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Welcome to South East Today, I'm That is something! | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Welcome to South East Today, I'm Natalie Graham. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
And I'm John Young. Tonight's top stories: | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
The power of the weather th`t's The power of the weather th`t's | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
bashing Sussex and Kent. There's more to come tonight, and | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
throughout the weekend. The cost of the flooding to our | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
businesses ` it's thought the clean`up bill in the south`east | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
clean`up bill in the south`dast could reach ?100 million. We are | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
trying to operate on one colputer, trying to operate on one computer, | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
one telephone line, so the girls are struggling at the moment. We | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
one telephone line, so the girls are struggling at the moment. Wd are | :00:38. | :00:37. | |
struggling at the moment. We are like tonight on the Sussex coast | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
offshore and on the banks of the Medway in Kent. | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
Also in tonight's programme: The tax loophole which means migrant | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
workers are undercutting other employees and getting more work as a | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
result. Is it the end of the road for one of | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
the oldest motor events in the country? The future of the Brighton | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
Speed Trials is in doubt. And she's big in Japan. We leet the | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
pop star who's mobbed abroad but unknown at home in Kent. | :01:09. | :01:09. | |
Good good evening. The power of the storm | :01:10. | :01:22. | |
that's been hammering the south`east was shown in its rawest forl this | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
was shown in its rawest form this afternoon, stunning people `s they | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
afternoon, stunning people as they watched parts of the cliffs at | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
Rock`a`Nore in Hastings simply collapse into the Channel. | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
Meanwhile, people living in low lying parts of Kent face yet another | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
anxious wait as more heavy rain is forecast. In a moment, we'll report | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
on how much the weather is costing businesses but first, let's go to | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
Juliette Parkin who joins us now from the Sussex coast at Shoreham. | :01:44. | :01:54. | |
Still an anxious night ahead? Yes, absolutely. The next high tide | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
Still an anxious night ahead? Yes, absolutely. The next high thde here | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
is expected in the early hotrs of tomorrow morning and is due to be as | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
high as the tide which we s`w earlier today at midday. It came | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
flooding through here and out earlier today at midday. It came | :02:06. | :02:06. | |
flooding through here and out onto this Maine road behind me, putting | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
properties here at risk. It has been a tense 24 hours for residents but | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
it is further east along the coast it is further east along the coast | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
where the bad weather today has really taken its toll. | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
That big lump is going to go! There we go, look. The moment the cliff | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
edge gave way, buckling unddr we go, look. The moment the cliff | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
edge gave way, buckling unddr the pressure of a saturated landscape. | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
Here we go! Oh, my God! This dramatic cliff fall | :02:31. | :02:48. | |
at Rock`a`Nore near Hastings happened at 1:30pm this aftdrnoon. | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
Although nobody was injured, it is a stark reminder of what can happen | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
when a period of what has been when a period of what has been | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
described as exceptional we`ther described as exceptional weather | :02:59. | :02:58. | |
batters the coast. It is am`zing, I batters the coast. It is amazing, I | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
have never seen anything like it in my life. Luckily, there was nobody | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
around who was past failings. `` the railings. People fish around there | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
sometimes. There was a lot lore sometimes. There was a lot lore | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
ready to come down. The thing we need to get across more than | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
anything else is to respect the water. It is dangerous, it hs fierce | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
water. It is dangerous, it is fierce and it weighs a tremendous `mount | :03:24. | :03:24. | |
when it hits you, so keep well and it weighs a tremendous amount | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
when it hits you, so keep wdll clear of it. Go and have a look but keep | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
when it hits you, so keep well clear of it. Go and have a look btt keep a | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
safe distance. Further west, in Shoreham, as the rain lashed down | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
and strong winds whipped up the waves, seaside residents were | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
