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Try to keep some optimism. Thank you very much. That's all from the BBC

News at Six. Goodbye from me. The aid convoys with

an ulterior motive: we reveal how police believe some

of them may be involved in fraud. She managed a property portfolio

across Kent worth millions whilst claiming benefits ,

now she's sent to prison. Also in tonight's programme,

"Our lives are being trashed." Residents' anger over plans

for a superhighway, concentrating An RAF tornado takes to the skies in

tribute to the aircrews of World War They have only given me eight

minutes up here because they think that is all the time I have left.

And "Granny's Gone Wild" ; after turning to comedy at 71,

80`year`old Lynn Ruth Miller's one woman show goes to Edinburgh.

Figures obtained by this programme reveal the police seized more than

a ?100,000 from convoys travelling from Dover to Syria

The number of aid convoys going through Dover

to Syria has dramatically fallen, from 31 last year to just six

Some Muslim leaders say this is partly because

of the measures that have been taken by the government to dissuade people

Our political reporter Ellie Price reports.

These are significant figures. They are significant because Dover is at

the front line of the fight against terrorism. It is the first

opportunity the police have to take if these convoys are legitimate. It

is not illegal to go to or get out aid in Syria, but it is illegal to

fight in severe or two fund terrorism there.

He was the father of three who blew himself up thousands of miles from

home. He travelled with an aid convoy to Syria, shown here stopping

in Dover. Since his death authorities have stepped up efforts

to dissuade small charities from sending aid convoys to Syria for

fear of those involved could become radicalised or Jews convoys as a

front for terrorism. Some critics say that has had an effect on

legitimate aid. `` or use convoys. I do not think this will happen. My

officers have a duty to make sure that firstly we get across the

message in terms of peoples travel and the risks with that, we also

have a duty to make sure people are not travelling for illegal purposes

and we have a duty to ensure that if people are taking money or other

property abroad then it is not money that has not been made illegally or

intended for use in some form of carnal activity abroad. Police say

they have seized more than ?107,000 from convoys at Dover, but those

travelling could not account for where the money had come from or

where it was going. Figures given to BBC south`east shore 30 people were

arrested and bailed in connection with fraud since January 2011. Last

year 31 convoys travel through Dover on your way to Syria. That number

has dropped significantly to six between January and July this year.

Photos of this man show him handing out aid in Syria before he died.

Today the leader of his mosque in Crawley said that the government

policy on travelling to Syria risks demonising legitimate aid efforts.

It is scaremongering. They worry people will go and get trained and

come back and start going places up. This is unfounded. It has ruined the

legitimate gift aid causes. Police insist they have maintained a good

relationship with legitimate charities who often phone ahead when

travelling through the port. They say the advice remains the same, do

not travel to Syria. Police say they are not trying to

stop it from getting to Syria and if people want to give aid we should do

so through their charitable Yes, she claimed tens of thousands

of pounds in housing benefit for herself and also in council tax. She

had a property here Gatwick acknowledge some people will

see more planes overhead, but argue the plans to concentrate

passenger aircraft on narrower flight paths is part

of a wider EU plan and is needed to Here's our

Business Correspondent Mark Norman. Whether it is planes taking off our

planes landing the fight pass into and out of Gatwick represent a

problem for people living under them. No plans for a new Nano or

route over the Kent Sussex border is causing anger with locals. The

consultation itself is unfair. The proposals are entirely unjust. And

the driving force from the people behind this is a second runway at

Gatwick. Something the airport denied but the problem itself is

undeniable. The coloured lines represent one`day slide into and out

of Heathrow. Adding Gatwick and it is more contributed. This represents

all of the fight for one day across the south`east. The air traffic

service are planning to use new technology and aircraft to narrow

the Ritz planes take, freeing up space. The catch is that people

living under the new fight pass will see and hear warplanes. It is true

to say that in some cases people will see more aircraft. For those

who seek to increased amount of traffic we have some options we are

consulting on call roti and respite. Because of the new technology allows

us with our traffic control recruited some routes especially for

arriving traffic to provide those on the ground with days or weeks or

months when they have no traffic at all.

