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Welcome to South East Today, I'm Rob the BBC News at Six, so it's | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Welcome to South East Today, I'm Rob Smith. And I'm Polly Evans. | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Tonight's top stories. The Afghan migrant rescued from the channel on | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
a makeshift raft vows he'll try to make it to Kent again. I until I am | :00:13. | :00:23. | |
at my destination, I would do it again. You would not want to go much | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
further than going across the village pond. 22 arrests during | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
raids in Kent as police investigate alleged child sexual exploitation. | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
Also in tonight's programme: five years after the E. Coli outbreak | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
that affected schools of children, families feel they could be a repeat | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
outbreak. Hastings faces out huge concentration to businesses that | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
lost out when the peer had to be shut for safety reasons. Astrology | :00:56. | :01:05. | |
come I am a Pisces. He has escaped from the monkey cage. Robin Ince | :01:06. | :01:06. | |
comes to Canterbury. Good evening. An Afghan migrant | :01:07. | :01:18. | |
rescued trying to cross the channel on a home made raft says he will try | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
to make it to the UK again. Asif Hussainkhil spent three weeks | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
building the vessel behind sand dunes in Calais, he made a mast from | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
crutches and used a bed sheet for a sail. He had no rudder, compass or | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
food and had started to develop hypothermia when he was saved two | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
nautical miles off the coast of France. Jon Hunt has our report. | :01:37. | :01:45. | |
This is the moment Asif Hussainkhil was rescued two nautical miles of | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
the French coast. He later told reporters that he was not frightened | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
of drama. `` drowning. I was unhappy they call me. I was thinking about | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
going to my destination point in England. Until I am there and at my | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
destination, I would do it again and again. There is no other way to get | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
into England. His makeshift boat was built of six planks of wood, three | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
buoys strapped underneath for flotation. The bed sheet as the | :02:15. | :02:25. | |
sail. He had no rudder, compass or food when he was rescued. He was | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
dressed only in a thin windcheater. I cannot get the village pond on | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
this, but he would not would get much further. It gets choppy and | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
choppier. He was close to the coast. But he was going nowhere. It was | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
luck that he was spotted sooner rather than later. It was a crew | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
member looking out from eight Bury who spotted him as he was kneeling | :02:47. | :02:56. | |
near the busy shipping lanes. `` from a ferry. A 23`year`old Afghan | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
migrant travelled through several countries to reach Calais. Last | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
month, our cameras filmed migrants risking their lives riding on axles | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
of vehicles. Five man died in February. It shows | :03:07. | :03:30. | |
how well British border controls are working, but what we really need to | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
see is to get France to clear the camps and repatriate people back to | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
their home countries. It is hard to see why a man from Afghanistan | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
should need a asylum claim given that we have liberated that country. | :03:44. | :03:51. | |
His previous attempts to go across as being followed. He said he will | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
try again to get England in the coming weeks. Our reporter is now | :03:56. | :04:04. | |
live in the Port of Dover. By all accounts, he is remarkably lucky to | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
be picked up when he was. He is fortunate. Just looking at the | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
pictures of that contraction, but I am surprised that it would last only | :04:15. | :04:22. | |
time in my bath tub. He was lucky that the conditions were good. | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
Further out, it could have been a different picture. There was a sharp | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
eyed crew member, for that very, who radioed the Coast Guard, and he even | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
positioned the ship to provide breakwater. As a spokesman said, an | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
attempt to cross the channel could have ended in disaster. Police in | :04:45. | :04:57. | |
Kent have arrested 22 people during a series of early morning raids in | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
one of the biggest operations of its kind into allegations of child | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
sexual exploitation. Detectives targeted an organised criminal | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
network accused of exploiting girls from the Slovakian Roma community. | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
In a coordinated investigation arrests were made in other parts of | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
the country including Leeds and Birmingham and also here in | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
Gravesend, Folkestone and Dover from where our Special Correspondent | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
Colin Campbell reports. The simultaneous raids began at 7am. 30 | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
is dresses were targeted. The men arrested were all of Slovakian Roma | :05:25. | :05:34. | |
origin. These are final ball young girls `` vulnerable who have been | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
drugged. The impact is indescribable. It is a case that | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
seems to have similarities to the child sex pool `` sexual | :05:47. | :05:57. | |
exploitation in Rochdale. This has been a challenging investigation | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
involving multiple victims. It is claimed that the girls were sold at | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
