:00:05. > :00:15.Welcome to South East Today, I'm Rob Smith. And I'm Polly Evans.
:00:15. > :00:21.Tonight's top stories. The father of a teenager stabbed to death in
:00:21. > :00:24.Hastings say he was the best son they could have wished for. Accused
:00:24. > :00:26.of wasting thousands of pounds of taxpayers money - does a Sussex
:00:26. > :00:29.Council's electric car scheme need a jump start? We're live in
:00:29. > :00:32.Brighton, where it's claimed one charging point was used three times
:00:32. > :00:35.in seven months. Also in tonight's programme: The elderly woman still
:00:35. > :00:44.defying council orders to clear up her garden, declared a health
:00:44. > :00:47.hazard. It is a hobby, I have done it arose since I was a child. For
:00:48. > :00:54.when I was at school we would take jam jars to the rag-and-bone
:00:54. > :00:57.merchant. Paralysed from the neck down, but living life on the edge -
:00:57. > :01:00.we talk to Barry West about his next challenge as an Olympic
:01:00. > :01:10.torchbearer. And thousands turn out to watch celebrity chefs do their
:01:10. > :01:18.
:01:18. > :01:23.thing with Kentish produce at the BBC's Good Food Show Live. Good
:01:23. > :01:26.evening. A Sussex pensioner, told to remove piles of rubbish from her
:01:26. > :01:29.garden that are 4 feet high, is still not co-operating with the
:01:29. > :01:33.council. 87 year-old Olive Taylor was given until April the 10th to
:01:33. > :01:36.comply with Brighton and Hove City Council's order. Ms Taylor says
:01:36. > :01:44.she's raised nearly �100,000 for charity by collecting cans from the
:01:44. > :01:49.city's streets and recycling them over the last 60 years. She claims
:01:49. > :01:54.she is the original at recycling, that is why Auld Taylor is fighting
:01:54. > :01:58.Brighton and Hove council were trying to force her to clean up to
:01:58. > :02:05.a gut and. She says that the recycling is a hobby and help raise
:02:05. > :02:10.money for charity. I do not watch TV, it is an occupation. It is a
:02:10. > :02:20.hobby. Why have done it ever since I was a child. Brighton and Hove
:02:20. > :02:28.
:02:28. > :02:33.council disagreed, and, in a All of Taylor has been recycling
:02:33. > :02:39.for money since 1946. She has raised more than �90,000 for
:02:39. > :02:44.charity. In 99-3, 8 lorry-loads of rubbish were removed from her
:02:44. > :02:51.garden. In 2012 she was granted a reprieve until a court hearing, in
:02:51. > :02:55.May. Some neighbours say they don't have a problem with all of's recite
:02:55. > :02:59.with. Others say that she needs help. It is a behaviour that is
:02:59. > :03:05.difficult to stop in one's self, it is difficult, even have a lot of
:03:05. > :03:08.help, to stop, so I think she needs sympathy. She admits that the
:03:08. > :03:16.situation has got worse since she went into hospital and that is why
:03:16. > :03:21.she is asking the courts to give her extra time to clear her garden.
:03:21. > :03:27.Peter Whittall c joins us from outside the house in Brighton. Is
:03:27. > :03:32.she likely to comply this time? us is what the row is all about.
:03:32. > :03:36.Brighton and Hove say that this is rubbish, Mrs Taylor says that it is
:03:36. > :03:40.recycling in progress. The Council were going to come and clear the
:03:40. > :03:46.garden and charger �2,000. She challenged that in the course. She
:03:46. > :03:52.says this is all about recycling. Sugar's 40p for Foyle, 45p for
:03:52. > :03:57.aluminium cans, and 35p for a tin can. She says that of this money
:03:58. > :04:01.that she generates goes to charity and of the council was really green,
:04:01. > :04:11.it would come at the opera sort that all-out, or rather than take
:04:11. > :04:16.
:04:16. > :04:20.it to court. -- it would come up here and help her sort it out.
:04:20. > :04:23.parents of a boy stabbed to death outside a Hastings pub have said he
:04:23. > :04:33.was the best son they could've wished for. Jacob Woudstra, who was
:04:33. > :04:33.
