05/08/2014 South East Today

The border would be moved back to Dover, we would not have the problem

in Calais, we would pay the tickets for the migrants to go to Dover.

Moving the mountain ` the Environment Agency start to cart

away thousands of tonnes of waste piled up alarmingly near homes.

A Second World War hero's medals are stolen from his son's Kent home `

The artist urging consumers to do a double take of everyday advertising.

Ben Frost's latest work is on show in Sussex.

And watched by a million worldwide, hit West`End show

One Man, Two Guvnors now available to audiences in Kent.

A mass brawl between rival gangs of migrants in Calais has left more

than 50 people injured, and one man has been airlifted to hospital with

French police say clashes have been taking place

for the last few nights, as the groups argue over trying to

It comes as the Calais authorities say migrants

camped at the port should be put on a ferry and sent to Britain.

Let's cross live to Calais and speak to our

Ellie, there've been awful scenes of violence over

the last few nights, what are the authorities there doing?

There was a much bigger police presence today with an extra 40

officers. This is were the main problem is, the main feeding station

for the migrants in the town, and the clashes occurred between the

Sudanese territory in communities and spread close to the port. The

migrants we spoke to said the situation remains tense.

The daily desperate scramble onto a lorry travelling to Dover.

These exclusive pictures were taken by a British holiday`maker

The constant risks migrants are willing to take, brought to light by

But there are dangers in just living here.

These are trained migrants did not want their faces shown, but were

And we saw also some of the injuries.

Migrants described it as a turf war where different nationalities are

trying to gain control of areas like this, a parking lot for lorries

Today, the deputy mayor of Calais told us he had his own ideas about

The border would be moved back to Dover, we would not have

In order to treat the problem in Calais would be to pay the ticket

If you bought 1,000 tickets at a time, it would cost peanuts,

and the ferries would be happy to have customers on board,

The deputy mayor is completely mistaken.

If they were to pay for 1,000 immigrants to come to

Britain, then what that would do is attract tens, probably hundreds

of thousands more immigrants hoping to have the same opportunities.

Authorities estimate there are at least 1,200 migrants.

The charities says more are arriving and they all have one destination

No issues here tonight, people have got their food and left, but there

have been clashes over the last two night, so the police and the

migrants are vigilant. The desperate lengths that migrants

in Calais are prepared to go to were highlighted in a BBC South East

investigation in April that showed men trying to

stowaway on axels of lorrieies. There were then clashes in

French Port Police mounted a raid in Migrants were then given eviction

notices and told to clear the camps by this week, but that

deadline's now been extended. The sustained rioting comes

as the Mayor of Calais has once again called for border controls to

be moved back to the UK. We live here now

and we have lived here for some years, but, you know, it

did cause an awful lot of problems It would have to be very,

very controlled Europe is bigger than England,

isn't it? And all of the people that are over

there now have to come through Europe to arrive in England,

so surely there is more helped over there to start with, where

the problem is more localised? What do you think

the European view is? Come off your island.

SHE LAUGHS Those people speaking today in

Dover. We're joined now by the MP for

Dover Charlie Elphicke. Mr Elphicke the Mayor

of Calais says your government needs to find an urgent solution to this

situation, what is it? The mayor saying that the border

needs to be pushed back, what is your reaction? This is deeply

unhelpful. The countries need to coordinate together to keep the

borders secure, it is better when both countries work together rather

than Calais saying, this is a big problem, dump it on Dover, it is not

responsible. But they are not cooperating. I know that you say you

are working with the French authorities, but it appears that

that cooperation is breaking down. There are understandable concerns in

Calais about the situation that they have, but you have to remember that

this government has dealt with the issues of welfare tourism that

attract people to this country, this government has tightened the

Borders, which is why we see such a problem in Calais. We need to see

some real action by the French government in Paris. You have asked

the Home Office and able to consider supporting a joint initiative by

Dover and Calais for the French police to repatriate these people,

where are you with that? I have raised it with the Home Secretary

and raised the case that the UK and the French government needs to go

operating together to find a lasting settlement to this problem. It

should not be a problem for Calais, it should not be a problem for

Dover, we need to deal with the traffickers that encourage people to

come to Calais to break into Britain. Thank you.

In a moment, lights Out ` how the south east responded to

the Royal British Legion's call for people to mark the 100th anniversary

A 20,000 tonne mountain of waste, that towers over local homes,

is due to be cleared by the environment agency.

Waste4Fuel stores rubbish from several councils across Kent

The agency is beginning preparation work today and plans to clear the

Well let's cross to our reporter Rebecca Williams.

Rebecca how's the news been greeted by residents?

