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Welcome to South East Today, I'm Natalie Graham. And I'm Rob Smith. | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
Tonight's top stories. We have some of the fattest towns in Europe - | :00:10. | :00:18. | |
and experts are warning the health consequences are dire. | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
I did not want anyone to see me, I had no confidence. | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
Four people are arrested on suspicion of murder, after the | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
deaths of mother and baby in a house fire in Kent. We'll have the | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
latest on the investigation in Chatham. | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
Also in tonight's programme: The pub that could save your life - why | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
one landlord is so concerned about ambulance response times, she's | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
installed a defibrillator. Shocking pink - why Kent cricketers | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
are defying tradition and playing with a different coloured ball. | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
And life after death by Dutch elm disease - the trees that have been | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
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turned into art. Good evening. Kent has some of the | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
fattest people in the country, according to new Government figures. | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
Almost one in three adults is now classed as obese in four English | :01:12. | :01:19. | |
council areas. Medway meanwhile, is ranked fourth, with a figure only | :01:19. | :01:29. | |
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fractionally lower at 30 %. The national average is 23 %. Doctors | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
say it's placing a growing burden on health services in the county, | :01:32. | :01:42. | |
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as Simon Jones reports. The streets are increasingly so | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
criticised. Tanya Mills until recently was in a wheelchair | :01:47. | :01:54. | |
because she had reached 22 stone. did not want anyone to see me. I | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
had no confidence at all. You talk about teenagers and children, you | :02:00. | :02:08. | |
have to try to get them to exercise. Trevor Roberts was 30 stone. He is | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
now down to under 20 after a gastric bypass operation | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
effectively shrinking his stomach. He had had enough of being abused | :02:17. | :02:26. | |
by passers-by. Look at the size of him, what a fat man. It got quite | :02:26. | :02:34. | |
aggressive. It just seems to be that if people are overweight they | :02:34. | :02:41. | |
seem to be a target. Certain people will say eat less and exercise more. | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
It is not as easy as that. figures suggest that in 15 years' | :02:47. | :02:55. | |
time if there are no big changes than 30% of us will be obese. But | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
here in this region the time has already arrived. Experts say that | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
poverty means we do not always choose the healthiest option. | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
are seeing a lot more people who are overweight and a piece. It has | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
doubled in my practice in the last decade and so we have to work much | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
harder to help people there was a - - lose weight. Anyone with a body | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
mass index of more than 30 is considered obese. For the average | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
height British man they would have to wait around 14 stone to have a | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
body mass index of 30. For the average woman, just over 12 stone. | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
Week looked to provide preventative services to try to address that | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
issue before people get to the stage where they get long-term | :03:47. | :03:56. | |
conditions. But it is placing more stress on the health service. | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
Obesity has long been recognised as a serious problem in the United | :04:01. | :04:09. | |
States with up to 50% of the population predicted to be obese | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
shortly. How are they are tackling the issue over their? There are | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
attempting to tackle it through education. For example Michelle | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
Obama grows vegetables in the White House garden to try to encourage | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
young people to eat healthier meals. In Los Angeles there is a law that | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
says that restaurants have to display the number of calories in | :04:33. | :04:41. | |
their dishes. I was quite shocked to see that one salad contained | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
1500 calories. That does make you think. Many people say these | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
measures are just touching the serve -- the surface. That they | :04:51. | :04:59. | |
should be at ban on the appetising of unhealthy foods to children. | :04:59. | :05:06. | |
Well we want to know what you think. What should be done to tackle | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
growing levels of obesity in the South East? Send your emails to | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
[email protected], or join the debate on our Facebook site - | :05:10. | :05:18. | |
and we'll hear your views later in the programme. | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
One man says we should ban computers for all young people to | :05:22. | :05:30. | |
encourage them to go out to play. Another says you should ban by one | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
get one free offers on unhealthy junk foods. | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
Four people have been arrested on suspicion of murder, following the | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
