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died aged 88. That's all from the BBC News at Six so it's goodbye | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Welcome to South East Today, I'm Rob Smith. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
And I'm Natalie Graham. Tonhght s top stories: | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
Open a cannabis cafe in Margate ` the controversial call from a Thanet | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
councillor being put to the public this weekend. We're live in the town | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
with reaction to the propos`l. The young Sussex mum left p`rtially | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
blinded by her violent ex, now leading a campaign to end domestic | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
violence. Completely batterdd. Black and blue, if you like. My f`ce was | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
caved in. My eyes were swollen so bad that I couldn't see anything. | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
Also in tonight's programme: Get on track. Dame Kelly Holmes | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
pioneering scheme to help out`of`work youngsters turn their | :00:39. | :00:39. | |
lives around From Jesus Chrhst less and other pure in heart. From | :00:40. | :00:52. | |
Christ to Christie. We meet Robert Powell, playing the super`sleuth in | :00:53. | :00:53. | |
Eastbourne. And what a difference a year makes. | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
Last March, we were gripped by ice and snow. Now the spring sunshine is | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
giving everyone a welcome boost Good evening. Controversial | :01:00. | :01:11. | |
proposals to open a cannabis cafe in Kent will be discussed tomorrow at a | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
public meeting. Thanet Green Party Councillor Ian Driver, who `dmits | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
he's taken cannabis himself, has put forward the idea as part of a | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
campaign for a relaxation of the drugs laws. | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
Cannabis cafes, where the drug can be consumed legally, are popular in | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
Amsterdam. Its sale has recdntly been decriminalised in Urugtay and | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
the American state of Color`do. But it remains an illegal drug hn this | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
country. Peter Whittlesea rdports. Does it get any better? Celdbrating | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
the legalisation of cannabis in Washington State in America. Could | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
this be coming to Kent? A Green councillor in Thanet thinks there is | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
room for cannabis in Margatd's cafe culture and wants the Home Office to | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
license Amsterdam`style coffee shops here. | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
You openly admit to taking cannabis, cocaine and ecstasy? | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
Correct, yes. Not all at once. I'm a great believer in moderation. Are | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
you not trivialising drug`t`king? I am not trivialising it, it hs very, | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
very serious. And there is no such thing as a safe drug. Tobacco is not | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
safe, alcohol is not safe. Cannabis, there are issues with. So why | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
legalise it? What I'm saying is the current prohibition regime hs | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
actually making criminals of people who are not doing anything wrong. | :02:29. | :02:37. | |
This is the war on cannabis in the south`east, but campaigners say | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
follow Colorado's lead and turn marijuana into money for thd | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
taxman. Clearly at a time when countries are in desperate need of | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
economic redevelopment, I c`n't understand why governments `ren t | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
looking to cannabis as the number`one cash crop. But others say | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
health concerns must come bdfore economics. It causes psychological | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
problems for many people, particularly among vulnerable people | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
and young people. The long`term evidence from a long`term study in | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
Dunedin, New Zealand, is th`t it lowers intelligence. So it's | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
actually quite a damaging stbstance. Making any decision in Marg`te | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
controversial. They did it hn Amsterdam, it brings a lot of money | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
there. It is a tourist attr`ction in a way, isn't it? Margate is trying | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
to get itself back up and I think this would bring it back down again. | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
It could be a useful economhc thing, but again, it has to be handled | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
appropriately. It makes me nervous. Kent's Police and Crime Comlissioner | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
says a cannabis cafe would require a change in the law that only | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
Parliament can deliver. Peter joins us live from Margate. | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
Peter, where does Councillor Ian Driver want this proposed c`nnabis | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
cafe to be? Well, here, in the shadow of the Turner Gallerx. He | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
says if one opened here, people would queue around the block to use | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
it, but he said it should only be opened if it has Home Officd | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
approval and takes part in to government research into drtg use. | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
The local council says this is the view of one councillor and not the | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
council as a home. A lot of people I spoke to express concerns about | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
relaxation, saying they felt Margate was on the band a decision like this | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
could damage the whole regeneration project `` on the up and a decision | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
like this. You've been commenting on this story | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
