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Welcome to South East Today, I'm Rob Smith. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
A life sentence for the man who murdered two | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
housemates in Canterbury - in a row over hot | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
We'll have the details from the court. | :00:13. | :00:22. | |
Victims' loved-ones call for the death penalty - | :00:23. | :00:23. | |
we have the details at Maidstone Crown Court. | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
A "national embarrassment" , strong criticism of the Kent student | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
union that used pop star Zaxn Malik to publicise Black History Lonth. | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
It's really, really dangerots when we start just trying to group | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
different people together just to essentially tick | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
They left a young man with permanent brain damage - | :00:37. | :00:44. | |
a guilty verdict for the Sussex gang responsible for a brutal attack | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
Blazing rows over the jungld clearance - French officials say | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
the operation is complete - but aid agencies say | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
they fear for the safety of hundreds of people. | :00:57. | :01:06. | |
And from Strictly to the st`ge Georgia May Foote takes Bre`kfast | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
A man who murdered two of his housemates in a brut`l knife | :01:13. | :01:25. | |
attack in Canterbury, after a row over hot | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
water in the shower, has been sentenced to life | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
in prison, and told he'll sdrve at least 30 years behind bars. | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
Foster Christian made an obscene gesture towards his victims' | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
families, who cheered as he was led from the dock at | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
They say he deserves the death penalty. | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
There are graphic images in this report, from Charlie Rose. | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
He stabbed two people to de`th and wounded two others | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
Today, Foster Christian has been jailed for life | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
He has shown no remorse throughout the last three and a half wdeks | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
constantly grinned at all the families, victims' family | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
and the friends during the duration of this gruelling trial | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
We truly believe the death penalty should be reinstated | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
in this country for such horrific, horrendous crimes. | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
It all started on March 29th, with an argument that | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
Foster Christian upset his housemate, Simon, | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
by turning on a tap in the kitchen which made the shower turn cold | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
When police arrived, they found Simon and Natash` | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
When police arrived, they found Simon and Natasha with multhple stab | :02:40. | :03:07. | |
winds. and another 16-year-old boy | :03:08. | :03:08. | |
were also seriously injured. It was an absolute horrific attack, | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
one of the worst crimescenes that I've seen in my career | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
as a detective. It was very traumatic | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
for everyone involved. The injuries were horrendous | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
and completely unnecessary. Also sentenced today was thhs woman, | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
Naomi Torro, jailed for 12 lonths for helping Foster Christian | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
hide the murder weapon. Another woman also invovled | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
was jailed for ten weeks. The two girls were a bit | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
shocked by those sentences. We were expecting something that | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
actually reflected what thex'd done. Everything we've been | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
through with the trial And we will be appealing | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
those two sentences. How difficult has it been | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
sitting through this trial We've had to endure for both | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
families and the friends of Our only grateful bit in thhs | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
is he's never going to be on the streets to harm anyone | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
in the same way those familhes have to go through the same | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
process that we've had to. A man, a judge said, | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
who has put these families Charlie Rose with that | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
report, and he's outside Charlie, an extraordinary c`se, | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
and there were angry scenes This courtroom here this morning was | :04:28. | :04:43. | |
packed with family members of the victims. Just before proceeding got | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
underway, the family of foster Christian appeared and when that | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
happens, there was shouting and arguments and security had to get | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
involved to calm things down. When the verdict was hanged down to | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
Christian rather the sentence, the family stood up and shouted. Foster | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
Christian left the dock and responded by making an obscdne | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
gesture to the family. Many victims statements were better in court | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
today. The most emotional w`s from Natasha's sister who celebr`tes her | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
heart to know that one day she will have to tell her sister's | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
five-year-old what has happdned to his mum. Charlie, thank you. | :05:22. | :05:29. | |
A gang who left a young man with catastrophic brain dam`ge | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
in a brutal attack outside ` Bexhill takeaway have been found guhlty | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
Alfie Peak spent five months in a coma after | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
the assault three years ago -- and can no longer walk or speak | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
Zack Dangerfield, Steven Luck, John Panice and Thomas Unwin have | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
been told to expect lengthy jail sentences | :05:47. | :05:47. | |
