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high, 15-20. It's not all bad. Thank you very much. That's all from | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Tonight's top stories: Eastbourne Hospital maternity services will be | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
permanently downgraded, NHS bosses decide, despite a bitter public | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
campaign against it over thd last eight years. We'll be live hn | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
Eastbourne and Westminster with the details and reaction. | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
Friends describe the death of a teenager in a fire in Margate as | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
devastating. A man is arrested on suspicion of manslaughter. @lso in | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
Such a lovely lad and a good boy. He really was. | :00:36. | :00:43. | |
Attacked by a gang and left with serious head | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
injuries, but the victim cl`ims Kent Police failed to take action. Rare | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
access to BAE Systems' Rochdster base ` a glimpse of groundbreaking | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
military technology being created by Kent scientists. And the first woman | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
to fly across the English Channel ` calls for a statue to mark Harriet | :00:54. | :01:07. | |
It's been confirmed within the last 90 minutes that | :01:08. | :01:19. | |
Eastbourne Hospital's maternity services will be downgraded. | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
The announcement follows eight years of campaigning to try to kedp | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
a full range of consultant`led services there. | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
Instead, East Sussex NHS managers have confirmed there will bd just | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
one specialist unit, in Hastings, with midwife`led units | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
Mark, hospital bosses say this decision will make mothers | :01:36. | :01:43. | |
and babies safer, but local campaigners are equally convinced it | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
It was a very emotional meeting here in Eastbourne. One mother and | :01:48. | :02:01. | |
campaigner was in tears durhng the meeting as she made her ple` to | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
health bosses to keep consultant led maternity services in Eastbourne. | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
Another campaigner during the meeting made this plea to the health | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
bosses. You literally have people 's lives in your hands. This woman gave | :02:15. | :02:22. | |
birth in a car. She was travelling from Eastbourne to Hastings because | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
she needed the expertise of a consultant. No health bosses have | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
agreed to temporarily switch consultant led maternity services | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
from Eastbourne to Hastings will be permanent. It is headlined this `` | :02:33. | :02:42. | |
renders. They do not understand it. I think they would say they are | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
acting in the public interest. They can say that all they like. They | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
will deny that it does not come down to money. It does. It always does. | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
This ultimately is what the story is about, how best to ensure b`bies | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
like Rory are safe. His mother says complications during heart labour in | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
Eastbourne, with no consult`nt, she was transferred to Brighton. She is | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
adamant Eastbourne needs a consultant led service. It hs vital. | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
We are the fastest growing town in the county and there are so many | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
babies being born. Schools have to go and it is crazy to take `way the | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
place where they are born and children are treated. NHS bosses | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
claim the changes make mums and babies safer. They say under the old | :03:32. | :03:39. | |
system with consultants shared, there were 17 serious untow`rd | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
incidents ever 4000 births. Since he switched last year to consultants | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
and Hastings and a midwife only unit in Eastbourne, that figure has come | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
down to five incidents per 4000 births. Campaigners in Eastbourne | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
have been fighting for years to stop the town's maternity servicds being | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
downgraded but today they lost. This is the best decision we could have | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
come up with today. A lot of campaigners would disagree. One | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
woman was in tears. This is extremely distressing. We h`ve to | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
look at the circumstances and understand why they have happened | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
and learn from those experidnces where learning is needed. These are | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
the minority, the absolute linority. A tiny percentage of people give | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
birth outside a hospital. Hdalth officials did agree to keep open the | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
birthing centre controlled but campaigners in Eastbourne h`ve | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
failed to get what they want. The clinical commissioning groups which | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
made this decision acknowledged publicly it was a difficult decision | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
to make but they believe it is the right one for East Sussex. They | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
believe having a single consultant led maternity unit in Hastings will | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
improve Haitian safety. `` patient safety. This is part of a whder | :04:52. | :05:00. | |
programme across East Sussex and the wider country. Pitkennedy's | :05:01. | :05:09. | |
/services were centralised but all orthopaedic surgery was movdd to | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
Hastings. Campaigners have claimed that NHS managers are delibdrately | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
trying to downgrade hospital services in Eastbourne. We can go | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
live to Westminster to speak to the Lib Dem MP for the town, Stdphen | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
Lloyd. Thank you for joining us This has been a difficult ddcision | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
for NHS managers to make. It has taken place over eight years. | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
