12/08/2013 South East Today

Smith. And I'm Chrissie Reidy. Tonight's

top stories: No more adverts for payday loan companies - a Kent

council says it may consider a blanket ban.

People just have not got the money to be paying that and then it puts

more pressure on them to pay it, how deep a? Then they get another loan

to pay that. Police investigate how a 25-year-old

man died after he was ejected from a nightclub.

We'll have the latest from our reporter who's in Deal this evening

Also in tonight's programme: The Sussex boy who's mother tried to

block his cancer treatment talks for the first time about his ordeal.

Founded in tragedy - how the Fishwives Choir came together in

Sussex to record their newly released single.

And a whole hearted recovery - the dog called Priscilla that overcame

the odds to survive a terrible Good evening. There are calls

tonight for a Kent council to ban all adverts for payday loan

companies. It could also see Medway Council blocking people accessing

such companies' websites in public libraries.

The Labour group believes billboards and bus shelters displaying payday

loan adverts sends out the wrong message. It comes after Plymouth

became the first council in Britain to ban payday loan ads. Simon Jones

has this report. We have a technical problem with

that at the moment. We can cross over to Simon who will be reporting

in Chatham for us. So, clearly this has been suggested because of what

has already gone on in Plymouth, but I believe not everyone is convinced

that a ban would be affected? The leader of the council says he is

certainly going to look at this idea, but he says he needs to talk

to his legal team about whether this ban could be effective.

The idea is to ban posters from the area and also other issues that

would. People getting onto these websites in local libraries. The

citizens advice bureau say they are not convinced by the idea because

many people access websites from their homes or from their phones.

They are not convinced that a ban will achieve anything and that is

the big issue. What happened in Plymouth has only just been

introduced, so at the moment there is no data to suggest whether it'll

be effective. It can be difficult to take on these firms. The Archbishop

of Canterbury said he would like to see one of the payday firms taken

out of existence by competition, but then he discovered the very next day

that the Church of England had indirectly invested in that very

firm. Three nightclub bouncers have been

interviewed by police over the death of a man who collapsed after being

ejected from a Kent nightclub. The 25-year-old was found slumped on

the pavement outside Rivals Nightclub in Deal. Well let's cross

to Deal and our reporter Piers Hopkirk. Piers what more do we know?

The nightclub was hosting a big night on Saturday called Break

ology, a night that attracts hundreds of revellers. At around

quarter past midnight, in the early hours of Sunday morning, police and

paramedics were called here after reports that a man had collapsed

after being ejected from the club. He was taken to the Queen

Elizabeth, the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate, but he died a short

while later. At this stage we do not know his name, his identity. The

police have just told us he is 25 years old and he is from Margate,

however flowers have been left here and there is a note on one bunch of

flowers paying tribute to Michael. The words on it say, you had a heart

of gold, we will always remember you, we will always love you.

What is the latest on the men who were arrested?

Well, three men have been arrested, they are aged 25, 38 and 44

respectively. They are all doormen here. They were initially held in

custody, but that lunchtime they were released on bail pending

further enquiries. They have been asked to return and face further

questions in November. In terms of the investigation, we expect a

post-mortem to happen. That will try to establish exactly how this man

died. It will help police as they continue to piece together exactly

what happened. In a moment the spectacle, the glitz

and glamour of top class yacht racing in Kent as the Ramsgate

regatta gets underway. A Sussex boy who's mother tried to

prevent him from having radiotherapy for a brain tumour has been speaking

about it publicly for the first time.

Neon Roberts is now eight - he did eventually have the treatment, but

only after a High Court judge ruled he should do so despite his mother's

wishes. Sally Roberts, a New Zealander living in Brighton, had

described the treatment as "barbaric and plain torture". Rebecca Williams

has more. When Neon Roberts was diagnosed with

a brain tumour last year, his mother failed in a bid to stop him having

radiotherapy. The story made headlines across the country. Ten

months on and the eight-year-old has spoken out for the first time.

