Australian Glenn Maxwell scored 66 off only 32 balls and took two wickets to guide Hampshire to a six-wicket victory over Kent.
The 23-year-old smashed six sixes and five fours, helped by 31 from Jimmy Adams, as Hampshire passed their target with 10 balls to spare on 138-4.
Kent earlier totalled 135-6 with Darren Stevens making 60 in 44 balls, including four sixes and three fours.
Maxwell took 2-10 in two overs with Dimitri Mascarenhas taking 2-14.
It was Hampshire's first win in four attempts in this season's FL t20 and made amends for Friday's three-run home defeat to the same opposition.
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Scheme to reduce under-age drinking extends across Kent - Kent News
Action on young drinkers
Chris Murphy
Sunday, June 24, 2012
8:00 AM
Kent Community Alcohol Partnership to offer help to traders across the county
Pilot schemes to help shopkeepers cope with gangs of underage children demanding alcohol have been so successful they are being dramatically extended.
Areas with high degrees of alcoholism among teenagers were targeted by Trading Standards and police.
But they did not go in with all guns blazing taking licences away – the visits were to help traders understand the law, and to also learn how to deal with widespread intimidation.
It is called the Kent Community Alcohol Partnership and also takes in anti-social behaviour.
Now, following astonishing results in Edenbridge, Canterbury and Thanet, other areas across Kent are being encouraged to get involved.
A new toolkit is also being introduced for traders to use in their own fight against local problems.
KCAP is lead by Kent County Council’s Trading Standards working with the Kent Drug and Alcohol Action Team, Kent Police, the Retail of Alcohol Standards Group, alcohol retailers, district and borough councils and the health authorities.
A spokesman said: “It can be very intimidating for someone working in a newsagent to be confronted by the large group of youths demanding to be sold alcohol.
“Our teams will go to the shops and help the staff understand what they can do, and what they can’t. It’s a better system than simply prosecuting them time and again and then taking away licences. That doesn’t address the underlying problem of the area.
“We also have talks with young people to help them better understand how their behaviour affects others.”
An independent evaluation by the University of Kent found a 28 per cent overall drop in criminal damage in the pilot areas. There was also a reduction in reports of people being drunk or rowdy in public places.
Since the pilots were launched, the scheme has been extended to Herne Bay and Whitstable, Cliftonville West and Margate Central, Maidstone High Street and Swanley.
Councillor Mike Hill, Kent County Council Cabinet Member for Customer and Communities, said: “KCAP has now been running successfully for three years and has made a real difference to tackling alcohol-related problems in communities. The KCAP toolkit, aimed at community groups outlines how they can set up and promote their own KCAP area with the full support of all the partner agencies.”
And Chief Constable of Kent Police Ian Learmonth added: “A great deal of activity has taken place since that launch which has seen KCAP grow into the largest Community Alcohol Partnership in the country. I am very proud of the work that all partners have carried out to make this such a successful initiative.
“Kent is experiencing continued reductions in crime and disorder across the county. We know our communities tell us that excessive drinking is of concern to them. We have listened and we have put exceptional effort into the Kent Community Alcohol Partnership in response to those concerns.”
The alcohol industry is also involved, and Jonathan Neame, chief executive of Shepherd Neame Brewery, said: “The best way to tackle alcohol related disorder is through local partnership between industry and all relevant authorities to deliver targeted enforcement and education initiatives. KCAP is a shining example of this approach.”
Source: www.kentnews.co.uk
Girl insulted by Cambridge wins first class degree - Daily Mail
by SUSIE BONIFACE, Daily Mail
She fled her interview for a place at Cambridge University in tears after being humiliated by a don who mocked her Essex accent and made her feel stupid.
But tomorrow Tracy Playle will more than prove him wrong when she graduates with first class honours from Warwick University.
Tracy was just 17 when she sobbed on her parents' shoulders after an interview in which Dr Eric Griffiths belittled her intellect and sneered at her home town of Harlow.
He showed her a line of Greek writing and said: 'You probably won't know what these funny squiggles are.'
Although she was expected to achieve top grades at A-level, Tracy's application to study English at Trinity College was turned down.
She applied instead for a course in English and American literature at Warwick University, based outside Coventry, where the interview focused on her grades and personal interests.
She started her studies after gaining two grade As and a B at A-level.