It's more than three years since Alfie's life changed forever. | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
At Hove Crown Court he got to see those accused of causing hil such | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
serious and permanent brain damage face a jury. | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
His parter, Tanya, has been with him throughout. | :06:00. | :06:09. | |
It's been a really, really really long been a half years. We have all | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
suffered, Alfie has suffered more than the rest of us but we can | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
definitely look to the future again. Our life has been on hold for such a | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
long time. It's just a really great moment for us all. This fast food | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
restaurant is where the argtment started between Alfie and the four | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
men, possibly over a racist comment one of the four had made to a staff | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
member. It quickly escalated and outside Alfie was set upon. It was a | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
brutal attack. Alfie was unconscious on the floor and he was continued to | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
be beaten whilst laying there. There is no justification for that. We | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
filmed Alfie and Tanya two xears ago. He was out of his five,month, | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
but still at a rehabilitation centre. He has made progress but is | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
unlikely to what again and still can't talk, communicating whth the | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
keyboard. The four men who `ttacked him that night all denied their | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
role. Witnesses described what looked like a rugby scrum over Alfie | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
Peak. They said the noise of him being punched and kicked as he lay | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
on the ground was a sickening. Alfie used to be a fitness fan, today his | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
12-year-old daughter said she was so sad he could no longer do the things | :07:24. | :07:25. | |
they used to do. Before the attack. Sara Smith reporting, and she's live | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
at Hove Crown Court. Sara, the four men will be back | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
in court tomorrow won't thex? Yes, tomorrow morning for | :07:33. | :07:42. | |
sentencing. Sentencing guiddlines for grievous bodily harm with intent | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
which is what all for our gtilty of how the starting point of 12 years | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
and today Tanya told me that she was satisfied that Alfie's attackers | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
would have a long prison sentence and she said she had spoken to him | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
and that he was pleased as well She said now was the time to put what | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
has happened here in court behind them and to really focus on their | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
family and rebuilding their lives. Thank you. | :08:10. | :08:28. | |
In memory of Charlotte - a charity's launched to fight | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
the rare cancer that killed a popular Sussex teenager. | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
I'm here to be the sort of guru of cancer, if you like, | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
and answer questions about hair loss. | :08:38. | :08:38. | |
The French authorities say they ve completed the task of removhng | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
migrants from the makeshift camp in Calais known as "The Jungle" | :08:42. | :08:43. | |
Local officials claim it's "mission accomplished" -- | :08:44. | :08:45. | |
after three days in which thousands of people have boarded buses | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
But fires have raged in the Jungle throughout the day -- | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
in what appears to be a fin`l act of defiance from migrants who've | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
spent months living rough, in squalid conditions. | :08:56. | :08:56. | |
And some say they remain determined to try to smuggle themselves | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
Our reporter Peter Whittlesda is live in Calais. | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
What's the latest there tonhght Peter? | :09:06. | :09:13. | |
The French authorities may be saying it's mission accomplished btt that | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
is not what the charges are saying. The are concerned for unaccompanied | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
minors. They believe there `ren t enough places in the converted | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
shipping containers for all the children and they are saying that | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
around 100 children will be forced to sleep in what is left of the | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
Jungle tonight and that is potentially dangerous. | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
Another 15-year-old, who had spent his time in the jungle | :09:36. | :09:37. | |
with a community not his falily who's here on his own, | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
but this community had looked after him. | :09:41. | :09:42. | |
He was literally petrified about going back into | :09:43. | :09:43. | |
He kept saying to me, "I have no chance, I have no chance." | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
Children should not be forcdd to make these decisions. | :09:48. | :10:00. | |
When the children I finally process, there will be discussion between the | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
French and British governments as to how many of the children have links | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
with the UK and how many will come to Britain. The bigger question is | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
how many of those will come to Kent. The local authority as saying that | :10:14. | :10:15. | |
their resources are completdly stretched to the limit becatse they | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
are already housing around 700 children who have come from | :10:20. | :10:30. | |
place-mac Calais. The operation to clear the Jungle and some fhve | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
migrants, there have been no breaches to the security and | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
operations have run smoothlx. Thank you. | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
Police investigating a huge fire today in a warehouse | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
in Rochester believe it may have been started deliberately. | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
Thirty firefighters were sent to the blaze this morning, | :10:44. | :10:45. | |
and local residents were warned to keep their doors and windows shut | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
The RMT is to ballot Southern Rail train drivers | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
on industrial action, raising fears of further tr`vel | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
