:00:00. > 3:59:59Try to keep some optimism. Thank you very much. That's all from the BBC
:00:00. > :00:00.News at Six. Goodbye from me. The aid convoys with
:00:00. > :00:11.an ulterior motive: we reveal how police believe some
:00:12. > :00:17.of them may be involved in fraud. She managed a property portfolio
:00:18. > :00:19.across Kent worth millions whilst claiming benefits ,
:00:20. > :00:25.now she's sent to prison. Also in tonight's programme,
:00:26. > :00:29."Our lives are being trashed." Residents' anger over plans
:00:30. > :00:32.for a superhighway, concentrating An RAF tornado takes to the skies in
:00:33. > :00:54.tribute to the aircrews of World War They have only given me eight
:00:55. > :00:58.minutes up here because they think that is all the time I have left.
:00:59. > :01:00.And "Granny's Gone Wild" ; after turning to comedy at 71,
:01:01. > :01:12.80`year`old Lynn Ruth Miller's one woman show goes to Edinburgh.
:01:13. > :01:16.Figures obtained by this programme reveal the police seized more than
:01:17. > :01:19.a ?100,000 from convoys travelling from Dover to Syria
:01:20. > :01:26.The number of aid convoys going through Dover
:01:27. > :01:30.to Syria has dramatically fallen, from 31 last year to just six
:01:31. > :01:35.Some Muslim leaders say this is partly because
:01:36. > :01:38.of the measures that have been taken by the government to dissuade people
:01:39. > :01:48.Our political reporter Ellie Price reports.
:01:49. > :01:55.These are significant figures. They are significant because Dover is at
:01:56. > :01:59.the front line of the fight against terrorism. It is the first
:02:00. > :02:05.opportunity the police have to take if these convoys are legitimate. It
:02:06. > :02:08.is not illegal to go to or get out aid in Syria, but it is illegal to
:02:09. > :02:14.fight in severe or two fund terrorism there.
:02:15. > :02:19.He was the father of three who blew himself up thousands of miles from
:02:20. > :02:23.home. He travelled with an aid convoy to Syria, shown here stopping
:02:24. > :02:27.in Dover. Since his death authorities have stepped up efforts
:02:28. > :02:31.to dissuade small charities from sending aid convoys to Syria for
:02:32. > :02:36.fear of those involved could become radicalised or Jews convoys as a
:02:37. > :02:44.front for terrorism. Some critics say that has had an effect on
:02:45. > :02:49.legitimate aid. `` or use convoys. I do not think this will happen. My
:02:50. > :02:53.officers have a duty to make sure that firstly we get across the
:02:54. > :03:00.message in terms of peoples travel and the risks with that, we also
:03:01. > :03:04.have a duty to make sure people are not travelling for illegal purposes
:03:05. > :03:07.and we have a duty to ensure that if people are taking money or other
:03:08. > :03:11.property abroad then it is not money that has not been made illegally or
:03:12. > :03:17.intended for use in some form of carnal activity abroad. Police say
:03:18. > :03:21.they have seized more than ?107,000 from convoys at Dover, but those
:03:22. > :03:27.travelling could not account for where the money had come from or
:03:28. > :03:29.where it was going. Figures given to BBC south`east shore 30 people were
:03:30. > :03:35.arrested and bailed in connection with fraud since January 2011. Last
:03:36. > :03:41.year 31 convoys travel through Dover on your way to Syria. That number
:03:42. > :03:47.has dropped significantly to six between January and July this year.
:03:48. > :03:50.Photos of this man show him handing out aid in Syria before he died.
:03:51. > :03:55.Today the leader of his mosque in Crawley said that the government
:03:56. > :04:02.policy on travelling to Syria risks demonising legitimate aid efforts.
