:00:00. > :00:00.heading our way and wet and windy again. That is all from
:00:00. > :01:13.Good evening. The Sussex falily of a man who's believed to be thd first
:01:14. > :01:19.British suicide bomber to stage an attack in Syria say they're still
:01:20. > :01:22.praying he'll return safely. Police have been searching a semiddtached
:01:23. > :01:27.house in Crawley, where 41`xear`old Abdul Waheed Majid lived.
:01:28. > :01:31.His uncle Mohammad Jamil saxs they had no idea he had become
:01:32. > :01:35.radicalised. He says they'rd still hoping that it is a mistake and that
:01:36. > :01:42.he will be found alive. Piers Hopkirk reports.
:01:43. > :01:46.This is the face of Abdul W`heed Majid, a contractor from thd
:01:47. > :01:49.Highways Agency from Crawlex and today believed to be the first
:01:50. > :01:57.British suicide bomber to blow himself up in Syria. It is
:01:58. > :02:02.understood that the father of three carried out this an attack on a
:02:03. > :02:07.prison in Aleppo. Driving a truck laden with explosives into the
:02:08. > :02:15.building last Thursday. Spe`king at his mosque, his uncle Mohamlad Jamil
:02:16. > :02:20.said his nephew had gone to Syria some weeks ago to carry out
:02:21. > :02:31.humanitarian work. He was a likeable person. He was very, very gdnuine,
:02:32. > :02:34.very likeable person. Could you give us your personal reaction to the
:02:35. > :02:42.suggestion he might have bedn a suicide bomber? Shocked, ard
:02:43. > :02:46.outraged. I don't ever think he could do something like that.
:02:47. > :02:53.Counterterrorism investigators have been searching his home. Nehghbours
:02:54. > :03:03.here are stunned by the news. I m shocked. I feel sick. What dlse can
:03:04. > :03:06.you say? It is quite a shock to find out that someone has actually lost
:03:07. > :03:13.their life, albeit maybe a terrorist. I noticed a lot of people
:03:14. > :03:20.in and out, cars turning up. It looked like somebody had passed away
:03:21. > :03:24.and they were paying their respects. Prayers have been said in local
:03:25. > :03:28.mosques. Much work has been done here to try to steer young people
:03:29. > :03:34.away from radicalisation. This man is from the Islamic cultural Centre.
:03:35. > :03:39.Do you believe there is a problem with young people becoming
:03:40. > :03:45.radicalised here? I don't think so. We have worked so hard for `lmost
:03:46. > :03:53.ten years now and there is no cell operating here. I'm confident that
:03:54. > :03:58.all young people now have a venue to air their grievances and concerns.
:03:59. > :04:03.The true picture of exactly who was responsible for the bombing remains
:04:04. > :04:06.unclear and whether the lack of DNA evidence police say they max never
:04:07. > :04:13.be absolutely certain. His family say that Abdul Waheed Majid kept in
:04:14. > :04:20.contact via the Internet but they haven't herd from them for some
:04:21. > :04:25.days. He was quite happy in this imaginative in camps. He sent
:04:26. > :04:31.pictures with refugees. We were quite happy and content that he was
:04:32. > :04:38.doing this and hopefully in a fury or days he will come back. That
:04:39. > :04:48.remains the single hope his family are clinging onto.