:04:33. > :04:35.17, died a week ago, after being stabbed once in the chest. In their
:04:35. > :04:41.first television interview his father say they are still coming to
:04:41. > :04:43.terms with his death. A 42 year old man has been remanded in custody
:04:43. > :04:46.charged with the teenager's murder. Our Home Affairs Correspondent
:04:46. > :04:51.Colin Campbell has the story. is one overriding thing. When you
:04:51. > :04:56.look at these photographs. He is smiling. He was loved by his mum,
:04:56. > :05:01.his brothers, everybody who came on to contact with him. He was a
:05:02. > :05:05.smiling young man. Jacob Woudstra by the outside a pub in Hastings
:05:05. > :05:10.last does that. A post-mortem revealed he died from a single stab
:05:10. > :05:16.wound to the chest. On Sunday, 42 year old man was just with his
:05:16. > :05:21.murder. Jacob was studying for his A-levels at sixth-form college, and
:05:21. > :05:26.his friends paid tribute to a much liked teenager. He always liked to
:05:26. > :05:32.play football. He was very active. He had so much potential, he had so
:05:32. > :05:40.much to live for. I, believe that it is a week, already. There has
:05:40. > :05:46.been so much to do, so many people supporting me, my family, we have
:05:46. > :05:52.had a phenomenal amount of support. People are just coming out of the
:05:52. > :05:56.woodwork and everyone close to me and my family, it is overwhelming
:05:56. > :06:02.support. Adam Skelton from the Excellency is accused of killing
:06:02. > :06:07.Jacob Woudstra. At 31 year old man has been released pending further
:06:07. > :06:15.inquiries. Police say they would like to hear from anyone who has
:06:15. > :06:19.information, but who has not yet come forward. Coming up : the
:06:19. > :06:29.ongoing tragedy of the disappearing honey bees and how farmers will
:06:29. > :06:33.
:06:33. > :06:36.struggle to cope. A scheme to boost the use of electric cars in
:06:36. > :06:38.Brighton has been branded a waste of money by the Taxpayers Alliance.
:06:38. > :06:42.Eight charging points have been installed across the city, costing
:06:42. > :06:45.on average �8,000 each. But the campaign group claims that that one
:06:46. > :06:51.of the points was used just three times in a seven-month period. Our
:06:51. > :06:54.reporter Ellie Price is in Brighton for us now. Ellie, the Council say
:06:54. > :06:57.this is a long term plan to promote green energy - but it hasn't really
:06:57. > :07:02.caught on with the wider public yet. Yes, that's right. This is what
:07:03. > :07:05.we're talking about. Electric car drivers can park your, for free,
:07:05. > :07:11.plug-in to one of these charging days, and recharge their car, for
:07:11. > :07:17.free. But the problem is that this is one of just 33 cars like this
:07:17. > :07:21.registered in the Brighton area. It is asking that benefits very few
:07:21. > :07:29.people. Kerry says that his electric car saves him a fortune,
:07:29. > :07:33.especially when he can recharge it here, for free. There was a lot of
:07:33. > :07:38.publicity about electric vehicles, you have a problem with the range
:07:38. > :07:42.and you might run out of energy, and knowing that you can charge it,
:07:42. > :07:48.was at the side of tow of getting the car. He does work for a company
:07:48. > :07:51.that makes the charging stations. Around Brighton, other people were
:07:52. > :07:56.making the most of free electricity and they have the pick of eight
:07:56. > :08:01.charging points across the city goes up one of those cost �16,100
:08:01. > :08:04.to install, but the average cost of installing the charging points is a
:08:04. > :08:09.dozen puzzles up one of them was used just three times in seven
:08:09. > :08:12.months, and that was at the Brighton and Hove City Council
:08:12. > :08:17.offices. It is a green vanity project, and of the council were
:08:17. > :08:23.not making use of these charges, while they making so much use of
:08:23. > :08:27.taxpayers' money when they are not using them, themselves? The council
:08:27. > :08:31.says that if it did not have the charging points, nobody in the City
:08:31. > :08:37.would buy electric cars, but can this chicken and egg situation be
:08:37. > :08:44.resolved? Would you buy an electric car because of that? To be honest,
:08:44. > :08:53.no. Our that was available to be charged locally, I would. The have
:08:53. > :08:57.they were in every city, definitely, yes. Not yet. It is a little bit
:08:57. > :09:02.too early. The council says that getting in early is exactly what
:09:02. > :09:08.needs to happen and that charging points like this one will attract
:09:08. > :09:12.more and more users. We spoke to Caroline Lucas, the leader of the
:09:12. > :09:18.Green Party, to run the council here in Brighton and Hove. She said
:09:18. > :09:21.that the charging point outside the council offices were only used
:09:21. > :09:25.three things because the council had not yet got its fleet of
:09:25. > :09:28.electric cars. The charging points are have funded by the European
:09:28. > :09:38.Union, and she said, as petrol prices go up, charging your car
:09:38. > :09:43.
