Kent Tonight - Thursday 16th May 2024
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00:02 - Good evening and welcome to Kentonite Live on KMTV.
00:28 I'm Abbey Hook, here are your top stories
00:30 on Thursday the 16th of May.
00:33 First of its kind, secure school to open in Rochester
00:37 for young offenders.
00:39 - It's called a secure school,
00:41 but actually the first thing it is,
00:43 is a home, a secure home.
00:45 - Prison poisoning, staff at HMP Swaleside hospitalized
00:50 after inmates spiked their lunch.
00:53 - HMPPS need to do a full investigation
00:56 into how this has happened,
00:57 how the prisoners in this case were working
01:01 in such an area that had the potential for this to happen.
01:06 - From St. Mary's to Saudi Arabia,
01:09 Chatham team to fight at boxing's biggest event
01:12 in a generation.
01:14 - I'm sure he's gonna overcome everything
01:16 that gets put in his way,
01:17 as long as they don't rush him too much at the top level.
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01:26 - First tonight, a brand new secure school
01:33 designed to reform young offenders in Medway
01:36 is set to open this summer.
01:37 Oasis Restore is the first school of its kind
01:40 and will see young offenders receiving vocational training
01:43 and one-to-one learning support during their imprisonment.
01:46 It follows the news that Cook & Woods
01:48 Young Offenders Institute in Rochester
01:50 would be turned into an adult prison later this year
01:53 after a report highlighted poor conditions.
01:56 Oliver Leader de Sacks has more.
01:59 - No bars on the windows, no barbed wire in sight.
02:03 The Oasis Restore Secure School in Rochester
02:06 is the first of its kind
02:08 and it's designed to turn around the lives
02:10 of some of Britain's most violent young offenders.
02:13 Funded by the government and NHS England
02:16 and run by the Oasis Trust,
02:18 the facility is nearly ready to open
02:21 after 48 million pounds of renovations.
02:24 - You'll come here most of the time
02:27 because you've been involved in violent crime,
02:29 sometimes very violent crime.
02:31 You'll often come here
02:33 because you feel that you've never fitted in.
02:36 It's called a secure school,
02:38 but actually the first thing it is,
02:40 is a home, a secure home.
02:42 There are no cells here.
02:44 There are student flats and bedrooms.
02:47 There are no bars.
02:49 There are windows.
02:51 There are no keys janking and steel doors.
02:54 It's set up and designed to be a therapeutic environment.
02:59 - With more than 200 staff and 20 teachers,
03:04 the school will provide opportunities
03:05 for dozens of young offenders to engage in vocational work.
03:10 On the premises, there are music studios,
03:12 workshops and even a salon
03:14 to help them develop the skills they need
03:16 to leave their criminal past behind.
03:19 Down the road sits Rochester's other,
03:21 more infamous young offenders institute, Cook & Wood,
03:24 which has seen numerous reports
03:26 highlight its lack of staffing and poor conditions.
03:29 - This here today, the secure school,
03:32 is a very different model.
03:33 Yes, it's right that those young people
03:36 who've committed serious crimes are sentenced to custody.
03:39 And here, they will be deprived of their liberty
03:41 as part of the punishment,
03:42 but it's also important
03:43 that the focus is on working with them.
03:46 They've often been excluded permanently from school.
03:48 They've got underlying mental health
03:51 or substance misuse or other issues.
03:53 So what we work with them to tackle those,
03:55 to get them back on the straight and narrow,
03:58 give them the opportunity when they're here
04:00 through what will be a rigorous regime
04:02 of teaching and learning and vocational training,
04:05 to make a positive life choice
04:07 about the direction they want to go in when they come out.
04:09 - Those behind the secure school hope
04:12 their new chapter in youth justice
04:14 will be starting in Kent very soon.
04:17 Oliver, leader of the SACTS for KMTV in Rochester.
04:20 - Well, Oliver joins me in the studio now.
04:24 And Oliver, you've been walking around this facility today.
04:28 What sense did you get from it?
04:29 Was it more of a school?
04:30 Was it more of a prison or that sort of combination?
