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00:02 - Hello and welcome to Kentonite live on KMTV.
00:29 I'm Sophia Akin and here are your top stories
00:32 on Thursday the 21st of March.
00:34 An end to the unacceptable, troubled Rochester youth prison
00:38 set to be repurposed.
00:41 - And I'll be outside cooking wood with all the details.
00:44 - An ode to Medway.
00:46 Kent poet talks about importance of World Poetry Day
00:49 for hometown.
00:51 Hope for Holcomb.
00:53 Medway women's hockey team on the brink
00:55 of reaching the country's top flight.
00:59 - What we've been doing has really come together
01:01 and I just hope it continues.
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01:05 - First tonight, a Rochester youth prison
01:15 with conditions previously described as unacceptable
01:18 is set to be repurposed as an adult prison.
01:21 The Ministry of Justice says the change to cook and wood
01:24 will boost capacity and that young offenders
01:26 will be moved to other sites.
01:28 Last year, the chief inspector of prisons
01:30 issued an urgent notification to the government
01:33 after they discovered what was described
01:35 as the near total breakdown in behavior management.
01:38 Oliver Leedon-Sacks joins us live outside
01:40 cooking woods now with the latest.
01:43 So Oli, tell us what does this announcement
01:45 mean for cooking woods?
01:47 - Well, Sophia, the young offenders institute
01:51 just over my shoulder could soon not even be
01:54 a young offenders institute by as early
01:57 as the summer, it will cease to be
01:59 a young offenders institute, it will become an adult prison.
02:02 And that means the 77 young offenders,
02:04 some with very complex needs, some facing life in prison,
02:09 could be moved to other sites around the UK.
02:12 The prison is, these young offenders are still teenagers,
02:16 we have to remember that, age between 15 and 17.
02:20 And they have very complex needs,
02:22 so it's almost challenging and vulnerable
02:24 in the entire criminal justice system.
02:27 In England, that's why they're being moved
02:29 on a case by case basis in consultation
02:32 with their families and young offenders teams
02:35 to make sure they're getting the right support
02:36 wherever they go.
02:38 - So tell us, why is this all happening then?
02:40 - Well, so it was in April last year,
02:44 I'm sure you remember, where cooking woods
02:45 was given an urgent notification
02:47 by the prison inspectorate for what they say
02:50 were serious concerns around the treatment
02:54 of young offenders.
02:56 It was described as failing to provide
02:58 even adequate treatment for children at the prison.
03:01 Some of the population spending nearly 24 hours a day
03:05 in cells without any meaningful contact with the outside.
03:10 Described as inhumane by the independent monitoring board
03:14 for the prison, bordering on human rights abuse.
03:17 And the youth custody service,
03:19 they have been working towards an action plan
03:20 published last May, and it has improved education
03:23 and safety at the young offenders Institute.
03:26 But they say that it's clear that further improvements
03:29 needed cannot be delivered at the scale required
03:33 in an acceptable timeframe.
03:35 I mean, the prison youth justice minister,
03:37 Edward Argar has commented on this.
03:39 He has said that cooking woods is no longer serving
03:42 the needs of its young people,
03:45 and that the plans will allow them to get better support
03:48 and will help them turn their backs on crime.
03:51 So a lot to consider here,
03:54 lots of young offenders being moved around the country.
03:57 What it will mean for conditions
03:59 at the prison service behind me remains to be seen.
04:03 Well, Oliver, thank you for joining us with those details.
04:06 Two men have been arrested
04:09 after a fatal crash near Maidstone.
04:11 Kent police was called just after 3 a.m.
04:13 after a collision between a van
04:15 and a pedestrian in Chart Sutton.
04:18 A man in his thirties was pronounced dead at the scene
04:20 and his next of kin have been made aware.
04:22 A 26-year-old man and a 59-year-old man
04:25 have been arrested in connection with the incident.
04:27 The area between Brushing Road and Sutton Road
04:30 has been closed since.
04:31 Inquiries are ongoing and police urge anyone
04:33 with dash cam footage or CCTV to get in touch.
04:37 Some Maidstone residents fear their borough council
04:40 could become an urban sprawl,
04:42 their borough, sorry, could become an urban sprawl
04:44 as a new local plan is adapted.
