09/12/2013 South East Today

the north and west. That's all from the BBC news at six. Goodbye from

me. Welcome to South East Today. The top

stories: Boris Johnson's right hand man hints the hub estuary plan may

not make the short list. A machete attack, police appeal for witnesses.

The wedding's booked, but the dress hasn't appeared. The brides who have

been left devastated and out`of`pocket. The Nazi coding

device going up for auction in Sussex. And we will open our door to

Harry Hill and his film costar, Julie Walters.

Good evening. Boris Johnson's most senior adviser on airport expansion

in the South East has given the broadest indication yet that plans

to build a four runway hub off the kent coast may be dead in the water.

With just a week before the Government publishes a shortlist of

its options for developing air capacity, Daniel Moylan told a major

aviation conference that the idea is at risk of being ditched. The

commission led by Howard Davies is expected to publish the shortlist

next week. Our political reporter Ellie Price has more. The mayor said

it would be the answer to Britain's aviation capacity problem. But today

his right hand man said the idea of an airport on the Kent estuary may

not even make the commission's short list and not for if first time. I

think the option that is most at risk being frank is a new airport in

the estuary. It sound at odds with what his boss

told business leaders last month. The estuary site offers the most

potential for growth, housing and regeneration. It is an argument

people in the area are well used to. More than ten years ago plans for an

airport at Cliffe were rejected by the Labour government. Then after

becoming mayor of London, Boris Johnson suggested an airport off the

Isle of Sheppey. An idea he stuck with, even when David Cameron ruled

it out. And in 2011 Sir Norman Foster announced plans for an

airport on the the Isle of Grain. This man's family have run this

garage since 1920 and says uncertainty is bad for business. It

maybes you look `` makes you look a twice at investing and as a home

owner you're concerneded about the value of your home. I doesn't

MEPPest help people `` help people who want to move into the area. They

should make a decision. Because a lot of people are worried. You can't

sell your house, because no one wants to move knowing they might

pilled an airport. ` build an airport. I had an idea he wasn't

convinced of Boris's idea. But he felt it was a difficult thing to

rule out without investigating it, given how much Boris has put behind

it. But I enkurjd him to do `` encouraged him to do so. At last the

future of this part of North Kent could be decided next week. But that

depends on how short the aviation commission's short list is. Ellie

Price is on the Isle of Grain now ` one of the potential sites for a new

hub airport. Ellie what's happening at the mayor's office? It seems

Boris Johnson talks up the Estuary airport only for his advisor to pour

cold water on it. Mixed messages certainly. Publicly, Boris Johnson

is backing this plan. But even he has appeared in newspapers saying

that the estuary option may not be as attractive when something like

expansion at Heathrow is on the cards. Critics say it is a

face`saving exercise. But it shows the mayor and his team think that

this airport isn't as obvious and as easy as they said it was. Without

backing from Boris, the idea rather loses momentum. Thank you. A Sussex

bride to be said she has been left heartbroken after paying for a dress

that never arrived. She claims the owner of the shop disappeared. Clad

Lloyd paid ?900 to the boutique in Brighton. She was one of eight

people who have complained to the Citizen's Advice bureau. This was my

dream dress and it was perfect. It was exactly what I wanted. I knew

this is what I wanted to get married in. Claire paid the balance of more

than ?900 after receiving a letter to say her dress was ready. Now she

has not been able to get the dress. I bought everything based around the

dress. Everything has flowed out of that dress that I bought. It feels

like at the moment nothing matches. And it is just... It feels awful.

Everything but the girl bridal boutique had been in Chichester, but

relocated here to the Brighton media centre. After a few weeks, it seemed

to close, with no explanation or contact from the own e Claire said

she was left with no choice but to go to another boutique and pay for a

replacement dress. It makes me angry. Because I think these girls

have planned this day for a long time and taken time in choosing

their dress and should haven't the heartbreak of not getting married in

their dress. Claire is one of eight people who is have complained about

the boutique. The CAB say they are making initial inquiries. We have

tried to contact the owner, Natalie Wyman, but have received no reply.