04:33 - I think a lot of us who are working
04:36 around the Medway area are aware of Cookham Woods
04:38 and its infamous reputation of having a violent culture,
04:42 having people locked up for up to 23 hours a day.
04:45 But when you look at the prison I walked around,
04:49 well, the secure school I walked around earlier today,
04:51 what I was taken aback by was some of the more openness
04:54 about it's still a secure facility.
04:56 It's still a place where people are being kept
05:00 and imprisoned.
05:02 But if you look at, for example,
05:05 the central courtyard area,
05:07 you can see like the picnic benches, the green spaces.
05:12 In the flats, you saw like these large open plan living rooms
05:16 and kitchens still being monitored by prison staff.
05:19 But that gives more of a student halls feel,
05:23 which is what they said they're trying to go for.
05:24 There's a lot of psychology that went into this,
05:26 three years of planning to try and create
05:28 a sense of reform.
05:30 That's what it's all about.
05:31 They say they hope that people here will achieve
05:33 level three, level two qualifications
05:35 that will allow them to go into perhaps low grade prisons,
05:39 like more low secure so they can do continue apprenticeships
05:43 and perhaps even get jobs after they leave
05:47 their time in prison.
05:49 - Oh, Oliver, thank you for those details.
05:51 Very interesting.
05:51 Next tonight, an Ashford couple are urging more people
05:56 to sign up to become foster parents.
05:58 They say too many people write themselves off
06:01 for the job before they've even looked into it.
06:03 It comes during foster care fortnight
06:05 and Kent-based charity Diagramma is celebrating
06:08 what it can do for families as well as the children.
06:11 Chris and Nick Kamantz say the process gives you flexibility
06:15 to find a match that's right for you.
06:17 - I think more people probably disqualify themselves
06:21 than should be, or they think,
06:23 "Oh, I couldn't do this," or whatever.
06:25 But I think for most people, obviously you need some time.
06:28 You need to be able to have some time available to you.
06:32 Now, in our fostering case, we have said,
06:35 "Look, we only want children who are at school,
06:37 successfully at school, regularly going to school."
06:40 So at least we know that for most days,
06:42 we have that sort of nine till three slot.
06:45 - And there's a whole matching process.
06:47 So it is the case for us, we foster through an agency.
06:51 And so we have an amazing social worker
06:53 who is filtering referrals and thinking,
06:55 "Oh, this sounds like the Kamantz's,"
06:57 or "This probably wouldn't fit."
06:58 So if a child comes along and their referral says,
07:02 "Only likes quiet spaces,
07:03 doesn't like big groups of people,"
07:06 that's not the right child for us or them.
07:08 - Next tonight, prison officers at HMP Swaleside
07:12 have been treated in hospital
07:14 after a curry made for staff by inmates
07:17 was reportedly spiked with psychoactive substances.
07:21 25 employees were affected
07:23 by what the Criminal Justice Workers Union
07:25 described as a mass poisoning
07:27 at the high security prison in Sheppey.
07:29 MPS, also known as Spice,
07:31 are drugs designed to replicate the effects of illegal highs.
07:35 The Ministry of Justice said an investigation is underway,
07:38 but former prison officer and trade union member,
07:40 Andy Hamlin, says there's a growing problem with the drug.
07:44 - HMPPS need to do a full investigation
07:47 into how this has happened,
07:48 how the prisoner or the prisoners in this case
07:53 were working in such an area
07:55 that had the potential for this to happen.
07:59 We would expect that sort of prisoner
08:01 to be a very low risk and a more trusted type of prisoner
08:06 that will be going in there to actually do those jobs.
08:10 There's an issue nationally,
08:11 not just at Swaleside with Spice at the moment.
08:13 The worry is, is what's actually being put into it,
08:16 'cause it's not a natural substance.
08:18 It is something that's being made up.
08:20 There have been reports of the likes of rat poison
08:24 and different chemicals being used to cut the spice.
08:28 - Well, the Ministry of Justice have said
08:30 a number of staff were taken ill
08:33 following an incident at HMP Swaleside last week,
08:35 and those who went to hospital were soon discharged.
08:38 They are liaising with relevant authorities
08:40 and there's an ongoing investigation.
