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Jobs hope for former Pfizer site

Matt Davison sits in alongside John with the latest news, travel, and weather for Kent.

An MP from the North East says the new owners of the former Pfizer site in Sandwich brought economic regeneration to another development in Middlesborough. A consortium was confirmed as the new owner of Discovery Park a year after it went on the market, and it is hoped new jobs will now be brought to the area (06:07, 07:07 and 08:07).

An unlicensed Kent taxi driver is due to be sentenced today for rape.

The victim was a 25-year-old woman who had got into his cab to go home in the early hours of Christmas Eve.

44-year-old Nathan Lee Gifford from Colshall Close in Maidstone was found guilty at Maidstone Crown Court, last month.

Councillor Mike O'Brien is Medway Council's Community Safety portfolio holder. He says there are lessons to be learned from what happened (06:25, 07:22 and 08:22).

New research suggests the number of people working from home in London and the South East during the Olympics has increased by almost a third, that's according to the Evening Standard which quotes a study of 2,000 adults by mobile company O2.

However, with up to 2,500 hours of live Olympics coverage, how realistic is home working during the Games?

Some believe that remote working could turn out to be one of the positive legacies of London 2012 (07:39).

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Fri 3 Aug 2012 06:00

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  • Fri 3 Aug 2012 06:00