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Welcome to South East Today, I'm Polly Evans. | :00:05. | :00:09. | |
And and Rob Smith. After the collapse of SeaFrance, | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
rival companies promise 300 new jobs, but only for the French. | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
is great news to have a new ferry operator on the Dover to Calais | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
route, however what I would say is that I think it is crazy for it to | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
be French flag and have French word goes. | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
If �1 million of taxpayers' money to help 50 families on to that | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
housing ladder, is Hastings' "Lend A Hand" scheme good value? | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
Transforming a waste land back into Dreamland. Should the site's owners | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
be forced to sell Upshall it can be changed into a heritage park? | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
A cut above - the Kent fashion student who has won the chance to | :00:49. | :00:56. | |
display her work at a prestigious Paris fashion show. | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
And off the Michael Morpurgo talks War Horse, Spielberg and his | :00:59. | :01:09. | |
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Good evening. Just one day after the collapse of SeaFrance with the | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
loss of more than 1000 jobs, to rival ferry companies have | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
announced that they are going into partnership to create a new Dover | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
to Calais service. DFDS and LD Lines want to run two ferries on | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
the route and create 300 jobs. But there is concern in Dover where | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
workers fear they have been stopped to guarantee jobs for French | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
employees instead. Simon Jones is life in the time for us now. What | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
does this mean for local staff who have lost their jobs? I think it | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
means more uncertainty. On the one hand it is encouraging that a big | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
player like DFDS and LD Lines wants to set up, but it says it was set | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
up with French workers, and it is unclear what benefits there will be | :02:01. | :02:11. | |
for Dover workers. Protests in France by former | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
SeaFrance workers fearful for the future. And concern in Dover as | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
well. It is very sad. We have all worked here for a very long time, | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
and a lot of people, there are several people, the couple's | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
working here as well, so it is not just one couple losing their salary, | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
it is double the money. And a lot of people are very upset about it. | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
DFDS have today said they are going to move into Dover to Calais. Does | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
that give you any hope? Possibly. I have not heard that, so I cannot | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
comment. But it could do, yes. But the joint venture between DFDS | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
and LD Lines said today it is in a unique position to create a number | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
of sustainable French jobs, with French flag ships, with French | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
seafarers. It is great news to have a new ferry operator on the route, | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
however I would say that I think it is crazy for it to be French flag | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
and to have French workers. If they had UK workers, they would pay less | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
tax and it would be really great for the economy of Dover. DFDS | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
insist it is too early to say what workers it will need here. We do | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
believe it will be an opportunity to produce 300 positions for French | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
crew, but there will also be opportunities elsewhere. Those | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
opportunities that we are looking at at the moment, we are planning. | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
But even if the new venture takes off, hundreds of SeaFrance workers | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
on both sides of the Channel still face a bleak future. | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
The bigger advantage for this new venture, is that they do have | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
experience, although they may well bid for the assets of SeaFrance. | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
The disadvantage is strained relations with the French unions, | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
and that is why I think there has been so much emphasis today on the | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
benefits for the French. So, DFDS and LD Lines have declared | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
their joint proposal, but there are potentially other cross-Channel | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
operators who may want to try to replace SeaFrance. Eurotunnel | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
wanted by the SeaFrance ferries and lease them to another company. P&O | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
is yet to declare its plans, but has already warned that | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
Eurotunnel's proposals could give them to bigger share of the market | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
and breach European competition laws. And managers at the port of | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
Dover say that the cross-Channel market remains very robust. | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
Industry experts say any new operators will be entering a tough | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
market. The biggest issue is, is there enough big -- business going | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
through Dover to make it viable to have an alternative route | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
operating? The competition is good, it is good for pricing, but what do | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
you do not want his businesses which actually are not making money | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
and do not have a longer time my. Hugh Schofield joins us from Paris. | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
SeaFrance union leaders have been meeting Government officials in | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
France, have they been given hope that more jobs might be saved? | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
