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to be lower than average. Make sure you pack your jumpers if you are | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
going away. Welcome to South East Today, | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
I'm John Young. Hundreds of tonnes of rubbish is | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
left at Chatham Docks for more than a year, by the same firm responsible | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
for this mountain of waste. We're live tonight with | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
an exclusive investigation. After months of speculation, | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
UKIP leader Nigel Farage confirms he will stand in South Thandt at | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
the General Election. I don't think he is going to do any | :00:26. | :00:37. | |
good, I don't know why he w`nts to stand. We need a judge. I think he | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
might be the man to do it. Fleeing war in Africa to end up | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
in a refugee camp in Calais ` Loud and proud ` Canterbury's | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
Christian rock sensation coles out A sacred site behind your b`ck | :00:50. | :01:01. | |
garden ` could this be Kent's answer Hundreds of tonnes of waste has been | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
left abandoned at Chatham Docks BBC South East has learned that | :01:09. | :01:28. | |
the company Waste4Fuel Ltd had planned to ship the estimatdd 2 500 | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
tonnes of processed rubbish at the dockside to waste`to`energy | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
incinerator plants in Europd. It's the the same company that, as | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
we're recently reported, already has a 40`foot mound of waste collected | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
from across the South East towering over residential homes in | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
Orpington. But the export | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
in Chatham hasn't happened, and that waste is now classdd as | :01:52. | :01:53. | |
unlawful. Our environment correspondent, | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
Yvette Austin, Awaiting disposal, this hugd heap of | :01:57. | :02:11. | |
bales piled high is waste, processed for burning to generate energy. But | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
it has been waiting on the dockside for over a year now and somd of the | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
white plastic wrapping is splitting, spilling contents onto the ground. | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
The bales were due to be exported to waste`to`energy plants abro`d, but | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
so far, Waste4Fuel Ltd, who brought it here, has not moved it. The | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
Environment Agency says if waste like this is stored in a dockside | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
for more than three months without a permit, it is illegal and lhke the | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
rubbish left by the company next people's homes in Orpington, the | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
bill to dispose of it could end up at the foot of someone elsedoor | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
Genevieve Foster surveys thd smouldering mind from the b`lcony of | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
her father's house. She explained to me how her father has been leasing | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
the land the Waste4Fuel Ltd and may have to face the removal bill, | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
estimated at more than ?2 mhllion. It could make my father go bankrupt. | :03:02. | :03:02. | |
We would have nothing. We were told, if you close those | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
gates, it is your responsibhlity. I said, my father had nothing to do | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
with that, he has entered into an agredment in | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
good faith and is lending ott his land, and they have not | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
policed it. And there is more waste at Chatham | :03:14. | :03:28. | |
Docks, pile after pile. The bales stacked high and many also split | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
open. These belong to a different company, Street Fuel Ltd, which also | :03:32. | :03:39. | |
exports processed wasteful burning. The Environment Agency is | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
investigating whether the company is also breaching its environmdntal | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
permit. Complaints have been made by local residents about a boulder of | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
Wales over the summer and they want action taken to reduce it. | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
This stockpile is growing. It is a problem. | :03:52. | :03:52. | |
You can see the rubbish that blows over the place, | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
we have grass coming out of the bales. | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
It blows over the environment and attracts flies. | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
It is a huge problem for residents who live here. | :04:00. | :04:01. | |
We have not had this experidnce with the previous operator. | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
At the beginning of the year, we had a massive infestation of flhes. | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
We got on to the Environment Agency immediately | :04:09. | :04:10. | |
and we are just saying to them, help us here, as you have bdfore. | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
Street Fuel Ltd says the buhld`up has been caused by the late | :04:18. | :04:25. | |
cancellation of a cargo ship you to operating difficulties. The problem | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
has been compounded by the reduction of a transfer of waste to Etrope by | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
lorries. The Company also s`ys it is minimising flies and famines and | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
re`wrapping split bags. It hs not unusual for waste to be sent abroad, | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
the export of processed rubbish from the UK has risen dramatically in | :04:45. | :04:54. | |
recent years. In 2011, more than 2500 tonnes were exported. Hn 2 12, | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
the figure rose to 890,000, and last year, it reached more than 0.5 | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
million. Some in the waste hndustry said the way to help avoid build`ups | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
of rubbish would be to invest more in incinerator plants here, where | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
rubbish is burned to generate electricity and heat for local | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
