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Welcome to South East Today, I'm Rob Smith. | :00:04. | :00:07. | |
And I'm Pollly Evans. Tonight's top stories. | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
Thamesteel in Sheerness goes into administration threatening 400 jobs | :00:09. | :00:18. | |
in the town. Unions call it devastating. To be told at a | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
moment's notice you're not getting paid his extremely upsetting. | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
live at the plant in North Kent with the latest. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
A tax on foreign lorry drivers arriving at Dover, but critics warn | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
the Government's plans could force up prices for the consumer. | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
Also in tonight's programme. Horse rescue charities say more animals | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
than ever before are being abandoned as people struggle to | :00:38. | :00:47. | |
cope with the expense. We are a bit disgruntled because we think people | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
are jumping the gun too quickly. Let's get rid of this well, let's | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
get rid of that one. The south east soldiers serving in | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
Afghanistan - we have a report from Lashkar Gah. | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
And too cute for its own good - the Sussex charity battling to save the | :01:02. | :01:12. | |
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slow loris from extinction in the Good evening. A steel-making plant | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
which employs 400 workers in one of the most deprived parts of Kent, | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
has gone into administration. Thamesteel is based in Sheerness, | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
on the Isle of Sheppey, and is a significant employer in the area. | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
The MP for the area, Gordon Henderson, has called the shock | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
announcement an "employment disaster" for Sheppey. It comes on | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
the day that steel maker Tata announced 110 jobs would go at its | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
plant in Corby. In a moment we'll speak to our Political Editor, but | :01:37. | :01:44. | |
first Fiona Irving is outside the Steel Plant now. Fiona - this is an | :01:44. | :01:52. | |
awful blow for the town? Yes, it is, there has been a | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
reaction of shock and anger at how it has been handled. People have | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
been turning up for their shift at 6pm and were turned away, really. | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
The news has called a devastating blow to the airy and to the | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
industry. They employ 400 people and it is one of the largest | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
employers in Sheerness. Sheerness is a deprived area with many of | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
their children in poverty. Workers were told the news today, and many | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
of them were not surprised. Some people have not even been paid yet | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
this month. You can imagine the anger that was felt. People have | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
mortgages, they have got their bills to pay, putting food on the | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
table, and to be told at a moment's notice you're not getting paid is | :02:37. | :02:45. | |
extremely upsetting. There is still hope that an investor may be found. | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
There is a meeting tomorrow at 11am where workers will find out more. | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
This has been a troubled plant in the past and it has bounced back, | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
but this news on the day it was announced that the economy has | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
contracted in the last quarter is a bitter blow. | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
We can cross to our political editor in Westminster and this is | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
particularly bad timing? It is never good timing when a | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
company like this announces it is gone into administration with a | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
threat to so many jobs in a deprived part of Kent. It comes on | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
the day that the latest figures show the economy shrank more than | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
expected in the last quarter and that points to the fact that we | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
could be heading back into another recession, not good news for the | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
economy. I spoke to the local MP who described it as an employment | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
disaster for the airy and he is heading straight to the Isle of | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
Sheppey to meet people and is hoping for an urgent meeting with | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
the urgent business secretary Vince Cable. | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
Adri will be speaking to the local MP Gordon Henderson at 10:25pm | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
tonight. There's a warning tonight that | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
government plans to charge foreign lorry drivers arriving in Dover to | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
use Kent's roads could force prices up in our shops. Hauliers from | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
abroad are set to pay �10 a day per lorry. Ministers believe this will | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
make British firms more competitive. But as Simon Jones now reports, | :04:07. | :04:15. | |
retail experts fear the cost could be passed onto the consumers. | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
The freedom of the road looks set to end for foreign lorry drivers | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
such as these German hauliers taking a break at the Ashford | :04:23. | :04:33. | |
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trucks stop. I have to pay. It is OK for me. British lorry drivers | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
are used to paying to use roads abroad and they say that the | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
proposals today will make things fairer. It is a good idea, to be | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
perfectly honest. Richard had been done years ago. It is only right | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
that they use the words -- the roads as much as we are. Some | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
people say that foreign companies if they have to pay more to use our | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
roads, then prices in the shops will go up. By itself, it is not | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
particularly large, but when you add a great these things and do | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
