:00:09. > :00:12.John Young. And I'm Bryony MacKenzie. Tonight's top stories.
:00:12. > :00:22.No quick fix. An influential report warns Margate is becoming a dumping
:00:22. > :00:24.
:00:24. > :00:28.ground for vulnerable people. Going nowhere, anti-fracking protesters in
:00:28. > :00:32.Sussex say they are determined to stay the course despite the start of
:00:32. > :00:34.drilling. We are going nowhere, we are gaining
:00:34. > :00:38.hearts and minds. Also in tonight's programme. Still
:00:38. > :00:41.missing after more than a week, the chef whose pet dog was found lost in
:00:41. > :00:45.a lane in Surrey. A desk with a difference, a chair
:00:45. > :00:49.with a charge. The workshop where every piece has a story to tell. The
:00:49. > :00:59.Chihuahua with quite a sense of style now stepping up into the world
:00:59. > :01:01.
:01:01. > :01:04.Good evening. Margate is becoming a dumping ground
:01:04. > :01:08.for vulnerable people. That's according to a new report from a
:01:08. > :01:11.think tank which addresses poverty and its causes. The Centre for
:01:11. > :01:14.Social Justice is warning that coastal towns across the country can
:01:14. > :01:17.sometimes be as deprived as some parts of major cities, and says
:01:17. > :01:27.there's no quick fix for the malaise of social and economic problems
:01:27. > :01:33.
:01:33. > :01:37.In some parts of Margate, 40% of people of working age are on
:01:37. > :01:41.benefits. This man is looking for work, having just completed an
:01:41. > :01:47.apprenticeship. Most of my family is on job-seeker's Allowance, they have
:01:47. > :01:55.spent a year, a year and a half looking for jobs. Every time there
:01:55. > :02:02.is a job, there are 40 or 50 people going for it. They expect us to live
:02:02. > :02:08.on �295 a month. It is really difficult when you have got a place
:02:08. > :02:14.of your own. It is hard to get work. Most people seem to have kids and
:02:14. > :02:24.get free flat. They do! The report describes Margate as being in an
:02:24. > :02:30.advanced state of Brookline. -- decline. It has been struggling to
:02:30. > :02:35.stay above water since the 1960s. What became clear is that they have
:02:35. > :02:41.become dumping grounds, places where people spend the most vulnerable,
:02:41. > :02:44.the poorest, and those that need a lot of help. It says the decline of
:02:44. > :02:49.the bucket and spade holiday has led to former hotel is being converted
:02:49. > :02:56.into cheap flats. They have had enquiries here from councils in
:02:56. > :03:01.wealthier areas, that see Margate as a low-cost option. We have been
:03:01. > :03:11.approached by a London borough. They are having to top them up with
:03:11. > :03:11.
:03:11. > :03:16.Discretionary Housing Payments it's --. I phoned the council and said,
:03:16. > :03:21.you are aware of where you are looking, do you know there are not
:03:21. > :03:27.enough school places, we have not enough jobs? The report recognises
:03:27. > :03:30.the importance of this art gallery in bringing in tourists, but it says
:03:30. > :03:37.tourism alone is not the answer. The report outlines plenty of
:03:37. > :03:42.problem, but does it offer any solutions? The report lists
:03:42. > :03:47.criticism after criticism, but very few solutions. It says there are no
:03:47. > :03:53.quick fixes for regeneration. It says one idea is improving the
:03:53. > :03:57.housing and skills of people, and that will help to bring about better
:03:57. > :04:02.neighbourhoods. It praises the work of the Margate task force, which has
:04:02. > :04:05.brought together the police, people involved in the generation and the
:04:05. > :04:09.local communities to make things better, but there is some anger,
:04:09. > :04:12.report has listed negative things without recognising more of the
:04:12. > :04:15.positives. The protests against drilling for
:04:15. > :04:19.oil in the West Sussex village of Balcombe continued through the
:04:19. > :04:22.weekend and into today, with absolutely no end in sight to the
:04:22. > :04:25.demonstrators' camp that's set up outside the village. The company at
:04:25. > :04:28.the centre of it, Cuadrilla, started drilling for oil on Friday, several
:04:28. > :04:38.days behind schedule. In a moment we'll look at the political momentum
:04:38. > :04:39.
