:00:00. > :00:10.A year in the life of the new Police and Crime Commissioners for Kent.
:00:11. > :00:13.The Youth Commissioner, that was a complete and total disaster and you
:00:14. > :00:18.made yourself look like a laughing stock. Is that true? No. The Sussex
:00:19. > :00:23.archives brought together for the first time. We discover an Aladdin
:00:24. > :00:29.'s cave of more than 900 years of history. I think we certainly have
:00:30. > :00:33.one of the largest collections of Kipling in the world and to be able
:00:34. > :00:37.to harness that is something that we are very proud to do. And what have
:00:38. > :00:40.the Greens done for Brighton? We have delivered or are on course to
:00:41. > :00:49.deliver three quarters of our manifesto promises already, only two
:00:50. > :00:53.years in. I am Natalie Graham with untold stories closer to home from
:00:54. > :01:12.all around the South East. This is Inside Out.
:01:13. > :01:18.Hello. I'm in the centre of Maidstone in the heart of Kent. I'm
:01:19. > :01:22.back later, but first up, it's almost one year since our Kent and
:01:23. > :01:24.Sussex Police forces each had an elected American`style Police
:01:25. > :01:28.Commissioner. So how has it been working out? In the second of his
:01:29. > :01:38.reports, Vince Rodgers now turns his attention to Kent. I can understand
:01:39. > :01:46.where you're coming from. But you need to calm down. It is Saturday
:01:47. > :01:52.night in Maidstone. And most people are just having a good time. The
:01:53. > :01:57.best place. I love Maidstone. It's her birthday, we are celebrating her
:01:58. > :02:01.birthday weekend. And they are doing it under the watchful eye of
:02:02. > :02:06.Sergeant John Marshall. I will walk you to the taxi, me and you. Come
:02:07. > :02:14.on. We will walk to a taxi. And you're going home. There is now a
:02:15. > :02:17.new system which strives to ensure that Sergeant Marshall and the whole
:02:18. > :02:33.of the Kent Police force deliver what the people of Kent want. For
:02:34. > :02:41.nearly a year, they have had an elected Police and Crime
:02:42. > :02:44.Commissioner. Ann Barnes. The idea behind having Police and Crime
:02:45. > :02:48.Commissioners was to be able to vote one person in to hold the police
:02:49. > :02:52.force to account on local people's behalf. And to make sure the force
:02:53. > :02:58.reflected the style of policing that local people wanted. This job used
:02:59. > :03:00.to be done by the Kent Police Authority. A group of rather
:03:01. > :03:12.faceless individuals who were unelected to the job. Now there is
:03:13. > :03:16.just one elected person. Ann Barnes. Let's find out what she has been
:03:17. > :03:21.doing since she was voted in last November. I am Kent's Police
:03:22. > :03:25.Commissioner. Are you? What do you think about your police service
:03:26. > :03:28.here? I am over Kent like a rash! The job involves a constant round of
:03:29. > :03:34.meetings, finding out what the public wants, and then trying to
:03:35. > :03:37.make the police deliver. She travels around the county in her old camper
:03:38. > :03:46.van`come`office, nicknamed Ann Force One. I go out in my bus, my
:03:47. > :03:50.second`hand camper van, which is a bit of a joke, but I don't care.
:03:51. > :03:53.Today she is meeting the Maidstone Rotary Club. Some members are
:03:54. > :03:57.worried about the effects of late night boozing, also known as the
:03:58. > :04:00.night`time economy. 28% of the people, particularly young people,
:04:01. > :04:03.arrive in Maidstone already over the legal limit through taking up cheap
:04:04. > :04:14.alcohol from supermarkets and the like. It's Saturday night in
:04:15. > :04:18.Maidstone town centre. Sergeant Marshall has had a call that a man
:04:19. > :04:23.has been assaulted in a nightclub. And two men were seen running away.