promises, but some hope. The minister was up there hearing what | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
you have been hearing, with the various plans around the table. | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
Eurotunnel, possibly a hook up with a co-operative buyout. And of | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
course the DFDS approach as well. The hope for the French side is | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
that there will be jobs among the 300, and also SNCF, the former | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
owner, but but they might supply 500 jobs. | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
Do French President Nicolas Sarkozy faces re-election in April. He is | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
keen for jobs to be fine for former SeaFrance workers. Whether they | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
will also be created on this side of the channel is for from certain. | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
But Dover District Council has promised tonight to support local | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
workers and their families as much as possible. | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
On the programme in a moment. High hopes for the 10-year-old from | :06:14. | :06:24. | |
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Kent with a starring role in the BBC's latest Dickens extravaganza. | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
Sussex council is stepping in to help families who are struggling to | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
afford a home get their foot on the housing ladder. Hastings Borough | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
Council has agreed to underwrite mortgages for up to 50 first-time | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
buyers who wanted to put down a 5% deposit on a house costing up to | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
�150,000. It is borrowing �1 million to finance the scheme, | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
which is in partnership with Lloyds TSB. Louise Stewart joins us live | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
from Hastings. This is something of a first. | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
Yes, it is a first for the whole of the South East. It has happened | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
elsewhere, councils in the north- west, and it has been seen as | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
successful. The whole idea is to help first-time buyers get on the | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
property ladder. Rachel and her partner James only | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
heard about the "Lend A Hand" scheme this morning, but wasted no | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
time in heading straight to meet their bank manager. They had been | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
rented for three years and say this is the only way to get on the | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
property ladder. We have struggled with getting the | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
deposit, because we have not been able to save as much as we would | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
like to. So that was our stumbling point. So the 5% deposit was the | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
best thing about the scheme. It is ridiculous, the amount of money you | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
have to pay, and the average age of somebody who can afford to get on | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
the housing market. So I think it is good that there are schemes like | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
this. Hastings is the first council in | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
the South East to adopt the scheme, but it has already benefited first- | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
time buyers elsewhere, not just with deposits but also more | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
favourable interest rates. We are boring, for this scheme, | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
mending it then to Lloyd's, and then making money out of that | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
arrangement, to act as a cushion in the scheme. It does not affect the | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
council's budget, but I think it is a good way to use our ability to | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
borrow, because first-time buyers can have a home who may have had | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
difficulty raising the deposit. We are saying they are in | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
accommodation of Ready, so it frees up that accommodation for some | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
there be else. But critics say it is not the role | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
of the local authority to guarantee boring for individuals. There are | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
risks with this. If someone defaults on their mortgage | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
repayment, they are exposed to that, and obviously the council taxpayers | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
are exposed to that. Rachel and James Hopkin now will be | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
able to buy their own property, but with funding limited to 50, many | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
will be disappointed. This will help only a limited | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
number of people, and some critics say it is not the best use perhaps | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
of local authority money, but the Government have welcomed it, and | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
say they want to roll out a scheme of their own later in the year. | :09:15. | :09:22. | |
A former UK Border Agency officer has been jailed for 2.5 years for | :09:22. | :09:29. | |
downloading more than 260 pictures of Indies -- he pleaded guilty to | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
possessing indecent images of children which shed over the | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
internet. Three men have been charged with | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
conspiring to steal more than �2 million from the University of | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
Sussex. It is alleged that money paid by the universe to's building | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
work on new student Ackerman -- accommodation was on for lawfully | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
diverted to another account. And' an Kemsing has been fined | :09:53. | :10:00. | |
almost �2,000 after admitting it after admitting spreading tax | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
outside police stations. But he said it was in revenge for a fine | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
for disorderly behaviour of. Campaigners fighting to restore the | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
historic Dreamland theme park in Margate to its former glory are | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
backing plans for compulsory purchase of the site. A public | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
