24/07/2014 South East Today


24/07/2014

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That's all from the team here in Glasgow.

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Good evening. You can

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There's been a dramatic surge in the number of sexual abuse cases

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Figures obtained exclusively by BBC South East reveal that

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Kent Police logged more than 2,000 cases ` that's a rise of 56% `

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It's thought the increase follows high profile cases of abuse carried

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Tonight, one man who was abused as a child says that the recent publicity

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High profile abusers being exposed for the crimes. Days rarely going by

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without offence is hitting the headlines. It is giving victims more

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confidence to come forward. Two years ago this man was still keeping

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the abuse he suffered aged nine a secret from everyone. Now, having

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sought help, he is speaking on television. People are now feeling

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more confident that they can come forward and disclose their

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experiences without fear of being chastised by society or being

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treated as some sort of private because they are starting to realise

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that it is not their fault. These paedophiles are very clever people.

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Figures obtained by us show that Kent Police recorded more than 2,200

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sexual offences in the past financial year. That is compared

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with more than 1,400 the year before.

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In Sussex just over 1,500 serious sexual offences were logged last

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year, an increase of 24% on the previous year.

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Increased reporting has seen referrals to support services go to.

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This facility has seen the number of people they are helping almost

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double in the last year. There is so much publicity

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surrounding sexual assault these days that people can either not

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escape from it any longer, so perhaps things that have been boxed

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up for many years are now refusing to stay boxed, but also

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significantly I think people feel that they have `` will be heard and

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believed. The offences of the likes of Jimmy

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Savile and others have shocked the country. And seeing justice being

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done has empowered more survivors to break their silence. `` but seeing

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justice being done. A jury has been shown dramatic CCTV

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footage of the moment before a Portuguese man was attacked

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and left with serious head injuries 23`year`old Daniel Palmer,

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who's from the town, Joao Esteves was found

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in an alleyway. Lord Howard, the former MP

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for Folkestone and Hythe and one time Conservative Party leader, has

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today launched a campaign to reduce the number of terminally ill people

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dying in hospital, saying they should instead be allowed to

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"die with dignity" in their own Around 250,000 people die

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in hospital each year, Lord Howard wants to reduce that

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number by a fifth, or 50,000 people, which he believes would not only

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lead to better targeted care, Our political editor Louise Stewart

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reports. Hospital wards like this should be

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the last resort at the end of somebody's life, not the first,

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according to Lord Howard. He is now leading the help for

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

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ill people who want to leave the wards. For many people who die in

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hospital at the moment there is no clinical need for them to be there.

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They need palliative care, and hospitals at their to cure and

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mend, not `` they are not really great at palliative care. So we

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think it would be better if it could be arranged for people who want to

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die at home or in a hospice to do so.

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Figures suggest more than 80% of the public would prefer to die at home

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or in a hospice, but only a fifth of hospital sites have access to

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face`to`face palliative care every day. The campaign is calling for

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half ?1 million to fund it `` fund six pilot schemes.

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If they wish to die at home or in a hospice that should be able to

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happen for them, but we need the right resources in the community. If

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this is a case of saving the NHS are a lot of money, Iniesta be

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redirected so that those people get the support they need `` it needs to

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be. Many elderly people also back the

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right to choose. Given the choice I would prefer to stay at home if I

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have the care. If you have a carer at home, `` if you don't have a

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carer, the hospice is the thing. They should be able to choose for

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their last remaining years. Lord Howard says he would like to

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

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help many others to have a choice when it comes to the end of their

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life. Almost 500 motorists were

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breathalysed last month during a crackdown

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

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they suspected of driving under In total 156 people were arrested

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for drink`drive related offences. Faversham and

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

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

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

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of undermining the system by using The company that owns

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a 20,000 tonne mountain of waste that towers over local homes could

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be about to go into administration. Waste4Fuel stores rubbish

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from several councils across Kent With temperatures getting close to

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30 Celsius this summer, people living in the shadow

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of the waste site say As temperatures rise, tempers saw.

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This rubbish site looms over the houses. They were here first, and

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their inhabitants have had enough. Total nightmare. We have loads of

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dust blowing up, we have pollution of the lorries backing down, and we

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have flyers, the odd rat running around. And the pile keeps igniting

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and catching alight. The site is operated by Waste4Fuel,

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which has been taken to court over this more than once. Earlier this

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month the Environment Agency tried to get them to reduce the rubbish

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here, but the High Court dismissed the case. All that stands is an

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enforcement notice stopping them bringing more waste onto side. We

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understand the frustrations, and we are doing everything we can to make

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sure that Waste4Fuel take responsibility for the situation

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they have created. That is unlikely though,

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rubbish. Nobody seems to be able to help us

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in any way. This afternoon the area's MP had a meeting with the

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Environment Agency. He says the Environment Agency is

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being grossly complacent, and the site is to be closed once and for

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all. `` needs to be closed.

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It stays very similar over the next

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