:00:00. > :00:00.- so it's goodbye from me - and on BBC One we now
:00:00. > :00:07.Welcome to South East Today, I'm Rob Smith.
:00:08. > :00:15.A lorry driver's footage of Calais migrants trying to jump onto
:00:16. > :00:17.vehicles crossing the channdl ` hauliers call for better protection.
:00:18. > :00:20.We're live in Dover with the details.
:00:21. > :00:24.A Kent woman claims her war veteran father died in agony becausd an NHS
:00:25. > :00:37.I would have killed my own father before he went into hospital if I
:00:38. > :00:39.had known what he would go through. Her nine`year`old son died
:00:40. > :00:43.from a previously undiagnosdd nut allergy ` now Emma Wileman's
:00:44. > :00:45.campaigning for wider testing. He was a top flight artist ` the
:00:46. > :00:48.Kent man who painted the im`ges on Airfix packaging puts his lhfetime's
:00:49. > :00:53.work up for auction And on the eve of the commonwealth games, we take a
:00:54. > :01:09.look at our strongest medal hopes. New footage of migrants' shocking
:01:10. > :01:14.attempts to break into moving vehicles approaching the
:01:15. > :01:17.port of Calais has been reldased, as lorry drivers crossing the Channel
:01:18. > :01:39.launch a campaign demanding better One the approach to the port of
:01:40. > :01:42.Calais as the lorries slowdown, the migrants moved in. It is not long
:01:43. > :01:48.before they have got the door open. To managed to get in, the others,
:01:49. > :01:52.working as a team, help thel up and then ensure the doors get shot. The
:01:53. > :01:58.driver who took this Vidic says it is escalating.
:01:59. > :02:01.It is horrific, just the amount of people wandering about, swarming
:02:02. > :02:05.over the lorries. If you were on your own in a vehicle, and xou have
:02:06. > :02:09.not seen anything like that before, you would find a terrifying.
:02:10. > :02:14.Our investigation in March showed how some immigrants were prdpared to
:02:15. > :02:20.climb onto axles in attempts to try to get into Britain. The recent
:02:21. > :02:23.closure of the makeshift calps in Calais has made things worsd,
:02:24. > :02:27.according to drivers. They have started a petition calling on the
:02:28. > :02:31.Home Office to get the French to sort out security. Industry
:02:32. > :02:35.representatives say there is room for improvement.
:02:36. > :02:37.We would like more understanding between the French government and UK
:02:38. > :02:42.government. We would like more resources going into the border
:02:43. > :02:46.force. At one point in the footage, some of
:02:47. > :02:53.the migrants are almost hit. We showed it to the Dover MP.
:02:54. > :02:57.It is a real concern. You w`nt to see free movement of traffic through
:02:58. > :03:02.the European Union. It is clear that the free movement of goods hs being
:03:03. > :03:06.inhibited by these people. But some say the migrants are not
:03:07. > :03:10.doing this likely. We are seeing people who ard
:03:11. > :03:14.desperate, who often don't see food from day`to`day and don't h`ve
:03:15. > :03:19.shelter, and feel they have nothing to lose are resorting to thdse
:03:20. > :03:21.desperate measures. Drivers say the daily battld will go
:03:22. > :03:24.on. Simon what response has there
:03:25. > :03:36.been from the Home Office? The petition from lorry drivers
:03:37. > :03:41.demanding the Home Office does something has now reached more than
:03:42. > :03:46.2000 signatures. Lorry drivdrs say they want potential fines rdduced if
:03:47. > :03:51.still ways are found in the lorries as they say the situation is simply
:03:52. > :03:58.out of control. The Home Office say they have bolstered securitx and
:03:59. > :04:03.they insist lorry drivers do have an important role to play themselves.
:04:04. > :04:07.In the past few months I have been to Calais several times mysdlf to
:04:08. > :04:10.see the situation, and desphte an apparent crackdown by the French
:04:11. > :04:15.authorities, it seems the shtuation shows little sign of improvhng.
:04:16. > :04:19.A Kent woman claims NHS staff failed to manage her dying father's pain,
:04:20. > :04:21.and when she complained, a nurse threatened to get sdcurity
:04:22. > :04:25.Joanne Fowler says her 93`ydar`old father was left screaming
:04:26. > :04:32.in agony and she considered killing him herself to end his suffdring.
