Kent Tonight - Wednesday 16th August 2023
Catch up on the latest news from across the county with Abby Hook.
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00:02 - Good evening and welcome to Kent Tonight live on KMTV.
00:28 I'm Abbey Hook, here are your top stories
00:30 on Wednesday the 16th of August.
00:32 A winning goal, Kent cheers on,
00:36 made stone striker as England through
00:38 to the World Cup final.
00:40 - I spoke to her at that early age
00:42 and Mariano and I thought,
00:43 I'm gonna see, you know, she's gonna go all the way
00:45 and play for England at some point.
00:47 - An NHS booster, extra beds for Dartford and Medway,
00:51 but funding for COVID vaccines reduced.
00:55 And planting the seed.
00:57 Canterbury community garden patch boosting wellbeing.
01:01 - Watching the students that access this space,
01:05 really put their phones down, switch off,
01:08 slow down and have to wait for something to grow.
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01:14 - But first tonight, England's Lionesses have made it
01:23 through to the World Cup final
01:26 with Maidstone's Alessia Russo scoring their final goal.
01:29 In today's semi-finals against Australia,
01:31 England won 3-1 with Russo's final strike
01:34 cementing their position in the final
01:37 against Spain on this weekend.
01:39 Well, Sophia Aiken is down at Birsted FC's club
01:42 in Maidstone.
01:43 Sophia, an exciting day up and down the country,
01:46 but for us here in Kent in particular, watching Russo.
01:49 - Oh, what an absolutely incredible game it was today, Abbey.
01:53 It was so amazing to see us win 3-1 against Australia.
01:57 Now this means that we're going through to the final
01:59 of the World Cup for the first time since 1966.
02:02 We're making history.
02:04 Now, as you know, we couldn't take our eyes off of it
02:06 at work.
02:07 We were just barely getting any work done
02:08 'cause we couldn't stop watching it.
02:10 But particularly Maidstone's Alessia Russo
02:12 who scored the third goal within the last 10 minutes.
02:15 Absolutely incredible.
02:16 Now it all started for Russo here at Birsted FC
02:19 where she used to play for the under 10s girls team.
02:22 And she used to wear this kit.
02:23 This was their original kit that she used to wear.
02:26 She'll be able to see some of the girls there
02:27 playing at the minute who currently play for Birsted FC.
02:30 We're going to be speaking to them
02:31 in just a few minutes time.
02:32 But for now, let's take a look back
02:34 at the Lionesses' success today.
02:36 (girls cheering)
02:39 The Lionesses have taken over the summer again.
02:46 And at Chatham Football Club,
02:47 supporters were out in their numbers
02:49 as they cheered on Kent's born Alessia Russo.
02:52 He made the winning strike versus Australia.
02:55 But how are the England fans feeling
02:57 ahead of their World Cup semi-final match
03:00 against Australia?
03:01 I think it's going to be 2-1
03:03 with Chloe Kelly and Bruce O'Scoring for England.
03:07 And probably like Sam O'Scoring for Australia.
03:10 I think it's going to be 2-1.
03:12 Who do you think's going to win?
03:13 Who do you think's going to score?
03:14 Bruce O'Scoring for Stanway.
03:17 And?
03:18 Lauren Hemp and...
03:20 Who do you think's going to score the next goal?
03:22 Bruce O!
03:23 Bruce O!
03:24 Bruce O!
03:25 However, behind the chatting and chanting,
03:27 the Lionesses are influencing women all across the country
03:31 and paving the way for the football stars of the future.
03:34 To see women getting involved as fans, players, officials,
03:39 it's just really brilliant.
03:42 To see little girls get excited,
03:45 because back when we were children, that wasn't okay.
03:47 So to now see little girls excited
03:49 is the best feeling, it's incredible.
03:52 There was no girls teams when I was growing up.
03:55 And it's really, really important for the girls to see
03:57 everyone coming together to watch the Lionesses.
04:00 And it's now all in the pubs and everybody's celebrating.
04:03 And it's really important for them to see
04:05 the Lionesses being celebrated on such a massive stage
04:08 and everyone getting involved.
