:00:00. > :00:07.Good evening. for the news where you are.
:00:08. > :00:11.A Kent woman who's been told she has less than six months to live
:00:12. > :00:13.claims tests failed to diagnose her pancreatic cancer despite her being
:00:14. > :00:20.Elizabeth Parker says her inoperable condition was only spotted
:00:21. > :00:22.when she was taken to hospital in extreme pain.
:00:23. > :00:34.Elizabeth Parker this week began arranging her own funeral.
:00:35. > :00:49.For the last two nights when we go to bed we just cry and hold
:00:50. > :00:58.I can't believe it because because it is so...
:00:59. > :01:04.I feel the world is turning but we have no part in it,
:01:05. > :01:07.Mrs Parker says it took too long to diagnose
:01:08. > :01:11.She first visited her GP practice in September last year,
:01:12. > :01:12.where doctors thought she had acid reflux.
:01:13. > :01:15.She declined an endoscopy because she has a sensitive gag reflex.
:01:16. > :01:18.During four further visits to her GP she was referred for an ultrasound
:01:19. > :01:20.test the following month and stomach x-rays, they all proved
:01:21. > :01:22.inconclusive and the ultrasound did not detect the cancer.
:01:23. > :01:27.It wasn't until January this year when in agony
:01:28. > :01:30.she visited an emergency clinic and blood tests showed she
:01:31. > :01:33.She visited a private hospital for a CT scan,
:01:34. > :01:37.after which she was given 3-6 months to live.
:01:38. > :01:39.Mrs Parker is not certain earlier diagnosis could
:01:40. > :01:45.Certainly I would have had more warning of what was to come and then
:01:46. > :01:48.I would have had longer time to spend with my family
:01:49. > :02:01.One cancer charity says pancreatic cancer can
:02:02. > :02:04.You do hear stories of people going back
:02:05. > :02:06.and forth to the doctors and waiting for time
:02:07. > :02:16.to get different scans and
:02:17. > :02:18.things before they can get that diagnosis.
:02:19. > :02:20.Delays like this mean pancreatic cancer can advance quite
:02:21. > :02:22.quickly and by that stage it is often too
:02:23. > :02:25.Mrs Parker says she is devastated that
:02:26. > :02:28.she won't be around long enough to see her four-year-old grandson grow
:02:29. > :02:31.Kent and Surrey's motorsport legend John Surtees has
:02:32. > :02:35.Uniquely, Surtees was a world champion in both Formula One
:02:36. > :02:38.He'd been admitted to hospital in London in February
:02:39. > :02:40.He owned Buckmore Park circuit near Rochester,
:02:41. > :02:44.and set up a foundation in memory of his son Henry, who was killed
:02:45. > :02:46.in a freak accident, racing at Brands Hatch.
:02:47. > :02:53.Piers Hopkirk reports on an extraordinary life and legacy.
:02:54. > :02:55.Hot favourite after wins in 1958 and '59, number
:02:56. > :03:03.John Surtees was a unique breed of sporting hero.
:03:04. > :03:06.The only man to have won the Grand Prix World Championship
:03:07. > :03:13.An achievement yet to be surpassed in more than half a century.
:03:14. > :03:17.It is a hammer blow for me and for British
:03:18. > :03:22.He is undoubtedly one of the greatest people ever lived
:03:23. > :03:28.The son of a motorbike dealer, he won his first race aged 17.
:03:29. > :03:31.A glittering career on two wheels followed, climaxing perhaps
:03:32. > :03:35.with his hat-trick of Isle of Mann TT wins.
:03:36. > :03:37.Is this your life ambition now achieved?
:03:38. > :03:47.I don't set out with definite ambitions, I just try
:03:48. > :03:51.In his Ferrari, John Surtees, number seven, going like a bomb
:03:52. > :03:54.and eventually leading the ten cars that are still in the race.
