:00:00. > :00:00.Welcome to South East Today, I'm Polly Evans.
:00:07. > :00:11.Tonight's top stories: Stay out of the water ` again.
:00:12. > :00:19.Anger in Thanet as Southern Water discharges sewage into the sea.
:00:20. > :00:24.The beaches are closed. You going to come here? It's going to put you
:00:25. > :00:25.off. Without ?100 million of invdstment,
:00:26. > :00:28.Manston can never be a successful airport,
:00:29. > :00:29.according to an expert report. We're live
:00:30. > :00:48.at the site with the details. It's official. The ceremony is held
:00:49. > :00:49.to mark the start of Britain's i360. Adam Gemili celebrates his silver
:00:50. > :01:04.medal at the Commonwealth G`mes The saga of Noggin the Nog
:01:05. > :01:18.continues. The Viking boy wonder created in Kent turns up on stage.
:01:19. > :01:21.People are being warned not to go into the sea off nine Kent beaches
:01:22. > :01:24.after the latest in a series of sewage discharges.
:01:25. > :01:30.Southern Water say they had to release sewage from pumping stations
:01:31. > :01:33.in Margate and Broadstairs to ensure local homes were not flooded
:01:34. > :01:36.Notices have been put up on beaches from Walpole Bay to
:01:37. > :01:39.Dumpton Gap advising people not to go beyond the high water mark.
:01:40. > :01:42.Peter Whittlesea joins us lhve from Broadstairs.
:01:43. > :01:44.Peter, this is a real blow to tourhsm in
:01:45. > :02:03.To lessen the impact, they were cleaning up debris from beaches like
:02:04. > :02:09.this. Advice is not to go p`st the high water mark. Businesses see this
:02:10. > :02:16.could not have come at a worse time, at the start of the school holidays.
:02:17. > :02:22.Perfect beach weather this lorning but signs told visitors to stay out
:02:23. > :02:31.of the water after sewage w`s discharged from two of Southern
:02:32. > :02:36.Water's pumping stations. Gdt your act together. Get it sorted. We are
:02:37. > :02:40.sick of this every time we have some rain. This is the latest in a series
:02:41. > :02:48.of incidents that have closdd Thanet beaches. In June 2012, several were
:02:49. > :02:56.closed after a fault. Last xear Southern Water was fined ?200,0 0.
:02:57. > :03:03.They have the worst record hn the country for sewage leaks. The owner
:03:04. > :03:11.of the soft school says his business has been hit yet again. `` source.
:03:12. > :03:16.They cannot consistently pollute our water and get away with it. It is
:03:17. > :03:20.criminal. It is a disgrace. We will lose thousands of pounds and B won't
:03:21. > :03:30.get it back. We are consistdntly losing money and the reputation of
:03:31. > :03:42.our business. There were apparently few options because of excess
:03:43. > :03:50.rainfall. This morning, the vast majority of visitors didn't go in.
:03:51. > :03:56.But as temperatures rose, m`ny changed domains. It would h`ve been
:03:57. > :04:03.such a disappointment. We ddcided to just chance it. I told them they can
:04:04. > :04:12.only paddle. Not to put thehr faces in. Businesses see the fear of more
:04:13. > :04:16.sewage is damaging reputation. Tonight there is anger at Southern
:04:17. > :04:19.Water. There is a belief th`t they should be forced to do something
:04:20. > :04:27.since they were fined 200 thousand pounds recently. Thanet council said
:04:28. > :04:33.tomorrow morning, they will be going around all the beaches to CF there
:04:34. > :04:37.is debris on any of them. After low tide tomorrow, they will make a
:04:38. > :04:41.decision if they can open. A new report looking at the
:04:42. > :04:44.potential to reopen Manston Airport has concluded that it couldn't be
:04:45. > :04:47.done without a multi`million pound investment programme and
:04:48. > :04:49.Central Government commitment to The report, commissioned by Thanet
:04:50. > :04:55.District Council, says an initial investment of ?100 million would be
:04:56. > :04:59.needed for the airport to stcceed. It recommends creating
:05:00. > :05:04.a long`term business plan l`sting at least 20 years and says
:05:05. > :05:06.the project would require political Our business correspondent
:05:07. > :05:23.Mark Norman has the details. If you stole what campaigners hoping
:05:24. > :05:30.to see Manston survive and hoping to see Thanet Council by the ahrport.
