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Welcome to South East Today, I'm Polly Evans.

The port of Dover pledges a ?120 million

of investment to expand the western docks, creating 600 new jobs.

We're live in Dover tonight with the ddtails.

A year on from Jimmy Guichard's death after taking a legal high his

mother says the government hasn t done enough to ban the substances.

The Prime Minister expresses his personal anger over the Kent MP

Of course it is frustrating and disappointing when MPs behave

as Mark Reckless has done, but it doesn't change the question at the

Why the warm weather has catsed a headache for south east gardeners.

And quintessential Englishm`n Nigel Havers adds a sprinkle

of stardust to The Importance of Being Earnest on stage in Stssex.

Dover Harbour Board have confirmed tonight that ?120 million of funding

is in place for their biggest ever investment in the Port.

They say their Western Docks Revival project will create hundreds

Construction companies will now be invited to bid for contracts to

develop a new cargo terminal and in the longer term the aim hs to

transform the waterfront, and potentially create a new marina

Hundreds of jobs and well over 100 million. The headline figurds sound

impressive and the Harbour board says this is the moment when the

future of the Western docks is transformed from visions on paper to

concrete reality. Where putting our money where our mouth is intensive

development. We are hoping ht will give confidence to others to come

along and do the same. So the investment will come from the

Harbour board and will create 6 0 new jobs. People who will go to work

in a new cargo terminal. Thd board says the development also s`feguard

an existing 140 jobs. Their revival idea has long because the pdople 's

port and it needs the peopld to carry through. I think the town

needs regeneration. If this helps them were all for it. There aren't

many opportunities in the town said this is fantastic. It's been a long

time in the planning. Now the board says this is the start of rdal

action. How long it will take remains unclear.

Let crusts live to Simon Jones in Dover. The part on this ridhng it as

a momentous day. How differdnt things look in the future? @t the

moment of years the port, traffic trundles to the eastern docks. The

idea of this new element is the freight will all go over thdre in

stead to be former Harbour port side. That could be up and running

by 2017. That will only be the first phase. The second and third phases

will bring in things like rdtail and a marina. At that point the port

will look for commercial partners to make that a financial possibility.

The port also says it is colmitted to bringing back 1% of pre`tax

profits for community projects. In the past it has faced criticism for

not doing enough A mother whose son died

in her arms after taking a so`called legal high says Government

legislation designed to ban the Jimmy Guichard died

a year ago this week, after taking a synthetic form of cannabis he d

bought from a shop in Chath`m. His mother Karen Audino is launching

a campaign in his memory, It's almost a year since Jilmy

Guichard died a victim of so`called legal highs. By his mother the pain

and the anger remain as strong as ever. I'm still very angry. I'm

angry that he was able to ptrchase these products so freely and so

cheaply will stop and still nothing has changed. As the anniversary of

his death approaches his mother called for a blanket ban on the drug

she believes Turkey 's life. We don't bring our children into the

world to switch off the lifd`support machines. The is there is no prod

that racket there is no place these products. It is time the law was

changed. It's believed Jimmx bought the legal high`tech `` hi from a

shop in Chatham. Today Chatham MP Chrissy `` Tracy Crouch called for a

ban. It's something that has happened very successfully hn

Ireland. There is a continuhng problem of them still being sold

online and that is where we need to increase education and awardness

around the dangers of legal highs. The number of deaths involvhng these

has more than doubled in thd last three years.

It's an outright ban a work`ble solution? There is a risk that every

time you ban a substance a new one will take its place. You also have

the analogy that as one substance disappears another one will pop up.

That just means more of these types of substances and it can get more

confusing for the people usd them. Jimmy Buzz retro mother says the

agony of her death is Piers Hopkirk reporting,

and he's live in Chatham, where Jimmy Guichard bought the

substance that caused his ddath have we had any response from the

government? Yes, earlier we spoke to the crime prevention ministdr Norman

Baker in. He said the government had taken out a raft of measures against

so`called legal highs will stop he said they had banned more than 50

substances and that he had created a panel of experts to undertake a

review into them to look at how they might be dealt with and how other

countries and other governmdnts have dealt with them. I understand that

review has been completed and Mr Baker were revealed at

In a moment, road rage in Uckfield, with traders saying roadworks are

The Prime Minister says he's personally angry at the acthons

of former Conservative MP Mark Reckless, who's

prompted a by`election in Rochester and Strood after defecting to UKIP.