04:46 Protestors gathered outside last night's
04:48 full council meeting opposing proposals
04:51 for a new garden settlement and 17,000 new homes.
04:54 But the council says they're now able to control
04:56 future developments in the area in a sustainable way.
05:00 Our local democracy reporter, Gabriel Morris,
05:02 joined me earlier with the details.
05:04 Gabriel, what's included in this local plan?
05:06 Well, Maidstone Borough Council has approved
05:09 its plan for local house building up until 2038.
05:13 And within that, there are plans for more than 17,000
05:17 new homes across the borough.
05:19 Now, one of those is a hamlet near Boxley,
05:21 that's on the border with Medway,
05:23 and that could see an urban expansion
05:25 containing 2,000 new homes.
05:29 Now, it was a two-hour debate last night,
05:32 but the plan was adopted with 31 votes in favour
05:35 and 21 votes against.
05:38 So how much opposition overall was there to this?
05:41 Well, you can see on the screen now,
05:43 there were protesters outside of the town hall last night.
05:48 And much of those were concerned about 5,000 new home
05:52 development, which is proposed for Lennon Heath.
05:55 This is a rural part of Kent.
05:58 Protesters say that is historic land
06:01 and is being ignored by the council,
06:03 but also worried what that might mean for cars, too.
06:06 Being fairly close to the M20, we know currently
06:09 at the moment, Operation Brock is in force,
06:11 which does divert traffic down some of the side A and B roads.
06:16 So they're worried about what congestion could mean
06:18 in the morning and evenings at rush hours.
06:21 Now, it wasn't just protesters.
06:23 Kent County Council's Head of Growth, Environment,
06:26 and Transport, Simon Jones, wrote to the council
06:29 yesterday, encouraging them not to adopt the local plan.
06:34 In the letter, he cited the need for new schools
06:36 and the impact of the scale of the development on school
06:39 places and road networks.
06:41 At the full council meeting, there were two attempts
06:44 to amend the proposals, both to extend the date when
06:47 the plan is adopted to address the concerns we just
06:49 heard from there from Kent County Council,
06:51 but they were ultimately overturned.
06:53 So why do councils need to have a local plan?
06:56 When authorities don't have an in-date local plan
06:58 or can't show that they have enough land earmarked
07:01 for housing for five years, they have
07:03 to presume in favour of sustainable development.
07:06 In practice, that means the council
07:08 has to accept developments in places which, well, it could
07:11 actually rather refuse, as they don't have a local plan
07:13 to govern when houses are put.
07:16 Now, a document circulated at the meeting last night
07:18 found that there are a roundabout houses
07:20 for less than four years.
07:22 Now, local plans can also offer--
07:24 can often be controversial.
07:25 And this was addressed last night by the council leader,
07:28 Councillor John Burton from the Conservative Party,
07:31 who said to members, there are some people that really just
07:33 don't want this plan.
07:35 But he says you cannot change it now.
07:36 It's locked by the inspector.
07:38 It's take it or leave it.
07:41 Now, a main road in a Dartford village
07:43 is shut after fly-tippers targeted it for the third time
07:46 in just six weeks.
07:47 School lane in Horton Kirby has been blocked by branches,
07:50 rubbish, and plastic.
07:52 It could be shut for a week while Kent County Council
07:54 investigates and clean up the main route in and out
07:57 of the village.
07:58 It's set to be opening at 7pm on the 26th of March.
08:01 No diversion routes have been put in place,
08:03 but the council says every effort
08:05 will be made to maintain access for residents
08:07 whenever it's safe to do so.
08:09 As I said, it's not the first time
08:10 large amounts of roof tiles and dirt
08:12 were left in the middle of the road in February.
08:16 Now, World Poetry Day is something I love above all,
08:19 a day where we celebrate poets big and small.
08:22 And to tell us more and inspire shock and awe,
08:25 we're joined by Barry Fentiman-Hull.
08:27 We'll leave the poetry to the professionals.
08:30 That was a very bad attempt of poetry from us.
08:33 You're here to tell us about your actual poetry.
08:35 You're a poet living in Medway, aren't you?