made a bed for me on the couch and I got to watch movies. I had to stay

at home for about ten days and then go back there. Even when you think

the worse, you don't think it could be that bad. I just remember staring

at a computer screen with a scan of his head. I remember the tumour

taking up a large portion of the screen. On the 25th of October, Neon

had an operation to remove the tumour. Between the third and six of

December, Sally Roberts and Neon went missing. They were found safe

and well and a few weeks later High Court judge ordered another

operation should go head. That was against the wishes of Neon 's mother

who described radiation as barbaric and plain torture. Everyone loves to

think that doctors can have almighty powers and heal us and do the right

thing by us and that they really care, but I beg to differ. To be in

such a high-profile case at a difficult time can't be good for the

family, but I think it does raise the profile of brain tumours because

it is very misunderstood. It is the largest killer of children after

leukaemia. We need more drugs with less side effects to treat children.

Neon is now halfway through chemotherapy and his hair is growing

back and he is gaining strength. His family described him as an

inspiration. Police are appealing for witnesses

after a 24-year-old woman was raped under Brighton pier in the early

hours of Saturday morning. The woman had spent the evening with her

sister at the Oceana Nightclub in the city, but after leaving the club

she became separated from her and was attacked by a man who then ran

off towards the Brighton Wheel. A deal bringing to an end the risk

of more disruption over bin-collections in Brighton & Hove

has been signed today. A week long pay dispute in June led to huge pile

of rubbish building up in the city's streets. The council has now agreed

a better pay deal, in return for more collections on bank holidays

and weekends. While the Sussex village of Balcombe

has been making national headlines with protests against fracking and

the idea that prospectors might find oil underground, people in one

picturesque Dorset village say they wonder what all the fuss is about.

Corfe Castle has had Europes largest onshore oil field on it's doorstep

for decades. Our Correspondent Mark Norman has been there to ask people

about the impact its had on their lives - and found very few seem

aware if fracking has ever gone on there or not.

The village of Corfe Castle in Dorset, 350,000 visitors per year

and largely maintained by the National trust. Compare the peace

and quiet here with the events in bulk over the last two weeks. They

trip is against demonstrators, tranquillity against frayed

tempers. Hard to imagine that Europe's largest onshore wind farm

is two miles away. I drove out there. It has one environmental

awards and currently produces 16,000 barrels of oil per day. Perhaps,

crucially, it has not fractured the ground to get the oil and in the

statements, the company said fracking restraints to extensive

hydraulic fracturing. The company themselves admit their

oilfield is in one of the most environmentally sensitive areas of

the UK. With such a large site on their doorstep, you would imagine

the people in the village of Corfe Castle would have a problem with

that, but it seems that they don't. The local bakery opens early and

often serves workers from the oil company. I don't really notice it at

all. It is so well covered under the trees, you don't notice it.

Keeping the village presentable is critical, but does having an

oilfield deter visitors? It does not affect us at all. It has no effect

on the environment. During the time it has been here it has provided a

lot of employment. At the moment there are about 100 direct employees

working in the site and 250 indirect jobs, which is good. And the sort of

issue that has been raised elsewhere has not occurred here. That issue is

fracking, but of course it remains to be seen if quadrille find oil or

if they need to use fracking to get it out of the ground or if Sussex

residents would be happy with an oilfield like this one without the

fracking. The Government says efforts to

eradicate bovine tuberculosis from Britain are being stepped up from

today. In addition to planned badger culling in the worst affected areas

- bordering counties will now face tougher controls.

There is a pocket of infection in East Sussex. We want to make sure

that we deal with that in due course and we want to stop it spreading

into the north of the county or into West Sussex. That is one of the

reasons we are implementing the measures we are doing today, so that

we can contain it as far as possible and deal with it in terms of

eradication. Police investigating the murder of a

man on a beach on the Isle of Sheppey are widening their search

for information to London. The body of 34-year-old Gary Pocock was

discovered on the beach near the Little Groves caravan site last

Wednesday. Last night his family held a vigil where he was found.

