17/04/2012 South East Today

Welcome to South East Today, I'm Polly Evans.

And I'm Rob Smith. Tonight's top stories: Family of one of the walk

-- one of Anders Breivik's victims tell of their agony and anger as he

explains his actions. Icy a very misguided man. -- IAC.

Someone who I think he's evil. Police abandon their excavation of

a garden looking for human remains less than a day after starting. We

will have the latest on the situation from Tunbridge Wells.

Also tonight. Claims that staff at a Sussex doctor's surgery

accidentally left a patient a phone message, colin hair "an old dog".

We celebrate the Key, the games were all the athletes are made of

wool. -- we celebrate the "Olympknits".

And how she got The Voice? Kirsten joy tells us how she wowed Jessie J

on the BBC hit show. Good evening. Anders Breivik is the

anti-Islamic gunman who massacred 77 people in a horrific shooting

spree and bomb attack. Tonight, the Kent family of one of his victims

says that his actions have left him angry and devastated. Reverend Paul

Kirby, the senior chaplain at East Kent Hospitals, says the Norwegian

gunman who is on trial for mass murder including shooting dead his

nephew, is evil. Reverend Kirby says today's testimony proves how

misguided Anders Breivik is. Away from the drama of the

courtroom in Oslo, in Dover today, a quiet moment of contemplation for

Ben and -- Bendik Ellingsen, shot six times. The agony of waiting and

the uncertainty. Eventually we got the news, which we were dreading,

that he was one of those shot in the cafe. So, it was a roller-

coaster of emotions. Bendik Ellingsen had a summer job at the

Government buildings targeted by Anders Breivik where eight people

were killed. His family initially thought he was fine as he was at

the time at an Ireland youth camp. That was the second target. -- an

island you can. TRANSLATION: I do not recognise this court. You have

your mandate from political parties supporting multiculturalism.

Breivik said his actions were based on goodness, not evil. When you see

the pictures, what do you make of it all? Icy a very, very misguided

man. And someone who, I think, is evil. Anders Breivik today called

his attack spectacular, saying he would do it again. Tonight, Paul

Kirby said he was not surprised by such language. Some families in

Oslo have left the court, finding the testimony to much. Bendik's

family decided not to attend. remember soon after the shooting,

saying to his father, I do fear -- how do you feel about Breivik? He

said, I feel absolutely nothing. They is that sense of numbness,

even now, as the country and individuals come to terms with what

has happened. Anders Breivik acknowledges the acts committed,

but does not accept criminal responsibility.

Kent Police dramatically called off the search for human remains in a

garden in Kent, less than 24 hours after it began. Police started

digging up the garden in Tunbridge Wells after a tip-off that a young

woman may have been buried there in the 1950s. This morning, the

forensic investigation team were pulled away from the scene without

finding anything. Colin Campbell is in Tunbridge Wells for us now. This

all came to an end very quickly. The police never really knew how

long the search was going to take. They did stop this morning at nine

o'clock. Nothing has been found, it was believed that a crime had

occurred. They say they have now been left with more questions than

answers. Other family members say it has been a waste of time and say

it has caused a great deal of upset for many people.

It was feared that a young female was buried here in the late 1950s

after a possible crime. After a detailed search, police revealed

this morning that they had found nothing. This is the area where

police concentrated their digging, as you can see, it is now a muddy

patch. In the 1950s, there was a pond here and police had to remove

all the earth covering it to look underneath. Relief for some family

members who used to live here. They plot their father was being

unfairly implicated. He would not hurt a fly. Absolute sheer

fabrication. My dad was my life, I loved him. Other members of the

same family appear to recall a girl called Llodra, mysteriously

disappearing one night. The police were contacted. It has left the

older members of the family to remember the terrible things that

happened that night. A whole bunch of new questions. If the girl is

not in the garden, but where is she? The is morning, the tenants of

number 48 returned home after being put up in a hotel. 50 years. They

could have been there but fortunately, they are not. They say

the investigation has let them traumatised. You find yourself

going through the absolute spectrum of emotions. There is not a high or

low, and anger, fear or worry, everything can you can imagine has

gone on, in my own head and my children's. To be told there is

nothing there,... It has opened up more emotions in a different aspect.

The police say they have concluded their investigation and insist they

acted incredible intelligence. They say they acted on information for a

number of people. They say they had only one option, to carry out a

search in the back garden. They say they did that as quickly as they

possibly could. With as little impact as possible.