:09:43. > :09:45.with one of these will make a lot more sense. There's been a bomb
:09:45. > :09:49.alert this afternoon at East Sussex Fire and Rescue's training centre,
:09:49. > :09:52.after a suspected world war 2 hand grenade was brought in by a member
:09:52. > :09:56.of the public. A safety cordon was set up until a bomb disposal team
:09:56. > :09:59.arrived to examine the device. It was taken away from the centre near
:09:59. > :10:04.Maresfield after they confirmed it was harmless. A cyclist hit by a
:10:04. > :10:07.lorry in East Sussex this morning has died from his injuries. The
:10:07. > :10:10.incident, involving a 41 year old man, happened at just after 7 this
:10:10. > :10:13.morning on the De La Warr Road in Bexhill. A 60-year-old man from
:10:13. > :10:15.Leeds has been arrested in connection with the collision. Kent
:10:15. > :10:17.Police have issued a strongly worded statement insisting that
:10:17. > :10:20.Gillingham Football Club pay for policing inside the Priestfield
:10:20. > :10:23.Stadium next weekend or face safety being compromised. The row over
:10:23. > :10:25.policing levels and costs could mean a Gills home game against
:10:25. > :10:28.League Two leaders Swindon is played behind closed doors. Medway
:10:28. > :10:34.Council says fans won't be allowed into the ground until an agreement
:10:34. > :10:39.is reached between Kent Police and the club. Jon Hunt reports. Every
:10:39. > :10:45.time these clubs meet, pension ones higher. Last time they clashed on
:10:45. > :10:48.the pitch and Kent, the scenes in the terraces were not that it'll
:10:48. > :10:54.stop Gillingham don't usually need many police, but when Swindon Town
:10:54. > :10:59.visit, it becomes a major operation. That club's chief-executive says
:10:59. > :11:02.that he does not know why. Gillingham and son -- Swindon
:11:02. > :11:06.seemed to have this rivalry, and not sure where it stems from, but
:11:06. > :11:11.it has been around for quite some time. Previous fixtures have not
:11:11. > :11:15.been quite so fraught. Medley Council says that it is worried
:11:15. > :11:19.about the next time these clubs media, a week on Saturday. It could
:11:19. > :11:23.be a crucial picture for both teams, and because of a dispute between
:11:24. > :11:27.the clubs and the police about the number of officers required, it has
:11:27. > :11:31.issued a prohibition notice, meaning the players could be forced
:11:31. > :11:36.to play in front of an empty stadium. I have been privy to
:11:36. > :11:39.intelligence reports by the police and I am satisfied from the
:11:40. > :11:44.information they have given and the questions I have asked that there
:11:44. > :11:48.is a danger that, if we allow the club to go ahead with this game,
:11:48. > :11:54.with spectators within the ground without adequate policing, there
:11:54. > :11:58.could be a safety issue. disputed game is due to take place
:11:58. > :12:02.on 21st April. The club and Kent Police have held talks over
:12:02. > :12:06.security costs for the Games. If no agreement is reached, the match
:12:06. > :12:11.could be held behind closed doors. Fans say that that could be a
:12:11. > :12:15.tragedy and a financial blow to the club. They a likely to bring down
:12:16. > :12:22.1500 people, and if you look at the costs of that for Gillingham,
:12:22. > :12:28.you're looking at �30,000 worth of gate receipts. Of the game was not
:12:28. > :12:31.staged, Gillingham would lose that money as well. Earlier today Kent
:12:31. > :12:36.Police said that having the appropriate number of officers
:12:36. > :12:41.inside the stadium was essential and that this course must be met by
:12:41. > :12:45.the football club. They say that it has not acceptable for the taxpayer
:12:45. > :12:55.to subsidise a commercial activity. Talks between the club and police
:12:55. > :12:56.
