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Welcome to South East Today, I'm Polly Evans. And I'm Rob Smith. | :00:04. | :00:06. | |
Tonight's top stories. The prime minister is privately | :00:06. | :00:09. | |
backing the idea of a Thames Estuary airport the BBC has learned, | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
as the Government announces a consultation on the future of | :00:12. | :00:22. | |
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aviation. It will be a motor for jobs and growth in the South East | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
and for the UK economy. It is ridiculous. These areas are | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
internationally important for the environment and wildlife. | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
Local people, politicians, and environmental campaigners denounce | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
the scheme as disastrous and impossible to fund. | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
We'll be reporting live from the Isle of Grain and Westminster. | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
Also in tonight's programme: Gone but not forgotten. 19 years | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
after the murder of Kent schoolgirl Claire Tiltman, her sick father | :00:46. | :00:56. | |
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makes a fresh appeal for justice. have never given up hope. I never | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
have done and I never will do. EasyJet forces a disabled man off a | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
plane at Gatwick Airport because of safety fears. He says he feels | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
degraded. And boxing clever, how the | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
Olympics' sporting legacy is already making a difference for | :01:09. | :01:19. | |
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children in Kent. Good evening. BBC South East Today | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
has learned that controversial plans to build an airport in the | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
Thames Estuary have the private backing of the Prime Minister. We | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
understand that David Cameron and his Chancellor, George Osborne, now | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
believe there is a strong economic argument to support the so-called | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
Boris Island plan for a hub airport off the North Kent coast. | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
Opponents say it would be impossible to find tens of billions | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
of pounds to fund the project and claim it would be an environmental | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
disaster. But ministers will put it forward for public consultation | :01:53. | :02:02. | |
within weeks. He has repeatedly floated plans for | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
an airport in the Thames Estuary in. Now Boris Johnston says the | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
Government is increasingly interested. It is an area in need | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
of regeneration. There is potential for growth and jobs. I would say to | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
people, people who are worried about the environment, I believe | :02:23. | :02:30. | |
they can be mitigated. architect Lord Foster has drawn up | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
plans for a �50 billion airport. An environmental groups say they will | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
make their voice heard. We have said it before and we will say it | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
again that it is a ridiculous idea. These areas are internationally | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
important for the environment. Considering the options to increase | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
aviation capacity, this is the least sustainable. It comes with | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
promises of job creation in an unemployment blackspot. If it puts | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
more jobs out there, it cannot be wrong. It will give people an | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
opportunity. Is it something you are interested in? Da no need. | :03:08. | :03:15. | |
There is nothing out there. It is like a fairy-tale idea. Why build | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
an airport in the Thames Estuary? The plan could put David Cameron on | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
a collision course with the Lewes MP and transport minister. I want | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
to make it clear from the Liberal Democrat point of view that our | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
manifesto ruled out development of further aviation capacity in the | :03:35. | :03:42. | |
South East. We are sceptical about the practicality of the so-called | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
Boris Island. Not least because there are 3000 tons of explosives | :03:46. | :03:53. | |
in the water because of the Second World War ship that went down. | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
Grain they are aware of what is at stake. I do not wanted to happen. I | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
have a little boy and girl. I grew up here. It is brilliant here. | :04:05. | :04:12. | |
not think it will go ahead. I do not think they have enough people | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
to buy it. Kent County Council suggested it would be better on the | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
Essex side of the estuary. There has been debate about what there | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
might be and if we have a consultation, it would give | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
everybody an opportunity to state their views. That has to be an | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
improvement on speculation about things we do not know could be | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
proposed. The consultation is set to begin in March. | :04:41. | :04:48. | |
Simon Jones joins us from the village of Grain. This village | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
could be wiped off the map if the airport got the go-ahead. | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
The battle lines are being drawn. Houses could be replaced by runways, | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
