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00:02 - Hello and welcome to Kentonite live on KMTV.
00:27 I'm Sophia Akin and here are your top stories
00:30 on Wednesday the 4th of October.
00:32 The facts have changed.
00:34 We'll break down what the Prime Minister's speech
00:36 means for Kent.
00:38 - But there is nothing ambitious
00:41 about simply pouring more and more money
00:43 into the wrong project.
00:44 - Bigger fish to fry.
00:46 Maidstone Chippy switches to cardboard
00:48 as government bans single use plastic.
00:52 - As a business it's been really expensive.
00:55 It is an extra cost.
00:57 - And celebrating conservation.
01:00 We meet the endangered species across Kent
01:02 on World Animal Day.
01:04 - If we didn't step in,
01:06 or our partners the Aspen Foundation didn't step in,
01:09 then these animals might not actually survive.
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01:14 - But first tonight, HS2 to Manchester is scrapped
01:23 but little announced for Kent.
01:24 Rising costs led the Prime Minister to announce changes
01:27 to infrastructure projects
01:28 at the Conservative Party Conference.
01:30 But the Lower Thames Crossing wasn't mentioned today.
01:33 It's a 2.6 mile tunnel that's set to connect Kent to Essex,
01:36 easing the pressure on the Dartford Crossing.
01:38 So what does the future look like for Kent?
01:40 Gabriel Morris has this report.
01:43 - Upgrade the A1, the A2, the A5, the M6.
01:47 - Applause at the Conservative Party Conference.
01:51 - Will connect.
01:52 - But this isn't the crowd the Prime Minister needs to please.
01:56 It's the public.
01:57 - There is more.
01:58 - In Kent, if there was to be an election today,
02:01 this is what the polls predict.
02:04 This is based on the current constituencies
02:06 and the next election, some boundaries will change.
02:09 But it does look like the stage is set
02:12 for Labour to win a number of seats.
02:15 And one of those is Gravesham.
02:17 - You can only vote for Labour,
02:18 they're the only serious contenders.
02:20 I'd vote for any of them, to be honest.
02:22 - I think they've pulled themselves up a bit now.
02:25 So yeah, I'd like to see Conservatives going locally.
02:30 - Always voted Labour.
02:31 - Rishi Sunak will hope his speech today
02:34 will win back some public support.
02:37 He set out a lot on infrastructure,
02:40 HS2 to be scrapped, and money reinvested.
02:44 - Now the decision I've made
02:45 and the stance I'm taking will be attacked.
02:49 They will say that halting it signals a lack of ambition.
02:53 There will be people I respect,
02:54 people in our own party who will oppose it.
02:57 But there is nothing ambitious about simply pouring
03:01 more and more money into the wrong project.
03:04 There is nothing long-term about ignoring
03:06 your real infrastructure needs so that you can spend
03:09 an ever-larger amount on one grand project.
03:13 Now the site behind me used to be a golf course,
03:15 it was for around 20 years, but it closed last year
03:19 because of uncertainty over the Lower Thames crossing.
03:22 That road will come straight through the former golf course.
03:26 - The Prime Minister says the facts have changed on HS2,
03:30 but what about the Lower Thames crossing?
03:33 - So the facts certainly have changed.
03:36 What we have is a Conservative government
03:38 that cannot deliver on pretty much anything.
03:41 Under a Labour government, we really need to understand
03:45 the benefits, the costs, and all of that sort of stuff
03:48 of the Lower Thames crossing.
03:50 What we have seen so far is a lot of money spent
03:53 without any actual improvements.
03:55 - There's currently a development consent order
03:57 and the Department for Transport
03:59 didn't want to comment today.
04:01 They signalled us back to their statement from March,
04:04 where they announced a two-year delay to the project
04:08 and the need to balance budgets
04:09 with rising inflation at the time.
04:12 The date of the next general election is still unknown,
04:16 but future Conservative policy is now coming thick and fast.
04:21 Gabriel Morris for KMTV in Gravesham.
04:24 - Well, Gabriel joins us now.
