:00:07. > :00:21.Taking her case to the High Court. The Kent woman who has been refused
:00:22. > :00:25.funding to freeze her eggs before having chemotherapy. With everything
:00:26. > :00:32.else I have had done I have never been upset is that letter m`de me.
:00:33. > :00:37.We have heard that Bob Geldof's daughter Peaches Geldof has been
:00:38. > :00:41.found dead in Kent. Armed police investigate reports of a gunman in a
:00:42. > :00:52.Brighton block of flats and a route into the city is closed off. We
:00:53. > :00:57.exclusively reveal how vulndrable people might lose the familhar face
:00:58. > :01:08.they have become used to. And three years on, what has the Turndr
:01:09. > :01:13.gallery done for Thanet? A lurder suspect best forgotten, all, a punk
:01:14. > :01:24.rock hero? Plans to honour Sid Vicious with a plaque in Tunbridge
:01:25. > :01:27.Wells. Good evening. A Kent woman with a debilitating disease is
:01:28. > :01:30.taking legal action after bding refused funding for her eggs to be
:01:31. > :01:32.frozen before she undergoes chemotherapy. Lizzie Rose, from
:01:33. > :01:35.Margate, is receiving treatlent for Crohn's disease, which could leave
:01:36. > :01:39.her infertile. The NHS, thotgh, says it won't pay to freeze and store her
:01:40. > :01:43.eggs, claiming there's extrdmely limited evidence to demonstrate
:01:44. > :01:51.effectiveness. Simon Jones has our exclusive report.
:01:52. > :01:55.She says she is fighting for her future. Lizzie Rose is waithng for a
:01:56. > :02:01.bone marrow transplant and chemotherapy. She has had ftnding
:02:02. > :02:07.for her eggs to be frozen ttrned down three times. You have been told
:02:08. > :02:13.you cannot have your own chhldren. It is like another level of
:02:14. > :02:18.upsetting thing I have not experienced before. With evdrything
:02:19. > :02:23.else I have had done, I havd never been as upset as that letter made
:02:24. > :02:27.me. I have only just recovered in the past few months to put the case
:02:28. > :02:33.forward without getting physically upset. Crohn's disease is a disorder
:02:34. > :02:39.of the immune system. It can be treated with chemotherapy, but that
:02:40. > :02:44.can leave the patient infertile Eggs are stored in liquid nhtrogen
:02:45. > :02:50.that can be used at a later date so the patient can have childrdn. We
:02:51. > :02:57.believe the policy is outdated. It works in such a way that if Lizzie
:02:58. > :03:00.Rose was male, she would receive NHS funding for fertility preservation
:03:01. > :03:06.treatment and we consider that not lawful. The treatment costs ?5, 00
:03:07. > :03:12.plus storage costs. The commissioning group based in Margate
:03:13. > :03:21.said this procedure would not normally be funded by the NHS in
:03:22. > :03:27.Kent due to insufficient evhdence about its efficacy. It said it
:03:28. > :03:36.needed to make difficult decisions. What do you say to the argulent the
:03:37. > :03:41.NHS cannot afford this? I al grateful to the NHS. They h`ve
:03:42. > :03:44.looked after me well. I am ` complicated case and unforttnately I
:03:45. > :03:51.have had to use them a lot hn my life. They need a fair policy that
:03:52. > :03:56.does not discriminate. Health bosses insist the policy applies to those
:03:57. > :04:03.relationships, also. This is coming to a head, the cases
:04:04. > :04:07.being in court tomorrow. Yes, and she will travel from Margatd to the
:04:08. > :04:12.High Court to make her case. She is set to be one of the first hn the
:04:13. > :04:17.country `` said to be one of the first with Crohn's disease to be
:04:18. > :04:21.treated with chemotherapy. She put the treatment on hold while legal
:04:22. > :04:29.proceedings continue and shd hopes for a swift decision. NHS bosses in
:04:30. > :04:34.Kent Saver have made the right choice. At the end of 2012 only 20
:04:35. > :04:41.babies had been born using frozen eggs. We move on to breaking news.
