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The town’s newest Blue Badge tourist guide, Catherine Pitt, has plans to turn tourism in Tunbridge Wells upside-down. Catherine is keen to show that the town is not just about The Pantiles. The 30-year-old history graduate is one of fourteen new South East England guides: “I know the coaches drop off tour groups there, and of course that’s what attracts them in the first place, but our history doesn’t start and stop in 1606 when the waters were discovered. But …

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