:00:07. > :00:16.Welcome to South East Today I'm Bryony. I'm rob Smith.More backing
:00:16. > :00:19.for fracking. The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, gives his
:00:19. > :00:23.cautious support. It will not solve all the energy problems of this
:00:23. > :00:28.country, it might, it can play a role to keep people's bills stable
:00:28. > :00:31.and low. Vulnerable children are being placed in potentially
:00:31. > :00:36.dangerous situations. The new plan to prevent children from being sent
:00:36. > :00:41.from London to Kent's deprived seaside towns. We are live in Thanet
:00:41. > :00:45.with the story. Also tonight: Years of feeling ignorant and under
:00:45. > :00:49.confident. The mother campaigning for symptoms of dyslexia to be
:00:49. > :00:53.better recognised. The 19—year—old Afghan and his Foster family
:00:53. > :00:57.celebrating after he was given leave to stay in the UK. I always found
:00:57. > :01:06.that things got trickiest when you are off your feet. Comedy gold and
:01:06. > :01:07.still going on her 90th birthday. A new exhibition is opened in honour
:01:07. > :01:21.of Dora Bryan. Good evening. On the eve of the
:01:21. > :01:24.start of his party's conference, the Liberal Democrat leader, and keg
:01:24. > :01:27.Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, has gone further than ever before in
:01:27. > :01:30.backing the controversial process of fracking. Nick Clegg told this
:01:30. > :01:35.programme that so long as safeguards are put in place to minimise the
:01:35. > :01:38.impact then, considering their potential economic benefits, he
:01:38. > :01:45.would welcome fracking as part of our energy mix. The anger felt over
:01:45. > :01:53.fracking has found a focus here. protests have led to dozens being
:01:53. > :01:59.arrested, including the Green MP Caroline Lucas. The Liberal Democrat
:01:59. > :02:04.Energy Secretary has warned of the dangers of a dash for gas. His party
:02:04. > :02:09.leader spoke out in support of fracking. We shouldn't just ignore
:02:09. > :02:13.the whole technology and put a complete taboo on it and say there
:02:13. > :02:16.should never be any fracking. It will not solve all the energy
:02:16. > :02:23.problems of this country. It might and it can play a role m in what I
:02:23. > :02:26.would call a mixed array of different ways of producing energy
:02:26. > :02:31.to keep people's bills stable and low. Doesn't play out well with your
:02:31. > :02:35.supporters in places like Sussex? Well, look, if you are in a
:02:35. > :02:38.community where you are dead set against what is happening locally, I
:02:38. > :02:44.understand this provokes strong feelings. Most people in the country
:02:44. > :02:49.at large accept that we've got to wean ourselves off this over
:02:49. > :02:53.reliance on polluting, imported oil and gas from other parts of the
:02:53. > :02:57.country where the price goes up—and—down because of international
:02:57. > :03:00.price changes which then affect people's bills. Liberal Democrats
:03:00. > :03:03.coalition partners, the Conservatives, have always been more
:03:03. > :03:07.supportive of plans to frack, which they say could help secure future
:03:07. > :03:12.energy supplies and drive down bills. The Energy Minister is going
:03:12. > :03:16.on a fact—finding trip to America next week where a fracking boom is
:03:16. > :03:21.underway. Over the summer there has been a huge amount of hysteria in
:03:21. > :03:25.the UK over fracking. I want to cut through the shouting and see for
:03:25. > :03:28.myself what works, what doesn't, where is it effective and where we
:03:28. > :03:30.need to think carefully about the environment. I will talk to the
:03:30. > :03:32.people who have it in their community. Here in the UK, the
:03:32. > :03:47.public in the US is divided. I don't think the public in Britain
:03:47. > :03:52.are aware of how many wells this will involve in it gets the green
:03:53. > :03:56.light. It's an explore Tory well. This is symbolic, Balcombe. We are
:03:56. > :04:01.talking about thousands and thousands and thousands of wells.
