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Welcome to South East Today, I'm Polly Evans. And I'm Rob Smith. | :00:06. | :00:08. | |
Tonight's top stories. The worker who disappeared with | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
�20,000 of money intended for the leader of Kent County Council gives | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
us an exclusive interview from china to insist he's done nothing | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
wrong. The British sniper who may have | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
fired the shot that killed a Sussex soldier tells an inquest he'd never | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
been trained to shoot in the dark. Also in tonight's programme. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
A warning patients are being put at risk as the time ambulances spend | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
waiting outside accident and emergency goes up 50% in three | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
years. We're live with the details in Brighton. | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
31 miles of thread, half a million gold buttons. The team from Margate | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
creating a jubilee banner fit for a Queen. | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
And Sing 4 England is the call from a Kent songwriter picked to pen the | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
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team anthem for the Euro 2012 Good evening. He's left Kent for a | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
remote region of China, accused of running off with more than �20,000 | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
of taxpayers' money. But tonight, former county council maintenance | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
worker Paul Carter has given us an exclusive interview to insist he's | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
done nothing wrong. As we reported on Tuesday, he received seven | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
months of allowances intended for a different Paul Carter, the leader | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
of Kent County Council. When the mistake was discovered, he | :01:31. | :01:40. | |
disappeared. Glenn Campbell has the details. | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
4000 miles away from Maidstone, in a remote corner of north-west China, | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
Paul Carter, the former Kent County Council maintenance man prepares to | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
tell BBC South East Today his side of the pay packet story. Where is | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
the tax payer's money, this did �1,000? If I only -- at only I knew. | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
Someone from the offices called me and told me they have overpaid me | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
by �20,000 and would I mind paying it back. I said, of course. One I | :02:11. | :02:21. | |
got home, I checked my bank account and I could not see any overpayment. | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
It seems they have been overpaying me from the first day I started, so | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
I did not notice any discrepancy. On Tuesday, we revealed how Kent | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
County Council accidentally paid if the council leader, Paul Carter's | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
salary allowance of more than �21,000 to this 54 year-old Paul | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
Carter, who at the time was employed as a vehicle fitter at | :02:43. | :02:51. | |
their Aylesford pepper. The do state -- the mistake went are not | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
deprived -- went on rectified for seven months. It was only spotted | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
when council leader's Paul Carter bank account went into the red. | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
has gone with the council tax payers money, and it needs to be | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
paid back. In stead of paying back the council leader's money, Paul | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
counter -- Paul Carter the maintenance man banished. This is | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
not running away, it is just where the worker taken me. So to clarify, | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
you did not run off with �21,000 of taxpayers' money? Certainly not. | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
Kent County Council have my address in Tunbridge Wells, I lived there | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
for well over a year. Four after this dispute came to light. Why did | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
you ask Kent caddie council why don't they take up my author of | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
going to the county court to settle this? They refuse. Black. Paul | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
Carter in China sticks by the story that he was paid for the extra | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
money but thought it was right he has. This afternoon, the director | :03:56. | :04:05. | |
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of human resources at Kent County A British sniper who's believed to | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
have shot a comrade he'd mistaken for a Taliban insurgent has told an | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
inquest he had not been trained to fire the rifle he used in the dark. | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard from Eastbourne was shot dead on | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
his first tour of duty in Afghanistan in 2009. The inquest is | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
considering whether the 22-year-old was killed by so-called friendly | :04:37. | :04:47. | |
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fire. Roz Upton reports. The night Lance Corporal Michael | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
Pritchard was killed in Helmand province was the fast -- first time | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
lance-corporal Michael Graham had shot his sniper rifle during -- | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
using his night vision site. He said he was called from his bed to | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
an observation post where sentries were observing two heat sources. He | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
said the soldiers told him there were people digging improvised | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
explosive devices into the road. He said he was told British servicemen | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
were manning an observation to Fash post in the area but was not giving | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
their exact location until after the tragedy, nor had he polled | :05:27. | :05:34. | |
about Arab -- a firing line which had been drawn up to protect the | :05:34. | :05:44. | |
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soldiers from Freddie fire. -- Lance corporal Pritchard's mother | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
was visibly upset and left the room before the sniper said he fired two | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
warning shots and for warning -- lethal shots before he sought the | :06:00. | :06:10. | |
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The inquest has heard port Radiocommunications played a major | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
