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That's all from the BBC News at Six so it's goodbye from me and

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Welcome to South East Today. Tonight's top stories. Living in

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fear ` the Kent man facing jail in Uganda because he is gay.

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Admissions to accident and emergency at Darent Valley Hospital have gone

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up by a third, one of the highest in the country.

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Plans for a huge arts venue for Brighton as a 35mm and revamp of the

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Pavilion is announced. `` ?35 million revamp.

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Told she would never walk, the gymnast who has defied the odds to

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walk down the aisle and become a mother.

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Stand up and be counted ` preparations for a night of comedy

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and music for Children in Need. Good evening. A Kent man is facing

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the possibility of a lengthy jail sentence in Uganda because he is

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gay. Bernard Randell from Faversham says he is living in fear after a

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newspaper published images of him taken from a stolen laptop.

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Homosexuality is illegal in Uganda. It happened after thieves broke into

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his house there and took his computer, which contained private

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images. He was arrested last month and will face two years in prison if

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found guilty of trafficking in obscene publications. Ellie Price

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reports. It is a country where just last year

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politicians were proposing the death penalty as punishment for

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homosexuality. Bernard Randell thinks he was targeted by thieves

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who knew he was gay. He says they tried to blackmail him and when it

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did not work they sold stolen sex videos to a tabloid. He was arrested

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after that. There is the worry that the hatred whipped up would cause

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our stranger. Possibly even life`threatening. One of the most

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high profile was David Kato, a gay rights protester who was beaten to

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death in 2011. The policymakers inside the public to hate us. Back

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home, Mr Randall's friends have been campaigning to raise the profile of

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his case. There is a degree of vigilante activity against gays in

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Uganda. I would not want to be in his position and I feel terribly

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sorry for him. Bernard Randell says he has been targeted by a well`known

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anti`gay campaigner who featured in a recent documentary. Stephen Fry

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has given his support to Bernard Randell, along with other high

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profile names. The consequences of these tabloid expose these in Uganda

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is that many of them have been attacked and forced out of their

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jobs. `` exposes in Uganda. The Ugandan government is sitting back

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and allowing this to happen. We are not going around flaunting

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anything. Is there anything wrong with two people sharing a house? We

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were not walking down the street holding hands. The trial starts on

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Monday. We're joined now by the BBC's

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reporter in Uganda, Catherine Byaruhanga. Where does the law stand

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on homosexuality in Uganda? Well, homosexuals in Uganda would be

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charged under a colonial British law. They could face life

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imprisonment. There were plans to increase this to the death penalty

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but after a huge international outcry these plans were changed to

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stop how is this story being reported in Uganda? The main focus

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has been with the tabloids and anti`gain campaigners. The general

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Ugandan on the street will say they do not know much about this story.

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Ugandans are very anti`gay but if you do not flaunt your sexuality

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many will let you get on with your life.

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The Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford insists it will be able to

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cope this winter, despite figures revealing the number of emergency

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admissions has gone up by almost 30% in the past year.

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It is one of the highest increases in the country. Today NHS England

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has put forward long`term plans to try to ease pressures on A

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services. Simon Jones reports. It is another busy afternoon at the

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A at Darent Valley Hospital. I slipped on something in the hall and

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fell on my arm. As a caution they had the sent me to hospital. It is

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very busy. I was referee in on Saturday and I went on my ankle and

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now I can't walk on it. The hospital says the population is getting older

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with more complex care needs and the closure of A services in sync up

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at St Mary 's Hospital has brought people in. `` said cup. People being

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brought in are being told but after an initial assessment they face a

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wait of around three hours. In January the hospital had to turn

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patients away for six and a half hours after it reached full

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capacity. Between April and July 47% of patients waited longer than the

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15 minute targets `` target for ambulance crews to hand over to A

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In September it was given ?4 million by the government to cope with extra

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demand. It sounds like a lot of money in a vacuum but in practice it

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might be a drop in the ocean depending on how bad demand gets

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this winter. The hospital on this site have now opened extra beds for

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patients who no longer need who no longer need acute I pat

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care but still require All five defendants are alleged to

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have trafficked women into and within the UK. They denied the

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charges. The case continues. A Kent couple have been jailed after

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they held up a security van at gunpoint and stole ?25,000. John

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Todd used a hand gun to threaten the van driver in a supermarket car park

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in Chatham last July. They then escaped with a cash box in Keely

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Beer's Range Rover. The pair were jailed for a total of ten years.

