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The small businesses that ended up paying for nothing. It is jtst under | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
?14,000. It has been horrendous I have had to fight tooth and nail to | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
keep things ticking over. And the secret weapon that shook | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
Kent and Sussex in the summdr of 1944. They brought horror and terror | :00:25. | :00:33. | |
to the people of Kent and Stssex. I'm Natalie Graham with untold | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
stories, closer to home. From all round the South East, this hs Inside | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
Out. Hi, I'm at Dymchurch in Kent, which | :00:40. | :00:58. | |
served as a major lookout point during the dark days of World War | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
II. I'm back here later, but first up, small to medium enterprhses ` | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
often with just a handful of passionate employees ` are vital to | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
our economic recovery here hn the South East. But as Glen Campbell | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
investigates, in the rough `nd tumble world of business, some of | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
those SMEs feel they've been failed by the very man tasked by the | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
Government with helping thel succeed. | :01:24. | :01:38. | |
His name is synonymous with big business. Helping young | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
entrepreneurs get into the larket. Former Dragons' Den investor James | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
Caan has a fearsome reputathon when it comes to making money. | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
Tell you what I'm going to do, guys, I'm going to make you an offer. | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
And 2013 was a good year for him. In June the Government made hil their | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
social mobility tsar. He was also named Chairman of the Year `t the | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
International Business Awards and on International Business Awards and on | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
top of that Mr Caan headed tp the Government's Start Up Loans scheme. | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
He also headed up the Government was Which is all great. | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
`` But, as we've discovered, when it comes to some of his own prhvate | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
deals, well some small businesses have been left feeling less than | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
charmed by the James Caan effect. We see James Caan a lot on Dragons' | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
Den and he sets himself up `s a champion of entrepreneurship, and | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
he's always in the media talking about business and the economy so | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
you think, yeah, this seems credible. I really look up to him as | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
a valid and proper businesslan and feel as if, yeah, he's associated | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
with this a good thing to bd part of. `` this is a good thing to be | :02:43. | :02:52. | |
part of. He wouldn't screw ts over. I really trusted them. | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
It's Friday morning, and I'l on an industrial estate in Paddock Wood in | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
Kent to visit a one`man band business that's lucky to sthll be | :03:04. | :03:04. | |
afloat. In 2011 Ian Paull was made redundant | :03:05. | :03:15. | |
from his printing job, so whth his pay off he decided to set up on his | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
own. We print anything. If it's printed | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
in any fashion or any way then I can do it. We specialise in large scale | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
campaigns to create brand awareness. Out on his own, Ian's first task was | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
to drum up new business, so he approached this woman an old client. | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
Her name is Annie Prior. She told me she was now working with | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
James Caan and there would be a need for print down the line, and that is | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
where the relationship started. Annie Prior was a Director of a | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
company called Prior and Partners Ltd, a firm that described htself as | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
a creative publishing, film and digital communications comp`ny. | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
And Prior and Partners were certainly creative especially when | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
it came to boasting of links to major brands without their | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
permission. As well as Annie, Prior and | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
Partners' majority shareholder and fellow Director was James C`an. | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
I think our job is very much to work with the client and allow hhm to | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
maximise the impact of his brand in the market, to ensure that his brand | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
is what stands out when the consumer is looking to buy. Or her brand | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
Clearly, absolutely. Thank God we are in this together, Annie. | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
Absolutely. And in it together they were, but what exactly is creative | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
publishing? Well, Annie Prior and James Caan's | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
business was to sell adverthsing space for anniversary year books, | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
coffee table publications for private members' clubs essentially. | :04:54. | :05:02. | |
In 2011 she signed up The Mdrcedes` Benz Owners Club, based herd in | :05:03. | :05:10. | |
Weybridge, Surrey. Now, it's at this point I ask you to | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
take on board the fact that the Mercedes`Benz the Owners Cltb should | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
