22/03/2012 South East Today

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The M25 rapist, Antoni Imiela, is found guilty of raping an eighth

victim on Christmas Day 25 years ago. This attack had a devastating

effect on the victim's life and justice could not be secured worst

she was alive. Criticism for the Sussex hospital

that paid a locum consultant �2,500 for a single day's work. We'll have

the details live from Brighton. Also in tonight's programme...

It's on sale in London's Selfridges; but an East Sussex

farmer's been warned he could be breaking the law by selling

unpasteurised milk. One in five children are obese by

the time they leave Medway's primary schools - we ask why.

have not done round the world but this must be second best, around

the M25. And taking in the M25's most

spectacular sights - we join the first tour of the road to hell...

Good evening. A violent sex attacker from Kent has been found

guilty of raping a woman nearly 25 years ago. 57-year-old Antoni

Imiela from Appledore near Ashford, was convicted in 2004 for a string

of attacks against seven women. He became known as the M25 rapist

because of those incidents. Today he was jailed for 12 years for the

rape of an eighth woman in 1987. She died in 2006. Jon Hunt has this

report. This is Antoni Imiela being charged

by police for a series of violent sex attacks were women in 2002. In

one year he had raped for women and three girls. He was sentenced to

seven licences in 2004. Unbeknown to please at the time, he had

struck before. -- Police. Antoni Imiela was convicted today at the

Old Bailey on three counts of what by today's legislation would be

raped. This followed a investigation which commenced in

1990. It related to an offence in 1987, which was a brutal, violent

attack on a lone female on Christmas Day. In May 1988, five

months after the Christmas Day attack, Antoni Imiela was jailed

for a series of armed robberies. No-one knew he was also a rapist.

He was released in November 1996 but began a campaign of violent sex

attacks in November 2001, starting with the rape of a 10-year-old girl

in Ashford. He snatched a schoolgirl from outside a community

centre on the Stanhope with state, then dragged her across a wide area,

discarding her clothes along the way. She was raped on nearby

wasteland. After the Ashford attack, a manhunt was launched. He struck

again and again in Earlswood, Putney, Wimbledon, Woking and

Stevenage. He was dubbed the M25 rapist. I think that it makes

victims of the whole family. It is extraordinarily difficult for my

children to have to cope with the fact that their mother was raped.

Today, Antoni Imiela's past caught up with him but detectives fear he

may have committed other offences. They are urging any potential

victims to come forward. A Sussex hospital trust is tonight

facing criticism after it's emerged that it paid almost �2,500 for a

locum consultant to oversee maternity wards for a single day.

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals confirmed the payment

after revealing it had spent �2 million on temps to cover staff

shortages. Tonight, Sussex MPs have accused hospital trusts of spending

too much on agency workers, claiming bosses should manage their

staff better. Lynda Hardy reports. Brighton's busy Royal Sussex County

Hospital cares For over three- quarters of a million patients

every year. To treat them, hundreds of medical staff but sometimes,

even more doctors and nurses are needed to be brought in from

agencies. On one occasion, costing �2,500 for one consultant. It seems

excessive but at the same time, you can't blame a hospital. They have

to make moves like that in that situation. For such a short period

it is difficult to obtain consultants and therefore the price

is higher. It is just the nature of the market economy at present.

hospitals said that because of the European working time directive,

they had to cover a shift in maternity. Yes, but there should be

a spare doctor to do it. You should not have to pay for an extra doctor.

The NHS pays a starting salary to its consultants of �74,000. Last

year, Brighton Sussex University Hospitals paid an extra �2 million

for temporary staff to cover staff shortages. That includes two and

have �1,000 for a single consultant in the maternity unit for a 24 hour

period. -- �2,500. A rebate investing properly in developing a

stable workforce and making a proper efforts to make sure those

basic services are staffed? This type of locum service is very

expensive and always will be. Sussex hospitals trust also paid

nearly �2,000 to an agency for a 24 hour A&E consultant at the

Eastbourne District General. need a more flexible workforce

which means a compromise between the current working time directive

of 48 hours, and the old 100 hours, which was too much. We need a

compromise and then hospitals were not have to face these terrible

charges, which were an acceptable when we have to limit NHS spending.

Eight col coming at a time when NHS budgets are being trustees agreed

to nice to make national savings of �20 billion. -- being closely

scrutinised. What have the hospital trusts had to say about this?

trusts that cover the Eastbourne District General and Royal Sussex

County behind me say they are prioritising saved, quality

services for patients and in order to do that, they sometimes need to

use locum agency doctors. The locum used was to cover a vacancy which

has now been filled. The reason this was controversial is because

it is more expensive to use an agency doctor and there are two

days -- to fees to pay. There was criticism of this and calls for

staffing levels to be more closely scrutinised in order to preserve

precious NHS budgets. Coming up... And exercise to test reaction if

terrorists were to detonate a dirty bomb in Kent.