they did in the context of inflation and income is squeezed, | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
it is another niggling cost that consumers have to bear. At this | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
hole using Dover, there are questions as to how it will work? - | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
- at these hauliers in Dover. have been proposals that were | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
abandoned, the last situation we found ourselves in was abandoned | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
because of the costs. Trucks from abroad make 1.5 million trips to | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
the UK each year and the Government says charging them will raise �25 | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
million a year, but it will cost �5 million to administer. A be want to | :05:51. | :06:01. | |
level the playing field. There are calls for the money raised in Kent | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
to be spent in Kent. We would pay for some of the damage caused by | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
these foreign trucks and who have also use this for Operation Stack. | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
The Government says the Revenue will go to the Treasury. | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
Simon Jones reporting - he joins us now from Dover. Simon, how exactly | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
would the system work? The idea is that the foreign lorry drivers | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
would pay in advance through the engine and when they are on a ferry | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
to Dover are or are arriving at the port before they get on the road. | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
There will be a national database to check that people had paid. If | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
they do not, the idea is that could be a �1,000 fine. The idea is that | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
like many speeding drivers from abroad, they head back across the | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
Channel without paying the fine, and this is too costly to pursue | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
them. British drivers are also going to have to pay this �10 feet | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
every day under European law, because it would be unfair to | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
exempt them from that, but the Government is making it clear they | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
will get the money back by a reduction in road tax. Thank you. | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
Coming up: The warning about sung cancer from a couple that for both | :07:09. | :07:17. | |
battling the disease. -- son can The Thanet Windfarm has been forced | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
to operate at a reduced output, after a potentially catastrophic | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
fault was discovered on one of the two cables used to export | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
electricity back to the national grid, which could have led to a | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
meltdown and explosions. That fault, at what is the worlds biggest | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
offshore windfarm, has now been repaired - but ongoing problems | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
mean output has had to be capped. Our environment correspondent | :07:37. | :07:47. | |
Yvette Austin reports. Officially opened to a fanfare of | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
publicity in 2010, the energy secretary was the guest of honour. | :07:51. | :07:58. | |
18 months later, the vessels are back at the wind farm to deal with | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
serious underwater cable problems, firstly in one, he pupils found | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
with the potential to cause a catastrophic failure. They are | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
trying to find another fault on the same line. When it is Khan, the | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
wind farms don't generate much electricity, but on a windy day, | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
they can be very productive. At the moment, this wind farm, even when | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
it is windy, and it can generate a maximum had put, only half of the | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
electricity can be harnessed. Those concerned over the level of support | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
for wind farms are not surprised that falls are occurring. | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
problem is the scale and the pace of the plans and we need time to | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
learn. The Government is forcing the industry to do things ahead of | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
the learning curve which is not very sensible. It is not known | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
exactly how much electricity has been wasted, but the fault will | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
have cost the company dearly in subsidies, payments for the power | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
and repairs. The wind farm is more than seven miles out at sea with | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
two main cables bringing electricity ashore. When the fault | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
was discovered on the sudden cable, it had to be shut down, so | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
production at the wind farm had to be capped at 150 megawatts which is | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
half power. The company is not overly concerned. It has generally | :09:24. | :09:31. | |
been operating well, I'll be it with the limitations of the faults | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
on the export cable. You need to but this into the context of the | :09:36. | :09:44. | |
fact that the wind farm will operate for the next 25 years. | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
is, the repairs will be made by the end of February. | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
About 50 people have held a protest outside Hailsham Police station | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
today after a 25-year-old man was stabbed to death following a fight | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
on Sunday. The demonstration comes after an 18-year-old man arrested | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
on suspicion of murdering Darren Croxton was released on bail. Two | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
teenagers and a 20-year-old man remain in custody. | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
More than 1,000 nurses and health professionals in Sussex face a pay | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
cut as NHS bosses try to cut spending. Brighton and Sussex | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
Hospitals Trust plans to scrap a �480 annual recruitment and | :10:17. | :10:24. | |
retention premium paid to a fifth of its staff. It says it's part of | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
a strategy to minimise job cuts but the GMB union says it's a "shoddy | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