:04:39. > :04:43.With Trilling getting under way on Friday, protesters may have felt
:04:43. > :04:53.they had lost the battle, but little of their passion seemed to have
:04:53. > :04:53.
:04:54. > :05:01.dissipated. Another lorry, another demonstration of their anger. They
:05:01. > :05:08.say they are not going anywhere. This is not a lost battle, we are
:05:08. > :05:12.gaining ground. Simply by gaining people and hearts and minds. This is
:05:12. > :05:16.just an exploration project at the moment, drilling to see if there is
:05:16. > :05:22.oil, how much and how easy it would be to bring it to the surface.
:05:22. > :05:28.Today, the protesters were visited by Caroline Lucas, who says even
:05:28. > :05:34.looking for oil is misdirected. This is what the Big Society looks like,
:05:34. > :05:37.this is people saying, not in our backyard. Those who live here had
:05:37. > :05:43.received a letter from their county council, apologising for any
:05:43. > :05:46.disruption from the protests. It was not appreciated by all. They are
:05:46. > :05:51.supposed to be looking after our interests, representing what we
:05:51. > :05:59.think about this. It seems they are representing the interests of this
:05:59. > :06:05.injury. -- industry. With a march over the weekend and the camp dug
:06:05. > :06:07.in, the protest continues. The issue of fracking has become a
:06:07. > :06:12.hugely problematic one for Conservative MPs who find their
:06:12. > :06:15.constituencies in potential fracking zones. One Sussex MP, whose
:06:15. > :06:20.constituency neighbours Balcombe, said that it is causing mounting
:06:20. > :06:23.concern among residents. A senior Liberal Democrat joined the debate,
:06:23. > :06:26.saying the Government has seen flashing pound signs but hasn't
:06:26. > :06:29.considered the long-term threats. Well, fracking was initially hailed
:06:29. > :06:36.as the answer to our energy problems, but our Political Reporter
:06:36. > :06:41.Ellie Price now considers whether the mood may be changing.
:06:41. > :06:46.It is a topic that has not left the headlines for weeks. As the protests
:06:46. > :06:49.continue, such is the level of bunnies amongst some MPs, a
:06:49. > :06:54.spokesman from the Prime Minister reiterated it should only be carried
:06:54. > :07:01.out if there is no risk to the environment. The potential toxicity
:07:01. > :07:07.has spread further that the confines of Balkan. This video appeals to a
:07:08. > :07:15.Conservative MP whose mid-Sussex MP sits close to the village. Please
:07:15. > :07:17.help us. It is an issue that could face a number of our MPs, with the
:07:17. > :07:27.government granting licences for exploration across the south-east.
:07:27. > :07:36.
:07:36. > :07:42.In Kent, these licences have been subject to planning permission and
:07:42. > :07:47.other checks. Will it be a crucial issue at the next election? One Kent
:07:47. > :07:53.MP who said he would support it in his constituency thinks not. I do
:07:53. > :07:57.not know if the negatives are quite as great as some people suggest.
:07:57. > :08:03.well can serve quite a large area. There will be some disturbance while
:08:03. > :08:06.it is being put down, but after that, very little, and compared to
:08:06. > :08:12.the benefits, the environmental costs being properly managed should
:08:12. > :08:21.not be that great. The Tories will not be challenged from UKIP. It must
:08:21. > :08:26.be investigated. We are concerned that there might be bad side effects
:08:26. > :08:31.if it is not done properly, so we are excited that it is going on, and
:08:31. > :08:34.we are watching carefully to see how well it goes. The protests are not
:08:34. > :08:37.likely to stop any time soon, and neither is the political rhetoric.
:08:37. > :08:44.Well, let's speak now to Caroline Lucas, the Green MP for Brighton
:08:44. > :08:49.Pavilion, who joined the protestors today. You think this is becoming an
:08:49. > :08:57.electoral issue, but you said that renewable energy is the way forward.