:04:33. > :04:34.War veteran Frank Foster was admitted to the Tunbridge Wdlls
:04:35. > :04:39.The Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust has commissioned `n
:04:40. > :04:44.independent review to deterline if there were any failures in his care.
:04:45. > :04:58.Joanne Fowler recorded the sound of her father's pain, and her requests
:04:59. > :05:12.to nurses to get him more medication. Frank Foster, a World
:05:13. > :05:15.War II veteran, was deaf and blind. As his daughter's pleas to the
:05:16. > :05:32.nurses to help them became lore desperate and angry, one of them is
:05:33. > :05:36.hired to ask her to leave the war. I was angry, because my father was
:05:37. > :05:40.in pain, and there was something that could be done. In hosphtal
:05:41. > :06:03.today, no man, woman or child should have to be screaming in pain.
:06:04. > :06:09.In a statement, the trust s`id: Helen Mickey is medical dirdctor at
:06:10. > :06:12.a hospice that carers for the terminally ill. She would not
:06:13. > :06:17.comment on the specifics of this case but says that good practice
:06:18. > :06:19.dictates that they should bd a quick reassessment we're existing pain
:06:20. > :06:25.medication ceases to give stfficient relief.
:06:26. > :06:28.The nurses or health care professionals should report back to
:06:29. > :06:31.the medical staff very quickly that you do what they were using was not
:06:32. > :06:36.helping and asking for another assessment, are bracing it on the
:06:37. > :06:44.assessment, changing the doses or drugs being used so that thdy are
:06:45. > :06:47.getting on top of a patient's pain. Mr Foster was being given p`in
:06:48. > :06:50.relief, but his daughter dods not think it was enough. He was
:06:51. > :06:56.eventually sedated but died less than a week later. Mrs Fowldr says
:06:57. > :06:58.the whole family was, ties by the experience and would have done
:06:59. > :07:03.anything to end his apparent suffering.
:07:04. > :07:12.My son came in and said, " Lum, can't we do something?" That is how
:07:13. > :07:16.bad his pain was, the nurses saw that. I promise you, I would have
:07:17. > :07:22.killed my own father before he ever went in hospital if I had known what
:07:23. > :07:24.he was going to go through. My dad should not have suffered like this.
:07:25. > :07:26.That was Joanne Fowler, from Tunbridge Wells,
:07:27. > :07:31.Jon, Mrs Fowler has now made a formal
:07:32. > :07:45.She has. The Trust has been in touch with her and they do plan to meet.
:07:46. > :07:50.The hospital's chief nurse has told us that they are very, very sorry
:07:51. > :07:54.that Mrs Fowler's experiencd of her late father's here did not leet the
:07:55. > :07:58.high standards that they ard committed to. They say that the
:07:59. > :08:01.independent review will aim to see the facts, and they claim they will
:08:02. > :08:05.not hesitate to take action should that prove necessary. We know that
:08:06. > :08:09.Mr Foster was receiving pain medication. No doubt the qudstion
:08:10. > :08:21.for this review will be whether that was at all times appropriatd given
:08:22. > :08:25.his rapidly changing condithons Coming up, and you campaign to
:08:26. > :08:31.attract Londoners to Margatd. The mother of a 9`year`old boy
:08:32. > :08:33.from Sussex who suffered a fatal reaction to nuts has teamed
:08:34. > :08:36.up with a celebrity doctor to raise Emma Wileman's son Haydn suffered
:08:37. > :08:41.a cardiac arrest Now, with Dr Hilary Jones, she's
:08:42. > :09:06.touring schools to highlight the One morning three years ago, Emma
:09:07. > :09:12.Wileman had no idea what wotld happen next.
:09:13. > :09:19.He went to the back door so that he could breathe better. I went up
:09:20. > :09:25.behind him to help them with his asthma pump, and he fell back into
:09:26. > :09:30.my arms, blue. And he was gone. You never regained consciousness after
:09:31. > :09:34.that. That is how quick it hs. Why might have suffered an `llergic
:09:35. > :09:38.reaction to nuts after eating a bowl of cereal.
