20/10/2016 South East Today


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Today's main headlines in the South East...

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The Kent woman killed on holiday in Brazil - three years on,

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her travel company admits lhability and apologises to her familx.

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The RMT calls off a day of strike action after an appeal

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but the Lewes Bonfire will still be hit.

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And lots of mostly dry if chilly weather as we move toward the

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weekend. Three years after Gillian Mdtcalf

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from Tenterden was killed in a boating tragedy in Brazil,

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the travel firm involved - Audley Travel - has admitted

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full liability, opening Her widower, Charlie Metcalf,

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says the long delay has caused Two Brazilian men have been

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convicted of manslaughter for their role in the inciddnt,

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when the boat the Metcalf f`mily were on was involved

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in a high-speed collision in 20 3. For Charlie Metcalf,

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this decision has taken too long. It's kind of locked us

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into what happened. And as it's unnecessary,

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it just seems a little bit cruel. I'm not seething with anger

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because it's taken so long, you just, you kind of, in a way

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switch off, you know you have It has been three years

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since his wife Gillian died in a boat crash in Brazil

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while they were on holiday. The trip was booked

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through the company Audley Travel. And it's only now it is admhtting

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liability for Gillian's death. I've actually had no communhcation

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with Audley travel or their lawyers. The company say they are

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disappointed Mr Metcalf I think we've been surprised at how

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long it's taken. We wished it could have

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moved more quickly. We were very sad and surprised

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to hear that the Metcalfs felt that we hadn't

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helped them adequately. But for Charlie and his two

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daughters, Natasha and Alicd, it has been a difficult journey

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to get to this point. It's going through it

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all over again. So, however immune you think

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you have become, however yot can try and detach yourself, when you hear

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the facts and you remember what happened, of course

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it brings it back. But the company's decision

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is a significant milestone. For the family, it's

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an enormous victory. Not only will they get compdnsation,

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it's a justification of all the efforts they havd put

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in to get justice But the loss of Gillian

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will never go away. My daughters have done

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fantastically well. So, you know, they are

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a credit to themselves, The RMT Union has called off one

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day of strike action - after a direct plea

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from the Royal British Legion. The strike on Southern Rail

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on the 3rd of November would have clashed with the first day of this

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year's Poppy Appeal. However, the strike action

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will still go ahead Southern's announced it will be able

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to restore more services Its latest three-day strike ends

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at midnight tonight. However, after pressure

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from the British Legion, the RMT agreed this lunchtile

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to suspend its strike on November third, which will

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be London Poppy Day. I think the fact that the RLT has

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cancelled one of its strike date has Passengers will want as much respite

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as they possibly can from this. It seems to be just a temporary

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truce and the industrial Negotiations are apparently

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deadlocked - on Monday the tnion rejected an offer of ?2,000

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for each of its members A spokesman for Southern Rahl says

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they are disappointed that RMT still plans to push ahead

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with the other days of strike action and says they are repeating

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their call for the RMT to sde sense, "end this futile action,

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and put our generous offer They've offered a bribe

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to our members. Our members have told us

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that they don't want They can keep their

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money, if they wish. They need to make a proposal

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about a safe railway and when they do that,

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we can consider working The dispute, over the futurd role

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of conductors, has caused months So what do they think about the news

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that the next strike It's getting very frustrating that

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every week now, you get the bus replacement

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and everything. I can understand why they'rd doing

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it, for safety reasons. It's being thwarted by both

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sides, it seems to me. Government should step

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in and do something. So a cautious welcome

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to this temporary reprieve. Claudia Sermbezis joins us now

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from Lewes station . Claudia, the strike is still

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on for the fourth and fifth of November -

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how concerned are the organhsers They are very concerned. As you can

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imagine. On November five, outside Lewes train station, it is packed.

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Thousands and thousands of people travel here to enjoy the

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celebrations here at Lewes. If there is a train strike, how will people

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travel here? So people are concerned. I have reported on this

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story several times now and every time I report on it, people say they

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are tired of it, they are frustrated and it is really affecting their

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lives. It is also important to point out that the cancelled strike on

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November three, that is a concession by the union to the British Legion,

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it is not suggesting there hs any end insight.

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Kent's fruit farmers say they are already dealing

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with the impact of the decision to leave the EU.

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With recruitment agencies rdporting that they're struggling to find

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enough seasonal workers to pick their apples and pe`rs.

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Agencies say that potential workers feel they might not be welcome

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and they're also blaming thd fall in the value of the pound.

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The National Farmers Union wants the government to allow thel

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Our Environment Correspondent Yvette Austin reports.

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They paint a rosy picture of the industry, but talk

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at this year's fruit show is far from celebratory.

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Who will pick the crops in the future, is the questhon

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with agencies who recruit essential labour from abroad saying the Brexit

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We've had farmers come to us for a supply of labour

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and we haven't been able to meet that in the short term.

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We've also had other recruitment companies contacting us and I've

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spoken to other people across the sector who have had very

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similar difficulties in terls of recruiting labour from overseas

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The UK's horticulture industry relies on 80,000 seasonal workers

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from countries like Bulgaria and Romania.

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That number is predicted to rise to 95,000 by 2021.

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So even though there is technology like driverless tractors,

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The English fruit industry has changed massively

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It's now an incredibly technically advanced professional busindss,

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producing the finest fruit that we have and it is the labour

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that is the big challenge because we just don't have dnough

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local people to do it and wd've become very reliant on bringing

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And so the industry is callhng on the government to swiftlx set up

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the new scheme to allow farlers to recruit from further afidld.

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Currently the industry relids on the free movement of labour

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What we would like government to do next year, really quite urgdntly,

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is actually pilot a scheme to access workers from outside the EU.

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And so, you might say it's crunch time in the apple industry.

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Our reporter Amanda Akass h`s been following this story, Amand` -

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farmers have been raising these concerns since before the rdferendum

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The government is very keen to stress that so far nothing has

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changed for EU National is working in the UK. Defra has told us that

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supporting the farmers is a very important part of leaving the EU. We

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know that Article 50 will bd triggered in the end of March next

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year, bringing two years of negotiations. During that process we

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will hear much more from our farmers to make sure their voices are heard.

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The national weather in a moment, first, the forecast

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A quiet autumnal day. Mostlx dry but one too scattered showers ftrther

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east. Top temperatures todax around 14 or 15 degrees. Tempered by a

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chilly northerly breeze. Ovdrnight tonight, scattered showers for

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eastern parts of Kent but for the most part a dry and cool night.

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Lighter winds and with clear skies, a bit of mist and fog to st`rt

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Friday. That burns away quite quickly. This is the picturd through

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the day. This area of low pressure out to the East Solly more dasterly

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you are the more likely you are to catch an isolated shower. For the

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most part, dry weather and ` bright day. A similar story to the day in

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terms of temperatures. 14 or 15 degrees. Again tempered by ` chilly

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northerly breeze. Going over into Saturday, one or two scattered

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showers but mostly a dry st`rt to the weekend and it stays th`t way

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through Saturday and Sunday. The winds will go back to an easterly

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direction and a chilly feel for Saturday and Sunday. Chilly first

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thing and then decent spells of sunshine. Here

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Temperatures up into double figures. The outlook, mostly dry for the next

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few days. Now the national outlook. Good evening. We are likely to the

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all colours of

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