deaths of a 20-year-old mother and her 15-month-old son in a house | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
fire in Chatham. Melissa Crook and her son Noah died in the fire in | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
Chatham Saturday. Her father and brother remain in hospital with | :05:45. | :05:53. | |
serious injuries. Jon Hunt has more. Friends have been paying their | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
respects to a mother and toddler killed in a fierce fire. Police | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
suspect it was started deliberately. An investigation into food did this | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
and why is at full speed. I cannot comprehend who would do this. I | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
cannot understand. A close friend told me that Melissa had much to | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
look for four stop she was so young. She had come down here for a better | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
start. She was supposed to have a job interview today. I just cannot | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
believe it. I have come to put some flowers down and pay my respects. | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
Such a lovely girl. Firefighters were called to the terraced house | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
in the early hours of Saturday morning. They said they had to | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
fight their way in through an extreme blaze. Detectives were keen | :06:48. | :06:57. | |
on the case have ruled out links to a spate of arson attacks locally. | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
Foreign investigation is in full swing. -- if they're up | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
investigation. Our Hearts go out to the family and friends of those | :07:05. | :07:12. | |
involved. Police made their first arrests on Saturday afternoon. Two | :07:12. | :07:20. | |
men arrested in Coventry. None is believed to be the husband of Mr | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
Crooks. Another man was then arrested in Maidstone and today a | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
woman was arrested in the Coventry area. Mr Crook had only just | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
returned to Chatham to start a new life but she and her young son are | :07:35. | :07:43. | |
now dead. Her father and brother still seriously ill in hospital. | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
Jon Hunt reporting, and he joins us live from Chatham. Melissa Crook's | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
parents and brother were injured in the fire - what's the latest on | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
their condition tonight? Wellman has a's father was most seriously | :07:54. | :08:03. | |
injured. His condition is still said to be life-threatening. His | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
wife Amanda we understand has now been discharged from hospital. But | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
Melissa's brother who broke his legs trying to escape from the | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
flames, we understand he's still in hospital and his condition is still | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
described as serious. In a moment: Why a row about land | :08:23. | :08:33. | |
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ownership is costing Hastings taxpayers �20,000 a month. | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
The landlords of a Kent village pub are so concerned at the slow | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
response time from ambulances, that they have decided to install a | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
life-saving defibrillator. The South East Coast Ambulance | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
Service has promised to improve its performance in rural areas, after a | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
BBC Freedom of Information request revealed that crews are failing to | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
meet emergency response targets in many parts of Kent and Sussex. | :08:55. | :09:03. | |
Ian Palmer has more. This box can save lives. It is here | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
because the family that run the pub asked for it to be put there. | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
Because of where we are located we can be quite cut-off especially in | :09:14. | :09:22. | |
the winter. We can become quite isolated as a community. It became | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
apparent that should we needed to call an ambulance and it was bad | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
weather, could they get to ask him time? Paramedics always find it | :09:32. | :09:40. | |
more difficult to reach rural and remote areas. Ambulances should | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
respond within eight minutes. In Kent, that target was missed in | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
just over half the districts. In Sussex, targets were missed in | :09:45. | :09:52. | |
exactly half the districts. Last week this piece of equipment was | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
used for the first time. Sadly, it was too late for that particular | :09:57. | :10:04. | |
person, but people did know exactly where to find it. We can achieve | :10:04. | :10:12. | |
reaching the most critical patience within eight minutes but actually | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
to have a good outcome for a patient you need access to this | :10:16. | :10:24. | |
within a couple of minutes. Paramedics here have taken more | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
than half an hour to respond. Villagers say that knowing the | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
machine is there is reassuring. Do you know where it is? I know | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
exactly where it is. A basic piece of equipment like this and basic | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
first aid knowledge means that people are reassured that they can | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
make a difference. The south-east coast Ambulance Service says the | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
average response time across the region is eight minutes and 39 | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
