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Welcome to South East Today, I'm Rob Smith. And I'm Polly Evans. | :00:02. | :00:05. | |
Tonight's top stories. Ban spitting from Medway's streets, | :00:05. | :00:09. | |
a lawmaker's bid to fine people for what he says is an anti-social and | :00:09. | :00:16. | |
A warning we'll all pay more for water in future, as Southern Water | :00:16. | :00:24. | |
applies for a drought permit to help refill our largest reservoir. | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
Also in tonight's programme. After the collapse of Seafrance, a new | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
ferry service launches between Dover and Calais, the DFDS LDLines | :00:30. | :00:37. | |
Norman Spirit. The magic of the cup, and a huge | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
payday as Brighton and Crawley prepare to meet Liverpool and Stoke. | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
And he's the man who helped Jim Henson's imagination become reality, | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
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we meet Sussex puppeteer Steve Good evening. Spitting in the | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
street in Medway could be made illegal, with fines of up to �80. A | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
local councillor Chris Irvine says the habit is disgusting and anti- | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
social and should be banned. Spitting in public was an offence | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
for many years to combat tuberculosis in the 1940s, when it | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
was believed that spittle could spread the disease, but the ban was | :01:21. | :01:31. | |
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lifted in the 1990s. Bryony Mackenzie reports. | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
This is what the council wants. But as well as the letter, the chewing | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
gum and cigarettes, spitting could now be added to the hit-list. | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
think it is a disgusting habit. A lot of it happens down here. It is | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
just washing things down. Keeping on top of it, really. It is | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
Philip's job to clean it up. One councillor says it is not the | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
visual impact but the anti-social attitude that spitting the nodes | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
that needs tackling. It is a vile and disgusting habit. It is | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
something we need to be looking at discouraging, in the same way that | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
we discourage people from dropping litter or cigarette butts, or even | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
dog owners who do not clean up after their pets. We take action | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
against those sort of anti-social issues, so why not actually look at | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
discouraging people who spit on the street? It was the spread of | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
disease that spot -- prompted a spitting than following the First | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
World War put up in 1990, it was -- before 1990, it was an offence. | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
Under a new band, council enforcement officers would have the | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
power to hand out fixed penalty notices, expected to be around �80. | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
Those refusing to pay could face prosecution and a potential fine of | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
up to �5,000. Although common on a football pitch, where the ban would | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
not apply, it is often seen as a sign of disrespect. It is repulsive, | :03:03. | :03:11. | |
really. Spit on the ground. I did it is it a bit much, because it is | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
just spitting on the street. -- I think it is a bit much. It is | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
disgusting to see people spit on the street, but there are certain | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
people who can't help it, if they've got problems with their | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
lungs. If you saw somebody doing it, and said, -- she saw someone doing | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
it and said, that is not right. think it is good. It is | :03:35. | :03:42. | |
disrespectful. It annoys them, whether they are parking badly, and | :03:42. | :03:51. | |
they spit at them, my view is, no, it is really awful. | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
Bryony is in Chatham, how likely is it that spitting will be banned on | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
the street of Medway? It is down to the public, if you look at Enfield | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
they had a petition there, 4000 signatures and they turned that | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
into the local government minister Eric Pickles. He will decide | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
whether a bylaw will be triggered, that could happen within a month. | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
People are clear that they think spitting is disgusting, they do not | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
wanted on their streets. Less clear is how you would enforce the ban if | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
it were to come in. Who would pay for it, that is the question. | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
want to know what you think. Should spitting be banned like littering | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
or graffiti? Or would it be too difficult to police? You can email | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
us or join in the debate on our Facebook page and we'll read out | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
some of your comments later in the In future we'll have to pay more | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
for our water if we're to avoid drought restrictions every year. | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
That's the view of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, which says | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
houses should only be built where there's a ready supply of water, | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
and more investment should be put into reservoirs to avert a disaster. | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
The call for action comes a day after Southern Water applied for a | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
drought permit, which will enable it to take more water from the | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
River Medway to fill up Bewl Water reservoir. Our news correspondent | :05:07. | :05:16. | |
Mark Norman reports. The summer -- does the slogan save | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
water, paved with a friend, ring any bells? It was the message of | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
the summer of 1976 as a judge took hold. Water companies controlled | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
standpipes to control how much we used, grass fires were commonplace. | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
The latest application for a drought order might not lead to | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
such extremes, but environmental campaigners say the lack of | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
rainfall, lack of investment by water companies and potential drain | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
