:00:07. > :00:17.Welcome to South East Today. A senior surgeon has spoken out about
:00:17. > :00:25.
:00:25. > :00:28.a culture of bullying at Kent's An independent report in to a
:00:28. > :00:34.complaint by Mr Gulzar Mufti, who has since left the trust, found
:00:34. > :00:37.what could be construed as "a group campaign of bullying against him".
:00:37. > :00:40.Accused of murdering her two young children and leaving them in the
:00:40. > :00:43.boot of her car in Sussex, Fiona Donnison's trial gets underway.
:00:43. > :00:46.Also in tonight's programme: She vanished without a trace. Now
:00:46. > :00:48.police close the case of a Kent nurse who went missing in Germany
:00:48. > :00:51.10 years ago. And her life in pictures: A Sussex
:00:51. > :00:57.exhibition pays tribute to Dame Beryl Grey, the British ballet
:00:57. > :01:01.great. From Royal St George's with love.
:01:01. > :01:11.As players gear up for the open we look at James Bond's relationship
:01:11. > :01:21.
:01:21. > :01:26.Good evening. A senior surgeon who is the former medical director of
:01:26. > :01:34.Medway NHS Trust has spoken out about a culture of bullying. Mr
:01:34. > :01:44.Gulzar Muft, who has since unless the Trust, asked for his complaint
:01:44. > :01:54.
:01:54. > :02:01.to be investigated. -- who has Gulzar Muft reads the findings of a
:02:01. > :02:06.report into complaints he made about bullying. I was the medical
:02:06. > :02:16.director. I had to performance manager some consultants, and the
:02:16. > :02:20.group comes together and bullies me. The report found that three doctors
:02:20. > :02:25.had acted together in what could be construed as a campaign of bullying.
:02:25. > :02:31.It said a referral letter written by colleagues was a malicious, and
:02:31. > :02:36.also said it could be construed that colleagues put trash --
:02:36. > :02:40.pressure on the Trust to remove Gulzar Muft. The Trust investigates
:02:40. > :02:49.the bullying, the investigator labels them as guilty, and the
:02:49. > :02:55.Trust does not then it take action. His experience is not isolated.
:02:55. > :02:59.Medway NHS Foundation Trust is one of Kent's largest employers. Aim
:02:59. > :03:03.recent NHS survey revealed the level of bullying was a amongst the
:03:03. > :03:10.highest in the country, with one in five staff saying they had been
:03:10. > :03:20.picked on, and 32% suffering from stress. A senior person like me is
:03:20. > :03:26.not immune from bullying. How can the current administration insure
:03:26. > :03:32.that there is no bullying among us the staff and the hospital? Gulzar
:03:32. > :03:37.Muft has left the Medway Trust after two decades. He was medical
:03:37. > :03:43.director for five years, a board member and also received a clinical
:03:43. > :03:48.excellence Award. He is worried bullying could put patients at risk.
:03:48. > :03:56.A harassed and bullied employee has to look after patients at the same
:03:56. > :04:01.time. There is a risk to patient safety. He raised concerns with me
:04:01. > :04:06.about the conduct at Medway Hospital, which are then it may
:04:06. > :04:11.affect certain professionals carry out their job, which could have an
:04:11. > :04:17.impact on frontline quality of service and care. Having seen those
:04:17. > :04:21.concerns, I have said to Gulzar Muft I will raise them to the
:04:21. > :04:25.Secretary of State for Health. Responding to the claims, the Trust
:04:25. > :04:35.said it takes allegations of bullying extremely seriously. They
:04:35. > :04:52.
:04:52. > :04:57.It had a huge impact on me, my wife, my children. I think the last two
:04:57. > :05:02.years, we have lived through this nightmare. I think it is important
:05:02. > :05:10.that no one else suffers the same thing as we suffered, as I suffered,
:05:10. > :05:15.as my wife and children suffered. It was terrible.