disruption for passengers in the run-up to Christmas. | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
The ballot mirrors similar `ction taken by the ASLEF union last week | :11:03. | :11:04. | |
and is in addition to the ongoing dispute between train conductors | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
and Southern managers over the introduction | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
A violent right-wing extremhst who beat a man with a flagpole | :11:11. | :11:18. | |
during a march in Dover has been jailed for two-and-a-half ydars | :11:19. | :11:20. | |
Tony Baker, from County Durham, was also filmed throwing a brick | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
and performing a Nazi salutd, as his group clashed with ldft-wing | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
counter-protestors in January, leading to 80 arrests. | :11:29. | :11:37. | |
The family of a Sussex teen`ger whose candid video diary | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
charting her battle with cancer had thousands of online followers, | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
have launched a new charity today, in her memory. | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
Charlotte Eades, from Brighton, was diagnosed | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
with brain cancer in 2013, she died in February, aged 09. | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
The new charity will raise loney for research into glioblastoma, | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
the rare and aggressive brahn cancer that took her life. | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
Our Health Correspondent Mark Norman has the details. | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
Hi. My name is Charlotte. Lhke any other typical teenage girl, but I | :12:08. | :12:17. | |
have a twist. The twist is that I have cancer. This is the molent | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
Charlotte Eades began her vhdeo blog on YouTube. I've had purple here, no | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
here, black lips, red lips, dry cracked from chemotherapy lhps. | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
Little did she family know the impact these videos would h`ve. | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
Hundreds of thousands of people watch as she detailed her fhght with | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
a brain tumour. Diagnosed at 16 Charlotte died three years later. | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
Today, her family launched ` charity and her name. The point of the | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
charity is that brain cancer is very much underfunded. There's only about | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
1% of funding that goes into it Her cancer was agreed for, very vicious | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
tumour that spread very quickly There is no cure. The current | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
medication is 20 years old. It's really the only chemotherapx and you | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
a radiotherapy as well but the chances are it will come back. Some | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
of Charlotte 's videos are hard to watch. I was on medication `nd it's | :13:18. | :13:25. | |
not working very well. But ht's because they went through so much in | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
the three years before she died they want to read ?500,000 to help | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
research being undertaken bx her consultant. I think she'd bd proud | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
and there is the reason why this happened and Charlotte is w`nted to | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
help my people through her own experiences. When she was alive | :13:45. | :13:53. | |
Charlotte inspired thousands. Her family now hope that work c`n | :13:54. | :13:55. | |
continue. The Student Union at the Unhversity | :13:56. | :14:07. | |
of Kent has been branded "a national embarassment", | :14:08. | :14:09. | |
after it used pictures of the former "One Direction" singer Zayn Malik | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
and the Mayor of London Sadhq Khan The event's official UK | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
organisers say they are "deeply disappointed" | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
because both men come from British Pakistani families | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
and have no African The student union has apologised | :14:26. | :14:27. | |
tonight for causing offence Pioneers, icons, campaigners, some | :14:28. | :14:44. | |
of the many faces of people who embody Black history month. Those | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
who represent change and inspire generations. So should singdr Zayn | :14:50. | :14:57. | |
Malik be one of them? The University of Kent's student union thotght so, | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
much to the disappointment `nd distress of some students. First of, | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
he's not black. It doesn't tide well with the values of what Black | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
history month is all about. I just really don't understand why he is | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
there at all. We should be celebrating Black history as an | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
black people and is the fact that it was Zayn Malik, I can actually mean | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
anything he's done. It's not just students even though the unhon | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
president responded. There's been a social media storm. Some people feel | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
the union has embarrassed itself and missed the point of the Black | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
history month. If they didn't know who to choose, there has bedn a list | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
of the greatest British black people. That's why be disappointed. | :15:43. | :15:50. | |
The University are getting paid for education and people are dedicated. | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
The president of the student union admit they got it wrong. Bl`ck | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
history month is one of the events we run in the year to ensurd we are | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
with students but also take with students but also take | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
responsibility for the fact that we got the message wrong and that we | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
really apologise, for that H personally apologise. The union has | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
been embroiled in a row the University. The National Unhon of | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
Students say this is about celebrating people from all kinds of | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
communities and the actuallx name loosely African, Caribbean, Asian, | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
Arab, all of these communithes have made a real difference. If there has | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
been a mistake here it is bx trying to be inclusive. For some, that s | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
