:00:00. > :00:09.pretty soggy. Thank you. That is all from the BBC. We can now
:00:10. > :00:13.Welcome to South East Today. I'm Rob Smith. And I'm Natalie Graham.
:00:14. > :00:17.Tonight's top stories: Exclusive ` the family of a woman who died of
:00:18. > :00:23.neglect at a Sussex care home demand a public inquiry into failings that
:00:24. > :00:38.cost lives. It is hard knowing they will not
:00:39. > :00:40.come back. Also in
:00:41. > :00:50.kidney patient told he must pay the so`called bedroom tax for a dialysis
:00:51. > :00:53.machine in his spare room. The mundane farming manual with
:00:54. > :00:57.hidden bomb`making secrets ` how Dad's Army plotted to foil the
:00:58. > :01:01.Germans. And on track for glory ` Kent
:01:02. > :01:03.athlete Lizzy Yarnold in pole position to take a place at the
:01:04. > :01:24.Winter Olympics. Sussex Police believe the chief
:01:25. > :01:27.suspect in a hit`and`run incident which killed a man may have fled to
:01:28. > :01:31.Pakistan. Kalan Fletcher was knocked down two years ago today as he was
:01:32. > :01:34.walking along a road in Hassocks. The driver has never been traced.
:01:35. > :01:42.Now Kalan's family, from Margate, say they're determined to get
:01:43. > :01:51.justice for him. Two years on, Kaelin's family are
:01:52. > :01:52.planting a rose bush in his memory. I don't have a brother to talk to
:01:53. > :02:08.any more. Kaelin was walking along London Road
:02:09. > :02:14.after a night out when he was hit by a van. Police believe it was driven
:02:15. > :02:18.by a Pakistani national who was living in Worthing. They say they
:02:19. > :02:26.now have intelligence to suggest he may in Pakistan. We have chased up
:02:27. > :02:32.the MP, thinking about going to the Pakistani embassy and see what
:02:33. > :02:39.relation the police have with the police over there in the media and
:02:40. > :02:46.see if we can get an appeal. Kaelin's body was found in the road
:02:47. > :02:51.by emergency services at 4:30am two years ago today. Sussex Police said
:02:52. > :02:59.they wanted to speak to the suspect, then last October, a ?5,000 reward
:03:00. > :03:09.was offered for information. I would say, please found yourself in. Give
:03:10. > :03:15.parents peace. I am not functioning like I used to. It is quite hard,
:03:16. > :03:23.knowing he will not come back, knowing I will not get a phone call
:03:24. > :03:27.or silly little Facebook message. Sussex Police describe his death is
:03:28. > :03:42.a tragedy and have taught his family they will keep the case open until
:03:43. > :03:46.there is justice. The son of a woman who died at the
:03:47. > :03:49.Orchid View Care home in West Sussex has called for a public inquiry.
:03:50. > :03:52.Institutionalised abuse and neglect contributed to the death of Margaret
:03:53. > :03:55.Tucker and four others, a coronor ruled last week. The home in
:03:56. > :03:59.Copthorne was run by the now collapsed Southern Cross. Today, it
:04:00. > :04:01.emerged that two managers who were criticised at the inquest, and had
:04:02. > :04:05.since been re`employed by the company which now runs the home,
:04:06. > :04:08.Care UK, have left their positions. Relatives of the dead had expressed
:04:09. > :04:13.anger that they were allowed to stay at the home.