:05:15. > :05:24.Our political editor joins us now. What more has the Trust had to say
:05:24. > :05:28.about this? The Trust said an internal process has to be
:05:28. > :05:32.concluded. Perhaps this is not the end of the matter. They also stress
:05:32. > :05:38.none of the findings give any reason to suggest that patient care
:05:38. > :05:42.and treatment have been compromised. But the local MP, Rehman Chishti,
:05:42. > :05:48.said he is concerned by the issues raised and the findings of the
:05:48. > :05:57.report. He has pledged to raise that with Andrew Lansley.
:05:57. > :06:02.You cannot read more about Gulzar Muft's story on Louise's blog.
:06:02. > :06:06.A mother killed her two children and left their bodies in the boot
:06:06. > :06:13.of her car because she was desperate to get back at her
:06:13. > :06:18.partner, a court has heard. Fiona Donnison denies murdering Harry and
:06:18. > :06:22.Elise in January. Her trial at Lewes Crown Court began today.
:06:22. > :06:27.Fiona Donnison was driven into court with her face hidden under a
:06:27. > :06:30.blanket. She is accused of suffocating her children in its
:06:30. > :06:36.January last year. The prosecution told the court that after killing
:06:36. > :06:40.her children, Fiona Donnison packed them into sports bags, put them in
:06:41. > :06:46.the boot of her car, then drove close to her former partner's car.
:06:46. > :06:52.Later, she walked into a police station, telling officers what she
:06:52. > :06:57.had done. The motive: Revenge. The prosecution told the court that
:06:57. > :07:00.Fiona Donnison had the personality traits of a narcissist. When his
:07:00. > :07:10.palm ended the relationship, she wanted to make his life as
:07:10. > :07:14.
:07:14. > :07:18.miserable as possible. -- partner. Harry and Elise were described as
:07:18. > :07:26.the libel and well-mannered children. Their mother may have
:07:26. > :07:32.been suffering from depression. -- delightful. She moved out of the
:07:32. > :07:37.family home in Heathfield in 2009 after being made redundant. She was
:07:37. > :07:43.also in debt, and suspected her partner of cheating. The trial
:07:43. > :07:47.continues in the morning. In a moment:
:07:47. > :07:57.How a bright idea on a trip to Bali led to a successful 20-year
:07:57. > :08:03.
:08:03. > :08:08.business for a Kent couple. 10 years ago, Louise Kerton
:08:08. > :08:13.vanished without trace. A decade on, it has emerged the German police
:08:13. > :08:20.have closed the file on her case. Despite invest -- despite intensive
:08:20. > :08:26.investigations, nothing has been seen or heard from her.
:08:26. > :08:32.The letter from Germany, Louise's father had been dreading, the case
:08:32. > :08:42.was closed. You go through all the emotions of bereavement once again.
:08:42. > :08:43.
:08:44. > :08:52.Questioning and anger and disbelief. But not knowing the end is a burden.
:08:52. > :08:57.Do you believe she is alive? No. I am sure, 10 years on, she is dead
:08:57. > :09:07.somewhere. Louise was last seen at Aachen
:09:07. > :09:13.train station after being dropped off by a border's mother. --
:09:13. > :09:22.boyfriend's mother. The case is still featured on the missing
:09:22. > :09:28.People's Website. A very small fraction of cases are open for this
:09:28. > :09:32.amount of time. It is very unusual, and important for the police to
:09:32. > :09:39.keep searching, and they are often relied on new sources of
:09:39. > :09:45.information to find that a person. The German authorities say that
:09:45. > :09:53.there is nowhere for the case to go. Its is very similar to that as you
:09:53. > :09:59.have seen with Madeleine Wickham. The police have put on the blinkers,
:09:59. > :10:05.and blame the parents or family. Despite their efforts, the family
:10:05. > :10:09.feel they are further away from answers than ever. Simon Jones
:10:09. > :10:14.joins us from Kent Police headquarters. What officers telling
:10:14. > :10:19.you there? They say they have worked closely with their German
:10:19. > :10:24.counterparts. It was they bear to convince the police to turn into a
:10:24. > :10:29.criminal investigation. The German police say they still do not know