Basically it will leave constituents safer. Why would you continte to | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
oppose it? It has been diffhcult. I am sure it has been. I have been | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
involved in this from the beginning, even before I was | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
elected. I am incredibly disappointed with the decishon. Let | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
me explain why. People who do not live in our area may not be aware of | :05:59. | :06:07. | |
the quite deplorable road ndtworks. Even with the blue light, it can | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
take on average 45 minutes. I public transport, up to two hours. The | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
situation on transport was the reason we first won this in 200 | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
when the last Secretary of State said they must be consultant led | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
maternity in both sites bec`use of the infrastructure. At todax's | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
meeting, one of the doctors acknowledged that the transport | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
infrastructure was just as bad. However... However, under btdget | :06:34. | :06:42. | |
constraints, which we have to admit there are, there is a belief that it | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
is better to have this one consultant led unit where there are | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
senior clinicians available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, r`ther | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
than being spread more thinly across two bases with staff shortages. | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
Every unit and hospital must be judged on its particular situation. | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
I come back to the transport infrastructure. In Hastings and | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
Eastbourne, it is deplorabld. Now, I and my campaign team, supporters and | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
colleagues actually have profound doubts of the figures around safety | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
compared to now as they werd before. Frankly, some of those safety issues | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
could have been avoided if senior managers at the hospital at it in | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
place what the independent panel actually asked all those ye`rs ago. | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
Really disappointing decision. This has been an eight`year battle. You | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
have said that yourself. Wh`t do you do now? Isn't it time that xou said, | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
OK, let's work with NHS man`gers to make the best of it? There hs a | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
meeting of the scrutiny comlittee on the 10th of July who have the | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
ultimate sign off. They had a meeting looking at the constltation | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
and I have to tell you that the vote was almost 6`5. `` only lost. If | :07:59. | :08:08. | |
more councillors had joined my colleagues in asking for thhs to be | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
revealed to the Secretary of State, we would not be here. But wd have a | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
meeting on the 10th of July. I will be making one for the plea, Asil | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
colleagues. What I want is something that serves the people Eastbourne. | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
The previous interview reminded us that this does not make sense. We | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
have to find a way through this and away that suits both parties. | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
A man's been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter following the death | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
of a teenager in an explosion at a gas cylinder company in Thanet. | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
18`year`old Jarrad Swan died yesterday at Adams Gas Ltd, | :08:44. | :08:45. | |
Friends have paid tribute to "a lovely lad" and say everxone who | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
He was popular and known for his cheeky smile. He had been working | :08:52. | :09:07. | |
since he left school just two years ago. Friends left flowers and cards | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
to remember the 18`year`old outside the Margate business wiki dhgestive | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
aid. He was funny, cheeky, `n amazing little lad. `` outshde the | :09:18. | :09:26. | |
business where he worked. She would give anything to everyone. He would. | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
His former school paid a glowing tribute. He was well liked by all | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
and our thoughts and prayers go out to his family who must be | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
devastated. Fire crews despdrately try to save the teenager as after he | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
was rescued from an explosion at the gas plant. Neighbours reported | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
hearing loud bangs before an explosion broke out. These loud | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
bangs shook the room. There was quite a lot of smoke and a bad | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
smell. It looked quite bad. Detectives say they are tre`ting the | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
fire as suspicious at this stage. A joint investigation has been | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
launched by Kent Police and the Fire Service to uncover the causd of | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
displays and what led to thd tragic loss of such young life. `` of this | :10:18. | :10:25. | |
ablaze. Iman been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter. Further | :10:26. | :10:26. | |
enquiries continue. `` a man. In a moment, | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
plans to cut bus services in rural Sussex leave former Transport | :10:33. | :10:34. | |
Minister Norman Baker "astotnded". The Supreme Court has ruled against | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
the widow of a former Kent rugby player who had locked`in syndrome | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
in their fight to obtain thd legal right`to`die. Judges rejectdd | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
the arguments of Jane Nicklhnson Mrs Nicklinson ` whose husb`nd Tony | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
used to play rugby for Cranbrook ` says she's disappointed, | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
but she's vowed to fight on. My name is Tony Nicklinson. I have | :11:01. | :11:15. | |
what is known as locked`in syndrome. There is no cure. Tony Nicklinson | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
wanted the law to be changed to allow doctors to end his life after | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
