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00:20Hello and welcome to Kent Tonight live here on KMTV.
00:24I'm Chloe Brewster and here are your top stories on Thursday the 26th of March.
00:30Manslaughter for Morns, father and son imprisoned for a total of more than 30 years for causing
00:36four-year-olds death.
00:37I'd just like to thank Kent Police for all their help, thank everyone for the support
00:42and over the moon with the justice today for my little boy Peter.
00:47Just one time to grieve now and that's all I can say today.
00:50Thank you very much for your help.
00:52And money for Medway as five towns set to receive £60 million in Pride and Place funding.
00:57Fixing potholes which is a big concern for all motorists, more sort of CCTV to make people
01:05feel safer.
01:06And finally, history is made.
01:09Celebrations continue for the first ever female Archbishop officially enthroned at Canterbury
01:13Cathedral.
01:14What I do want is for it to get to that place and time when we no longer say it's
01:20the first.
01:31A total of more than 31 years in prison has been given to a father and son whose drunken
01:36driving in South Fleet last year caused the death of four-year-old Peter Morne.
01:40Owen and Patrick Morne were convicted of manslaughter at Maidstone Crown Court yesterday with a packed
01:46emotional courtroom.
01:48Finn McDermid joins us live from South Fleet on the road where the crash occurred.
01:52Finn, tell us about this case.
01:54Where did it start and where are we now?
01:59Well Chloe, this case started back on June 1st of last year and since then we've had an
02:04ongoing trial, police investigations resulting in the conviction, as you mentioned there,
02:09of Owen and Patrick Morne on manslaughter charges.
02:13Now, I'm standing on New Barn Road in South Fleet and this is the location where Peter Morne,
02:18only four years old, died after a collision between two cars, one being driven by Owen Patrick
02:24Morne, the other being driven by Lowell, his father, with Peter inside.
02:28And you can see behind me actually some tributes to Peter Rabbit as his family called in.
02:33It's a rest in peace, Peter Rabbit, forever for our blue-eyed boy.
02:37This tribute has plenty of the things that he liked, Haribos, Diet Cokes, there's a small
02:43drivable car there as well and a sign saying Peter's Road.
02:46That speaks to the emotion that was on display at this trial yesterday afternoon in Maidstone.
02:53We've been hearing all about this trial. We've seen CCTV, we've seen social media footage. As I
02:59say, this has been a long time this trial has been going on. I've prepared a short video piece
03:04that will tell us a bit more about the case itself that we can watch now.
03:09Peter Morne died on the 1st of June 2025 from a collision between two cars, driven by Owen and
03:15Patrick Morne, the other containing Peter and his wider family, driven by Lowell Morne.
03:20Earlier on that day, Owen and Patrick were filmed drinking in the Jolly Night pub in Rochester,
03:25then being seen by CCTV outside the Citywall wine bar. They would later drive onto the A2,
03:30recognising the car containing the other members of the Morne family, with Lowell in the driver's seat.
03:36In the other car, Owen was at the wheel, with Patrick in the passenger seat.
03:41They were said to have chased the other car for several miles across the A2. Both then pulled into the
03:45wrong side of New Barn Road, and at 60mph, Patrick's vehicle clipped Lowell's, causing it to spin out of
03:51control and roll up to three times. That impact caused the death of Peter Morne and significant
03:57injury to his father Lowell. Immediately after the crash, Owen and Patrick drove away from it,
04:02and took steps to avoid detection by removing the front registration plate of their truck.
04:06When it was discovered by police, they found a pushchair still embedded underneath it.
04:11Owen was arrested on the 2nd of June, having returned to Kent to hand himself into police,
04:16while Patrick was found the next day in bed and having been drinking. During the court case,
04:20both men were cleared of murder in relation to Peter, as well as being cleared of inflicting grievous
04:25bodily harm with intent to Lowell, and attempted grievous bodily harm to Hayley and Anarika,
04:31the mum and little sister of Peter, who were also in the car. After the sentence of almost 31 years
04:36in
04:36total for the two men, the senior prosecutor read a statement outside the court on behalf of the family.
