:00:00. > :00:07.Welcome to South East Today, I'm Natalie Graham.
:00:08. > :00:09.And I'm Rob Smith. Tonight's top stories.
:00:10. > :00:13.His convictions for killing a woman and child hidden from immigration
:00:14. > :00:17.officials. A South East Today exclusive.
:00:18. > :00:20.Failing to provide an adequate service in 11 departments. The
:00:21. > :00:25.shocking admission of two major Sussex hospitals.
:00:26. > :00:31.We're be reporting the details live from one of the hospitals in
:00:32. > :00:34.Brighton. `` we will be reporting. Also in tonight's programme.
:00:35. > :00:37.Resist the ridiculous pressure to spend too much at Christmas. A
:00:38. > :00:42.message to families from the Archbishop of Canterbury. We do
:00:43. > :00:46.leave ourselves skint. But if they want it, we tried to get it. You
:00:47. > :00:52.have no choice if you want nice things for Christmas. The
:00:53. > :00:58.12`year`old who ran away to join the army and found himself fighting at
:00:59. > :01:03.the Battle of the Somme. And how the money you gave the Children In Need
:01:04. > :01:13.is helping some of the most private children in Sussex. `` some of the
:01:14. > :01:15.most deprived children. Good evening.
:01:16. > :01:19.BBC South East Today has learned that a Turkish man who last week won
:01:20. > :01:22.the right to appeal to live in the UK is a convicted killer whose
:01:23. > :01:26.crimes were not disclosed to immigration officials. Last Friday,
:01:27. > :01:30.we reported that Nusret Bora's Kent wife had won an appeal under the
:01:31. > :01:34.Human Rights Act to apply for a visa for him to come and live here. Mr
:01:35. > :01:37.Bora suffered brain damage in an attack and needs constant medical
:01:38. > :01:40.care. However, it was reported in the Turkish media that Mr Bora
:01:41. > :01:44.murdered a woman and a child, crimes that should have automatically
:01:45. > :01:53.barred him from living in the UK. Jon Hunt has our exclusive report.
:01:54. > :01:56.Eileen has featured on this programme three times in the last
:01:57. > :02:00.year seeking publicity for her campaign to bring her brain damaged
:02:01. > :02:05.husband to the UK and about her fight with the Home Office over
:02:06. > :02:11.their refusal to give him of user `` to give him a Visa. They don't care
:02:12. > :02:15.as long as they get the number of immigrants town, which is pretty
:02:16. > :02:19.hard for those of us that our British and happened to fall in love
:02:20. > :02:24.with someone from outside the EU. It urged that she wrote a book in 2005
:02:25. > :02:28.which stated her husband was a killer and had served 15 years for
:02:29. > :02:33.murder in Turkey. Today, she confessed this was true and that she
:02:34. > :02:39.had failed to mention this on how these application. We looked at the
:02:40. > :02:48.book. Refers to the Nusret Bora for having a conviction. The killing
:02:49. > :02:57.someone. Yes. Was this but in the application for Queens Visa, was it
:02:58. > :03:00.stated? It wasn't. We were told that because he had served it, there was
:03:01. > :03:06.no need to mention it. Stories published in a Turkish newspaper
:03:07. > :03:09.states that Nusret Bora slit the throat of a woman and drowned her
:03:10. > :03:15.four`year`old daughter in a bath top. The BBC has been able to verify
:03:16. > :03:19.if this is true but Eileen says that her husband told a very different
:03:20. > :03:25.story and is now questioning husband 's honesty. If what he told me
:03:26. > :03:33.before is not true and what you're telling me now is true, it means
:03:34. > :03:39.that it is a total lie. I gave him a chance when no one else would. I
:03:40. > :03:44.would never forgive the murder of a mother and child. It looks like
:03:45. > :03:49.Nusret Bora's Visa application will be refused once and for all. We
:03:50. > :03:53.believe that people should bathe them all. If we had proper border
:03:54. > :03:59.controls, this case wouldn't have come so far down the line. There
:04:00. > :04:05.will be no pen of the `` no penalty for Eileen for not reporting this on
:04:06. > :04:09.the Visa. This is an extraordinary revelation.