:05:31. > :05:33.As part of that process, thd council commissioned a report asking of
:05:34. > :05:42.Manston was sustainable, and the answer came back now. Not unless
:05:43. > :05:47.there was a ?100 million investment in local infrastructure coupled with
:05:48. > :05:54.Government support. This is a significantly complex issue. We had
:05:55. > :05:58.to follow appropriate processes What we are looking for is ` 20 year
:05:59. > :06:04.business plan that establishes viability well into the futtre. But
:06:05. > :06:10.well the 52 page report goes into detail, it has its critics. The
:06:11. > :06:13.local MP says it has been rtshed and is inaccurate. Campaigners say that
:06:14. > :06:19.the airport did not pass on important financial details to the
:06:20. > :06:31.authors. The field to supplx the facts. `` failed. Unfortunately
:06:32. > :06:36.without that information, you cannot have a solid viability report. There
:06:37. > :06:40.was huge local support for workers who lost their jobs earlier this
:06:41. > :06:43.year but some experts believe that, well it didn't work as a passenger
:06:44. > :06:49.airport, with investment it could work as a cargo hub. As a holiday
:06:50. > :06:57.airport, I think it is posshbly too far on the coast. It needed
:06:58. > :07:01.companies to move their cargo hub is down there and that would h`ve saved
:07:02. > :07:08.it. The report makes a numbdr of recommendations to councillors
:07:09. > :07:11.including an invested stratdgy. But some are worried that it will lead
:07:12. > :07:16.to delays allowing the airport to fall into disrepair.
:07:17. > :07:23.I understand the report says there would need to be huge investment in
:07:24. > :07:28.local transport links? It does. It says the airport should rem`in shut
:07:29. > :07:36.until an established high`speed link to London is made including a Thanet
:07:37. > :07:40.station. It also talks about an appearance of redundancy and he
:07:41. > :07:44.reputation of failure. Now the huge place is shut down, putting off
:07:45. > :07:55.potential operators. With some investment, other airports have
:07:56. > :08:00.millions of users and it is said that could work here at Manston The
:08:01. > :08:07.council are under pressure to act quickly, are they? They are. Up at
:08:08. > :08:11.the gateway there have been campaigners every day since it has
:08:12. > :08:15.closed and from the American company that wanted to buy Manston @irport.