Coming up: Courses in welding. The college responding to business

demand. Police are appealing for information

after a man was attacked in Shoreham. The 47`year`old was hit

over the head with a sharp object and had to be hospitalised after the

incident in the early hours of this morning. Police say they are looking

for a group of men who had been drinking with the victim when an

argument broke out. Paul Siegert reports. What started as a night of

celebrations ended with a man needed 50 stitches. Scottie McGill attended

the party and he and group of friends went back to his flat. The

victim is a 47`year`old local male to Shoreham. He was taken into

hospital last night with a serious injury to the left side of his face

caused by this weapon. We have been told today that he has been released

from hospital. He has had a lot of stitches to his face, but hopefully

no long`term injuries and we are glad that he is out of hospital and

will be OK. Police believe the man was struck by a machete or a large

knife. The attackers were unsure `` we are unsure how many there are. We

believe only one person caused the injury. But there are three to five

males that we are looking for. Because some of those males were

present in the victim's flat earlier in the evening. After discharging

himself from hospital, Scottie McGill returned to his flat, before

ling to London. Paul is in Shoreham for us now. What is

are told he has had 56 stitches in that wound and in many respects he

is lucky to be alive. We have spent much of the day speaking to his

neighbours. He lived in the flats here. His neighbours painted a

bright picture of him and said he was very friendly and there is

nothing he wouldn't do for you. But they said when he had a drink he

could change. They also said he didn't v `` did hang around with

some unsavoury characters and one of those may have inflicted the wound

lapt. Thank `` Last night. Thank you. There has been an angry

reactions to halving services in Kent. It is unacceptable that they

think they can remove out patients services from Deal without any form

of consultation. They're claiming they don't need to, because they

carried out a consultation six years ago in a different town and that

sbietles them `` sbietles `` sbiet ` eentitles them to change this. Let's

talk to Simon Jones. What will the changes mean for patients? It is a

battle we are seeing between patients who would like to see all

services in all places and managers who believe centralising things is

the way forward. Here if you live in Deal and need an X`ray, you have it

done in Deal, but in future you may have to come to Dover and services

may move out of areas like Faversham and people who question have been ``

have been using the services are not impressed. It is nonsense. I have

the good services of this hospital on several occasions in the short

time I have been here. There is no way on two or three that I could

have driven or opened a railway carriage door if I had to go by

train. The buses don't always work and you can't coincide the buses. A

catastrophe for the town. It is something that is vital. Have we had

any response from the hospital trust? Managers say the consultation

is only just beginning and patients, GPs and MPs will be listened to.