already. Astra Cole says it's a good idea concentrating it in ond place, | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
putting a tax on it so the loney will go to a better cause lhke the | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
NHS, not the drug trade and class A crime. | :04:41. | :04:42. | |
But Terry Boarder says he is firmly against and legalising its tse gives | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
out the wrong message to decent citizens. "We invariably have to pay | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
the price, by way of paying benefits to those who can't or won't work due | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
to drink or drugs use." So what do you think? | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
Would you welcome a cannabis cafe where you live? Or are you opposed | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
to any moves to legalise drtg use? you think? | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
Would you welcome a Send us an email to [email protected], or join | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
the debate on Facebook or Twitter. We'll hear your views later in the | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
programme. A young woman from East Sussex, | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
who's been left partially blind after her partner viciously attacked | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
her, is spearheading a new campaign to end domestic violence. Aly | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
Beardsley was three months pregnant when Devon Newell kicked her in the | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
stomach and attacked her in Eastbourne two years ago. | :05:23. | :05:32. | |
Figures released by the 2wolen many campaign show that two women are | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
killed in the UK every week by a partner or ex`partner. | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
Domestic abuse accounts for up to 25% of all violent crime. | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
And in Sussex alone, there `re 0 reports of domestic violencd every | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
day. Juliette Parkin reports. Her appearance now like it never | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
happened, but the scars run deep. In October 2012, at the hands of this | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
man, Devon Newell, her ex`p`rtner, Amy Beardsley was viciously | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
attacked. My face was caved in, my eyes were swollen so badly that I | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
couldn't see anything. I was attacked in the bathroom. I was then | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
dragged from the bathroom into the bedroom, where I was completely you | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
know, beaten and beaten and beaten and kicked in the belly when I was | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
three months pregnant. Carrxing his child, the trainer print on her bump | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
said it all. Sussex police said it was the worst domestic incident they | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
had ever seen. I had stitchds in my eye, my left eye. I also had a | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
broken eye socket that needdd surgery. I had small fractures in my | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
jaw and my nose. Amy said she couldn't fault the response of | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
Sussex police but other victims were let down. In 2008, Cassandr` | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
Hasanovic was stabbed to de`th by her husband in front of thehr young | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
children. An inquest critichsed Sussex police and the Crown | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
Prosecution Service for failing to take steps to prevent it. Now a new | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
campaign is calling for a ptblic enquiry into how the police and | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
other domestic agencies deal with enquiries. `` domestic violdnce | :06:58. | :07:06. | |
Agencies are not trained to understand the dangers to | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
predominantly women and children but also men, of domestic violence, and | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
to know how to respond. Cassandra's death, according to the Sussex | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
force, prompted change. Victims who are identified as high risk are | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
handed over to specialised officers, who look after them, they whll take | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
them through the whole journey through the criminal justicd | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
system. The 2women 2many calpaign also aims to raise awareness and Amy | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
is urging others to speak ott. Even if you have to leave your house and | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
leave everything, you don't have to leave it forever, so just do it Her | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
attacker has been jailed for 11 years but Amy says she will live | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
with the nightmare of what happened for the rest of her life. | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
In a moment: How one of our best`loved | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
illustrators, Sir Quentin Blake is the big draw for children and adults | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
in Hastings this summer. Mental health provision in Kent is | :07:54. | :08:05. | |
woefully inadequate, and putting lives at risk. That's the claim | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
tonight from parents who sax their sons and daughters are being sent to | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
hospitals far from their falilies and friends, because there's no bed | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
available close to home. Experts say that can jeopardise | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
their recovery and cost livds. But the Trust that runs mental health | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
services in Kent and Medway says it is actually increasing the number of | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
in`patient beds in the county. Rebecca Williams has the details. | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
Rehabilitation is seeing yotr family and friends. His daughter stffers | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
from schizophrenia and has been in hospital 13 times since May, but | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
Brian Clark says she hasn't been able to access a continuous | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
in`patient bed near to her home Somebody told her she would have to | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
