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Welcome to South East Today, I'm Natalie Graham. And I'm Rob Smith. | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
Tonight's top stories: No go — the Remembrance Day parade which might | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
be cancelled because of a row between the police and the | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
organisers. Help us get to England — the Syrian | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
refugees in Calais demanding asylum from the British authorities. | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
Also in tonight's programme: We need a new runway in the South East — | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
that's the verdict of a Government commission. But where will it | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
built? Raising the stories of the dead — | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
the code that unlocks the secrets buried in a graveyard. | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
And hold on tight — we're going for a drive round the best roundabout in | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
the country. Good evening. A major Remembrance | :00:45. | :00:59. | |
Day parade in Kent may be cancelled because of a row between the | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
organisers and the police. 500 people, including war veterans, | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
scouts and guides, take part in the march in Chatham on November 11th | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
every year. But with one month to go, Kent Police say they can't | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
provide enough officers to make the route safe. They've told the | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
organisers to find an alternative route — but they say they can't do | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
that at such short notice. Let's go to Chatham now and our reporter, | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
Ellie Price. Why can't the parade be moved, Ellie? Natalie, organisers | :01:28. | :01:39. | |
say the 500 or so people who use the parade, I've used this route for | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
many years. Reorganising it at this stage would be too late for the | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
Scouts, veterans and older people who find it difficult to get around, | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
they say. They say it is too much to ask. | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
A parade to remember those who died for their country. Organisers say | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
they have followed the same route for more than a decade. Paul | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
Harriott is a bit —— veteran of the Korean War. I think it would be a | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
complete and utter disgrace and a stain on the Medway towns that they | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
could not per —— police a parade for people still serving in the forces, | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
and wish to pay respects to the war dead. Organisers say they only | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
became aware of the police position at the weekend. With less than five | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
weeks remaining, they say it is not enough time to change the route. I | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
am stuck between a rock and a hard place. They have done it for many | :02:39. | :02:49. | |
years. We have no alternative route. Everybody is geared up for the | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
route. Re—enactment groups. If police withdraw, we would have no | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
option but to cancel the parade. Organisers say it has been the same | :02:58. | :03:08. | |
for 15 years. Police say they're not trying to change the route | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
simply suggesting some small alterations. If we can do it as we | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
are proposing, it would save us having to put —— having to put | :03:15. | :03:24. | |
additional officers on the route. We can put the officers to other work. | :03:24. | :03:33. | |
Police say they are committed to supporting such events. The | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
organisers of this one say that is not enough. Kent police say they are | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
still willing to negotiate and want the parade to go ahead. Bearing in | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
mind next year is the Centenary of World War I, one wonders whether | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
this issue will come up again. We want to know what you think. Next | :03:52. | :03:59. | |
year is the 100th anniversary of the First World War — should the police | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
prioritise resources to commemorate the fallen in all the wars? Or | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
should the police be able to re—route or reduce the size | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
should the police be able to Remembrance Day parades to reduce | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
costs? Email us or join the on Facebook. | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
More runways are needed in the south—east to keep up the demand for | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
a trouble, according to the man appointed by the Government to look | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
at airport expansion. Sir Howard Davies said demand for air travel | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
will exceed current capacity, although he has not said where any | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
new runways should be. Mark Norman reports. We know the arguments | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
already. More of us want to fly but how do we deal with more aeroplanes | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
in the skies? A second runway at Gatwick, another at Heathrow or one | :04:39. | :04:46. | |
in the Thames Estuary? The man who has the job to decide says yes, we | :04:46. | :04:53. | |
do need more runways. Our assessment is that we will not be able to | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
provide the number of take—off and landing slots that you need without | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
some additional tarmac on the ground. The Airports Commission will | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
publish a short list of options in December before making a final | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
decision after the next general election. One likely candidate for | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
the short list is a second runway at Gatwick. It has been a well argued | :05:16. | :05:26. | |
submission. It depends on an assumption about how the market will | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
develop. We have detested that is a plausible way. We think Gatwick will | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
be one of the airports on the short list. That is good news. We will go | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
on arguing the contrary and we think the politicians in 2016 may well | :05:42. | :05:49. | |