:10:29. > :10:32.whether Louise Kerton was killed or chose to disappear, and I travelled
:10:33. > :10:37.out to Aachen with the family. They said they could not bear the
:10:37. > :10:42.thought of going back. Louise Kerton's mother also died last year
:10:42. > :10:46.before she was able to find out what happened to her daughter. Two
:10:46. > :10:48.17-year-old boys have been charged with arson after a fire at a major
:10:48. > :10:52.retail park in Eastbourne last December. The fire caused millions
:10:52. > :10:55.of pounds worth of damage to four major stores on one of the busiest
:10:55. > :10:56.shopping weekends of the year. The teenagers will appear in court next
:10:56. > :10:59.week. A group of peace campaigners
:10:59. > :11:03.believed to have been arrested in Israel, including a man from Sussex
:11:03. > :11:06.and a woman from Kent, have been deported back to the UK. 83 year
:11:06. > :11:08.old John Lynes from St Leonards is among 12 people expected to land
:11:08. > :11:11.this evening. According to the Scottish Palestine Solidarity
:11:11. > :11:15.Campaign, the group was trying to join a protest in support of
:11:15. > :11:24.Palestinians in the West Bank. 68- year-old Val Kitchen from Tonbridge,
:11:24. > :11:28.also in the group, was arrested. The future of care homes in the
:11:28. > :11:33.South East are in doubt after Southern Cross announced it is
:11:33. > :11:38.pulling out of running its home following the loss of hundreds of
:11:38. > :11:48.millions of pounds. Of the companies, they are 10 in Kent,
:11:48. > :11:49.
:11:49. > :11:53.eight in Sussex, and six in Surrey. She had been overwhelmed with a
:11:53. > :12:00.worry for weeks. The announcement that Southern Cross is to close
:12:00. > :12:07.does nothing to allay those fears. During the war, Joan Robinson used
:12:07. > :12:12.to chat to Winston Churchill. Today, aged 87, her family do not know if
:12:12. > :12:20.she will be able to stay in the place she called home. I am very
:12:20. > :12:26.upset and a bit angry as well, that they could have pre-war does. Where
:12:26. > :12:31.else I would have sent mum, I do not know. Maybe we could have had
:12:31. > :12:37.time to look round and find somewhere else they the locally.
:12:37. > :12:44.A Peder's mother is 94 stop she also lives in a Southern Cross home.
:12:44. > :12:52.The former pub landlady is aware of the difficulties the company are in.
:12:52. > :12:55.Sometimes, the anxiety shows. worrying, what -- not knowing what
:12:55. > :13:02.the outcome will be. You are in limbo at the moment, not knowing
:13:02. > :13:06.what is happening. This is where both women have been living for the
:13:06. > :13:11.past four months. They are happy living here, and their families are
:13:11. > :13:14.happy for them to be here, but what everybody will want to know is what
:13:14. > :13:21.happens next. The care home was completed
:13:21. > :13:24.recently, and cost millions of pounds. It has been announced two
:13:24. > :13:30.Southern Cross Care Homes had been taken over by another private care
:13:30. > :13:40.provider. Families in other parts can only hope they too can get the
:13:40. > :13:43.
:13:43. > :13:46.assurances they so desperately Southern Cross is not the only care
:13:46. > :13:49.home company to be in trouble in the South East. Kent County Council
:13:49. > :13:53.is closing three of its care homes, and it's replacing three others
:13:53. > :13:56.with assisted flats and selling three more to the private sector.
:13:56. > :13:59.Two weeks ago, a Royal Bank of Scotland care home in Canterbury
:13:59. > :14:01.announced it would close with just three months' notice. The stress on
:14:02. > :14:06.residents, some of whom are extremely frail and elderly, is
:14:06. > :14:13.immense. Some older people who are forced to to move unfortunately do
:14:13. > :14:17.not tend to live for very long afterwards. Just like us, moving
:14:17. > :14:21.home is an extremely stressful thing to happen, but more so for an
:14:21. > :14:26.older person in a nursing home or residential home, because they have
:14:26. > :14:33.made that choice and the intention is very much to stay there.
