:00:00. > :00:07.That's all from the BBC News at Six so it's goodbye from me and
:00:08. > :00:18.Welcome to South East Today. Tonight's top stories. Living in
:00:19. > :00:27.fear ` the Kent man facing jail in Uganda because he is gay.
:00:28. > :00:31.Admissions to accident and emergency at Darent Valley Hospital have gone
:00:32. > :00:37.up by a third, one of the highest in the country.
:00:38. > :00:42.Plans for a huge arts venue for Brighton as a 35mm and revamp of the
:00:43. > :00:47.Pavilion is announced. `` ?35 million revamp.
:00:48. > :00:51.Told she would never walk, the gymnast who has defied the odds to
:00:52. > :00:58.walk down the aisle and become a mother.
:00:59. > :01:00.Stand up and be counted ` preparations for a night of comedy
:01:01. > :01:14.and music for Children in Need. Good evening. A Kent man is facing
:01:15. > :01:18.the possibility of a lengthy jail sentence in Uganda because he is
:01:19. > :01:21.gay. Bernard Randell from Faversham says he is living in fear after a
:01:22. > :01:26.newspaper published images of him taken from a stolen laptop.
:01:27. > :01:29.Homosexuality is illegal in Uganda. It happened after thieves broke into
:01:30. > :01:32.his house there and took his computer, which contained private
:01:33. > :01:35.images. He was arrested last month and will face two years in prison if
:01:36. > :01:42.found guilty of trafficking in obscene publications. Ellie Price
:01:43. > :01:48.reports. It is a country where just last year
:01:49. > :01:52.politicians were proposing the death penalty as punishment for
:01:53. > :01:57.homosexuality. Bernard Randell thinks he was targeted by thieves
:01:58. > :02:01.who knew he was gay. He says they tried to blackmail him and when it
:02:02. > :02:10.did not work they sold stolen sex videos to a tabloid. He was arrested
:02:11. > :02:16.after that. There is the worry that the hatred whipped up would cause
:02:17. > :02:23.our stranger. Possibly even life`threatening. One of the most
:02:24. > :02:32.high profile was David Kato, a gay rights protester who was beaten to
:02:33. > :02:41.death in 2011. The policymakers inside the public to hate us. Back
:02:42. > :02:47.home, Mr Randall's friends have been campaigning to raise the profile of
:02:48. > :02:51.his case. There is a degree of vigilante activity against gays in
:02:52. > :02:55.Uganda. I would not want to be in his position and I feel terribly
:02:56. > :03:01.sorry for him. Bernard Randell says he has been targeted by a well`known
:03:02. > :03:07.anti`gay campaigner who featured in a recent documentary. Stephen Fry
:03:08. > :03:12.has given his support to Bernard Randell, along with other high
:03:13. > :03:20.profile names. The consequences of these tabloid expose these in Uganda
:03:21. > :03:29.is that many of them have been attacked and forced out of their
:03:30. > :03:34.jobs. `` exposes in Uganda. The Ugandan government is sitting back
:03:35. > :03:37.and allowing this to happen. We are not going around flaunting
:03:38. > :03:43.anything. Is there anything wrong with two people sharing a house? We
:03:44. > :03:47.were not walking down the street holding hands. The trial starts on
:03:48. > :03:50.Monday. We're joined now by the BBC's
:03:51. > :04:04.reporter in Uganda, Catherine Byaruhanga. Where does the law stand
:04:05. > :04:07.on homosexuality in Uganda? Well, homosexuals in Uganda would be
:04:08. > :04:12.charged under a colonial British law. They could face life
:04:13. > :04:16.imprisonment. There were plans to increase this to the death penalty
:04:17. > :04:20.but after a huge international outcry these plans were changed to
:04:21. > :04:28.stop how is this story being reported in Uganda? The main focus
:04:29. > :04:33.has been with the tabloids and anti`gain campaigners. The general
:04:34. > :04:40.Ugandan on the street will say they do not know much about this story.
:04:41. > :04:44.Ugandans are very anti`gay but if you do not flaunt your sexuality
:04:45. > :04:47.many will let you get on with your life.
:04:48. > :04:50.The Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford insists it will be able to
:04:51. > :04:54.cope this winter, despite figures revealing the number of emergency
:04:55. > :04:57.admissions has gone up by almost 30% in the past year.
