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District Welcome to South E`st Today, I'm Rob Smith. | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
And I'm Natalie Graham. Tonhght s top stories: | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
Would you vote for a tax increase? People in Brighton are to be the | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
People in Brighton are to bd the first to have a referendum on | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
council tax, as the Greens look to raise it by almost 5%. We'll have | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
the details live from the chty. "Cart blanche for state torture" | :00:25. | :00:25. | |
the details live from the city. "Cart blanche for state torture ` a | :00:26. | :00:26. | |
Sussex man beaten in Saudi Arabia Sussex man beaten in Saudi @rabia | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
tells of his anger as courts block his appeal. | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
Also in tonight's programme: Here's the catch ` why the recent | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
rough weather has led to a shortage of local fish. | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
Never approach a man and his wife or girlfriend. You will only get | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
Never approach a man and his wife or girlfriend. You will only gdt a | :00:46. | :00:46. | |
dirty look from the woman and the man will be led off. | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
Welcome to Brighton. How thd Promettes, the 1950s seafront | :00:51. | :00:51. | |
meeters and greeters, are making Promettes, the 1950s seafront | :00:52. | :00:52. | |
meeters and greeters, are m`king a meeters and greeters, are making a | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
comeback. And in the running ` the films which | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
could bring oscar glory to the south`east. `` Oscar. | :01:00. | :01:11. | |
Good evening. Brighton and Hove is set to become the first council in | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
the country to hold a referdndum on the country to hold a referendum on | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
whether they can put up council tax by nearly 5%. The Green`led | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
authority says the rise is the only way they can maintain their current | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
level of services for vulnerable people. | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
Critics have branded the tax`rise proposals "outrageous". The council | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
have defended the move, sayhng local councils are faced with "huge and | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
relentless" cuts while demand for their services continued to grow. | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
Our Home Affairs reporter Rdbecca Our Home Affairs reporter Rebecca | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
Williams reports. Brighton and Hove residents saw | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
their council tax code by almost 2% less year. And this year ag`in, they | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
less year. And this year again, they could see another hike of ndarly 5% | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
if the council leader gets his way. He insists the extra money would | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
support social services and local charities. We think it is right | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
support social services and local charities. We think it is rhght that | :02:03. | :02:02. | |
charities. We think it is right that elderly people get care and they | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
deserve that, so the choice before us is to protect that care `s best | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
as we can, or to reduce it, because the Government isn't giving us | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
enough money to do the job. Under the proposed four points 5% | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
increase, if you live in a band C property, you will pay an extra ?5 | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
30 per month. Band he is ?5 97. Those in band H will pay ?11.93. | :02:25. | :02:33. | |
Those in band H will pay ?10.93 They cannot keep squeezing money | :02:34. | :02:34. | |
Those in band H will pay ?11.93. They cannot keep squeezing loney out | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
of people all of the time. We all pay taxes, NHS, everything dlse If | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
I know it is going to somewhere socially, or to people who require | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
looking after, the elderly and people like that, then I don't mind. | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
It is ridiculous. ?183 is what we pay and it is more than we paid in | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
London. Since the Green party took over, they have faced fury from | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
residents over a number of hssues. A recent ComRes poll suggested their | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
popularity has dwindled to third behind Labour and the Liber`l | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
behind Labour and the Liberal Democrats. There was controversy | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
over 20 mph zones in the city centre. A backlog of rubbish built | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
up over the summer as refusd collectors went on strike. And | :03:18. | :03:19. | |
up over the summer as refuse collectors went on strike. @nd in | :03:20. | :03:19. | |
collectors went on strike. And in August, it was revealed Brighton and | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
Hove was among the top five local authorities in England to profit | :03:23. | :03:24. | |
from off`street parking charges As from off`street parking charges As | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
proposals to increase council from off`street parking charges. As | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
proposals to increase counchl tax were being discussed today, the | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
opposition made their feelings clear. I think it is bonkers, the | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