:04:14. > :04:17.Pictured here in happier times, Margaret was a resident. But the
:04:18. > :04:24.neglect she insured contributed to her death. Her son said she received
:04:25. > :04:32.a number of unexplained bruises and is now considering seeking
:04:33. > :04:39.compensation. Her death was sudden. I was promised I would get answers
:04:40. > :04:47.because I saw the dent in the middle of head. Part of me wanted to port
:04:48. > :04:56.the funeral call police. I regret I did not hold the funeral. But what
:04:57. > :05:00.you do? On Friday, a coroner ruled Margaret was one of five elderly
:05:01. > :05:04.residents who died as a result of the care they received. The court
:05:05. > :05:08.heard how patients were given the wrong medication. Often, they were
:05:09. > :05:14.left out of reach of their call bells and sometimes sell a tape was
:05:15. > :05:22.used to cover their dressings. This is a national disgrace because you
:05:23. > :05:27.have a company that viewed the residence is a form of cash
:05:28. > :05:33.machines. Southern Cross took the money and did not provide the care.
:05:34. > :05:39.Do you think a serious case review goes far enough? It's a step in the
:05:40. > :05:47.right direction. Do I believe it will change anything? No. All kids
:05:48. > :05:50.view closed in 2011 following damning reports by the care quality
:05:51. > :05:58.commission. The organisation says it will learn to what happened. We
:05:59. > :06:02.intend to run a root and branch review. We need to look at what has
:06:03. > :06:06.happened in this case and if there are any lessons learned. The former
:06:07. > :06:14.building has reopened with a different name by a new company. Two
:06:15. > :06:17.of the senior managers were re`employed there. But today, they
:06:18. > :06:26.have left their posts following a review. Russell says he is satisfied
:06:27. > :06:30.with the verdict into his mother 's death but has several unanswered
:06:31. > :06:38.questions. Ellie Price is outside the former Orchid View Care Home
:06:39. > :06:50.Serious Case Review. What does it entail? In essence, it will be very
:06:51. > :06:53.similar to the inquest in so far as the evidence gathered. The
:06:54. > :07:01.difference will be it will be held in private. The aim will be deceived
:07:02. > :07:06.lessons can be learned. The care quality commission, Council and
:07:07. > :07:09.social services and so on. We are expecting a full report with
:07:10. > :07:12.recommendations in April, but as you heard tonight, that won't go far
:07:13. > :07:14.enough in many of the families who want a full report with
:07:15. > :07:17.recommendations in April, but as you heard tonight, that won't go far
:07:18. > :07:20.enough and many of the families who wanted for public enquiry.
:07:21. > :07:27.In a moment: Dozens of jobs under threat as West Sussex Council looks
:07:28. > :07:31.to save millions of pounds. A diabetic man who's planning to use
:07:32. > :07:34.a kidney dialysis machine in the second bedroom of his rented home
:07:35. > :07:36.says he's being forced to pay ?20 a week as a spare room subsidy, which
:07:37. > :07:42.critics call the bedroom tax. Julian Little currently makes three 12`hour
:07:43. > :07:48.round trips to Guys Hospital in London every week. He's been told by
:07:49. > :07:51.his doctors that dialysing at home would be beneficial to his health.
:07:52. > :08:04.The National Kidney Federation says his is not an isolated case.
:08:05. > :08:09.This is one month supply to enable me to have dialysis at home. The
:08:10. > :08:16.other half of the room is taken up with the equipment. This cannot
:08:17. > :08:21.possibly be considered a bedroom! Julian Little wanted the freedom and
:08:22. > :08:26.convenience to dialyser at home so he adapted one of the bedrooms into
:08:27. > :08:32.a medical room. This machine gives me a lot more independence and makes
:08:33. > :08:42.me fitter because I am piloting everyday. Julian says his bungalow
:08:43. > :08:44.is reduced to one bedroom so cannot understand why he has two page
:08:45. > :08:45.charge, something critics have called the bedroom tax.
:08:46. > :08:45.charge, something critics have calle I calle%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
:08:46. > :08:47.charge, something critics have called the bedroom tax. All I am
:08:48. > :08:54.trying to do is give myself a little bit of control and try and make the
:08:55. > :08:59.best of it. And yet, they are putting up all these barriers. There
:09:00. > :09:05.are benefits to having dialysis at home: It is cheaper for the NHS.
