Kent Police said Ashcroft also asked the court to take into account a mixture of arson and burglary offences at hospitals in Rotherham and Crawley, hotels in Manchester, Brighton and Gatwick Airport and tourist attractions in Brighton and Ramsgate.

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Kent Police said McErlean was later also found to be claiming pensions relating to his father-in-law from a previous marriage, who had died in March 2007.

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Another pupil, Alexander Hanff, 39, also from Kent, attended from 1986-90 and said he was physically and sexually abused and has suffered from sleep disorders ever since.

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Mr Read, an independent education advisor, also said Sherwood was one of the bottom nine schools in Kent in terms of repeated poor Key Stage 2 results over four years, and was being taken over by an as-yet-unnamed academy group.

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Infratil, an infrastructure investment company, has said it is also looking for a buyer for its other British airport in Kent.

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The interview, in which the councillor is reported to have likened travellers to freeloaders and said they moved on and left pitches like a building site, was also published by Kent Online.

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And the weather centre also said heavy showers have hit parts of southern England and London and were likely to cross into Kent and Sussex on Sunday afternoon.

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