Three and a half years after the Cambridge interview, she has turned humiliation into extraordinary success.
For after being turned down by a university which prides itself on being able to pick the best students, 21-year-old Tracy has achieved a feat matched by less than ten per cent of undergraduates.
Now she says that being rejected by Cambridge - and everyone knowing about her treatment there - was the best thing that could have happened.
'It didn't keep me back at all. The feedback I had was so positive and everyone seemed to be on my side,' she said. 'I have no regrets that Cambridge did not want me. I have flourished.'
Cambridge University confirmed that Dr Griffiths - who later apologised to Tracy in a letter - had been permanently removed from involvement with admissions interviews.
'Other tutors at Cambridge were fine - it was just him. I think it was unfortunate and I'm sure he can be a nice guy at times and is good at what he does, but that is no excuse,' the student said yesterday.
'I think universities have a right to be slightly elitist and take the best, but they do take comprehensive students and so on and they could be more sympathetic.
'I feel like I have proved myself. I'm told that I didn't need to, but what better way to come through my Cambridge experience than by going to another university and achieving a first while having fun?
'After I joined, people approached me, telling me that they had read my story.
One guy even asked for a date and a few tutors wanted to shake my hand for standing up for myself against Cambridge.
'One tutor said I was his hero of the moment - he had been educated at Trinity.'
She added: 'It is true that going to university is not just about education. It really is a life experience. Warwick is a true centre of excellence and has become, for me, a better place than Cambridge.'
Tracy now hopes to study for a master's degree at Keele University, in Staffordshire, and then complete a PhD.
In the meantime, she is temping during the holiday period in an attempt to clear her overdraft.
She eventually hopes to become a lecturer in English and has vowed never to deliver the kind of treatment she received at the hands of Dr Griffiths.
'If I had to do admissions interviews I would be friendly and want to include people,' she said.
'I would want to know what they are interested in, what they are reading and what they do outside the subject - all the things I didn't get asked at Cambridge.'
She added: 'I went to Warwick determined to prove myself to myself and those who doubted me. Job done.
'I feel neither regret nor remorse for my decision to apply to Trinity, it has made me a tougher person.'
Tracy is waiting to hear whether she has been awarded funding to enable her to complete a masters degree in American studies.
A spokesman for Cambridge said: 'We are pleased that Tracy has been so successful at Warwick University and wish her luck in the future.'
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Kittiwakes in East Sussex enjoying success, says RSPB - BBC News
The first chicks in one of south-east England's last remaining kittiwake colonies have begun to hatch on cliffs in East Sussex.
About 1,100 pairs of the gulls have been breeding at Splash Point near Seaford, the RSPB said.
The charity said the gulls had struggled to breed along coasts of northern England, Scotland and Wales.
A reduction in the number of sandeels, probably due to climate change, is being blamed, the charity said.
Kate Whitton, from the RSPB, said: "Sussex's kittiwake colony seems to be doing well, which is welcome news, especially as their numbers have been declining nationally over the past few years.
"Another local colony at Newhaven, which has been steadily decreasing over the last few years, has no nesting kittiwakes at all this year.
"Hopefully, by the end of next month we should see the Seaford chicks fledge and start swooping over the cliffs and the sea just like their parents."
The kittiwake has been amber-listed, meaning it is a species of conservation concern.
Kittiwakes are a small ocean-going gulls, with a pure white underside and black tipped pale grey wings and black feet.
The young take a long time to mature with eggs being laid on narrow cliff ledges in the middle of a colony of hundreds of birds.
Many kittiwakes will not return to breed until they are three, four or even five years old.
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Race to open first new grammar school in 50 years - Daily Telegraph
Mr Gove's proposal to scrap GCSEs and return to traditional O-levels, revealed last week, is also likely to fuel demand for the academic rigour grammar schools provide.
It comes as a number of comprehensive schools attempt to attract parents by introducing their own "grammar streams" for their brightest pupils, chosen through 11-plus-style ability tests.
Conservative-led Croydon council has committed nearly £15 million for a new 120-pupil secondary school in South Norwood, to be run as an annex of an existing school. Grammar schools in neighbouring authorities have been invited to take it on.
Bids will also be considered from non-selective schools, but Tim Pollard, Croydon's cabinet member for education, said he supported the reintroduction of pupil selection.