:12:56. > :13:00.took place today, but so far, no agreement has been reset. --
:13:00. > :13:05.reached. I understand that there is a lot riding on when the decision
:13:05. > :13:10.between the police and the clubs is made. The problem is that the
:13:10. > :13:16.significance of the game is as yet unclear, to the two clubs. If
:13:16. > :13:20.Swindon win this weekend and Crawley Town lose, they will be
:13:20. > :13:22.promoted. You could argue that less pleasing would then be required at
:13:22. > :13:28.Gillingham but if they clinch promotion up the road, there will
:13:28. > :13:31.be plenty of fans there wanting to celebrate. Are we are likely to get
:13:31. > :13:36.the decision tomorrow? The last time there was a stand-off like
:13:36. > :13:40.this was in January. That was all of us all 48 hours before kick-off.
:13:40. > :13:50.There will be lots of football club chairmen around the country, eager
:13:50. > :13:51.
:13:51. > :13:54.to see how this one plays out. man from East Sussex who was
:13:54. > :13:57.paralysed from the neck down in a car accident is celebrating being
:13:57. > :14:00.chosen as an Olympic Torch bearer in Rye. Barry West has undertaken a
:14:00. > :14:03.series of daredevil challenges since his accident - including
:14:03. > :14:06.paragliding and mountaineering - but says this will be one of his
:14:06. > :14:09.proudest moments. Charlie Rose has been to meet him at his home in
:14:09. > :14:14.Framfield. Barry West lost the use of his arms and legs when he broke
:14:14. > :14:20.his neck in a car accident 60 years ago. Stroking the dog, shaking your
:14:20. > :14:25.friends hand, you know what I mean? All of that is taken away. Brushing
:14:25. > :14:31.your own teeth, when you get and etched in your ear, all that kind
:14:31. > :14:34.of thing. Rather than allowing himself to be held back, Barry has
:14:34. > :14:39.conquered some of the most difficult chances -- challenges in
:14:39. > :14:44.the world, including skydiving and mountaineering. Away from the
:14:44. > :14:54.adrenalin he is focusing on his next achievement. He will be an
:14:54. > :14:57.
:14:57. > :15:04.Olympic torch bearer, in Rye. nervous, when I think about it.
:15:04. > :15:10.does everything not for himself but to prove to others but they are --
:15:10. > :15:18.but to prove to others that there is life after paralysis. A big part
:15:18. > :15:26.of Barry's life now is painting. am just learning. I am being raided
:15:26. > :15:33.in June for the mouth and foot painting organisation -- graded in
:15:33. > :15:40.June. They have eight of my paintings at the moment, so I am
:15:40. > :15:46.very excited about that. Barry is in bed waiting for an operation to
:15:46. > :15:50.remove his daughter and his leg. After that, when that has been
:15:50. > :15:58.completed, he's looking forward to taking on more challenges, and
:15:58. > :16:01.making his name as an artist. The top story tonight, a Sussex
:16:01. > :16:05.pensioner who was told to remove a 4 ft-high piles of rubbish from our
:16:05. > :16:08.darkness still not co-operating with the council. The 87-year-old
:16:09. > :16:13.was given until April 10th to comply with a Brighton and Hove
:16:13. > :16:19.Council order. And in the Queen's Jubilee year, we meet the Lord
:16:19. > :16:24.Lieutenant of Kent, the monarch's representative in that the county.
:16:24. > :16:34.And thousands of people watch celebrity chefs using Kentish
:16:34. > :16:37.
:16:37. > :16:40.produce to make good food, live. Farming in the South East is at
:16:40. > :16:47.serious risk unless the Government adopts an action plan to save our
:16:47. > :16:49.bees. That's the call from environmentalists, Friends of the
:16:49. > :16:53.Earth who, in conjunction with scientists at the University of
:16:53. > :16:55.Reading, say that ANI britain has lost over half the honey bees kept
:16:55. > :16:58.in managed hives while wild honey bees are nearly extinct.ANI Without
:16:58. > :17:01.bees, it would cost the UK one point eight billion pounds every
:17:01. > :17:04.year to hand pollinate crops.ANI In the greater South East region, bees
:17:04. > :17:07.pollinate around �137 million worth of total crop sales. Our
:17:07. > :17:13.Environment correspondent Yvette Austen has tonight's Special Report.