protecting themselves against coastal flooding. Very worrhed. We | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
have been flooded once and I'm sure it will happen again. Residdnts are | :03:48. | :03:56. | |
worried as well in Yalding, in Kent, where they are still drying out at | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
the devastating floods on Christmas Day. Everything is being rahsed in | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
preparation. We are preparing for more rain at the weekend. We came | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
more rain at the weekend. Wd came here last night and put sandbags in | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
front of the flats, because people have had to move out. Obviotsly the | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
two ground floor flats were flooded. When high tide hit Shoreham | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
harbour just after midday today, harbour just after midday today | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
water swept into the boat yard at the Sussex yacht club, testhng | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
the Sussex yacht club, testing defences to the limit. The last | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
couple of months is the worst I have known it in my lifetime, behng | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
couple of months is the worst I have known it in my lifetime, being in | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
Shoreham. We are preparing for the worst and we think it will be out | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
into the clubhouse again. The Sussex coast has claimed two lives in | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
recent months. A 14`year`old boy was swept out to sea in Newhaven in | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
October and a 36 old woman died after running into stormy seas in | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
after running into stormy sdas in Brighton just before Christmas. | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
With events like this and more storms to come over the weekend | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
people are being urged to stay well away from the coast. Well strong | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
winds and waves are expected tonight and over the weekend and we are told | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
that there could be more flooding over the same areas, and thdre | :05:17. | :05:17. | |
that there could be more flooding over the same areas, and there could | :05:18. | :05:18. | |
over the same areas, and thdre could be more risk to those people near | :05:19. | :05:20. | |
be more risk to those peopld near the region's largest rivers. | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
Thanks, Juliette. Let's go to Simon Jones now, who is in Maidstone, | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
which is still counting the cost of last week's dramatic floods. The | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
average insurance claim there is expected to be upwards of ?20,0 0 | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
expected to be upwards of ?20,000 and the total cost to the south`east | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
could top ?100 million. Simon. Well, this restaurant here flooded | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
on Christmas Eve. They had 040 people booked in for Christmas | :05:42. | :05:43. | |
on Christmas Eve. They had 140 people booked in for Christlas Day, | :05:44. | :05:44. | |
people booked in for Christmas Day, all that had to be cancelled, | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
costing them money along with the cost for the clean`up. They are at | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
risk because of their location, right here by River Medway. Today | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
has been another wet and windy day and, tonight, there is a warning of | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
more potential flooding over the Medway over the next 48 hours. The | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
cost of the flooding is now becoming clearer. | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
Staff at this estate agents fought a futile battle against the rising | :06:09. | :06:09. | |
futile battle against the rhsing water on Christmas Day. Now they are | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
going to have to relocate for the next two months. I was absolutely | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
traumatised. It was devastating when I heard about it and I wasn't sure | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
what to expect. Everything has been written off, so we are having to | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
move out of the office. It hs written off, so we are having to | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
move out of the office. It is going to cost you a lot of money? I | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
imagine so, yes. I have the insurance people coming but as a | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
business, we are trying to operate on one computer, one telephone line. | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
So the girls are struggling at the moment. | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
Instead of entertaining on Boxing Day, at this restaurant, thdy | :06:45. | :06:45. | |
Instead of entertaining on Boxing Day, at this restaurant, they were | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
dealing with the aftermath of the flooding. It will cost around 6 ,000 | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
flooding. It will cost around 60,000 `?70,000 to bring everything to | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
normal, and to bring the people back in. At this picture framing | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
business, a flooded cellar has led to ruined stock. This is our print | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
studio. As you can see, we are having to completely refurbhsh | :07:06. | :07:06. | |
studio. As you can see, we `re having to completely refurbish it. | :07:07. | :07:06. | |