They say at the moment the problem yois I go for an initial appointment

and you need treat elsewhere and you have to wait. We are going to

provide a greater range of local out patient service in a one`stop model,

with an extended working day which is going to be an improvement for

the majority of patients in east Kent. The big selling point maybe

they will be able to offer clinics at weekends. The consultation starts

today and will last a couple of month and there will be several

public meetings. Thank you. A farmer in Kent is asking dog owners to make

sure their animals do not get free to attack sheep. Alan Barr who farms

just outside Maidstone says dogs got onto his land at the weekend and

caused the death of 10 of his sheep. Mark Sanders reports. These are the

consequences of a dog attack. This is the third time this year the farm

has lost sheep due to a dog. It is devastating. Your go out to your

fields to check your sheep and to see carnage like that is just

unbearable. We do our best to make sure our livestock is safe and it is

devastating. It habiten. The Barr family want people to understand how

an out of control dog can cause so much harm. Three ewes were killed

yesterday and today the discovery of a further eight had had died from

stress. They are all likely to have been pregnant. They had all sat down

in a lump, as they do at night. Seven haven't got up. They have had

heart attacks. The tra ma after being `` trauma of being run around

the field. The police have launched an investigation and the losses from

dog attacks here will run into thousands. The Barrs stress they're

not against dogs, but just want people to act responsibly in the

countryside. Our top story: Plans for an airport in the Thames estuary

could be grounded when the aviation commission publishes a report next

week. It comes from the mayor of London's advisor. Also tonight: It

is Harry Hill's Nan! We talk to the comedian and his costar. And what a

pain, Canterbury Cathedral prepares to welcome its windows back from a

tour of the States. ??FORCEDEWHITE A Kent college has created a new

welding course after a local business, which employs almost 700

people, told them they need more skilled staff. In a recent report

the government said the engineering community should support work

experience students, studying in colleges and schools. They added

that if we don't act now there could be a new wave of skills shortages

and that employers and professional bodies need to step up. Our Business

Correspondent Mark Norman has been to East Kent College in Broadstairs

for tonight's special this report. Cummins make generators, but they

can't get enough good welders. A third of our work is made up of

welding. We see the skill gap in the area constraining us. East Kent

College have a new teaching complex, but can't guarantee students work

once they leave. I see one of my key jobs in the college is to make all

of our students more employable. The college's new environmental

technologies campus offers a variety of courses. But initially that

didn't include welding. But then Cummins said they would need trained

welders locally and think offered to help develop the course and offer

work placements. We are working together with Cummins to make sure

the students get the training they need in college to match the skills

needed in the work place. They employ more than 40,000 people

around the world. But they are keen to invest in local skills. One of

the things we are trying to do is compete with low cost countries. If

we can keep the cost bases down and recruit from the community. It is

the way that things should be running now. Companies need

employment. They need employees as much as employees need employment.

Without experience you can't go anywhere. Because no one will take

you on. So it is brilliant. The demand from employers is huge. The

sector will need something like 2.5 million people in the next decade.

Of those around 1.8 will need technical skills and half at a

graduate level. So we see a demand. The company will open a new welding

facility next year. And they expect many of their staff to come from the

students learning skills at east Kent College. He is the Kent`based

multi`award winning comedian who has dominated Saturday Night television

with his unique brand of comedy. It stars some of the biggest names,

including Julie Walters. Get ready for the story of two brothers ` one

raised by his Nan. The other by wild animals. Force his big screen debut,

Harry has his distinctive brand of humour. And as you would expect

there is a surreal storiline that he hopes will have audiences flocking

to cinemas. How many times no stripper grammes. It is about Harry

living with his Nan and we have a hamster, who we believe is ill and

starts throwing up green muck. We believe he only has a week to live.

So he go to the vet and that starts a chain of events. The act tress

Julie Walters plays his Nan. I was a huge fan. My agent said do you like

Harry Hill. I said, yeah, why? She said I have a script. She sent the

script and it is great. The comedian grew up in Kent and attended schools

there. Five years ago he returned for a visit to his old primary. When

they said, why don't we ask Julie Walters, I said forget it. Well Judi

Dench said no. Harry has another project causing a stir. He wrote the

musical for I Can't Sing based on the xachlt fbgtor. `` X Factor. It

is a celebration or a mockery. It is both. It is that sort of thing of

over praising it. The former doctor who, transformed himself into a

comedian has never looked back and having escaped TV for some bigged a

ventures on skaj `` for some bigged a ventures on the big screen, who

knows what will he do for a laugh. Harry Hill movie! It was dubbed the

"Hitler Mill" and could, it's claimed, have changed the outcome of

the Second World War if it had been invented earlier. The SG41 coding

device was the successor to the famous Nazi Enigma machine and one

of only a handful to still exist is going under the hammer in Sussex.

It's thought to have spent around 60 years on the seabed before being

discovered and restored and is expected to fetch between ?15,000

and ?20,000 at auction in Battle. Several hundred were made, but it's

thought only 10 still exist worldwide. Juliette Parkin reports.