:04:02. > :04:08.There will be environmental damage done no, question about it. Even the
:04:08. > :04:09.industry itself will accept that. Liberal Democrats meet for their
:04:10. > :04:15.annual conference this weekend. Backing from the leader may do
:04:16. > :04:20.little to win over some of the party's grassroot supporters. Louise
:04:20. > :04:23.is alongside me in the studio. It's a controversial issue. How difficult
:04:24. > :04:28.is this for Nick Clegg politically? Very difficult for Nick Clegg, isn't
:04:28. > :04:32.it? The Conservatives have always been much more up for fracking, if
:04:32. > :04:35.you like. The Liberal Democrats have shied away from it. Many in the
:04:35. > :04:39.party, including the Energy Secretary, believe it's the wrong
:04:39. > :04:44.way to go. They say it risks causing damage to the environment. Now that
:04:44. > :04:48.he is saying that he cautiously welcomes it, he could back fracking
:04:49. > :04:53.as part of the future energy supply. He has to walk that tightrope of
:04:54. > :05:00.trying to keep his coalition partners onside and not alienating
:05:00. > :05:03.grassroots supporters. An area like Sussex where they have only two
:05:04. > :05:08.Liberal Democrat MPs in the south—east by backing fracking they
:05:08. > :05:11.could lose a lot of support ahead of the next general election. Thank you
:05:11. > :05:14.very much. The MP for Thanet, Laura Sandys sand, a has said today that
:05:15. > :05:18.some looked after children in her constituency have been placed in a
:05:18. > :05:22."potentially dangerous situation" by people who are supposed to be caring
:05:22. > :05:26.for them. Laura Sandys has welcomed a move by the Education Secretary to
:05:26. > :05:31.ensure that vulnerable children are not being place into homes miles
:05:31. > :05:35.away from their families, which is a particular issue in seaside resorts
:05:36. > :05:40.such as Thanet. Figures last year showed 1200 looked after children
:05:41. > :05:46.were moved to Kent from 95 different local authorities. The numbers are
:05:46. > :05:53.highest in Thanet, where 243 of the children were sent. Simon Jones is
:05:54. > :05:58.there tonight, why is it happening? I'm in Cliftonville, this is the
:05:59. > :06:04.main shopping street, off it are many residential streets with large
:06:04. > :06:09.houses which can be ra bought extremely cheaply. Some have been
:06:10. > :06:16.bought by people wanting to set up childrens homes. Others have been
:06:16. > :06:31.bought by agencies wanting to set up sex offenders and paedophiles. For
:06:31. > :06:36.vulnerable children to be cheek by jowl with problem environments. It's
:06:36. > :06:38.dangerous. What we should be doing is putting them in the safest
:06:39. > :06:43.environment we can possibly find. That is our responsibility. The
:06:43. > :06:50.London councils could be putting these children in danger? I think
:06:50. > :06:55.they could be. This man spent many years in care. He repeatedly
:06:55. > :06:59.suffered abuse. I tried running away. I was classed as a problem
:06:59. > :07:02.child I wanted to run away from the situation. I called the police. What
:07:02. > :07:05.did the police do? They brought me straight back. Social workers never
:07:06. > :07:09.believed what was going on. In Cliftonville feel it's not a
:07:09. > :07:14.suitable place for vulnerable children. If I had a kid, I'd move
:07:14. > :07:19.away. I wouldn't say it was a good area at all. It's a nice place. At
:07:19. > :07:27.the same time, I don't think so, we have a high percentage of
:07:27. > :07:31.paedophiles here. Really, have the children and get rid of the
:07:31. > :07:36.paedophiles. Moved from Manchester. I like it here. My kids are happy
:07:36. > :07:40.where they are. The Government announced Ofsted would only allow
:07:40. > :07:44.new homes to be opened in safe areas. And those in less safe areas
:07:44. > :07:52.must demonstrate they can protect children. Senior council officials
:07:52. > :07:56.must approve out of area placements. There are too many councils placing
:07:56. > :08:00.children many miles away from home in childrens homes. They are plating
:08:00. > :08:06.children with foster carers. At long last I'm hopeful we will see action
:08:06. > :08:11.to require authorities to place children as close to home as
:08:11. > :08:20.possible except by exception to protect them. The MP brought the
:08:20. > :08:24.Education Secretary, Michael Goef, to Cliftonville to show him one
:08:24. > :08:28.particular street we have been asked not to identify where you have
:08:28. > :08:33.several childrens homes and where it houses paedophiles. That may have
:08:33. > :08:39.influenced his decision today to describe the situation of children
:08:39. > :08:44.being sent from London to Kent as "indefensivable." Thank you. Coming
:08:44. > :08:50.up: The terrifying manned flying bomb that the Germans never got the
:08:50. > :08:59.chance to use. Restored and on display at the Southern Model
:08:59. > :09:02.Airshow this weekend. A mother from East Sussex is calling for more
:09:02. > :09:07.training for teachers so they can better recognise the symptoms of
:09:07. > :09:12.dyslexia. It took four years for Shereen Bower's son, Bradley, to be
:09:12. > :09:17.diagnosed. She ended up having to pay privately for him to be tested.