:04:24. > :04:28.Someone hit me on the hand with a bottle, mate. We are not here for
:04:29. > :04:33.trouble. The reason we have our hands on you is there is a bloke
:04:34. > :04:48.with wounds to his face. And you were seen running away. He was going
:04:49. > :04:51.to kill us. The town centre team in Maidstone keep a lid on the
:04:52. > :04:56.night`time economy. It is huge. Right, boys. At this stage you're
:04:57. > :05:00.both going to be nicked for assault. You're joking?! Why am I being
:05:01. > :05:06.nicked for assault? I have to go to the hospital. Stop it. I am being
:05:07. > :05:10.nicked for assault? Listen to me. You are being nicked for assault.
:05:11. > :05:13.I'm bleeding like a pig and the fella is arresting me?! One main
:05:14. > :05:16.opportunity for Ann to hold the police to account is at the public
:05:17. > :05:19.bimonthly Governance Board meeting with the Chief Constable, during
:05:20. > :05:30.which he says he has seen an increase in violence since November
:05:31. > :05:38.last. The key areas at the moment are Chatham, Folkestone, Maidstone
:05:39. > :05:42.and Margate. What have they got in common? Just a very vibrant
:05:43. > :05:44.night`time economy. Back in the vibrant night`time economy of
:05:45. > :05:48.Maidstone, Sergeant Marshall speaks to a security man from the club who
:05:49. > :06:18.has seen the injuries of another man involved in the incident.
:06:19. > :06:22.Ann Barnes says her major achievement is finding the money to
:06:23. > :06:26.put an extra 100 uniformed posts on the streets, but at the same time
:06:27. > :06:32.the force is losing more officers due to 20% budget cuts by central
:06:33. > :06:35.government. Also, she commissioned a report from Her Majesty 's
:06:36. > :06:42.Inspectorate of Constabulary into the distortion of crime statistics
:06:43. > :06:45.by Kent Police. But, of course, the one thing that everyone knows Ann
:06:46. > :06:50.Barnes for is her decision to recruit a Youth Commissioner, Paris
:06:51. > :06:54.Brown. That all went very wrong after Paris resigned after
:06:55. > :07:00.allegations of tweets she made. I don't think one mistake should...
:07:01. > :07:04.Sorry... The Conservative's Craig McKinlay came second to Ann Barnes
:07:05. > :07:08.in her election. Quite frankly, she made the position of PCC into a
:07:09. > :07:12.laughing stock. It was wholly badly done and there did not seem to be
:07:13. > :07:15.any basic fundamental checks on what this young girl had been writing on
:07:16. > :07:24.social media and the internet. It seems to be woefully inadequate. And
:07:25. > :07:27.it came back and bit her very badly. The Youth Commissioner, he says that
:07:28. > :07:31.was a complete and total disaster and you made yourself look like a
:07:32. > :07:35.laughing stock. Did you? Is that true? No, it was a genuine attempt
:07:36. > :07:39.to find a young face to work with young people. You only have to look
:07:40. > :07:43.at the young people who are victims of cyber crime, look at the young
:07:44. > :07:46.people who end up in the criminal justice system, and that was a
:07:47. > :07:51.genuine attempt to do that and I am going to do it. There will be a
:07:52. > :07:58.Youth Commissioner by the end of the year. Let's look at the money. The
:07:59. > :08:03.Police Commissioner holds the police fund, which pays for local policing.