having to completely refurbhsh it. We have had to clear everything out. | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
This is the gallery, which, again, as you can see, we are having to | :07:13. | :07:20. | |
completely refurbish. The cost is also being felt by those who were | :07:21. | :07:21. | |
able to remain open for business. able to remain open for bushness. | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
The shops are reporting footfall down by 25%, spending is reflected | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
in that sort of figure as wdll, in that sort of figure as wdll, | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
because you haven't got the same amount of people going through the | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
doors. A final clean`up at Loch Meadow Centre, now open for business | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
again, with the hope that the agencies will review how thd | :07:42. | :07:42. | |
agencies will review how the flooding will be dealt with a game. | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
We were all aware that Maidstone was not going to be flooded as ht was | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
not going to be flooded as it was over the future but hopefully we can | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
sit down and work it out. Btt it will not be cheap. I have had | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
will not be cheap. I have h`d figures of tens of millions banded | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
around and I think it is not inaccurate. The cost could be more | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
of that because we are in the middle of an ongoing flood situation with | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
more predicted in the coming weeks. But the message from Maidstone is, | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
we are open for business. All eyes are now on the rainfall | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
situation over the next 48 hours. Let's talk to the leader of | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
Maidstone Council. A lot of businesses have told us, like | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
residents have over the last few days, there simply wasn't enough | :08:30. | :08:30. | |
warning, particularly here hn warning, particularly here hn | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
Maidstone. I think the floods in Maidstone, particularly in the town | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
centre, have caught us by strprise to a degree. The cancer was geared | :08:40. | :08:41. | |
up for Christmas Eve, really to a degree. The cancer was geared | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
up for Christmas Eve, reallx centres up for Christmas Eve, really centres | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
were open and we dealt with the most vulnerable families as soon as we | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
could on Christmas Eve and throughout Christmas. We have now | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
got to do the clearer operation to help businesses get through this | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
and, in particular, to get them trading again. If it took you by | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
surprise, are you admitting not enough was done? It is down to the | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
Environment Agency to give warnings, they did that on the internet | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
Environment Agency to give warnings, they did that on the interndt and | :09:08. | :09:07. | |
the radio and the council responded the radio and the council rdsponded | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
on Christmas Eve. We have staff coming back to work that afternoon | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
on Christmas Eve to start getting stuff in place, but now we have to | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
go through this situation are getting businesses back on their | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
feet in Maidstone town centre. How worried are you about the ndxt | :09:23. | :09:24. | |
feet in Maidstone town centre. How worried are you about the next 48 | :09:25. | :09:24. | |
worried are you about the ndxt 8 hours, particularly here? The | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
message from the Environment Agency to us and to Kent county cotncil is | :09:29. | :09:30. | |
to us and to Kent county council is there is likely to be more flooding. | :09:31. | :09:32. | |
The extent they suggest is it there is likely to be more flooding. | :09:33. | :09:34. | |
The extent they suggest is it will not be as much as Christmas Eve and | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
Christmas Day. However, we need to be vigilant and need to be able to | :09:39. | :09:40. | |
be vigilant and need to be `ble to respond as soon as it occurs and the | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
council is geared up to do so. Thank you be joining us and businesses | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
you be joining us and busindsses like this one are hopeful that it | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
won't be as bad as before, but a lot of concern again tonight. | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
Simon, thank you very much. Rachel Mackley, our weather | :09:53. | :09:54. | |
forecaster, joins us now. Rachel, what's the big issue tonight and | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
into the weekend? Well, it hs what's the big issue tonight and | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
into the weekend? Well, it is a into the weekend? Well, it hs a | :10:02. | :10:02. | |
combination of factors. Already, we have seen an awful lot of r`infall. | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
The rivers of all, the ground is saturated and on top of that, today, | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
we have seen naturally the highest occurring tide that we will see | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
throughout the year. And on top of that, there are strong winds and | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
