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Welcome to South East Today, I'm Rob Smith. And I'm Natalie Graham. | :00:05. | :00:11. | |
Tonight's top stories: The authorities in Calais are criticised | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
for not doing more to help the Syrians seeking asylum in this | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
country. We're live in France with the latest. | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
The plans for a heritage theme park in Margate — but there are fears | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
about how much it could cost the taxpayer. | :00:26. | :00:33. | |
We are confident it will pay for itself. We have done the sums and we | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
have got really good people in place. | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
Also in tonight's programme: The threat of professional wild mushroom | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
pickers to our forest eco systems. We take a close up view of the | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
repainting of the Beachy Head lighthouse. | :00:46. | :00:56. | |
Hello, and welcome to jazz club. Great. Really great. And we chat to | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
John Thomson, who's Good evening. The French are under | :00:58. | :01:14. | |
pressure tonight to provide shelter for Syrian would—be asylum seekers | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
who say they would get better treatment in England. A group of | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
about 50 Syrians demonstrating in Calais believe they have the right | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
to claim asylum in England. The United Nations says France is | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
obliged to house the men, but is failing to accommodate them. Peter | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
obliged to house the men, but is Whittlesea reports from Calais. | :01:31. | :01:41. | |
This scrap of land in Calais is home to around 50 Syrians. According to | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
the UN, only eight have claimed asylum in France. The rest are not | :01:45. | :01:53. | |
entitled to any state aid. This man believes refugees have better | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
prospects in Britain. I have to find some way to get there. But you will | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
be deported, because you have come through France, a safe country? Yes, | :02:03. | :02:11. | |
but I don't think they will say anything. Every Syrian I spoke to | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
believes if they do not claim asylum in any other European country, | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
Britain will accept them. But refugees must claim asylum in the | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
first safe country. In the past we were a safe touch —— soft touch. Now | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
we have got a stronger system. We have toughened up. We needed to make | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
sure that people from overseas understand Britain is no longer a | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
soft touch. In France, a single man would add —— receive accommodation | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
and £65 a week. In the UK, accommodation and £36 per week. | :02:50. | :03:07. | |
But the charity workers in France say there is a big difference | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
between theory and practice. The procedure is faster in England and | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
people get accommodation from the beginning. They don't stay in the | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
streets for weeks and months. It is a bit different. The British | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
government is abiding by the law and the French government isn't? Yes. | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
There are mixed feelings over whether Syrian asylum seekers should | :03:32. | :03:39. | |
be allowed into Britain. Why can't lay claim asylum in France, | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
especially the Syrians, who have links with France? If they don't | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
like how they are treated, anybody should have the choice. The | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
infrastructure in this country is straining under the leash and we | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
cannot afford any more subscribers. The vast majority of Syrian families | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
with young children have now been found accommodation. But the single | :04:04. | :04:12. | |
men are still sleeping wrath. Peter is in Calais. —— still sleeping | :04:12. | :04:19. | |
wrath. In theory they would be better off claiming asylum in France | :04:19. | :04:26. | |
than the UK? That is right. Mathematically you get more money in | :04:26. | :04:27. | |
France and the UK. But the pressure for housing here in Calais is so | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
huge that only the most vulnerable will be given accommodation. If you | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
are a single male, you are unlikely to be given accommodation and you | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
will live on the street. The UN says that is because so many people flock | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
to Calais, the authorities cannot cope. Because there is the option of | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
living on the streets are getting accommodation in Britain, for a | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
certain number of asylum seekers, Britain remains an attractive | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
option. A heritage park will be built in | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
Margate on the site of the old Dreamland attraction, and the | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
council claim it will bring thousands of tourists into the town. | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
But as the High Court today ruled that the council's plans could go | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
ahead, the site's former owners warned that it will needlessly cost | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
the local taxpayers a fortune. Dreamland's closure was announced in | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
2003 and the land was sold for housing and development. But in | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
2011, the council issued a compulsory purchase order to take | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