:08:04. > :08:09.The great majority of that comes from the Home Office. But some of it
:08:10. > :08:13.comes from the council tax and that is called the precept. Ann Barnes
:08:14. > :08:17.put up the precept by 2%. She actually managed to make the role
:08:18. > :08:23.more expensive on the public purse. And quite rightly, that is not what
:08:24. > :08:26.this is meant to be. If you talk about 2%, that is ?2.71 per
:08:27. > :08:29.household per year, and that brought nearly 100 uniformed posts. People
:08:30. > :08:37.want visible uniformed policing and the only way to get that is to pay
:08:38. > :08:41.for it. It seems to me that all Ann has done, she has the glitzy Ann
:08:42. > :08:45.Force One that she parades around in and it seems to be a lot of glitz
:08:46. > :08:49.and glamour but not actually much getting down to the job of making
:08:50. > :08:56.Kent safer. Glitz and glamour? He says I'm glamorous? Thank you very
:08:57. > :08:59.much! Well, let's get down to basics, because I shall deliver my
:09:00. > :09:03.manifesto commitments. I made promises to the people of Kent and I
:09:04. > :09:12.never break my promises. That is not glitz, that is not glamour, that is
:09:13. > :09:15.doing my job. As the night draws to a close, Sergeant Marshall is
:09:16. > :09:34.dealing with the drunks, taking them into custody. You said to be, go
:09:35. > :09:40.home. It is not about taking them into custody. Ann Barnes carries on
:09:41. > :09:43.meeting the people of Kent. Hello, I am Ann, I am the Police
:09:44. > :09:52.Commissioner. I was the college darts champion! And the next
:09:53. > :09:55.election for the Kent Commissioner will be held in May 2016. You like
:09:56. > :10:10.your job? I love my job. Vince Rodgers reporting. Coming up
:10:11. > :10:16.on Inside Out: Who will you vote for? The Greens. Because I think
:10:17. > :10:25.they have started something and I think we need them. Terrible. Why?
:10:26. > :10:38.The parking situation in Brighton. The 20 miles speed limit. Next up,
:10:39. > :10:42.we are delving into times past. From the dark secrets of witchcraft to
:10:43. > :10:48.the emotional letters of a famous son before he was killed in battle.
:10:49. > :10:59.I have been exploring the archives of Sussex before they open to the
:11:00. > :11:03.public next month. It is moving in day. The Keep ` a grand design on
:11:04. > :11:06.the edge of Brighton. And there is lots to move in. Six miles of maps
:11:07. > :11:18.and plans, photographs and films, prints and drawings. Three archives'
:11:19. > :11:21.worth of material from different parts of Sussex and all coming
:11:22. > :11:25.together in a sparkling new home. Where, for the very first time, you
:11:26. > :11:33.and I will be able to see them under one roof. Every one of these
:11:34. > :11:37.documents is like a piece of gold in a treasure trove of information.
:11:38. > :11:44.Each one tells a story of Sussex past. It is opening its doors in
:11:45. > :12:02.November but, for now, the documents sit like presents just waiting to be
:12:03. > :12:05.opened. And some of the delights waiting to be discovered include the
:12:06. > :12:08.largest collection of Rudyard Kipling material in the world. Born
:12:09. > :12:17.in 1855, Kipling spent his life in Sussex. His stories the Jungle Book
:12:18. > :12:21.and Kim made him one of the most famous writers in England. This is
:12:22. > :12:24.one of the first Just So Stories? A first edition of the Just So
:12:25. > :12:31.Stories. What I love about this book is that it is a copy he gave to his
:12:32. > :12:34.children. Just So Stories, for Elsie and John. By their daddy. It just
:12:35. > :12:48.shows what a strong family they were. These were stories that he
:12:49. > :12:51.wrote and originally he had told his children and his daughter had often
:12:52. > :12:56.said, I want the stories but "just so", tell them as you always tell
:12:57. > :13:01.them. So they became the Just So Stories. His poem If was voted as
:13:02. > :13:05.the nation 's favourite not that long ago, so I think Kipling is
:13:06. > :13:14.still very much in the people 's consciousness. The Keep is home to
:13:15. > :13:20.one of the oldest collections of photographs in the South East. These
:13:21. > :13:24.photos show the last days of the slums which once stood in a now
:13:25. > :13:29.desirable area of Brighton. They were built in 1871 to accommodate an
:13:30. > :13:32.exploding population. But these pictures were taken in the 1930s,
:13:33. > :13:41.when the buildings were about to be demolished and their occupants
:13:42. > :13:45.rehoused. So we have got some human faces close`up for once? These
:13:46. > :13:48.earlier photographs are here as a reminder of the fact that many of
:13:49. > :13:51.the people living in these squalid conditions in Brighton where either
:13:52. > :13:54.fishermen or descended from somebody who was from a fishing family and
:13:55. > :13:57.they are significant because they are relatively rare examples of the
:13:58. > :14:06.working classes being captured in photography.
