27/03/2017 South East Today


27/03/2017

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Today's main headlines in the South East:

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Evicted for complaining their flat was mouldy.

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Now housed 30 miles from their son's school, the working family who say

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It's completely inappropriate for a family.

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An inquest hears how a mother of three children was told

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she was well enough to leave hospital just hours

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And after a lovely sunny day what does the rest of the week have in

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store? All the details later. A Sussex family say they've been let

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down by the housing system - after being evicted by their private

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landlord for complaining The council say they haven't got

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anything suitable for the Lowe family closer than Eastbourne -

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30 miles from their son's school. A working mother desperate to find

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somewhere permanent for her family to live.

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This was their home for three years. It became riddled

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with damp and cold. We could not use two

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of the bedrooms. It was extreme mould in the flat,

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on every wall and surface. The mushrooms growing up

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through the bathroom floor. Water through the electricals

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in the bathroom and toilet. We met at her mother-in-law's house,

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after they made the 60 60 minute journey by public

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transport from Eastbourne. They're in a hostel

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with just one bed. Eastbourne, when you're working

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in Hove, your child has just settled it's just an extreme situation

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which is impossible to maintain. A young family, working,

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trying to do the right thing. That is what the government

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keeps telling us The family were served

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an eviction notice by their landlord after

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the council inspected the property,

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and declared it a health hazard and With no reference and part paying

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went through housing benefit, the family say they are

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struggling to rent elsewhere. A lot of places won't

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even look at you, despite the fact it's a working

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family, because it's a partial rate The letting agents

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managing the property on behalf of the private landlord

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refused to comment today but the council told us that

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due to a shortage of accommodation in

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the city, the only suitable property

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available for the family was Those who work to support

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families like theirs say Increasingly, we're noticing that

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that's actually as a result of people's tenancies being ended

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by the landlords and, increasingly,

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also for people in work. It's people actually working

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who can no longer find appropriate, affordable

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accommodation in the area. The family feels stuck

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in a vicious circle. Working to make ends meet,

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but unable to meet the demands of The rental crisis in the south east

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has been described as a 'perfect Latest figures show that in Brighton

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and Hove the average cost of renting a two bedroom flat

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is ?1,353 per month. That's an increase of 7% on last

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year and yet families can receive a maximum of only ?834 in housing

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benefit, and less, if the family

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have an income. Piers, do tenants have any

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protection against landlords evicting them when they ask

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for repairs? Well, the government has told us

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tonight that they have given councils new powers to tackle what

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they call retaliatory evictions, and I have also made something like ?12

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million available to tackle rogue landlords. But in terms of trying to

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find some sort of long-term solution, one housing expert told us

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that what is needed above all is a greater pool of available

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accommodation. That, coupled with a need to convince landlords that

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people on housing benefit really are suitable tenants.

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A Kent woman who disappeared 20 years ago was unlawfully killed,

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Sandie Bowen, originally from Folkestone, was murdered

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by her husband in 1997, but he never revealed

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Last month her remains were discovered at a reservoir

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in Monmouthshire in Wales. She'd been tied to a

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Michael Bowen has been released after serving 15 years in prison.

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The Crown Prosecution Service says no further action

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An inquest has heard how a mother-of-three was declared well

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enough to be discharged from hospital just

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25-year-old Sian Hollands died at the Darent Valley hospital in 2015.

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Her partner told the inquest today that staff said they needed the bed

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for another patient. Simon Jones reports.

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More than a year after her death, Sian Hollands' family

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arrive at the inquest, looking for answers.

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Yesterday being Mother's Day, another Mother's Day without her.

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Sian was admitted to A, complaining of breathing

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difficulties, and pains in her chest and stomach.

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Three weeks earlier she had suffered an

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ectopic pregnancy at a different hospital and lost a huge amount of

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blood, but her family believes when she went

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to Darent Valley Hospital she was simply dismissed as a drug

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addict because she had just stopped taking methadone to come off heroin,

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and her symptoms were put down to withdrawal rather than being

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There is anger, there is upset, there's frustration, why did

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Sian's partner, Carl Elaine, said the following day, after she was

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given methadone, she was told she was well enough to leave, even

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though she was hyperventilating and struggling to walk.

