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Today's main headlines in the South East: 17 drivers | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
spotted using mobile phones on the M20 | :00:09. | :00:10. | |
There are calls tonight for tougher penalties. | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
MPs say it should be taken out of the hands of | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
Another dry, bright and cold day for tomorrow. | :00:24. | :00:42. | |
Police are being urged to clamp down on people using mobile phonds | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
while driving, after 17 lorry drivers were spotted in just an hour | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
It follows the case of a drhver being jailed for ten years | :00:51. | :01:01. | |
for killing a mother and her three daughters, after ploughing | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
into stationary traffic while he was distracted | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
Kent Police say they are out patrolling Kent's roads, | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
but admit they can't be everywhere at once. | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
Many caught in the space of just 30 minutes. | :01:11. | :01:25. | |
The M20 is one of the main routes in the | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
So, the number of foreign trucks on that | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
motorway will be disproportionally higher, | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
because of where it is and the job | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
This is an issue for all drivers, not just | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
The Lithuanian lorry driver behind the | :01:46. | :01:59. | |
wheel was sentenced to time in prison. | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
Another driver was sentenced to ten years for killing a mother | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
He was changing the music on his mobile phone. | :02:04. | :02:11. | |
The RAC called for stronger police enforcement. | :02:12. | :02:19. | |
We have seen the penalties decline from 23,000 in 2011 to just under | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
70,000 penalty notices issudd last year. | :02:27. | :02:27. | |
We will prioritise our workload as well. | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
When we do catch people using mobile phones, | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
we will then robustly enforce the law. | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
It doesn't take long to spot a lorry driver on a | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
Here above the M20, we have seen one every ten minutes | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
Only yesterday, Kent Police pulled over | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
He had been watching a film on a laptop computer. | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
At Maidstone services we met Dutch lorry driver, | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
The Government says it plans to double the penalty to a ?200 fine | :02:57. | :03:09. | |
Some people argue that does | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
Our reporter Leanne Rinne joins us now from the M20. | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
Leanne, the RAC have said today that the best way to tackle this | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
problem is by issuing toughdr penalties to drivers. | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
I spoke to Kent Police earlher and they said prosecuting drivers is | :03:27. | :03:45. | |
just half of the solution. They say educating all the drivers, not just | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
for drivers, is crucial and can be effective in the long term. They | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
also said that despite cutb`cks it is a key priority for them to police | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
Kent Rhodes. Loads of lorrids pass through here all the time going up | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
to the Channel Tunnel and to Dover. And as we know, with a largdr | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
vehicles, just one moment's lapse in concentration can cause a sdvere | :04:12. | :04:12. | |
accident, possibly fatal. Radical changes to the way | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
the country manages the risk A group of MPs say a new Rivers | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
and Coastal Authority should be set up, to take over responsibility | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
for the threat from The MPs are are also calling | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
for a new Floods Commissiondr to be appointed to help tackle flood risk | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
in a more joined-up way. There should be incentives | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
for farmers to store and developers who flout pl`nning | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
rules and increase the risk Our environment correspondent, | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
Yvette Austin has been getthng reaction to the proposals from some | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
of the areas in the South E`st worst Christmas 2013 and Yalding | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
under water again. There's been much criticism | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
here over the years about the Environment Agency for failing | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
to provide a solution to thd Now, an influential group of MPs | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
says the agency shouldn't bd allowed to deal with | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
flooding any more. The problem with the present system | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
is that the Government reacts Flood goes away, | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
they forget about it. Subsequent, successive | :05:18. | :05:25. | |
governments have done this. It's very much a thing of ldt's | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
have somebody who is largely independent getting out | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
there and saying, this is what we I think that would | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
help people a lot. For Yalding, the agency | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
has said a flood scheme is not viable and instead | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
properties will get ?5,000 for This is our flood wall | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
which we are trying to The Government is proposing giving | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
us, perhaps if we are eligible, This is obviously not enough | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
to cover the cost of the wall. In New Haven, in contrast, | :05:56. | :06:04. | |
a ?30 million project is just The MPs think the Environment | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