:14:07. > :14:15.Today, we have been tempted by witchcraft. We're going back to the
:14:16. > :14:24.16th century to a story of suspicion and superstition right here in East
:14:25. > :14:35.Sussex. We're going back several hundred years to talk about witches?
:14:36. > :14:39.1607. Who is accused of what? There are two ladies, Susan, and she had
:14:40. > :14:43.very odd visions at night so she went to Ann Taylor, her neighbour,
:14:44. > :14:46.because she knew that Ann Taylor was a healer. She said, OK,
:14:47. > :14:53.the garden and set sage, as they called it. They were planting sage.
:14:54. > :14:57.People were very concerned and thought this sounds like witchcraft
:14:58. > :15:00.and that is how the whole trial got going. Susan was found guilty and
:15:01. > :15:04.sentenced to death. But she was pregnant at the time, so she stayed
:15:05. > :15:27.in prison and was not executed, and in the end she was pardoned. It's
:15:28. > :15:36.extremely rare to find a witchcraft trial in local archives. Getting
:15:37. > :15:43.easy access to original documents like these is what The Keep is all
:15:44. > :15:47.about. We've talked about Rudyard Kipling and how much he loved
:15:48. > :15:52.children. This is a very poignant part of the story which a lot of
:15:53. > :16:00.people would be familiar with. His son going off to fight in the Great
:16:01. > :16:03.War. Indeed, indeed. His son, John, who was eager to join up, as many
:16:04. > :16:07.young men were during the First World War, he wanted to go off and
:16:08. > :16:11.fight, and found it very difficult to join up because he had such
:16:12. > :16:14.appalling eyesight. And in the end, Kipling actually used some of his
:16:15. > :16:22.influence with friends of his to get his son into the Irish Guards. But,
:16:23. > :16:25.ultimately, it became a very sad story as John went missing at the
:16:26. > :16:29.Battle of Looes, and was presumed dead after that. We have pretty much
:16:30. > :16:33.all of John's letters to his parents from when he was a very young boy,
:16:34. > :16:38.through to the very last letters that he wrote to them from the
:16:39. > :16:41.front. Of course, he didn't know that would be the last letter he
:16:42. > :16:45.wrote, so there's something very poignant about this, the little
:16:46. > :16:49.things that he's talking about. You have no idea what enormous issues
:16:50. > :16:52.depend on these next few days. Oh, dear, this will be my last letter,
:16:53. > :16:56.most likely, for some time. Because we will not get any time for writing
:16:57. > :17:02.in the next week. Well, so long, old dears. Dear love, John. How sad.
:17:03. > :17:09.Kipling never recovered from the loss of his son. He went on to try
:17:10. > :17:16.and support other soldiers. His pain was etched into his poem, My Boy
:17:17. > :17:24.Jack. Have you news of my boy Jack? Not this tide. When do you think
:17:25. > :17:31.that he'll come back? Not with this wind blowing and this tide.
:17:32. > :17:36.And so, The Keep is a hiding place for many other Sussex's well`kept
:17:37. > :17:44.secrets. And who knows? Maybe a few more to be discovered.
:17:45. > :17:50.Now, they were the first Green`led council in the country, elected on
:17:51. > :18:02.the promise of a fresh start from Brighton and Hove. But, midway
:18:03. > :18:05.through their tenure, they've been rocked by a series of controversies.
:18:06. > :18:09.So, has the Green experiment worked? John Hunt reports. If you're not
:18:10. > :18:13.nervous, you're not going to do a good job, is my general view on
:18:14. > :18:17.things. Thank you. It's a big day for the leader of Brighton and Hove
:18:18. > :18:26.Council. If I wasn't nervous, I'd be worried. The leader of our first
:18:27. > :18:30.ever Green Council, on his home turf, in his own ward, Jason Kitcat.
:18:31. > :18:34.APPLAUSE. His council has a ?700 million budget and provides services
:18:35. > :18:39.for more than a quarter of a million people. Today, he's still in the
:18:40. > :18:42.Green Party conference that, in spite of a huge squeeze on public
:18:43. > :18:45.finances, he is fulfilling his promises.