over the site, as no work had begun. The owners objected, but in May this | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
year the High Court ruled that the compulsory purchase order should | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
stand. The owners then went to appeal, and today that appeal has | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
been lost. Sara Smith is in Margate now. Sara, good news for the | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
council? Yes, a relief for the Council, especially because the | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
company that did on this land has said it will not take legal action | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
any further. In a rather furious statement, they said there was no | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
evidence that Thanet Council or the trust that will run the park have | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
got any experience of setting up a successful amusement arcade. They | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
have ended up going on hand for money from the taxpayers and the | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
council. They said they did not even have the money to buy the land now | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
that they have won permission. The council says the funding is in | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
place. And they say they will make a success of it. In the good old | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
days, it attracted visitors from far and wide. | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
Are the good days coming back? The council has £10 million in | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
government and lottery grants to get Dreamland open. After that, it needs | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
to pay for itself. We are confident it will pay for itself. We have done | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
the sums and we have got good people in place. Wayne Hemingway is doing | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
the design. There will be a lot of publicity. It is something that will | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
snowball once it opens. Wayne Hemingway agrees, convinced his | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
vision will bring in the crowds. We need to attract people from all | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
around the UK to think about Margate and Dreamland as a destination. It | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
is hard work. We are going into this believing we can succeed. Choking | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
the private company of the site does mean the council and local people | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
carry all the risk. —— throwing the private company. If it goes wrong, | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
there is a risk to the taxpayer in Margate. Take the bet, make it | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
work, but chase the council to make sure it is a first—rate development. | :07:19. | :07:26. | |
The council plan for heritage rides and a festival space, needs to be | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
attractive enough to pull in the punters. | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
That is all right for locals. Otherwise people will go for modern | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
theme parks. I used to go there all the time with my mates. It is better | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
than Thorpe Park. It has been there forever. I have only seen on the | :07:43. | :07:50. | |
telly her dilapidated it looks. I don't think it will affect me. Phase | :07:50. | :07:58. | |
one should open in 18 months. Then Thanet Council's plans will face the | :07:58. | :08:06. | |
fiercest of all judges, the public. The council is convinced it does | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
have a winner here. They are expecting even more visitors than | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
they had originally planned for. Coming up in a moment, Norman Baker | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
and a conspiracy of spies. Why the Liberal Democrat MP has moved —— | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
Liberal Democrat MP's move to the Home Office has ruffled some | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
feathers. Kent's Police and Crime Commissioner | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
says she wants a "street savvy" Youth Commissioner and will have the | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
right person in position by Christmas. This morning, Ann Barnes | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
was scrutinised over the selection of Paris Brown, who quit after | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
inappropriate comments on Twitter. The commissioner accepts | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
responsibility for failing to get social networking vetting checks | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
done on the teenager, but says lessons have been learned. Colin | :08:50. | :08:59. | |
Campbell was at the meeting and has this report. | :08:59. | :09:08. | |
I don't want people judging me based on a few stupid things which I wrote | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
and didn't mean. Paris Brown sensationally quit as Youth | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
Commissioner after she had made a series of offensive comments. It is | :09:16. | :09:27. | |
an appropriate system to use. Today Kent Police and Crime Commissioner | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
Ann Barnes was questioned over how the teenager was treated. Ann Barnes | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
accepts responsibility for not requesting social media checks. She | :09:37. | :09:45. | |
fell at the last fence because the social networking vetting was not | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
done. The rest was fine. This is the same system used to recruit police | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
officers. You are dealing with a young person and the process of | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
interviewing that young person was too sophisticated. They missed | :09:58. | :10:05. | |
social media. Ann Barnes says she will have a new Youth Commissioner | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
in post by Christmas. She was the person to beat street savvy. The | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
Police and Crime Commissioners says social media will be scrutinised. | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
There is still support for a Youth Commissioner. Somebody who is not | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