on our rivers could prove disastrous. Drought orders are | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
supposed to be for real emergencies, they are supposed to be very | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
occasionally used for those exceptional circumstances. We can | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
probably keep the taps running for a while longer. If we are careful | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
about how we use water. It is rivers like this, the wider | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
environment where the real pressures will be felt. Southern | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
Water argues strongly that their 25 year plan was to give the water | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
supply and considered the impact on the environment. But the Campaign | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
to Protect Rural England state new relaxed planning laws by the | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
coalition will increase the demand on our water supplies. With | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
increasing demands from homes and businesses, they say one solution | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
is for us, the consumer, to pay more on our bills so the water | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
companies can pay for that investment. But are we prepared to | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
pay his bills? I think we have been to -- cutting corners for too long. | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
It is a harsh reality that we probably will need to see increased | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
water bills to make sure we can actually carry on continuing to | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
supply the water that we need. way, it is the wrong question. I am | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
happy to invest in the infrastructure, but at the moment, | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
and only wants to pay for the water are used. I think I wouldn't mind | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
paying more if it was rail up -- readily available, definitely. | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
Rather than wait until it has all gone wrong, I think that they do | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
not seem to have invested their money wisely. We have had the | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
driest 10 months for more than 100 years, and Southern Water say they | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
need to plan now to try and prevent water restrictions later this | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
summer. Our reporter Katherine Downes is in | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
Westminster for us tonight, this is subject which is going straight to | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
the heart of government as well, isn't it? Yes, some parts of the | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
country have already experienced many parts of -- times of drought, | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
and Defra predict that will continue into the summer. They say | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
it is already an issue of future national importance. On Monday, the | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman will chair a summit | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
attended by environmental groups, the water groups and the Met Office | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
to discuss the future and see what's messages -- what can be done | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
to prevent drought. The message is that everyone needs to use less | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
water, starting now. In a moment: | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
The rabbits found mutilated and abandoned as the RSPCA warns they | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
are struggling to cope with the number of pets being left by | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
families unable to afford them any more. | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
Large crowds turned out today to pay their respects to a young | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
father who was stabbed to death on a street in Hailsham last month. | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
Darren Croxton was 25, and had a young daughter. A 16-year-old boy | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
has been charged with his murder. From Hellingly where the funeral | :08:25. | :08:32. | |
took place, John Young has our report. | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
The police had warned the public that the crowds might be large, and | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
they were right. Darren Croxton's family said we were welcome to film | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
the hearse and riding, they wanted his funeral to be a celebration of | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
his life. He was a man who played hard and worked hard, the vicar | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
told the mourners, a good man. loved challenges, any challenge he | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
was up to it. He loved his family, very loyal to family and friends, | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
and loved his daughter dearly. must have been a difficult service. | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
Very difficult, yes. But it was the, the church was packed and there | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
were lots of it all outside, everyone came to give him a good | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
send-off which we certainly did. Darren Croxton had been found | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
stabbed on a part in Hailsham a month ago. He died the following | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
day. A spate of arrests and radiantly followed leading to some | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
unrest in the town, crowds gathering outside Hailsham police | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
station within days. In the dash of the 13 men and use arrested, eight | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
were eliminated from inquiries. That leaves 116 year-old boy | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
charged with his murder, and four other young men on police bail. | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
Earlier this week, police divers searched a nearby lake. Today, | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
thoughts turned to a young daughter who had lost her father and a | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
community seeming at times build up an angry. | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
-- bewildered and angry. A British Airways steward from | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
Crawley has been charged with making a bomb threat in mid-air. | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
The scare was caused by a message which was written on a toilet door | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
on the Tokyo to Heathrow flight, which had 150 people on board. 22- | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
year-old Matthew Davis was arrested on landing and will appear in court | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
later this month. Children are being trafficked into | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
Britain via Eurostar, according to a member of the House of Lords. | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
Baroness Doocey says children as young as 12 can travel | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
unaccompanied on a train from France or Belgium simply with a | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
