:00:42. > :01:12.The Portuguese man attacked and left to die after just four days
:01:13. > :01:14.in the country; a 23`year`old from Sussex goes on trial for murder.
:01:15. > :01:18.The mission to save two brown bears abandoned in Eastern Europe; a Kent
:01:19. > :01:26.And the Kent potter pretty "happy" that the spoof pop videos he
:01:27. > :01:41.made to show off his ceramics are an internet hit.
:01:42. > :01:48.The company that owns a 20,000 tonne mountain of waste
:01:49. > :01:51.that towers over local homes could be about to go into administration.
:01:52. > :01:53.Waste4Fuel stores rubbish from several councils across Kent
:01:54. > :01:57.With temperatures getting close to 30 Celsius this summer,
:01:58. > :02:00.people living in the shadow of the waste site say
:02:01. > :02:06.Our reporter Helen Drew is at the scene ` Helen, the local MP has met
:02:07. > :02:20.with government ministers today in a bid to try and get the site cleared?
:02:21. > :02:29.Yes, and it will not be a moment too soon for these residents. It is 27
:02:30. > :02:32.degrees here right now, and as the temperature rise is the smell from
:02:33. > :02:39.this rubbish site gets an awful lot worse. `` as the temperature rises.
:02:40. > :02:43.There was a meeting this afternoon, but there have been court cases to
:02:44. > :02:47.try and do so in the past, and they have failed.
:02:48. > :02:54.As temperatures rise, temperatures so. This rubbish side looms over the
:02:55. > :03:01.houses in this cul`de`sac. Their inhabitants have had enough. Total
:03:02. > :03:09.nightmare. We have loads of dust blowing up, we have the pollution of
:03:10. > :03:17.the lorries, and we have flies, the odd rat running around. And the pile
:03:18. > :03:23.keeps igniting. We have the firemen hear so many times.
:03:24. > :03:28.The site is operated by Waste4Fuel, which has been taken to court wall
:03:29. > :03:33.than once. Earlier this month the Environment Agency tried to get them
:03:34. > :03:37.to reduce the rubbish. But the High Court dismissed the case. All that
:03:38. > :03:40.stands is an enforcement notice stopping them bringing more waste
:03:41. > :03:47.onto side. We understand the frustration, and
:03:48. > :03:54.everything we can to make sure that Waste4Fuel take the responsibility.
:03:55. > :03:58.That is unlikely. Waste4Fuel tell us they are going into administration.
:03:59. > :04:03.So they won't have any obligation to clear the rubbish. But the
:04:04. > :04:07.Environment Agency said they do not have an obligation either. Unless
:04:08. > :04:12.there is a clear and immediate risk to the local community, it is not
:04:13. > :04:19.down to the public bodies. There seems to be no end to it. Nobody
:04:20. > :04:25.seems to be able to help us. This afternoon the area's MP met with the
:04:26. > :04:32.Environment Agency. He says they are being grossly complacent, and the
:04:33. > :04:36.site needs to be closed. Residents want this to happen as
:04:37. > :04:39.soon as possible, they have been telling me the rubbish has been
:04:40. > :04:45.overbearing for around three or four years. But it is not clear who will
:04:46. > :04:50.pay for the rubbish removal. If Waste4Fuel go into administration,
:04:51. > :04:52.they tell us they think it will end up being the taxpayer who foots the
:04:53. > :04:56.bill. There's been a dramatic surge
:04:57. > :04:59.in number of historic sexual abuse Figures obtained exclusively by
:05:00. > :05:02.BBC South East reveal that Kent Police logged more than 1,100
:05:03. > :05:05.cases ` that's a rise of 70% It's thought the increase follows
:05:06. > :05:24.high profile cases of abuse carried Tonight one man who was abused says
:05:25. > :05:34.the recent publicity prompted him to seek help.