:04:42. > :04:46.Within the last few minutes it was revealed that Peaches Geldof has
:04:47. > :04:49.been found dead in Kent. Thd 25`year`old was the daughter of Bob
:04:50. > :04:57.Geldof and the late TV presdnter Paula Yates. Our corresponddnt joins
:04:58. > :05:02.me. You have been following this. What more do we know about what
:05:03. > :05:07.happened? Incredibly sad news. The police were called to an address in
:05:08. > :05:11.Kent following the report of a concern for the welfare of ` young
:05:12. > :05:17.woman this afternoon. She w`s pronounced dead at the scend by the
:05:18. > :05:22.Ambulance Service. Police s`y the death is being treated as stdden and
:05:23. > :05:28.unexplained. Peaches Geldof lost her mother when she was 11 years old
:05:29. > :05:32.with Paula Yates dying of a drugs overdose in 2000. Peaches h`s said
:05:33. > :05:38.it is difficult to talk abott her mother's death. We found thhs out
:05:39. > :05:45.recently but there has been a lot of reaction already. We can sed a
:05:46. > :05:50.picture of the last tweet that she put on Twitter of a picture of
:05:51. > :05:54.herself with her mother, whhch will resonate with people. We he`rd from
:05:55. > :05:59.Lily Allen, saying her thoughts are with her family at this awftl time
:06:00. > :06:15.and she hopes that they get to grieve in peace. Denise Van Outen,
:06:16. > :06:22.she said it was distressing news. In a moment. She didn't have a terminal
:06:23. > :06:31.illness, so why did this Sussex pensioner travel to the Dignitas
:06:32. > :06:35.Clinic to die? Armed police officers say they have
:06:36. > :06:41.arrested a man on suspicion of firearms offences inside a block of
:06:42. > :06:46.flats in Brighton. They werd called to the city at 2pm after reports a
:06:47. > :06:53.man had been seen with a gun. What more can you tell us? No ond was
:06:54. > :06:58.injured during this. The man was arrested at 5:30pm by policd
:06:59. > :07:05.officers. He was led away from the building behind me into a w`iting
:07:06. > :07:11.police car. It took about three hours with police called to 15 PM
:07:12. > :07:16.following reports of a man with a gun. This area was cordoned off
:07:17. > :07:21.because police were not surd where the man was. Tonight they are
:07:22. > :07:29.searching the property behind me. The incident has caused problems
:07:30. > :07:33.during the rush hour. We ard here, the joining of major roads hn
:07:34. > :07:39.Brighton. Lewes Road is busx at rush hour. That has reopened and police
:07:40. > :07:48.tonight thanked people for their patients. A 21`year`old man has been
:07:49. > :07:51.jailed for five years after admitting inciting a 13``ye`r`old
:07:52. > :07:53.girl to engage in sexual activity. Terry Loader, who's from Margate,
:07:54. > :08:00.also admitted possessing indecent images of children. Police found 55
:08:01. > :08:02.indecent videos on his phond. A woman who fraudulently clailed
:08:03. > :08:05.benefits by saying she was housebound in Brighton has been
:08:06. > :08:08.warned to expect a jail sentence. Tracy Johnson claimed to be unable
:08:09. > :08:11.to leave her house through agoraphobia, but was actually
:08:12. > :08:22.travelling the world as a tour guide. Hundreds of the most
:08:23. > :08:26.vulnerable people in Kent could lose their current carers as the result
:08:27. > :08:29.of a major shake`up in the way home visits are funded. Kent County
:08:30. > :08:32.Council is planning to cut the number of companies it gives
:08:33. > :08:36.contracts to from 120 now, to around 20 in future. That means elderly
:08:37. > :08:39.people may find they are now cared for by a string of different people,
:08:40. > :08:42.rather than someone they're used to. But the County Council says it's
:08:43. > :08:45.confident high standards will be maintained. Piers Hopkirk joins us
:08:46. > :08:50.from County Hall in Maidstone. There are fears of a decline in standards
:08:51. > :08:55.as a result of this? That is right. The other main worry for people is
:08:56. > :09:00.the loss of trusted relationships. People who rely on carers invest a
:09:01. > :09:04.huge amount of trust in thel, inviting them into their holes and
:09:05. > :09:09.allowing them to carry out personal and intimate care. It appears many
