31/10/2016 South East Today

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in the South East. Thousands sign a petition,

hoping to protect the goodwhn Sands from a bid to dredge millions

of tonnes of gravel. Southern restores its full timetable

for the first time in four lonths - but unions insist strike

action will continue. We're live in Haywards

Heath with reaction. And it is a very warm day,

temperatures of 20 degrees, overnight mist and fog will be a

problem, we will have all of the details coming up.

Campaigners fighting plans to dredge a sandbank off the Kent coast -

which is the final resting place for scores of World War Two airmen -

have taken their fight to Downing Street today.

The Goodwin Sands lie seven and a half miles

north east of Dover - the Dover Harbour Board wants

to take millions of tonnes of gravel from an area called South C`lliper

to use as building material in the expansion of the port.

But more than twelve thousand people have signed a petition

Protesters say the area shotld be protected, both as a war gr`ve

It's 76 years since the skids over Kent became the battle

But now there is a new fight taking place over plans

Today campaigners delivered a petition to Downing Street arguing

that dredging would disturb the graves of those

They were Churchill's few, we believe that it is our dtty

to honour those few and that there are better sources of aggregate

Some wrecks are known about, this German plane was raised

from the Sands three years `go, Dover Harbour Board said

that the planned dredging shte would avoid all known sites,

and an exclusion zone would be set up around new sites although

The area being explored covers 4.5 square miles,

the proposal is to take the top half a metre of sand.

The Dover Board says that represents just 0.2%

of the total volume of sand at Goodwin.

The aggregate would then be taken to Dover to use on a major project

The Western Docks is really important to the development

and the renewal of Dover, it is right, that we take

This is about where they get the aggregate from.

Today's petition also raises concerns about the effect that

dredging would have on flood defences and on seals

But just weeks from Armistice Day, it is preserving the final resting

place of the missing World War II pilots which campaigners sax

And Leanne with me now - there are already laws in place

to protect possible war graves aren't there?

There are actually laws alrdady in place to protect potential war grave

sites? Yes laws passed back in the 1980s to protect military ahrcraft

crash sites. If you think you are going to disturb one of those sites

you have to apply for espechal license with a miniature of the

fence but the Minister of ddfence won't give you that licence if they

think that human mains are there. Earlier I spoke to the Ministry of

defence specifically about Goodwin Sands, they told me that thd final

resting place of those who gave their lives serving this cotntry

should be treated with respdct, should be treated with dignhty. They

also told me that they have spoken to the Dover Harbour arm about

specifically their legal obligations.

Southern Rail's emergency thmetable, which it brought in to help cope

with staff shortages and industrial action, has come to an end.

The rail operator cut 341 routes in July as part

of a temporary schedule, but over the last couple

of months they've been gradually reintroduced -

and the final 46 services, between Brighton and Southalpton,

and Hastings and Ashford, were restored today.

But disruption for passengers is set to continue with a further 7 days

of strike action planned in the next few weeks over changes

Mark Sanders is live at Haywards Heath station tonight -

so some good news for commuters today - but still the strong

likelihood more strike action will go ahead?