council should be saving money. People are struggling to pay | :03:38. | :03:38. | |
council should be saving money. People are struggling to pax the | :03:39. | :03:39. | |
People are struggling to pay the council tax in these diffictlt times | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
and the council should not be wasting money on high salarhes | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
and the council should not be wasting money on high salaries for | :03:45. | :03:44. | |
wasting money on high salarhes for its senior management. It should be | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
looking up to the people who live in Brighton and Hove in these difficult | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
times. If successful, Brighton and Hove Council would be the fhrst | :03:52. | :03:52. | |
times. If successful, Brighton and Hove Council would be the first in | :03:53. | :03:52. | |
the country to hold a referdndum on the country to hold a referendum on | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
an increase in council tax. They say the extra money would help social | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
services and local charities but it seems residents may need sole | :04:01. | :04:01. | |
seems residents may need some convincing. | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
So how does the referendum work Well, it's triggered if a council | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
plans to increase its council Well, it's triggered if a council | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
plans to increase its counchl tax above 2%. It will cost the Brighton | :04:08. | :04:16. | |
and Hove City council ?230,000 to hold. They say they will save money | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
because it will be held on the same day as the European Elections on the | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
22nd of May. Let's go to Rebecca Williams, who is outside Hove Town | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
Hall. If the Greens get their way and there is a referendum, what if | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
people say no? It is likely it will only go by the recommended 2%. The | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
main government is wanting to keep costs down. The lights have only | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
gone out just now at Hove town hall and councillors have been discussing | :04:47. | :04:47. | |
and councillors have been dhscussing these proposals for several hours. | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
To get the go`ahead, they need the To get the go`ahead, they need the | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
backing of other parties and today, the Labour and cooperative leader | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
took to Twitter saying a referendum would be lost and would cost the | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
Government a lot of money which could be spent on other services. He | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
went on to say that the Greens need a realistic budget proposal or they | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
should quit. There will be `nother meeting at the end of February, only | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
then will we get an idea if there is significant backing these proposals. | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
`` for these proposals. A Sussex man who claims he was | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
tortured by police in Saudi Arabia says he is angry after the European | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
says he is angry after the Duropean Court blocked his claim for damages. | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
Ron Jones, who lives in Crawley, says the decision gives "carte | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
blanche" for state torture. Mr Jones says he was subjected to be`tings, | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
sleep deprivation and death threats following his wrongful arrest in | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
2001. The ruling by the European Court of Human Rights means | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
officials from other countrhes are entitled to state immunity. Mark | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
Sanders has more. Ron Jones's case has now bedn | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
Ron Jones's case has now been blocked after he has tried for more | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
than a decade to sue Saudi @rabia, than a decade to sue Saudi @rabia, | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
claiming he was tortured. Medical claiming he was tortured. Mddical | :05:49. | :05:49. | |
evidence was gathered for his case evidence was gathered for his case | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
and he even helped create this artist's impression of the lan he | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
says led the torture. Beating of the hands, the feet, buttocks. Hanging | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
me for hours on end, depriving me of sleep, giving me drugs. And then | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
there was the psychological abuse, they would tell me they knew where | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
my wife lived, where my son went to school, and if I didn't comply with | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
what they were doing, then they would attack them, not just me. Ron | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
Jones had been working in Saudi Arabia when he was detained after an | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
explosion. He, along with three other Westerners, were accused of | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
orchestrating a series of attacks. Ron Jones claims he was tortured in | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
Riyadh in 2001, something independently verified by experts | :06:33. | :06:42. | |
when he got back to the UK. He started legal proceedings in the | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
High Court here in May 2002, but the case was halted a year later on the | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
grounds that Saudi Arabia and its officials were entitled to state | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