:03:55. > :03:57.In 1961 he switched the cars and won the Formula 1 crown
:03:58. > :04:02.He was the only man to cross over from bikes to cars and I think that
:04:03. > :04:05.just gives a very positive sign to people that anything is possible.
:04:06. > :04:11.What John Surtees did, it was inspiring.
:04:12. > :04:15.When his racing days were over, motorsport
:04:16. > :04:21.It was the basis of his business in Edenbridge, and in 2015 he bought
:04:22. > :04:28.His later life was touched by tragedy.
:04:29. > :04:31.His son Henry was killed in a freak accident at Brands Hatch.
:04:32. > :04:34.It prompted the creation of the Henry Surtees
:04:35. > :04:41.John Surtees was awarded a CBE last year and he remains
:04:42. > :04:45.a motorsport legend, with a permanent place
:04:46. > :04:50.By the time I was retiring I still had not probably
:04:51. > :04:53.reach my absolute peak, but I have achieved my main ambition
:04:54. > :04:56.is because the most important thing I have to do in life is not satisfy
:04:57. > :05:08.And you can see more reaction and leave your tributes
:05:09. > :05:19.to John Surtees at our live page bbc.co.uk/kent or on
:05:20. > :05:23.The neighbour of a young woman who was brutally murdered
:05:24. > :05:26.in Portslade has told a jury at Lewes Crown Court how they heard
:05:27. > :05:28.arguing and glass being smashed in the house a few weeks
:05:29. > :05:32.The body of Shana Grice was discovered last August.
:05:33. > :05:35.Her throat had been cut and the bedroom set on fire.
:05:36. > :05:37.Her former boyfriend Michael Lane is on trial
:05:38. > :05:42.A teacher from Faversham has been charged with child grooming.
:05:43. > :05:45.James Hope, who's 38, is Assistant Head of
:05:46. > :05:48.Kent County Council's Virtual School for children in care.
:05:49. > :05:50.He was arrested in September last year.
:05:51. > :05:54.He's due to appear at Maidstone Magistrates Court next month.
:05:55. > :05:58.A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a man who's body
:05:59. > :06:04.was found in a car park in Tunbridge Wells early on Tuesday.
:06:05. > :06:07.Kent police have revealed that the victim was 43-year-old
:06:08. > :06:12.Giles Metcalfe and a provisional post-mortem indicated he died
:06:13. > :06:19.34-year-old Dean Lewis, of no fixed address, appeared before
:06:20. > :06:23.Medway magistrates today and was remanded in custody.
:06:24. > :06:25.Football, and Brighton took a step nearer to
:06:26. > :06:28.The Seagulls beat Derby County 3-0 at the Amex.
:06:29. > :06:31.They remain in second place in the Championship
:06:32. > :06:32.table on goal difference, but are now level with
:06:33. > :06:36.The national weather forecast coming up in a moment,
:06:37. > :06:39.but first let's get the picture for the weekend in the south-east
:06:40. > :06:59.It is a weekend of two halves. Sunny on Saturday but turning wet and
:07:00. > :07:06.windy on Sunday. Through tonight is a good deal of clouds. To date
:07:07. > :07:15.temperatures were only around 10 Celsius but they hardly change
:07:16. > :07:20.overnight. Mild to start tomorrow. Staying dry and a good deal of
:07:21. > :07:26.sunshine around. By the afternoon temperatures are widely in the mid
:07:27. > :07:41.teens and highs of 17 Celsius. Turning wet into Sunday with
:07:42. > :07:46.Where the sunshine broke through to the North of Cornwall temperatures
:07:47. > :07:50.rose to 17 degrees under the blue skies. For many of us the cloud
:07:51. > :07:55.didn't break up through the day, keeping temperatures pegged at
:07:56. > :07:59.around about 13 degrees. That was the high today in the London region.
:08:00. > :08:04.Mild over night with the blanket of cloud around. Most places dry. Rain
:08:05. > :08:07.will work into parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland through the
:08:08. > :08:08.early hours of Saturday. It will be