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European Union after 44 years of membership. That's all from

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

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He's banned single mums and benefit claimants.

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Now, a controversial landlord is investigated over

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Well, there's nothing to back down on, is there?

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At the end of the day it's up to me who comes into my property.

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Five riverside art works will form the permanent memorial to victims

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We'll be reporting live from Shoreham.

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A teenager who starved himself to death was let down by Kent's

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mental health services says his grieving mother.

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After seven breakdowns in eight months we ask

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if Brighton's Faulty Tower is becoming an

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And the famous Flying Scotsman like you've never seen it before.

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Kent Police are investigating the behaviour of one

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of the country's largest buy to let landlords, after he made a serious

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series of racially charged remarks about people renting his properties.

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Fergus Wilson, who owns hundreds of properties in the south east,

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told his letting agency in an email that he didn't want ?coloured'

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people renting his homes because they left the buildings

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Mr Wilson, who has also controversially banned single mums,

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'battered wives' and benefit claimants from renting his homes,

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is being investigated by the Equality and Human Rights

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Commission, who have condemned his remarks as like something

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from "the dark ages". Simon Jones reports.

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He owns a property portfolio worth millions.

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But Fergus Wilson says he's fed up having difficulty re-letting houses

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because of curry smells and the cost of getting rid of them.

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The equality and human rights commission

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And Pakistani and Indian people eat curry, so people

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put the two together and say you are anti-coloured people.

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We're not anti-coloured people, we're anti-curry.

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Well, you would say that, wouldn't you,

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You obviously don't believe it because...

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Your comments have been called disgusting.

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Well, that isn't the view shared by the majority of

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The equality commission believes the ban is unlawful.

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Kent Police says it is looking to see if any offences

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It's certainly provoked a strong reaction.

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He's an enormously rich man but I don't think he'll

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I think it's really shocking, actually.

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I think if you think back to the 60s and the first race

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relations act, it was brought in to address

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Where landlords were refusing to let properties to people

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These were the views in Maidstone town centre.

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It's... There's no words for it.

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Disgusting. That's the word, disgusting.

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Everybody tries to protect their property.

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In this day and age that kind of prejudice

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It's just horrific, it makes you feel sick.

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Fergus Wilson has previously drawn up a list of banning single mothers

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and fathers, battered wives and plumbers in addition to

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That is not racist in my view. Why?

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Because I am not objecting to coloured people.

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Part of your question you should have been asking me,

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and I'm sure you meant to was do you currently have

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any coloured people as parents?

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Well, there's nothing to back down on is there?

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At the end of the day it's up to me who goes into my properties.

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You have no regrets saying no coloured people?

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Despite the backlash, he insists the ban

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Simon, how likely is Fergus Wilson to face legal action?

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Well, he is of course a big player in the property market. For example

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along this row of houses he owns all five properties and another couple

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on the other side of the road. If police were to take action it would

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probably have to be in incitement to racial hatred but that would require

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the permission of the Attorney General said that seems like quite a

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high bar. But an individual could decide to take their own action if

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they felt they were denied a property simply because of their

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race and the equality commission is tonight threatening its only goal

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action if Mr Wilson doesn't change his mind.

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Five different art works are to form part of a permanent

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memorial to the victims of the Shoreham air disaster.

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11 men died when a Hawker Hunter jet crashed on the A27 in Sussex

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A series of memorial sculptures will be installed along the banks

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of the River Adur close to the scene.

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The designs, which are in the very early stages, will honour

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the victims and their families, the first responders

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19 months after the disaster which claimed 11 lives, today the first

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glimpse of plans for a permanent memorial. It's been created by

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Brighton artist Jane Ford and David Parfitt. A series of works to sit

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alongside the banks of the River Adur, designed in close consultation

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with the victims' families. We aim for this work to achieve quite a

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quiet contemplation of the river and the sense of peace that it offers.