A dairy farmer from East Sussex has been told he may be breaking the

law by selling unpasteurised milk. The upmarket Selfridges store in

London has been stocking the raw milk from the farm near Hailsham,

and says it's popular with customers. But now the Food

Standards Agency has written to both the store and the farm to tell

them they may be in breach of food hygiene laws. Our Environment

correspondent Yvette Austin has the latest in our Food Chain series.

Early morning milking at this dairy farm in Hailsham. A simple routine

insurance at was cleanliness. This milk is organic and will be drunk

wall, no homogenisation, no pasteurisation. We produce 5,000

pints a week. Selfridges approached us. We milk the cows twice the way,

the milk is chilled to three Celsius, then it is put in to a

tank. Alternately inside the vending machine, they dispensed not

to shoppers. It is causing controversy. Farmers are allowed to

sell raw milk directly to customers but not via a third party and the

FSA does not know what to make of the milk machine. The Food

Standards Agency says it has told Selfridges and the farm that it

believes sales of milk from retail premises are an offence. Selfridges

says they have been in contact with the FSA since December to try to

seek clarification of the law and still has not received a clear

response. The farm says it has not had any formal correspondence with

the FSA at all. Pasteurisation became the norm in the 1950s to

combat the risk of serious food poisoning from raw milk. It is that

risk that concerns the ever say today. Others argue there can be

health benefits such as friendly bacteria. Bacteria are good for

gapped Health and immunity, more work by all available vitamins and

minister -- -- vitamins and minerals. The main reason I tried

to Rommel was because my children could not digest pasteurised cow's

milk. They were able to digest raw milk because it has the enzyme

Senedd that are needed for digestion. -- the ensigns in it.

The Food Standards Agency says it is continuing its would vires --

inquiries. A convicted rapist who carried out

a string of sex offences in Brighton despite being under police

surveillance was given an indeterminate prison sentence at

Lewes Crown Court today. 35-year- old Michael Philips attacked one

woman and exposed himself to two others just weeks after being

released from a ten year sentence for rape. Sussex Police suspected

he would re-offend and caught him within minutes of the attack last

September. Leading scientists and water

experts from across the country are holding a conference to discuss

drought measures. It comes ten days after it was announced that a

hosepipe ban was to be introduced in the South East on April 5th to

conserve water. We have a strategy which is looking

forward to make sure that not only we take as little water from the

environment as we need, but that we are managing the demand a. -- that

we use in our businesses and our homes.

He was an exemplary soldier who died trying to help his friends -

the words of a fellow paratrooper about Private Daniel Prior from

Peacehaven, whose inquest was held today. Private Prior died in

Afghanistan last March, just weeks after the birth of his son. The

coroner ruled he was "killed by the enemy whilst on active service for

this country". Sara Smith reports from Birmingham Coroners Court.

Private Daniel Prior's parents and we will have waited a year for this

inquest. They heard how he had step forward to have a colleague and

treated an improvised in prose -- improvised explosive device hidden

in the ground. His team said there was a fight to save him. They

prolong his life but such were his injuries that he died two days

later in hospital in Birmingham. Just three weeks earlier, he had

been at home for the birth of his son. His commanding officer said

his sacrifice had cast his wife and son a joyful future and his

father's book of the family's loss. One of the things that will stay in

my memory for a long time was when Emily led him into Dan's arms as he

was dying. But that was very moving. The inquest comes 30 years after

the death of his ankle. The same age, Steve Prior was also a

paratrooper and lost his life trying to save that of a colleague

during the Falklands war. The two names will appear on the

battalion's memorial. The coroner said Private Daniel Prior had died

trying to help others and that there had been known sense to his

death and no justice in it. -- no sense. He praised those who had

gone to try to help him with no thought for their own safety.

The MP for Canterbury has raised the case of a Kent photographer

who's been re-arrested over an alleged attempted murder in

Portugal - a crime of which he was cleared 17 years ago. Graham

Mitchell, who's facing extradition, says his life has been turned

upside down. Speaking in the Commons, the Conservative MP for

Canterbury Julian Brazier called for a debate on the European Arrest

Warrant scheme, which he said is flawed.