04:42We will treasure the memories we made with him in his short life. No sentence handed down today can
04:48bring Peter back or lessen the impact of our loss. Our lives are changed forever. We wish to express our
04:56sincere thanks to everyone who has supported us throughout this investigation and court process.
05:00We are grateful for the professionalism and compassion shown at every stage,
05:04and we now ask that our privacy is respected as we continue to grieve.
05:08Hayley also spoke briefly outside the court on her thanks to the police.
05:12I'd just like to thank Kent police for all their help. Thank everyone for the support.
05:18I'm over the moon with the justice today for my little boy Peter. Just one time to grieve now,
05:24and that's all I can say today. Thank you very much for your help.
05:27For Hayley, Lowell and Anarika, today is the end point of a case that's taken over a year to be
05:33fully
05:34completed. According to the senior prosecutor, now they can begin to rebuild their lives and properly
05:39grieve. Finn McDermid for KMTV in Maidstone. As you say, that was over a year of court case there.
05:47Can you talk us through those proceedings quickly?
05:52Absolutely. I should mention that it's under a year of court cases since it happened on June 1st of
05:57last year. But in court, the judge said that Owen and Patrick were the aggressors and had terrorized
06:04the victims. They discussed the crash as well as the fact that both men had drank 25 bottles and
06:09pints of lager between them over a six-hour period. They were said to have been in a fury and
06:14intent on
06:15causing serious harm to the occupants of the other vehicle. It's worth mentioning that deliberations on
06:20the specific charges took 17 hours in total before the court was able to confirm the sentence to Owen
06:28and Patrick. That being one of just under 31 years between the two men. Now, in terms of the impact
06:38on
06:38the family, the Morns were also convicted of inflicting grievous bodily harm to Lowell Morn. Their actions
06:46left the man paralyzed from the waist down, a permanent brain injury and unlikely to ever walk
06:53again. Lowell said in court, the death of Peter has broken me. He was too good for this world. Life
06:58will never be the same without him. The other passengers in the car, Peter's mum Hayley and his
07:03little sister Anarika, escaped with minor injuries. In one of the additional impact statements that was
07:09read in Maidstone Crown Court by Hayley, she said he was very popular at school. All the teachers loved
07:15him. They used to take him to the staff room, give him biscuits and he had so many friends at
07:19school.
07:19This has affected more than me and my family. This has affected so many people. Me and Peter were
07:24always together. We were never without each other. He was my other half, my companion. I will never know
07:30who Peter would have grown up to be. He will never have another birthday or another Christmas and this
07:36is your fault, she said to Owen and Patrick. Our family will never be the same again. She finished with,
07:43ours is a family surviving, not living. Thank you so much, Finn. It's obviously a really upsetting story.
07:53Now, a huge solar park near Faversham is nearing completion. The massive solar farm at Cleve Hill,
08:00which will generate up to 373 megawatts, enough to power 100,000 homes, began back in 2020 after planning
08:08commissions were granted by the government. The site spans the size of 500 football fields and
08:13while it was expected to power housing, recent agreements have handed power generated over to
08:18supermarket firm Tesco and Shell. While the array is operational, it is still under construction,
08:23with a final phase expected to be completed around summer of this year.
08:28Instagram and YouTube has been found liable in a first-of-its-kind lawsuit in the US. The court heard
08:34how owners had deliberately designed the platforms to get children addicted with little regard for
08:38their safeguarding. Social media apps such as TikTok and Snap were also to face trial,
08:43but they settled before it went to court. With more details, our reporter, Kristin Hawthorne,
08:47joins me now to tell me more. Can you tell me, where did this all start?
08:52Well, interestingly, Chloe, it started with a 20-year-old woman who was the plaintiff in the case.
08:56She was referred to by her lawyers as Kayleigh. She testified in February saying that her early use of social
09:02media exasperated her depression and suicidal thoughts and triggered her addiction to social
09:09media in the first place. She said that the apps caused her to develop diagnosed body dysmorphia.