The key word there is consultation. Across Kent campaigners and

councillors are worried that the consultation process has not been

conducted properly, that people find it, that people find collocated and

many have not realise it is happening. We want to break up all

of the villages from all over, to the absolute hell that is

descending, literally, in our midst. For anyone who feels

similarly aggrieved the deadline for this consultation is this Thursday.

Mark, if you have been following this for some time. What is your

assessment of Gatwick Airport's likely response? They will listen to

the concerns and the result of this consultation will be sent to the

civil aviation authority with the results next year but they are

acutely aware that the campaigners are much more organised than they

were even one fortnight ago. They are getting a lot of political

support, local MPs have spoken out in their favour. Campaigners believe

that even though the consultation ends on Thursday they can take the

arrogance to Gatwick, believing other solutions are possible.

A former social worker who travelled to Kent in the belief he'd be able

to sexually abuse an eight`year`old girl has been jailed for four years.

Leybourne when it was revealed that it was

He admitted in court to arranging the commission

The police investigation in Borneo into the death of this man from

Hempstead and his friends Neil Barton who were stabbed and killed

after getting into an arcade in a bar. For local men are due to be

charged with murder. Bloggers, journalists, and indeed

everyone else in England now has the right to film and record the public

meetings of their local council. Recently a Thanet District

councillor was forced to leave Some town halls had previously been

resistant to letting the cameras in and there's concern that footage

could be edited afterwards to Good evening, members and officers

of the council... It is not exactly a funny cat video

but will this go viral on the Internet? It is a meeting of Thanet

District Council. On the beach, people we asked to watch it were not

hugely impressed. I find it quite boring, actually. Output not watch

it. I tried watching Parliament on TV but it never gets the point.

Filming public council meetings has for some become an issue. This

council took these pictures last month. I will sit down and film. It

is the law. Is the third time in a year yesterday at film a council

meeting and been stopped. It is an important democratic principle that

people who are elected should be accountable. It may well be true

that they are filming and broadcasting Council meetings, but

not all of the meetings and whenever anything controversial is said, it

is on the cutting room floor. Eventually the police are called and

the council is rejected. I will go quietly and will not make a fuss.

Thanet Council film some meetings themselves and the reader here said

that council driver was rejected being disrupted. Sometimes he is

amusing but very often he just disrupted meetings. But we would not

edit him out. I do not know where that has come from. The government

has changed the law to allow not only the press but memories of the

public to film, tweets and blog. If you go to your town hall you have

your phone that the camera on it and he wants to put it on YouTube or

tweet about it, you can do that. This is really just modernising the

rules that have been there since Margaret Thatcher 's Private members

bill that allows the press into the town hall in the first place.

Councillor driver had his camera at the ready and now the law on his

side, determined to bring transparency to local government.

Ten years after a cyclist was killed after being hit

by a car in Rye, his family say they're still not convinced the

council will complete the half built cycle path they campaigned for.

22`year`old Graeme Mathews died in August 2004.

The family was determined to build the cycle path and today East

Sussex County Council have promised they will complete the work.

It is ten years to the days since Graeme Mathews was hit by a car as

he cycled along this stretch of road. He was just 22. Since the

tragedy his family have tirelessly campaigned for a cycle path. Work

got underway but stopped, twice, but now, ten years on, the council has

promised to finish the job. We have had six years of empty words, empty

promises, but do you know, sometimes I liken it to an all Russian

proverb. It says, the promise is likely I trust, it is made to be

broken. Today the council say they will complete the final section of

the cycle path which will go around that dangers then, some people I

have spoken to are simply not convinced. They just need to go

round the corner, it is not a big job. You do not so convinced. I will

believe it when I see it. It is a dangerous corner, it is playing

there and who are forced back out onto the road so by encouraging

people to cycle and then put them onto the road near a corner, it is

obviously a dangerous situation. I am scared so I cannot take my

seven`year`old son out. It should have been done many years ago. What

has gone wrong? It has taken an awfully long time. We did have a

live issue inasmuch as we did not own enough land to construct it. We

then had an economic downturn were funding became difficult. We have

now managed to design a scheme that is affordable and we can deliver

without the land that he currently do not own. Today campaigners

unofficially named the partially finished cycle path. They say that

next summer they hope to do it for real. The top story tonight, figures

obtained by this programme revealed that the police seized more than

?100,000 from convoys travelling from Dover to Syria in the past few

years. The number of convoys going to Syria has fallen from 31 to six.

