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Welcome to South East Today. I'm Rob Smith. And I'm Polly Evans. | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
Tonight's top stories: A guilty plea from the men accused of | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
beheading a Kent pensioner while she was on holiday in India. We are | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
live from her home town of Chatham. 41 truckers give up an hour's wage | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
each week to help a colleague stay at home with his terminally ill | :00:25. | :00:33. | |
children. I can't believe that these guys sacrifice their wage for | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
me. It would like to thank them very much. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
Also in tonight's programme: More rape claims are dismissed in Kent | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
than anywhere else in the country - campaigners say they are deeply | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
concerned. Around the world on 8,000 litres of | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
cooking oil - the bio-trucker returns from his global adventure. | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
Horns and broadswords - remembering the Viking attack on Canterbury | :00:52. | :01:02. | |
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Good evening. Two men accused of kidnapping and beheading a Kent | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
pensioner while she was on holiday visiting relatives in India have | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
pleaded guilty to her murder. Surjit Kaur, a 67-year-old mother- | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
of-three from Chatham, was killed during a trip to the Punjab region | :01:19. | :01:28. | |
earlier this year. Sara Smith reports. | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
At surgeon Corps had gone to India in February for an extended holiday. | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
News of her death reached her family in Kent two months later. | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
There was no closure. We could not say goodbye to my mum. There was no | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
funeral. She had been staying at her son's holiday home in did | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
didn't jab. Seven weeks into her trip she was reported missing. At | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
body was found five days later it hundred miles away. She is | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
understood to have been strangled and beheaded. Today in India two | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
men admitted responsibility, in a case that has attracted much | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
attention in the country. In terms of murder in India, every case is a | :02:14. | :02:23. | |
high-profile case. Whenever British people come back to Punjab, they | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
exercise a lot of influence. They investigation into the death was | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
reduced by the Gillingham MP in Parliament. The Prime Minister more | :02:35. | :02:43. | |
or less but for the Foreign Office opinion that the that | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
responsibility lies with the police in India. Today the MP welcome | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
developments. From where we started to where we are now, where the | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
family have been told that the accused have now pleaded guilty is | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
a long way in obtaining justice for the family. Now the weight is on to | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
see what sentence the court composers. | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
- - imposes. Sara Smith reporting, and she joins us live from Surjit | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
Kaur's home town of Chatham. Sara, what happens to the two men now? | :03:17. | :03:25. | |
The two men may have pleaded guilty, Palmer - - - - it could be a long | :03:25. | :03:34. | |
time before they get their verdict, their sentence. Some details could | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
come out in the trial about what happens and it could give her | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
children here some more information on the details surrounding her | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
death. 41 Kent lorry drivers are giving up | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
an hour's wage every week so their colleague can stay at home with his | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
terminally ill children. Two of Joseph Williams' children have a | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
rare and incurable genetic disorder and his baby daughter is a carrier | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
of the faulty gene. But Joseph and his wife, Faye, say they are | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
determined not to give up hope, even though the medical options | :04:01. | :04:10. | |
have run out. Claudia Sermbezis reports. | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
This seven-year-old child suffers from a syndrome that leads to heart | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
problems and chronic renal failure. Doctors say her time is running out. | :04:19. | :04:28. | |
The they said weeks or months because they can treat her. The | :04:28. | :04:38. | |
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drugs will not keep working, and that is it, really, for her. Kidney | :04:40. | :04:50. | |
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failure has no cure. She is going to die. Even to keep the failures | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
have no cure, I believe there is something they can drive. Joseph is | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
a match for his doctor, but she has been told that she would not | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
survive the transplant. He works as a lorry driver. All 41 of his | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
colleagues had decided to to make an are of their weekly wage, the | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
company will pay the rest, so just it can be at home on full play. | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
is a lovely fella, a big character and he has one of our team. I think | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
it is great that the boys have rallied round to help them. Not one | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
driver refused to sign. What - - not one driver asked how long it | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
would go on for, we all did because he is such a nice guy and we don't | :05:40. | :05:48. | |
think you should be at work while his child is the way she is. Their | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