takeaway records `` restaurants. They were abused at Private | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
addresses. The grooming and abuse of children, whether it be by | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
individuals or gangs of people, is sadly very widespread. It isn't by | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
any means confined to one particular community or one particular social | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
grouping. Police say they have identified 14 victims. They are aged | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
between 12 and 16. Seven of them remain in the care of social | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
services. Others may be victims of the worst may not be. We will work | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
hard to get the whole story is from the children, but it is not that | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
easy, and we had to take it carefully. Making arrests in Dover, | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
Folkestone and Gravesend, more than 300 police officers were involved in | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
the operation, supported by the National crime agency. Kent Police | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
say they acted as soon as they could. | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
Coming up, plans to cut more than 50 jobs at Brighton's city College. | :07:09. | :07:22. | |
The families of children who contracted E. Coli who contracted | :07:23. | :07:30. | |
the disease at petting farm say that not enough is being done to prevent | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
it happening again. 76 children fell ill after visiting Godstone farm, | :07:35. | :07:43. | |
and they have won pay`outs totalling ?10 million. A new code of practice | :07:44. | :07:51. | |
has been established. Struck down with E. Coli, Claudia was so ill | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
that she was kept on dialysis for three weeks. We sat in shifts while | :07:57. | :08:04. | |
the other one slept. It was terrifying as a parent. All of | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
Lucy's children were taken ill with E. Coli after a day out Godstone | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
farm five years ago. Only now both had they won compensation for what | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
they went through. Ordered damages in the world do not make up for what | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
Claudio and all of the other children went through at that time. | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
But it is good to be able to draw a line and move on. Having to go to | :08:29. | :08:37. | |
hospital again made me realise how series my case was, and how it | :08:38. | :08:47. | |
affected my life. Godstone farm shut for weeks after the first case of E. | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
Coli was reported, reopening three months later. 76 children became | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
ill. The most serious ten cases have been awarded millions of pounds in | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
compensation. Today, concern that more needs to be done to stop it | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
happening again. Farms, and the open farming industry, could put | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
something together so that parents can assess the risk, and informed | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
risk, and decide whether or not to take the children to that van `` to | :09:22. | :09:35. | |
that farm. With the threat of future kidney problems having `` hanging | :09:36. | :09:44. | |
over them, Claudia will be living in the shadow of E. Coli for the rest | :09:45. | :09:53. | |
of her life. Hastings Borough Council is facing a bill of hundreds | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
of thousands of pounds after it lost a High Court appeal over the closure | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
of Hastings Pier. The court upheld a ruling that it must pay compensation | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
to businesses that missed out on trade after a large part of the pier | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
was shut in 2006. Our reporter is in Hastings now. What is the background | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
this case? Hastings Council took the decision to close the pier back in | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
2006 on safety grounds. After commissioning a survey that found | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
that there were serious defects to the iconic structure. As a result, | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
businesses say that they were left out of pocket. Among them, stylus | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
sports, who had to let go 40 people. They went into liquidation as a | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
result in 2012. They are now seeking in excess of ?2 billion of | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
compensation plus costs. `` ?2 million. What are the council | :10:53. | :11:06. | |
saying? Hastings Council say that they are disappointed. The money | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
will have to come out of the general part of Hastings Council. But the | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
true culprit of this are the owners, who disappeared and left the | :11:22. | :11:23. | |
council holding the bill. There are fears today for students | :11:24. | :11:36. | |
at one of Sussex's largest colleges. Brighton's City College needs to cut | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
nearly fifty staff ` unions say that'll mean some courses are | :11:41. | :11:42. | |
scrapped, along with support for pupils who pupils who need extra | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
help because of learning difficulties. The college has been | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
told it's got to find one and a half million pounds worth of savings ` | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
and as John Young reports, it appears that some practical courses | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
are already running out of basic equipment. It is a city centre | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
college, not a university. A place for people who want to crack on with | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
a hands`on career. Targeting students who may not have been | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
high`flyers at school. But that means that the extra learning | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
support on offer is often important. That is why unions are worried this | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
will go. It is not just this soft `` this college that is suffering. But | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
it is made much worse by this idea that you can cut the resources and | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
the teaching and the help that is going to the most needy students. | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
