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A psychiatric nurse who took her own life received "amateur" care at Eastbourne Hospital.

A psychiatric nurse who took her own life received "amatuer" treatment at Eastbourne Hospital, rules a coroner. Pfizer bosses are questioned by MPs over the plans to close its plant in Sandwich.

Psychiatric nurse, Rosemary Jones, who took her own life received "amatuer" treatment at Eastbourne Hospital, rules a coroner. Dominic King hears from her family who say she would still be alive today if she had received better treatment.  

Pfizer bosses are questioned by MPs over the plans to close its plant in Sandwich. Political Editor Louise Stewart reports from Westminster. 

Jim Davidson talks about his play Stand Up and Be Counted which opens tonight at the Orchard Theatre in Dartford for a week-long run. It is an account of a how Matt Blaize, a young black comedian, told Jim how his jokes had affected his childhood. 

Film director Mike Newell speaks exclusively to Dom about his latest project, a new film of Great Expectations. The new version of the Charles Dickens' classic will mark the bicentenary of the author's birth in 2012. Mike also discusses making Four Weddings and a Funeral, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Prince of Persia.

Drivetime across the South East is a six-month pilot from BBC Radio Kent, BBC Sussex and BBC Surrey. For Listen Live on the iPlayer, you will hear the programme with local bulletins for each county. If you listen on the iPlayer on Listen Again, you will hear the whole programme but with Kent news bulletins only. This pilot is being assessed by the BBC Trust and the BBC will be carrying out audience research to decide whether the pilot continues. Any permanent change would require full Trust approval.

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