Also in tonight's programme, the racing driver left paralysed

after a crash, but turned his life around looks forward to

And tomorrow will be another day of sunshine and showers, but if you

time your day correctly you should end up missing them. Only later to

find out when to miss the rain. 100 years ago the first warplanes

set off for France at the start The Royal Flying Corps was

the air wing of the British Army. It had 2,000 personnel

when the war broke out in 1914. It was replaced by the RAF in April

1918, within 9 months it had one Today the modern Air Force took

part in a flyby to remember A Tornado jet dips its wings as

today's RDF pays its respects to the chairman who first went to war. When

war broke out in August 1914 flying was in its infancy. Within days the

Royal flying Corps as it was then was carrying out reconnaissance

missions over France. It was the first time powered aircraft had been

used for aerial reconnaissance from Britain. It had a remarkable ability

and it sounds simple but to be able to see over the next hill and the

amount of value that could provide to ground forces to understand what

the enemy were doing and to plan accordingly had a real battle

winning edge. The impact may not have been as as the Second World War

counterparts but the story of those mem and was immortalised here in

film. As the conflict continued the fledgling force adapted its role,

month by month. The aeroplanes were really before the advent of fixing

guns on aeroplanes, and the thinking was in the early part of 1914 that

the pilots who fly like battleships going broad says to one another and

firing potshots saved on. It was very rapid, the evolution, because

the information they were bringing back was so important that it became

a very important to stop the enemy going back with their information.

These were incredibly fragile craft and today's memorial landing was per

carry is. The biplane was due to meet its modern replacement, a

Tornado, in the sky, but with conditions so when the Chronicle

carried out a loan journey over the weight cliffs of Dover. The mission

has not changed at all in that 100 years. To protect the nation and its

allies wherever they may be around the world. Tomorrow there will be a

service held in France to remember those who took on that duty 100

years ago. He was on the verge

of becoming a professional racing driver, but a devastating accident

at Brands Hatch changed his life. Roger Pedrick raced formula

ford cars as a young man. A crash during a test drive

in 1977 left him Years of operations followed, and

during that time Roger discovered Roger Pedrick raced formula

ford cars as a young man. Years of operations followed, and

during that time Roger discovered a love of painting, now, he's given

his first solo exhibition. For many years he was a man with a

driving ambition but an accident forced the car racer to look for new

purpose in his life. 37 years on and Roger Pedrick had his first art

exhibition. I love colour, colour is the meaning of life to me. Without

colour nothing will happen and nothing will become stimulative.

Roger Pedrick used to drive cars fully living. In 1977 testing a car,

he was involved in a crash. He broke his neck and spent seven years in

hospital. It was many more years before he discovered a love of

painting. The man who owns the Kent racing circuit today officially

opens the exhibition this week. He has kept his passion for motor

sports, he comes to the circuit for most of the big race events, the

e`mails me quite frequently with follow`ups on comment I made in the

press and that is fantastic. That passion for motor sport that could

have so easily have gone is still very much there. There are 250

artworks on display but over the past 25 years Roger Pedrick has

produced twice that. I just want to put a smile on people 's faces. This

ability is extraordinarily horrible but I think I have a sense of humour

which helps. And through my paintings the sense of humour will

come out. The 58`year`old says he does not want to sell his artwork.

