28/03/2014 South East Today


28/03/2014

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Good evening. Britain's onlx Green MP, Caroline Lucas, has takdn the

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stand in court this afternoon to defend her decision to take part in

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anti`fracking protests in the West Sussex village of Balcombe. The

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Brighton Pavilion MP was arrested outside the energy firm Cuadrilla's

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drilling site there in August. But she denies two public order

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offences, maintaining her actions were legitimate and approprhate as

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Piers Hopkirk reports. From the Commons to the court house, Brighton

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Pavilion MP, Caroline Lucas, arriving to give evidence in her

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trial before Brighton magistrates. I'm arresting you... This w`s the

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moment she was arrested last August. She was charged with breach of the

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Public Order Act and wilful obstruction of the highway. Charges

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the country's only Green MP has denied throughout her trial. Giving

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evidence she told the court: Asked why she is didn't movd on she

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said: Caroline Lucas is on trial with four

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other defendants, speaking on the court steps today, she thanked her

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supporters. The support's bden amazing for all five of us,

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constituents writing to me, I know they wanted me to be here to make

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the case and I have been gl`d to do that. All five defendants ddny the

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charges against them. The c`se continues. A Kent chaplain says

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she's willing to defy Church of England rules and risk dischplinary

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action by offering a servicd to bless gay marriages. Britain's first

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same`sex marriages will takd place at one minute past midnight tonight.

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The Reverend Kes Grant, who works at St Augustines Academy in Mahdstone,

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says all married couples should be treated equally, whether thdy're gay

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or straight. I can bless thd couple. They are made in the image `nd love

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of God. If I can bless a car, if I can bless an animal, if I c`n bless

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someone's watch or ring, anx inanimate object, why can't a bless

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a loving committed union between two people? It doesn't make any sense to

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me. A 24`year`old woman's bden arrested on suspicion of murder in

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Gillingham after a man was found dead in North London. Father of

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three Mehmet Hassan was discovered with neck and chest injuries, after

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the police forced entry to ` property in Islington on Monday

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Four men have also been arrdsted in London. A West Sussex secondary

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school has been put in spechal measures, following a damning Ofsted

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inspection. The watchdog saxs students at Oakmeeds Communhty

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College in Burgess Hill are not achieving their academic potential,

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because of poor quality teaching and inadequate leadership and

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management. The first phase of Lydd airport is under way in Kent. The

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expansion plans were opposed by wildlife and environmental

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campaigners who say it will damage the area. Controversial plans to

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create the first new grammar school places for 50 years have received a

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major setback. Kent County Council's been backing campaigners in

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Sevenoaks who say grammar school places are desperately needdd there.

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But when the Weald of Kent grammar school in Tonbridge offered to

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create a satellite site, thd Government said an all`girls school

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could not run a mixed`sex annexe. And now parents at Weald of Kent

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have voted against plans to make the entire school mixed`sex. Lucinda

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Adam has the details. It is a mathematical equation that no one

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seems able to solve. How do you create more grammar school places so

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there are enough for everyone who passes the 11`plus when the

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Government won't allow any new grammar schools to open? Thd Weald

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of Kent Grammar School for Girls thought it had found a solution `

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offering to create a second school site in Sevenoaks, but the

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Government said the whole school would have to become mixed `nd this

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week parents voted against that plan. The idea was it was going to

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be a co`educational school `nnex at Sevenoaks with a 780 additional

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places, of which half would be for boys and half would be for girls.

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Now, if we lose half of the girls places here then overall, once the

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school was fully up and running there would be no additional places

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for girls. It is a concern to us as governors, as well as those

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expressed by parents. Last June it was revealed the Weald of Kdnt and

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Maidstone's Invicta Grammar were bidding to set up a satellite site

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in Sevenoaks. Then at the end of last year the Government rejected

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both proposals, saying neither complied with the law. But ht looked

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like there was still hope when the Weald of Kent Grammar revealed plans

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to become co`educational. In Sevenoaks today the demand for

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places was clear. Every kid are you know dreaming to go to gramlar

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school. So it's important. Especially here locally. I think

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it's very important. My son goes to school in Sevenoaks. In six or seven

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years he's going to need to go to secondary school, I don't rdally

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want him to have to travel `ll the way to Tonbridge every day or

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further potentially. Is gralmar better than the state? I thhnk it

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depends on the teachers ulthmately and the ethos of the schools. But

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Kent County Council says all is not lost. Can you find a way in which

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you do move along the lines of what was suggested, but ensure qtite

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explicit my that that includes extra girls places, but not all the new

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places are simply boys' places. It may be possible to do something on

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that. With all 16 grammar schools here single sex, councils h`ve a lot

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of work to do to convince ehther a girls' school and a boys' school do

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work together, or to convince one school and its parents to go

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co`educational. Time now for the weather with Rachel. I keep hearing

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that it's going to be a nicd, warm weekend, is it?

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I have got good news it will be warm and sunny. Temperatures close to 20

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degrees and it will stay drx and feel warm with plenty hazy sunshine.

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Tonight dry with clearer skhes and lighter wind, so some mist `nd fog

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patches. Lows around six degrees. More cloud around initially, but any

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mist and fog burns back and it will be a bright afternoon with

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temperatures up to 19 kegs `` degrees. We have a south`easterly

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flow around 10 to 10mph. But a mild breeze. Staying dry and mild with

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lows of eight or nine. Any list and fog burns back and in the afternoon

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temperatures around 19 degrdes. Here is an outlook in the south`dast with

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a look at the national forward on Saturday night. Now here

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is Nick Miller with the national forecast.

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Hello. The clocks go forward this

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