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Firefighters in the South East have been on strike today. Union members

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set up picket lines for the fourth walk`out by the Fire Brigades Union

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in three months. They are in dispute with the government over proposed

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changes to their pensions. Fire chiefs ran a reduced service for the

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four hour strike, that ended at two. Plans for a ?35 million revamp of

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the Brighton Pavilion, Dome and Corn Exchange were announced today. The

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aim is to revive the historic buildings, preserving them for the

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future, as well as turning them into a huge arts venue for Sussex. The

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City Council, the Brighton Dome and Brighton Festival are to bid for

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money to carry out the work. Mark Sanders is at the Pavilion now. Is

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this the start of a new chapter in the Pavilion's history? It is about

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transforming the Royal Pavilion estate into a world`class venue,

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about restoring the Pavilion and other arts and heritage venues on

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the site. This was built as a 19th`century royal pleasure palace.

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You can still people still getting fun here. You might not know that

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this is a council house. The council owned the Pavilion suck it, the Dome

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and the festival are looking for ?35 million of investment. The council

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do not have the numbers to restore these special buildings so if we use

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the money to get to a stage that we can keep moving forward we will have

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created a permanent lasting monument that future generations can enjoy.

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The council, the Dome and the festival are looking for ?35 million

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of investment from the arts Council and the Heritage lottery fund. This

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is a long`term project that may take many years.

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Since her election one year ago the Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner

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says her biggest achievement has been to start recruiting police

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officers again after a three`year freeze.

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Katy Bourne says her biggest challenge has been ensuring adequate

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policing of the anti`fracking protests at Balcombe. Critics

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question whether PCCs have made any real difference to police

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accountability. In a moment we will speak to Katy Bourne herself, but

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first this from our political editor Louise Stewart.

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The election of American`style Police Commissioners was billed as

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the most radical reform of policing in 15 years. Sussex may be a long

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way from New York but one year on from the election the county's first

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Police and Crime Commissioner says the number

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Police and Crime Commissioner says the number of police on the street

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is increasing. We have had to identify ?50 million worth of

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spending cuts and we are on course for that we managed to identify a

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further ?7 million so, as I promised, we have put that money

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back into front`line policing. It has certainly been a challenging

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year. Policing the anti`fracking protest has been said to have cost

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almost ?4 million. She appointed a deputy against the advice of the

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crime panel. He resigned after just six months. And there was criticism

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of the use of so`called plastic police after the force recruited

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people would just four weeks of training to investigate crimes. Katy

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Bourne believes in engaging young people is key to achieving her goal

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of making the citizens of Sussex feel safer, but how do local

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residents rate her? Do you recognise this lady? The face

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is familiar. It seems strange that we need to import civilians into the

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crime scene. I think I should recognise her but I don't think I

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do. Do you think it is a good idea to have a Police and Crime

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Commissioner? I think it is a good idea to have somebody who you feel

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you can go to. I am not sure if these expensive appointments have

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actually done anything that I am aware of. Critics say it is too

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early to tell how effective PCCs are. They need to demonstrate that

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they are delivering, making a real difference. That is yet to come.

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Katy Bourne and her fellow PCC Boeing 777 have three years to prove

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themselves before they are re`elected. `` PCCs.