talk of 150 million passengers per year. It is not just a local fight. | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
It would be the biggest infrastructure project in the | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
country and has the potential to affect the South East for | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
generations. Medway council wants a meeting with the ball -- government. | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
They say Boris Johnson should remember he is the Mayor of London | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
and not the mayor of Kent. Nothing has been set in stone. | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
Today's developments are the latest twist in a long-running row over | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
plans to create extra airport capacity in the South East. | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
Campaigners celebrating the rejection of proposals for a new | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
airport at Cliffe, near Rochester, in 2003 thought they had won a | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
decisive victory. But five years later, we exclusively revealed that | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
Boris Johnson had described the idea of building Boris Island as | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
the biggest and bravest project he could do. Speaking on this | :05:52. | :06:00. | |
programme in 2010, David Cameron appeared to dismiss the idea. | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
is a great Mayor of London doing an excellent job. Building airports is | :06:05. | :06:12. | |
not his responsibility. I am saying it is not our approach. Our | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
approach is no to the third railway. Put in place the railway. | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
But Boris Island is not the only option for the Government to | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
consider, even if David Cameron has changed his mind. A new runway at | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
Heathrow has been ruled out, but that leaves the door open for the | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
future expansion of Gatwick. Another proposal is the so-called | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
Heathwick plan, a high-speed rail link transferring passengers | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
between Heathrow and Gatwick. And in November, the renowned architect | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
Lord Foster produced plans for a �50 billion airport on the Isle of | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
Grain in Kent, which would be the largest in the world. Critics say | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
in these times of austerity it would be totally unaffordable. | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
Supporters say there are private investors willing to put up the | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
cash without any need for public subsidies. Political editor Louise | :06:53. | :07:02. | |
Stewart is in Westminster. All of Kent's MPs are Conservative. Are | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
they warming to the idea of a Thames Estuary airport like their | :07:05. | :07:12. | |
prime minister? Definitely not. I have spoken to almost all of them | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
and there is little support. A couple of ministers' support the | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
consultation process. I am joined by the MP for Rochester and Strood. | :07:22. | :07:30. | |
What is your reaction? David Cameron appears to be listening to | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
the idea. I am disappointed to hear the news. As you say, there is | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
little support for this. I have spoken to colleagues today. Also | :07:42. | :07:49. | |
Liberal Democrats are opposed. That is why it has not come out as | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
policy. The economic environment arguments are so strong. | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
thoroughly, the Chancellor and Prime Minister are swayed by the | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
economic arguments at the time of rising unemployment. Would this | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
project boost the South East? mayor. It would be 20 years before | :08:10. | :08:17. | |
it even got started in terms of construction. We cannot borrow our | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
way out of a recession. Even those promoting its say it will cost �50 | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
billion. That is at least another �50 on a plane ticket to build this. | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
For that reason, I think the economics do not stack up. It would | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
be an environmental disaster, as well. Even if you are at odds with | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
the Prime Minister, a new will fight this? Out so clearly I will | :08:43. | :08:51. | |
fight this a proposal. Thank you. It has to be said there could be | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
political game-playing going on because, of course, senior | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
Conservatives, some of them, want to be seen as backing the scheme | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
ahead of Boris Johnson being -- standing for re-election as Mayor | :09:06. | :09:16. | |
of London. Environmental campaigners fear that new planning | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
laws would be in place by the time any final decision was made which | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
could speed up infrastructure projects and make them difficult to | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
oppose. The Government's public consultation on the future of UK | :09:28. | :09:37. | |
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airport provision will begin in March. Yeah send your comments. | :09:41. | :09:48. | |
Neil Vincent says he is an experience transport plan and he | :09:48. | :09:57. | |
said a new airport in the Thames ensure -- estuary would bring an | :09:57. | :10:07. | |
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influx of jobs. Do you want the Government to back plans? You could | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
also read the blog of our political editor to find out how this is | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
developing at Westminster. Later in the programme, we'll speak to our | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
