23/07/2014 South East Today

The Portuguese man attacked and left to die after just four days

in the country; a 23`year`old from Sussex goes on trial for murder.

The mission to save two brown bears abandoned in Eastern Europe; a Kent

And the Kent potter pretty "happy" that the spoof pop videos he

made to show off his ceramics are an internet hit.

The company that owns a 20,000 tonne mountain of waste

that towers over local homes could be about to go into administration.

Waste4Fuel stores rubbish from several councils across Kent

With temperatures getting close to 30 Celsius this summer,

people living in the shadow of the waste site say

Our reporter Helen Drew is at the scene ` Helen, the local MP has met

with government ministers today in a bid to try and get the site cleared?

Yes, and it will not be a moment too soon for these residents. It is 27

degrees here right now, and as the temperature rise is the smell from

this rubbish site gets an awful lot worse. `` as the temperature rises.

There was a meeting this afternoon, but there have been court cases to

try and do so in the past, and they have failed.

As temperatures rise, temperatures so. This rubbish side looms over the

houses in this cul`de`sac. Their inhabitants have had enough. Total

nightmare. We have loads of dust blowing up, we have the pollution of

the lorries, and we have flies, the odd rat running around. And the pile

keeps igniting. We have the firemen hear so many times.

The site is operated by Waste4Fuel, which has been taken to court wall

than once. Earlier this month the Environment Agency tried to get them

to reduce the rubbish. But the High Court dismissed the case. All that

stands is an enforcement notice stopping them bringing more waste

onto side. We understand the frustration, and

everything we can to make sure that Waste4Fuel take the responsibility.

That is unlikely. Waste4Fuel tell us they are going into administration.

So they won't have any obligation to clear the rubbish. But the

Environment Agency said they do not have an obligation either. Unless

there is a clear and immediate risk to the local community, it is not

down to the public bodies. There seems to be no end to it. Nobody

seems to be able to help us. This afternoon the area's MP met with the

Environment Agency. He says they are being grossly complacent, and the

site needs to be closed. Residents want this to happen as

soon as possible, they have been telling me the rubbish has been

overbearing for around three or four years. But it is not clear who will

pay for the rubbish removal. If Waste4Fuel go into administration,

they tell us they think it will end up being the taxpayer who foots the

bill. There's been a dramatic surge

in number of historic sexual abuse Figures obtained exclusively by

BBC South East reveal that Kent Police logged more than 1,100

cases ` that's a rise of 70% It's thought the increase follows

high profile cases of abuse carried Tonight one man who was abused says

the recent publicity prompted him to seek help.

Days really going `` rarely going by without sex cases hitting the

headlines. Two years ago, this man was still keeping the abuse he

suffered aged nine and a secret from everyone. Now, having sought help,

he is speaking on television. People are now feeling more confident that

they can come forward and disclose their experiences. Without the fear

of being treated as some sort of pervert, because they are starting

to realise that it is not their fault. These paedophiles are very

clever people. Figures obtained by us show that

Kent Police recorded more than 2240 sexual offences in the past

financial year. That is compare to more than 1,400 in the year before.

`` compared. In Sussex, just over 1,500 serious

offences were logged last year, an increase of 24% on the previous

year. It increased reporting has seen

referrals to support services go up as well. This charity has seen the

number of people they are helping almost double in the last year.

There is so much publicity that people can either not escape from it

any longer, so things that perhaps had been boxed up for many years are

now refusing to stay that way, but also significantly I think people

feel that they will be hurt, `` heard, and believed.

The offences of the likes of Jimmy Savile and others have shocked the

country. But seeing justice being done has empowered more survivors to

break their silence. Obviously it is a positive thing

that victims feel they can report crimes to the police, but are we

seeing a corresponding increase in prosecutions?

In short, no, not yet. Looking at the Kent figures, 56% increase in

reported offences, but a 70% fall in the number of people being charged,

apparently in part because of the age of the alleged offenders and the

difficulty in getting evidence. In Sussex they said `` they say there

has been a 10% increase in the number of cases solved. Police say

it is positive that more people are coming forward because it gives them

a chance to help these survivors but also to safeguard children.

The raw milk debate; the case of a Sussex dairy farmer who's

facing prosecution is being reviewed by the Food Standards Agency.