To give you some idea, this is a 20,000 tonne pile of waste products,

the residents have been living with this towering over them for several

years, and some have said they cannot open their windows because of

the smell, others have said it has made them sick, and one person I

spoke to earlier said that he is glad that something is finally being

done. How do I feel about it going? I will speak to you in six months

time when it has gone! I am very happy. It will put our life back in

proportion. At the moment, it is terrible. Initially, the idea was to

turn the waste into renewable energy, that never happened. The

people that own this site have said they need a cash injection to remove

it. Today, the infirm at agency has taken action and they have entered

this site and they have said that by Friday, levels here should be AXA

double. `` acceptable. Prosecutors are considering bringing

criminal charges against a female firearms officer who won

a racial and sexual discrimination PC Carol Howard,

who is currently suspended from her role in Scotland Yard,

is facing a range of accusations in They have passed a file to the CPS

linked to allegations of harassment, making threats to damage property,

perverting the course of justice, witness intimidation and possession

of an indecent image of a child. A former army medic

and business owner from Rye has spoken of her relief, after finding

out her stock survived the fire that Sammy Morgan creates handmade,

uniformed teddy bears to raise money Her stock and store, which has only

been there for three weeks is safe, but she said she feared for other

traders the fire had affected. It is just heart destroying,

it is horrible. We're having to walk

down a gangplank that they have built over

the floor that has disappeared, Medals awarded to

an RAF pilot who lost his life in World War II have been stolen in a

break`in at his son's home in Kent. The four medals were awarded to

Warrant Officer Richard Arding, They were stolen from the house

in Folkestone last month. They also included an Atlantic Star,

given to those who took part in operations at sea.

Kent Police, the public to find the medals, said

cash, bank cards and a sapphire ring were also stolen in the burglary.

Simon Jones reports. He died defending his country, but

now his family?s most precious memories of him are gone. Disbelief,

shock, anger, everything, upset, lots of tears. Yes. Really quite

emotional. One of the medals was an Atlantic Starr like this one. His

sacrifice also mentioned in this letter to his widow from Buckingham

Palace. Those medals in particular are irreplaceable and will never be

actually given, issued to him again. So, people do not think when they do

something as nasty as this. How it does affect people! Just yesterday,

people in Folkestone came together to mark the centenary of the

outbreak of World War I. Now they are being asked to help the family

of World War II hero. Kent Police have arrested a 26`year`old man from

Folkestone on suspicion of theft. He has been bailed until October while

enquiries continue. Officers are keen to trace what exactly has

happened the medals. We are appealing to anybody that might have

seen these medals, any one offered them the sale and particularly, I

would ask antique dealers and second outlets to be vigilant if anybody

was to come with something like this for sale. At a time the nation

remembers, one family says it cannot remembers, one family says it cannot

do that properly until the properties returned. 50 people have

been injured, some of them seriously, at riots in Calais with

migrants trying to get into the country. The deputy mayor of Calais

has offered to pay the passage for the migrants to get to Kent. Also

tonight, turning branding on its head, how Ben frost?s Sussex

exhibition asks people to look again at everyday advertising. And the

award`winning global head, One Man, Two Guvnors, comes to a stage in

Kent. If you have a story you think we

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can tweet us ` @bbcsoutheast. A young woman from Rochester has

taken her first steps in nine years following a long battle with

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, or Jessica Taylor was just 14

when she contracted the deadly virus In her case,

she spent almost a decade in bed, but has made a recent breakthrough

following a stay at The Burrswood This is the moment after

hydrotherapy when Jessica Taylor was finally able to stand upright again,

having been confined to bed for nine years. It was a dream come true, and

something I have worked so, so hard for. Literally, nine years. The

physiology of being immersed in the pool has effects on the body, so we

had to be careful, but when she was upright, she could take if he steps

with one of my colleagues in the water, so very exciting. `` take a

few steps. A virus developed into chronic symptoms as a child, which

for some, can be chronically debilitating. I was in hospital for

four years, completely bedridden, and very, very ill with a. I was

unable to move at all. She would come into the room bouncing,

singing, laughing dancing, getting us all moving. When she was first in

hospital, she was just flat, almost comatose. She could not recognise

who we were. Fro long time, the existence of the illness was widely

dismissed, labelled as yuppie flu, but that decision has largely been

reversed. Now, a Rochester, she is learning to walk again,

step`by`step. To have any kind of health back now, it makes me feel

like I can get some held back, I can get through this, and I will get

through this. She is also running a charity to help others with the

condition. As an artist, he's been called

a visual and consumerist scavenger. His aim ` to challenge people to

look at the advertising that they Now, Ben Frost's latest exhibition,

Supermarket Sweep, It's the first time in six years

the artist has exhibited in the UK. Paddy O'Connell joins us

from Brighton. It opened on Friday, he is hoping to

stir things up, he has exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, Sydney, now

he is here in Brighton. He wants us to take a different look at why we

make decisions when we go shopping. Pop art for popular food bought

on the shop shelves. It is a different kind

of Supermarket Sweep, how do the I spent hours walking

around supermarkets, revelling in the colours

and advertising slogans that they are projecting at me but at some

point, you feel a little bit empty. This particular piece, for example,

the look on Frankenstein's face is generally

how I feel after eating the fries. Feel guilty with fast food?

