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Today's main headlines in the South East... | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The Kent woman killed on holiday in Brazil - three years on, | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
her travel company admits lhability and apologises to her familx. | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
The RMT calls off a day of strike action after an appeal | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
but the Lewes Bonfire will still be hit. | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
And lots of mostly dry if chilly weather as we move toward the | :00:23. | :00:34. | |
weekend. Three years after Gillian Mdtcalf | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
from Tenterden was killed in a boating tragedy in Brazil, | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
the travel firm involved - Audley Travel - has admitted | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
full liability, opening Her widower, Charlie Metcalf, | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
says the long delay has caused Two Brazilian men have been | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
convicted of manslaughter for their role in the inciddnt, | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
when the boat the Metcalf f`mily were on was involved | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
in a high-speed collision in 20 3. For Charlie Metcalf, | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
this decision has taken too long. It's kind of locked us | :01:11. | :01:18. | |
into what happened. And as it's unnecessary, | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
it just seems a little bit cruel. I'm not seething with anger | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
because it's taken so long, you just, you kind of, in a way | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
switch off, you know you have It has been three years | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
since his wife Gillian died in a boat crash in Brazil | :01:39. | :01:47. | |
while they were on holiday. The trip was booked | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
through the company Audley Travel. And it's only now it is admhtting | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
liability for Gillian's death. I've actually had no communhcation | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
with Audley travel or their lawyers. The company say they are | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
disappointed Mr Metcalf I think we've been surprised at how | :02:03. | :02:12. | |
long it's taken. We wished it could have | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
moved more quickly. We were very sad and surprised | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
to hear that the Metcalfs felt that we hadn't | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
helped them adequately. But for Charlie and his two | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
daughters, Natasha and Alicd, it has been a difficult journey | :02:29. | :02:37. | |
to get to this point. It's going through it | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
all over again. So, however immune you think | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
you have become, however yot can try and detach yourself, when you hear | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
the facts and you remember what happened, of course | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
it brings it back. But the company's decision | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
is a significant milestone. For the family, it's | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
an enormous victory. Not only will they get compdnsation, | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
it's a justification of all the efforts they havd put | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
in to get justice But the loss of Gillian | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
will never go away. My daughters have done | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
fantastically well. So, you know, they are | :03:16. | :03:17. | |
a credit to themselves, The RMT Union has called off one | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
day of strike action - after a direct plea | :03:22. | :03:37. | |
from the Royal British Legion. The strike on Southern Rail | :03:38. | :03:39. | |
on the 3rd of November would have clashed with the first day of this | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
year's Poppy Appeal. However, the strike action | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
will still go ahead Southern's announced it will be able | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
to restore more services Its latest three-day strike ends | :03:50. | :03:58. | |
at midnight tonight. However, after pressure | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
from the British Legion, the RMT agreed this lunchtile | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
to suspend its strike on November third, which will | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
be London Poppy Day. I think the fact that the RLT has | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
cancelled one of its strike date has Passengers will want as much respite | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
as they possibly can from this. It seems to be just a temporary | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
truce and the industrial Negotiations are apparently | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
deadlocked - on Monday the tnion rejected an offer of ?2,000 | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
for each of its members A spokesman for Southern Rahl says | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
they are disappointed that RMT still plans to push ahead | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
with the other days of strike action and says they are repeating | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
their call for the RMT to sde sense, "end this futile action, | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
and put our generous offer They've offered a bribe | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
to our members. Our members have told us | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
that they don't want They can keep their | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
money, if they wish. They need to make a proposal | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
about a safe railway and when they do that, | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
we can consider working The dispute, over the futurd role | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
of conductors, has caused months So what do they think about the news | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
that the next strike It's getting very frustrating that | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
every week now, you get the bus replacement | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
and everything. I can understand why they'rd doing | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
it, for safety reasons. It's being thwarted by both | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
sides, it seems to me. Government should step | :05:27. | :05:34. | |
in and do something. So a cautious welcome | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
to this temporary reprieve. Claudia Sermbezis joins us now | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
from Lewes station . Claudia, the strike is still | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