silly and is responsible for what they say. It is a good idea because | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
you get a young person's perspective. There are concerns the | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
candidate could become the focus of intense media —— media scrutiny. It | :10:36. | :10:43. | |
will always be difficult for anybody who takes on this role. They will be | :10:43. | :10:53. | |
seen through the fiasco. For obvious reasons, I don't want this to | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
impinge on his or her work. Ann Barnes says lessons have been | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
learned. She is not looking for an angel, just a single voice to | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
represent the voice of young people. We'd like to know what you think — | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
does Kent need a Youth Commissioner? Or should the force spend £15,000 on | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
something else? You can email us or join the debate on Facebook. | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
something else? You can email us or A man who punched and kicked his | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
pregnant girlfriend in the stomach has been jailed for 11 years by Hove | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
Crown court. 33—year—old Devon Newell from Peckham in London | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
attacked the 20—year old at her home in Eastbourne in October, whilst she | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
was in the bath. He tried to strangle her and held her under | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
water. She was partly blinded in one eye but the baby was unharmed. | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
A Sussex MP has called for an emergency Commons debate after he | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
was issued a harassment warning notice by police. Tim Loughton was | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
issued the notice after he referred to a constituent as "unkempt". The | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
issue will be debated in the Commons tomorrow after any urgent questions | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
or statements. The Liberal Democrats have been | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
defending the decision to appoint the Lewes MP Norman Baker to a | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
ministerial role at the Home Office in yesterday's reshuffle. Critics | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
have questioned the appointment of Mr Baker, who wrote a book claiming | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
that the security services were involved in a cover—up over the | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
death of government scientist Dr David Kelly. But the Chief Secretary | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, says Mr Baker will be an excellent | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
Home Office minister. Louise Stewart is at Westminster. Louise, his | :12:22. | :12:31. | |
appointment appears to have caused a bit of a row — why do you think it's | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
been so controversial? Has it come as a surprise? His appointment came | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
as a big surprise. He had been at the Department of Transport for | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
three years. He was a great advocate of cycling and railways. This move | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
came out of the blue. It has caused controversy. As a backbench MP he | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
took a year off to write a book about the death of Doctor David | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
Kelly. He suggested that he had not committed suicide but that it was a | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
case of murder perhaps covered up by security services for political | :13:04. | :13:14. | |
expediency. He will also try to inject some liberalism into the Home | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
Office. Norman Baker said he had already spoken to Theresa May and | :13:17. | :13:24. | |
said they will work well together. It is a calculated attempt to make | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
sure that a liberal voices heard in a constructive, collegiate way, with | :13:26. | :13:36. | |
my Conservative colleagues. It is an attempt to work together in a | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
mature, constructive way. He is looking forward to working with | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
Theresa May. He actually seemed quite happy at transport. Why was he | :13:46. | :13:54. | |
moved? The premise to's spokesman would not comment on the appointment | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
today other than to say it was down to the party leaders. This was Nick | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
Clegg's idea to inject a liberal into the Home Office to take the | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
fight to Theresa May over immigration, the scrapping of the | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
human rights act and also tackling crime. | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
Our top story tonight: The French are under pressure tonight to | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
provide shelter for Syrian would—be asylum seekers gathering in Calais | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
who say they want to move to England. The United Nations says | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
France is obliged to house the men — but is failing to accommodate them. | :14:25. | :14:39. | |
Also on the programme: on the show today, Jackson... We will be | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
chatting to John Thompson about his latest incarnation as a Yorkshire | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
man on holiday in Blackpool. Today was another good day. Significantly | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
colder for the next few days. Join me later. | :14:54. | :15:02. | |
It is predicted to be a bumper year for wild mushrooms following a warm | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
September — but there are fears that gangs could strip the local area of | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
all Fungi, to then sell the crop on for profit. It is not illegal to | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
forage for mushrooms, but according to the Wild Mushroom Pickers' Code | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
of Conduct, pickers should always seek the landowner's or site | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
