:00:00. > :00:00.the north and west. That's all from the BBC news at six. Goodbye from
:00:00. > :00:14.me. Welcome to South East Today. The top
:00:15. > :00:22.stories: Boris Johnson's right hand man hints the hub estuary plan may
:00:23. > :00:29.not make the short list. A machete attack, police appeal for witnesses.
:00:30. > :00:33.The wedding's booked, but the dress hasn't appeared. The brides who have
:00:34. > :00:41.been left devastated and out`of`pocket. The Nazi coding
:00:42. > :00:46.device going up for auction in Sussex. And we will open our door to
:00:47. > :00:58.Harry Hill and his film costar, Julie Walters.
:00:59. > :01:04.Good evening. Boris Johnson's most senior adviser on airport expansion
:01:05. > :01:08.in the South East has given the broadest indication yet that plans
:01:09. > :01:13.to build a four runway hub off the kent coast may be dead in the water.
:01:14. > :01:16.With just a week before the Government publishes a shortlist of
:01:17. > :01:19.its options for developing air capacity, Daniel Moylan told a major
:01:20. > :01:22.aviation conference that the idea is at risk of being ditched. The
:01:23. > :01:25.commission led by Howard Davies is expected to publish the shortlist
:01:26. > :01:37.next week. Our political reporter Ellie Price has more. The mayor said
:01:38. > :01:41.it would be the answer to Britain's aviation capacity problem. But today
:01:42. > :01:46.his right hand man said the idea of an airport on the Kent estuary may
:01:47. > :01:51.not even make the commission's short list and not for if first time. I
:01:52. > :01:55.think the option that is most at risk being frank is a new airport in
:01:56. > :02:09.the estuary. It sound at odds with what his boss
:02:10. > :02:15.told business leaders last month. The estuary site offers the most
:02:16. > :02:19.potential for growth, housing and regeneration. It is an argument
:02:20. > :02:25.people in the area are well used to. More than ten years ago plans for an
:02:26. > :02:28.airport at Cliffe were rejected by the Labour government. Then after
:02:29. > :02:33.becoming mayor of London, Boris Johnson suggested an airport off the
:02:34. > :02:40.Isle of Sheppey. An idea he stuck with, even when David Cameron ruled
:02:41. > :02:44.it out. And in 2011 Sir Norman Foster announced plans for an
:02:45. > :02:49.airport on the the Isle of Grain. This man's family have run this
:02:50. > :02:55.garage since 1920 and says uncertainty is bad for business. It
:02:56. > :03:01.maybes you look `` makes you look a twice at investing and as a home
:03:02. > :03:06.owner you're concerneded about the value of your home. I doesn't
:03:07. > :03:12.MEPPest help people `` help people who want to move into the area. They
:03:13. > :03:17.should make a decision. Because a lot of people are worried. You can't
:03:18. > :03:24.sell your house, because no one wants to move knowing they might
:03:25. > :03:30.pilled an airport. ` build an airport. I had an idea he wasn't
:03:31. > :03:34.convinced of Boris's idea. But he felt it was a difficult thing to
:03:35. > :03:40.rule out without investigating it, given how much Boris has put behind
:03:41. > :03:45.it. But I enkurjd him to do `` encouraged him to do so. At last the
:03:46. > :03:50.future of this part of North Kent could be decided next week. But that
:03:51. > :03:57.depends on how short the aviation commission's short list is. Ellie
:03:58. > :04:00.Price is on the Isle of Grain now ` one of the potential sites for a new
:04:01. > :04:04.hub airport. Ellie what's happening at the mayor's office? It seems
:04:05. > :04:09.Boris Johnson talks up the Estuary airport only for his advisor to pour
:04:10. > :04:15.cold water on it. Mixed messages certainly. Publicly, Boris Johnson
:04:16. > :04:20.is backing this plan. But even he has appeared in newspapers saying
:04:21. > :04:26.that the estuary option may not be as attractive when something like
:04:27. > :04:30.expansion at Heathrow is on the cards. Critics say it is a
:04:31. > :04:36.face`saving exercise. But it shows the mayor and his team think that
:04:37. > :04:42.this airport isn't as obvious and as easy as they said it was. Without
:04:43. > :04:48.backing from Boris, the idea rather loses momentum. Thank you. A Sussex
:04:49. > :04:53.bride to be said she has been left heartbroken after paying for a dress
:04:54. > :05:02.that never arrived. She claims the owner of the shop disappeared. Clad
:05:03. > :05:10.Lloyd paid ?900 to the boutique in Brighton. She was one of eight
:05:11. > :05:15.people who have complained to the Citizen's Advice bureau. This was my
:05:16. > :05:23.dream dress and it was perfect. It was exactly what I wanted. I knew
:05:24. > :05:29.this is what I wanted to get married in. Claire paid the balance of more
:05:30. > :05:37.than ?900 after receiving a letter to say her dress was ready. Now she
:05:38. > :05:43.has not been able to get the dress. I bought everything based around the
:05:44. > :05:47.dress. Everything has flowed out of that dress that I bought. It feels
:05:48. > :05:52.like at the moment nothing matches. And it is just... It feels awful.