inquiry opened today to decide whether Thanet District Council | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
could force the owners to sell up. In its heyday in the 60s, Dreamland | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
attracted hundreds of tourists. But it has fallen into disrepair since | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
closing in 2006, and a major fire all but destroyed the roller | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
coaster. Peter Whittlesea is live in my bit. | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
The council has ambitious plans. They certainly have. You would | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
imagine a planning inquiry would be a dry affair. But from the moment | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
there started there was claim and counter-claim. Owners do not want | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
to lose the sight, but the council know there is something possible | :10:56. | :11:04. | |
about the nostalgia of Dreamland. It is synonymous with Margate. | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
It was a magnet for tourism. That is how the council's leading - Mac | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
legal team described Dreamland in its heyday. They claim a heritage | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
theme park will not just hark back to the good old days, but help | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
revive the local economy. They say it can only happen if the site is | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
compulsorily purchased. We have worked hard in trying to | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
resolve the matter of the future of Dreamland with the landowners. Over | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
the last few years. But unfortunately we have not been able | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
to come to a resolution on that that satisfy his the council in | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
respect of insuring the breach generation of Dreamland as a | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
tourist attraction for Margate. first roller-coaster opened in 1921. | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
And the party enjoyed a golden age in 1960s. But Dreamland has been | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
effectively closed since 2006, used only by occasional travelling fairs. | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
For those who worked on the theme park's famous Grade 2 listed | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
roller-coaster, they say it has to be saved. It is one of two rides | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
which have listed status. There is so much bald wide interest for this | :12:17. | :12:26. | |
ride, and for the park to be open. The landowners say a compulsory | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
purchase order can only be served if there is a compelling case in | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
the public interest. Their legal team claims the plans for a | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
heritage theme-park a half-cocked, and the council do not have enough | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
money to deliver the proposals. But those who have spent years fund- | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
raising say that is not true. have actually got a prudent | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
business plan. If anything, it is pessimistic. We believe in the | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
project, and so do Thanet District Council, so does the Government's | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Heritage Lottery Fund. | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
But for anyone who spent their fun- filled you can hear, this is more | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
than just a public inquiry. It is about emotions and the future of | :13:12. | :13:22. | |
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the place which to them it will That is why it it has been good -- | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
described as a sad picture of neglect. The landowners say they | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
have ambitious plans for a better than what the council has proposed. | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
The planning inquiry is due to last another seven days and today the | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
planning inspector had a site visit. A Sussex University medical student | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
accused along with two friends of murdering a television executive | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
has told a jury in the Old Bailey that she panicked after seeing them | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
attack him in their room. 20 year- old Mundil Mahill who comes from | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
Chatham says she could see Gagandeep Singh was being heard, | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
after luring him to her home, but had no idea he would it end up dead. | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
Mundil Mahill today describe the sequence of events leading up to | :14:12. | :14:19. | |
get in the's -- Gagandeep Singh's death, at first it was a text | :14:19. | :14:29. | |
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It was put to Mundil Mahill, the prosecution claimed that this | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
showed the two review had decided to kill Gagandeep Singh. That | :14:35. | :14:42. | |
sounds ridiculous, she replied. Is it true, she was asked. No, she | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
said. But she had persuaded Gagandeep Singh to meet her at her | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
house in Brighton. Waiting there were her two friends. Her defence | :14:51. | :15:01. | |
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Sunny, the court court was told, was a devout Sikh that Gagandeep | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
Singh looked at two, and someone who would lecture him on the Sikh | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
religion and his behaviour with young women. Sometimes crying, | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
sometimes stumbling, Mundil Mahill today described the moment | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
Gagandeep Singh was set upon. She says she took him to her room to | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
have a private road with him when Darren Peters pounced on him, | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
punching him. She said she left the room in a panic, not knowing what | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
to do. With the sound of dull thuds coming from behind her. Gagandeep | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
Singh's body was discovered hours later in the boot of a burnt-out | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
Mercedes in a secluded South London -- London lane. The three | :15:56. | :16:03. | |
defendants deny murder. The trial continues. | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
It is at 6:45pm. Two rival ferry companies say they | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
want to join forces to takeover the collapsed sea France Dover to | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
