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Today's main headlines in the South East. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
How the Dartford Crossing was officially classified as a rural | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
road, avoiding the need to publish pollution data. | :00:08. | :00:09. | |
And the new boss of Paramount Park outlines their plans | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
for the ?3 billion attraction in north Kent. | :00:15. | :00:23. | |
And after some decent spells of sunshine, tomorrow's Woodborough | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
tomorrow stays dry and bright. The Dartford Crossing is one | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
of the busiest sections of road in the country and air pollution | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
levels regularly exceed the safe limit, but until two years ago, | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
it was classified by the Government The error means the levels | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
of pollution there haven't been passed on to the European Union, | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
which can impose fines when safety The mistake was revealed | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
exclusively to BBC South East 50 million journeys are made on this | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
stretch of road every year. The towns closest, Dartford | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
to the south and Thurrock to the North, have some | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
of the highest percentages of death due to air | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
pollution in the south-east. In Dartford, the council has | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
recorded nitrogen dioxide levels above safe limits for years | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
and when the town didn't appear in the national air quality | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
plan, they were puzzled. We discovered that the approach road | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
was classed as a rural Road and therefore, the air monitoring | :01:18. | :01:31. | |
figures that they had and that they were using for their modelling | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
purposes were incorrect. It means for years, national data | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
on our pollution has not included this incredibly busy | :01:37. | :01:45. | |
stretch of road. Whoever decided that there is no | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
pollution around here must be... Probably doesn't live | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
in Dartford, to be honest. I've got two small children | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
and regularly if you live here, you will notice several times a day | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
or several times a week, there The crossing and its approach roads | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
are not classed as part of the motorway but as the A282, | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
and a roads can count as rural But that's clearly | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
not the case here. Jim Sutton, who lives | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
near the crossing, believes it is exasperated the respiratory | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
problems which affected The air pollution around | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
here certainly did not help her. She always used to say, | :02:18. | :02:26. | |
I wish we could move, Jim. Scientists from Kings College have | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
carried out their own monitoring. The European legal limit was broken | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
on three days and that was primarily because of pollution which the road | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
is producing every day with the traffic on it was joined up | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
with pollution that was coming over The Department for the Environment | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
says the Department for Transport The Department for Transport says | :02:45. | :02:55. | |
it was the Department Either way, it has finally been | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
reclassified as bourbon. Leanne is on the approach | :02:59. | :03:12. | |
to the Dartford crossing and Leanne, this is more than just a mix up over | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
names, isn't it? Yes, because it means the air | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
pollution from this road behind me which affects thousands of people | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
either side has not been considered by the government and when those air | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
pollution levels rise above those levels set by the European Union, | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
there has not been any penalties. All this comes as the leader of the | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
World Health Organization has described air pollution as one of | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
the most pernicious threats to public health, disproportionately | :03:42. | :03:42. | |
affecting children. There's fresh controversy tonight | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
over hundreds of pounds of cosmetics that should have gone to needy | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
people but were instead sold by a Labour party | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
member in Ramsgate to help fund her County Council | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
election campaign. BBC South East Today has spoken | :03:54. | :03:54. | |
to one woman who told us she was led to believe the sale was in aid | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
of charity and says The equivalent amount | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
of money raised has now been Our Political Editor | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
Helen Catt reports. This sale of donated | :04:04. | :04:11. | |
cosmetics in a Ramsgate Pub Facebook posts by its organiser | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
Karen Constantine made clear that the money was destined | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
for Labour coffers. But now there are claims that | :04:17. | :04:18. | |
customers at the pub sale may have thought they were giving | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
to charity instead. I asked her what she wanted on that | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
board and the word charity Natalie Garrett was working | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
at the pub during the sale. As a former charity | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
volunteer herself, she says Some of my friends and even some | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
of my family purchased some If they'd have known | :04:42. | :04:49. | |
that it was for a political party, then it just wouldn't | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
have been supported. But here we are at the warehouse, | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
and we are fortunate The sale has already caused | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
controversy after it emerged the donations had come | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
from a charity Food For All. ..Good causes and today is one | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
of those good causes, one of the good causes that I stand | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
for as well, which happens to be the Labour Party, so yes, | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
my name is Jenny and you are looking at our warehouse and hopefully we | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
can raise some funds for the cause. Jenny has since apologised | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
for giving the goods. When contacted by us today, | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
Karen Constantine declined She reiterated that she fully | :05:24. | :05:25. | |
apologised for not knowing the election funding laws | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
regarding charities and had taken immediate steps to make sure | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
that the money raised had gone Labour has repeated its statement | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
that the party has not breached electoral law and there is no | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
