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Today's main headlines in the South East: | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Make a decision now on the new Thames Crossing | :00:08. | :00:09. | |
or the South East will grind to a halt, business leaders warn. | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
He was killed by a driver who'd been texting, the mother of a teenager | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
says new penalties for mobile phone use at the wheel | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
We're live at Kent Police headquarters tonight. | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
And after today's rain, we have a dry, bright and mild day on the way | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
for two morrow. -- tomorrow. The South East could | :00:33. | :00:43. | |
grind to a standstill unless the government makes | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
an urgent decision on where a new crossing over | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
the Thames should be built. That's the warning to the Chancellor | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
tonight in a letter signed by the Federation | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
of Small Businesses, the Port of Dover and the London | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
Chamber of Commerce. Last year, ministers promised | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
an announcement "in due course". A crossing that can't cope, causing | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
gridlock on the region's roads, That's why the Federation | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
of Small Businesses say, in addition to the Dartford Crossing, a new | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
Lower Thames Crossing is needed now. There's a real problem | :01:09. | :01:16. | |
with traffic congestion, particularly here in Kent, | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
but not just Kent - London, Essex, too - | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
that'll only be solved when we have So we do need the Chancellor, | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
Philip Hammond, to seize the day in the budget and take some | :01:24. | :01:30. | |
action on this. In January last year, | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
Highways England chose a multi-billion pound tunnel, | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
east of Gravesend, as its preferred option, rather than another | :01:36. | :01:44. | |
crossing at Dartford. It even produced images | :01:45. | :01:45. | |
of what it would look like. A public consultation | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
attracted 40,000 responses, but still no final decision | :01:49. | :01:49. | |
from the Government. In a letter to be published | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
in tomorrow's City AM newspaper, the Federation, along | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
with the Freight Transport Association, the Port of Dover | :01:55. | :01:55. | |
and the London Chamber of Commerce say | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
the Dartford Crossing is creaking under the pressure | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
of 50 million crossing a year. That threatens to bring | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
the South East to a standstill. The Government's promise to make | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
a decision in due course I think it's disgusting that | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
they've never made it good. How much do you think | :02:08. | :02:17. | |
a new crossing is needed? No-one wants it on their doorstep, | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
but it's definitely needed. As soon as you get a snarl | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
on the M25, an accident, that's it, it just snags all the | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
way back for hours. The people in Dartford are held up | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
for hours and hours. There have been protests | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
against the possible The Department for Transport | :02:37. | :02:38. | |
said today it recognised But said, again, a decision will be | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
taken in due course. I'm optimistic that we'll actually | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
get a decision this month. It's important we get | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
the right decision that Soon as we get the decision, | :02:51. | :02:52. | |
we can get on with building it. Whichever option meet governing | :02:53. | :03:02. | |
choosers, it's going to be The Dartford MP said | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
a new crossing here with simply bring more traffic into Dartford, | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
it should go into Gravesend. The mother of a teenage cyclist | :03:09. | :03:20. | |
who died after being hit by a van says tough new penalties | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
for motorists who use their mobile Daniel Squire was just 18 | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
when he was killed near Deal, by a driver who admitted he'd been | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
sending text messages From today, the penalties for | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
drivers caught using their phones have been increased to a ?200 | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
fine and six points. Cyclist Daniel Squire died | :03:41. | :03:42. | |
after was hit by a ban The driver, who was cleared of | :03:43. | :03:50. | |
causing his death, admitted in court he had been texting | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
earlier in his journey. From today, penalties | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
for using a phone at the wheel Six points on your driving | :03:57. | :03:58. | |
licence, and a ?200 fine. But Daniel Squire's | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
mother believes the new I do believe that there | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
has been a step forward I think it should be | :04:04. | :04:15. | |
an instant ban if you're caught using your phone, | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
particularly texting, it should be For me, it's worse - | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
not possibly worse, but it comes in According to the AA trust, | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
nationally, texting at the wheel caused 440 crashes at the wheel, | :04:28. | :04:39. | |
resulting in 22 deaths. In a single week-long | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
crackdown, the police issued Today's tougher punishments come | :04:42. | :04:43. | |
alongside a hard-hitting advertising If people do need | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
to use their phones while driving is all they feel | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
that they need to, today, the modern cars have everything | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
built into them so The people who feel generally | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
obliged to use their phones, that the phones do a huge amount | :05:03. | :05:10. | |
for them automatically It is a needless death and selfish | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
act when you're driving. You're potentially | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
in charge of a vehicle She says she's keen to see | :05:19. | :05:20. | |
if that tougher new rules will have an effect in reducing | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
the number of road accidents. And Charlie is at Kent Police | :05:24. | :05:40. | |
headquarters tonight. It seems the police | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