role in the incident. -- poor radio communications. | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
In a moment: Recognised for his bravery, the lifeboatman who risked | :06:27. | :06:36. | |
his life to save seven people in a storm in the English channel. | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
Ambulances across the South East are being forced to spend an | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
increasing amount of time queuing outside hospital Accident & | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
Emergency departments. The body that represents paramedics says the | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
situation is dangerous and unsustainable, putting patients at | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
risk. It should take no more than 30 minutes for paramedics to | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
handover a patient to A&E staff, then get back on the road to | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
respond to emergency calls. But over the last three years the | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
number of hours ambulances are spending waiting outside our | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
hospitals has increased by 50%, with waits of several hours in the | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
most extreme cases. The South East Coast Ambulance Service say it's | :07:11. | :07:21. | |
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the highest risk they're facing. is a serious issue, number one on | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
our risk register, an indication of how seriously we take it as a trust. | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
It is a system wide issue, a problem for the whole health | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
service. We cannot resolve it on our own. It is an issue of patient | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
safety and experience. Also of staff morale, and all those reasons, | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
we as a healthcare system have to sort this out. So where are the | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
biggest blackspots for ambulance waiting times? In Sussex, | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
ambulances queued outside the Eastbourne District General for | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
over 4,500 hours in the last financial year, a 41% increase | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
compared to three years before. There was a 100% increase over the | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
same period at the Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford, with waiting | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
times totalling over 1,600 hours. And the highest increase in our | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
region was at the East Surrey Hospital in Redhill, up 117%, with | :08:06. | :08:16. | |
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ambulances queuing for 4,500 hours. The hospital last year did have a | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
significant problem that the number of beds it had, our capacity was | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
low. We have now opened two new wards which has increased capacity | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
and we are going through a multi- million pound project to improve | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
our emergency department. Now we are actually able to meet those | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
targets much better, and at the moment our performance is extremely | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
good. Our reporter Katie Inman's been following the story and joins | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
us live from the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton. What | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
are the various hospital trusts doing about this problem? There was | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
a magic word in that clip, that his capacity. Hospitals across the | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
south-east say they are trying to create more space. It is happening | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
here in Brighton hospital, they are extending the number of beds in A&E | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
and increasing the waiting areas. It is not just about fixing A&E, | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
they want to make more beds available on wards, which means | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
working more closely with adult social care so that when elderly | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
people are ready to go home, there is a bed for them in the community. | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
It is also about working much more closely with GPs, so people do not | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
turn up at A&E unless they need to. South East Coast Ambulance Service | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
say that they're optimistic that action is being taken to improve | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
the situation. But with our hospitals facing increasing demand | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
for services and increasing pressure on budgets, some paramedic | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
union reps say they don't share that optimism. | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
Kent County Council is under fire tonight for continuing to invest | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
tens of millions of pounds worth of pension funds in tobacco companies. | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
The authority plays a key role in protecting public health, and a new | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
report says cigarette manufacturers should be treated as pariahs. Our | :09:52. | :10:02. | |
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Political Editor Louise Stewart reports. | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
Over 80% of cigarette smoke is invincible -- imitable... Hard- | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
hitting adverts like this show the dangers of smoking. Kent county | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
council promotes anti-smoking initiatives on its website. But the | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
organisation has been criticised for investing �24 million of its | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
pension funds into tobacco companies. The pension fund has to | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
be independent of the political side of life, and the whole | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
objective of the exercise is to get the maximum return to camp for the | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
pensioners that other. It represents more than 300 | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
organisations. From next year, local authorities like Kent County | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
Council become responsible for public health, taking on the powers | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
from the National Health Service. Campaigners say any investment in | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
firms like tobacco companies would then be ethically wrong. We are | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
calling on them to we him -- reconsider its investment in | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
tobacco companies. They have new responsibilities to protect and | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