allegation that the party Natalie says knowing the money | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
is now with charity is rightful and just but she believes it doesn't | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
make up for it happening The manager of the pub in Ramsgate | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
where the Lush products were sold has contacted BBC South East tonight | :05:49. | :06:04. | |
to claim that the wording 'for charity' was noton | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
the advertising board on the day of the sale and says | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
that he has CCTV footage A former British Army | :06:11. | :06:12. | |
officer from Sussex has Tristan Voorspuy was killed | :06:13. | :06:21. | |
on the ranch he owned on Sunday. Mr Voorspuy was a pupil | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
at Eastbourne College and moved to the area of Laikipia in Kenya | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
in the 1980s to set up The area's suffering a drought | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
and the Foreign Office is warning of an increase in armed raids | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
by cattle herders in The company planning to build one | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
of the world's biggest theme parks in North Kent says small businesses | :06:37. | :06:47. | |
may have to sell up if they can't London Resort Company Holdings | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
intends to submit a planning application for Paramount Park | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
later this year. The attraction on the Swanscombe | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
Peninsula is projected They hope to attract around | :06:57. | :06:57. | |
15 million visitors a year and plan to create around 27,000 jobs | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
in the area. Disneyland Paris, a huge | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
entertainment resort, the likes of which can't be found | :07:04. | :07:15. | |
in the UK. But this man wants | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
to change all that. He wants to build a grade one | :07:19. | :07:19. | |
destination theme park twice the size of the Olympic Park | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
with 5000 hotel rooms But businesses in the area fear it | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
all mean they could be How much are you going to offer them | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
to make way for your attraction? Well, we are in talks with them | :07:29. | :07:38. | |
and we meet regularly and we will be offering them obviously the market | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
related price of their land. It won't be the case that they'll be | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
forced off their land? In terms of that, there is a process | :07:46. | :07:53. | |
with any planning application where either the forehand, | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
before the application is submitted, people can enter into an agreement | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
and in some cases, there will be a time where we will purchase | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
their land after the planning And he says if an agreement isn't | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
reached, that could mean land having to be bought by a compulsory | :08:05. | :08:21. | |
purchase order, but in return, there'll be | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
a world-class resort and jobs. There has been a tremendous | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
response, a tremendous positive response locally, | :08:30. | :08:30. | |
for reasons which I think We are going to provide | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
jobs, 27,000 jobs. It will bring a lot | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
of jobs to the area, how traffic is going to cope, | :08:40. | :08:41. | |
I don't know. I'm quite excited | :08:42. | :08:43. | |
about it, to be honest. I am a bit worried about | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
the build-up, but I understand it is in four or five years, | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
so hopefully by then, the railways and the roads around here, | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
because they are diabolical as it is, so hopefully, | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
it should be all right then. The planning application will be | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
submitted by the end of the year and if the outcome of that goes | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
the developer's way, Paramount Park could be | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
opening its doors five That's it from me, we'll | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
have the national weather in a moment, first here's | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
the forecast for the There will be some rain around this | :09:16. | :09:38. | |
week. Especially for Wednesday but we are expecting to see temperatures | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
by Thursday and Friday reach highs of 13 or 14 degrees. Average for the | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
time of year is still around six or seven. Tonight, one or two scattered | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
showers but mostly dry as we start the day tomorrow and with clearer | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
skies, temperatures falling away. Lots of sunshine tomorrow, | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
especially given the morning. By the afternoon, we start to see a bit | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
more in the way of cloud cover. For tomorrow afternoon, very pleasant. | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
Light winds and where we see temperatures in more sheltered spots | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
reaching ten or 11 degrees. As we had to tomorrow night, overnight | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
lows will only be falling away to six or 7 degrees. That rain is heavy | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
at times. Spent -- eventually it will head eastwards. A very mild | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
night. Outbreaks of rain on Wednesday, particularly during the | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
afternoon but staying very mild. Temperatures in double figures. | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
Highs of 11 or 12 degrees. As we had through the tail end of the week, | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
staying breezy. A lot of cloud around. Especially for Thursday. | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
Temperatures staying in double figures. Here is the outlook for the | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
south-east. cool, it will be windy at times as | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
well and still rather unsettled with some blustery showers around. That's | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
the London forecast and now for the National forecast, over to Nick | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
Miller. North-west France and Plymouth were | :11:08. | :11:20. | |
miles apart weather-wise. This southern flank in north-west France | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
there was a wind gusts of 120 mph which we just dodged. That area of | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
low pressure continues to move quickly south-eastwards so that by | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
tomorrow it is in Italy on its southern flank, stormy in Sardinia | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
and around it strong winds blowing through south-east France. We've got | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
a little bump in the ice bars with lighter winds, a brief ridge of high | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
pressure, things briefly settled going into tomorrow, overnight there | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
are some showers around moving through western Scotland and | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
north-west England and the Midlands, clearing Wales, one or two in the | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
east, the North Sea tip of high pressure, things briefly settled | :11:57. | :11:58. | |
going into tomorrow, overnight there are some showers around moving | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
through western Scotland and north-west England and | :12:02. | :12:02. |