:05:53. > :05:59.Everything but the girl bridal boutique had been in Chichester, but
:06:00. > :06:05.relocated here to the Brighton media centre. After a few weeks, it seemed
:06:06. > :06:09.to close, with no explanation or contact from the own e Claire said
:06:10. > :06:14.she was left with no choice but to go to another boutique and pay for a
:06:15. > :06:20.replacement dress. It makes me angry. Because I think these girls
:06:21. > :06:23.have planned this day for a long time and taken time in choosing
:06:24. > :06:28.their dress and should haven't the heartbreak of not getting married in
:06:29. > :06:34.their dress. Claire is one of eight people who is have complained about
:06:35. > :06:40.the boutique. The CAB say they are making initial inquiries. We have
:06:41. > :06:54.tried to contact the owner, Natalie Wyman, but have received no reply.
:06:55. > :06:55.Coming up: Courses in welding. The college responding to business
:06:56. > :07:07.demand. Police are appealing for information
:07:08. > :07:10.after a man was attacked in Shoreham. The 47`year`old was hit
:07:11. > :07:14.over the head with a sharp object and had to be hospitalised after the
:07:15. > :07:20.incident in the early hours of this morning. Police say they are looking
:07:21. > :07:23.for a group of men who had been drinking with the victim when an
:07:24. > :07:29.argument broke out. Paul Siegert reports. What started as a night of
:07:30. > :07:37.celebrations ended with a man needed 50 stitches. Scottie McGill attended
:07:38. > :07:43.the party and he and group of friends went back to his flat. The
:07:44. > :07:48.victim is a 47`year`old local male to Shoreham. He was taken into
:07:49. > :07:51.hospital last night with a serious injury to the left side of his face
:07:52. > :07:56.caused by this weapon. We have been told today that he has been released
:07:57. > :08:00.from hospital. He has had a lot of stitches to his face, but hopefully
:08:01. > :08:05.no long`term injuries and we are glad that he is out of hospital and
:08:06. > :08:13.will be OK. Police believe the man was struck by a machete or a large
:08:14. > :08:18.knife. The attackers were unsure `` we are unsure how many there are. We
:08:19. > :08:21.believe only one person caused the injury. But there are three to five
:08:22. > :08:25.males that we are looking for. Because some of those males were
:08:26. > :08:30.present in the victim's flat earlier in the evening. After discharging
:08:31. > :08:36.himself from hospital, Scottie McGill returned to his flat, before
:08:37. > :08:42.ling to London. Paul is in Shoreham for us now. What is
:08:43. > :08:49.are told he has had 56 stitches in that wound and in many respects he
:08:50. > :08:53.is lucky to be alive. We have spent much of the day speaking to his
:08:54. > :08:58.neighbours. He lived in the flats here. His neighbours painted a
:08:59. > :09:02.bright picture of him and said he was very friendly and there is
:09:03. > :09:07.nothing he wouldn't do for you. But they said when he had a drink he
:09:08. > :09:15.could change. They also said he didn't v `` did hang around with
:09:16. > :09:25.some unsavoury characters and one of those may have inflicted the wound
:09:26. > :09:38.lapt. Thank `` Last night. Thank you. There has been an angry
:09:39. > :09:42.reactions to halving services in Kent. It is unacceptable that they
:09:43. > :09:46.think they can remove out patients services from Deal without any form
:09:47. > :09:50.of consultation. They're claiming they don't need to, because they
:09:51. > :10:00.carried out a consultation six years ago in a different town and that