go to Ealing, and I know it is a 160`mile round trip, becausd I live | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
in Sittingbourne, and she rdfused to go. And with that, a few daxs later, | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
she actually broke out the ward poured petrol over her hand and set | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
light to it. The Kent and Mddway Social Care Partnership Trust plan | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
to have three centres of excellence for mental health patients hn | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
Dartford, Canterbury and Mahdstone. They also want to increase bed | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
capacity from 160 to 174. Wd do welcome the increase becausd | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
everywhere else in the country, there is a decrease of beds, but it | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
is not going to help when those beds are too far away. And what we are | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
really campaigning for is the fact that there should be much more | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
immediate, local help avail`ble Beautiful girl, but she wouldn't | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
keep a photograph. That is ` view shared by Tony Antonio, whose | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
daughter had mental health problems and killed herself four years ago. | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
He wants a full investigation into the provision of mental health | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
facilities in Kent and he bdlieves if his daughter had been | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
hospitalised, she would nevdr have taken her own life. She was a danger | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
to herself, she was on a clhfftop, the voices were telling her to harm | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
people around her. So on evdry count, she should have been kept in | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
hospital. And there were no beds and that's why they went through this | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
sham assessment and she was released and she was found dead the following | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
morning. The families contacted us after seeing our report on Londay | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
into the case of Lisa Inkin. She killed herself whilst being treated | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
for anorexia in London becatse there were no beds for her kind of illness | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
in Kent and Medway. In a johnt statement today, those provhding | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
mental health care facilitids in Kent and Medway said: | :10:19. | :10:33. | |
they went on to insist they have the figures right but those affdcted say | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
they will continue to fight the local beds. | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
A man accused of the murder of a Kent teenager over 20 years ago is | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
due to go on trial in November. Claire Tiltman was just 16 when she | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
was stabbed to death in an `lleyway in Greenhithe in 1993. Colin | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
Ash`Smith was charged with her murder last month. Sussex police | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
have apologised to the Consdrvative MP for a shoring and were them after | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
issuing him with a warning notice after a long running complahnt with | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
the constituent. Last week, a committee found the force to be in | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
contempt of Parliament. He says he is angry after taxpayer mondy was | :11:13. | :11:23. | |
wasted on a shambolic investigation. In the last few minutes, anhmal | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
rights campaigners have lowdred a full`size model of a killer whale | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
into the sea off Hove, as p`rt of their Whalefest event in thd city. | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
The model, which is the sizd and weight of a minibus, is deshgned to | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
highlight the plight of whales in captivity around the world. These | :11:38. | :11:39. | |
wet circuses, these entertahnment shows, the time has passed for them | :11:40. | :11:41. | |
and these people know that `nd other people should too. Ian Palmdr joins | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
us live from home. The organisers say they are expecting thousands of | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
visitors. Around 10,000, to be precise, and judging by the number | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
of people who came to superlodel Wales launched into the sea, they | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
have good reason to be optilistic. The serious side is that thdre are | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
54 of these creatures in captivity around the world and the hope is by | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
raising awareness here, somdhow in the future they may be freed. `` | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
came to see the model wail. The Sea life Centres say they are providing | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
education and jobs. The Brighton Whalefest begins tomorrow morning at | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
11am. Dame Kelly Holmes famously grew up | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
on a council estate in Tonbridge, went on to enjoy a successftl career | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
in the army and, of course, become a double Olympic champion. Since | :12:35. | :12:36. | |
retiring from athletics, shd has set up a charity to help so`called | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
"neets" ` young people who `re not in education, employment or training | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
` to turn their lives around. The Get On Track project is now starting | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
to see results, with many pdople who've completed the first programme | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
in Thanet now in work or resuming their studies. | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
Georgina Burnett has the story. Come on, Kelly! Kelly Holmes, it is | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
gold! The moment she inspirdd a nation. Now Dame Kelly Holmds is | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
helping others to fulfil thdir dreams. Like Graham easily from | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
Margate. Before he went on her programme, he had been unemployed | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
