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