Coming up. The Dean of Canterbury Cathedral joins the chorus of

disapproval against plans for a so- called heritage tax.

A Sussex woman who called her GP surgery for advice over the PIP

breast implants scandal says she will never set foot inside it again

after staff there accidentally left a string of insult on her answer

phone. Aimi Veness, who is from Cooden Beach, says she was shot

when she heard herself referred to as "an old dog". The former model

is now planning to transfer to another doctor. The surgery has

apologised. It was not what she expected to

here in an answerphone message from her doctor's surgery. She is a

I got two minutes of people tackling, laughing and making fun

of someone. I thought, surely that is not me. I replayed it, it was

definitely me. A was absolutely shocked. I was really embarrassed

and upset. I did not to look at -- anyone about it. She called the

surgery when she became worried about her breast implants following

the recent PIP scare. After seeing her GP, she was left the message a

few days later. It was not until that evening when she had had a

couple of glasses of wine, she told us what had happened. I was shocked.

Aimi Veness says the answerphone message has put her off coming back

to her local doctor's surgery here. In a statement, NHS Sussex said it

had apologised to her for what it understood to be a very distressing

incident, and it was carrying out an investigation. The receptionist

or whoever you are, you have to do what people a little bit more

professionally. It is wrong, what they did. She is now looking to

transfer to a different surgery. A 14-year-old boy has been charged

with manslaughter after the death of a teenager in Sussex. Connor

Saunders was punched during an attack in Rottingdean on Saturday

night. He died later in hospital. A 14-year-old and 13-year-old

arrested and suspicion of murder have been bailed until next month.

An inquest into the death of -- of the Sea Cadet has heard how he

unclipped his harness to help another cadet. Jonathan Martin from

Shadoxhurst fell to his death from a training ship in the Solent tears

ago. He slipped while moving along the Reading -- the rigging of the

Royalist. A retired priest re-arrested by

Sussex Police yesterday on suspicion of sexual assaults on

young people has been arrested on bail -- released on bail until June.

Canon Gordon Rideout from Eastbourne is accused of carrying

out 13 sexual assaults during the late 1960s and 1970s in Sussex and

Hampshire. A second priest, Robert Coles, has been re-interviewed

about allegations that he sexually assaulted three young men in the

1970s and 1980s. Five years after the Dungeness A

atomic power station start generating electricity, the find a

flask of spent nuclear fuel has been moved from the side. Engineers

have been carrying out at decommissioning process and the

removal of the spent uranium is a significant milestone in cleaning

up the side. -- the site. Tactic in this giant steel cube, a

final load. More than 100 fuel rods are inside. They uranium which

powered his power station during the 1960s. Taking the fuel way

following the shut down in 2006 has been a major challenge. We shut

down over five years ago. In reality, more than 50% of the fuel

has come out in the past year. The shift Cruz, the management team

have turned around a record month- on-month. Tremendously proud of

everybody here. Another typical windswept day in Dungeness. Some of

these people have put their lives into this power station. A job well

done. Planned in the 50s, built in the

1960s, the aim was to provide cheap electricity by harnessing the atom

for peaceful purposes. Criticise and condemned as a fearful risk,

not wet taking by some. After those who spend their careers standing on

top of a nuclear reactor, and there is a striking sense of pride,

almost affection. When we were at full power, it was a fully

operational power station. It was a great place to be. Do I allow

handed over to someone else and they can knock it all down. It is

not quite as simple as that, the decommissioning process will go on

for years and so will jobs. But there is no doubt this is the end

of an Era. It is sort of my second home. My dad started working for

London Electricity Board, so once the London station close, he

relocated to Dungeness. When it reaches the end of the line at

Sellafield, 99% of the radioactive hazard fuel has been removed, saved

unsecure, but still controversial. -- safe and secure.

