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sports.yahoo.com | Chris Peddy |South East
Former QPR head coach Marti Cifuentes says he leaves the club with a "heart full of gratitude". The 42-year-old left the club on Tuesday after 20 months at Loftus Road and has been replaced by Julien Stephan. AdvertisementCifuentes guided the Rs to a 15th-placed finish this season but was put on gardening leave after their penultimate game, a 5-0 thrashing at home against Burnley in April.
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3 days ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | Chris Peddy |South East
Queens Park Rangers head coach Marti Cifuentes has left the Championship club. The 42-year-old was placed on gardening leave after the Hoops' final home game of the season, a 5-0 defeat against Burnley in April. AdvertisementIt is understood former Rennes and Strasbourg head coach Julien Stephan will become their new boss. "The decision to place Marti on gardening leave towards the end of the season was not an easy one to make," chief executive Christian Nourry told the club's website.
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3 days ago | 
aol.com | Simon Jones |Patrick Barlow |South East
Shop workers and residents in a Kent seaside town say they are "terrified" by anti-social behaviour which saw fighting and violence in front of shops and restaurants. Large groups of youths were filmed brawling and throwing chairs at restaurant staff in Broadstairs, with local business owners saying their properties had been damaged. A petition from residents is now calling for more to be done by Thanet District Council and Kent Police to tackle the "growing tide" of issues.
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1 week ago | 
aol.com | Jacob Panons |South East |Nathan Bevan
Families of Holocaust survivors have visited a Kent army base that helped rescue thousands of Jewish men. The members of the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) visited the Kitchener Camp at Sandwich on Thursday, which had been a haven from the Nazis for their parents and grandparents in 1939.
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aol.com | Jadzia Samuel |South East
Fashion designer Dame Zandra Rhodes has sold 92 pieces from her personal collection at an auction in London. Among them was was a white dress, emblazoned with pearls, that Princess Diana tried on in Rhodes' shop in 1985, which sold for £10,400. The Princess later wore a custom replica of the dress, with Ms Rhodes saying she asked for a "bigger wrap".
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aol.com | Jacob Panons |South East
A Surrey MP is calling for extra funding to tackle a backlog of appointments at a local NHS trust. Helen Maguire, the Liberal Democrat MP for Epsom and Ewell, told the House of Commons she was grateful for £12m of extra funding given to Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals.
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aol.com | Nathan Bevan |South East |Emily Coady-Stemp
A nurse from Surrey who treated cancer patients for nearly 40 years has revealed how Covid-19 convinced her to make a drastic career change and open a bookshop. Dawn Brewer, 60, described how things getting "pretty rough" during the pandemic caused her to reassess the job she loved and start anew. She was speaking as part of Independent Bookshop Week, which runs until Friday and highlights the cultural and social importance of hundreds of such stores across the country.
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estatesgazette.co.uk | Tim Burke |South East
A disused public toilet is set to be turned into a “micro museum” educating visitors about the Great Fire of London. The empty toilets next to the Monument on Pudding Lane, EC3, will be overhauled inside to introduce interpretive displays and digital exhibits. The plans are being worked up by Eastern City BID and the City of London Corporation, starting with a change-of-use application. The Monument was built in the years after the 1666 fire to commemorate the event and the rebuilding of the City.
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yahoo.com | Joshua Askew |South East
Just before Christmas in 1951, tragedy struck Medway. Twenty-four children were killed and 18 others injured after being hit by a double-decker bus outside Chatham Dockyard in what was then the most deadly road accident in British history. On the evening of 4 December, the children, all Royal Marine cadets, had been marching in military formation down Dock Road. They were excited as they were on their way to a boxing match, local historian Pam Mills told Secret Kent.
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estatesgazette.co.uk | Akanksha Soni |South East
TT Group has secured planning approval from Stoke-on-Trent City Council to convert Telecom House in Hanley into 99 homes. The 103,000 sq ft, seven-storey former office building on Trinity Street was previously occupied by BT and is now vacant. The scheme will convert the Telecom House into 24 studios, 61 one-bedroom apartments and 14 two-bedroom apartments.