A Kent pensioner who faked his own death for a massive cash payout has

had his prison term cut from six years to five because of his ailing

health. 67-year-old Anthony McErlean pretended to be his wife

and claimed he'd been killed after being hit by a truck Central

America. He was hoping to pocket a half-million pound insurance payout.

The new Pembury Hospital received a royal visit this afternoon. The

Countess of Wessex arrived in her special black limousine to greet

members of staff and take a tour of the neonatal ward, before Her Royal

Highness unveiled a plaque to formally open the hospital.

A major security exercise took place in Dover to test how the

emergency services would deal with a terrorist attack.It comes just

months before the start of the Olympics, where Dover will be a

major point of entry for people coming to the games. Simon Jones is

at the Port. What exactly happened there?

This was a huge operation involving 150 people. The scenario was a van

coming off a ferry and launched a chemical attack on the port. It is

vital the emergency services prepare for such a scenario. The

Olympics is said to be the biggest ever peacetime security operation

in this country. Learning to deal with the aftermath of a so-called

dirty bomb. His scenario designed to push the emergency services to

their limit, so they are prepared for any threat, particularly when

the eyes of the world will be upon us. The Olympics is in our mind

because it is at that time of year when we are at our busiest. The

Olympics will add to that busyness. We need to make sure we can cope

with the worst that might happen. The exercise involves dealing with

casualties caught up in the mark last, taking him to local hospitals.

-- Mark blast. This is the latest in a series of training events.

They are critical. We plan for incidents on quaysides around the

county and key risks and we have been Douma for years. -- quaysides.

We have been doing this for her years for sites such as the port of

Dover. From this incident exercise, we will learn lessons and will be

able to adjust our plans accordingly and therefore make Kent

is to replace and ensure that it can continue to operate. In January,

Kent Police form part of an exercise among Fed the Royal

Marines to simulate an attack on the Olympics, led from the water.

Those involved today say it is a question of being ready although

there is no specific threat against over head of the Games. This week,

the head of MI5 took the unusual step of briefing the entire Cabinet

about possible security risks in the run-up to the Olympics. The

security bill is likely to be �550 million. Here in Dover they said

they are satisfied with the way things went, but they said they

need to learn better communication. If you do have an incident you have

all sorts of organisations, such as police, the Fire Service, Ambler

and port authorities, who tried to do that with it. That can lead to

confusion, so the aim is to better organise things in that respect.

The top story... A serial sex offender, known as the

M25 rapist, has been found guilty of another attack, which took place

25 years ago. Antoni Imiela was convicted in 2004 of a series of

rapes. Today he was found guilty of attacking a woman who has since

died. Also tonight... Doing their talking

on Twitter - Brighton & Hove Albion have a first team of tweeters. We

ask why the social network is so popular with footballers.

It has been settled and warm, but it will -- will it stay that way

for the weekend? Join me later to Banning adverts for junk food

before the watershed, putting a traffic light system on food

packaging, and teaching children how to cook healthy meals at school

- all ideas put forward to try to tackle the problem of obesity in

kids. However those ideas don't seem to working, especially in one

part of Kent. According to the latest NHS data, one in five

children leaving Medway's primary schools are obese. Those figures

haven't changed in the past five years, despite many programmes to

tackle childhood obesity. Ian Palmer has tonight's Special Report.

Logan Boorman is putting his best foot forward for a healthy life.

The eight-year-old used to be overweight, but after following a

few simple steps, he's now healthier and happier. I have

passed the, June and sweetcorn and a like doing rugby. Logan and his

mother Helen were invited to special healthy lifestyle classes.

She says her son needed a boost in confidence. You encourage them to

eat and try different things. It is easy to say, he doesn't like that.

You try and encourage them and slowly introduce new fruits and

they show you how to do it. It is not an expensive way. They do it

cheaply. The Boormans have been attending MEND classes which stands

for Mind, Exercise, Nutrition, Do it. They're run by the NHS in Kent

and Medway. So far, 250 children and their families have taken part.

Unfortunately, since the scheme's introduction five years ago,

childhood obesity figures have barely changed. So why isn't it

working? Five years ago we only had a small age group. We have invested

a lifelong approach, so people will benefit. We need more families are

signing up. The government is being urged to improve food labelling. In

the past, the success of such trials has been mixed. Health

experts say the role of parents is key to young people developing a

healthy lifestyle. Positive role modelling, they say, begins at home.

The family that eats and excercises together stay trim together. Why is

it that there is such a major problem with obesity in Medway and

it is the worst in the South East? We have to put it into context. The

figures in Medway are just half of 1% above the national average.