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Her condition deteriorated and she died.

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But A doctor Leila Muhammed on the left

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told the inquest when she examined Sian Hollands on the day she was

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admitted, there was not sufficient evidence to consider a pulmonary

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A ward sister at A told the inquest today that at the time it

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was as dreamily busy with ambulances queueing up outside.

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The troubled i360 attraction in Brighton, will remain closed

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for third day in a row because of a temporary fault.

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It's the seventh breakdown in the eight months since

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The i360 will be closed until Wednesday at the earliest

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while technicians continue to carry out checks.

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The headteacher of a Medway primary school has written to parents urging

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them to make healthier choices for their children packed lunches -

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after finding one child had a day-old Happy Meal,

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another, four yoghurts and a tube of Smarties,

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and a third had two packets of crisps and a crisp sandwich.

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Sara Smith reports from Byron Road Primary School in Gillingham.

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It's quite a balancing act, providing food

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that is healthy and that your child will actually eat,

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but some packed lunches coming into this school

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definitely tip the scales in the wrong direction, said

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a takeaway, bought the day before.

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Crisps, accompanying a crisp sandwich.

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They don't really contain very much in the way of

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vitamins and minerals, certainly very few healthy fats if any at all,

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and they are usually very high in the things

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that nowadays we tried to

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Parents today said they were happy to be

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given advice, and has tried to pack healthy lunches.

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I think it is a wise thing to try and get them to

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And how easy is it? Not always easy.

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It's the parents's responsibility to prepare their packed lunch for their

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kids, at least nutritional for the kids.

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My other half's a childminder, so we have all the posters up, drink

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Coke with water and all that sort of thing,

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Two years ago, this school in Wateringbury

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banned sugary drinks in

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The head's looking to improve the food they eat

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too, but admits it's a sensitive area.

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You can imagine the peer pressure is huge for what is put

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into children's lunchboxes, and you can imagine, you know,

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the pressures on parents to buy the things that

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children perceive as being acceptable and cool within the

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So there's so many issues at play here, and really

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wants to bring your parents alongside you as a school when you

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The message about nutrition certainly

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seems to be getting through to the children have.

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I'm in gymnastics so I kept to kind of eat healthy as

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well, so I can do the stuff that I want to.

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It matters to me because I play a lot of sports and I want to

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I have heard rumours about broccoli where if you need a

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lot when you grow up you have a big bushy beard,

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and I'd love to have a big beard when I grow up.

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Today, MPs on the Commons health committee released a report

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criticising the government for not doing more to tackle childhood

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Now lets take a look at the weather for the week ahead with Nina Ridge.

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Nina, we've got some more sunshine tomorrow?

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More sunshine indeed, a lovely day today as well. Writes guys out there

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and temperatures above average as well. It stays mild, predominantly

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dry and a few showers around, but cloud comes and goes, and so not

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glorious all the time but there will be some sunshine around at times.

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Through the night, some clear spells and breaks in the cloud allowing

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patchy mist to form. Temperature dropped to 6 degrees, but thing in

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the morning. Mist clears quickly, certainly during the morning, and

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for the afternoon cloud and these small chance of a shower but most

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places they dry. On the postman at images of 12 degrees, inland as her

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trauma, 13 to 14. That cloud builds a touch on Wednesday and we see more

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overcast skies with the odd fleeting shower perhaps but most places miss

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them and stay dry, and if we do get some brightness we keep those

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temperatures around 14-15 degrees. Until we get to the end of the week,

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we start to see a change, low-pressure sitting out to the

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north and west of us but we have just enough influence that high

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sitting across northern to keep the showers away through the day on

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Thursday, where with southerly winds that really lift the temperatures to

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highs For the weekend, looking a bit

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showery on Saturday, dry and brighter on Sunday and if we go back

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to the temperatures in the next couple days, you see those highs on

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Thursday. He is John Hammond with the national

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this cyclone Debbie crashes onto the Queensland coast with violent winds

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and flooding rains, that will head southwards in the next

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