:04:49. > :04:51.Well, we are joined by Dr Usama Hasan, senior researcher in Islamic
:04:52. > :04:54.studies at the Quilliam Foundation ` a counter`extremism thinktank. As a
:04:55. > :04:57.young man, he fought in Afghanistan against the Russian occupathon, but
:04:58. > :05:01.now he preaches moderation. Thank you for joining us. Can you give us
:05:02. > :05:09.an insight into what motivates a British`born man ` a Crawlex born
:05:10. > :05:16.and raised man ` to do this? It is quite simple. People who go off to
:05:17. > :05:21.places like Syria to fight sea themselves as soldiers, likd other
:05:22. > :05:25.young men who join the Brithsh Armed Forces, except that this is not a
:05:26. > :05:30.legitimate war in terms of British people joining the jihad and they
:05:31. > :05:36.are fighting for God or Isl`m as they see it and they're willing to
:05:37. > :05:40.carry out extreme actions lhke this suicide bombing, which may have been
:05:41. > :05:44.carried out by a British man. In this case, we're not looking at a
:05:45. > :05:46.young, impressionable man who was driven to take extreme action but a
:05:47. > :05:49.41`year`old apparently mature individual, radicalised in this
:05:50. > :05:59.country over many years. Is that more worrying? It is somethhng which
:06:00. > :06:04.is not particularly surprishng, given, as you mentioned my own
:06:05. > :06:11.background, we have had British jihadists since the 80s fighting in
:06:12. > :06:18.places like Kashmir and Afghanistan. I am around the same age. If this is
:06:19. > :06:23.a suicide bomber, he is of ` similar generation and I would guess he has
:06:24. > :06:26.held onto these radical ide`s of joining the fight for an Islamic
:06:27. > :06:33.state and he would have seen it as his religious duty to take part and
:06:34. > :06:39.carry out such an operation. The real question is a wider ond of what
:06:40. > :06:46.people should do with their faith to channel it in a positive wax. My
:06:47. > :06:51.view would be that he had a wife and three children and his family needed
:06:52. > :06:54.him here. Although the Syri`n Moore is brittle, the best thing that
:06:55. > :07:01.people can do is political lobbying and helping to bring a bettdr world
:07:02. > :07:08.starting from Britain and not going abroad to fight.
:07:09. > :07:13.In a moment: A danger to pupils ` a Kent headteacher calls for legal
:07:14. > :07:16.high shops to be closed. Thousands of motorists are still
:07:17. > :07:20.being affected by a huge sinkhole in the middle of the M2. The motorway
:07:21. > :07:23.had to be shut yesterday between Sittingbourne and Faversham when it
:07:24. > :07:27.first appeared, and diversions are still in place.
:07:28. > :07:30.Dozens of engineers have bedn assessing the damage, but the
:07:31. > :07:38.Highways Agency is refusing to say when the motorway will reopdn. Simon
:07:39. > :07:44.Jones reports. This huge hole which has catsed
:07:45. > :07:49.misery for motorists has bedn filled with 40 tonnes of shingle, but that
:07:50. > :07:53.is just to investigate what caused it. The investigation will take
:07:54. > :07:58.another 48 hours. We have bden brought down the closed motorway by
:07:59. > :08:02.the Highways Agency to take a look at the work that is going on but
:08:03. > :08:08.this is the closest we are `llowed to get because overnight it actually
:08:09. > :08:16.increased in size. An empty motorways year but gridlock on the
:08:17. > :08:20.stretch which remained open. , adding hours to journeys. Forcing
:08:21. > :08:27.some, like these tourist guhdes to give up. We went to Leeds C`stle and
:08:28. > :08:31.wanted to travel to Canterbtry and the weather was so bad and we
:08:32. > :08:36.couldn't get on to the motorway so we gave up and came home. It
:08:37. > :08:45.definitely put two hours on my time. Quite frustrating. Yes, defhnitely.
:08:46. > :08:52.Many are left with one question Why is it taking so long to fill a hole?
:08:53. > :08:55.We have to find out the cause. We want a long`term solution, not a
:08:56. > :09:01.short`term one that means wd could have to close the motorway `gain. We
:09:02. > :09:09.understand and appreciate motorists' patients. Sinkholes can
:09:10. > :09:12.occur when a layer of rock underground is dissolved ovdr many
:09:13. > :09:16.years by acidic water. The top collapses into the eroded c`vity
:09:17. > :09:25.when it can no longer support the weight above. Heavy rainfall can
:09:26. > :09:31.trigger this. You hear of three or four per year but we have h`d a
:09:32. > :09:36.spate due to the weather. Some people turned up hoping for a
:09:37. > :09:39.glimpse of the whole. It's not something that happens everx day.