04:10 It's brilliant.
04:11 Though in the end, goals from Ella Toon, Lauren Hemp
04:15 and Alessia Russo have sent England
04:18 to their first World Cup final since 1966
04:22 and have left these fans dreaming.
04:25 It feels amazing, because that bit is what you call
04:28 true teamwork and determination.
04:32 They just all played amazing.
04:34 I don't know, I think it might be a tough one,
04:36 but they're in the finals, they might even win.
04:38 It's good.
04:40 It's a good, tough game, let's hope we win.
04:42 Sophia Akin for KMTV in Chatham.
04:47 Now, all eyes turn to Sunday when the final is
04:50 and we will be playing Spain.
04:51 So exciting.
04:52 So earlier on, we caught up with Alessia Russo's former coach
04:56 when she used to play here at Birsted FC.
04:58 And he said he always knew that she would make it big.
05:02 She was always, always good.
05:05 And I spoke to her at that early age.
05:08 Mario, my father, has said she's going to go all the way
05:11 and play for England at some point.
05:13 She did it earlier than I thought she would.
05:15 But yeah, she's always had that potential.
05:18 And it's just her determination, the commitment
05:22 she's showed all the way through.
05:24 Well, some very excited fans that we heard from earlier
05:30 today, but some even more excited fans who couldn't take
05:32 their eyes off the match, but also some players who
05:35 currently play for Birsted FC in their brand new kit.
05:38 So girls, what did you think when you were watching
05:40 the game today?
05:40 Such an exciting one, wasn't it?
05:41 It was amazing, really inspirational.
05:44 Three goals, and we conceded one.
05:46 But we had to top it off with two more.
05:48 And it got more and more exciting as it went on,
05:50 didn't it?
05:51 Yeah, definitely, especially those last two goals.
05:54 Everyone out of their seats cheering.
05:57 You must have been so proud of Alessia Russo.
05:59 She started here where you girls are currently playing.
06:02 You must have been so proud of her
06:03 getting that third and final goal.
06:04 Yeah, so proud of her.
06:07 Yeah, she's so inspirational.
06:10 I love what she does.
06:11 What got you girls into football in the first place then?
06:14 My grandad was a football coach, and he coached my uncles.
06:19 And then after he passed away, I just
06:21 thought I want to carry on in his footsteps
06:23 and try and make it professional.
06:25 Amazing, and what about you guys?
06:26 Was it the same for you?
06:27 What got you into football?
06:29 I started primary as a hobby, and then it kind of
06:32 became a thing that I like to do weekly,
06:34 and then I started playing for a team.
06:37 Amazing.
06:37 Now, we've got this game on Sunday.
06:40 What are we expecting?
06:41 We'll ask our predictions in just a bit,
06:42 but what are we expecting?
06:43 Are we going to see more from Alessia Russo?
06:45 Yeah, definitely.
06:46 I think she is going to score another amazing goal
06:50 like she did today.
06:51 It's so great seeing more girls getting into football
06:53 as well, isn't it?
06:54 It must be inspirational.
06:55 Where do you hope your future goes?
06:56 I hope mine's playing professionally in the World Cup
06:59 one day.
07:00 I want to play professionally as well.
07:03 Just hope for it, yeah.
07:05 Exactly the same as the other two.
07:06 I'd love to get into Chelsea as well.
07:08 Brilliant, thank you so much, girls.
07:10 We're also joined now with Stephen Sage,
07:12 one of the assistant managers here at Bearstead FC.
07:16 Now, an exciting game, wasn't it?
07:17 What did you think today?
07:19 Yeah, really tight contest as we expected it to be.
07:22 Obviously, Sam Kerr had a good chance,
07:25 just narrowly went past post, and yeah,
07:28 popped our local hero to obviously seal the game
07:31 and obviously for England to win.
07:33 So incredible.
07:34 We expected nothing less from Alessia Russo.
07:36 Now, this club, Bearstead FC, where it all began for her,
07:39 this has been open since the 1800s, hasn't it?
07:41 So what an incredible history that this club is leaving behind.
