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It Welcome to South East Today, I'm | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Natalie Graham. Tonight's top stories. | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
The legal high which nearly killed a teenager in Kent ` now the | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
Government orders an urgent review. Our home affairs correspondent is | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
live with the story. Vote UKIP get Labour ` the warning | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
from the Prime Minister to voters in Sussex and Surrey. | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
Also in tonight's programme. A show of solidarity from striking | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
teachers, as hundreds of schools are shut across Kent and Sussex. | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
Getting the hump in the Gobi desert ` the camel conservationist who's | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
helping to save the species. She is the mother of your children | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
was. How could you be so cruel? And a tale of two lovers ` the | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
affair Charles Dickens conducted in Kent is brought to the big screen. | :00:56. | :01:07. | |
Good evening. An urgent review of the risks posed by a legal high | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
which nearly killed a student in Kent last week is going to be | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
carried out by the Government. 17`year`old Matt Ford smoked the | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
substance Exodus Damnation after buying it over the counter at a shop | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
in Canterbury. An investigation by BBC South East Today has discovered | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
the drug has caused other health scares across the country. Now the | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
Home Office Minister and MP for Lewes, Norman Baker has asked | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
officials to look at the issue. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Colin | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
Campbell has the story. It is a so`called legal high cell does in | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
sense but smoked by young people. We have discovered it is causing health | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
problems across the UK. One young person tried to jump out of the | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
window and another bit his father in the face. It was an extreme adverse | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
reaction suffered by Canterbury student Matt Ford focus attention on | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
the substance Exodus Damnation. In another five minutes I probably | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
would have been dead. Despite the health risks the substance remains | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
on sale in shops across the south`east. We bought these today in | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
Tunbridge Wells. One medical experts says one person per week on average | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
is ending up in hospital after taking this product. We sent a | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
sample of it for analysis. The results show it contains active | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
chemical compounds, synthetic variance of cannabis known as | :02:43. | :02:51. | |
synthetic cover Lloyds. Manufacturers in China told me they | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
supply several English distributors with the chemicals. When I suggested | :02:57. | :03:05. | |
that the chemicals could soon be banned I was told there are new | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
substances already available. I was also advised how to import the | :03:11. | :03:11. | |
product into the UK. The UK seller of Exodus Damnation | :03:12. | :03:32. | |
told me they were not able to provide 100 packets of the legal | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
high as they were working at full capacity to keep up with demand. We | :03:37. | :03:46. | |
understand the government has known about Exodus Damnation since May. We | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
do take action within weeks to ban particular substances. I will ask | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
for an investigation on this product. The government is now | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
considering automatic bans on substances that cause harm. Let's | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
talk to Colin, he's outside UK Skunkworks' shop in Maidstone now. | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
Colin, today the company hit back at criticism from the Canterbury MP. | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
Yes Julian Brazier has said he wants this chain of shops close down. He | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
described it as a squalid trade. But UK Skunkworks has hit back today | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
criticising Julian Brazier and accusing him of hypocrisy, failing | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
to challenge alcohol and tobacco companies. UK Skunkworks say they | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
have an extremely high moral code and say nobody on the age of 18 is | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
allowed into their shops. They say none of the products that they sell | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
are for drug use. Over the phone they told me they had no complaints | :04:55. | :05:03. | |
about the product Exodus Damnation. The Prime Minister, David Cameron | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
has made a direct appeal to people tempted to vote for the UK | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
Independence Party at the next General Election to think again. | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
Speaking on BBC Radio Sussex and Surrey, he said the Conservative | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
Party is tackling issues such as immigration and welfare ` and he | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
warned that voting for UKIP could help Labour get into Government. Our | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
Political Editor Louise Stewart reports. UKIP members celebrating in | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
Margate after becoming the main opposition party on Kent county | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
council in May. And just last month they took a seat on Sevenoaks | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
district Council. But also in the East Sussex they have seven seats, | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
the same number as Labour. And in West Sussex they have ten, making | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
them the second party after the Conservatives. It is those games | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
which are worrying the Prime Minister and today he made a direct | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
appeal. Two people who have gone to UKIP I would say if you care about | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
immigration, we are cutting it. If you care about welfare reform, we | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
are doing that and capping the money families get so they are always | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
better off in work. And I have promised a referendum on Europe by | :06:12. | :06:19. | |