Calais service. They say they would take on 300 of the 1000 workers who | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
have lost their jobs, but have only promised to take on French staff. | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
Politicians say that plan is crazy. Also tonight. I promise you I will | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
look after him if I can, I will look -- return to him. A War Horse | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
of a movie, we speak to all the Michael Morpurgo about seeing his | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
book on the big screen and his childhood in Kent -- author Michael | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
Morpurgo. Until recently, #ColourWhite -- | :16:50. | :16:57. | |
Lyudmila Lane was a full-time mum whose remarkable design talents was | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
only appreciated by her friends and family. But four years after | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
starting a degree course at university, she has won an | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
international competition which will show cuts her work in Paris. - | :17:11. | :17:21. | |
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- showcase her work. Pretty, pleated, and prize-winning. | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
Lyudmila Lane's designs may not have been created if it was not for | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
her daughter suggested she should go to university. All of these | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
years, it just changed everything in my life completely. It | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
completely changed everything. it could change even more. Having | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
beaten more than 50 international colleges, she has won the who is | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
next fashion competition, given her the chance to showcase her designs | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
in Paris. It is a great chance to meet professional business people, | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
client buyers, make some new project, new connections. It is | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
amazing, a chance for me. graduate of the University for | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
creative arts in Rochester, could Lyudmila Lane had the success of | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
Zandra Rhodes of Karen Millen, Ford and -- former student of the same | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
university? It is an amazing opportunity, she will be able to | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
launch her own career from his opportunity in Paris. It is | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
fantastic. I think what would make me happy would be to see my dresses | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
worn by a people on the street. Women, I think that would be, that | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
would make my life complete. goes to Paris at the end of the | :18:37. | :18:47. | |
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month. She had to turn hap dream It is the emotionally-charged story | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
of a horse swept up into the horror and carnage of the First World War, | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
that has already been turned into an award-winning stage play and it | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
is about to hit the cinema screens in a film directed by Hollywood | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
great steel when Spielberg. There are some strong connections to the | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
south-east. The movie version stars Robert Emms from Horley in Surrey, | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
and the original model was written by Michael Morpurgo who was head | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
boy when he was at King's School in Canterbury. What is it? It is a | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
horse they found wandering about in no-man's land. It is an epic tale | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
of loyalty and hope. A horse gets separated from his own and ends up | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
in the trenches during World War One. The man behind the book, | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
Michael Morpurgo, who was awarded the Children's Laureate in 2003, | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
began much of his writing while living in Kent. To start with, it | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
did not do very well, it never start -- sold more than a couple of | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
1000 copies per year. As a children's book, it did not win a | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
prize and it got mixed reviews. Then the National Theatre came | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
along and decided, we want to make a play of this with these amazing | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
puppets. And they transformed this little children's book into this | :20:10. | :20:18. | |
book for every one. We are at war! I promise you a look out for him. | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
If I can return -- if I can, I will return him to your care. Steven | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
Spielberg sees the stage adaptation and it inspired him to make the | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
film? Within a week, he was over, he saw it three times, he met the | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
cast, went to the Imperial War Museum, and he lost himself in it | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
totally. It was like talking to a kid who had discovered a crock of | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
gold. He loved the story. He is one of the great cinematic storytellers | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
of our generation, and he wanted to make a film of this book, this play, | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
using the best from the play and the best from the book and bringing | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
with it new ideas of his own. Michael's formative years were | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
spent at boarding school in Canterbury. It was a very beautiful | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
place in Canterbury, and if that Cathedral, King's School, week wore | :21:05. | :21:13. | |
a very funny uniform with funnies - - funny hat. I was not a very good | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
school boy, I did not do my lessons very well and I did not do well in | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
my exams. I am the only boy that drives in the village. 25 year-old | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
Robert Emms from Hawley was in the stage production when Spielberg saw | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
the show in London. He did not realise he was effectively | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
auditioning for a part in Spielberg's murder -- movie. I met | :21:34. | :21:41. | |
