:00:05. > :00:07.Welcome to South East Today. Tonight's top stories:
:00:07. > :00:11.A family's distress after a motorcyclist died in an accident,
:00:11. > :00:21.but his organs couldn't be donated as he wished. We have an exclusive
:00:21. > :00:23.
:00:23. > :00:29.report. There must be a much more efficient way of doing this. And
:00:29. > :00:32.ensuring this does not have done. - happen.
:00:33. > :00:35.John Terry should step down as England captain. A Kent MP says he
:00:36. > :00:37.shouldn't lead his country in Euro 2012 before his trial for alleged
:00:37. > :00:40.racist abuse. Also in tonight's programme:
:00:40. > :00:43.Plans to teach children in Brighton and Hove in old police stations and
:00:43. > :00:47.even the Amex Stadium as the city runs out of classroom space.
:00:47. > :00:50.The snow is coming, but will our roads and rails actually be able to
:00:50. > :00:53.cope this year? We will be reporting live from a Kent gritting
:00:53. > :00:56.depot on the battle against the white stuff.
:00:56. > :01:06.And the DIY history website where people in the town upload their own
:01:06. > :01:13.
:01:13. > :01:16.pictures of the town through the decades.
:01:16. > :01:18.Good evening. Opportunities to save lives after a fatal motorbike crash
:01:18. > :01:21.in Sussex were missed simply because of a breakdown in
:01:22. > :01:26.communications between the police and the coroner. Stuart Mann died
:01:26. > :01:28.in a crash on the A21 last June. His family say he would have wanted
:01:28. > :01:32.to donate his organs, but the hospitals were unable to operate
:01:32. > :01:38.because the paperwork couldn't be done in time. The family say it's
:01:38. > :01:42.left them even more distressed. This is our exclusive report.
:01:42. > :01:48.Stuart Mann loved the arts -- the outdoor life. He loved his
:01:48. > :01:52.motorbike. In June last year, he hit a car which had pulled out
:01:52. > :01:57.suddenly on a major road. He was airlifted to hospital in south
:01:57. > :02:03.London but could not be saved. His widow was told several organs could
:02:03. > :02:08.have been used to save others. It did not happen because of a chain
:02:08. > :02:13.of breakdowns of communication. was an amazing husband. We have
:02:13. > :02:18.four children and eight grandchildren. He was a family man.
:02:18. > :02:23.He would have wanted his organs to be donated? He was very generous
:02:23. > :02:28.and that is what he would have wanted. Staff at a hospital were so
:02:28. > :02:33.upset that they are urged her to try to get to the bottom of this
:02:33. > :02:38.case. She contacted us and what we have discovered are a series of
:02:38. > :02:47.missed opportunities that have angered and embarrassed coroner has
:02:47. > :02:56.and police and have led to the changes in processes. Stuart Mann
:02:56. > :03:06.died in a hospital in London but permission to release the organs
:03:06. > :03:07.
:03:07. > :03:11.would have to come from St Leonards. As they might have been a post-
:03:11. > :03:15.mortem, the police said no. The police had emergency numbers but
:03:15. > :03:21.did not use them. No one queried the fact that the coroner in St
:03:21. > :03:25.Leonards had not been consulted. You have to act quickly with organ
:03:25. > :03:30.donation. You cannot hang around. There must be, in this day and age,
:03:30. > :03:34.a much more efficient way of doing this and ensuring that this does
:03:34. > :03:39.not happen for. Neither coroners were prepared to answer her
:03:39. > :03:45.questions about the case on camera. But the East Sussex coroner has
:03:45. > :03:50.made it clear in an e-mail that they are unhappy. The South London
:03:50. > :03:56.coroner has also apologised to the family. Sussex Police met us on
:03:56. > :04:03.camera and met the widow last week to apologise in person. This is
:04:03. > :04:08.unique. Will this happen again? We will do all we can to ensure
:04:08. > :04:14.this never happens again. solution would be for coroners to
:04:14. > :04:20.have a list of mobile phone numbers. About time, says the local MP.