09:15Something that maybe a lot of children can relate to when they go to school and stuff, she said that
09:19she would sometimes go to the toilet during school to check her notifications and that she started
09:25using YouTube, for instance, at just six years old. So she had quite an early start to social media
09:32that then affected her later on in life. The lawyers representing Meta and Google-owned YouTube
09:38argued that Kayleigh turned to the platforms as a coping mechanism or a means of escaping the already
09:43existing mental health issues. But the jury found that Meta and Google-owned YouTube had been negligent in
09:51designing or operating Instagram and YouTube and that it had a substantial factor in the plaintiff's harm,
09:57saying that they were liable for not only adequately warning users about the dangers of the site,
10:02but maybe adding to your difficulties as well. And what was the result of that court case? You know,
10:08it's a 20-year-old taking on these huge platforms. Tell us more about that. Well, it went quite well
10:14for
10:14they were charged, so Meta, Instagram and YouTube to be specific, they were charged three million in
10:23damages. And the jurors also recommended an additional three million in further damages after deciding the
10:30companies had acted with malice, oppression or fraud in harming children using their platforms.
10:37And just quickly for me, can you explain to me what does this mean for people here in this county?
10:43Well, I mean, over the past few months, we've seen a lot to do with Australia banning social media for
10:48under 16. So now the UK government are aiming to take that on. They've put that out there that they're
10:53willing to do that or look into it. And they've started their tests, which I believe ends on the 26th
11:00of
11:00May, to kind of look at online curfews for children and maybe more regulations for open AI, which is
11:08interesting. And we've already seen some schools like the St John Wallace Academy, where their phones are
11:14banned in schools. So we could be seeing a lot more schools doing that. We could see new regulations
11:19to apps. But there's a lot really in the future, but more regulations, I'm assuming for sure.
11:25Definitely. And we're even seeing in schools at the moment, phones getting locked away,
11:29but we're interested to see how it goes with social media. Exactly.
11:33Thank you so much, Krista.
11:35Now it's time for a quick break, but coming up, we have the weather. So you can start to plan
11:41what you get up to this weekend. We'll also be exploring how Mumbai residents may wish to spend
11:44some money there. See you after the break.
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30:21Hello and welcome to Kemp Tonight live here on KMTV.
30:24I'm Chloe Brewster and here are your top stories on Thursday the 26th of March.
30:30Manslaughter for mourns.
30:31Father and son imprisoned for a total of more than 30 years for causing four-year-olds
30:36death.
30:37I'd just like to thank Kemp Police for all their help.
30:40Thank everyone for their support.
30:42I'm all for the moment to justice today.
30:43for my little boy Peter. Just one time to grieve now and that's all I can say today.
30:50Thank you very much for your help.
30:52And money for Medway as five towns set to receive £60 million in Pride and Place funding.
30:58Fixing potholes, which is a big concern for all motorists.
31:03More sort of CCTV to make people feel safer.
31:06And finally, history is made. Celebrations continue for the first ever female archbishop
31:11officially enfroned at Canterbury Cathedral.
31:14What I do want is for it to get to that place and time when we no longer say it's
31:20the first.
31:30A total of more than 31 years in prison has been given to a father and son
31:34whose drunken driving in South Fleet last year caused the death of four-year-old Peter Morne.
31:40Owen and Patrick Morne were convicted of manslaughter at Maidstone Crown Court yesterday
31:44with a packed, emotional courtroom.
31:47Finn McDermid joins us live from South Fleet on the road where the crash occurred.
31:51Finn, can you tell us a little bit about this case, where it started and where we are now?
31:58Absolutely, Chloe. So, as you mentioned there, this crash took place June 1st last year.
32:03It was a collision between two cars, one carrying Peter Morne, driven by his father Lowell,
32:08the other with Owen and Patrick inside. Owen and Patrick's car clipped the rear of the other,
32:14causing a collision which then caused the crash that, as you say, claimed Peter Morne's life.
32:18And I'm standing here at the spot where that crash occurred on New Barn Road in South Fleet.