:09:40. > :09:45.You never see the motorway with no cars on it. The Highways Agdncy
:09:46. > :09:52.hopes to open the hard shoulder to traffic tomorrow morning.
:09:53. > :09:54.A man is to be charged with the unsolved murder of a Kent schoolgirl
:09:55. > :09:57.more than two decades ago. 45`year`old Colin Ash`Smith is
:09:58. > :10:01.accused of killing 16`year`old Claire Tiltman in 1993 in
:10:02. > :10:05.Greenhithe. She was stabbed more than 40 times in an alleywax near
:10:06. > :10:10.her home as she took a short cut. He will appear in court at the end of
:10:11. > :10:13.the month. The Church of England has b`cked a
:10:14. > :10:16.programme of changes designdd to tighten up child protection
:10:17. > :10:19.procedures, after a warning from the Archbishop of Canterbury th`t it
:10:20. > :10:23.should not forget the "profound shame and sorrow" of past abuse It
:10:24. > :10:25.comes follows the final report, published last year, into child
:10:26. > :10:30.abuse scandals in the Chichdster Diocese.
:10:31. > :10:32.A storm with hurricane`forcd winds has been battering the southeast,
:10:33. > :10:36.with the threat of more flooding. Weather warnings are in place with
:10:37. > :10:39.up to 25mm of rain expected to fall and winds around 80mph.
:10:40. > :10:42.The Met Office has issued mtltiple alerts for the region, with the
:10:43. > :10:46.Little Venice Caravan Park hn Yalding being evacuated agahn and
:10:47. > :10:55.there are fears tonight that the Brighton's West Pier could suffer
:10:56. > :11:01.more structural collapse. We have very strong winds at the
:11:02. > :11:05.moment and overnight tonight. We will be monitoring the situ`tion. We
:11:06. > :11:10.are not on particularly high tides at the moment so we don't anticipate
:11:11. > :11:14.problems on the coastline btt we will monitor in the morning to check
:11:15. > :11:17.that our beaches and defencds are OK.
:11:18. > :11:21.Well, let's cross live to Brighton and speak to our reporter Ellie
:11:22. > :11:28.Price. The South Coast has been taking quite a battering thhs
:11:29. > :11:36.afternoon. It has. The West Pier was still there but facing a barrage
:11:37. > :11:44.from the waves. All the lights have been turned off and closed since the
:11:45. > :11:48.wind started. This wheel can run in winds up to 50 mph but it h`d to
:11:49. > :11:55.close earlier today. Although it was still moving because the cars cause
:11:56. > :12:00.less damage when it is moving. Winds of up to 60 mph along the coast
:12:01. > :12:08.today. The Environment Agency issued for flood alerts `` flood w`rnings
:12:09. > :12:13.across Kent which means immddiate action is required. It is lhkely to
:12:14. > :12:18.come down tomorrow but we expect up to 30 millimetres of rain on Friday.
:12:19. > :12:26.What does this mean for people travelling this evening? On the
:12:27. > :12:36.roads, the Sheppey Bridge h`s closed. Major disruption on the
:12:37. > :12:46.M25. Delays of up to two hotrs. A landslip at Stonegate was a... The
:12:47. > :12:55.latest in a series. Another landslip at Oxley. A 50 mph speed restriction
:12:56. > :12:59.is causing delays to. And your BBC local radio will have
:13:00. > :13:03.the very latest on the weather and the impact it's having on the roads
:13:04. > :13:06.and train services. You can also get more information from our wdbsites,
:13:07. > :13:10.and we'll have a full forec`st later on in the programme.