:04:20. > :04:25.was stunned by this. This is about saving lives. Modern technology is
:04:25. > :04:30.not complicated. You would have thought that mobile numbers would
:04:30. > :04:34.be freely available and something could have been done. It has taken
:04:34. > :04:42.one widow's distress to make sure something is now done. If things do
:04:42. > :04:45.change, Sarah Man says that her husband's early death may have
:04:45. > :04:50.brought something positive. There has been some strong reaction
:04:50. > :04:56.to this today? There has. I spoke to one charity
:04:56. > :05:03.that campaigns for more efficient inquests. They say they are shocked
:05:03. > :05:07.as to what had happened. This has caused a flurry of activity in the
:05:07. > :05:12.coroner's world. They are saying that they should use mobile phones
:05:12. > :05:17.and are getting together to discuss best-practice so they can share
:05:17. > :05:20.examples of what works and what does not. Those examples will be
:05:20. > :05:22.shared across all of England and Wales.
:05:22. > :05:25.The MP for Folkestone is tonight calling for footballer John Terry
:05:25. > :05:29.to step down as England captain until the conclusion of his court
:05:29. > :05:32.case later this year. Terry denies racially abusing QPR player Anton
:05:32. > :05:37.Ferdinand, but his case won't be heard until after the Euro 2012
:05:37. > :05:40.finals. Damian Collins, who is a member of the House of Commons
:05:40. > :05:43.Sport Select Committee, says it would be totally inappropriate for
:05:43. > :05:52.Terry to remain in the position and he should stand aside until the
:05:52. > :05:59.case is resolved. What happened here on the football
:05:59. > :06:04.pitch will now be played out in court. But not until 9th July, one
:06:04. > :06:08.week after the Euro 2012 finals. has a public position and is
:06:08. > :06:12.answerable to the public. It is difficult for him to carry out that
:06:12. > :06:17.position whilst these charges hang over him. For the good of the team,
:06:17. > :06:24.I think he should stand aside. Fabio Capello has previously stated
:06:24. > :06:29.his intention to continue selecting his captain. Anyone facing criminal
:06:29. > :06:39.charges is innocent in the eyes of all -- the eyes of what unless and
:06:39. > :06:39.
:06:39. > :06:46.until they are convicted. Football fans are never short of an opinion.
:06:46. > :06:50.We have been asking people in Folkestone whether they think John
:06:50. > :06:55.Terry should stay or go. I don't think he should be captain for the
:06:55. > :06:59.Euro finals. I think he should play in it. We all want him there. He is
:06:59. > :07:05.a top defender. He should stay captain because he is good at his
:07:05. > :07:09.job and does what he get paid for. End of story. They should have the
:07:09. > :07:14.trial and if he is innocent, fair enough. But this is ongoing so I
:07:14. > :07:24.don't think he should be capped in. This week, John Terry's legal team
:07:24. > :07:40.
:07:40. > :07:44.The Government said this was a matter for the FA. The FA have said
:07:44. > :07:47.the do not wish to comment. In a moment:
:07:47. > :07:57.Why bottling the power of the wind could be the future of renewable
:07:57. > :08:15.
:08:15. > :08:18.energy. The Sussex family of a British
:08:18. > :08:21.soldier shot dead 40 years ago in a Republican area of Belfast at start
:08:21. > :08:24.of the Troubles have been speaking of their gratitude to local people
:08:24. > :08:28.after hearing so many years later how they tried to save his life.
:08:28. > :08:31.When Private Paul Carter was killed in 1971, his relatives who now live
:08:31. > :08:33.in Brighton were told no-one had tried to help him. But now a new
:08:33. > :08:36.report by Northern Ireland's Historical Inquiries Team has
:08:36. > :08:39.revealed that he didn't die alone. Our Political Editor has the story.
:08:39. > :08:43.The troubles in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s saw more than 200
:08:43. > :08:47.British soldiers killed. One of the youngest to die was 821 year-old
:08:47. > :08:53.private from Brighton. He was shot dead by the I R A. It was reported
:08:53. > :08:58.that at the time no one helped him when he was dying and local people
:08:58. > :09:02.tried to steal his gun. But the murder was recently reinvestigated
:09:02. > :09:07.and a new report found that rather than trying to rob the young
:09:07. > :09:12.soldier, local people tried to save him. For his family, that news has
:09:12. > :09:17.brought some consolation. We always heard that they were trying to take
:09:17. > :09:22.his gun. That never happened. years later, the truth about what
:09:22. > :09:27.happened has finally been revealed. We were told that he was on his own
:09:27. > :09:33.and that was not the case. He knew that he was being given help and he
:09:33. > :09:36.was not just left to die. To me, that has made a huge difference. To
:09:36. > :09:46.find that somebody really wanted to help them. And a lot of people did
:09:46. > :09:52.help them. His death is being reviewed by a special police unit.