:10:01. > :10:05.sbietles them `` sbietles `` sbiet ` eentitles them to change this. Let's
:10:06. > :10:09.talk to Simon Jones. What will the changes mean for patients? It is a
:10:10. > :10:13.battle we are seeing between patients who would like to see all
:10:14. > :10:19.services in all places and managers who believe centralising things is
:10:20. > :10:24.the way forward. Here if you live in Deal and need an X`ray, you have it
:10:25. > :10:29.done in Deal, but in future you may have to come to Dover and services
:10:30. > :10:35.may move out of areas like Faversham and people who question have been ``
:10:36. > :10:40.have been using the services are not impressed. It is nonsense. I have
:10:41. > :10:44.the good services of this hospital on several occasions in the short
:10:45. > :10:48.time I have been here. There is no way on two or three that I could
:10:49. > :10:53.have driven or opened a railway carriage door if I had to go by
:10:54. > :10:58.train. The buses don't always work and you can't coincide the buses. A
:10:59. > :11:02.catastrophe for the town. It is something that is vital. Have we had
:11:03. > :11:07.any response from the hospital trust? Managers say the consultation
:11:08. > :11:13.is only just beginning and patients, GPs and MPs will be listened to.
:11:14. > :11:20.They say at the moment the problem yois I go for an initial appointment
:11:21. > :11:28.and you need treat elsewhere and you have to wait. We are going to
:11:29. > :11:33.provide a greater range of local out patient service in a one`stop model,
:11:34. > :11:39.with an extended working day which is going to be an improvement for
:11:40. > :11:43.the majority of patients in east Kent. The big selling point maybe
:11:44. > :11:47.they will be able to offer clinics at weekends. The consultation starts
:11:48. > :12:01.today and will last a couple of month and there will be several
:12:02. > :12:05.public meetings. Thank you. A farmer in Kent is asking dog owners to make
:12:06. > :12:09.sure their animals do not get free to attack sheep. Alan Barr who farms
:12:10. > :12:13.just outside Maidstone says dogs got onto his land at the weekend and
:12:14. > :12:17.caused the death of 10 of his sheep. Mark Sanders reports. These are the
:12:18. > :12:24.consequences of a dog attack. This is the third time this year the farm
:12:25. > :12:26.has lost sheep due to a dog. It is devastating. Your go out to your
:12:27. > :12:33.fields to check your sheep and to see carnage like that is just
:12:34. > :12:43.unbearable. We do our best to make sure our livestock is safe and it is
:12:44. > :12:48.devastating. It habiten. The Barr family want people to understand how
:12:49. > :12:53.an out of control dog can cause so much harm. Three ewes were killed
:12:54. > :12:58.yesterday and today the discovery of a further eight had had died from
:12:59. > :13:03.stress. They are all likely to have been pregnant. They had all sat down
:13:04. > :13:12.in a lump, as they do at night. Seven haven't got up. They have had
:13:13. > :13:17.heart attacks. The tra ma after being `` trauma of being run around
:13:18. > :13:23.the field. The police have launched an investigation and the losses from
:13:24. > :13:27.dog attacks here will run into thousands. The Barrs stress they're
:13:28. > :13:38.not against dogs, but just want people to act responsibly in the
:13:39. > :13:44.countryside. Our top story: Plans for an airport in the Thames estuary
:13:45. > :13:52.could be grounded when the aviation commission publishes a report next
:13:53. > :14:01.week. It comes from the mayor of London's advisor. Also tonight: It