08:42 They added it would be inappropriate
08:44 to comment further at this stage.
08:45 Now, don't forget, you can keep up to date
08:48 with all your latest stories across Kent
08:50 by logging onto our website, kmtv.co.uk.
08:53 There you'll find all our reports,
08:55 including this one about nuisance vehicle
08:57 causing a stir in Medway.
09:00 They're in our car parks, streets, and wrecks,
09:03 but Medway Council says they're cracking down
09:05 on nuisance vehicles.
09:07 At these playing fields in Chatham,
09:09 residents say there's a problem
09:11 with people riding motorbikes illegally.
09:13 - Yeah, I just worry about my safety
09:15 and the safety of my dog, and not only that,
09:18 sometimes I come over here with my granddaughter
09:20 and she's only three,
09:22 and then I have to worry about her as well.
09:24 - I did at one point stop coming to this field
09:26 to walk the dog.
09:27 The noise is just really annoying.
09:29 You could be peacefully walking your dog
09:30 and you just hear a (imitates dog growling)
09:32 - I don't like to see them ripping up the football pitches
09:35 or going anywhere near people with dogs in there.
09:39 - Sometimes it can get a bit out of hand.
09:40 Sometimes they're a little bit self-centered,
09:43 but generally speaking, most of the ones I've come across
09:45 have been not too bad.
09:47 - Our cameras didn't catch any today,
09:49 but an ex-account keeps track of their presence.
09:52 But we did see these dumped bikes.
09:54 Passersby say, well, they've only been here
09:57 for a few weeks.
09:58 Now this is one of two burnt out motorbikes
10:01 on the recreational ground.
10:03 And this comes with a license plate as well,
10:05 which we're not going to show to you,
10:07 but I have checked it and there is no MOT,
10:11 and the tax ran out last May.
10:13 At the start of April,
10:14 Medway Council introduced a public space protection order.
10:18 Anybody caught cruising, going to car meets,
10:20 or riding illegally could face a 100 pound fine
10:25 and be taken to court.
10:27 - So it will be effective.
10:29 We will see increased number of fines.
10:31 I've made that public pledge.
10:32 We will work in partnership with the police.
10:34 You'll see, hopefully, a naming and shaming
10:36 of key people who've been doing this as well,
10:38 so that we can get that culture in the community
10:41 that people who do this behavior will be challenged.
10:44 Do I think this is a magic pill
10:45 that will sort the problem out tomorrow?
10:47 I am assured that that won't happen.
10:50 This is going to be a long-term change in culture
10:52 that is needed around vehicles
10:54 and how we use them on our public space.
10:57 But it's taken a year for the Unitary Council
10:59 to bring in these powers,
11:01 following a consultation last year.
11:04 - This was initiated by the Conservative,
11:05 last Conservative administration,
11:07 well before the local election,
11:08 last February, when the consultation.
11:10 We thought we would have had this in place a long time ago.
11:13 But I'm glad it's here now.
11:15 I mean, it's better late than never,
11:17 but it's taking too long, too long.
11:19 Residents at this wreck say
11:21 they've seen these powers before,
11:23 but nothing for decades has stopped the bikes.
11:26 But with further enforcement officers being trained,
11:29 Medway Council hopes this will make a difference.
11:32 Gabriel Morris in Medway.
11:33 - Now it's time for a very short break,
11:38 but coming up, we're celebrating our sister station,
11:40 KMFM, who has a record number of listeners.
11:43 In fact, the most listened to commercial radio station
11:46 here in the county.
11:47 Impressive stuff.
11:48 We'll hear from them after the break.
11:50 See you then.
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15:05 - Hello, welcome back to Kentonite Live on KMTV.
15:17 Now a cyclist has died after colliding
15:19 with the driver's door of a car
15:21 near Strude Railway Station.
15:23 A man in his 70s was riding a black bike
15:25 on Canal Road towards the high street
15:27 when he was involved in the crash
15:29 with a stationary red MGZX.
15:31 Police are appealing for witnesses.
15:33 A man and two women have been arrested in Ramsgate
15:37 after a man was stabbed.