:04:10. > :04:12.All the more extraordinary that Eileen wrote this book with this
:04:13. > :04:15.conviction within it. It was going to be a matter of time before that
:04:16. > :04:20.came out and the story came to light. I think our viewers might
:04:21. > :04:24.feel betrayed. They've watched her appeals, they've had empathy for
:04:25. > :04:27.her. Now they realise she's a convicted killer and they may look
:04:28. > :04:33.at this in a slightly different way, and they might not think he has any
:04:34. > :04:37.right to come to the UK, and to take advantage of our services that a
:04:38. > :04:41.British citizen would have. It looks like he will now not get this Visa
:04:42. > :04:44.because this falls short of the immigration laws. Thank you very
:04:45. > :04:47.much. Two of our major hospitals have
:04:48. > :04:50.admitted they're failing to provide an adequate service in 11
:04:51. > :04:53.departments. Managers at the Royal Sussex County in Brighton, and the
:04:54. > :04:56.Princess Royal in Haywards Heath say they need help to improve services.
:04:57. > :05:01.They include radiotherapy, chemotherapy, major trauma and some
:05:02. > :05:09.Children's Services. As John Young reports, it's the latest blow to hit
:05:10. > :05:13.the hospital trust. They are the key hospital services
:05:14. > :05:18.that offer and grab the headlines. Radiotherapy, chemotherapy, major
:05:19. > :05:23.trauma, Children's Services. But now an awkward admission from one of the
:05:24. > :05:26.trusts. It comes in the Chief Executive's own reports discussed by
:05:27. > :05:30.his board last Tuesday. There's a lot of NHS jargon but once
:05:31. > :05:35.translated, the message is striking. The government has set
:05:36. > :05:41.tough new rules on how departments need to be, and we don't meet those
:05:42. > :05:44.rules in 11 departments. The list of substandard departments is wide
:05:45. > :05:49.ranging. For each of them, bosses admit one or more key national
:05:50. > :05:53.standards are not met. As a result, the hospital is asking for help from
:05:54. > :05:57.GPs and others to make sure services are safe although it points out that
:05:58. > :06:03.40 other services are already fully compliant. That's not good enough,
:06:04. > :06:07.says one patient watchdog. I think it is serious and we have to make
:06:08. > :06:11.sure that lives or treatment isn't going to be jeopardised. We want to
:06:12. > :06:15.know if we are in the unsafe category or whether it'll be all
:06:16. > :06:20.right if we manage category. We need questions answered quickly. It comes
:06:21. > :06:24.at a difficult time for this hospital trust. For aspects of
:06:25. > :06:28.accident and emergency were felled by inspectors. A senior doctor
:06:29. > :06:35.explained to me that all 11 areas are still safe. The trust hasn't
:06:36. > :06:38.been asked to close them down. He explained the background, new
:06:39. > :06:44.standards spelt out. Some viewers might feel this is complacent. I
:06:45. > :06:50.agree, but when standards are newly introduced, particularly when they
:06:51. > :06:55.are an improvement over a previous and vague criteria, it is inevitable
:06:56. > :06:59.that some organisations will find themselves not fully compliant as
:07:00. > :07:03.those are introduced. This is patient's lives, you could
:07:04. > :07:06.potentially be putting them at risk. Some of the departments,
:07:07. > :07:11.chemotherapy, radiotherapy, if they are not meeting the standards, then
:07:12. > :07:15.potentially patients can be at risk. The news about these services
:07:16. > :07:19.has emerged because hospitals are obliged to assess whether or not
:07:20. > :07:25.they meet the standards. Other hospitals across the country are
:07:26. > :07:30.making similar admissions. How seriously is the trust taking this
:07:31. > :07:32.situation? Throughout the afternoon, they've been playing this town
:07:33. > :07:37.saying this is a good news story because they are looking into what
:07:38. > :07:41.their services are like and they are spotting the problems and working on
:07:42. > :07:45.them. They do accept that there are some problems. They are stressing
:07:46. > :07:48.that everything is safe although as you may have noticed a raised
:07:49. > :07:53.eyebrow from one of the watchdog commentators. Many of the problems
:07:54. > :07:57.are down to physical issues. For example, if you have a road
:07:58. > :08:03.accident, the experts looking after any brain injuries, the experts
:08:04. > :08:13.looking after any bone injuries are in Brighton. One of the MPs says he
:08:14. > :08:19.is in touch with the hospitals about this very issue. Thank you.
