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Welcome to South East Today, I'm Rob Smith. And I'm Polly Evans. | :00:02. | :00:06. | |
Tonight's top stories. He made racist comments on Facebook. | :00:06. | :00:11. | |
A Kent Conservative politician is suspended from the party. Simon | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
Jones is live in the town with the details. | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
Bitten more than 100 times by bed bugs. The Kent sisters who needed | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
hospital treatment after staying in a London hotel. I just by chance | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
lifted up the pillows, and that's when I saw them underneath the | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
pillow. Also in tonight's programme. | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
Waiting for the green light, could plans for a huge wind turbine | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
factory in Kent be under threat? It's A-level results day, but for | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
some good results won't mean choosing university but hunting for | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
a job. And lighting the way, the artists | :00:42. | :00:52. | |
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celebrating the history of keeping Good evening. A Conservative | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
councillor in Kent has been suspended from the party for making | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
offensive and racist comments on the social networking site Facebook. | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
Bob Frost, who made the remarks in a conversation about the recent | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
London riots, has now apologised saying he was wrong. Dover District | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
Council says there's no place in society for his comments. Simon | :01:16. | :01:25. | |
Jones reports. As violence and vandalism gripped | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
part of London, Councillor Bob Frost took to Facebook. From | :01:30. | :01:40. | |
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When it was suggested to him he could always take a trip to north | :01:42. | :01:52. | |
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Jungle bunnies is a derogatory term for black people. You do not expect | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
someone in a position of type that position of power to make comments | :01:58. | :02:05. | |
like this. They are clearly offensive, racist, in fact. | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
Councillor Bob Frost, a teacher here, is now facing questions from | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
all political sides. It sounds to me as though the implication is | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
that it is a racist slur. If the man has any integrity at all, he | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
should resign from both the council's he is on, Dover District | :02:23. | :02:32. | |
Council, and steel town council. is not the first politician to fall | :02:32. | :02:42. | |
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This man resigned from the Conservative Party after referring | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
to local women as slugs. Little sympathy for Councillor frost in | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
Dover. That kind of terminology should not be a loser -- used. If | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
you got a problem, do not use race or culture. I think it is rather | :03:04. | :03:12. | |
derogatory. In debate's day and age, it is completely and necessary. He | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
deserved to be dis -- suspended. Whether it be on Facebook, | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
privately, whatever, you cannot use terms like that. Councillor Frost | :03:23. | :03:33. | |
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Facebook has made him front page news. | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
Simon it joins us now from Dover. I understand the school, Sir Roger | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
Manwood, where he works, has given its reaction to the comment? In the | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
past hour, it has told us that it does not know the full details but | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
the chair of governors says they are investigating. Nobody from the | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
Conservatives locally would be interviewed on camera today. The | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
deputy leader of the council told us that language like this has no | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
place in our society. Others behind the scenes say they are seething | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
that this councillor could be so naive and offensive. Councillor | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
Frost did not respond to my comments on Facebook trying to get | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
in touch with him today, but in a recent post, he said, I think there | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
is a storm coming in the direction of Dover. I think he was referring | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
to this fall out. Two sisters from Kent, who needed | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
hospital treatment after being bitten more than 100 times by | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
bedbugs while staying at a London hotel, have been awarded | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
compensation for the distress they suffered. Melanie Carmen and her | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
sister Joy travelled to the capital last summer and stayed at the | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
Airways Hotel in Pimlico, which describes itself as among the best | :04:39. | :04:49. | |
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budget hotels in central London. Jon Hunt reports. | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
Melanie and Troy, reliving the itching and aching they suffered | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
when they were bit by bedbugs when they slept. They only realised the | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
following day and assumed at first it was other insect. We were | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
sitting in the theatre, scratching like mad. Then we went back, that | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
is when we sprayed ourselves to make sure nothing would come near | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
us that night. The next morning, that is when my neck came up, my | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
neck was massive. They were rather large bumps, far bigger than any | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
insect bite I have had. They are very red, and they have an | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
information around the outside of them. Then they get painful. You | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
try not to scratch, but it is almost impossible without many | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
bites. Bedbugs are becoming a worldwide problem again. They do | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
not transmit disease, that can be hard to eradicate. Last year, | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
several high-profile shops in New York were forced to close because | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