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You have had a full year in the job so is there one thing that you have

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changed? I think you heard on the clip, the biggest impact I have made

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so far is to open recruitment in Sussex Police for the first time in

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three and a half year, so we could recruit an extra 80 officers, extra

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police community support officers and extra civilian officers. We are

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recruiting special constables as well. It seems that your new

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recruitment policy means that the old policies of cutting officers was

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a bad one, doesn't it? If there is one thing the public in Sussex have

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been vocal about is that they want more visible, effective policing. I

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said that any savings we could find we would put back into the front

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line and we are doing that. It would have been better not to have cut

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those officers in the first place. The decision was made under the

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previous police authority. They had to find 20% of savings from the

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budget. When you work face `` workforce makes up to 80% of your

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expenses... How are you going to pay for these people? Since I have taken

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office Sussex Police are on target to find the savings of ?50 million.

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We have also found extra money, enabling us to open up recruitment,

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which is really positive for people in Sussex. The actual response times

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have dropped off dramatically in the past couple of years, whereas 85% of

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999 calls were answered in time, it is now 79%. I raised this issue with

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the chief constable at one of our accountability meetings and they

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have addressed it and response times are back up. Don't forget, crime

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since I took office has continued to go down in Sussex are a great

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positive sign for people. This is our top story tonight.

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A Kent man is facing the possibility of a lengthy jail sentence in Uganda

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because he is gay. Bernard Randell says he is living in fear after a

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newspaper published images of him taken from a stolen laptop.

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Homosexuality is illegal in Uganda. Coming up, a champion trampolinist

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who defied the odds to become a mother after breaking her neck in a

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training accident. It will not be quite as cold tonight

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but we have rain coming. Find out more in the forecast, coming up

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later. Lessons must be learned by

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authorities across the whole of the South East, after a mother murdered

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her two children. A serious case review carried out by Surrey County

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Council found that while more could have been done nobody could have

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predicted that Fiona Donaldson would go on to kill her two toddlers,

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Harry, aged three, and Elise, aged two. Their bodies were found in the

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boot of her car in Heathfield in 2011 after she turned herself in.

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Piers Hopkirk has tonight's story update.

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It is merely four years since the depths of Harry and Elise, killed by

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their mother Fiona in what the court was told was a brutal act of revenge

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against her estranged husband. `` Fiona Donnison. But today a case

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review said nobody could have predicted she would harm her

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children. If we can reduce harm to children by half, using the

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knowledge from this kind of report, that would wonderful. On January the

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27th of 2010 Fiona Donnison handed herself in, saying she had killed

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her children. Three days later she was charged with their murders and

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on August ninth 2011 she was found guilty and jailed for life. At the

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children's Mercy in Heathfield trees have been planted in their memory.

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`` nursery. I have looked into my heart frequently to reflect on

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whether there was anything we could have done to change this tribe ``

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tragic outcome but there was nothing we could have done differently that

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would have made any difference. Although the review portions no

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blame, it makes more than 30 recommendations. Among them, that

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the local NHS trust carries out and audit of unexpected infant deaths.

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The local safeguarding children board assesses siblings. And that

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the Huffle Nursery updates its child protection and safeguarding practice

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is. These recommendations will tidy up some besiegers but finding the

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signal amongst the noise of human behaviour is extremely difficult. So

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it proved. The review concluded nobody could have known or stopped

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her. Rob has disappeared, but all will be

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revealed in a moment. Now, she was a top international trampolinist vying

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for Olympic selection. But when Natalie Burr from Kent landed on her

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head during a training session she broke her neck. Doctors said she was

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lucky to survive but would probably never walk again. But two years

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later, supported by her father, Natalie defied the odds and was able

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to walk down the aisle to marry her long`term boyfriend. Now the couple

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have been nominated for a national award. Charlie Rose reports.

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This is Natalie in full flow at the 2005 world Championships. Two years

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later, with her sights set on the Olympics, her dreams were shattered

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when a poor landing in training left her paralysed. My neck cracked and I

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went back in the air but it's soon as the crack happened I had no

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feeling, I felt really odd. from my chest down. They said, don't

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move, and I thought, I can't feel anything. With a fractured spine and

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damage to her spinal`cord, she went into intensive care and spent months

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in hospital. Doctors doubted she would walk again but, determined to

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walk down the aisle at her wedding, she defied the odds. The

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neurosurgeon is still shocked about how much function she has regained.

