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Welcome to South East Today. I'm Polly Evans. And I'm Rob Smith. | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
Tonight's top stories: under fire on two fronts - Ashford | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
MP Damian Green is under pressure over who knew what about relaxing | :00:14. | :00:21. | |
immigration passport checks. Everything that Ministers in this | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
Government have been authorised has been done to strengthen our border. | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
And he's facing accusations that he twisted Home Office figures on | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
drugs seizures to try to create good news. We'll be reporting live | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
from Newhaven and Westminster. Also on tonight's programme: | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
Stolen on Remembrance weekend - the charity collection in memory of a | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
Kent soldier who died in Afghanistan. | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
Left disfigured by an emergency operation - the woman refused | :00:41. | :00:51. | |
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reconstructive surgery on the NHS. And the healing power of song - how | :00:52. | :01:02. | |
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a Canterbury choir is proving Good evening. The Government is | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
under fire on two fronts tonight, putting severe pressure on the | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
Immigration Minister and Kent MP Damian Green. He's faced tough | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
questions in the House of Commons over allegations that Ministers | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
weakened border security by relaxing passport checks at our | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
ports and airports. He's also been accused of twisting | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
Home Office figures on cocaine and heroin seizures to try to generate | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
positive news coverage. In a moment we'll hear more on that from | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
Claudia Sermbezis in Newhaven and cross live to Westminster for | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
analysis from our political editor Louise Stewart. But first, here's | :01:37. | :01:47. | |
her report on today's developments in the row over border checks. | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
The Government says a pilot scheme to reduce passport checks on some | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
citizens from EU countries was trialled at 28 ports and airports, | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
including Gatwick, Newhaven and Calais, where passport checks were | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
undertaken for passengers travelling to Dover. Earlier, the | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
Immigration Minister, Damian Green, who was called to the Commons to | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
answer questions, insisted border controls have been strengthened. | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
Everything that Ministers in this Government have authorised has been | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
done to strengthen our border. It focuses on high-risk passengers and | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
journeys, a new National Crime Agency with a border policing | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
command, E-borders to check passengers in and out of the | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
country. At the same time the former Senior Civil Servant who | :02:35. | :02:45. | |
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resigned over the row, Brodie Clark, was giving evidence to MPs. He | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
denied passing checks beyond the passport scheme. I never went rogue, | :02:52. | :03:01. | |
and I never it was the Home Secretary who clearly at request | :03:01. | :03:08. | |
and on advice from me agreed that the trial could continue. | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
The director at the border force south at Dover has also been | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
suspended. Unions warn the pilot was brought in to deal with cuts in | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
agency staff and will only get worse. Brodie Clark said today a | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
one of the reasons for the trial that the Home Secretary agreed to | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
go through with was to get more with less, and what he was saying | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
is he was hopeful that that sort of system would help the Border Agency | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
cope with the staff cuts. I believe that being hopeful is not good | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
enough as far as the security of our borders is concerned. Three | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
inquiries are now under way at what happened at the UK Border Agency, | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
and the row is set to continue with the Immigration Minister due to | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
give evidence about what he knew next week. | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
In addition to the passports row, the pressure on Damian Green | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
increased further with another row erupting over a press release | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
claiming drug seizures by the UK Border Agency had dramatically | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
increased. The chairman of the UK Statistics | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
Authority has sent the MP a letter accusing him of "highly selective" | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
use of statistics to show the agency in a good light. Claudia | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
Sermbezis is live in Newhaven. Claudia, what does the letter | :04:11. | :04:21. | |
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actually say? Polly, Sir Michael is basically | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
asking Damian Green did, you massage the figures so that the UK | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
Border Agency looks as though it's doing a better job? One of the | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
reasons why they've got such fantastic figures is they have | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
included drug seizures which take place out to sea instead of just | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
sticking to the ones on land in England and Wales and at ports such | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
as this one here in Newhaven. all about drugs, drug seizures, to | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
be precise. On the 4th of November Damian Green and the Home Office | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
set out a press release saying more heroin and cocaine was found | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
between April and September than the whole of last year. It was on | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
course to be the highest annual total for over a decade - not so | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
according to the head of Britain's statistics watchdog Sir Michael | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
Scholar. In a letter to Damian Green he said the figures were | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
highly selective, irregular and inconsistent with the code of | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