:08:16. > :08:20.Now they want to support thd compulsory purchase order btt
:08:21. > :08:22.Manston say they are not gohng to bow to pressure and will discuss it
:08:23. > :08:29.at a meeting on Thursday night. Any moment, what has Mary Portas
:08:30. > :08:38.done for Margate. `` in a moment. A finance manager who stole more
:08:39. > :08:41.than ?2 million from NHS trusts he worked for
:08:42. > :08:44.in East Sussex has been jailed. Trevor Cosson, from Hastings,
:08:45. > :08:46.used the money to buy a strhng He's been sent to prison
:08:47. > :08:58.for five years and four months. He has taken money
:08:59. > :09:02.which could have been used for patient care at a local levdl and
:09:03. > :09:05.diverted it for his own purposes. He was building a property dmpire
:09:06. > :09:07.with the funds he diverted. He did it over a number of xears
:09:08. > :09:10.so it is very serious Our home affairs reporter
:09:11. > :09:17.Rebecca Williams joins us lhve Rebecca, this is one of the most
:09:18. > :09:32.serious cases of fraud against Yes. That is certainly what NHS is
:09:33. > :09:39.seeing tonight. Trevor Cosson had been working as head of fin`ncial
:09:40. > :09:43.accounting and committed thhs fraud over three years. He purchased 1
:09:44. > :09:49.properties across the south`east. The majority were Saint Leonards on
:09:50. > :09:53.Sea. Many have now been sold to other people. His activities only
:09:54. > :10:01.came to light after the forler NHS primary care trust were disbanded
:10:02. > :10:04.and a group to call for overseeing financial planning. They noticed in
:10:05. > :10:08.an end of year audit that stspicious payments had been made and Trevor
:10:09. > :10:10.Cosson pleaded guilty in cotrt and was sentenced to five years and four
:10:11. > :10:13.months. An unlicensed cab driver who fled
:10:14. > :10:15.the scene of a crash, leaving his passenger to did
:10:16. > :10:18.in the car, has been jailed Emma Willis died in the crash
:10:19. > :10:21.in Waldershare, near Dover, She was one
:10:22. > :10:24.of three passengers being driven by 22`year`old Tobbie Colem`n,
:10:25. > :10:36.who's been jailed for 15 months The death of a man who fell ill in
:10:37. > :10:39.the back of a Sussex Police van is being investigated by the
:10:40. > :10:42.Independent Police Complaints Commission. The 32`year`old was held
:10:43. > :10:48.by police and died in hospital today. They are appealing for
:10:49. > :10:52.witnesses. Network Rail are investigathng
:10:53. > :10:54.a large sinkhole which has opened up today in the car
:10:55. > :10:57.park of Maidstone East Stathon. The area's been cordoned off
:10:58. > :11:01.until the hole is fully rep`ired. When it's finished it'll be visible
:11:02. > :11:03.for more than 20 miles, and today a ceremony to mark
:11:04. > :11:06.the start of building work on Brighton's controversial new
:11:07. > :11:09.i360 viewing tower has taken place. A loan of more than ?36 million has
:11:10. > :11:13.been borrowed from a special Government fund to build thd tourist
:11:14. > :11:16.attraction, double the amount that Our reporter Mark Sanders is live
:11:17. > :11:33.in Brighton for us. In two years time, if everything
:11:34. > :11:40.goes to plan. People will bd able to travel to the top for panor`mic
:11:41. > :11:49.views. The 21st century to dust attraction. The IT 60 `` i360 wants
:11:50. > :11:57.to put Brighton right behind your feet. It will be Britain's highest
:11:58. > :12:01.observation tower outside London. Today at the site, a ground`breaking
:12:02. > :12:07.ceremony to mark the start of work on the tower. In the 19th`cdntury,
:12:08. > :12:17.people walked out to the se` to the enjoy the view and look back at the
:12:18. > :12:24.city. In two years, people will be able to look down from the sky. So
:12:25. > :12:30.far, the i360 has only sought in the imagination. Now the architdcts
:12:31. > :12:35.plans are set to become a rdality. The styling of the city of Brighton
:12:36. > :12:39.and Hove will change forever. It has been eight years in the planning and
:12:40. > :12:46.will open in 2016 with people able to rate a pod to the top. The i 60
:12:47. > :12:49.has been controversial. Most of the ?46 million budget is coming from
:12:50. > :12:53.public funds. Councillors in Brighton and Hove agreed to take out
:12:54. > :12:55.a loan from the Government `gency and then lend on the money to the
:12:56. > :13:01.developer at a commercial interest rate. A lot of people in thd city
:13:02. > :13:09.feel that there is an element of risk there. Because the i360 is a
:13:10. > :13:12.commercial venture and the figures that are being quoted for the number
:13:13. > :13:20.of people who are going to write on it do look quite ambitious. ``
:13:21. > :13:25.ride. It would only have to match the Royal Pavilion to continue as a
:13:26. > :13:29.success. We are confident that this is going to add to the succdss of
:13:30. > :13:36.the city. Sections of the tower will be built in the Netherlands. The pod
:13:37. > :13:41.will be built in France. At the i360 is set to become a new landlark on
:13:42. > :13:46.our coastline. When it comes to construction, next year will be the
:13:47. > :13:55.big year, when huge stretch and is `` sections are built here.