:04:03. > :04:07.It is scaremongering. They worry people will go and get trained and
:04:08. > :04:15.come back and start going places up. This is unfounded. It has ruined the
:04:16. > :04:18.legitimate gift aid causes. Police insist they have maintained a good
:04:19. > :04:21.relationship with legitimate charities who often phone ahead when
:04:22. > :04:26.travelling through the port. They say the advice remains the same, do
:04:27. > :04:31.not travel to Syria. Police say they are not trying to
:04:32. > :04:33.stop it from getting to Syria and if people want to give aid we should do
:04:34. > :05:20.so through their charitable Yes, she claimed tens of thousands
:05:21. > :05:23.of pounds in housing benefit for herself and also in council tax. She
:05:24. > :07:01.had a property here Gatwick acknowledge some people will
:07:02. > :07:03.see more planes overhead, but argue the plans to concentrate
:07:04. > :07:06.passenger aircraft on narrower flight paths is part
:07:07. > :07:10.of a wider EU plan and is needed to Here's our
:07:11. > :07:28.Business Correspondent Mark Norman. Whether it is planes taking off our
:07:29. > :07:30.planes landing the fight pass into and out of Gatwick represent a
:07:31. > :07:36.problem for people living under them. No plans for a new Nano or
:07:37. > :07:42.route over the Kent Sussex border is causing anger with locals. The
:07:43. > :07:47.consultation itself is unfair. The proposals are entirely unjust. And
:07:48. > :07:54.the driving force from the people behind this is a second runway at
:07:55. > :07:59.Gatwick. Something the airport denied but the problem itself is
:08:00. > :08:03.undeniable. The coloured lines represent one`day slide into and out
:08:04. > :08:08.of Heathrow. Adding Gatwick and it is more contributed. This represents
:08:09. > :08:12.all of the fight for one day across the south`east. The air traffic
:08:13. > :08:16.service are planning to use new technology and aircraft to narrow
:08:17. > :08:20.the Ritz planes take, freeing up space. The catch is that people
:08:21. > :08:27.living under the new fight pass will see and hear warplanes. It is true
:08:28. > :08:31.to say that in some cases people will see more aircraft. For those
:08:32. > :08:36.who seek to increased amount of traffic we have some options we are
:08:37. > :08:39.consulting on call roti and respite. Because of the new technology allows
:08:40. > :08:43.us with our traffic control recruited some routes especially for
:08:44. > :08:47.arriving traffic to provide those on the ground with days or weeks or
:08:48. > :08:54.months when they have no traffic at all.
:08:55. > :08:55.The key word there is consultation. Across Kent campaigners and
:08:56. > :09:00.councillors are worried that the consultation process has not been
:09:01. > :09:02.conducted properly, that people find it, that people find collocated and
:09:03. > :09:08.many have not realise it is happening. We want to break up all
:09:09. > :09:14.of the villages from all over, to the absolute hell that is
:09:15. > :09:18.descending, literally, in our midst. For anyone who feels
:09:19. > :09:25.similarly aggrieved the deadline for this consultation is this Thursday.
:09:26. > :09:28.Mark, if you have been following this for some time. What is your
:09:29. > :09:35.assessment of Gatwick Airport's likely response? They will listen to
:09:36. > :09:39.the concerns and the result of this consultation will be sent to the
:09:40. > :09:41.civil aviation authority with the results next year but they are
:09:42. > :09:46.acutely aware that the campaigners are much more organised than they
:09:47. > :09:49.were even one fortnight ago. They are getting a lot of political
:09:50. > :09:53.support, local MPs have spoken out in their favour. Campaigners believe
:09:54. > :09:57.that even though the consultation ends on Thursday they can take the
:09:58. > :10:01.arrogance to Gatwick, believing other solutions are possible.
:10:02. > :10:05.A former social worker who travelled to Kent in the belief he'd be able
:10:06. > :10:08.to sexually abuse an eight`year`old girl has been jailed for four years.
:10:09. > :10:10.Leybourne when it was revealed that it was
:10:11. > :10:13.He admitted in court to arranging the commission
:10:14. > :10:33.The police investigation in Borneo into the death of this man from
:10:34. > :10:36.Hempstead and his friends Neil Barton who were stabbed and killed
:10:37. > :10:39.after getting into an arcade in a bar. For local men are due to be
:10:40. > :10:40.charged with murder. Bloggers, journalists, and indeed
:10:41. > :10:43.everyone else in England now has the right to film and record the public
:10:44. > :10:46.meetings of their local council. Recently a Thanet District
:10:47. > :10:48.councillor was forced to leave Some town halls had previously been
:10:49. > :10:54.resistant to letting the cameras in and there's concern that footage
:10:55. > :11:08.could be edited afterwards to Good evening, members and officers
:11:09. > :11:12.of the council... It is not exactly a funny cat video
:11:13. > :11:21.but will this go viral on the Internet? It is a meeting of Thanet
:11:22. > :11:25.District Council. On the beach, people we asked to watch it were not
:11:26. > :11:30.hugely impressed. I find it quite boring, actually. Output not watch
:11:31. > :11:37.it. I tried watching Parliament on TV but it never gets the point.