:09:52. > :09:55.We met one family and she wondered whether her son had eaten his
:09:55. > :10:01.dinner before he had been killed. That was the thing that had worried
:10:01. > :10:05.her for years. Much of what happens during the darkest period in
:10:05. > :10:09.Northern Ireland's history will never be known. But for some
:10:09. > :10:19.bereaved relatives, even the smallest piece of information can
:10:19. > :10:21.
:10:21. > :10:24.bring some comfort. The families of two young men who
:10:24. > :10:28.were found dead in a pond in Canterbury this week have spoken of
:10:28. > :10:31.their loss. The bodies of 17-year- old Hugo Wenn, and Daniel Loyd, who
:10:31. > :10:34.was 25, were found in Reed Pond on Monday. Their families said that
:10:34. > :10:37.both men lived life to the full, and their passing would leave a
:10:37. > :10:40.huge hole in their lives. A 28- year-old man who was arrested in
:10:40. > :10:43.connection with their deaths on suspicion of supplying drugs has
:10:43. > :10:46.been bailed until March. Disgraced Wadhurst GP Antony Collis
:10:46. > :10:49.has been refused leave to appeal against his conviction and sentence
:10:49. > :10:52.for a string of sexual assaults on young girls. Collis was jailed last
:10:52. > :10:55.June for eight years and 10 months for assaulting five patients aged
:10:55. > :11:01.under 14 at his Belmont surgery. The offences were committed over a
:11:01. > :11:04.10-year period until 2003. It feels freezing outside, but so
:11:04. > :11:10.far this winter we haven't seen anything like the snow and ice that
:11:10. > :11:14.swept across Sussex and Kent this time last year. But is it about to
:11:14. > :11:17.come? With temperatures plummeting to below zero, councils are trying
:11:17. > :11:23.to keep things moving as the another big freeze descends. Our
:11:23. > :11:32.reporter joins us live now from a gritting depot in Aylesford. Are
:11:32. > :11:36.things running smoothly? They are going very smoothly. It is
:11:36. > :11:40.bitterly cold here tonight. The county council and a Highways
:11:40. > :11:45.Agency saviour ready for whatever winter has in store. That is
:11:45. > :11:51.probably just as well because we're expecting temperatures to fall 2-4
:11:51. > :11:59.Celsius overnight. The Met Office says they are expecting snowfall of
:11:59. > :12:09.two centimetres -- fall down as low as-four Celsius. On Saturday, there
:12:09. > :12:15.could be five or 10 centimetres of soul. -- of snow. The county
:12:15. > :12:23.council says they are ready for whatever happens next. Over the
:12:23. > :12:29.next few hours, we will be sold in the county. That will be finished
:12:29. > :12:39.by 8:30pm. Then we will go out in that eastern parts of our region
:12:39. > :12:39.
:12:39. > :12:45.just after midnight. If they do get worse, do they have a contingency
:12:45. > :12:49.plan in place? Well, the county council has a
:12:49. > :12:57.system of 180 farmers who will go out and clear their local roads.
:12:57. > :13:02.That is if two centimetres of snow falls. They also have a team of
:13:02. > :13:06.people on standby who will be drafted in to come and help the
:13:06. > :13:15.team has already on the ground and clear the roads should they be
:13:15. > :13:21.needed and if the weather Two German has warned converse
:13:21. > :13:25.arrested at the port of Dover have pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to
:13:25. > :13:30.five terrorism offences. The German nationals were stopped carrying
:13:30. > :13:34.computer files containing ideological material relating to
:13:34. > :13:39.Al-Qaeda-inspired extremism. Plans to merge East and West Sussex fire
:13:39. > :13:42.services will not go-ahead next year. Discussions on creating a new
:13:42. > :13:47.fire authority to court or of Sussex as well as Brighton and Hove
:13:47. > :13:50.began in the summer of 2010. It had been hoped the combined authority
:13:50. > :13:55.would save millions of pounds and protect frontline services but the
:13:55. > :13:59.current financial uncertainty has led to a plan being shelled.
