:00:05. > :00:07.Welcome to South East Today. Tonight's top stories: Five are
:00:07. > :00:12.sent off in disgraceful scenes as Crawley and Bradford players brawl
:00:12. > :00:17.at the end of their match last night.
:00:17. > :00:20.We'll have the latest from Crawley tonight.
:00:20. > :00:27.Protests against live animal exports at Ramsgate - and the RSPCA
:00:27. > :00:29.resume inspections at the port for the first time in a decade.
:00:29. > :00:32.Also in tonight's programme, courting controversy - Kent MP
:00:32. > :00:38.Roger Gale defends his statement that marriage is unique to the
:00:38. > :00:43.union of a man and a woman. She was known as the heroine of
:00:43. > :00:46.Dunkirk, but has the fight to save the Medway Queen been lost?
:00:46. > :00:49.And Darwin on holiday - the great, great granddaughter of the great
:00:49. > :00:59.naturalist unveils a blue plaque in Ramsgate where he took his
:00:59. > :01:05.
:01:05. > :01:07.Good evening. The Football Association has launched an
:01:07. > :01:10.investigation into what have been described as disgraceful scenes at
:01:10. > :01:13.the end of Crawley's football match against Bradford last night, which
:01:13. > :01:16.saw a mass brawl break out on the pitch. Five players, including two
:01:16. > :01:19.from Crawley, were red carded in the dressing room after the match,
:01:19. > :01:26.the most sendings off in a league game for 15 years. Steve Gaisford
:01:26. > :01:32.reports. It should have been a night for
:01:32. > :01:40.Crawley tant to celebrate, a 4th straight win and a significant step
:01:40. > :01:45.towards promotion. It has got really nasty. The ugly scenes at
:01:45. > :01:50.Valley Parade send shockwaves through the game. It was not very
:01:50. > :02:00.nice. I did not see all that. I will see more this morning looking
:02:00. > :02:00.
:02:00. > :02:03.at the TV pictures. Not very good. It does take away some of the
:02:03. > :02:08.glamour and some of the positiveness about the performance
:02:08. > :02:14.and the result. The referee and his assistants were unable to control
:02:14. > :02:18.the players. Police stepped in to break up the brawl. Absolutely
:02:18. > :02:23.disgusting. We do not need to see something like this in football. It
:02:23. > :02:29.shows the bad side of it. I do not know what went on in the game.
:02:29. > :02:36.There is no excuse. Five players were summoned to the referee's
:02:36. > :02:46.dressing room where they were shown at the red card. You cannot let
:02:46. > :02:47.
:02:47. > :02:54.you're temper get the best of you. Throwing punches. You'll get banned.
:02:54. > :03:00.Claude Davis, Andrew Davies... would not be able to do that and my
:03:00. > :03:05.job. I would be straight off the site, came over. It is not showing
:03:05. > :03:10.a good example. They should be ashamed of themselves. If they
:03:10. > :03:14.cannot play football without fighting, they should pack it in.
:03:14. > :03:20.Their manager is now focusing on the promotion run-in. It remains to
:03:20. > :03:25.be seen what impact the suspensions will have. To lose two players is a
:03:25. > :03:31.blow, but we have players who can, crying. We will get on with it.
:03:31. > :03:35.Crawley moved back into the automatic promotion places with a
:03:35. > :03:39.win. But he is the scenes that followed the victory that will stay
:03:39. > :03:45.long in the memory. Steve Gaisford joins me from
:03:45. > :03:52.Crawley. Crawley players have already received bans. That is not
:03:52. > :03:58.the end of the matter, is it? For both clubs involved in this
:03:58. > :04:01.horrible situation it could be far from over. It is likely the
:04:01. > :04:06.Football Association will study further video evidence and reach a
:04:06. > :04:12.conclusion. They have a number of powers at their disposal. They can
:04:12. > :04:17.find individual players, they can find the clubs. I spoke to Steve
:04:17. > :04:21.Evans earlier and he told the club would hold their own investigation
:04:21. > :04:28.and could hand out heavy fines. They are away at Burton Albion on
:04:28. > :04:32.Saturday. In two weeks they will be at home took Crewe. They will hope
:04:32. > :04:36.the matter is laid to rest by then. RSPCA investigators have been at
:04:36. > :04:38.the Port of Ramsgate for the first time in more than a decade to
:04:38. > :04:41.ensure that live animal exports meet welfare standards. Thousands
:04:41. > :04:44.of calves and sheep have been shipped to the continent from
:04:44. > :04:48.Ramsgate since May last year. The RSPCA opposes the shipments but, as
:04:48. > :04:50.they're legal, is powerless to stop them. For the latest in our food
:04:50. > :05:00.chain series, Environment Correspondent Yvette Austin has
:05:00. > :05:01.