"We need more academically high-performing schools in the borough," he said. "If that means we have a partner whose admissions criteria includes selection tests to identify pupils with the highest level of aptitude, this would simply add a new dimension to the range of options available in the borough.
"Many parents move mountains to get their children into a selective school in neighbouring boroughs. Having a selective school would provide the extra choice locally which parents want."
Mr Pollard said at least one selective school was already looking at the proposal. Grammars in the neighbouring boroughs of Sutton and Bromley are popular with parents in Croydon.
Tory-controlled Kent county council gave its backing in March to a satellite campus for around 600 pupils in the town of Sevenoaks.
Children in the town currently travel about nine miles to attend the nearest grammars in Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells.
Discussions with potential "host" grammar schools were ongoing, said a Kent County Council spokesman. No site for the school has been agreed.
Only 164 grammar schools remain in England following the expansion of comprehensive education in the 60s and 70s.
It was revealed last year that as many as half of pupils who pass the 11-plus entrance exam fail to get a place in grammar school because of the sheer competition for places.
Since a change of law under Labour in the late 1990s, the construction of entirely new grammar schools has been banned.
But Coalition reforms now allow existing schools – including grammars – to expand where there is demand, even if this means opening an annex many miles away.
The Kent and Croydon proposals have been condemned by opponents of selective education who claim they will undermine local comprehensive schools and harm children who fail to win places. Supporters of selection expect a legal challenge to be mounted.
Some comprehensives are responding by creating "grammar streams" for high-ability pupils.
Knoll Academy, in Sevenoaks, has incorporated a "grammar stream" for the top 25 per cent ability range of students, with priority given to those who passed Kent's 11+ exam.
The academy also announced that it would offer the three separate sciences at GCSE rather than just the double science syllabus.
Stockwell Park High, in south London, has also brought in a "grammar school pathway" for the top set of pupils. Teenagers sit a test in English, maths and science to determine whether they are eligible.
Crown Woods College, in Eltham, moved into a new building last year and split pupils into three schools or houses. Higher-ability children, selected by a combination of test results and primary school assessments, are in Delamere house.
The other two houses, Ashwood and Sherwood, are mixed ability. Children from each "school" wear different-coloured ties and have separate lessons, teachers and lunch breaks.
For the first time this year, the school is oversubscribed with 900 applications for 270 places.
Michael Murphy, the head teacher, said his school was competing for its intake with other popular schools including grammars.
He said: "The aim is that every child of every ability makes excellent progress. And we do that by offering a tailored curriculum to each child, whether it be academic, or vocational or a mix of the two."
Nick Seaton, secretary of the Campaign for Real Education, said: "Parents everywhere will welcome these developments.
"Most existing grammars schools are vastly oversubscribed and parents should have the choice of a grammar school place if their child is eligible."
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Essex come up short in run chase as Sussex remain unbeaten - BBC News
Sussex remain unbeaten in this year's FL t20 after they beat Essex by 19 runs in a high-scoring clash at Hove.
The hosts batted first and reached 209-5, the second highest total by any team in this year's competition.
Chris Nash made 52, Joe Gatting scored 45 not out and Luke Wright added 40, while Reece Topley took three wickets.
James Foster blasted 47 off 20 balls, Mark Pettini scored a rapid 44 and Greg Smith reached 39 but it was not enough as Essex fell 19 short on 190 all out.
This match was a meeting of the top two in the South Group with Essex aiming for their fourth victory in five days.
But that task soon looked beyond them as each of the Sussex top six scored at a rate of more than a run a ball.
Nash, Wright, Scott Styris and Gatting all hit two sixes apiece as the crowd at Hove were treated to an entertaining match.
Topley, 18, claimed the second best figures in his T20 career as he took 3-43, to go along with the 3-28 he claimed in Essex's three-wicket win against Surrey on Friday.
Essex's need to score quickly saw Pettini and Graham Napier both run out and the dismissal of Ryan ten Doeschate left them on 86-4 and seemed to end their chances.
However, Foster gave Essex hope with a blistering 47 before he became one of three men to fall to Chris Liddle.
Group leaders Sussex now have eight points from their five matches, with Essex two points behind in second.
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Sussex win a run-fest - SkySports
Sussex blasted 209-6 on the way to beating Essex by 19 runs at Hove to go clear at the top of the Friends Life T20 South Group.