piece of paper signed by an adult. The UK Border Agency says it's | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
working to get the loophole closed as quickly as possible. | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
Parking charges for Brighton and Hove's Traders are being revised | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
following concerns expressed by the business community. Last month | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
scores of vans brought the centre of Hove to a standstill in protest | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
against increases in charges. It had been suggested that annual | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
permits would go up to �750 but the council has decided that the new | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
rate will be �600 instead. Three pet rabbits have been found | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
abandoned in Kent, mutilated, with their ears cut off. The find comes | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
as the RSPCA warns they are struggling to cope with the numbers | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
of animals being left by families unable to afford their pets any | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
more. Last year the organisation rescued far more animals than it | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
managed to rehome and it says that trend is set to worsen this year. | :11:15. | :11:23. | |
Lucinda Adam reports. In just a fortnight, these five | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
rabbits have been found dumped in Thanet and Maidstone. One emaciated | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
and close to death, another attacked by dogs. And three who | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
have had their ears deliberately cut off. When we picked them up, we | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
were quite aghast, quite shocked. I think the recession has played a | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
part. People are losing their homes which is sad, they do not always | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
have some way to give their pet into. I think there are many | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
reasons. I think some people just get tired of them. This new centre | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
for small animals does not even open until June, but these rabbits | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
are already being cared for here in makeshift runs because the RSPCA's | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
rescue centre in May born and its 18 branches in Kent and Sussex are | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
overflowing. Last year, the RSPCA took in more than 5300 rabbits. | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
They managed to rehome more than 3800 of them, but that left more | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
than 1500 with nowhere to go. Around two-thirds are still in | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
risky branches, while a third were put down for medical reasons. -- | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
rescue branches. Even the most caring pet owners have been feeling | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
the pinch on their purses. People have been unable to do certain | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
procedures and tests that they would have perhaps been able to do | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
in the past. More people are unable to do that. A classic example would | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
be an animal with rotten teeth, a cat with rotten teeth which is | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
really causing pain, it need to have them out and they are simply | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
unable to afford the cost of the procedure. That financial pressure | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
means this rescue centre can expect a full house from the moment it | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
opens its doors. It's 6:45pm, this is our top story | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
tonight. A campaign to have spitting in | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
public outlawed in Medway has been proposed by a conservative | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
councillor. Chris Irvine is backing a scheme for on the spot fines of | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
up to �80 for spitting. If the new by-law for a ban goes ahead it will | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
be the first in Britain in 22 years. Also in tonight's programme, | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
creating Jim Henson's animal magic, we meet Sussex puppeteer Steve | :13:26. | :13:36. | |
Allen. It is a weekend of two hearts, it | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
rained for Saturday, a call the picture behind it for Sunday. -- | :13:40. | :13:50. | |
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two halves. And are called the A new ferry service launched in | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
Dover today, sailing on the route to Calais. There was a little help | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
from model and presenter Kelly Brook. Operators DFDS and LD Lines | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
have joined together to run the route, which until recently was | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
served by SeaFrance. More than 1,800 jobs were lost when SeaFrance | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
collapsed earlier this year, some 200 of them in the UK. Now the | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
operators of the new route say 300 jobs will be created when their | :14:23. | :14:33. | |
second ship enters service. Launched under a celebratory spray | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
of sea water, and the more traditional champagne in the hands | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
of model Kelly Brook, DFDS and LD Lines's new ferry carries hopes of | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
new jobs and more competition on the Channel. But can the companies | :14:50. | :14:57. | |
avoid the problems that sank SeaFrance? We have seen a massive | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
availability of capacity being created by the exit of SeaFrance, | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
and putting in this vessel by no means take up all that slack. We | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
are part of the biggest ferry operation in it and York -- | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
northern Europe. This very business has been running for 130 years, and | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
now we have formed a collaboration with LD Lines, that furthers -- | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
offers us further strength on the French side. It might be one of the | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
busiest ferry routes on the four world, but it is also one of the | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
most competitive. The past of years saw the retirement of the | :15:32. | :15:39. | |
hovercraft and its operator. Speed ferries saw it only ferry impounded | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
in Calais in 2008, and the last of the railway owned companies, | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
SeaFrance, went under in January. The Dover-Calais route, although | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
extremely busy, cannot always be very profitable. The reason being, | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
you have got too much competition and a downturn in trade. The fixed | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
costs it takes to run the ships and the other competition from the | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