business correspondent to assess how a multi-billion-pound Thames | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
Estuary airport could be funded. In a moment, she celebrated the | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
night he was jailed. But a Sussex rape victim tells us she is still | :10:42. | :10:52. | |
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haunted by her attacker's face. The father of a Kent teenager who | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
was stabbed to death 19 years ago today has made an emotional plea | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
from his sick bed for information that will finally lead to his | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
daughter's killer. Claire Tiltman was attacked as she walked to a | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
friend's house in Greenhithe in 1993. She had turned 16 just days | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
earlier. Ten years later, new DNA tests were carried out to re- | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
examine the evidence. The case was never closed, and in 2010 a | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
handwritten note was found at a memorial to Claire naming a | :11:18. | :11:28. | |
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possible suspect, but no-one has ever been charged. | :11:30. | :11:37. | |
In bed in a nursing home, Cliff Tiltman is the last remaining | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
member of a family devastated by murder. He believes the terrible | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
death of his only daughter destroyed the health of his wife | :11:46. | :11:56. | |
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and her grandparents. They have all died. If she was here, the mother- | :11:56. | :12:05. | |
in-law and father-in-law were here, they would all be here. It was here | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
that Clare was stabbed 19 years ago as she walked to a friend's house. | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
She almost certainly did not know her attacker. Police are convinced | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
that somebody other than the killer has the crucial information. It is | :12:19. | :12:25. | |
that person detectives hope will have some pity for Clare's father | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
and come forward. We know there is more information that could come in | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
at any time. There are forensic techniques we could to use. We will | :12:37. | :12:44. | |
not give up on this case. Come forward. This officer ran the | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
investigation in the years after the murder. I want the person who | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
did this not to sleep at night. One day they will have a knock at their | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
door and hopefully that will be soon and they will be brought to | :12:58. | :13:05. | |
justice and pay for what they did, not just to Claire Tiltman, but for | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
their mum and dad. There have been appeals and reconstructions and | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
snippets of information over the years. Cliff Tiltman hopes to see | :13:15. | :13:25. | |
the case sold. It would mean everything. -- solved. I have never | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
given up hope. She would have turned 35 this week. Instead, a | :13:31. | :13:39. | |
family has been destroyed by a killer who has yet to face justice. | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
A woman from Dartford has been sentenced to 18 months in prison | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
after admitting child neglect. 28- year-old Natalie Terry left a six- | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
year-old girl on her own for five days. The child eventually went to | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
her next-door neighbour to plead for help. | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
Thanet District councillors will decide tonight whether the three | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
landmark cooling towers and chimney of Richborough Power Station can be | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
demolished. The plant closed in 1996 and its owners want to build a | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
green energy park there. But campaigners fighting to keep the | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
towers say they're a monument to 1950s industrial architecture that | :14:08. | :14:18. | |
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should be preserved. There is a shortage of family homes being | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
built in the South East according to research by Home Builders' | :14:22. | :14:31. | |
Federation, which says building is at half the rate it needs to be. A | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
Brighton University student he was raped by her former boyfriend say | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
she is still haunted by the image of his face. 24-year-old Victor | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
Agada was jailed for four years. His victim said she celebrated the | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
night she -- he was convicted, but she is struggling to come to terms | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
with what happened. She does not want to show her face, | :14:53. | :15:00. | |
but Andrea has decided to speak out about her university romance that | :15:00. | :15:09. | |
ended in rape. He was so strong. He was on top of me. I was trying to | :15:09. | :15:17. | |
use my hand to stop him but it was impossible. Victor Agada was jailed | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
for four years. The court heard he did it because she refused to have | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
sex with him before he was tested for sexually transmitted diseases. | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
What was it like to give your testimony in court knowing he was | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
there? Some times I felt like I wanted to go where he was and | :15:36. | :15:43. | |
punched him so many times. I could not do that when he was on top of | :15:43. | :15:51. | |
me. So, all that rage is still inside me. He was supposed to be my | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
boyfriend. It is so hard. Now, after over a year, it is difficult | :15:57. | :16:04. | |
to trust people, even my friends. Because of what he did. Some women | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