:04:58. > :05:00.It is one of the highest increases in the country. Today NHS England
:05:01. > :05:08.has put forward long`term plans to try to ease pressures on A
:05:09. > :05:17.services. Simon Jones reports. It is another busy afternoon at the
:05:18. > :05:21.A at Darent Valley Hospital. I slipped on something in the hall and
:05:22. > :05:29.fell on my arm. As a caution they had the sent me to hospital. It is
:05:30. > :05:35.very busy. I was referee in on Saturday and I went on my ankle and
:05:36. > :05:39.now I can't walk on it. The hospital says the population is getting older
:05:40. > :05:46.with more complex care needs and the closure of A services in sync up
:05:47. > :05:51.at St Mary 's Hospital has brought people in. `` said cup. People being
:05:52. > :05:59.brought in are being told but after an initial assessment they face a
:06:00. > :06:02.wait of around three hours. In January the hospital had to turn
:06:03. > :06:07.patients away for six and a half hours after it reached full
:06:08. > :06:14.capacity. Between April and July 47% of patients waited longer than the
:06:15. > :06:18.15 minute targets `` target for ambulance crews to hand over to A
:06:19. > :06:24.In September it was given ?4 million by the government to cope with extra
:06:25. > :06:27.demand. It sounds like a lot of money in a vacuum but in practice it
:06:28. > :06:32.might be a drop in the ocean depending on how bad demand gets
:06:33. > :06:35.this winter. The hospital on this site have now opened extra beds for
:06:36. > :06:37.patients who no longer need who no longer need acute I pat
:06:38. > :09:05.care but still require All five defendants are alleged to
:09:06. > :09:19.have trafficked women into and within the UK. They denied the
:09:20. > :09:22.charges. The case continues. A Kent couple have been jailed after
:09:23. > :09:26.they held up a security van at gunpoint and stole ?25,000. John
:09:27. > :09:29.Todd used a hand gun to threaten the van driver in a supermarket car park
:09:30. > :09:33.in Chatham last July. They then escaped with a cash box in Keely
:09:34. > :09:36.Beer's Range Rover. The pair were jailed for a total of ten years.
:09:37. > :09:40.Firefighters in the South East have been on strike today. Union members
:09:41. > :09:44.set up picket lines for the fourth walk`out by the Fire Brigades Union
:09:45. > :09:46.in three months. They are in dispute with the government over proposed
:09:47. > :09:51.changes to their pensions. Fire chiefs ran a reduced service for the
:09:52. > :09:55.four hour strike, that ended at two. Plans for a ?35 million revamp of
:09:56. > :10:00.the Brighton Pavilion, Dome and Corn Exchange were announced today. The
:10:01. > :10:03.aim is to revive the historic buildings, preserving them for the
:10:04. > :10:07.future, as well as turning them into a huge arts venue for Sussex. The
:10:08. > :10:10.City Council, the Brighton Dome and Brighton Festival are to bid for
:10:11. > :10:15.money to carry out the work. Mark Sanders is at the Pavilion now. Is
:10:16. > :10:25.this the start of a new chapter in the Pavilion's history? It is about
:10:26. > :10:30.transforming the Royal Pavilion estate into a world`class venue,
:10:31. > :10:35.about restoring the Pavilion and other arts and heritage venues on
:10:36. > :10:38.the site. This was built as a 19th`century royal pleasure palace.
:10:39. > :10:43.You can still people still getting fun here. You might not know that
:10:44. > :10:50.this is a council house. The council owned the Pavilion suck it, the Dome
:10:51. > :10:59.and the festival are looking for ?35 million of investment. The council
:11:00. > :11:03.do not have the numbers to restore these special buildings so if we use
:11:04. > :11:08.the money to get to a stage that we can keep moving forward we will have
:11:09. > :11:15.created a permanent lasting monument that future generations can enjoy.
:11:16. > :11:18.The council, the Dome and the festival are looking for ?35 million
:11:19. > :11:22.of investment from the arts Council and the Heritage lottery fund. This
:11:23. > :11:28.is a long`term project that may take many years.
:11:29. > :11:30.Since her election one year ago the Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner
:11:31. > :11:33.says her biggest achievement has been to start recruiting police
:11:34. > :11:35.officers again after a three`year freeze.
:11:36. > :11:37.Katy Bourne says her biggest challenge has been ensuring adequate
:11:38. > :11:40.policing of the anti`fracking protests at Balcombe. Critics
:11:41. > :11:43.question whether PCCs have made any real difference to police
:11:44. > :11:46.accountability. In a moment we will speak to Katy Bourne herself, but
:11:47. > :11:56.first this from our political editor Louise Stewart.