:09:10. > :09:15.of these relationships, somd of which have taken years to forge
:09:16. > :09:24.will come to an end. This woman admits she is at breaking
:09:25. > :09:26.point. Her 92`year`old husb`nd is getting increasingly forgetful and
:09:27. > :09:37.she faces losing the carers she knows and trusts. I think it is
:09:38. > :09:42.unfair. Why after all this time After all this time they decide to
:09:43. > :09:46.change. Kent County Council is poised to cut back the numbdr of
:09:47. > :09:50.home care providers it gives contracts to debt help the
:09:51. > :09:58.vulnerable and elderly. Aftdr tendering, it will use 20 companies
:09:59. > :10:02.from 120. Kay, from Mason, has multiple sclerosis and says she is
:10:03. > :10:08.terrified the changes might mean she loses the carers she has grown to
:10:09. > :10:15.trust. If I lose my carers, I will take my own life. I feel strongly
:10:16. > :10:22.about it. Care providers believe the changes are driven by cuts to
:10:23. > :10:26.funding. I think quality has been sacrificed to cost. Quality has to
:10:27. > :10:32.be paramount to reach dignity and respect for the service user. My
:10:33. > :10:35.concern is we will end up whth vulnerable people not getting the
:10:36. > :10:41.support they need at the tile they need it. That is not only
:10:42. > :10:46.catastrophic for the individual but also down the line for socidty. Kent
:10:47. > :10:50.Caddy council admits people might see a changing carers but s`ys the
:10:51. > :10:55.sort of care people receive will not change. It claims the contr`cts will
:10:56. > :11:01.provide quality and greater value for money. There will be fewer
:11:02. > :11:04.providers but individuals whll continue to receive the samd
:11:05. > :11:09.high`quality care they recehved in the past. I hope there will be a
:11:10. > :11:16.higher quality of care becatse there will only be 20, 25 providers.
:11:17. > :11:20.Presently we have up to 130, which means we as the County Council will
:11:21. > :11:26.be able to monitor care people provide more closely. This couple
:11:27. > :11:34.say they will face the changes together.
:11:35. > :11:39.Kent County Council has divhded the county into a number of reghons and
:11:40. > :11:44.each region will have a set number of care providers. The county says
:11:45. > :11:48.it will make the system mord efficient and carers will spend less
:11:49. > :11:52.time travelling and more tile caring. Whether it will havd an
:11:53. > :11:59.impact on the quality of care will be played out in the next months.
:12:00. > :12:04.She was not terminally ill `nd did not have a serious disability, but
:12:05. > :12:08.in 89`year`old woman from Stssex chose to end her life at thd
:12:09. > :12:13.Dignitas Clinic. The retired art teachers feared going into ` care
:12:14. > :12:18.home after suffering heart `nd lung problems. She said she was `lso
:12:19. > :12:25.disillusioned with modern lhfe and society's increasing dependdncy on
:12:26. > :12:30.computers. Anne decided to dnd her life because, it is understood, her
:12:31. > :12:35.frustration with the modern world and she feared her disease could
:12:36. > :12:38.worsen. A former doctor who campaigns for the right to die
:12:39. > :12:43.helped the 89`year`old Sussdx woman with her application to the clinic.
:12:44. > :12:51.She got to the point where the combination of physical problems
:12:52. > :12:56.restricted her activities and the combination of her age, 89, meant
:12:57. > :13:00.she did not have many more xears she could expect to live and shd felt
:13:01. > :13:07.she had come to the completdd live stage. Shortly before she ended her
:13:08. > :13:14.life, she told her `` of her weariness with the non`age. She
:13:15. > :13:23.talked about becoming robots and a lack of humanity. `` modern age I
:13:24. > :13:28.suppose it is an individual decision. I do not want to see the
:13:29. > :13:31.wholesale slaughter of all people. They do not have a good quality of
:13:32. > :13:39.life and we should put them out of their misery. She was in her right
:13:40. > :13:44.mind. I do not see an issue. It is her life and she is free to do with
:13:45. > :13:48.it what she wishes. It is probably something most people would not
:13:49. > :13:56.understand in terms of not dngaging with computers but it is her choice.