07:44 Yeah, the club was founded in 1895,
07:47 obviously playing on the green,
07:49 obviously then since moved up to Wattham
07:51 in the last 35 years or so.
07:53 And the club's gone from strength to strength.
07:55 Currently have 33 youth teams at the club,
08:00 and then obviously an under 23s,
08:02 and then obviously the men's team,
08:04 which are a semi-professional side.
08:06 Now, why are independent clubs like this
08:08 so vital for the community?
08:10 Why is this good for giving people platforms
08:12 and getting people into sport more generally?
08:14 Yeah, definitely.
08:15 As a PE teacher, the club's renowned in the local area.
08:19 Obviously, one, for its size,
08:21 but then obviously with the clear pathway that we have.
08:23 And obviously, you've got the girls
08:24 that you've already interviewed,
08:25 and obviously the pathway to the elite
08:27 at the top level with Alessia.
08:30 But we start the club all the way down to under threes.
08:34 We have a development club on a Saturday morning
08:36 for three to six-year-olds.
08:38 That's for them to introduce them into the game,
08:41 basic skills and fundamental movements,
08:43 and then obviously to hopefully progress
08:45 into our youth set up to hopefully one day
08:47 play out on the pitch behind us.
08:49 - So amazing.
08:50 And this World Cup in particular,
08:51 we're seeing more and more people getting into women's sport,
08:53 which is amazing, as it should be.
08:55 That must be good as well,
08:56 to have sort of more exposure for the sport.
08:59 - Yeah, as I say, the lionesses and women's sport in general
09:03 from the cricket and everything like that,
09:05 they've really put women's sport on the map.
09:08 And we're reaping the benefits of it, really.
09:11 We've got more and more girls that are interested
09:12 in playing for the club and playing the sport.
09:15 And that's from down to the development club
09:18 that I said on the Saturday morning,
09:19 through to the girls that we've obviously got here
09:22 at under 14s.
09:24 - Perfect.
09:25 Now, Sunday, big match,
09:26 biggest game yet, the lionesses.
09:29 What's your match prediction?
09:31 - I think it'll be very close,
09:33 but I'm going to say 2-1 England with Russo scoring the winner.
09:36 - Perfect.
09:37 Well, we've got to ask the girls as well.
09:38 Match predictions?
09:39 - 1-0 Russo.
09:41 - 2-1 to England.
09:43 - 2-0 to England.
09:44 - Well, I'm thinking it's going to be a hat trick for Russo.
09:47 Very exciting.
09:48 As I said, it's versus Spain this Sunday.
09:51 So we'll have a look.
09:52 I've got to ask you as well, Abi,
09:53 what do you think the match prediction's going to be?
09:55 - I thought you might ask that, Soph.
09:56 I was thinking the same.
09:57 I must agree.
09:58 2-0 to England for two Kent girls, hopefully.
10:02 Two goals by Russo there.
10:04 Thank you very much, Sophia,
10:05 for joining us live this evening.
10:07 Great game, great report.
10:08 Thank you.
10:09 - Now, in some other stories making the headlines today,
10:15 an inquest has opened into the deaths
10:17 of two young Tunbridge friends
10:18 who died in a crash on the A20.
10:23 Alfie Green and Jake Green both died
10:25 at the scene of the accident.
10:26 Coroner Alan Blunson read evidence today
10:29 that the van Jake was driving lost control
10:31 and crossed the carriageway.
10:33 There, they collided with another van,
10:34 sustaining fatal injuries.
10:36 The inquest has been adjourned until next March.
10:39 Next, a Greenheight community have been left in shock
10:43 after three men tried to break into a home.
10:46 Captured on video doorbell,
10:48 the men seemed unfazed by the camera.
10:51 The homeowner believes an Audi parked on her drive
10:53 was the cause of the attempted break-in.
10:55 Lisa Ayres says the men woke her up
10:57 and once she pulled the curtain, they fled.
11:01 And now, Margate's Valentine's Day mascara
11:04 has finally been valued.
11:06 The artwork portrays an abused 1950s housewife
11:10 pushing a man into a fridge freezer.
