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so it's goodbye from me, and on BBC One, we now join the BBC's news

teams if you play the machines from this

week, you can expect a limit as to how much you are prepared to spend

and eminent of time you want to play. If you reach it, play will be

suspended for 30 seconds and a message will pop`up asking hf you

want to stop. There will also be automatic warnings after pl`yers

have put in ?250. I think the reality is that the average spend

over ten to 15 minutes. There are two 120 machines and the arda and

the takings and to ?200 million They now amount to half of the

bookmakers annual profits. Leikle became addicted to them. We need to

find the safest solution, bdcause this is effectively just window

dressing to make it look as if they have done something when thdy really

have not done. People in sole cases have lost their families, their

homes and their output employment. This is a direct result of these

machines. The industry said it said that they believed the new

legislation would help gamblers In a moment. The British skh

instructors under arrest in France, accused of teaching without proper

qualifications. More than 100 sink holes have opened

up at a Kent cemetery, following the wettest winter since records began.

Gravesham Council is trying to stabilise the ground at two burial

grounds in Gravesend. Visitors have been warned to take care to avoid

the risk of falls. Pay your respects to the dead in Gravesend has become

a lot harder, after a number of sinkholes appeared. This is a worst

year we have had for this p`rticular problem. Even know we have been

filling them it continues to reign, so that is dropping the soil down.

The cemetery opened in 1850 name, catering for the poor of thd

village. Today, there are more than 10,000 graves. It seems that the

most affected are the older graves. The subsidence has come in the

wettest winter since records began. The weather has carved up the coast,

damaged roads and caused havoc with the transport network. Therd are

also sinkholes in caused by the weather. You will soil incole tax

and you have to fill them again The job is never over. Managers say

funeral services have been unaffected, but the work to make the

Gammage `` damage goes on. The daughter of musicians R`y Davies

and Chrissie Hynde has been fined ?400 pounds for disrupting

exploratory oil drilling in the West Sussex village of Balcombe by

supergluing herself to a fellow anti`fracking protester last summer.

Natalie Hynde, from St Leon`rds and fellow protester Simon Medhtrst have

been convicted of the offence of "besetting". Brighton Magistrates

heard they cost energy comp`ny Cuadrilla around ?5,000 by delaying

deliveries. The carcass of a 50`foot spdrm whale

that beached off the North Kent coast has been cut up ready for

disposal. The whale was towdd into Sheerness Port on Friday and experts

from the Zoological Society carried out tests over the weekend, to try

to establish the cause of ddath They say it was a male, between one

and three years old. An inquest into the death of a Kent

primary school teacher shortly after she gave birth was stopped today

because a police investigathon may result in criminal charges. Frances

Cappuccini died in 2012, following an emergency caesarean secthon at

the Tunbridge Wells Hospital in Pembury.

Piers Hopkirk joins us from outside Tunbridge Wells Police Stathon,

where the inquest was opened and adjourned earlier. Piers, why is Mrs

Cappuccini's death now under investigation? Frances Capptccini

died in October 2012, just hours after giving birth to her b`by son

Jack. We have today she lost almost half our blood but nothing was done

to improve her situation. Hdr barrister told the court th`t could

amount to gross negligence `nd that was enough to make the coroner

observed that the inquest should be stopped and Raphael sent to the

Public prosecution service. There will now be allocated this case to

see if any individual should be charged over her death.

A Kent ski instructor working in the French Alps has been arrestdd, held

overnight in a police cell `nd summoned to court, accused of

providing lessons without the correct licence. Alex Casey, from

Folkestone, along with two British colleagues, are accused of breaking

local employment law, but they claim their arrests are illegal and say

they have all the correct documentation to allow them to work

in France. As international athletes fought it out in the Winter

Olympics, and the French Alps, a different battle has been brewing.

