02/03/2017 South East Today


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Today's main headlines in the South East -

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The families of the eleven Shoreham Airshow victims have been

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shown the final report into the cause of the crash -

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Why the future of the service for Kent, Sussex

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And an unsettled weather picture for you with showers and also a bit of

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sunshine in the forecast. Tonight the families

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of the eleven men who died in the Shoreham Airshow Disaster

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have been shown the final conclusions of the official

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report into the crash. Eighteen months after a vintage jet

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came down on the A27, the Air Accident Investigation

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Branch will make its Meanwhile the pilot, Andy Hill

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- who survived the crash - is still under investigation

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for possible manslaughter. Our Special Correspondent

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Colin Campbell has this report. It is a report into

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the deadliest civilian Families of the 11 who lost

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their lives hope it will make safety recommendations to prevent

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further tragedy This is an important step

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in achieving closure They have waited 18 months now

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to get to the heart of what exactly happened on that fateful

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day in August. The crash happened on

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the first day of the popular The 1950s Hawker Hunter was

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the first flight of the afternoon's It started with

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a low pass along the runway, Behind the cordoned off official

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viewing areas lies by A27, a busy main road where the number

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of enthusiasts had pulled over Nearing the airport and directly

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above the A27, the jet pulled up to perform a loop the loop,

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but it went horribly wrong. The plane failing to pull out

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of the manoeuvre and plummeting The pilot Andy Hill

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was thrown free and survived. If he is at fault

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in any way whatsoever, if you made an error of judgment,

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showing off, anything, then I wanted to be

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a strong case brought against him. Igniting a huge fireball,

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the plane broke into four parts, People in the town

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are anxious to know Not out of idle curiosity,

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because it is part of our life. Victims' families are today

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being given an advance briefing from the Air Accident

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Investigation Bureau, the full report will be

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published tomorrow at noon. Well, let's cross live to Shoreham

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and our reporter Charlie Rose - This report has been 18 months in

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the making and the Air Accidents Investigation Branch has been very

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clear. They say this isn't a finger-pointing exercise, instead

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what the report aims to do is to find out what caused the crash and

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make safety recommendations for the future. Looking behind me, you can

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get an idea of what this means to the families of the victims and the

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community in a sure hand. To doubt they have had a full meeting with

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the investigation Branch and we expect the full report to be

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published tomorrow. -- in sure. BBC Sussex

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will be looking ahead to the report publication tomorrow morning -

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and we'll have a special programme We'll also have reaction

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and analysis on our Facebook page, on Twitter and our live news page

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at bbc.co.uk/Sussex. The future of the Kent Sussex

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and Surrey Air Ambulance is up in the air according

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to its chief executive. He says it could be forced out

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of its base at Redhill Aerodrome when the site is redeveloped

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to build 4,500 new homes. The service currently

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flies two helicopters - which can travel at speeds of up

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to 150 miles an hour. That means they can reach

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any part of Kent, Surrey or Sussex Last year the service cost just

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over nine million pounds to run - the vast majority of that

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comes from charitable donations. Our Health Correspondent Mark Norman

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has this exclusive report This is the positive future

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of the Air Ambulance Service A brand-new bigger, faster

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helicopter that will save lives once it comes into service

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in a few weeks' time. The Air Ambulance Service

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has had plans to convert this hangar in Redhill

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into its main operating base. But what about those plans

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to build homes here? over our future,

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is not a nice place to be. Somebody's got to look

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at the strategic picture and say, are we going to deprive the region

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of a very, very much-needed asset? If planners remove that capability

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from us, people well so far. Adrian Bell has been speaking

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to local councillors and developers, they are very aware of the possible

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consequences of any decision. It is a huge local decision-making

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process, but the air ambulance Does that impact

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on your thought process? It will do, because it is a material

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consideration the planners What we are looking

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for is an improved mix of housing, because house prices

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are 14 times average earnings. Last year, this person's life

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was saved by the Ambulance Service. Here's an example of why

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they have invested 7 million euros in this new helicopter,

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and they want more of them to improve the capability

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and availability of their service. And they want a main

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operating base to do that. Our reporter Lauren Moss

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has been following this story. Lauren, does all of this

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mean that realistically Complete closure is unlikely, the

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air ambulance has its base and there are flights out of Rochester and

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24 hours a day. Not all air 24 hours a day. Not all air

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ambulances do that. They want to make the service available but they

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need a main operating base to do that. Ideally, they would like to

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Redhill but if it can't continue there because of the housing

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development, they say they aren't sure what they will do.

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A parliamentary aide to the Conservative MP

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for South Thanet has been charged with two counts of rape.

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Samuel Armstrong, who was chief of staff to Craig Mackinley, has

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been suspended since being arrested and bailed in October

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following an alleged incident in Westminster.

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A study commissioned by the Government has said

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there is only a "poor" case for a second Brighton Mainline

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to London to be built via Lewes and Uckfield.

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The report found the best solution to rising demand on the route

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between London and Sussex would be to improve

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of their car on the M2 in Kent, crashing over a roundabout

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The incident - which happened near the Bluewater shopping centre,

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has now been viewed almost a million times online -

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Its journey is being captured by a camera on another car.

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It comes off the road to in the direction of Bluewater

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The car goes into a roundabout and into trees.

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Oh my God! Did you see that?

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It's a classic example of someone getting it completely wrong.

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They've come off the slip route at the wrong speed,

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and they've ended up in very lucky to be able to walk away

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from an accident at that sort of speed,

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We showed the footage to people in nearby Blean.

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The state of driving today is just awful.

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When you drive around the M25, you see so much of it.

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You wouldn't believe some of the things that happen.

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It's unclear when the crash here actually took place

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but the footage of it was posted online on Tuesday.

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I understand, though, that Kent Police were aware of it

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before that when they were contacted by the producers of a

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It's not thought the driver was seriously hurt.

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Simon Jones, BBC South East Today, Blean.

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And we're all feeling rather proud here at BBC South East Today -

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because we've been given this rather special award from the National

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We've been named the best Nations and Regions

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and it's the second time we've won the award in three years.

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But the weather's not winning many awards this week -

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It was a pleasant day today. We had some spring sunshine around. Don't

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get too used to it. Over the next few days, things are unsettled.

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Temperatures overnight dipping quite suddenly. Tomorrow, the cloud rolls

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in and temperatures around 5-7 first thing tomorrow. A wet and windy

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start to the day. Most of the rain should clear through by lunchtime

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moving to the north and we are left with dry weather for the afternoon.

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Not a bad afternoon but feeling quite windy. Through into the

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weekend, further showers first thing on Saturday and a bit of uncertainty

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about how Saturday morning will pan out. Showers could stay out towards

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the yeast with fewer spells of rain to the West. For most, and improving

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picture as the rain clears away throughout the afternoon. Saturday,

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the better day of the weekend. By Sunday, some heavy outbreaks of rain

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at times. Persistent rain by Sunday, eight or 9 degrees. I'll leave you

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with an weekend, we have more rain in the

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forecast. Rain at times this weekend, not all the

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