way" to treat staff. An independent report into allowing | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
night flights at Manston airport in Kent has found it would have a | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
worse noise impact on residents than estimated. The study - | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
commissioned by Thanet District Council - also says it wouldn't | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
create the number of jobs forecast. It comes after the news that main | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
airline operator FlyBe is stopping its operations from March. It means | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
there will now be just one regular passenger flight a week operating | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
from the airport. Horse rescue charities across the | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
South East say they have never been so busy, as more and more animals | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
are handed into their care. There are currently about one million | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
horses in the UK. But because there are so many, horses have changed | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
hands in some cases for as little as �2.50. But keeping a horse | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
properly is expensive - in the region of �3,000 a year. Peter | :11:19. | :11:28. | |
Whittlesea reports. This animal sanctuary was given | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
charitable status last year because it proved to the charity's | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
commission that it was providing a service that was urgently needed by | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
re-homing horses that otherwise would have been destroyed. In 12 | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
months, the number we home to has gone up by 50 %. People leave them | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
in the field, the abandon them which makes it worse because there | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
medical problems they deal with, starvation. Last year, we saw the | :11:56. | :12:04. | |
worst cruelty ABA. -- ever. One of the horses was left in the field | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
weighing 200 kilos. She was only two years old. Previous people had | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
abandoned her and she spent four months recovering in the clinic. | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
This is not an unusual story and many charities are struggling to | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
meet the additional costs of extra animals combined with that and | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
rebels. One centre in Sussex says it is inundated with courses that | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
owners no longer want but they will not pay to have them destroyed. -- | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
with horses. When I say, do you not think it would be better to put | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
them down, their answer any duty is, you're a rescue centre, how do you | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
say that to me?! Do we know how much it will cost them to put down | :12:48. | :12:55. | |
a horse? We know all of that! they have no destruction policy but | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
they feared that cruelty will increase and so they stop treating | :12:59. | :13:06. | |
them like sports equipment that can be disregarded. | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
A married couple... Cases of skin cancer are on the | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
rise, but in an unusual case, a couple from West Sussex have both | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
contracted the disease. Karen and Steve Porch attended the McIndoe | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
Hospital today in East Grinstead to have their lesions removed. Alex | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
Beard went along to meet them. Karen is a self-confessed sun | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
worshipper but her husband is not, yet both of them are having | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
cancerous lumps removed to date. Every time the sun was out, I would | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
be in the back garden, and then have when I was working, I would | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
hit the sun bed after words. husband doesn't go out on the Sun, | :13:41. | :13:49. | |
but when his wife spotted a lump on his neck, he had it checked. I was | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
amazed. But I stay away from the Sun, so I was astonished to find | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
that I had cancer. Specialists say it is about staying safe in the sun, | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
avoiding sunburn and using sunscreen, even here in the UK, as | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
skin cancer is on the rise. It is important that we are aware of what | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
to look out for, this couple are unusual in that they are young. | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
They are presenting at the same time, with simultaneously having | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
skin cancers. Karen knows that her obsession with a tan is the reason | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
why she has had a number of lesions removed in the last few years. She | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
worries there will be moored in the future. I am 39, I do not know what | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
will happen, I could be worse down the road, were they have to build | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
another part of me somewhere? Expat if I had known now I would not have | :14:43. | :14:52. | |
been so stupid. Be warned that striving for the best Tanner can | :14:52. | :14:59. | |
come at the serious cost. The top story tonight, a steel | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
plant in Sheerness has gone into administration threatening 400 jobs. | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
Thamesteel is one of the main employers in the airy and the union | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
has described the news is devastating. | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
Also tonight's, the farmer celebrating their victory in the | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
battle to keep the historic market in Hailsham. | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
And the weirdest primate in the world with two tongs and poise and | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
teeth and the Sussex charity trying to save the slow loris from | :15:27. | :15:35. | |
The war in Afghanistan has now been going on for a decade - and almost | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
400 British soldiers have lost their lives. The coalition | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
government has said they want to secure Afghanistan to the point | :15:41. | :15:47. | |
where troops can come home by the end of 2014. The 1st Battalion The | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment recruit almost exclusively from the | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