Three people arrested in connection with his death have been released

without charge. 40 kilos of cocaine have been seized

by Border Force officers in Dover after a cargo ship was searched at

the port last week. The drugs which had a potential value running into

millions of pounds were found on board a ship carrying bananas from

Curaco. The owners of forward picked from Kent are celebrating her

miraculous recovery. There is no record of an animal surviving such

an ordeal before. She was taken for a walk when she became impaled on a

stick that pierce through her heart. A punctured heart and the fighting

spirit. When three-year-old Priscilla the whip it went for a

walk near her home, she returned with life-threatening injuries.

the way back, Priscilla let out a horrendous scream. She was running

in the Woodlands and so we panicked, trying to see where she

had got to. She came back to us. Under closer investigation, we went

down to touch her and my father noticed she had split her chest and

there was a big wind. Collapsed on the path, Priscilla was in clearly a

bad state. Her owner was so controlling -- concerned that she

would not make it to the out of hours veterinary practice that she

watched her for miles away. She has had an astounding recovery. The

wounds are still healing, but the most recent scan shows her heart

appears to be virtually back to normal.

This just approaching quarter to seven and this is our top story:

Adverts for payday loan company should be banned in Medway towns

according to an opposition councillor. Tristan council is also

causing on Medway Council to block people from accessing the website in

public libraries. Also in tonight's programme...

United by tragedy - how the Fishwives Choir came together in

sussex to record their fundraising single.

And if you are hoping to do stargazing tonight, good news, we

have clear skies. If you have a story you think we

should cover, we would like to hear Now, it has the spectacular backdrop

of Ramsgate Harbour and a plethora of bars and restaurants in the town.

Ramsgate Week, the annual sailing regatta of Royal Temple Yacht Club

is truly the friendly alternative to Cowes Week.

The regatta was launched in 1898. This year, 52 yachts are competing.

Involving 600 competitors from across Europe as Peter Whittlesea

reports. Yacht racing is competitive, so even before the

regatta had begun, rivalry started. We are great friends and great

rivals. They are both similar sized boats. It will be nip and tuck

between the two of us. There are other people here, you know. Just

enough to beat them, one second will do. I think we have nine crew today.

As they take to the water, tactics are different. It is youth versus

experience. With the race underway, the sea is calm, but the wind is

light. We are in the lead at the moment. There are two races, the

cruiser class going on inshore waters and out there are the fast

boys, quite far out to sea. It is out here where local rivals

are battling for position. Ex-waves with their younger crew

were in the lead, but the letter were hot on their heels.

These are the faster boats, but yacht racing is like golf. They are

all handicapped so it is a level playing field. Today was very much

warmer, with intermittent wind conditions costing crews places.

have probably got, about, A1 and the two. Those conditions mean there

were a reversal of fortunes between our big rivals. There is plenty more

time, he will get his own back. the race is getting bigger and

They were founded in response to the tragedy of the death at sea of a

trawlerman in the Thames. Now the Fishwives Choir have recorded a

single they hope will raise some serious money to support families

bereaved by the sea. The 38 women who make up the choir

travelled from across the country to make the recording in Hastings -

John Young is on the beach there now - John, they have the strongest

motives for making this fundraising venture?

They certainly do. They like to -- they don't want to only remind us of

the perils out at the, they also want to revitalise part of a lost

fishing culture, singing. Here is themselves fishwives and, in some

cases, widows. It has helped a lot. It has made everyone more aware

about what could happen at sea. I think everybody knows what could

happen, but don't want to think about it. Hearing everyone's stories

about different family members. are story is told here in Hastings.

Women who know all too well that when a loved one dies at sea, there

is nobody to bury and the legal protections go into limbo so charity

steps in. Jade lost her husband and father of their four children.

husband was a fisherman and after he died at sea, we did not have his

body for over one year. We are hoping to raise awareness of the

work of the fisherman 's mission and to raise money for the charity. Also

in awareness of how dangerous it is to be a fisherman. People don't

realise the price paid for their fish and chips. They have chosen to

traditional anthems and blended those well acquainted with this

island is dangerous peacetime country 's most dangerous peacetime

occupation is not randomly made, it is based on fact from the Marine

accident investigation Borough. Last year, one fisherman died every nine

weeks. In 2009, it was one every four weeks. That is why many is

being raised and the fishwives hope it will raise awareness.

More than �5 million is to be invested to improve cycling routes

near the South Downs Park. The money will be used to make it easier for

cyclists to access the South Downs by rail. It also includes a new

cycling route and improved surfaces on existing trials.