:05:35. > :05:40.Days really going `` rarely going by without sex cases hitting the
:05:41. > :05:44.headlines. Two years ago, this man was still keeping the abuse he
:05:45. > :05:50.suffered aged nine and a secret from everyone. Now, having sought help,
:05:51. > :05:55.he is speaking on television. People are now feeling more confident that
:05:56. > :06:03.they can come forward and disclose their experiences. Without the fear
:06:04. > :06:07.of being treated as some sort of pervert, because they are starting
:06:08. > :06:11.to realise that it is not their fault. These paedophiles are very
:06:12. > :06:19.clever people. Figures obtained by us show that
:06:20. > :06:23.Kent Police recorded more than 2240 sexual offences in the past
:06:24. > :06:28.financial year. That is compare to more than 1,400 in the year before.
:06:29. > :06:34.`` compared. In Sussex, just over 1,500 serious
:06:35. > :06:37.offences were logged last year, an increase of 24% on the previous
:06:38. > :06:41.year. It increased reporting has seen
:06:42. > :06:45.referrals to support services go up as well. This charity has seen the
:06:46. > :06:50.number of people they are helping almost double in the last year.
:06:51. > :06:57.There is so much publicity that people can either not escape from it
:06:58. > :07:02.any longer, so things that perhaps had been boxed up for many years are
:07:03. > :07:07.now refusing to stay that way, but also significantly I think people
:07:08. > :07:17.feel that they will be hurt, `` heard, and believed.
:07:18. > :07:23.The offences of the likes of Jimmy Savile and others have shocked the
:07:24. > :07:30.country. But seeing justice being done has empowered more survivors to
:07:31. > :07:35.break their silence. Obviously it is a positive thing
:07:36. > :07:39.that victims feel they can report crimes to the police, but are we
:07:40. > :07:46.seeing a corresponding increase in prosecutions?
:07:47. > :07:52.In short, no, not yet. Looking at the Kent figures, 56% increase in
:07:53. > :08:00.reported offences, but a 70% fall in the number of people being charged,
:08:01. > :08:05.apparently in part because of the age of the alleged offenders and the
:08:06. > :08:09.difficulty in getting evidence. In Sussex they said `` they say there
:08:10. > :08:15.has been a 10% increase in the number of cases solved. Police say
:08:16. > :08:19.it is positive that more people are coming forward because it gives them
:08:20. > :08:25.a chance to help these survivors but also to safeguard children.
:08:26. > :08:28.The raw milk debate; the case of a Sussex dairy farmer who's
:08:29. > :08:32.facing prosecution is being reviewed by the Food Standards Agency.
:08:33. > :08:38.Lord Howard, the former MP for Folkestone and Hythe
:08:39. > :08:42.and Conservative Party leader, has today launched a campaign to reduce
:08:43. > :08:46.the number of terminally ill people dying in hospital, saying they
:08:47. > :08:48.should instead be allowed to "die with dignity" in their own
:08:49. > :08:54.Around 250,000 people each year die in hospital,
:08:55. > :09:01.Lord Howard wants to reduce that number by a fifth ` or 50,000 people
:09:02. > :09:04.` which he believes would not only lead to better targeted care,
:09:05. > :09:17.Our political editor Louise Stewart reports.
:09:18. > :09:24.Hospital wards like this should be the last resort at the end of
:09:25. > :09:30.someone's life, according to Lord Howard. He is now leading the help
:09:31. > :09:35.for hospices campaign which wants to work with the NHS to help terminally
:09:36. > :09:41.ill people who want to leave the wards. For name it `` for many
:09:42. > :09:46.people there is no clinical reason for them to be in hospital, they
:09:47. > :09:51.need palliative care, and hospitals are there to cure and mend, they are
:09:52. > :09:55.not really great and palliative care. So we think it would be much
:09:56. > :10:00.better if it could be arranged for people who wanted by at home or in
:10:01. > :10:04.hospice to do so. Figures suggest more than 80% of the
:10:05. > :10:11.public would prefer to die at home or in a hospice, but only a fifth of
:10:12. > :10:15.hospital sites have access to face`to`face palliative care every
:10:16. > :10:22.day. The campaign is job `` calling for half ?1 million of Government
:10:23. > :10:27.money to fund six pilot schemes. If they wish to die at home or in a
:10:28. > :10:32.hospice, that should be able to happen, that we need the right
:10:33. > :10:38.resources in the community, so if this is a case of saving the NHS a
:10:39. > :10:41.lot of money, that money needs to be redirected so those people get the
:10:42. > :10:44.support they need and would wish for.