04:26 So what more have we learnt today?
04:27 - Well, a lot was mentioned on HS2.
04:30 That connection from Birmingham to Manchester being cut,
04:34 that's what we found out today.
04:35 But the money which was ring-fenced for that
04:36 will be reinvested in other projects,
04:40 some potentially in our region.
04:42 We heard that the A2, which runs from London down to Dover,
04:46 will have upgrades,
04:47 but we don't know any more than the word upgrade
04:49 at this stage and any timescales for that at all.
04:52 As you saw in my report, the Lower Thames Crossing
04:54 is one of the biggest infrastructure projects
04:57 in the country.
04:58 In fact, it's going to cost billions of pounds to build.
05:01 It's been delayed by two years.
05:03 It's got a DCO on it at the moment.
05:05 And it's not 100% clear if it will go ahead,
05:07 but it seems like that it will.
05:08 There was no announcements today.
05:10 There was speculation that it might be axed
05:13 alongside HS2 today because of rising costs.
05:16 There was a large pressure group behind it
05:18 calling for it to be called off.
05:20 But it seems that it will go ahead,
05:21 and it will be operational towards the end of this decade.
05:25 Now, in Rishi's speech today, he mentioned change 30 times.
05:29 This is potentially his last speech
05:32 at a Conservative Party conference
05:34 before the next German elections.
05:35 And what we have learned today is a series of policies
05:38 which probably will form their manifesto for the next election.
05:41 One of the big other ones today was
05:42 A-levels and T-levels will be replaced by a new qualification.
05:46 This is for students between the ages of 16 and 90.
05:49 Instead of typically specialising in learning three subjects,
05:54 now that will be five under the new advanced British standard.
05:57 Now, we don't exactly know when this will come in,
06:01 but it's thought in about 10 years' time.
06:03 So for students at the moment, there's
06:05 no need for them to worry about what they are studying
06:08 is going to be changing soon.
06:10 But Rishi has described this as a silver bullet,
06:12 saying no child will be left behind by this.
06:15 And at the moment, there are a third less teachers
06:20 in the classroom than competitors.
06:22 This has been criticised by some,
06:24 that teachers won't be prepared for this.
06:25 But what it will see is students learning maths and English
06:29 up to the age of 18.
06:30 I asked Dr Lauren Sullivan, who used to run my report
06:33 about this, she's not only a parliamentary candidate
06:35 for Gravesham, but she also used to be a chemistry teacher
06:39 at a high school.
06:41 So I think all young people deserve the right
06:43 to be able to learn how to read and write and to do maths.
06:48 Absolutely.
06:49 But that needs to be applicable.
06:51 And what young people tell me is actually
06:52 they want to know life skills.
06:54 They want to know how to get a mortgage, open a bank account,
06:57 how to manage their finances.
06:59 So if it goes alongside with actual life lessons and life
07:03 skills, that young people have been crying out to me
07:06 to say this is what we need, rather than, again,
07:09 more of this top-down exam-based remembering.
07:14 It's about skills.
07:15 And young people, incredibly, they want those skills
07:18 so they can succeed.
07:21 In the prime minister's speech today,
07:23 he also announced raising the legal smoking age by one year
07:27 every year until it's banned, a move that's been
07:30 welcomed by health charities.
07:32 Well, joining us now to discuss this further
07:34 is KMTV's health expert, Dr Gillian Spinks.
07:37 Now, delaying the legal smoking age,
07:39 I mean, what do you think about this?
07:41 Are people going to get on board with this?
07:43 I think it's a very positive move.
07:46 And it's copying what they're already proposing
07:49 to do down in New Zealand.
07:50 Exactly the same limits.
07:51 It means anyone born after the 1st of January 2009
07:55 will never be able to legally buy cigarettes.
07:57 You're not going to stop them smoking,
07:59 but they can't buy them themselves from the shops.
08:03 And the hope is that if you make it more difficult for people
08:06 to smoke, then they won't.
08:08 And if we can stop teenagers taking out smoking,
08:11 then there's a very good chance they won't take it up later.