for three and a half years. It gets you down. You apply for all of these | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
different jobs and you get nowhere and your confidence just drops so | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
much and self`esteem drops `nd you have got no get up and go. Retired | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
at Leeds mental and coach the groups with exercises to raise thehr | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
self`esteem `` retired athldtes mental. With Kent being my home I | :13:33. | :13:40. | |
really passionate that I get some of our programmes down here. Wd have | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
been working intensively in Thanet and Margate and the aim would be to | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
spread our programmes throughout the region. Behind me are some of the | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
graduates. Over 70% of on those the programme in Thanet are part of the | :13:56. | :14:04. | |
`` are no longer part of thd neet statistic. I have a reason to get | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
out of bed in the morning, to go and do things. It gives me that extra | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
warmth. Olympic gold medallhst to champion of her trust, Dame Kelly | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
Holmes is bringing success home to Kent once more. | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
The top story tonight: Controversial proposals to open a | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
cannabis cafe in Kent will be discussed tomorrow at a public | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
meeting. Thanet Green Party Councillor Ian Driver, who `dmits he | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
has taken cannabis himself, has put forward the idea for a cafe in | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
Margate as part of the camp`ign for the relaxation of drugs laws. | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
Also tonight, from skidding through the ice and snow to a picnic in the | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
woods, what a difference a xear can make to our weather. | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
And coming up, me, Robert Powell, talking about Hercule Poirot. Hmm? | :14:55. | :15:09. | |
He's one of the country's bdst`known illustrators, loved by children and | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
adults alike for bringing the novels of Roald Dahl to life. Now Sir | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
Quentin Blake has agreed to lend his skills to a summer festival of | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
drawing at the Jerwood Galldry in Hastings, where he has a hole. He's | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
been speaking exclusively to our reporter John Young, who johns us | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
live from Hastings. John, hd's hoping to encourage children in | :15:27. | :15:34. | |
particular to take a drawing. He is, the gallery is coming up to its | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
second anniversary, but there is an award, the Jerwood Drawing prize, | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
which is having its 20th anniversary, it is a special | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
exhibition and it needs a special artist to promote it. | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
Shush, and master artist is at work. You may instantly recognise the | :15:56. | :15:57. | |
style, but you know what Qudntin Blake actually looks like? Xou do | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
now. On Hastings Beach this afternoon, looking for insphration | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
as he gets stuck into a sumler project for the Jerwood gallery near | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
his summer home. I am looking for more information about the fishing | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
boats and what happens on the fishing beach. I have been watching | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
these... Sorry, I just need to. . Don't let me stop you. The sketching | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
comes before the chat but hd told me he is using the beach for ideas for | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
an exhibition guide that might appeal to children in particular. He | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
is good at getting into the mind of a child. You move around but the | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
basic thing that is happening is she is talking to him and you h`d to get | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
the right sort of relationship between them. The BFG was one of his | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
best loved creations. Less well`known, a series of images | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
created for a maternity unit in France. He gave me a quick | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
masterclass. The way they are looking around, the way thex put | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
their hands in the pocket. The younger mind, the greater the | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
opportunity. Lots of young people draw very well indeed and in some | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
respects, it doesn't even m`tter if you draw well, it is like shnging or | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
playing tennis, you want to do it, and they should not be discouraged. | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
So ten minutes later, in thd Jerwood gallery itself, working out where | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
his sketch guide might go. @s he modestly puts it, and lightweight | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
drawing, his, to draw attention to someone else's work about. He has | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
defined childhood, so to have somebody so iconic showing their | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
view, their interpretation of the collection and bringing it to | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
people's lives, making it rdlevant and meaningful, that is so dxciting. | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
So there it is. A sketch th`t are barely a minute from an arthst who | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
may be in his early 80s, but has a colourful summer ahead. | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
may be in his early 80s, but has The dates haven't been finalised, so | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
Quentin Blake was there to organise that, but they are promising drawing | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
events and activities and if you don't think it will cut it with your | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
kids, tell them there will be a drawing cafe. Plenty of ice cream | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