:08:20. > :08:22.In a moment, how money you've given to Children In Need really is
:08:23. > :08:29.helping some of the most deprived Children In Need in Sussex.
:08:30. > :08:33.The Archbishop of Canterbury has urged families not to make their
:08:34. > :08:36.lives "miserable" at Christmas by attempting to keep up with
:08:37. > :08:41."ridiculous" and "absurd" pressures to spend money. Justin Welby said
:08:42. > :08:45.that high`spending in an attempt to create the perfect Christmas risked
:08:46. > :08:48.putting relationships under strain. Let's cross to Canterbury Cathedral
:08:49. > :08:57.and speak to our reporter Simon Jones. The Archbishop's description
:08:58. > :09:01.of the festive period follows research that suggests the average
:09:02. > :09:05.family spends ?1,000 on Christmas. Well, the Archbishop is not afraid
:09:06. > :09:09.to get involved in financial affairs. He knows that in the run`up
:09:10. > :09:13.to Christmas, this place will be competing for our attention with
:09:14. > :09:18.many other aspects of daily life, not least the shops. If you walk out
:09:19. > :09:22.of the cathedral gate, there are shops greeting you here. It is
:09:23. > :09:26.thought in December alone we will spend ?40 billion in the run`up to
:09:27. > :09:29.Christmas in the shops. The Archbishop says we should look to
:09:30. > :09:34.show love and affection rather than buy it.
:09:35. > :09:40.Christmas is coming, but so, too, the Archbishop says is the pressure
:09:41. > :09:45.to spend, spend, spend. The secular over the top, new clothes, you have
:09:46. > :09:51.to have everything new, it is ridiculous. It is absurd, it
:09:52. > :09:55.shouldn't happen. It puts pressure on relationships because when your
:09:56. > :10:01.foot of money, you argue, you get cross with your kids more easily. It
:10:02. > :10:05.spoils life. Carolyn and Lewes were out shopping today for their four
:10:06. > :10:09.children. It is a lot of money to fork out, but we do
:10:10. > :10:19.skint, and we do try to get it. And money don't grow on trees! So it is
:10:20. > :10:26.pressurised. Does it make you miserable? Yes, I start Christmas
:10:27. > :10:32.shopping in January ready for December because I cannot afford it
:10:33. > :10:36.all in one hit nearer Christmas. I've got no choice to go into debt
:10:37. > :10:42.if you want to have nice things Christmas. Do you feel the pressure
:10:43. > :10:49.to spend? Of course not. I work hard enough. I used to get spoilt when I
:10:50. > :10:54.was younger, so I want to spoil my younger one. Experts say this period
:10:55. > :10:57.is halted `` is a good boost for the colony. White through the
:10:58. > :11:03.recession, we haven't had a bad Christmas. Sales have been up
:11:04. > :11:10.year`on`year, because we really want to enjoy ourselves at least once a
:11:11. > :11:14.year. This Christmas Festival, the end `` at the end of the year, is
:11:15. > :11:22.important for people psychologically. The Archbishop
:11:23. > :11:25.admits that if he suggested people should stop buying gifts, no one
:11:26. > :11:30.would listen. The Archbishop is keen to offer
:11:31. > :11:33.financial advice, too. He said he would like to compete with one of
:11:34. > :11:41.the payday loan companies. Now he is saying to people to set a budget to
:11:42. > :11:45.`` for Christmas and think about the true meaning of Christmas.
:11:46. > :11:48.Good advice, thank you very much. Anti`fracking protesters can no
:11:49. > :11:50.longer camp on grass verges near a Sussex exploratory oil drilling
:11:51. > :11:53.site. West Sussex County Council has won a High Court ruling today
:11:54. > :11:57.stopping people continuing to camp on a busy road near the Cuadrilla
:11:58. > :12:00.site at Balcombe. The test drilling has sparked several angry protests.
:12:01. > :12:04.Now the council will decide how to enforce the order.