:18:46. > :18:54.We've delivered huge amounts. We have delivered, or are on course to
:18:55. > :18:57.deliver, three quarters of our manifesto promises already, only two
:18:58. > :19:02.years in. But, the journey has been a rough one. Most challenging of all
:19:03. > :19:05.was a strike by the city's refuse workers and street cleaners over a
:19:06. > :19:17.shake`up of allowances earlier this year. It was a dispute that got
:19:18. > :19:21.personal. Kitcat out! Yes, there were stickers all over the city with
:19:22. > :19:25.my face on them. I was mocked up with a Kit Kat wrapper and stuff.
:19:26. > :19:29.There was people surrounding the town Hall shouting Kit Kat out, and
:19:30. > :19:32.stuff. So, I would say it was personal, yeah. But, the dispute not
:19:33. > :19:38.only upset residents and council workers. It also caused divisions
:19:39. > :19:41.within the ruling Green Party. With a number of Green councillors and
:19:42. > :19:51.the city's Green MP, Caroline Lucas, taking sides with the striking
:19:52. > :19:53.workers. And in May, as the bin dispute was raging, one councillor,
:19:54. > :19:56.Alex Phillips, attempted to bring down her leader by seeking support
:19:57. > :20:00.from the Labour opposition via Twitter, for a plot to oust him.
:20:01. > :20:04.Warren Morgan was the councillor Alex Phillips had tweeted. I was
:20:05. > :20:07.shocked. I knew that the Greens were bitterly divided. As we subsequently
:20:08. > :20:15.found out, they were not even speaking to each other. So, I was
:20:16. > :20:18.shocked that they would approach someone from an opposition group to
:20:19. > :20:21.try and oust the leader of the council. That's not the way thata
:20:22. > :20:24.mature political party conducts politics. I was pretty disappointed
:20:25. > :20:30.but it was one councillor acting foolishly. She has apologised
:20:31. > :20:36.profusely and that apology has been accepted. We have moved on.
:20:37. > :20:39.Differences of opinion and political divisions in the council chamber are
:20:40. > :20:42.far from unusual. Cllr Phillips didn't want to appear in this
:20:43. > :20:46.programme, but, given her Tweets, I wanted to know`how much support
:20:47. > :20:51.Jason Kit Kat has the support in his own party. I sent an e`mail to all
:20:52. > :20:53.20 Green councillors, asking them if they have confidence in their
:20:54. > :20:58.leader. Not one of them responded. So, you have the full confidence of
:20:59. > :21:03.all of your councillors? Yes. All of them? Every single one? I don't
:21:04. > :21:07.speak to every single one on a daily basis, do I? But, I have the
:21:08. > :21:10.confidence of the group through our democratic system, yes. The bin
:21:11. > :21:14.dispute hasn't been the only controversy. There were protests
:21:15. > :21:17.over council plans to fell an old elm tree that resulted in a U`turn.
:21:18. > :21:20.A Christian counsellor was expelled from the Green group after she
:21:21. > :21:23.refused to back equal marriage. And the party has offered councillors
:21:24. > :21:28.mediation sessions to help them with their differences. I completely
:21:29. > :21:34.accept that those episodes haven't done us any favours. The reporting
:21:35. > :21:37.of internal disputes and disagreements are never good. People
:21:38. > :21:42.want us to focus on the job of delivering for their city and that
:21:43. > :21:45.is what I am focused on. It's a Saturday in Brighton and I'm setting
:21:46. > :21:50.up a market stall in Upper Gardner Street. But I'm not selling
:21:51. > :21:55.anything. I'm actually here to do some market research. I want to know
:21:56. > :22:07.what the residents in the city make of the Greens' record. Remember,
:22:08. > :22:13.it's the first time the party has ever run a British council.
:22:14. > :22:17.Terrible. Why? OK, where do you start? I think they've done as good
:22:18. > :22:21.a job as you can within the context of local government. I'm not happy
:22:22. > :22:26.with the travel situation. I think they've done a reasonable job.