:14:02. > :14:07.is Harry Hill's Nan! We talk to the comedian and his costar. And what a
:14:08. > :14:16.pain, Canterbury Cathedral prepares to welcome its windows back from a
:14:17. > :14:19.tour of the States. ??FORCEDEWHITE A Kent college has created a new
:14:20. > :14:22.welding course after a local business, which employs almost 700
:14:23. > :14:25.people, told them they need more skilled staff. In a recent report
:14:26. > :14:27.the government said the engineering community should support work
:14:28. > :14:33.experience students, studying in colleges and schools. They added
:14:34. > :14:36.that if we don't act now there could be a new wave of skills shortages
:14:37. > :14:39.and that employers and professional bodies need to step up. Our Business
:14:40. > :14:51.Correspondent Mark Norman has been to East Kent College in Broadstairs
:14:52. > :14:55.for tonight's special this report. Cummins make generators, but they
:14:56. > :15:01.can't get enough good welders. A third of our work is made up of
:15:02. > :15:07.welding. We see the skill gap in the area constraining us. East Kent
:15:08. > :15:12.College have a new teaching complex, but can't guarantee students work
:15:13. > :15:17.once they leave. I see one of my key jobs in the college is to make all
:15:18. > :15:22.of our students more employable. The college's new environmental
:15:23. > :15:26.technologies campus offers a variety of courses. But initially that
:15:27. > :15:30.didn't include welding. But then Cummins said they would need trained
:15:31. > :15:35.welders locally and think offered to help develop the course and offer
:15:36. > :15:39.work placements. We are working together with Cummins to make sure
:15:40. > :15:44.the students get the training they need in college to match the skills
:15:45. > :15:48.needed in the work place. They employ more than 40,000 people
:15:49. > :15:53.around the world. But they are keen to invest in local skills. One of
:15:54. > :16:00.the things we are trying to do is compete with low cost countries. If
:16:01. > :16:06.we can keep the cost bases down and recruit from the community. It is
:16:07. > :16:11.the way that things should be running now. Companies need
:16:12. > :16:16.employment. They need employees as much as employees need employment.
:16:17. > :16:20.Without experience you can't go anywhere. Because no one will take
:16:21. > :16:27.you on. So it is brilliant. The demand from employers is huge. The
:16:28. > :16:32.sector will need something like 2.5 million people in the next decade.
:16:33. > :16:38.Of those around 1.8 will need technical skills and half at a
:16:39. > :16:43.graduate level. So we see a demand. The company will open a new welding
:16:44. > :16:50.facility next year. And they expect many of their staff to come from the
:16:51. > :17:05.students learning skills at east Kent College. He is the Kent`based
:17:06. > :17:16.multi`award winning comedian who has dominated Saturday Night television
:17:17. > :17:25.with his unique brand of comedy. It stars some of the biggest names,
:17:26. > :17:32.including Julie Walters. Get ready for the story of two brothers ` one
:17:33. > :17:40.raised by his Nan. The other by wild animals. Force his big screen debut,
:17:41. > :17:45.Harry has his distinctive brand of humour. And as you would expect
:17:46. > :17:53.there is a surreal storiline that he hopes will have audiences flocking
:17:54. > :17:59.to cinemas. How many times no stripper grammes. It is about Harry
:18:00. > :18:04.living with his Nan and we have a hamster, who we believe is ill and
:18:05. > :18:09.starts throwing up green muck. We believe he only has a week to live.