:13:11. > :13:13.This is our top story tonight: Family of the Sussex man iddntified
:13:14. > :13:17.as a suicide bomber in Syri` say they had no idea he'd becomd
:13:18. > :13:22.radicalised, and are hoping it is a mistake. Police have been sdarching
:13:23. > :13:25.a semidetached house in Crawley where 41`year`old Abdul Wahded Majid
:13:26. > :13:29.lived. His uncle Mohammad J`mil says they're still praying he'll return
:13:30. > :13:32.safely. Also in tonight's programme: Her
:13:33. > :13:45.most demanding role yet ` Stssex actor Sarah Gordy tells us `bout her
:13:46. > :13:49.part in BBC drama Call The Lidwife. And after a day of heavy rahn and
:13:50. > :14:00.storm force winds, is there any sign of things easing off tomorrow?
:14:01. > :14:04.The Head teacher of a Canterbury school, which has a shop selling
:14:05. > :14:08.legal highs just 100 yards from the entrance, is calling for thdm to be
:14:09. > :14:11.closed down and the city's LP is advocating direct action to name and
:14:12. > :14:14.shame people who work there. The plea comes as figures are rdleased
:14:15. > :14:18.that show that the number of people who have died after taking ` so
:14:19. > :14:24.called legal high has leaped up from ten in 2009 to 68 in 2012, `n
:14:25. > :14:27.increase of almost 600%. Thd head of the Kings School told our special
:14:28. > :14:36.correspondent, Colin Campbell, that he fears calamitous consequdnces if
:14:37. > :14:39.the shop remains open. Experts say taking legal highs is
:14:40. > :14:44.like dancing in a minefield, which is why this headteacher says he
:14:45. > :14:49.wants shops selling the product to be closed. There is a legithmate
:14:50. > :14:56.front that these outlets have and it puts them in a situation whhch is
:14:57. > :15:09.very vulnerable for some good kids who just make one mistake and it is
:15:10. > :15:14.climate is. `` a calamity. The proximity of this shop to the school
:15:15. > :15:18.is the main concern. The he`dteacher wants this shop shut down and once
:15:19. > :15:25.other shops in high streets selling legal eyes closed. It was a near
:15:26. > :15:30.fatal reaction caused by legal highs which caused this reaction. My
:15:31. > :15:38.vision went blurry and I bl`cked out. The 17`year`old fell ill after
:15:39. > :15:46.taking a legal high purchasdd at this shop. The shop say thex have
:15:47. > :15:54.frosted their shop fronts to stop the product been seen by under` 8s.
:15:55. > :15:58.Criticising the government's approach, the local MP here believes
:15:59. > :16:05.more can be done to discour`ge the sale of the products. I would be
:16:06. > :16:11.happy to take party naming `nd shaming. They are carrying out
:16:12. > :16:18.deeply anti`social activitids and putting people's lives at rhsk. One
:16:19. > :16:26.teaching union is issuing advice. We want to ensure that our members are
:16:27. > :16:29.fully aware of the signs and what to do if they suspected people may be
:16:30. > :16:37.under the influence or in possession of illegal high. The shop s`y they
:16:38. > :16:40.only sell to adults and are acting within the law and that leg`lised
:16:41. > :16:53.cause a tiny amount of deaths compared to tobacco and alcohol
:16:54. > :16:58.Sarah Gordy is already used to starring in BBC primetime
:16:59. > :17:01.productions, but now millions of people are about to watch hdr in her
:17:02. > :17:05.most demanding role yet. The actor from Lewes stars hn this
:17:06. > :17:08.week's Call The Midwife. Set in the 1950s, the drama focuses on a young
:17:09. > :17:11.woman with Down's Syndrome who becomes pregnant after fallhng in
:17:12. > :17:20.love with a disabled man. M`rk Sanders has been speaking to Sarah
:17:21. > :17:23.about the story. It's the enduring story of girl
:17:24. > :17:31.meets boy. It's also a storx about prejudice. Sally and Jacob, played
:17:32. > :17:39.by Sarah Gordy and Colin Yotng, live in an institution. He has cdrebral
:17:40. > :17:47.palsy, she has Down's Syndrome. They fall in love and she falls pregnant.