:12:05. > :12:08.Boris Johnson's plans for a six runway hub airport in the Thames
:12:09. > :12:12.Estuary has been presented in London today. Known officially as London
:12:13. > :12:20.Britannia Airport, the scheme would cost ?45 billion and it's claimed
:12:21. > :12:23.could be built within seven years. The boss of Network Rail for the
:12:24. > :12:27.South East has been defending the decision to not run early morning
:12:28. > :12:30.train services on the day of St Jude's storm two weeks ago. Dave
:12:31. > :12:33.Ward told MPs on the Transport Select Committee that the decision
:12:34. > :12:37.was taken at midday on the Sunday before the storm hit. Our political
:12:38. > :12:41.editor Louise Stewart is at Westminster now. Commuters faced
:12:42. > :12:50.major disruption following the storm. What did the transport bosses
:12:51. > :12:55.have to say? Well, no apology. They defended taking the decision early.
:12:56. > :12:59.They said hundreds of trains were down across the lines and they gave
:13:00. > :13:03.the example of the stretch between Tonbridge and Redhill which goes to
:13:04. > :13:07.Gatwick. They said there were 36 trains down there alone. They made
:13:08. > :13:12.the comparison between the great storm of 1987. After that, it took a
:13:13. > :13:17.week for the normal service to resume but now, services were
:13:18. > :13:22.running by midday on Monday. They did admit they needed to get more
:13:23. > :13:27.information out to commuters. They say they are much better prepared
:13:28. > :13:31.than previous years for winter. And they have got heating strips on the
:13:32. > :13:34.third rail and they shouldn't see trains incapacitated by rain and
:13:35. > :13:38.ice. Acts of remembrance have taken place
:13:39. > :13:41.across the south east to mark the anniversary of the First World War
:13:42. > :13:44.armistice, 95 years ago. At 11 o'clock this morning, people fell
:13:45. > :13:49.silent during ceremonies at schools, train stations, shopping centres and
:13:50. > :13:56.war memorials. Peter Whittlesea is in Tunbridge Wells.
:13:57. > :14:03.The first Armistice Day marked the end of the great War. People today
:14:04. > :14:08.laid reefs to people who lost their lives in the conflict and many sins.
:14:09. > :14:11.Many of these we say things like, but never forgotten. At 11am, people
:14:12. > :15:35.across the South East fell silent. The Bobby became the symbol of
:15:36. > :15:40.remembrance in 1921. Next year it will be 100 years since the start of
:15:41. > :15:43.the First World War. One of the most extraordinary
:15:44. > :15:47.stories to emerge over the conflict is that of a 12`year`old who ran
:15:48. > :15:50.away to join the Army, and found himself fighting at the Somme.
:15:51. > :15:53.Sidney Lewes has been declared the youngest authenticated combatant of
:15:54. > :15:57.the Great War. He lived out his last years running a pub in East Sussex,
:15:58. > :16:05.but enlisted in August 1915 when still very much a schoolboy.
:16:06. > :16:10.Chrissie Reidy has more. Just 12`year`old boy when he signed
:16:11. > :16:16.up to fight the great War, private Sidney Lewis enlisted five months
:16:17. > :16:19.after his 12th birthday in 1915, a year later, he was fighting on the
:16:20. > :16:24.Western front. They had mentioned when I was young that he had served
:16:25. > :16:28.in the First World War and I thought he was exaggerating a little bit
:16:29. > :16:33.because he was far too young to be able to serve in the war itself. It
:16:34. > :16:37.was only when I got all these papers that I realise that in fact
:16:38. > :16:43.everything was true. He enlisted with East Surrey but was transferred
:16:44. > :16:48.and four to one of the bloodiest confrontations of the Somme. Every
:16:49. > :16:52.young man is a little bit excited when your patriotism comes to the
:16:53. > :16:59.fore, when there is a war, and everybody is true running up `` is
:17:00. > :17:04.drumming up to join the army, which is what instigated him to do it.
:17:05. > :17:09.Many underage recruits enlisted in 1915, but this is the first time
:17:10. > :17:13.documents have been found to verify any one so young in active service.