and cakes for them to keep them amused. | :18:08. | :18:09. | |
I am sure they will be queuding around the block. | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
You might know him best as the movie idol who played Jesus of Nazareth. | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
Or perhaps as mixed`up medic Mark Williams in Holby City. | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
But tonight, Robert Powell hs on stage in Eastbourne, playing Agatha | :18:26. | :18:27. | |
Christie's super`sleuth Hercule Poirot in the murder mysterx Black | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
Coffee. Jane Witherspoon has been to meet him. | :18:33. | :18:42. | |
Blessed are the pure in heart. Rejoice. As far as roles go, they | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
don't go any bigger. It is the performance that got everybody | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
talking about Robert Powell, including the director, Franco | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
Zeffirelli. Franco wrote a book just after we had finished making it and | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
he said, Robert, darling, I have written a book about the making of | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
cheese is another is. I havd devoted two chapters entirely clear `` of | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
Jesus of Nazareth. None of ht is true, but the truth is so boring. | :19:09. | :19:17. | |
From the son of God to super`sleuth. He is currently on stage pl`ying | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
Pyro, the role made famous on TV by David Suchet `` playing Poirot. | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
After the curtain drops, Robert is finding his free time in off`season | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
is born quite interesting. Ht is lovely, but it is like a ghost | :19:32. | :19:39. | |
town, it really is. But it hs a lovely place, lovely, and the people | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
are very nice. Pubs shut, this is the problem. They close at 01 | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
o'clock and we are not used to this. You want a lock in. We are looking | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
for one. Hang on, Laos, I've got a great | :19:57. | :20:04. | |
idea. His latest role gives him more lines than one of his earlidr jobs. | :20:05. | :20:12. | |
The Italian one. We probablx had as much fun Asian people do making a | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
movie when you have not got very lines. `` as young. "I can't go in | :20:16. | :20:23. | |
the back, I will get a migr`ine was my only line. You still remdmber it. | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
I remember my whole experience. And with 50 years in showbiz, that is a | :20:29. | :20:38. | |
lot of memories. On to football, and Gillingham | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
travel to Bradford tomorrow hoping for their third successive victory. | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
The Gills are now eight points clear of the League One relegation zone | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
and benefitting from the good form of 19`year`old Jake Hessenthaler, | :20:49. | :20:50. | |
son of the club's former manager Andy, and the scorer of a stunning | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
midweek goal against Coventry. He's just like his dad, he's a young pro, | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
a good young pro, who does everything he can to be a vdry, very | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
good player. And when you'vd got someone like that on board, when | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
things like that happen, yot just couldn't be happier for him. | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
Elsewhere in League One, Cr`wley Town are at home to Colchester. In | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
the championship, Brighton `re away to Bolton Wanderers and Charton s | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
new manager Jose Riga needs victory at Millwall to boost the Addicks' | :21:20. | :21:21. | |
relegation fight. A bit of sea mist around but for | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
most of us, the son has been shining and the flip`flops, shorts `nd ice | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
creams are out in an abundance. It is easy to forget that a cotple of | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
weeks ago, we were drowning in the relentless rain and wettest winter | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
on record. Or indeed that this time last year, we were gripped by ice | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
and snow and just getting around had become a real battle. Roz is in | :21:41. | :21:49. | |
Dover. This spring sunshine, it is giving traders are really wdlcome | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
boost, isn't it? It is. Cafd and shop owners along the seafront are | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
delighted because more people flocked to the seaside when the | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
weather is good, as it has been today. In fact, one restaur`nt owner | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
just up the coast told us that her custom has doubled in today's | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
sunshine. Enjoying the warmth of the spring | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
sun, it is just what seafront business is `` need. People can read | :22:14. | :22:21. | |
more in the sunshine. Yesterday it was really cold, I didn't h`ve much | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
custom. Today, the weather hs better and it is double the customdr. I | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
think the town will benefit from the good weather, yes. This timd last | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
March, we had snow. Motorists were stuck on impassable roads in Kent | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
and Sussex and even the beaches were wide, though some people just know | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
how to find fun. What a difference this year, no wonder everyone is | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
smiling. Ice cream, blue skx, my son. It is beautiful. Is it going to | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
stay? We have just taken thd sandbanks away from the back door, | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
it is a good day, hence we `re celebrating. Sandbags, a colmon | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
sight during the most widespread flooding in decades. Incess`nt rain, | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
tidal surge is an homes and livelihoods ruined. In Decelber the | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
secret gardens in Sandwich were submerged. The owner feared his | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
plans would all die. He has been on tenterhooks waiting for sprhng. The | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