immunity. Mr Jones's lawyers referred the case to the European | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg in July 2006, but this week, | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
Strasbourg backed the UK court's decision and Mr Jones cannot sue | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
Saudi Arabia for alleged torture. That makes me feel very angry. What | :07:06. | :07:07. | |
is the point of the Human Rights That makes me feel very angry. What | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
is the point of the Human Rights Act or the Convention Against Torture | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
when the courts give out a signal that victims of torture have | :07:13. | :07:14. | |
when the courts give out a signal that victims of torture havd got | :07:15. | :07:14. | |
when the courts give out a signal that victims of torture have got no | :07:15. | :07:14. | |
that victims of torture havd got no redress in the domestic courts? It | :07:15. | :07:23. | |
could be interpreted as a signal by torturers throughout the world that | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
they have impunity if and when they torture UK nationals. It me`ns | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
they have impunity if and when they torture UK nationals. It means that | :07:35. | :07:34. | |
torture UK nationals. It me`ns that when men like this come back to the | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
UK and want some sort of justice, they are not going to be able to get | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
it through the British courts. Ron Jones has been rebuilding his life | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
in Crawley and he says it is difficult now to see how his case | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
can go any further. We attempted to can go any further. We attempted to | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
contact the Saudi embassy hdre for contact the Saudi embassy hdre for | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
comment, but so far, there has been no contact. | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
In a moment: Business is on the slide. How a | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
Folkestone office is looking to put some fun into the daily grind. | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
An inquest has heard how it took more than four hours to transfer a | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
seriously ill baby from the Darenth Valley hospital in Dartford to a | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
specialist unit in London bdcause an ambulance was not available. | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
Vincent Rewers died three d`ys later. Today, a coroner recorded a | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
verdict of misadventure. Simon Jones verdict of misadventure. Silon Jones | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
is outside the hospital now. Simon, why did it take so long to find an | :08:30. | :08:39. | |
ambulance? Well, baby Vincent had a difficult start to life. He was born | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
using a vacuum type device. The next day, his condition deterior`ted | :08:46. | :08:46. | |
using a vacuum type device. The next day, his condition deteriorated and | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
a scan revealed he had a massive lead to his brain. It was decided | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
a scan revealed he had a massive lead to his brain. It was ddcided he | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
needed immediate transfer to Kings College Hospital in London hn case | :08:56. | :08:56. | |
College Hospital in London in case he needed surgery. The family in | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
court heard today that the hospital here requested a specialist | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
ambulance at 6:23pm but there wasn't one available, they were all busy | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
and it wasn't until 8:15pm that evening until a new ambulance crew | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
came on. It took them time to get to London, he finally arrived at | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
London, he finally arrived `t 10:40pm and he died, aged just | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
London, he finally arrived at 10:40pm and he died, aged jtst four | :09:22. | :09:21. | |
10:40pm and he died, aged just four days old. What did the coroner have | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
to say about the case? Speaking at the coroner accepted the hospital | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
had done all it could do to try and find an ambulance quicker. But he | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
accepted that the baby's condition was so bad that ultimately, the | :09:37. | :09:37. | |
delay wouldn't have made any delay wouldn't have made any | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
difference. The hospital here sent its condolences to the family but | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
pointed out that the inquests found that the care offered here was | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
appropriate. A document leaked to BBC Sotth East | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
A document leaked to BBC South East Today shows that Thanet District | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
Council has been told it has "no realistic prospect" of recovering | :09:54. | :09:54. | |
any of the 3?.4 `` of the three million owed from | :09:55. | :10:03. | |
the collapse of trans`Europ` ferries. The company, which ran | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
three ships out of Ramsgate, went bust in April last year. It has | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
since emerged the ships are registered with different owners, | :10:12. | :10:13. | |
and the parent company has overall debts of more than 12 million euros. | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
The council has already written off the debt. | :10:18. | :10:19. | |
The Princess Royal visited Sussex this morning. Princess Anne began | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
with a tour of the offices of Kineo in Brighton, an organisation which | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
