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Welcome to South East Today. Tonight's top stories: a for the | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
deadline for managers of the Port of Dover to decide whether to | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
privatise or not. We are live in the town tonight with the details. | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
Two years out of their homes - anger and frustration from the | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
families whose street began sinking into the ground. Also tonight - the | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
Brighton travel firm that has gone bust leaving 12,000 people in the | :00:31. | :00:40. | |
lurch and putting local shops -- jobs at risk. In has been a sad day. | :00:40. | :00:47. | |
A bright future for green energy - well at Thanet's a new solar park | :00:47. | :00:55. | |
remain a unique experiment? And how artists are inspiring an ancient | :00:55. | :01:02. | |
art form at Bedgebury Pinetum. Good evening. Bosses at the Port of | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
Dover have been given four weeks to decide if they want to make changes | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
to their plans to privatise the Port, continue with them, or even | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
abandon the scheme all together. It comes as the government alters the | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
rules for any sell off, saying the community must be guaranteed a | :01:15. | :01:25. | |
significant role in the port's future. | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
Privatisation could raise hundreds of millions for the government, but | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
today they are saying it is not just about cash, it is about the | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
community as well. Those opposing the privatisation of the Port of | :01:40. | :01:48. | |
Dover, say it is a significant development. I hope it will sink | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
their privatisation plans. It is not what they expected. We why is | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
it good news for you? The it is good news for us because it puts | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
community at the heart of the future of the port. Under new | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
criteria, the government says it will only approve the sale if it | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
delivers an enduring level of community participation. That could | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
take a variety of forms, but must influence the port's long-term | :02:19. | :02:27. | |
development. It might include sharing the profits of there pot or | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
the increase in its value. insisting the local community has a | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
part of it means it gets less money, but is the better way of doing it | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
because you are involving the community in the Business. The Port | :02:42. | :02:52. | |
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of Dover is a massive development. No-one would be interviewed from | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
the board, but in a statement they said that their plans are | :03:06. | :03:13. | |
innovative and Brown breaking. -- ground-breaking. They should | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
reverse the money they get from it into the community. It would be | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
nice if people had something to actually stay in Dover for. | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
consultations continue. Simon Jones his life in Dover. When | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
will the Government make a decision regarding the privatisation? | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
Well, bosses have four weeks to decide whether they want to abandon | :03:39. | :03:47. | |
their plans completely. If they changed and though, there will be | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
further time to do that and then there will have to be a new | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
consultation. Even if they decide to make no changes at all, because | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
the criteria by which they are being charged has been changed, | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
there would have to be a consultation on that as well. It | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
will not be quick. The key thing for the bosses at the port is to | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
clarify how much community involvement there would be. The | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
Community Trust would be run as an independent organisation, but how | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
much influence would it have on the future here? | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
Frustrated, angry and homeless. That is how a woman from | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
Broadstairs has described her situation after her home started | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
sinking into the ground two years ago. | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
Jill Roach's ordeal began just before Christmas in 2009. She moved | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
out, as did her neighbours. The family do not know when or if they | :04:46. | :04:54. | |
will ever be able to go hang. With a sense of deja-vu, Jill leads | :04:54. | :05:01. | |
me through her front garden and her and boarded up home. Almost two | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
years after these homes partially sunk into the ground, Jill it is | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
still at in temporary accommodation. A I am still paying the mortgage | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
and building insurance. How worried are you that you will lose your | :05:15. | :05:25. | |
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home? Ferry. It is an inevitability. -- the very. This was the moment in | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
2009 when the families left with their possessions. Their homes had | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
started sinking, walls were splitting and cracks appeared in | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
the ground. In January this year I met Jill again and she was annoyed | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
that they have been no progress. She was still homeless. It is now | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
August and nothing has changed. have six properties, so six | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
different insurance companies and the Highways Agency doing their own. | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