:08:57. > :09:00.Shouldn't there be a mixed economy? The bottom line is that the climate
:09:00. > :09:06.scientists tell us we need to leave to third of known fossil fuels in
:09:06. > :09:11.the ground if we to -- if we are to keep below two degrees of global
:09:11. > :09:15.warming, and we will not do that if we are trying to find more fossil
:09:15. > :09:19.fuels. From a climate change perspective, it is incompatible with
:09:19. > :09:25.keeping below two degrees to go searching for more fossil fuels. Add
:09:25. > :09:28.to that the huge level of opposition that there is a map and which there
:09:28. > :09:34.will be throughout the country when people realise the scale that might
:09:34. > :09:38.be in physics. It shows that the government has massively
:09:38. > :09:43.underestimated the scale of opposition. But you are a
:09:43. > :09:47.democratically elected MP, should we not respect the democratic process?
:09:47. > :09:51.The council has given permission for this investigation to go ahead
:09:51. > :09:57.before there is any oil brought to the surface. I have spoken to
:09:57. > :10:02.residents, there was a survey done of those villagers most affected, it
:10:02. > :10:06.is 5% are against it. Add to that the fact that the planning guidance
:10:06. > :10:10.cannot take into account whether people would prefer not to have
:10:10. > :10:17.fossil fuels at all, but to see renewable energy instead, so there
:10:17. > :10:21.is a problem with our democratic process. Basically, the government
:10:21. > :10:26.has massively underestimated the political cost to them of going
:10:26. > :10:30.ahead. What we are talking about, even to get a fraction of the gas
:10:31. > :10:34.that they would like to bring up, we are talking about thousands of 12
:10:34. > :10:42.across the country. That is something people are not factoring
:10:42. > :10:48.in. UK for social justice, you want to help the poor, ringing oil up
:10:48. > :10:54.could reduce bills. There is so much evidence that the situation in
:10:54. > :10:58.Britain is so different, so many bodies say that in Britain, because
:10:58. > :11:03.of the density of population and the difference of geology, fracking will
:11:03. > :11:11.not lead to lower bills. It will lead to much greater environmental
:11:11. > :11:19.problems and higher costs. Has there been a change of heart
:11:19. > :11:23.amongst our MPs because of the level of opposition? Perhaps, a change of
:11:23. > :11:27.tack, certainly. A month ago, the government said it would announce
:11:27. > :11:31.tax breaks to fracking companies are to attempt to put the UK at the
:11:31. > :11:36.forefront of the revolution. Compare that to the rhetoric today, which
:11:36. > :11:43.was more softly softly. I have tried to contact most of the MPs in the
:11:43. > :11:49.south-east, and the majority of them have declined to comment, including
:11:49. > :11:54.the MP of the constituency. They reiterated that safety concerns are
:11:54. > :11:57.paramount. In a moment, the mysterious tale of
:11:57. > :12:07.Medway and the little-known invasion of Graveney. Why the Battle of
:12:07. > :12:08.
:12:08. > :12:12.Hastings may not be unique in our island story.
:12:12. > :12:15.A man from Northfleet has been jailed for 13 years for sexually
:12:15. > :12:17.abusing a young girl. 52-year-old Michael Anderson was found guilty at
:12:17. > :12:20.Maidstone Magistrates Court. The girl had been made to watch
:12:20. > :12:24.pornographic films and perform sexual acts. A number of indecent
:12:24. > :12:28.images of children were also found on his computer.
:12:28. > :12:31.Villagers in East Sussex fighting to protect their homes situated on a
:12:31. > :12:34.cliff edge are calling for better defences after losing more land to
:12:34. > :12:37.the sea. Fairlight has benefited from two schemes in the past to slow
:12:37. > :12:40.down cliff erosion. But now residents are concerned because the
:12:40. > :12:49.pump house which protects the village is just 22 feet from the
:12:49. > :12:52.edge. The family of a man from Surrey who
:12:52. > :12:54.vanished, leaving his dog wandering off his lead nearby, say his
:12:54. > :12:57.disappearance is totally out of character. Police are still
:12:57. > :13:00.searching for David Pickett, who's 34 and from Dormansland, on the
:13:00. > :13:04.border between Kent, Sussex and Surrey. Mr Pickett was last seen
:13:04. > :13:10.eight days ago at the nursing home where he works. Police say that so
:13:10. > :13:15.far they have no clue as to his whereabouts.
