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Today's main headlines in the South East: 17 drivers

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spotted using mobile phones on the M20

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There are calls tonight for tougher penalties.

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MPs say it should be taken out of the hands of

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Another dry, bright and cold day for tomorrow.

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Police are being urged to clamp down on people using mobile phonds

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while driving, after 17 lorry drivers were spotted in just an hour

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It follows the case of a drhver being jailed for ten years

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for killing a mother and her three daughters, after ploughing

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into stationary traffic while he was distracted

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Kent Police say they are out patrolling Kent's roads,

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but admit they can't be everywhere at once.

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Many caught in the space of just 30 minutes.

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The M20 is one of the main routes in the

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So, the number of foreign trucks on that

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motorway will be disproportionally higher,

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because of where it is and the job

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This is an issue for all drivers, not just

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The Lithuanian lorry driver behind the

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wheel was sentenced to time in prison.

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Another driver was sentenced to ten years for killing a mother

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He was changing the music on his mobile phone.

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The RAC called for stronger police enforcement.

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We have seen the penalties decline from 23,000 in 2011 to just under

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70,000 penalty notices issudd last year.

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We will prioritise our workload as well.

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When we do catch people using mobile phones,

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we will then robustly enforce the law.

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It doesn't take long to spot a lorry driver on a

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Here above the M20, we have seen one every ten minutes

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Only yesterday, Kent Police pulled over

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He had been watching a film on a laptop computer.

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At Maidstone services we met Dutch lorry driver,

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The Government says it plans to double the penalty to a ?200 fine

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Some people argue that does

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Our reporter Leanne Rinne joins us now from the M20.

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Leanne, the RAC have said today that the best way to tackle this

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problem is by issuing toughdr penalties to drivers.

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I spoke to Kent Police earlher and they said prosecuting drivers is

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just half of the solution. They say educating all the drivers, not just

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for drivers, is crucial and can be effective in the long term. They

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also said that despite cutb`cks it is a key priority for them to police

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Kent Rhodes. Loads of lorrids pass through here all the time going up

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to the Channel Tunnel and to Dover. And as we know, with a largdr

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vehicles, just one moment's lapse in concentration can cause a sdvere

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accident, possibly fatal. Radical changes to the way

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the country manages the risk A group of MPs say a new Rivers

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and Coastal Authority should be set up, to take over responsibility

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for the threat from The MPs are are also calling

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for a new Floods Commissiondr to be appointed to help tackle flood risk

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in a more joined-up way. There should be incentives

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for farmers to store and developers who flout pl`nning

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rules and increase the risk Our environment correspondent,

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Yvette Austin has been getthng reaction to the proposals from some

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of the areas in the South E`st worst Christmas 2013 and Yalding

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under water again. There's been much criticism

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here over the years about the Environment Agency for failing

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to provide a solution to thd Now, an influential group of MPs

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says the agency shouldn't bd allowed to deal with

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flooding any more. The problem with the present system

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is that the Government reacts Flood goes away,

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they forget about it. Subsequent, successive

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governments have done this. It's very much a thing of ldt's

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have somebody who is largely independent getting out

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there and saying, this is what we I think that would

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help people a lot. For Yalding, the agency

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has said a flood scheme is not viable and instead

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properties will get ?5,000 for This is our flood wall

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which we are trying to The Government is proposing giving

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us, perhaps if we are eligible, This is obviously not enough

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to cover the cost of the wall. In New Haven, in contrast,

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a ?30 million project is just The MPs think the Environment

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Agency is overreliant on such so-called hard

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schemes and should use Something like what Farmer Peter

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Hall is planning on his land. A wetland to help slow

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down the flow of water. Our 8,000 cubic metre piece

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will not stop the flooding. But if you had a dozen of them,

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we're talking about only ?7,000 to do this projdct,

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so we're not talking about There is very little

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maintenance on it Ultimately, the MPs want a radical

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new approach to prevent flooding like this with a ndw flood

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Commissioner delivering a more holistic solution, looking `t river

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catchments as a whole. Something that people

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of Yalding argue Our reporter Jon Hunt has

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been following the story Jon, what are the Government

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and Environment Agency The Government says it sees no need

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for structural change. The Department for the Environmdnt, food

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and rural affairs says it is a red implementing measures such `s

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managing watercourses across entire catchment areas and investing ? .5

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billion building new flood defence schemes across the country `nd

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protecting more homes over the next few years. The Environment @gency

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says more than half a million homes are more protected now than they

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were in 2003. He calls himself the "oldest gay

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in the village" and is a prominent He's fighting Government pl`ns

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to grant pardons for gay men unfairly given criminal

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convictions in the past, saying pardons are an insult

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and the Government Now in his nineties and married

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to his partner of 20 years, George Montague says he's

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a lucky man. But he, like thousands of other

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older gay men, remains a But in my day, if you did that,

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you were "importuning for an immoral This afternoon, he went

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to Downing Street to deliver a petition asking

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for an official apology. The law banning homosexuality

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was scrapped in 1967 and last month the Government

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announced its own Turin law, named after the famous World War HI

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codebreaker which will pardon gay men convicted of offences which have

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since been abolished. The 1967 Act only made sexu`l

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acts between two men With a smaller gay social scene

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and living a double life with a wife and family, George s`ys

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he and many others were forced to meet in public places

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and risk prosecution. The criminal justice system had

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plenty of laws to draw on to prosecute certainly

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gay and bisexual men There were plenty of

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case law, plain clothes police officers in sting opdrations

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hanging out against pubs just to The Government says it

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understands and supports thd intentions of the petition, but

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believes its pardon scheme hs the best way of righting

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historic wrongs for gay men. George though, is hopeful

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he'll get his apology for They shouldn't have ever given

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Alan Turing a pardon. George though, is hopeful

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he'll get his apology for Edenbridge Bonfire Society has

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revealed this year's effigy, A huge caricature of the US

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presidential candidate, standing more than 30 feet tall

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and holding the head of a somewhat startled-looking Hillary Clhnton,

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will be set alight on Eastbourne's Johanna Konta

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will finish the year her victory over former US

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Open champion Sam Stosur The British number one won 6-4,

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6-2 and will finish as high as th in the world if she wins

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the tournament at the weekend. That's it from me,

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we'll have the national First, here's the forecast

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for the South East with Rachel. Good evening, it has been a cold,

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bright day and we will hold on clearer skies as we head into

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tonight. Temperatures will fall away. Overnight lows of 2-3d in

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urban areas, but subzero in rural spots. There will be frost `nd early

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mist and fog. That will lift quickly. High pressure. It hs a

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settled picture. Perhaps a bit misty and murky at first, but by the

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afternoon, decent spells of sun and lighter winds, but temperattres

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struggling to get out of single figures. Highs of 10-11d. Hd called,

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bright day. All change into Friday. Outbreaks of rain, much milder. Lows

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of 6-7d. not stop the temperature is coming

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up to around 12. Mick Miller has the national picture.

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