02/02/2012 South East Today

Welcome to South East Today. Tonight's top stories:

A family's distress after a motorcyclist died in an accident,

but his organs couldn't be donated as he wished. We have an exclusive

report. There must be a much more efficient way of doing this. And

ensuring this does not have done. - happen.

John Terry should step down as England captain. A Kent MP says he

shouldn't lead his country in Euro 2012 before his trial for alleged

racist abuse. Also in tonight's programme:

Plans to teach children in Brighton and Hove in old police stations and

even the Amex Stadium as the city runs out of classroom space.

The snow is coming, but will our roads and rails actually be able to

cope this year? We will be reporting live from a Kent gritting

depot on the battle against the white stuff.

And the DIY history website where people in the town upload their own

pictures of the town through the decades.

Good evening. Opportunities to save lives after a fatal motorbike crash

in Sussex were missed simply because of a breakdown in

communications between the police and the coroner. Stuart Mann died

in a crash on the A21 last June. His family say he would have wanted

to donate his organs, but the hospitals were unable to operate

because the paperwork couldn't be done in time. The family say it's

left them even more distressed. This is our exclusive report.

Stuart Mann loved the arts -- the outdoor life. He loved his

motorbike. In June last year, he hit a car which had pulled out

suddenly on a major road. He was airlifted to hospital in south

London but could not be saved. His widow was told several organs could

have been used to save others. It did not happen because of a chain

of breakdowns of communication. was an amazing husband. We have

four children and eight grandchildren. He was a family man.

He would have wanted his organs to be donated? He was very generous

and that is what he would have wanted. Staff at a hospital were so

upset that they are urged her to try to get to the bottom of this

case. She contacted us and what we have discovered are a series of

missed opportunities that have angered and embarrassed coroner has

and police and have led to the changes in processes. Stuart Mann

died in a hospital in London but permission to release the organs

would have to come from St Leonards. As they might have been a post-

mortem, the police said no. The police had emergency numbers but

did not use them. No one queried the fact that the coroner in St

Leonards had not been consulted. You have to act quickly with organ

donation. You cannot hang around. There must be, in this day and age,

a much more efficient way of doing this and ensuring that this does

not happen for. Neither coroners were prepared to answer her

questions about the case on camera. But the East Sussex coroner has

made it clear in an e-mail that they are unhappy. The South London

coroner has also apologised to the family. Sussex Police met us on

camera and met the widow last week to apologise in person. This is

unique. Will this happen again? We will do all we can to ensure

this never happens again. solution would be for coroners to

have a list of mobile phone numbers. About time, says the local MP.

was stunned by this. This is about saving lives. Modern technology is

not complicated. You would have thought that mobile numbers would

be freely available and something could have been done. It has taken

one widow's distress to make sure something is now done. If things do

change, Sarah Man says that her husband's early death may have

brought something positive. There has been some strong reaction

to this today? There has. I spoke to one charity

that campaigns for more efficient inquests. They say they are shocked

as to what had happened. This has caused a flurry of activity in the

coroner's world. They are saying that they should use mobile phones

and are getting together to discuss best-practice so they can share

examples of what works and what does not. Those examples will be

shared across all of England and Wales.

The MP for Folkestone is tonight calling for footballer John Terry

to step down as England captain until the conclusion of his court

case later this year. Terry denies racially abusing QPR player Anton

Ferdinand, but his case won't be heard until after the Euro 2012

finals. Damian Collins, who is a member of the House of Commons

Sport Select Committee, says it would be totally inappropriate for

Terry to remain in the position and he should stand aside until the

case is resolved. What happened here on the football

pitch will now be played out in court. But not until 9th July, one

week after the Euro 2012 finals. has a public position and is

answerable to the public. It is difficult for him to carry out that

position whilst these charges hang over him. For the good of the team,

I think he should stand aside. Fabio Capello has previously stated

his intention to continue selecting his captain. Anyone facing criminal

charges is innocent in the eyes of all -- the eyes of what unless and

until they are convicted. Football fans are never short of an opinion.