:13:15. > :13:21.Caring, gentle, loving, that is how Friends and Family Test David
:13:21. > :13:26.Pickett. Seen here, he has now been whizzing's missing for eight days.
:13:27. > :13:31.His dog was found with the rink without a lead on a country lane.
:13:31. > :13:36.They were inseparable, they went everywhere together, there was no
:13:36. > :13:41.way that he would be anywhere apart from with the dog, unless something
:13:41. > :13:46.serious happened. He was last seen at this nursing home on the 28th of
:13:46. > :13:50.July. That is where he works as a chef and lives on site. When he
:13:50. > :13:56.failed to turn up the next day, the police were contacted. He had left
:13:56. > :14:00.without his wallet, phone or glasses. There is no way I can
:14:00. > :14:06.comprehend him going off for this period of time and not having
:14:06. > :14:10.contacted one of us. Especially his family. He cares too much about
:14:10. > :14:15.other people 's feelings and emotions to not have contacted one
:14:15. > :14:20.of us, which is why we are all worried. We thought the dog must
:14:20. > :14:26.have run off, chasing a deal. If Dave had followed him, fallen, hurt
:14:26. > :14:35.himself, could not call for help, but as time has gone by, and there
:14:35. > :14:39.is no sign of him, we just worry what might have happened. The police
:14:39. > :14:46.have scoured the area and conducted underwater searches in nearby lakes.
:14:46. > :14:50.We have had a number of dogs search in the area. A lot of his Friends
:14:50. > :14:55.and Family Test also come out to help in the hunt for him. But today,
:14:55. > :15:03.there have not been any sightings. The police, his family and friends
:15:03. > :15:09.say they will continue with their searches.
:15:09. > :15:11.The top story. A new report from a think tank
:15:11. > :15:14.addressing poverty is warning Margate is becoming a dumping ground
:15:14. > :15:17.for vulnerable people. The Centre for Social Justice says there's no
:15:17. > :15:20.quick fix for the problem. Also in tonight's programme. Step
:15:20. > :15:30.forward Rocky, the Chihuahua with a royal taste in interior design,
:15:30. > :15:34.yours in Harrods for �800. After a cloudy day with outbreaks of
:15:34. > :15:40.rain, it is looking drier as we go into tonight. Join me later for the
:15:40. > :15:43.forecast. Britain is a fortress nation that
:15:43. > :15:47.ever since the Norman conquest has fought off all invaders. That's the
:15:47. > :15:51.perception we have been led to believe, but a new book is out to
:15:51. > :15:54.smash that theory. It highlights 73 attacks on our coast since then. In
:15:54. > :15:58.the 1300s, Winchelsea, Rye and Folkestone were all raided on
:15:58. > :16:02.several occasions. In 1667, the Dutch sailed up the Medway and
:16:02. > :16:12.attacked the Royal Navy fleet moored at Chatham. And British troops
:16:12. > :16:25.
:16:25. > :16:29.fought an enemy on British soil for sunny, but it has not always been
:16:29. > :16:36.like that. Which will see is Britain's most innovative town,
:16:36. > :16:42.invaded seven times. Whole families massacred, homes razed to the
:16:42. > :16:49.ground, it is England's most destroyed town. That is according to
:16:49. > :16:57.this journalist turned historian. In one raid in 1360, the French stormed
:16:57. > :17:03.up the hill and pretty much wiped out the population. The older men,
:17:03. > :17:06.women and children took refuge in a church and were slaughtered. The
:17:06. > :17:12.town never fully recovered. The French even got the blame for the
:17:12. > :17:19.damage church. One fairly, as it turns out. The story goes it was
:17:19. > :17:25.destroyed by the French, but we know in fact that it was still standing
:17:25. > :17:30.in 1575, because there is a map showing it as a navigation point.