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The memorial will be spread over five locations including a sculpture

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dedicated to the first responders. A little further up the river a

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tribute to the community, in form a community area with stop then the

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east side of a toll bridge, a series of 11 art is dedicated to each of

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the victims. People really liked the fact that we've tried to create

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areas for people to go to to do their own grieving, really, to be

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very personal. That they can spend time walking up and down the river

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and just sitting in one place or not kind of gathered all in one object

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that interprets their grief. The town's told toll bridge a short

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distance from the crash site became a temporary shrine. Now, though,

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sure we'll have a memorial for all time. -- waste that I will have a

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memorial for all time. Memorials are important because people need a

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place to go to delay flowers or just sit all reflect. For people in the

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town and it is a welcome focal point for a grief which in jewels. I am in

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nursery manager any local nursery the children struggle with what

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happened, and I think it is right that there is a lasting memorial for

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people to go and pay respects. I think it is lovely and great and it

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is important to have that they're so it is not forgotten, and I think

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when there is something physical death it brings you back and people

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will always keep them in their memory. Sussex Police's

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investigation into the crash is ongoing. Tonight, they said they

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hoped to submit a file of material to the Crown Prosecution Service in

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advance of the pre-inquest review on June 20.

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Piers hub Kirk joins us now from Shoreham. How important is this

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memorial? Well, it's hugely important and really does fill a

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void here. You will remember that in the days and weeks after the

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Shoreham air crash this bridge became a focal point. People came

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here with flowers, tied ribbons onto the bridge. Those have long since

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been removed and a second memorial that was just down on the river bank

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below me, that's two has been taken down, so this memorial will provide

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a new and fresh focal point for the community. It will cost in the

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region of ?180,000, being organised and part funded by a the council,

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and the hope it is it will be up and ready in time for the anniversary,

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the third anniversary of the Shoreham air crash. Piers, thank

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you. Sussex business and worried he might

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go out of business analyst CCTV captures the criminals.

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A NHS Trust has admitted a young man from Kent didn't receive appropriate

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treatment for the eating disorder which eventually led to his death.

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Steven Brazier, from Minster, was 19 stone when he started

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a healthy weightloss programme - but his weight fell to just eight

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The 20-year-old suffered a cardiac arrest in 2014.

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Tonight his mother told this programme her son's death could have

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been prevented if the Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care

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Partnership Trust had given him the mental health care he needed.

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By the time he died, Stephen Brazier was so thin he could barely walk. He

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had lost more than ten stone in just two years after starting a diet to

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lose weight with an after breaking his leg. He just carried on until

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there was no off switch with him, he just carried on. Until there was

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virtually nothing of him, a fraction of himself, really. He would be at

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the end of his tether, basically, would say that I can't go on like

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this, Mum, I can't keep doing this. And I have just had enough, I just

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wanted to die and hearing your son say that is really, really hard. The

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partnership trust sectioned Stephen for his own safety and he was

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treated for more than a year at a specialist hospital in Bromley. He

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seems to have improved, so the trust decided to send him back to his

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family. Stephen was discharged back to his home here in Minster in

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August 20 13th, even though the local community mental health team

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were owned that track are unable to taken on as a patient, from that

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point on his family say his mental health continued to deteriorate

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until his death in February 20 14. He was left with no care at all. I

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used to telephone the mental health people, they would tell me to ring

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the eating disorder service and it was just going backwards and

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forwards, nobody seemed to know who should be looking after him. In a

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statement the trust accepts that communications between the service

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is looking after Steven was not adequate. They say patients said

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expect a standard of service not provided here. And they insist they

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have learned. He was just a skeleton with skin stretched over him. His

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teeth had all come out, and it just... No... I don't want anyone

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else to go through that. Nobody. The trust have now reached a settlement

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with the breezes. -- Braziers. Over 40,000 people have signed a

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petition last night launched by Katie Price calling for online

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bullying to make case is a big crime.

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Price's 14-year-old son Harvey, who is partially blind,

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autistic and has Prader-Willi syndrome, was targeted by a troll

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on Twitter which has subsequently been investigated by Sussex Police.