agree. The issue that barely got a mention today was the idea of the | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
new international airport on the River Thames. The fact that I have | :05:53. | :06:01. | |
not talked about the estuary is not significant. I was trying to talk | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
about the overall temperature in terms of whether we need demand. Any | :06:06. | :06:16. | |
extra warm —— runways would be hugely significant for the people. | :06:16. | :06:23. | |
That is an issue that Sir Howard takes seriously. But for now we will | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
all have to wait until his short list. | :06:26. | :06:35. | |
Mark is still in central London. Sir Howard Davies clearly has come to a | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
decision that we need at least one more runway but he has yet to decide | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
where it should go? No. That is right. He would not be drawn on the | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
short list. It is interesting how worried he is about the issue of | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
blight. Let's say he puts Gatwick and the Thames Estuary on the short | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
list. He knows people 's lives will be blighted. This in December, those | :06:59. | :07:10. | |
not on the short list can get on with the rest of their lives. | :07:10. | :07:19. | |
In a moment, relief for commuters. The Mayor of London says season | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
tickets should be tax—free. They Kent woman who lied about being | :07:21. | :07:35. | |
raped has been given a suspended prison sentence and ordered to do | :07:35. | :07:43. | |
200 hours community service for wasting police time. Charmaine | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
Ripley claims she was raped in a park after leaving a nightclub in | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
Margate. Some campaigners felt police should not have prosecuted. | :07:51. | :07:58. | |
Time and again we see women coming to us. They are being investigated | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
when they have reported rape. The evidence has not been collected by | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
the police. This is one of many failings in the criminal justice | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
system, the fact they are going after the wrong people, prioritising | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
the wrong things. A large group of Syrian refugees are | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
demonstrating in Calais, demanding that the British Home Office meet | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
with them. In a statement they say that that believe they have "the | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
right to claim asylum in England". But they say it's wrong that, having | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
reached Northern France, they have found there is "no legal way to | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
cross" to Britain. Stranded in Calais, they claim, and | :08:34. | :08:43. | |
desperate. 55 refugees from Syria, some elderly, one as young as three. | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
We want to go to England because we have family and friends there. We | :08:47. | :08:56. | |
left Syria to make a new future. No future in Syria. Everything is | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
finished. They want to reach Kent because of violence at home and, | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
they claim, eviction from shelters and damage to their possessions in | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
France. The war in Syria has brought them to the French coast. They have | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
now issued a formal statement on a website that supports migrants. | :09:15. | :09:30. | |
That brought this response this evening from an MP in Kent. We | :09:30. | :09:37. | |
should control our own borders in this country and we should decide | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
who come in. While people are very sympathetic to what is happening in | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
Syria, I do think France needs to take responsibility for people who | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
are currently in France. Tonight, it seems there is stalemate. | :09:53. | :10:01. | |
The Government's ministerial reshuffle has seen some of the | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
south—east's MPs get new jobs. Hugh Robertson moves to the foreign | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
office. Helen Grant will take over his sports role. Norman Baker, the | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
MP for Lewis, has left the Department for Transport to become | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
Minister of State of the Home Office. And Greg Clark becomes the | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
chief whip of the Tories. Victims of domestic violence in Kent are not | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
getting the support they need, according to a lawyer for victims of | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
abuse. Donna Payne has criticised the policy which allows front line | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
police to support some victims instead of specialist officers. The | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
police insist the service they offer has never been better. | :10:42. | :10:58. | |
South East commuters could be offered a reduction on their season | :10:58. | :11:07. | |
tickets. South East commuters could be offered a tax break on their | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
season tickets, under plans being proposed by the London Mayor, Boris | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
Johnson. He's believed to be in talks with Chancellor George | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
Osborne, over allowing annual tickets to be paid for from pre—tax | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
income. Paul Siegert has been following the story and he joins us | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
live from outside Brighton train station. This has gone down well | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
with commuters in Brighton. Season tickets from parts of Kent | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
and Sussex cost well over £3000. Boris Johnson's plans have gone down | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
well with commuters. I think great idea. They are far too | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
expensive as it is. The service is not acceptable for the amount it | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
costs. A subsidy would be great. The public is paying for it anyway and | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
it is public transport. I figured as a good idea. The Government has got | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
money. What would allow season tickets to be paid for by pre—tax | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
income? A season ticket... Fuss critics say the taxes of | :11:49. | :12:20. | |
non—commuters should not be used to subsidise train fares. —— but | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
critics. The proposal has support elsewhere. Having cheaper fares for | :12:25. | :12:32. | |
