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Welcome to South East Today. Tonight's top stories. Crime goes up

in Kent for the first time in five years, as the Chief Constable says

that budget cuts mean he can't send an officer to every offence.

Hope after death, a mother of a teenage cyclist killed on the road

pleads for more people to offer up their organs for donation.

You do draw comfort from it. You do. You really do.

It keeps you going. In the programme. A Sussex priest is

arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing a boy in the 8 #0, we will

be live in Eastbourne with the story.

Bottoms up. The country's first nappy composting plant opens in

Kent. And naked ambition, the Sussex chef

who has persuaded a host of celebrities to pose nude with a

Fish. Good evening. Crime has risen in

Kent, for the first time in five year, with burglary up by more than

a quarter. As the forces Chief Constable revealed he might not be

able to send an officer to every offence because of budget cuts,

today Ann Barnes the Police and Crime Commissioner held a public

meeting with the outgoing chief. He told her she should raise the

police's part of council tax to go some way towards preserving the

currents service. `` current.

There were 8,000 more crimes in Kent this year, than there were last.

Kent Police says there is good reasons why criminalifying gurs have

gone up 9%, but the Chief Constable admitted policing in Kent will have

to change. We are ?20 million out, we will

struggle to deliver the service in the way we currently do. The moment

we go to every crime as you know, can we afford it in the future?

Possibly not. What does that mean? Can we investigate some crimes over

the phone, without sending a police officer.

Visible policing was one of the Police and Crime Commissioner's

manifesto promises but she says this change is something she could live

with At the moment you get a visit whether you want one or not.

Sometimes people don't want one, they have lost something or they

have, they want a crime number for insurance purposes. It wouldn't be

the end of the world for me as long as I could be assured every victim

of crime who needs visiting is visited and gets a first class

service. Kent Police has made cuts in the last four year, that has led

to the loss of 500 police officers as well as 1,000 support staff N the

next few years the force will have to find a further ?20 million. We

are go back to the resource levels of the 80s. Society bears no

resemblance to the society in the 8 #0, policing is more complex, it is

time the public were told the truth. There is only one thing you get for

less and that is less. If this is what policing in the 21

century looks like, the big question is do people in Kent mind if the

people don't pay a personal visit to every victim. How important was it

for you to have a policeman see you? Very, very important. I was hard

broken, and, as soon as they came, they just made me feel safe. They

can't come out to certain things: It could be a huge waste of money but

it is not nice to think they couldn't come. Ann Barnes says

predictive policing and accurate crime recording means the police is

keeping people in Kent safe, she hasn't ruled out asking the taxpayer

for more money. The mother of a teenager killed when

he was knocked off his bicycle in Kent has made an emotional appeal

for more people to donate organs. Tracey Squire says that knowing her

son Daniel's heart is now beating in another person has been a real

comfort to her, she is urging more people to sign up to the organ

register. I promise will do everything I can,

to look after the most precious gift that you have given us, and thank

you daily for your most unselfish generosity.

Daniel's mother reads the card she has just received from the woman who

was given his kidneys. Another patient received his heart.

When you read it again and you read it again, you just, it just,

somewhere out there, I know Daniel is round. That makes me feel I I

know he is not with us and I would love him to be with us, but he can't

be, but he is around. I know that and I have to believe

that. I do. I do.

Daniel was cycling to his father's house along this road between Dover

and Deal when he was hit. His family say they had never discussed the

subject of organ donation with him, but instinctively it felt like the

right thing to do. More than 4200 organ transplants

were carried out last years but tonight, 7080 people remain on the

waiting list. 200 of those are in Kent.

Organ transplant is really the only treatment for end stage organ

failure, you know, it is their only chance of life. These can be people

with a variety of illnesses, people that might have been born with an

illness. We see people coming out who have received organs talking in

the press and saying what an amazing difference it has made to them,

their family and friends. I know it was the right decision and people

should really really think about it hard, because in such a dark time,

and this is the darkest time of my and Daniel's dad's lives and his

sister, it does, you do draw comfort from it. You do. You really do. And

it keeps you going. Because it is really hard.