Agency is overreliant on such so-called hard | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
schemes and should use Something like what Farmer Peter | :06:11. | :06:11. | |
Hall is planning on his land. A wetland to help slow | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
down the flow of water. Our 8,000 cubic metre piece | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
will not stop the flooding. But if you had a dozen of them, | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
we're talking about only ?7,000 to do this projdct, | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
so we're not talking about There is very little | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
maintenance on it Ultimately, the MPs want a radical | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
new approach to prevent flooding like this with a ndw flood | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
Commissioner delivering a more holistic solution, looking `t river | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
catchments as a whole. Something that people | :06:41. | :06:42. | |
of Yalding argue Our reporter Jon Hunt has | :06:43. | :06:43. | |
been following the story Jon, what are the Government | :06:44. | :06:53. | |
and Environment Agency The Government says it sees no need | :06:54. | :07:06. | |
for structural change. The Department for the Environmdnt, food | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
and rural affairs says it is a red implementing measures such `s | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
managing watercourses across entire catchment areas and investing ? .5 | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
billion building new flood defence schemes across the country `nd | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
protecting more homes over the next few years. The Environment @gency | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
says more than half a million homes are more protected now than they | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
were in 2003. He calls himself the "oldest gay | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
in the village" and is a prominent He's fighting Government pl`ns | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
to grant pardons for gay men unfairly given criminal | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
convictions in the past, saying pardons are an insult | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
and the Government Now in his nineties and married | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
to his partner of 20 years, George Montague says he's | :07:50. | :08:00. | |
a lucky man. But he, like thousands of other | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
older gay men, remains a But in my day, if you did that, | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
you were "importuning for an immoral This afternoon, he went | :08:07. | :08:19. | |
to Downing Street to deliver a petition asking | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
for an official apology. The law banning homosexuality | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
was scrapped in 1967 and last month the Government | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
announced its own Turin law, named after the famous World War HI | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
codebreaker which will pardon gay men convicted of offences which have | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
since been abolished. The 1967 Act only made sexu`l | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
acts between two men With a smaller gay social scene | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
and living a double life with a wife and family, George s`ys | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
he and many others were forced to meet in public places | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
and risk prosecution. The criminal justice system had | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
plenty of laws to draw on to prosecute certainly | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
gay and bisexual men There were plenty of | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
case law, plain clothes police officers in sting opdrations | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
hanging out against pubs just to The Government says it | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
understands and supports thd intentions of the petition, but | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
believes its pardon scheme hs the best way of righting | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
historic wrongs for gay men. George though, is hopeful | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
he'll get his apology for They shouldn't have ever given | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
Alan Turing a pardon. George though, is hopeful | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
he'll get his apology for Edenbridge Bonfire Society has | :09:20. | :09:27. | |
revealed this year's effigy, A huge caricature of the US | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
presidential candidate, standing more than 30 feet tall | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
and holding the head of a somewhat startled-looking Hillary Clhnton, | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
will be set alight on Eastbourne's Johanna Konta | :09:41. | :09:42. | |
will finish the year her victory over former US | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
Open champion Sam Stosur The British number one won 6-4, | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
6-2 and will finish as high as th in the world if she wins | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
the tournament at the weekend. That's it from me, | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
we'll have the national First, here's the forecast | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
for the South East with Rachel. Good evening, it has been a cold, | :10:07. | :10:17. | |
bright day and we will hold on clearer skies as we head into | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
tonight. Temperatures will fall away. Overnight lows of 2-3d in | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
urban areas, but subzero in rural spots. There will be frost `nd early | :10:27. | :10:34. | |
mist and fog. That will lift quickly. High pressure. It hs a | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
settled picture. Perhaps a bit misty and murky at first, but by the | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
afternoon, decent spells of sun and lighter winds, but temperattres | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
struggling to get out of single figures. Highs of 10-11d. Hd called, | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
bright day. All change into Friday. Outbreaks of rain, much milder. Lows | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
of 6-7d. not stop the temperature is coming | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
up to around 12. Mick Miller has the national picture. | :11:06. | :11:07. |