14/07/2014 South East Today

Radical plans to combat obesity in Medway `

a scheme to restrict opening hours of fast food outlets near schools.

They barely knew each other now and they have an unbreakabld bond `

the Kent colleagues brought together by kidney donation.

The fledgling children?s TV series made in Sussex, taking flight today.

And an honorary degree in C`nterbury for comedian Sandi Toksvig,

A Kent man who stabbed his estranged wife 12 times

in a jealous rage has been jailed for ten years for attempted murder.

Peter Wood from Wainscott h`d to be fought off by their 14`year`old son.

The police say it's only thanks to his courage that

she is still alive today. Simon Jones reports.

He was responsible for what the police call a sickening and savage

attack, much of an inflected in front of their two children. I am

confident and the clear he hntended to kill his wife, and if it wasn't

for good luck and the courageous intervention of his 14`year`old son,

I do not believe she would be alive today. Peter and Tina Wood had

separated but were living in separate rooms. She had gond to bed

when she were set upon with this ruling pen. She screamed and her

eldest son came to her aid. Peter would then chased into the street.

He stabbed her 12 times to the chest, neck, back and buy. @gain,

there are son fought him off while neighbours called the policd. We

seem to have lost that report. If we can get back to it, we will do.

Obesity is such a problem in the Medway Towns,

according to the council, that they are hoping to bring

Tomorrow, they will vote on restricting the opening hours

There are 238 hot food takeaway outlets in the are`.

Nearly a third of adults in Medway Towns are obese.

And one in five primary aged school children are obese.

Where there is a great denshty of fast food outlets close to schools,

then there is a greater inchdence of obesity. We would not be considering

consulting on that if we did not think it would work.

Our political reporter Ellid Price is in Gillingham High Street.

Ellie, what are the proposals being voted on tomorrow?

The council wants to place restrictions on new takeawax outlets

and on their opening hours, between school lunch times and school

leaving times, so between mhdday and 2pm and again between 3pm and five

BM, and that would apply to new takeaway outlets less than 400

metres, a secondary school, and they want to face a surcharge on those

outlets on top of their bushness rates. If it gets the go`ahdad it

would be the first time a council has replaced restrictions anywhere

in the UK, but some people say it does not go far enough becatse it

only applies to new takeawax outlets so not the ones we see at the

moment, and some parents sax the council should not be stickhng its

nose in and it can be hard to feed a child on a limited budget.

In a moment, the bright future planned

So why are more than 11,000 people opposed to it?

I am very sorry about the sound problems tonight, but I think we can

go back to our top story, which was about the man who has been jailed

for ten years for stabbing his wife 12 times. She is only alive, police

believe, because there are son intervened. He was responsible for

what the police call a savage, sickening attack, much of it

inflicted in front of the couple's two children. I am clear he intended

to kill his wife without a doubt and if it wasn't for good luck `nd the

courageous intervention of their 14`year`old son, I do not bdlieve

she would be alive today. Pdter and Tina Wood had separated but were

still living here in separate rooms. She had gone to bed when shd was set

upon. She screamed and her son came to her aid. Peter would then chased

down into the street and st`bbed her 12 times in the chest, head, back

and side. Their son fought him off while neighbours called the police.

He showed officers the knifd he had used. It is shocking to hear about

it. Are you glad he has gond to jail? Definitely, best placd for

him. It was the first time Kent Police had been called to b`lance

here. In the months before, police said he had been an abuse of former

husband after she began a ndw relationship. When a woman has just

left a violent relationship that is the most dangerous time for her and

that is when most murders occur Tina Wood has recovered physically.

Police raised her and her children's courage through their

ordeal. `` police praised hdr college.

A retired Anglican Bishop h`s been ordered to appear in court over two

82`year`old Bishop Peter Ball faces allegations of indecent ass`ult

on a boy aged under 16 in the mid`1980s in Litlington

in East Sussex, and indecent assault on a man in the early 1990s

He has already been charged with misconduct in public office as well

He's been ordered to appear at Brighton Magistrates Court

Two brothers and their sister have gone lissing

The three teenagers were last seen on Friday morning

when their foster mother took 16`year`old Jemima Reade to school.

They saw her brothers, Ben who's 15 and James who's 14

Jemima got out of the car but none of them returned home.

A Taiwanese delegation is to visit Manston Airport on Wednesdax,

spurring fresh hope in Thandt almost two months

The Taipei Representative Office in the UK was invited by thd local

Liberal Democrat party and will meet with the Chamber of Commercd.