:11:57. > :12:01.The election of American`style Police Commissioners was billed as
:12:02. > :12:05.the most radical reform of policing in 15 years. Sussex may be a long
:12:06. > :12:09.way from New York but one year on from the election the county's first
:12:10. > :12:09.Police and Crime Commissioner says the number
:12:10. > :12:10.Police and Crime Commissioner says the nu nu%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% nu%%%%%%%
:12:11. > :12:14.Police and Crime Commissioner says the number of police on the street
:12:15. > :12:18.is increasing. We have had to identify ?50 million worth of
:12:19. > :12:25.spending cuts and we are on course for that we managed to identify a
:12:26. > :12:29.further ?7 million so, as I promised, we have put that money
:12:30. > :12:36.back into front`line policing. It has certainly been a challenging
:12:37. > :12:40.year. Policing the anti`fracking protest has been said to have cost
:12:41. > :12:47.almost ?4 million. She appointed a deputy against the advice of the
:12:48. > :12:50.crime panel. He resigned after just six months. And there was criticism
:12:51. > :12:56.of the use of so`called plastic police after the force recruited
:12:57. > :13:05.people would just four weeks of training to investigate crimes. Katy
:13:06. > :13:08.Bourne believes in engaging young people is key to achieving her goal
:13:09. > :13:14.of making the citizens of Sussex feel safer, but how do local
:13:15. > :13:20.residents rate her? Do you recognise this lady? The face
:13:21. > :13:27.is familiar. It seems strange that we need to import civilians into the
:13:28. > :13:32.crime scene. I think I should recognise her but I don't think I
:13:33. > :13:36.do. Do you think it is a good idea to have a Police and Crime
:13:37. > :13:42.Commissioner? I think it is a good idea to have somebody who you feel
:13:43. > :13:45.you can go to. I am not sure if these expensive appointments have
:13:46. > :13:53.actually done anything that I am aware of. Critics say it is too
:13:54. > :14:00.early to tell how effective PCCs are. They need to demonstrate that
:14:01. > :14:05.they are delivering, making a real difference. That is yet to come.
:14:06. > :14:13.Katy Bourne and her fellow PCC Boeing 777 have three years to prove
:14:14. > :14:19.themselves before they are re`elected. `` PCCs.
:14:20. > :14:26.You have had a full year in the job so is there one thing that you have
:14:27. > :14:30.changed? I think you heard on the clip, the biggest impact I have made
:14:31. > :14:35.so far is to open recruitment in Sussex Police for the first time in
:14:36. > :14:41.three and a half year, so we could recruit an extra 80 officers, extra
:14:42. > :14:48.police community support officers and extra civilian officers. We are
:14:49. > :14:55.recruiting special constables as well. It seems that your new
:14:56. > :15:01.recruitment policy means that the old policies of cutting officers was
:15:02. > :15:05.a bad one, doesn't it? If there is one thing the public in Sussex have
:15:06. > :15:10.been vocal about is that they want more visible, effective policing. I
:15:11. > :15:15.said that any savings we could find we would put back into the front
:15:16. > :15:20.line and we are doing that. It would have been better not to have cut
:15:21. > :15:23.those officers in the first place. The decision was made under the
:15:24. > :15:31.previous police authority. They had to find 20% of savings from the
:15:32. > :15:37.budget. When you work face `` workforce makes up to 80% of your
:15:38. > :15:43.expenses... How are you going to pay for these people? Since I have taken
:15:44. > :15:48.office Sussex Police are on target to find the savings of ?50 million.
:15:49. > :15:51.We have also found extra money, enabling us to open up recruitment,
:15:52. > :15:59.which is really positive for people in Sussex. The actual response times
:16:00. > :16:13.have dropped off dramatically in the past couple of years, whereas 85% of
:16:14. > :16:20.999 calls were answered in time, it is now 79%. I raised this issue with
:16:21. > :16:24.the chief constable at one of our accountability meetings and they
:16:25. > :16:28.have addressed it and response times are back up. Don't forget, crime
:16:29. > :16:36.since I took office has continued to go down in Sussex are a great
:16:37. > :16:40.positive sign for people. This is our top story tonight.
:16:41. > :16:45.A Kent man is facing the possibility of a lengthy jail sentence in Uganda
:16:46. > :16:50.because he is gay. Bernard Randell says he is living in fear after a
:16:51. > :16:57.newspaper published images of him taken from a stolen laptop.