manager's permission. Do not collect species you don't intend to eat. And | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
you should only pick enough for personal consumption — or not more | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
than 1.5kg per visit. Alex Beard has tonight's special report. | :15:32. | :15:39. | |
If you know what you are looking for, the forest floor can provide a | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
free dinner. The main one is that everybody is after... Here we have a | :15:44. | :15:58. | |
perfect example. In this country they are known as a penny bond. This | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
is what everybody is after. A kilo of these would probably go for | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
anything between 25p to £40. Nik Weston runs foraging classes. He has | :16:08. | :16:19. | |
seen signs of illegal foraging. A large group of people have come in, | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
they have swept a large area of the forest, been told to pick | :16:24. | :16:34. | |
everything. Then they just go and dump the ones they cannot sell. | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
Picking things from the wild is not illegal, as long as you are doing it | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
for your own personal use. It becomes theft when you are nicking a | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
profit. Something like this is very desirable because in large | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
quantities it is worth a lot of money. Foraged food continues to | :16:52. | :17:00. | |
feature on many top menu. —— many top menus. But signs of mass picking | :17:00. | :17:12. | |
is concerning to experts. They provide the seed sauce for the next | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
generation. If they are all picked, there is not going to be any | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
generations in the future. It could be disastrous. This is not foraging, | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
it is pillaging. There are calls for more governments to stop organised | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
groups from curing the harvest. —— clearing. | :17:30. | :17:43. | |
You may remember him best as Pete in cold feed. You remember —— you may | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
remember his characters from the fast show. Nice. In just a moment, | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
we would be chatting live with John Thompson from Brighton, where he is | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
going to be on stage tonight, playing a Yorkshire man on holiday. | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
Here is a quick reminder of him in action. An actor and comedian, John | :18:04. | :18:13. | |
Thomson is best known for Cold Feet. I see they have managed to get that | :18:13. | :18:21. | |
beach —— get that whale love the beach in Cornwall. I don't know why | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
I said that! Since then he has had us in stitches on sketch shows. | :18:25. | :18:32. | |
Hello and welcome to jazz club. Great. Really great. Not to mention | :18:32. | :18:43. | |
joining the cast of Waterloo Road. I've never seen you in a suit | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
before. He has even impressed judges on Masterchef. What is that you have | :18:49. | :18:59. | |
done? I have rolled it in the egg, put it in a bit of flour and deep | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
fried it. It tastes really nice. Like calamari. Now he is about to | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
dazzle audiences in Brighton as he takes to the stage at the Theatre | :19:09. | :19:18. | |
Royal. John Thomson joins us now. We have just seen some of the stuff you | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
have done over the years. You are a Mancunian playing a Yorkshire man. | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
Is that the toughest role of your career? Well, some of the vowel | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
sounds are different. I have had to work the accents to get it | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
authentic. It is still a learning curve. That has been the only | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
problem. I have got a good year for accidents. I don't think it is going | :19:41. | :19:48. | |
to rekindle the War of the Roses, to be honest. We have just seen your | :19:48. | :19:54. | |
incredible career. You have barely left our screens over the last | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
couple of decades. What do people remember you for most? Cold Feet and | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
the fast show seem to be the strongest things in my career. I | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
still get people coming up to me on the street saying, nice. Which I | :20:06. | :20:15. | |
responded to with, great. Cold Feet was ground—breaking in its time and | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
people still ask if it is coming back. I cannot really answer that. | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
Yes, those are two things I am very proud of. You are on a tour at the | :20:24. | :20:31. | |
moment. Is that quite tough for you being away from the family? It is, | :20:31. | :20:38. | |
yes. A lot of the tour dates are a southern —based. If you live in | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
London, it is immutable. After Aylesbury I get to go to Derby. Most | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
nights I will come home after Derby. And Chesterfield, too. Yes, | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
this three—week run has been Richmond, Brighton, Aylesbury. I | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
only have had half a day with them. I am relying on Skype to speak to | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
the kids. That is one of the toughest parts of touring. But I do | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
love the fact that you get to see different places all the time and | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
explore the town you're staying in. You are in a good place to enjoy the | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
night. Yes, the audience were cracking last night. The reviews | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
have been brilliant. Tonight I'm really looking forward to the show. | :21:26. | :21:34. | |
Enjoy it. Thank you Brett much. Thank you so much. Cheers. | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
Kent police Commissioner Ann Barnes once a street savvy Youth | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
Commissioner and she says she will have the right person in position by | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
