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Dominic King: VAT rise on fuel, Ski trip thefts and the The Selecter 

VAT rise on fuel, Ski trip thefts and the The Selecter 

BBC Radio Kent - Dominic King, VAT rise on fuel, Ski trip thefts and the The Selecter

The Shadow Chancellor calls for the Government to reverse the planned VAT rise on fuel.

The Shadow Chancellor calls for the Government to reverse the planned VAT rise on fuel. A group of Sussex students used their mobile phones to catch ski resort staff in Italy stealing money.

The Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls calls for the Government to reverse the planned VAT rise on fuel. 

Japan has experienced one of the most powerful earthquakes ever to hit the country. Measuring 8.9 on the Richter magnitude scale, it struck off the north eastern coast of the country. Dominic King talks to Nozomi Uematsu, a PhD student at the University of Sussex from Japan, who has been trying to get through to her friends and family in Tokyo.

While on a ski trip in Italy, a group students from Beacon Community College in Crowborough used their mobile phones to catch hotel staff stealing money from their rooms. Dominic King talks to their teacher Lynn Steward.

Dom chats to four members of the ska band The Selecter who were special guests at a screening of the cult film Dance Craze at the Quarterhouse in Folkestone, Kent. 

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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