:16:58. > :17:01.Homosexuality is illegal in Uganda. Coming up, a champion trampolinist
:17:02. > :17:04.who defied the odds to become a mother after breaking her neck in a
:17:05. > :17:10.training accident. It will not be quite as cold tonight
:17:11. > :17:15.but we have rain coming. Find out more in the forecast, coming up
:17:16. > :17:18.later. Lessons must be learned by
:17:19. > :17:21.authorities across the whole of the South East, after a mother murdered
:17:22. > :17:25.her two children. A serious case review carried out by Surrey County
:17:26. > :17:28.Council found that while more could have been done nobody could have
:17:29. > :17:31.predicted that Fiona Donaldson would go on to kill her two toddlers,
:17:32. > :17:37.Harry, aged three, and Elise, aged two. Their bodies were found in the
:17:38. > :17:40.boot of her car in Heathfield in 2011 after she turned herself in.
:17:41. > :17:47.Piers Hopkirk has tonight's story update.
:17:48. > :17:55.It is merely four years since the depths of Harry and Elise, killed by
:17:56. > :18:02.their mother Fiona in what the court was told was a brutal act of revenge
:18:03. > :18:08.against her estranged husband. `` Fiona Donnison. But today a case
:18:09. > :18:15.review said nobody could have predicted she would harm her
:18:16. > :18:18.children. If we can reduce harm to children by half, using the
:18:19. > :18:25.knowledge from this kind of report, that would wonderful. On January the
:18:26. > :18:29.27th of 2010 Fiona Donnison handed herself in, saying she had killed
:18:30. > :18:35.her children. Three days later she was charged with their murders and
:18:36. > :18:39.on August ninth 2011 she was found guilty and jailed for life. At the
:18:40. > :18:47.children's Mercy in Heathfield trees have been planted in their memory.
:18:48. > :18:51.`` nursery. I have looked into my heart frequently to reflect on
:18:52. > :18:59.whether there was anything we could have done to change this tribe ``
:19:00. > :19:05.tragic outcome but there was nothing we could have done differently that
:19:06. > :19:09.would have made any difference. Although the review portions no
:19:10. > :19:14.blame, it makes more than 30 recommendations. Among them, that
:19:15. > :19:19.the local NHS trust carries out and audit of unexpected infant deaths.
:19:20. > :19:25.The local safeguarding children board assesses siblings. And that
:19:26. > :19:29.the Huffle Nursery updates its child protection and safeguarding practice
:19:30. > :19:36.is. These recommendations will tidy up some besiegers but finding the
:19:37. > :19:40.signal amongst the noise of human behaviour is extremely difficult. So
:19:41. > :19:42.it proved. The review concluded nobody could have known or stopped
:19:43. > :19:58.her. Rob has disappeared, but all will be
:19:59. > :20:01.revealed in a moment. Now, she was a top international trampolinist vying
:20:02. > :20:05.for Olympic selection. But when Natalie Burr from Kent landed on her
:20:06. > :20:11.head during a training session she broke her neck. Doctors said she was
:20:12. > :20:14.lucky to survive but would probably never walk again. But two years
:20:15. > :20:18.later, supported by her father, Natalie defied the odds and was able
:20:19. > :20:21.to walk down the aisle to marry her long`term boyfriend. Now the couple
:20:22. > :20:28.have been nominated for a national award. Charlie Rose reports.
:20:29. > :20:34.This is Natalie in full flow at the 2005 world Championships. Two years
:20:35. > :20:38.later, with her sights set on the Olympics, her dreams were shattered
:20:39. > :20:44.when a poor landing in training left her paralysed. My neck cracked and I
:20:45. > :20:47.went back in the air but it's soon as the crack happened I had no
:20:48. > :20:57.feeling, I felt really odd. from my chest down. They said, don't
:20:58. > :21:04.move, and I thought, I can't feel anything. With a fractured spine and
:21:05. > :21:09.damage to her spinal`cord, she went into intensive care and spent months
:21:10. > :21:13.in hospital. Doctors doubted she would walk again but, determined to
:21:14. > :21:19.walk down the aisle at her wedding, she defied the odds. The
:21:20. > :21:25.neurosurgeon is still shocked about how much function she has regained.
:21:26. > :21:31.That is only down to hard work. She took the same ethic from her
:21:32. > :21:35.gymnastics to rehab. It is a remarkable achievement but she
:21:36. > :21:38.realises she can never return to the trampoline. I still feel like
:21:39. > :21:47.something is missing because I still can't do sport, or the sport I
:21:48. > :21:52.really enjoyed. Yes, it has been hard but things happen, don't they?
:21:53. > :22:03.There is no point thinking about what could have been. We have Holly
:22:04. > :22:06.now and she is just brilliant. Natalie's injury means she needs her
:22:07. > :22:10.mum and sister to help care for Holly, who might just take up the
:22:11. > :22:24.trampoline after her mum. Did you catch the sunset tonight?