15:39 Boundary Park in Ramsgate was cordoned off
15:41 by the police following the attack before 2 a.m.
15:44 A man in his 40s was taken to hospital
15:46 and his injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
15:49 A major road in Tenham has been closed
15:51 in both directions and three people are in hospital
15:54 after a six-vehicle crash.
15:56 The A2 London Road is blocked
15:58 between Faversham and Sittingbourne.
16:00 Emergency services are recovering the vehicles.
16:02 Next tonight, our sister station, KMFM,
16:06 is the most listened to commercial station in the county.
16:10 Official figures from Rajar show 187,000 listeners
16:14 tune in to their variety of shows, travel
16:16 and news segments throughout the day.
16:18 With nearly 1.2 million listening hours,
16:21 they're a key part of the county's community.
16:24 I spoke with Gary Wilson earlier today
16:25 and asked what sets the station apart
16:27 from other broadcasters.
16:29 There's no other station almost in the country now
16:33 that does what we do, which is provide a station
16:36 that is just for the county that it's in.
16:38 So, yeah, we're right there on people's doorsteps.
16:42 We know what's going on.
16:44 They are us, we are them, etc., etc.,
16:46 all those kind of cliches, but that's really the bottom line.
16:49 There are no other stations doing it
16:52 across the whole of the county.
16:54 And do you think that's what keeps people listening
16:56 and tuned in, having that real connection
16:58 and feeling engaged and having that involvement
17:01 in the show as well?
17:03 Yeah, absolutely.
17:05 The fact that the people, they're just down the road from us,
17:08 they know what we're talking about,
17:10 they know the places we're talking about,
17:11 they know the places we are.
17:13 We are the places that they've been.
17:15 We can look out the window and see the weather even.
17:18 Like, you know, today was a foggy morning,
17:20 we were talking about the fog.
17:22 You know, most of the stations that you could listen to
17:26 won't know or care that it's foggy in Kent.
17:28 It might not be a big thing, but it's just things like that.
17:30 It's just, this is what's happening.
17:32 We know what's happening, we can see it out of our window.
17:34 And it is that, that sharedness that makes us,
17:40 you know, that makes us part of people's lives, I think.
17:42 And, you know, a lot of people say we're part of their,
17:44 we're part of their morning routine.
17:46 It's amazing. It's certainly, the numbers
17:48 certainly show that as well.
17:50 Just lastly, do you think that radio is a really,
17:53 sort of, timeless way, I suppose,
17:55 of connecting with the audience?
17:56 Do you think there's ever going to be a time
17:58 where radio doesn't exist?
18:00 Maybe not as we know it exactly,
18:03 but all the time I've worked in radio,
18:05 there's been another big threat to radio.
18:07 Radio, you know, is up against this, that and the other.
18:11 Whether it's been new ways of people getting their music,
18:14 whether they were creating iTunes playlists back in the day
18:17 and that was going to put us all out of a job.
18:20 Whether it was, you know, people with all the,
18:24 everything they own on an iPod now,
18:26 everything that they can stream in the world on their phone.
18:30 But I always think that radio was the original social media.
18:34 It was there before Facebook and Insta and TikTok.
18:40 And I think it will be after all of those things as well.
18:42 It's a place where you can put the radio on.
18:45 It's not like listening to a playlist.
18:47 You can get interactive with it.
18:48 You hear us talking about things that are relevant to you.
18:51 We could be talking,
18:53 hopefully we will sound like we're talking directly to you
18:55 because we always are,
18:56 but it might be specifically you that person,
18:58 you know, because you can get in touch.
19:00 And with KMFM, we're right there on your doorstep
19:02 and you can get a shout, get a mention,
19:04 get on the radio and share your stories.
19:07 That is something that streaming will never be able to do
19:10 and podcasts can only do to, you know, very specific audiences.
19:14 Radio is broadcasting.
19:15 It is something, hopefully, for everyone.
19:19 Now to sports and Fight fans across Kent
19:21 will this weekend be tuning into Tyson Fury's history-making bout
19:25 against Oleksandr Usyk for the undisputed heavyweight title.