:10:45. > :10:50.Many elderly people also like the right to choose. If I had the
:10:51. > :10:56.choice, I would prefer to stay at home if I have the care. If you do
:10:57. > :11:03.not have a care `` a carer at home, the hospice is the thing.
:11:04. > :11:08.They should be able to choose what they would like to do for the last
:11:09. > :11:12.remaining years. Lord Howard says he would like to
:11:13. > :11:16.spend his final days at his home in Kent. He hopes this campaign will
:11:17. > :11:18.mean many others will also have a choice when it comes to the end of
:11:19. > :11:22.their life. Almost 500 motorists had
:11:23. > :11:24.their breath tested last month during a crackdown
:11:25. > :11:26.on drink`driving by Kent Police. Additional patrols stopped anyone
:11:27. > :11:28.they suspected of driving under the influence, and
:11:29. > :11:33.73 of those tests proved positive. In total 156 people were arrested
:11:34. > :11:39.for drink`drive related offences. Faversham and
:11:40. > :11:41.Mid Kent MP Hugh Robertson, who left his position in the Foreign Office
:11:42. > :11:44.in last week's government reshuffle, Two other former ministers
:11:45. > :11:49.are also set to be knighted. The Prime Minister's been accused
:11:50. > :11:52.of undermining the system by using A jury has been shown startling CCTV
:11:53. > :12:00.footage of the moment before a Portuguese man was attacked
:12:01. > :12:03.and left with serious head injuries Daniel Palmer,
:12:04. > :12:08.who's 23 and comes from the town, Our reporter Claudia
:12:09. > :12:22.Sermbezis has more. This is the alleyway in which Joao
:12:23. > :12:28.Esteves was found dying. Daniel Palmer is accused of his murder.
:12:29. > :12:35.Photos on his phone Cheryl Joao Esteves injured in the alley. The
:12:36. > :12:40.court heard how police also found footage on his phone showing Joao
:12:41. > :12:44.Esteves coughing and moaning, and saying something along the lines of
:12:45. > :12:48.what you want? The prosecution's case is focused on
:12:49. > :12:52.CCTV footage of old men throughout the evening. The prosecution told
:12:53. > :12:59.the court that in the early hours of January 19, Daniel Palmer found his
:13:00. > :13:05.cousin and a friend, and allegedly asked both to bring petrol and a
:13:06. > :13:11.light. The next day he allegedly told the same friend, he came at me
:13:12. > :13:16.with a knife. I took him to an alley and I lost it.
:13:17. > :13:21.The court also watched footage of Daniel Palmer playing with and
:13:22. > :13:25.removing the cord of his hooded top in a nightclub, and a photo on his
:13:26. > :13:31.phone showed Joao Esteves line with a cord around his neck. Daniel
:13:32. > :13:43.Palmer pleads not guilty. `` Joao Esteves lying.
:13:44. > :13:49.The number of sexual abuse cases reported in the south`east has
:13:50. > :13:52.jumped by 50% in the last year. It is thought that recent
:13:53. > :13:54.high`profile cases such as Jimmy Savile and Rolf Harris have prompted
:13:55. > :13:58.more people to come forward. A former Corrie star and a McGann
:13:59. > :14:00.brother play a couple on the rocks trying to patch things
:14:01. > :14:12.up in Paris ` on stage in Brighton. Things eventually feeling fresher
:14:13. > :14:20.over the next couple of days. Join me later.