:09:06. > :09:10.Medication can be reduced or stopped, and it can increase life
:09:11. > :09:14.expectancy. Sevenoaks district Council provide Julian with a small
:09:15. > :09:20.reduction for the charge, but the couple say it is not enough. It's
:09:21. > :09:27.extremely difficult. Imagine being on ?110 a week and you have to pay
:09:28. > :09:32.?20 for bedroom tax. It's a nightmare. Without Dallas is at
:09:33. > :09:38.home, Julian would spend three days a week in hospital. He will be
:09:39. > :09:48.needing dialysis for ever. We don't have an option of a transplant. We
:09:49. > :09:49.would ask the local authority to give him exemption from the bedroom
:09:50. > :10:07.tax. You will get to the point where when
:10:08. > :10:14.there is more and more bills piled on, eventually, you will have to say
:10:15. > :10:17.I can't dialyser home. Julian has been refused a transplant so will
:10:18. > :10:23.have two dialyser is that the rest of his life. When the money runs
:10:24. > :10:26.out, he will have to rely on an already overstretched NHS.
:10:27. > :10:30.A Sussex man has been spared jail for killing his own brother in a car
:10:31. > :10:32.crash. Joseph Smith performed a handbrake turn as he was driving
:10:33. > :10:37.between Wivelsfield and Ditchling Common in December 2011. His
:10:38. > :10:41.29`year`old brother died. Smith was sentenced to 150 hours of community
:10:42. > :10:44.service. The judge said that he took into account the "devastation" that
:10:45. > :10:47.had come from "killing his own flesh and blood".
:10:48. > :10:51.Kent Police have confirmed the 19`year`old man who died after an
:10:52. > :10:56.attack in a flat in Maidstone was Italian. Detectives have been given
:10:57. > :10:59.more time to question six men who were arrested on suspicion of murder
:11:00. > :11:03.following the incident on Sunday evening. A seventh man has been
:11:04. > :11:07.released on bail and an eighth man was arrested last night.
:11:08. > :11:11.A pollutant which killed thousands of birds in the spring is to be
:11:12. > :11:14.stopped from being released into the sea. A worldwide ban has been
:11:15. > :11:16.agreed, preventing ships from washing out their tanks and
:11:17. > :11:21.discharging the glue`like chemicals into the water. More than 4,000
:11:22. > :11:26.birds were killed and some of the injured treated at the Mallydams
:11:27. > :11:29.Centre in Hastings. West Sussex County Council is to
:11:30. > :11:33.vote on plans to cut its youth services department by nearly a
:11:34. > :11:36.third. The council, which has already made cuts to its youth
:11:37. > :11:43.support and development service, says it needs to save a further
:11:44. > :11:47.?1.65 million by March 2014. If the plans go through, it would lead to
:11:48. > :11:52.50 full`time posts being cut, which would affect 119 members of staff in
:11:53. > :11:55.total. Our political editor Louise Stewart joins us now in West Sussex.
:11:56. > :11:59.Louise, West Sussex Council have already made significant savings in
:12:00. > :12:10.children's services. Why are they making these further cuts? Crawley
:12:11. > :12:15.is likely to be one of the areas affected, but West Sussex Council
:12:16. > :12:20.says it has no choice because of the current economic situation and has
:12:21. > :12:25.to save ?79 million over a three`year period. They have already
:12:26. > :12:29.made cuts in children's services. But they say they have to make these
:12:30. > :12:32.further cuts because they have reduced the number of youth centres
:12:33. > :12:36.so they are bringing the number of staff down in line with that. They
:12:37. > :12:43.say they will still support those it most in need. But opposition
:12:44. > :12:54.councillors have called the cuts savage.
:12:55. > :12:56.The amount of money sending mental health patients in Kent out of the
:12:57. > :13:07.county has more than doubled since last year. The trust has recently
:13:08. > :13:10.been criticised for its plans to close inpatient beds.