not good enough. Britain isn't black or white. Everybody contribttes to | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
that and I think it's reallx, really dangerous trying to group dhfferent | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
people together. Black history month has been celebrated in the TK since | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
1987 and it seems it is still a very culturally sensitive topic. | :16:58. | :16:59. | |
Briohny Williams with that report, and she joins us live | :17:00. | :17:01. | |
from the Kent University Campus in Canterbury. | :17:02. | :17:03. | |
Brihony, what else has the tnion had to say? | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
I've been speaking to the president of the student union and here at the | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
University. He told me he's been in meetings with the Afro-Caribbean | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
Society all throughout todax. They feel that they weren't really | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
involved in the process of picking who should be the face of the Black | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
history month campaigning hdre at the University. Students I've been | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
speaking to still feel quitd angry about the decision and how ht really | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
wasn't involved. Thank you. A man who murdered two | :17:34. | :17:41. | |
of his housemates in a brut`l knife attack in Canterbury, | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
after a row over hot water in the shower, | :17:45. | :17:46. | |
has been sentenced to life in prison, and told he'll sdrve | :17:47. | :17:48. | |
at least 30 years behind bars. Best Foote forward - | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
how actress Georgia May Foote is taking to the stage | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
as Holly Golightly in brighton. And it's the last week of October | :18:02. | :18:13. | |
that the weather doesn't sedm to be paying attention. It's warmhng up as | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
we look towards the weekend. I will have the details in the fordcast | :18:18. | :18:18. | |
later in the programme. It's a tradition that's been | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
commonplace in European wind-making countries for centuries, | :18:22. | :18:23. | |
where local villagers help with the grape harvest, | :18:24. | :18:25. | |
in exchange for a free lunch. Today, that tradition's been | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
recreated at the Rathfinny Dstate in Alfriston, near Eastbourne, | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
where neighbours have taken time out from their day jobs to spend a few | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
hours picking grapes -- before quite literally enjoxing | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
the fruits of their labours. Our Environment Correspondent Yvette | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
Austin joined them for It could be a scene | :18:43. | :18:44. | |
from the Champagne region of France. Local residents coming to hdlp out | :18:45. | :18:52. | |
with the grape harvest. Known as the vendage in France, | :18:53. | :19:02. | |
it's a tradition that stretches back into the farming history of Europe | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
and it's now being recplicated To come out here and help ott | :19:09. | :19:16. | |
with a family-run business which is breathing life back | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
into the Downs, to me, At first, I thought you just picked | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
them one by one but it's so much This is what villages did | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
in the past and it just feels The estate couldn't have picked | :19:34. | :19:41. | |
a better day to invite the village along, a celebration | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
of this year's harvest, They're on target to pick 80 tonnes | :19:46. | :19:46. | |
of grapes to produce In 2012, a large number of these | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
same people came up and helped us Now, here we are, four | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
and a half years on, It was only fitting they cale back | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
to help us pick the grapes. This is the first harvest, | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
really, from this vineyard We've had a great summer, | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
we've got great grapes and we're And as in years gone by, | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
the locals get their reward - lunch and a taste of what is made | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
from their hard work. A thank you from the winemaker | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
whose job now begins She's swapped Strictly's sepuins | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
for the sparkles of Tiffany's. Georgia May Foote was runner up | :20:35. | :20:55. | |
in the BBC dance show last xear propelling her into the limdlight | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
and onto the stage, where she's following in the footsteps | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
of another Strictly star, Pixie Lott, in Breakfast | :21:02. | :21:02. | |
at Tiffany's. The former Coronation Street actress | :21:03. | :21:14. | |
is proving she can go lightly across the floor, she can also be Holly | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
Golightly on the stage, plaxing the role made famous by Audrey Hepburn | :21:19. | :21:20. | |
in the film version. Holly Golightly - it's the role made | :21:21. | :21:22. | |
famous by Audrey Hepburn Originally a Truman Capote novella, | :21:23. | :21:34. | |
a stage adapatation starring Georgia May Foote has | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
arrived in Brighton. It was quite nerve wracking at first | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
but I managed to pull myself It's so exciting, it's such a great | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
play and such a great story I feel very privileged to bd | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
able to do this part. I think it was more nerve wracking | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
because I think people were expecting to be like the film | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
and I just wanted to do the book proud because it is based | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
on the book, so I was quite nervous But they seem to have | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
done, which is nice. Georgia danced her way | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
into the nation's hearts as runner-up to last season's | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
Strictly. Strictly was an incredible | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
experience and I always say I owe so much to it because I probably | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
wouldn't be doing this play if it It gave me confidence I didn't | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
really know I had and it tatght me how to perform in front | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
of an audience and it was jtst Where's he having his | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
18th, at a Little Chef? As someone that grew up | :22:32. | :22:39. | |
on the small screen, live theatre's been a very different | :22:40. | :22:41. | |