NOT be confused with Mercedds`Benz UK the car manufacturer. Thd Owners | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
Club is a totally separate organisation made up of people who | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
love their Mercedes`Benz cars, and when Annie Prior approached the | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
club's President, Ian Keers, offering to pay the Club ?30,00 , Mr | :05:31. | :05:31. | |
Keers jumped at the opportunity The agreement was simple. Prior and | :05:32. | :05:46. | |
Partners Ltd would print a 2012 book to celebrate the Owners' Cltb's 60th | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
anniversary. The book would have some lovely pictures of cars in it | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
together with a history of the Club. It would also carry a lot of premium | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
brand advertising. The premise was the book wotld be a | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
high quality coffee table publication, of which we cotld write | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
a hundred pages and the rest be high quality advertising. They awarded me | :06:08. | :06:16. | |
the work and I duly set abott putting it all together. | :06:17. | :06:26. | |
With the Mercedes`Benz Owners' Club signed up, and a launch for the book | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
just months away Prior and Partners put into gear a huge drive to sell | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
advertising space. They approached me saying mx brand | :06:34. | :06:44. | |
was exclusively selected, so immediately as a brand owner you | :06:45. | :06:53. | |
feel honoured. Denis Renty owns Romeo and Juliette | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
champagne based in Tunbridgd Wells, Kent. | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
They said, listen, we have this Mercedes event and we would like to | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
order 300 bottles of champagne. Of course that changes everythhng. | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
Denis then agreed to sign up as an advertiser. I paid to be in the book | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
eventually ` ?3,500. A week or couple of days before the | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
event I had to deliver the 300 bottles, they cancelled the order. | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
Stuck with 300 bottles of champagne he'd ordered in especially for | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
anniversary book launch, and now stuck with an advertising contract | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
he was being forced to honotr. That's just outrageous, isn't it? | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
Yes, it was outrageous, but I signed up, couldn't do anything. I was | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
stuck, yeah. On top of that, when his | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
advertisement did appear it led to... Nothing. | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
How much new business did it create for you? | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
None. Nothing at all. But not everyone was disappointed | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
with the 2012 Mercedes`Benz Owners' Club book. For Annie Prior the sales | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
campaign must have gone well, because she offered the Club another | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
?30,000 if they agreed to ldt her produce a 2013 book. Problel is | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
somewhat bizarrely, Prior and Partners decided to hang thhs book | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
on the anniversary of the Mercedes`Benz SL badge. | :08:13. | :08:20. | |
I say bizarrely because the actual anniversary for the Mercedes SL | :08:21. | :08:29. | |
badge was in 2012, not 2013. The accompanying sales blurb for the | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
2013 book even had the cheek to claim: "The books will also be on | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
display at Mercedes`Benz de`lerships globally and at all Mercedes`Benz | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
sponsored events including Formula One, Royal Ascot, The Masters, | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
Goodwood Festival of Speed `nd the US Open. | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
Problem is, as we've discovdred Prior and Partners hadn't bothered | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
to ask Mercedes`Benz permission and when the car maker found out they | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
made it all too clear they wanted nothing to do with the 2013 book. | :09:00. | :09:13. | |
I want to be very clear and I hope this note clarifies everythhng in a | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
concise, considered and appropriate manner. Mercedes`Benz has no | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
intention of any support of any material like this year's 60th | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
anniversary event for the Mercedes`Benz Club. 2013 is not the | :09:23. | :09:31. | |
60 anniversary of the SL, this is 2012 (the car was introduced in | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
1952). Please remove all references to | :09:39. | :09:40. | |
Mercedes`Benz, Mercedes`Benz World or the involvement support or any | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
other reference to our brand or brand marks. | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
Finally, Mercedes`Benz told Prior and Partners they must: Clarify the | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
position to the companies that have already been approached. | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
This cannot negatively affect Mercedes`Benz in anyway. | :10:00. | :10:08. | |
Despite these very blunt warnings, Prior and Partners did not do as | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
they were told. These advertising clients s`y they | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
were given the impression bx sales staff at Prior and Partners that | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
Mercedes`Benz the car maker were involved. | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
Jessica DeLotz works from a studio here in Farringdon. Her handcrafted | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
designs sell as far away as Japan and the US. | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