We have been asking people in Folkestone whether they think John

Terry should stay or go. I don't think he should be captain for the

Euro finals. I think he should play in it. We all want him there. He is

a top defender. He should stay captain because he is good at his

job and does what he get paid for. End of story. They should have the

trial and if he is innocent, fair enough. But this is ongoing so I

don't think he should be capped in. This week, John Terry's legal team

The Government said this was a matter for the FA. The FA have said

the do not wish to comment. In a moment:

Why bottling the power of the wind could be the future of renewable

energy. The Sussex family of a British

soldier shot dead 40 years ago in a Republican area of Belfast at start

of the Troubles have been speaking of their gratitude to local people

after hearing so many years later how they tried to save his life.

When Private Paul Carter was killed in 1971, his relatives who now live

in Brighton were told no-one had tried to help him. But now a new

report by Northern Ireland's Historical Inquiries Team has

revealed that he didn't die alone. Our Political Editor has the story.

The troubles in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s saw more than 200

British soldiers killed. One of the youngest to die was 821 year-old

private from Brighton. He was shot dead by the I R A. It was reported

that at the time no one helped him when he was dying and local people

tried to steal his gun. But the murder was recently reinvestigated

and a new report found that rather than trying to rob the young

soldier, local people tried to save him. For his family, that news has

brought some consolation. We always heard that they were trying to take

his gun. That never happened. years later, the truth about what

happened has finally been revealed. We were told that he was on his own

and that was not the case. He knew that he was being given help and he

was not just left to die. To me, that has made a huge difference. To

find that somebody really wanted to help them. And a lot of people did

help them. His death is being reviewed by a special police unit.

We met one family and she wondered whether her son had eaten his

dinner before he had been killed. That was the thing that had worried

her for years. Much of what happens during the darkest period in

Northern Ireland's history will never be known. But for some

bereaved relatives, even the smallest piece of information can

bring some comfort. The families of two young men who

were found dead in a pond in Canterbury this week have spoken of

their loss. The bodies of 17-year- old Hugo Wenn, and Daniel Loyd, who

was 25, were found in Reed Pond on Monday. Their families said that

both men lived life to the full, and their passing would leave a

huge hole in their lives. A 28- year-old man who was arrested in

connection with their deaths on suspicion of supplying drugs has

been bailed until March. Disgraced Wadhurst GP Antony Collis

has been refused leave to appeal against his conviction and sentence

for a string of sexual assaults on young girls. Collis was jailed last

June for eight years and 10 months for assaulting five patients aged

under 14 at his Belmont surgery. The offences were committed over a

10-year period until 2003. It feels freezing outside, but so

far this winter we haven't seen anything like the snow and ice that

swept across Sussex and Kent this time last year. But is it about to

come? With temperatures plummeting to below zero, councils are trying

to keep things moving as the another big freeze descends. Our

reporter joins us live now from a gritting depot in Aylesford. Are

things running smoothly? They are going very smoothly. It is

bitterly cold here tonight. The county council and a Highways

Agency saviour ready for whatever winter has in store. That is

probably just as well because we're expecting temperatures to fall 2-4

Celsius overnight. The Met Office says they are expecting snowfall of

two centimetres -- fall down as low as-four Celsius. On Saturday, there

could be five or 10 centimetres of soul. -- of snow. The county

council says they are ready for whatever happens next. Over the

next few hours, we will be sold in the county. That will be finished

by 8:30pm. Then we will go out in that eastern parts of our region

just after midnight. If they do get worse, do they have a contingency

plan in place? Well, the county council has a

system of 180 farmers who will go out and clear their local roads.

That is if two centimetres of snow falls. They also have a team of

people on standby who will be drafted in to come and help the

team has already on the ground and clear the roads should they be

needed and if the weather Two German has warned converse

arrested at the port of Dover have pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to

five terrorism offences. The German nationals were stopped carrying

computer files containing ideological material relating to

Al-Qaeda-inspired extremism. Plans to merge East and West Sussex fire

services will not go-ahead next year. Discussions on creating a new

fire authority to court or of Sussex as well as Brighton and Hove

began in the summer of 2010. It had been hoped the combined authority

would save millions of pounds and protect frontline services but the

current financial uncertainty has led to a plan being shelled.