heavy rain on the south coast. Gusts of up to 60 mph. Into Saturday, the | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
winds are going to be easing but there is still a lot of concern | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
about Sunday heavy rain and strong winds. And we will have more | :10:30. | :10:31. | |
about Sunday heavy rain and strong winds. And we will have mord in the | :10:32. | :10:32. | |
winds. And we will have more in the forecast at the end of the | :10:33. | :10:34. | |
programme. Thanks very much. In a moment: | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
the damage the Brighton Bomb did to the Northern Ireland peace process, | :10:38. | :10:38. | |
revealed in secret Government files. It's been revealed that eastern | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
European migrants in the south`east European migrants in the south`east | :10:46. | :10:47. | |
are being favoured by emploxees are being favoured by employees | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
because they cost less to elploy than British workers. | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
Some then claim benefits to top up their wage, but critics say this | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
kind of undercutting makes it hard kind of undercutting makes it hard | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
for young people to get jobs in the industry. Rachel Royce has been | :11:02. | :11:09. | |
investigating. Sonny is an apprentice on a building | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
site in Tunbridge Wells. He is one of the lucky ones. The developers | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
here have committed to ensuring that 20% of their jobs go to loc`l | :11:18. | :11:19. | |
20% of their jobs go to local workers. Even so, he found ht a | :11:20. | :11:21. | |
workers. Even so, he found it a struggle to get in. It took me maybe | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
about 50 applications, from September last year. And was that | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
surprising to you? No, it is a known fact. Building sites throughout the | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
south`east use migrant labour. fact. Building sites throughout the | :11:38. | :11:39. | |
south`east use migrant labour. There are Lithuanians on this sitd. They | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
are often experienced and prepared to work for less than similarly | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
skilled British workers and a tax loophole allows for the employer not | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
to pay National Insurance for foreign workers. Building industry | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
fair wage campaigner Stephen Lewis says some workers go further and use | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
workers employed from agencies workers employed from agenches | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
abroad who do not have to p`y the minimum wage. All of the building | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
minimum wage. All of the buhlding sites use migrant workers, and the | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
simple thing is cost. Why are they cheaper? The first two years, they | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
come under a tax loophole, a cheaper? The first two years, they | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
come under a tax loophole, a tax loophole in which they are dntitled | :12:15. | :12:15. | |
to work for less than the minimum to work for less than the mhnimum | :12:16. | :12:17. | |
wage because the benefits system wage because the benefits system | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
supplements their income, and they get housing benefit and medhcal | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
care. It works quite well for us. We basically use the benefits system to | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
help build our houses. National Insurance and attack rates `re | :12:34. | :12:34. | |
help build our houses. National Insurance and attack rates are much, | :12:35. | :12:34. | |
Insurance and attack rates `re much, much lower in eastern Europe | :12:35. | :12:35. | |
Insurance and attack rates are much, much lower in eastern Europd and | :12:36. | :12:35. | |
much lower in eastern Europe and they are also paying back to their | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
home countries. The Inland Revenue are not happy with this sittation. | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
They described it as aggressive tax avoidance. Jordan Burrow are things | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
he has lost out to cheap foreign labour. He studied carpentry | :12:50. | :12:50. | |
he has lost out to cheap foreign labour. He studied carpentrx at | :12:51. | :12:51. | |
labour. He studied carpentry at college but cannot find construction | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
work. They have all said thdre are no vacancies and they don't need to | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
take new members on. The Government say they are aware of the tax | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
say they are aware of the t`x loophole and plan to end it in | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
April. There are no plans to end the system that allow workers to be paid | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
less than the minimum wage. Inside Out on Monday will bd | :13:13. | :13:14. | |
less than the minimum wage. Inside Out on Monday will be looking | :13:15. | :13:14. | |
Inside Out on Monday will bd looking into the impact of ten years of | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
eastern European immigration. That's at 7:30pm on BBC One. | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
The jury in a human trafficking trial has retired to considdr its | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
verdict at Hove Crown Court. Matay Puskas, Victoria Brown and Zoltan | :13:27. | :13:28. | |
Mohatski, alongside brothers Istfan and Peter Toft, are accused of | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
smuggling more than 50 women into the UK in connection with | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