She led me into believing that it was the clients of Mercedes who had | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
selected me. So you feel deceived? Very much so. Of course I do. | :10:42. | :10:53. | |
Up in Mill Hill, North London, Mary Ann Nelson, another jewellery | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
designer says she had a simhlar sales approach. | :10:58. | :11:09. | |
They called saying that Annhe loved my designs, my cuff links and I | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
thought she'd actually lookdd at my website. ?4,000 was still mx life | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
savings, but it seemed like a no` brainer. | :11:18. | :11:28. | |
Fashion designer Hazel Aggrey`Orleans had signed up with | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
Prior and Partners in May 2012, and was paying in instalments. She'd | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
agreed to advertise because she says she was told by Prior and P`rtners | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
that Mercedes`Benz the car laker were involved. | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
The pitch was basically that they were celebrating 60 years of the SL | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
badge. Just a small event rtn by Mercedes`Benz, and would be an | :11:50. | :11:58. | |
amazing affiliation for my brand. But of course no one at Prior and | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
Partners bothered to tell H`zel that Mercedes`Benz wanted nothing to do | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
with their 2013 book. For hdr to still continue going on and taking | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
money off people, yes, just gave me shivers. | :12:14. | :12:22. | |
But worse was to come. Desphte being told by Mercedes the car maker to | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
stop using their brand name, Prior and Partners kept selling ad space | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
and collecting money even though the firm was going bust. | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
This e`mail, provided to thd BBC by Annie Prior, shows how at 3.01 pm on | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
the 21st of November 2012, James Caan's investment manager explains | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
how Prior and Partners plan was to "trade out" and "finish the projects | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
ASAP" ready for them to "wind down" the company. | :12:51. | :12:59. | |
He goes on to say to Annie Prior, "We need to sell so you are still | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
trading." Another e`mail cale from the accounts department on probably | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
Nov 20th, saying "We want to close this down quickly, we'll give you a | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
12% discount if you make yotr last tranche, last payment now." Mary Ann | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
was one of a number of clients offered generous discounts hf they | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
settled their advertising invoices there and then. | :13:19. | :13:20. | |
After seeking legal advice, a week after the "trade out" e`mail Annie | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
Prior wrote to James Caan rdsigning as Director of Prior and Partners | :13:24. | :13:25. | |
Ltd. Her fear ` she was possibly being | :13:26. | :13:41. | |
dragged into wrongful trading. Prior and Partners Ltd went into | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
administration on fourth December 2012. Many clients, small btsinesses | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
spread across the globe, were unaware the firm had folded. | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
I guess they just relied on us being a bit naive and a bit gullible ` oh, | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
the company has gone into liquidation there's nothing you can | :14:01. | :14:02. | |
do. And it wasn't just the advertisers | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
who were left feeling duped and out of pocket. | :14:06. | :14:13. | |
It's shy of ?14,000. It has been horrendous." James Caan, thd | :14:14. | :14:15. | |
Government's current small business tsar, declined to appear in this | :14:16. | :14:17. | |
programme. But both Mr Caan and Mr Stephen Mix, | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
his manager at Mr Caan's investment firm Hamilton Bradshaw, sent us | :14:22. | :14:40. | |
these replies to our questions. Neither James nor Stephen h`ve any | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
recollection about the Mercddes`Benz e`mails. They are both involved in a | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
large number of businesses. Needless to say if they were aware of any | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
wrongdoing then it would not have been encouraged or condoned. | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
And as for that "trade out" e`mail sent to Annie Prior: The intention | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
was to complete the current projects and, once the majority of the | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
creditors were satisfied, to wind up the company in an orderly f`shion. | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
?? new line Annie Prior no longer works in any capacity with Lr James | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
Caan. We asked her if she thought she had traded unethically `nd | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
illegally whilst at Prior and Partners Ltd. | :15:16. | :15:24. | |
I do not believe that Prior and Partners Ltd traded unethic`lly and | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
illegally in the run up to ly resignation | :15:29. | :16:19. | |
And as for the reason why she resigned immediately after receiving | :16:20. | :16:21. | |
the "trade out" e`mail? The last words we shall leave to Mr | :16:22. | :16:48. | |
Caan, which may offer a glilmer of hope for all those small businesses | :16:49. | :16:50. | |
caught up in this mess. As someone who is a passion`te | :16:51. | :16:59. | |
supporter of SMEs, I will pdrsonally arrange for Hamilton Bradsh`w to | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
meet with them and if appropriate, we will ensure outstanding hssues | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
are addressed. # Oh, Lord, won't you buy md a | :17:09. | :17:21. | |
Mercedes`Benz. # that was Glen Campbell reporting. Now, 70 years | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
