27/06/2011 South East Today

Clearly it must be tempting for criminals to use light aircraft to

basically hop over the top of border controls. They've been

called the next Williams sisters, but two east bourn girls have left

the country as they say they can't get the training that they need

here. Clarkson says it is the most

beautiful car in the world. The re- make of the type type type built in

Sussex. It was such a good idea, this cliff

hanger is being recreated in Bexhill.

Good evening. Two police dogs have died after

being left in a locked car with the windows shut while temperatures

reached over 30 Celsius. The two animals were found in a private car

park in a Metropolitan Police dog fraining centre in keston in Kent.

Simon, a horrific discovery? The dogs were found at 11.00am this

morning as the temperatures were rising. The two dogs were found in

a state of collapse. They were raced to a nearby emergency vet

where they died. An investigation under way into how two dogs could

be left in soaring temperatures, one dog a bim and the second a

German shepherd pup. He did not survive. The RSPCA keeping dogs

cool today, are shocked. It does not take long for the heat

to build in a confined space. With the dog panting, it does so it can

lose heat. If it can't do that, gradwael it overheats. Cooking from

the inside out. In that effect, the organise ans closing down.

Last year, a police dog handler was found guilty after animal cruelty

after two German shepherds died from heat stroke in his car.

Temperatures had reached almost 30 Celsius and forgot to check on them

for seven hours. He was given a six-month discharge. Tonight the

circumstances of the incident at Keston are being probed.

The case has been preferred to the police professional standards and

the Independent Police Complaints Commission. The Metropolitan Police

didn't want to be interviewed this evening, but the fact that this

centre where they are supposed to train dogs to play a major role in

keeping the public safe is itself at the centre of an investigation,

there will be extreme concern. Breaking news and thousands of

train passengers are facing disruption after a train broke down

at Dartford. There are reports of another train being caught up in

the problems. Passengers tried to force the doors open and walk on

the tracks. We understand it is the train that

broke down in Dartford that has caused the delays and the

disruption. South-eastern trains have told us it is the train behind

the train that has broken down in which the passengers forced open a

door as they were on board stifle heat. We understand that the

passengers started to walk along the track. Network Rail started to

close down the third line to prevent the people from being

electrocuted. We understand that there are delays of up to two hours

in London. We have been monitoring tweets of passengers caught up in

the chaos, Gary says he is feeling bedraggled. He hates everyone

connected with sween. -- south eastern.

In a moment: A jobs boost for Sussex as Virgin Atlantic Airways

look to take on 500 new cabin crew in Crawley.

Criminal gangs who use airports and landing strips across the south-

east for people smuggling and money laundering are being targeted by

Kent Police. The Project Pegasus is looking for pilots, air port

workers and the public to report suspicious behaviour.

We have this report. It is an attractive route into Britain for

some criminals, avoiding the airports and the docks and flying a

light aircraft into one of Kent's 120 small landing strips.

Kent is very much the gateway to England for light aircraft. There

is a lot of effort that goes into keeping the borders secure, clearly

it must be tempting tor the cim nals to basically hop over the

border controls. It is a possible gap in the

security. Which with Project Pegasus the police and the Border

Agency are determined to block. We check all flights that arrive

into our country from our air space, but above that, we would like the

public to report to us what they see that is out of the ordinary, to

increase our capability. Members of this people-smuggling

gang were jailed after using a light aircraft and also jailed this

man, caught bringing in eight illegal immigrants.

The question is how many others are getting through? It is not just

things being smuggled into the country that is a concern to the

police, but the possibility of money raised here, smuggled out to

be used for terrorist activities overseas.

Bob Bailey is part of a volunteer group of pilots that provide aerial

search backup to the Emergency Services. He says that the

community in and around an airfield is well-placed to report suspicious

goings on. We are familiar with how people

should behave, who should be there. If there are people in places where

they should not be, it is ease to spot them.

At Rochester Airport they have round-the-clock security. Project

Pegasus is calling on the public to provide the same for the smaller

airfields across the county. Sarah joins us now live from

Chatham. Sarah, what exactly are the authorities asking people to

look out for? Anything that they say that appears to be out of the

ordinary. Then the police or the Border Agency can make a call if

they feel that they have to investigate further. So strange

planes coming in at strange times. Planes landing with cars appearing

to be ready to be loaded on to them. The Border Agency cannot be

everywhere, so they really need the public to be their IRAs and ears.