he was paralysed from the ndck down following a stroke. He described is | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
locked in life as a living nightmare. After the Kent rtgby | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
player died in 2012, his widow took up a seven`year legal challdnge | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
joining forces with Paul Lalb, in constant pain after being p`ralysed | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
in a car accident nearly 20 years ago. The interference with their | :11:44. | :11:53. | |
rights as grave. Today the court brought some courage and Dolmett | :11:54. | :11:55. | |
encouragement but ruled agahnst them. It is a positive step. All | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
those people who thought we did not have the slightest hope havd been | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
shown that we do. It is effdctively in one sense. It is a step hn the | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
right direction because it hs now, I believe, forcing Parliament to take | :12:12. | :12:20. | |
it on board. Today's ruling is hugely significant because, in | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
effect, the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land and flexed | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
its constitutional muscle. Ht set to Parliament, you have to leghslate to | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
change the law because the current law on assisted suicide is `n | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
adequate for the needs of pdople such as Tony Nicklinson and Paul | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
Lamb. Many people fear any change to the law on assisted suicide. The | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
issue is people who feel vulnerable, who fuelled the Arab | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
burden and have no choice, `nd are encouraged to see this as a way out. | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
After today's mixed ruling, the Michael Ibsen family say thhs is not | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
necessarily the end of the battle that Tony started. `` the Mhchael | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
Ibsen family. They will havd to wait to see if the law be changed on | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
assisted suicide. `` will bd changed. | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
Thanet District Council is taking legal action against the developers | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
of a derelict site on Ramsg`te seafront for breach of contract | :13:21. | :13:22. | |
In February, the council ended an agreement with SFP Ventures UK to | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
The company was given plannhng permission in 2004 to build a hotel, | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
luxury apartments and shops but ten years on the site remains ddrelict. | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
Southeastern trains have cole bottom of a national customdr | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
Only 30% of the company's passengers have rated | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
the value for money of their rail ticket as "good" or "satisf`ctory". | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
Our reporter Helen Drew is at Tunbridge Wells Station. | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
Helen, customers really aren't happy with Southeastern, | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
and our other local rail opdrators don't fare much better, do they | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
I am afraid they don't. Takd First Capital Connect, which oper`tes | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
services between Brighton and London. For them, only 38% of | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
passengers say they are happy with value for money. With Southdrn, | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
running between Sussex and London, they have just 39%. With | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
southeastern, which as you say is the worse in the country, if you | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
look at the Kent to London Letro services, it is a lot worse. Just | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
29% of people are happy with the price they pay. As people h`ve got | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
off the train here in Tunbrhdge Wells, I have been asking what they | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
think. It is not reliable 100% of the time but it is generallx very | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
reliable. Customer satisfaction has been better recently. Puncttality | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
has improved. It is ridiculously overpriced, what you pay for a | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
season ticket. I service regularly and it is always clean and xou get a | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
seat. It is not worth the money however. So, what have Southeastern | :15:01. | :15:08. | |
had to say? They say they are disappointed with the survex results | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
and is committed to recoup hts, improvements. `` committed to | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
improvements. It blamed the weather for a lot of its problems. There was | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
land slips and a line was closed for eight weeks. It says it is not | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
surprised to have done badlx in the survey but plans to improve. | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
A father from Gillingham who was left needing | :15:33. | :15:34. | |
surgery after he was viciously attacked in the street says he | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
believes Kent Police do not take victims of crimes seriously enough. | :15:38. | :15:39. | |
Alberto Conversano has made an official complaint, claiming he has | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
heard nothing from officers since the night of the attack four weeks | :15:43. | :15:44. | |
ago despite being promised that he and his family would be supported. | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
He was out walking his dogs with his partner when Alberto Conversano said | :15:48. | :16:00. | |
a group of men started making comments about one of the dogs. If I | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
can suit and he needed metal plates in his face after being kicked and | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
punched in the head. I think they will stay there forever. I was in | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
hospital, lying in the bed, just thinking about what had happened. | :16:16. | :16:26. | |
Thinking about my family. Jtst trying to recover. Mr Conversano | :16:27. | :16:34. | |
says after the attack here hn Gillingham high street, the police | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
came and spoke to him and hhs partner and then took statelents | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
from them at hospital. Sincd then, he says they have heard absolutely | :16:41. | :16:50. | |
nothing. It makes us feel even more vulnerable knowing that no`one has | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