practising. It was highly corrosive and damaging to public confidence | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
in official statistics and was distributed only to a select group | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
of journalists. I am astonished that politicians are still being | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
caught out trying to spin statistics for their own political | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
ends because the organisation that's written to the Minister, the | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
UK Statistics Authority was set up specifically to catch politicians | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
out if they did that. The previous Government set it up. Gordon Brown | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
got caught doing it. Now the opponents don't seem to have | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
learned the lesson. Sir Michael said the press release was done | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
without involvement of the department's statisticians. Today | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
Yvette Cooper has called for an urgent investigation. A | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
spokesperson for the UK Border Agency said that they regularly use | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
what they called "management information" to highlight their | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
operational work, but they added that they do take the code of | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
practising seriously, and they will be replying to Sir Michael's letter | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
in due course. Thank you. | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
We can now cross live to Westminster and our political | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
editor Louise Stuart. How has Damian Green been responding to the | :06:29. | :06:36. | |
pressure? We were folk -- focusing today on Brodie Clark. I think it's | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
fair to say Damian Green also put in a bullish performance in the | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
Commons. He was called there to answer an urgent question from | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
Yvette Cooper of he was there in place of Theresa May, who was | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
otherwise engaged. He didn't look to me like a man particularly | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
worried about his job over either the immigration or the drugs row, | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
but it's definitely not over for him yet. Next Tuesday, he'll face | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
tough questions from MPs on the Home Affairs Committee about what | :07:07. | :07:15. | |
he knew and when. In a moment, Seafrance suspends all | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
sailings between Dover and Calais as the company faces liquidation. | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
The father of a teenage Kent soldier killed in Afghanistan says | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
the theft of a charity box collecting money in his memory was | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
"despicable". The Dannyboy Trust was set up last year after the | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
death of 19-year-old Daniel Holkham from the Isle of Sheppey. | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
Thieves struck during Remembrance weekend, taking a collection box | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
bearing his picture from a pub on the island. Peter Whittlesea has | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
the details. Daniel Holkham was killed in Afghanistan in March last | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
year. His family wanted something positive to come from his death. | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
They set up the Dannyboy Trust. This Remembrance weekend one of | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
their collection tins was stolen from a pub on the Isle of Sheppey. | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
His father has described the theft as an act of desecration. This | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
weekend is one I don't have dry eyes for long anyway. This was just | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
another one of those things that pushes you over the edge. I don't | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
understand it. I really don't. I couldn't believe anybody would do | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
it, especially this weekend, knowing that the money is being | :08:23. | :08:31. | |
given in the name of one of these fallen soldiers. Sue and Peter run | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
the Hopps Inn at Minster. They make a point of supporting local | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
charities. They estimated there was more than �100 in the Dannyboy | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
Trust collection tin. Now they want the thieve to be caught. I can't | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
describe what I think, to be honest. It's not the words. You couldn't | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
repay it. I think it's awful, absolutely awful. On Remembrance | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
weekend, I just can't believe someone would stoop that low. | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
They're probably out there laughing about it. That's what's sickening. | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
Daniel's family believes someone knows who stole the tin and urges | :09:08. | :09:18. | |
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anyone with information to contact the police immediately. | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
A van driver has suffered serious leg injuries in a collision with a | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
bus carrying schoolchildren in East Sussex. It happened this morning at | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
Mark Cross near Wadhurst. None of the children were badly hurt. | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
Detectives in Brighton have dropped their investigation into an alleged | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
rape in the St James Road area of the city last Wednesday night. A | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
24-year-old woman from Brighton has been arrested on suspicion of | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
perverting the course of justice. She's been bailed until the 8th of | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
December. Seafrance has suspended all | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
sailings between Dover and Calais to safeguard its ships and | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
passengers. There are fears of an angry | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
reaction from the French unions if the courts decide this week to | :09:50. | :09:58. | |
liquidate the ailing cross-Channel company. Simon Jones is in Dover. | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
This is an extraordinary move by SeaFrance. I don't think Dover's | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
ever seen anything quite like this before. The management of Seafrance | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
are so concerned about what the French unions and workers might do | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
if they're not happy with the court decision, they have decided it's | :10:13. | :10:20. | |
Safir not to sail at all -- safer not to sail at all, and tomorrow is | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
decision day. Going no-where - Seafrance's sailing suspended as | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
the fate of the company and a thousand workers hangs in the | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