That is unacceptable today, tomorrow and for ever. It is vocational | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
courses which are the mainstay, but to pupils say they have run out off | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
the wallpaper and brushes for the causes that some of them are paying | :12:43. | :12:50. | |
for. Two women on different courses told their stories. Rebecca has | :12:51. | :12:59. | |
cancer. I have very low self`confidence. They do not | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
understand how much the help means to me. It helps with everything. If | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
I'm not there, they write my notes I can catch up. This woman has had a | :13:12. | :13:21. | |
liver transplant. It is so important that people with disabilities are | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
supported to stay in education, so that they can have social mobility. | :13:27. | :13:34. | |
So people can achieve. This college is not the only one facing problems. | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
This college in Hastings was suffering before but it is now rated | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
highly. This evening, the college said that it was consulting on its | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
financial difficulties, but stressed that its commitment to those with | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
learning difficulties was as strong as ever. It has just gone 6:40pm. An | :13:55. | :14:02. | |
Afghan migrant has been rescued trying to cross the Channel on a | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
raft built of wood and bed sheets. He found `` he spent three weeks | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
building the vessel. Also in tonight's programme. Robin | :14:12. | :14:28. | |
Ince has escaped from radio to talk psychology in Canterbury. Sunshine | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
and showers and more persistent rain tomorrow. | :14:35. | :14:46. | |
It's just over two weeks to go until the polls open for this year's | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
European and council elections. Today it was the Green Party | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
launching their campaign for votes in the South East. They chose | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
Brighton, a city where the party runs the council and has an MP. Our | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
Political Reporter Ellie Price went along. What is big and red and green | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
all over? A battle bus that runs on reclaimed chip fat. The Green party | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
run `` won a European Parliament seat for the south`east. This time | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
round, they want to seats. Green party is standing up for more jobs | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
across the EU, social justice, challenging monetisation. But the EU | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
needs to be far more accountable. That is but long been a policy of | :15:30. | :15:39. | |
ours. But here, the Green party are established. Caroline Lucas won her | :15:40. | :15:49. | |
seat in 2010. They also control the city council. But that has not been | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
without controversy. But has the experience of power helped or | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
hindered the party? Do think they have done a good job? I think people | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
have to get used to it, because it is a different approach. I live in | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
the city centre, and I am very happy with it. I have always voted for | :16:11. | :16:18. | |
another party, but Caroline Lucas is good. I am very impressed with her. | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
I think there are very pro`cyclist, and very anti`car. My business is | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
with the cart. So you will not vote for them? With the bin strike, I | :16:31. | :16:38. | |
will not buy them. I think there have been a lot of good | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
achievements, the way the council have changed the seven dials area. | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
These are popular policies. When it comes to the European elections, | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
what people are voting on our the bigger picture issues. There will be | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
taking that message across the south`east and the run`up to the | :17:00. | :17:07. | |
22nd. Brighton and Hove an obvious place to launch the campaign? It is | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
the party's spiritual homeland. They have an MP and a council seat. `` | :17:14. | :17:21. | |
they run the council. Caroline Lucas's message was that they offer | :17:22. | :17:29. | |
the only viable alternative to the established parties. She said that | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
the UK Independence party had a high threat to the Conservatives, and any | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
potential Green voters would not be tempted by that party anyway. UK | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
Independence party are holding a special conference. You remember | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
that a council candidate was accused of racism following message is that | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
he made online. Today, we are told that Nigel Karadzic is launching a | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
comeback. And in the run up to the Local and | :18:01. | :18:23. | |
European elections, which take place on the 22nd of May, we'll be | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
bringing you more details of the main parties in the south east and | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
their campaigns, plus giving you information about all the other | :18:31. | :18:32. | |
political parties asking for your vote. And there's in`depth coverage | :18:33. | :18:34. | |
on our website, bbc.co.uk/news. And in the run up to the Local and | :18:35. | :18:35. | |
European elections, which You can also question the candidates on BBC | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
radio. Competing at the highest level | :18:38. | :19:04. | |
requires talent, hard work and good health but Tonbridge bobsleigh | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
athlete Dave Coleman is determined to continue his career despite being | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
diagnosed with colitis. The illness attacks the digestive system and its | :19:11. | :19:12. | |
symptoms include diarrhoea, tiredness and loss of weight. But | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
the 27`year`old still managed to make it to the Winter Olympics | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
earlier this year and has already set his sights on competing again in | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
four years' time, as Neil Bell reports. For over a decade, Dave | :19:23. | :19:31. | |