helps businesses with skills and training. She then went on to The | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
Carers Centre in Hove. People living on the Isle of Grain | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
will find out this autumn if plans for a new international hub airport | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
in north Kent have made it onto the Government's short list of options | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
for new runway capacity in the south`east. Sir Howard Davies, who | :10:40. | :10:40. | |
south`east. Sir Howard Davids, who chairs the commission looking into | :10:41. | :10:41. | |
airport capacity, told a meeting airport capacity, told a meeting | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
today that a new runway is needed in the south`east. | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
While the floodwaters have gone down inland, businesses and fishermen | :10:50. | :10:50. | |
While the floodwaters have gone down inland, businesses and fishdrmen in | :10:51. | :10:52. | |
Hastings say they're still feeling the brunt of the winter storms, with | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
the strong winds making it `lmost the strong winds making it `lmost | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
impossible for the Sussex fleet to put to sea. | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
But no catch means no fish, a financial blow to the fishermen and | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
to local restaurants ` some of which have had to reduce their menu, or | :11:09. | :11:10. | |
source fish from as far away have had to reduce their menu, or | :11:11. | :11:12. | |
source fish from as far away as Scotland. Chrissie Reidy reports. | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
They pride themselves on serving locally sourced fish, but the storms | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
have left fishermen unable to launch their boats, so restaurants like | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
this one are left with no choice but to reduce their menu. If thd | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
to reduce their menu. If the fishermen are not catching fish on a | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
day`to`day basis, then we cannot have that locally sourced produce on | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
our menu to serve to our customers. Therefore, we either have to reduce | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
our menu in size and have a limited choice or we have to go further | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
afield to source the products. And less fish means less choice for | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
customers. Well, I think it is a great shame that we can't actually | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
fish locally. You know, the fish was good today, but I would much prefer | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
it if we thought we were getting something that was locally sourced, | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
you know? It makes such a difference. I think it is the | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
question of being creative with the menu. When I have a fish, I am not | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
with interested in having salmon, with interested in having salmon, | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
mussels, prawns, whatever, that you can buy off`the`shelf and hasn't | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
come from the water out there. Shops too have taken a direct hit. To keep | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
business afloat has meant sourcing produce from as far away as | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
Scotland. No business can afford to close nowadays, so we have to take a | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
bit of a whack with the profit but it is the way it has to be to keep | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
fish on the plate. Ferocious storms battered the Sussex coast over | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
Christmas. Part of this cliff in Hastings buckled under the pressure. | :12:40. | :12:41. | |
Weather permitting, fishermen here would catch daily, but conthnuous | :12:42. | :12:43. | |
would catch daily, but continuous strong gusts means trying to launch | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
a boat is risky, as this fisherman found out. As we have come out on | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
the low shore side, it bent the tips of the bow, as you can see, took | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
chunks out. `` of the propeller. And with little or no income for weeks, | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
desperate times mean desper`te measures. If you can't go to sea, | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
you don't earn any money, it's as simple as that. So if you haven't | :13:08. | :13:09. | |
simple as that. So if you h`ven t got the ability to go to sea | :13:10. | :13:11. | |
simple as that. So if you haven't got the ability to go to se` through | :13:12. | :13:11. | |
got the ability to go to sea through bad weather, then you draw on the | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
savings you've made, if you've made any savings. With no signs of the | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
strong winds dying down, these boats could be sitting idle for some time. | :13:21. | :13:29. | |
That report by Chrissie Reidy and she joins us live now from Hastings. | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
Clearly it is still bad weather very windy, and a lot of people are | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
suffering this winter. It is a dire situation for fisherman | :13:37. | :13:38. | |
in Hastings. One told me th`t It is a dire situation for fisherman | :13:39. | :13:40. | |
in Hastings. One told me that since in Hastings. One told me th`t since | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
the 12th of December, he has only been at four times on the w`ter and | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
been at four times on the water, and he had his first pay packet today | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
since the 12th of December. He said there wasn't much in it and he has a | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