11:12 Controversy came when Thanet District Council
11:14 removed part of the display for safety reasons.
11:17 The artwork now on display at Dreamland
11:19 will be sold with 27,000 shares available to buy
11:22 and its total value an eye-watering six million pounds.
11:28 Well, it's now time for a very short break,
11:30 but coming up, we find out how two hospitals in Kent
11:34 are set to benefit from government funding
11:36 in a bid to ease NHS winter pressure.
11:39 I'll be joined by our reporter Gabriel Morris
11:41 and KMTV's resident health expert, Dr. Julian Spinks,
11:44 to discuss this in more detail.
11:46 See you in a few minutes.
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15:11 - Hello and welcome back to Kent Tonight live on KMTV.
15:15 Two hospitals in Kent are set to receive
15:17 a six million pound bid to relieve winter pressure
15:21 and cut waiting lists.
15:22 Darren Valley Hospital and Medway Maritime Hospital
15:25 have both benefited from a government boost.
15:28 But although they might be a boost in numbers,
15:31 some Kent GPs are concerned over COVID booster funding cuts.
15:34 Well, with more on this funding,
15:35 our reporter Gabriel Morris joins me in the studio
15:37 and KMTV's health expert, Dr. Julian Spinks as well.
15:41 Gabriel, can you just give us some background information
15:44 on this developing story?
15:45 - Yeah, so the government has announced
15:47 a six million pound funding
15:50 to come to two of Kent's hospitals,
15:51 as you both said there, Medway Maritime,
15:53 alongside the Darren Valley over in Dartford.
15:56 Now, if you've been to a hospital anytime recently,
15:59 I've spoken to people on the streets,
16:00 I've spoke to junior doctors,
16:02 they'll both tell you that the NHS is under pressure
16:05 and there are long waiting times.
16:07 And this is a part of a bid to ease that.
16:09 So it's part of a 250 million pound pot from the government
16:13 and that is going to create some extra beds in the ward.
16:16 So at Dartford, we are gonna see 15 additional beds
16:19 and in Medway, 32.
16:22 Now, this does come alongside a time
16:25 where we've seen GPs today saying
16:27 that they are worried over a funding cut coming to vaccines.
16:31 The fee for NHS England is paying to surgeries and pharmacies
16:34 to deliver vaccines has been reduced from £10,
16:37 06p in 2022 to £7, 54 this year.
16:42 Julian, what will this funding cut mean for GPs?
16:45 We heard what Gabriel was saying there about the funding.
16:48 What will it look like for GPs like yourself?
16:50 Well, that money is to provide the entire vaccine service.
16:53 It doesn't have to pay for the vaccine, but everything else.
16:56 So actually running the system, storing the vaccines,
16:58 the staff for giving it and so on.
17:00 And it was pretty tight, even at £10.
17:03 And what's happening is practices
17:05 and primary care networks are looking at that
17:07 and saying for some of them,
17:09 it'll actually mean that they lose money.
17:11 They'll end up paying for the privilege of vaccinating people.
17:14 As a result, they're saying they can't provide it.
17:17 And that means we may have gaps in the county
17:20 where it's gonna be more difficult to provide that service.
17:22 And this all looks to the winter.
17:24 I mean, we're in summer now, sun's finally come out,
17:27 but winter's just around the corner.
17:29 Are you worried that there'll be more pressure
17:31 on the NHS come winter?
17:33 Absolutely, it's good news we're getting money
17:35 coming into the hospitals,
17:36 but that's for people who go into hospital.
17:38 What we want to do is prevent them going in in the first place
17:41 and things like flu and COVID vaccination
17:43 is a really key way of preventing that happening.
17:45 Well, thank you, Julian, for giving us the detail on that.
17:49 Gabriel, I wanted to bring in now Junior Doctors' Strike,
17:52 something that we've heard time and time again.
17:54 Well, their strike action finished this week.
17:56 It was a four-day-long strike action.
17:58 Still no word from the government.
18:00 They're calling for a 35% pay rise.
18:03 They were offered 6% as part of a final offer,
18:07 plus a bonus fee.