promote the good health of Kent residents, and there is no way this | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
investment can achieve that, it does the reverse. That is the | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
feedback from anti-smoking charities. You cannot both be the | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
biggest shareholder in tobacco and protect your public out from | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
tobacco companies. It has come at a time when they are thinking, we | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
cannot square the circle any more, it is time to turn out of -- turn | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
away from tobacco. But how concerned are people in Maidstone? | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
Difficult, I am a smoker as well. I can see the moral side of it. | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
don't think you should be putting money into an ethical product, be | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
it tobacco or anything else. -- products which are not ethical. | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
has got to be down to the conscience of the individual or | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
organisation. Kent county council say they are holding an annual | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
review of how to enjoy the best returns and considering these | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
ethical issues. A Chatham woman allegedly murdered | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
by her estranged husband sealed her fate when she refused to go back to | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
him, a jury has heard. Danai Mohammadi is accused of setting | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
fire to Melissa Crook's family home, killing her, their baby son and her | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
father. Under cross-examination today, he denied the prosecution | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
suggestion that a divorce would have caused him a loss of face, a | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
loss of honour and a loss of control over her. He's one of three | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
defendants who deny murder, and the trial continues. | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
Plans to use private firms to carry out police roles in Surrey are | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
being put on hold. The controversial privatisation plans | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
will be delayed until after the Olympics, which will allow more | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
time for a public consultation. Squatters have occupied a former | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
supermarket in Brighton. They are protesting against a local | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
Conservative MP who's calling for squatting in empty buildings to be | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
made a criminal offence. Activists from across the country have taken | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
over the former Co-Op store in London Road. But the MP for Hove | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
and Portslade Mike Weatherley says squatters cause damage and | :12:53. | :13:03. | |
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disruption. Squatters and homeless people are two entirely de -- said | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
that thing. Squatters tend to be anarchist to do not have a regard | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
for the law, whereas homeless people, we need to recover the | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
vulnerable in our society. If these squatters are so well organised | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
they are able to mobilise people across Europe into a conference, we | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
cannot call them attritional homeless people. Our Correspondent | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
is in Brighton. The squatters have called for four days of actors and | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
went -- axes and here, so what a police expecting? -- activism. | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
are talking to the squatters and will monitor the situation closely, | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
they are also talking to the MP. I think they were both expecting | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
squatters to take over a building in this constituency, but instead | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
they chose the supermarket, they plan to be here for four days over | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
the weekend. This is a huge weekend for Brighton, the first weekend of | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
the festival, a lot of visitors and a huge boost to the local economy. | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
Everyone is hoping that the squatters lead at the end of the | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
weekend having made their point. Our top story tonight. | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
A maintenance worker accused of disappearing with more than �20,000 | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
of Kent taxpayers' money has contacted this programme from China | :14:11. | :14:18. | |
to insist he's done nothing wrong. Paul Carter was wrongly paid seven | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
months' worth of expenses intended for the leader of the council, also | :14:21. | :14:28. | |
called Paul Carter. Also in tonight's programme: | :14:28. | :14:36. | |
Damon Hill gears up to race out of retirement at Brands Hatch. | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
And singing for England, the Kent songwriter whose tune has been | :14:39. | :14:48. | |
picked as the team anthem for Euro 2012. | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
He risked his life to save seven people in a force 11 storm in the | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
English channel, and today Garry Clark from Dungeness has been | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
recognised for what has been described as his exemplary bravery. | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
He's been awarded the RNLI's Silver Medal for Gallantry, one of the | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
highest honours they can give, for his work in helping rescue the crew | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
of a yacht being battered by huge waves in January. Claudia | :15:07. | :15:17. | |
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Sermbezsis has our story update. The waves were described as the | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
size of houses. The sea was violent, the swells were six metres high. | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
But as the Dungeness lifeboat pulled alongside the stricken yacht, | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
rescue a Garry Clark jump. We came up on the stern of the yachts, and | :15:33. | :15:40. | |
I got a strip -- split-second where I was able to jump across. A split | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
second later, they were apart again. I had a moment which was lucky so I | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
got a board. A bundle of first aid was thrown to Gary, he had to help | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
the seven people on board. One had smashed into the helm, four were | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