32:23Behind me, you can see some tributes to Peter Rabbit, as he was known by his family,
32:28whether that's with the banners they've got that say Forever for our Blue-Eyed Boy,
32:33or the toys or drinks or snacks that presumably were his favourite.
32:38As you mentioned there, it's a total of almost 31 years that the two were convicted for,
32:45that being for the manslaughter of Peter Morne,
32:48as well as causing grievous bodily harm to Peter Morne's father, Lowell.
32:52He is likely to never be able to walk again after the crash.
32:56Specifically, Owen has been imprisoned for 12 years and 8 months,
33:00reduced from 19 for his guilty plea,
33:02while Patrick, the brother-in-law of Peter's mother Hayley,
33:06sorry, Peter's, yeah, Peter's mother Hayley's father, received 18 years.
33:11Both of them will serve two-thirds of that prison sentence before they can be released.
33:15To help people who aren't too familiar with the case,
33:17I've prepared a short video piece.
33:20Peter Morne died on 1st June 2025 from a collision between two cars,
33:26driven by Owen and Patrick Morne,
33:28the other containing Peter and his wider family, driven by Lowell Morne.
33:32Earlier on that day, Owen and Patrick were filmed drinking in the Jolly Night pub in Rochester,
33:37then being seen by CCTV outside the City Wall wine bar.
33:40They would later drive onto the A2,
33:42recognising the car containing the other members of the Morne family,
33:45with Lowell in the driver's seat.
33:48In the other car, Owen was at the wheel, with Patrick in the passenger seat.
33:52They were said to have chased the other car for several miles across the A2,
33:56both then pulled into the wrong side of New Barn Road,
33:58and at 60 miles an hour, Patrick's vehicle clipped Lowell's,
34:02causing it to spin out of control and roll up to three times.
34:05That impact caused the death of Peter Morne and significant injury to his father Lowell.
34:11Immediately after the crash, Owen and Patrick drove away from it and took steps to avoid detection
34:15by removing the front registration plate of their truck.
34:18When it was discovered by police, they found a pushchair still embedded underneath it.
34:23Owen was arrested on the 2nd of June, having returned to Kent to hand himself in to police,
34:27while Patrick was found the next day in bed and having been drinking.
34:31During the court case, both men were cleared of murder in relation to Peter,
34:35as well as being cleared of inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent to Lowell,
34:39and attempted grievous bodily harm to Hayley and Anarika,
34:42the mum and little sister of Peter, who were also in the car.
34:45After the sentence of almost 31 years in total for the two men,
34:49the senior prosecutor read a statement outside the court on behalf of the family.
34:54We will treasure the memories we made with him in his short life.
34:58No sentence handed down today can bring Peter back or lessen the impact of our loss.
35:03Our lives are changed forever.
35:06We wish to express our sincere thanks to everyone who has supported us
35:09throughout this investigation and court process.
35:12We are grateful for the professionalism and compassion shown at every stage,
35:16and we now ask that our privacy is respected as we continue to grieve.
35:20Hayley also spoke briefly outside the court on her thanks to the police.
35:24I'd just like to thank Kent Police for all their help.
35:28Thank everyone for the support.
35:29I'm over the moon with the justice today for my little boy, Peter.
35:34Just one time to grieve now, and that's all I can say today.
35:38Thank you very much for your help.
35:39For Hayley, Lowell and Anarika,
35:41today is the end point of a case that's taken over a year to be fully completed.
35:46According to the senior prosecutor, now they can begin to rebuild their lives and properly grieve.
35:52Finn McDermid for KMTV in Maidstone.
35:55It's clearly a shocking story, Finn.
35:58Can you tell us a little bit more about the court proceedings?
36:03Absolutely.
36:04The judge presiding over the case said that Owen and Patrick were the aggressors and that they terrorised their victims.
36:11Also, that they'd consumed 25 bottles or pints of lager between them.
36:16It's said to be in a fury, intent on causing serious harm to the occupants of the other vehicle.
36:22That being Peter Lovell.
36:24Apologies, I mispronounced his name.
