11/11/2013 South East Today

Welcome to South East Today, I'm Natalie Graham.

And I'm Rob Smith. Tonight's top stories.

His convictions for killing a woman and child hidden from immigration

officials. A South East Today exclusive.

Failing to provide an adequate service in 11 departments. The

shocking admission of two major Sussex hospitals.

We're be reporting the details live from one of the hospitals in

Brighton. `` we will be reporting. Also in tonight's programme.

Resist the ridiculous pressure to spend too much at Christmas. A

message to families from the Archbishop of Canterbury. We do

leave ourselves skint. But if they want it, we tried to get it. You

have no choice if you want nice things for Christmas. The

12`year`old who ran away to join the army and found himself fighting at

the Battle of the Somme. And how the money you gave the Children In Need

is helping some of the most private children in Sussex. `` some of the

most deprived children. Good evening.

BBC South East Today has learned that a Turkish man who last week won

the right to appeal to live in the UK is a convicted killer whose

crimes were not disclosed to immigration officials. Last Friday,

we reported that Nusret Bora's Kent wife had won an appeal under the

Human Rights Act to apply for a visa for him to come and live here. Mr

Bora suffered brain damage in an attack and needs constant medical

care. However, it was reported in the Turkish media that Mr Bora

murdered a woman and a child, crimes that should have automatically

barred him from living in the UK. Jon Hunt has our exclusive report.

Eileen has featured on this programme three times in the last

year seeking publicity for her campaign to bring her brain damaged

husband to the UK and about her fight with the Home Office over

their refusal to give him of user `` to give him a Visa. They don't care

as long as they get the number of immigrants town, which is pretty

hard for those of us that our British and happened to fall in love

with someone from outside the EU. It urged that she wrote a book in 2005

which stated her husband was a killer and had served 15 years for

murder in Turkey. Today, she confessed this was true and that she

had failed to mention this on how these application. We looked at the

book. Refers to the Nusret Bora for having a conviction. The killing

someone. Yes. Was this but in the application for Queens Visa, was it

stated? It wasn't. We were told that because he had served it, there was

no need to mention it. Stories published in a Turkish newspaper

states that Nusret Bora slit the throat of a woman and drowned her

four`year`old daughter in a bath top. The BBC has been able to verify

if this is true but Eileen says that her husband told a very different

story and is now questioning husband 's honesty. If what he told me

before is not true and what you're telling me now is true, it means

that it is a total lie. I gave him a chance when no one else would. I

would never forgive the murder of a mother and child. It looks like

Nusret Bora's Visa application will be refused once and for all. We

believe that people should bathe them all. If we had proper border

controls, this case wouldn't have come so far down the line. There

will be no pen of the `` no penalty for Eileen for not reporting this on

the Visa. This is an extraordinary revelation.

All the more extraordinary that Eileen wrote this book with this

conviction within it. It was going to be a matter of time before that

came out and the story came to light. I think our viewers might

feel betrayed. They've watched her appeals, they've had empathy for

her. Now they realise she's a convicted killer and they may look

at this in a slightly different way, and they might not think he has any

right to come to the UK, and to take advantage of our services that a

British citizen would have. It looks like he will now not get this Visa

because this falls short of the immigration laws. Thank you very

much. Two of our major hospitals have

admitted they're failing to provide an adequate service in 11

departments. Managers at the Royal Sussex County in Brighton, and the

Princess Royal in Haywards Heath say they need help to improve services.

