01/06/2014 South East Today

more on the BBC News Channel. We are back with the late news at 10.

A specialist team set up to prevent suicides on cliffs in East Sussex

A specialist team set up to prevent suicides on cliffs in East Sussex

say they may be forced to close at the end of the month.

The Beachy Head Chaplaincy Team has been credited with saving hundreds

of lives in the last ten years but it says a shortfall

in funding has coincided with increased demand for its services.

The task of recovering a body at Beachy Head this afternoon. It is

all too common tragedies like this inspired the creation of the Beachy

Head chaplaincy team. With staff given redundancy notice yesterday,

its time is running out. If we are not here, I have two ask, who will

do it? If nobody else can step into the breach, intentionally we will

see a huge increase in the number of deaths here. 20 staff and volunteers

help patrol the cliffs every week. Nobody is in doubt that this is

valued. But for it to continue the need the value in peoples hearts to

be translated into value in our bank. A specialist mental health

nurse works alongside emergency services. They provide an excellent

service. It would be a shame to lose them. The chaplaincy sanely

prevented 364 suicides last year alone. Up now the team needs an

intervention of their own. A 69`year`old man has been arrested

after shots were fired in Bexhill Armed police were called to

Turkey Road after reports that a man It is believed the man was

a licensed gun holder but officers are investigating

whether a crime was committed. The UKIP leader and South East MEP

Nigel Farage has given his strongest hint yet that he will stand in Kent

at the next general election. He told the BBC it was a distinct

possibility he would contest The current MP Laura Sandys is

standing down for personal reasons. I am going to stand in the

south`east of England because that is where I am from. One of the

things voters don't like about the big parties is the way candidates

are parachuted in all of the country. Thanet South is a distinct

possibility. That is as far as I will go.

A charity in Calais claims migrants hoping to cross the channel to Kent

have issued the authorities with a list of demands including housing.

Earlier this week, bulldozers and armed police cleared

The migrants now say they won't leave Calais

A mother from Sussex is trying to raise

awareness of a virus that caused her daughter to be born blind, epileptic

Lucy Pearman developed Cytomegalovirus, or CMV,

Adds nearly two, much of this girl's short life has been a

struggle. Despite her smiles, she is blind and severely brain damaged

because of the CMV virus. Was she only knew she was carrying out after

the birth. It is the first we had heard of it. My husband and I did

not know what CMV was. Now, Lucy and her family, including her

grandmother, are trying to raise awareness of the common virus. 80%

of us may have it and it is mostly harmless, with symptoms similar to a

common cold. What it can be devastating to unborn babies,

leaving around 900 born in the UK every year with permanent

disabilities. Spread through bodily fluids, the prevention messages

aimed at mothers with young Don't share anything you can

exchange bodily fluids. With no effective vaccination or treatment,

it is a message that they hope will help others in future.

The Mid Sussex MP Nicholas Soames has paid tribute to his mother,

the last surviving child of Sir Winston Churchill,

Mary Soames, who was born at Chartwell ` the

family home in Kent ` died yesterday evening after a short illness.

Her son said she was a truly remarkable woman.

Before we get the weather, these pictures of what looks like a

The cloud formation was seen over Eastry near Deal this morning.

Gravesend managed to get 21 degrees today. Quite a mild night to follow.

As the cloud builds, it ends up as a mild night. Temperatures down to ten

or 11. Tomorrow, quite a cloudy day with some spots of drizzle around.

They might become heavier as we head into the afternoon. The temperatures

are more disappointing than today. The humidity will be up, so it will

be feeling quite sticky tomorrow. We hold onto the wet weather for most

of the week. Tuesday will be quite showery. Still quite cloudy.

Wednesday, longer spells of rain. Thursday, slightly improving

picture, but certainly feeling very different to this last weekend.

We are back at 10:45pm. Enjoy your evening. Goodbye.

Hello. Most of us have enjoyed at least one day of lovely weather this

weekend. That weather will be harder to come by this week. It has been up

and down. Yes, rain or showers at times. Drier, sunny weather, turning

cooler. Signs are that by the end of the week temperatures will recover.

We have seen rain today in Glasgow, Edinburgh, western fringes of the UK

too. The cloud will spread east overnight, with further outbreaks of

rain into the west. Temperatures are in double figures as Monday begins.

We get the sunshine - a lot of cloud around. Some patchy rain. You can

see there are gaps within this. It is not raining everywhere. There may

be glimmers of brightness to begin the day. Sunshine will be hard to

come by. We follow this area of thicker cloud, hill rain, mist and

murk into Scotland too. It is not an inviting start to the day. We keep

plenty of cloud and gradually take some showery rain further east

across the