:09:39. > :09:43.Why hadn't I known this before? I knew all about his asthma and how to
:09:44. > :09:52.treat it, but why did not about this as well?
:09:53. > :09:55.After setting up at charity, she is now visiting schools across the
:09:56. > :10:00.country celebrity Doctor Hilary Jones.
:10:01. > :10:04.The campaign is about testing people who have asthma and whose sxmptoms
:10:05. > :10:08.are deteriorating and becomhng more severe, or people who have had
:10:09. > :10:12.severe allergic reactions in the past.
:10:13. > :10:17.Expense in Brighton and elsdwhere are looking at other methods such as
:10:18. > :10:21.certain genetic tests, to try to identify children before thdy have
:10:22. > :10:25.problems. It can be quite difficult to pick up
:10:26. > :10:28.children who have got severd underlying allergies, it can be
:10:29. > :10:33.very, very difficult to pick that up, particularly when the child has
:10:34. > :10:38.not had a severe reaction bdfore. The question really is, is there a
:10:39. > :10:44.way of picking these things up beyond just taking the history?
:10:45. > :10:50.A life cut short, but lasting legacy of saving many others.
:10:51. > :10:53.Budget cuts of up to ?90 million are likely to
:10:54. > :10:55.be necessary to balance the books at East Sussex County Counchl
:10:56. > :10:59.The authority's already redtced spending by ?89 million over
:11:00. > :11:06.But a new report considered by councillors today says ftrther
:11:07. > :11:09.cuts are likely, if the Govdrnment continues to reduce its funding
:11:10. > :11:13.UKIP is the most popular party among voters in Thanet South,
:11:14. > :11:15.according to a new poll, with many pundits predicting that
:11:16. > :11:18.the party's leader Nigel Farage will choose to stand there
:11:19. > :11:23.The poll, by the Conservative Party donor
:11:24. > :11:25.Lord Ashcroft, suggests that UKIP support has risen by five pdrcentage
:11:26. > :11:31.An area twice the size of a new Thames Estuary airport
:11:32. > :11:35.would be needed to replace habitats affected by its construction,
:11:36. > :11:38.according to a new report from the British Trust for Ornithology.
:11:39. > :11:41.It also claims finding a suhtable area would be challenging,
:11:42. > :11:46.Earlier this month the Government's airport commission said
:11:47. > :11:49.a hub airport off the North Kent coast would pose a "considerable
:11:50. > :11:57.New research shows Thanet lost more tourism jobs than almost anxwhere
:11:58. > :12:04.else in the country in recent years, a major new campaign to attract
:12:05. > :12:07.Londoners down to the coast has been launched this week.
:12:08. > :12:10.With the opening of the Turner Contemporary Gallery a couple
:12:11. > :12:14.of years ago, a rash of restaurants and boutique hotels have opdned up
:12:15. > :12:17.in Margate ` but will they be enough to reverse decades of decline?
:12:18. > :12:25.Paddy O'Connell joins us live from Minnis Bay, near Margate.
:12:26. > :12:34.The idea was if you want thd world to come to Thanet, take Thanet to
:12:35. > :12:39.the world. Retook a beach htt and put it in one of the world's busiest
:12:40. > :12:45.railway stations. When you `re in your hot studio looking herd, the
:12:46. > :12:50.case makes itself. But I fotnd out directly at St Pancras this morning,
:12:51. > :12:55.there are people on this pl`net who have never heard of Kent. How about
:12:56. > :12:59.Thanet? I haven't heard of that.
:13:00. > :13:05.Margate? I haven't heard of that.
:13:06. > :13:08.This lady, who is wearing a very French top, she might actually be
:13:09. > :13:12.French, and they are asking for information about Kent. When you
:13:13. > :13:17.look here, it is not very surprising.
:13:18. > :13:22.We only started yesterday and had a great response from the public. They
:13:23. > :13:25.were all coming up very intdrested. As you can see, the beach htts are
:13:26. > :13:30.beautiful. Will this bring people to Kdnt?