We thought it would be longer trying to co-ordinate all those | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
people. Since January, nothing has been done. That is because the main | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
players cannot decide who is at fault and what to do next. Some are | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
waiting for the insurers to make a decision, whilst the insurers are | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
waiting for the council and the water board. I am trying hard to | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
take things forward, but when you have got the resistance we are | :06:25. | :06:34. | |
facing, we will have to go to the ombudsman and look at legal action. | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
But in her darker moments, Jill does not believe she will live here | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
again. For her, it does not feel like home, despite the fact she is | :06:44. | :06:52. | |
still paying for it. In a moment, what to do with our | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
waste - controversy over the sites proposed for the next generation of | :06:56. | :07:05. | |
landfill. A Sussex tour operator which | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
currently has 12,000 British holidaymakers abroad has gone into | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
administration. Holidays 4 U has gone into administration and is | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
based in Brighton. The Civil Aviation Authority is | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
responsible for getting most of those people home. Weaker across to | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
our reporter in Brighton. I understand the company have 18 | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
employees who are facing an uncertain future. Yes. They turned | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
up for work this morning and were greeted with the news that the | :07:39. | :07:48. | |
company was going out of business immediately. It was a complete | :07:48. | :07:57. | |
surprise to staff. Many of them who work for Holidays 4 U were made | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
redundant immediately and went home. Some of the staff had stayed on to | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
help with the administration process. -- have stayed. It is a | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
sad day for the company. It has been going for 17 years. Many of us | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
have been here a long time. What more do we know about the company | :08:18. | :08:25. | |
and its customers? From that outside, it looks like a low-key | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
company on a small industrial estate in Portslade, but it was a | :08:28. | :08:36. | |
big hitter in terms of the holiday market. It had an annual turnover | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
of �35 million a year and there are currently 12,800 people on holiday | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
with them. Of those, 25 % have booked the the full package which | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
his flight and hotel. 75 % booked a flight early deal. Those will all | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
be repatriated because of the ATOL promise. However, those who have | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
booked a holiday will not get it. They will get a refund and had been | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
advised to look at the company website. | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
A teenager from Brighton is among four people killed when a minibus | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
her father was driving crashed in Jamaica. 17-year-old Caisie Muller | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
died when the vehicle she was a passenger in was in a collision | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
with a pick up truck between Kingston and Montego Bay on Sunday. | :09:21. | :09:29. | |
Her father, Gary Bamford from Ludlow, was also killed. | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
Two brothers who terrified rail passengers in Kent and tough London | :09:33. | :09:42. | |
were caught after being identified from CCTV images. They punched and | :09:42. | :09:51. | |
kicked their victims whilst stealing mobile phones and wallets. | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
They had been jailed for five years and two years respectively. | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
The company that's building a new incinerator in Newhaven is fighting | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
its corner over criticism from the local MP, who has called for | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
compensation over the way in which planning application was been | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
handled. Veolia says its contribution to the town has been | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
worth about �8 million in jobs and community involvement. The plant is | :10:14. | :10:15. | |
due to become fully operational this autumn. | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
The former cleaner of the MP for Wealden Charles Hendry has admitted | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
stealing up to �90,000 worth of jewellery from his wife. Barbara | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
Kuligowska took the items from the London home of the Energy Minister. | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
She will be sentenced at the end of the month. | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
Closing speeches have begun in the trial of a woman accused of | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
murdering her two young children. 45-year-old Fiona Donnison is | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
accused of suffocating three-year- old Harry and two-year-old Elise. | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
Their bodies were discovered in the boot of her car at Heathfield in | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
January last year. Brighton and Hove Albion striker Craig Mackail- | :10:40. | :10:50. | |
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The court 12 silent as the QC addressed the jury. | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
The children were killed because their mother was depressed, | :11:16. | :11:24. | |
triggered by the breakdown in her relationship with their father. But | :11:24. | :11:34. | |
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Fiona Donnison of words functioning There has been an engrossing -- | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
increase in the number of children going into care. In Medway it has | :12:06. | :12:16. | |