36:25It's Lovell, Hayley and Anarika.
36:29Now, the deliberations on these specific charges took 17 hours.
36:33As I mentioned, a total of just under 31 years that they were sentenced to.
36:39And in terms of the impact exactly of what happened,
36:44the Morns were also convicted, as I mentioned, of inflicting grievous bodily harm on Lovell Marn,
36:50leaving him with a life-changing and permanent condition,
36:56such as a brain injury and also paraplegic and unlikely to walk ever again.
37:00Lovell said,
37:00The death of Peter has broken me.
37:02He was too good for this world.
37:04Life will never be the same without him.
37:06That was in one of the impact statements read to Maidstone Crown Court during proceedings.
37:11Another one of those impact statements came from Peter's mother, Hayley.
37:15She said,
37:15This has affected me.
37:17This has affected more than me and my family.
37:19Affected so many people.
37:21Me and Peter were always together.
37:23We were never without each other.
37:25Lovell won't ever walk again.
37:27He will never be able to run around after our daughter.
37:29Peter, we can't live the life we once had and loved.
37:33She went on to say,
37:34I will never know who Peter would have grown up to be.
37:37He will never have another birthday or another Christmas.
37:40And that is your fault.
37:41Our family will never be the same again.
37:44We are a family surviving, not living.
37:47Thank you, Finn.
37:50Now, Kent Wildlife Trust is trying to raise £120,000 to support its grazing project.
37:57The trust warns more than 200 species in Kent are now threatened or endangered as habitats continue to break down.
38:04I spoke to a member of the Kent Wildlife Trust earlier to find out more about the project.
38:09So, Alison, can you tell me a little bit about this huge project that the trust is embarking on?
38:16So, yeah, we have about 800 animals that we use right across Kent.
38:22Lots and lots of different nature reserves.
38:23So, you're probably never too far away from a Kent Wildlife Trust nature reserve that has some grazing animals on
38:28it.
38:28They are absolutely essential for bringing back missing biodiversity.
38:33And we need help really to keep doing the project, keep expanding the project, keep improving the project.
38:41We do things like training our volunteers to look after them.
38:46We do things like incorporating brand new technology like tracking collars to help us find them and help us to
38:52evidence how they're looking after biodiversity.
38:54There's just so much going on with the project, and the more we can raise, the more money we can
39:00spend on just making the project bigger and better for Kent's biodiversity.
39:04Mm-hmm. And, you know, there are 200 species in Kent that are threatened or endangered.
39:09What are the kind of the key threats, and how can conservation reduce these threats?
39:14Most of our wildlife in Kent is fragmentation, so breaking up of the places where they want to live so
39:22that they can't move from one area to another very easily.
39:26One of the things that the livestock are very good at doing is by moving around a landscape, they either
39:33help to create the right habitat stepping stones,
39:36or in some cases, they might even bring animals or plants or seeds along with them as they move.
39:42So that helps to move stuff around and sort of reconnect habitats.
39:47Also, they also help to create lots of little tiny differences inside the places that they're living.
39:53So when we have, say, a cow in a field, them grazing in different places, them sleeping in different places,
39:59them dust bathing,
40:00so kind of grooming themselves, all creates tiny, tiny little changes that lots of different wildlife can exploit.
40:05And it's all these little tiny changes that are what really benefits our wildlife.
40:10So this amazing grazing appeal, how can that contribute potentially to broader environmental issues that the UK currently faces?
40:21There is a concept that we call wilding or rewilding.
40:25It's a little bit of a contentious topic, but what we mean by it is by demonstrating that by letting
40:32nature lead on her own recovery,
40:35like stepping back and giving space for natural things to happen, that nature then comes back and bounces back into
40:42those spaces.
40:43And that's one of the key things that the grazing project does.
40:46The grazing animals are replacements for animals that used to be in our habitats that died out many, many years
40:54ago.
40:54And after they died out, the animals that were reliant on them really struggled.
40:59So by putting them back in, we can kind of demonstrate how these real kind of low intensity, low impact,
41:05nature led solutions can work.