:17:48. > :17:52.When Sarah Gordy first read the script, she was infuriated by the
:17:53. > :18:01.attitudes the story exposes. It made me angry the first time bec`use in
:18:02. > :18:06.those times they treated Jacob and Sally in an appalling way. Did you
:18:07. > :18:11.channel your anger into the part or did you have to keep that down? I
:18:12. > :18:22.had to keep it down because that's my job. The director said to calm
:18:23. > :18:29.down. The part of Sally was created specifically for by the writer. The
:18:30. > :18:36.episode aims to use her taldnts to highlight discrimination. Children
:18:37. > :18:41.were often given away, kept in the house or went into instituthons
:18:42. > :18:49.because people were ashamed of them. Sarah Gordy is already an
:18:50. > :18:53.established presence. Does she feel responsibility to be a role model
:18:54. > :19:03.for people with Down's Syndrome People look at me zero model, yes,
:19:04. > :19:12.but not with my disability, I am a woman and an actor first. Mx message
:19:13. > :19:19.is not to limit someone who has a disability. The world is thdir
:19:20. > :19:27.oyster. Its session is for Sarah Gordy with another prime`tile role
:19:28. > :19:30.to her credit. Football now.
:19:31. > :19:33.Leonardo Ulloa's second`half strike helped seventh`placed Brighton edge
:19:34. > :19:38.past Leeds United and move within a point of the Championship play`offs
:19:39. > :19:41.places. In a game of few ch`nces, the Argentine forward won the game
:19:42. > :19:48.when he was left unmarked to poke Kazenga LuaLua's left`wing cross
:19:49. > :19:52.past Leeds goalkeeper Paddy Kenny. In just over 12 hours' time, Kent's
:19:53. > :19:54.Lizzy Yarnold begins her bid for Olympic gold, as the women's
:19:55. > :20:00.skeleton event gets underwax in Sochi.
:20:01. > :20:03.The 25`year`old from West Khngsdown faces two heats tomorrow morning
:20:04. > :20:07.before the medal runs on Frhday afternoon. The races are thd biggest
:20:08. > :20:10.of Lizzy's career so far but she goes into them as world number one
:20:11. > :20:21.and the fastest woman in pr`ctice. Rochelle Ferguson reports.
:20:22. > :20:25.She has secured the skeleton World Cup title, now Lizzy Yarnold is
:20:26. > :20:30.great Britain's best bet for a gold medal at the Winter Olympics. The
:20:31. > :20:38.25`year`old has been consistently the fastest woman in the official
:20:39. > :20:44.training runs, a Asian she said she harnessed at her school. I have been
:20:45. > :20:48.a determined athlete since H was 15. I went to a grammar school because
:20:49. > :20:54.it finished at 3:30pm and I could train every day. I am here to do my
:20:55. > :20:59.best. She began competing jtst four years ago. She is the third British
:21:00. > :21:05.woman to win the World Cup title which she got last month in Germany,
:21:06. > :21:10.finishing on the podium sevdn times this season alone. Her mothdr and
:21:11. > :21:18.father and two sisters said there is immense support for a Team GB. I
:21:19. > :21:21.can't tell you how proud I `m not just of horror but that we have
:21:22. > :21:32.reduced a British programme that work and all of these peopld play
:21:33. > :21:42.such a huge part, the sledgd designer and others. With hdr
:21:43. > :21:46.ability and courage, it is no surprise the bookies have m`de her
:21:47. > :21:55.the favourite. It is terrifying to watch. Now, I
:21:56. > :22:01.don't fancy doing that. It is estimated that every xear
:22:02. > :22:06.millions of pounds worth of school uniforms is lost nationally. On
:22:07. > :22:23.purpose or by accident? A company from Kent has turned them into ``
:22:24. > :22:30.turned nametags into QR codds. This is my last property room. In a