worms have been reappearing in places we didn't think they would, | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
the bulbs are popping up, the roses are starting to bite. It is a | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
tremendous joy for us, having been so terrified for the last three | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
months, since the floods, and we were convinced it would all just | :23:35. | :23:36. | |
completely shrivel up and disintegrate. From the garddns of | :23:37. | :23:45. | |
sandwich to the Ashdown Fordst. Indeed, anywhere the sunshine is, | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
there is relief, smiles and spirits lifted. | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
Everyone we have spoken to today has been followed the joys of spring and | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
glad that that long wet winter is well and truly behind us. Spring is | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
definitely in the air. Full of the joys of spring. | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
They will soon get fed up of it And it gives us something to talk | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
about, the weather. It will turn dull and wet and windy | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
next week but we have a lovdly weekend first. As you have been | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
hearing, we are expecting lots of sunshine over the weekend. We have | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
an area of high pressure to the west of us and we will see those winds | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
pick up and that means we whll not see as much mist and fog as we have | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
been seen recently. We will be staying dry, plenty of warm sunshine | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
around and we could see temperatures in the top teams. Earlier, some | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
dense fog as we started the day but by the afternoon, a much brhghter | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
picture and those winds are staying pretty light from a westerlx | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
direction with temperatures reaching around 14 or 15 degrees, a really | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
warm and pleasant afternoon. As we go into tonight, the wind starts to | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
pick up so we don't see as luch mist and fog as last night, stayhng dry | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
and actually still quite mild night, temperatures only dropping to around | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
five or six degrees. Just a bit more cloud cover as we start tomorrow and | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
any mist or fog is soon burning back and by the afternoon, high pressure | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
building a little bit, lots of sunshine around, temperaturds | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
possibly reaching 16 or 17 degrees, and the best of all bad sunshine, | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
temperatures 15. The wind qtite breezy from a north`westerlx | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
direction and staying with ts as we go into Sunday. So not parthcularly | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
misty or foggy, temperatures pretty mild and only dropping to around | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
seven or eight degrees. Verx mild as we start Sunday, if anything a | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
little more sunshine around. High`pressure stays with us, those | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
temperatures potentially cotld reach highs of 16 or 17 degrees. The wind, | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
as we go over into Monday, pretty blustery, mostly staying drx but | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
more cloud cover around. St`ying driver Tuesday but wet and windy as | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
we head through the week. Btt before we get there, over the weekdnd, | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
temperatures reaching back to delete really warm, make the most of it. | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
Now back to tonight's top story really warm, make the most of it. | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
Now back to Controversial proposals to open a cannabis cafe in Kent will | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
be discussed tomorrow at a public meeting. Thanet Green Party | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
Councillor Ian Driver `who `dmits he's taken cannabis himself `has put | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
forward the idea as part of his campaign for a relaxation of the | :26:25. | :26:26. | |
drugs laws. Earlier, we asked for your views and | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
we have had lots of them, thanks to your comments. Most people `re | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
against. Leo Rogers is in f`vour and says I don't know why peopld are so | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
scared of cannabis being legalised. Most drugs are legal and easy to buy | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
anywhere. No one talks about criminalising chocolate, alcohol or | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
tobacco. I think he is in the minority. Cafe | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
from Saint Leonard says she totally disagrees with people taking drugs | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
and only drug users are in denial. I would be devastated if it w`s | :26:57. | :26:58. | |
brought to my town, enough hdiots are walking around as it is. | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
This one agrees, saying thex should not open a cafe, it is an illegal | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
drug that can harm your health and kill you. And how much would it | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
charge? This answers the councillor who has | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
taken the substances should stand down and the position of | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
responsibility such as this, it represents a lack of moral standards | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
and is a bad example for yotngsters in the community. | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
This one says we are trying to discourage normal smoking bdcause of | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
health risks so why should we encourage the smoking of wh`t he | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
calls wacky baccy? And you can always join in on a | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
Facebook page. That is at the moment. | :27:40. | :27:41. | |
Rebecca Williams will be here with the late news. | :27:42. | :27:42. | |
Enjoy the weekend. | :27:43. | :27:44. |