:11:38. > :11:42.Filming public council meetings has for some become an issue. This
:11:43. > :11:51.council took these pictures last month. I will sit down and film. It
:11:52. > :11:57.is the law. Is the third time in a year yesterday at film a council
:11:58. > :11:59.meeting and been stopped. It is an important democratic principle that
:12:00. > :12:03.people who are elected should be accountable. It may well be true
:12:04. > :12:07.that they are filming and broadcasting Council meetings, but
:12:08. > :12:14.not all of the meetings and whenever anything controversial is said, it
:12:15. > :12:19.is on the cutting room floor. Eventually the police are called and
:12:20. > :12:23.the council is rejected. I will go quietly and will not make a fuss.
:12:24. > :12:27.Thanet Council film some meetings themselves and the reader here said
:12:28. > :12:32.that council driver was rejected being disrupted. Sometimes he is
:12:33. > :12:38.amusing but very often he just disrupted meetings. But we would not
:12:39. > :12:42.edit him out. I do not know where that has come from. The government
:12:43. > :12:46.has changed the law to allow not only the press but memories of the
:12:47. > :12:50.public to film, tweets and blog. If you go to your town hall you have
:12:51. > :12:55.your phone that the camera on it and he wants to put it on YouTube or
:12:56. > :12:58.tweet about it, you can do that. This is really just modernising the
:12:59. > :13:01.rules that have been there since Margaret Thatcher 's Private members
:13:02. > :13:06.bill that allows the press into the town hall in the first place.
:13:07. > :13:09.Councillor driver had his camera at the ready and now the law on his
:13:10. > :13:14.side, determined to bring transparency to local government.
:13:15. > :13:16.Ten years after a cyclist was killed after being hit
:13:17. > :13:19.by a car in Rye, his family say they're still not convinced the
:13:20. > :13:22.council will complete the half built cycle path they campaigned for.
:13:23. > :13:24.22`year`old Graeme Mathews died in August 2004.
:13:25. > :13:27.The family was determined to build the cycle path and today East
:13:28. > :13:45.Sussex County Council have promised they will complete the work.
:13:46. > :13:51.It is ten years to the days since Graeme Mathews was hit by a car as
:13:52. > :13:58.he cycled along this stretch of road. He was just 22. Since the
:13:59. > :14:04.tragedy his family have tirelessly campaigned for a cycle path. Work
:14:05. > :14:09.got underway but stopped, twice, but now, ten years on, the council has
:14:10. > :14:18.promised to finish the job. We have had six years of empty words, empty
:14:19. > :14:24.promises, but do you know, sometimes I liken it to an all Russian
:14:25. > :14:29.proverb. It says, the promise is likely I trust, it is made to be
:14:30. > :14:32.broken. Today the council say they will complete the final section of
:14:33. > :14:36.the cycle path which will go around that dangers then, some people I
:14:37. > :14:42.have spoken to are simply not convinced. They just need to go
:14:43. > :14:49.round the corner, it is not a big job. You do not so convinced. I will
:14:50. > :14:52.believe it when I see it. It is a dangerous corner, it is playing
:14:53. > :14:58.there and who are forced back out onto the road so by encouraging
:14:59. > :15:04.people to cycle and then put them onto the road near a corner, it is
:15:05. > :15:08.obviously a dangerous situation. I am scared so I cannot take my
:15:09. > :15:13.seven`year`old son out. It should have been done many years ago. What
:15:14. > :15:22.has gone wrong? It has taken an awfully long time. We did have a
:15:23. > :15:25.live issue inasmuch as we did not own enough land to construct it. We
:15:26. > :15:30.then had an economic downturn were funding became difficult. We have
:15:31. > :15:36.now managed to design a scheme that is affordable and we can deliver
:15:37. > :15:39.without the land that he currently do not own. Today campaigners
:15:40. > :15:44.unofficially named the partially finished cycle path. They say that
:15:45. > :15:56.next summer they hope to do it for real. The top story tonight, figures
:15:57. > :16:00.obtained by this programme revealed that the police seized more than
:16:01. > :16:04.?100,000 from convoys travelling from Dover to Syria in the past few
:16:05. > :16:11.years. The number of convoys going to Syria has fallen from 31 to six.