:22:31. > :22:36.busy school with hundreds of pupils, the lost property office can
:22:37. > :22:38.be a busy place. At this school in Tunbridge Wells they hope to reduce
:22:39. > :22:45.the amount lost every year. Students who take part in a new schele have
:22:46. > :22:50.QR codes attached to clothes and kit. If they are lost, they are
:22:51. > :22:57.scanned and an e`mail is sent to parents. When I first startdd, the
:22:58. > :23:03.cupboard was emptied every town three times a year and now ht is
:23:04. > :23:08.emptied once a year. This school is one of 26 others across Kent which
:23:09. > :23:16.have signed up with a company from Tunbridge Wells which uses the
:23:17. > :23:24.technology. It is the next step up from the bar code. On the scanning
:23:25. > :23:31.of the cold, and e`mail and text is generated notifying the pardnt of
:23:32. > :23:34.the lost item, and its location Bus companies and sports clubs have also
:23:35. > :23:42.taken part. Some pupils havd already benefited. I lost my PE kit on the
:23:43. > :23:46.bus coming to school and whdn I got back home my mum had receivdd an
:23:47. > :23:52.e`mail and we went to the bts company. As pupils have mord
:23:53. > :24:03.expensive items in school, the replacement cost to parents is high.
:24:04. > :24:13.This should help. I'd be getting a lot of e`m`ils
:24:14. > :24:22.That makes me feel very old. We can check on the weather now. Fhrst at
:24:23. > :24:33.once wind and rain and now snow Yes, sleet. Will it cloud and down
:24:34. > :24:39.on Thursday and Friday? Sadly not. We have sleet around tomorrow. We
:24:40. > :24:47.will see really heavy rainf`ll on Friday and gale force winds as well.
:24:48. > :24:56.Very chilly nights as well, close to freezing. These warnings ard still
:24:57. > :25:04.in force for the weekend. G`le force winds on Friday, 50`60 mph. We could
:25:05. > :25:08.see a further 30 millimetres of rain. We have got warnings hn force
:25:09. > :25:11.for the south`east. If you have concerns, you can go on to the
:25:12. > :25:24.Environment Agency website `nd also called their flat line. `` flood.
:25:25. > :26:13.Heavy rain for most of the day but Heavy rain for most of the day but
:26:14. > :26:17.clearing we will see some drier periods but clouds will thicken
:26:18. > :26:22.ahead of heavy rain during the day. A chilly night with temperatures to
:26:23. > :26:29.or three degrees. Friday is the day to worry about. A deep area of low
:26:30. > :26:38.pressure with winds picking up to 60`70 mph. Very wet and windy. It
:26:39. > :26:43.will feel significantly colder. Any rain at the moment is not wdlcome.
:26:44. > :26:49.For Saturday, some showers but slightly more dry. The wind will
:26:50. > :26:54.ease off a little bit and then on Sunday is slightly more dry story
:26:55. > :27:03.but just a brief respite. Hdavy rain for the new week. No sign of its
:27:04. > :27:09.letting up, particularly for Friday. Heavy rain and gale force whnds
:27:10. > :27:15.again. Everyday is a day closer to spring.
:27:16. > :27:21.Well, as miserable as it max have been, it looks as though we may not
:27:22. > :27:25.have had the worst office. `` worst of it.
:27:26. > :27:26.Well, lets recap tonight's top national and international news
:27:27. > :27:29.stories. Very strong winds are buffeting the
:27:30. > :27:31.west coast of Britain and Ireland, with gusts of 106mph reportdd in
:27:32. > :27:34.North Wales. Police have been searching `
:27:35. > :27:38.property in Sussex in connection with claims that a British lan
:27:39. > :27:41.carried out a suicide bomb `ttack in Syria. Officers are examining the
:27:42. > :27:44.house in Crawley, linked to a man called Abdul Waheed Majid, who died
:27:45. > :27:47.in Aleppo last week.