:13:56. > :13:58.He's one of the world's fastest men and, at the Commonwealth Gales in
:13:59. > :14:00.Glasgow, Kent athlete Adam Gemili has enhanced his growing reputation.
:14:01. > :14:02.The 20`year`old sprinter from Dartford was elated by his
:14:03. > :14:05.performance last night, finhshing second in the 100 metres final to
:14:06. > :14:23.So is Adam Gemili's grin sthll as big as it was last night?
:14:24. > :14:33.He has one of the biggest and best smiles in sport. He proved to
:14:34. > :14:35.everyone last night that, in the ultra competitive world of
:14:36. > :14:38.sprinting, you can take on the best. Well,
:14:39. > :14:39.the Dartford Grammar schoolboy, whose teacher entered him for the
:14:40. > :14:42.Kent Athletic Schools Champhonships Until last night, Adam Gemili was
:14:43. > :14:49.seen as a promising youngstdr. But it was clear that he believed
:14:50. > :14:52.his time had come to prove that Although he was passed by
:14:53. > :14:57.Jamaica's Kemar Bailey`Cole in the closing stages, this was
:14:58. > :15:00.the 20`year`old's breakthrotgh Usually the start is the we`ker part
:15:01. > :15:06.of my race, but it turned ott I got out very well
:15:07. > :15:14.and I was hanging on for de`r life. The energy from
:15:15. > :15:19.the crowd sent shivers up mx arm. His reaction when the silver medal
:15:20. > :15:23.was confirmed was sheer youthful joy and he was keen to thank evdryone
:15:24. > :15:26.at home for their support. I'm so grateful to the people
:15:27. > :15:29.at home in Dartford and I'm so happy that I'm able to do this
:15:30. > :15:33.for them and bring home a mddal Many people from Kent have helped
:15:34. > :15:38.Adam on his way to the top. He won the Junior Championship two
:15:39. > :15:46.years ago so we knew he was capable, but you have to remember he is only
:15:47. > :15:49.20 years old. So to come through with
:15:50. > :15:51.a silver medal last night, Sprinters usually don't peak
:15:52. > :15:55.until their mid to late 20s so there could be many more nights
:15:56. > :16:18.like this to come for this talented Today, Martin Brockman has ninth
:16:19. > :16:21.with three events in the decathlon to go and the hockey team lost for
:16:22. > :16:26.the first time but still on course for the semifinals.
:16:27. > :16:31.People are being warned not to go into the sea off nine Thanet
:16:32. > :16:34.beaches, after the latest in a series of sewage disch`rges.
:16:35. > :16:36.Southern Water say they had to release sewage from two pumping
:16:37. > :16:41.stations to ensure homes were not flooded during storms last night.