:14:21. > :14:22.A Sussex dairy farmer who's been facing the prospect
:14:23. > :14:25.of being prosecuted for selling raw milk in the department store
:14:26. > :14:27.Selfridges is welcoming a decision by the Food Standards
:14:28. > :14:30.Stephen Hook, who farms near Hailsham,
:14:31. > :14:34.already sells unpasteurised milk directly to customers locally.
:14:35. > :14:38.But plans to expand by selling it from a vending machine
:14:39. > :14:41.at the exclusive London store had to be halted over health concerns.
:14:42. > :14:43.Our environment correspondent Yvette Austin has the latest
:14:44. > :15:04.Morning milking. But most attention is being paid to cleanliness, but
:15:05. > :15:09.the milk is being sold raw. But it is controversial. In 2012 the farm
:15:10. > :15:12.began selling its milk from a vending machine, and Food Standards
:15:13. > :15:17.Agency did not know what to make of it. For the past two years it has
:15:18. > :15:21.been trying to come to include coalition over whether selling raw
:15:22. > :15:28.milk from a machine is against the law. Today it decided it needed more
:15:29. > :15:33.evidence. They recited `` they recognise that consumers want more
:15:34. > :15:39.access to raw milk, but they also at the same time want to try and get
:15:40. > :15:43.guidelines in place that `` whereby the consumer is better protected.
:15:44. > :15:55.Pasteurisation became the norm in the 1950s.
:15:56. > :16:00.Stephen Hook has been delivering raw milk since 2007, and now has more
:16:01. > :16:07.than 4,000 customers on his rounds and informers' markets.
:16:08. > :16:17.`` in farmers' markets. We test our products with a whole range ``
:16:18. > :16:22.against a whole range of bacteria. If there is suddenly a problem, we
:16:23. > :16:28.can do something about it before it gets out of control.
:16:29. > :16:32.Customers like Mike, who has had a triple heart bypass operation, says
:16:33. > :16:37.it has had health benefits. I liked it so much I have been drinking it
:16:38. > :16:42.every day since, and all the checkups I have had, it has not
:16:43. > :16:48.built up any fact in my arteries. The FSA needs to make sure all milk
:16:49. > :16:50.producers need to keep harmful bacteria at bay. It is trying to
:16:51. > :17:03.decide how best that can be done. Wildlife conservationists in Kent
:17:04. > :17:05.have launched an urgent appeal for ?50,000 to save bears
:17:06. > :17:08.which are suffering in captivity The animals have never been allowed
:17:09. > :17:33.to walk on grass. You might find some of these
:17:34. > :17:40.pictures distressing. Alone and poorly cared for in a
:17:41. > :17:44.small concrete cell. These European brown bears have never set foot in a
:17:45. > :17:49.natural environment. Now experts in Kent say they need to be saved. They
:17:50. > :17:55.live in horrible conditions, this is an old reading facility that was
:17:56. > :18:01.used to breed bears and release them in woodland for people to pay money
:18:02. > :18:07.to shoot. `` breeding facility. But the bears have been neglected.
:18:08. > :18:11.It is an issue familiar to wildlife conservationists across the South
:18:12. > :18:16.East. Sussex `based charity has been on a mission to rescue bears in
:18:17. > :18:22.India. But why do humans keep persecuting these animals? They tend
:18:23. > :18:27.to want to live in areas where we live, so there is a conflict. We may
:18:28. > :18:31.be competing for the same food source, and the humans decide they
:18:32. > :18:39.want it, and if a bear gets in the wrong `` in the way it will be shot.
:18:40. > :18:47.This video shows brown bears in a healthy condition, having been
:18:48. > :18:51.saved. All along here, right up to the top
:18:52. > :18:56.we are going to create a giant enclosures so the bears can live in
:18:57. > :19:02.woodland. Over time we will create lots of things for them to do,
:19:03. > :19:07.climbing frames, little waterfalls. Little caves, all built in. And then
:19:08. > :19:17.stage three will be when we connect our Wolf woodland, where the Wolf ``
:19:18. > :19:19.where the Wolves live, into an enormous area.