:17:14. > :17:17.Sidney Lewis was on the front line for about six weeks when his mother
:17:18. > :17:21.finally realised he was in northern France. She wrote to the Army and
:17:22. > :17:25.said she wanted him sent home immediately. This is the letter she
:17:26. > :17:30.got back. I'm directed to inform you that
:17:31. > :17:34.telegraphic constructions have been issued that he is to be at once
:17:35. > :17:41.withdrawn and sent home for discharge. This is to have got to
:17:42. > :17:44.the front line when you are 13 is a remarkable achievement, an
:17:45. > :17:49.astonishing thing that it was allowed to happen. When he retired,
:17:50. > :17:53.he spent much of his life living in East Sussex. The only thing was
:17:54. > :17:56.disappointed about was the thing I didn't know about it when he was
:17:57. > :18:03.alive and I couldn't congratulate him and felt proud of him and enable
:18:04. > :18:07.him to see I was proud of him. We will never really know why he did
:18:08. > :18:14.it. It was a boys adventure, one he was lucky to survive. Extraordinary
:18:15. > :18:18.story. And if you have a World War One
:18:19. > :18:20.story that you think we should tell next year as part of the centenary,
:18:21. > :18:36.please get in touch. This is our top story tonight.
:18:37. > :18:40.Turkish man Nusret Bora, who last week won the right to appeal to live
:18:41. > :18:44.in the UK, is a convicted killer, it's emerged. His wife Eileen,
:18:45. > :18:48.originally from Kent, last week won an appeal under the Human Rights Act
:18:49. > :18:51.to apply for a visa for him to come and live here. However, it's been
:18:52. > :18:54.reported in the Turkish media that Mr Bora murdered a woman and a
:18:55. > :18:59.child, crimes that should have automatically barred him from living
:19:00. > :19:08.in the UK. Also, fiery 60s musician now living
:19:09. > :19:12.on an industrial estate in Lewes. Rain and drizzle set to last for the
:19:13. > :19:17.whole week. See the full forecast later.
:19:18. > :19:22.Children in one of the most deprived parts of the country are today
:19:23. > :19:26.enjoying the benefits of a charity grant of thousands of pounds to keep
:19:27. > :19:31.them occupied after school. In the Ore St Helens parish in Hastings,
:19:32. > :19:38.28% of children are in poverty. 35% of adults have no qualification. And
:19:39. > :19:42.31% of families are lone parents. But with help from Children In Need,
:19:43. > :19:45.young people from housing estates on either side of the railway are being
:19:46. > :19:47.brought together to forge better relationships. Here's the story of
:19:48. > :20:10.In2Play. People really like it here. And
:20:11. > :20:15.people really like to play here because it is a day out where you
:20:16. > :20:26.don't have to be with your parents. And then you get some kid time, to
:20:27. > :20:31.yourself. The people here are a lot kinder. They understand, and
:20:32. > :20:33.especially the staff, they listen to you. If you are lonely, they come
:20:34. > :20:50.and do an activity with you. When you come here, you can play
:20:51. > :20:58.with everything, you can have fun here, but at home, you can only have
:20:59. > :21:05.fun with your brothers and stuff. I want to have fun with my friends and
:21:06. > :21:11.play with them. Here, we can compare our schools with what games we are
:21:12. > :21:14.playing and stuff. At home, you don't get loads of exercise, but
:21:15. > :21:33.here you can get loads of exercise. People are people, so you should
:21:34. > :21:37.help other people. Even though you may not get along, you might get
:21:38. > :21:42.along, because you don't know what it is going to turn out like. You
:21:43. > :21:43.still need to look out for them because they are still a human
:21:44. > :22:05.being. Arthur Brown used to go on stage
:22:06. > :22:11.with a real fire blazing from his horned helmet in the 60s and 70s. He
:22:12. > :22:16.almost set himself alight in Sussex in 2007. He's in his 70s and he is
:22:17. > :22:20.still living in a crazy world having chosen every unconventional. His
:22:21. > :22:28.actually living in a concrete yurt in Lewes. We have been to meet him.
:22:29. > :22:39.It was one of the best`known songs of the 1960s. Arthur Brown and his
:22:40. > :22:46.number one hit, Fire. For decades on, the 72`year`old is living in a
:22:47. > :22:57.yurt in the Sussex countryside. It is a kind of yurt. While! This is
:22:58. > :23:00.pretty impressive. After values is prissy, so much so that only a
:23:01. > :23:06.handful of people know exactly where he has set up camp here in Lewes. Is
:23:07. > :23:13.it not a bit of a wacky way to live? Wacky? Might God, can you
:23:14. > :23:17.think of living in a small box my correct tangled? This is wacky?