Eurotunnel means margins gets squeezed a lot. The companies have | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
said that when their second ship launches on the rich, 300 jobs will | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
have been created. There is doubt as to how many will be in the UK. | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
We have at the moment one extra ship, there will be at second want | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
coming over in the next few weeks. We are talking at about 20 to 30 | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
jobs. So will the launch of theHerald a renaissance in cross- | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
Channel business, or just another chapter in its ever-changing | :16:35. | :16:45. | |
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A huge financial windfall is coming to two Sussex football clubs this | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
weekend, as the world's most famous cup competition takes centre stage. | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
Both Brighton and Hove Albion and Crawley Town take on Premier League | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
opposition in the 5th round of the FA Cup, and our sports reporter | :16:56. | :17:03. | |
Neil Bell is live at the Broadfield Stadium. Neil, both clubs are set | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
to get an injection of hundreds of thousands of pounds from two mouth- | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
watering ties. It is a massively exciting weekend. | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
Imagine if you will, nine months ago, Stoke City ran out at Wembley | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
to take on Manchester City in the FA Cup final in front of 100,000. | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
On Sunday, they will come out for a very different but challenging | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
experience. The FA Cup has been here at the Broadfield Stadium | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
today, and it has lost none of its allure or fascination for football | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
fans. It is an historic sporting trophy, | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
but for clubs like Brighton and Crawley, it also represents a | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
chance to cash in. The lucky horseshoe brigade will need no | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
reminding that Britain's only trip to the final 30 years ago saw them | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
eliminate Liverpool on the way, it is the stuff dreams are made of. | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
is going to be a great experience. It is going to be, for a few | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
players, unique, because they don't know if they will be able to play | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
at Anfield again. It is a chance for them to go on to something | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
special. While a Cup run is exciting for both fans and players, | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
the business boost for the clubs cannot be underestimated. They will | :18:16. | :18:22. | |
each receive �212,000, as the games are live on TV. They get 45% of the | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
gate receipts, which, at a sell-out Anfield, could be worth half a | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
million pounds. And if they were to win, there is a further �180,000 in | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
prize money. Liverpool legend and pundit Mark Rorison still has a | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
soft spot for Britain. He began his career at Sussex. Brighton are | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
looking good, they started extremely well but tailed off a | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
little bit. Playing good football under Gus Poyet, he has done a good | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
job. It is a difficult tie for them, because Liverpool's form recently | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
has picked up. This time last year, thousands of Crawley fans were on | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
their way to Old Trafford, and enjoying every minute. Manager | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
Steve Evans is well aware this weekend represents another on | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
almost opportunity. The money coming in will be very useful, we | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
could put in a new 3000 seat stand on the far side, which is due to be | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
starting in the next few weeks. That is things that the board | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
wanted but within the infrastructure. If the money East | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
comes in, it will stay within the club and be spent to develop the | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
club in the future. Just two years ago, we were non-League, going into | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
extinction, not just administration, going out of business. This board | :19:37. | :19:44. | |
has got us to lead to, we could go further. Even the most optimistic | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
supporter probably think that the Cup final is a long shot, but | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
despite the odds, a further progress is not out of the question. | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
Stoke City boss Tony Guinness will be sitting here, Steve Evans | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
Crawley but Ashtead Evans, corded us, over there. There could be some | :20:00. | :20:07. | |
friction. Crawley beatings they could be the biggest Cup upset for | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
20 years, but many people would not see it as surprise. Stoke have lost | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
their last six, and Crawley have only lost a couple here recently. | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
League One leaders Charlton will be looking to extend their eight point | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
lead when they travel to Tranmere tomorrow afternoon. The Addicks are | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
on a six game unbeaten run in the league but have concerns over in- | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
form captain Johnnie Jackson, who is struggling to make the trip to | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
Merseyside. And after slumping to their fifth consecutive defeat on | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
Monday, Gillingham will hope to put a stop to their poor run away at | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
Port Vale. The Gills are losing touch with the League Two play-off | :20:46. | :20:54. | |
places and go into Saturday's game five points off seventh. | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
Best of luck to all of our side, particularly those in the Cup. It | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
is an adventure, and it can always spring a surprise. I bet there will | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
be one or two people not slipping back well in their beds on Saturday | :21:07. | :21:14. | |
night! -- and not sleeping that well! | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
There are major problems on the main railway line between London | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
and Brighton, Network Rail say and their work -- a section of Rail has | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
been damaged. And passengers have been stranded on a train, power has | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