:13:31. > :13:34.I think people don't realisd Kent has so much going on. We have
:13:35. > :13:38.fantastic ages. People flocked here from all over
:13:39. > :13:44.the world, but how to make them go to Kent? May be this fact c`n pull
:13:45. > :13:53.them in. Tourists helped buhld the Kent coast, but how do you lake them
:13:54. > :13:56.help everybody? Tourists don't just see the golden sands, the CV dark
:13:57. > :14:01.alleyways, and all the benefits don't necessarily flow to local
:14:02. > :14:04.people. When he grows up, whth his future be better if there are more
:14:05. > :14:09.tourists coming here? I don't know. But at the molent I
:14:10. > :14:12.think the future will be very bleak around here because there w`s
:14:13. > :14:15.nothing for them to do. If you were a tourist, would you
:14:16. > :14:22.come to Margate? Not know. Never.
:14:23. > :14:26.It got a lovely beach down there, they could make it look likd
:14:27. > :14:34.Blackpool. This hotel is open all year, fully
:14:35. > :14:37.booked, employing 36 people. The story of despair is changing,
:14:38. > :14:40.every week there is something new in the papers about what is happening
:14:41. > :14:46.here, and it is an exciting place to be.
:14:47. > :14:50.Some say just a posh hotel `nd a new art gallery does not mean bdnefits
:14:51. > :14:54.for everyone. This is an argument they have heard in murky fotr
:14:55. > :15:00.years. Put all the rhetoric aside, when you are faced with a bdautiful
:15:01. > :15:07.evening like this, you could talk for hours or you could just enjoy
:15:08. > :15:19.it. It is coming up to 6:45pm.
:15:20. > :15:27.Shocking footage has been rdleased showing migrants breaking into
:15:28. > :15:31.lorries to try to make it to Dover. Inspiring generations of yotngsters
:15:32. > :15:35.to get covered in blue, the effects artist who is auctioning his life's
:15:36. > :15:40.work. And other glorious sulmers day, and it will be more of the same
:15:41. > :15:43.tomorrow I might join me later for the forecast.
:15:44. > :15:46.A patch the size of a sticking`plaster is about to be
:15:47. > :15:49.tested by the NHS, as a new way of monitoring a patient's heart`rate,
:15:50. > :15:55.It follows successful trials at a private hospital in Brhghton.
:15:56. > :15:58.Independent experts say the system could free nurses up
:15:59. > :16:00.from their routine checks, allowing them to spend more quality
:16:01. > :16:05.Adam Brimelow has tonight's special report.
:16:06. > :16:09.A routine check for vital shgns like temperature and heart rate
:16:10. > :16:12.Regular updates, often everx four hours, are a key part of care
:16:13. > :16:15.and safety in hospitals, but patients can deteriorate between
:16:16. > :16:25.This private hospital in Brhghton has been trialling a batterx`powered
:16:26. > :16:29.patch that updates informathon on some of the vital signs dvery
:16:30. > :16:33.couple of minutes, issuing an alert if there is a problem.
:16:34. > :16:36.It doesn't replace routine checks, but it does ease some
:16:37. > :16:43.It gives us a bit more time with patients when we know that some
:16:44. > :16:47.Without this monitor, you are constantly thinking,
:16:48. > :16:51."what is happening in the ndxt room? I should go and check them".
:16:52. > :16:54.But knowing that this is on and works well, you are abld to
:16:55. > :17:00.It is just a bit more relaxhng on the nursing side knowing that
:17:01. > :17:07.It gives me reassurance that there is some equipment looking
:17:08. > :17:15.I think when the nurse is whth you, her mind is perhaps a bit more with
:17:16. > :17:18.you, rather than thinking about what is going on in the other rooms.
:17:19. > :17:21.This is what continuous monhtoring looks like in the NHS at thd moment.
:17:22. > :17:23.It is extremely expensive, very restrictive for patients,
:17:24. > :17:27.and there needs to be a nurse here all the time to keep
:17:28. > :17:32.With this patch, it is so small and light patients
:17:33. > :17:38.They are less likely to devdlop complications, and that means they
:17:39. > :17:41.are likely to recover more puickly and go home sooner,
:17:42. > :17:52.This British`designed patch lasts five days, long enough
:17:53. > :18:03.It is being developed to provide more information on blood pressure
:18:04. > :18:07.and oxygen levels, and experts say it has great potential for ` lot
:18:08. > :18:14.This could have a use in the emergency department and
:18:15. > :18:17.from the emergency care phase right through the first couple of days
:18:18. > :18:20.in hospital when the patient is more liable to deteriorate.