:13:59. > :14:03.Brighton is running out of classroom space. Pupils could soon
:14:03. > :14:07.find themselves being taught in the leisure centre, a former police
:14:07. > :14:12.centre, even the next football stadium. City council is looking at
:14:12. > :14:15.ways of dealing with a sharp rise in the school-age population. It is
:14:15. > :14:20.considering several says with the potential to provide extra
:14:20. > :14:29.classroom capacity. Natalie Graham is outside one other possible
:14:29. > :14:36.venues, that is how it can't Hall. How realistic is this? -- Hove Town
:14:36. > :14:42.Hall. The council has drawn up radical options to meet this
:14:42. > :14:46.classroom capacity short for that that is facing. Some builders, like
:14:46. > :14:53.the town hall at Hove, behind me, already owned by the council, could
:14:53. > :14:57.easily be converted. Other options are more unconditional. Some six
:14:57. > :15:02.police are considering leaving the station in hold. Instead of
:15:02. > :15:05.tackling crime, the building could be used to tackle a difference
:15:05. > :15:11.social problem. This is one of several radical options being
:15:11. > :15:16.considered by the City Council who face an acute shortage of clash and
:15:16. > :15:21.space or the coming decade. Many parents don't like their children
:15:21. > :15:29.being educated in a former police station. It is not the ideal thing.
:15:29. > :15:35.They need a proper learning environment. It means that we could
:15:35. > :15:39.get kids in a school lover choice, then why not? Other sites being
:15:39. > :15:44.considered include the King Alfred Leisure Centre. Any new class remit
:15:44. > :15:49.have to be run as an annex to an existing school. -- any new
:15:49. > :15:55.classrooms. Over the next five years it would work his way up to
:15:55. > :16:01.the secondary school system so we have to be looking at it now.
:16:01. > :16:06.the Amex Stadium, which is also on the list, they are offering classes
:16:06. > :16:11.to hundreds of children each week. We would like to do more. The space
:16:11. > :16:15.that we have got is almost entirely used up. Demand is outstripping
:16:15. > :16:21.supply. But there are opportunities and of the council want to talk to
:16:21. > :16:25.us about it we would be happy to explore those opportunities.
:16:25. > :16:28.turned off has a long-standing problem with pupil places. The
:16:28. > :16:34.controversial lottery system introduced for oversubscribed
:16:34. > :16:40.secondary schools provoked anger and protest among parents. But all
:16:40. > :16:45.of the places identified -- not all of the places will end up providing
:16:45. > :16:49.class and capacity and even if the Amex Stadium is used, Brighton and
:16:49. > :16:53.Hove Albion say that there is no way that their precious pitch will
:16:53. > :16:58.be made available as a playground. The council do not want to be
:16:58. > :17:03.accused of not planning ahead, but it is approaching that list of them
:17:03. > :17:07.used as places to be ruled out, rather than ruled in. But if talks
:17:07. > :17:14.with the police and with Brighton and Hove Albion fall through, they
:17:14. > :17:20.will have to do what other councils do, and bring in a few Portakabins.
:17:20. > :17:23.The top stories tonight. Opportunities to save lives after a
:17:24. > :17:26.fatal motorbike crash in Sussex were missed because of a breakdown
:17:26. > :17:30.in communications between the police and the coroner. Stuart Mann
:17:30. > :17:33.died in a crash on the A21 last June - his family say he would have
:17:33. > :17:35.wanted to donate his organs - but the hospitals were unable to
:17:35. > :17:38.operate because the paperwork couldn't be done in time. Also in
:17:38. > :17:40.tonight's programme: creating a DIY history archive - the people of
:17:40. > :17:46.Tunbridge Wells use Facebook to remember changes through the
:17:46. > :17:50.decades. And does the bitterly cold weather continues we have warnings
:17:50. > :17:59.of licence no over the next couple of days. Join me later in the
:17:59. > :18:02.programme for the details -- - warnings of ice and snow. More and
:18:02. > :18:06.more of our electricity comes from the wind, but what do you do when
:18:06. > :18:09.there's too much of it about? After all you can't store the wind, or
:18:09. > :18:14.can you? At the moment around 3% of the UK's electricity comes from
:18:14. > :18:18.wind power. But because you can't control how much wind there is, the
:18:18. > :18:20.wasted energy costs the taxpayer �24 million a year. But by 2020 the
:18:20. > :18:23.Government wants 20% of our electricity to come from the wind,
:18:23. > :18:25.and without any means of storing excess power, it could cost the
:18:25. > :18:35.taxpayer millions. But, as our environment correspondent Yvette
:18:35. > :18:35.