balance. It's very important we have a competitive environment in | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
the port of Dover and also Seafrance's Council has nearly 200 | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
jobs in and around Dover. I think it's really important we have a | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
stable future for those livelihoods. Managers in Calais took charge of | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
the ships. The police are out in force after the company said it | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
feared trouble to the astonishment of the workers kept away. | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
TRANSLATION: My first reaction is, it's sabotage. They're continuing | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
to sabotage the business, like they have been doing for the past three | :11:00. | :11:07. | |
years. It's the management who have stopped the ships. Angry protests | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
by workers in France last month as the courts first considered the | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
company's future. They'll decide tomorrow whether to sell it to one | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
of two bidders or to liquidate Seafrance. Very sadly, I think this | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
could be the end for Seafrance - awful news, of course, for the | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
people who have been working on the ships for so long, but ultimately, | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
I think it is simply inevitable. The short sea Channel crossings | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
could not sustain the kind of competition we have been seeing. | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
But for passengers if Seafrance does go under, it's likely to lead | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
to higher ticket prices to get across the Channel. | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
Seafrance's rival, P&O, is urging a complaint with the European | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
Competition Court. It says at the moment the highest bid on the table | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
for Seafrance is just �5 million euros, when Seafrance says the | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
ships are worth 160 million, and if they're sold off cheaply, that | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
would break rules. Thank you. | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
A Kent woman says she "feels like a freak" after being left disfigured | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
by an operation to refit her pacemaker. Sue Parnell from Strood | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
suffers from a rare genetic condition which could make her | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
heart stop at any time. She was given breast implants to | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
hide the lump created by her pacemaker, but has been left with | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
an uneven chest after it was removed during emergency surgery. | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
Local NHS managers say they won't fund a corrective operation. Lynda | :12:27. | :12:37. | |
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Sue Parnell has struggled for years with a heart condition that claimed | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
the lives of her two brothers, but now he's fighting another battle | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
for funding from the local Primary Care Trust to rebuild her breast | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
after it was left concave when her pacemaker had to be moved after | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
complications. This is not about having a boob job on the NHS. This | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
is about reconstructing a deformity that has arisen through the | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
procedures I had to have to keep me alive. The pace maker that keeps | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
her heart beating was fitted. She was then given two breast implants, | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
on one side to hide the pacemaker, on the other, to even out her | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
appearance, but she had to have the device and implant taken out after | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
it caused her breast to rupture. It was moved across her chest, leaving | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
her with one full breast, but nothing on the other side. I feel | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
like a freak. I don't feel like a proper woman. When I do get to | :13:34. | :13:44. | |
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sleep, some days I just wish I People are affecting a life who | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
don't know her, who have no idea of her background or history and just | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
see a case on paper and dismiss it out of hand. | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
The couple say their only option now is to take out a loan to pay | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
for the treatment privately, the only way Sue says she'll be able to | :14:23. | :14:33. | |
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This is our top story tonight. The Ashford MP Damian Green is | :14:36. | :14:43. | |
under, reure on two fronts, first over who knew what about the | :14:43. | :14:52. | |
suspension of passport checks and secondly, the UK Statistics | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
Authority is accusing him of highly selective figures. | :14:55. | :15:02. | |
Also in tonight's programme: How the money you helped raise for | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
Children in Need is helping troubled teenagers before it's too | :15:05. | :15:06. | |
late. The Canterbury Choir proving that | :15:06. | :15:13. | |
singing really is good for your health. | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
The Unemployment figures come out tomorrow, and its anticipated that | :15:16. | :15:25. | |
the number of young people without a job will top one million. Last | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
month there were 991,000 16 to 24- year-olds in the UK classed as | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
NEETS. That means not in education, employment or training. That's | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
around one in six of all young people. But in some deprived parts | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
of Kent and Sussex, like Margate and Hastings, it's as many as one | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
in five. Our business correspondent Mark Norman is live in Hastings. | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
You've been finding a real sense of frustration from young people who | :15:45. | :15:55. | |
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can't find work. That's right, Rob, a sense of frustration, maybe | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
helplessness I think even despite the help the Government has been | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
trying to give them in terms of education or apprenticeship places. | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
I have spoken to three youngsters who seem to have done everything | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
right in terms of their education, but still can't find that elusive | :16:09. | :16:17. | |
first paid job. I worked at Pizza Hut for a little while, but I sort | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
of left that because it was quite a lot of work for not much money. I | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