:17:30. > :17:38.The map is redrawn 25 years later and the church looks exactly as it
:17:38. > :17:45.does now. The book looks at 73 invasions. Like the time when the
:17:45. > :17:51.crew of a German bomber ditched near Whitstable. There was a unit of the
:17:52. > :17:55.London parish rifles enjoying a few pints in the local pub. They heard
:17:55. > :18:01.the bang and went to investigate. Instead of the crew holding their
:18:01. > :18:06.hands up, they opened fire with the machine gun. After a fairly fierce
:18:06. > :18:11.firefight in which no body was killed, the Germans were captured
:18:11. > :18:16.and the squaddies took them back to the pub and bought them pints in
:18:16. > :18:24.return for German souvenirs. Chatham also features, with the Dutch the
:18:24. > :18:30.invaders. The Dutch sailed up the Medway and destroyed over a third of
:18:30. > :18:35.the British Navy in the docks. The Royal Navy took a generation to
:18:35. > :18:41.recover. While Norman the Conqueror might be the most famous invaded, we
:18:41. > :18:51.now dead's we now know there have been plenty less successful
:18:51. > :18:54.
:18:54. > :18:59.Imagine a sofa made out of a fuel tank or a bar stool based on an
:18:59. > :19:02.ejector seat. I personally would prefer to stick to something like
:19:02. > :19:05.this, but a couple of brothers from Kent have been a lot more
:19:05. > :19:08.imaginative. Brett and Shane Armstrong hunt far and wide to find
:19:08. > :19:18.redundant bits of aeroplanes which they then transform into unique
:19:18. > :19:36.
:19:36. > :19:42.glittering designs that sell for This is a house of double taste --
:19:42. > :19:51.takes, when nothing is quite what it seems. This could have ended up as
:19:51. > :19:54.so much scrap, but not any more. have the best job in the world, we
:19:54. > :19:59.sell items that people are passionate about buying, it is
:19:59. > :20:04.incredible to have somebody phoned up, enquire, find out the details,
:20:04. > :20:10.the history, where the piece came from. These are not any old plane
:20:10. > :20:15.parts. To create an ejector seat to die for or a table made from the
:20:15. > :20:21.back end of a bomb, you have to go looking. Like any business, they
:20:21. > :20:25.like to have a simple formula. Take a few bits and pieces, pretty
:20:25. > :20:31.unusual, and after a lot of tweaking, polishing and
:20:31. > :20:36.transforming, they turn into something just like this. I have
:20:36. > :20:43.never been a plane spotter, I am not one of those! I just like creating,
:20:43. > :20:48.solving problems, how to mount an ejector seat is not an easy feat,
:20:48. > :20:56.that was made in 1953, so to try and apply modern techniques to try and
:20:56. > :21:01.mount it as a desk chair or office chair is not simple. This is an
:21:01. > :21:06.engine Cowling, quite easy to get hold of, we have a World War II bomb
:21:06. > :21:12.tale, and the sofa is a drop wing fuel tank that I picked up in
:21:12. > :21:17.Washington, I thought it would make a good sofa. How much? You need to
:21:18. > :21:27.be a real Jetset to afford the thousands for a seat in this class
:21:28. > :21:28.
:21:28. > :21:31.of chic. But at least the legroom is down to you.
:21:31. > :21:34.A nice bit of furniture spotting, fantastic.
:21:34. > :21:38.We're only just in August, but the new football season is already up
:21:38. > :21:41.and running. However, it wasn't the most encouraging of starts for our
:21:41. > :21:44.league teams. Crawley Town were the only victors, as Gillingham,
:21:44. > :21:47.Charlton and Brighton, with new head coach Oscar Garcia in charge, all
:21:47. > :21:51.tasted defeat. He's promised attacking football,
:21:51. > :21:57.and it started well for Oscar Garcia, as Leo Ulloa to put Brighton
:21:57. > :22:00.ahead at Leeds. But the lead only lasted six minutes, Ross McCormack
:22:00. > :22:03.levelling things, and then a controversial injury-time goal from
:22:03. > :22:13.Luke Murphy left Garcia defeated in his first competitive match in
:22:13. > :22:24.
:22:24. > :22:26.not easy to decide in a few seconds. Charlton lost out to Bournemouth.