:16:42. > :16:58.Also, Noggin the Nog, the Shr continues. The Kent and emission is
:16:59. > :17:05.now a stage play on tour. `` animation. A couple of largdly dry
:17:06. > :17:12.days to come. More in the forecast. She's the so`called Queen of Shops,
:17:13. > :17:15.commissioned by the Governmdnt to Mary Portas launched her first 2
:17:16. > :17:23.Portas Pilot towns two years ago But critics say shops are continuing
:17:24. > :17:31.to close at an alarming ratd with Labour claiming it's 'polithcally
:17:32. > :17:36.embarrassing' for the coalition I'm Mary Portas
:17:37. > :17:41.and I want to find out whether the traditional high streets
:17:42. > :17:45.have reached the end of the road. She is the regional queen t`sked by
:17:46. > :17:48.the Prime Minister to reinvhgorate Here in Dartford,
:17:49. > :18:00.the Mary Portas magic spell appears not to have worked,
:18:01. > :18:03.in the last year alone the town has Among the big names to vacate
:18:04. > :18:09.in the last year, Waitrose, Mary Portas has brought little bit
:18:10. > :18:15.of press publicity but, to be honest, initiatives wdnt very
:18:16. > :18:18.good to begin with. Dartford received ?80,000
:18:19. > :18:23.from the ?1.2 million Portas pot, advancing the community shop
:18:24. > :18:27.and a Sunday market. Spencer McInally has run
:18:28. > :18:31.a cafe here for 17 years. He believes there are
:18:32. > :18:36.bigger priorities. The rent and rates for this area
:18:37. > :18:40.are going up and up and that's why we have empty stores becausd they
:18:41. > :18:45.can't afford to renew the ldases. It would help me survive and bring
:18:46. > :18:50.more people to the town itsdlf. Shoppers today were only too
:18:51. > :18:55.aware of the need for changd. It used to be very pretty town
:18:56. > :18:58.but now we have nothing with It's just a shame that lots
:18:59. > :19:06.of places are closing down and Bluewater is taking all
:19:07. > :19:09.the trade away. I think when they got rid of Tesco,
:19:10. > :19:12.they ruined the place, The Government insists
:19:13. > :19:18.that changes on its way. There will be progress
:19:19. > :19:20.that can be seen. Sometimes it is very small,
:19:21. > :19:23.sometimes it is just about the This will take time
:19:24. > :19:29.but there is evidence now that high There was better news in Margate
:19:30. > :19:37.with eight extra shops openhng here, but it seems it will take more than
:19:38. > :19:41.just the Portas Pilot to hold Everyone agrees that the First World
:19:42. > :20:03.War changed people's lives forever. But what we don't always relember
:20:04. > :20:05.are the ways it changed fashions, culture, the way we shopped
:20:06. > :20:08.and the role of women. Now an archivist working
:20:09. > :20:10.at the Royal Academy and Tunbridge Wells Museum has written a book of
:20:11. > :20:13.illustrated adverts from thd time that give a unique insight hnto how
:20:14. > :20:16.society changed, and it links in with a new exhibition about
:20:17. > :20:22.Tunbrige Wells Museum with men fighting on the front line,
:20:23. > :20:25.it was women who took over farming, and even firefighting. For the first
:20:26. > :20:29.time, they were working, le`rning to drive and have their own disposable
:20:30. > :20:35.income. For the first time, advertisers were targeting them One
:20:36. > :20:40.of the slogans of the time was duty on duty as a duty to beauty, so
:20:41. > :20:47.whether you are up to your `rmpits install or helping soldiers. You
:20:48. > :20:55.were still expected to look beautiful. Manufacturers sthll want
:20:56. > :21:05.to remain due `` remained you. Publications like the hello London
:21:06. > :21:13.news used hand drawn picturds of new fashions. In farming can unhty is ``
:21:14. > :21:18.communities, people were surprised when women showed up like this. They
:21:19. > :21:23.could never have done this work if they were reading a whalebone corset
:21:24. > :21:34.underneath. Garments were m`de to fit underneath nurses outfits. 0 or
:21:35. > :21:40.so voluntary hospitals sprung up, staffed largely by doctors `nd
:21:41. > :21:45.nurses, but also volunteers from the local community. The adverts also
:21:46. > :21:51.capture the mood of the war generation. The cigarette adverts
:21:52. > :21:58.show a couple, whether he is on leave or dressed smartly, and the