knew it would be tough because music is one of the harder | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
industries to get into, or as I understand it, but yeah, I didn't | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
really know it would be this hard. There is literally nothing. Mum and | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
dad are always saying, "Oh, you could apply for this, this, this." | :16:41. | :16:50. | |
Yeah, lack of money - that's not much fun. | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
The motivation you had at university - they kind of set you | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
up with all of these skills to go into some kind of job, and then | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
you're just kind of left by yourself because everyone is in the | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
same boat. It's very difficult. I'm actually applying for jobs which I | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
am technically qualified for. When you have 300 applicants, you're | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
going to have someone amongst the 300 that's done the exact same job | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
two months before very likely, and I am already set up to be rejected. | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
If I got an interview for something, let alone an actual job, I would be | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
really surprised. I think it's awful. I really do think it's awful | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
because they say they're looking for people with this qualification | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
or that extra-curricular thing, but they're still not accepting, even | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
if you do believe yourself that you fulfil the requirements. I apply so | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
much. I really, really do. It probably sounds a bit cliche | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
because everyone says the same thing, but that is the honest truth | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
- just normal jobs working in a shop, like The Body Shop or Tesco's | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
or Sainsbury, simple things, nothing, like, too outrageous. You | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
know what I mean? I am just like, for goodness sake! At the end of | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
the month the Chancellor will produce his pre-Budget report and | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
try to find wives growing the economy so that the private sector | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
can create jobs these youngsters can take and they can actually | :18:21. | :18:31. | |
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start to begin they're careers. You may have noticed this Friday, | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
the BBC's Children in Need appeal takes place. One of the | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
organisations that benefits from your donations in Sussex helps to | :18:44. | :18:54. | |
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get young people back on track.. It's called Catch 22 and provides a | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
mentoring service for troubled youngsters. This is one 16-year- | :18:58. | :19:05. | |
old's story. Catch 22 changed my life. | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
I was getting into a lot of trouble when I was in secondary school. I | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
was getting into trouble with the police a lot for different reasons. | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
I was drinking a lot. I barely ever went to school, and if I did, I | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
would probably walk out halfway through the day. I was constantly | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
being arrested or chased by the police for different reasons, and | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
in the end, the school just got so worried about me and my behaviour, | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
they did refer me to Catch 22. I was on such a destructive path. I | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
couldn't help myself. I was being so selfish, really. If there was | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
something I wanted to do, I would do it, and usually that would end | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
with me in trouble with the police. I am Kevin, and I am a volunteer | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
for Catch 22. As a mentor, my role is to listen to these people, to | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
sit down with them on a one-to-one basis and try to understand exactly | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
what their problems are and to try and help them find solutions to | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
resolving those problems so they can move forward in a very positive | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
manner. I thought it was going to be the same as all the other | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
organisations I had worked with, but it turned out to be very | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
different. Just before I started with - working with Catch 22, I | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
actually went missing for six or seven weeks, and I didn't actually | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
plan on coming back until I had that first meeting with Catch 22, | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
and just it changed my view on everything. To be able to talk to | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
somebody they don't know I think gives them a certain amount of | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
freedom that enables them to express themselves in a way they | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
possibly couldn't do otherwise. am now at college doing A-levels. | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
Things at home are so much better. I am not arguing with my parents | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
like I used to. I am not running away anymore. All of these people I | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
hung around with were much older than me. It sounds horrible, but I | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
just looked at them and thought, I don't want to be like them when I | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
am their age. I want to be doing something. I have come so far, and | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
I'm not going to let myself sink that low again. It's not going to | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
happen. I'm proud of myself for what I have done, and I plan to go | :21:19. | :21:28. | |
a lot further. She should be proud. And on | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
Children in Need night on Friday we'll be live at Bluewater in Kent. | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
Our colleagues will be outside Marks & Spencer ready to direct you | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
to where we are. Or you can watch it live on South East Today at 6.30 | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
and throughout the evening. Two years ago today, Brighton | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
manager Gus Poyet took charge of his first match, an away victory | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
over Southampton. Since then the Uruguayan, who also | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
celebrates his 44th birthday today, has guided the Seagulls to | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
promotion and seen them into their new stadium. But he's told Neil | :21:52. | :21:59. | |
Bell he's determined to take the club even further. | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