:22:25. > :22:33.Beautiful. Thank you to Andrew, who sent in this photo. Stunning. We
:22:34. > :22:37.have low`pressure swinging in from the north`west. It is clouding over
:22:38. > :22:42.as we speak and we have some rain the way. That is probably only going
:22:43. > :22:45.to give us an hour of rain through the night and should have
:22:46. > :22:52.disappeared by dawn. The winds will really pick up tonight so quite an
:22:53. > :22:58.asked the night. Temperatures, a milder night, so not down to
:22:59. > :23:06.freezing like last night. Lows of five or six degrees, much milder
:23:07. > :23:10.than last night. We have the keen north`westerly wind which is picking
:23:11. > :23:14.up tonight and all through tomorrow, making it feel a lot colder. The
:23:15. > :23:18.temperatures will be quite similar to how they work today but it will
:23:19. > :23:23.probably feel a lot colder because of the wind, temperatures up to
:23:24. > :23:28.eight, nine or ten tomorrow. Looking like a fairly dry day with maybe
:23:29. > :23:36.just the odd hostelry shower, particularly along the coast. ``
:23:37. > :23:40.blustery shower. Temperatures down to three or four degrees but
:23:41. > :23:46.probably lower in more rural parts, perhaps even an air frost tonight.
:23:47. > :23:53.Friday, not looking too bad. The bubbly a fair amount of sunshine and
:23:54. > :23:59.just the odd shower around. `` probably a fair amount. Over the
:24:00. > :24:04.weekend things take a turn for the worst, a cloudier affair on Saturday
:24:05. > :24:12.with some rain in the afternoon. By the time the rain gets to us it will
:24:13. > :24:17.be fairly fragmented. Sunday, a cloudy start to the day. Further
:24:18. > :24:18.outbreaks of rain through the afternoon. Getting much colder on
:24:19. > :24:29.Monday. This Friday is Children in Need, and
:24:30. > :24:31.of course there are a whole load of events happening on the night
:24:32. > :24:34.itself. But this evening a very special one`off event is taking
:24:35. > :24:38.place in Tunbridge Wells for Children in Need ` a night of comedy
:24:39. > :24:42.at the Trinity Theatre. Rob has sprinted up the hill from the studio
:24:43. > :24:46.and with a bit of luck he is there now. Rob, a little birdie tells me
:24:47. > :24:48.you will be bursting into song. They are very informative, these
:24:49. > :24:53.little birdies. Yes, I have had my arm twisted and I will be
:24:54. > :24:57.performing. It will be a unique performance and only people here
:24:58. > :25:02.hopefully are ever going to see it. It is all in the aid of Pudsey. You
:25:03. > :25:09.can see everybody gathering at the Trinity Theatre. Let's come out of
:25:10. > :25:14.the lobby as we go through. You can see a lot of Pudsey stuff that will
:25:15. > :25:19.be on sale for people who come down. We are looking at a lot of people
:25:20. > :25:24.who are musicians and comedians, who will be playing their songs and
:25:25. > :25:37.singing their comedy. A fantastic space. This man here, look at him.
:25:38. > :25:42.Dave Jordan, introduce yourself. I am lucky enough to be opening
:25:43. > :25:46.tonight for Children in Need, a real privilege in this fantastic venue.
:25:47. > :25:52.We are going to try to get some people down, I think we have some
:25:53. > :26:00.tickets left, so come down and it will be a fantastic night for
:26:01. > :26:09.children in. You get me opening. `` for Children in Need. These
:26:10. > :26:14.gentlemen are horse and Louis. What are you going to be doing tonight?
:26:15. > :26:22.We are musical comics so we will play guitar and tell jokes. Do you
:26:23. > :26:25.have a safety net? I do not think there is one in place but we are
:26:26. > :26:31.staying on stage for most of the performance. Can you give us a
:26:32. > :26:40.one`liner? But the comedians on the spot. It is hard to give anything
:26:41. > :26:45.away before the show. We want people to pay for the tickets! Only a few
:26:46. > :26:50.tickets are left so if you want to come down and see these gentlemen
:26:51. > :27:04.and a whole bunch of other people who are very funny, lots of them
:27:05. > :27:16.winning awards. You one the Amuse Moose award? No. Oh, live
:27:17. > :27:21.television! We also have our live band. Perhaps you would like to give
:27:22. > :27:29.us a bit of a tune, a flavour of what we will be having as the
:27:30. > :27:33.evening wears on. That is it from us. I hope you can join me in
:27:34. > :27:42.Tunbridge Wells, otherwise have a very good evening.
:27:43. > :27:45.I would pay good money to hear Rob Smith singing. That is it. I am back
:27:46. > :27:46.at 10:25pm. I at 10:25pm.