The aim, he says, is to display his work in galleries across the

country. Just three days

after our football teams started the new season, they're back

in action tonight, this time in the Brighton and Hove Albion take

on Cheltenham at the Amex looking for their first

win under new manager Sammi Hyypia. Charlton are at home to Colchester

and Crawley Town take on Ipswich. Gillingham travel to Yeovil anxious

to avoid a repeat of Saturday's Now let's face it,

most people start to take it easy But not the comic Lynn Ruth Miller,

who's recently moved to Brighton. The American octogenarian is

believed to be the country's oldest professional stand up comedian,

and she's currently putting the crowds through their paces

at the Edinburgh Festival. We'll be speaking to her

in a moment, but first let's take They have only given me eight

minutes up here because they think When you are my age,

people think you don't matter. The lifeguard picked me up

from the pool, I've got so many body replacements I

was a centrefold My pension is really small

so I put my kidney on E`bay She joins us now from Edinburgh.

Thank you. Thank you for having me. It is lovely of you. In a previous

incarnation you have been a primary school teacher, a professor, did you

not want a retirement of peace and quiet? Now, that did not occur to

me. I was also a writer, I write books and columns, I was a call is.

And I have a reviewer. It did not occur to me, retirement was never

its has never been in my mind. Was stand`up comedy something you always

wanted to do? No, I did not know stand`up comedy existence. I have

told this story so many times. I was telling jokes to Holocaust survivors

to cheer them up and I ran out of jokes and I went online and saw a

sign that said San Francisco, the college and said I would like to run

a story about you because I am a journalist and they called me back

and said I just love small Jewish women. Which is exactly what I am in

the rest is history. I wrote the stories for them, picked up a

microphone, told a joke and everyone loved me. And I was 71 years old.

And I thought, this is the easiest love I have ever gotten. I do not

have to cook dinner, I do not have to change the sheets, I have in. You

have also done a striptease as part of your one`woman show. I don't get

that much, I don't want to qualify everyone. What has brought you to

Britain? I had been doing the Edinburgh Festival for nine years,

and everyone always said you should try Brighton so I did in 2009 and I

fell in love with Brighton, it is very similar to where I was living

at the time which is San Francisco. But smaller, more compassionate and

more loving. Brighton is a jewel. To me it is gorgeous. And very

progressive and very open. I have never felt that I was all the

different or unusual, just one of the great. I love the town. I was

doing one of my categories, I believe it was eating his amazing,

21 and manager and director of the latest, which is a combination of

the magazine, the latest bar, music bar, and the greatest novels and TV,

Sony and say what you should do is take the best of all of your shows,

put them together and usual. He helped me put bits of my shows

together. And we put it on last year. That is great to hear, I am so

sorry but we have to leave it there. I had terribly sorry because we have

to go to the weather. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. It is

lovely of you to have me. What did

last night I told you about the perigee moon, the men appeared much

better at writing than normal. `` bigger and brighter. You could see

the Internet, but that could scupper our chances of seeing something

else, which is the Perseus meteor shower. At this time of year every

year we pass through the end of the comments that title and the degree

of that travels into our atmosphere at around 150,000 mph and on doing

so it burns up and that is what we see as shooting stars. We may well

get to see many shooting stars from the media shower as long as the men

is not too bright. The good news is we should have the clear skies. The

last of the showers are sizzling away and we will be left with dry

and clear skies as temperatures down to 12 or 13 degrees, which is about

what we have last night. Into tomorrow, if you want to get the

best of the sunshine and dry weather, do not dilly`dally about in

the morning because that is where the best and drive of the day's

weather will be. Coming to the PM and after that in the afternoon is

where the showers. Popping up again. Although not as heavy as today there

will still be a few showers in the afternoon. Temperatures around 20

degrees and not quite as easy as it was today. Fewer showers through the

model and less easy but still some showers lasting into the evening and

once again into Thursday. Although lot of us will have plenty of

sunshine there still some of those pesky showers around. For the lady

there is a good chance of staying mostly dry with nascent century. ``

for Friday. Thank you very much. That is it for

now, I am back at 8pm and 10:30pm with Di. `` goodbye.

We've got factory boys and butchers' apprentices and office clerks

Don't stop moving! If you go back you'll die!