south east of England, and they're currently in Lashkar Gah in Helmand | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
Province helping to create that security. Our Correspondent Mark | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
Norman is with soldiers from PWRR, as they are known, and has sent | :15:59. | :16:09. | |
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We had a period of three weeks with heavy fighting. It is a battle for | :16:15. | :16:25. | |
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a hearts and minds of these people. The company of the Royal Regiment | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
are right to end-October. It was tough a from the start and within | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
days they were fighting and surgeons and infantry soldiers | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
patrolling the area was a part of their strategy. We had just secured | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
the population and displace the insurgents, so when we push out the | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
insurgents and hold them at arm's length as did the fighting away | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
from the people, that improves their security, so we can get on | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
with the job at hand which is to offer them something better. | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
Patrolling in that way has been quite successful. They opened a | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
local school next to the base and they sat at the beginnings of a | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
local police force. But everyone is aware that a major incident could | :17:21. | :17:28. | |
happen at any time. One did back in November. This is the memorial to | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
Private Thomas laker was killed on one of the patrols. He was in the | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
company, a colleague and a friend. We heard the explosion from here | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
and your heart sank because immediately you knew it was too | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
close for comfort. I was in the Welfare tent and they briefed us | :17:46. | :17:55. | |
all and told us what had happened. You're just in a stunned silence. | :17:55. | :18:03. | |
It is the loss of a friend, just like normal life, he had just got | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
to get on with stuff. That is what you would want us to do as well. He | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
did not want us moping around, he would want us to do what we came | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
out here to do. When you hear there is a man down, you're just waiting | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
to find out who it is and what the score is? At the OK? What you get | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
here is not a sense of grief, but a genuine sense of tried to make a | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
difference. They have to open a local school, start a local police | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
force and bring together local leaders and government officials. | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
We had hard times and I am sure there will be tough times in the | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
years to come, but we have success and the boys have something they | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
can hang their hat on, they have created something year. It is | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
reciprocal, the Good Will we have got from delivering tangible | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
services and benefits which the insurgents never offered, we have | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
got a reciprocal good will that we are feeding from. The word here is | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
far from over and a finish patrolling twice a day what ever | :19:05. | :19:12. | |
the weather and whatever the risk. Market is in Afghanistan now and | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
joins us on an internet connection. As we heard, apart from frontline | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
duties, they have a major role in entering the local police force? | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
Yes, it is a huge part of their role in Afghanistan and there is | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
one word you hear a lot of, transition, transitions from | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
international forces to the Afghan police and the army being | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
responsible for security. They are paying a huge part in this because | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
if British forces are to return home in 2014, 2015, then the Afghan | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
people need to be able to trust their own police and army and the | :19:51. | :19:58. | |
company are committed to making that happen. Thank you. | :19:58. | :20:06. | |
There has been a Market in Hailsham since the year 1252. But despite | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
having 760 years of history on their side, the market very nearly | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
closed down recently, with redevelopment to make way for | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
supermarkets a very real possibility. | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
But after a series of legal battles, a buyout by a local farmers co- | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
operative has secured its future. And today they've been celebrating | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
their victory with the first livestock market of the year. Ian | :20:24. | :20:32. | |
Palmer was there. Here's to the future! Thank you. | :20:32. | :20:40. | |
There has been a marketeers is that her theme century. -- there has | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
been a market here since the 13th century. This is key to the | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
employment. Yes, you learn all the different prices, the size of the | :20:50. | :20:57. | |
animals, all of the different breeds. It is a good place to come. | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
The supermarket chain already bought the site in 2004. It sort | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
planning permission to build a store in 2007 and 2009 and both | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
requests were refused. In 2011, they Hailsham Market bought the | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
site into control. How has a market has been under threat since 1996 | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
and is situated in the heart of the town. Why have campaign has been so | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
successful in their fight? company gave up because they were | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
planning an appeal and the reason it has turned down was the | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
importance of the market to the rural economy. He would not allow | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
them to develop the site without providing a new market. Why is this | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
market so important? The nearest place to buy and sell livestock is | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