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That is only down to hard work. She took the same ethic from her

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gymnastics to rehab. It is a remarkable achievement but she

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realises she can never return to the trampoline. I still feel like

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something is missing because I still can't do sport, or the sport I

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really enjoyed. Yes, it has been hard but things happen, don't they?

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There is no point thinking about what could have been. We have Holly

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now and she is just brilliant. Natalie's injury means she needs her

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mum and sister to help care for Holly, who might just take up the

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trampoline after her mum. Did you catch the sunset tonight?

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Beautiful. Thank you to Andrew, who sent in this photo. Stunning. We

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have low`pressure swinging in from the north`west. It is clouding over

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as we speak and we have some rain the way. That is probably only going

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to give us an hour of rain through the night and should have

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disappeared by dawn. The winds will really pick up tonight so quite an

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asked the night. Temperatures, a milder night, so not down to

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freezing like last night. Lows of five or six degrees, much milder

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than last night. We have the keen north`westerly wind which is picking

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up tonight and all through tomorrow, making it feel a lot colder. The

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temperatures will be quite similar to how they work today but it will

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probably feel a lot colder because of the wind, temperatures up to

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eight, nine or ten tomorrow. Looking like a fairly dry day with maybe

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just the odd hostelry shower, particularly along the coast. ``

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blustery shower. Temperatures down to three or four degrees but

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probably lower in more rural parts, perhaps even an air frost tonight.

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Friday, not looking too bad. The bubbly a fair amount of sunshine and

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just the odd shower around. `` probably a fair amount. Over the

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weekend things take a turn for the worst, a cloudier affair on Saturday

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with some rain in the afternoon. By the time the rain gets to us it will

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be fairly fragmented. Sunday, a cloudy start to the day. Further

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outbreaks of rain through the afternoon. Getting much colder on

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Monday. This Friday is Children in Need, and

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of course there are a whole load of events happening on the night

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itself. But this evening a very special one`off event is taking

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place in Tunbridge Wells for Children in Need ` a night of comedy

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at the Trinity Theatre. Rob has sprinted up the hill from the studio

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and with a bit of luck he is there now. Rob, a little birdie tells me

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you will be bursting into song. They are very informative, these

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little birdies. Yes, I have had my arm twisted and I will be

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performing. It will be a unique performance and only people here

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hopefully are ever going to see it. It is all in the aid of Pudsey. You

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can see everybody gathering at the Trinity Theatre. Let's come out of

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the lobby as we go through. You can see a lot of Pudsey stuff that will

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be on sale for people who come down. We are looking at a lot of people

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who are musicians and comedians, who will be playing their songs and

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singing their comedy. A fantastic space. This man here, look at him.

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Dave Jordan, introduce yourself. I am lucky enough to be opening

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tonight for Children in Need, a real privilege in this fantastic venue.

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We are going to try to get some people down, I think we have some

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tickets left, so come down and it will be a fantastic night for

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children in. You get me opening. `` for Children in Need. These

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gentlemen are horse and Louis. What are you going to be doing tonight?

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We are musical comics so we will play guitar and tell jokes. Do you

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have a safety net? I do not think there is one in place but we are

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staying on stage for most of the performance. Can you give us a

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one`liner? But the comedians on the spot. It is hard to give anything

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away before the show. We want people to pay for the tickets! Only a few

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tickets are left so if you want to come down and see these gentlemen

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and a whole bunch of other people who are very funny, lots of them

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winning awards. You one the Amuse Moose award? No. Oh, live

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television! We also have our live band. Perhaps you would like to give

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us a bit of a tune, a flavour of what we will be having as the

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evening wears on. That is it from us. I hope you can join me in

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Tunbridge Wells, otherwise have a very good evening.

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I would pay good money to hear Rob Smith singing. That is it. I am back

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at 10:25pm. I at 10:25pm.

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