Sussex cricketer Matt Prior's disappointing summer with the bat

continued this morning when he was out first ball in the Fourth Ashes

Test. Having made a century yesterday Ian

Bell lasted just half an hour before being bowled - Matt Prior then

suffered a similar fate to the next delivery from Australian pace bowler

Ryan Harris. Australia are chasing down 299 to win. They are currently

182-7. Sussex spinner Monty Panasar appears

unlikely to play in tomorrow's CB40 match against the Netherlands, as

speculation grows about his future. Panasar who is in his fourth season

at Hove was fined by police last week after urinating on bouncers at

a Brighton nightclub. In football, it's not been an

encouraging start to the new season for the South East's leading clubs.

In fact, there were no winners this weekend - although Crawley did

manage a point. But as Neil Bell reports, even after just a couple of

games some supporters will be getting a little anxious.

Brighton 's first only game of the season could hardly have begun

better. Ideal conditions and an early goal. However, it was not long

before things went wrong. Chris Martin stabbed home an equaliser and

moments into the second half, he struck again to leave the Albion 's

new boss still waiting for his first point. Charlton athletic were unable

to repeat their midweek cup win. It was middlebrow who grabbed the only

goal midway through the second half. It is a 44 game season now and we

have to look at it that way. 20 of points and a long way to go, but you

breathe easier when you see points on the table. Chilling are looking

for their first point and first goal and found themselves 3-0 at

Wolverhampton by half-time. The home side added a fourth after the break,

but the duelling boss refused to blame his defence. If anyone makes a

mistake it is all of us, me included. Never put it down just two

defenders or forward. We did not play well, that is the end of it,

learn from it, deal with it. Scoring is not a problem for Crawley so far

this season. They are conceding goals on a regular basis as well.

Ryan Lowe delight -- denied them all points deep into stoppage time.

On Friday we were talking about the meteor shower, which should be

spectacular this evening. We actually going to be able to see it?

That is the good news, yes. We have clear skies, the only downside is it

might be chilly. You can wrap up warm tonight.

The cloud will clear and we have The cloud will clear and we have

clear skies throughout the night, perfect. Gazing. The only thing is

that temperatures will be cooler than recently, so wrapped up warm.

The rest of the week will turn warm and muggy. We have warm front

heading our way through the week. It'll have some rain, but also one

temperatures. A bit of cloud earlier, but also clear spells.

Temperatures not too bad, in the best of the brightness we have had

highs of 21 degrees. Not affecting temperatures too much, the wind. Do

this evening, the cloud cover will bring more clearer skies and have

cooler temperatures and recently. Lows of ten or 11 degrees, in rural

spots, perhaps down to nine degrees. Lots of sunshine tomorrow. So we

will see more cloud built through the afternoon, with high pressure it

is relatively settled. By the afternoon, cloud and perhaps the

outside chance that you could see the odd shower. The most part, we

stage I and temperatures reaching highs of 18 or 19 degrees. Perhaps a

little cooler than today. The westerly wind easing of the touch.

Any showers that are around are eventually going to ease through

tomorrow night. Temperatures not quite as chilly as tonight. Lows of

around 12 or 13 degrees. Along the coast, not dropping much below 15 or

16 degrees. As you start the day, nothing too bad. A fairly decent

morning. Why the afternoon, more cloud cover. Perhaps you would do

well if you see highs of 20 or 21 degrees. Thursday, a warm front

passage through. Rain to start the day but temperatures start to

recover. Highs of around 23 degrees. A bright start on Friday. Cold by

the afternoon, so further rain for the weekend. Saturday looks dry,

rain on Sunday and a bit wet and miserable. The next couple of days,

cloud cover and feeling muggy. Well, let's recap tonight's top

national and local news stories. The Shadow Immigration Minister

Chris Bryant has said British companies need to show what they're

companies need to show what they're doing to train and recruit local

companies need to show what they're doing to He says there's evidence

that some firms have been recruiting workers directly from countries with

lower per capita incomes. Adverts for payday loan companies

should be banned on billboards and bus shelters in the Medway towns,

according to an opposition councillor And a group of women from

fishing communities across the south east are releasing their first

single -- and hoping its success will help support families bereaved