seriously seasick. They thought they were going to die. The person | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
that was sharing a cabin with me earlier in the night had sent it by | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
text messages to her family. The RNLI to the most beautiful job. | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
They are prepared to go out in all weathers. It was extremely bad | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
conditions, they were seriously jeopardising their own lives. | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
crew of the Dungeness lifeboat are used to rough conditions, but that | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
day in January was the worse they have ever seen. In total, they were | :16:24. | :16:31. | |
out on the altar for 11 hours. How scary was it out there? Scary, very | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
scary. But I have every confidence in the RNLI, they. Wonderful job. | :16:37. | :16:43. | |
Dover lifeboat and a helicopter team were also scrambled to rescue. | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
This afternoon, Garry Clark was singled out for been especially | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
brave and selfless. institution's silver medal for | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
gallantry is awarded to crew member Garry Clark. Garry Clark received | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
one of the RNLI's highest honours for what was described as an | :17:01. | :17:11. | |
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outstanding act which undoubtedly saved seven lives. | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
It's been a real labour of love, but now a huge banner fit to | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
decorate the Queen's barge during next month's Jubilee Pageant is all | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
but finished. It took five seamstresses and one designer four | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
months to sew on the half a million buttons incorporated into the | :17:25. | :17:32. | |
banner's design, getting through 250 needles in the process. Peter | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
Whittlesea has been to Margate as the devoted team near the end of | :17:35. | :17:44. | |
their royal appointment. It is a familiar image that is on | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
everything from your passport to the coins in your pocket. But you | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
have to be on the bottom up to notice what is and different about | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
this. It is a memorial coat-of-arms -- you have to be on at the bottom. | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
A tiny section like this, you have to be about a couple of hours. | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
selling on military buttons at the moment, they are very bright and | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
give the piece a bit of depth. If you are trying to describe | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
something three-dimensional, you have a lot of buttons, and when it | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
is darker, you have less buttons. The banner will form part of the | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
centrepiece of the Thames Jubilee pageant, flying from the spirit of | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
Chartwell which will carry the Queen. The artwork was inspired by | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
pearly kings and queens, combining two of the capital's traditions. | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
would be nice to be make a piece about the royal family which is | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
also about the alternative -- alternative royal family of the | :18:46. | :18:54. | |
east end, so we have the two while families dovetailed. Well in a tree | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
runs through her most popular works. They have -- or royalty. They have | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
been snapped up by the likes of Elton John. On the day he itself, | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
she will be watching just in case there are unforeseen problems. | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
will be standing on the Millennium Bridge, hopefully it will be | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
passing underneath us, I will be looking out for any buttons that | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
might have be falling off, and I will chuck a sewing kit onto the | :19:22. | :19:32. | |
boat! The buttons or also on by hand, and it was no quick fix. Even | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
a humble button can be transformed into a gift fit for the Queen. | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
That is a lot of buttons! Damon Hill became Formula One world | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
champion in 1996 at a time when Michael Schumacher was at the peak | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
of his powers, arguably one of the best drivers this country has ever | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
produced. But for the last 13 years, he hasn't raced competitively. But | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
this weekend, he is coming out of retirement to race at Brands Hatch | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
in a special event to raise money to support young people with a | :19:58. | :20:04. | |
learning disability. Neil Bell reports. | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
Damon Hill is one of the most popular and respected drivers in | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
British motor racing history. Bayman hell, it's world champion. - | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
- Damon Hill, world champion. Against the odds, he rose to the | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
top in the highly competitive world of Formula One. Today he was back | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
on the track and he could hardly believe it was over a decade since | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
his last race. I don't understand, it comes back like you have never | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
been a way, that is the bizarre thing like this doing something you | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
have done a lot. It is like no time has elapsed at all. It is good fun | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
until you start to get competitive, then it starts to fall apart again! | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
After a long apprenticeship, Damon Hill began his F1 career in 1992. | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
He won the British bomb Prix at Silverstone in 1994, -- Grand Prix, | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
and two years later, he was Formula One champion. Four Damon Hill is a | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
huge they. He had to fight hard to get into Formula One, even though | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
he had the name, he still had to get in and perform to become the | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
world champion. I grew up watching him racing in Formula One so it is | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
a hero, it is great to hear him racing here in front of a home | :21:18. | :21:26. | |
crowd. He will compete in the Soroka Cup on Saturday. He will get | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
a chance to compete with his mates, raise the money for charity, and | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