of its concessions. They are spread through contact, people carry them | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
from surface-to-surface. They feed on blood, 15 minutes at a time. | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
Despite their name, they are not just found in bed, but everywhere | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
indoors, even in Clean hands. important to understand that it is | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
nothing to do with hygiene. They are an exposure pet, you pick them | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
up from one location and deposit them in there -- in the next. As | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
long as people are stationary for significant periods of time, | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
bedbugs can survive in those environment. No one from the hotel | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
where the sisters stayed was available to comment today. Between | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
them, joy and many had been bitten 138 times, and lived in fear that | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
they took some home with them. really was frantic about this. It | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
might sound over-the-top, but I was constantly hoovering. Just in case | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
there was anything in my wardrobe. I was fanatical about it. It took | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
four months for their bite marks to die down. The sisters are received | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
�1,600 each in an out-of-court settlement. | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
In a moment: A stitch in time, the railway engineer from Chatham whose | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
remarkable copy of the Bayeux Tapestry is so good, the French | :07:01. | :07:11. | |
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In an exclusive interview with South East Today, the world's | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
leading wind turbine manufacturer is warning the government it won't | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
build a new factory in Kent unless it gets more detail on the UK's | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
plans for renewable energy. The Danish company Vesta has an option | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
to buy land at Sheerness Docks to build a manufacturing plant | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
creating up to two thousand jobs and producing giant offshore wind | :07:26. | :07:35. | |
turbines. But it says politicians have to do more to make it happen. | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
Our business correspondent Mark Norman is at the docks now. How | :07:39. | :07:49. | |
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much at risk is the project? think the company are very serious | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
about this. This is just a part of the site where they want to build | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
this factory, right next to the deep water port. The company have | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
always said they needed certain commitments from government, they | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
have been in London talking to the government this week. The longer | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
this goes on, the more frustrated the company becomes. | :08:07. | :08:14. | |
This is how Vesta says its wind turbines factory would look. Local | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
politicians and the country -- company say it wanted to be built, | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
but it has never happened, and it might not happen if the government | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
does not clarify how they will support the industry financially. | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
It we do not get answers, or the framework is not in place, our | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
customers will not to buy the turbines, and we will not by the | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
Turks -- the factory. Vesta currently supplies 40% of the | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
world's offshore turbines. I have an option on on that land in | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
Sheerness docks. -- they have the option. It could create 2000 jobs | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
directly and indirectly. Despite months of talks and a government | :08:53. | :09:00. | |
White Paper Supporting renewable energy, Vesta says it is uncertain | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
about how its customers will be paid for the electricity produced, | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
because the system is being replaced. People do not know how | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
this will pay out, it is hard to get financing of the back of the | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
government's documents so far. We have got a long-term strategic | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
vision from government, we know what they would like to see, it is | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
whether they will translate that into a long-term commitment that | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
people can build businesses on. Their government say their priority | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
is to drive down the cost of offshore wind. The local government | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
-- the local authority wants more clarity from central government. | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
be able to make the kind of a investment that Vesta #ColourCyan | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
Need to make, they need some clarity for the next 40 or 50 years. | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
We would like government to make that decision. Does companies that | :09:52. | :09:59. | |
will -- of those companies that will buy the turbines, they count | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
seat -- they need the right political framework. There is a | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
willingness on both sides to build this factory, but Vesta can be | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
ruthless. It closed down its factory on Isle of Wight in 2009 | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
because of poor orders, with the loss of over 400 jobs. | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
The government have told me late this afternoon that they will | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
consult on some of these issues soon, and they have promised in the | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
past to come up with decisions by the end of the year. Vesta will be | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
hoping they stick to that promise. You can watch and extending -- | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
extended into the with the boss of Vesta on our side. | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
A man who died when the tugboat he was working on sank in the Thames | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
has been named. Darren Lacey from Gravesend was one of the crew | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
members on the Chieftain when it sank off Greenwich Pier last Friday. | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
His body was recovered on Monday. A post mortem found that he had died | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