prostitution. The family of a 17`year`old boy from | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
Rochester, who was killed when he was hit by a car in the early hours | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
of News Year's Day, has said he will live forever in their hearts, | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
prayers and dreams. Augustine Carnell died after he was hht by a | :13:49. | :13:50. | |
Carnell died after he was hit by a car as he walked along the @229 on | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
Bluebell Hill. It's thought the King's School A`level student was | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
returning home after a night out. Parts of Kent will no longer be a | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
so`called "dumping ground" for cared`for children, according to the | :14:06. | :14:07. | |
Head of Children's Services at Kent County Council. The pledge comes as | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
the Government today announced reforms to where looked`after | :14:11. | :14:11. | |
reforms to where looked`aftdr children can be placed and, as Peter | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
Whittlesea reports, that includes a ban on routinely moving children | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
miles from their homes. As a child, Sophie was taken into | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
care. She says she never felt safe. That is why she welcomes today's | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
announcements that there will be stricter rules about where | :14:32. | :14:33. | |
residential care homes can be opened. They choose a location where | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
the houses are cheaper, bec`use opened. They choose a locathon where | :14:37. | :14:38. | |
the houses are cheaper, bec`use it is financially viable, and that | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
creates problems for young people because they are areas wherd there | :14:43. | :14:44. | |
because they are areas where there are gangs, drugs, violence, all | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
these sorts of problems. Today, the Government also ended the practice | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
of sending children miles away from where they live into care. Last | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
year, figures showed 1200 looked after children were moved to Kent | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
from 95 different local authorities, with the numbers highest in Thanet, | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
where 243 of the children were with the numbers highest in Thanet, | :15:05. | :15:05. | |
where 243 of the children wdre sent. where 243 of the children wdre sent. | :15:06. | :15:07. | |
Today's new measures have been Today's new measures have bden | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
welcomed by Kent county council. We are delighted that the Government | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
have announced that councils will be required to place children for whom | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
they are responsible in the care system much closer to home. We have | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
seen places like Thanet in Kent induced as a dumping ground for some | :15:22. | :15:22. | |
very vulnerable children placed induced as a dumping ground for some | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
very vulnerable children pl`ced home very vulnerable children pl`ced home | :15:26. | :15:27. | |
at the late hundreds of milds away from their home authority and that | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
is unacceptable. The new measures is unacceptable. The new me`sures | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
say the home should only opdn in safe areas and the locations will be | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
in the public domain. There will be a strengthening of the state | :15:38. | :15:39. | |
a strengthening of the statd intervention powers. This is claimed | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
it will help to prevent high concentrations of children's homes. | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
Here in Margate, all parties have been concerned about the nulber of | :15:50. | :15:50. | |
been concerned about the number of children's homes opened up hn | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
been concerned about the nulber of children's homes opened up in areas | :15:54. | :15:53. | |
children's homes opened up hn areas considered a private. They fear it | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
will pose challenges to children who are already deemed vulnerable. Those | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
children already in care will remain where they are, but according to the | :16:01. | :16:02. | |
county council, the new ruling where they are, but according to the | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
county council, the new rulhng will affect new placements which will see | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
fewer children being sent to Kent, relieving pressure on children's | :16:10. | :16:17. | |
services and school places. The top story tonight: | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
The power of the storm that's been bashing the south`east has been all | :16:22. | :16:23. | |
too visible today. These were the scenes at Rock`a`Nore | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
at Hastings this afternoon. The region tonight is bracing itself for | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
more bad weather over the weekend. Also in tonight's programme: | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
The future of Brighton's Speed Trials is in doubt, amid concerns | :16:36. | :16:36. | |
about safety after a death at Trials is in doubt, amid concerns | :16:37. | :16:38. | |
about safety after a death `t the about safety after a death at the | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
event last year. And big In Japan, but hardlx heard | :16:42. | :16:43. | |
And big In Japan, but hardly heard of at home. We speak to the Kent pop | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
star who's hit the big time abroad. 2014 marks 30 years since an IRA | :16:47. | :16:58. | |
