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Welcome to South East Today. So | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Not standing down ` Ann Barnes vows to continue as police and crime | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
commissioner as she faces a public grilling over a series of PR gaffes. | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
The couple left traumatised by a night of terror on the | :00:16. | :00:27. | |
Costa Concordia seek a million euros compensation. | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
You feel on your own. You feel cut off from the rest of society. | :00:34. | :00:51. | |
How a migraine left a Kent woman with a foreign accent. | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
A soldier, a sailor and an airman recount their experiences of D`Day | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
as commemorations mark the 70th anniversary. | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
And a warm welcome in Kent for the Queen's Baton relay as it heads for | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
Kent Police Crime Commissioner Ann Barnes has | :01:06. | :01:18. | |
insisted she will not resign despite being accused of presiding | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
Facing a grilling by the Kent Crime Panel she apologised for taking part | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
in a fly on the wall documentary that critics said made the force | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
But she's insisted today she isn't a 'Lame Duck' | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
and remains the best person for the job, Simon Jones has this report. | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
Accused of PR disasters, misjudgements, fiascoes. | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
I would like to offer an apology, especially to | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
the hard`working men and women of Kent police, who I know some of them | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
This was the infamous documentary that today prompted a barrage | :01:52. | :02:07. | |
of criticism from the panel that holds the Commissioner to account. | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
I think some people have said that you have treated senior members | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
We have had three train crashes coming through. | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
Yesterday, it was revealed that her youth Commissioner, Carrie Boyd, | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
had been removed from public duties as her relationship with a former | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
That after the first youth Commissioner, Paris Brown, | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
Today, and Barnes told me she is delivering. | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
I certainly don't hold people treating me with contempt. | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
So I certainly would not do that either. | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
Doesn't that make your position untenable? | :02:52. | :02:53. | |
I have thought about what people have said to me today. | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
I will think about what people say to me today. | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
But some on the crime panel remain concerned. | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
I felt as if I was back in college being lectured at. | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
I think that is a matter for her, but I don't think I heard anything | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
this morning which convinces me that we will won't face further problems | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
But the chair of the panel says that it is time to move forward. | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
I was impressed at the way she apologised. | :03:29. | :03:30. | |
And all sides say that bridges must now be built. | :03:31. | :03:43. | |
Simon, Ann Barnes is not going to quit but what is going to change? | :03:44. | :03:57. | |
The panel concluded that she should not have got involved in this | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
documentary. Haddad damaged her? Yes. Had hit damaged Kent police, | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
maybe by association. One member of the panel wanted a vote of no | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
confidence, but he was told that they did not have the power to do | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
that. In the future, we may seek and Barnes withdrawing from the media | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
spotlight, and getting on with the job away from the cameras. | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
Interestingly tonight, the police Federation, who had been hugely | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
critical of the documentary, took a more conciliatory tone. She welcomed | :04:34. | :04:41. | |
the fact that she was trying to improve relations. | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
A Kent survivor of the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
says he's angry that he and has wife have received little support | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
from the ship's operator, and just an insulting compensation offer. | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
The vessel, carrying more than 4,000 passengers, | :04:55. | :04:55. | |
capsized after hitting a reef in January 2012, killing 32 people. | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
John and Mandy Rodford from Wainscott | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
near Rochester have just returned from Italy where they testified | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
in the trial against the ship's captain ` they're also seeking | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
In an extremely emotional interview, he told me that only now, | :05:08. | :05:21. | |
two years since the tragedy, he is beginning to realise how close | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
At the time, I didn't ever think of not getting | :05:25. | :05:34. | |
I suppose now, when you come back, years on, using look at what could | :05:35. | :05:43. | |
The Costa Concordia hit rocks less than three hours after the couple | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
Having not received a safety briefing, | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
The first lifeboat they audit failed to launch. | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
They found another one by sliding on their backsides down through | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
32 people died in the tragedy, with many more suffering ongoing | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
The passengers who we represent thought that they were going to do | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
die. Too many were in some cases not able to get onto the lifeboats. | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
It was the middle of winter in Italy. | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