:05:01. > :05:10.been to Ramsgate as a live shipment Angry scenes as lorries carrying
:05:10. > :05:15.sheep and calves enter Ramsgate. The protesters against live animal
:05:15. > :05:19.exports out in force, wanting to stop the lorry is making it on to
:05:19. > :05:25.the private a ship bound for the Continent. We could see them. They
:05:25. > :05:29.were squashed like sardines. Let's hope the RSPCA turn them back and
:05:30. > :05:35.end this dreadful trade. It is almost a year since Live exports
:05:35. > :05:41.began adult Ramsgate. Britain started the practice again in 2006
:05:41. > :05:44.after a decade long ban. Before that, public outrage was focused on
:05:44. > :05:51.the small port of Shoreham in Sussex, where protesters clashed
:05:51. > :05:55.with police. The Larry's are just loading onto the ship now. The
:05:55. > :06:00.RSPCA would have done at their cheques. This has to happen within
:06:00. > :06:09.two hours. The boat leaves for Calais. Warnings have been issued
:06:09. > :06:13.by the RSPCA and the Government. Some cooling fans were not working.
:06:13. > :06:20.All the animals were fit to travel. They meet the current requirements.
:06:20. > :06:24.However, the RSPCA would want to see an end to the trade of
:06:24. > :06:28.transporting live animals great distances. There is no need for it.
:06:28. > :06:33.Farmers say there is a need. Moving sheep is a regular occurrence which
:06:33. > :06:39.does not harm them. The sheep have travelled quite happily. There is
:06:39. > :06:44.plenty of room on a vehicle like this. We need the export. The
:06:44. > :06:48.market in Europe is higher value. There is no problem with animals
:06:48. > :06:53.travelling. It is a short distance across the Channel. They need to
:06:53. > :06:59.get there as quickly as possible. They are fine. The protesters say
:06:59. > :07:01.they will continue their campaign. In a moment, more than half the
:07:01. > :07:11.cases of the potentially deadly Schmallenberg virus affecting sheep
:07:11. > :07:14.
:07:14. > :07:17.and cattle in the UK, have been A Kent MP who caused controversy
:07:17. > :07:20.with his comments about gay marriage, is defending his remarks,
:07:20. > :07:24.saying he believes that the meaning of the word "marriage" is unique to
:07:24. > :07:26.the union between a man and a woman. Sir Roger Gale wrote an article
:07:26. > :07:36.saying he is opposed to the Coalition's current proposal to
:07:36. > :07:42.legalise gay marriage. Louise Stewart reports.
:07:42. > :07:47.Sir Roger Gale admits his article criticising Government proposals
:07:47. > :07:52.his outspoken. He says he believes marriage describes the union in
:07:53. > :07:58.church or out of it between one man and one woman. He says removing
:07:58. > :08:04.husband or wife from official documents brings it into a
:08:04. > :08:09.Stalinist realm. He says he understands why some people want to
:08:09. > :08:14.change the rules but he does not agree. I have had a union with
:08:14. > :08:20.Susie for a long time indeed. Well of 30 years. And we cannot get
:08:20. > :08:28.married in church. Because the Church of England says that her
:08:28. > :08:31.divorce may not remarry in church in the sight of God. I have no
:08:31. > :08:38.cause for complaint. I do not want to rewrite the rules. Those are the
:08:38. > :08:45.rules. Thanet District Council is to become one of the first in the
:08:45. > :08:53.country to vote on the issue of gay marriage. We are talking about
:08:53. > :08:59.civil marriage. I am proud to be moving this motion so that people
:08:59. > :09:04.from the Lesbian, Gay and Trans gender community can get married.