08:38 So firstly, let's talk a little bit
08:39 about what got you into poetry.
08:41 - I started writing when I was a teenager,
08:44 but there really wasn't any outlets.
08:47 At the age that I was in Yorkshire in those days,
08:51 there were not the open mics, there were not the slams.
08:53 Those things did not exist for me.
08:55 So I kind of drifted away from it.
08:56 And I only really came back to it
08:59 when I moved to Medway about 12 years ago.
09:02 And we started back on that road
09:05 by sort of hooking up with my partner in life
09:08 and in art, Sam Hall.
09:12 We now run Wordsmithry,
09:13 which puts on the local literature festival,
09:15 Medway River Lit, which we started properly last year.
09:18 And we'll be back again in November.
09:20 - Do you feel like it's a lost art at all, poetry?
09:22 Are there fewer people writing poetry these days?
09:25 - There are said to be.
09:26 And these are just one of those figures
09:28 that I've seen on the internet.
09:29 So hey-ho.
09:30 There are said to be 50,000 writers of poetry
09:33 in Britain at the moment.
09:34 - Sounds like a lot.
09:35 - Yeah, it is.
09:36 It is.
09:37 And, you know, there are,
09:39 it is a vibrant thing.
09:41 I mean, what I think about poetry
09:43 is that it can encapsulate a moment so quickly
09:47 and get it on a page
09:48 and get it out in front of people so fast.
09:51 Vanessa Kisiel, who we brought to Welcome to Cloisterham,
09:54 which is the thing we did a couple of years ago,
09:56 she wrote a poem about the toppling
09:58 of the Colston statue in Bristol.
10:00 And in no time at all,
10:02 she had something out that was a brilliant poem
10:04 that was called "Hollow,"
10:05 which was seen, I think,
10:07 something like 650,000 times on YouTube in two days,
10:10 which is, that's a listenership and a readership
10:14 that I can only dream of.
10:15 - Well, you write a lot about Kent, don't you?
10:17 - I do, I do.
10:17 - You've written "Medway," "Maidstone," "Sittingbourne."
10:19 So tell us about some of the things
10:21 that inspire you in our county.
10:23 - The river as much as anything.
10:26 I went back to try and find the source of it.
10:28 I mean, it's been found.
10:29 I mean, it's not like I was an explorer or anything.
10:31 You know, there's maps and stuff.
10:33 But yeah, I'm in the middle of writing a long book
10:36 about it called "Meanderthal,"
10:38 which is about my sort of journey to here
10:41 and along the river.
10:42 There's a lot of history to it as well.
10:43 And there's an awful lot of poetic history in "Medway."
10:47 Billy Childish, Bill Lewis, and all of that
10:49 back in the '80s and '90s, and they're still going.
10:52 They're still out there.
10:52 - It's almost time for our break,
10:54 but we've just about got time
10:55 to hear one of your poems.
10:56 You're going to read us, aren't you?
10:58 - Okey-dokey, that I am.
10:59 - Here we go.
11:00 - This is called "England Forgets."
11:01 It was written about the experience
11:04 of being at a festival called the Vicar's Picnic,
11:07 which was at Yalding.
11:08 It's called "England Forgets."
11:09 - Go for it.
11:10 - "England forgets and lets loose
11:12 "on scuffed golden fields of wilton weeds.
11:14 "It bears its back and shows its best side to the sky.
11:18 "Pleading the beams to fall a little longer,
11:20 "missed by rain for long months.
11:22 "We get high on heat,
11:24 "and we love each other with an honesty
11:25 "that cannot be bottled and kept
11:27 "for when the clouds return.
11:29 "We are knocking back the now,
11:31 "a song we know is the breath of trees.
11:32 "We take it way back and laugh at anything.
11:35 "Not embarrassed to embrace,
11:36 "we part slow 'til only fingers tip and let go.
11:40 "Walking like myths on familiar streets at midnight,
11:43 "that smell of honeysuckle or some such.
11:46 "Longing out the high, we glow still for a while
11:49 "until the heat leaves us and life goes on
11:52 "as England remembers itself with half a smile."
11:55 - It's time for our break now,
11:56 but beautiful poem.