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gone up by 18 %. Why is there such a marked increase? ABP has meant | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
that members of the public realise they have a responsibility to | :12:44. | :12:53. | |
report incidents. -- Baby P. We have taken children into care | :12:53. | :13:00. | |
because of these concerns. There was a High Court judgment against | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
the London borough that made a point that when a young people come | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
to housing and say they are homeless, they need more than | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
housing. They need a care package. Those are two of the big reasons | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
for the rise, which is being felt across the region and nationally. | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
Is there any truth in the criticism that since the Baby P case, social | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
workers are more nervous and are being more careful and children are | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
going into care that otherwise would have not? I do not think so. | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
We are learning more and dealing with concerns. It is not just | :13:39. | :13:47. | |
social workers, it is a multi- agency approach. Also, you do not | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
just instigate putting children into care. You look at all the | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
issues, may be assessments, will work with the family to see if it | :13:57. | :14:04. | |
can work, but the bottom line duty is you have a responsibility to | :14:04. | :14:14. | |
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keep children safe. Our top story tonight - managers at the Port of | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
Dover have been given four weeks to decide whether or not they want to | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
go ahead with their plans to privatise the port. The government | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
has now said the Community must be guaranteed a role in the port's | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
future if any sell-off takes place. Also tonight - pining for the great | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
outdoors. How Bedgebury has been transformed into an open air | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
artist's studio. If it has been a hot and humid day, | :14:41. | :14:51. | |
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but it is set to change over the next 24 hours. More details later. | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
It will shape the future of waste disposal in Kent and the public | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
have until next Tuesday to have their say in where sites are | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
located over the next 20 years. The county council has to draw up a | :15:05. | :15:15. | |
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list of provisional sites. It includes sites where quarrying and | :15:16. | :15:23. | |
mineral extraction can take place. In tonight's special report, | :15:23. | :15:30. | |
proposals have not gone down well. Lorries roll through a regular | :15:30. | :15:38. | |
basis and if these lakes are turned into landfill sites, there is | :15:38. | :15:48. | |
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concerned the impact on the town will be huge. This town has a lot | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
of listed buildings. The vibrations we get from the lorries will affect | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
our listed buildings. The company who own this side were asked by | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
Kent County Council to provide information on its landfill | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
potential. Residents are concerned about the question of pollution and | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
tourism. What we provide here is something different. It is a series | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
of independent shops. It is a BT cafe society and we are lucky | :16:18. | :16:26. | |
because we have a lot of visitors. Who would want to visit it? It will | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
be dangerous. Noise pollution is one thing, but we already have a | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
problem with air quality. We are the worst place in Kent for air | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
pollution. Once the people of West Durham are keen to stress the | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
impact it could have won the town, Kent County Council are keen to | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
stress it is a lengthy process. The consultation period ends next week | :16:51. | :17:01. | |
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and there will have to be a lot of involvement from the community. | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
understand people's concerns and that is why it there is an | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
extensive consultation period. than 2,000 people have signed a | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
petition and the residents have shown their hand. Now it is a | :17:18. | :17:28. | |
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matter of waiting for the council to show theirs. | :17:35. | :17:45. | |
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One of the first solar power to Parkes has opened in North Thanet. | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
With the withdrawal of subsidies for major projects like this, is | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
there any realistic prospect of more like it being built elsewhere? | :17:58. | :18:07. | |
In the shadow of a redundant plant lies a clean way of power bring our | :18:07. | :18:16. | |
homes - a solar farm that captures the sun's raised. Silicon has been | :18:16. | :18:25. | |
treated with chemicals. When sunlight hits it, it releases | :18:25. | :18:32. | |
electrons which gathered together in the Silver wires, collect it and | :18:32. | :18:40. | |
generate direct current. Spread over 35 acres, there are 20,400 | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
panels, generating enough electricity to power a small | :18:44. | :18:54. | |
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village. We can become an area of specialisation. That means jobs and | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
wealth for their area. government gives subsidies for | :19:02. | :19:12. | |
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green projects, but none has -- but has now reduced it. You can still | :19:26. | :19:34. | |
make reductionist in your outgoings if you have solar panels. This man | :19:34. | :19:44. | |