:09:18. > :09:21.Those years of feeling unconfident and even ignorant now mean the
:09:21. > :09:27.12—year—old is too afraid to go to school. The tests, how did you find
:09:27. > :09:33.the tests? This mother battled for four years to get her son's dyslexia
:09:33. > :09:36.recognised by the authorities. Bradley finds it difficult to read
:09:36. > :09:43.and write. The 12—year—old no longer likes going to school. I asked him
:09:43. > :09:51.why it's so hard attending class? I don't want to embarrass myself.
:09:51. > :09:54.Bradley was screened by a special needs teacher at primary school.
:09:54. > :10:01.Nothing was picked up. After years of asking for help, his mother paid
:10:01. > :10:06.£450 to an educational psychologist to test her son. Within 24—hours
:10:07. > :10:13.Bradley was diagnosed as being severely dyslexia. The worst part
:10:13. > :10:19.for me is knowing all along that no matter how much I asked for help, I
:10:19. > :10:24.didn't get it. How much he suffered because I can't imagine what he must
:10:24. > :10:28.have gone through in every subject, not being able to understand what
:10:29. > :10:33.was put in front of him. How hard... No wonder he made himself sick. No
:10:33. > :10:36.wonder he gave himself migrains about going to school. In a
:10:36. > :10:57.statement Bradley's school said: He is having a great deal of
:10:57. > :11:02.difficulty reading for comprehension. He would have
:11:02. > :11:06.difficulty reading work sheets. His spelling would be deeply irregular.
:11:06. > :11:12.He would feel bad about the work he produced, even if he managed to
:11:13. > :11:16.produce any. A lot of teachers aren't trained to spot dyslexia in
:11:16. > :11:22.the classroom. It gets missed. We are trying to campaign hard for
:11:22. > :11:26.teacher training to include a component about dyslexia so teachers
:11:26. > :11:32.are equipped to spot the signs in the classroom. Armed with her
:11:32. > :11:36.independent diagnosis, she wants her son to go to a special needs school
:11:36. > :11:44.where she says Bradley can begin to catch up on the four years of
:11:45. > :11:50.education he has lost. An airgun attack, which left a cat blind and
:11:50. > :11:55.with pellets embedded in his body, has been described as "owl wardly
:11:55. > :11:58.and vicious" by animal welfare experts. Billy, a two—year—old
:11:58. > :12:05.stray, was found with severe injuries in Lingfield in Surrey.
:12:05. > :12:10.X—rays showed he had at least four pellets in his skull and a number of
:12:10. > :12:15.others in his body. A veterinary officer said it was remarkable the
:12:15. > :12:18.animal survived the attack. The Government's being urged to give the
:12:18. > :12:22.go hayed to the bewildered of the main rail route between Kent and
:12:22. > :12:27.East Sussex. Did the Ashford to Hastings line was closed for nine
:12:27. > :12:33.weeks last year while maintenance work took place on the Ore Tunnel.
:12:33. > :12:37.The Conservative MP for Hastings, Amber Rudd, told the Commons that
:12:37. > :12:40.the track should be upgraded. Three men who carried out a spate of
:12:40. > :12:46.burglaries and robberies in Kent have been jailed for a tote l a ——
:12:46. > :12:51.total of 30 years. Jeremy Waller and Anthony Wood and George Dunn from
:12:51. > :12:55.Marden carried out two burglaries and two robberies in less than
:12:55. > :13:00.two—days in January this year. In one case a woman was threatened with
:13:00. > :13:06.a large knife and pulled to the floor by her hair while the men
:13:06. > :13:12.stole jewellery from her. The family of 69—year—old Chatham woman who
:13:12. > :13:17.vanished without trace from a busy street more than a week ago say they
:13:17. > :13:22.are distraught and electrification by her disappearance. Harjit Chaggar
:13:22. > :13:28.has not been seen since she visited a doctor's surgery a few minutes
:13:28. > :13:33.walk from her home. The family have made another emotional appeal for
:13:33. > :13:38.help in finding her. Every day we are just thinking something will
:13:38. > :13:42.come up. Something... We will get a lead as to where she might be. That
:13:42. > :13:46.hasn't happened. I think the longer it keeps going on, the more and more
:13:46. > :13:49.frantic we are getting. Her family describe her as a confident person
:13:49. > :13:54.who has lived in Chatham for 40 years. There is no way she could
:13:54. > :13:59.have got lost after going to an Asian women's group and this
:13:59. > :14:05.doctor's surgery. She was captured on CCTV cameras and then suddenly
:14:05. > :14:15.disappeared. She carried on down Luton Road. Gone into the hotel
:14:15. > :14:19.globe food shop and walked to Luton Archers. She is caught at Maplin
:14:19. > :14:24.Stores, that was the last we saw Archers. She is caught at Maplin
:14:24. > :14:30.her. Have helped the family to piece together her last movements. It's so
:14:30. > :14:34.out of character. If she is going to go anywhere, it's well planned. We
:14:34. > :14:38.know where she is going to go and who she would be with. This is
:14:38. > :14:41.just... It's such a mystery that nobody has seen her. The police
:14:41. > :14:45.believe someone must have and that nobody has seen her. The police
:14:45. > :14:54.could provide a vital clue to her whereabouts. Peter is in Chatham.