Chris Nash made 52 and Joe Gatting 45 not out as Sussex made a daunting total of 209-6, the second highest in the competition this season.
Some big hitting from Mark Pettini (44) and James Foster (47) kept Essex in contention but they fell short in the end with Chris Liddle taking 3-35.
Sussex's former Essex player Scott Styris took the man of the match award after making a quickfire 36 and claiming 2-28.
Luke Wright and Nash set the tone by smashing 21 runs off the second over from Graham Napier as Sussex raced to 74-0 after the six-over powerplay.
Wright carried on where he left off against Middlesex on Friday night when he made 91 as he hit sixes off David Masters and Napier before slapping a full toss from Ryan ten Doeschate straight to long off for 40 off 21 balls.
The departure of Wright did not slow the scoring rate however as Nash and Styris continued to take the attack to Essex.
Nash made his runs from 41 balls, including two fours and two sixes, before being stumped by a smart piece of work by Foster off a leg-side wide from Ten Doeschate.
Styris enjoyed himself against his old side as he crashed sixes off Ten Doeschate and Reece Topley before being caught in the deep for 36 off 20 balls.
Momemtum
Gatting ensured Sussex's innings did not lose momentum as he hit a career-best score from just 22 balls, including four fours and two sixes, as the Sharks posted their second-highest total ever in the competition.
Essex made a slow start in reply but remained in contention thanks to Pettini who made 44 off 31 balls.
The Eagles were well behind the run rate at halfway on 74 for two but some powerful hitting from Greg Smith and Foster gave them hope of pulling off a sensational win.
Smith hit three sixes in his 26-ball 39 before being bowled by Will Beer while Foster hit four sixes in a row to reduce the deficit to 25 off the final over.
Essex's hopes disappeared when Foster was caught on the boundary with three balls to go.
Source: www.skysports.com
TOWIE Star Lydia Bright's Shop Vandalised - MTV UK
Window-smashing teenager caught after film crew gave chase...
The boutique owned by The Only Way Is Essex star Lydia Bright was vandalised on Friday evening, with the alleged culprit being caught after a dramatic chase.
Fashion blogger Lydia was apparently in the shop in Loughton High Street when the window was smashed.
The Sun quoted shop worker Katie Corcoran saying: "It was very frightening. The noise of shattering glass. I've never heard anything like it.
"I don't know if he was showing off or he was doing it to spite Lydia. No-one knows. I just saw him do it then he ran off and everyone went after him.
"He was a bit, 'Oh, I’m sorry' when he turned up to the shop. He couldn't run anymore because there were so many people chasing him. I think he just gave up and thought, 'I'm just going to go with it'."
The vandal was reportedly chased by members of a film crew who were working in the shop.
Lydia later tweeted: ""Unfortunately today Bella Sorella was vandalised. The suspect is in custody & the issue is being resolved. Open tomorrow as usual x."
And Essex Police issued a statement saying: "An 18-year-old man was arrested for criminal damage and received a caution."
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Helicopter airlifts pair to safety off coast near Seaford - thisissussex.co.uk
Two people have been rescued after getting into difficulties off the Sussex coast, near Seaford.
The alarm was raised at 11:50 on Saturday after two people were spotted shouting for help and waving, trying to get people's attention.
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Two people were rescued by the coastguard helicopter after getting into difficulties off the coast near Seaford
The incident happened close to Splash Point, near Seaford.
The Marine and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said that neither lifeboats from the RNLI nor the coastguard's rescue team were able to reach the area where the people were struggling.
Although the lifeboat arrived on the scene, the sea was too rough to rescue them and it was deemed too unsafe for a coastguard team to reach the pair on foot.
This meant that the coastguard's helicopter had to be scrambled and used to rescue the two people who were airlifted to safety.
The two people were aged 25 and 26 and came from Slough. They were taken to a nearby golf course and were shaken but unharmed.
Liz Hanson, from Solent Coastguard, said: "The two people involved in this incident were local to Slough but visiting the coast for the day when they became cut off by the tide.
"They were not aware of the nature of the tides and, being originally from Lithuania, they were also not aware of the emergency telephone numbers, so they were lucky they were spotted by members of the public who were able to raise the alarm.
"We always advise members of the public to check the tide times before setting out on a coastal walk, and if they do get into difficulty, to dial 999 and ask for the Coastguard."
Source: www.thisissussex.co.uk
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