:22:27. > :22:29.Terrible. Terrible? Why terrible? Well, the parking situation in
:22:30. > :22:32.Brighton. The 20 mile speed limit. Trying to be balanced about it, is
:22:33. > :22:36.there anything good they've done? Anything good? I've got to think
:22:37. > :22:39.about that. Anything good? I would vote for the Greens, because I think
:22:40. > :22:45.they've started something, and I think we need them. To get a more
:22:46. > :22:48.representative gauge of the public mood, we decided to commission a
:22:49. > :22:51.large`scale opinion poll. The test of any political party is if they
:22:52. > :22:56.can pursue their agenda and still get re`elected. The results of our
:22:57. > :23:00.telephone poll on are in. Of course, there are 19 months ago until the
:23:01. > :23:06.next election. But if one were called now, how would people vote?
:23:07. > :23:13.1004 residents of Brighton and Hove were interviewed by telephone
:23:14. > :23:17.earlier this month. The poll suggests Labour would win the
:23:18. > :23:20.election with a 38% share of the vote. With 25%, the Conservatives
:23:21. > :23:24.would be in second place, leaving the Greens in third with 21%, a 12%
:23:25. > :23:27.drop on their 2011 results. A 12% drop on 2011. UKIP and the Liberal
:23:28. > :23:33.Democrats would come in fourth and fifth place respectively. Do you
:23:34. > :23:35.accept that your support has gone, as that opinion poll seems to
:23:36. > :23:40.suggest? Well, there has shift, and of course, in government,
:23:41. > :23:44.as you take decisions, there will be people you take with you and some
:23:45. > :23:47.you don't. But I know that we have won support from some areas. For
:23:48. > :23:52.example, former Lib Dems, who we didn't have before. So it is a
:23:53. > :23:56.shift. A lot of people are very open to voting for us, but they want to
:23:57. > :24:00.be convinced. The poll suggests that, in just two years, Brighton
:24:01. > :24:08.and Hove has fallen out of love with the Greens. But why? I'm joining a
:24:09. > :24:14.walking tour of the city with deputy leader, Cllr Ian Davey, and a group
:24:15. > :24:18.of Green delegates. In April this year we put up 20 miles an hour
:24:19. > :24:22.speed limits across the whole of the city centre. The most visible change
:24:23. > :24:26.the Greens have made is to the way people get around. 20 mile an hour
:24:27. > :24:30.zones have been put up across large parts of the city. New cycle lanes
:24:31. > :24:32.and bus lanes have been opened and dangerous junctions have been
:24:33. > :24:35.transformed. The things I'm pleased with in these last two years is that
:24:36. > :24:40.more people are are cycling and more people are
:24:41. > :24:43.using public transport to get in and around the city. Road safety is
:24:44. > :24:45.improving and air quality is improving. But, the poll suggests
:24:46. > :24:49.that transport is the most contentious issue, with one in five
:24:50. > :24:54.people saying it is the single most important factor influencing their
:24:55. > :24:57.vote. Congestion and a 20 mile an hour zones figure highly, but the
:24:58. > :25:02.biggest reason people give for their choice of vote is the cost and
:25:03. > :25:05.availability of parking. Conservative councillor Geoffrey
:25:06. > :25:13.Theobald says the Greens' parking policy is hurting the city's
:25:14. > :25:17.businesses. The average cost of leaving your car for nine hours in
:25:18. > :25:22.the council's city centre car parks has increased by 17% this year. This
:25:23. > :25:26.car park has seen that price rise by ?4.50 a day, more than 30% up. The
:25:27. > :25:29.Greens being the Greens decided to extract the maximum they possibly
:25:30. > :25:36.can from motorists and to put the charge is right up. Consequently,
:25:37. > :25:38.it's empty, most of the time. The Greens say their administration has
:25:39. > :25:43.spent ?4 millionrefurbishing car parks and the increased prices are
:25:44. > :25:50.to pay for that. They say some other car park prices in the city have
:25:51. > :25:56.actually gone down. Today, Jason Kitcat is in a meeting of the local
:25:57. > :25:59.economic partnership. I am Jason Kitcat and I am the leader of
:26:00. > :26:02.Brighton and Hove Council. Whilst the Conservatives fear that the
:26:03. > :26:05.Greens policies are harming the economy of the city, so far,
:26:06. > :26:12.according to business leaders, the general trend suggests otherwise.