Christmas. We asked you what you think. Does Kent need a Youth | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
Commissioner? We have had lots of comments. Tony cannot see the point | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
of a Youth Commissioner after the Police and Crime Commissioner made | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
such a mess of the first one. Chris says, come on, let's support this. | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
It is a chance for an educated and intelligent youngster to do a | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
worthwhile job. Ralph says, bring back Paris Brown. Politicians often | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
make inappropriate comments and get away with it. But Michael King says, | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
it is yet another total waste of public money. Rodney Hughes believes | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
that as well. Of course we do not need another Youth Commissioner. | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
There is too much emphasis on youth. And Lucy referred to the story we | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
digested a involving Kent police. She says, let's spend this £15,000 | :22:40. | :22:47. | |
on staff and police officers in overtime to man the remembrance | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
parade in Chatham. It is good to see the police listening to the youth of | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
our country but the press should not try to attack the person who steps | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
into this role as happened last time. Thank you for your comments. | :22:57. | :23:04. | |
Time for the weather. Incredibly warm today for October. I know. | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
Today, another day when you could have been out and about in T—shirts. | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
In the next couple of days, a big drop in those temperatures. It is | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
good to be very windy. Gale force winds. Not so today. Plenty of | :23:16. | :23:27. | |
sunshine, particularly in the morning. Decent temperatures for the | :23:27. | :23:35. | |
time of the year. 19 to 20 degrees. A very pleasant day indeed. Through | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
tonight we have got a cold front. Some more cloud cover. We could see | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
some light patchy rain and drizzle. The wind is picking up a little bit. | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
Temperatures again very mild for the time of the year. Dropping to 12 or | :23:49. | :23:57. | |
13 degrees. As we start the day tomorrow, it will be overcast, | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
particularly in the morning. The winds are going to start picking up | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
and they will be swinging in a north—westerly direction. | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
Temperatures dropping several degrees on today's values. Highs of | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
around 15 or 16 degrees. The chance of a scattered light shower. Through | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
tomorrow evening, we see that cloud eventually lifting. Clearer skies. | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
Temperatures dropping widely for all of us to single figures. Overnight | :24:27. | :24:34. | |
lows of five or six degrees. A cold start on Thursday. But quite bright. | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
The winds on Thursday gusting to 50 mph on the coast. Inland, still | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
quite breezy. The chance of outbreaks of rain. It stays cool as | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
we move into Friday. The wind staying strong as well. Temperatures | :24:52. | :24:59. | |
at 13 or 14 degrees. Hefty rain. As we head into the weekend, unsettled | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
and cool. It has been lovely in the last few days, but quite a shift for | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
the rest of the week. Thank you very much. Former Brighton manager Gus | :25:07. | :25:17. | |
Poyet has been named as head coach of Premiership side Sunderland. | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
Poyet — who was sacked by the Seagulls in June — | :25:20. | :25:21. | |
A French company is going to be in Kent are trying to produce | :25:21. | :25:39. | |
cross—channel business opportunities in the next couple of days. | :25:39. | :25:52. | |
With its own cocoa bean plantations in South America, more than 20 shops | :25:52. | :26:00. | |
and a busy factory near Calais, this chocolate manufacturer has set its | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
sights on the UK market. I think if you want to make yourself known in a | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
country, you go there and say hello to anybody you can meet. I think | :26:11. | :26:18. | |
word—of—mouth spreads. They are one of dozens of firms trying to forge | :26:18. | :26:26. | |
business links with companies here. Kent people are close by. They | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
probably do not realise the potential that exists an hour and a | :26:30. | :26:38. | |
half on —— from where they live. We understand each other better. We can | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
become an entry. We can be even more competitive. The event in Tunbridge | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
Wells is open to anybody interested in trade with northern France. And | :26:48. | :26:55. | |
the share in a £150 billion market between the two countries. We are | :26:55. | :27:02. | |
sorry we could not bring you the report about the painting of the | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
Beachy Head lighthouse. We do hope to have it for you tomorrow. Indeed | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
we do. I will be back at eight o'clock and the main News at | :27:10. | :27:16. | |
10:25pm. Before we go, let's look at the national and local top stories. | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
16 to 24—year—olds in England and Northern Ireland lag far behind | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
young people in other industrialised countries when it comes to literacy | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
and numerous Eid tests, according to a report. The French authorities are | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
under pressure tonight to provide shelter and care to Syrian asylum | :27:33. | :27:39. | |
seekers in Calais. The UN says France is obliged to has the men. | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
That is it. Goodbye. | :27:42. | :27:46. |