generosity has a Maersk a couple. am amazed that it has happened. | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
Abbott like to thank them very much. Their other wee boy, Joseph, has | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
the syndrome and their little girl also is a career, but they are | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
determined to stay positive. need to stay strong and stay | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
together. Keep hoping. In a moment, the first green MP, | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
the first green council, but how much difference is the party | :06:18. | :06:28. | |
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More allegations of rape are dismissed as so-called 'no crimes' | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
by Kent Police than by any other force in the country, according to | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
new figures from a BBC Freedom of Information request. In Kent, of | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
304 rape allegations made last year, 30% were dismissed, compared to | :06:41. | :06:49. | |
almost 26% of rape cases in Surrey, but less than 10% in Sussex. The | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
national average is less than12 %. Gloucestershire Police recorded the | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
lowest figure, with just 2% of rape allegations dismissed. | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
Organisations working with rape victims in Kent say they are deeply | :07:00. | :07:10. | |
concerned. This whole categorisation of no crime sent a | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
message to the victim that they are not being believed. We know that | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
the most damaging thing that we can do to the victims his talent but we | :07:17. | :07:25. | |
don't believe them. - - that. So, what is the process for deciding | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
that there is no crime involved in a rape allegation? First, the | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
police will thoroughly investigate the allegations. If necessary, | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
additional evidence, such as CCTV footage may be studied. But if a | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
senior officer or the Crown Prosecution Service decides there's | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
not enough evidence to support the allegation, it's not pursued | :07:38. | :07:46. | |
further and logged as no crime. Kent police are extremely keen to | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
report from the outset any allegation of sexual assault. | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
Perhaps we do this better than some other forces who are not so robust | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
in their recording processes, which is why Kent police have such high | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
figures. Our Social Affairs Correspondent, Yvette Austin, joins | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
us now from Kent Police GHeadquarters in Maidstone. Yvette, | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
these new figures add to long- standing concerns about low | :08:06. | :08:14. | |
conviction rates for rape, don't they? Absolutely. Statistics | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
surrounding reporting rate have been controversial for some years. | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
Back in 2006 a report said that the conviction rates for reported rates | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
stood at just 6%. Many people said that that figure is misleading | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
because conviction rates for those charged this year stands at 71 %. | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
The complaint is that many victims say they don't get the help and | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
support that they need to pursue their claims. Earlier I spoke to | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
one woman who says she has been raid and he has dismissed her claim | :08:48. | :08:55. | |
to anonymity so that she can pursue her interests of talking to us and | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
giving us her experiences. We are at the victim, but almost betrayed | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
as the criminal through the questioning. I don't think a lot of | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
woman can do that and stand-up and give evidence. You heard earlier | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
from a charity that said one of the problems here in Kent, unlike | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
elsewhere, there is not a dedicated centre for sexual abuse victims | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
were they can go for a sympathetic ear and for the treatment but the | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
need away from the harsh surroundings of a police station or | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
a hospital. For the detailed figures from across the country, | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
plus further commentary and analysis, visit our website, | :09:33. | :09:40. | |
bbc.co.uk/news. Four men have been arrested | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
following a ram raid attack on a village shop in Kent. Two 4X4 | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
vehicles were used in the early hours of this morning to smash | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
their way into Martin's Newsagent's in Bearsted and remove a cash | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
machine. The men are being questioned at Maidstone Police | :09:52. | :10:01. | |
Station. British Transport Police have increased the number of | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
officers on trains and the south- east after attacks on staff. 10 | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
more officers are being deployed on the Medway valley routes. Union | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
representatives say stations are not being sufficiently staffed. | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
Proposals for a second annual half- marathon in Brighton have been | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
withdrawn, following concerns they would damage a long-established | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
event in the city. The Sussex Beacon charity has hosted the | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
city's half-marathon for more than 20 years, with the next one | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
scheduled for February. The Grounded Events Company has | :10:29. | :10:37. | |
withdrawn its request to hold a similar race in October. She's | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
Britain's first ever Green MP and today the Member for Brighton | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