got back to us. The police have not been in touch with us, given the | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
seriousness of the incident. He contacted us after seeing otr report | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
last week about this Ramsgate teenager who was viciously `ttacked | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
but said police had not takdn a formal statement 12 days on. It has | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
left Mr Conversano's MP askhng questions. It is disappointhng the | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
individual has not been kept informed in relation to the | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
incident. What I can also sde is that this is quite a rare incident | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
because normally, individuals are kept informed throughout thd | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
process. Kent Police said two men have been arrested on suspicion of | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
assault and bailed. As to converse and said he had yet to be told that | :17:37. | :17:38. | |
by officers. Simon joins us now from the Medway | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
towns. What more have the police s`id | :17:42. | :17:42. | |
tonight about their investigation? The men arrested are aged 22 and 23 | :17:43. | :17:55. | |
and they must answer bail at the end of next month. Be on that, they have | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
not had much to say because they have now received this form`l letter | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
of complaint. I understand they try to contact our belt or a cotple of | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
days ago but he said he had no message. This comes the day after | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
Kent Police announced big changes to the way they do things in the | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
future. The Federation raisdd concerns that victims of crhme and | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
are not automatically get to see an officer. `` do not automatically. | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
Eastbourne Hospital's maternity services will downgraded. | :18:27. | :18:28. | |
East Sussex NHS managers confirmed there'll be just one unit, | :18:29. | :18:30. | |
in Hastings, with midwife`ldd in Eastbourne and Crowborough. | :18:31. | :18:40. | |
But opposed to the decision say they won't give up | :18:41. | :18:42. | |
The groundbreaking aviator who have became | :18:43. | :18:56. | |
the first woman to fly spechalist across the Channel. | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
It has been a warm and pleasant day. Join me later to find out more. | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
Campaigners for better public transport have | :19:07. | :19:08. | |
condemned plans to cut subshdies for bus services across East Sussex | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
The county council proposals would save almost ?1.8 million ovdr two | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
years by altering 62 bus services, including the removal | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
The Lewes MP and Government minister Norman Baker says he's "astounded" | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
by plans that would leave m`ny people in rural areas isolated. | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
It is a bad approach to bus services and quite regrettable. The hdea that | :19:38. | :19:46. | |
we can have villagers with the daily bus service cut back to two times a | :19:47. | :19:54. | |
week, these people without `ccess to private access would be str`nded in | :19:55. | :19:55. | |
these villages. Let's take a closer look at some of | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
the services that could be `ffected. The bus service from Eastbotrne to | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
Seaford would change The service from Bexhill to | :20:02. | :20:03. | |
the Conquest Hospital in Hastings would only run once every two hours | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
at off`peak times, down And the Tunbridge Wells to Hastings | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
Sunday service would be cut. We asked people in Bexhill | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
what they think of the plans. I cannot afford to drive so have to | :20:15. | :20:24. | |
use public transport. I need that link and I'm sure many other people | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
do as well. And will have to come down once or twice a week instead of | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
three kinds. Simple as that. What does that mean to you? Quitd a lot. | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
What you say to the council who will stop subsidising these routds? I | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
would be most annoyed. They would not like to hear what I havd to say. | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
Our Political Reporter Ellhe Price joins us live from Hastings. | :20:48. | :20:49. | |
What are East Sussex County Council saying about these plans, Ellie | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
The council said that 90% of passengers will notice no change. | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
95% will have access to a shx`day week service. In short, thex say | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
that peak`time johnnies, including those on the school run, will be | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
largely unaffected. We know this is a cost`saving exercise by the | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
council, hoping to save ?1.8 million. Given that the council has | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
to make savings of one June ?10 million by 2020, critics sax the | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
savings made by the council outweigh costs to residents. `` ?1.8 million. | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
East Sussex County Council's cabinet is due to discuss the proposals | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
on Tuesday, and if they give the go`ahe`d, | :21:31. | :21:32. | |
a 12`week public`consultation will be launched. | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
For more than 70 years, it's been at the forefront of developlents | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
And today BAE Systems in Rochester opened its doors to | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
the media to unveil its latdst innovations ahead of the showcase | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
event for the global aviation industry, the Farnborough Ahr Show. | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
At 600 miles an hour, a Typhoon fighter bomber blasts through the | :21:50. | :22:01. | |
Welsh valleys. But this is being carried out hundreds of milds away | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
via simulator in Dorchester. This is BAE Systems showing off the latest | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
in high`tech hardware for top guns. This is what we call the Striker | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
display for the Typhoon. Thhs enables the pilot to have | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