Coleman has dedicated his life to sport. A nationally ranked discus | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
thrower, it was conversion to the Bobsleigh that earned him success. | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
His preparations were disturbed by colitis, but with his team`mates | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
encouragement, he made it to the Olympics. It is ported to understand | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
that if you have to go, you have to go. It is huge benefit, because the | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
stress factor, the embarrassment, it starts to flare up again. In the | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
years pass, if you are a top sportsmen, you need | :20:02. | :20:15. | |
to know that your body is not going to let you down. Your bowel is not | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
going to let you down, and you're not going to be worried about where | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
the next toilet is. It is also the aspects of being tired. Its actual | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
energy. Imagine if you are trying to be the rest `` best sportsmen, | :20:28. | :20:36. | |
their carbon losses bought, and he believes it is still possible to | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
achieve your dreams. Young it is about raising awareness, but you | :20:43. | :20:51. | |
should not be stopped from doing things. I always wanted to go to an | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
Olympic Games and represent my country. Hurling down a mountain | :20:57. | :21:05. | |
requires courage, and so does living with the aid disease. He loves a | :21:06. | :21:07. | |
challenge. You may have heard Robin in sneezing | :21:08. | :21:20. | |
about science. He has been on Radio 4 with Brian Cox, or alongside Ricky | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
duvets. This is the planet Earth. I have | :21:24. | :21:38. | |
always wanted to go to Mars eczema why are we not on Mars? For a | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
thousand years, and it could be 1 million miles, we are not going to | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
go that science is finished. Robin Ince promises that his life show | :21:51. | :22:00. | |
will blow your mind. I have a very one`sided conversation. Sometimes | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
the only conversation I have is with a wall of people standing opposite | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
me, and then I get back into my site `` Silent world. Robin started | :22:12. | :22:26. | |
on... Money doesn't make my blog go round. Is that a philosopher? I | :22:27. | :22:36. | |
actually first met Ricky in 1993. He was the edits officer of the student | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
union. We got on because we pondered on what is the best structure of a | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
game of celebrity squares. Who would be in the top left? In the middle, | :22:47. | :22:54. | |
it is all always Willie Rushton. His pairing up with Brian Cox on Radio 4 | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
is the pattern if `` perfect partnership. The monkey cage ID is | :23:00. | :23:11. | |
ridiculous. I have to point at some stores again! I am pretending I am | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
interested! He really does want to express those ideas. Those are the | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
people who have inspired me. As I rest my brain, he has a bit of | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
advice for our viewers. The most important thing is do not be scared | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
of asking questions. Don't be happy with your ignorance. Always be | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
fighting against it. For some of us, it is a constant daily battle. | :23:36. | :23:43. | |
Lovely skies over Canterbury! We have a question for Rachel. What is | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
the weather like? I would like to say clear blue skies, but it is wet! | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
I am afraid for tomorrow, the winds are going to be picking up and it is | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
going to be dark. Heavy rain from around seven or eight in the | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
morning. It stays that way through the afternoon. Earlier, of course, | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
we did see some showers around, but there was some brightness. Tebbutt | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
is a bit fresher because there were some strong south`westerly winds. | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
Balls 14 or 15, feeling cooler. `` temperatures. The winds are going to | :24:19. | :24:29. | |
be strengthening. Tebbutt is staying pretty mild, mostly staying in | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
double figures. If you are up early, initially, it should be overcast. | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
From around eight in the morning, lots of blue on the map. The rain | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
heavy at times. It is going to be slowly clearing its way towards the | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
East, but it is a wet, greasy pig to. Much stronger than 20 mph. It is | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
going to be a blustery and fresh feeling day. Temperatures of 12 or | :24:58. | :25:06. | |
13 Celsius. You may... Solly the rain should be clearing, but still | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
the chance of an isolated shower. Still it's going to be a breezy | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
picture. With lots of cloud cover, it is going to be a mild night. | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
Temperatures of seven `` 10 degrees. You may see a bit of | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
sunshine. Temperatures rising a little bit. I attempted of 17 or 18 | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
degrees. As we head towards the weekend, it is going to be cooler. | :25:31. | :25:38. | |
Balls of 12 13. The winds stay with us. These are the pressure charts. | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
Tightly spaced isobars. It is going to be blustery. We have some showers | :25:44. | :25:54. | |
and Suncorp winds around. I will be back at eight o'clock. I will see | :25:55. | :25:56. | |
tomorrow. Goodbye. 'This is the story of Nick Clegg - | :25:57. | :26:21. | |
a man entrusted by a nation 'to act upon the policies | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
he proposed. 'But he soon became | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
The Un-Credible Shrinking Man.' So, first on the agenda, | :26:30. | :26:37. | |
tuition fees. that my manifesto says | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
that we would scrap them. We shall abolish the ?3,000 | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
tuition fees and make them ?9,000. I-I'm just worried about | :26:47. | :26:55. | |
the figures, sir. | :26:56. | :26:58. |