ago Kent and Sussex were under attack. Terrorised by an advanced | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
weapon that was completely out of this world. We've been lookhng back | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
at the summer the South East was targeted by Hitler's mechanhcal | :17:35. | :17:46. | |
monsters, the doodlebugs. It was in the early hours of the | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
summer's morning nearly 70 xears ago. An unidentified flying object | :17:51. | :18:10. | |
was spotted over Kent. Diver, diver, North West, 101. | :18:11. | :18:28. | |
The descriptions at the timd said the mysterious aircraft omitted a | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
rhythmic low tone as it flew. Travelled at a terrific spedd, with | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
flames and bright lights tr`iling behind it. The year was 1944 and | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
Britain was under attack by robots. The doodlebugs. The flying bomb the | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
V1, the Buzz Bomb, call it what you will. NEWS COMMENTARY: Germ`ny's | :18:49. | :18:56. | |
indiscriminate bombing methods. They brought horror and terror to the | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
people of Kent and East Sussex. Nazi Germany had finally unleashdd their | :19:01. | :19:10. | |
secret weapon. The V1, the doodlebugs, was the | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
origin of the modern day crtise missile. In the first week of June | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
1944, Britain was euphoric. The successful allied D Day landings | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
across the channel in Francd, just seven ays before the first doodlebug | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
attack had given the nation a feeling that at last we werd winning | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
the war. But then the doodldbugs were launched from secret shtes | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
along the French and Dutch coast. Their target, London. But the first | :19:35. | :19:46. | |
one was a little off target. Luckily enough, it landed in open | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
farmland in North Kent. But it was quickly followed by three other | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
flying bombs. One blew the doors off a pig sty in Sussex, another landed | :19:57. | :20:06. | |
in Platt, Kent. And the othdr made its way to Bethnal Green, London, | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
and claimed six lives. The first fatalities of the bombings. On the | :20:10. | :20:19. | |
morning of the 13th of June the 1st V1 flying bomb to strike London | :20:20. | :20:27. | |
landed here, in Bethnal Gredn. It presaged a major offensive which at | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
its worst was killing Londoners as the worst blitz of 1940. Thd great | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
legend of the V1s was that the fuel ran out as they came down and it | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
sounded like that. It was btzzing along and it would stop and the | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
explosion would take place seconds later. The missile had a guhdance | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
system will stop there was ` propeller trying to go around a | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
certain number of times and when it had gone round, the elevator is on | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
the missile altered and it began to dive. Its fuel injection system | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
could not overcome the forcd of gravity and the engine stopped. The | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
Germans spent time trying to stop that happening, but it prob`bly had | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
a great morale effect because of this dreadful silence. In total | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
2,419 doodlebugs fell on London The effect on morale was | :21:19. | :21:28. | |
devastating. The terror of the Blitz was still fresh in the mind of many | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
Londoners. Many people left the city believing rural areas to be a safe | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
haven. But were Kent and East Sussex any safer than the big city? It | :21:37. | :21:47. | |
dawned on RAF intelligence that if you used control of the Gerlan | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
spies, we'd use that as a ddception of D`day, we would have control over | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
every German spy in Britain and if we got them to send back misleading | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
information, they would think weapons were overflying London and | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
they would shorten the rangd. It was better they landed in sparsdly | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
populated areas of Kent and Sussex, looked at coldly, rather th`n | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
densely populated areas. It is estimated that bringing thel down in | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
Kent and Sussex, sometimes on houses, actually saved as mtch as | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
50% of potential casualties. So the Government were prep`red to | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
sacrifice the lives of thosd in the countryside for London. We can for | :22:33. | :22:45. | |
the first time publish secrdt films photographed of the killing grounds | :22:46. | :22:47. | |
in Southern England. Intelligence plots, barrage | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
balloons, anti`aircraft guns and fighter plane patrols made Kent | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
Sussex and Essex the two most dangerous places to be outshde of | :22:53. | :23:03. | |
the capital. When one nursery school in London was hit during thd night, | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
the officials took no risks and moved the children into the Kent | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
countryside. The children wdre moved to Weald House in Crockham Hill On | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
June 30th, 1944, a doodlebug that had been flying overhead was shot | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
down. It has hit a tree and been deflated and it hit a countx council | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
children's home. The childrdn had just been evacuated from London and | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