:26:13. > :26:14.Relatively speaking, the city has suffered the recession well.
:26:15. > :26:22.Unemployment is under control. Even youth unemployment is down. The city
:26:23. > :26:25.has produced huge numbers of private sector jobs. We don't see, even on
:26:26. > :26:35.the high street, the retail vacancy ratethat we see in other places. We
:26:36. > :26:39.are doing well. Where the council is also doing well, it seems, is in
:26:40. > :26:42.making the city a nice place to live. The poll suggests two thirds
:26:43. > :26:45.of residents think they have been successful in this area. And,
:26:46. > :26:48.environmentalists are prepared to give the authority an above`average
:26:49. > :26:51.mark as well.overall they have done pretty well on the environmental
:26:52. > :26:54.front. I would probably grade them with a B. They've done some good
:26:55. > :26:56.stuff, they progressed a lot of transport infrastructure, probably
:26:57. > :27:00.faster than other administrations. But there are still big issues, like
:27:01. > :27:04.air quality, that they have got to get to grips with. And issues around
:27:05. > :27:10.recycling as well. The jury is still out as to how well they are
:27:11. > :27:13.performing on that. Jason Kitcat says his councillors have been
:27:14. > :27:17.through a steep learning curve, and his party is a work in progress. The
:27:18. > :27:22.real question is, will the public be prepared to back them in 2015? It
:27:23. > :27:31.would be arrogant to assume anything at the election. That is for the
:27:32. > :27:35.people to decide. We have a strong record. I think we should go into
:27:36. > :27:38.that confident about making the case that four more years would be good
:27:39. > :27:48.for the city and people should support that. Now, if you want any
:27:49. > :27:52.more information about tonight's show, you can visit our Kent and
:27:53. > :27:55.Sussex websites. You can also watch the programme again on the BBC
:27:56. > :28:08.iPlayer. Coming up next week. When JFK came to Sussex. The Politicians.
:28:09. > :28:12.It was almost like an Indian summer. Here was John F. Kennedy on, unknown
:28:13. > :28:16.to him, of course, on his last visit to Britain, to Europe. He would be
:28:17. > :28:20.assassinated a few months later. The people. I was the one person that
:28:21. > :28:24.had that key, to the room that had the hotline to the President in it,
:28:25. > :28:33.and it crossed my mind to open it and to say, high, there. And the man
:28:34. > :28:37.in charge of security. I was very impressed with JFK. He was such a
:28:38. > :28:43.nice guide to work with. He was very pleasant and chatty. Just months
:28:44. > :28:48.before that fateful day in Dallas. We have exclusive access to the
:28:49. > :28:53.untold stories behind President John F. Kennedy's Howerd to Howard ``
:28:54. > :28:58.Harold Macmillan's country home. That's all from Asper tonight. ``
:28:59. > :29:11.from us for tonight. Hello, I'm Ellie Crisell with your
:29:12. > :29:14.90 second update. The UK is getting its first nuclear power plant for 20
:29:15. > :29:17.years. Hinkley Point C in Somerset got the go-ahead today. Ministers
:29:18. > :29:19.say it will help lower energy bills but critics argue investment in
:29:20. > :29:22.renewable sources would be better. Meanwhile, N-power has become the
:29:23. > :29:29.third energy supplier to raise its gusts. Dual-fuel bills will go up by
:29:30. > :29:32.over ?100 a year from December. 82-year old Mohammed Saleem was
:29:33. > :29:35.stabbed on his way home from a Birmingham Mosque. Today a Ukrainian
:29:36. > :29:41.student pleaded guilty to his murder. He also admitted plotting
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:29:47. > :29:52.bushfires in New South Wales could merge into one. A state of
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:29:56. > :29:58.much food waste Tesco says it generates. It estimates just under
:29:59. > :30:00.half of all bakery items end up in the bin - it's promised to do more
:30:01. > :30:05.to tackle Hello, I'm Rob Smith, here's the
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