family of five defeat. As you can see, it is still very windy. The | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
winds have dislodged a lot of the rocks off the shore, making it | :14:00. | :14:01. | |
impossible for fishermen to launch their boats. The knock`on effect of | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
that is no local catch, no fish with the local restaurants, so they are | :14:06. | :14:07. | |
having to reduce their menus and in turn, that has an impact on the | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
visitors coming here to expdrience and taste that local fish. | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
Thank you very much. The top story tonight: Brighton and | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
Hove is set to become the fhrst Hove is set to become the fhrst | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
council in the country to hold a referendum on whether they can put | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
up council tax by nearly5%. The Green`led authority says it is | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
the only way they can maintain services for vulnerable people. | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
Opposition party critics have dubbed the plans "outrageous". | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
Also in tonight's programme: It is an ideal for which I am prepared to | :14:42. | :14:43. | |
die. Going for gold ` the films which | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
could bring back an Oscar to Kent, Sussex and Surrey. | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
And after a blustery day showers, we have got much more to a tomorrow. | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
Join me later that the full forecast. | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
In the 1950s, visitors to Brighton and Hove were greeted by thd | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
and Hove were greeted by the Promettes, young women in sharply | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
cut uniforms with white gloves and catwalk model poise. They wdre | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
cut uniforms with white gloves and catwalk model poise. They were there | :15:13. | :15:14. | |
to give directions, offer medical advice and to smile. Now thdre | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
to give directions, offer mddical advice and to smile. Now there are | :15:22. | :15:22. | |
advice and to smile. Now thdre are plans afoot to bring the promettes | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
back `but with a much more 21st century feel. Claudia Sermbezis has | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
tonight's special report. For those men among you who like | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
girls with brains, there is no place like Brighton from holiday. Apart | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
from the sweet young things on holiday, you can meet six who are | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
literally walking minds of information. They were employed to | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
help lost day`trippers. Thex were told to smile, be pleasant and | :15:45. | :15:46. | |
told to smile, be pleasant `nd accurate and they were told to look | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
their best, but not so dazzling that they scared people. This is me on | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
the end, this is Audrey. Veronica. Hazel was a Promette in 1956. She | :15:56. | :16:05. | |
was asked to join after doing a modelling course. It was good fun | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
and interesting, because so many different things happened and I met | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
so many different people. It was fabulous, really, because we | :16:12. | :16:12. | |
so many different people. It was fabulous, really, because wd had so | :16:13. | :16:14. | |
fabulous, really, because we had so many different things, apart from | :16:15. | :16:15. | |
walking along the seafront dvery walking along the seafront dvery | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
weekend. Now the city wants them back, well, a version of them. The | :16:21. | :16:22. | |
1950s was a time well beford back, well, a version of thdm. The | :16:23. | :16:24. | |
1950s was a time well before the 1950s was a time well beford the | :16:25. | :16:25. | |
sexual revolution, when sexism 1950s was a time well before the | :16:26. | :16:27. | |
sexual revolution, when sexism was not only tolerated, it was `lmost | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
expected. Never approach a lan and his wife or girlfriend. You will | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
only get a dirty look from the woman and the man will be led off. | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
Inspired by the volunteers that help so successfully at the Olympics in | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
2012, the new version will be very different. They will be dressed in | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
branded polo shirts and the ghouls. They were great for their thme and | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
They were great for their time and we are always reinventing otrselves | :16:54. | :16:54. | |
we are always reinventing ourselves in Brighton and Hove and thhs is a | :16:55. | :16:56. | |
in Brighton and Hove and this is a modern version of the Promettes so | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
we are looking for volunteers, they will get training, they will have | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
to commit for up to four hotrs a to commit for up to four hours a | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
to commit for up to four hotrs a week. It is a brilliant idea | :17:08. | :17:08. | |
to commit for up to four hours a week. It is a brilliant ide` to | :17:09. | :17:10. | |
bring Promettes back, but I don t like the idea of them wearing | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
T`shirts. I think if they could only have a set of people in a uniform, | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
visitors know where to go to and where to look. At the city hs hoping | :17:19. | :17:26. | |
50 men and women of all ages will volunteer and whilst expected to | :17:27. | :17:27. | |
50 men and women of all ages will volunteer and whilst expectdd to be | :17:28. | :17:29. | |