:14:33. > :14:36.As life expectancy increases, more Over the next 20 years, the number
:14:36. > :14:41.of people living into their 70s will jump by 50%. And one in three
:14:41. > :14:47.is likely to need some sort of care. One in ten is expected to need care
:14:47. > :14:51.costing more than �100,000 in their Trying to find good quality care
:14:51. > :14:55.for loved ones can also put a major strain on families. My mother
:14:55. > :15:01.cannot choose and I cannot choose, because whatever happens, the place
:15:01. > :15:06.closes or decisions are made for them, and it is all for the good of,
:15:06. > :15:10.you know, the person we are caring for, but nobody really listens to
:15:10. > :15:13.the carers. This autumn, Parliament's Health Select
:15:13. > :15:15.Committee will be looking at the issues raised by the problems
:15:15. > :15:18.Southern Cross has experienced, where the requirements of
:15:18. > :15:22.businesses and the needs of an aging population need to be
:15:22. > :15:25.balanced. This is our top story tonight. A
:15:25. > :15:29.senior surgeon has spoken out about a culture of bullying at Kent's
:15:29. > :15:32.biggest hospital, Medway Maritime. An independent report into a
:15:32. > :15:36.complaint by Mr Gulzar Mufti, who has since left the Trust, found
:15:36. > :15:40.what could be construed as a group campaign of bullying against him.
:15:40. > :15:48.And forget the Open. We have the story of why Sandwich became the
:15:48. > :15:54.scene for a famous showdown between James Bond and Goldfinger.
:15:54. > :16:04.And getting straight to the point. A candid exhibition of photos and
:16:04. > :16:09.memorabilia to Dame Beryl Grey. 20 years ago, a young couple from
:16:09. > :16:15.Kent had a great idea for an up -- a business importing goods from
:16:15. > :16:20.Indonesia. But they could not get the money they needed to start up.
:16:20. > :16:27.And then, John Ayris and Anne Spratling did get the loan they
:16:27. > :16:32.needed, and it came from the Prince's Trust. They now employ
:16:32. > :16:35.several hundred staff and have some 2000 jobs globally. Now the Prince
:16:35. > :16:40.of Wales himself has recognised their efforts.
:16:40. > :16:47.It was the purchase of eight pig while backpacking in India which
:16:47. > :16:53.led to a business which now has a �4 million annual turnover.
:16:53. > :16:57.ended up in Bali and bought a wooden pig from a man who did would
:16:57. > :17:02.carvings, and that was the seed of the business. That is how it
:17:02. > :17:07.started. We thought it was a once- in-a-lifetime trip and it was
:17:07. > :17:12.simply something, you know, little ornaments we would put on shelves.
:17:12. > :17:17.But our friends and relations started to say, brilliant, next
:17:17. > :17:21.time you are out there, why don't you get those for me? Butter was
:17:21. > :17:28.only with money from the Prince's Trust, which helps young people
:17:28. > :17:32.into work, did the couple managed to start up their gift company, and
:17:32. > :17:39.his Royal how it -- His Royal Highness publicly recognised their
:17:39. > :17:44.achievement at Clarence House at a celebration on Friday. They have
:17:44. > :17:48.forged a long-term relationship between Bali and Folkestone. This
:17:48. > :17:53.particular product is quite a collaboration because it is hand-
:17:53. > :17:58.made and hand-painted in Bali, so they have carved the star and
:17:58. > :18:08.painted his by hand, and there we add to the little heart here, which
:18:08. > :18:10.
:18:10. > :18:17.comes from China, and then it is This gift shop has been packaging
:18:17. > :18:22.their products for many years. is quite fun hearing people say,
:18:22. > :18:27.David Hewitt here. It is fun and quirky. The collaboration is
:18:27. > :18:37.continuing to expand and succeed. Not bad for an idea that began with
:18:37. > :18:40.
:18:40. > :18:46.The 2011 Open Championship gets underway on Thursday, when the
:18:46. > :18:49.focus of the sporting world will be on a small corner of East Kent.