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Simon. Daniel's mother wants a change in the law. She believes

there should be a preis summion you are happy for your organs to be used

after death unless you opt out. This will be introduced in Wales but it

remains controversial and no plans for anything similar in England. The

NHS is urging us all to talk about the subject, we often don't like

thinking about death, but a recent survey suggested 80% of us would be

happy for our organs to be used after death, but only 50% have told

our families. The key statistic, the reason

Daniel's mother is speaking out is every day three people die while

waiting for a transplant that never arrives.

Coming up on the programme. Just in time for Christmas, the UK's first

ever commercial crop of cranberries. Economic migrants in the south`east

say they are already suffering prejudice and bullying ahead of rule

changes that will allow Romanian and Bulgarian workers to move freely to

the UK on the 1st January. The leader of Kent County Council has

highlighted concerns about additional

highlighted concerns about local resources if there is a large

influx of migrants. Our Home Affairs reporter looks at how the south`east

is preparing for the anticipated arrival from eastern Europe.

The typically English seaside resorts but thousands of eastern

Europeans have set up home here. Some believe come January many more

are likely to arrive. It I think it's a bad idea, it will

give people in Margate let jobs. The most important thing is we

haven't got enough work and housing here ourself, so, where they are

going to be put? Bedsits? It is a mixed pot. As long as they come over

and work, fair play. hard. Say that for them. Last week

the Prime Minister responded to concerns there will be an influx of

Bulgarians and Romanians coming to the UK from January. He has outlined

plans to introduce tougher tests from those arriving from the EU

seeking benefits. Other countries take a tougher approach than us,

that have pushed the legal boundaries more than we have done.

British people expect, we want fairness. It is fair treatment for

people who work hard and do the right thing. Those coming to the UK

from January will be able to apply ker jobseekers at house on when they

have been here three month, they maybe entitled to disability and

child benefit, as well as free NHS healthcare. Some believe they will

be added pressure on school place, especially if areas like Crawley

where a third of pupils in several primary schools are already from

eastern European backgrounds. In parts of Sussex, there are plans

to create round 600 extra primary school places next year. And in

Kent, they believe round 400 more will be needed.

Further eastern Europeans coming in will exacerbate that situation,

there is very little money in the system at the moment, to expand

school place, what I hope we don't end up having to do is revert to

mobile classrooms and temporary accommodation. That would be

regrettable. The face of the south`east high streets are changing

following previous waves of immigration. Members of a large

Bulgarian community in Chatham say in recent months they have received

racist comments. The tension has been building up and our children

have been told to go home, why are you here? We do kind of worry a

little bit that it doesn't escalate. It is not really helpful to our

integration here. Those of the family and young people that wanted

to immigrate have done so, and to my mind, I don't think England is the,

the first option. No`one can predict how many people will move to the UK

from Bulgaria and Romania, several councils across the south`east say

plans are in place to prepare for a potential influx. Rebecca is in

Chatham for us now. Rebecca, as we were saying in your film there,

there is a large Bulgarian community in the area. Yes, I have been

speaking to a group of women who set up a Saturday school here, they say

come January they believe the majority of people who move here

will be young professionals t and not those who want to exploit the

benefits system. I should also mention in Folkestone the council

have been given funding to help integrate Roma I integrate R

integrate Roma families with local people. They say that is being spent

on community projects and they hope that will eliminate any form of

racism or radicalisation. Thank you.

Tomorrow we will be focussing on the potential economic impact on the

arrival of workers from Bulgaria and Romania.

South`east trains has announced temperature timetables for the

festive period with services ending early on Christmas Eve. No trains

will run after 10.00 at night. Main line services will resume December

27. There will be extra a trains running into the early hours on New

Year's Eve. Eastbourne east A department could be downgraded when

some core services move to Hastings according to campaigner, managers

voted to centralise emergency general surgery at the Conquest but

a campaign group claims that would leave the dict General Hospital with

a minor injuries unit. The NHS Trust says only 5% of A services will be

moved. A Church of England priest has been

released on bail after being arrested in Eastbourne,

in Eastbourne, on I arr ted in Eastbourne, on suspicion I

from here, he has been I rel given bail, and will return here on

problem. By the time your baby is potty trained you could have used

6,000 nappy, currently some eight million nappies are thrown away

every day. They go into landfill or incineration and they make up 3% of

household waste. Now, for the first time in the UK, disposal ``

disposable nappies are being turned into compost in Kent. Our

environment correspondent has been to Rochester to see the process in

action. 11 week old Charlotte can go through

half a dozen nappies a day and by the time she is potty trained,

thousands of her nappy also have gone to incineration or landfill.