:18:35. > :18:38.Austin reports, a solution could be on the way. By Wendy day, an
:18:39. > :18:43.offshore turbines sending electricity to the grid at maximum
:18:43. > :18:47.levels, making power for people's homes. But there are times when the
:18:47. > :18:51.national Grid is in danger of overloading and wind farms are
:18:51. > :18:57.switched off. Now there is you technology able to store energy for
:18:57. > :19:02.when it is needed. They are you going to bring renewable energy to
:19:02. > :19:10.the grid, unique energy storage otherwise you have the energy at
:19:10. > :19:15.the wrong time and you have to tonne on gas turbines to keep
:19:15. > :19:20.servicing the grid when people ton of kettles on. This will uses lots
:19:20. > :19:25.of standard, mature components in a novel way to deliver a solution
:19:25. > :19:28.which can deliver energy storage, on the large scale. He using
:19:28. > :19:33.batteries to store energy is expensive and difficult. How does
:19:33. > :19:39.this Plaid work? We take electricity from the bread, and by
:19:39. > :19:46.a compressor. We then put the air at the top of this, and it goes
:19:46. > :19:56.down through this big :, it is cool does liquid at the bottom and it
:19:56. > :19:58.
:19:58. > :20:01.goes into the storage tank. -- this big column. In a power station they
:20:01. > :20:07.use water which has turned into steam and then expanded through a
:20:07. > :20:13.turbine. You can use a heat in the air to warm-up liquid air, and you
:20:13. > :20:18.can put that through the turbine to make electricity in a similar way.
:20:18. > :20:22.This is a small pilot project but the aim is to have a network of
:20:22. > :20:27.bigger plans. The developers say that it is clean, simple and UK
:20:27. > :20:34.designed. We about this sort of technology that is available here
:20:34. > :20:39.and now, being built into plans for the future, we run the risk of
:20:39. > :20:44.wasting enormous amounts of energy in the future and then incurring
:20:44. > :20:54.extra costs to the taxpayer that we don't need to do. The simple
:20:54. > :20:59.
:20:59. > :21:01.solution, using our most abundant resource. He's spent 30 years
:21:01. > :21:04.reporting on the situation in Afghanistan - and even though he's
:21:05. > :21:08.now in his 80s and officially in retirement in Penshurst, Sandy Gall
:21:08. > :21:10.still returns to the country every year. The veteran reporter's latest
:21:10. > :21:14.book on the country, "War Against the Taliban", considers the years
:21:14. > :21:24.since 9-11 - and why he thinks it's an unwinnable war. Lynda Hard has
:21:24. > :21:30.been to meet him. The photograph shows me on the left right up in
:21:30. > :21:35.the north of Afghanistan, where we went to see the famous guerrilla
:21:35. > :21:39.commander. Sandy goal Foster arrived in Afghanistan in 19 needed
:21:39. > :21:47.to to report the Russian occupation. Many years and four books Leader,
:21:47. > :21:51.he is still telling stories from the country, of military leaders,
:21:51. > :21:56.diplomats and ordinary Afghans, to consider, as the title of his book
:21:56. > :22:01.stays, the war against the Taliban and why it all went wrong. I think
:22:01. > :22:09.that militarily, it is an unwinnable war. You only solutions
:22:09. > :22:13.our political solutions. It is only -- it is not winnable because the
:22:13. > :22:18.Taliban are supported by Pakistan who support them and give them safe
:22:19. > :22:24.havens, they can cross the border, a time they Light. His book comes
:22:24. > :22:27.at the same time as a late NATO report that claims the Taliban in
:22:27. > :22:36.Afghanistan have been directly assisted by Pakistani security
:22:36. > :22:41.services. The veteran reporter, who went on to present News at Ten, has
:22:41. > :22:48.stayed in close contact with the country, having set up a charity
:22:48. > :22:53.helping disabled Afghans and those who have lost limbs in a landmine
:22:53. > :22:59.incident Plummer. The war has got steadily worse. There are more
:22:59. > :23:03.bombs than there were five or six years ago. Talking from his home in
:23:03. > :23:13.the Kent countryside, it seems as though Sandy goal has more stories
:23:13. > :23:17.