:17:13. > :17:17.The honeybee, seen as vital for the pollination of crops. But, numbers
:17:17. > :17:21.have collapsed in recent years. More than half have been lost and
:17:22. > :17:28.there is real concern for the future of farming. If we did not
:17:28. > :17:32.have honey bees, pollinating crops, we would have to stump up �1.8
:17:32. > :17:36.billion each year to replace that in labour, with pollination, so it
:17:36. > :17:40.is critically important to the economy as well as the environment.
:17:40. > :17:44.The loss of the honey bee is all a part of the story. There are 300
:17:44. > :17:48.different species of solitary be and 30 species of Bumblebee.
:17:48. > :17:53.Scientists say that they have declined massively, too, and some
:17:53. > :17:58.are better at pollinating than the honeybee. We are looking at a grove
:17:58. > :18:02.of blackthorn and you can see the blossom, and without insects
:18:02. > :18:05.pollinating bees you would not get the plants. If you did not get the
:18:05. > :18:10.blossom, you would not get the fruit, and much of the food that we
:18:10. > :18:15.have, and you would lose lots of other insects, other food for other
:18:15. > :18:19.parts of the food chain, so taken to its conclusion it would mean a
:18:19. > :18:25.kind of ecosystem collapse. Much of the decline is being put down to
:18:25. > :18:28.the loss of wild flower meadows, with 197% have gone since the
:18:28. > :18:32.Second World War. Scientists are looking at whether areas should be
:18:32. > :18:40.set aside for wild flowers to help feed the insects once the blossom
:18:40. > :18:45.season is over. This is an old, traditional pear orchard which has
:18:45. > :18:48.been sprayed with herbicide. If you move out of the orchard,
:18:48. > :18:57.historically this wardrobe would have continued a lawyer, but this
:18:57. > :19:02.has been left fallow, and the plan is to plant a mixture of wild
:19:02. > :19:06.flowers, farmers were cling to have clean how the side and did not want
:19:06. > :19:10.any weeds anywhere on the orchard because Leeds had been seen as
:19:10. > :19:19.competing with the trees in the orchard fornicate, but now it has
:19:19. > :19:29.all gone, full circle. -- in the orchard, for the trees. Scientists
:19:29. > :19:38.
:19:39. > :19:41.are now calling for a national Since the 1500's the Lord
:19:41. > :19:44.Lieutenant of Kent has been the representative of the Royal family
:19:44. > :19:54.in the county. The role once involved using military muscle to
:19:54. > :19:57.protect their interests. Nowadays the Queen's man mainly looks after
:19:57. > :19:59.royal visits and ceremonial duties. Robin Gibson has been to meet
:19:59. > :20:05.Viscount De L'Isle at Penshurst Place. The man in the uniform is
:20:05. > :20:12.the Lord Lieutenant of Kent. Philip Sidney is overseeing the Queen's
:20:12. > :20:18.first visit to the county in his term of office. You have to be true
:20:18. > :20:23.to yourself and follow the leader because they lead, I fall the Queen
:20:23. > :20:29.because she says example, and she leads from the front. His family
:20:29. > :20:34.have lived at Penshurst Place, for 450 years. He is just the latest
:20:34. > :20:37.family member to take on the Lord- Lieutenant position. Loyalty to the
:20:37. > :20:46.Crown has gone in his blood since he was born. He was first
:20:46. > :20:51.introduced to the Queen as a small boy. The Queen was staying debate
:20:51. > :20:56.Lord and Lady Abergavenny and the children had been asked to go over
:20:56. > :21:06.and play with their children, so we got wheeled in after tea and
:21:06. > :21:07.
:21:07. > :21:14.scrubbed up to the nines by a our nanny, and being told how to bow.
:21:14. > :21:20.These are the letters patent, which officially make me Lord-Lieutenant.