Thank you. Two girls from Eastbourne who have

been tipped for potential tennis stardom say that they have been

forced to move to France for training as they are not getting

support from the Lawn Tennis Association. Marley and Leah Manga

are saying that they are let down by the current system.

Marley and Lea Manga began playing tennis when they were barely bigger

than the rackets that they were using. Their father came here 17

years ago to play football, but the lack of opportunity here, means

that the girls have moved to France after the calls for help were

ignored. I thought I did not want to do this,

but if you can give us what we want, look after the kids, give them a

special programme, we would stay. I did not get through. I think it

would have been easier to see President Obama, than to see the

manager of the Lawn Tennis Association.

The Manga girls are not the only ones to become disillusioned by the

Lawn Tennis Association. This young girl moved to Florida.

When you choose individuals to give funding to alt such a young age

there is going to be disappointment. Perhaps giving individual funding

is not the right thing. It sends the wrong message. No matter how

much you tell people we are not saying you will not make it, but we

are not giving individual fund underground. That make it is tricky.

Marley and Leah Manga hope to emulate the Williams sisters and

make it to Wimbledon, but is tennis doing enough to encourage tal et

like them? Everyone deserves a trance. If you go to Hackney,

Brixton, you find players that can be at the top ten. Until we do that,

we are not going anywhere. It is too early to say if the Manga

girls will make it or even which country that they will represent,

but with British tennis players other than Andy Murray struggling

to make an impression, we are looking forward to seeing more

players. Paul, what did the Lawn Tennis

Association have to say about the Manga sisters? Clearly we would

like to put some of the points to the LTA, but no-one was available.

They have not issued us with a statement, but both of the Williams

sisters have been in action here at Wimbledon. They both, ironically,

lost. The question is how is Britain to find the next generation

of Williams sisters if the Manga sisters are an example to judge

this situation by. Pat Cash, a form Erwiner of Wimbledon says that

enough is not done to spot the talent early enough in this country.

He compares it to what goes on in Australia, where the talent is

picked up earlier. The Lawn Tennis Association denies the accusations,

they say that they have processes in place to spot talent early

enough. A teenager has been arrested in

connection with a murder of a 25- year-old man attacked outside of a

Margate nightclub. He was taken to the QEQM Hospital where he later

died. The police are appealing for witnesses. A former Kent teacher

who won a claim for racial discrimination has appeared at

Maidstone Crown Court charged with three counts of conspiracy to

pervert the course of justice. Samantha Burmis won a case against

Aylesford School. At the time it was claimed that she used her

daughter's fingerprints, hiding a previous conviction on herself.

A man in prison has been -- has died after cutting himself with a

razor blade. The scene here described was

graphic, a pool of blood on the floor, Tony Couchman's body on the

bed, his arm slashed, a razor blade on his chest. Tony Couchman had

been in the vulnerable prison wing. He denied murdering his daughter,

Vicki Couchman 1 months earlier. The inquest took place here at

Eastbourne Town Hall rather than the small ircorn ner's court

because of the number of witnesses. Many of them mentioned the blood

and razor blood. The coroner said he would like to know why and in

what circumstances vulnerable prisoners are allowed to have razor

blades it is a question that the coroner is likely to ask again

tomorrow, when the inquest reseems and the jury considers the death of

a man charged with his daughter's murder.

This is the top story: Two police dogs have died after being left in

a locked car with the windows shut while temperatures reached over 30

Celsius. The two animals were found in a private car parked at a

Metropolitan Police training centre parked at Keston in Kent.

Over the past few days it has been feeling more like southern Europe

than southern England. Join me for a full forecast for the next few

days. Things are about to change. It was his valley much vision, how

a Kent village inspired a great British artist.

-- it was his valley of vision. Hundreds of jobs are being created

in Sussex by Virgin Atlantic Airways. It has its headquarters in

Crawley. Apparently training up to 500 new staff to work as cabin crew.