:18:10. > :18:16.So he go to the vet and that starts a chain of events. The act tress
:18:17. > :18:22.Julie Walters plays his Nan. I was a huge fan. My agent said do you like
:18:23. > :18:32.Harry Hill. I said, yeah, why? She said I have a script. She sent the
:18:33. > :18:38.script and it is great. The comedian grew up in Kent and attended schools
:18:39. > :18:47.there. Five years ago he returned for a visit to his old primary. When
:18:48. > :18:56.they said, why don't we ask Julie Walters, I said forget it. Well Judi
:18:57. > :19:07.Dench said no. Harry has another project causing a stir. He wrote the
:19:08. > :19:13.musical for I Can't Sing based on the xachlt fbgtor. `` X Factor. It
:19:14. > :19:21.is a celebration or a mockery. It is both. It is that sort of thing of
:19:22. > :19:27.over praising it. The former doctor who, transformed himself into a
:19:28. > :19:34.comedian has never looked back and having escaped TV for some bigged a
:19:35. > :19:39.ventures on skaj `` for some bigged a ventures on the big screen, who
:19:40. > :19:46.knows what will he do for a laugh. Harry Hill movie! It was dubbed the
:19:47. > :19:49."Hitler Mill" and could, it's claimed, have changed the outcome of
:19:50. > :19:52.the Second World War if it had been invented earlier. The SG41 coding
:19:53. > :19:56.device was the successor to the famous Nazi Enigma machine and one
:19:57. > :20:00.of only a handful to still exist is going under the hammer in Sussex.
:20:01. > :20:03.It's thought to have spent around 60 years on the seabed before being
:20:04. > :20:06.discovered and restored and is expected to fetch between ?15,000
:20:07. > :20:09.and ?20,000 at auction in Battle. Several hundred were made, but it's
:20:10. > :20:24.thought only 10 still exist worldwide. Juliette Parkin reports.
:20:25. > :20:32.It was used by the laft wafer and German navy. `` Luftwaffe. This
:20:33. > :20:37.particular model, the SG41Z was used for encrypting weather information
:20:38. > :20:42.and very few still exist. When something comes in that is totally
:20:43. > :20:47.different, that is a moment in history, it's so exciting to be able
:20:48. > :20:53.to market it and sell it and to present it to the world. It is an
:20:54. > :20:59.amazing opportunity for us. Only a handful of these still exist. But it
:21:00. > :21:10.was this machine which finally stumped the code breakers of blechry
:21:11. > :21:17.Park. `` Bletchley Park. War`time code breaking has been a
:21:18. > :21:23.fascination. Blechry Park is where `` Bletchley park is where the code
:21:24. > :21:30.was broken. Every time you press a key... There has been no shortage of
:21:31. > :21:33.interest in the machine. This is the forerunner to the modern computer
:21:34. > :21:38.thes. It is something that would interest anyone who wants to start a
:21:39. > :21:44.collection of early computing devices. So it could be something
:21:45. > :21:51.for wealthy business people to put in a display cabinet. Although it
:21:52. > :21:55.bears the scars of a watery resting place, it was and still is
:21:56. > :22:07.unbreakable and is expected to go for thousands at auction on
:22:08. > :22:10.Wednesday. The Great South Window is one of the biggest and oldest
:22:11. > :22:13.windows at Canterbury Cathedral, spanning a height of 60 feet, the
:22:14. > :22:17.equivalent of four double decker buses but it's future had been put
:22:18. > :22:20.at risk when the delicate stonework surrounding the window started to
:22:21. > :22:23.collapse. Conservators at the cathedral first had to carefully
:22:24. > :22:26.remove the stained glass panels and have now started to remove the
:22:27. > :22:37.damaged masonry. Peter Whittlesea reports. When it comes to replacing
:22:38. > :22:42.windows, they don't come much bigger than this. The window is being taken
:22:43. > :22:47.out piece by piece. Although it is a small piece of stone, if that
:22:48. > :22:52.fell... That has got to fall 60 feet before it hits the ground. So every
:22:53. > :22:57.precaution must be taken and supports anded to ensure `` added to
:22:58. > :23:03.ensure every stone is safely removed. Once we have supported this
:23:04. > :23:08.off the beam and taken the tension on it and then we will cut through
:23:09. > :23:12.the joints with a hand saw. Linking these two stones together. We do it
:23:13. > :23:19.on every joint. Once we are happy with that, we take the strain off
:23:20. > :23:25.the stone and lift it up a and then it will be taken along and lowered
:23:26. > :23:30.on to a trolley. The theory is in simple, but there are more than 100
:23:31. > :23:36.pieces of stonework that must be removed. Three years ago the
:23:37. > :23:40.window's state of repair became all too obvious. This is where we
:23:41. > :23:46.realised we had a problem. This large piece of stone fell down on to
:23:47. > :23:52.the path. And when we got up here to look, we realised that this great
:23:53. > :23:57.big long bar that goes through from one side of the window to the next
:23:58. > :24:03.has been rusting. All the stained glass had to be removed and to help
:24:04. > :24:08.raise funds, it was exhibited in Los Angeles. Now it is on to the second
:24:09. > :24:13.phase. We have to take it apart carefully, because we are going to
:24:14. > :24:17.use as much of the stone to rebuild the tracery when we repair the lower
:24:18. > :24:26.part. Any replacement stone will have to be carved by hand. That is
:24:27. > :24:37.why rebuilding this window will take 18 months. But it will be worth it.