seconds. But here they know an emergency needs a quicker reaction | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
time. Motorists are being warned to avoid | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
the M23 motorway in Sussex following a serious collision this | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
afternoon. The road has been closed in both directions between | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
junctions 9 and 10, near Gatwick Airport, after a crash between two | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
vehicles. One person has been seriously injured. | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
More than 100,000 extra passengers travelled through Gatwick last | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
month, compared with the previous year. Around a half a million | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
people used the airport over the August bank holiday weekend alone. | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
Short haul flights to countries like Spain and Italy saw the | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
biggest increases. Investors who ploughed tens of | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
millions of pounds into the Dockside shopping centre in Chatham | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
have won an �18 million pound payout from the company that | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
advised them on the deal. A High Court judge has ruled that | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
surveyors Drivers Jonas' valuation of the site was negligent - and led | :11:43. | :11:53. | |
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investors to pay over �60 million for it, when it was worth far less. | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
Hastings Borough Council has been forced to spend �20,000 a month on | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
electricity generators to power its seafront buildings in a row over | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
who owns the land. The UK power network has apparently refused to | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
install equipment to power the buildings. Let's cross live to | :12:15. | :12:23. | |
Peter Whittlesea in Hastings. land was given to Hastings Borough | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
Council in 1893 by the Crown. But when they were given the land they | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
were given that in a charitable Trust which was not allowed to | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
develop the land, so they leased it to a third party so the land could | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
then be developed. This is what sparked the ownership row. This | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
evening I asked how many -- how much money the borough council had | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
therefore spent on generators. the reverse of the company were | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
brought to the table and instructed by their clients to get a move on, | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
then we will see a speedy resolution to the matter. He never | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
exactly said how much they had paid to the electricity company. The | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
private company said they shared Hastings Borough Council's urgency | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
that getting the matter resolved and said they believe the rest -- | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
the restrictions had been lifted and electricity equipment would be | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
installed as quickly as possible. This is our top story tonight: Kent | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
has some of the fattest people in the country, according to new | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
Government figures. Over 30 per cent of adults are now classed as | :13:31. | :13:40. | |
obese in four English council areas, including Medway and Swale. | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
Let's stay with this story for a moment. Fitness instructor | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
Catherine is with us now. You have an interesting take on this because | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
you're our yourself clinically obese yet you are a fitness | :13:55. | :14:05. | |
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instructor. As far as I'm concerned there is not a problem. I think | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
this is a story that keeps getting passed around. I think people can | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
be fit and healthy whatever size they are. But the Department of | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
Health says there is a risk of type 2 diabetes, heart and liver disease. | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
There are problems involved with being seriously overweight. | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
these are not diseases that are exclusive to being large. I would | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
dispute those diggers quite heavily. I think the research is extremely | :14:38. | :14:47. | |
flawed. But having said that we do need to address the issue of health. | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
What would you say is the way forward? I think to make exercise | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
more accessible. Not to forward the red herring of focusing on obesity. | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
I think it is about being fit at the signs that you are. Health | :15:04. | :15:13. | |
clubs and fitness centres are not fat friendly. | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
Coming up: Revived as a work of art - how trees killed by Dutch elm | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
disease are being given a new lease of life. | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
It is the wind going to be staying blustery into tonight? Joined me | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
later to find out. Kent's cricketers are making | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
history this evening, by playing a County Championship match under | :15:37. | :15:44. | |
floodlights with a pink ball. The first recorded county cricket | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
match took place in 1709 - and of course the ball was red. | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