by drowning. The operators of Manston Airport | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
are warning any move to ban night flights could threaten its | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
financial viability. The loss- making airport operates occasional | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
flights at night but wants to include scheduled departures. | :11:04. | :11:14. | |
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Opponents of the scheme say it would ruin their quality of life. | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
A care home in East Sussex is facing closure after an inspection | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
report by the government's healthcare watchdog highlighted | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
numerous problems. The Mount Denys care home in Hastings cares for up | :11:22. | :11:30. | |
to 30 people with dementia. What exactly does the report say? | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
It is pretty blunt. What it says is, let be clear, this is a home for | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
people who have dementia, particularly difficult people. They | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
are the most challenging. It was put together by the Care Quality | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
Commission, the watchdog. They do not say in their report that they | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
will close the place down, but they do ultimately have that power. The | :11:50. | :11:57. | |
report says that there is an urgent need for improvement. It says that | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
70 cases have been recorded of violence in the space of one month, | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
more than two a day. Either between the residents themselves, all | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
residents attacking staff. This is not about staff stressing -- | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
abusing residents. Quite the reverse. Why, because scarf -- | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
staff did not spot warning signs. The report says the staff did not | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
know each resident well enough to spot what will upset them, that was | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
picked up by a national charity. Challenges that current care homes | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
have is that they are institutionalised and have | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
timetables. That have to be turned on its head. We have to look at | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
people with dementia, understand what dementia is and work with | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
individuals. It is not about caring with people -- caring for people | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
within a timetable, it is about looking at two residents and | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
finding a way and mean of caring for them with dignity and respect. | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
This home is run by East Sussex County Council, what has their | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
response been? They refused to give any interviews | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
today, they wanted to wait until the full report is issued next | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
month. They say they alter this. They have already put them - given | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
them more staff and there are more tailor-made care plans. What's more, | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
they say these improvements have been in place since the inspection | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
towards the end of July. We will now wait to see the follow-up when | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
the report comes out next month. With university fees rising from | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
next year, the pressure on students opening their A-level results today | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
has been higher than ever. For some in the South East, it means not | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
taking a gap year. For others it means opting out of further | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
education altogether and trying their luck in the increasingly | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
tough job market. Peter Whittlesea reports. | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
Is that what you were hoping for? But his amazing! This is what we | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
expect on results day. But it could it soon be more like this? Business | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
as usual? Tom opted for an apprenticeship in accounts. And he | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
has not looked back. You can look the book theory -- learn the book | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
theory, but you cannot have the real life experience of the systems, | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
how things behave, when errors occur, in real life, and how you | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
deal with it. Customers have issues, you do not learn is at university. | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
This year, record numbers have applied to university., was | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
planning to take a year off, but because he had done better than he | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
expected, he is looking to going straight to university. He starts | :14:24. | :14:31. | |
his course before tuition fees go up from �4,000 to �9,000 per year. | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
�18,000 is a lot of money. Especially for someone who is just | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
18 years old, just out of school, and cannot afford it. I will look | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
at all the different options I have, all but it from you need -- all the | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
different universities I can go to. Some feel they are better off going | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
straight into the job market rather than running up debts. I did | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
consider going to university, but I went to go and work for a bank. I | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
did not want to go to university because of the financial cost, too | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
much on a loan, and there is no guarantee of a job afterwards. | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
education professionals believe work place degrees and | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
apprenticeships will become more popular as tuition fees increase. | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
Partly because people are concerned about the fees going forward, and | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
partly because people are getting more realistic about the need to | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
actually earned money. And keep the cost of a degree to a minimum. Many | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
students at this academy are looking to go to local universities | :15:31. | :15:41. | |
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to save on accommodation costs. It is coming up to 6:45pm. Our top | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