:24:38. > :24:43.This weekend's football saw a spread of results. Brighton fans had the
:24:44. > :24:48.most to celebrate. Brighton supporters may have been nervous
:24:49. > :24:56.after the defeat to Barnsley, but they began well against Leicester
:24:57. > :25:02.with Barns giving them the lead. Then Conway finished in fine style.
:25:03. > :25:08.There was a wobble in the second half when King headed home, but
:25:09. > :25:17.Brighton finished strongly, with an important win. We wanted a reaction
:25:18. > :25:26.of the players and they did well. I think we played one of our best
:25:27. > :25:36.games of the season. Charlton could hardly have begun better at Yeovil
:25:37. > :25:41.taking a two goal lead. But then it started to go wrong. Morrisson
:25:42. > :25:47.turned the ball into his own net and then Miller levelled from the spot.
:25:48. > :25:59.But Charlton held on for a point. In League One, Gillingham came unstuck
:26:00. > :26:07.at Notts County. Gillingham levelled it and the home side finished
:26:08. > :26:15.stronger with this stunning solo goal. In the FA Cup, the new Crawley
:26:16. > :26:20.manager, John Greggry had to settle for a draw, but will be looking
:26:21. > :26:32.forward to the replay. Dover's cup run ended at MK Dons. Now the
:26:33. > :26:38.weather. It has been very mild today. Yes and it is staying that
:26:39. > :26:42.way. The reason for that is an area of high pressure that is going
:26:43. > :26:49.nowhere, so temperatures milder today. We will stay dry with a light
:26:50. > :26:55.south`westerly wind. Earlier some cloud and drizzle. But it brightened
:26:56. > :27:01.up by the afternoon. And temperatures above average. Highs of
:27:02. > :27:07.around 11 degrees. As we go into tonight we will stay dry. Because of
:27:08. > :27:17.the lighter winds, where we see clearer sky, we will see mist and
:27:18. > :27:23.fog. Inland getting close to freezing. Perhaps a touch of frost
:27:24. > :27:28.as we start the day tomorrow. Any mist and fog will be slow to clear.
:27:29. > :27:34.This high pressure is going nowhere this week. Tomorrow some more cloud
:27:35. > :27:39.and it will be not too bad in terms of temperatures the. Perhaps down on
:27:40. > :27:43.today. Highs of around nine degrees. Again with light southerly breezes.
:27:44. > :27:48.Tomorrow night temperatures cooler, getting close to freezing in rural
:27:49. > :27:54.spots. There will be some frost on Wednesday. Temperatures along the
:27:55. > :28:01.coast only down to seven degrees. Again some mist and fog on
:28:02. > :28:05.Wednesday. High pressure is going nowhere. Perhaps some cloud, but we
:28:06. > :28:10.will stay try and temperatures mild for the time of year. I'm baffled,
:28:11. > :28:20.we haven't floods or high winds. We are not used to this! I'm back with
:28:21. > :28:23.the 8 o'clock and the late bulletin. But that is it. Goodbye.