18:08 They've turned that down.
18:09 As they said, they've faced many years of real-term cuts.
18:12 We haven't heard from them.
18:13 They will be the first to say that NHSs are under pressure.
18:17 What they'll make of this, I'm not 100% sure.
18:19 And Julian, very, very quickly, will this add more pressure?
18:22 Will it keep adding pressure very quickly?
18:24 It will.
18:25 We're in a really difficult situation this year.
18:27 Well, thank you, Julian, for your input on that
18:29 and Gabriel for bringing us more details.
18:32 Next tonight, thousands of students in Kent
18:35 are nervously awaiting A-level results and GCSEs just next week.
18:40 But the Social Mobility Foundation says children from poorer families
18:43 will receive lower grades,
18:45 with the grading before the pandemic being reintroduced too soon, some say.
18:49 Well, I spoke to one GCSE teacher at the Howard School in Medway
18:52 who says some of her students just don't know the basics.
18:56 Children from lower-income backgrounds are less likely to do well in exams,
19:01 especially after COVID.
19:02 Now, why do you think that is?
19:04 Unfortunately, if I give an example of being at the Howard School,
19:09 the current year 11s, we're now in year 9, that's when COVID started.
19:13 So most of their lessons were online.
19:17 So a lot of the boys' students didn't engage in online lessons
19:21 and those ones from low-income families,
19:24 most of them did not have laptops to use at home.
19:27 And if they did have laptops,
19:29 because there's a large number of students, of children in the same house,
19:33 so they had one laptop to use with three, four children.
19:37 So unfortunately, they had to take turns.
19:40 So some of them would have preferred to have engaged in the live lessons,
19:46 but unfortunately, because obviously they're sharing it with their siblings,
19:51 then there's time limits.
19:52 So a lot of it was they would read the lesson,
19:57 look at the PowerPoints, answer the questions,
20:00 but did they fully understand what was being asked of them?
20:03 No.
20:03 So a lot of it was just going onto Google and copying and pasting answers into Google
20:08 and then submitting the work to the teacher.
20:10 And you're seeing that gap now from that fundamental level,
20:13 they don't have the basics.
20:14 Definitely.
20:15 Obviously, I teach chemistry and the foundation,
20:18 they haven't been able to craft the foundations.
20:20 When they returned from COVID in year 10,
20:22 we started GCSE, whereas year 9 would have been the foundation for GCSE,
20:28 started in year 10, and what they should have learned in year 9,
20:31 they hadn't learned.
20:33 And now we've tried to improve on it or grow on it.
20:39 And unfortunately, it's just not there, unfortunately.
20:42 What are you expecting from the results of your students then?
20:45 Are you unfortunately going to see some of them lower results
20:49 come in next week for the GCSE?
20:51 Unfortunately, yeah.
20:52 Unfortunately, yeah.
20:53 As much as we...
20:54 I know the Howard School, we did, we put...
20:57 teachers went above and beyond to ensure that the students were more than prepared.
21:02 But one has to be realistic that we do know that there's going to be gaps.
21:07 And unfortunately, this is going to be shown when the results come out next week,
21:10 when they haven't achieved the grades that they are,
21:13 that maybe they should have achieved.
21:14 And a lot of the discussion is focused around the way they're graded.
21:19 So pre-pandemic, before the pandemic, we just graded as we sort of graded,
21:23 and now they're bringing that back in.
21:25 So expecting, I suppose, more from the students as we've passed
21:29 that early post-COVID era, I suppose.
21:32 Some people are saying that's been brought back too soon.
21:34 I think it maybe has been brought back a little bit too soon
21:37 because students are still struggling with the effects of COVID,
21:42 and they still need a lot of assistance and support.
21:45 So to go back to how it was before,
21:48 I think it is too early.
21:50 Because the gaps, we need to try and bridge that gap,
21:54 and it's not going to take one year to bridge that gap.
21:58 We need to be a lot more patient.
22:00 Very quickly, what's the solution, in your opinion?
22:04 Gosh, the solution is more funding.
22:07 Definitely more funding for schools.
22:10 A lot of students, I find, want the extra tuition.