:14:54. > :15:01.What is the next step? The police are worried about Mrs Chaggar's
:15:01. > :15:08.welfare. Her bank accounts haven't been accessed —— accessed since she
:15:08. > :15:13.went missing. The police are also appealing for information saying
:15:13. > :15:17.anyone who saw her after 4.00pm on September 2nd should contact them
:15:17. > :15:20.saying even insignificant pieces of information could be important and
:15:20. > :15:29.provide a vital lead so they can find her. Thank you. Our top story.
:15:29. > :15:31.The Liberal Democrat leader and Deputy Prime Minister has gone
:15:31. > :15:34.further than ever before in backing the controversial process of
:15:34. > :15:39.fracking. Nick Clegg told this programme that so long as safeguards
:15:39. > :15:42.are put in place to minimise the impact he would welcome fracking as
:15:42. > :15:50.part of our energy mix. Also tonight: You're hurting me.BAFTA
:15:50. > :15:54.and Olivier for a career spanning decades. The new exhibition
:15:54. > :16:00.dedicated to Sussex actress, Dora Bryan. This weekend is looking wet
:16:00. > :16:08.and windy. Join me later in the programme for the details.
:16:09. > :16:13.Naj Hashimi fled Afghanistan after the Taliban had killed his father
:16:13. > :16:19.and brother. He ended up living with a Foster family in Kent, passed 13
:16:19. > :16:23.GCSE's and place cricket for his local club side. Last year, his new
:16:23. > :16:27.found stability was thrown into turmoil, when he turned 18, the
:16:27. > :16:31.Government told him he had to return to Afghanistan. After a long
:16:31. > :16:40.campaign Naj has now been told he can stay. We have been to meet him
:16:40. > :16:46.for tonight's story update. He fled the Taliban and left his family when
:16:46. > :16:50.he was 14 years old. Now 19, Naj Hashimi says he has another family
:16:51. > :16:55.here in Kent. For more than two years, he has been battling to stay
:16:55. > :16:58.in the UK. This morning, he got some good news. It was amazing. I
:16:58. > :17:04.couldn't believe it when the solicitor phoned me up and said,
:17:04. > :17:10."you won the appeal. The judge allowed you you to stay in this
:17:10. > :17:14.country. He thinks you should be allowed to stay in this country." I
:17:14. > :17:19.was jumping around like crazy. I didn't know. It was so exciting for
:17:19. > :17:26.me. He arrived in the UK illegally in 2009 and spent four years living
:17:26. > :17:31.with a Foster family. He was told he would be deport deported in March.
:17:31. > :17:37.He was granted a temporary reprieve on the 21st. Legal proceedings
:17:37. > :17:42.began. His application was initially rejected because Afghanistan was
:17:42. > :17:45.seen as a safe place. I do think generally we should be looking to
:17:45. > :17:49.get people back to Afghanistan and to reestablish a life there. It was
:17:49. > :17:54.his relationship with his Foster family and particularly his Foster
:17:54. > :17:58.brothers that helped him win his appeal. My sons are quite young.
:17:58. > :18:02.Four years of a young person's life is a lot. They have grown... They
:18:02. > :18:07.are brothers. Suddenly, to lose a brother, and they can see no good
:18:07. > :18:11.reason for it, would be very traumatising and they wouldn't
:18:11. > :18:18.understand it. A keen sportsman, Naj wants to go to university and teach
:18:18. > :18:20.PE. This country gave me so much. I want to give it back to them. It's
:18:20. > :18:25.not just about my life, it's about giving back to this country as well.
:18:25. > :18:31.That's the thing I want to do. For the last four years this country has
:18:32. > :18:35.given me so much. He has a nervous two week wait to see if the Home
:18:35. > :18:51.Office will (inaudible) the ruling. As the Second World War drew to a
:18:51. > :18:56.close, the Germans developed a terrifying new weapon of mass
:18:56. > :19:00.destruction, a manned V1 rocket bomb to be used to target high profile
:19:00. > :19:03.buildings like Buckingham Palace. They were never actually used.