friendly and helpful, they probably won't post your postcards. | :17:30. | :17:38. | |
Claudia Sermbezis reporting and she is in Brighton and she joins us | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
now. Apart from the bracing sea air, what is in it for the volunteers? | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
They will get some training, a certificate and a free pass to some | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
of the tourist attractions hn the city. This is all part of the revamp | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
of the tourist information service here. They closed their centre back | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
in September and this summer, they hope the city is going to be full | :17:59. | :18:00. | |
in September and this summer, they hope the city is going to bd full of | :18:01. | :18:00. | |
hope the city is going to be full of the city champions and ten pop`up | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
tourist information shops, which the city champions, will lead people | :18:06. | :18:07. | |
tourist information shops, which the city champions, will lead pdople to. | :18:08. | :18:07. | |
city champions, will lead people to. If you fancy becoming a chalpion and | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
volunteering, you will have to visit the website and download a form. | :18:13. | :18:14. | |
Claudia, well done, thank you. The traditional way to move between | :18:15. | :18:25. | |
the fifth floor and the fourth floor of an office building is to use the | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
stairs. Or perhaps the lift. But there is an office in Folkestone | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
where they don't want to do things the traditional way. They use a | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
slide. It's the kind of thing you might | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
find in the LA offices of Google or Pixar, but bosses at the Workshop | :18:40. | :18:40. | |
building in the Creative Quarter building in the Creative Quarter | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
don't see why the Americans should have all the fun and they bdlieve | :18:44. | :18:45. | |
have all the fun and they believe the slide is actually helping grow | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
their business. Victoria Holland reports. | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
Mixing work with play. For these employees in Folkestone, thd office | :18:53. | :18:53. | |
employees in Folkestone, the office life has its ups as well as its | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
downs. It is good to go homd and downs. It is good to go homd and | :18:57. | :19:09. | |
say, "I work in an office with a say, "I work in an office with a | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
slide". Lots of smiling people all day. What is quite interesting now, | :19:13. | :19:14. | |
day. What is quite interesthng now, though, when we first moved in, | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
people used to look up from their desks, when people down the slide, a | :19:19. | :19:19. | |
bit of a cheer, but now it is desks, when people down the slide, a | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
bit of a cheer, but now it is the norm. It was a complete novdlty when | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
we first came in and everyone obviously laughed and chattdd quite | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
a lot when you came through at the bottom. People didn't realise how | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
quick it was going to be, so there were quite a lot of people flying | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
across the floor. The slide is around 20 feet long and bec`use it | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
is made of stainless steel, it is a pretty speedy way to travel between | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
floors. It is not the first office in the UK using original designs to | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
try and win over their employees. In Google's office in Zurich, xou will | :19:48. | :19:49. | |
Google's office in Zurich, you will find firemen's poles, table`tennis | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
and even an aquarium. Pixar's US headquarters have a seesaw `nd | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
Innocent Smoothies in London have artificial grass and picnic benches | :19:56. | :19:57. | |
inside the office. Things lhke a creative culture, things like a fun | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
environment, can contribute to employee engagement, so doesn't mean | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
that people come to work just for the slide, but it means that people | :20:05. | :20:05. | |
will see the slide as an example of will see the slide as an example of | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
how the company is trying to engage with the people. The slide has only | :20:11. | :20:11. | |
been in place less than a wdek, with the people. The slide has only | :20:12. | :20:13. | |
been in place less than a week, but been in place less than a week, but | :20:14. | :20:15. | |
so far, it seems employees `re jumping in feet first. | :20:16. | :20:25. | |
We have at it, but they said no. `` We have at it, but they said no `` | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
we have asked. The Winter Olympics and Par`lympics | :20:30. | :20:30. | |
The Winter Olympics and Paralympics are just a few weeks away and this | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
morning, Sport UK predicted Team GB should at least equal their | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
best`ever haul of five medals. Two of the most likely medal | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
contenders, Lizzy Yarnold and Charlotte Moore, come from the | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
south`east and, as Neil Bell report, their preparations for Sochi could | :20:44. | :20:45. | |
hardly be going better. No`one is quite sure why, btt | :20:46. | :20:47. | |
No`one is quite sure why, but British competitors have a proud and | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
successful Olympic record in the skeleton and many believe they are | :20:51. | :21:02. | |
set to continue in Sochi. Lizzie Yarnold from West Kingsdown is the | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