Pavilion, Caroline Lucas, took to the stage in Sheffield to give her | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
Leader's Speech at the party's autumn conference. Her election to | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
Westminster paved the way for Brighton and Hove to become the | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
country's first Green-controlled council. But what impact has her | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
political success had on the ground in Sussex? John Young has been | :10:55. | :11:04. | |
finding out. Who applause today for the leader | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
who is widely seen to have taken the Green Party into the mainstream | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
and to a Paris based on the Sussex coast. For months on, what are the | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
early verdicts under the first green city council? The business | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
community or always going to be hard to please. What is their | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
verdict? We have had 15 years have no vision at all. The Green Party | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
knew what they wanted to go to. We now have a clear vision. If you had | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
asked me this year would I have expected it, the answer would have | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
been, no, I wouldn't have expected to have that opinion. The business | :11:42. | :11:49. | |
score is nine out of 10. Green councillors announced that they had | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
already paid it - - improved pay for look low-paid council workers, | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
and launched radical plans to improve pedestrian routes, but the | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
critics have accused them to field to get rid of �130,000 salaries for | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
tour - - 44 top bosses, the only secondary school and not tackling | :12:07. | :12:16. | |
housing turgidly. This building has been derelict for a number of years. | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
We see buildings that this all across the city derelict with | :12:20. | :12:28. | |
nothing happening. The verdict from Labour, three a dividend. We are | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
wanting to put affordable housing at the top of the list. To say that | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
we haven't done enough in 100 days is a bit harsh. We are doing our | :12:37. | :12:44. | |
best with that. I think that we have done pretty well. Mr Lucas's | :12:44. | :12:53. | |
own score, up 8 1/2 at a 10. Among its voters? About seven out of 10, | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
mainly because Caroline Lucas has been instrumental in helping some | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
friends of mine. Two out of 10 for their policy on the roads and | :13:03. | :13:11. | |
driving. Nine out of 10, for this year's Gay Pride, the way they | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
planned it, the clean-up. The rest of the electorate will be able to | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
give their verdict in May 2015. Our Political Editor, Louise | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
Stewart, is here. So, the party conference season is underway. | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
Louise, what are the challenges for the Greens and the other parties | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
here in the South East? Despite Caroline Lucas's high profile | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
nationally, but hasn't translated to success elsewhere. She needs to | :13:39. | :13:46. | |
build on than in Dubai appealing to disaffected Liberal Democrats. | :13:46. | :13:53. | |
Elsewhere, UKIP have been holding their party. Nigel Farage wants to | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
appeal to disaffected Conservatives. The Conservatives are part of the | :13:57. | :14:05. | |
problem, not the solution. They get their votes by promising to stand | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
up for the nation, and the trip is the never really mean it in the | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
first place. But they are engaged in is an exercise in mass deception | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
and they are being rumbled. Louise, this is just the start of the | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
conference season, what can we expect from the other major | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
parties? The conference season is a time not just for the parties to | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
talk internally, but for us to see how they're doing. What Nick Clegg | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
needs to prove is that he has not been overshadowed in the coalition. | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
The Conservatives need to show that there been robust in the coalition. | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
Ed Miliband needs to prove that he has fulfilled his role as leader | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
and can win back boats in the south-east. It will be a bumpy few | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
weeks for them all. You can find out more on my blog at | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
bbc.co.uk/louisestewart. Or follow me on Twitter at BBCLouise. | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
This is our top story tonight: Two men accused of kidnapping and | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
beheading a Kent pensioner while she was on holiday visiting | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
relatives in India have pleaded guilty to her murder. Surjit Kaur, | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
a 67-year-old mother-of-three from Chatham, was killed during a trip | :15:13. | :15:20. | |
to the Punjab region earlier this year. | :15:20. | :15:28. | |
Also in tonight's programme: Join me to find out how the owners of | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
this track managed to travel 20,000 miles around the world but only | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
paid for fuel once. 1,000 years on, commemorations of | :15:37. | :15:47. | |
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the day the Vikings invaded Canterbury. | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
In the aftermath of 9/11, many were afraid to visit the site of the | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
terror attacks. But for Canon Jim Rosenthal, an American who was | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
working at Canterbury Cathedral, it was a trip he felt he had to take. | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
Alex Beard has the last report in our series looking back on the | :16:03. | :16:13. | |