:13:11. > :13:14.There's been a plea in Parliament for the BBC not to close its studio
:13:15. > :13:17.in Chatham. The Conservative MP for Chatham and Aylesford, Tracey
:13:18. > :13:19.Crouch, told a Commons committee she appreciates the corporation needs to
:13:20. > :13:25.make efficiency savings but she's worried its local radio services
:13:26. > :13:28.could face long`term damage. Decisions about fracking should not
:13:29. > :13:32.be held back because of environmental concerns, according to
:13:33. > :13:35.the Chancellor George Osborne. There were huge protests at Balcombe in
:13:36. > :13:39.West Sussex this summer as the company Cuadrilla carried out test
:13:40. > :13:42.drilling for gas. The Chancellor said he didn't want Britain to be
:13:43. > :13:48.left on the sidelines because of what he called the "angst" of
:13:49. > :13:52.protestors. The mother of a man who's suspected
:13:53. > :13:56.of dying after taking a legal high says she wants high street shops to
:13:57. > :13:59.stop selling the substances. 20`year`old Jimmy Guichard died in
:14:00. > :14:10.hospital on the third October. His family believe he was killed by a
:14:11. > :14:17.chemical he bought in Chatham. Hugging his mum on a family day out,
:14:18. > :14:20.this is Jimmy a month ago. But on October the 2nd coming he was rushed
:14:21. > :14:28.to hospital after being discovered unconscious. I cannot even bigger
:14:29. > :14:34.and to describe the pain I am in. His mother suspect was a shop bought
:14:35. > :14:41.legal high. We know he had a massive heart attack followed by
:14:42. > :14:49.unconsciousness. The brain swelled and that caused his brainstem to be
:14:50. > :14:55.crushed. His family say an empty packet was found next to his body
:14:56. > :14:59.after he collapsed. It is believed he purchased the chemicals at a shop
:15:00. > :15:05.on Chatham high street. What is clear is that there are serious
:15:06. > :15:11.harms chords by legal highs. I hope the student populations are
:15:12. > :15:16.certainly looking at raising awareness amongst their students
:15:17. > :15:24.about the dangers. Earlier this month, Matthew suffered a near fatal
:15:25. > :15:30.reaction after taking legal high. He bought it. The paramedic told me
:15:31. > :15:35.that if I had laid there for another 5`10 minutes, I would have died.
:15:36. > :15:45.Jimmy had experimented with legal highs before. I am blaming my son
:15:46. > :15:49.predominantly, who neglected himself. Despite this, his mother
:15:50. > :15:54.wants high street shops to stop selling the chemicals. He would have
:15:55. > :15:59.been looking for an instant high so he could go into a shop and buy it.
:16:00. > :16:05.If that wasn't available in the shop, I would still have my son. On
:16:06. > :16:09.Monday, Karen will lay her son to rest. She must wait two months
:16:10. > :16:13.before finding out if there was a legal high that killed him. Let's
:16:14. > :16:15.cross live now to Colin who's in Chatham. Colin, there are many
:16:16. > :16:25.unanswered questions following this man's death? Although the family
:16:26. > :16:30.suspect it was a legal high, they accept he may possibly have taken
:16:31. > :16:33.another substance but they are hoping that toxicology reports will
:16:34. > :16:38.reveal exactly what was in his system. If it was a legal high,
:16:39. > :16:44.where did he buy it? It has been suggested he bought it from a UK
:16:45. > :16:49.stunt workshop in Chatham. But the shop have told me they are reviewing
:16:50. > :16:53.CCTV pictures and reiterated that none of their products are meant as
:16:54. > :17:21.human consumption. This is our top story tonight: And
:17:22. > :17:23.30 years ago, Boy George topped the charts and BBC Sussex began
:17:24. > :17:32.broadcasting across the county for the first time.