Mr Reckless formally stood down as a member of parliament today `nd this

Of course it is frustrating and disappointing when MPs behave

as Mark Reckless has done, but it doesn't change the question at the

next election which is, do xou want to complete the long`term economic

plan, get more people into work continue to cut people's taxes,

continue to see our economy expand or do you want to go back to square

Our Political Editor Louise Stewart joins us live from the Consdrvative

Louise, there's no sign of the anger there dying down after Mark

Reckless's shock announcement of his defection to UKIP at the wedkend.

absolutely not. I have to s`y what has been told to me here is the

Prime Minister has chose more choice words when speaking to delegates

off`camera. Boris Johnson g`ve a barnstorming speech here today. He

wanted to check that everyone in the hole was a conservative. He wanted

to make sure there were no puitters or splitters in the room. I caught

up with him after the speech. You've got to make the case to everybody in

Rochester and Strood. If yot want to have a vote on Europe there is only

one way to do that and that is to get David Cameron backing in 20 5

and get the come from a snag the country the referendum it ndeds

UKIP I'm not going to do th`t. None of them can do that. I hope that

people will stick with the Tories and will be fighting very h`rd to

get that over. It is going to be a hard fight for this seat. What

happens next? David Cameron has a final

opportunity to address the conference here tomorrow morning. He

will want to draw a line under the UKIP defections and send delegates

away in a positive mood. A worker has suffered seriots head

injuries after falling 15 feet to thd ground

at a building site in Brighton.He's been taken to a London hosphtal

by air ambulance after The police and the health and safety

executive are investigating. Plans have been agreed to fht CCTV

cameras in ambulances in Kent South East Coast Ambulance Service

says it will help to protect staff from assault, enabling foot`ge to be

used for crime prevention, `nd the Traders in Uckfield are calling

for a reduction in their business rates after losing money as

a result of roadworks in thd town. Some are reporting a 50% drop

in takings It's due to last

for seven more weeks, but btsinesses say lengthy diversions are driving

customers away. What we found is we are down

hundreds and thousands of pounds a week at the moment. Everyond is If

we were doing ten tables and night, for example, it's down to two

tonight. We are struggling. Our business correspondent Mark Norman

is that tonight. These are the roadworks. Ond trader

said they are cutting the town in half. It is a regular high Street.

It's very successful but I wonder how many retailers across Kdnt and

Sussex recognised this problem. The council say they have a different

story. They say it will bring a ?25 million boost to the Chown `nd

reduce congestion. Many traders fear they will not survive. Therd will be

a further closure at the top of the street. Many retailers will

recognise the issue. Nearly 24 million pounds was raised

through parking charges and fines The city council collected lore than

?18.5 million through on`street parking and charges

and more than ?5 million from car Of that total figure,

?5.7 million was raised frol residents permits, about ?700,0 0

more than the previous year. If that money went back to the

motorist even in the slightdst way, I'd be quite happy with that. I m

not happy with the fact the money is always going to somebody else. How

is the money being spent much to mark councillors say fines `nd

charges produce a surplus of aluminium pans last year and that

they spent more than ?10 million on bus travel. There are currently

around 46,000 free bus passds in the city for elderly and disabldd

passengers. We are the numbdr one seaside resort in the UK and those

people, most of them are, choose to come by car. We provide a good

service for them. Council rtn pop`up is a lot cheaper than private ones.

`` car parks. Juliet Park and is live in Brighton

for us now. It's very fair to say this is a huge issue. You only have

to look at the parking charges here on the seafront to see why lany

visitors and residents are tnhappy. ?3 for an hour, ?10 for up to four

hours. The income from this parking rose by about ?300,000 last year.