08:13 It doesn't always act as a deterrent, though, does it?
08:17 Because people will find other ways of accessing it,
08:20 won't they?
08:20 So could this not lead to, I mean,
08:23 I guess, crime if we're going to make it harder to access?
08:27 People are not just going to find other ways of getting
08:30 cigarettes?
08:30 There is always a danger you end up with a black market that's
08:33 causing things.
08:35 Having said that, once they started
08:37 to enforce things like stopping people buying cigarettes
08:40 under 18, it did drop the number of people actually smoking
08:44 under 18 as well.
08:45 And what we've shown is each time
08:47 we get more restrictive about smoking,
08:49 the numbers smoking go down.
08:51 And remember, these are going to be 14-year-olds and younger
08:54 that are affected.
08:55 And I know there are some who smoke younger than that,
08:58 but most children will not have started smoking by then.
09:01 And there have been calls to ban vapes as well.
09:05 So I guess it's all kind of a big thing
09:06 of trying to get people to stop smoking, to stop vaping.
09:10 I mean, do you think people will get on board
09:13 with the whole kind of thing?
09:15 Well, vapes are a double-edged sword.
09:16 They are a very useful way to stop smoking.
09:18 But the concern has been that there's
09:21 a rising number of people vaping,
09:22 who are going into vaping who've never smoked,
09:25 particularly amongst children and teenagers
09:26 with disposable vapes.
09:28 So they're going to explore whether you ban those
09:30 and also whether you restrict other vapes,
09:31 and perhaps put them in plain packaging
09:33 so they're less attractive.
09:34 It's also stopped October.
09:36 Now that it's October, there's this campaign
09:38 to get people to quit smoking.
09:40 So for those who perhaps do smoke and want to quit smoking,
09:43 what would you suggest to them?
09:45 Well, the first thing is set a date and plan towards it.
09:48 Seek help.
09:49 Go to smoking cessation processes
09:52 or actually go to your GP to get it.
09:54 Because the evidence is that helping you,
09:56 even just talking to somebody, will increase your success rate,
09:59 even if you tried multiple times in the past.
10:01 Each time, you've got a good chance of quitting.
10:04 And really, you've got to plan it,
10:05 because this is going to be long term.
10:07 There's no point in having stopped October
10:09 and then going back in November.
10:11 Dr. Julian Spinks, thank you.
10:12 We'll see you at the same time next week.
10:14 Thank you.
10:15 Now, a court has heard today how an 18-month-old baby
10:19 from Chatham, who was suspected to have been murdered
10:21 by his mother and her boyfriend, had 70 separate injuries
10:24 to his body.
10:26 Alfie Phillips died after spending a night
10:28 in a caravan in Favisham with Sian Hedges and Jack Benham
10:31 in November 2020.
10:33 The pair both deny murder and causing or allowing
10:36 the death of a child.
10:37 The prosecution opened its case this morning.
10:40 Alfie was taken to the QEQM in Margate,
10:42 pronounced dead at around 12.30 in November 2020.
10:47 Pathologists determined he had sustained 31 injuries
10:49 to his head and neck, 11 to his arms, 17 to his legs,
10:53 and 11 to his torso.
10:54 The trial continues.
10:55 We'll update you when we have more.
10:58 Now, flowers have been left at the scene of a fatal crash
11:00 in which an 18-year-old man died in broadstairs.
11:03 The driver of a black Ibiza Seat is reported
11:05 to have collided with a tree in Dunton Park Drive
11:09 near the junction with Bayview Road.
11:11 Police and paramedics attended the scene,
11:13 and the passenger was confirmed dead at the scene,
11:16 though, following the incident, which took place just after 3
11:18 AM.
11:19 The driver was taken to a local hospital
11:21 to be treated for his injuries.
11:23 Officers are carrying out inquiries
11:25 and are appealing for those with information to come forward.
11:28 They're also appealing for dash cam footage, too.
11:31 Well, it's time for us to take a break now.