:22:26. > :22:29.Lewis Grabban headed them ahead before Charlton equalised through
:22:29. > :22:32.Yann Kermorgant's acrobatic volley. But a second for Grabban, followed
:22:32. > :22:37.by a red card for the Addicks' Bradley Pritchard, meant there was
:22:37. > :22:39.no way back for Chris Powell's men. In League One, newly-promoted
:22:39. > :22:45.Gillingham had chances against Colchester, Danny Kedwell's
:22:45. > :22:50.long-range shot coming closest. But they were made to pay after Andrew
:22:50. > :22:53.Bond's goal earned Colchester victory. So that left Crawley Town
:22:53. > :22:57.celebrating the only victory, against troubled Coventry City.
:22:57. > :23:01.Crawley were two up after 21 minutes, thanks to a Jamie Proctor
:23:01. > :23:11.effort and a Joe Walsh header. But after the visitors pulled level,
:23:11. > :23:12.
:23:12. > :23:15.of Rocky, the Chihuahua from Maidstone whose owner spends
:23:15. > :23:20.thousands of pounds on his outfits. Everything from leopard-print
:23:21. > :23:24.jackets to a dinosaur costume to elephant fancy dress. Now, Rocky has
:23:24. > :23:27.moved into the world of canine interior design, and his owner hopes
:23:27. > :23:37.a new line in jewel-encrusted dog beds that have caught the eye of
:23:37. > :23:48.
:23:48. > :23:51.couture, but it was a search for a regal bed that has led to him
:23:51. > :23:59.creating a range of his own furniture that is now sold in
:23:59. > :24:04.Harrods. He sleeps in my bed. During the day, if I am doing things, he
:24:04. > :24:09.has not got any where to sleep, so it only seemed right that when we
:24:09. > :24:17.stumbled upon these beds, that he should have a two poster daybed.
:24:17. > :24:22.Just as luxury as in his mummy's bed. This leopard went daybed fast
:24:22. > :24:27.answer, but he also struggled to jump up onto the sofa, so a set of
:24:27. > :24:34.matching steps with toy box was a must. There is a princely price tag.
:24:34. > :24:39.Beds start at �800. But the kennel club warns there is a fine line
:24:39. > :24:44.between pampering your pet and turning it into a fashion accessory.
:24:44. > :24:48.That has become the latest thing, and back dogs. We would much rather
:24:48. > :24:53.people chose the dog that was right for their lifestyle and that they
:24:53. > :24:59.chose a dog for the sake of having a dog, not for having a server that
:24:59. > :25:05.child. When it comes to lifestyle, Rocky has become high maintenance.
:25:05. > :25:13.He only eats chicken fillets, costing �500 a year. Another �2000
:25:13. > :25:17.is spent on collars and outfits. He is already costing Lindsay 700 --
:25:18. > :25:24.�7,500 through his life. But she is still surprised Harrods has taken
:25:24. > :25:30.his range. We were surprised, could not believe it. Not only does Mike
:25:30. > :25:35.dog have a furniture range named after him, he is on sale in
:25:35. > :25:39.Harrods, it is unbelievable, I have to keep pinching myself, it is not a
:25:39. > :25:49.dream, it is true. From Britain's best dressed pet to furniture
:25:49. > :26:02.
:26:02. > :26:07.He loves it! They are all cracking Some fairly half-day -- 50
:26:07. > :26:13.downpours, but high pressure is building, so things calm down.
:26:13. > :26:22.Temperatures are around average. One or two showers around, but they are
:26:22. > :26:25.likely to be fairly light. We saw some 50 and thundery downpours. The
:26:25. > :26:30.showers moving through pretty quickly, but where we have seen
:26:30. > :26:36.them, they have been heavy and torrential. The temperatures are not
:26:36. > :26:45.too bad for the time of year. Through tonight, the showers ease,
:26:45. > :26:52.we have got clearer skies and lighter winds. The clearer skies
:26:52. > :26:57.mean sunshine from the word go. It will cloud cover for the afternoon.
:26:57. > :27:03.It will be a settled and fine picture by the afternoon. A bit more
:27:03. > :27:07.cloud cover, but not affecting the brightness too much. Through
:27:07. > :27:15.tomorrow night, lighter wind, clearer skies, we start to see more
:27:15. > :27:19.cloud cover sleekit towards dawn. With that, like rain and drizzle. A