people, with the amount of people in part—time employment and | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
underemployed, a little bit of benefit for the commuter will be of | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
benefit to everyone. Whether the plans would get support from George | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
Osborne would seem likely. —— unlikely. Then again, with Boris you | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
never know. We have had a statement from the Chancellor's offers. It | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
said that all taxes are kept under review. However, any additional | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
support for the cost of transport needs to be considered carefully, as | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
tax reliefs can come at a considerable cost which would have | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
to be made up by the taxpayers in general. In a nutshell, thanks, but | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
no thanks, Boris. Our top story tonight. A major | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
Remembrance Day parade in Kent may be cancelled because of a row | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
between the organisers and the police. This | :13:16. | :13:28. | |
Also in tonight's programme, making steam dreams come true — the railway | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
offering to teach you how to drive a train. | :13:34. | :13:44. | |
It has been a mild and dry start to the weed but it will not be staying | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
that way. Join me later. —— to the week. | :13:48. | :13:58. | |
It already seems that all aspects of life have been affected by the | :13:58. | :14:05. | |
digital revolution. Well, a business in Tonbridge is now offering to | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
engrave special codes on gravestones and memorials. The idea is that you | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
scan a bar — known as a quick release code — with your mobile | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
phone to access additional information about the person's life. | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
Quick Release — or QR Codes — were first designed by the motor industry | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
in Japan in the 1990s. They are a type of bar code consisting of | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
square dots on a white background that can be read by a smartphone. | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
Users take a picture of the code with their phone, which links to | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
websites or other information. Ian Palmer has been to seen how it | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
works. You've seen them in magazines, | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
you've seen them in shops, now QR Codes can be seen on memorial | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
benches. This The bench is dedicated to Federick and Violet Dawes. A lot | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
of families don't know about their own heritage or their forebears. | :14:44. | :14:54. | |
That is a great shame. His greatest achievement was he left school at 12 | :14:54. | :15:02. | |
and a half but he educated himself later on in years. And that is how | :15:02. | :15:11. | |
he became brilliant at what he did. What else is revealed by scanning | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
the cold? —— code. Well, the couple got married in 1923 at Southover | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
Church in Lewes. Mr Dawes is commemorated on a council members' | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
board at Tonbridge Castle. And Mrs Dawes used to take tea to the troops | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
during the Second World War, when their train stopped at Tonbridge. | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
The technology has countless potential uses. The aim in the | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
future is to etch bar codes onto memorial stones. The code can be cut | :15:35. | :15:47. | |
by hand or it can be placed using a Sound Blaster. —— sand blaster. Jean | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
Fuller is extremely proud of her parents' achievements. The original | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
bench in their honour was replaced five years ago. Today's technology | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
will ensure the memory Federick and Violet Dawes will outlive this seat | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
and the ones after it. It's an expensive business keeping a | :16:00. | :16:18. | |
steam railway going, so you have to be imaginative when it comes to | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
raising funds. That's why volunteers with the Kent and East Sussex | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
Railway are offering the ultimate in childhood wish fulfilment — courses | :16:26. | :16:33. | |
for wannabe steam train drivers. Piers Hopkirk has been on the | :16:33. | :16:42. | |
footplate to find out more. So begins the journey back to | :16:42. | :16:52. | |
childhood. It is everything. It is the noise, the smell, the sounds. It | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
is just great. It is like being taken back 30 or 40 years. For the | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
learner driver —— drivers, this is dream fulfilment writ large. Mike | :17:03. | :17:10. | |
Norris is a former United Nations project director. But today at the | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
controls of a century old steam train pulling 100 tonnes, he is | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
facing a different kind of pressure. In a word, terrifying! It is | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
fantastic you have got this big engine making a lot of noise, very | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
hard, very noisy, and you are driving it. You have a driving | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
instructor at the back. But it is a boyhood dream come true. That is | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
what it is. Eddie Goldfinch is a retired nuclear physicist. Today he | :17:41. | :17:49. | |
is making steam on a smaller scale. It gives you a feeling of power | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
somehow. It is such a lovely feeling. I have always loved the | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
smell and the sound of steam engines since I was a kid. Even for the | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
hands, the thrill is still as new as it ever was. I love machinery. This | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
thing is alive. If you are driving an engine up a steep bank, it makes | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. It is rather special. That | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
old saying has never been truer than theirs. The only difference between | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
the men and the boys is the size of their toys. The Kent and East Sussex | :18:25. | :18:33. | |
Railway costs a lot of money each year to run. Money is not always | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
easy to find. With men like this prepared to pay hundreds of pounds | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