is in at Ashford in Kent Torrance Salisbury in Wiltshire more than 60 | :21:52. | :22:01. | |
miles away. If you go to another market to have less buyers and the | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
prices driven down. The farmers here are delighted by the victory. | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
It makes my business safe, I would be honest with you, the last five | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
years, certainly, I have been looking at options and if this | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
market closed I would have to stop farming where I was. I would have | :22:19. | :22:27. | |
to move. The plan is to develop the site and turn it into something | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
that will attract buyers from outside traditional rural | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
communities, but there is no rush. Ownership has been secured. | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
Two south east table tennis players have been selected for this year's | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
Paralympic Games. Will Bayley who recently became world number one in | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
his class, said he was delighted to be taking part in the games only 40 | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
minutes from home. He will be joined by Kent teenager, Ross | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
Wilsonat this summer's games. A team of conservationists based in | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
Uckfield will feature on a BBC Wildlife documentary tonight as | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
they try and save the endangered Slow Loris in Indonesia. Slow | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
lorises are very unusual primates - found in South and South East Asia. | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
But they're on the verge of extinction in the wild, partly | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
because of their popularity as pets. According to ancient folklore, they | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
have the power to ward off evil spirits, perhaps because of the | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
fact that they have two tongues and are the world's only venomous | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
mammal. Katherine Downes has been finding out more. | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
This is the slow loris. Undeniably cute, but their cuteness - and | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
viral videos like this one on the internet - mean they're one of the | :23:35. | :23:43. | |
most endangered animals in the world. In the last 20 years, there | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
has been a huge number taken for pets. I can take you to a market in | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
Jakarta and show you 30 slow Lawrences for sale. From their | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
offices in Uckfield, International Animal Rescue are doing their best | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
to conserve the species. In Java, in Indonesia, they run a sanctuary | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
for slow lorises, where they're working with expert Anna Nekaris to | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
find out more about these mysterious animals - like, why | :24:04. | :24:12. | |
they're they worlds only venomous mammal? It could be because they | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
are taking out prayed. It could be because they are protecting | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
themselves from predators or it could be because they're killing | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
rivals and possibly a combination of all of these things. Cuteness | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
means people want them as pets - but no-one wants to cuddle a | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
venomous loris. The pull-out the teeth with pliers and nail clippers | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
in order to avoid being bitten by them, so the animals, when they are | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
in the trade, they cannot be reintroduced to the wild because | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
they have no teeth. One solution International Animal Rescue is | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
exploring - is the possibility of fitting slow lorises with false | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
teeth - groundbreaking animal dentistry. It is ground-breaking, | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
but funnily enough, I was on a train discussing with a colleague | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
about doing root canal treatment on players and they got some very | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
strange looks. We did over 60 Reid cannot Freeman sun bears now, so | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
anything is possible these days. The slow loris - and the work being | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
done to save it - is the subject of Natural World, at 8:00 tonight on | :25:14. | :25:24. | |
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That was one of the more surreal stories we have had for a while! | :25:25. | :25:35. | |
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A great picture to say, it has been mild and cloudy and will stay like | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
that into tonight. A band of rain spreading his. A wet start for | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
tomorrow. A fresh south-westerly wind. Today, temperatures above | :25:47. | :25:54. | |
average. In the next few days, it will cool down. Plenty of cloud | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
around today and that has been thickening ahead of the rain that | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
was spreading eastwards. Temperatures today in double | :26:01. | :26:08. | |
figures. Ten degrees. A light south-westerly breeze of 10 mph. | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
Initially, cloudy and trying to tonight. Outbreaks of rain. Into | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
tomorrow morning, this rain will spread to the east with heavy | :26:16. | :26:25. | |
pulses. Ferry might for this time of the year. Above average. -- very | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
mild for this time. A wet start for tomorrow. The brain appear to the | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
east and behind it, cooler picture. A wet start and into the afternoon, | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
increasingly bright with winter sunshine about. 10 to 15 mph, the | :26:43. | :26:52. | |
wind. Kira skies into tomorrow night with scattered showers. | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
Temperatures dropping to a 3 degrees. A touch of ground frost on | :26:57. | :27:04. | |
Friday. A similar picture for the weekend. Plenty of sunshine, but | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
fiver six degrees. Thank you. | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
The top stories, the renewed fears that Britain could slip into | :27:14. | :27:22. | |
recession. The economy shrank by 0.2 % in the last few months of | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
2011. In Kent, a steel plant that employs | :27:27. | :27:32. |