22 were killed, along with dight staff. They were under the `ge of | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
two. There were little bodids mixed up with the rubble. The heavy rescue | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
squad were there. It was a complete tragedy. It was actually Kent's | :23:46. | :24:00. | |
worst incident during that period. Ken Munday is 83 and has lived in | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
Westfield, Sussex all his lhfe. He's tending one very particular unmarked | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
grave. Doris Lynch was 23 ydars old and six months pregnant when she | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
died, on the night a doodlebug hit Westfield. An event that was etched | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
onto the memory of a 13`year`old Ken. Suddenly there was a m`ssive | :24:17. | :24:26. | |
explosion. There were peopld and the emergency services were just | :24:27. | :24:28. | |
arriving. Locals were digging.. Yes, we stand there watching it | :24:29. | :24:42. | |
Suddenly, as they are digging around, the emergency services said, | :24:43. | :24:56. | |
`` the emergency services... I do not know if somebody tried to lift | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
her too soon. Terrible. It wasn't just the doodlebugs that | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
were at the forefront of technology. The RAF's Gloster Meteor was | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
Britain's first jet fighter and had a unique way of bringing down the | :25:12. | :25:23. | |
V1s. And one of the first doodlebugs the jet brought down crashed into | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
this field, at a farm in He`dcorn near Maidstone. This was brought | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
down by the pilot getting hhs wing underneath the wing of the flying | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
bomb, which was controlled by a gyroscope will stop if you could | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
unsettle backed, you could cause it to crash. This extreme, rem`rkably, | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
has survived the blast and the last 70 years. If you look closely, you | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
can see the impact marks of the shrapnel from the exploding bomb. | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
And 70 years on, pieces of shrapnel from the exploded doodlebug can | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
still be found in fields surrounding the crash site. That is a phece of | :26:05. | :26:13. | |
shrapnel from the flying bolb. How do you know that? It is typhcal of | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
shrapnel. You can see how it is distorted and bent. It has been | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
blasted into that shape. Th`t came down in the summer of 1944. That | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
could do serious damage, it is heavy. There was approximatdly one | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
tonne of explosives. The flxing bomb was threaded by the explosion and | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
would have flown several hundred yards. This was lethal, flyhng | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
through the air. It would h`ve been white hot with the explosion. They | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
are pretty little things. South`east England is littered with ease. | :26:52. | :27:01. | |
On Friday, eighth September, 19 4, a rumour that Hitler had surrdndered | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
had made its way to London. People left work early, flags began to fly. | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
Doodlebug summer was at an dnd, the Second World War as at an end, or | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
was it? At 6:43pm, a rocket crashed into Chiswick. Unlike the doodlebug, | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
the rocket made no warning sound and took just five minutes to rdach | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
London from the Dutch coast. The V2 rocket had replaced the doodlebug | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
and brought with it even more destruction and devastation. Albert | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
Speer, Hitler's architect, lentioned in his book that the V2s cotld have | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
been fully operational at a much earlier date. If they had rdceived | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
more support from Berlin. If that had happened, the outcome of the war | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
might have been very differdnt indeed. | :27:46. | :28:06. | |
If you want any more inform`tion on tonight's show, you can visht our | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
local Kent or Sussex websitds. You can watch the show again. On our | :28:12. | :28:22. | |
iPlayer at bbc.co.uk/insideout. Next week, are the roads of Kent and | :28:23. | :28:29. | |
Sussex fit for purpose `` Rosenfeld? East Sussex is not | :28:30. | :28:35. | |
blessed with motorways and nor do we have much dual carriageway. We have | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
12 miles within the county. And we catch up with young care le`ders as | :28:42. | :28:47. | |
they try to make their way hn the world. I am terrified. My son was | :28:48. | :28:52. | |
due in January and I do not have a home for him. Good night. Sde you | :28:53. | :28:55. | |
next week. Jude Law has given evidence at the | :28:56. | :29:17. | |
phone hacking trial. The court heard a family member had sold stories | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
about him. A former reporter said he discussed intercepting phone calls | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
between two newspapers. Anger over flooding, a government minister has | :29:28. | :29:31. | |
been heckled by residents in Somerset. | :29:32. | :29:35. | |
He promised an action plan. Dave Lee Travis has told the court | :29:36. | :29:39. | |
he is not a sexual predator. He said he has a cuddly nature towards women | :29:40. | :29:45. | |
and denies indecent assault charges. Bill Roach has been cleared of one | :29:46. | :29:52. | |
offence. His defence should start tomorrow. | :29:53. | :29:58. | |
Hello, I'm Rob Smith, here's the Daft punk 13 | :29:59. | :30:05. | |
Hello, I'm Rob Smith, here's the latest in the South East Today. The | :30:06. | :30:09. | |
17`year`old schoolgirl stabbed to death in Oxted | :30:10. | :30:10. |