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DUKE TO VISIT SOUTH EAST KENT

His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh is to visit Dover and Deal on December 1 as Master of the Corporation of Trinity House, and he will open the new site of The Caldecott Foundation, near Ashford, it has been announced.

The Duke will shown around the Trinity House vessel Alert in Dover, and he will also visit the Trinity Homes in St Clare Road at Walmer.

Alert is a coastal working vessel which maintains bouys, provides a fast response to incidents and carries out emergency wreck marking and hydrographic survey services. She works mainly in the busy shipping routes of the Dover Strait, English Channel and Southern North Sea.

Alert was launched at Gdansk in Poland in October 2005.