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The clock has started ticking - and the UK has formally handed

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in the letter of notice to let the European union know

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Britain now has two years to negotiate terms for unwinding

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four and a half decades of membership - it will mean working

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out the rights of more than million EU nationals already living here -

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as well as Brits who've settled abroad -

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there will be haggling over the so called divorce bill,

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estimated by some to be as high as 50 billion pounds

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and the thorny question of where the UK's border checks

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will be carried out - Calais or Dover?

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A few minutes ago in Brussels, the United Kingdom's permanent

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representative to the EU handed a letter to the president of the

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Confirming the government's decision to invoke article 50 of the Treaty

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The Article 50 process is now underway.

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And in accordance with the wishes of the British

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people, the United Kingdom is leaving the European union.

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The referendum last summer saw a significant majority vote

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to leave in the south east, a margin of 55 to 45.

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In Gravesham, more than 65% voted to leave.

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But in Brighton and Hove it was a colpete reversal -

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Well, let's cross live to Brighton and speak

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There's a mass rally there tonight by so-called

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'remainers' who aren't happy - but there are many parts

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of the south east that will be celebrating the triggering

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Well, absolutely, as you said these are the rest of the country voted to

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leave the EU. Certainly many people I have spoken to since that in June

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have been saying why aren't we getting on with it but today the

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Article 50 process has begun, so I went to speak to some of those whose

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businesses are most directly affected by EU legislation.

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These Sussex cattle could be among the last to be revealed their whole

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lives under EU rules. The official start to the downtown to Brexit is

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welcome news for the farm owner. Absolutely delighted. Who wouldn't

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be? Now just wants to get on with it. She hopes it will be a chance

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for farmers to get more control over their land. It will be very

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positive. It is everything that we need to do. I think we had to stop

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having people who actually don't know about farming calling around

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over our fun telling us what we can't do. I think some of that will

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go with the demise of the common agricultural policy. But this farm

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in west mauling in Kent where they plant 1 million lettuces a week, the

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mood is less buoyant. For businesses like ours it is the uncertainty that

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really damages the business. It relies on a steady stream of migrant

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workers stop Nick says Brexit can be an opportunity but the government

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needs to act quickly. We need decent trade agreements, if the EU is our

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biggest sale export market and we need access to workers, pick the

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crops and we need a scheme, so they say we will get this game but they

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are talking around 2020. What happens in 2019? How do crops get

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picked in 2019? In Gravesend market today, some relief that breaks it

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was finally underway. We voted a democratic right out and it is just

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starting going through. The deal is done, let's break away and become

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Britain again. It will be a good thing. It actually prove that we

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don't actually need to rely on European money or European laws to

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make our country a success, that it was before. Society without lyrics,

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I think, is a society at all. We have found out I into a corner where

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there is no comeback. There are some in the south-east those who believe

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triggering Article 50 remains the wrong choice. My concern is much

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more of a cultural one. Nicholas says he believes it still could be

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stopped. We are a microcosm here of Europe, we have polls and Spaniards

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and Italians working here, and they are all under 30 and they are future

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is up what exactly is coming down the line for the south-east will be

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decided over the next two years. Well, the feelings are still running

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high, a small protest here earlier outside Hove town hall from those

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who wanted to remain. There is going to be a lot in those two years in

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those negotiations. Wings like those farmers balancing migration, making

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sure migrant workers come in to help with the Phils buyers not too many.

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There are also things like what to do with the border at Dover? How

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does that still flow smoothly Mr Mark and help the tourism

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industry... Helen, thank you. You can join in the debate online.

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A Sussex business owner says he fears he may have to stop trading

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after burglars targeted his shop for a third time in seven years.

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The gang escaped with power tools worth about ?10,000

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from Ben Mitchell's industrial unit in Uckfield.

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Now he says his insurance premiums have risen so much,

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the future of his ten-year-old business at risk.

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He's hoping that CCTV will help catch the criminals.