The company was founded in 1984 by Richard Branson, they employ up to

9,000 people. Between them they look after 5 million passengers a

year. We have been given exclusive access to the company's training

centre for tonight's special report. This is an emergency, evacuate!

Evacuate! Evacuate! It is their first week training as cabin crew.

They are already learn being the most important role that they will

have in their jobs. For 30 years Virgin Atlantic Airways have run

their airline from this base in Crawley. They are now a part of the

economy. We have added 4 50 new jobs this

year, of which p 50 are based here. This is our home it has been from

day one when Richard Branson operated the first flight from gat

which can to New York. There are people -- from gat which

can -- Gatwick to New York. We see many businesses based here

who would not consider being anywhere else.

ADVERTISEMENT: You know how I feel... This is how the airline

sells itself to the public. The adverts sell tickets and sell the

company ethos to the staff. They seem to buy into it.

I am so excited about traveling and seeing the world. I'm so young. To

get this opportunity is amazing and for are a company like Virgin. It

is so exciting. My first flight is to New York. So I'm going to go

shopping, spending my money! Boys you are here, what do you do first?

First, they have to pass five weeks of intensive training before they

pass as crew. Now as an artist he may not be as

well-known to the wider public as Turner or Constable, but Samuel

Palmer has been described as one of the most -- best landscape artists.

He has spent much of his life painting in what he calls his

valley of vision. Almost obsessively, he drew the

hills and the fields that surrounded him in shore ham. Having

met the poet and painter, William Blake, the area was for Samuel

Palmer, the next greatest inspiration. He produced some of

his most extraordinary works. Very emphatic, original. Inspired

visionry works, but when he left Shoreham he put the most of the

extraordinary of those works to one side. He kept them in a port polio

he called his Curiosity Portfolio and only showed them to particular

friends. So for the remainder of Samuel Palmer's career, very few

people even knew those works. Samuel Palmer went for quiet

tranquil landscapes, they called this the Valley So Hidden. It was

as if the deafily had not yet found it out. To see the landscapes, to

look at those, to see rural England through newly enraptured eyes, they

are visionry landscapes. Largely unrecognised in life, in

death, Samuel Palmer went on to inspire the next generation of

British painters. Very ahead of his time. Now, when a

small Sussex car builder set about redesigning the iconic E-Type

Jaguar, they knew that they had created something special, but were

not sure about how the motoring world would react. The Eagle

Speedster appeared on Top Gear. Jeremy Clarkson fell in love with

it! Born in a barn on a Sussex farm. The Eagle Speedster, the object of

Jeremy Clarkson's latest crush. I think this, by a long way, is the

most beautiful car I've ever seen. It might actually be the most

beautiful thing I've ever seen. Eagle Speedster and the company,

Ealing, make their money restoring E-Type Jaguars, but one client

asked for something a little special, this was born, the Eagle

Speedster. I will say now, I have never driven

a car, ever, that I wanted more than this one.

It is an original E-type, but Eagle set to work revamping the body work,

risky business. To start playing about with such an

iconic shape, you are possibly playing with fire. It is risky

business. It could go wrong. It is a great relief to see that perhaps

we have not done so. This to me is absolute perfection!

As much as he loved it, even Jeremy Clarkson winced at the price, one

of these will set you back half a million pounds. After you have

placed the order you have to wait 18 months before you have it in

your garage, but as they are made bespoke, by hand, you will know

there is no other car like it anywhere in the world.

The screens are made just for us, the wheels, the engines, so over a

period you just are not going to see more cars turning up. I always

say if you were to turn up in Monaco, you would definitely have

the car that is turning heads by the crowd there.

The future of the car lies, perhaps, in smalls Sussex garage.

The phone started ringing. The phone is always busy here, but they

are ringing off the wall at the moment.

Only two Eagle Speedsters have been made. If you have half a million,

here is the third, almost ready to What a car! You are digging in your

pockets, aren't you Rob? Now, it is one the greatest movie cliff

hangers of all time, and the last scene in The Italian Job, is to be

recreated, but not where you might expect. No, it is going to be an

art installation, that is called "Hang On Lads I've Got A Great

Idea". You can see it in Sussex as part of

the Olympics celebrations. Hang on a minute, lads, I've got a

great idea! A movie moment once seen, never forgotten. That is the

likely reaction next year, when it is recreated, a Harrington coach,

dangling on the roof of Bexhill's Della wear Pavilion.