:09:04. > :09:09.People enjoying sunshine in Margate had mixed feelings. I cannot see a
:09:09. > :09:17.problem. That is my opinion. I think toss cid mack just as
:09:17. > :09:22.entitled as anybody else. It should be between a man and woman. I have
:09:22. > :09:28.a son who is gay. If they want to get married, I am perfectly happy.
:09:28. > :09:32.The Government has launched a 12 week consultation on the issue. All
:09:32. > :09:36.three main party leaders want to see a law which allows same-sex
:09:36. > :09:39.marriages before the next general election.
:09:39. > :09:42.We can speak now to Dr Keith Sharpe, who chairs a group called Changing
:09:42. > :09:52.Attitudes Sussex, which campaigns for gay rights within the Anglican
:09:52. > :09:55.
:09:55. > :09:58.Church. What's your reaction to Roger Gale's position? I am
:09:58. > :10:04.surprised really that he has written what he has written. Quite
:10:04. > :10:09.frankly, his arguments are laughable. Of all the things that
:10:10. > :10:13.you could say, to defend the opposition of gay marriage, to say
:10:13. > :10:19.that Shakespeare will have to be rewritten, seems to me quite
:10:19. > :10:26.risible. Nobody has suggested it would be necessary to rewrite
:10:26. > :10:32.Shakespeare or we write Milton or the Holy Bible. What about
:10:32. > :10:39.rewriting the names that you give to the people taking part? He says
:10:40. > :10:44.it is almost Stalinist in its political correctness. I don't
:10:44. > :10:50.think there is a question of imposition. Roger Gale uses emotion
:10:50. > :10:54.at -- emotive than pejorative language. He talks about the
:10:54. > :10:58.building pushed through by militant homosexuals. All three major
:10:58. > :11:01.political parties and their leaders are in favour of this. Surveys
:11:01. > :11:07.consistently show that a majority of people are in favour of gay
:11:07. > :11:16.marriage. You have just had somebody on in the -- you're in did
:11:16. > :11:19.you spoke about his son being gay. People know gay people. They know
:11:19. > :11:28.that all the stories of the past which demonised gay people are
:11:28. > :11:32.wrong. We must have equality for everybody in the future. Love
:11:32. > :11:42.between a gay couple committed to each other for life is just the
:11:42. > :11:45.
:11:45. > :11:48.same as that between a heterosexual couple. Well, we want to know what
:11:48. > :11:52.you think. Do you agree with Roger Gale that marriage should be a
:11:52. > :12:02.union between a man and a woman? Or do you think that language and
:12:02. > :12:04.
:12:05. > :12:11.institutions should alter with The relatives of thousands of
:12:11. > :12:16.people who died of an asbestos related cancer won a record
:12:16. > :12:21.settlement. The Supreme Court today ruled that insurance liability is
:12:21. > :12:25.triggered at the point when workers were exposed to asbestos dust, not
:12:25. > :12:28.when the cancer emerged decades later. The Government is to ban a
:12:28. > :12:31.so-called legal high drug known as Mexxy, which was found in the
:12:32. > :12:35.bodies of two young men who died in Canterbury earlier this year. Hugo
:12:35. > :12:39.Wenn and Daniel Lloyd were found in a pond in Canterbury in January.
:12:39. > :12:49.They had both taken methoxetamine. It's to be made illegal for a year
:12:49. > :12:52.while drugs advisors decide whether it should be controlled permanently.
:12:52. > :12:54.More than half of the reported cases of Schmallenberg virus - a
:12:55. > :12:58.disease that can cause serious deformities or death in sheep and
:12:58. > :13:01.cattle - are here in the South East. There are more farms affected in
:13:01. > :13:04.Kent than anywhere else in the country, with 41 known cases. The
:13:05. > :13:08.second highest figure is in West Sussex, with 37 farms affected. And
:13:08. > :13:11.in East Sussex, the number is 36. But sheep farmers in the region say
:13:11. > :13:14.they're confident they're over the worst of it. Ian Palmer reports.
:13:14. > :13:19.He's lost four lambs to the Schmallenberg virus and has two
:13:20. > :13:28.more being tested. Hugh Skinner is both a farmer and a vet on the
:13:28. > :13:35.front line of the disease. nights ago I had to do a Caesarean
:13:35. > :13:39.to get the Lahm out. And managed to get it out OK. The lamb was dead on
:13:39. > :13:42.arrival. The Schmallenberg virus is carried by a midge. The disease was
:13:42. > :13:52.first detected in Germany in 2011. It's believed animals here in the
:13:52. > :14:07.