Brighton is running out of classroom space. Pupils could soon

find themselves being taught in the leisure centre, a former police

centre, even the next football stadium. City council is looking at

ways of dealing with a sharp rise in the school-age population. It is

considering several says with the potential to provide extra

classroom capacity. Natalie Graham is outside one other possible

venues, that is how it can't Hall. How realistic is this? -- Hove Town

Hall. The council has drawn up radical options to meet this

classroom capacity short for that that is facing. Some builders, like

the town hall at Hove, behind me, already owned by the council, could

easily be converted. Other options are more unconditional. Some six

police are considering leaving the station in hold. Instead of

tackling crime, the building could be used to tackle a difference

social problem. This is one of several radical options being

considered by the City Council who face an acute shortage of clash and

space or the coming decade. Many parents don't like their children

being educated in a former police station. It is not the ideal thing.

They need a proper learning environment. It means that we could

get kids in a school lover choice, then why not? Other sites being

considered include the King Alfred Leisure Centre. Any new class remit

have to be run as an annex to an existing school. -- any new

classrooms. Over the next five years it would work his way up to

the secondary school system so we have to be looking at it now.

the Amex Stadium, which is also on the list, they are offering classes

to hundreds of children each week. We would like to do more. The space

that we have got is almost entirely used up. Demand is outstripping

supply. But there are opportunities and of the council want to talk to

us about it we would be happy to explore those opportunities.

turned off has a long-standing problem with pupil places. The

controversial lottery system introduced for oversubscribed

secondary schools provoked anger and protest among parents. But all

of the places identified -- not all of the places will end up providing

class and capacity and even if the Amex Stadium is used, Brighton and

Hove Albion say that there is no way that their precious pitch will

be made available as a playground. The council do not want to be

accused of not planning ahead, but it is approaching that list of them

used as places to be ruled out, rather than ruled in. But if talks

with the police and with Brighton and Hove Albion fall through, they

will have to do what other councils do, and bring in a few Portakabins.

The top stories tonight. Opportunities to save lives after a

fatal motorbike crash in Sussex were missed because of a breakdown

in communications between the police and the coroner. Stuart Mann

died in a crash on the A21 last June - his family say he would have

wanted to donate his organs - but the hospitals were unable to

operate because the paperwork couldn't be done in time. Also in

tonight's programme: creating a DIY history archive - the people of

Tunbridge Wells use Facebook to remember changes through the

decades. And does the bitterly cold weather continues we have warnings

of licence no over the next couple of days. Join me later in the

programme for the details -- - warnings of ice and snow. More and

more of our electricity comes from the wind, but what do you do when

there's too much of it about? After all you can't store the wind, or

can you? At the moment around 3% of the UK's electricity comes from

wind power. But because you can't control how much wind there is, the

wasted energy costs the taxpayer �24 million a year. But by 2020 the

Government wants 20% of our electricity to come from the wind,

and without any means of storing excess power, it could cost the

taxpayer millions. But, as our environment correspondent Yvette

Austin reports, a solution could be on the way. By Wendy day, an

offshore turbines sending electricity to the grid at maximum

levels, making power for people's homes. But there are times when the

national Grid is in danger of overloading and wind farms are

switched off. Now there is you technology able to store energy for

when it is needed. They are you going to bring renewable energy to

the grid, unique energy storage otherwise you have the energy at

the wrong time and you have to tonne on gas turbines to keep

servicing the grid when people ton of kettles on. This will uses lots

of standard, mature components in a novel way to deliver a solution

which can deliver energy storage, on the large scale. He using

batteries to store energy is expensive and difficult. How does

this Plaid work? We take electricity from the bread, and by

a compressor. We then put the air at the top of this, and it goes

down through this big :, it is cool does liquid at the bottom and it

goes into the storage tank. -- this big column. In a power station they

use water which has turned into steam and then expanded through a

turbine. You can use a heat in the air to warm-up liquid air, and you

can put that through the turbine to make electricity in a similar way.