They had to swim to shore in cold and dark water. | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
It was a very traumatic experience, as I am sure you can appreciate. | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
The Costa Concordia's captain, who gave the order to abandon ship | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
after steering the vessel to wards shallower waters, is | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
Mr and Mrs Rodford testified against him in Italy last week. | :06:39. | :06:47. | |
They are upset that they are only being offered 11,000 euros | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
People lost lives, people were not sleeping. | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
And the company have still been trading | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
So, yes, it does make you angry that it is still going on. | :06:57. | :07:08. | |
Mr Rochford is now writing a book about his experiences, and claiming | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
Princess Anne gives royal approval to the South Of England show, | :07:16. | :07:29. | |
as farmers look forward to a better year. | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
Three babies suffering from blood poisoning in a Brighton | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
hospital are said to be responding well to treatment. | :07:41. | :07:42. | |
18 infants in nine different hospitals | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
around the country have fallen ill from a suspected contaminated drip | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
The three infants in Brighton are being treated at the | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
Royal Alexandra Children's Hospital from where our reporter Mark Sanders | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
joins us now ` Mark, what's the latest on the babies' condition? | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
The the good news is that it is expected all three babies will make | :08:06. | :08:13. | |
a full recovery. They are receiving specialist care at the Trevor Mann | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
baby unit. All three babies are responding well to the treatment. | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
The three infants contracted a form of blood poisoning. The trust did | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
not want to appear on camera, but in a statement, they said that the | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
cause was feeding product that was contaminated during its | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
manufacturing process the hospital. Across the country, some 18 babies | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
have been affected in this way. Sadly, of course one baby died at a | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
hospital in London. An investigation by the health authorities into this | :08:53. | :08:53. | |
case is well underway. The Independent Police Complaints | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
Commission are investigating Kent Police after | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
a Medway man was left in a coma. Officers were called to a house | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
in Gillingham last December and arrested 38`year`old Denby | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
Collins as a suspected burglar. He was then taken to hospital for | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
treatment and remains in a coma. The IPCC say they've decided to | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
investigate A Brighton man's been rescued | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
from a fire in his flat after being The blaze broke out at Robert Lodge | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
in Whitehawk in the early hours Several residents had to be | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
evacuated after the fire spread to flats | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
on both the ground and first floor. Plans that will see the loss | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
of around 50 jobs at East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
have been approved today. A fire engine is to be removed | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
from Hove while Roedean station in Brighton and the Ridge | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
in Hastings will now only be The service needs to save ?7 | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
million over the next four years. A woman from Gillingham says her | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
life has been ruined after a severe migraine attack left | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
her with a strange accent. Julie Matthias says she suffered | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
the attack three years ago. It?s left her with | :10:02. | :10:03. | |
the very rare Foreign Accent Syndrome, and is now often mistaken | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
for being South African, French or Italian ` and has even | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
suffered racist abuse as a result. It has just turned | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
my life upside down. You feel cut off from the rest | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
of society. I have had | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
a lady who was racist to me. It was Julie's dream to run | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
a busy hair salon. She used to work seven days | :10:34. | :10:43. | |
a week and relish it. Here, she is comparing | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
a hair show four years ago. If I was to do this, | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
I would end up in tears. Now, on her worst days, | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
Julie sounds like this. She's | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
depending on her family The accent, for me, and only me, | :11:01. | :11:11. | |
is the least of my problems. A regular migraine sufferer, | :11:12. | :11:20. | |
Julie had an unusually severe one three years | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
ago. And her symptoms developed | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
after this. And yet, the condition is so rare, | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
she has been accused of making it all up, and was even | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
sent for psychiatric help. Foreign accent syndrome has | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
not been reported very often. There are a handful of cases | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
over the last 50 or 60 years. It is being reported more commonly | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
now, but I think that is because we simply know more | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
about it, and people recognise what it is when people come | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
into their clinic and they have On Julie's bad days, | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
her daughters get her out of bed, I have shopped like symptoms | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