:14:07. > :14:12.south east became infected last It is a real concern for farmers.
:14:12. > :14:18.The Midge comes in, bite the animal in the early stages. It is not
:14:18. > :14:21.until you have the Cath or Lamiraud, that you know you have a problem.
:14:21. > :14:24.Suspected cases of the virus like this one are sent for testing. This
:14:24. > :14:27.dead lamb will go to the animal health and veterinary laboratories
:14:27. > :14:30.agency. Two weeks ago, the agency's driver had more than 20 dead
:14:30. > :14:38.animals in his van. Today, he had two. Experts say the worst of the
:14:38. > :14:41.disease in sheep at least may be over. Hugh Skinner says despite his
:14:41. > :14:44.relatively few losses the virus will still cost him around �1,000.
:14:44. > :14:52.The effect this disease has had on the farming industry may not be
:14:52. > :14:55.Our top story, the Football Association has launched an
:14:55. > :14:57.investigation into the mass brawl which broke out at the end of
:14:57. > :15:00.Crawley's football match against Bradford last night. Five players,
:15:00. > :15:05.including two from Crawley, were red carded in the dressing room
:15:05. > :15:08.after the match, the most sendings off in a league game for 15 years.
:15:08. > :15:18.Also in tonight's programme, could the fight to save the Medway Queen
:15:18. > :15:22.
:15:22. > :15:32.have been scuppered? And don't expected to stay like
:15:32. > :15:33.
:15:33. > :15:36.this for the weekend. It will feel A Sussex business claims they are
:15:36. > :15:38.enjoying improved profitability, and have cut costs, by giving staff
:15:38. > :15:42.extra lessons in reading and writing. It's estimated more than
:15:42. > :15:44.five million adults in the UK lack basic levels of literacy. And it's
:15:44. > :15:49.thought that improving these skills could have a positive effect on
:15:49. > :15:53.earnings and employment opportunities. But so far, research
:15:53. > :15:56.hasn't found a direct link to economic impact. However, City
:15:56. > :16:05.Clean in Brighton are convinced that literacy classes are making a
:16:05. > :16:10.difference. Mark Norman has more. Workers to struggle with their
:16:10. > :16:14.reading and writing skills can be paid less, have fewer opportunities
:16:14. > :16:22.for promotion and often lack confidence. Getting through those
:16:22. > :16:27.barriers is not easy. I did not consider myself academic. I did not
:16:27. > :16:37.consider I would be able to pursue anything to do with academia. I am
:16:37. > :16:40.
:16:40. > :16:45.good at manual work. That is my sphere. I just thought, it all
:16:45. > :16:51.stops when you get to adulthood. is hard to imagine not being able
:16:51. > :16:56.to read that a lot -- the most basic instructions or signs. More
:16:56. > :17:01.than 5 million adults have a reading age of nine or lower.
:17:01. > :17:06.Workers with difficulties and 11% less than colleagues and her 16%
:17:06. > :17:10.less likely to go for promotion. The statistics could be worse.
:17:10. > :17:15.do not know a lot about the workplace. That is the problem.
:17:15. > :17:20.Literacy and numeracy often goes hidden. People in the workplace
:17:20. > :17:27.tend to adopt working -- coping skills and do not always ask for
:17:27. > :17:32.help. The extent that the problem is not always known. Some of our
:17:33. > :17:36.students do not even know the order of the alphabet, cannot fill in
:17:37. > :17:43.their own name. Brighton Council have offered work place lessons for
:17:43. > :17:53.staff for more than a decade. Customer satisfaction has leapt 82%.
:17:53. > :17:54.
:17:54. > :17:59.We have taken at �1.7 million out of the service. There is a direct
:17:59. > :18:03.benefit longer term. The scheme is now being regarded as a potential
:18:03. > :18:06.for others -- potential model for others around the country. And if
:18:06. > :18:09.you would like to improve your reading and writing skills, call
:18:09. > :18:19.the free BBC Helpline on 08000 150 950. Give them your postcode and
:18:19. > :18:25.