:13:57. > :14:01.Laws have to be made for thd whole population. The number of Ron rouble
:14:02. > :14:07.people, elderly, disabled, chronically sick, socially
:14:08. > :14:12.isolated, mentally ill, hard up the number of those people far outweighs
:14:13. > :14:19.these small population of the ideological you determined. Assisted
:14:20. > :14:26.suicide remains a crime herd, though prosecution service guidelines say
:14:27. > :14:32.that those motivated by compassion are less likely to be chargdd. The
:14:33. > :14:35.top story. A Margate woman with a debilitating diseases taking action
:14:36. > :14:41.after being refused funding for her eggs to be frozen before undergoing
:14:42. > :14:54.chemotherapy. Lizzie Rose's treatment is likely to leavd her
:14:55. > :14:58.infertile. Also tonight. Should the punk rock star Sid Vicious be
:14:59. > :15:03.commemorated with a plaque hn Royal Tunbridge Wells? And this wdek will
:15:04. > :15:14.be increasingly dry, but it remains fresh. Join me later for thd
:15:15. > :15:16.details. Margate's Turner Contemporary art
:15:17. > :15:19.gallery celebrates its third birthday this month and durhng that
:15:20. > :15:25.time it's seen more than a lillion people through the doors, attracting
:15:26. > :15:29.an influx of new money to Thanet. It's tuned into a shift in tastes
:15:30. > :15:32.which now sees more people going to art galleries than Premier League
:15:33. > :15:35.football matches. Supporters say Margate's venture into art hs
:15:36. > :15:38.transforming lives, but there are also detractors, as Robin Ghbson has
:15:39. > :15:44.been finding out for tonight's Special Report. `` there ard also
:15:45. > :15:49.critics. It is a landmark in many waxs. It
:15:50. > :15:55.dominates the view and has brought a step change in Margate's bucket and
:15:56. > :15:58.spade heritage and put art on the news agenda. They have excedded the
:15:59. > :16:05.brief, but nip around the corner and... I do not think anythhng will
:16:06. > :16:10.make Margate better. I have no intention of going in there. It is
:16:11. > :16:14.clear there are plenty of pdople who will not be impressed but over the
:16:15. > :16:19.last three years the Turner has tried to improve it is not just a
:16:20. > :16:27.palace of art. It goes outshde, it tries to change lives. In otr first
:16:28. > :16:32.two`year is we generated ?20 million for the local economy with 35 new
:16:33. > :16:36.businesses opening in the fhrst 18 months. We have an impact on
:16:37. > :16:45.economic regeneration. But ht is more than that. Jason is 18 and has
:16:46. > :16:49.Asperger's syndrome. All his life it has made him shy away from social
:16:50. > :17:01.situations. At the turn, he discovered the joy of making music
:17:02. > :17:05.from looking at pictures. It is taking a diverse bunch of pdople
:17:06. > :17:09.with some kind of social interaction design ability, putting thel in a
:17:10. > :17:19.room with contemporary art `nd saying you can do anything, you need
:17:20. > :17:24.to create music using this `rt. I say to do anything in relathon to
:17:25. > :17:31.the art and go wild. It has given a chance to step outside my lhfe.
:17:32. > :17:33.Being a part of the gallery choir and community helped Sue Tolpkins
:17:34. > :17:39.rediscover herself following the loss of her father and spending
:17:40. > :17:44.years as a carer. I feel it has given me a chance to be a ndw me,
:17:45. > :17:50.and, also, recapture who were used to be when I was younger. The task
:17:51. > :17:56.of bringing the outside in to enjoy what is here has been ticked off.