continue to have a big job on their hands stopping people from | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
using their phones at the wheel. Well, listen to this, the latest | :05:45. | :05:56. | |
report from the RAC shows that 31% of drivers admitted using a | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
hand-held device and that compares to 8% two years ago. Clearly the | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
police have a big job on their hands. The AA say a big problem is | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
that too many of us are addicted to these things and the best way to | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
break that addiction is to go cold turkey, lets them off and put them | :06:16. | :06:17. | |
in the glove box. Thank you. Kent Police are to use special hoods | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
to protect officers from bites The force's Chief Constable had | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
previously opposed their use but has changed his mind, | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
persuaded by fears officers are being put at risk | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
of injury or infection. Tens of thousands of Southern Rail | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
commuters could miss out on compensation for the poor service | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
they've received over the last year because of the way they | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
bought their ticket. Labour members of the London | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
Assembly say a government scheme to refund passengers on the Southern | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
network will only benefit season ticket holders | :06:44. | :06:45. | |
and some Travelcard users. Nearly 60,000 Southern trains | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
were cancelled last year. The equivalent of all | :06:48. | :07:00. | |
services being at a When the Government stumped up | :07:01. | :07:02. | |
a multi-million pound compensation fund, it wasn't a moment too | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
soon for passengers. Now there's concern that many | :07:06. | :07:07. | |
passengers won't get a Everyone uses their Southern rail | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
service, you may be commuting from London Bridge to Brighton, it is | :07:10. | :07:21. | |
the basic principle of fairness, everyone uses the same train, | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
they should be entitled for the same The issue was that the compensation | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
was only for those who have season A year's ticket got | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
a month costs back. But those who pay on the day get | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
nothing from the Government pot. One MP says there's simpler way | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
to compensate everyone. My view is that there should be | :07:41. | :07:50. | |
a straightforward fare reduction until they have the service back | :07:51. | :07:52. | |
into the shape they desire to be, perhaps when the London | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
Bridge work to complete. That should be away giving | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
across-the-board compensation to Pay-as-you-go passengers can still | :07:59. | :07:59. | |
claim on a journey by journey basis, but the time it takes is clearly | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
off-putting for some. You are trying to claw back | :08:07. | :08:16. | |
as much viewed as possible, I did it on the internet, | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
but got in such a muddle I gave up. I wanted to do it, | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
but too busy, that's that. Some delays were out | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
of Southern's hands, problems with the track, | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
for example. But most were caused by poor | :08:32. | :08:32. | |
performance and strikes over the toxic issue of drivers | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
operating the doors. Our reporter Lauren | :08:36. | :08:49. | |
Moss is with me now. Of course Southern passengers | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
have yet to see a resolution to almost a year | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
of industrial action. But talks did resume today | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
between the Aslef Union Yes, if your member, last month, the | :08:57. | :09:10. | |
Aslef union leaders had agreed a deal but it was voted down by | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
members of Aslef. Getting euthanised, both parties sent us a | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
statement saying they have had positive discussions and detox will | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
continue. This argument doesn't only involve Aslef, be RMT unions said | :09:23. | :09:31. | |
they will stage another 24-hour walk-out on the 23rd of March and | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
that will be the dirtiest day of strike action since the dispute | :09:36. | :09:36. | |
began back in April. Thank you. And in the last hour, | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
BBC South East Today has won the Royal Television Society award | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
for the best Nations and Regions news | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
programme in the country. It's our second | :09:48. | :09:48. | |
win in three years. That's it from me, just time to take | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
a check now on the South East Hello, good evening. Dry again this | :09:53. | :10:09. | |
morning for the start of the debacle at started to change. Behind us, | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
clear skies because it is built by last three overnight averages | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
hovering above freezing. 2-3 C in more rural spots. It'll be a dry day | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
tomorrow and, dare we say it, bright, too. By the afternoon, | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
temperatures quite mild, breezy as you can tell, 20 miles ballot winds. | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
Their bridges grouping in the afternoon to double figures, 10-11 C | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
a pleasant afternoon. They can most of it, it won't last. There's a | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
injured Friday, the balance thickens, from midnight we will see | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
some rain, heavy at times. As a result, a mild night overnight. | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
5-6 C, but not pleasant as the dark Friday. Wet, windy, not nice but an | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
improvement likely by the afternoon. Here's the Al | :11:02. | :11:02. | |
outlook. A whole load of 11 is. What does that mean? Maybe John Hammond | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
will tell you. We're in for a bumpy ride. The | :11:07. | :11:15. | |
weather chopping and changing keeping us on our toes. Rain never | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
too far away from our crystal ball. There has been rain around today | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
across southern areas. This band of wet weather pushing through Wales | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
and the Midlands. A little bit of the white stuff mixed in over the | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
high ground Snowdonia, some snow for an trans-Pennine routes as well. | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
Snow at low levels through the | :11:36. | :11:36. |