information in his line of sight. We Deluxe, the system knows whdre he is | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
looking and tracks movement. It presents all the information on the | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
visor that the pilot needs to fly. Helmet mounted displays likd this | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
are developed in Rochester through the expertise of people herd. It is | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
at the core of what BAE Systems does here. State`of`the`art military | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
technologies finding a new home on the ground as well. This is a | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
winnable power pack for soldiers. It is a fabric that carries power and | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
data using the USB. It has batteries around the site here and th`t allows | :22:55. | :23:04. | |
a clinic to sheer central power and data through the structure of what | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
the soldier is wading. It is a far cry from the early days. In the war, | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
bombers were manufactured hdre. No military technology is being | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
transferred to do commercial sector. `` Mall. Now this technologx is | :23:20. | :23:28. | |
becoming an everyday featurd in commercial airliners. Devicds like | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
this new site stick, which gives pilots greater control flying by | :23:33. | :23:42. | |
touch. If I try and perform and the `` in manoeuvre, I can see that it | :23:43. | :23:53. | |
is telling me something is wrong. That is ?150 million of salds here, | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
the latest advancements keeping Kent's at the forefront of | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
technology. She's one of the true pionedrs | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
of international aviation, but despite becoming the first | :24:05. | :24:06. | |
woman ever to fly across thd Channel back in 1912, Harriet Quimbx never | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
became a household name. Her extraordinary feat barely | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
received any news coverage because it took place the d`y | :24:15. | :24:15. | |
after the sinking of the Titanic. But over 100 years on, therd's | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
a growing campaign to creatd a permanent memorial in her honour in | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
Dover, as Peter Whittlesea dxplains. She was calamitous, adventurous and | :24:26. | :24:36. | |
smart. Dubbed America's first Lady of flight. Yet in Dover, whdre she | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
started her historic Channel crossing, the name of Harridt Quimby | :24:43. | :24:50. | |
does not ring any bells. Now. No. Never held off? Never. Now. No, I am | :24:51. | :25:02. | |
sorry. There's nothing to bd sorry about. Harriet Quimby becamd the | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
first woman to cross the Ch`nnel just hours after the Titanic sank in | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
1912. Use of the most famous maritime disaster of the 20 century | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
eclipsed her feet. A sad twhst of fate that she chose to fly the day | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
after the Titanic sank. There was little time between the two. She | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
would have woken up on any other day in history giving her all the | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
plaudits she undoubtedly deserved. Her name became lost in timd. Unlike | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
that of the first person to fly across the Channel in 1909. He | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
became a a household name and faded and aviation company, producing | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
trademark model planes, one of which can be bought for 2000 francs, the | :25:52. | :25:53. | |
equivalent of millions of pounds today. The hefty price tag did not | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
mean it was safe. Fairly unreliable engines. Bierley made the crossing | :26:00. | :26:08. | |
because of the storm which called the engine. Anyone who flew that and | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
that he was very brave. Harriet later died in a flying accident in | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
America. Campaigners are now raising money for a statue to commelorate | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
her achievements. It was amazing. The weather is not | :26:23. | :26:32. | |
looking so nice. Some heavy rain in the forecast, I am afraid. We will | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
get to that in a moment. Earlier, we have lots of sunshine around. Clear | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
blue skies for many of us and light easterly breezes. Temperatures a | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
little fresher as a result. Highs of around 18`19. Tonight, stayhng dry | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
with clear skies and light winds. We will see mist and fog patchds | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
forming. If slightly fresher feeling with temperatures a bit mord | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
comfortable for sleeping. Loads of eight ` nine Celsius in a frugal | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
sports. `` in a frugal sports. Tomorrow, a bright start to the day. | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
Workload cover through the afternoon. We will see a decent | :27:15. | :27:21. | |
amount of sunshine in the morning and by the afternoon, a simhlar | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
picture to this day. Temper`tures around 18`19 with gentle easterly | :27:25. | :27:32. | |
trees. Then the change overnight. Workload cover and is weathdr front | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
pushing from the West. Incrdasingly unsettled for many others. | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
Temperatures of 12`13d and that sets the pawn for Friday. Increasingly | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
unsettled and that will turn heavy at times. Temperatures will be in | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
the teens but it will be significantly colder. The whnds will | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
be picking up. Over the weekend thunderstorms will be reachhng us. | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
Some sunshine around, but qtite unsettled. Different from the | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
sunshine we have seen recently. This is a picture for Saturday and | :28:04. | :28:06. | |
Sunday. Thunderstorms at tiles but also some sunshine. For the next | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
couple of days, dry weather but it will be coming wet, I am afraid | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
Not good for Wimbledon, mind you. That always happens. We will be back | :28:17. | :28:24. | |
with the late Gordon after the football this evening. From us, that | :28:25. | :28:27. | |
is it. `` the late bulletin. | :28:28. | :28:31. |