Experts say there are social and economic reasons and cultural

reasons for that. When you consider how small a Medway -- the Medway

area is, with higher fluctuations, there are higher rates of childhood

obesity. Averaged out, it becomes 2% lower than Medway in the rest of

the country. These figures should be treated with caution.

Before the advent of social media networks, the best way football

fans could keep up to date with their favourite players was through

newspapers, magazines and football annuals. Now star players use

Twitter to communicate directly with supporters, announce new

contracts and give injury updates. And at Brighton and Hove Albion,

there are enough players using it to create a Twitter first eleven,

as Neil Bell reports. Players past and present, from Rio

Ferdinand and Joey Barton through to Robbie Savage, have built up

millions of followers and see Twitter as a vital way to keep in

touch with fans. They can be helpful and understanding, or it

can go the other way. They can get abusive to you. If it is used in

the right way it is a fantastic to for people to be in contact with

the fans. I have got over 7,000 followers and it has been great for

me. And now social media's been embraced on the south coast, with

Brighton and Hove Albion boasting enough players for a Twitter first

eleven. Goalkeeper Casper Ankergren has over 4,000 followers, while

some of the most active tweeters are Scouse midfielders Craig Noone

and Alan Navarro. But the Twitter king is record signing Craig

Mackail-Smith, who's got almost 18,000 followers. All the team's

lacking is a Twitter manager. not have Facebook or Twitter. I do

not know what is going on. When I get the info it is somebody else

who comes and says, DDC what he said? Maybe I am too old! I don't

know how it works. Some see Twitter as just a self-promotion tool, but

if Brighton get promoted to the Premier League, there really will

be something for the Seagulls to tweet about.

Put down your tea and clean out your ears, because most people

can't believe it when they first hear this. What's thought to be the

first ever coach tour of the M25, run by a Brighton bus company, is

so popular it's sold out and today saw its inaugural journey. So what

delights can passengers expect? Well, they'll get to see South

Mimms, one of only two service stations on the 117 mile motorway.

38 miles on, and they'll hit the Dartford Crossing, and they could

be there for a while - it handles 150,000 vehicles a day. By then

they'll need another pit stop - this time on the home straight at

Clacket Lane. We sent our lucky, lucky reporter Ellie Price on the

trip, some might say, of a lifetime. For some it is the road to hell.

There is the car park in the world! For others, the M25 is a day out.

38 people joined today's bus tour around one of Britain's must heated

motorways, but why? I fancy going around the world and had not quite

made round the world, so this must be second best, ran the M25.

were doing something we would never -- never normally do. My son

visited last night. He said, it is time -- it is going to be a new

experience. And it is, sitting here, going around in a circle! Every

mile of the M25 costs �7.5 million to build. At one point it is as

wide as 12 lanes and its longest traffic jam was last year, a 49

mile tailback. They say someone needs to stick up for the London

orbital. I want to show people that the M25 doesn't live up to its

reputation. Everybody thinks it has always got roadworks and accidents

and hold ups and there is nothing interesting, it is just a road. You

can live out, and see a lot of the interesting sites around the motor

way which you might just receive you were driving. We are about 61

miles in and have been offered the opportunity to stretch our legs and

sample the delights of the services. It did not take long... Back on the

bus, one of the highlights was the dark for a bridge and just like

that, for hours flew by and we were at Clicket Lane. At have had a

really, really good day. It has been fascinating and the atmosphere

has been so good. As their coach drove off towards the rush-hour

traffic, you were wondering if their views might change...

Why go round the world when you can It was a lovely day for that coach

trip. It was settled, warm and bright. Tomorrow, maybe a touch

warmer because the wind will be an little lighter and temperatures in

the mid- two top teams for us all. The reason for that, high pressure

dominating. Those easterly winds slightly picked up. Temperatures

above the seasonal average. The average is around 10 degrees.

Through tonight, we hold on to clearer skies. Mist and fog patches

forming along the south coast. Temperatures that dropping below

six or seven degrees. A relatively mild picture to start the day

tomorrow. A whaler from spreading north-eastwards. Hardly any cloud

and no rain. Mist and fog along the Kent coast tomorrow. The easterly

wind slightly easing off, just light and variable tomorrow.

Temperatures by tomorrow, not much above 12 or 13. Higher in land.

Tomorrow night, we hold on to be clearer skies. Mist and fog for

most of us. For the weekend, a mild start and temperatures dropping to

six degrees. The weekend is going to be settled, warm and bright.

Cooler for Sunday but plenty and his the brightness. On Saturday, a

bright and settled there. High pressure dominating. By Sunday,