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These men break into the Department, it is the third burglary here

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They left with high value power tools we stock.

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Bare body, combination drill set, ?1000.

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Ben Mitchell open a shop ten years ago but has insurance premiums

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are so high, he may have to give it up.

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I don't want to give it up, I'm a local guy

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I feel I owe it to my family, and staff, to carry on.

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the futures' in the balance.

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Sussex Police have asked anyone who witnessed the man or a

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white van in the area around the time of the burglary, or anything

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suspicious in the time leading up to it to

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It's 10 minutes to seven, this is our top story tonight:

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Kent Police are investigating a landlord after racially charged

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remarks. Also in tonight's programme:

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the faulty tower - its Brighton's breakdown prone

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tourist attraction becoming And after a cloudy day today, the

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sun is back tomorrow. Highs of 20 even. The forecast coming later.

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There has been a sharp rise in reporting of animal

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cruelty in the south east, according to the RSPCA -

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with recent shocking cases including a dog that was kept chained up

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for the first 18 months of its life - and another that was thrown

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from the back of a van at 70 miles an hour.

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The animal charity investigated more than 12,000 cases

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East Sussex saw the largest increase in allegations,

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And with more than 5,500 reports in Kent,

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the county had the fifth highest number nationally.

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Ian Palmer has tonight's Special Report.

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Benji is a west Highland terrier cross. Chained up in a yard with a

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German Shepherd, his early life cross. Chained up in a yard with a

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German Shepherd, his early life was full of misery and pain. I knew they

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were tied up, separately, in a garden. Benji one side, the Alsatian

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and the other side, and I never knew if they could get to each other.

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Benji the owner went to court. The RSPCA cared for him until he was

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well enough to be be homed. She needed a companion to have grieved

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for her brother. She met him in October, one of the many cases RSPCA

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dealt with in the south-east last year. Many mistreated Alan Mills in

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the region come to this shelter in Brighton stop in 2016 the number of

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cruelty cases in East Sussex rose by nearly 30%. Why those numbers go up,

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it may be people having more confidence in contacting us. Maybe

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they see things online as well. We have certainly seen the impact of

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social media in how people communicate the RSPCA. There are

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many extreme cases of animal cruelty. One of the most shocking

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involved Snoopy the female lurcher, found dumped on a busy road.

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Emaciated, she was close to death. Happily, sleepy as a new home.

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People say they are distressed to hear people are still being

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mistreated in Kent and East Sussex. My reaction is complete horror. I

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can't imagine who these people are. The only have to look at the dog to

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just be a macro wants to love it, really. I don't understand these

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people who throw animals out of cars and things like that. It's

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heartbreaking to think that in the so-called nation of animal lovers

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that this is going on. It is still training to get him back. On the

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Sussex coast, Benji loves his training. The development continues

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to astound the people he loves. The two-year-old Westie is very

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fortunate, but for every Benji there are many more animals who are not.

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Brighton's I360 remains a 'fantastic addition to the city',

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that's the message this evening from the City Council,

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as the troubled attraction reopened today after the seventh incident

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The 450 foot tower cost ?42 million to build that has been shut for a

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total of 11 days since opening last August. John is by the tower.

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John, the City Council's opinion on all this really matters?

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It really is, Rob, and that is because the City Council, ie local

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taxpayers, then the building many millions of pounds and if it the

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project will fail that that will have to be repaid I council tax

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payers and that money is being repaid to the council already so it

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is all ticking over nicely but today we asked for a detailed breakdown on

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the numbers of visitors. We were not given that buts told that targets

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weren't being met, that visitor numbers were well within target

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parameters. A damp afternoon in March was never

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going to pull in vast crowd but people were still booking today for

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a ride that is increasingly becoming a talking point for the wrong

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reasons. What was meant to give the city a cutting edge new image has

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now created something of an image problem. The pictures of a temporary

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loo being hastily assembled went global. It turned out to be one of

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three breakdowns in four days. The brief incident in December followed