In 2003 they introduced the white ball for Twenty20 matches. And | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
today, Kent are taking on Glamorgan with a ball that they hope will | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
show up better under lights. Neil Bell joins us live from the St | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
Lawrence Ground in Canterbury. A pink ball, Neil! How are the | :16:04. | :16:12. | |
traditionalists taking it? No-one has actually fainted. This is what | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
the fuss has been all about. The brand new pink ball. Not just a | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
fashion statement, it should be easier to seek under lights. That | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
means raw evening cricket, attracting bigger crowds and that | :16:28. | :16:35. | |
could be a boost for at cash strapped sport. County Championship | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
cricket has barely changed in the last couple of centuries. There is | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
now more or polyester around but other than that the game has been | :16:43. | :16:50. | |
frozen in time. Until today. The umpire appeared with a pink ball | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
for the first time ever in this country. So cricket history has | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
been made in Canterbury, one of the most traditional cricket venues in | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
the world. It goes to show that the club is innovative and forward- | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
thinking. If at the end it has not worked I am not sure that we have | :17:09. | :17:18. | |
lost a lot. I think people will not stop watching. It is not just the | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
colour of the ball that has changed. Play will now continue until 9 | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
o'clock in the evening thanks to the new flashlights -- floodlights. | :17:30. | :17:40. | |
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I saw it earlier and I find it difficult to pick up. I think to | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
expect people to sit out in September at 8 and 9 o'clock is | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
expecting a bit too much. I do not think there will be many in the | :17:49. | :17:56. | |
crowd at that time tonight. I have my doubts. Most of us members are | :17:56. | :18:04. | |
pretty ancient and don't like to stay up too late! The introduction | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
of 2020 cricket a few years ago has put a whole new at the audience. | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
Some believe that the changes may have a similar impact on county | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
cricket. Well we have seen a batsman wearing a helmet, we have | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
seen floodlights, there are a lot of firsts. And it would be nice to | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
think that if this does have a future, it all started in Kent. | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
brace you were old or a bizarre experiment soon to be forgotten? | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
Time will tell but even cricket has to change sometimes. I would love | :18:40. | :18:47. | |
to say that Kent were in the pink today but they have struggled. | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
There's still a pretty good crowd here and the club are offering free | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
admission for the final session of this game. And there's ball-by-ball | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
commentary of all four days of Kent's match on our website: | :18:59. | :19:09. | |
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bbc.co.uk/kent. It's wiped out around thirty | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
million trees in the UK since it arrived almost a hundred years ago, | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
but now an artist from East Sussex has made sure that something good | :19:17. | :19:27. | |
has come from Dutch elm disease. You have to visit at tea room in | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
Wilmington near Eastbourne to appreciate just what the artist has | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
done. A sign of hope amidst the destruction. Eight trees in this | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
garden have succumbed to Dutch elm disease this year but instead of | :19:42. | :19:50. | |
chopping them down sculptor Christine was asked to create | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
something from them. inspiration actually came from | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
Dutch alarm disease itself because it is such a devastating disease. I | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
wanted to make a piece that brought something positive out of something | :20:07. | :20:16. | |
negative. A kind of transformation if you like. Millions of trees were | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
felled and burnt in the 1970s, two thirds of their population in the | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
UK succumbing to disease. And it has never gone away. Teresa and | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
Barry Taylor have only been able to wait and watch as one by one the | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
elm trees in their garden have been destroyed. Over the years we have | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
been here we have just watched the trees dying and it is just such a | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
shame. In one day they have just gone. Which is where Christine came | :20:50. | :20:57. | |
in. Normally she sculpts cut pieces of wood. Here she had to build | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
scaffolds around the trunks so that she could work. The trees are no | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
longer infectious with the Bach removed. The onus of this garden | :21:09. | :21:19. | |
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now have works of art instead of their stumps. -- the owners. It is | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
reclaiming it as something with a more positive light rather than | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