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installed them at a cost of �14,000 and it is earning him money. | :19:49. | :19:58. | |
have earned about �12,000. quarter of this century is the | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
expected lifespan of the panels and the owners expect to make money for | :20:03. | :20:13. | |
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Brighton and Hove Albion striker Craig Mackail-Smith has been named | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
in the Scotland squad to face Denmark next Wednesday, just 24 | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
hours after the club's Carling Cup tie with Gillingham at the Amex | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
Stadium. The Seagulls' record signing, who qualifies for Scotland | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
through a grandparent, made his international debut in a friendly | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
against Brazil in March. And the Gillingham striker Adam | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
Birchall says he is staying positive after undergoing surgery | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
to repair knee ligaments damaged during a pre-season friendly. The | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
26-year-old, who joined his team- mates for a club photo yesterday, | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
has thanked Gills fans for their messages of support. Birchall is | :20:38. | :20:48. | |
expected to be out until the new year. The operation was a big | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
turning point. I have a long recovery ahead. But now it is done, | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
I can really start doing my exercising. I need to strengthen my | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
knee. I have just got to look at what I have to do rather than what | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
could have been. Now, it's best known for its | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
conifers and leaves, but today Bedgebury Pinetum in Kent has been | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
turned into something of an open air artists' studio. One of their | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
aims is to record all the cones and needles that make up the world's | :21:17. | :21:24. | |
best conifer collection. Bhavani Vadde is there. Some task there, | :21:24. | :21:34. | |
Bhavani? They do. A single painting can take | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
between 30 and 100 hours to complete. But a quip of specialist | :21:40. | :21:49. | |
artists are taking up the challenge and their paintings will show the | :21:49. | :21:59. | |
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intricacies of flora and fauna found here at Bedgebury Pinetum. | :22:00. | :22:07. | |
From the world of nature to an artist's impression. The beauty of | :22:07. | :22:15. | |
Bedgebury Pinetum has been the inspiration for these intricate | :22:15. | :22:25. | |
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paintings. The human eye will pick things up a camera went. Someone | :22:25. | :22:34. | |
looking at it will say, have you ever notice this? A lot of the time | :22:34. | :22:44. | |
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I haven't. A lot of passion and energy goes into those pictures. A | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
photograph can be taken instantly, but these pictures, it's almost a | :22:52. | :23:02. | |
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lifetime's work. A group of botanical artists were invited to | :23:09. | :23:19. | |
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capture all the minute details of plant life here. There are 430 | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
different species of conifers here and it is hoped that eventually the | :23:27. | :23:36. | |
artists will pay them all. -- paint them all. So even though this type | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
of art work originated in the 15th century, the dedication of current | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
day botanical artists are still keeping that tradition alive. The | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
completed paintings will eventually go on show as part of an exhibition | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
at the visitor centre here. And later this month there will be a | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
three-day workshop for any budding artists who want to get tips from | :24:03. | :24:10. | |
the experts in creating those masterpieces. | :24:10. | :24:20. | |
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You need a lot of patience to do that. And now for the weather. | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
Today was hot and humid with plenty of sunshine. Tomorrow marks a | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
change in the weather. All of us will see a heavy rainfall and a | :24:30. | :24:38. | |
fresher feel to the temperatures. Today though, at temperatures in | :24:38. | :24:47. | |
the mid-20s and higher. Plenty of blue skies across the South East | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
and even when we stop some cloud cover it did not affect the | :24:51. | :25:00. | |
brightness. Clearer skies this evening and for most of the night. | :25:00. | :25:07. | |
Cloud will thicken from the West ahead of the band of rain we will | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
see tomorrow. It will still feel humid. Temperatures well into | :25:13. | :25:23. | |
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double figures and not dropping below 16 Celsius. But try it start | :25:25. | :25:33. | |
tomorrow -- a dry start tomorrow, but the rain will arrive in the | :25:33. | :25:43. | |
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afternoon. There will be strong southerly winds as well. That brain | :25:45. | :25:52. | |
it will clear it through the parks -- about rain it will clear during | :25:52. | :26:02. | |
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the first part of the evening. Quite a pleasant day on Friday. | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
Temperatures around 22 Celsius. Most lead drive with variable | :26:08. | :26:17. | |
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amounts of cloud cover. Cloudy on Saturday, brighter on Sunday. A | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
dramatic change to the weather tomorrow with plenty of rain. It | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
tries up as we move towards the weekend, but we will hold on to | :26:33. | :26:43. | |
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that fresh it feel to the weather. -- fresher. | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
When the sun is shining there is nothing better than getting out of | :26:54. | :27:04. | |
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