:18:25. > :18:28.they'll find the nearest class to She became known as the Heroine of
:18:28. > :18:35.Dunkirk - the Medway Queen was the paddle steamer that rescued some
:18:35. > :18:37.7,000 troops from the beaches of northern France in 1940. But a long
:18:37. > :18:40.running project to restore her could be scuppered by the
:18:40. > :18:48.suspension of a European funding grant - which also threatens nine
:18:48. > :18:52.apprenticeships at the Gillingham workshop. Sara Smith reports.
:18:52. > :18:57.For these apprentices, working on the Medway Queen is a chance to
:18:57. > :19:03.restore part of the town's heritage and to gain skills which would set
:19:03. > :19:09.them up for the future. Now the project is in danger. It is a
:19:09. > :19:14.brilliant opportunity to work here, given the history that is involved.
:19:14. > :19:19.It is really frustrating and worrying. If it all goes down, I do
:19:19. > :19:27.not have a job apprenticeship. I will not be able to find something
:19:27. > :19:32.like this again. If this is closed down, it has completely ruined it.
:19:32. > :19:36.Billed as a pleasure steamer in the Twenties, the Medway Queen was
:19:36. > :19:42.converted to one minesweeper in the war. It made seven rescue trips to
:19:42. > :19:47.Dunkirk. She has now been restored in a project part funded by the
:19:47. > :19:51.European Commission grant. When auditors found irregularities on
:19:51. > :20:00.two or other projects, with no connection to this one, they
:20:00. > :20:04.suspended funding. It is not just a try heritage or history project, it
:20:05. > :20:09.is a real opportunity to do real good work with these people.
:20:10. > :20:12.Without the money, that is it. It is finished. If the apprentices get
:20:12. > :20:17.to complete their training, they will be qualified to work on
:20:17. > :20:25.projects across the world. If not, they will be back searching for
:20:25. > :20:29.work in an increasingly difficult market in that way. -- made way.
:20:29. > :20:33.The pressures on the Government to sort out the administrative errors.
:20:33. > :20:38.I expect the minister to make a special case now that this project
:20:38. > :20:42.can go a head, so we can get the funding. The project should learn
:20:42. > :20:50.if its funding has been restored by the end of this week.
:20:50. > :20:55.Sara Smith joins us now from Medway. Sara, what can they do to try to
:20:55. > :20:59.get this money back? All they can do is wait and hope. It is not
:20:59. > :21:03.their fault the ground has been suspended. There is nothing they
:21:03. > :21:10.can do in the meantime. The dream was to have the Medway Queen fully
:21:10. > :21:15.refurbished. In three years, it was planned to sail to Dunkirk to
:21:15. > :21:20.celebrate the 75th anniversary of the evacuation. Now he is in the
:21:20. > :21:22.hands of the European Commission. All they can do is wait and hope.
:21:23. > :21:25.However, in Sussex there's been good news about another of the
:21:25. > :21:28.Dunkirk Little Ships. The steam tug, Challenge, which is moored in
:21:28. > :21:31.Shoreham, has been awarded almost a million pounds of Heritage Lottery
:21:31. > :21:33.funding to return it to active service. The money means that the
:21:34. > :21:41.Challenge will be able to participate in the 75th anniversary
:21:41. > :21:51.commemorations of the Dunkirk rescues.
:21:51. > :21:52.
:21:52. > :21:57.During his life, Charles Darwin travelled to the ends of the Earth.
:21:58. > :22:02.But once he settled down, he enjoyed nothing more than asset --
:22:02. > :22:08.spending his holidays in Ramsgate. Today his great-great granddaughter
:22:08. > :22:12.unveiled a plaque. As a naturalist, Charles Darwin
:22:12. > :22:17.travelled the world, visiting exotic places. But for a holiday
:22:17. > :22:23.destination, he chose Ramsgate. is a delight to meet so many people
:22:23. > :22:28.who were so enthusiastic about Darwen's stay here. It is wonderful
:22:28. > :22:31.snapshot into her little part of his life. I am happy. I just
:22:31. > :22:34.watched that programme about him on television will stop it is
:22:34. > :22:39.interesting to note that they have been somewhere near where he has
:22:39. > :22:46.been. There is a lovely beach here and another one there. They must
:22:46. > :22:49.have had lots of fun. He probably studied things in the sea. It is
:22:49. > :22:56.now more than 150 years since the publication of the origin of the
:22:56. > :23:06.species. A few years before that work was published, Darwin came to
:23:06. > :23:16.