2017. You will not get that from a Labour government. A large part of | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
the UKIP support does come from disgruntled voters in the south`east | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
annoyed with policies on immigration and defence. I think this is hardly | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
a Labour stronghold around here so he has got a point about voting for | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
UKIP. I have voted UKIP occasionally in the past. I do not think they | :06:43. | :06:50. | |
will ever get in but I did it as a warning. I am a Conservative | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
supporter and I am all for David Cameron. I think he's doing the | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
right thing. The UKIP leader says the Conservatives are right to be | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
worried. We always polled strongly in European elections but now they | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
are terrified about domestic elections. That UKIP could | :07:13. | :07:20. | |
potentially win. With the latest polls showing the Conservatives neck | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
and neck, the Prime Minister knows winning back support from voters who | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
have defected to UKIP could be the deciding factor at the next | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
election. Louise joins me now. How unusual is it to hear such a direct | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
appeal from the Prime Minister to UKIP voters? I think it is unusual | :07:39. | :07:46. | |
and a new strategy. Before he used to ignore UKIP. That strategy has | :07:47. | :07:55. | |
not worked so he has decided, he had a spare 20 minutes in his diary and | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
decided to speak directly to people at BBC Sussex and Surrey. He has | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
also spoken to radio stations in Solent. Clearly they are concerned | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
about the threat from UKIP head of the next election and want to get | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
the message across that if you vote for them you could risk of getting | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
the Labour government and squeezing out the Conservatives. | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
In a moment, the Sussex hospital which pioneered burns treatment | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
during the war celebrates 150 years with a royal visit. | :08:30. | :08:39. | |
An elderly woman who lost hundreds of pounds to conmen is warning | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
others not to be fleeced by fraudsters. The offenders, posing as | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
police officers and bank staff, duped her into revealing details of | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
her credit card account over the phone. Kent police have linked up to | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
60 similar reports of fraud in the county over the last two months. One | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
victim was duped out of ?45,000. Ellie Price has more. | :09:00. | :09:08. | |
It is a credit card scam that is on the rise in Kent. Criminals posing | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
as police by the bank for victims and ask them to call back on a | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
trusted number. They then intercept the call, and take the private | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
information and the money. Jeanette Atkins lost a lot of money in this | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
way. I was very upset at the time. I've reported it to the bank and | :09:28. | :09:35. | |
they reported it to the police. It frightened me to think that they may | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
even turn up at my home because they must have had my address. More than | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
1600 people across the UK fell victims to this scam last year. It | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
cost more than ?7.5 million. Kent police say they have had more than | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
60 cases reported in the county in the past two months alone. This is | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
not the way that banks or the police will ever operate. So if you are | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
suspicious about a phone call supposedly from the bank or a police | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
officer do not do what they have asked you to do. Things like Chip | :10:12. | :10:19. | |
and pin and online shopping protection has meant that the system | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
is now secure so instead criminals are trying to dupe individuals into | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
giving away their card and financial information instead. Experts say the | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
average age of a victim of this kind of fraud is 69. While the police and | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
banking industry are working to stop it, the advice is to hang up. | :10:40. | :10:50. | |
Police have arrested multiple suspects in connection with the | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
murder of a British primary school teacher in Qatar. 24`year`old Lauren | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
Patterson was reportedly last seen leaving a five`star hotel in Doha | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
with a group of men in the early hours of Saturday. Her mother, | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
Alison Patterson, from West Malling, is believed to have flown to Doha to | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
identify the body. A 17`year`old boy has today been | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
arrested in connection with an attack on an elderly couple at their | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
home in Hextable, near Dartford, on Tuesday morning. John McDougall, | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
who's 84, and his wife Jean, who's 89, suffered head injuries. A | :11:18. | :11:19. | |
16`year`old boy, arrested yesterday, has now been released without | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
charge. The Chief Executive of Gatwick says | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
the London Mayor Boris Johnson's billion pound Thames estuary airport | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
plan was "sinking without trace". But today the mayor was visiting | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
Hong Kong airport to see just how feasible a hub airport in the sea | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
could be. Almost 300 schools have closed or | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
partially closed across the South East today, because of the teachers | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
strike over pay and working conditions. In Brighton, 58 out of | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
76 schools have been affected. Another 99 closed in East Sussex. | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
And 109 shut in West Sussex. In Kent the number of schools affected was | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
103. And in Medway 32 schools closed. The NUT and the NASUWT | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
unions have accused the Education Secretary Michael Gove of attacking | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
