:00:11. > :00:14.Natalie Graham. And I'm Rob Smith. Tonight's top stories. The
:00:14. > :00:24.Archbishop of Canterbury comes out against gay marriage - telling the
:00:24. > :00:27.
:00:27. > :00:33.house of lords the change would be "neither equal nor effective".
:00:33. > :00:38.idea of marriage as covenant is diminished. Also in tonight's
:00:38. > :00:40.programme: A man is in hospital with serious head injuries after
:00:40. > :00:50.apparantly falling through a skylight in Brighton. We're live in
:00:50. > :00:58.the city with the latest. It's the end of an era at Gatwick airport, as
:00:58. > :01:00.part of the original South terminal is demolished. And the Sussex
:01:00. > :01:10.lifeguard who's become a Hollywood success story after writing the
:01:10. > :01:27.
:01:27. > :01:30.script for Ironman three. -- Iron Government's gay marriage bill, the
:01:30. > :01:32.Archbishop of Canterbury has spoken out against the bill, saying that
:01:32. > :01:36.gay marriage would "abolish" the existing institution and replace it
:01:36. > :01:39.with a weaker option. Archbishop Welby said that the plans would be
:01:39. > :01:44."neither equal nor effective" - but he would strongly support a "new and
:01:44. > :01:50.valued institution" for same-sex relationships. Jon Hunt reports.
:01:50. > :01:54.Justin Welby's opposition to equal marriage has been known since his
:01:54. > :01:59.enthronement as Archbishop of Canterbury, in March. He chose the
:01:59. > :02:05.House of Lords to explain his position in the clearest terms.
:02:05. > :02:08.new marriage of the bill is an awkward shape, with same gender and
:02:08. > :02:14.different gender categories scrunched into it. Neither of them
:02:14. > :02:18.fitting well. The concept of marriage is a nominative place where
:02:18. > :02:26.procreation is lost. The idea of marriage as covenant is diminished.
:02:26. > :02:30.The value of its normal since predating the state and the base of
:02:30. > :02:35.community and society is weakened. Same-sex couples have been able to
:02:35. > :02:39.enter into civil partnerships in the UK since 2004. The House of Lords is
:02:39. > :02:42.debating a correlation bill to allow them to marry. That bill was passed
:02:42. > :02:51.in the Commons last week despite opposition from some MPs in this
:02:51. > :02:54.region. I would hope that the archbishop would defend the Church
:02:54. > :02:59.of England position which is that marriage is between one man and one
:02:59. > :03:03.woman. That is what he has done, and I hope that the House of Lords will
:03:03. > :03:09.spare her Majesty the embarrassment of the head of the Church of England
:03:09. > :03:12.of having to possibly give Royal assent to a bill that I've suspect
:03:12. > :03:17.she would find profoundly distasteful. The first French gay
:03:17. > :03:23.couple married in Montpelier last week after equal marriage was
:03:23. > :03:27.legalised there. So was the archbishop right to intervene?
:03:27. > :03:33.don't think he has got quite grasp of whether broad society of people
:03:33. > :03:39.would on that point. I think he has the right to make that statement, in
:03:39. > :03:44.a way. Equal marriage is an important step in the legislative
:03:45. > :03:48.jigsaw for equality for lesbian, gay and bisexual people in Britain.
:03:48. > :03:53.Seven in ten people in Britain support this proposal. Whilst saying
:03:53. > :04:00.he could not support the equal marriage Bill, Justin Welby did
:04:00. > :04:10.express regret for the way that the church had treated homosexual people
:04:10. > :04:14.in the past. Ellie Price, our politcial reporter joins us now.