communities. If it is being sent overseas, we will never havd the | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
incentive to build UK infrastructure. On the conthnent, | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
the integrate the plants into the local municipality. The acttally get | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
the benefits of the energy `nd the heat. That is one reason whx there | :05:35. | :05:36. | |
is more demand in the winter for is more demand in the winter for | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
this exported fuel. And it hs no consolation for the likes of | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
Genevieve Foster and her father whose lives remain blighted by | :05:46. | :05:46. | |
rubbish. Well, let's cross live to Chatham | :05:47. | :05:47. | |
and speak to Yvette Austin. What's the next step in this process | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
of clearing this abandoned waste? Well, Street Fuel insists the | :05:51. | :06:00. | |
problem is temporary and th`t lorry exports services will be back to | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
normal by the end of the month. But a replacement ship will be sent in | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
the first week of next month. In the meantime, residents, the colpany and | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
other people will concerned `` company concerned will work together | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
to improve matters. I have spoken to a former Director and current | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
Director of Waste4Fuel Ltd, both cannot shed any light on wh`t is | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
going to happen to the abandoned waste at Chatham, silly question | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
hangs over who will shift it, and when. `` so, a question. | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
The UKIP leader Nigel Faragd has for the first time confirmed he | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
does want to stand in Thanet South in next year's General Election | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
After months of speculation, Mr Farage said that he had put | :06:41. | :06:42. | |
himself forward for selection in hustings that will take place | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
A local party member revealdd that Mr Farage was on the shortlhst | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
of candidates last week, but he only confirmed it himself today | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
Our political reporter Ellid Price is in Thanet for us now. | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
Ellie, you've been speaking to Mr Farage? | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
Yes, he told me he was planning to throw his hat into the ring to be | :07:03. | :07:12. | |
selected as a candidate. He said he would need the local party here to | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
pick him out of eight candidates, but he must have a hope of winning | :07:16. | :07:27. | |
that selection process. You do not have to be in rocket sciencd to work | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
out that in constituencies like Thanet, Folkestone, Portsmotth, | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
Plymouth, we do like to be beside the seaside. There are reasons other | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
than the seaside why the UKHP leader would want to stand in Thandt South. | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
The party got the most votes here at the local `` local elections and Mr | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
Farage had already said he wanted to stand in his home county. Today the | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
local party wasted no time campaigning in the constitudncy We | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
are very democratic in the party. We have this antarctic selection | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
system, and because of wherd we are, we have over 24 UKIP MEPs. We have | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
people from other parties as well that have never stood beford here. | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
Nigel Farage as her party of practice when it comes to standing | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
in general elections. In 2001, he stood in Excel. 2005 was thd first | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
time he tried for the Thanet South seat. In the last election, he ran a | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
high profile and non`successful campaign against John Bercow. Polls | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
have been conducted in Thandt that recently suggested they are if | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
anything marginally ahead. Whatever to combat that it is pretty much a | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
fight between the three main parties, so he clearly has ` chance. | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
We will have to see what happens. It is a good idea. In terms of his | :08:56. | :09:03. | |
support in this town. I think they are all liars. I do not think he | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
will do any good. I don't know why he wants to stand here, he should go | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
to a big city. I think it would be a good thing. We need a changd, | :09:14. | :09:24. | |
definitely. Nigel Farage saxs he has a good chance of winning thd | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
candidacy, but insists with UKIP members, nothing is ever for | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
certain. To burrow his own analogy, hf he | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
doesn't get selected, it cotld cause a political earthquake. The Labour | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
Party said it does not distract them from their message to voters and the | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
Conservative candidate said he was as surprised by the decision that he | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
was surprised and said it could herald eight months of friendly | :09:58. | :09:58. | |
fire. The three least trusted rail | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
services in the country, according to a survey ` | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
and they're all in the South East. An unprecedented number of women | :10:05. | :10:12. | |
and children are now fleeing East Africa in the hope of smuggling | :10:13. | :10:14. | |
themselves illegally into Dover The single women's shelter hn Calais | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
is now completely full, meaning many are now living rough, in thd area | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
known as the migrant 'jungld'. In an exclusive report, our home | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
affairs reporter, Rebecca Whlliams, spoke to several women who told her | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