story tonight. A Conservative councillor has been | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
suspended from the party for making racist comments on Facebook. Dover | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
District Council says there's no place for the sort of comments made | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
by Bob Frost in a conversation Also in tonight's programme. | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
The married masters of the arts and crafts. Works by William and Evelyn | :16:00. | :16:09. | |
de Morgan go on display in Sussex. And they are still lighting the way | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
from their primitive and history to the 21st century, a celebration of | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
keeping our shores shipwreck three. It's almost a thousand years | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
younger and only a third of the length, but now a replica section | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
of the Bayeux tapestry, stitched in Kent, is heading to Normandy as | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
part of celebrations commemorating the founding of the French state. | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
Andy Wilkinson from Chatham has been working on his a half size | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
reproduction of the battle scene from the famous tapestry for 15 | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
years, and now it's nearing completion. Fiona Irving has | :16:38. | :16:46. | |
tonight's story update. It was the bloodiest battle to be | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
fought on the Sussex soil. As the English tried to fight off their | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
northern invaders. Those are the scenes despite -- depicted in the | :16:55. | :17:02. | |
Bayeux tapestry and reproduced by Andy Wilkinson, a railway into -- | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
Engineer from Chatham, who before he started, could not even so a | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
button. I have had no more or boat -- I have had no formal training in | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
art. No one has shown me any needlework, apart from one stage | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
that I felt I needed to know, across someone had to do it and | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
they told me. Apart from that, I have done it all myself. Why? I | :17:24. | :17:32. | |
have no idea! Just because I can. Andy's tapestry is 40 ft long. 140 | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
stitches in a square inch. It has taken him 10,000 hours to embroider. | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
It is not an exact replica of the Bayeux tapestry but an | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
interpretation of it. He has kept to the essence of it and kept the | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
famous scene of King Harald with an arrow in his eyes. On the bottom, | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
they have very small eyes, on the original. To make it half-size it | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
is impossible to sow, so I have had to leave them off. So some of my | :18:02. | :18:11. | |
animals are blind! This weekend, he is after Normandy to show off his | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
handiwork to residents whose ancestors were part of the only | :18:14. | :18:24. | |
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In many ways, it's a sort of homecoming for a collection of | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
extraordinary paintings and ceramics created by a unique | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
husband and wife team which has gone on display in East Grinstead. | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
William de Morgan was born in 1839. He was one of the most important | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
ceramic artists from the arts and crafts movement of the late 19th | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
century. And his career break came when he began collaborating with | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
William Morris. Meanwhile his wife Evelyn created a whole series of | :18:45. | :18:54. | |
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classically inspired paintings. He was the ceramicist of his time, | :19:04. | :19:10. | |
and she was a rarity, a professional woman artist. William | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
and Evelyn de Morgan were true Renaissance people -- Renaissance | :19:13. | :19:21. | |
people, and excelled of the art of the late Victorian era. Here, we | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
have a very different piece, a galleon panel. This was one of the | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
commissions he did for the P&O liners. By the 1880s, steamships | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
had become a popular and luxurious way of travelling. William de | :19:35. | :19:42. | |
Morgan was provided -- was asked to provide the decorations for 12 P&O | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
liners. These galleons were quite typical of the ships that he | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
created, they are rather jaunty vessels. They are not looking | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
particularly see were the, you cannot imagine they would last very | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
long in a storm! He was an optimist, then? You could say that. The sea | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
and sea creatures were a recurring theme for both artists. | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
Particularly as Evelyn got older, she got interested in spiritualists, | :20:08. | :20:16. | |
so her later work has an ethereal quality to it. The exhibition is on | :20:16. | :20:24. | |
show at Standens, a house designed by Philip Webb four prosperous | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
London solicitor, James Beale. wanted a holiday home for his | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
family, his seven children and wife. It was designed in the Arts and | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
Crafts style. He was a close friend of William Morris, the father of | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
the Arts and Crafts movement. William Morris was responsible for | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
furnishing the house with the patterns and wallpapers and fabrics | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
we see today. It is appropriate the exhibition should be here. That the | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
Morgan family were friends with William Morris, and James Beale was | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
a fan of William de Morgan's work and collected several pieces. It | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
runs until the end of October. Football, and after another | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
impressive victory last night, some Brighton and Hove Albion fans may | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
already be dreaming of a second successive promotion. The Seagulls | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
are joint top of The Championship after beating Cardiff and making it | :21:15. | :21:22. | |
three wins out of three this season. Ian Palmer reports. | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
In truth, a heart belonged to Cardiff, apart from an Ashley | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