:23:18. > :23:31.Living in a little rectangular 's, I think that is pretty wacky. Their
:23:32. > :23:35.favourite performers are not necessarily the pop charts. The
:23:36. > :23:40.highlight of this festival was a relatively unknown singer called
:23:41. > :23:46.Arthur Brown. He is known for his flamboyant theatrical style, one
:23:47. > :23:49.that was popular in the 1960s. I remember the News of the World
:23:50. > :23:54.having a photo of me on the front saying, would you allow your
:23:55. > :23:58.daughter to go to a party with this man? If the answer is no Mac, you
:23:59. > :24:06.scored ten out of ten. This is a hippy. And I thought, really? Am I a
:24:07. > :24:11.hippy? I didn't smoked oak, and if you didn't smoke dope, you were not
:24:12. > :24:15.a hippy. Nevertheless, I was the king of the hippies in the press,
:24:16. > :24:20.the wild man of English rock. In fact, he is no stranger to the
:24:21. > :24:24.headlines. He set himself on fire during a gig in Lewes. In the coming
:24:25. > :24:35.weeks, he will be releasing a new album.
:24:36. > :24:38.You don't want a fire in that yurt, do you?
:24:39. > :24:41.Gillingham have confirmed this afternoon that interim manager Peter
:24:42. > :24:45.Taylor will continue in the job until the end of the season. One of
:24:46. > :24:49.his first jobs will be to steer the Gills into the next round of the FA
:24:50. > :24:53.Cup following their last gasp draw with non`league Brackley Town. Neil
:24:54. > :24:56.Bell has news of that and the rest of the weekend's football.
:24:57. > :25:00.When Peter Taylor was last in charge of killing, they reach the
:25:01. > :25:05.quarterfinals. But this own goal almost saw them fall at the first
:25:06. > :25:13.hurdle. The 97th minute equaliser saw them in the replay.
:25:14. > :25:27.MK Dons won at Corby. Emile Sinclair helped Crawley town to win. Dartford
:25:28. > :25:33.are out despite this super strike from Lee Burns. They went down 4`2
:25:34. > :25:38.at Salisbury. In the Championship, Ashley Barnes put Brighton front
:25:39. > :25:44.from the penalty spot. The Albion's second followed. This cross was
:25:45. > :25:48.cleverly angled into the net. Barnes completed an incursion afternoon by
:25:49. > :25:52.slotting in a third from close range for an emphatic victory over
:25:53. > :25:56.Blackburn. After a series of Cage performances, Charlton 's game had
:25:57. > :26:04.everything. Cameron Stewart levelled things at 1`1, but the Addicks were
:26:05. > :26:10.up against a man inspired. Leeds United won 4`2 in the end.
:26:11. > :26:16.Another horrible day, and there is more rain on the way.
:26:17. > :26:22.Yes, we have quite a patchwork of weather. So, wet days and try days.
:26:23. > :26:26.It is going to be chilly through the night and in the morning. Today,
:26:27. > :26:33.quite mild with temperatures reaching 14. Slightly cooler in
:26:34. > :26:37.Canterbury and windy in Dover. Tonight, we continue with the
:26:38. > :26:40.drizzle with some mist and fog, mostly on the higher ground. This
:26:41. > :26:44.drizzle makes its exit to the South East. We've got further rain on the
:26:45. > :26:47.way through the night which will be with us well into tomorrow.
:26:48. > :26:55.Temperatures not dropping much tonight from our daytime lows of 11
:26:56. > :27:00.or ten. Tomorrow, another wet day, and improving picture from the
:27:01. > :27:08.West, but Ramsgate or Dover will not see the back of that rain until
:27:09. > :27:17.tomorrow. The South East will hold onto the cloud and more spots of
:27:18. > :27:21.rain. So, Tuesday night, we are looking at a chilly night. If you
:27:22. > :27:27.look at the drop in temperatures competitor night's close, two or
:27:28. > :27:33.three. So, quite a chilly start to the day. Winds picking up to the
:27:34. > :27:39.west. That makes a breezy date on Wednesday and Thursday. Wet and
:27:40. > :27:42.windy again on Sunday. Lots to look forward to. I will be back with the
:27:43. > :27:45.late bulletin. Goodbye.