11:32 But coming up, we'll have all of the latest sports
11:35 with Bartholomew Hall, as Holcombe Hockey
11:37 Club prepares for their first European campaign in five
11:40 years.
11:41 As well as that, our reporter Jamie Levy
11:43 has been along to Portland Zoo for World Animal Day.
11:45 I'll see you in a few minutes.
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15:09 Hello, and welcome back to Kent Tonight live on KMTV.
15:15 Now, hospitality businesses in Kent
15:17 are among millions across the UK who've
15:19 had to replace all single-use plastic and packaging
15:22 this month.
15:23 In 2020, the government banned the sale of single-use plastic.
15:27 But now, in further attempts to lower the UK's plastic
15:29 consumption, they've stopped businesses
15:31 from using it as well.
15:33 Now, this includes cutlery, polystyrene cups,
15:35 and plastic stirrers, to name a few.
15:37 Now, Amy Greenaway has been speaking
15:39 with a Maidstone fish and chip shop
15:41 to see how they're adapting to the change.
15:44 Lewis's Fish and Grill in Maidstone
15:47 is among many businesses in Kent which
15:49 has made changes to the way their restaurants are run.
15:52 This means swapping out plastic polystyrene cups and plates
15:56 for cardboard and other materials alike.
15:59 Although most customers do not seem to mind the new look,
16:02 for this chip shop here, it is proving costly.
16:06 As a business, it's been really expensive.
16:08 It is an extra cost, probably about 10 times as much,
16:14 actually, in terms of packaging.
16:16 It has been a bit of a challenge to find an alternative
16:19 to the polystyrene.
16:21 The new biopackaging is quite diverse,
16:25 and we need to make sure that it still does the job that we
16:28 want it to do.
16:30 Despite owners playing their part in reducing plastic
16:33 consumption, some in Kent think it's the government who
16:36 need to take more action and help fund small businesses.
16:39 But what do customers think?
16:41 I think they need to come up with an idea where
16:44 that it's at least as cost-effective as the existing
16:50 case as the new one.
16:52 Otherwise, I think businesses are going to find it difficult
16:55 to implement this type of thing.
16:57 I think it's a good thing because there's too much polystyrene
17:00 in the sea and getting used in the wrong ways.
17:04 So if we can recycle, it is definitely what we all need to do.
17:09 In response to the queries, Environment Minister Rebecca
17:11 Powell said in a statement,
17:13 "This new ban is the next big step in our mission to crack
17:15 down on harmful plastic waste.
17:17 It will protect the environment and help to cut litter,
17:20 stopping plastic pollution, dirtying our streets and
17:22 threatening our wildlife."
17:24 The government made the decision to ban the consumption
17:27 of single-use plastics for businesses.
17:29 The aim - to reduce the rising levels of plastic pollution.
17:33 Now, this means for many businesses like Lewis's Fish
17:36 and Chips here in Kent, they've had to resort to different
17:39 materials like cardboard.
17:41 There are many challenges with our climate crisis and
17:47 plastic pollution and the impact of plastic and the way
17:51 we manufacture and also use products and how we are in
17:55 our daily lives can all be improved.
17:58 So this is just one aspect where we can all do better.
18:02 And it's something that, yeah, we should be doing it anyway.
18:08 The ban of single-use plastics has caused a mixture of
18:11 opinion throughout the county.
18:13 But there seems to be hope as businesses continue to swap
18:17 out plastic, helping reduce the levels of plastic pollution.
18:21 Naomi Greenaway for KMTV.
18:24 Hundreds of pupils at Armagh Gates School have been
18:27 forced to work from home today due to a structural issue
18:30 that's deemed it unsafe.
18:31 It means that the new building at Heartstown Academy
18:34 isn't safe to use.
18:35 The school says they're working with the Department for
18:38 Education and a local building firm to rapidly resolve this.
18:41 They're hopeful the building will be open by Monday next week.
18:44 The school does remain open for years 10, 11, 12 and 13.
18:47 They'll be using the old building and sixth form block.
18:50 All other years will resume their normal timetable online
18:53 until this matter is resolved.