But the owners of Manston Ahrport claim they weren't aware

of the visit and have no talks planned with the visitors.

This is an extraordinary story of altruism.

52`year`old Martin Baker was diagnosed with diabetes,

and needed to go through di`lysis every other day.

Then 27`year`old Terri Smith offered her kidney, and a year

on the pair are back working for UK Power Networks in Maidstone.

Having suffered from diabetds since he was five years old, electrician

Martin Baker ended up with kidney failure and in need of a tr`nsplant.

That is when Terry Smith cale in. They work together at an eldctricity

company in Maidstone but barely knew each other. You could tell the fact

it was having on him, I just went and looked it up a bit more and

decided it was something I wanted to do. Without the transplant, Martin

would have faced a lifetime of dialysis, which she struggldd with.

It was horrible. I hated it. The first six or seven months, H was

suicidal. There were more than 000 kidney transplants last year. The

total number from both living and deceased donors increased bx 15 ,

with living donors over a third of all transplants, but there hs still

a shortage. Terry developed a rare complications and spent sevdn months

in and out of hospital, but one of the doctors who look after her said

complications are rare in pdople should not be put off. Kidndy donors

live long and healthy lives, just as long as the rest of the poptlation,

if not a little longer. Do xou have any regrets? No. I would encourage

other people to become donors because it is such a life changing

thing, process for Martin and it has made such a difference. Martin, what

would you say to Terry? She is one in a million. Couldn't get `ny

better. Mark now plans to spend as much time as possible with his seven

grandchildren and Terry with her family.

A victim of child sex abuse at the hands of a paedophile priest has

welcomed the decision of Baroness Butler`Sloss to step down as chair

of an inquiry into allegations of child abuse in the establishment.

It comes after this programle exclusively revealed serious doubts

about her appointment by Phhl Johnson who was abused by a priest

in Sussex. He says she told him she wanted to exclude his

Our Special Correspondent Colin Campbell reports.

She was put in charge of le`ding a national enquiry into child sex

abuse, some allegedly perpetrated by senior politicians, but aftdr days

of pressure, this lunchtime, Lady Butler`Sloss resigned her position.

I think she clearly wasn't right for this job.

Apart from my own personal involvement in the enquiries,

I spoke to many survivors' groups and their representatives over

the weekend and it was clear there was very little support for her

She was appointed chair of the enquiry by the Home

The appointment was widely criticised, Lady Butler`Sloss

accused of being part of the establishment, her brother

On Thursday we revealed she omitted the name of a bishop from a report

into sex abuse she had overseen in Sussex, a story picked up n`tional

The victims had to come first in all of this and I think because Lady

Butler`Sloss had done enquiries into sexual abuse for the church and she

had to issue a large correction and apology about part of the enquiry

and taking a senior church person's word for things without checking

them up, and the suggestion that there may have been sexual `buse

that was not publicised as part of her enquiry, she did not have the

confidence of the victims and had to give this up.

Lady Butler`Sloss told Phil Johnson she had sent the name of thd Bishop

in private correspondence to the Archbishop of Canterburx.

Phil Johnson agreed at the time but later said he felt pressured.

Bishop Peter Ball has been charged and is facing trial.

She gave me several reasons, one of which was that she cared for the

church and seemed to want to protect the church's image so didn't want to

generate any excessive negative publicity for the church and she

expressed that by saying th`t the press would love a bishop.

I'm very sorry Baroness Butler`Sloss has resigned.

The Home Secretary today rejected entirely any idea Lady Butldr`Sloss

was not the right person for the job.

Victims and survivors believe she h`s shown

integrity today by stepping down and listening to their concdrns

Colin Joyce beat live now. Theresa May has said Baroness Butler`Sloss'

integrity is impeccable. Phhl Johnson is not so sure. `` Colin

joins me now. Phil Johnson said what Baroness Butler`Sloss said hn the

house of lords and before in 20 2, that she cared for the church and

did not want to give negative publicity. Since last Thursday I

have spoke to senior people in child protection, social workers, senior

members of clergy, all of whom said the government made a mistake by

appointing Lady Butler Sloss. Sex abuse victims and survivor groups

say they want someone to he`d this national inquiry that they have

confidence in. Ambitious plans to turn one

of Brighton's oldest theatrds into a multiplex cinema are being

vigorously opposed by a grotp of campaigners,

who claim the plan is "absurd". In its heydey the Hippodromd

attracted huge crowds, even But it is now on the

English Heritage Buildings at risk register, and the

council believes the ?18 million plan is the only way of savhng it.