The British ski instructors have been summoned to court and `ccused

of giving lessons without h`ving the proper qualifications. I have given

up time out mail normal standard work to take the exams. No, having

qualified to teach at a high level, I am now been told they cannot. To

some bureaucrat telling me H cannot do my job. We were arrested last

Tuesday, taken off the slopds and taken into custody. Alec st`rted

working in the resort 13 ye`rs ago but in 2004, the British colpany he

works for was fined for operating without a correct license. Last

year, he was arrested for not having the top`level qualification,

prompting a protest by holiday`makers at the local scheme

resort. Under French law, they need to hold the level for skiing

diploma. Some of the instructors only have level three certificates,

but they say that is suffichent under European Union and

international law. There ard about 50 instructors working legally and

some of them have the level for certificate and are upset about

those without that coming in and getting that work. Either the law

changes or he gets that qualification. The ski instructors

say the ongoing dispute has been devastating for the business, but

the are sure they are right and are aiming to prove their innocdnce that

they can teach at this level. Our top story tonight...

Thousands of BT customers, who have spent days without telephond or

internet connection in Brighton and Hove after copper cable was severed,

have been told tonight that the company still doesn't know when

services will be fully restored Sussex Police believe the c`ble may

have been cut by thieves trxing to steal the metal for its scr`p value.

Also tonight, Kent Gold med`llist is on the way home. And if you have a

story you think we should bd covering, please contact as the

following places: In the first few weeks of the World

War One, groups of women were urged to pressurise any young men who had

not joined up to fight, by handing them the potent symbol of a white

feather, implying they were cowards. It was a movement which started in

Folkestone and then quickly spread around the country. To mark the

launch of the BBC's coveragd of the centenary of World War One, Robin

Gibson has tonight's special report. It is a piece of controvershal

history from Folkestone 's past Here, it is getting acted ott by

students from two local schools They should post symbolic white

feathers were given a two local men not involved in the war effort.

Someone not in uniform would have been out of place. He would really

have to explain himself oncd the white feather brigade arrivdd.

Folkestone was on the front line any invasion. It also witnessed refugees

coming ashore from Belgium. A retired Admiral Drew and thd

passions aroused at the town council meeting, calling on women to

pressure young men to enlist. Young men must be studied up to ehther

women to come forward and do the duty. We want to see all yotng men

joining up who have not yet joined the Army of the Navy. Many xoung men

find themselves wrongly targeted by the young women. The postman could

not cope with jibes from thd local soldiers. They saw this young

20`year`old horseman walking past and thought, what do the Tidn of

that we do not have? So, thd used to fill the void feathers at hhm. I do

not know how much he put up with that for, but he joined up soon

afterwards. Some went beyond taunting. Conscientious objdctors

faced threats of violence. Here some had taken refuge in a London

church. The government had to act. Silver medals were given to war

veterans and also essential workers at home, physical proof that they

were not shirkers. Some of the major employers, such as at the dockyards,

they said, our men are being ashamed to go to work in the mornings,

because people keep accosting them and giving them play feathers. You

need to do something about this Very soon, they cannot live the idea

of the silver badges. There is no record as to how many men wdre

pushed to fight ID white fe`ther campaign. But many of them sacrifice

their lives for their patriotic gesture. They were wanting to ship

them off to these places, btt people did not know what awaited them. It

is an uncomfortable lesson `bout how people behave when are no f`mous

British bank is against the war The cocktail of actuators and fdar on

the home front. `` actuators. We will have a different Hole Front

story every evening this wedk, here on South East today.

And you can find out more about the centenary of World War One on our

website at bbc.co.uk/ww1 or hear how the conflict affected peopld in the

South East on your BBC local Radio stations, BBC Radio Kent and BBC

Sussex Surrey. In the past hour, Olympic

gold`medallist Lizzy Yarnold has arrived back on British soil, after

flying home with the rest of Team GB from the Winter Olympics in Russia.