Now some may be disposed of in a greener way We have nappies here

that have been collected from commercial contracts across Kent and

Sussex. They will be inspected to see anything that shouldn't be

there. We take them up for shred. The shred shredder goes up here. The

second shred drops through, which comes to an outfeed.

Now fully shredded an extra ingredient is added. Green waste

from parks and garden, it keeps the smell down but improves the

structure of the mix, preparing it for composting. The materials stay

here for 14`16 days of at a temperature of 58 degrees, that is

the heated that is generated naturally. We don't heat it. It's a

natural process. All the vessel does is accelerate that process and gives

a compost mix by the time it comes out the far end. In New Zealand

where the technology was born, the businesses is at a stage where

nappies with collected from people's homes. It is early days here, but

many nurseries and bys will be served We are talking zero landfill,

that is challenging when you have over 100 nappies a day going

through, as we will do, and we can get the solutions through the local

council infrastructure for most of the recycling. This was a bit of a

challenge, so when we discovered this new solution, we were very very

keen to be involved. The plastic is sieved off by the water absorbent

gel remains in the mix so there are restrictions on its uses, the

company says more plants are planned and more uses will be found for this

product of which there will be an endless supply.

Now just in time for the Christmas turkey the UK's first ever

commercial crop of cranberries will be hitting the supermarkets this

month and they were all grown in Kent. At Mockbeggar Farm. They have

been trying growing cranberries for the last three or four year, they

have had their most successful harvest.

The UK's first commercial cranberry crop. It may only be quarter a an

acre but here at Mockbeggar Farm in Kent, this small beginning could

lead to a much bigger cranberry enterprise.

Cranberries aren't really grown in the UK, they are all imported from

North America and eastern Europe. We are seeing if we can grow them in

the UK, to have import subs stuetion. Can you? We are beginning

to find out, it is still, a commercial trial really, it is

fairly small scale, we are learning how to grow them, and we will see.

The challenge is the picking cost, they are very small so they take a

long time to pick. In North America when they harvest

them they flood the field and scoop up the floating berry, hire they

don't think the Environment Agency would let them flood the crop so

they pick each berry off by hand. If you flood any crop there is an air

filled berry and water and it just, it weakens the

flavour, and hopefully a dry harvested UK grown crop would just

be a better eating berry, if you use a much better product. 96% of the

world's cranberry production is in North America. The world produces in

excess of 300 million tonnes of it a year.

Every year, the UK uses 120 tonnes of thor be `` berries. They are in

particular demand over Christmas You can't have Christmas without

cranberries. I am not making a sauce. It couldn't be simpler, the

sharpness of the can bri confit is the perfect partner. You go back ten

years and you couldn't find fresh cranberries and suddenly the likes

of Delia, Jamie Oliver started doing make your own cranberry sauce

recipes and demand has grown. The berries already harvested from

the plants will be in Sainsbury's later month.