This is the only way of savhng it, isn't it? It has a very full history

but the decisions are now about its future. Do the council want to turn

it into something that will appeal to younger people, a multiplex

cinema with restaurants, or something appealing to a more

traditional audience? Anothdr theatre in the city at one large

enough to bring in performances from the West End.

It's seen some extraordinarx sights, the Hippodrome,

It's been a circus, an ice rink and a stage for local hero Max Liller.

She said, what will you use for money?

She said, Frank's not going, what are you talking about?

A generation later , a scend from the '60s as 4000 or so squedzed in

That in turn was snuffed out by the smoking ban seven ye`rs ago.

It looks a bit of a mess now, which is why a development company

wants to turn it into this ` another multiplex from the outside,

but they stressed that amid the cinemas and restaurants, thdy will

Come off it, say campaigners who gathered to promote plans

There are bits of the detail they are saving but they want to build

a mezzanine floor at balconx level which halves the area of

the auditorium, and that spoils the point of it being a theatre that was

Grade II listed because of that design and the space inside.

Today we could not find anyone who said they would prefer a cinema

We have a cinema just down there on the right`hand side, a bhg Odeon

with God knows how many scrdens surely we don't need another one.

I was born here so I would like to see it go back.

I think it should be a live venue and a theatre West End

Developers are used to opposition, though.

They hope the care they have put into their

We have got in touch with the developers who say they havd no

comment to add. The problem for campaigners is that developdrs have

put all the detail on the wdbsite and want to get started but the

campaigners have not yet worked out a plan and hope to have somdthing in

the next few months. It is the council who will have to decide all

this on Wednesday. This is our top story. A Kent man who stabbdd his

estranged wife ten times in a jealous rage has been jailed for her

murder. Peter Wood attacked Tina Wood inside the house they still

share with their two childrdn. Also tonight, Sandy talks big, Doctor of

arts. The comedian receives an honorary degree. And this wdek is

looking sunny and warm. Join me later.

of an animator from Sussex who was struggling to get funding for his

pilot children's tv show. Ed Kellie's programme idea was about

Wildlife Jack ` a little box with the magical ability to talk with the

animals. 12 months on, and the first of 5 programmes has today bden aired

on Disney TV. Children's TV is a tough market and while it is big

business ` the most recent figures show ?106 million was spent

on children's programmes in 201 ` That's significantly down from the

?200 million of 2002. Now, only 20 percent of children's

broadcast in Britain are actually made in the UK ` so the Lewds

animator is bucking the trend. Natalie Graham reports

Today, wildlife jack launchdd himself on a new generation of

viewers, but the journey he has made from fledgling animation to

top`flight children show has not easy. I had never made a chhldren's

programme or wildlife progr`mme in my life. I did not know what I was

doing but I knew there was no really good magical, fun wildlife show for

preschoolers and I knew kids would love it. A year ago, Ed, a TV

producer from Lewis, was struggling to get funding, but then BBC

presenter Chris Pack am heard about Jack and word reached a certain

broadcasting company called Disney. Do you want a wildlife adventure,

Jack? Now Chris is the voicd of grandad and Jack is played by Ed's

son. Wildlife Jack is creatdd by a small team in Brighton and ht is a

labour`intensive process. The character is superimposed on real

footage but he is completelx hand drawn and each member of thd team

takes one week to produce 20 seconds of the show. This kind of production

is increasingly rare on British TV. One of the big changes to

children's TV around the world in the last two decades has bedn

increasing globalisation, especially with animation because it is easy to

read up and sell to other countries, so often reduction will flow to

countries in which it is economic ultimatum. Fortunately the TK has

not been an economical placd for a lot of that investment. The hard

work has paid off for the Stssex team behind Jack and it is hoped he

will encourage more children to get out doors and engage with n`ture.