:04:14. > :04:19.Ellie, how significant is this intervention? His position is not
:04:19. > :04:23.that surprising. But it is the timing of such robust comments. This
:04:23. > :04:28.bill has gone through the Commons. It has gone through the democratic
:04:28. > :04:31.rosettes, albeit causing a major row within the Tory party on the way,
:04:31. > :04:35.and we have a senior figure who has come out against the wishes of the
:04:35. > :04:39.majority in the Commons. It will add fuel to those who would say that
:04:39. > :04:45.there should be some separation between church and state. That is
:04:46. > :04:47.part of a wider debate about reform of the House of Lords. This is the
:04:47. > :04:52.first major foray that the Archbishop of Canterbury has made
:04:52. > :04:55.into politics, and it could be a sign of things to come. He also
:04:55. > :05:00.apologised for the way that the church has treated homosexual people
:05:00. > :05:05.in the past. Yes, he did that, as well as apologising for some of the
:05:05. > :05:10.language used in the past. He said there had in considerable failure.
:05:10. > :05:18.He said that the love between two gay people is no less than the love
:05:18. > :05:21.between two straight couples. I'm sure that that -- he took his job
:05:21. > :05:30.with a description as a progressive, and band I'm sure that that there is
:05:30. > :05:32.a description he would wish to hold onto. A man who put 27
:05:32. > :05:35.anti-depressant tablets in his friend's drink is standing trial for
:05:35. > :05:39.his manslaughter. Jason Wood, who was a dwarf, died after a night
:05:39. > :05:41.drinking with friends in Thanet. Lee Webster admitted putting the
:05:41. > :05:44.prescription medicines in his beer as a prank - but denies any
:05:44. > :05:46.intention to harm him. Sara Smith reports. It was this shared in
:05:46. > :05:49.Ramsgate that the defendant, another resident and their friend, Jason
:05:49. > :05:56.Wood, spent three days together last over. According to witnesses,
:05:56. > :05:59.drinking heavily. In the early hours of Monday the 22nd, Jason Wood, who
:05:59. > :06:06.had the authors and suffered from sleep apnoea, which affected his
:06:06. > :06:10.breathing, went to the bathroom. When he returned, Lee Webster had
:06:10. > :06:16.put 27 of his own prescription antidepressant tablets into his
:06:16. > :06:21.beer. The next morning, Jason Wood was found dead in an armchair. His
:06:21. > :06:26.sister said today her brother was a funny man but said that he drank too
:06:26. > :06:31.much, but she would have described him as an alcoholic. The court heard
:06:31. > :06:41.that she had received a Facebook message from the defendant a month
:06:41. > :06:59.
:06:59. > :07:06.after the death of her brother, tablets into his friends drink,
:07:06. > :07:10.thinking that it would be a laugh. Today the jury were told whether
:07:10. > :07:20.they were told to decide whether they think the drugs made a
:07:20. > :07:40.
:07:40. > :07:42.significant contribution to Leigh head injuries this evening, after
:07:42. > :07:45.plunging through a roof skylight and landing in a concrete basement 20
:07:45. > :07:48.feet below. The incident happened in Brighton this morning. He was a
:07:48. > :07:51.resident at a backpackers' hostel in the city. John Young reports from
:07:51. > :07:54.the scene. Emergency crews were called just before ten o'clock this
:07:54. > :07:58.morning to a street near the seafront popular with backpackers.
:07:58. > :08:04.They had received reports of a man found on the concrete floor of a
:08:04. > :08:08.basement, having fallen about 20 feet, crashing through a skylight.
:08:08. > :08:14.People working in a nearby office heard the commotion. We were in the
:08:14. > :08:21.office, with heard a very loud bang, possibly like dustbin being
:08:21. > :08:25.collected, and in the next thing we saw, there were lots of firemen
:08:25. > :08:31.around and we heard that someone had fallen through Perspex, into a
:08:31. > :08:36.sinkhole. The air ambulance was soon on the scene, and this afternoon,
:08:36. > :08:40.Sussex police revealed that the man, a guest at the hostel, had been
:08:40. > :08:47.wearing only a T-shirt. Police are investigating how and why you got
:08:47. > :08:57.there. We got the gentleman stabilised and got them onto a
:08:57. > :08:57.