A lot has happened in the two years since Gus Poyet, to the surprise to | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
many at the time, took over at Brighton and Hove. Victory was | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
followed 18 months later with the League One title, but he believes | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
that's just the start. I want to manage the top. The top means the | :22:17. | :22:26. | |
Premiere League, and then for me is without going crazy, without, you | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
know, without - I need it to happen now, but within the next two years, | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
I want to get to the Premiership. If it happens at the right time, I | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
am sure we'll have a sol, great possibility to stay up for a few | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
years. Even promotion to the Premiere League will not be enough. | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
His mission is to change the way football is played in this country. | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
Being honest, I am fed up with people talking about the technical | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
ability of the average player. I think I heard that for the first | :22:58. | :23:05. | |
time in 1997 when I got to England. It's 2011. If we stop talking, | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
maybe in two years' time, we'll have a hundred better players and | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
be playing in the Premiere League. There can be fewer committed, | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
passionate people than Gus Poyet. His problem now is finding ways to | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
forget about the game. Some people say, golf - you going to play golf. | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
After two holes, somebody ask you about the team, what you're going | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
to do in training? Can I still finish 18 holes talking about | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
football? That's not the idea. So if something knows about a way I | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
can switch off, please is enme a letter or call me. It would be much | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
appreciated. That was Gus Poyet making that appeal to help him | :23:45. | :23:53. | |
relax. Happy birthday, Gus. | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
They say that laughter is the best medicine - but it would seem a good | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
old sing song has some real benefits too. | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
Experts say singing in a choir can ease conditions such as depression | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
and lung disease. And Graham Satchell's been to Canterbury to | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
see the Skylarks, whose members all have Parkinson's Disease. | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
Canterbury and some fairly strange noises. | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
# Top of the teeth # The Skylarks are warming up, a | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
choir made up exclusively of patients suffering from Parkinson's | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
disease. # Somewhere over the rainbow | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
# Way up high # The choir started 18 months ago to | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
see if singing can improve health. It's certainly had an impact on the | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
patients' quality of life. It's the only reason I have for getting up | :24:43. | :24:53. | |
:24:53. | :24:59. | ||
some weeks. It's nice to have Parkinson's is a disorder of the | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
central nervous system. It leads to difficulty controlling movement and | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
can have a dramatic impact on the strength of the voice. I think it's | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
wonderful, the fact we can all get in this room and sing our hearts | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
out and laugh and joke and really enjoy ourselves. | :25:16. | :25:23. | |
# Oh, my old man's a dust man # He wears a dust man's hat # | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
We want to be able to get singing prescribed, so if a GP realises | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
that maybe their patient could benefit from coming together to | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
sing with other people, then that's a very, very easy way of starting | :25:36. | :25:45. | |
to get into a cycle of improvement. # I would like to build a - # | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
So for a range of conditions, in the future, it could be that | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
singing in a choir could be a part of the treatment. | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
# For peace throughout the land # There is nothing like a good old | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
sing-song. There's not. It was lovely and | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
sunny this morning. Rachel is here The cloud cover has been thickening | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
through the last part of this afternoon and the early part of | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
this evening. It continues to do that tonight. Tomorrow, then, a | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
dull start to the day, but brightening up nicely. Again, we've | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
got some blue skies around, light south-easterly breezes, so today | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
high pressure still in control of things. We have had light easterly | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
winds, and they've brought a little bit more cloud cover in throughout | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
the afternoon and added a cooler feel to the day. Temperatures in | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
single figures. Highs nudging up to 11C. That's 52 in Fahrenheit. As we | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
move into tonight, that cloud cover continues to thicken. We're going | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
to see hill fog over higher ground. Despite that cloud cover, still a | :26:48. | :26:50. | |
cool-feeling night. Overnight temperatures dropping down to 5 | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
Celsius. Tomorrow, again, a dull start to the day. It will be | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
brightening up as we move into the afternoon. Some unsettled weather | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
staying well to the west of us. We have light south-easterly breezes. | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
Temperatures are a little bit warmer than today, getting into | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
highs of 12 Celsius, double figures for many. More in the way of hazy | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
sunshine, particularly in the afternoon. Again, we're holding on | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
to that mixture of cloud and clearer skies tomorrow night. | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
Temperatures similar to tonight, lows in single figures, around 6 | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
degrees. As we move through the week, it is going to be staying | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
mostly dry on Thursday. There would be some outbreaks of light rain | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
through the morning. Temperatures getting up to highs of 13-14 | :27:32. | :27:37. |