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events of 10 years ago. Things have scared me in the past, | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
but nothing like this because it was just too big. Despite an | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
international nervousness to fly after nine 11th, Father Jim flew a | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
week after the attacks to go to New York hands realised he no longer | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
recognised the city. They were still looking for bodies. It was | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
horrific. I went to the sight of a church that was crushed to the | :16:40. | :16:48. | |
ground. I have been in that church many times. It had just disappeared. | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
He went to a neighbouring church on Wall Street have to console shocked | :16:52. | :16:59. | |
New Yorkers. Everybody now knows what some pulsed chapel is because | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
it became a hospital, canteen, a place for people could sleep, posed | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
pictures of the departed. It was an incredible experience for me to | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
spend time with them and walk through the rubble. I probably | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
cried more during that time than a my whole life. These experiences | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
led him to set up awareness Sunday, a chance to reflect on 9/11. It is | :17:24. | :17:33. | |
now celebrated and 22 countries. - - in a 22 countries. | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
You can see all three of Alex Beard's reports on the 9/11 attacks | :17:36. | :17:45. | |
It was a mad-cap adventure by an environmental activist, to see just | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
how far you could travel in a battered old van powered solely by | :17:48. | :17:58. | |
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cooking oil. Andy Pag set off two years ago and circled the globe, | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
clocking up 20,000 miles and travelling through 25 countries all | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
on 8,000 litres of used cooking oil. Today, he ended his epic voyage | :18:04. | :18:11. | |
back in Dover and our reporter Peter Whittlesea is there now. The | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
so-called bio-truck has taken quite a battering, hasn't it, Peter? | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
It certainly has. He bought this for �800 after it finished as like | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
as a school bus in Preston. It lost its windscreen, white purse, and | :18:28. | :18:36. | |
the engine had to be rebuilt in India. They look like pictures from | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
a Hollywood film about a guy he builds an Eco camper from a heap of | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
trash then goes on at 20,000 mile road trip around the World's | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
finding love on the way. For Andy, that is not movie magic, it is the | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
last two years of his life. I had this idea of driving around the | :18:57. | :19:04. | |
world, but a wanted to do it sustainably. This is an experiment | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
to see if it can be done in a sustainable way. Some things have | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
worked really well, the idea of using waste cooking oil. I was | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
surprised as anybody else to realise it can be done right the | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
way around the world. An American freelance journalist did an article | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
about him, Andy Phelan love over the Internet and Christina finally | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
joined in Indonesia. With its on board will refinery and composting | :19:32. | :19:39. | |
toilet, unusual odours were the only obstacle to romance. That is | :19:39. | :19:46. | |
the compost toilet! His feats and the compost toilet. I have | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
essential oils and incense, but none of it really works together | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
that the smell! Despite the smells, they are now engaged. Dover may be | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
the end of this road trip, but a sequel to Africa is already planned. | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
It is the aroma that made me stutter earlier! This is all | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
completely reclaimed. The special likes, they are from solar panels | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
on the roof, and in here is the infamous Eco toilet that nearly | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
jeopardised their romance. Andy has promised to clear that out before | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
they go on their next trip. In here of the aroma is smiled Camembert, I | :20:28. | :20:35. | |
would say. Herne Bay may not have produced too | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
many Olympic medal winners in the past, but that could be about to | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
change. Dan Ritchie won a silver medal at the World Rowing | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
Championships last weekend and today he came back to Herne Bay to | :20:45. | :20:55. | |
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help inspire pupils at his old school, as Neil Bell reports. | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
At 24, Dan Ritchie appears to have a long career ahead of him. His | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
target is not just to make it to the London Games, but the next | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
three Olympics. This afternoon he was guest of honour at his old | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
school. If you get into the British team, you are expected to get a | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
medal. There is a lot of expectation on us by the public, | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
but more comes from our cells. was back at the school to open and | :21:25. | :21:33. | |
you sport and leisure project. Dan to be opening this facility, we | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
could not ask for a better person. He is a Herne Bay boy, a student of | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
the school and now a potential Olympian. Last weekend he was | :21:46. | :21:53. | |
taking on the world's best, but he will get the chance tomorrow to | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
have their race with his old friends at the local rowing club. | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