:08:58. > :09:05.stretcher. We removed him from the building. He had injuries to his
:09:05. > :09:08.back and head, which were serious. The air and has became involved
:09:08. > :09:18.because of the seriousness of the man's injuries. He was flown to
:09:18. > :09:28.treatment to King's College Hospital in London. John Young joins us now
:09:28. > :09:28.
:09:28. > :09:31.from near the scene. This incident has caused some disruption. Yes, the
:09:31. > :09:35.air ambulance landed on the beach on a warm summer 's morning. And the
:09:35. > :09:39.main road had to be closed off whilst the ambulance and police
:09:39. > :09:44.sorted things out. The owners of the hostel have said they would not give
:09:44. > :09:54.any interviews. They have said they are helping the police as they carry
:09:54. > :10:00.
:10:00. > :10:04.out their investigation. A man has been arrested on suspicion of rape
:10:04. > :10:08.in East Grinstead. A woman in her 20s was walking through the cemetery
:10:08. > :10:10.at Mount Noddy in the early hours of Saturday morning, when she was
:10:10. > :10:13.attacked. Police are questioning a 27 year -old man from the town.
:10:13. > :10:17.They're appealing for anyone with information to come forward. A lorry
:10:17. > :10:19.fire caused severe delays on the M26 in Kent this morning. Four fire
:10:19. > :10:22.crews were called to the scene on the westbound carriageway just after
:10:22. > :10:26.nine o'clock, with traffic being diverted onto the M20. The road
:10:26. > :10:30.didn't reopen until two o'clock. I thank police cars were damaged and
:10:31. > :10:35.several other vehicles involved after a vandal to stop in Sussex
:10:35. > :10:39.will stop the grey Ford transit was eventually stopped on the a 27
:10:39. > :10:49.following a chase. Two men have been arrested in connection with the
:10:49. > :10:52.
:10:52. > :10:55.incident. Work has begun to demolish Pier One at Gatwick Airport and
:10:55. > :10:59.replace it with a new building. The Pier links the South Terminal to the
:10:59. > :11:01.aircraft boarding gates and was the first in the UK when it opened in
:11:01. > :11:05.the 1960s. The �200 million project includes new baggage systems to
:11:05. > :11:07.allow luggage to be processed faster and is part of a �1.2 billion
:11:07. > :11:16.investment being made by the airport's owners. Here's our
:11:17. > :11:20.Business Correspondent Mark Norman. The story begins in 1958. We were
:11:20. > :11:29.ahead of time even then, with the first structure allowing passengers
:11:29. > :11:35.to board planes undercover. But nothing lasts forever. After 50
:11:35. > :11:43.years, Pier one is being demolished. It is the latest stage in a big
:11:43. > :11:48.redevelopment of the airport. upgrading the facilities here in the
:11:48. > :11:56.airport. This is just the start of a new, major project with a further
:11:56. > :12:01.�189 million of investment. As they start smashing up Pier one, it is
:12:01. > :12:05.worth remembering it was first built in 1962, and last year, around 1.86
:12:06. > :12:15.million passengers came through here. When it is reopened, it will
:12:15. > :12:20.deal with around 4000 passenger suitcases each hour. The principal
:12:20. > :12:24.was copied around the world. It will be replaced by a new building
:12:24. > :12:33.handling more passengers more quickly. The old one consignment to
:12:33. > :12:36.history and memory. I first came here in 1968 and I was one of three
:12:36. > :12:40.electricians working on installing the power supply. It was just like a
:12:40. > :12:47.glass box. It was freezing cold in the winter. It was like a glasshouse
:12:47. > :12:50.during the summer. The new pier will open in two years time, expected to
:12:50. > :13:00.deal with unexpected rise in passenger numbers from 34 million,
:13:00. > :13:07.