They include radiotherapy, chemotherapy, major trauma and some

Children's Services. As John Young reports, it's the latest blow to hit

the hospital trust. They are the key hospital services

that offer and grab the headlines. Radiotherapy, chemotherapy, major

trauma, Children's Services. But now an awkward admission from one of the

trusts. It comes in the Chief Executive's own reports discussed by

his board last Tuesday. There's a lot of NHS jargon but once

translated, the message is striking. The government has set

tough new rules on how departments need to be, and we don't meet those

rules in 11 departments. The list of substandard departments is wide

ranging. For each of them, bosses admit one or more key national

standards are not met. As a result, the hospital is asking for help from

GPs and others to make sure services are safe although it points out that

40 other services are already fully compliant. That's not good enough,

says one patient watchdog. I think it is serious and we have to make

sure that lives or treatment isn't going to be jeopardised. We want to

know if we are in the unsafe category or whether it'll be all

right if we manage category. We need questions answered quickly. It comes

at a difficult time for this hospital trust. For aspects of

accident and emergency were felled by inspectors. A senior doctor

explained to me that all 11 areas are still safe. The trust hasn't

been asked to close them down. He explained the background, new

standards spelt out. Some viewers might feel this is complacent. I

agree, but when standards are newly introduced, particularly when they

are an improvement over a previous and vague criteria, it is inevitable

that some organisations will find themselves not fully compliant as

those are introduced. This is patient's lives, you could

potentially be putting them at risk. Some of the departments,

chemotherapy, radiotherapy, if they are not meeting the standards, then

potentially patients can be at risk. The news about these services

has emerged because hospitals are obliged to assess whether or not

they meet the standards. Other hospitals across the country are

making similar admissions. How seriously is the trust taking this

situation? Throughout the afternoon, they've been playing this town

saying this is a good news story because they are looking into what

their services are like and they are spotting the problems and working on

them. They do accept that there are some problems. They are stressing

that everything is safe although as you may have noticed a raised

eyebrow from one of the watchdog commentators. Many of the problems

are down to physical issues. For example, if you have a road

accident, the experts looking after any brain injuries, the experts

looking after any bone injuries are in Brighton. One of the MPs says he

is in touch with the hospitals about this very issue. Thank you.

In a moment, how money you've given to Children In Need really is

helping some of the most deprived Children In Need in Sussex.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has urged families not to make their

lives "miserable" at Christmas by attempting to keep up with

"ridiculous" and "absurd" pressures to spend money. Justin Welby said

that high`spending in an attempt to create the perfect Christmas risked

putting relationships under strain. Let's cross to Canterbury Cathedral

and speak to our reporter Simon Jones. The Archbishop's description

of the festive period follows research that suggests the average

family spends ?1,000 on Christmas. Well, the Archbishop is not afraid

to get involved in financial affairs. He knows that in the run`up

to Christmas, this place will be competing for our attention with

many other aspects of daily life, not least the shops. If you walk out

of the cathedral gate, there are shops greeting you here. It is

thought in December alone we will spend ?40 billion in the run`up to

Christmas in the shops. The Archbishop says we should look to

show love and affection rather than buy it.

Christmas is coming, but so, too, the Archbishop says is the pressure

to spend, spend, spend. The secular over the top, new clothes, you have

to have everything new, it is ridiculous. It is absurd, it

shouldn't happen. It puts pressure on relationships because when your

foot of money, you argue, you get cross with your kids more easily. It

spoils life. Carolyn and Lewes were out shopping today for their four

children. It is a lot of money to fork out, but we do

skint, and we do try to get it. And money don't grow on trees! So it is

pressurised. Does it make you miserable? Yes, I start Christmas

shopping in January ready for December because I cannot afford it

all in one hit nearer Christmas. I've got no choice to go into debt

if you want to have nice things Christmas. Do you feel the pressure

to spend? Of course not. I work hard enough. I used to get spoilt when I

was younger, so I want to spoil my younger one. Experts say this period

is halted `` is a good boost for the colony. White through the

recession, we haven't had a bad Christmas. Sales have been up

year`on`year, because we really want to enjoy ourselves at least once a

year. This Christmas Festival, the end `` at the end of the year, is

important for people psychologically. The Archbishop

admits that if he suggested people should stop buying gifts, no one

would listen. The Archbishop is keen to offer

financial advice, too. He said he would like to compete with one of

the payday loan companies. Now he is saying to people to set a budget to

`` for Christmas and think about the true meaning of Christmas.

Good advice, thank you very much. Anti`fracking protesters can no

longer camp on grass verges near a Sussex exploratory oil drilling

site. West Sussex County Council has won a High Court ruling today

stopping people continuing to camp on a busy road near the Cuadrilla

site at Balcombe. The test drilling has sparked several angry protests.

Now the council will decide how to enforce the order.