Go down and have a go. He has already won a number of metals, | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
including silver last week, but he aims to be even better than that | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
next summer. Football now and Brighton and Hove | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
Albion manager Gus Poyet has won the Championship manager of the | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
month award for August following the club's unbeaten start to the | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
season. The Seagulls will be hoping to continue their great run at | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
Bristol City tomorrow. Poyet has yet to decide whether new signing | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
Vincente Rodriguez will start the game. In League One, third-placed | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
Charlton are also unbeaten in the league. The Addicks take on | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
struggling Exeter at the Valley with manager Chris Powell no doubt | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
hoping they can get all three points after being held to a draw | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
by Sheffield Wednesday in midweek. League Two leaders Crawley Town | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
face what is probably their toughest game in the football | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
League so far when they travel to third place Morecambe. But after a | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
cup and league blip, their demolition of Bristol Rovers last | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
Saturday suggests they are back to their best. Loan signing Scott | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
Griffiths stands by to make his debut. | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
Despite two successive defeats, Gillingham remain sixth, but will | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
be very keen to return to winning ways at home to Accrington Stanley. | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
The game is unlikely to live up to last season's two matches between | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
the sides, which produced a remarkable 15 goals. | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
It was one of the bloodiest episodes the South East has ever | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
seen. In the year 1011, under the command of Thorkell the Tall, an | :23:22. | :23:32. | |
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army of Viking warriors besieged the city of Canterbury. The | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
terrrified inhabitants held out bravely for three weeks, but | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
eventually their city was destroyed. Today, as Robin Gibson reports, a | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
month-long series of events began to commemorate what happened a | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
thousand years ago. The arrival of Vikings in the centre of Canterbury | :23:44. | :23:51. | |
1000 years ago was nothing to smile about, but this month the story of | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
deceit and sacking of the city will be brought to life. We're at the | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
Canterbury Museum tomorrow and you will be put through your paces to | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
seed you can join this army. This ditties - - city stood alone | :24:07. | :24:14. | |
against one of the most feared armies in Europe. After a month the | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
Abbots of the Abbey let them into slaughter, burn and destroy all in | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
their pack. The place was levelled. Churches and houses burned. People | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
slaughtered in the most brutal manner. It is a little-known | :24:31. | :24:41. | |
episode in our history and, but one of the most bloody and dramatic. | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
These are Viking Arctic - - artifacts were uncovered by | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
archaeologists in the city. The story of the massacre was handed | :24:50. | :25:00. | |
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down through chronicles. Every man, every house them come every wife, | :25:01. | :25:08. | |
every monk, every man was taken to slavery. Writing well after the | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
events, a writer said that of a population of 8000 only 800 survive | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
the siege. The whole reason why they sacked Canterbury was because | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
the English occupant had failed to pay the money. Maybe if they had | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
been a cash machine in those days, the whole crisis could have been | :25:29. | :25:37. | |
extorted. The city fell prey to barbaric cruelty. Our eyes are | :25:38. | :25:47. | |
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Let's get to take on the weather. We have had a mostly dry, muggy day | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
to day. We have got further outbreaks of rain coming over the | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
weekend. At the time we get to Monday we have a weather warning | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
about gale-force winds, particularly on the south coast. | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
Today will be quite a quiet day weather Wise. We will stay mostly | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
dry with plenty of cloud and lighter winds. In the best of any | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
brightness this afternoon, highs will give up to 22 degrees. It | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
stays dry at as we move into tonight with plenty of cloud around. | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
What will be noticeable will be the temperatures, hardly dropping from | :26:35. | :26:44. | |
third day time values. - - their daytime values. We have this narrow | :26:44. | :26:52. | |
band of rain spreading eastwards. By early afternoon tomorrow we will | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
see does rain pitching in. The south-westerly winds will be fairly | :26:55. | :27:02. | |
light. Temperatures will feel pretty warm but highs of 22 degrees. | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
The rain will clear as you move into tomorrow evening, but it is | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
followed by further showers. The winds will start to pick up. Again | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
it will be a mild night with temperatures ranging between 14 and | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
17 degrees. Moving into Sunday, there will be heavy outbreaks of | :27:20. | :27:26. | |
rain. Temperatures will struggle to get out of the teens. The really | :27:26. | :27:33. |