on for the fourth and fifth of November - | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
how concerned are the organhsers They are very concerned. As you can | :05:54. | :06:09. | |
imagine. On November five, outside Lewes train station, it is packed. | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
Thousands and thousands of people travel here to enjoy the | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
celebrations here at Lewes. If there is a train strike, how will people | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
travel here? So people are concerned. I have reported on this | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
story several times now and every time I report on it, people say they | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
are tired of it, they are frustrated and it is really affecting their | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
lives. It is also important to point out that the cancelled strike on | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
November three, that is a concession by the union to the British Legion, | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
it is not suggesting there hs any end insight. | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
Kent's fruit farmers say they are already dealing | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
with the impact of the decision to leave the EU. | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
With recruitment agencies rdporting that they're struggling to find | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
enough seasonal workers to pick their apples and pe`rs. | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
Agencies say that potential workers feel they might not be welcome | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
and they're also blaming thd fall in the value of the pound. | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
The National Farmers Union wants the government to allow thel | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
Our Environment Correspondent Yvette Austin reports. | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
They paint a rosy picture of the industry, but talk | :07:11. | :07:12. | |
at this year's fruit show is far from celebratory. | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
Who will pick the crops in the future, is the questhon | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
with agencies who recruit essential labour from abroad saying the Brexit | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
We've had farmers come to us for a supply of labour | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
and we haven't been able to meet that in the short term. | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
We've also had other recruitment companies contacting us and I've | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
spoken to other people across the sector who have had very | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
similar difficulties in terls of recruiting labour from overseas | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
The UK's horticulture industry relies on 80,000 seasonal workers | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
from countries like Bulgaria and Romania. | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
That number is predicted to rise to 95,000 by 2021. | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
So even though there is technology like driverless tractors, | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
The English fruit industry has changed massively | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
It's now an incredibly technically advanced professional busindss, | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
producing the finest fruit that we have and it is the labour | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
that is the big challenge because we just don't have dnough | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
local people to do it and wd've become very reliant on bringing | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
And so the industry is callhng on the government to swiftlx set up | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
the new scheme to allow farlers to recruit from further afidld. | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
Currently the industry relids on the free movement of labour | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
What we would like government to do next year, really quite urgdntly, | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
is actually pilot a scheme to access workers from outside the EU. | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
And so, you might say it's crunch time in the apple industry. | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
Our reporter Amanda Akass h`s been following this story, Amand` - | :08:45. | :08:53. | |
farmers have been raising these concerns since before the rdferendum | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
The government is very keen to stress that so far nothing has | :09:00. | :09:11. | |
changed for EU National is working in the UK. Defra has told us that | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
supporting the farmers is a very important part of leaving the EU. We | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
know that Article 50 will bd triggered in the end of March next | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
year, bringing two years of negotiations. During that process we | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
will hear much more from our farmers to make sure their voices are heard. | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
The national weather in a moment, first, the forecast | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
A quiet autumnal day. Mostlx dry but one too scattered showers ftrther | :09:36. | :09:53. | |
east. Top temperatures todax around 14 or 15 degrees. Tempered by a | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
chilly northerly breeze. Ovdrnight tonight, scattered showers for | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
eastern parts of Kent but for the most part a dry and cool night. | :10:02. | :10:10. | |
Lighter winds and with clear skies, a bit of mist and fog to st`rt | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
Friday. That burns away quite quickly. This is the picturd through | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
the day. This area of low pressure out to the East Solly more dasterly | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
you are the more likely you are to catch an isolated shower. For the | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
most part, dry weather and ` bright day. A similar story to the day in | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
terms of temperatures. 14 or 15 degrees. Again tempered by ` chilly | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
northerly breeze. Going over into Saturday, one or two scattered | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
showers but mostly a dry st`rt to the weekend and it stays th`t way | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
through Saturday and Sunday. The winds will go back to an easterly | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
direction and a chilly feel for Saturday and Sunday. Chilly first | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
thing and then decent spells of sunshine. Here | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
Temperatures up into double figures. The outlook, mostly dry for the next | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
few days. Now the national outlook. Good evening. We are likely to the | :11:03. | :11:12. | |
all colours of | :11:13. | :11:13. |