:17:33. > :17:33.Although it has been a drier end today, we have heavy thundery
:17:34. > :17:44.showers around tonight. They were a crack guerilla group
:17:45. > :17:52.trained to attack the Germans if they invaded Britain. The Auxillary
:17:53. > :17:58.Unit was the brainchild of Sir Winston Churchill. Part of the Home
:17:59. > :18:01.Guard, they were the last line of defence against Hitler's ambitions
:18:02. > :18:04.to take control of Britain. As we now know, the Germans did not
:18:05. > :18:08.attempt to invade this country, but in 1939, the threat was very real. A
:18:09. > :18:11.pamphlet being sold at auction in Sussex unveils the daring ingenuity
:18:12. > :18:14.of this select group of British fighters tasked with defending Kent
:18:15. > :18:17.and Sussex. Dad 's Army: Television 's view of
:18:18. > :18:39.the home guard during the Second World War.
:18:40. > :18:45.But the threat of German invasion was no joke. Churchill created a
:18:46. > :18:55.select group of trained men to kill the enemy if they set foot on
:18:56. > :19:02.English soil. He would have needed to know how to train his younger
:19:03. > :19:07.members, so these schoolboy books of how to make delayed action and fuses
:19:08. > :19:10.and bombs. Churchill wanted a network of hidden bunkers around the
:19:11. > :19:20.country. Peter Nightingale showed me one. And it's here that Louis Pugh
:19:21. > :19:26.and his cohorts would have come to in the event of a German invasion.
:19:27. > :19:29.This is all that is left of their World War II hideout. They would
:19:30. > :19:34.have been others elsewhere doing the same thing. Thank God it never
:19:35. > :19:39.happened because we probably wouldn't be here telling this tale.
:19:40. > :19:47.They did have a sense of achievement in that they were the most prepared
:19:48. > :19:56.resistance in Europe. In this country, after Dunkirk, we had time
:19:57. > :20:01.to prepare. Booby traps and medals belonging to Louis Pugh are also
:20:02. > :20:05.being auctioned here. The home guard are regarded as a group of men too
:20:06. > :20:09.old to go to war, meaning that Pugh and his team were ready for the
:20:10. > :20:19.fight if it came. And it's all recorded in here.
:20:20. > :20:24.At the halfway stage of the selection trials for the British
:20:25. > :20:28.Skeleton team, Kent winter sport star Lizzy Yarnold is leading the
:20:29. > :20:32.way. The 24`year`old from West Kingsdown came fourth in the World
:20:33. > :20:35.Championships earlier this year. Now she's about to begin the most
:20:36. > :20:38.important winter season of her life, which she hopes will end with an
:20:39. > :20:48.Olympic medal in Russia next February.
:20:49. > :20:52.After months in the jump, Lizzie and her team`mates have been to Norway
:20:53. > :20:56.to prepare for not just today's trials but hopefully a place and
:20:57. > :21:02.even a medal in the Winter Olympics. If she gets there, she will have
:21:03. > :21:08.plenty to reminder of home. I go to the hive `` I go to the same
:21:09. > :21:17.hardware store in Sevenoaks, so it is these little things. I am a girl
:21:18. > :21:24.from Kent that is just good at this. Back in January, her family and
:21:25. > :21:30.friends stayed up through the night to cheer her on. We love that
:21:31. > :21:36.supporting her. We want to be there to help her through it and push and
:21:37. > :21:40.get her to be the best you can be. The 24`year`old's rises been
:21:41. > :21:45.remarkable. Last year she was junior world champion picked up bronze
:21:46. > :21:55.which she narrowly failed to repeat this year, finishing fourth. Every
:21:56. > :22:01.competition I enter I am there to win. In my team, we have got the
:22:02. > :22:13.reigning world champion. She's an amazing rival friend. Get through
:22:14. > :22:19.the team race. Despite years of training, the next few months of her
