll bring the Cathedral to life.

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The sun is shining, the strawberrie have ripened and that can only mean

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And this year hopes are high that that rarest of things,

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a British Champion in Andy Lurray, can defend his title.

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For our women, though, simply reaching

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the second week would be a success, and sadly it's not going to happen

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Our Sports Reporter Neil Bell joins us live from Wimbledon `` 1st round

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defeat for Konta, Neil, although she gave it a real go.

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Yes, she did. It would have been the biggest were ` go win of her career.

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It's never easy as `` easy being the first Brit on court. She st`rted

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well, but lost the first set. She took the second set 6`3. After two

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gruelling hours she finally went down 6`4. Disappointed, but far from

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devastated. She's a very good player, so I knew,

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going out there that it was going Obviously,

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just a little sad not to have won, I am looking forward to

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the next time I can step up out But that is not all over for Johanna

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Konta, there are the doubles coming up. Absolutely. She probablx place

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on Wednesday. And she teams up again later with a double specialhst who

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won the Men's Doubles in Eastbourne last week. Last week they got

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through frack up of rounds before pushing the eventual winners to

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three very tough assets. Thdy are hoping they can make a very good

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impression this year again. She has not got all highway today, but she

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has broken into their women's top 100 the first time. There are still

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reasons to be cheerful. Yes, indeed. Not to mention the weather.

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We have plenty of play before we get there. At the moment we havd clearer

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skies and showers making thdir way south. Eight a chance they could

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catch up this evening. Tempdratures possible or 22 degrees. A chance of

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a shower but staying dry for Wednesday or Thursday. Frid`y looks

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worse that it is getting better for the weekend. Looking fresher towards

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the end of the week but the rain is back as we head towards weekend

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Today we reached high of 26 degrees at Gatwick and higher, 2223 degrees

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elsewhere. A warm and pleas`nt afternoon. The showers are sinking

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no way south. Behind it, we have clearer skies and temperatures

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sinking towards 14 or 15 degrees. A bright start the day tomorrow. The

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sunshine will the morning. Hn the afternoon, a chance catching a

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shower. They are moving through pity quickly. Decent spell sunshhne and

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we start the day with highs of 4. Temperatures still in the low 2 s.

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Height of 22 or 23 degrees. The showers are sharp but will clear

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through drink the first part tomorrow evening. We hold onto

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fairly light northerly breezes. Through tomorrow night, the shower

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was clear through. We have clearer skies and lighter winds. Sole mist

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and fog patches. It would bd a cooler night and raw spots `nd

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coastal spots drop. More colfortable for sleeping. On Wednesday, there

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will be more cloud cover around In the south`east, it will stax

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settled. In the afternoon, temperature is in the top tdam that

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low 20s. Always around 17 ddgrees or 80 degrees around the coast. `` 18

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degrees. Thursday stays dry and this is what is heading our way on the

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way to Friday, heavy rain btt it is through as we head towards the

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weekend. I pressure builds `ward the West and temperatures start to

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recover. The next couple daxs it starts to feel a little bit fresher.

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Tomorrow, showers are likelx to be heavier. On Friday, things should be

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clear and it should be dry, bright and warm for Saturday.

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I am really enjoy the weathdr forecast that the moment. Not so

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good behaviour sufferers. I will we back at 8pm have a lovely evening.

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You tomorrow.

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