drive round Brands Hatch once again. I know like -- I know this place | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
like the back of my hand, I could go with it blindfold round. I have | :21:41. | :21:49. | |
been coming here since I was a tiny child. I have raced here. So where | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
better to finish an illustrious career, and just for a few minutes, | :21:53. | :22:03. | |
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relive some of the magic moment of your past. | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
The Olympic Torch Relay starts tomorrow at Lands End, and details | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
of how you can get a ticket for the live show when it stops at Dover on | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
Wednesday 18th July have been released. Rizzle Kicks will be | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
performing at the evening stage event on Marine Parade. A crowd of | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
16,000 people is expected and the free tickets will be awarded by | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
ballot. You can register on the Ticketmaster website from 31st May. | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
And I'll be presenting a special live programme from Dover, | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
alongside Kent's double Olympic gold medallist Dame Kelly Holmes | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
that evening at 7pm. Over the years, it's fair to say | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
that music and football have been uneasy bedfellows. In fact, some of | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
the world's worst crimes against pop music have been committed in | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
the name of the sport. But now Paul Baker, a songwriter from Kent, is | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
hoping to change that. His tune Sing 4 England has been chosen as | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
England's official anthem for the team's forthcoming Euro 2012 | :22:52. | :23:01. | |
campaign. Ellie Price has the story. A manager has been chosen, the | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
squad is in place. Today came the last decision that could secure | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
England European Cup glory. The right song. This is our time to | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
prove them wrong, we'll win if we stand strong. This is it. It was | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
penned by a man from Kent. thought it was about time that can | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
write a really good song for the euro's. I thought, I need someone | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
good to front the song, somebody inspirational, someone who has got | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
that ability to sing. And here is my man! You may recognise the front | :23:35. | :23:43. | |
man, he has got experience on the pitch and in the commentary box. | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
One I heard the song, Paul Baker wrote it, I thought, here we go, it | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
will be another one of those that you hear it, you put your name to | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
it and it is a load of rubbish. I thought I would listen, but the | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
first 30 seconds, it was a proper football song. It had me gripped | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
straight away. And everybody I played it to says it is exactly the | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
same, brilliant, it is a wonderful, the fans can sing it on the | :24:07. | :24:17. | |
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terraces. Remember this? New order? John Barnes got the world in motion, | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
as well as Gazza. What self- respecting England fan could forget | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
this? The Lightning Seeds with a deal and Skinner with three lions. | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
So popular, it was a pride in 1998. We never stopped believing. Then | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
came England United, the Spice Guards, a cow and the banning them. | :24:40. | :24:50. | |
It reached number nine in the chart. England got kicked out. This time | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
the song is a little less ambitious, but it is good enough to go the | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
whole way? It is surprisingly good. It is a chance for the terraces, -- | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
it is chanting for the terraces, it is catchy enough for the pop charts. | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
It is rousing enough. The song is due for release in early June, | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
which should give advance just enough time to learn the lyrics. | :25:16. | :25:25. | |
Chris Kamara, cinder -- singer. The song has been launched today. How | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
do we think the song is going to be received? I like it, and it is | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
being launched tonight in central London. They obviously feeling | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
quite confident, they had invited lot of celebrities. Singers, | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
comedians and models to review it. I think the writer is pretty laid | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
back. He wants this sum to do well, the proceeds will all go to Marie | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
Curie cancer care. He thinks the sun has got all the crucial | :25:53. | :26:01. | |
elements, the rhymes, the chanting, and that important word, England! | :26:01. | :26:11. | |
We will get a cheque on the weather What a difference a day makes. | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
Plenty of sunshine yesterday, it has been increasingly cloudy and | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
unsettled through the afternoon today. Mostly dry tonight, a cloudy | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
but dry start tomorrow. Increasingly unsettled through the | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
afternoon, outbreaks of patchy light rain for us all. At the | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
moment, we are seeing some rain clipping the south coast. | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
Temperatures quite similar to yesterday bad feeling a bit cooler. | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
Gentle southerly breezes. Those showers are lingering through the | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
first part of tonight, plenty of cloud around, clearer skies by dawn. | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
Temperatures not too bad for the time of year. A relatively mild and | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
quite bright start of the day tomorrow, but low pressure is | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
pushing up from the south. It will be increasingly cloudy and | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
unsettled as well. Patchy light rain for us all. Those wins from a | :27:09. | :27:18. | |
south-easterly direction. -- at those winds. The rain will | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
eventually clear as to go through tomorrow night, plenty of cloud | :27:21. | :27:28. | |
around. Again, a mild night, temperatures mostly staying in | :27:28. | :27:35. |