19:29 But amidst all the excitement,
19:31 19-year-old prospect Moses Otauma
19:34 will have the whole of the county behind him
19:36 as the youngster from Chatham will take on his biggest bout yet
19:40 on the undercard.
19:41 Our sports reporter Bartholomew Hall has more.
19:44 Even at 17 years old,
19:46 it was clear Chatham's Enrico Otauma would go on to greatness.
19:50 Here he is picking up a win
19:52 which made him a Youth World Champion back in 2022.
19:56 Now two years later and fighting under the name of Moses Otauma,
19:59 he's in final preparations to fight on the undercard
20:02 of one of boxing's most anticipated events
20:05 as Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk go head-to-head in Riyadh
20:09 to become the first undisputed heavyweight champion
20:12 in almost 25 years.
20:15 For Moses, after going pro in just January 2023,
20:19 he's already accumulated eight undefeated fights,
20:22 including six knockouts.
20:24 The success has been catching the attention
20:26 for some of the greats, including Tyson Fury himself.
20:30 In fact, Otauma has been an important sparring partner
20:33 for Fury on the route to the Saudi capital,
20:35 with the latter praising the Kent teen
20:37 and even describing him as the future of the heavyweight division.
20:42 His former amateur coach Jerome told us it's a sure thing
20:45 his old apprentice would one day become a world champion.
20:49 I've been saying for years, even to him,
20:51 when we were, you know, since he was about 13, 14,
20:55 that's when the star quality really started to come through.
20:58 He was good at 10, 11, 12, I'd say when he got 13,
21:03 and then it started to become he was winning more and more,
21:06 never lost an amateur bout ever,
21:09 which is almost unheard of.
21:10 Floyd Mayweather lost in the amateurs,
21:13 Muhammad Ali lost in the amateurs.
21:15 I'm sure he's going to overcome everything
21:17 that gets put in his way, as long as they don't rush him too much at the top level.
21:22 This Saturday, Otauma will face Germany's Ilya Mezenchev
21:25 in the hopes of winning his first pro belt
21:27 and becoming intercontinental heavy champion.
21:30 Whilst Otauma is the favourite to win the belt,
21:33 it won't be easy, considering his opponent
21:34 has more than three times the number of fights on his record,
21:38 with the majority of his wins being knockouts.
21:40 But with all of Kent in his corner,
21:42 the young prospect will be hoping this trip to Saudi Arabia
21:45 is just one of the first steps of a career for the history books.
21:49 Bartholomew Hall for KMTV.
21:52 All eyes on the Chatham Star for this weekend.
21:55 Well, now let's take a look at the weather forecast.
21:57 Tonight's looking cloudy across the county
22:05 with temperatures between 11 and 12, 13 degrees even.
22:10 Tomorrow morning will be much warmer and brighter.
22:12 Temperatures rising to 17 in the north of the county.
22:14 Sunshine across the border, mix of cloud.
22:16 The afternoon, sunshine does continue,
22:18 temperatures reaching 20 degrees in Dartford
22:21 and some light wind, no more rain.
22:23 Well, here's your outlook.
22:24 Expect those lunch hours to come back with some cloud.
22:27 Temperatures will rise to 19, though.
22:29 And as always, on a Thursday, straight after Kent tonight,
22:41 we have a brand new episode of Kent Film Club,
22:43 where we look at the impact certain films have had on our guests' lives.
22:47 Well, joining me now is the show's presenter, Chris Deasy.
22:50 Chris, as always, we'll talk about what you've been watching,
22:53 anything in particular that stands out this week.
22:55 Well, I was really impressed last Friday
22:58 to see a documentary about Michael Powell,
23:01 who was born in Bigsbore, just outside Canterbury, in 1905.
23:05 And in later years, he became good friends with Martin Scorsese,
23:10 who presented the documentary that I saw at the Curzon in Canterbury
23:13 called Made in England.
23:15 You have it on the screen.
23:16 And this was so impressive, because Scorsese had been a hero of mine.
23:19 I've written on him, I've written books about him.