:13:07. > :13:10.to a target of more than 40 million. The team trying to recover a German
:13:10. > :13:13.World War II bomber from the sea off the Kent coast are back in Ramsgate
:13:13. > :13:16.empty handed. They were forced to abandon their attempt to raise the
:13:17. > :13:20.Dornier 17 during the night because of bad weather. Their budget of more
:13:20. > :13:23.than �500,000 allowed them 35 days to complete the project. They now
:13:23. > :13:27.estimate their original plan would take 50 days - longer if the bad
:13:27. > :13:31.weather returned - and would cost tens of thousands of pounds more.
:13:31. > :13:33.They say they'll wait for exactly the right conditions to attempt to
:13:33. > :13:37.raise the plane off the Goodwin Sands. Robin Gibson reports. This
:13:37. > :13:40.should have been the climax of an exciting night, but once again, wind
:13:40. > :13:45.and waves conspired in the darkness, leaving the team no choice
:13:45. > :13:49.but to give up. After years of planning and waiting for the perfect
:13:49. > :13:52.weather window, this was a sight that no one involved in the project
:13:52. > :14:00.wanted to see. The giant crane coming back with no aircraft
:14:00. > :14:03.on-board. This effort has been protected by the Goodwin Sands and
:14:03. > :14:07.difficult conditions for many years, so it was not going to be easy, but
:14:07. > :14:17.we are determined to raise the aircraft and we will do it safely
:14:17. > :14:17.
:14:17. > :14:20.when the conditions are right will stop by stash. The Dornier 17 was an
:14:20. > :14:26.enigmatic aircraft, operated by the German air force from the start of
:14:26. > :14:34.World War II. Many people will know the aircraft by that name. This is
:14:34. > :14:41.the only one left in the world. there was an emotional link to his
:14:41. > :14:48.personal history. His father might have piloted the RAF craft that
:14:48. > :14:52.brought the Dornier 17 down. He was flying defiance with 264 Squadron,
:14:52. > :14:58.and is believed that 264 Squadron shot this one down, and it could
:14:58. > :15:02.have been my father, and has gone, Fred cash. My family never really
:15:02. > :15:09.wanted to talk about any of this side of it. It is such an
:15:09. > :15:15.extraordinary story that they came up with. And, you know, he felt for
:15:15. > :15:19.the element that he was shooting down, basically. The salvage team
:15:19. > :15:26.had to find more than half a million pounds from supporters and sponsors.
:15:27. > :15:31.It is a calculated risk, that they could be throwing money into the
:15:31. > :15:35.sea. We are cautious about expenditure, but there is a little
:15:35. > :15:41.bit of headroom, so without being too profligate, we are going to try
:15:41. > :15:51.and stretch that. So the Dornier 17's last journey is turning into an
:15:51. > :15:54.
:15:54. > :15:58.odyssey. Robin Gibson reporting, and he's at the scene for us now. Robin,
:15:58. > :16:02.the big question now is, when is it going to happen? It is all down to
:16:02. > :16:10.time, weather and money. Just like yesterday, the breeze has come up,
:16:10. > :16:13.so they are still hoping for a right time with a slack tide over the
:16:13. > :16:18.right spot. They say they have enough money to carry on, but of
:16:18. > :16:28.course, the big question is, will they have the luck to be able to
:16:28. > :16:31.
:16:31. > :16:33.raise this aircraft, before that money runs out? Our top story
:16:33. > :16:37.tonight. The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has spoken
:16:37. > :16:40.out against gay marriage in the House of Lords. He said it would
:16:40. > :16:47.abolish the Institute Gene of marriage and replace it with a
:16:47. > :16:54.weaker option. Also tonight, the former Sussex lifeguard who has
:16:54. > :17:01.written a script for the latest iron man film. And whilst some parts of
:17:01. > :17:11.the South East have had a lovely, sunny 20 degrees this week, find out
:17:11. > :17:15.