Boris Johnson's plans for a six runway hub airport in the Thames

Estuary has been presented in London today. Known officially as London

Britannia Airport, the scheme would cost ?45 billion and it's claimed

could be built within seven years. The boss of Network Rail for the

South East has been defending the decision to not run early morning

train services on the day of St Jude's storm two weeks ago. Dave

Ward told MPs on the Transport Select Committee that the decision

was taken at midday on the Sunday before the storm hit. Our political

editor Louise Stewart is at Westminster now. Commuters faced

major disruption following the storm. What did the transport bosses

have to say? Well, no apology. They defended taking the decision early.

They said hundreds of trains were down across the lines and they gave

the example of the stretch between Tonbridge and Redhill which goes to

Gatwick. They said there were 36 trains down there alone. They made

the comparison between the great storm of 1987. After that, it took a

week for the normal service to resume but now, services were

running by midday on Monday. They did admit they needed to get more

information out to commuters. They say they are much better prepared

than previous years for winter. And they have got heating strips on the

third rail and they shouldn't see trains incapacitated by rain and

ice. Acts of remembrance have taken place

across the south east to mark the anniversary of the First World War

armistice, 95 years ago. At 11 o'clock this morning, people fell

silent during ceremonies at schools, train stations, shopping centres and

war memorials. Peter Whittlesea is in Tunbridge Wells.

The first Armistice Day marked the end of the great War. People today

laid reefs to people who lost their lives in the conflict and many sins.

Many of these we say things like, but never forgotten. At 11am, people

across the South East fell silent. The Bobby became the symbol of

remembrance in 1921. Next year it will be 100 years since the start of

the First World War. One of the most extraordinary

stories to emerge over the conflict is that of a 12`year`old who ran

away to join the Army, and found himself fighting at the Somme.

Sidney Lewes has been declared the youngest authenticated combatant of

the Great War. He lived out his last years running a pub in East Sussex,

but enlisted in August 1915 when still very much a schoolboy.

Chrissie Reidy has more. Just 12`year`old boy when he signed

up to fight the great War, private Sidney Lewis enlisted five months

after his 12th birthday in 1915, a year later, he was fighting on the

Western front. They had mentioned when I was young that he had served

in the First World War and I thought he was exaggerating a little bit

because he was far too young to be able to serve in the war itself. It

was only when I got all these papers that I realise that in fact

everything was true. He enlisted with East Surrey but was transferred

and four to one of the bloodiest confrontations of the Somme. Every

young man is a little bit excited when your patriotism comes to the

fore, when there is a war, and everybody is true running up `` is

drumming up to join the army, which is what instigated him to do it.

Many underage recruits enlisted in 1915, but this is the first time

documents have been found to verify any one so young in active service.

Sidney Lewis was on the front line for about six weeks when his mother

finally realised he was in northern France. She wrote to the Army and

said she wanted him sent home immediately. This is the letter she

got back. I'm directed to inform you that

telegraphic constructions have been issued that he is to be at once

withdrawn and sent home for discharge. This is to have got to

the front line when you are 13 is a remarkable achievement, an

astonishing thing that it was allowed to happen. When he retired,

he spent much of his life living in East Sussex. The only thing was

disappointed about was the thing I didn't know about it when he was

alive and I couldn't congratulate him and felt proud of him and enable

him to see I was proud of him. We will never really know why he did

it. It was a boys adventure, one he was lucky to survive. Extraordinary

story. And if you have a World War One

story that you think we should tell next year as part of the centenary,

please get in touch. This is our top story tonight.

Turkish man Nusret Bora, who last week won the right to appeal to live

in the UK, is a convicted killer, it's emerged. His wife Eileen,

originally from Kent, last week won an appeal under the Human Rights Act

to apply for a visa for him to come and live here. However, it's been

reported in the Turkish media that Mr Bora murdered a woman and a

child, crimes that should have automatically barred him from living

in the UK. Also, fiery 60s musician now living

on an industrial estate in Lewes. Rain and drizzle set to last for the

whole week. See the full forecast later.