that they're willing to risk their lives for the freedom | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
the UK offers. For women like Mahler, the journey | :10:33. | :10:44. | |
from Eritrea to Calais is long and dangerous. `` Marlette. She deems of | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
a better life in England and insists that hundreds of women like her are | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
risking their lives to achidve it. If you don't have a boyfriend or | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
husband, they will reap you. They rape a lot of women, and thdy are | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
beating us, with the childrdn. We have a lot of problems. Who is | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
they? The illegal ones that bring us here. Would`be migrants pay | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
traffickers around ?2000 to make the journey from Eritrea to Cal`is. En | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
route, they pass through thd volatile landscape of Sudan, then on | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
to Libya and Italy. But thehr sights are set on Dover, because England, | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
they say, is unlike other countries, a place of relighous | :11:30. | :11:31. | |
freedom with a good education system. They claim many fridnds and | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
family have already settled here. There are a lot of people who go to | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
London, so they are telling us it is a free country, so, we need to go | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
there. This is the only shelter for female migrants, and I have been | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
granted exclusive access to film inside. 50 women live here, some | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
have children, some are pregnant. There are so many women but not | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
enough room for them in the single shelter provided. So, many `re now | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
sleeping rough, alongside the men in what is known as the jungle. This is | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
bad, but not as bad as what they have left behind in their own | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
country. Some probably might have gone through a bit of prosthtution | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
to pay for the trip. There `re an increasing number of teenagdrs Hill | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
`` here, like Helena, who s`ys she fled Eritrea because of its ongoing | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
conflict. There is a lot of war in our country. These pictures show the | :12:39. | :12:46. | |
desperate attempts migrants go to to make it to the UK. A BBC | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
investigation revealed many hide on the axles of lorries crossing the | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
border. Competition is fierce and the women in Calais told me they | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
wait or might this is their opportunity. But the Home Office | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
insists it is tackling illegal immigration. It is important that | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
Italy, Greece and Spain provide asylum to cases of this sort. If | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
they don't, France should grant asylum. What made women in Calais | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
say many of the fans have already reached Dover illegally, hidden in | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
cars, lorries and boats. But they insist it is worse `` worth the risk | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
if he eventually make it to the UK. And Rebecca Williams joins ts | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
from Westminster. What's the Government said | :13:34. | :13:34. | |
about what seems to be Well, they say that sharing | :13:35. | :13:49. | |
intelligence with other countries to crackdown on illegal emigration and | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
they say if people are seekhng asylum they should do so in the | :13:53. | :13:54. | |
first country they get to. The women I spoke to said they have no | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
interest in other countries, they want to come to the UK becatse they | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
believe it is a country of freedom with a good education systel. That | :14:04. | :14:05. | |
shelter I featured in my report that is funded by the French | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
Government in Calais, but the funding is due to run out in | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
October, so charities say they have concerns because they have seen an | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
increase of women and children coming into the area. | :14:17. | :14:18. | |
The Fire Brigades Union says it s "campaigning for justice" | :14:19. | :14:20. | |
for two firefighters who didd in an explosion | :14:21. | :14:22. | |
at a fireworks factory in East Sussex. | :14:23. | :14:24. | |
Brian Wembridge and Geoff Whcker were killed in 2006 | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service were ordered to pay compens`tion to | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
their families after a court ruled that their de`ths | :14:34. | :14:35. | |
The Fire Service says the matter is in the hands | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
The family of the Kent student murdered | :14:40. | :14:47. | |
in Borneo earlier this month have been paying tribute to him. | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
22`year`old Aidan Brunger from Hempstead and his friend | :14:53. | :14:54. | |
Neil Dalton were killed after a row in a bar on Augtst . | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
Following the opening of an inquest earlier, Aidan's family described | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
him as a funny, kind`hearted, considerate and wonderful young man. | :15:01. | :15:19. | |
A drug dealer has been has been given a life sentence after | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
Jake Austin was found guiltx of murdering John O'Donohue | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
His victim had tried to use paper to pay for drugs. | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
In revenge, Austin chased hhm in his car and mowed him down. | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
He's been told he's to servd a minimum of 18 years in prhson | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
These men have just left a botched drug deal. The dealer they tried to | :15:38. | :15:50. | |
steal from gets in his car `nd attempts to run them down. @ jump | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
free, but he heads for them again and off camera this time, John | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
O'Donohue is caught. He is dragged through a fence and suffers fatal | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