It was used by the laft wafer and German navy. `` Luftwaffe. This

particular model, the SG41Z was used for encrypting weather information

and very few still exist. When something comes in that is totally

different, that is a moment in history, it's so exciting to be able

to market it and sell it and to present it to the world. It is an

amazing opportunity for us. Only a handful of these still exist. But it

was this machine which finally stumped the code breakers of blechry

Park. `` Bletchley Park. War`time code breaking has been a

fascination. Blechry Park is where `` Bletchley park is where the code

was broken. Every time you press a key... There has been no shortage of

interest in the machine. This is the forerunner to the modern computer

thes. It is something that would interest anyone who wants to start a

collection of early computing devices. So it could be something

for wealthy business people to put in a display cabinet. Although it

bears the scars of a watery resting place, it was and still is

unbreakable and is expected to go for thousands at auction on

Wednesday. The Great South Window is one of the biggest and oldest

windows at Canterbury Cathedral, spanning a height of 60 feet, the

equivalent of four double decker buses but it's future had been put

at risk when the delicate stonework surrounding the window started to

collapse. Conservators at the cathedral first had to carefully

remove the stained glass panels and have now started to remove the

damaged masonry. Peter Whittlesea reports. When it comes to replacing

windows, they don't come much bigger than this. The window is being taken

out piece by piece. Although it is a small piece of stone, if that

fell... That has got to fall 60 feet before it hits the ground. So every

precaution must be taken and supports anded to ensure `` added to

ensure every stone is safely removed. Once we have supported this

off the beam and taken the tension on it and then we will cut through

the joints with a hand saw. Linking these two stones together. We do it

on every joint. Once we are happy with that, we take the strain off

the stone and lift it up a and then it will be taken along and lowered

on to a trolley. The theory is in simple, but there are more than 100

pieces of stonework that must be removed. Three years ago the

window's state of repair became all too obvious. This is where we

realised we had a problem. This large piece of stone fell down on to

the path. And when we got up here to look, we realised that this great

big long bar that goes through from one side of the window to the next

has been rusting. All the stained glass had to be removed and to help

raise funds, it was exhibited in Los Angeles. Now it is on to the second

phase. We have to take it apart carefully, because we are going to

use as much of the stone to rebuild the tracery when we repair the lower

part. Any replacement stone will have to be carved by hand. That is

why rebuilding this window will take 18 months. But it will be worth it.

This weekend's football saw a spread of results. Brighton fans had the

most to celebrate. Brighton supporters may have been nervous

after the defeat to Barnsley, but they began well against Leicester

with Barns giving them the lead. Then Conway finished in fine style.

There was a wobble in the second half when King headed home, but

Brighton finished strongly, with an important win. We wanted a reaction

of the players and they did well. I think we played one of our best

games of the season. Charlton could hardly have begun better at Yeovil

taking a two goal lead. But then it started to go wrong. Morrisson

turned the ball into his own net and then Miller levelled from the spot.

But Charlton held on for a point. In League One, Gillingham came unstuck

at Notts County. Gillingham levelled it and the home side finished

stronger with this stunning solo goal. In the FA Cup, the new Crawley

manager, John Greggry had to settle for a draw, but will be looking

forward to the replay. Dover's cup run ended at MK Dons. Now the

weather. It has been very mild today. Yes and it is staying that

way. The reason for that is an area of high pressure that is going

nowhere, so temperatures milder today. We will stay dry with a light

south`westerly wind. Earlier some cloud and drizzle. But it brightened

up by the afternoon. And temperatures above average. Highs of

around 11 degrees. As we go into tonight we will stay dry. Because of

the lighter winds, where we see clearer sky, we will see mist and

fog. Inland getting close to freezing. Perhaps a touch of frost

as we start the day tomorrow. Any mist and fog will be slow to clear.

This high pressure is going nowhere this week. Tomorrow some more cloud

and it will be not too bad in terms of temperatures the. Perhaps down on

today. Highs of around nine degrees. Again with light southerly breezes.

Tomorrow night temperatures cooler, getting close to freezing in rural

spots. There will be some frost on Wednesday. Temperatures along the

coast only down to seven degrees. Again some mist and fog on

Wednesday. High pressure is going nowhere. Perhaps some cloud, but we

will stay try and temperatures mild for the time of year. I'm baffled,

we haven't floods or high winds. We are not used to this! I'm back with

the 8 o'clock and the late bulletin. But that is it. Goodbye.