at least once a week. Julie is now being referred | :11:56. | :12:07. | |
to new specialist. She wants to see if she has | :12:08. | :12:18. | |
a mutant gene which might have led You can see more of that interview | :12:19. | :12:45. | |
on our website. The time is now 18 minutes to seven. And Barnes says | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
that she will not resign, despite a series of PR disasters. Facing a | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
grilling by Kent crime panel, she faced a grilling... | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
Also into night's programme, thousands turn out in Kent as the | :13:04. | :13:15. | |
Queen's Batson travel to the county. After yesterday's rain, we have had | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
clear blue skies today. It is going to last? | :13:20. | :13:28. | |
Commemorations have been taking place today to mark the seventieth | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
anniversary of the invasion of Normandy on D`Day in 1944. | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall were at Pegasus Bridge | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
in Northern France, the scene of the first fighting on June 6th 1944. | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
And in Portsmouth both British and Dutch marines re`enacted | :13:42. | :13:43. | |
the biggest amphibious assault in military history. | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
Even the youngest surviving veterans are in their late eighties now ` a | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
living link with one of the largest military operations in history. | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
So what was it like to be in the thick of it? | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
Robin Gibson has been across Kent and Sussex talking to a soldier, | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
a sailor and an airman who were there about their experiences | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
What do we have left to help future generations understanding | :14:03. | :14:19. | |
Pictures, stories, ruins and relics, but most importantly, | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
in our community, there are still living voices. | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
At 18, Stan Hodge from Ashford had never been in combat. | :14:32. | :14:42. | |
But in minutes of arriving on the beaches, he had shown bravery | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
We got halfway up the beach, and that is all where it started. | :14:47. | :14:55. | |
We got pinned down on the beach, nobody could move, and the sergeant | :14:56. | :15:04. | |
said we are going to lay here, and we are going to get killed, and | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
He went one way, and distracted the machine gun people. | :15:11. | :15:32. | |
Had we not got off the beach, I am sure we would have all been killed. | :15:33. | :15:52. | |
This is a curious relic of D`Day, marooned off the coast here | :15:53. | :16:00. | |
It is a piece of that floating mulberry harbour, | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
but this piece is one that never actually made it to Normandy, | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
never actually made it to the invasion or the longest Day, which | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
is forever etched on the memories of the people who were involved. | :16:11. | :16:19. | |
You did not really expect to survive. | :16:20. | :16:21. | |
Maurice Macy from Pevensey, at 21`year`old Spitfire pilot, | :16:22. | :16:30. | |
who flew three sorties, bombing and strafing ahead of the troops. | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
And not with the poor devils down there on the beach. | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
Because they did not stand a lot of chance. | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
Whereas my own security was up to me as much as anything. | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
Here is a fraction of the great Armada or 4000 ships which carried | :16:48. | :17:05. | |
I don't want to face those ever again! | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
Donald Hunter from Ashford was eight signaller in the merchant Navy. | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
He made 35 trips down the channel exporting troops and equipment. | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
You saw the flash of the gun and the wine of the shell as it was | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
When you see them in the water, they stand very little chance | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
The orders were in an engagement, you didn't stop. | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
Donald Hunter was to survive when his own ship was eventually hit. | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
He regards himself as one of the lucky ones, one of those | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
And you can hear and see more of Stan Hodge's D`Day experiences | :17:45. | :18:00. | |
It?s less than two months until the opening of the Commonwealth | :18:01. | :18:18. | |
Games ` and today the Queen's Baton Relay arrived in Kent. | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
It?s part of a global tour building up to the games in Glasgow in July. | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
The baton started the day in Tonbridge with Kent's double | :18:26. | :18:27. | |
Olympic gold medallist Dame Kelly Holmes ` it then moved | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
This afternoon the baton visited Folkestone, before ending the day | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
at County Hall in Maidstone ` from where Neil Bell joins us now. | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
It's been generating a good deal of excitement. | :18:41. | :18:49. | |
Absolutely. Clearly the organiser is trying to tap into the spirit that | :18:50. | :19:03. | |
was felt by the Olympic torch relay. It was our Olympic heroes got | :19:04. | :19:14. | |
carried a bat on. A thousand children were up early to see the | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
arrival of the Batson in Kent. Helen Grant and local Olympic heroes | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
Lizzie Yarn old and Kelly Holmes. Her first gold medal was in 1994 in | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
Canada. There is a friendly atmosphere. They are very | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
competitive. It is a wonderful time. I am very proud of the welcome that | :19:39. | :19:40. | |
Kent has given to the Batson. Next up was Dartford ascetic 's | :19:41. | :20:02. | |
club. I am going to be out there as much as I can. I train up at the | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
university there. I will be cheering them of the sideline. I cannot wait | :20:09. | :20:16. | |
for it. Of the, wealth gains have worked hard to get as many people | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
involved as possible. It involves everybody. Everyone can have a | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
chance to get a chance at different scales. The reception at Herne Bay | :20:28. | :20:35. | |