:23:17. > :23:20.to tell from Afghanistan's mountains and beyond -- Sandy Gall.
:23:20. > :23:24.In years gone by, researching how your town used to look in years
:23:24. > :23:28.gone by, would have involved a trip to the museum, and a conversation
:23:28. > :23:34.with the archivist. But nowadays, the process is becoming much more
:23:34. > :23:37.accessible. Tunbridge Wells now has a Facebook page where hundreds of
:23:37. > :23:40.people have been uploading their old photos of the town - and the
:23:40. > :23:45.collection is growing every day. Alex Beard joins us live from the
:23:45. > :23:51.town now. Alex, is it easy to spot where the photos were taken? Horse
:23:51. > :23:54.and carts have gone, but the town looks pretty much the same.
:23:54. > :23:58.Tunbridge Wells started as a Georgian spa town and became
:23:58. > :24:07.incredibly popular with tourists. That is why there are so many
:24:07. > :24:12.postcards of withdrew the years. -- of it, through the years. Every
:24:12. > :24:18.picture tells a story. In 1913, Tunbridge Wells was distraint in
:24:18. > :24:22.the press as a hotbed of militants. After the cricket pavilion was
:24:22. > :24:25.burnt down by suffragettes, angry residents gather that the Great
:24:26. > :24:31.Hall to listen to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle speech. Suffragettes
:24:31. > :24:39.protesting outside were pelted with eggs. The town may have lost its
:24:39. > :24:45.militants, but it has lost some buildings, too. The council bought
:24:45. > :24:53.the spark in 1921, and the Jewel In the Crown was the bandstand and a
:24:53. > :24:59.pavilion. But in 19 for the six it was destroyed in the early 1940s,
:24:59. > :25:05.by an incendiary bomb. Archive pictures are being uncovered and
:25:05. > :25:12.added to the Facebook site. Member in past times unlikely to be gone
:25:12. > :25:16.back to including dancing bears, on the common. We have such a variety
:25:16. > :25:24.of Architecture. There are new buildings been put up. Old ones
:25:24. > :25:30.been restored. To go by can see the town, as it was, 20 or 30 years ago,
:25:30. > :25:36.it is great to have that ongoing archive. That is not just the
:25:36. > :25:41.landscape that has changed. This is the town's volunteer fire brigade.
:25:41. > :25:48.As the archives continue to grow, there will always be something to
:25:48. > :25:51.compare back to, historic and nostalgic. The metal from that
:25:51. > :25:55.borne to the pavilion was scrapped and used to help the war effort. It
:25:55. > :26:00.is little stories like that associated with those pictures that
:26:01. > :26:10.will be much easier to come by, now that they are all being put on line.
:26:11. > :26:12.
:26:12. > :26:17.We start the day tomorrow for a widespread this device. Snow
:26:17. > :26:23.showers clearing through the morning. Back again by the evening.
:26:23. > :26:28.Today, holding onto those cold, not easterly winds, with temperatures
:26:28. > :26:33.struggling to get above freezing. It is to win significantly cooler.
:26:34. > :26:42.Clear skies initially tonight, with cloud cover feeding in from the
:26:42. > :26:48.East. Temperatures dropping to minus four. Expecting between 1-2
:26:48. > :26:52.centimetres of snow, in Kent. High- pressure is in control. Plenty of
:26:52. > :26:57.cloud around. We have this weather front coming close to the East
:26:57. > :27:02.Coast, bringing further snow showers tomorrow night. Between
:27:02. > :27:12.two-five centimetres of snow expected. With those northerly
:27:12. > :27:13.
:27:13. > :27:17.winds, feeling much more like minus three. Snow showers tomorrow night,
:27:17. > :27:23.between two-five centimetres of snow expected. Much milder air
:27:23. > :27:28.moving in from the West at the weekend. We have this band of mild
:27:28. > :27:33.air, and we are expecting then between five-10 centimetres of snow.