11:57 Thank you so much.
11:58 I'll see you after this break.
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15:06 - Hello and welcome back to Kentonite live on KMTV.
15:16 Now in sports, Holcombe Hockey Club,
15:18 women's first team are one win away from securing promotion
15:22 back to the top flight of English hockey
15:24 at the first time of asking.
15:26 It comes a season after Nick Banderak's side
15:29 were relegated from the women's Premier Division
15:31 to the Division One South League.
15:33 Meanwhile, with less than a dozen games to go this season,
15:36 the Medway Club's men's team are hoping for a return
15:38 to European hockey next season as Bartholomew Hall reports.
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15:46 - Holcombe Hockey Club's women's team were relegated
15:59 at the back end of the 22-23 season,
16:02 setting up what has been a huge fight
16:04 to return to the premiership this year.
16:06 Tonight, it's back to training for these ladies
16:09 with just one game to go
16:10 and a win providing the end to that goal.
16:13 Currently, the Medway side sits second
16:16 in the Division One South,
16:17 meaning a win worth three points or a draw worth one
16:21 would be enough for Holcombe
16:22 in their final league game of the season,
16:24 as long as third place Barnes stay in third.
16:28 The promotion decider comes just a week
16:30 after the Medway team found themselves
16:32 two points clear of Barnes
16:34 after beating their promotion rivals three to two at home
16:37 with a last minute winner.
16:38 - Especially in the game we've just played,
16:40 I felt like everything we've been working on in training
16:43 has really come together.
16:44 And that was the first time I went,
16:45 like, this is where it's happening.
16:47 This is where what we've been doing
16:49 has really come together.
16:50 And I just hope it continues through to this weekend.
16:53 - Scoring the final penalty with a smooth drag flick
16:56 was New Zealand international Phoebe Steele,
16:58 who knows the weight of their next win
17:00 isn't lost on anyone.
17:02 - At times we've got a bit focused on that outcome
17:04 and lost ourselves a little bit in the way we played.
17:07 So I guess we've had to, like, go back to basics,
17:11 focus on each game as it comes.
17:13 And then, yeah, it's always in the back of our mind,
17:15 but right now we're not thinking about that.
17:17 We just want to get a win on the weekend.
17:18 Last weekend was our semifinal, lucky to win that.
17:21 And then the big final this weekend.
17:23 So personally, that's heaps of motivation.
17:25 Really, really looking forward to it.
17:27 - Their opponents this weekend is relegation-threatened
17:30 Wimbledon 2s.
17:31 They sit in eighth in the table.
17:33 Holcombe beat them by a staunch 5-1 before Christmas.
17:37 But head coach and Team GB player Nick Banderak
17:40 doesn't think this makes their opponents
17:42 any less of a threat.
17:43 - They are still a very tough opponent.
17:45 It was very difficult going over to their place
17:47 before Christmas.
17:48 And then again, when they came here in the Cup
17:49 shortly afterwards, it was two very tough games.
17:52 They're ultimately fighting for survival,
17:54 and that makes them a very, very dangerous opponent
17:57 on the day.
17:57 So it's definitely not something that we're
17:59 going to take lightly.
18:00 We're not in a position to be able to afford to do that.
18:02 So yeah, it's very much a case of last few weeks
18:05 have shown what the girls are capable of,
18:07 and it's very much a case of do the same again.
18:10 - With free entry at Holcombe Park this Saturday,
18:13 all that's left to do now is urge fans
18:15 to join the club in cheering on for the final push
18:18 for promotion.
18:19 - Yeah, hopefully it'll be busy again.
18:21 Hopefully people, you know, we encourage people
18:22 to make lots of noise, come down, cheer on,
18:24 cheer on the girls, and make it an atmosphere
18:27 that VOA team doesn't particularly enjoy playing in.
18:30 - Bartholomew Hall for KMTV in Medway.
18:33 - Now, don't forget, you can keep up to date
18:35 with all your latest stories across Kent
18:37 by logging on to our website, kmtv.co.uk.
18:40 There you'll find all of our reports,
18:42 including this one about new government funding
18:44 aimed at tackling hate across the country.
18:47 I spoke to a mosque in Medway about it.