:17:15. > :17:18.later why some of us will remain at a chilly 12 Celsius. The chance to
:17:18. > :17:24.record a single in a professional studio is the dream of many
:17:24. > :17:27.teenagers. Back in 1953, two sisters from Kent were given just that
:17:27. > :17:30.opportunity when they recorded a song written for them by their
:17:30. > :17:33.father for the Queen's Coronation. But for years it lay lost and
:17:33. > :17:34.forgotten - until it was re-discovered in time for the
:17:34. > :17:44.weekend's 60th anniversary celebrations. Peter Whittlesea has
:17:44. > :17:46.
:17:47. > :17:56.tonight's special report. It is a catchy chewing, written for the
:17:57. > :18:13.
:18:13. > :18:23.Coronation, but for 60 years, the up. And how old were you at the
:18:23. > :18:27.
:18:27. > :18:32.time? I was 13. And I was a bit older! George took it to Denmark
:18:32. > :18:40.Street, London's tin Pan Alley, and was told he had left it too late to
:18:40. > :18:49.produce a song for the Coronation. He sang it to someone who worked
:18:50. > :18:59.with, who was a pianist, who wrote the actual music and then he would
:19:00. > :19:05.
:19:05. > :19:12.offer with the guy, I recorded it. Quite nervous. As you can hear on
:19:12. > :19:19.the record, we don't come in at the right time. Gripped by Coronation
:19:19. > :19:29.fever, the song was put on the back burner, and forgotten. The Diamond
:19:29. > :19:48.
:19:48. > :19:58.Jubilee reminded the family of their on people's special memories of the
:19:58. > :19:59.
:19:59. > :20:02.coronation, you can, on our website. He started out as a lifeguard in
:20:02. > :20:04.East Grinstead, but in between watching the swimmers and checking
:20:04. > :20:09.the lockers, Drew Pearce was quietly working on his scriptwriting. And
:20:09. > :20:16.it's paid off handsomely. He wrote the script for the recent box office
:20:16. > :20:20.hit "Iron Man three", based on the popular Marvel Comic character. He's
:20:20. > :20:25.also working on upcoming big-budget films - including the third Sherlock
:20:25. > :20:30.Holmes movie. Rebecca Williams went to meet him. It has already made
:20:30. > :20:37.over $1 billion at the box office and has been screened at cinemas
:20:37. > :20:44.across the world. But the man who penned the script hails from humble
:20:44. > :20:53.origins in East Grinstead. I work in a video shop and watched lots of
:20:53. > :21:02.videos. And so, I may have got quite a lot of the videos for free. And so
:21:02. > :21:11.I watched lots of those films. big break came following his
:21:11. > :21:15.creation of this bash -- the sitcom, no heroics. It was based on my time
:21:15. > :21:22.as a spectacularly unsuccessful musician. He would rehearse for an
:21:22. > :21:25.hour, then sit around in the pub with a copy of NME, bitching about
:21:25. > :21:31.everyone who is more successful than you, for the rest of the evening.
:21:31. > :21:35.And I thought it was a bit boring to do it about people in a band, so I
:21:35. > :21:44.did it about superheroes and my friends who were musicians, and
:21:44. > :21:53.that's what saved no heroics, at the end of the day. It led onto
:21:53. > :22:00.Godzilla. I would love nothing more than to tell you that I am a
:22:00. > :22:03.millionaire, and that I flew in here on my gold in here on my golden jet.
:22:03. > :22:09.I actually got paid very little in the relative scheme of things for
:22:09. > :22:16.iron man three. What tends to happen is that a lawyer calls up your agent
:22:16. > :22:21.and says we will offer you that much money, and the lawyer says, that is
:22:21. > :22:31.just like three bags of grapes, then the agent says, you don't have to do
:22:31. > :22:34.
:22:34. > :22:44.it. So how much did you get paid? Three bags of grapes! I think he
:22:44. > :22:50.
:22:50. > :22:53.should be doing comedy. The new owners of Ebbsfleet United have been
:22:53. > :22:58.talking about why they have invested in the club. The club were just days
:22:58. > :23:05.from going into administration when a Kuwaiti investment group stepped
:23:05. > :23:07.in to save them. Not so long ago, Ebbsfleet United where one of the
:23:07. > :23:17.biggest clubs in the league but all, and their future looked assured. By
:23:17. > :23:18.
