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It is less than a month since the brand new Pembury Hospital in Tunbridge Wells opened, but already we have been contacted by a charity, furious at the treatment given to an elderly woman who was taken to A&E.

Age UK claims the 80-year-old, who suffers from Alzheimer's, was taken by ambulance to the hospital with a broken hip, but was left on a trolley, confused and in pain, for more than five hours before being seen. Now the charity is demanding answers from health managers.

Research by 麻豆约拍 Radio Kent has revealed dozens of inmates in the county's prisons are assembling party balloons, preparing plastic poppies, and making food packaging for up to 30 hours a week and in some cases they are earning just 30p an hour.

The private contracts they are working on helped the prison service pocket more than 拢500,000 last year.

The Ministry of Justice says prison workshops are not designed to make any profit, but to rehabilitate prisoners and prepare them for the world of work once they are released.

But pressure group the Campaign Against Prison Slavery, says it is nothing more than taking advantage of a quite literally captive workforce.

The musical Phantom of the Opera is 25 years old this weekend.

It opened at Her Majesty's Theatre in London on 9 October 1986.

And it has taken more money at box offices around the world than any other production.

Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber says he never predicted it would be such a success.

Tabitha Webb from Margate played the role of Christine in the West End musical for a number of years.

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