for the experience, journeys back in time helping to secure its future. | :18:42. | :18:51. | |
—— her helping. He had a good day as well. I think he had. I have had a | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
good day as well. To most of us, a roundabout is merely a functional | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
piece of road furniture — something that allows the traffic to continue | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
to flow freely at a busy junction. But there are those who appreciate | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
that there is much more to them than that. And the Kent village of Otford | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
has been named as this year's winner of the UK's roundabout of the year. | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
Yes, really. your house unless you know it to be | :19:12. | :19:33. | |
useful believe it to be beautiful. I think he would have this place. This | :19:33. | :19:45. | |
beautiful place. This... Roundabout. According to the UK Roundabout | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
Appeciation Society — yes, they really do exist — a good roundabout | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
is an oasis in a sea of tarmac. But what lifts the merely functional | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
traffic gyratory into something a bit more special? The beauty of a | :19:56. | :20:07. | |
roundabout is there so expressive. You can put anything on a | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
roundabout. I've seen fountains, statues, planes, boats, trains, | :20:10. | :20:18. | |
giant snails and indeed duck ponds. That is the beauty of it. Of course, | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
not everyone appreciates them in quite the same way. Time for the | :20:21. | :20:31. | |
missing words round. But people in Otford at least are pleased. Oh, | :20:31. | :20:43. | |
yes. It is always the main feature. It is a lovely roundabout. A pretty | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
roundabout. It is a lovely village to live in. It is great. Fantastic. | :20:48. | :21:00. | |
It is recorded that people have been metering and gathering around the | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
pond here since Anglo—Saxon times. —— meeting. This is the only listed | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
pond in the country. In that thousand years or more of history, | :21:10. | :21:17. | |
this is the proudest moment, the roundabout of the year. | :21:17. | :21:31. | |
It is a thing of beauty, isn't it? I think we should make sure you get | :21:31. | :21:38. | |
out more. I mean it in a nice way! There was a win a draw and a defeat | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
for the South East's leading sides over the weekend. The three games | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
contained nine goals, three penalties, two red cards and a | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
welcome clean sheet. Neil Bell rounds up all the action. | :21:48. | :21:55. | |
Brighton may be in the middle of an injury crisis but their much | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
anticipated clash with Nottingham Forest prompted a carnival | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
atmosphere, especially among some of the more junior fans. The game | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
struggled to come to life. Half an hour in, Andrew Cross headed | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
Brighton in front. Forest were transformed after the break. | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
Lansbury levelled things. Shortly after, Henderson gave the visitors | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
the advantage. With time running out, Matthew Upson's high risk | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
challenge led to a penalty which Lansbury dispatched. We had a | :22:29. | :22:38. | |
handicap in that we have seven or eight players injured. For most of | :22:38. | :22:45. | |
the game, we played face to face against one of the best teams of the | :22:45. | :22:52. | |
competition. Charlton's game against Blackpool was a more tepid affair. | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
Charlton did manage their first clean sheet of the season. The most | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
eventful start of the weekend saw Gillingham awarded an early penalty | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
which Cadwell smashed home. Two minutes later it happened again. | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
This time, there was a red card and the penalty went into the other | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
corner. Within a few minutes, Bamford headed home and then | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
finished in style. But it was Gillingham took the points. Danny | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
Holland giving them their first home win since April. | :23:27. | :23:34. | |
Time for the weather. Another lovely sunny day. It is not going to last. | :23:34. | :23:41. | |
It is going to be a week of two halves. We start off with | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
temperatures above average for the time of the year. By the end of the | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
week, temperatures dropping by five degrees. Northerly winds and much | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
cooler air. We had some sunshine this morning. By the afternoon, more | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
in the way of cloud cover. Temperatures holding up for the time | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
of the year. Light winds. A pleasant feeling day. Through tonight, cloud | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
and clearer skies. You may see some patchy rain or drizzle. Also some | :24:09. | :24:18. | |
mist and fog. Temperatures at 14 or 15 degrees. As we start tomorrow, | :24:18. | :24:28. | |
any fog and mist clears quickly. More cloud in the morning. The | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
chance of some patchy rain or drizzle. It brightens up by | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
afternoon. Similar temperatures to today. More of the same tomorrow | :24:34. | :24:44. | |
night. We will stay dry. Temperatures holding up in towns and | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
cities into double figures. Then a shift as we move into Wednesday. And | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
the weather front. Rain around in the morning. Drier by the afternoon. | :24:56. | :24:57. | |
We start to see the winds to a northerly direction. | :24:57. | :25:04. | |
Temperatures around 15 or 16 degrees. Overnight on Thursday all | :25:04. | :25:14. | |
others seeing much... It will be a cool start to the day on Thursday. | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
The chance of the wind and showers picking up as well. Into Friday, | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
heavy rain, the risk of coastal gales. Temperatures 11 or 12 | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
degrees. Pleasant for the next couple of days. Make the most of it. | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
A quick recap of the top stories. 65 Syrian migrants our protest in | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
Calais, demanding to meet somebody from the Home Office in the UK. They | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
say they have a right to seek asylum in | :25:43. | :25:44. |