It's not always a joke. Scavenger art, they call it, from discarded

packaging. Board games get the treatment also. Is capitalism all

it's cracked up to be? Can a word game make

you think communication? Scrabble is a game where you

have got to choose words. And when you're dealing with

relationships, we have got to pick just the right

words that will fit together. Here is

the gallery owner advertising Is this not a critique

of selling for sale itself? We are here selling the work

and it is a show We have sold 80% of

the show already and we only opened Friday night.

It is looking good. We are always

seeing advertising and always consuming, but this show turns it

around. Does it feel like revenge? In a way, yes, definitely, trying to

take back some of the ground from the advertisers that are shoving it

down our throats all the time. So, from cereal to soup,

this show wants us to think why we put in the trolley the things we do

in the supermarket. When you think about the soup that I

showed there, one of the most famous pop artists of the maul, and you

wore all, he did those soup cans in different colours, there you have

it, a different gallery, 80% sold, so what you put on the shelf, you

can put on the wall! Good luck to him, I enjoyed looking at it. Thank

you. After hugely successful runs

in London and then New York, Richard Bean's One Man, Two Guvnors

lands in Dartford for a week. The show, which has been wowing

audiences since it first appeared in London in 2011, has been seen

by over a million people worldwide and as Peter Whittlesea reports,

the stars of the show hope there'll And award`winning play full of

one`liners that went from the West End to Broadway and is now on a

nationwide tour. I am dangerous! Unpredictable! Where did you get

that nice? 's Shaun Williamson has joined the cast alongside Gavin

spokes. He plays a gangster. Not a good one! Butty is one! One of his

bosses is a gangster from London that comes down to Brighton. This is

his twin sister in disguise. He turns up expecting to marry my

daughter and I owe him the equivalent of about 100 grand, so I

spent the time trying to get 100 grams to get my daughter married

off. That is just one subplot! I would not mention his name around

here, Ross made Barry leave Eastenders, they give him ?1 million

contract, we ask ITV for ?1 million are nothing, they chose nothing! One

Man, Two Guvnors is miles away from Shaun Williamson?s usual work. It

started at the National Theatre. I started Brighton with one boss and

five minutes later I have another boss, and the players about me

keeping those two apart, and there is love interest, there is money,

double identity, yes, you could write a novel on the plot! The plot

may be fiendishly complicated to explain, but critics and audiences

have loved the mix of slapstick and satire.

It is absolutely brilliant. Lights were turned out across the

South East last night as it joined in with the rest of the country to

commemorate 100 years since Following Prince Harry's visit to

Folkestone yesterday, where he dedicated the town's new memorial

arch and laid a wreath, the town was one of many to pay its

respects at 10 o'clock for an hour. Here's how the event was marked

in the South East. People are gathering as they have

over the country and across Europe to keep a vigil leading up to the

time at 11pm when this country and across Europe to keep a vigil

leading up to the time at 11pm when this country found itself at war. We

are marking the moment from piece to war 100 years ago, remembering what

the British Foreign Secretary said in 1914, the lamps are going out all

over Europe, will not see them lit again in our lifetime.

Some beautiful images. Thank you for everything that you sent in to us.

If you have been waiting for the rain, the Reds a lot of it on the

way, Georgina! `` there is a lot. I want to take you back to a picture

that was sent into us, some have said it looks like the hand of God,

but it is a cloud, it's got a lot of people talking, and I think it will

get people talking for the rest of the week. Today, a pleasant summers

day. Breezy on the coast. Tonight, the rain joins in, so it becomes a

little bit humid tonight, this rain pushing in from the West. We see

that in the early hours of the morning, heavy at times,

temperatures between 16 and 18 degrees. Tomorrow, some surface

water for the morning commute, heavy at times. It is good news, it is

fast`moving, so by lunch time, it will clear from the West. In the

east, we will see the back of it by the early afternoon, it could drag

its heels on the east coast. A westerly breeze on the coast in the

morning. Temperatures reaching 24, 20 5 degrees. A pleasant end to the

day. Behind it, brighter and drier conditions. Wednesday night, feeling

fresher, temperatures dropping further. During the day on Thursday,

a nice day again, so largely dry and bright with one or two showers

about. Friday, not so hot, so it could started the day, pleasant, but

by the afternoon, some rain pushing from the south that could be there

until Saturday. Tensions remain high in Calais today

after overnight clashes between migrants prompted the town's

deputy mayor to call for the border Around 50 people are thought to have

been injured when fighting broke out last night

between rival groups of migrants squatting as they wait to try

and cross the Channel to Britain. Earlier, the MP for Dover said

moving the border would just move the problem and a long`term solution

is needed. I raised it with the Home Secretary that the UK and French

government should cooperate to find a lasting settlement to this

problem. It should not be a problem for Calais Awford Dover, we need to

deal with the root cause which is that the traffickers try to come and

break into Britain. Let's return to our political reporter, any sense if

things are calmer this evening? I think so, the migrants that have

come here to the food bank, they have returned to the camps for the

night, and there have been extra police officers drafted in to watch

things. Grabbing clashes between people from Eritrea and Sudan, and

it is clear tonight that tensions are remaining high. Thank you. That

is it from us this evening, we are back with the 8pm update and the

late news at 10:25pm. Good evening, goodbye.