:22:20. > :22:24.life will depend on fractions of the section `` of a second. But she is
:22:25. > :22:27.more than ready. Gillingham's interim manager Peter
:22:28. > :22:30.Taylor will be hoping for his first victory in charge when Notts County
:22:31. > :22:34.visit the Priestfield Stadium this evening. Taylor may make a number of
:22:35. > :22:37.changes from Saturday's team, which could include the recall of striker
:22:38. > :22:42.Adebeyo Akinfenwa to the starting line`up. And Crawley Town, who are
:22:43. > :22:48.just outside the League One play`off places, welcome Port Vale to the
:22:49. > :22:52.Broadfield Stadium this evening. It started life in the 1960s as a
:22:53. > :22:57.pilot project by the BBC to see if there was any demand for local radio
:22:58. > :23:03.stations. It turned out there was, and 30 years ago, BBC Brighton began
:23:04. > :23:06.broadcasting to the whole of Sussex. Today, BBC Sussex, as it's now
:23:07. > :23:09.known, has been marking the anniversary with a day of special
:23:10. > :23:15.programming live from the city where it all began. Alex Beard joins us
:23:16. > :23:23.from the station now. Alex, how much has it all changed since 1983? The
:23:24. > :23:31.biggest change is probably technology, but presenters and
:23:32. > :23:35.building has changed. But essentially, the programming has
:23:36. > :23:38.stayed the same. As you will have noticed, not `` it takes fewer
:23:39. > :24:15.people to put on the programming. Everything was done manually. We had
:24:16. > :24:21.typewriters. You went out with an analog tape
:24:22. > :24:34.cut the interviews. The explosion came just before three o'clock. Most
:24:35. > :24:41.of the residents were asleep. The worst effect in Peacehaven has been
:24:42. > :24:45.on two caravans. Roads have been closed in Sussex. Bus services in
:24:46. > :25:02.Brighton have been suspended, all because of snow and ice.
:25:03. > :25:10.I am in studio three now. Don't worry, nothing is live. 30 years
:25:11. > :25:18.ago, they would have had finals. Now look: Everything is kept on these
:25:19. > :25:23.computers. You could press buttons and we can see what happens! Serious
:25:24. > :25:30.talent came out that station, you know. Did you? Yeah. Less happy as
:25:31. > :25:43.the weather forecast. It's awful. Yes, really wet picture. Tonight,
:25:44. > :25:48.heavy boundary downpours. Tomorrow, wet. Thursday, it will brighten up
:25:49. > :25:55.just a little bit but make the most of it because it will not last
:25:56. > :26:00.through Friday. Earlier today, lots of cloud around. It has been
:26:01. > :26:11.clearing its way east. Temperatures again holding up this time of year
:26:12. > :26:14.with highs of 16`17dC. We have got a warning out from the Met Office
:26:15. > :26:24.about heavy rain and strong winds as well. Rumbles of thunder around,
:26:25. > :26:31.heavy downpours, but look at the temperatures again: Holding up. Very
:26:32. > :26:36.mild as we start the day tomorrow and wet and windy. Slowly, and
:26:37. > :26:50.improving picture. The ice bars will widen. As you start the day, it will
:26:51. > :26:52.be blustery and wet. Binders heavy showers, one or two lighter ones.
:26:53. > :26:56.Behind it, the winds ease and we have sunshine around. Some clearer
:26:57. > :27:00.skies and those winds easing of means tomorrow night, we will see
:27:01. > :27:05.mist and fog forming. Temperatures cooler than they have been recently.
:27:06. > :27:16.Dropping to eight ` nine degrees. Thursday the most several day of the
:27:17. > :27:21.week. Stays dry with temperatures 17`18d. Then look what happens as we
:27:22. > :27:29.go into Friday: Wet and windy. Temperatures holding up. Towards the
:27:30. > :27:35.weekend, it stays unsettled. But temperatures still decent this time
:27:36. > :27:37.of year. It's incredibly warm, though. Very
:27:38. > :27:43.strange weather.