Dungeness A started generating power in 1965 and the plant was

retired in 2006. At his final closure in five years' time, it

will mean the loss of around 400 highly-skilled jobs and that, says

the local council, will have a significant negative impact on the

Here, it is a bigger problem than it does for for Pfizer in east Kent,

we could get to a situation are reduced our people were retired

down here, and not young people and a mixed economy. Meanwhile, the

neighbouring Dungeness B nuclear power plant continues - capable of

supplying power for over 1.5 million homes. However, that is

also scheduled to be decommissioned in 2018. Together, the plants

account for 8% of all employment in the Romney Marsh area. Our reporter

Peter Whittlesea is in Dungeness for us now. Peter, the impact on

the area is being described in some quarters as "worse than Pfizer" in

East Kent. The reason people are saying that as that once these

power plants are shut down the jobs will be gone for good and it is

unlikely anything will be built instead because this is an area of

special scientific interest. Local residents say that there is nothing

to attract the next generation to the area. It has been the main

employer for the last 30 years, has been the power station. My two

children are off to university and unlikely to get a job in the area,

probably likely to work in London because there are no jobs. There

are small businesses like ours, which is fine, small shops with one

or two people in the shop, but the power station brings customers all

year round. The council realises there is a problem and have drawn

up an action plan. They wants a business up to be set up, transport

links improved, and power-station workers to be retrained. They want

the Government to reconsider putting environmental issues to one

side and to build another reactor, here. Despite the government ruling

in 2010 that there will not be a Dungeness C power station built,

the idea still lingers on, with Folkestone and Hythe's MP Damian

Collin's still pressing for a third generation nuclear plant on the

The Dean of Canterbury Cathedral has accused the Chancellor of a tax

raid on the nation's heritage. In an open letter to the government,

25 cathedral deans have made their feelings known on the changes to

VAT rules for restoring listed buildings. At Canterbury, they fear

it could mean major delays to a multi-million pound programme to

repair and preserve the medieval building. Lynda Hardy reports.

Shrouded in an scaffolding, parts of the cathedral, in danger of

collapse. Such work around the world image-building is costing

tens of millions of pounds, paid for through fund raising, and could

see -- could soon cause potentially a nurse of thousands more with

government plans to impose a VAT on restoration work on Cathedrals and

judges. With the large amount of work we're doing on the cathedral

itself on the other Asian buildings run the precincts, it will have a

major impact. We do most work as renovation, restoration and

conservation and that is where the VAT as we do it most. The cathedral

faces a bill of more than �50 million for restoration including

�1.5 million on the great south window, in addition to the �18,500

each day that it costs to run the cathedral. What Neville work is

going on. It is up to all of us to support it. -- wonderful work.

put on VAT on it is quite ridiculous. The Treasury said that

the VAT change would remove anomalies in the system and that

grants are available for work on places of worship that are listed

but it is another blow for the cathedral that is fearing that it

is struggling to meet running costs, and the prospect of new taxes on

charitable donations. Our top story tonight: Family of one of the

victim's of the Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik say his

actions have left them angry and devastated, and that they believe

Breivik is "pure evil". The Reverend Paul Kirby is senior

chaplain at East Kent Hospitals. His nephew, Bendik Ellingsen, was

just 18 when he was killed, along with 76 others, in a sustained gun

and bomb attack last summer. Also in tonight's programme: Welcome to

the Olympknits. It's like the Olympics, only made of wool.

want those bang, bang... bringing joy to Jessie J. Why

Kirsten from Maidstone could be The Voice. A paralysed man who is

fighting for the right to be legally killed by a doctor, says he

feels let down by the Commission on Assisted Dying. Former Cranbrook

rugby player Tony Nicklinson has locked-in syndrome, which means

he's unable to move. He's met with the head of the Commission, Lord

Falconer, and told him he feels the law has given up on him, and left

him to suffer. Our political editor Louise Stewart has tonight's

Special Report. Hello, I'm Tony Nicklinson... Tony Nicklinson Can

only move and speak with the aid of his wife, Jane, and that means he

is unable to take his own life and he was a doctor to be able to help.

A commission on assisted dying said there was a strong case for it when

someone was terminally ill but for someone to just take the runway for

be a step too far. You can take your or one life and the Commission

thinks you should be assisted to do so, but you should never be in a

position where there is a lawful means of being killed by somebody

else. 58-year-old Tawny previous will lead an active life and was a

former crime reporter a player. Now, he campaigns for a change in the

law, on assisted dying. Last month he and his wife watched the first

full assisted suicide debate on the floor of the Commons with interest.

Tony Nicklinson Said he was that defies his questions had been

answered after meeting with Lord Falconer. On the questions of one

person killing another, he sees dangers when I do not. I believe

that the law as many grey areas, and requires qualification.

Green Party leader says that this law must only apply to the

terminally ill. If a you imply that people with disabilities have

leaves that are some are not worth living, that is a danger, but we

need to be able to address cases like that off Tony Nicklinson.