:18:49. > :18:52.Today, the 2003 Open champion Ben Curtis, who won the famous claret
:18:52. > :18:57.jug the last time the championship was held in Kent, has been
:18:57. > :18:59.practising at Sandwich. He was joined on the course at Royal St
:19:00. > :19:02.George by Andy Smith, from Maidstone, and Francis McGuirk,
:19:02. > :19:12.from Sandwich, who are both excited to be playing alongside the world's
:19:12. > :19:16.best this week. I have a lot of friends and family
:19:16. > :19:21.who are going to come down and watch and they are really proud of
:19:21. > :19:27.me, saying, well done. Everybody has been trying to give me advice.
:19:27. > :19:30.It has been so nice. For all my family to say, well done.
:19:30. > :19:33.While the course at Royal St George will see some high-octane sporting
:19:33. > :19:36.drama this week, what is perhaps less well known is that the
:19:36. > :19:38.undulating dunes of the Sandwich course provided the inspiration for
:19:38. > :19:43.one of the most famous golfing play-offs in cinema, between James
:19:43. > :19:46.Bond and Goldfinger. Bond's creator, Ian Fleming, was a real golf fan
:19:46. > :19:49.who was a member of Royal St George's and would have even become
:19:49. > :19:59.club captain, but for his untimely death from a heart attack. Peter
:19:59. > :20:02.
:20:02. > :20:07.Whittlesea reports. Straight rules of golf. Of course.
:20:07. > :20:14.It is arguably one of the most famous golf scenes in film history.
:20:14. > :20:23.In the book, Ian Fleming set James Bond's famous match with Goldfinger
:20:23. > :20:27.in Sandwich. As Bond handed his club over, he smelled the sweet
:20:27. > :20:31.smell of the beginning of a knock- down and drag out game of golf on a
:20:31. > :20:39.beautiful day in May, with the larks singing over the greatest
:20:39. > :20:45.course in the world. The location of this year's Open is special for
:20:45. > :20:51.Kate Grimond. For her uncle, it was the place of inspiration. Iain
:20:51. > :20:55.adored playing golf. It was one of his favourite pastimes. The scene
:20:55. > :21:00.in Goldfinger is, essentially, a wonderful description of the Royal
:21:00. > :21:05.St George's in the 1950s and 60s. Ian Fleming rode most of his books
:21:05. > :21:09.at his home in Jamaica but the plot lines for Goldfinger were dreamt up
:21:09. > :21:16.on the golf links which bills itself as the English rival to St
:21:16. > :21:19.Andrews. Bond's handicap was nine, as was that of Ian Fleming, so when
:21:20. > :21:24.you are reading about James Bond you are reading a lot about what
:21:24. > :21:34.Ian Fleming was like himself. many of the competitors at this
:21:34. > :21:35.
:21:35. > :21:40.year's Open, Bond had a few problems at his match. That is how
:21:40. > :21:45.frustrated Goldfinger felt at losing a little over �6,000. So
:21:45. > :21:55.imagine how a goal for will feel if the shot cost them the championship
:21:55. > :21:55.
:21:55. > :21:58.and prize money of �900,000! No lethal bowler hats this week,
:21:58. > :22:01.though. Dame Beryl Grey is one of the
:22:01. > :22:04.greats of British ballet, who found fame on the stage dancing Giselle
:22:05. > :22:07.in the 1940s and became the first English dancer to appear as guest
:22:07. > :22:10.ballerina with the Kirov and Bolshoi Ballet. She's now in her
:22:10. > :22:13.90s and living in Forest Row, and an exhibition featuring photographs
:22:13. > :22:23.of her early career, taken by the celebrated cameraman Colin Jones,
:22:23. > :22:29.
:22:29. > :22:34.has just opened. Robin Gibson has Not many people experience this
:22:34. > :22:37.side of dance in the early 60s. Backstage, intimate, somehow or
:22:37. > :22:46.evocative of the time. With pictures like these, the highbrow
:22:46. > :22:51.world of the ballet is being opened up to everybody. I think they are
:22:51. > :22:55.terrific photographs because they give you a feeling of being
:22:55. > :23:01.backstage and all the agonies and the nerves before a performance.
:23:01. > :23:07.And the relief and the exhaustion if you are touring. It is captured.