The skeleton star, from West Kingsdown in Kent, won our only gold

of the Games and is one of only ten gold medal`winners in British Winter

Olympic history. Team GB landed at Heathrow Airport a few minutes ago

and they have gone straight into a press conference there. Thex are

just getting set up the. . Neil Bell joins us live frol

Heathrow. What has happened since Lizzy and her team`mates landed

About 15 minutes ago, she w`s ushered through with the other medal

winners. She was spirited away for this press conference. She will be

coming into a number of rools like this to top to the media. That is

not the fact that she won, but the fact that she weighs she won. She is

very quintessentially British, a mixture of determination and very

level`headed. She may not gdt the gold postbox, but there are plans to

celebrate homecoming in Kent? Yes, the arena as company are gohng to

paint our local bus gold. It should be seen on the streets by the

weekend and there will be plenty of people giving it a cheer as it goes

past. She was the star this time round. Enjoy the press confdrence

when it does get underway. We will have all the details of that press

conference in our later bulletin after the ten o'clock news.

Onto football now and Brighton and Hove Albion travel to Premidr League

side Hull city tonight for their FA Cup fifth Round replay. The winners

will host Sunderland in the quarterfinals, which could lean a

return to the Amex Stadium for the Seagulls' former boss Gus Poyet who

is now Sunderland's manager. Charlton Athletic travel to

Sheffield Wednesday tonight, after their original fifth Round tie was

postponed because of the we`ther. The winners will face an aw`y tie at

Sheffield United. And Charlton will start that tie in

good spirits this evening, `fter their weekend victory over

high`flying Queens Park Rangers As Mark Norman reports, Crawley also

won, but there were disappohnting defeats for Gillingham and Brighton.

They left Delhi but was good news for Charlton. The winner by Jackson

in stoppage time secured thdir first win since Boxing Day. It le`ves a

point and a place from safety, with three games in hand on the teams

above them. A delighted the manager, especially as it came against Queens

Park Rangers. The other really top side. Playing against Harry and his

team and they have a very good side. But I think we more than

matched them today. Not such good news for baiting, who failed to beat

Wigan. After the break, Wig`n went to know up and although Brighton

pulled one back to give thel some hope, they remained 2`1 losdrs. We

had a lot of possession and created a lot of chances. I think wd need to

take them, but I feel we fully deserved to win. In league one,

Crawley beat Walsall in an `way win. Walsall did get one back before

Crawley were reduced to ten men as Clark was sent off for time wasting.

They now have a whopping seven games in hand on the clubs around them,

although they remain to points of safety. It has been a very warm day

indeed. I was out in the julp garden with no jacket.

Today was the warmest day of the year. It got up to 14 Celsits. I am

afraid the next couple of d`ys will not be quite as nice. When's the

does the dry and eight. Over the next couple of days, it is going to

be rather easy. One to fairly light and scattered showers, but the most

part, try and temperatures staying above the seasonal average. The wind

around ten to 15 mph any southeasterly direction. Inhtially

tonight, we are staying dry, with the odd shower. Fairly light, but

persistent rain in the earlx hours of the morning. Temperatures will

just drop a couple of degreds. If you are up early, you may sde the

end of the brain, particularly in the eastern part of Kent. For

tomorrow, yes a little bit cooler than today, with one or two showers,

but even so, much more pleasant than recent news, with temperatures are a

few degrees down on today. The bees picking up a bit from today, but the

showers easing as we go through tomorrow night. Clear skies tomorrow

night, so as a result, quitd a hold night, with temperatures dropping

down to the low single figures. On Wednesday, quite settled, whth just

one or two showers, but for the most part, we are expecting it to be

dry, with temperatures not too bad, with temperatures edging into double

figures. This is what is he`ding our way as we go into the later part of

the week. Rain overnight Wednesday into Thursday. First afternoon maybe

not looking too bad is that the years to the East. As we go into

Friday, one of two showers `round, but the main thing, a littld bit of

sunshine. Thank you Rachel. Before we go, a recap of the top story

20,000 people have been trapped by the war in Syria who say Dalascus

for almost one year, describing it as a living hell. Thousands of

customers and Sussex have bden denied being a landline intdrnet

connection after thieves targeted a connection route to steal the metal

to sell as. And Lizzy Yarnold from Kent has arrived back in thd United

Kingdom with the rate Britahn Olympic squad. And we are b`ck at

10:25pm tonight. We do not blow our trumpet very often. But the Royal

television Society givers this award for the best news magazine

programme. We are very proud of it. Goodbye for now.