just fell them and take them a wave. For two months Christine has | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
chiselled away in his garden, as symbolic fight back against a so | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
far unstoppable disease. Now it was a good weekend for | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
Charlton and Brighton fans, as both clubs continued their bright start | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
to the football season. But Gillingham dropped points at home | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
for the second match running and Crawley suffered something of a | :21:48. | :21:56. | |
thrashing at Morecambe. John Young has our round-up of the action. | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
They may have been flying high at the top the table when they arrived | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
but Crawley were about to crash to earth. Too many goals to choose | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
from for this news report, all in the wrong net. This penalty towards | :22:12. | :22:22. | |
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the end sealed things off. It was much more balanced until Accrington | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
Stanley produced this goal six minutes from time. The jewels only | :22:28. | :22:35. | |
saved by this foul. A lucky escape perhaps. And an apology of sought | :22:35. | :22:42. | |
for the fans. We did not impress the crowd. We understand that. By | :22:42. | :22:50. | |
impressing the crowd, that would be winning the game. At the Valley and | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
Exeter there was sent off for protesting too much that his shot | :22:54. | :23:03. | |
had crossed the line. The sending- off changed the game. I do not | :23:03. | :23:10. | |
really know what happened. It is a case of job done, three points and | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
a clean sheet. Brighton and Hove Albion have plenty of chances at | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
Bristol but they only needed this want to retain their record | :23:19. | :23:26. | |
unbeaten at home. Three out of three victories away. | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
Now, it has been quite breezy Now, it has been quite breezy | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
today! It has been a very blustery day and | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
quite a wet start. Tomorrow sees the return of those blustery | :23:39. | :23:48. | |
showers. Earlier we had this deep area of low pressure moving in from | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
the West. Rain through the morning. Increasingly Jo Whiley in the | :23:54. | :24:04. | |
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But temperatures not too bad, temperatures of around 20 degrees. | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
As we move through the first part of tonight, at still seeing a | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
strong wind. Easing off as we move through the night. And quite a mild | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
night for what it is worth. Tomorrow initially has a dry start | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
but once again we have these does she showers moving from the West. | :24:30. | :24:40. | |
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By lunchtime again these showers will be prevalent. Top temperatures | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
at a high of around 19 degrees. The showers clearing pretty quickly as | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
we move through the first part of the evening. Also becoming | :24:52. | :24:59. | |
increasingly saddled. -- settled. And as we move into Wednesday, it | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
looks like the most settled day of the week. Top temperatures again at | :25:05. | :25:12. | |
of around 20 degrees. And the reason for that - this area of low | :25:12. | :25:20. | |
pressure up which will be building from the south-west. By the time we | :25:20. | :25:28. | |
get to Friday however once again those showers will be with us. | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
Tomorrow sees the return of the showers. Top temperatures around 19 | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
degrees. Wednesday is the date to be out and about with plenty of | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
sunshine. A bright picture for Thursday. But the showers back | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
Thursday. But the showers back again for Friday. | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
Let's recap tonight's top stories. Britain's banks are to be ordered | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
to separate their retail operations from their much riskier investment | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
divisions to try to prevent a repeat of the 2008 banking crisis. | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
The Kenyan army has joined the search for a British woman who's | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
been kidnapped, after her husband was shot dead at a luxury resort. | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
And new Government figures show that Kent has some of the fattest | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
people in the country. Over 30 % of adults in Medway and Swale are | :26:17. | :26:25. | |
classed as obese. We asked for your views on what | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
should be done to tackle growing levels of obesity in the South East. | :26:28. | :26:35. | |
Here are some of your comments. Part of the problem is caused by | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
the spiralling cost of food. People go for the unhealthy options | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
because it is what they can afford. And many people suggesting that we | :26:46. | :26:53. | |
raise the price of unhealthy foods. Another one says the move that | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
television from the lounge. Increased the price on foods known | :26:58. | :27:08. | |
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to be high in saturated fats and sugar. And get some more exercise | :27:10. | :27:19. | |
machines. Stop selling off school playing fields. People should send | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
their children to a local school and make them walk. And stop every | :27:24. | :27:31. | |
vacant shop from becoming a take away. As a 14 year-old I do not | :27:31. | :27:36. |