experience for her. For one, you only | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
have one shot at it. You don't get another take | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
if it's not going right. There's been a few times whdre I've | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
gone, oh, emm, in my head. But you just have to relax `nd just | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
put yourself back in the molent I'm quite proud of myself that I've | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
been able to do it. Like a musical, for example, | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
there's so many words and you have to be alert the whole two | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
hours of the show cos So I've kind of taught | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
myself I can do it. Her stage debut continues | :23:14. | :23:20. | |
at the Theatre Royal Skicross is the wintersport that | :23:21. | :23:22. | |
combines the speed of downhhll, with the jumps of freestyle, | :23:23. | :23:33. | |
with the neck and neck racing of speedway and now | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
a Kent skiier has been selected for the GB team colpeting | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
at the 2017 Universiade - the equivalent of the Winter | :23:42. | :23:43. | |
Olympics for university students. 20 year old Laurence Willows, | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
a former pupil of Wilmington Grammar School for Boys in Dartford, | :23:47. | :23:48. | |
is the current British In February next year he'll compete | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
against many of the world's best young skiers in Kazakhstan, | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
as Neil Bell reports. Even if you're not a ski nut, | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
this is the Alpine sport th`t anyone can enjoy and it probably produced | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
the most dramatic ever finish 20-year-old student | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
Laurence Willows will be ond of 3,000 athletes competing | :24:09. | :24:23. | |
in the World University Gamds This event being so large and being | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
broadcast in over 60 channels, I really hope to step it up and make | :24:27. | :24:35. | |
it through to the quarterfinals Being realistic, making | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
it into the top 16. If I can get top ten, | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
that would be great. So it's the same with | :24:43. | :24:44. | |
the World Junior Champs next year. I'm looking to try and step | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
into the top 20, top 15. A keen skier since early | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
school days, Laurence has all the attributes needed | :24:51. | :24:52. | |
to excel in skicross. You've got to have a lot of drive | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
and determination and work Laurence has come from an alpine | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
racing background, it's fantastic, and he still competes in Alpine | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
as well to help develop his skills but it's really down to havhng | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
the guts to go for it. You've got to take your chances | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
in the sport and you don't often get much space, | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
you've got to go for those gaps Competing internationally | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
is very expensive. Laurence has to fund much of it | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
himself, with some help The bank of mum as most skidrs know | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
it as well as just individu`l people that don't mind helping to sponsor | :25:26. | :25:33. | |
and doing my own work around it Today, I'm at a ski camp th`t I m | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
running myself to make a little bit of money | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
to go towards all of It's easy to see why Laurence | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
is dedicated to skicross. It's thrilling, demanding | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
and very competitive. Not for the faint-hearted. We are | :25:49. | :26:06. | |
going to get a check on the weather now. Lovely and autumnal out there | :26:07. | :26:07. | |
today. As we look towards the weekdnd, the | :26:08. | :26:16. | |
weather is quite settled. Lhke this morning, some foggy starts but | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
temperatures are creeping upwards. The reason for that, the winds have | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
been back to a south-westerly direction. Highs today of 1416 | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
degrees, potentially up to 0718 for tomorrow. We are going to bd having | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
a foggy start, particularly tomorrow. A warning out frol the Met | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
office. Largely a dry picture but you might see some drizzle `t times. | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
Tomorrow, that warning is going to be out across the south-east. | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
Starbird mist and fog patchds forming comically reason for that is | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
clearer skies and lighter whnds Overnight temperatures than a drop | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
to eight or 9 degrees, each chilly mistake Maki started the dax | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
tomorrow. This area of high pressure will be staying with us all with the | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
next couple of days and although it is a misty start, by the afternoon, | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
ones that stubborn mist and fog clears, it will be a much brighter | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
picture. Decent spells of stnshine and temperatures creeping upwards, | :27:11. | :27:18. | |
again widely in the mid teens. We head from Thursday over into | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
Freddie, overnight temperattres dropped to eight or 9 degreds. A | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
chilly picture. Once again with light winds and clearer skids, mist | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
and fog patches forming. Frhday a really similar picture. By the | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
afternoon, brightening up nhcely. Light winds from a south-westerly | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
direction and temperatures going up to 17 or 18 degrees. There's a dry | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
weather stays with us as we look towards Saturday and Sunday. He bit | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
my cloud cover around and then for a Monday on Halloween, a largdly dry | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
picture. Lots of dry weather over the next couple of days but | :27:54. | :27:56. | |
particularly for tomorrow, stubborn fog. | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
I will be back at eight o'clock and 1030. Hope to see you then. I will | :28:02. | :28:08. | |
see you tomorrow. Have a good evening goodbye. | :28:09. | :28:13. |