Falconer says that Wells the has sympathy for Tony, and others like

him, it would be too risky to bring about a situation where it becomes

legal for one person to kill another. You've seen the Knitted

Royal Wedding. We've had the Knitted Brighton Pavillion - to

scale. Now watch the Knitted Olympics, complete with athletes

made of wool. The cuddly tribute is the brainchild of a Sussex animator.

With 101 days to go to the start of the games, it's time for "The

Olympknits". Alex Beard has been to meet its creator. Now, that is what

I call running. This Olympic netted animation was a painstaking process

that took animator, Alan Baker, many hours to make. I had to insert

wires and to their limbs to get their limbs to move, and washers,

under their feet, then put magnets under the wash his, then standing

on metal plates, so it was tricky and time-consuming. Olympknits was

created by Brayton pattern cutter, Laura Long, who saw it as a chance

to combine two things that she was passionate about. I have created my

own that it Olympics so that I can see it for myself. An anonymous

netter cover it appear at Saltburn with an array of competitors. This

is not the first time that Allen has ventured into the world of

topical knitted animation either. He was behind the biggest netted

wedding of last year. Whilst you should recognise some of those

characters, this time, a striker had to be taken not to create

something that resembled Olympic merchandise because that is tightly

controlled by the games themselves. We had to be careful not to mention

the Olympics or showed any of the logos or any of the Stella

McCartney costumes. Allen admits to some impersonation when it comes to

one character. My voice-over was based on a merger of Desmond Lynam

and Alan Partridge! It is not really what I would call sport.

you fancy winning goal without breaking sweat, on your marks, get

set, knit! That is brilliant. Genius! Topical knitting! Two of

the South East's teams are in action this evening. Brighton will

be hoping to bounce back from their 6-0 drubbing at West Ham at the

weekend, when they take on mid- table Watford at the Amex Stadium

this evening. The Seagulls are five points off the promotion play-offs.

Meanwhile, Crawley Town will be looking to get back into the

automatic promotion spots tonight. They're aiming for a home win

against Northampton, who are enjoying a resurgence under their

new manager, Aidy Boothroyd. It's the singing talent show with a

difference - the expert judges can't see the contestants before

they've decided if they're any good. And Kirsten Joy from Maidstone

certainly convinced Jessie J that she's has got "the Voice". And now

she's impressed our reporter Chrissie Reidy as well. The blind

edition is the most unique part of the process. The only thing that

matters is the voice, and they are trying to impress some of the

biggest names in the music business. For 25-year-old Kirsten Joy from

Maidstone, it was an agonising wait. What I love about your voice is

that there has so much that we can do with it. It was amazing. I had

the biggest smile on my face. She was smiling at me, too. It was... #

Forget about the price tag. excited is she to have one of the

most exciting and successful pop stars Amman, Jessie J, as a mentor?

I think, it is just such a privilege that she rated me as a

singer. And the world goes bang, bang, bang... A already a backing

singer and member of a gospel choir, Kirsten insists she is ready to

perform to a bigger audience. is hard to get you out there, you

need a platform to take you to the next level, to show people who you

are, and there are so many people work there, trying to do the same

thing, so I thought, this looks like a really incredible show.

weekend, it is the battleground, whatever the outcome, Kirsten hopes

that it will be just the beginning. It is exciting. She was singing

that downstairs in the studio. Michael Fish is here with the

weather wearing a fish-themed tie. Weather Wise, it is ironic. Just as

we're talking about drought, the Met Office has issued a yellow

warning for possible local flooding with 15 mm of rain possible tonight

and tomorrow, as well as gale-force winds. That looks like continuing

through the rest of this week and into the weekend. It is due to his

low pressure that is sitting close to us. All those showers search of

getting around it, coming our way, from time to time. We have a very

active front, that gay boys lots of heavy rain and gale-force winds,

and following on behind, lots of showers but as far as Kent and East

Sussex are concerned, there is something of a break at the moment.

At three or 4 o'clock in the morning, we have some heavy rain

sweeping up from the English Channel and the wind picking up at

the same time. There is some good news. Even though it will be mild,

with no frost, it will be a wet start tomorrow, with General rain

giving way to heavy showers might. It is known to remain windy and

cool. The best temperature, around nine Celsius. Showers will continue

to rumble on through the evening and tomorrow night. Those showers