Lord Howard, the former MP for Folkestone and Hythe

and Conservative Party leader, has today launched a campaign to reduce

the number of terminally ill people dying in hospital, saying they

should instead be allowed to "die with dignity" in their own

Around 250,000 people each year die in hospital,

Lord Howard wants to reduce that number by a fifth ` or 50,000 people

` which he believes would not only lead to better targeted care,

Our political editor Louise Stewart reports.

Hospital wards like this should be the last resort at the end of

someone's life, according to Lord Howard. He is now leading the help

for hospices campaign which wants to work with the NHS to help terminally

ill people who want to leave the wards. For name it `` for many

people there is no clinical reason for them to be in hospital, they

need palliative care, and hospitals are there to cure and mend, they are

not really great and palliative care. So we think it would be much

better if it could be arranged for people who wanted by at home or in

hospice to do so. Figures suggest more than 80% of the

public would prefer to die at home or in a hospice, but only a fifth of

hospital sites have access to face`to`face palliative care every

day. The campaign is job `` calling for half ?1 million of Government

money to fund six pilot schemes. If they wish to die at home or in a

hospice, that should be able to happen, that we need the right

resources in the community, so if this is a case of saving the NHS a

lot of money, that money needs to be redirected so those people get the

support they need and would wish for.

Many elderly people also like the right to choose. If I had the

choice, I would prefer to stay at home if I have the care. If you do

not have a care `` a carer at home, the hospice is the thing.

They should be able to choose what they would like to do for the last

remaining years. Lord Howard says he would like to

spend his final days at his home in Kent. He hopes this campaign will

mean many others will also have a choice when it comes to the end of

their life. Almost 500 motorists had

their breath tested last month during a crackdown

on drink`driving by Kent Police. Additional patrols stopped anyone

they suspected of driving under the influence, and

73 of those tests proved positive. In total 156 people were arrested

for drink`drive related offences. Faversham and

Mid Kent MP Hugh Robertson, who left his position in the Foreign Office

in last week's government reshuffle, Two other former ministers

are also set to be knighted. The Prime Minister's been accused

of undermining the system by using A jury has been shown startling CCTV

footage of the moment before a Portuguese man was attacked

and left with serious head injuries Daniel Palmer,

who's 23 and comes from the town, Our reporter Claudia

Sermbezis has more. This is the alleyway in which Joao

Esteves was found dying. Daniel Palmer is accused of his murder.

Photos on his phone Cheryl Joao Esteves injured in the alley. The

court heard how police also found footage on his phone showing Joao

Esteves coughing and moaning, and saying something along the lines of

what you want? The prosecution's case is focused on

CCTV footage of old men throughout the evening. The prosecution told

the court that in the early hours of January 19, Daniel Palmer found his

cousin and a friend, and allegedly asked both to bring petrol and a

light. The next day he allegedly told the same friend, he came at me

with a knife. I took him to an alley and I lost it.

The court also watched footage of Daniel Palmer playing with and

removing the cord of his hooded top in a nightclub, and a photo on his

phone showed Joao Esteves line with a cord around his neck. Daniel

Palmer pleads not guilty. `` Joao Esteves lying.

The number of sexual abuse cases reported in the south`east has

jumped by 50% in the last year. It is thought that recent

high`profile cases such as Jimmy Savile and Rolf Harris have prompted

more people to come forward. A former Corrie star and a McGann

brother play a couple on the rocks trying to patch things

up in Paris ` on stage in Brighton. Things eventually feeling fresher

over the next couple of days. Join me later.

A Sussex dairy farmer who's been facing the prospect

of being prosecuted for selling raw milk in the department store

Selfridges is welcoming a decision by the Food Standards

Stephen Hook, who farms near Hailsham,

already sells unpasteurised milk directly to customers locally.

But plans to expand by selling it from a vending machine

at the exclusive London store had to be halted over health concerns.

Our environment correspondent Yvette Austin has the latest

Morning milking. But most attention is being paid to cleanliness, but

the milk is being sold raw. But it is controversial. In 2012 the farm

began selling its milk from a vending machine, and Food Standards

Agency did not know what to make of it. For the past two years it has

been trying to come to include coalition over whether selling raw

milk from a machine is against the law. Today it decided it needed more

evidence. They recited `` they recognise that consumers want more

access to raw milk, but they also at the same time want to try and get

guidelines in place that `` whereby the consumer is better protected.