:23:07. > :23:11.Every sort of emotion a dancer has. So when our own Belgrade takes the
:23:11. > :23:17.Bolshoi Ballet by storm in Swan Lake, it is a British triumph of
:23:17. > :23:23.the greatest magnitude. She joined Sadler's Wells Ballet at the age of
:23:23. > :23:27.14 and was the first Western guest at a dance with the Bolshoi Ballet.
:23:27. > :23:31.At her home in Sussex, she reminisced with Colin Jones. In
:23:31. > :23:39.those days, he picked up a camera to just take pictures of friends
:23:39. > :23:43.and colleagues. It is the first picture I ever took. I bought a
:23:43. > :23:48.camera in Australia. Untrained but inspired, his ballet pictures
:23:48. > :23:53.turned the clock back on a long career. There are this -- the
:23:53. > :24:01.subject of a new exhibition. Did you know why you were taking these
:24:01. > :24:05.photographs? They were for myself. It is when you take great pictures
:24:05. > :24:12.as an amateur, and the -- you then become a professional, it is much
:24:12. > :24:20.harder. Dame Beryl Grey is to open the exhibition this weekend. They
:24:20. > :24:25.are evocative images of youth and beauty from half a century ago.
:24:25. > :24:35.Beautiful photos. They are. She looks amazing for a lady in her
:24:35. > :24:35.
:24:35. > :24:40.nineties. Let's get a check on the Good evening. We have had plenty of
:24:40. > :24:44.sunshine. As we move through the week, we have rain on and off for
:24:44. > :24:48.24 hours, but it will clear by Wednesday and it becomes
:24:48. > :24:53.increasingly settled and fine towards the end of the week. Plenty
:24:53. > :25:00.of blue skies around today with light and variable wind, and the
:25:00. > :25:04.best of the temperatures up to 22 degrees. Some more in the way of
:25:04. > :25:08.clearer skies as we move through the first part of tonight. We are
:25:08. > :25:13.going to start to see that cloud thicken up and that will bring the
:25:13. > :25:19.rain that we will see tomorrow morning. As a result of the cloud
:25:19. > :25:23.cover, quite a close feel to the night as well. Temperatures not
:25:23. > :25:28.dropping much below 14 degrees. Temperatures will drop for a time
:25:28. > :25:33.tomorrow but then we have pressure moving up from the South East and
:25:34. > :25:40.all of us will see some rain at some point. Over that time, we will
:25:40. > :25:49.see between 5 and 10 mm of rain. The top temperature tomorrow,
:25:49. > :25:54.around 20 degrees. Those winds moving at around 15 miles per hour,
:25:54. > :25:59.adding a cooler feel to the day. The temperature will only be two
:25:59. > :26:04.degrees cooler than today. The rain stays with us for the first part of
:26:04. > :26:08.tomorrow night, eventually clearing towards the north-east.
:26:08. > :26:13.Temperatures staying in double figures, with lows of around 11
:26:13. > :26:17.degrees. During the first part of Wednesday, the rain will clear,
:26:18. > :26:22.with things becoming increasingly settled and fine. As we move
:26:22. > :26:25.through the week, we have high pressure nudging up from the south-
:26:25. > :26:31.west. Things will be settled and fine, and by a time we get to the
:26:31. > :26:38.weekend, we have this area coming in from the south-west. Rain is
:26:38. > :26:42.likely on Saturday. Temperatures at around 20 degrees and through the
:26:43. > :26:46.late part of the week, things will remain settled. Overnight lows
:26:46. > :26:49.staying in double figures, so plenty of sunshine for the end of
:26:49. > :26:55.the week and plenty of rain tomorrow.
:26:55. > :27:05.If that is something for everybody. Before we go, do you remember the
:27:05. > :27:12.magician we spoke to on Friday? sir, even more than we thought,
:27:12. > :27:17.have tricked us. He was competing on the television showed for the
:27:17. > :27:22.chance to support the two American magicians in their last Las Vegas
:27:22. > :27:27.show. And he certainly did manage to trick them. He is going to be
:27:27. > :27:30.flying to Las Vegas in October and will appear live on stage with
:27:30. > :27:36.those two. I am still trying to figure out the elastic band thing