18:50 A place for worship and peace.
18:53 Not somewhere you'd expect hatred or abuse.
18:57 But religious communities across Kent
18:59 have seen a rise in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
19:02 Following concerns, the Israel-Hamas conflict
19:05 is fueling this division.
19:07 Today, the government has announced
19:08 £117 million will be invested into tackling hate crime
19:13 towards the Muslim community over the next four years.
19:17 But some fear this won't go far enough.
19:20 - This scheme has been up and running since, I believe, 2022.
19:24 And we applied for it in 2023 in July.
19:28 And the application was completed,
19:30 and we haven't received anything yet.
19:33 The way the narrative began with the prime minister
19:36 associating peace protests with extremisms.
19:40 He didn't say the peace protesters were extremists,
19:43 but he related it to that a bit
19:45 in a way that he should not have.
19:47 It follows the prime minister's announcement last month
19:50 of a similar package for Jewish communities,
19:52 totalling £70 million over the next four years.
19:55 - Religious buildings across the UK
19:57 will now have an increase in safety measures like CCTV.
20:01 And here at Chatham Memorial Synagogue,
20:03 they've been using CCTV for several months
20:06 after they were subjected to multiple incidents of hate crime.
20:09 On Holocaust Memorial Day,
20:11 the synagogue was victim to two anti-Semitic symbols
20:15 being spray-painted on the building.
20:17 As a result, they've ramped up their CCTV,
20:20 which seems to have helped.
20:21 - I'm delighted to know that other places of worship
20:25 are receiving that kind of funding too.
20:28 We are very active here with the interfaith community,
20:32 and we have very close ties with our friends
20:35 within different Muslim communities particularly.
20:39 And so, you know, unfortunately,
20:42 as we see currently the rise in anti-Semitism in this country,
20:46 so do we see the rise of Islamophobia,
20:49 and both are completely abhorrent to us.
20:52 So anything that helps with that security,
20:54 obviously we're delighted.
20:56 - Security Minister and MP for Tunbridge and Moorling,
20:58 Tom Tugendhat, has today spoken out
21:01 to say the government stands firmly against hate crimes,
21:04 abuse, threats or harassment against British Muslims.
21:08 And the Home Secretary says anti-Muslim hatred
21:11 has absolutely no place in our society.
21:14 While religious communities across Kent
21:16 welcome the funding announced today,
21:18 they fear more needs to be done
21:20 in stopping hate crime completely.
21:23 Sophia Akin for KMTV in Medway.
21:27 Time now to take a look at the weather forecast.
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21:35 Well, looks like it's going to be dry but cloudy this evening.
21:38 Highs of 10 in Chatham, 8 degrees in Tunbridge Wells.
21:41 And tomorrow's going to be another wet and drizzly one,
21:44 I'm afraid, 10 degrees in Folkestone,
21:46 and slightly windy too, actually.
21:48 Some sunshine creeping through the clouds
21:50 throughout the afternoon in Chatham and in Maidstone,
21:54 but some rain for the rest of the county.
21:56 And here's the outlook for the rest of the week.
21:58 It's going to be a bit of a wet Saturday,
22:00 but some sunshine on Sunday.
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22:10 And finally, right after Kent Tonight,
22:12 we have a brand new episode of Kent Film Club.
22:15 Here to give us an idea of what's to come
22:16 is the show's presenter, Chris Deasy.
22:19 Chris, thank you for joining us.
22:20 Before we find out what's to come tonight,
22:22 what have you been watching recently?
22:23 Anything good out in the cinema
22:25 or any old classics you've been returning to?
22:27 Oh, it's funny you say that
22:28 because I saw Fight Club on Sunday evening.
22:30 It's really funny because it was a film
22:32 that was so apt for the time when it came out,
22:35 just before the millennium.
22:37 I'm not sure it's dated all that well.
22:38 It's funny really because it seemed to represent
22:40 a certain angst, very masculine angst.
22:42 I think in the light of Me Too,
22:44 I think I saw it through a very different sort of lens.
22:45 It was good to watch it on the big screen
22:47 with quite a big audience.
22:48 So I saw it in 1999 and then watched it again 25 years later.