22:14 But the parents, or low-income families, one parent family,
22:18 they can't afford that extra tuition.
22:20 So schools need more funding, more teachers to work,
22:25 which we do work, go above and beyond, but maybe just tuition.
22:31 That was Nikki from the Howard School talking to me earlier.
22:34 Next, combining wildlife and wellbeing.
22:37 A community garden in Canterbury is helping volunteers
22:40 and members of the public connect with nature
22:42 while promoting positive mental health.
22:45 Fionnwook Dermott met the volunteers and tried his hand at gardening.
22:49 Even though it's quiet here at the Canterbury campus
22:51 out of term time, tucked away in one corner of the university,
22:55 one volunteer group are bearing the August heat.
22:58 Kent Community Garden, or Kent COG, is led by Emily Mason
23:02 and is a joint effort between the university
23:05 and mental health charity East Kent Mind.
23:07 I think particularly what I've noticed for our students,
23:09 so young people between 18 to 25,
23:12 the pressure on them to be on and just on it all the time,
23:17 watching the students that access this space
23:20 really put their phones down, switch off, slow down
23:25 and have to wait for something to grow,
23:27 because it takes a long time to grow certain things.
23:30 There's a little bit of magic to that, I think.
23:33 The garden was formed in an effort to aid student isolation,
23:36 but has grown into a much larger project.
23:38 It sees student, staff and other community members working together
23:43 and both literally and metaphorically, it's starting to bear fruit.
23:47 Engaging with nature has been shown to have extremely positive effects
23:51 on people's mental health, and while it's no cure-all,
23:54 going green gives people a safe community.
23:56 Some, according to the organisers, are not even particularly green-fingered.
24:01 So we started off very much as a gardening project here
24:03 and then we sort of realised that lots of the volunteers,
24:06 especially the students who come down here,
24:08 they want to get involved in other things and not necessarily gardening.
24:11 So we're expanding what we do to kind of think about houseplants
24:15 and to do things like bee walks and butterfly counts
24:19 and doing kind of projects that engage with nature in lots of ways,
24:24 so that, you know, we've done soup making,
24:26 we've done crafting with nature.
24:29 So we're trying to expand all the time to use the site
24:32 as an opportunity for people just to enjoy nature,
24:35 to be in the space and to kind of reap those benefits of being in a green space.
24:41 Not only is the garden great for its caretakers' mental health,
24:44 it's good for the health of the university,
24:46 with fresh produce being sold back to on-campus restaurants,
24:50 a pollination garden for the bees,
24:52 and the garden also provides a good place for extremely different people to mix,
24:56 all the way from 18 to 80.
24:59 Well, this garden has been running for a long time,
25:01 but really started to grow after the pandemic, when many were at their lowest.
25:05 One thing's for sure, getting back to your roots has never felt better.
25:09 Finn McDermid for KMTV.
25:13 Now, it's been a sunny day in Canterbury for Finn,
25:15 and a sunny day at Kent's training grounds and football pitches,
25:17 where Sophia was earlier.
25:19 Oh, eyes on the World Cup.
25:20 Well, let's take a look at the weather forecast
25:23 and see how sunny it's going to be while we're watching our women in the final.
25:27 Looking pretty mild this evening.
25:35 Highs of 17 near Dover, lows of 15 across mid-Kent.
25:40 Looking sunny and a bit cloudy tomorrow morning.
25:42 Highs of 21. A bit of wind as well.
25:46 By the afternoon, warming up to 22.
25:48 20 in Dover, mostly sunny, a little bit of cloud.
25:52 And your Sunday, when you're watching that World Final,
25:55 it will be nice and sunny in Canterbury and Folkestone,
25:58 a bit of cloud in the rest of Kent.
26:00 You've been watching Kent Tonight live on KMTV.
26:03 Now, there's more news made just for Kent throughout the evening.
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26:32 We also have a series of special programmes,
26:34 one right after this very short break.
26:36 Kent On Climate, where we bring you the latest environmental news
26:40 from across the county.
26:41 So don't go anywhere, and I'll see you in just a few minutes.
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