:18:21. > :18:22.It also has potentially an application for looking `fter
:18:23. > :18:25.patients in their own home because we can observe them remotelx rather
:18:26. > :18:32.The patches are about to be tried out in thd NHS,
:18:33. > :18:38.Trusts. The Royal College of nursing says that anything that helps pick
:18:39. > :18:41.up deterioration has to be ` good thing, and says it is still vital to
:18:42. > :18:44.ensure there are enough staff with the right skills in every w`rd.
:18:45. > :18:46.That was Adam Brimelow, reporting from Brighton.
:18:47. > :18:48.And there's further reaction to the pros and cons
:18:49. > :19:07.of the new patches from medhcal professionals on our websitd:
:19:08. > :19:20.In more ways than one he was the model artist. He designed m`ny of
:19:21. > :19:24.the illustrations on the boxes of air strikes models.
:19:25. > :19:30.Now he is putting some of hhs original paintings and drawhngs for
:19:31. > :19:47.auction. Our reporter has bden to look at his top`flight colldction.
:19:48. > :19:51.Airfix planes have topped m`ny children's wish lists, and the
:19:52. > :19:57.artist on the packaging was just as desirable, much of it paintdd by Roy
:19:58. > :20:01.Cross. Some of it had rather crude artwork
:20:02. > :20:05.on the top, and I thought I could do better than that. I wrote to the
:20:06. > :20:09.firm looking for new work and told them I thought I could do bdtter.
:20:10. > :20:15.They hired him immediately. Roy went on to do all the artwork on the
:20:16. > :20:19.boxes in Airfix's prime, thd 19 0s and nineteen seventies.
:20:20. > :20:25.I must have done several hundred pieces of artwork.
:20:26. > :20:30.His love of planes started when he was young.
:20:31. > :20:36.As a boy, my mother take me to the Hendon airshows. We saw these
:20:37. > :20:40.beautiful biplanes zipping `round and older pilots in posh whhte
:20:41. > :20:44.suits. Roy has decided to auction off
:20:45. > :20:52.nearly all his Airfix work. He has a famous fan who he hopes maybe it.
:20:53. > :20:55.I would save up for ages to buy one small model, and I would be sad when
:20:56. > :21:01.I finished it because I would have to save up to buy another.
:21:02. > :21:06.Roy has finally decided to tidy away his paintbrushes.
:21:07. > :21:11.I have done 70 years of artwork so I think that is enough.
:21:12. > :21:18.His collection is expected to fetch ?20,000 at auction in Countx Durham
:21:19. > :21:21.on Thursday. What a lot of memories!
:21:22. > :21:25.You have become all nostalghc! Onto football, and Brighton and Hove
:21:26. > :21:28.Albion's star striker Leonardo Ulloa has joined Premier League ndwcomers
:21:29. > :21:30.Leicester City. The Argentinian forward, who scored 25 goals in 52
:21:31. > :21:33.appearances for the Seagulls, has signed a four`year deal even though
:21:34. > :21:35.Brighton had said they were The Commonwealth Games get tnderway
:21:36. > :21:42.tomorrow evening, when the opening ceremony whll take
:21:43. > :21:45.place in Glasgow, and almost 30 competitors from here in thd
:21:46. > :21:49.South East will be taking p`rt. Last night we featured one
:21:50. > :21:52.of our strongest medal hopefuls ` the Sussex middle`distance runner
:21:53. > :21:54.Charlie Grice. But, as Neil Bell reports,
:21:55. > :22:07.he's not the only South East athlete Over the next 11 days, thousands of
:22:08. > :22:13.athletes from 71 countries will compete in 17 sport at more than a
:22:14. > :22:20.dozen Scottish venues. For lany it will be the athletics that the most
:22:21. > :22:24.looking forward to. This prhnter is one of the emerging stars at the
:22:25. > :22:30.London Olympics and once ag`in face some of the sport's biggest names,
:22:31. > :22:32.and some of his friends. The Commonwealth Games are lassive.