:19:03. > :19:07.Almost all of them have been destroyed. This weekend, at the
:19:08. > :19:08.Southern Model Airshow, one of the few that has survived is going on
:19:08. > :19:25.display. They were feared and hated flying
:19:25. > :19:43.bombs which came from nowhere and felony where. —— fell anywhere. This
:19:43. > :19:51.would have been still more deadly, a piloted V1, deadly for its victims,
:19:51. > :19:55.deadly, presumably, to its crew. The idea was that they could hit a
:19:55. > :20:01.pinpoint target as opposed to being random, as with a normal V1. The
:20:01. > :20:08.pilot could aim them at a target and bail out. You have a sideways
:20:08. > :20:18.opening canopy. If you opened that at 450mph, the first thing you hit
:20:18. > :20:24.is the jet pipe. Operation Crossbow drama advertised tests of the weapon
:20:24. > :20:27.flown by the German test pilot. Today, there are six left in the
:20:27. > :20:32.world. This one was saved from the scrap heap. They only realised what
:20:32. > :20:37.they had after taking the rusty remains apart. That is where the
:20:37. > :20:44.explosives? Two fuses.What are these? That is used as a sight. It
:20:44. > :20:49.folds down. This is the shackle, which is attached to the under
:20:49. > :20:56.underside. This bomb was launched from underneath an aeroplane. That
:20:57. > :20:58.is all that held it on? Yes.This War Museum has had the bomb
:20:59. > :24:26.restored. They say You're hurting me. What is this? A
:24:26. > :24:36.ring. I can see it's a ring. Dora Bryan herself knew hard times. She
:24:36. > :24:40.turned this hotel into flats and it cost her and her husband a fortune.
:24:40. > :24:48.Dora suffered her own fair share, it has to be said. What is incredible,
:24:48. > :24:54.despite all the setbacks she was able to rise above everything. What
:24:54. > :24:57.will it mean to your mother? A lot. Some of the photographs she won't
:24:57. > :25:03.have seen for ages. She will be over the moon. Dora Bryan is used to
:25:03. > :25:08.going down memory lane. Tonight, Dora Bryan, this is your life.
:25:08. > :25:13.Tonight, perhaps, more than 50 years later, something similar.
:25:13. > :25:22.She is fabulous. Happy birthday, Dora. Love that pink outfit as well,
:25:22. > :25:28.those feathers. Now, the weather: How is it looking, wet? The weather
:25:28. > :25:31.is less exciting. Lots of rain over the weekend. There will be dry
:25:31. > :25:35.weather around particularly for Saturday afternoon. As we go into
:25:35. > :25:39.Sunday the winds will pick up. We have a wet afternoon particularly.
:25:39. > :25:42.Those gale force winds stay with us into the new week as well. First
:25:42. > :25:47.thing this morning we had outbreaks of rain. We were dry for a time.
:25:47. > :25:52.There was quite a bit of cloud cover around. Tonight, you can see what is
:25:52. > :25:57.heading our way, it will turn wet and chilly. Temperatures today not
:25:57. > :26:04.feeling too bad. A muggy start to the day. Temperatures reaching 19—20
:26:04. > :26:09.degrees. Winds up to 15—20mph in Brighton. Tonight, it will turn
:26:09. > :26:13.increasingly unsettled and chilly as well. The winds will strengthen. It
:26:13. > :26:17.will be a wet picture as we head over into Saturday. Temperatures
:26:17. > :26:20.widely dropping to around 10 or 11 degrees. As you start the day on
:26:20. > :26:25.Saturday it will be overcast and wet. It is an improving story. The
:26:25. > :26:32.rain will be clearing its way eastwards. By the afternoon it will
:26:32. > :26:37.feel chilly. Top temperatures of 14—15 degrees. There may be breaks
:26:37. > :26:41.in the cloud cover. We might see a little bit of sunshine. There will
:26:41. > :26:53.be cloud around and a chance of one or two lighter showers. The winds
:26:53. > :26:57.from a northerly direction. The highs 12—13 degrees. Sunday, we have
:26:57. > :27:03.clearer skies. Temperatures will be chilly. They will be widely in
:27:03. > :27:09.single figures. Lows of seven or eight degrees. First thing on Sunday
:27:09. > :27:15.you will see sunshine. Look what is syncing southwards, low pressure. We
:27:15. > :27:20.will have gale force winds, temperatures 12—13 degrees. Into
:27:20. > :27:26.Monday, highs of 13, 14 degrees a chance to of outbreaks of rain. A
:27:26. > :27:29.tricky rush—hour. Tuesday, cool with outbreaks of rain. Over the weekend
:27:29. > :27:34.itself the best chance of brighter weather will be Saturday afternoon.