head injuries. The card used was abandoned at the scene. The driver | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
first denied being behind the wheel, then said it was an accident. But | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
today, Jake Austin was given a life sentence for murder. John O'Donohue | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
and his friend had set out to deceive Austin that night, turning | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
up to the deal with paper wddged between real banknotes, to lake it | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
look as though they had the money to buy crack and heroin. When @ustin | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
realised he was being duped, he lost his temper. From the world he lived | :16:32. | :16:41. | |
and worked in, being a drug dealer, a lot of it is about reputation it | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
is a business, it is his livelihood. For him to be ripped off, in his | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
words, was the trigger for him to act in that way. Sentencing Austin, | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
the judge said... Austin had used his car as ` | :16:56. | :17:15. | |
weapon. He was, said the judge, a very dangerous man. Today, he starts | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
a prison sentence which will last for a minimum of 18 years. | :17:19. | :17:26. | |
Passengers have ranked the three main train companhes | :17:27. | :17:28. | |
in Kent and Sussex as the least trusted in the country, | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
A survey commissioned by Passenger Focus suggests | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
First Capital Connect, Southern and Southeastern Trains | :17:35. | :17:35. | |
all perform badly when passdngers are asked | :17:36. | :17:37. | |
whether they trust them to run a reliable service | :17:38. | :17:39. | |
Jon Hunt has been looking at the figures. | :17:40. | :17:47. | |
At seven X station, there w`s not complete distrust of the tr`in | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
operating companies, but thdy were not exactly glowing with condiments. | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
I don't think they provide ` service that is required. We can cope with a | :17:59. | :18:06. | |
bit of rain sometimes, and sometimes the train is already late. They try | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
and do their best, it is not easy. Some days are better than others. | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
Overall, the survey suggests that the least trusted train company in | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
the country is First Capital Connect, but second from bottom is | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
Persie smack. `` Southeastern. Passengers were asked whethdr they | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
trusted the train company to deliver a reliable service that givds them | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
value for money and whether they could trust the relationship with | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
the company. In both categories Southern Trains right at thd | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
bottom. When asked whether passengers trusted their tr`in | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
companies' judgement, it was Southeastern Trains who camd at | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
worst. It is a lot to do with what communities are paying and getting | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
for a service. There are problems on the network at the moment. | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
Passengers recognise that. Hs a sector, we compare pretty wdll with | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
supermarkets and airlines. But it does remind us that we can whiz be | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
better and you can never colmunicate well enough to people. Passdngers | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
may not trust the train Company is very much, but the service `djusts | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
the Trust bags and the energy suppliers even West `` they trust | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
bags and energy suppliers even less. Hundreds of tonnes of waste has been | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
left abandoned at Chatham Docks BBC South East has learned | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
Waste4Fuel Ltd, which also has a 40`foot motntain of | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
waste in Orpington that towdrs over residential homes, hasn't shipped | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
the processed rubbish to incinerator plants in Europe as planned, and the | :19:40. | :19:41. | |
waste is now classed as unl`wful. The 6000`year`old secret | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
of Sittingbourne, on a building site behind | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
a back garden. After an afternoon of sunshhne and | :19:52. | :20:03. | |
heavy showers, will it be staying dry for the weekend? | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
One of the biggest Christian rock stars in the world has annotnced | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
she is gay and says she belheves God still loves her. | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
Vicky Beeching is one of the biggest names in | :20:17. | :20:18. | |
The singer comes from Canterbury, and today said, | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
"I feel certain God loves md just the way I am." | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
Her announcement has attracted huge interest | :20:27. | :20:27. | |
Piers Hopkirk has tonight's special report. | :20:28. | :20:38. | |
SINGING She is a singing star in Amdrica's | :20:39. | :20:47. | |
Bible Belt, so Vicky Beeching's admission she is gay was ond that | :20:48. | :20:54. | |
had `` took no shortage of courage. Some Christians have taken offence | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
and have been quite aggresshve in terms of what they think thd Bible | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
says, saying I am siding with the devil. But for the most part, it has | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
been an amazing outpouring of support. Her songs are staples in | :21:06. | :21:13. | |
charges around the world, btt tolerance is not always in | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
abundance. I am very sorry to hear she has given in to the lie that she | :21:18. | :21:25. | |
is a homosexual. My songs are being sung in churches, those words pay my | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
rent and it has been made clear to me through messages that because I | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
am no identifying as gay, pdople will stop using them in churches so | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
I will stop getting royaltids. It is a tough choice, but an important | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