:21:20. > :21:30.He is usually proud of the job and naturally, a huge fan of the Queen.
:21:30. > :21:32.
:21:32. > :21:40.She has very pleasant, piercing blue eyes. I think of the public do,
:21:40. > :21:50.it is rather sad, I think, that the Queen's face in her paws, sometimes
:21:50. > :21:51.
:21:51. > :22:00.looks a bit grumpy. -- her pose. She is not grumpy, it is just how
:22:00. > :22:05.she is. Her Amman in Kent knows exactly just how she is. Fans of
:22:05. > :22:12.celebrity chefs will be sampling and indulging themselves at the BBC
:22:12. > :22:14.Good Food Show, Live, which has come to Kent for the first time.
:22:15. > :22:24.Much of their progress used by chefs including James Martin will
:22:25. > :22:28.
:22:28. > :22:33.have been drawn, all made, in Kent and Sussex. This is guaranteed to
:22:33. > :22:37.get your tastebuds tingling. What is unique about the first Good Food
:22:37. > :22:42.Show in Kent is that the focus is on locally sourced produce. This is
:22:42. > :22:47.not margarine in this demonstration, it is proper but a. He might be a
:22:47. > :22:52.Yorkshireman, but James Martin is well aware of the culinary delights
:22:52. > :22:57.that the Garden of England has on offer. The pasture here produces
:22:57. > :23:02.great vegetables, great apples, amazing apple orchards, better
:23:02. > :23:09.weather than we have a Yorkshire. It is the place to be if you like
:23:09. > :23:14.food. One of the suppliers hoping to reap the benefits is based in
:23:14. > :23:20.Sussex. They of the fact that it is Sussex cows that are producing this
:23:20. > :23:27.cheese, they know that the cows are there as they drive from Guildford
:23:27. > :23:31.to watch him, and they can see those cows. -- killed four to
:23:31. > :23:35.Horsham. With an abundance of cookery programmes like these on TV,
:23:35. > :23:43.it is not difficult to see why there is an appetite to experiment
:23:43. > :23:48.with more local flavours. Why not use the producers in Kent, to
:23:48. > :23:52.encourage them to do more, to invest more money in what they are
:23:52. > :24:00.doing, I think it is crucial. People should spend money locally,
:24:00. > :24:04.it is as simple as that. We need to support, we need to realise how
:24:04. > :24:09.good the produce we have here is. It is about understanding what is
:24:09. > :24:12.really good on your doorstep. like cider, and it is nice to taste
:24:12. > :24:19.the varieties from all the different apples that I am familiar
:24:19. > :24:27.with. So, if it is inspiration that you're after Andy what to sample
:24:27. > :24:36.some of the delights of Kent, the Good Food Show is on until Sunday.
:24:36. > :24:44.We know that where there has been a weather event, this man is in the
:24:44. > :24:48.building. We have had heavy showers, hailstones and thunder and that
:24:48. > :24:52.sort of weather is going to continue for the next few days.
:24:52. > :24:59.This is what we saw this afternoon, several centimetres of what looks
:24:59. > :25:05.like snow but in actual fact was hailstones. Also 18 mm of rain in
:25:05. > :25:10.the space of a few minutes. It was not steady rain, just to racial
:25:10. > :25:17.downpours. We have had lots of showers around, developing and
:25:17. > :25:22.moving on those winds over the latter part of the day. We have had
:25:22. > :25:26.reports of trees blowing down in a strong winds in East Sussex. Those
:25:26. > :25:31.showers of the Dudley later in the night. Then, with clearing skies
:25:31. > :25:36.and the second half of the night before turn pretty chilly with a
:25:36. > :25:41.patch of ground frost. Generally speaking, temperatures around about
:25:41. > :25:46.four or five Celsius. Tomorrow, starting a chilly, dry and sunny,
:25:46. > :25:51.but clouds will develop and build, and showers will come along. Not
:25:51. > :25:57.quite as many showers as today but, having said that, some of those
:25:57. > :26:04.showers will be heavy, with hail and thunder. Temperatures not
:26:04. > :26:08.brilliant, at around 12 Celsius. Again, those will fade away
:26:08. > :26:12.tomorrow evening and temperatures will dip down to five Sears is.