bomb ripped apart the Grand Hotel in Brighton during the Conserv`tive | :16:59. | :16:59. | |
Brighton during the Conservative Party conference. Five people died, | :17:00. | :17:07. | |
31 were injured. And today, secret Government files, that have just | :17:08. | :17:09. | |
been released, suggest the long`term consequences for the countrx | :17:10. | :17:10. | |
been released, suggest the long`term consequences for the country could | :17:11. | :17:11. | |
consequences for the countrx could have even more devastating than they | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
were, with the attempted assassination of Margaret Thatcher | :17:15. | :17:15. | |
and her Government almost derailing and her Government almost derailing | :17:16. | :17:16. | |
delicate negotiations for pdace in delicate negotiations for pdace in | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
Northern Ireland. Sara Smith has been investigating. | :17:22. | :17:31. | |
October 1984, and the bomb has brought death and terror to | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
Brighton. Beneath the debris, dozens of people lay buried. One question | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
was the Prime Minister safe? The IRA's number one target survived. We | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
were very lucky. But today's release of the Government papers by the | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
National archive shows how close the then Prime Minister came to pulling | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
the plug on fledgling Anglo`Irish peace talks. The talks were very | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
secret. At a high level, the peace talks. The talks were very | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
secret. At a high level, thd Cabinet secret. At a high level, the Cabinet | :18:03. | :18:03. | |
Secretary and his counterpart, that is not insignificant, but they were | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
very careful to keep them qtiet But on a note written on briefing papers | :18:08. | :18:09. | |
within hours of the blast, Largaret within hours of the blast, Margaret | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
Thatcher made her feelings on those talks continuing clear. "the events | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
talks continuing clear. "thd events of Thursday night on Brighton mean | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
most ``we must go very slow on these talks, if not stop them. It could | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
look as if we were being bombed talks, if not stop them. It could | :18:27. | :18:27. | |
look as if we were being bolbed into look as if we were being bolbed into | :18:28. | :18:27. | |
making concessions to the republic". making concessions to the rdpublic". | :18:28. | :18:35. | |
So she is really concerned that in the immediate aftermath of the | :18:36. | :18:36. | |
attack that if they continud the immediate aftermath of the | :18:37. | :18:38. | |
attack that if they continud to negotiate, it would look as though | :18:39. | :18:39. | |
it was only because of the bomb In it was only because of the bomb. In | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
another handwritten note a week later, she writes that she believes | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
it will be the start of a sdries of attacks. Here, she is concerned that | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
the bomb is not a one`off, that there will be a concerted series of | :18:57. | :18:58. | |
there will be a concerted sdries of attacks by the IRA on the British | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
government, the British mainland and perhaps her. So she is showhng some | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
deep concern here, and that is unveiling the mask that you see | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
generally of Margaret Thatcher. You actually see what the Prime Minister | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
was thinking, the influences that she had, their decisions, who was | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
trying to change her mind, and she had, their decisions, who was | :19:22. | :19:22. | |
trying to change her mind, and her stubbornness at times, and her own | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
personal beliefs. It was only the continued urging of her Foreign | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
Office that managed to push negotiations ahead, and a ydar | :19:33. | :19:34. | |
negotiations ahead, and a year later, despite and not becatse of | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
the bombing, the Anglo`Irish agreement would finally be | :19:38. | :19:37. | |
announced. It's been a fixture on the Brighton | :19:38. | :19:50. | |
seafront for more than a century, thought to be the oldest running | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
motor sport event in the UK, but thousands of people are now worried | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
it may never be held again. Last year, the Brighton Speed Trials | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
were cancelled following the death of a competitor in 2012. And, so | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
far, the city council hasn't accepted an application to host it | :20:05. | :20:05. | |
this year. Charlie Rose is in this year. Charlie Rose is in | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
Brighton now. Yes, back in October, Brighton and | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
Hove City Council sent an elail Yes, back in October, Brighton and | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
Hove City Council sent an email to the chairman of the Hove motor club | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
and said it did not want to take the booking for the speed trial event | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
for 2014, but since then, the motor club has gathered an 8,000 strong | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
petition in support of getting this petition in support of getting this | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
year's event back on track. So could we now see a change of heart from | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
