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5,000 Students will miss out on school: Some ten thousand Mombasa pupils have joined the queue for standard 1 admission next year but only half of this number will be managed to get standard places this is the heart-rending educational problem in Mombasa where 9.700 pupils are estimated to be seeking standard 1 in Mombasa in 1982- Reported by Gray Phombeah. Creek ship sinking drama off Kent coast: During my recent stay in the United Kingdom near the north foreland on the Kent coast I continued to maintain contact with the nautical scene and witnessed the drama of the creek-owned Papalios vessel Aegis Blaze during Mid-July when a major sea rescue effort had to be mounted to save the stricken ship- Shipping with John Walters.