Pasteurisation became the norm in the 1950s.

Stephen Hook has been delivering raw milk since 2007, and now has more

than 4,000 customers on his rounds and informers' markets.

`` in farmers' markets. We test our products with a whole range ``

against a whole range of bacteria. If there is suddenly a problem, we

can do something about it before it gets out of control.

Customers like Mike, who has had a triple heart bypass operation, says

it has had health benefits. I liked it so much I have been drinking it

every day since, and all the checkups I have had, it has not

built up any fact in my arteries. The FSA needs to make sure all milk

producers need to keep harmful bacteria at bay. It is trying to

decide how best that can be done. Wildlife conservationists in Kent

have launched an urgent appeal for ?50,000 to save bears

which are suffering in captivity The animals have never been allowed

to walk on grass. You might find some of these

pictures distressing. Alone and poorly cared for in a

small concrete cell. These European brown bears have never set foot in a

natural environment. Now experts in Kent say they need to be saved. They

live in horrible conditions, this is an old reading facility that was

used to breed bears and release them in woodland for people to pay money

to shoot. `` breeding facility. But the bears have been neglected.

It is an issue familiar to wildlife conservationists across the South

East. Sussex `based charity has been on a mission to rescue bears in

India. But why do humans keep persecuting these animals? They tend

to want to live in areas where we live, so there is a conflict. We may

be competing for the same food source, and the humans decide they

want it, and if a bear gets in the wrong `` in the way it will be shot.

This video shows brown bears in a healthy condition, having been

saved. All along here, right up to the top

we are going to create a giant enclosures so the bears can live in

woodland. Over time we will create lots of things for them to do,

climbing frames, little waterfalls. Little caves, all built in. And then

stage three will be when we connect our Wolf woodland, where the Wolf ``

where the Wolves live, into an enormous area.

His long`term vision is to release the bears back into parts of the

British Isles were vague once roamed free.

`` where they once roamed free. The Commonwealth Games opening

ceremony starts in just over an hour in Glasgow ` and there's been a

last`minute call up into the England Katie`Jemima Yeats`Brown,

who's 19 and recently won bronze at the Junior European Cup,

is replacing Caroline Kinnane who Meanwhile, Cheavon Clarke, a light

heavyweight boxer from the Gravesham boxing club in Kent who's competing

for his birth country Jamaica, got to meet Prince of Wales and the

Duchess of Cornwall this afternoon. A potter from Whitstable, who makes

spoof pop videos as a way of showing the world how he moulds his pots,

has become an internet sensation. Keith Brymer Jones from Whitstable

moulded his own version of the hit song Happy, and as well

as pop Adele's Rolling In The Deep Chrissie Reidy went to meet

the potty potter. No need to adjust your TV, this is a

potter from Whitstable whose spoof version of this video, where he

shows the world how he makes his crockery, has gone viral. What is

great about the recent video is that it comes across as very personable.

It comes across, it is showing the process, not really selling the

product `` product as such, and it is trying to connect with who you

are trying to sell to. In not a very sales way.

It is not the first time. This spoof was also a huge online success, the

idea behind it to break into the American market. We like to portray

ourselves in a different way, and we like to come across as not taking

ourselves too seriously. It is showing the process, it is not

really selling the product as such, and it is trying to connect with who

you are trying to sell to. It is not just pop videos.

I wish I could think of something to say. It doesn't matter. Not saying

anything, I mean. I think people respond to how... A lot of people I

know say it left them with a smile on their face.

He is clearly becoming an Internet sensation. We will he spoof next?

`` who will he spoof next? Can a relationship on the rocks be

saved by one night in the world's most romantic city? That's the

question at the heart of a play at the Theatre Royal in Brighton this

week. April in Paris stars Shobna Gulati, who met a sticky end in

Coronation Street last year, and Joe McGann, one of four brothers who

have all pursued acting careers. It is a part you might have played

before, the Brit abroad. The killing with your better half and wondering

why you ever went away. It is `` they have been married for 27 years.

28. One of those couples `` kind of couples who say everything to each

other, and sometimes as Mac sometimes they are knocking the

lumps out of each other. soccer career. It is particularly

closed now, because I am dead! `` her soap career. It gives you a

fresh start. Before I did soap, I did theatre.

Joe McGann tried his hand at sitcom, but he was far from