find it difficult to admit to themselves they have been raped, | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
and also to talk to the police about it. What I thought is that he | :16:13. | :16:20. | |
had committed a crime and he could do that with other women also. Some | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
women feel guilty, I do not know why. I have never felt guilty. | :16:27. | :16:35. | |
she did was very brave. It sends a message to offenders of domestic | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
abuse that they will be held to account and justice will be done. | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
Andrea is looking forward to going back to university and to leave the | :16:44. | :16:53. | |
memory of what happened in the past. Our reporter joins us from Brighton. | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
It is hoped that Andrea's coming forward will encourage other | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
victims to do the same. Speaking to a Sussex Police, they say rates of | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
conviction for this crime are remarkably low because it is often | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
one person's word against another. They hope Andrea's decision to | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
speak about it and to prosecute this will encourage other people to | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
get the help they need. Andrea wants to prove to her attacker she | :17:21. | :17:30. | |
will not be beaten by what he did. BBC South East Today has learned | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
that plans to build an airport in the Thames Estuary have the private | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
backing of the Prime Minister. We understand David Cameron and tools | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
-- George Osborne believe there is a strong economic argument to | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
support the Boris Island planned for an airport of the Kent coast. | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
Also, that children Boxing clever as the Olympics sporting leopard -- | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
legacy stars to have an effect in Kent. Not much chance of star- | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
gazing tonight. It will be cloudy. There will be a change tomorrow. | :18:05. | :18:15. | |
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Join me later to find out what it A disabled businessman says he was | :18:16. | :18:23. | |
humiliated and degraded by easyJet staff who refused him to allow -- | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
refused him to board a flight it that work at -- Gatwick airport. Dr | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
Martin Sabry who is paralysed from the chest down, was told he could | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
not fly because he could not walk to the emergency exit unaided. | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
Dr Martin Sabry flies every four to six weeks on business. He was | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
thrown off the easyJet flight because he was disabled. I was | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
asked to get off the aeroplane because I could not walk unaided to | :18:55. | :19:02. | |
the emergency exit. I explained I was paralysed and I could not walk, | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
but that was not enough. He was taken back to the terminal. The | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
ground crew then decided he could fly but the plane had left. I have | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
been in a wheelchair for 17 years and have never had anything like | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
this with EasyJet or anybody else. Come pain us believe he has grounds | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
for a case against the company. -- campaigners. It looks as if this | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
was done on the basis of his disability, which goes against the | :19:34. | :19:41. | |
European legislation. Campaigners say it is the latest in a series of | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
cases where disabled passengers have been poorly treated. Last | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
month, Joanna Jones was prevented from boarding have liked because | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
EasyJet said her guide dog did not have the paperwork. And the chief | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
executive of the Society for the Blind was left on a train at | :20:00. | :20:07. | |
Brussels. In 2010, a wheelchair user was forced to take a 30 mile | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
round trip to change plat forms because the lift at stable has | :20:11. | :20:21. | |
station was closed for safety reasons -- Stapleford. I am | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
disappointed. We gave him a bad experience. We are sorry that | :20:26. | :20:34. | |
happened. We have tried to posit Riyait, by flying him out to France | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
-- we tried to put it right. Martin Sabry says he will follow up | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
with easyJet to make sure their policy changes and this will not | :20:44. | :20:51. | |
happen again. In football, Brighton's FA Cup | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
third-round replay kicks off at 7:15pm tonight against Wrexham. It | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
was postponed yesterday. They will secured a home tie against | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
Newcastle if they win. Craig Mackail-Smith has recovered and is | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
included in the squad for tonight. A heart of this summer's London | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
Olympics is a pledge to leave a sporting legacy. Critics say it is | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
a tough challenge, but children from deprived areas of Thanet are | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
benefiting. Thanks to a scheme to inspire young people called Street | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
Games. In deprived areas such as Ramsgate, | :21:34. | :21:41. | |
boxing clubs like this one are few and far between. That does not mean | :21:41. | :21:48. | |
there is no demand for them. Street Games was set up in 2007 to ensure | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
teenagers who live in these deprived areas do not miss out. | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