41:08And if they can work in Kent, where we're really busy, they can certainly work all over the country.
41:13So we can scale this up.
41:14Thank you so much for talking to us today.
41:18Thank you very much.
41:20It's time for one last break.
41:22But coming up, we'll see history being made as we find out more about Canterbury's first female bishop, who was
41:29crowned at a very fancy ceremony yesterday evening.
41:32We'll also be hearing we'll be hearing from our resident film expert, who's actually formerly a theology professor, about what
41:39this means for Kent and Christianity as a whole.
41:42We'll also be taking a look at the new Harry Potter series.
41:44See you after the break.
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43:32See you after the break.
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45:10Hello and welcome back to Kent Tonight live here on KMTV.
45:14Work is set to restart on the site of the former Graves Empire Police Station after updated
45:20plans were submitted by housing providers.
45:23The now demolished police station has been the site of a drama falling the town after
45:28work to redevelop the site into a retirement complex was stalled by almost three years.
45:33Now the housing company Churchill Living has submitted a new planning application in partnership
45:38with not-for-profit housing provider Housing 21.
45:44History has been made as the first ever female Archbishop has officially been enthroned at
45:49Canterbury Cathedral, the first ever in the church's 1,500 year long history.
45:54In a ceremony yesterday Archbishop Sarah Mullally became the head of the Church of England and
46:00of the Anglican community.
46:01Our reporter Nayla Mohammed was at Canterbury Cathedral yesterday during the installation.
46:06By the authority committed to me, install you Sarah.
46:12This is the moment that Archbishop Sarah Mullally was installed as the new Archbishop of the
46:17Church of England.
46:18It's a ceremony that has been in preparation since before Dame Sarah was announced as the
46:23new Archbishop back in October and welcomes bishops from around the world as well as UK
46:28politicians and the Duke and Duchess of Wales.
46:30In this building behind me, history is being made.
46:34Archbishop Sarah Mullally is the 106th Archbishop of the Church of England, but also the first
46:40ever female Archbishop in the church's 1,500 year long history.
46:44And earlier I spoke to Bishop Rose, who's the Bishop of Dover, but also the first ever black
46:49female bishop in the Anglican Church.
46:51Somewhere along the line, a few men sharing with some women saying, uh oh, no, no, no,
46:58they're girls, they're women, no, no, no.
46:59And we are changing that, we're seeing that change.
47:03What I do want is for it to get to that place and time when we no longer say it's
47:08the first.
47:09And when we don't do that any longer, we will know that it's normal.
47:14As well as becoming the head of the Church of England, Archbishop Mullally is the spiritual
47:19leader of the Anglican Communion.
47:21That's tens of millions of Anglicans around the world, with the majority of jurisdictions
47:26strictly allowing only men to be ordained as bishops.
47:30We've had women bishops in the Church of England since early 2015.
47:34So the first woman bishop was consecrated in, I think, January 2015.
47:39So it's only 11 years since bishops were first, women bishops were first consecrated.
47:46And so it's very significant that in that relatively short period of time,
47:51we have now got a female Archbishop of Canterbury.
47:56Speaking to the BBC ahead of the installation,
47:59Archbishop Sarah said that the ceremony would be about celebrating women
48:03and has already acknowledged the significance of being the first ever female Archbishop.
48:08Nods to the contribution of women were woven throughout the service on Wednesday,
48:12including music celebrating the contribution of female scholars, musicians and writers to the Church.
48:18In her first sermon, she also acknowledged the survivors caused by the Church's past safeguarding failures,
48:25one of which caused her predecessor to resign, and the Archbishop also vowed to tackle misogyny within the Church.
48:32While many are aware of the scrutiny that Archbishop Sarah may face, they all have faith that she will overcome
48:37them.
48:38And as the first ever in the Church's history, many within the Anglican Communion hope that the new Archbishop continues
48:45to trailblaze the way.
48:46Naila Mahamud for KMTV in Canterbury.
48:51And Chris Deasy, who you may recognise from the Kent Film Club, but also is honorary reader of theology and
48:58religious studies,
48:59joins me in the studio now.