This is a small pilot project but the aim is to have a network of

bigger plans. The developers say that it is clean, simple and UK

designed. We about this sort of technology that is available here

and now, being built into plans for the future, we run the risk of

wasting enormous amounts of energy in the future and then incurring

extra costs to the taxpayer that we don't need to do. The simple

solution, using our most abundant resource. He's spent 30 years

reporting on the situation in Afghanistan - and even though he's

now in his 80s and officially in retirement in Penshurst, Sandy Gall

still returns to the country every year. The veteran reporter's latest

book on the country, "War Against the Taliban", considers the years

since 9-11 - and why he thinks it's an unwinnable war. Lynda Hard has

been to meet him. The photograph shows me on the left right up in

the north of Afghanistan, where we went to see the famous guerrilla

commander. Sandy goal Foster arrived in Afghanistan in 19 needed

to to report the Russian occupation. Many years and four books Leader,

he is still telling stories from the country, of military leaders,

diplomats and ordinary Afghans, to consider, as the title of his book

stays, the war against the Taliban and why it all went wrong. I think

that militarily, it is an unwinnable war. You only solutions

our political solutions. It is only -- it is not winnable because the

Taliban are supported by Pakistan who support them and give them safe

havens, they can cross the border, a time they Light. His book comes

at the same time as a late NATO report that claims the Taliban in

Afghanistan have been directly assisted by Pakistani security

services. The veteran reporter, who went on to present News at Ten, has

stayed in close contact with the country, having set up a charity

helping disabled Afghans and those who have lost limbs in a landmine

incident Plummer. The war has got steadily worse. There are more

bombs than there were five or six years ago. Talking from his home in

the Kent countryside, it seems as though Sandy goal has more stories

to tell from Afghanistan's mountains and beyond -- Sandy Gall.

In years gone by, researching how your town used to look in years

gone by, would have involved a trip to the museum, and a conversation

with the archivist. But nowadays, the process is becoming much more

accessible. Tunbridge Wells now has a Facebook page where hundreds of

people have been uploading their old photos of the town - and the

collection is growing every day. Alex Beard joins us live from the

town now. Alex, is it easy to spot where the photos were taken? Horse

and carts have gone, but the town looks pretty much the same.

Tunbridge Wells started as a Georgian spa town and became

incredibly popular with tourists. That is why there are so many

postcards of withdrew the years. -- of it, through the years. Every

picture tells a story. In 1913, Tunbridge Wells was distraint in

the press as a hotbed of militants. After the cricket pavilion was

burnt down by suffragettes, angry residents gather that the Great

Hall to listen to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle speech. Suffragettes

protesting outside were pelted with eggs. The town may have lost its

militants, but it has lost some buildings, too. The council bought

the spark in 1921, and the Jewel In the Crown was the bandstand and a

pavilion. But in 19 for the six it was destroyed in the early 1940s,

by an incendiary bomb. Archive pictures are being uncovered and

added to the Facebook site. Member in past times unlikely to be gone

back to including dancing bears, on the common. We have such a variety

of Architecture. There are new buildings been put up. Old ones

been restored. To go by can see the town, as it was, 20 or 30 years ago,

it is great to have that ongoing archive. That is not just the

landscape that has changed. This is the town's volunteer fire brigade.

As the archives continue to grow, there will always be something to

compare back to, historic and nostalgic. The metal from that

borne to the pavilion was scrapped and used to help the war effort. It

is little stories like that associated with those pictures that

will be much easier to come by, now that they are all being put on line.

We start the day tomorrow for a widespread this device. Snow

showers clearing through the morning. Back again by the evening.

Today, holding onto those cold, not easterly winds, with temperatures

struggling to get above freezing. It is to win significantly cooler.

Clear skies initially tonight, with cloud cover feeding in from the

East. Temperatures dropping to minus four. Expecting between 1-2

centimetres of snow, in Kent. High- pressure is in control. Plenty of

cloud around. We have this weather front coming close to the East

Coast, bringing further snow showers tomorrow night. Between

two-five centimetres of snow expected. With those northerly

winds, feeling much more like minus three. Snow showers tomorrow night,

between two-five centimetres of snow expected. Much milder air

moving in from the West at the weekend. We have this band of mild

air, and we are expecting then between five-10 centimetres of snow.