The England men in public and women's hockey teams warmed up for

the Commonwealth Games. Both sides prepared at the Queen Elizabeth

National Park and could hardly have gone better. Two handsome trophies

and two happy teams, both London cup winners are now optimistically

looking forward to the Commonwealth Games. Ashley Jackson appears close

to his best and was named l`yer of the tournament. He believes recent

results have given the team real momentum. We are excited and

hopefully this shows the direction the group will go in the future and

we can take this on to biggdr and better tournament is against teams

where we have been competing for a major medals. Having drawn with

Ireland in the final, England won the shoot out 4`2, giving an ideal

build`up to next week. It is great to have games on home soil `nd

generate support going into the Commonwealth. Of course, yot cannot

rely on that being preparathon in itself. Results are great btt we

need to keep working hard. We know everyone will step up when ht comes

to the Commonwealth we will try and do the same. England's women beat

South Africa in their final, but after a disappointing recent World

Cup their future funding is under threat. Gold in Glasgow would help

restore their pride. When a Kent scientist went to

collect his son from primarx school, he never imagined he'd make a new

scientific discovery. Dr Andrew Polaszek, who works at the Natural

History Museum, found a previously unknown native wasp on a maple tree

in the playground. Now, aftdr five years of rigorous testing, ht's been

confirmed the new species n`med Encarsia harrisoni is a scidntific

breakthrough. It's a parasitic wasp that lays its eggs in whitefly.

There are 350 species of it worldwide. And, unlike most

wasps, it doesn't sting. The newest species of nativd wasp is

bright yellow. This scientist discovered that his son's they

grown. To discover a new spdcies in a rainforest in Borneo is ldss

normal, especially these sm`ll things. To discover it almost

literally on my doorstep in Kent makes it very satisfying and

exciting. It was found inside white flies on a maple tree at thhs

primary School in Sevenoaks. How many primary schools have their own

wasp? We try to teach children about biodiversity around the world, we

look at different creatures and it is all happening virtually tnder our

noses. Initially it was dot the species might be from the continent

and after five years of extdnsive research and DNA analysis, ht has

been confirmed there is nothing else like it. The majority of wasps are

these PCs that kill other insects and are beneficial to humans because

some of the things be destroyed our pests of agriculture and

horticulture. The new specids has been dedicated after a fellow

Sevenoaks scientist who dedhcated most of his life to research. It

goes alongside a number of other creatures I have had named `fter me,

including a flea, a bat and a wild sand cat from Arabia. Scientists

travelled the world looking for insects but to find something so

remarkable in such an ordin`ry place makes this discovery even more

special. Imagine having a flea named after you! What an honour. We will

get a check on the weather now, and it is hotting up. We could see 0

degrees, it will be humid btt I am not sure it is pleasant. Evdn in the

south`east, we expect temperatures, possibly 29 degrees at the dnd of

the week. There will be somd sunshine around, some rain tonight

but as we head through the week we will see temperatures rise, but by

Thursday the chance of a thunderstorm. Clear blue skhes, lots

of sunshine around. I think our top temperature was 23 degrees today. We

had a south`westerly breeze thingy up to 20 mph. Quite blusterx and as

we go into tonight, the weather front slinking down from thd

Northwest Mentmore cloud around and some fairly rain around as well

Temperatures feeling very mtggy More cloud and eventually this rain

is not particularly having but just look at these lows overnight, very

uncomfortable for sleeping so muggy and cloudy and perhaps a little damp

as we start tomorrow, but that weather front will clear out of the

way and it starts to brightdn up the afternoon and temperatures creeping

up on today's values, just ` little cooler along the sea and thd winds

easing off again. Tomorrow night, we will stay settled, again not

especially comfortable, lows of 14 or 15 degrees and staying in the

mid`teens but it is settled. Plenty of cloud around and we may see at

the slow mist or fog. For Wddnesday, plenty of sunshine and it whll stay

settled. Temperatures rising as high as 25 or 26 degrees and by Thursday

and Friday it will start to feel very humid and muggy, perhaps

Wednesday a little more comfortable. On Thursday, temperatures whll rise

to 29 degrees. We will start to see wind is picking up and tempdratures

will rise on Friday but also a risk of thunderstorms and low prdssure

from the side as we go into the weekend. We expect showers for

Saturday and further outbre`ks of rain for Sunday, but still

temperatures holding up into the mid`20s. Tonight we will sed rain

for a time but that clears out of the way, temperatures rising over

the next couple of days, fedling humid and muggy, the rest of

thunderstorms by the end of the week. Now, we hope to bring you a

report on sandy toxic's honorary degree. She is best done for her

sharp wit on shows like Radho 4 s News quiz, and today she became an

Henri Doctor at the Univershty of Kent. We cannot bring you a full

report today but we hope we will do that tomorrow. Before we go, a final

look at tonight's headlines. A Sussex victim of six abuse `t the

hands of a paedophile priest welcomed the decision of Baroness

Butler`Sloss to step down as head of an inquiry into Chad abuse hn the

establishment. We will be b`ck at 8pm and at 10:30pm. Goodbye.

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