current world number one and appears certain to be selected for the Games | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
next week. If I could qualify for the Olympics and be there and | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
represent Great Britain, it would mean everything to me. I would be so | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
proud to fly the flag, go to the Opening Ceremony and be part of the | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
event. It is only my first Olympics, so I am just taking it one step at a | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
time and I hope to perform at so I am just taking it one step at a | :21:24. | :21:25. | |
time and I hope to perform `t my time and I hope to perform at my | :21:26. | :21:26. | |
best and I am unbelievably motivated. So fingers crossdd I can | :21:27. | :21:28. | |
motivated. So fingers crossed I can get there. Team GB could be in line | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
for more than just one medal. Lizzie's team`mate and formdr | :21:33. | :21:33. | |
for more than just one medal. Lizzie's team`mate and former mentor | :21:34. | :21:34. | |
Shelley Rudman could match the silver she won in Turin eight years | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
ago. We have got these new girls coming in, we have got Lizzhe | :21:39. | :21:40. | |
ago. We have got these new girls coming in, we have got Lizzie Rose, | :21:41. | :21:40. | |
that are really strong and ht coming in, we have got Lizzhe Rose, | :21:41. | :21:42. | |
that are really strong and it is going to develop the sport ` | :21:43. | :21:44. | |
that are really strong and ht is going to develop the sport a lot | :21:45. | :21:46. | |
more. I feel very proud, I launched the Girls 4 Gold programme that got | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
all of these girls involved, which is really nice. The target `t the | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
Paralympics is two medals and Charlotte Evans from Chatham will be | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
hoping to guide partially sighted Kelly Gallagher to at least one of | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
those, after the pair won no fewer than three medals at last wdek's | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
World Cup meeting in Canada. Football, and Bournemouth striker | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
Lewis Grabban could soon be joining the Albion, while defender Adam El | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
Abd is a target for Bristol City. The 28`year`old recently pl`yed | :22:18. | :22:18. | |
Abd is a target for Bristol City. The 28`year`old recently played his | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
300th game for the club. The Oscars are the most prestigious | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
awards in the world and as many as three of the little golden | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
statuettes could soon be making their way to the south`east. | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
Philomena and Captain Philips are going head to head in the Bdst Film | :22:34. | :22:35. | |
going head to head in the Best Film category and the key acting | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
directing and screenwriting talent involved are based here. | :22:39. | :22:40. | |
Someone who is based in Los Angeles these days is Caroline Feraday. | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
Let's go there now. I can't recall such a strong year the contenders | :22:46. | :22:47. | |
such a strong year the contdnders from the south`east. There are | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
such a strong year the contenders from the south`east. There `re four | :22:50. | :22:51. | |
nominations in total for Philomena, which is an underdog in the best | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
picture category up against Gravity and Captain Phillips. It is just a | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
charming story that has won over audiences and the Academy alike | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
I know this woman, she had a baby when she was a teenager. Shd has | :23:09. | :23:10. | |
when she was a teenager. She has kept it secret for 50 years. For | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
Brighton's Steve Coogan, there was trouble joy today. His prescription | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
for Philomena, the true story of Philomena Lee's 50 year search for | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
her son, one nominations for best adapted screenplay and film. I am | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
absolutely dumbfounded, really. I found out by a phone call and we are | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
hopeful it happens. We have four nominations and it is extraordinary, | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
an article I read in the newspaper four is ago that I found moving and | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
I wanted to turn into a fill. `` four ago. Whether it could be made | :23:48. | :23:55. | |
into a film was answered with an emphatic yes from the o pandls. Not | :23:56. | :23:57. | |
emphatic yes from the o panels. Not bad for a man who failed his English | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
A`level twice. I had a hip replacement last year, Marthn. I | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
replacement last year, Martin. I will have two oil you like the tin | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
man. Judi Dench also picked up a nomination for best actress, saying | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
it is the loveliest news. It is an extraordinary story and a true | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
story, and somehow all the lore poignant that she is alive and I was | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
able to meet her. We have been boarded by armed pirates, stay | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
hidden at all costs. Gravesdnd's Paul Green grass was also nominated | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
for Captain Phillips. The hostage drama up for best picture. Where is | :24:41. | :24:53. | |
the crew? I don't know. I will shoot him. Shoot me. Look at me, H am | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
the crew? I don't know. I whll shoot him. Shoot me. Look at me, I am the | :24:58. | :24:57. | |