high school could not have been more passionate. This woman is now real | :20:36. | :20:49. | |
hero. I hope that people are able to take up a sport that they really | :20:50. | :21:00. | |
care about. The bat baton received a Scottish welcome in Folkestone. | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
Millions will be watching when the sporting action gets underway. The | :21:06. | :21:16. | |
momentum built up at London 2012 should guarantee the success of the | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
games in class goat. It will be a showcase for a lot of Southeast | :21:23. | :21:31. | |
athletes. It was a bit of hot to be dressed as shark! | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
Remember February, when we were still in the grip of the wettest | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
winter on record, and swathes of the countryside were underwater. | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
Many farmers at the time were fearful that they might lose | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
Well, what a difference a few months makes ` now the record warm spring | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
Some farmers are saying it could turn out to be a bumper season. | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
Our Environment Correspondent Yvette Austin reports from Ardingly | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
on the first day of the South of England Show. | :21:58. | :22:16. | |
It is a chance to exchange stories from the past year. The wet winter | :22:17. | :22:25. | |
giving away to a good spring. The grass is growing back. It is going | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
to take a couple of years to get over the flooding last winter, but | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
it is greening up a blast. For the sheep, it has also been a long, wet | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
winter. Especially when you have hairdo like this. This is a | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
Wensleydale longwall. The problems with this breed is the mud in the | :22:49. | :22:57. | |
wall, because it is so wet. They have a very thick fleece. They do | :22:58. | :23:06. | |
not like the wet terribly much, and they do get that problems. As | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
always, the birds and animals are proving popular at the show. But | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
this evening, the main thing is horticulture. It is good for the | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
insects. So far, it is a bumper year for the bees. This year, because the | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
weather has been much kinder, all the flowers have come out early. So | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
the bees have done very well this year. Plenty of insects will achieve | :23:34. | :23:42. | |
a good harvest. Right now, it is all about the Jolly good show. | :23:43. | :24:01. | |
A paratrooper who landed in 1944 relived the moment again today. | :24:02. | :24:10. | |
Jock Hutton was 19 year old when he and his comrades lead the Allied | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
Today, a few years older but still on every much the soldier, he joined | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
hundreds of other paratroopers as he descended into the fields | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
Back home in Larkfield in Kent, his wife proudly watched | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
It is 70 years since his D`Day landing. Now, aged 89, and as part | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
of a re`enactment of that fateful day, he is taking to the skies of | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
Normandy again. One site stepped out, I got heave and I was away! | :24:38. | :24:46. | |
Professional. That is all he lived for. It is mad! Jock was 19, and a | :24:47. | :25:00. | |
member of the 13th Battalion the Parachute Regiment. Yellow mac you | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
train for months and months, and you trained for one purpose in mind. He | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
descended into the same feel that he did all those years ago, only this | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
time, there was an admiring audience. Jock is one of the | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
youngest D`Day veterans. He is approaching 90, but he is not | :25:22. | :25:29. | |
putting his feet up just yet. What a moment! I would not do that right | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
now! Let alone at the age of 89! Brilliant, brilliant. The weather | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
has been lovely today. It is feeling pretty one today. It is going to be | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
warming up. Not always dry. Tempters on the rise. Mostly, clear blue | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
skies. We are going to hold onto the clear skies. Temperature is a little | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
bit cooler than they have been of late. Tempters of eight or 9 | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
degrees. Tomorrow, quite a humid field to day. Sunshine and we should | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
be staying dry. A gentle south easterly flow, and the temperatures | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
are climbing up. Just a little bit cooler along the coast. Through | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
tomorrow night, we are going to be holding onto the humid feeling air. | :26:20. | :26:27. | |
A low tempter of 16 or 17 Celsius. And muggy night. For Saturday, there | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
will be some sunshine around, but also some heavy and thundery | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
showers. As you go into Sunday, it is going to be a calmer story. Still | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
a chance that you could catch the odd sharp shower. We have humid air. | :26:42. | :26:48. | |
We have an area of low pressure, and we are expected to seek some high | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
downpours. Plenty of sunshine around. I'm sure you have noticed | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
the temperature is higher. 25 degrees. We have actually got some | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
warnings out from the Met office. The rain is likely to be pretty | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
heavy. As you go through Sunday, it is going to be a settled story. He | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
could catch one or two sharp showers, but the temperature is | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
could be in the top teams, or low 20s. It is going to be increasingly | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
unsettled. Heavy rain at times. But in the meantime, lots of sunshine of | :27:27. | :27:33. | |
offer. It will feel warm. That is not bad! Take a brolly, you will be | :27:34. | :27:43. | |
fine. We will be back later, but from us, goodbye. | :27:44. | :27:57. | |
It's a weekly selection of hand-picked stuff from Radio 2, | :27:58. | :28:02. |