:17:57. > :18:08.The work of inspiring through art, taking the Inside Out, remahns a
:18:09. > :18:11.work in progress. Think of punk rock, and think of the
:18:12. > :18:15.genteel surroundings of Roy`l Tunbridge Wells and you might
:18:16. > :18:18.imagine the two don't mix. But the controversial punk musician Sid
:18:19. > :18:25.Vicious could be honoured whth a commemorative plaque in the Kent
:18:26. > :18:31.town. As plain John Ritchie, he attended Sandown Court School in
:18:32. > :18:35.Tunbridge Wells in the 1960s. He went onto join The Sex Pistols, who
:18:36. > :18:37.released their controversial cover version of God Save The Quedn to
:18:38. > :18:49.subvert the nation's Jubiled celebrations in 1977. The following
:18:50. > :18:52.year he was accised of killhng his girlfriend Nancy Spungen in a New
:18:53. > :18:55.York hotel room and subsequdntly took his own life. Jane Witherspoon
:18:56. > :18:59.joins us from Tunbridge Wells. Not who you would expect to be
:19:00. > :19:03.celebrated in Tunbridge Wells? He had a colourful life and made
:19:04. > :19:06.headlines, not always for the right reasons. I have found out what
:19:07. > :19:19.people think about this potdntial plaque.
:19:20. > :19:23.He was the anarchist with attitude. Sid Vicious was a controversial icon
:19:24. > :19:30.and is remembered as much for his personal life as his music. A heroin
:19:31. > :19:34.addict, he was arrested on suspicion of murdering his girlfriend and
:19:35. > :19:38.killed himself while on bail. The suggestion he could be given a blue
:19:39. > :19:43.plaque in Tunbridge Wells h`s been met with mixed reaction. Thd way he
:19:44. > :19:48.changed pop music, got rid of the disco fever in the 1970s and
:19:49. > :19:52.completely fractured pop music to where we are today, he should have a
:19:53. > :20:29.blue plaque will stop I think someone like Sid Vicious,
:20:30. > :20:32.could be spent on other things. Sid Vicious was really called John
:20:33. > :20:37.Ritchie and went to school here for three years from 1969. Back then, it
:20:38. > :20:46.was not an academy but Sandown Court School. The blue plaque is our
:20:47. > :20:52.council funded and cost ?300. But certain criteria must be met. For a
:20:53. > :20:57.period of town, he was the look of punk rock, which was an important
:20:58. > :21:03.movement. It feels very str`nge given the way his life ended. The
:21:04. > :21:09.open ended nurse of whether he committed a crime or not, `` how
:21:10. > :21:14.open ended it was, whether he committed a crime or not, that he
:21:15. > :21:18.would be celebrated in this way You will have to wait until latdr this
:21:19. > :21:26.year to find out, when the final list is due to be agreed.
:21:27. > :21:30.The Tunbridge Wells Civic Society are compiling the short list on
:21:31. > :21:35.behalf of the council. At the moment, Sid Vicious is one of 3
:21:36. > :21:40.names being considered. We will find out soon whether he makes the final
:21:41. > :22:16.cut. We have had comments on the story. Some strong opinions.
:22:17. > :22:24.Thanks for your comments. Football, and it was another grim weekend for
:22:25. > :22:27.our top teams. A goalless draw for Brighton was as good as it got.
:22:28. > :22:30.Meanwhile, Charlton, Gillingham and Crawley all suffered home ddfeats.
:22:31. > :22:35.Juliette Parkin has our round`up of the action.
:22:36. > :22:38.With Brighton chasing a place in the championship play`offs and Barnsley
:22:39. > :22:43.battling to avoid the drop, it was set to be a tense trip north.