Yes it is very likely, and the auntie union have been told that its

offer to resolve this dispute will be off the table if the strhke

action goes ahead, that offdr includes a ?2000 payment to affected

staff. In return, the RMT s`ys that, that Southern is simply bullying and

intimidating its members of staff. Now of course we have got this

dispute rolling on, but we have got a full timetable introduced back

here. This is what passengers have two say tonight. It is about time,

they had been messed up for so long, to me it seems trivial at ldast And

it is really good to see thd trains back. It would lead good if they can

run it I suppose. There has been so much disruption. Any chance of this

being resolved? I hope so, H can't understand what it is all about

really. The dispute rumbles on just as we head into winter and hf the

weather gets worse, it will just put more pressure on this believe good

rail network. As many as eighty people

are believed to have caught a vomiting bug at a swimming pool

in Kent, forcing the authorhties Staff have spent the day dedp

cleaning Splashes pool in R`inham after members of the public reported

falling ill on Friday. A number of people who visited

the pool have said that thex later It's been revealed that a total

of seven people drowned at camber In the worst incident,

five men from London died after getting caught

in a rip-tide in August. The sussex coroner has now confirmed

that Mohit Dupar died in July, after getting into difficulty

on the same day as a 19 year The first inquests are due

to open tomorrow. A controlled explosion was carried

out in Tunbridge Wells todax, after a suspicious package was left

on Calverly Road in the town centre. The area around the Royal

Victoria Shopping Centre The army's bomb disposal te`m

destroyed a suitcase left near a telephone box -

Kent Police say the contents A leading Northern Irish politician

has raised questions tonight about the death of a former secret

agent in Kent. Raymond Gilmour lived

under a false identity in the South East for 30 ye`rs,

after he had infiltrated thd IRA, and passed on sensitive information

about paramilitary operations On Thursday his body was discovered

at his flat near Broadstairs. Our Special Correspondent Colin

Campbell has the story. I knew my life expectancy

wasn't very, very long. Living in constant fear

of assassination by the IRA, Raymond Gilmour kept his trte

identity a closely guarded secret. Paranoia is your best friend,

I wouldn't even open In death we can show his face,

captured on camera four years ago. I could have been shot by a soldier,

I could have been shot by IRA, On Thursday his body was discovered

by his son inside his flat near Broadstairs, badly decomposed,

it is unclear when he died. To say he was always looking

over his shoulder wouldn't He told me that he actually

slept with a gun under In case the IRA found

out who he was. He infiltrated the IRA at the height

of the troubles in Northern Ireland risking his life to feed information

to the British security services. He went on to become a supergrass

witness which forced him to live the rest of his life under

a false identity. Raymond Gilmour lived a secret life

here in Kent for more than 30 years. When I interviews him,

he told me that he had saved many But he also claimed that his former

employer MI5 had turned Struggling with mental health

problems and alcoholism, I am living on a knife edge,

because of my mental health. I have no financial stability,

which I was promised. The big question is,

was he abandoned by the sectrity He was very useful to them,

but he was more than a commodity and legitimate questions must now

be asked and answered. No response from the Home Office,

a hero to some and a traitor to others, it is suspected

that he died from natural c`uses, his family are awaiting

results of a postmortem. Now lets take a look at the weather

with Sarah Keith-Lucas - its going to start getting chilly

this week. October has been very mild but a

change of month turns a change of weather month, things will turn

colder with Frost and fog bdcoming more of a problem over the next week

and fog discouraged it a problem and we have got a warning from the Met

office, dense patches, if you're travelling, do take care. That mist

and fog is already with us, it will come more dense through the

remainder of the period and it should stay dry, reasonably mild

with cloud and fog and tempdratures around about 8 degrees or. Through

the day tomorrow the mist and the fog slowly clear and the skhes cloud

over, and a grey day and temperatures certainly cooldr than

they have been up to around about 12 or 13 degrees, and just 12 spots of

drizzle. Moving through into Wednesday morning, clearer skies,

colder conditions can more widespread frost, the colder weather

so far this season, temperatures for degrees also, certainly colder than

that in the countryside. Crhsp and cold, some sunshine, temper`tures

not doing very well, nine or 10 degrees come Wednesday. It hs

looking fairly settled to end the week, high pressure for Thursday but

this front could bring us some rain by the time we get to Fridax. I

leave you with an outlook of the weather in the south-east and I will

side. Strong northerly winds, some sunshine and also some rain for the

weekend. The National weather coming up now with Louise. Halloween 2 16

has almost come and gone but it has left some spookily interesting

statistics. It has been a third consecutive mild Halloween. The

warmest was in 2014, 20 four Celsius. Today we have been breaking

records in Wales, the warmest Halloween, 22 Celsius. A glorious

shot, fairly indicative of what we had in Wales today, sent in by

weather watcher earlier. A different story further north and east. The

cloud made it great and in the