one. It does seem to have encouraged young Christians who are get to see | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
that it is possible to be g`y and Christian, that it is not stch a | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
huge clash. So I think she has said that has been the most positive | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
thing to come out of it. Whhle Vicky lived in Nashville, home has always | :21:59. | :22:09. | |
been Canterbury. They told ts daily at school that girls really can | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
dream about being whatever they want to be in life, and taking all `` | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
taking on the world with cotrage and confidence. So it really helped me | :22:18. | :22:26. | |
to be sure that I would. SINGING Vicky says she will stay in the | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
church and hopes to change `ttitudes from within. | :22:31. | :22:38. | |
Football, and all the South East's top teams | :22:39. | :22:40. | |
are in action this weekend, with three playing at home for | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
the first time in the Leagud this season. | :22:44. | :22:44. | |
Brighton travel to Birmingh`m, hoping to improve on last wdekend's | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
home defeat, with time runnhng out to add to their squad. | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
Chris Solly could make his first start of the season | :22:51. | :22:52. | |
Also in the Championship, Charlton take on Wigan. | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
In League One, Crawley Town, who have won both their opening games | :22:56. | :22:57. | |
of the season, play Swindon Town, and Gillingham take on Yeovhl. | :22:58. | :23:06. | |
It could be Kent's answer to Stonehenge ` a 'sacred' path | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
that may have led to a 6000`year`old henge has been discovered | :23:10. | :23:11. | |
The ceremonial gathering pl`ce in the village of Iwade | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
near Sittingbourne measures 30 metres in diameter | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
and is formed of a pair of ring ditches. | :23:20. | :23:21. | |
Evidence suggests the outer ditch may have orhginated | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
in the Neolithic period, and been later transformed in the Bronze Age | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
Charlie Rose has been discovering more. | :23:29. | :23:40. | |
A high`tech view of an ancidnt ceremonial gathering place. | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
Archaeologists could hardly believe what they had uncovered. I thought, | :23:48. | :24:00. | |
wow! Just over here, to my right, we have fuel systems which are you | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
living. As far as I'm aware, nowhere else in the South East of England | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
has anything like this. Doctor Wilkinson and his team were called | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
here just before the constrtction of new homes. We are just entering the | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
outer circle of this partictlar sacred monument. That particular | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
one, this outer ring is new Lessig, dated by the pottery which we found. | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
`` Neolithic. So we are now actually inside the Neolithic henge. It has | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
been compared to Stonehenge in Wiltshire. We are getting to grips | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
with the archaeology, the prehistoric archaeology of Kent | :24:46. | :24:53. | |
which is fantastic. So, we lay not like all these houses going up in | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
the landscape. It will not be long before homes are built here, now the | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
owners will be able to find out how much human history lies bendath | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
them. Fascinating. | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
I went for an early`morning run today, and it was a distinctly | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
autumnal feel in the air. It was a little bit like gohng on | :25:19. | :25:28. | |
holiday! But today, sunshind and sharp showers. | :25:29. | :25:30. | |
Over the weekend, Saturday should be mostly staying dry. Sunday, we have | :25:31. | :25:38. | |
outbreaks of rain am a the wind is swinging to a northerly dirdction. | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
Earlier, there were some sh`rp showers, warnings from the Let | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
Office. A rumble of thunder. Temperatures fuelling cooler, | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
particularly in the showers, highs of 17 or 18. As we going into this | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
evening, the showers will eventually is East. Bind it, it will bd staying | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
with the dry. `` behind it. Temperatures dropping to single | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
figures in rural spots. Othdrwise, lows of 11 Celsius. Lots of sunshine | :26:08. | :26:15. | |
on Saturday, bright and bredzy. The wind is strengthening throughout the | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
afternoon. The winds are from a westerly direction. By the | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
afternoon, you will really notice them. Temperatures, top teals, low | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
20s, you might see highs of 21 or 22. But again, really blustdry. | :26:30. | :26:37. | |
Tomorrow night, mostly dry initially, the wind continuds to | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
strengthen. Some outbreaks of rain. Sunday, temperatures of 13 or 1 . | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
Then it will be a bit cooler. This area of low pressure moves towards | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
us. The winds will strengthdn. Eventually, they will swing to a | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
northerly direction, which will mark some cooler weather into thd new | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
week. A similar scene as we go over into Monday. The wind eases off a | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
bit. Lots of sunshine over the weekend, particularly for S`turday. | :27:12. | :27:12. | |
Cooler on Sunday. Before we go, allow us to | :27:13. | :27:22. | |
congratulate one of our colleagues ` Radio Kent's presenter Dave Cash is | :27:23. | :27:24. | |
celebrating 50 years as a DJ. Dave lives near Maidstone and he | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
began his career working on radio in Canada before moving to pir`te radio | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
here off the South East coast. He was one of the original team | :27:31. | :27:33. | |
of DJs at Radio One and a regular presenter on | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
Top of the Pops. That's all from us. We will be back | :27:37. | :27:44. | |
later. Have a great weekend. | :27:45. | :27:49. |