:22:44. > :22:48.Brighton had possession but failed to carve out a meaningful chance
:22:49. > :22:55.until 36 minutes, when this effort was deflected wide. Another chance,
:22:56. > :23:05.a free kick on went inches wide The seagulls have not won five games. We
:23:06. > :23:09.deserved to win today. We created the best chances. In the second half
:23:10. > :23:16.we played better than the opposition. After a dreary first
:23:17. > :23:20.half, the second half was not much better the Charlton with thhs
:23:21. > :23:23.attempt gathered up quickly and it was visitors Reading who took
:23:24. > :23:29.command. Danny Williams finhshed from 12 yards in the 74th mhnute
:23:30. > :23:33.only to heighten the relegation woes for Charlton. Defeat left them two
:23:34. > :23:39.points off the bottom three. In league one, Crewe Alexandra opened
:23:40. > :23:45.the scoring. Jamie Proctor levelled the Crawley on 69 minutes. But a
:23:46. > :23:55.late goal earned Crewe Alex`ndra a vital win to aid their fight to beat
:23:56. > :24:07.the drop. Rather room went `head before `` rather united. ``
:24:08. > :24:10.Rotherham. Gillingham went hn front. But their opposition equalised again
:24:11. > :24:21.a minute later and secured the win in stoppage time.
:24:22. > :24:29.On Friday, we gave details of our special screening of O what a lovely
:24:30. > :24:34.War, later this month. It is the iconic and controversial film that
:24:35. > :24:40.used all the fun of the pier to highlight the harsh realitids of the
:24:41. > :24:47.First World War. On Monday the 8th of April we are in Brighton for a
:24:48. > :24:51.special screening of Oh What a Lovely War. We are lucky enough to
:24:52. > :24:58.be joined by members of the original cast and we hope you will join us
:24:59. > :25:00.also. Thanks for your overwhelming
:25:01. > :25:08.response. The tickets went within five minutes. Well done if xou got
:25:09. > :25:12.one. If you were successful you should receive them in the next few
:25:13. > :25:15.days. You might have noticed the appearance of the sunshine when I
:25:16. > :25:19.was down in Brighton, but not so much today.
:25:20. > :25:26.much It is improving. It has been hefty,
:25:27. > :25:34.the rain, but it will tear. It will say breezy through the week. It will
:25:35. > :25:39.be increasingly settled. We will see some sunshine, particularly on
:25:40. > :25:47.Wednesday and Thursday. Earlier a lot of cloud cover and the rain has
:25:48. > :25:53.intensified through the aftdrnoon. Temperatures have been feelhng
:25:54. > :25:58.cooler. The wind from a westerly direction, that will ease off a
:25:59. > :26:04.little bit tonight but the rate will remain until midnight. Behind that,
:26:05. > :26:10.here are skies around. Tempdratures in single figures. Down to four
:26:11. > :26:16.degrees. Clear skies means we will see sunshine from the word go on
:26:17. > :26:23.Tuesday. It will be a breezx picture as we head through the day. From a
:26:24. > :26:27.westerly direction, up to 20 mph. Drier and brighter tomorrow. You
:26:28. > :26:37.could catch a sharp shower `nd temperatures will feel fresher. The
:26:38. > :26:42.westerly breezes taking the edge of the temperatures. We will bd settled
:26:43. > :26:49.as we go through tomorrow nhght Potentially mist and fog as we start
:26:50. > :26:54.Wednesday. A cooler start from midweek. High pressure will stay
:26:55. > :26:58.with us and we should see ddcent amounts of sunshine on Wedndsday and
:26:59. > :27:04.temperatures recovering, around 14 degrees and potentially up to 1 .
:27:05. > :27:10.Settled as we go into Thursday. Perhaps more cloud cover. A chance
:27:11. > :27:14.you could see drizzle as we head into Friday, but it clears hn time
:27:15. > :27:23.for the weekend. Temperaturds will be feeling a little warmer.
:27:24. > :27:27.Before we go, tonight's top stories. Oscar Pistorius apologised hn court
:27:28. > :27:33.to the family of his girlfrhend who he is alleged to have murdered.
:27:34. > :27:37.A woman from Margate about to undergo medical treatment that could
:27:38. > :27:42.leave her in fertile is takhng legal action against the NHS after being
:27:43. > :27:46.refused funding for her eggs to be frozen. And Bob Geldof said he is
:27:47. > :27:52.beyond pain after the death of his daughter Peaches Geldof. Thd mother
:27:53. > :27:56.of two was found dead in Kent. She is 25 years old. I will be back with
:27:57. > :27:59.the late news at 10:30pm.