Many residents we spoke to today said they weren't getting enough

back. The amount of money they want to charge publicly, to park on the

seafront, is outrageous. Whdre locals and we don't want to use our

car because it's so expensive. You pay for a parking permit but you're

not guaranteed a space. In `ny other business you would never get away

with that. It has to be notdd that the council car parks are cheaper

than the private ones. Charges have been frozen for the past two years.

It is unlikely that they will come down because the council is saying

if you don't like it, well leave the car a time. The new figures were

made public in the council's parking report this week. That will be

discussed at a meeting next Tuesday. The Port of Dover have annotnced

their biggest ever investment. ?120 million to regenerate

the western docks. 600 new jobs will be created

at the new cargo terminal. Nice weather for moles, bad news for

gardeners as mounds of earth blight Join me Nigel Havers on the

programme later today. And join me later for the weather forec`st.

New businesses in Kent and Sussex say they're thriving,

thanks to support from a Government scheme aimed at providing

the funds for wannabe entrepreneurs to set up their companies.

The start`up loan project w`s launched

in September 2012 to help young entrepreneurs up to the age of 0.

Critics say it's unnecessarily complicated.

For tonight's Story Update, Ceri Perkins has been finding out

how some of the first companies to take advantage of

A fashion shoot for one of Ken's fastest`growing men's clothds

retailers. The business is based in West Bowling are needed govdrnment

funding to get off the ground. It was stuck out late. Also deposits

for the premises. A lot of the little things that you could start

the business straightaway, such as the website, we did ourselvds. The

stock outlay was a huge outlay and without that there was no btsiness.

Two years ago David Cameron announced an extension to the

scheme. This is absolutely where we need to be as a country. It's

already provided ?100 million by more than 20,000 companies. It

currently deals with 41 bushnesses a day. Here it has helped cre`te

hundreds of jobs. We created over 1300 jobs through lending three and

a half million pounds. One of the companies helped says the sdrvice

harks back to the old days of bank managers. Start`up businessds have a

track record and they reallx spoke to us as a business. The scheme has

its critics. Even though thd money is there, it's a complicated process

and you need help to guide xou through it. The council does say it

can take three months from start to finish. That's not always the case.

Now there is more money in the government part. They've set a

target of awarding 30,000 loans with a total value of ?15 million. By the

time the skin ends He's renowned

for playing the quintessenthal English smoothy and this wedk Nigel

Havers is on stage in Brighton playing the debonair Algy Moncrieff

in The Importance of Being Darnest. It's second time round

for the actor, who played the part as a young man and is now t`king

on the role again in his 60s. Mark Sanders caught up with him

on stage at the Theatre Roy`l. Nigel Haver 's is returning to the

wild. He first starred in The Importance Of Being Ernest 30 years

ago. Now he's doing it again. I read one review by the performance that

said you were very good and traded on Europe wish John. Is that a

compliment? A gin and is a wonderful part. His mischievous and n`ughty.

He does fall in love at the end The play is a trivial comedy. The cast

Buttrey amateur actors rehe`rsing Oscar Wilde's classic. Some people

will chastise us for this. Ht's OK to do it to Shakespeare but not OK

to do it to Oscar Wilde? He's always had the knack for playing a golden

boy. Here, it Andrew Lindsax in chariots of Fire. But this famous

scene was lucky to make the movie. I went to see a rough cut and that

scene was cut. I remember going on my knees in the cinema again for it

to be put back. He relented. It s a great moment.

It has been a long career and you know you are close to becomhng a

national treasure if you ard asked to be on Coronation Street.

To be asked to being Coronation Street is the highlight of ly

career. It's a dream come true. I loved

every minute of it. Do you long for a pathway argued the mouse `ish

quiet bloke in the back. I'l only halfway through my career. Give it

time. It's many a schoolboy's dre`m, to

spend all day surrounded by teenage girls, but for 17`year`old Josh

Walker, it's an everyday occurrence. Josh is the only boy

in the sixth form at Combe Bank in Sevenoaks, after

the previously all`girls school And he's been telling our rdporter

Peter Whittlesea what it's like In class when Josh looks to his

right there's a girl. When he looks to his left, there's a girl. In fact

all his classmates are girls. Even during PE. This term the school went

co`Ed. Josh is the only boy in the senior school. Is he living a

teenage dream? Being the only boy is really different in a posithve way.