him. Shoot me. Look at me, H am the captain now. When the pirates | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
attacked the container ship, those characters are brought together and | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
the battle of wills is what the film is about. The Oscar ceremonx takes | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
place on the 2nd of March. Ht could be a golden eyed for Hollywood in | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
the south`east. With six weeks to go, the | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
campaigning begins in earnest in Hollywood and if you drive around | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
Hollywood at all, you will see these big posters at the roadside, and | :25:25. | :25:26. | |
they are not aimed at audiences, they are not aimed at audiences | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
they are aimed specifically at Academy members and they have | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
pictures of the film but silply say" for your consideration". All of | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
the stars are on TV, promoting say" for your consideration". All of | :25:38. | :25:39. | |
the stars are on TV, promothng their the stars are on TV, promoting their | :25:40. | :25:40. | |
movies. Philomena is an unddrdog the stars are on TV, promothng their | :25:41. | :25:42. | |
movies. Philomena is an underdog in movies. Philomena is an underdog in | :25:43. | :25:42. | |
its category, which probablx movies. Philomena is an unddrdog in | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
its category, which probably belongs to 12 Years A Slave but could go to | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
Gravity, depending on how the Academy see it. It's best option is | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
probably in best adapted screenplay, but we will have to wait and see. | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
We will, you enjoy the build`up. Doesn't it look good over there? | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
Yes, as we saw with Claudia, it is quite windy here. | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
There is a lot of wind about. Yes, gusts of 40 mph. Not all of us | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
seeing them but it has been blustery today and we still hang on to those | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
showers, just a little more brightness around and temperatures | :26:16. | :26:16. | |
again pretty mild for the time of again pretty mild for the time of | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
year. Highs of nine or 10 ddgrees, averaging around 25 and 25 mph in | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
the wind. Tonight, more of the same, further showers and again, | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
pretty heavy, the area of low pressure staying with us and heavier | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
showers, also perhaps a rumble of thunder and some hail mixed in, but | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
temperatures only dropping to five or six. Temperature is pretty mild | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
for the time of year but it will be unsettled, showers turning hnto | :26:48. | :26:48. | |
for the time of year but it will be unsettled, showers turning into a | :26:49. | :26:50. | |
longer spell of rain by the end of the day. As you can tell from the | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
isobars, the wind is staying with us, picking up again about 15`20 | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
isobars, the wind is staying with us, picking up again about 05`2 mph | :26:57. | :26:57. | |
us, picking up again about 15`20 mph but gradually easing up as we head | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
with a day. Showers through the morning, perhaps easing through the | :27:01. | :27:03. | |
first part of the afternoon and then we have rain that will be ptshing | :27:04. | :27:05. | |
we have rain that will be pushing up, particularly for the eastern | :27:06. | :27:13. | |
parts of Kent, a wet end to the afternoon. Temperatures perhaps a | :27:14. | :27:15. | |
little bit cooler than they have been of late, highs of around eight | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
or nine degrees. Again, showers as we go through tomorrow night, plenty | :27:19. | :27:20. | |
of cloud cover around and temperatures staying relatively | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
mild, only dropping to five or six degrees and certainly saying frost | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
free as we start the weekend. There has been a level of uncertainty | :27:27. | :27:28. | |
free as we start the weekend. There has been a level of uncertahnty over | :27:29. | :27:30. | |
when we will see the rain at the weekend but the risk of rain stays | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
with us through Saturday and Sunday. This band of heavy rain acttally | :27:35. | :27:36. | |
This band of heavy rain actually should be staying to the west of us | :27:37. | :27:38. | |
now for Saturday, so there hs should be staying to the west of us | :27:39. | :27:39. | |
now for Saturday, so there is the chance we could stay dry. It is | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
still going to be breezy and the risk of rain is throughout the day, | :27:44. | :27:46. | |
temperatures nine at 10 degrees not feeling particularly pleasant. | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
Initially, we were hoping it would be dry on Sunday but it is not so, | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
in the afternoon particularly the risk of rain, temperatures nine or | :27:56. | :27:57. | |
ten as we go into the new wdek. ten as we go into the new wdek. | :27:58. | :28:00. | |
Staying unsettled but perhaps we will pick up an easterly breeze, | :28:01. | :28:02. | |
will pick up an easterly brdeze which means things getting a lot | :28:03. | :28:03. | |
which means things getting ` lot colder. | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
Well, that is something to look forward to! Is that good news | :28:08. | :28:10. | |
question mark I am not sure. Thank you. That is it from us. | :28:11. | :28:12. | |
question mark I am not sure. Thank you. That is it from ts. Ian | :28:13. | :28:14. | |
will be here with the late news tonight. | :28:15. | :28:16. | |
See you tomorrow, goodbye. | :28:17. | :28:19. |