This 19-year-old has shown so much potential he has been offered a | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
place at the Frank Bruno boxing club. I want to do the Olympics. | :22:04. | :22:11. | |
After that, I would be able to get into the England squad. When J | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
Holloway got on the wrong side of the law, he had an anti-social | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
behaviour order. He says this has taken his life to a positive | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
direction. I do not know where I would be if it was not for James | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
and Colin. They have given me an opportunity and I took it. Young | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
people who have lived on the local estate, gone through this College, | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
who have been involved in knife crime, in drug culture, and have | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
turned their lives around, thanks to the disciplined, the support, | :22:47. | :22:54. | |
that this project gives. It enables young hopefuls to embrace bought | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
regardless of where they live in the run-up to the Olympics and | :22:57. | :23:03. | |
beyond. We are starting to get excited | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
We are starting to get excited about the Olympics. We can check | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
the weather. There is no chance of star-gazing | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
tonight, unless you have a jet to get above the cloud or up in | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
Scotland, where there will be unbroken cloud. We will have Mark | :23:20. | :23:27. | |
Webber over the next few days, and then it will turn colder -- we will | :23:27. | :23:37. | |
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have mild weather. Tomorrow, outbreaks of rain. After that, we | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
are all well sheltered and it should be dry. That is the rain for | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
tomorrow coming our way. Northern Ireland and much of Scotland is | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
under broken cloud and they will see the stars. If you look at our | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
area, you can see how thick the cloud is. Nothing will change this | :24:01. | :24:08. | |
evening. It will stay that way. It will be misty with fog around. | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
There will be drizzle to begin with. It will get heavier as the day goes | :24:14. | :24:23. | |
on. It will be a wet night. It will be mild. It will be above the | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
average for daytime temperatures. Tomorrow starts Ofwat, and still | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
the fog on the hills and coast -- it starts off whacked. In the | :24:35. | :24:43. | |
afternoon, as the rain clears, it will become brighter. These are the | :24:43. | :24:50. | |
highest temperatures tomorrow. They will probably be in the morning. | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
Tomorrow evening, it will be a dry night with broken cloud and colder | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
of late. Temperatures down to three degrees. After we get rid of the | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
rain, it looks like brighter weather at the end of the week, but | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
a chilly breeze to go with it. We will go back to the top story. | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
The news that BBC South East today has learned that controversial | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
plans to build an airport in the Thames Estuary has the private | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
backing of the Prime Minister. We understand that David Cameron and | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
George Osborne believe there is an economic argument to support the | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
plan. Our Business correspondent his at | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
City Hall in London, where Boris Johnson has developed the plans for | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
the so-called Boris Island airport. Do we know if anybody has the | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
billions of pounds needed to pay for this, and how would they get it | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
through planning? It would probably come from | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
something called sovereign wealth funds, money held by countries | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
looking to invest. It could be then be leased and China. These are | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
countries that David Cameron has visited recently. The planning | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
process has been streamlined for big projects. They could get that | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
through in around 12 months. It would fit in with the Government | :26:14. | :26:21. | |
plan to build our way out of economic difficulties. Think of a | :26:21. | :26:28. | |
high-speed rail plan. Boris Johnson and those working on the plans | :26:28. | :26:34. | |
believe it could be possible. Possible within a decade. People | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
are opposed to the ideas in North Kent. This is not the last we will | :26:39. | :26:40. | |
Kent. This is not the last we will Kent. This is not the last we will | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
hear from the plans to build an airport. | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
Earlier, we ask did you thought the Government should back the plans | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
for the airport. I have to say, looking at Facebook, most comments | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
are negative but on the e-mail we have a balanced view. Richard says | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
being a local rate cannot understand the objections. The area | :27:03. | :27:12. | |
has needed better links to London and jobs. For the supposed and run | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
riot -- environmental impact, this is Medway not the Galapagos Islands. | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
Another says what is wrong with using Manston airport? Other people | :27:22. | :27:29. | |
say that. They say it needs a decent rail infrastructure. Ingrid | :27:29. | :27:34. |