23:21 And I knew that Michael Powell was a huge influence,
23:25 but this is a film where he talks about how Powell's work in the 1940s
23:28 with films like A Canterbury Tale, very fittingly,
23:31 A Matter of Life and Death, A Great Celestial Fantasy,
23:33 and the film that I actually saw as part of the Canterbury Christchurch University Film Club
23:37 that was showing at the Curzon on Monday,
23:39 which was The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp,
23:41 all had an impact on Scorsese's films.
23:44 And he talks about, and he shows scenes from like The Red Shoes,
23:46 which was from the late 1940s,
23:48 and dispersed with scenes from Raging Bull or The Age of Innocence.
23:52 So, you know, for me, it was a real education.
23:55 And a very successful man, Mr Powell.
23:58 Do you think filmmakers basing their work in Kent today
24:02 have a chance of getting a similar sort of acclaim,
24:05 or is it a pedestal too high to reach?
24:07 Well, you know, there's two ways of looking at that,
24:09 because Michael Powell was, you know,
24:12 part of this wonderful collaboration in the 1940s,
24:15 but fell out of favour in the 1950s.
24:17 I think he was quite an iconoclastic filmmaker,
24:20 and didn't really work within the studio system.
24:22 But he was rediscovered later.
24:24 So the answer to the question really is, it can take time.
24:27 And it was funny to hear Scorsese talking about Beaksbourne,
24:29 you know, sort of talking about the impact of Canterbury and the cathedral on his work,
24:33 and how scenes in Canterbury Tale, which we've often talked about on the Kent Film Club,
24:38 were shot in the cathedral,
24:40 and were shown to an audience in the nave of the cathedral at the time.
24:43 So, in a way, it can take time.
24:46 There's a passage of time.
24:47 And all of Powell and Pressburg's films are about that, the ruminations on the past.
24:51 The way, certainly with Colonel Blimp,
24:53 you sort of see that, you know, character evolve from the dashing young officer
24:56 at the time of the Boer War,
24:58 to this quite reactionary figure by the outbreak of the Second World War.
25:01 And so the films are about an England, and a Kent to a large extent as well, that has passed us by.
25:06 And it's something we're always quite amazed to see whenever we have that Kent connection.
25:10 Over in Hollywood, it feels quite special to be talking about.
25:14 What about any other Kent-based productions?
25:16 We've talked about them a lot.
25:18 There's plenty out there, but some that you'd sort of recommend to us, I suppose.
25:22 Well, Vindication Swim, which we were talking about on this programme just a few months ago,
25:25 is still showing in some of the cinemas around the county.
25:28 So I haven't actually seen that,
25:30 but there's been lots of films about swimming,
25:31 and even a new Disney film that's coming up that seems similarly modelled,
25:36 which has one of the actresses from the Star Wars film, Daisy Ridley, in that.
25:41 So I think that Kent, as we often say on this programme, has all these nuggets.
25:46 But for me, what was so weird is to be somebody who has been immersed in the language of Scorsese,
25:50 to be familiar with Powell and Pressburger,
25:52 but to be sitting in a Canterbury cinema and watching a Canterbury from 50, 60 years ago,
25:57 unfolding before my eyes, and to see that charting.
26:00 Like a tailored experience.
26:01 Yeah, what are the chances of that?
26:03 I was the only one in there, it was just like for me.
26:04 All of it coming together.
26:06 Right, we haven't got much time left, Chris,
26:08 but what's coming up in Kent Film Club in a few minutes' time?
26:11 So we have William French, who's a cameraman,
26:14 and one of the films that he's picked, I actually saw three nights ago at the Curzon,
26:18 which was Civil War, it's the second time I've seen it.
26:20 And he has some wonderful choices tonight,
26:23 including some films that have just been made in the last couple of years.
26:26 Amazing. Some exciting stuff to look forward to in just a few minutes' time.
26:30 Chris, thank you as ever.
26:31 Thank you, Abi.
26:33 Well, that's all we've got time for for Kent Tonight, live here on KMTV.
26:36 As I said, there's more news made just for Kent throughout the evening,
26:39 starting with Kent Film Club.
26:41 I'll hand over to Chris Deasy now.
26:42 That's all from me. Bye-bye.
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