been cut. All services have either been cancelled or diverted. Network | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
Rail says the repairs will take several hours. We will have more | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
later on. A Kent puppeteer and model maker | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
who has helped to develop some of TV and film's most famous | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
characters is holding an exhibition of his work. Steve Allen from | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
Petham has enjoyed a long career and worked with big names such as | :21:46. | :21:54. | |
Jim Henson and David Bowie on the film Labyrinth. Alex Beard has more. | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
It was his love of The Muppets as an 11 year-old child that led Steve | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
Allen into his but the cheering Korea. His child to dream realised | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
when he landed a job with Jim Henson. -- into his putter Tear | :22:10. | :22:20. | |
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I have lost count how many times I haven't made versions of Kermit the | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
Frog. It just got beyond a joke! well as a lot of Kermit the Frogs, | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
Steve has made burgeoned as for Wallace and Gromit and even star | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
wars. He create pretty times for puppets in films such as Labyrinth | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
of. One of them leads to the castle in the centre, and the other one | :22:42. | :22:51. | |
leads to certain death! My job, if you can call it that, pick up -- | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
was to go in, and produce prototypes of goblins and Wild | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
Things. They would take these prototypes and they would be shown | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
to Jim Henson and the rest of the thing -- team, then they would be | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
passed on to the animatronics team and the people who would make the | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
ones in the film. Steve is now working on puppets of | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
his own design. Everything has to be made from scratch but kept light | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
weight so the property -- so it can be held four hours. He has eyes | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
made out of prison, and there is a mechanism to make various parts of | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
his face move, which is a secret. Max, the guitar playing dog, will | :23:30. | :23:40. | |
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feature in the exhibition this weekend in Petham. | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
Plans to make spitting on the street of Medway an offence with | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
fines of up to �80, we asked for your opinions. A lot of you agree. | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
The word coming up and -- again and again is disgusting. Jody says, it | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
should be banned, a disgusting habit that mostly only young men do. | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
He would not spit on the floor at home, so why on the street? This | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
one says, despicable, a filthy habit, it should be unlawful | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
anywhere in the UK. This one, Jo Saunders and, from Allington, is | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
one of the few who goes against the grain. Eight -- he says, I am a | :24:20. | :24:28. | |
keen footballer. I often find myself needing to spit. How would | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
it police? A few people are saying, footballers are setting a bad | :24:35. | :24:43. | |
example and players that spit he It has been a cloudy, mostly dry | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
and mild picture today, it stays that way through tonight. It will | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
be all change to the weekend. Initially drier on Saturday, | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
increasingly wet and windy for us all. That rain clears and leaves | :24:54. | :25:01. | |
behind it a much colder picked up the Sunday. -- picture for Sunday. | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
And a widespread frost. The bulk of the unsettled weather is well to | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
the north of us today, temperatures again in double figures, highs of | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
10 degrees. Despite the cloud, not feeling too bad. As we go through | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
tonight, very little changes. Plenty of cloud around, the odd | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
scattered shower. Temperatures not really dropping much below six or | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
seven degrees, eight degrees along the coast, that is usually daytime | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
temperatures. A very mild, cloudy start, but it does not last. An | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
active cold front is sinking southwards, south-westerly winds | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
picking up. Initially tried but increasingly unsettled. By | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
lunchtime, heavy pulses of ring for us all, wet and windy. Blustery | :25:49. | :25:56. | |
winds, stronger than 25 miles an hour. Similar temperatures to today | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
put up above average, but with the unsettled weather, feeling a little | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
bit cooler than the numbers suggest. The rain it clears through the | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
first part of Saturday night, leaving behind a much cooler story. | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
Clearer skies, the winds from an north-westerly direction. Once | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
again, a frosty start on Sunday. Lots and lots of winter sunshine on | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
Sunday. Temperatures below average again. With high pressure in | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
control, Monday sees lots of cloud but staying dry, this area of high | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
pressure pulls away to the east and once again by Tuesday, some rain | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
moving in from the West. The temperatures will recover by | :26:39. | :26:48. | |
Tuesday again, we have highs of The headlines, Rupert Murdoch has | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
confirmed plans for a new newspaper, saying the sun on Sunday will be | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
launching very soon. Spitting on the street in Medway | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
could be banned with fines of �80 if a new bylaw is past. | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
And a warning we will be paying more for water in future as | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
Southern Water applies for a drought permits to help refill our | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
largest reservoir. And just before we go, quick | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
congratulations to Colin Campbell who won the Journalist of the Year | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
title at the Royal Television Society, Southern Centre awards | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
last night. Our colleague Matt Goddard won the award for Best | :27:19. | :27:29. |