the council? The accident was very much on | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
acceleration in the national speed trials on Brighton seafront. It has | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
been part of Brighton for wdll over a century. But last year's Speed | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
Trials were cancelled, following the death in 2012 of a competitor. | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
Charlotte tag was fatally injured when her motorcycle sidecar hit a | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
wall at 100 mph. Rider Roger Hollingshead suffered seriots | :21:03. | :21:02. | |
Hollingshead suffered serious injuries. A jury inquest returned a | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
verdict of accidental death. No safety concerns have led to fears | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
that this year's event will also be a nonstarter. It is such an historic | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
event and draws huge crowds into Brighton. It will have a dr`matic | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
effect on the club's finances, effect on the club's financds, | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
obviously, for a start, and also, it is our premier event. We do run some | :21:28. | :21:28. | |
other events but this is the other events but this is the | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
Brighton Speed Trials and so many clubs come down further, it would be | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
devastating for it not to run again. Brighton and Hove City | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
Council says Madeira Drive does not have a good surface for high speeds | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
and it has a responsibility for making sure events in the city | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
and it has a responsibility for making sure events in the chty safe. | :21:48. | :21:47. | |
It is nothing to do with being It is nothing to do with behng | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
anti`car or anti`vehicle, this is done purely on the recommendations | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
for safety grounds. But the Brighton and Hove Motor Club says thd | :21:58. | :21:59. | |
for safety grounds. But the Brighton and Hove Motor Club says the event | :22:00. | :21:59. | |
and Hove Motor Club says thd event speaks to the motorsport | :22:00. | :22:01. | |
Association's strict rules of safety. `` sticks too. So f`r, | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
Association's strict rules of safety. `` sticks too. So far, 8,500 | :22:08. | :22:07. | |
people have signed an onlind people have signed an online | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
petition to get the council to run the event and keep this part of | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
Brighton's history alive. And those first speed trials were all the way | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
back in 1905 and saw three world records broken. As for this year, a | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
final decision is expected on the 23rd of January. | :22:26. | :22:27. | |
Thank you, Charlie. Now, to the story of a mothdr from | :22:28. | :22:29. | |
Now, to the story of a mother from Kent, who's so well known as a pop | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
star in Japan that she has to be accompanied when she visits the | :22:35. | :22:42. | |
country. Charlie Jax has sold `` Charlie Jacks has sold thousands of | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
albums in the Far East and tells us she's pretty much mobbed whdrever | :22:47. | :22:47. | |
she's pretty much mobbed wherever she goes. | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
Here, the mother of one works as a make`up artist with only a few | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
people aware of her singer career in the Land of the Rising Sun. Ian | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
Palmer spoke to the woman who's big in Japan at her home in Goudhurst, | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
near Tunbridge Wells. The pop star loved by millions in | :23:01. | :23:02. | |
south`east Asia, but unheard of here. Charlie Jacks' singing career | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
began following a one`off atdition that was released in Japan ten years | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
ago. # Dream of me when you are safe .. | :23:14. | :23:15. | |
# Dream of me when you are safe... The next thing that I heard from | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
them is that it had sold out in a day, 35,000 units, so we thhnk | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
them is that it had sold out in a day, 35,000 units, so we think we | :23:24. | :23:24. | |
day, 35,000 units, so we thhnk we should do something else. At that | :23:25. | :23:25. | |
point I was going, yes, I al should do something else. At that | :23:26. | :23:27. | |
point I was going, yes, I am going to be famous, laughing all the way | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
to the bank expert nine number one singles and six albums later, the | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
28`year`old is still popular in the Far East. Here she is in Tokyo | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
during her first promotional tour. Fans queued around the block to get | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
her signature. They took me to one shop and they were playing my | :23:47. | :23:47. | |
her signature. They took me to one shop and they were playing ly songs | :23:48. | :23:49. | |
in the shop as I walked in `nd then all of the people came over and | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
asking for my autograph. It is amazing, the best feeling ever. Me? | :23:54. | :24:05. | |
You want my autograph? Why? At home, Charlie's musical career is | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
largely unknown. The mother of one sometimes work as a make`up artist | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
with her mother, who is a photographer. Alison Webster says | :24:14. | :24:15. | |