18:56 Now from Gillingham dropping down the order in League 2
18:58 to Holcombe Hockey Club preparing for the start of their
19:01 Euro Hockey League run, here's Bartholomew Hall
19:03 with today's sport.
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19:14 Thank you, Sophia.
19:15 First from me and Holcombe Hockey Club's men's first team
19:18 is set to begin their Euro Hockey League campaign this Friday
19:21 as they take on Racing Club de France in Barcelona.
19:25 It comes as here and at home, the Medway side,
19:27 are top of the EHL Premiership after winning three of their
19:30 four opening games this season.
19:32 It's the first time Holcombe have been in the European
19:34 competition since 2018 where they couldn't get past
19:37 the round of 16.
19:39 I spoke to midfielder and New Zealand international
19:41 Hayden Phillips to get his feelings going into the game.
19:45 We're going in, I'd say, quietly confident.
19:48 We've had quite a good build-up through our first four league games.
19:52 In our last two games we played Old Georgians and Serveton
19:55 who we played in the semi-final last year to make EHL
20:00 and then Old Georgians we played in the England Hockey final.
20:05 We've had a good little build-up so we're feeling confident.
20:08 Absolutely.
20:09 It seems like a big year ahead for the club as a whole really.
20:11 The women's side really wanting to push to get back into
20:14 the Premiership.
20:16 What's the sort of feeling amongst the club?
20:18 Am I right in saying it's quite a big year ahead?
20:21 Yeah, definitely.
20:22 Particularly for the, I'd say, the two first teams that I'm involved with.
20:26 Obviously for the men, EHL and the league, I guess the hopes of
20:31 going one better than what we did last year.
20:34 Then for the girls' side, obviously after a disappointing,
20:37 basically in that last game last year, disappointing to not stay up
20:41 in the league.
20:42 Now it's like we want to come back and get back up there.
20:45 So it is going to be massive.
20:49 You can watch my full interview with Hayden this Friday
20:53 on Invector Sport from 6pm.
20:55 Moving on to football, and Gillingham have announced that striker
20:58 Joag Bode has left the club on loan to Maidstone.
21:01 The 18-year-old has featured four times for the Gilles this season
21:04 following six appearances during the '22/'23 campaign.
21:08 It comes after Gillingham lost 2-0 away to Crewe on Tuesday evening.
21:12 Neil Harris' side has now fallen to eighth in League Two
21:16 after 11 games.
21:18 Here's Harris speaking after that game.
21:20 In some ways I feel hard done, boy, because first half we had
21:24 the best chances.
21:26 We have to take our chances.
21:28 We've had four or five really, really clear-cut, guilt-edged chances.
21:33 We haven't took them.
21:35 And then at the other end we give a really poor goal away
21:37 in the first half where we've just been bullied.
21:39 Just very conscious that's three away games now where I feel like
21:45 we've fallen short at times.
21:47 I think when we look back the chances created are certainly better
21:51 than theirs, but we've lost the game.
21:53 Now let's take a look at the other Tuesday night games
21:55 for our Kent sides.
21:57 Ebbs Fleet struggled in their meeting with Eastleigh at home
22:00 in the National League.
22:01 5-2 was the final score.
22:03 Darren McQueen put the fleet ahead, but Paul McCallum's hat-trick
22:06 helped the Spitfires get the better of their hosts.
22:09 Whilst last season's finalists, Itmian Premier Chatham Town
22:12 secured their place in Round Three of the Kent Senior Cup
22:15 by beating national south side Tunbridge 3-1.
22:18 Mirroring that Ebbs Fleet match, Tunbridge also got ahead
22:21 in the seventh minute thanks to Cody Lyons-Foster,
22:23 but goals from Ollie Hobden, James Yillar and Ashley Nazzala
22:26 put things ahead for the town.
22:28 And finally from me, veteran seam bowler Michael Hogan
22:31 has hung up his boots for a second time after returning
22:34 for a one-year reprisal with Kent County Cricket Club.