:22:33. > :22:37.It is interesting competing for England rather than GB, so ht will
:22:38. > :22:42.be nice to compete against Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, that
:22:43. > :22:48.would be fun. Among the other medal hopeftls will
:22:49. > :22:51.be the shooters Charlotte Kdnwood and Steve Scott. Charlotte was just
:22:52. > :22:58.15 when she won her first Commonwealth Games gold, and then
:22:59. > :23:03.defended it in 2006. Steve picked up in the ` gold in Delhi.
:23:04. > :23:12.Obviously coming away with the gold medal meant a lot. Along with my
:23:13. > :23:16.team`mate. In terms of reprdsenting the country it is amazing.
:23:17. > :23:20.The Commonwealth was the first big event I went to, so it is vdry
:23:21. > :23:25.special. I love going to thd Commonwealth Games. It is stch a
:23:26. > :23:30.great atmosphere, and so frhendly. I always have a great time up there,
:23:31. > :23:35.and so far I have always done quite well so I am hoping that continues.
:23:36. > :23:39.In total, 14 hockey players from the south`east will be hoping to build
:23:40. > :23:43.on recent international success and are looking forward to the ledia
:23:44. > :23:46.attention. This is something I have always
:23:47. > :23:50.aspired to playing, and it hs so good is to feel part of a whder
:23:51. > :23:56.team, all here to try to do our best.
:23:57. > :23:59.You can get behind everyone competing at all sports in the
:24:00. > :24:03.Commonwealth, and it does h`ve that Olympic feel to it. Obviously it is
:24:04. > :24:07.very important for us to do well in every tournament, but this one
:24:08. > :24:10.especially civil. These are the friendly games, and
:24:11. > :24:11.for many of the south`east's competitors, they could be
:24:12. > :24:14.memorable, to. Our reporter Hamish Marshall is live
:24:15. > :24:17.in the athletes? village in Glasgow So the waiting is almost ovdr
:24:18. > :24:20.for the South East competitors, and the start of the so`called
:24:21. > :24:30."Friendly Games", Hamish? Very much so, and many of them have
:24:31. > :24:33.been here in the last few mhnutes. We have had the official welcome
:24:34. > :24:37.ceremony for team England at the village, and speaking to many of the
:24:38. > :24:47.competitors, I think they w`nt to get things under way. The opening
:24:48. > :24:53.ceremony is just a front thd a few hundred yards from here tomorrow
:24:54. > :25:00.evening. Ashley plays Thursday evening for team England. And as for
:25:01. > :25:03.Maddie, it will be early to bed for her tomorrow, team England start
:25:04. > :25:07.early on Thursday morning and then the games will be well and truly
:25:08. > :25:10.under way. It is feeling a lot like July, isn't
:25:11. > :25:24.it? Even sunshine in Scotland!
:25:25. > :25:30.Over the next couple of weeks lots of sunshine around and tempdratures
:25:31. > :25:33.very warm for the time of ydar. Some fair weather cloud but mostly dry
:25:34. > :25:39.and bright. Temperatures rising very quickly, high temperatures of 2
:25:40. > :25:45.degrees with north`easterly breeze is. Bridges along the east coast a
:25:46. > :25:50.little cooler, but still a warm and pleasant afternoon. As we go into
:25:51. > :26:02.tonight temperatures stay mtggy and humid, uncomfortable for sldeping,
:26:03. > :26:09.only dropping to the mid`tedns. Lows of 1718. For tomorrow, plenty of
:26:10. > :26:20.sunshine around. Temperaturds soaring by the afternoon, hhgh`tech
:26:21. > :26:28.gyms `` high temperatures of 28 or 29. Because of the heat, sole fairly
:26:29. > :26:37.sharp showers could be triggered in Essex. Plenty of sunshine around,
:26:38. > :26:41.and then much more of the s`me as we go through tomorrow night.
:26:42. > :26:50.Temperatures only dropping to 1 or 17 degrees. As we start the day on
:26:51. > :26:58.Thursday plenty of dry temperatures. We might see one or
:26:59. > :27:04.two showers around. A simil`r story as we go into Friday, and the
:27:05. > :27:08.weekend looks to be mostly dry. Temperatures around 23 or 24
:27:09. > :27:14.degrees. Lots of sunshine and lots of dry and warm weather.
:27:15. > :27:20.It seems appropriate to leave you with a lovely sunny photogr`ph of
:27:21. > :27:25.East Kent. Goodbye.