Barnes shots. It was after six minutes, it were judged the off | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
side. Six minutes before half-time, the striker tried again. One-0- | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
Brighton. Following the turnover, a foul gave Barnes the chance to | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
double the lead from the penalty spot. They say you are never more | :21:45. | :21:55. | |
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than three passes away from a goal, and so it proved. One... Two... | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
Three. The Brighton manager, Gus Poyet, revealed why his side is | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
playing so much. We tried to make sure that no one can beat us. We | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
are a team, we play as a team. We all understand the game, the way | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
that I would like. The weight that is better for the players as well. | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
And it is working. The needless penalty led to the hosts scoring a | :22:20. | :22:29. | |
goal. But by then, the result was never in doubt. | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
In the days before satellite technology they saved thousands of | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
lives along our coast from their earliest incarnations as simple | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
bonfires to the towers that still stand today. Kent's lighthouses | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
have kept sailors safe in treacherous seas, but now they're | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
home to an art project inspired by a later form of communication | :22:44. | :22:53. | |
pioneered along our coastline. Sara Smith has more. This report | :22:53. | :23:02. | |
contains some strobe lighting. It is more than 100 years since the | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
old Light House in Dungeness was built, but several years before it | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
opened, another form of communication was being developed | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
on this stretch of beach. These sheds were home to some of | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
Marconi's early experiments with radio waves. The inventor would go | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
on to receive the first international radio transmission a | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
little further along the coast. It is these two forms of communication, | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
light and sound, which are the inspiration for this project. | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
Artists Jonathan Wright's piece recreate the work of another | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
communications pioneer working on the south coast, John Logie Baird. | :23:39. | :23:47. | |
This particular a piece transmits an image of this lighthouse on the | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
tiny television which mimics one that John Logie Baird invented in | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
the 1930s. So we are seeing and technology that relies on sound to | :23:57. | :24:06. | |
generate the image. Around the coast at Gillingham peer, this | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
former light ship, now an -- now an art space, is alive again with a | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
haunting sound that Steve Macpherson used to here as a boy. | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
His vocal interpretation of the light ship's for corn, warning see | :24:20. | :24:30. | |
Goa's of treacherous sand bags. -- foghorn. I would listen to the | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
foghorn, the moan constantly going on, feeling safe in my bed, someone | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
was out there watching over people. The odd project run by the | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
Folkestone fridge -- the art project is timed to celebrate | :24:46. | :24:55. | |
International Life House day. -- like how stay. They have had to | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
move this light house because the shingle kept moving the see further | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
away. This one was replaced when the view of it was obscured by this. | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
While white houses a while -- a while like houses like this one in | :25:10. | :25:20. | |
Dungeness are no longer used, it There was a little bit more | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
sunshine around this evening, the first expected, but we have seen | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
more in the way of cloud, some outbreaks of heavy and thundery | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
rain. That clears through this evening, and tomorrow is a much | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
clearer and drier picture. Beasant spells of sunshine, it should stay | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
dry and the winds should be easing off. Some heathery and thundery | :25:42. | :25:49. | |
outbreaks of rain today, -- heavy and thundery. Temperatures were | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
struggling. The winds from a north- easterly direction. Fairly breezy. | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
The reason for that, we have had a weather front with an associated | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
band of heavy rain pushing up from the south-west throughout the day. | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
There has been some levels of uncertainty about how much we would | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
see. It did sink a bit further south than we expected so all of us | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
have seen plenty of cloud and the chances of outbreaks of rain. That | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
rain will be clearing through this evening, it is increasingly drier, | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
more in the way of clear skies to end the night. As a result, a | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
slightly chilly feeling night. Lows of eight or nine degrees. With | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
those clearer skies, a bright starts tomorrow. As we move into | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
the afternoon, high cloud bubbling up but it will just be turning the | :26:39. | :26:46. | |
sunshine hazy. Nothing like their dull picture we saw today. Light | :26:46. | :26:53. | |
and variable winds. Good news for Festival Friday. Into tomorrow | :26:53. | :27:01. | |
night, it stays dry, and while the feeling night. -- a milder feeling | :27:01. | :27:11. | |
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night. The sunshine stays with us When the sun is shining and summer | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
is in full swing, there is nothing better than getting out of the | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
office to the seaside, and that is exactly what we are planning every | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
Friday in August. We are entering the festival spirit by taking South | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
East Today out on the road, to join you add some of the biggest summer | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
celebrations across Kent and Sussex. We will be live on location each | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
battle Friday and we would love as many of you as possible to come | :27:35. | :27:41. |