22:37 42-year-old Hogan first made the decision to retire from cricket
22:41 last winter when he left Glamorgan, but then U-turned
22:44 with a move to Canterbury in November.
22:46 The right-arm bowler made 22 appearances across both
22:49 first-class and T20 cricket for our county side
22:52 and was also part of Kent's coaching set-up for their
22:55 unsuccessful one-day cup title defence this summer.
22:58 In a post written to social media, Hogan said thank you
23:01 to the game of cricket and that it's taught him so much
23:04 about himself over the last 15 years.
23:06 Well, that's it from me with the sport for today.
23:18 Thank you, Bartholomew.
23:19 Well, let's now take a look at the weather for the coming days.
23:22 It's going to be a bit of a chilly evening tonight.
23:31 Highs of 12 degrees in Chatham, 13 on the east coast,
23:35 but it's going to be a bright and sunny morning tomorrow.
23:38 15 on the east coast, that sunshine is sticking around
23:41 until the afternoon as well.
23:43 Warming up to 18 degrees, so pretty warm all round.
23:46 And it looks like the sunshine is sticking around
23:49 throughout the weekend as well.
23:50 It's even going to be as hot as 26 degrees on Saturday.
23:53 And finally, animal conservationists across Kent
24:05 and the rest of the world are today celebrating World Animal Day.
24:09 Every 4th October, the International Day of Action
24:12 for Animal Rights and Welfare serves as a reminder.
24:15 We sent our reporter, Jamie Levy, down to Hyde
24:17 to meet some of those currently in conservation.
24:20 It's feeding time for these western lowland gorillas
24:26 here at Port Lim Hotel and Reserve.
24:29 But their natural habitats of the central West African tropical forests
24:33 are a long way from Hyde.
24:35 Like many other animals here at the reserve,
24:37 these species are critically endangered
24:39 and if left out in the wild, are at risk of going extinct.
24:42 On World Animal Day, the need for the conservation and protection
24:45 of animals like Rosie has never been more evident.
24:48 But it's not just here in Hyde that these efforts are taking place.
24:51 Port Lim works closely alongside the Aspinall Foundation,
24:58 an organisation which rescues, rewilds and protects animals
25:01 at risk of extinction.
25:03 They've recently celebrated the milestone of saving 1,000 animal lives
25:07 and currently have teams out in Africa.
25:09 A lot of the work that the Aspinall Foundation do
25:11 out in the field is relocations of problem animals,
25:15 relocations of animals that are not where they're supposed to be,
25:19 that kind of thing, so it could be elephants, jackals,
25:22 all that kind of stuff, as well as the work that we do
25:24 with gorillas and things like that.
25:26 So, yeah, some of these animals, if we didn't step in
25:29 or our partners, the Aspinall Foundation, didn't step in,
25:32 then these animals might not actually survive.
25:34 But the work which begins here ensures that the most critically
25:39 endangered species, like the gorillas, are given the best chance
25:42 of survival when they get back out in the wild.
25:44 Generally, it starts here, obviously, so obviously, you know,
25:47 from when they're born, when they're raised,
25:49 obviously we look after them, they do their thing at the same time.
25:52 Obviously, we then get them into crates, usually through training them,
25:55 and then once they're in the crates, they'll be shipped
25:58 over on a big cargo plane to Africa, and then from there,
26:01 they're released into smaller areas where they can be managed
26:03 and looked after.
26:07 Although it might be wild animal day today, work like this will continue
26:10 at the park every day in order to ensure that these species
26:13 can one day live back in the wild, free from the risk of extinction.
26:17 Jamie Levy for KMTV.
26:19 Well, we'll be hearing more from Jamie straight after the break
26:23 in Kent on Climate. He'll tell us a bit more about his day at Port Lym.
26:27 But for now, you've been watching Kent Tonight live on KMTV.
26:30 As I said, there's more news made just for Kent throughout the evening,
26:33 starting with Kent on Climate straight after this.
26:36 And we have all of our other shows on our website to take a look there,
26:39 but I will see you in just a few minutes' time.
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