teachers. The Government says the strike is disappointing and | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
disruptive for parents. In a moment we'll be hearing from our | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
Correspondent Yvette Austin in Chatham, but first Juliette Parkin | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
has been in Brighton. The majority of schools were closed here in the | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
city today and hundreds of teachers the streets in March which finished | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
with a rally. `` in March. The unions say because the city is | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
relatively confined geographically they were able to get two more of | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
their members and hear their concerns and rally support. | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
The reason why most of the schools were closed across Brighton and Hove | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
today, their teachers were here on strike and on a protest march. Some | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
might say is not right for the children to take a day off today. | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
None of us want to take a day away from the education of children but | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
we have to make a stand. Nobody wants to ruin a child's education. | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
But it is one day instead of a lifetime for them. He is changing | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
things left right and centre. It is not good enough. Teachers striking | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
today say this is about pensions, page and performance related pay in | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
particular. But some parents say this day of action is hitting them | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
hard financially as well. There is a punitive measure in place which the | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
parents pay. I think it is not a level playing field. When schools | :13:48. | :13:55. | |
are not able to open, we do not get the same care. We are parents | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
ourselves and understand the concerns about this disruption to | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
education. But we feel it is in the long`term interests of children in | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
this country. That teachers are fairly and properly paid. The | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
government could the strike action disappointing. `` called. Parents | :14:17. | :14:26. | |
rely on teaching their children and this is damaging to the reputation | :14:27. | :14:34. | |
of the teaching profession. Teachers today called this a last | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
resort but said it is about defending the future of the | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
profession and education. Unions spoke today about divisive pay | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
systems and changes to the pension age but some teachers we spoke to | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
said it is about so much more full stop it is about changes to the | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
curriculum and unnecessary testing. One temporary childcare agency said | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
this evening they had had an particularly busy day. Clearly this | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
has caused some working parents dearly. `` has cost. | :15:08. | :15:15. | |
Our correspondent Yvette Austin has been in Kent and Medway and she | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
joins us now from Chatham. Yvette, the strike may not have had quite | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
the same impact there as it had in Brighton, but lots of schools and | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
families have been affected? Many parents have had to juggle work and | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
childcare. But some were supportive of the strike action saying that | :15:37. | :15:38. | |
they did understand what the fight was about. One young Grammar School | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
pupil was very much enjoying the day off and catching up on some | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
homework. What did the council have to say about events today? Of course | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
the fight is between the government and the unions. The council said it | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
feels stuck in the middle and can only advise parents what to do. | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
Whatever the merits of what is going on, this is a disruption to | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
education and the lives of families and we clearly would not wish to see | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
that happen. There does not seem to be much of an end to this dispute. | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
There is expected to be more action before Christmas. | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
This is our top story tonight. The government has ordered an urgent | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
review of the health risks posed by a legal high which nearly killed a | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
student in Kent last week. 17`year`old Matt Ford smoked the | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
substance Exodus Damnation after buying it over the counter at a shop | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
in Canterbury. An investigation carried out by this programme | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
discovered the drug has caused other health scares across the country. | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
Also in tonight's programme. The Invisible Woman ` Charles Dicken's | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
secret mistress, now the subject of a film starring Ralph Fiennes. And | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
getting the hump. The camels back in the Gobi desert, thanks to a man | :16:56. | :17:07. | |
from Kent. The Princess Royal was in East | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
Grinstead to open new operating theatres at the Queen Victoria | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
Hospital. The Princess is patron of the hospital and the event was part | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
of its 150th anniversary celebrations. The QVH became world | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
famous when the surgeon McIndoe used pioneering plastic | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
surgery to treat aircrew with burns during World War II. It moved to its | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
present site in 1936 ` and Mcindoe began work there three years later. | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
In 1941 he formed the Guinea Pig Club for the service men he was | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
treating. The hospital was one of the | :17:42. | :17:42. | |
t I the the first to be granted Foundation | :17:43. | :17:42. | |
As a writer, he epitomised Victorian values with his stories of British | :17:43. | :20:00. | |
life. But what wasn't so well`known at the time was that Charles Dickens | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
had a secret relationship with a young actress. Now a new film called | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
The Invisible Woman, starring and directed by Ralph Fiennes, focuses | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