:19:20. > :19:23.His long`term vision is to release the bears back into parts of the
:19:24. > :19:27.British Isles were vague once roamed free.
:19:28. > :19:31.`` where they once roamed free. The Commonwealth Games opening
:19:32. > :19:34.ceremony starts in just over an hour in Glasgow ` and there's been a
:19:35. > :19:37.last`minute call up into the England Katie`Jemima Yeats`Brown,
:19:38. > :19:40.who's 19 and recently won bronze at the Junior European Cup,
:19:41. > :19:43.is replacing Caroline Kinnane who Meanwhile, Cheavon Clarke, a light
:19:44. > :19:46.heavyweight boxer from the Gravesham boxing club in Kent who's competing
:19:47. > :19:49.for his birth country Jamaica, got to meet Prince of Wales and the
:19:50. > :19:58.Duchess of Cornwall this afternoon. A potter from Whitstable, who makes
:19:59. > :20:01.spoof pop videos as a way of showing the world how he moulds his pots,
:20:02. > :20:04.has become an internet sensation. Keith Brymer Jones from Whitstable
:20:05. > :20:07.moulded his own version of the hit song Happy, and as well
:20:08. > :20:16.as pop Adele's Rolling In The Deep Chrissie Reidy went to meet
:20:17. > :20:45.the potty potter. No need to adjust your TV, this is a
:20:46. > :20:49.potter from Whitstable whose spoof version of this video, where he
:20:50. > :20:55.shows the world how he makes his crockery, has gone viral. What is
:20:56. > :21:00.great about the recent video is that it comes across as very personable.
:21:01. > :21:06.It comes across, it is showing the process, not really selling the
:21:07. > :21:11.product `` product as such, and it is trying to connect with who you
:21:12. > :21:24.are trying to sell to. In not a very sales way.
:21:25. > :21:29.It is not the first time. This spoof was also a huge online success, the
:21:30. > :21:36.idea behind it to break into the American market. We like to portray
:21:37. > :21:41.ourselves in a different way, and we like to come across as not taking
:21:42. > :21:45.ourselves too seriously. It is showing the process, it is not
:21:46. > :21:52.really selling the product as such, and it is trying to connect with who
:21:53. > :22:02.you are trying to sell to. It is not just pop videos.
:22:03. > :22:12.I wish I could think of something to say. It doesn't matter. Not saying
:22:13. > :22:19.anything, I mean. I think people respond to how... A lot of people I
:22:20. > :22:27.know say it left them with a smile on their face.
:22:28. > :22:32.He is clearly becoming an Internet sensation. We will he spoof next?
:22:33. > :22:39.`` who will he spoof next? Can a relationship on the rocks be
:22:40. > :22:42.saved by one night in the world's most romantic city? That's the
:22:43. > :22:45.question at the heart of a play at the Theatre Royal in Brighton this
:22:46. > :22:48.week. April in Paris stars Shobna Gulati, who met a sticky end in
:22:49. > :22:51.Coronation Street last year, and Joe McGann, one of four brothers who
:22:52. > :23:07.have all pursued acting careers. It is a part you might have played
:23:08. > :23:16.before, the Brit abroad. The killing with your better half and wondering
:23:17. > :23:26.why you ever went away. It is `` they have been married for 27 years.
:23:27. > :23:31.28. One of those couples `` kind of couples who say everything to each
:23:32. > :23:32.other, and sometimes as Mac sometimes they are knocking the
:23:33. > :24:02.lumps out of each other. soccer career. It is particularly
:24:03. > :24:09.closed now, because I am dead! `` her soap career. It gives you a
:24:10. > :24:21.fresh start. Before I did soap, I did theatre.
:24:22. > :25:49.Joe McGann tried his hand at sitcom, but he was far from