When boys work it's more relaxed and the girls are always doing their

work. It gives me a lot of motivation to carry on. Expdriencing

the female work ethic at first hand might not be everyone's highlight

being the only boy in school. His skill made say he's not impdrvious

to the obvious benefits. People fight to sit next to him in the

common room. My dad thought he would love it. It hasn't made any

difference. He doesn't want to admit that it loves it. He's being super

cool with us. He does come his/her every day. He asked my earlher.

Despite that, the headteachdr says Josh is working hard. He dods get a

lot of attention. He is the only one in trousers most days. He's not let

it go to his head. Next year my boys will join server the next fdw chimes

he will have to make the most of being the only male. `` rettrns

Onto football and there are two Championship fixtures tonight.

Charlton Athletic, who remahn unbeaten in the league this season,

And Brighton welcome back their former player Craig Noone

who's returning to the Amex with Cardiff City.

You don't get to see them very often, but they

And after such a mild winter and warm summer, the south dast s

moles have enjoyed a bumper year, much to the chagrin of garddners

A mole can eat more than half its own body weight of worms evdry day.

They can live for up to six years and thex don't

hibernate, so those molehills are created all year round.

Georgina Burnett has been doing a bit of digging on this story.

Secretive, solitary and a bht messy. Many say moles have increasdd in the

south is due to a mild wintdr but senior scientists have another

theory. There might be more activity this year because of severe

flooding. The flooding would have removed food and potentiallx moles

from large areas and those `reas are being re`colonised. Moles are mainly

a pest to the farmer but at this time of year as planning takes place

they move an. This mole catcher says he's received an increase in calls.

In public places, you can't have molehills they are trip haz`rds

They undermine the ground. There is a public liability concern. And aide

said there are benefits. Thdy aerate the soil and produce beautiful

compost. They also eat slugs and lather of insects. There ard some

good reasons to be happy about moles in your garden. One thing m`ny agree

on is the mole is persistent. Once one moves on another takes his

place. A bit of a stir has been crdated

in Folkestone with the appe`rance of a genuine Banksy mural on a wall

in the town over the weekend. It would seem to be the famous

street artist's contribution to It's called

"Art Buff" and the local cotncil has covered it in a protective layer of

plastic to ensure it's not damaged. Previous Banksy artworks elsewhere

in the UK have been removed, bricks Now a check on the weather with

Rachel. There are a few hours lift of

September. A warm and a brand `` a bright

picture. It isn't set to st`y this way. Autumnal as we start October.

It will feel cooler and the winds will pick up. We've got somd heavy

rain on the way particularlx as we get to Saturday. Today, by contrast,

it was warm unsettled. We s`w 2 Celsius in Gatwick. Several degrees

above the seasonal average `nd it will stay mild as we go into the

night. We will see some Arab rakes of patchy rain towards dawn but

nothing too heavy. Temperattres dropping to around 14 Celsits.

Overcast as we start the dax tomorrow. Generally you might see

some of that drizzle. That will clear out of the way. More cloud

cover around than today. Temperatures still hold above the

seasonal average. Slightly cooler than today but you still sed highs

of around 19 Celsius. If yot do see rain it will be fairly light and

short lived. Going through tomorrow night it stays calm and settled We

are between weather systems. It will turn wet and windy as we ended the

week. Tomorrow was renamed settled. Temperatures around 13 or 14

Celsius. Through the day on Thursday, again it will be settled.

It stays calm but they won't stay that way as we go to Friday. The

winds will pick up and eventually we will see a band of very heavy rain

heading our way as we go into Saturday. It will eventuallx turn

unsettled over the next few days but calm and settled for the next 2

hours. I'll be back at 8pm and at 00:2 pm.

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