49:01This is obviously a really significant event, Chris, but could having a female Archbishop actually divide the faith rather than
49:07unite it?
49:08Yeah, I think that's one of the fears. I mean, on the one hand, it's breaking the glass ceiling.
49:13And when you think of the many institutions, like the American Presidency, where that hasn't happened,
49:16this is a really big deal. And I think that's a moment to savour.
49:20But you are right, there are those in the Church.
49:22And Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop, was talking about this yesterday,
49:25in an article he gave over the course of the last week, and he didn't attend the ceremony yesterday,
49:30saying he didn't want to be like Marley's ghost,
49:32precisely because there is that risk that the Church could split.
49:35And I think there is a sense, he says, well, if God doesn't want it to split, it won't.
49:40But I think there are many people in the Church who came even close to perhaps even setting up a
49:44rival Archbishop
49:46to Sarah Mullally, who was enthroned, installed yesterday.
49:50So, I mean, this is a seismic moment.
49:53But I remember 1992, when we had the vote on whether there should be women priests.
49:57So that was, what, 34 years ago this year.
50:00So it's come a long way.
50:01But yes, there are those in the Church who will never reconcile with what the,
50:06in its 1,400-year-old history, the 106th Archbishop, the first woman to hold that role.
50:13And what kind of scrutiny will she face?
50:16What is the issue with people who may think that this isn't right?
50:20Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, one of the things is that, I mean, in terms of same-sex marriage.
50:23Also, I think abuse in the Church as well is a really thorny issue.
50:27And questions around, well, of course, it related to her predecessor, Justin Welby,
50:32and the reason he resigned.
50:34And various questions about whether even she did the right thing when she was Bishop of London.
50:38So, I mean, effectively she's inheriting, I'm not going to say poison chalice,
50:42that's a pun that I didn't intend.
50:43But she is inheriting a role which comes with a lot of expectations.
50:49Mm-hmm.
50:50And do you think the community has trust in her to handle some of the issues, like you say,
50:55better than people in the past?
50:56Well, do you know what I think here?
50:58I think it's like whenever you have a new prime minister,
51:00they always have a grace period.
51:02Again, a pun, which is very fitting for the Church.
51:04But they have a honeymoon period.
51:06And I think, you know, even that pilgrimage walk that she did over the course of the last few days
51:11from London,
51:12and then it went through even Chatham, not far from where we are here,
51:15into Chatham as well, and into Canterbury on a Sunday.
51:18I think there's a sense in which she's following tradition,
51:22but going way back to Thomas Beckett.
51:24In other words, she's done what other archbishops haven't done.
51:28I think a lot of people will give her, I say, the benefit of the doubt.
51:32But effectively, it's not down to one person.
51:35It's the institution which has never agreed on a set of principles.
51:40The film Conclave that came out last year in the case of the Catholic Church
51:44brought that into stark relief.
51:46So, well, we'll see what happens.
51:48But I think yesterday there was a sense that a lot of goodwill is coming her way,
51:53as we saw in the report just there.
51:55Well, lots of people, even those who aren't religious, did watch that yesterday.
51:59It's obviously a very momentous occasion and a very, very nice outfit.
52:02I've got to say.
52:03Oh, absolutely.
52:04And I think it looks wonderfully colourful.
52:07And I think it brought a lot of attention for people, as you say,
52:11who are not necessarily of faith, but who see this as an important moment.
52:16In terms of whether it's...
52:18I mean, she will talk about inclusivity.
52:21We'll see whether the church can rally behind her on this,
52:24and people in the community at large.
52:26Thank you so much, Chris.
52:29With the first Harry Potter film airing 25 years ago,
52:32we've now been told that a new Harry Potter series on the horizon.
52:35In early 2027, we hope to see a brand new series of the original franchise
52:39with a modern cast and a few new filming locations shared across the country.
52:44Henley and Frankie joined me in the studio earlier to discuss a bit more about this.
52:49So, Frankie, I'm not a massive Harry Potter fan.
52:51I haven't really watched many of the films.