:21:59. > :22:02.tag line is that you have sden it through but don't want to t`lk about
:22:03. > :22:03.it. So you get these extraordinary psychological insights into peoples
:22:04. > :22:10.lives. And our World War One commelorations
:22:11. > :22:13.continue with a special event in Folkestone on Monday,
:22:14. > :22:16.marking 100 years to We'll be broadcasting live
:22:17. > :22:20.and you can join us at a frde He's the good`natured son of Knut,
:22:21. > :22:29.King of the Nogs, catapulted into danger when he assumes the
:22:30. > :22:33.throne after his father's ddath Children's TV favourite Noggin
:22:34. > :22:36.the Nog was continually thrdatened by his wicked uncle Nogbad the Bad
:22:37. > :22:40.but somehow always managed to keep Now, for the first time ever,
:22:41. > :22:49.the classic stories created in Kent by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate
:22:50. > :22:52.have been adapted for the stage And, as Charlie Rose reports,
:22:53. > :23:21.they're being performed Now, decades later, two original
:23:22. > :23:30.funds are bringing the king and queen to the stage. We were walking
:23:31. > :23:33.on the beach in Margate and wanted to do a family show and instantly
:23:34. > :23:43.remembered Noggin the Nog from when we were small boys. What re`lly
:23:44. > :23:50.attracted us to it was, it hs such just a charming piece of
:23:51. > :23:54.television. If someone comes and says I want to turn your cartoon
:23:55. > :24:01.into a theatre play, you re`lly need to think, is he going to do it
:24:02. > :24:12.properly and honestly? Is it a new way of thinking about it? It's also
:24:13. > :24:21.flattering, isn't it? Now stddenly, a dragon has come... Unlike his
:24:22. > :24:27.other creations, Noggin the Nog was always two dimensional. But he is
:24:28. > :24:34.happy to let others leave their mark. Good stories are now being
:24:35. > :24:38.turned into a good theatre production with additions bx people
:24:39. > :24:43.who have a lot of talent making them into something a bit more
:24:44. > :24:50.entertaining for the childrdn who so often or just watching a screen
:24:51. > :24:52.From the original cardboard tank to a new audience, half a centtry
:24:53. > :25:15.later. A very different data yesterday It
:25:16. > :25:26.wasn't too similar this morning to how it is now. This was takdn by
:25:27. > :25:33.Kevin Charles, and it looked a bit damp. This is more what it looks
:25:34. > :25:40.like today. Thank you for your photos. If you look at the reader,
:25:41. > :25:45.you can see that there wasn't much cloud earlier today. That's why
:25:46. > :25:54.temperatures have managed to get pretty high. We have looked at close
:25:55. > :26:02.to 27 Celsius today, 24 Celsius along the coast in Folkestone. A
:26:03. > :26:07.slight northerly breeze is refreshing today. Some late sunshine
:26:08. > :26:13.but it starts to cloud over through the night. Not quite as humhd as it
:26:14. > :26:20.has been lately, so we are looking at lows of 15 or 16 Celsius, even 17
:26:21. > :26:26.Celsius in East Kent. It is going to be slightly more comfortabld without
:26:27. > :26:31.the humidity. Towards dawn, the cloud clears away saw a bright start
:26:32. > :26:35.for many tomorrow. Cloudy on the coast and it builds through the day,
:26:36. > :26:45.so a largely cloudy day tomorrow but a few sunny spells. Temperatures
:26:46. > :26:51.reaching higher Celsius so luch fresher altogether. Clear skies for
:26:52. > :26:55.the night tomorrow night, whth temperatures down to 14 or 05
:26:56. > :27:00.Celsius but feeling much frdsher. Towards the end of the week, it
:27:01. > :27:05.becomes more unsettled. Thursday looks like it could be a drx day but
:27:06. > :27:09.we can't rule out the odd shower. Friday, there is more risk that we
:27:10. > :27:14.will see showers and that is the case for the weekend as well. There
:27:15. > :27:19.are showers around and the threat over the weekend, but we cotld have
:27:20. > :27:24.a different weekend to each other. It could be fine and largelx dry
:27:25. > :27:30.one, sunny at times, but just down the road, it could be more shivery.
:27:31. > :27:32.Much more settled over the next few days but not so much for thd
:27:33. > :27:57.weekend. I leave the ashram, travel halfway
:27:58. > :28:02.across the world to find my father,