him and the producer for a chat, just really to chat about the play. | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
It was him saying how much he enjoyed it and been very | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
complimentary, which was a great moment. While Michael helps the | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
dash hopes the movie will be a huge success, if it encourages | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
youngsters to pick up a book and discover reading, it will be a job | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
well done. Kent County Council have launched | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
their Year of Sport campaign today with a British record. Many of the | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
county's best young sports men and women were at County Hall to | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
witness the record for BMX static jumping. A height of more than 48 | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
inches. The organisers want to encourage everyone to make the most | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
of the sporting opportunities available this year. A sustained | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
legacy is what we are after 4th a we will have a party this year what | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
happens, but I want to see the year after that, that there is interest | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
and excitement in sport and physical activity and it is | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
sustained. It is Charles Dickens' final novel, | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
set in a fictionalised Rochester Cathedral, but the great author | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
died before he could complete The Mystery of Edwin Drood. That has | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
not stopped the BBC from adapting the -- dark tale of drug addiction | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
and obsessive love, and 10 year-old Alfie Davis from Herne Bay is one | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
of the start of the adaptation which starts today on BBC 2. | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
It is a dark and disturbing tale, a murder mystery, set in a scene | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
inspired by it begins' home turf of Rochester, who is youngest League | :23:14. | :23:20. | |
is a Kent boy. -- inspired by Charles Dickens' home turf of | :23:20. | :23:30. | |
:23:30. | :23:33. | ||
Rochester. Do that again and I will The story does have lighter moments. | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
Classic Charles Dickens so he style humour, and Alfie Davis injects a | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
cheekiness that the director of this adaptation described as | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
proving he was born for the role. What have we got today? Who is this | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
when he is at home? I was trying to be a bit like a geyser at his -- in | :23:52. | :24:00. | |
it. He had his own picture of the character in mind, but when the | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
directors or mind, he said it was OK. I saw him in one of his end of | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
term productions. I had not worked with him yet and I could not | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
believe what I was seeing. He was so brave, and so big. And so | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
characterful. He was so polished as well. Alfie auditioned for the pot | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
by mobile phone from his holiday in Spain. It won him the role as | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
Ragamuffin deputy. He is some gentlemen that once the chill of | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
your domain. After reading the script, Alfie's mind is made up | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
over the quality of this story. should have been his best novel, it | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
was very good. I reckon if he had actually finished that book, I | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
think that would have been one of his best novels and been really | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
famous. So tonight sees the completion of Charles Dickens' | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
novel and a performance from a 10 year-old Viv great ambitions in | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
acting and playwriting. Brimming racket, hoping -- enough to put an | :25:03. | :25:12. | |
honest man of his large! -- of his lunch! | :25:12. | :25:22. | |
:25:22. | :25:24. | ||
He is a cute little urchin! If that The Mystery of Edwin Drood is on | :25:24. | :25:32. | |
It was cloudy this afternoon, it stays that way through tonight and | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
tomorrow, surprise surprise, very similar indeed. Cloudy start, mild | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
in the afternoon. Temperatures very mild for the time of year. We are | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
several degrees above average, in double figures. That is set to | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
change on Thursday. By Friday, for the first time for a while, below | :25:52. | :26:00. | |
average temperatures. High pressure was control today, we had light | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
south-westerly breeze is. Milder air, temperatures in double figures. | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
Some brighter breaks throughout the afternoon. A bit more cloud as we | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
go through tonight, we could see some light and patchy rain and | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
drizzle over higher ground. Temperatures only dropping to lows | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
of seven or eight degrees. Normally those are the type of temperatures | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
we would see in the daytime. The average overnight is around two | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
degrees. A cloudy and mild start tomorrow, very difficult changes. A | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
bit more brightness into the afternoon, chasing the cloud cover. | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
The chance of some mist and fog patches first thing, but they will | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
clear quickly. The winds from a westerly direction, light for | :26:43. | :26:53. | |
assault. -- us all. Tomorrow night, a good deal of cloud cover. | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
Temperatures not getting much below five or six degrees. The chance of | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
some light and patchy rain by the cloud cover get particularly thick. | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
There will be a bit of a change on Thursday, of weather front is | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
sinking south-east would bringing more cloud. It stays mild, | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
temperatures of 10 degrees. The chance of some light rain first | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
thing. Once the rain does, temperatures will drop to freezing. | :27:20. | :27:27. |