on that relationship. Charlie Rose reports. | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
He seemed to leak up into it with a mighty bound. The man famous for his | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
work but in his private life, and began to shift. In the Invisible | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
Woman a middle aged Dickens falls for the young actress Nelly who is | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
seduced by his work. I did not know much about Dickens and I was totally | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
transported by the story of this woman. It was really her story and | :20:37. | :20:45. | |
her dilemma moving it. Based on a biographical story, as a married man | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
Dickens was leading a double life. Ralph Fiennes left the author of the | :20:53. | :21:00. | |
book in no doubt as to his suitability for the role. I is said | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
to him early on, you were born to play Dickens! But before taking on | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
the role the actor had hardly any knowledge of Dickens. He did not | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
study him at school. So to solve the problem he said he had to have a | :21:16. | :21:28. | |
Dickens binge. I had the original Dickens country house. It is now a | :21:29. | :21:40. | |
school. It was a mistake. Did you send Katherine to me like she is the | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
mother of your children, how could you be so cruel? Kent is integral to | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
some of the finest works of Dickens. And through Nelly he sought an | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
escape from his isolation as a writer here. | :21:55. | :22:03. | |
For the first time ever, two wild camels have been released into their | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
natural habitat because of the work of a conservationist from Cranbrook. | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
John Hare left his home in the county and travelled more than 4000 | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
miles to Mongolia where last week the two males were led in to the | :22:15. | :22:22. | |
Gobi desert. Claudia Sermbezis has been to meet him. John Hare | :22:23. | :22:30. | |
encouraged the Chinese and Mongolian government to work together to | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
provide information through satellite collars. John receives | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
regular information from them. Will they settle? Will be linkup with | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
another wild herd? We do not know these and says. So this is a real | :22:48. | :22:57. | |
experiment. `` these answers. His work saw this camel confirmed as a | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
separate species in 2008. It also has incredible resilience. The | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
deserts of China and Mongolia are harsh and the camels in the Chinese | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
Gobi Desert have also survived weapons testing. It survived 43 | :23:13. | :23:24. | |
nuclear weapons tests. Not even the domestic camel can do this. So we | :23:25. | :23:32. | |
have a remarkable creature which is not improperly scientifically | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
investigated. This is worth preserving. It could have all kinds | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
of answers for us which could benefit mankind. John Hare is now | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
starting an educational campaign in schools in China and Mongolia to | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
help children understand the value of the wild camel. | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
One of the major selling points for the London 2012 Olympic bid was the | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
legacy the Games would leave. But what impact did they actually have? | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
Today at Canterbury College an Olympic Legacy road show began a | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
tour of the UK. Its aim ` to capitalise on the excitement | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
generated last summer ` and inspire teenagers to set up sporting | :24:13. | :24:14. | |
projects in their area. Neil Bell reports. | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
It may be more than a year since the country was gripped by Olympic | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
figure `` Olympic fever but the site and touch of a gold medal has lost | :24:24. | :24:34. | |
none of its magic. This is as close as we have got. The excitement has | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
been relived with the torches here and everything. We want to have the | :24:41. | :24:50. | |
whole experience all over again. We are here to inspire a generation. | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
Dozens of students from the south`east got the chance to try a | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
variety of sports. The emphasis was on teamwork and making a difference. | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
It is about empowering young people, that they can still be | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
inspired by that Olympic legacy. We are trying to give them a bit of | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
that magic back. The canoe slalom produced one of the most dramatic | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
finishes in any of the events last summer. Canoe slalom is quite a | :25:23. | :25:31. | |
small sport. So coming to events like this is a great opportunity. | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
Millions watched on TV, hundreds of thousands experienced it first hand. | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
The hope now is that many more will benefit from London 2012. | :25:43. | :25:51. | |
And it was a beautiful day to get outside and take some exercise. | :25:52. | :26:03. | |
There were some showers around today but these were passing through | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
pretty quickly. And temperatures mild for the time of year. But it | :26:09. | :26:19. | |
was also a breezy day. As we go into tonight we have some widespread and | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
quite dense fog as we go through the night. Initially we have some | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
showers and those will be using overnight. Quite a foggy picture by | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
Dawn. Temperatures still holding up at around 12 degrees. Some good news | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
for tomorrow, this area of low pressure will be to the north and | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
the west of us. We will mostly be staying dry with a lot of miles | :26:50. | :27:00. | |
there still around. `` mild air. And temperatures a little down on today | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
but still not too bad. As we head towards the weekend we will have | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
further up wrecks of rain overnight into Saturday. `` up wrecks of rain. | :27:10. | :27:19. | |
So for the weekend we will see some blustery showers around but it will | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
be staying miles. The rain clears out of the way on Saturday. Some | :27:25. | :27:36. | |
heavy showers around on Sunday. Well that is it for now but we will | :27:37. | :27:43. | |
be back with the eight o'clock update. Goodbye. | :27:44. | :27:48. |