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with a more serious incident in February and another last Sunday. We

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were greatly disappointed it was broken down, and if it keeps

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breaking down as frequently as that it is not great, is it? What effect

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is it happening on your decision whether to use it or not? I don't

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want to get stuck out there, particularly! I was disappointed to

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see that there were technical failures but I think everything has

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teething problems, doesn't it? It doesn't worry me. Will it fall this

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goal that there will it fall from the sky question mark now. It is an

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attractive attraction for Brighton. That was certainly the message given

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back in October when receiving the approval of the Duke of Edinburgh,

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with an incident free ride for him. Today neither the City Council or

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the owners gave interviews but a spokeswoman for the i360 gave the

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Russian visitor numbers were on target. The City Council said it was

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convinced the finances were robust. It does remain however denied one

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puzzle about this. In the past breakdowns have been committed to

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computer problems meaning that safety equipment is kicked in early,

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reassuring if you like. On this occasion though the owners have

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simply not explain what the problem was other than saying it was

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technical. I pushed today, was at a computer glitch today? Or something

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structural? They simply would not stay. The night the message from the

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i360 is everything that has been tested is fine, it is perfectly

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safe, and it is nominated for three awards and is open for business.

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the famous Flying Scotsman like you've never seen it

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For the first time in the UK, these models go show on at the Kent

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and East Sussex Railway in Tenterden, alongside

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an exhibition of 30 other lego models, charting

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the history of Britain. Claire Cottingham's been to visit.

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The Flying Scotsman drives ahead, to spell 50 years

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It's the world's most famous steam locomotive,

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but at eight metres long, it's not quite how people

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Made entirely out of Lego, with three Pullman carriages,

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I mean, Pullman cars didn't have sleeping compartments,

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there's a little bit of artistic licence but the detail's fantastic,

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there's cigars on the bar, there's loo roll in

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the toilets and there's chains there, it's

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You look inside it and every little detail is there.

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You can see where all those 250,000 bricks went.

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These impressive models, which originate from artists'

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drawings, were made using hundreds of thousands of Lego bricks,

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and for the first time in the UK they go on show at the Kent

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and East Sussex Railway in Tenterden this weekend.

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It is opening up our living museum, which is what we are,

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You know, we've got here a history of Britain

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and we are the history, you know, we are a social

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history piece down here, so really exciting to have something

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that is so widely recognised down here at the station.

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The locomotive itself was built by an artist

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called Nick Barratt, and it took nearly

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With 250,000 bricks on display, it's truly a sight to behold.

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That's great, isn't it? Looks fantastic. Now some good news in the

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weather. Tomorrow there will be some sunshine

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and what is not to love? Earlier a bit more cloud cover around but

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actually still really quite mild for the time of year. Top tempter of 16

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degrees, average for the time of year being 11 or 12. Going through

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tonight we hold onto a lot of that Clark but for tomorrow it brightens

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up and as I mentioned by the afternoon we could see highs of 20

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or 21 degrees. Warm for the time of year. Tonight, cloud, but perhaps

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some drizzle and temperatures dropping only to ten or 11 degrees

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and those are the sorts of values we would expect to see in the afternoon

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at this time of year. Clouds at first then but quickly we see

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brightness and again by the brightness leg-macro afternoon

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wheeze see temperatures in the top teams, a little bit cooler along the

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coast perhaps but they're reaching highs of 15 or 16 degrees. Further

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north potentially 1920 degrees. Thursday into Friday we see

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mildness, but the most part dry as well. A bit more cloud cover as well

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towards the hours of Friday -- early hours of Friday and we see a weather

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front passing through quickly, a lovely dry and bright and two-day on

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Friday. Looking towards the weekend one of two halves. Sunshine back on

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Sunday. Saturday you'd like to see more showers but fine on Sunday and

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the same in the new week. Lots of sunshine tomorrow, maybe highs of

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21! You have made our day! That's it for

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now, back for 1030 -- 6:30pm.

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