:23:18. > :23:24.stash nonleague foot all. Nonleague foot tall. In April they were
:23:24. > :23:32.relegated, broke and close to administration before new Kuwaiti
:23:32. > :23:36.owners arrived just in time. Around January, February, we had no money
:23:36. > :23:41.to pay for oil to heat the office. We were pretty much on our own.
:23:41. > :23:45.Freezing to death. I think they were the things that make you realise,
:23:45. > :23:52.that the football club is more important, but maybe we were not
:23:52. > :23:59.going to succeed. So, why would support dwindling and the team
:23:59. > :24:03.struggling, would anyone want to invest in Ebbsfleet United?
:24:03. > :24:11.wanted to create something from scratch and build it up, and in an
:24:11. > :24:17.area where potentially, there was going to be growth. We have the
:24:17. > :24:25.railway connection across the road. And this is quite an exciting area
:24:25. > :24:34.to be in. Like Peter Varney, the new management team of Steve Brown and
:24:34. > :24:39.Steve Grit enjoyed success at Charlton athletic. It is a chance to
:24:39. > :24:47.do a journey back into the blue Square Premier league and beyond,
:24:47. > :24:53.hopefully. The ground will get a facelift as well, and after a few
:24:53. > :24:59.grim seasons, supporters cannot believe their luck. Exciting times
:24:59. > :25:07.for Ebbsfleet United. Let's see if it is going to be exciting times for
:25:07. > :25:10.the weather. It is not a straightforward forecast. When you
:25:10. > :25:14.have got high pressure, quite often it can be very settled and
:25:14. > :25:19.straightforward, but it is down to the wind direction. We have that
:25:19. > :25:24.nagging north-easterly, which means that occasionally, we get a beast
:25:24. > :25:31.from the East. Today we had lots of sunshine, then this cloud started
:25:31. > :25:39.coming in from the North Sea, and temperatures dropped from 17 Celsius
:25:39. > :25:41.down to 11 Celsius in a matter of minutes. Some places will happily
:25:41. > :25:45.have that sunshine and temperatures up to 20 Celsius, but if you have
:25:45. > :25:51.that cloud coming in from the North Sea, and across the Sussex coast,
:25:51. > :25:56.temperatures could be more like 11 or 12 Celsius. And it feels quite
:25:56. > :26:06.chilly at times, as you will know, if you were under that cloud today.
:26:06. > :26:06.
:26:06. > :26:12.Many places will be clear overnight. Temperatures, down to a chilly
:26:12. > :26:18.for-5d in some places last night. Many of us having that sunshine, and
:26:18. > :26:21.particularly, eastern parts of Kent, along the North Kent coast, there
:26:21. > :26:26.will be a strong north-easterly wind, making it feel chilly, and
:26:26. > :26:32.adding to that cloud, leaving us with a maximum temperature of 12
:26:32. > :26:38.Celsius. Further south, we're looking at maximum temperatures of
:26:38. > :26:44.18 Celsius. Going into tomorrow night and into Wednesday, more of us
:26:44. > :26:48.will start to see that cloud coming in, and that is where we will see
:26:48. > :26:57.the Sussex coast getting some loci, coming in, impacting temperatures.
:26:57. > :27:01.-- some low C cloud. The same goes as we go into Thursday and Friday.
:27:01. > :27:06.Many places will have sunshine and warm temperatures, but it is not
:27:06. > :27:11.open to be as warm as the maximum temperatures suggest. Sunny for the
:27:11. > :27:18.majority, but just watch out, under that cloud, and in a strong wind, it
:27:18. > :27:23.will fear -- -- it will feel more chilly. I want you to watch out for
:27:23. > :27:28.some rare clowns. At three or four o'clock in the morning, you will see