22:51 Did you feel any differently about it?
22:53 Well, I guess you did, yeah, if you think it's not really...
22:54 I did. When I first saw it,
22:55 I saw all these great sort of religious themes in there.
22:57 I think I saw it through the lens of gender
22:59 in a way that perhaps at the time I wouldn't have done.
23:02 But that was really good to see.
23:03 I saw a brilliant film with Cate Blanchett
23:05 playing a very eccentric nun in the Australian outback
23:08 in the 1940s called The New Boy
23:11 about the relationship between Christian mission
23:14 and Aboriginal origins.
23:17 And it was a very fascinating culture clash drama.
23:20 And that was on Monday
23:21 and that's showing at the Curzon in Canterbury.
23:23 Brilliant. Right.
23:24 And I've got to talk to you about this.
23:26 A new film, Margot Robbie is set to produce
23:29 called The Sims based on, if you didn't guess,
23:31 the game that we probably all know,
23:33 the computer game The Sims.
23:35 What do you make of that?
23:36 Kind of maybe a similar concept to Barbie
23:38 with these like fake people that potentially have feelings.
23:42 Well, I was thinking this
23:43 because the third biggest box office hit last year
23:46 was actually Super Mario Brothers.
23:47 So sometimes when you have these films
23:49 that are based on video games,
23:51 they can work obviously for a more family-based audience.
23:54 So I think, you know, capitalising on the huge success
23:57 of Barbie last year,
23:58 then I think it's probably a really good strategic move.
24:01 Do you think it will resonate with people like Barbie did?
24:04 Because Barbie impacted so many people
24:06 who really resonated with how Barbie felt.
24:09 Well, the big irony, of course, last year
24:11 is that Barbie resonated as much as it did
24:13 because it had the counterpoint
24:14 of a completely different film, Oppenheimer,
24:16 which of course went on to win all the big Oscars
24:18 just a couple of weeks ago.
24:19 So I actually think it depends what they put it out with.
24:24 So what's out around the same kind of time?
24:25 What sort of choice is offered to viewers?
24:27 Yeah, it'll be interesting to see.
24:30 And how well do films that are typically, say,
24:32 inspired by games or these things that we've grown up with,
24:36 how well do they typically seem to do?
24:38 Because I guess they've got big expectations to meet
24:40 if people love these games or Barbie, for example.
24:45 Are they usually any good?
24:46 Well, they sometimes have to reboot them
24:47 because I remember the two different versions of Lara Croft,
24:50 the one that came out in 2001.
24:52 I've never played that, you know, Tomb Raider.
24:54 And then they did a much better version
24:56 about five or six years ago.
24:57 So sometimes it can work.
24:59 Maybe I'm not the right demographic for that,
25:01 but the fact that Super Mario Bros. did so well
25:03 in all the formats, you know, including in 4DX,
25:06 when actually the seats are moving
25:08 in conjunction with what's going on on the screen,
25:10 then I think it actually is probably going to be
25:12 a really smart decision on the part of Margaret Ruby.
25:15 Yeah, and now that we're creeping into spring,
25:17 I think we're officially in spring now,
25:19 do you know what sort of other films are going to be
25:21 out in the cinema that people might want to be watching
25:23 over the Easter holidays or anything like that?
25:25 Well, the new Ghostbusters film comes out tomorrow,
25:28 so I think that's probably the most exciting one.
25:30 Sounds good.
25:32 Yeah, Mother's Boys as well.
25:33 There's quite a lot actually out at the moment,
25:35 including a range of genres,
25:36 because I was looking into this, some of the really big films.
25:39 You know, horror, actually, there's a lot of horror in the cinema,
25:42 but the biggest genre is actually action.
25:45 I mean, comedy does quite well.
25:46 Animation, not surprisingly, is also really sort of high up there.
25:50 Thrill is a bit further down the list.
25:53 And just quickly, what's coming up on Film Club tonight?
25:55 Oh, so we have Jack Parsons, who's a screenwriting student.
25:58 Some brilliant films, one of them is the original David Lean version
26:01 of Oliver Twist.
26:02 Very exciting.
26:02 Chris, thanks for talking to us as always.
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