52:53How do you think existing fans are going to react to this new series?
52:56I feel like the existing fans will have mixed opinions on it
53:00because, first of all, yes, it does, like, increase the amount of fans
53:06who are going to get into it.
53:08But also, the old fans will seem like it's just kind of a remake
53:11and that it won't be as good as the original
53:13because, obviously, the original is always going to be better
53:16than most things, what are remakes.
53:19Mm-hm.
53:20And, Henley, I know that Kent was pretty heavily involved in the original films.
53:25Do you think it's going to be involved again?
53:26What was the previous involvement?
53:28Well, in the previous films, we've seen, like, Darth Vader crossing,
53:31how they used Darth Vader crossing in a scene
53:33just to get the atmosphere of it all for the characters.
53:37And also, they did ask Canary Cathedral,
53:39but they did deny it because of religious reason, which is fair.
53:42But in the now current one, which has been made,
53:45they aren't really using Kent as much.
53:47They're focusing on London and Essex, which I don't know really why,
53:50but the only link we have is that Umbridge is still living in Kent,
53:55where she was born with her family.
53:57Very, very cool.
53:58And do you think this new series is going to have as big of an impact
54:02as it did on the older generation when Harry Potter,
54:05all the original films, did come out?
54:07Again, it would be, like, mixed opinions.
54:09It would be like a...
54:10Like, yes, because it's more modernised and, obviously,
54:16it will appear to a younger audience,
54:17but no, because it's been and done,
54:21and kids have shown lesser attention spans
54:25and might have already watched the older Harry Potter films.
54:28So they might be like, what's the point of watching this one
54:31while we watch the original ones?
54:33Mm-hmm.
54:34Now, I know you weren't a huge Harry Potter fan,
54:37but, Henley, I know you did watch all of the films.
54:39What was it about those original films that had such a big influence?
54:41Well, I just think the actual, like, atmosphere of it all,
54:46and also it was so new at the time with, like, the CGI
54:49and the focus on witchcraft,
54:51and it wasn't quite seen yet or as popularised.
54:54So that first, like, break out of it
54:57made everyone so inclined to watch it
54:59and just the out, like, press of it all
55:01and the, um...
55:04Yeah, just press.
55:05Mm-hmm.
55:05And what are you most excited to see in this upcoming series?
55:09Well, the actors, like, as we can see,
55:10they're gonna have their own new spin on it
55:13and they're gonna have their own acting techniques.
55:16So I think we're quite interested to see
55:17how they embody the role they're gonna play.
55:19Can they ever live up to, you know, um,
55:22Daniel Radcliffe and the iconic bunch
55:24that were in the original film?
55:25It's definitely gonna be hard.
55:26But this might be there, like, coming out.
55:28It might be where they peak.
55:30You never know.
55:32Amazing.
55:32So are you gonna be going to watch this series
55:34once it comes out?
55:35Both of you?
55:36I will.
55:37I think I need a bit more persuasion, you know.
55:39I need to get more into it.
55:40Yeah, thank you so much for joining me, guys.
55:42Thanks.
55:43And now the weather.
55:50This evening we're seeing clouds around the board
55:52with temperatures highest in the north in Dartford
55:55and the lowest down in Ashford.
55:57Into tomorrow morning we will see clouds all over
56:00with temperatures rising to around 8 to 9 degrees
56:02across the county.
56:03Into tomorrow evening wind speeds will increase again
56:06to 11 and 15 miles per hour
56:07with temperatures rising up to 12 and 11 degrees.
56:10As for the outlook,
56:11Saturday we'll be seeing clear skies of 9 degrees,
56:13Sunday will be cloudy of 13 degrees,
56:15and Monday will be also clear but at 11 degrees.
56:27You've been watching Kent tonight live here on KMTV.
56:30There's more news made just for Kent throughout the evening.
56:33Don't forget you can always keep up to date
56:34of the latest news from across your county
56:36by logging on to kmtv.co.uk.
56:38Once again, thank you very much for watching.
56:40Goodbye.
56:41and good news.
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