she is proud of her daughter's second career. Charlotte le`rns some | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
second career. Charlotte learns some Japanese while we were over there | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
and put it into one of her concerts, it was great fun and I was | :24:23. | :24:24. | |
full of pride. Charlie writds and full of pride. Charlie writds and | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
records her songs in Los Angeles in the United States. Her ambition is | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
to have at least one hit here in the UK. | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
So if I could give you One Direction fame, would you take it? Yeah. | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
Yeah, why not? The new albul, Can You Hear Me, is out there. Her goal | :24:47. | :24:54. | |
for the next few months, shd You Hear Me, is out there. Her goal | :24:55. | :24:55. | |
for the next few months, she says, is to raise money for the charity | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
Help For Heroes. Charlie Jacks, big in Japan, and of | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
course, the big story here is the weather. We heard from you only | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
about the strange, nations of things happening, what is the detail | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
about the strange, nations of things happening, what is the detahl for | :25:13. | :25:12. | |
happening, what is the detail for the weekend? The one good thing | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
happening is Saturday afternoon does not look too bad if you are planning | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
to be outdoors but there is no let up over the next couple of days, | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
particularly for Sunday, strong winds and heavy rain and still some | :25:24. | :25:25. | |
winds and heavy rain and sthll some rain around for Saturday, | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
particularly during the morning and still valid for Sunday. | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
Another warning, expecting gusts of `60 mph, 10`20 millimetres of rain, | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
which does mean potential risks for flooding, particularly for coastal | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
areas. If you have any concdrns check with flood line. Earlier, we | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
were saying we have seen sole heavy, squally showers and we have | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
seen gusts along the south coast of up to 60 mph. Even the aver`ge wind | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
speed was around 25`30 mph. Temperatures today, nine or 10 | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
degrees, feeling really unpleasant and as we go through tonight, we | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
continue to see some fairly squally showers. Then from midnight, mostly | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
dry for a time but then we see further rain pushing up frol the | :26:11. | :26:12. | |
south`west. We start Saturday on further rain pushing up from the | :26:13. | :26:14. | |
south`west. We start Saturd`y on a rather wet road. Overnight | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
temperatures staying rather mild, only six of seven degrees along the | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
coast. Saturday, those winds will be easing along, blustery with lots of | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
rain around during the morning. easing along, blustery with lots of | :26:28. | :26:29. | |
rain around during the morning. Not as heavy as what we will sed | :26:30. | :26:31. | |
rain around during the mornhng. Not as heavy as what we will see on | :26:32. | :26:31. | |
as heavy as what we will sed on Sunday, but by the time we get to | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
Saturday afternoon, much drher and brighter story. Wet during the | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
morning and by the afternoon, we start a season breaks in the cloud | :26:40. | :26:40. | |
start a season breaks in thd cloud cover, even some sunshine, dare we | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
say it? Nine or 10 degrees, and even though the winds have eased off, | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
still 15`20 mph with strongdr though the winds have eased off | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
still 15`20 mph with strongdr gusts along the south coast. Through | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
tomorrow night, we see some clearer skies, temperatures falling, closer | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
to one or two degrees, so the unsettled weather we do see could | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
have a wintry element. As wd start Sunday, potentially problems with | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
some fog and mist and also some ice. Initially, we start dry but you can | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
see it won't stay that way. We have got really strong winds, and even | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
into the new week, squally showers and strong winds stay with us. | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
and strong It really does feel unremitting, | :27:19. | :27:20. | |
It really does feel unremitting doesn't it? And the weather is the | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
big national story tonight, another massive winter storm has swept | :27:25. | :27:26. | |
big national story tonight, another massive winter storm has swdpt up | :27:27. | :27:26. | |
the entire west coast of the UK, the entire west coast of the UK, | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
with winds up to 90 mph. The effects are also being felt in the | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
south`east. People are being told to stay away from the sea, this cliff | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
fall happened today in Hasthngs Rachel and I will be back with an | :27:41. | :27:42. | |
Rachel and I will be back whth an update at half past ten. From all of | :27:43. | :27:44. | |
us, goodbye. | :27:45. | :27:46. |