:23:16. > :23:21.Ramsgate with his family. Working His incredibly patient observation
:23:21. > :23:26.of something like barnacles, as a family, as a Jenas which has
:23:26. > :23:30.evolved, would be central. He would be thinking about it all the time.
:23:30. > :23:34.He would be on the beach but he would be thinking about it. I am
:23:34. > :23:42.standing on the balcony Charles Darwin would have used on his
:23:42. > :23:49.holidays. In a recollection of the trip, his youngest daughter wrote:
:23:49. > :23:52.we saw Mora of them in a month on holiday than we did at home. Who
:23:52. > :23:56.would have thought a man who travelled to the hands of the Earth
:23:56. > :24:03.would have been happy going our holidays in Kent?
:24:03. > :24:08.Who needs the Galapagos when you have got Ramsgate. There was
:24:08. > :24:14.another football match last night. Gillingham lost our way to Burton
:24:14. > :24:24.Albion. The team now have to win six of their remaining seven games
:24:24. > :24:25.
:24:25. > :24:29.if they are to make the play-offs. Is this the last we are going to
:24:29. > :24:35.see of the sunshine? We knew it wasn't going to last for
:24:35. > :24:41.ever. The days are numbered. The cloud Countdown is on. In 48 hours
:24:41. > :24:48.the cloud will clog up our skies again. Just in time for the weekend.
:24:48. > :24:53.It is not bringing rain. But temperatures getting up to 20-21,
:24:53. > :24:59.normal for July, but it will be more like where it should be at
:25:00. > :25:07.this time of the year, 12-13 degrees. That is what we will have
:25:07. > :25:12.at the weekend. Through this evening, as soon as the sun sets,
:25:12. > :25:17.the temperature goes down, down, down. In the next few hours the
:25:17. > :25:20.temperature in some places will drop by one degree every 20 minutes.
:25:20. > :25:25.Three degrees an hour. Not surprising by the end there might
:25:25. > :25:28.some places will be crunchy with frost. It will get down to the
:25:28. > :25:34.couple of degrees in the countryside by the end of the night.
:25:34. > :25:38.The temperature does rise sharply tomorrow. -- sharply. A beautiful
:25:38. > :25:43.day in store yet again. Just the same as we have had for the last
:25:43. > :25:49.few days. Not a cloud in the sky. Sunshine and blue skies all the way.
:25:49. > :25:55.Temperatures, 20-21. Into tomorrow evening, the clear skies mean
:25:55. > :26:01.chilly temperatures. For a Friday, the last day of that sunshine. As
:26:01. > :26:07.we go into Saturday and the weekend, it will start to feel cooler. Lot
:26:08. > :26:17.more cloud, probably temperatures of 13 or 14 on Saturday. Two more
:26:18. > :26:18.
:26:19. > :26:22.days of fun in the sun before the Earlier we told you about Kent MP
:26:22. > :26:25.Sir Roger Gale, who has defended his remarks saying he believes the
:26:25. > :26:31.meaning of the word marriage is unique to the union between a man
:26:31. > :26:36.and a woman. We wanted to know what you think. We have had lots of
:26:36. > :26:44.replies on for Sport -- Facebook. Yes, the Reverend Chris Lawrence
:26:44. > :26:52.says that he completely supports Sir Roger Gale's comments. A lot of
:26:52. > :26:56.the comments on Facebook are against that position. Sarah says,
:26:56. > :27:01.does it matter if you were the same sex? If you of the other person,
:27:01. > :27:05.that is all that matters. These people are living in the dark Ages.
:27:05. > :27:09.Lawrence says marriage is a union between a man and woman. It
:27:09. > :27:13.confuses children who were taught in schools about the truth in the
:27:13. > :27:19.Bible with regards to marriage. Adam says that morality is doing
:27:19. > :27:23.what is right, no matter what you're told, why religion is doing
:27:23. > :27:27.what you're told the matter what is right. A great many of their
:27:27. > :27:34.opinions. Lot of people bringing religion into this. Talking about