In time for the Christmas rush. Now, you wouldn't have thought that

asking top celebrities to pose naked with nothing but a wet fish to

preserve their modesty would meet with a positive response, but that

is what a restaurant owner from Brighton had managed to do. That is

right. Nicholas Rohl set up the Fishlove campaign to raise wearsness

of collapsing fish stocks. The latest actress to take part is

Gillian Anderson. It is fair to say he has the power

of persuasion, doesn't he? Yes, that is right. He has managed to get some

big names onboard. The likes of Sir Richard Branson, Jerry Hall and

others. It is a campaign of deep`sea trawling of the sea bed and it a

novel way of highlighting which species is at risk. It is n

well`known sushi restaurant and lately there have been a few

familiar faces round here We produce images that really hit the

headlines. Fishing and the overfishing issue is, tends to be

boar, it is about net sizes and highly technical, the Fishlove

images allow people to engage with the issue on a much more interesting

level. Gillian Anderson is the latest

celebrity to support the campaign, by posing with a conger eel, portly

`` reportedly threatened by deep`sea trawling. From sharing a smile with

a shellfish to an encount we are a squid, it seems the underwater world

has something to shout about. But are we getting the message. A lot of

people are just interested in what they can buy, but that ecosystem is

really important, so I think if people are made wear, I think they

the fishing should be, it is eco`friendly as its can be. We need

to care about what happens. It is not just our lifetimes but future

generations as well. Anything that can be done to preserve and sustain

the environment, for future generations is a really good thing

and worth supporting. Deep`sea trawling uses large net nets are

dragged along the cede bead `` sea bed. While most of us imagine there

is an endless supply of fresh fish protecting it is in our hands. The

Government department responsible for maintaining fish stocks say it

strongly supporting the protection of vulnerable marine life but says

restricting activity in sensitive areas would be more effective than a

blanket ban. This high pro profile global campaign has helped raise

awareness. In the Championship this evening

Brighton and Hove Albion will go into tonight's match with a fair

degree of confidence. They are at home to bottom club Barnsley. A

victory would make tit four wins from the last five. Charlton, who

have lost three of their last four game, have a tough looking trip to

Reading. Crawley Town have unveiled their new

manager today. It is the former Venus Williams and Derby County box

John Greg `` Aston Villa. Crawley sacked Richie Barker after a run of

poor results. Is this the man to be the saviour of

the club. John Gregory is taking over. The side hasn't won any of its

last eight matches and Gregory replaces Richie Barker who was

dismissed as manager last week after 15 months in charge. I hope I can

get the spark back, certainly the spark has been missing from the team

for the last few week, they need have a bit more of the devil in them

and harder to play against, hopefully I can bring that to the

team. He has huge connections in this game and I am certain he will

bring qualities to this club we probably will be missing previously.

John Gregory played for England six times between 1983 and 84. He

managed Premiership Aston Villa between 1998 and 2002, and his last

appointment was in Kazakhstan, managing a team there in 2011.

So now he is back in the game in this country. How does Crayly

compare to Kazakhstan? Very similar! There is a lot of money in

Kazakhstan by the way. I don't think it is that different. You have a

goal at the end of the pitch, the pitch is the same, you play with one

football, it is very much the same. He may be experienced but can he

give the fans reasons to be cheerful? I hope he will be the

right chap for us, seems positive, so moving forward, I think he will

be good for us. I know he is a disciplinarian. He is very

experienced, a bit of a surprise because I hadn't seen his name

anywhere else. John Gregory has signed an 18 month contract. His

first test as manager is against Bristol rovers on Saturday.

He still has it. Now let us find out how the weather

is looking. It is getting colder. Over the next

couple of days we will be seeing much cooler air coming from the

north. Temperatures are going to be tumbling below freezing and during

the day doing well to get above four or five degrees. Itself will come

hand in hand with some sunshine finely. As you get into Thursday we

are strong winds, into Friday it will be very chilly indeed. Lots of

cloud round, a settled and quiet day, again e, we have lighter winds

and temperatures struggling. Highs round seven or eight degree, feeling

cloudy and grey and cold, and as we go through tonight we will hold on

to the blanket of cloud. Lots of cloud round as we get wards the

early hours of more tomorrow morn we start to see breaks in cloud. We

could see mist and fog forming again, overnight temperatures

dropping to three or four degree, we should be staying frost`free. Dry as

we start the day. Then we have a cold front tracking eastwards, it is

going to be bringing light patchy rain, during the morning, the winds

will pick up but it is going to be a brighter story. Temperatures by the

afternoon when we start to see some sunshine, reaching highs of seven or

eight. The winds picking up a bit. As we go through tomorrow, that is

when we see temperatures tumbling quickly. A widespread and hard frost

as we start the day on Thursday. It is going to be windy, you can tell

from the tightly spaced isobar, we are staying dry during daylight

hour, we will see some rain from Thursday into Friday. Temperatures

on Thursday round eight or nine. It will feel cooler, as we go into

Friday it is settled. Temperatures doing well to get much above five or

six. That is cold. It has been lovely and still, it is all going to

end. That is it from us for the moment. I will be back with the late