There will be a lot of people in the area that say that this is

theirs in this town, in Bexhill. Wo would have thought that this would

ever happen here? It is the idea of sculptor Richard Wilson as a

contribution to the 2012 Olympics Games. The model is on show at the

Royal Academy of Art. Wilson has a reputation for big and brassy

spectacular work. It seizes the attention of the

audience. You get the wow factor and then you digest what it is all

about. It can't help but be spectacular. It is teetering on the

edge of the building. There is a sense of is it going to fall off?

You can guarantee that there will be strong opinions and lots of

headlines to go with this, but what about people in Bexhill? For a time

they will be living with the landmark to end all landmarks, a

cliff hanger to end all cliff hangers.

Hold still! Hold still! Hold still! We're balancing right on the edge.

You don't want something normal. You want it different. It will be

different. It is fine, as long as it doesn't

go over the edge! Madness, I think. A view that some will echo and

others will say, "Is it art?" can't please everybody. I've never

gone out to please people, but to state ideas.

There will be some who say that it is a waste of money.

As well as reflecting qualities of art it will have to be a feat of

engineering. So they are now embracing the challenge of how to

bring the scene to life without damaging the della wear's listed

elegance. -- Delaware.

Now, it has been a very hot day for most of us, temperatures topping 30

Celsius. It was a good day to go to the

coast to get a breeze by the sea. These are the scenes on Leydown

Beach on the Isle of Sheppey. That is Eastbourne.

is Eastbourne. But is the weather about to change?

Well, I am glad that people are having fun, but if you have not

been enjoying it, I can tell you that the weather is to change.

Let's take a look at what's going on. Today, these are the highs that

we have seen recorded. 32.8 Celsius in Gravesend. Pretty impressive

figures for Man ston and Dover. Tomorrow it will be down by 10

Celsius. Tonight there is a warning in force as there could ablot of

heavy thundery showers. Now they are going to be falling on the dry,

hard ground, so there could be a bit of localised flooding and

severe conditions for some of us. Not everybody. It will depend on

how much of the wet weather you see. Here, there are a few showers

around. The temperatures overnight, are not dropping below 17 Celsius.

Tomorrow morning, it will be a dry picture for many of us.

Even in the odd area of sunshine, but this weather is persistent and

wet for parts of the coast. Tomorrow the wet weather sweeping

in once again. So it is looking like a wet day, even though nothing

quite as substantial as we are likely to see overnight, but in

places there could be heavy showers. The temperatures getting up to 22

Celsius. So down about so Celsius on today.

So a difference there. Later on tomorrow, into the evening that wet

weather is clearing, so it will be dry and by then a whole lot cooler.

Overnight temperatures dropping to 12 Celsius and come Wednesday, a

maul amount of wet weather for the south-west, but for most a fair bit

of cloud cover. Soon after, peace process is dominating once again.

That means by later in the week a fair bit of cloud cover around.

Lots of sunshine mixed in with it, but the temperatures not topping

the high teens. the high teens.

That's the weather. The temperatures have been causing

problems on the railways? They have. The we have been telling you about

the problems on the South Eastern Trains.

Power had to be turned off the tracks as passengers on another

train forced a door open to walk along the track. Tom, what is the

latest on that news? Well, there are real problems if you are coming

home from Charing Cross into Kent, delays from here in particular, but

problems across the network. Thames link into Suffolk and some of the

problems caused by the heat. In the station there are large crowds

waiting, looking at the boards, very hot, very angry, very

frustrated by the information, the lack of information that they are

getting. I spoke to some earlier, this is what they had to say.

I left work at 4.00am, it is a mission to get home. It is warm and

irritating. What can you do. I just arrived but it looks as though I

will be waiting for a while. All delays. I don't know for how

long. Maybe half an hour on our train.

What are the implications for the railway services? Well, the last

time I was here I was talking about how snow affected the train

operating companies. Again I'm here now and it is the heat affecting it.

It is going to raise questions about the resilience of the