Children in one of the most deprived parts of the country are today

enjoying the benefits of a charity grant of thousands of pounds to keep

them occupied after school. In the Ore St Helens parish in Hastings,

28% of children are in poverty. 35% of adults have no qualification. And

31% of families are lone parents. But with help from Children In Need,

young people from housing estates on either side of the railway are being

brought together to forge better relationships. Here's the story of

In2Play. People really like it here. And

people really like to play here because it is a day out where you

don't have to be with your parents. And then you get some kid time, to

yourself. The people here are a lot kinder. They understand, and

especially the staff, they listen to you. If you are lonely, they come

and do an activity with you. When you come here, you can play

with everything, you can have fun here, but at home, you can only have

fun with your brothers and stuff. I want to have fun with my friends and

play with them. Here, we can compare our schools with what games we are

playing and stuff. At home, you don't get loads of exercise, but

here you can get loads of exercise. People are people, so you should

help other people. Even though you may not get along, you might get

along, because you don't know what it is going to turn out like. You

still need to look out for them because they are still a human

being. Arthur Brown used to go on stage

with a real fire blazing from his horned helmet in the 60s and 70s. He

almost set himself alight in Sussex in 2007. He's in his 70s and he is

still living in a crazy world having chosen every unconventional. His

actually living in a concrete yurt in Lewes. We have been to meet him.

It was one of the best`known songs of the 1960s. Arthur Brown and his

number one hit, Fire. For decades on, the 72`year`old is living in a

yurt in the Sussex countryside. It is a kind of yurt. While! This is

pretty impressive. After values is prissy, so much so that only a

handful of people know exactly where he has set up camp here in Lewes. Is

it not a bit of a wacky way to live? Wacky? Might God, can you

think of living in a small box my correct tangled? This is wacky?

Living in a little rectangular 's, I think that is pretty wacky. Their

favourite performers are not necessarily the pop charts. The

highlight of this festival was a relatively unknown singer called

Arthur Brown. He is known for his flamboyant theatrical style, one

that was popular in the 1960s. I remember the News of the World

having a photo of me on the front saying, would you allow your

daughter to go to a party with this man? If the answer is no Mac, you

scored ten out of ten. This is a hippy. And I thought, really? Am I a

hippy? I didn't smoked oak, and if you didn't smoke dope, you were not

a hippy. Nevertheless, I was the king of the hippies in the press,

the wild man of English rock. In fact, he is no stranger to the

headlines. He set himself on fire during a gig in Lewes. In the coming

weeks, he will be releasing a new album.

You don't want a fire in that yurt, do you?

Gillingham have confirmed this afternoon that interim manager Peter

Taylor will continue in the job until the end of the season. One of

his first jobs will be to steer the Gills into the next round of the FA

Cup following their last gasp draw with non`league Brackley Town. Neil

Bell has news of that and the rest of the weekend's football.

When Peter Taylor was last in charge of killing, they reach the

quarterfinals. But this own goal almost saw them fall at the first

hurdle. The 97th minute equaliser saw them in the replay.

MK Dons won at Corby. Emile Sinclair helped Crawley town to win. Dartford

are out despite this super strike from Lee Burns. They went down 4`2

at Salisbury. In the Championship, Ashley Barnes put Brighton front

from the penalty spot. The Albion's second followed. This cross was

cleverly angled into the net. Barnes completed an incursion afternoon by

slotting in a third from close range for an emphatic victory over

Blackburn. After a series of Cage performances, Charlton 's game had

everything. Cameron Stewart levelled things at 1`1, but the Addicks were

up against a man inspired. Leeds United won 4`2 in the end.

Another horrible day, and there is more rain on the way.

Yes, we have quite a patchwork of weather. So, wet days and try days.

It is going to be chilly through the night and in the morning. Today,

quite mild with temperatures reaching 14. Slightly cooler in

Canterbury and windy in Dover. Tonight, we continue with the

drizzle with some mist and fog, mostly on the higher ground. This

drizzle makes its exit to the South East. We've got further rain on the

way through the night which will be with us well into tomorrow.

Temperatures not dropping much tonight from our daytime lows of 11

or ten. Tomorrow, another wet day, and improving picture from the

West, but Ramsgate or Dover will not see the back of that rain until

tomorrow. The South East will hold onto the cloud and more spots of

rain. So, Tuesday night, we are looking at a chilly night. If you

look at the drop in temperatures competitor night's close, two or

three. So, quite a chilly start to the day. Winds picking up to the

west. That makes a breezy date on Wednesday and Thursday. Wet and

windy again on Sunday. Lots to look forward to. I will be back with the

late bulletin. Goodbye.