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2 weeks ago | 
bbc.com | Piers Hopkirk |Hsin-Yi Lo
Former Pop Idol judge hits right notes with memoirPiers Hopkirk & Hsin-Yi LoChloe Rawlings/BBCNicki Chapman is a presenter for the programme Wanted Down UnderPresenter Nicki Chapman has shared how she began her career as a promoter - propelling bands like the Spice Girls and Take That to global stardom.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Piers Hopkirk |Jacob Panons |South East
The grieving mother of a woman who died from a drug overdose in Thailand has warned people to beware of buying drugs abroad. Rebecca Turner, 36, from Bexhill-on-Sea in East Sussex, was found dead alongside her boyfriend in their hotel room in Bangkok on 15 March 2024. A toxicology report found evidence of heroin, codeine, diazepam and trazodone in her bloodstream, and assistant coroner Laura Bradford concluded Ms Turner died a drug-related death.
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1 month ago | 
bbc.co.uk | Piers Hopkirk |Jacob Panons
Image source, Andrew Marshall/BBCImage caption, The tunnels were rediscovered in the 20th CenturyIn the shadow of Maidstone Grammar School for Girls sits a set of concrete steps built into a grassy mound. It's the only clue to the extraordinary wartime legacy that lies below the ground here.
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Mar 4, 2025 | 
aol.com | Jacob Panons |South East |Piers Hopkirk |Tunbridge Wells
A man who lost nine teeth in a suspected catapult attack outside a village pub has said it is the "most horrendous thing" that has ever happened to him. The incident happened at about 22:00 GMT in Farningham High Street on 21 February following an earlier "verbal altercation", Kent Police said. Tom Riva, who disputes that there was an altercation, is now looking to raise £11,000 for his dental treatment as he was told he would need implants, as first reported by Kent Online.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
msn.com | Piers Hopkirk |Jacob Panons |South East
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Daniel Sexton |South East |Piers Hopkirk
A teenager is set to have both legs, one hand and the fingers of his other hand amputated after he contracted Sepsis. Hamish Wilson, 18, from Crowborough, had just started university in Southampton and was studying Philosophy before he fell ill in October. Mr Wilson was rushed to hospital last month where his condition deteriorated rapidly and he suffered major organ failure, but he pulled through, despite being critically ill.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Piers Hopkirk |South East
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Tanya Gupta |South East |Piers Hopkirk
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
bbc.com | Piers Hopkirk
'My father deserves recognition for his WW2 work'Piers Hopkirk,BBC News, South EastBBCMeteorologist Gp Capt James Stagg persuaded General Eisenhower to delay the D-Day landingsThe British weatherman who persuaded the supreme allied commander to postpone the D-Day landings could be in line for a posthumous award - nearly 50 years after his death. Gp Capt James Stagg, who died in Seaford in 1975, was a senior British meteorologist during World War Two.
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May 24, 2024 | 
bbc.com | Piers Hopkirk
Driver pleads guilty after boy dies in crashPiers Hopkirk,BBC News, FolkestoneFAMILY HANDOUTSeven-year-old William Brown died after being hit by a vehicle in December 2023A hit-and-run driver from Kent has pleaded guilty to failing to stop after a collision last year in which a seven-year-old pedestrian was killed. William Brown died in Folkestone on 6 December after being struck by a vehicle on the A259 Sandgate Esplanade.