:16:12. > :16:13.Also in tonight's programme, the racing driver left paralysed
:16:14. > :16:16.after a crash, but turned his life around looks forward to
:16:17. > :16:27.And tomorrow will be another day of sunshine and showers, but if you
:16:28. > :16:30.time your day correctly you should end up missing them. Only later to
:16:31. > :16:39.find out when to miss the rain. 100 years ago the first warplanes
:16:40. > :16:43.set off for France at the start The Royal Flying Corps was
:16:44. > :16:48.the air wing of the British Army. It had 2,000 personnel
:16:49. > :16:51.when the war broke out in 1914. It was replaced by the RAF in April
:16:52. > :16:55.1918, within 9 months it had one Today the modern Air Force took
:16:56. > :17:17.part in a flyby to remember A Tornado jet dips its wings as
:17:18. > :17:23.today's RDF pays its respects to the chairman who first went to war. When
:17:24. > :17:27.war broke out in August 1914 flying was in its infancy. Within days the
:17:28. > :17:32.Royal flying Corps as it was then was carrying out reconnaissance
:17:33. > :17:35.missions over France. It was the first time powered aircraft had been
:17:36. > :17:40.used for aerial reconnaissance from Britain. It had a remarkable ability
:17:41. > :17:43.and it sounds simple but to be able to see over the next hill and the
:17:44. > :17:49.amount of value that could provide to ground forces to understand what
:17:50. > :17:54.the enemy were doing and to plan accordingly had a real battle
:17:55. > :17:59.winning edge. The impact may not have been as as the Second World War
:18:00. > :18:04.counterparts but the story of those mem and was immortalised here in
:18:05. > :18:10.film. As the conflict continued the fledgling force adapted its role,
:18:11. > :18:14.month by month. The aeroplanes were really before the advent of fixing
:18:15. > :18:19.guns on aeroplanes, and the thinking was in the early part of 1914 that
:18:20. > :18:24.the pilots who fly like battleships going broad says to one another and
:18:25. > :18:27.firing potshots saved on. It was very rapid, the evolution, because
:18:28. > :18:32.the information they were bringing back was so important that it became
:18:33. > :18:37.a very important to stop the enemy going back with their information.
:18:38. > :18:42.These were incredibly fragile craft and today's memorial landing was per
:18:43. > :18:46.carry is. The biplane was due to meet its modern replacement, a
:18:47. > :18:49.Tornado, in the sky, but with conditions so when the Chronicle
:18:50. > :18:54.carried out a loan journey over the weight cliffs of Dover. The mission
:18:55. > :18:59.has not changed at all in that 100 years. To protect the nation and its
:19:00. > :19:04.allies wherever they may be around the world. Tomorrow there will be a
:19:05. > :19:05.service held in France to remember those who took on that duty 100
:19:06. > :19:08.years ago. He was on the verge
:19:09. > :19:10.of becoming a professional racing driver, but a devastating accident
:19:11. > :19:13.at Brands Hatch changed his life. Roger Pedrick raced formula
:19:14. > :19:15.ford cars as a young man. A crash during a test drive
:19:16. > :19:18.in 1977 left him Years of operations followed, and
:19:19. > :19:26.during that time Roger discovered Roger Pedrick raced formula
:19:27. > :19:28.ford cars as a young man. Years of operations followed, and
:19:29. > :19:30.during that time Roger discovered a love of painting, now, he's given
:19:31. > :19:41.his first solo exhibition. For many years he was a man with a
:19:42. > :19:46.driving ambition but an accident forced the car racer to look for new
:19:47. > :19:51.purpose in his life. 37 years on and Roger Pedrick had his first art
:19:52. > :19:58.exhibition. I love colour, colour is the meaning of life to me. Without
:19:59. > :20:01.colour nothing will happen and nothing will become stimulative.
:20:02. > :20:08.Roger Pedrick used to drive cars fully living. In 1977 testing a car,
:20:09. > :20:13.he was involved in a crash. He broke his neck and spent seven years in
:20:14. > :20:17.hospital. It was many more years before he discovered a love of
:20:18. > :20:21.painting. The man who owns the Kent racing circuit today officially
:20:22. > :20:26.opens the exhibition this week. He has kept his passion for motor
:20:27. > :20:29.sports, he comes to the circuit for most of the big race events, the
:20:30. > :20:36.e`mails me quite frequently with follow`ups on comment I made in the
:20:37. > :20:39.press and that is fantastic. That passion for motor sport that could
:20:40. > :20:44.have so easily have gone is still very much there. There are 250
:20:45. > :20:55.artworks on display but over the past 25 years Roger Pedrick has
:20:56. > :21:02.produced twice that. I just want to put a smile on people 's faces. This
:21:03. > :21:06.ability is extraordinarily horrible but I think I have a sense of humour
:21:07. > :21:10.which helps. And through my paintings the sense of humour will
:21:11. > :21:16.come out. The 58`year`old says he does not want to sell his artwork.
:21:17. > :21:17.The aim, he says, is to display his work in galleries across the
:21:18. > :21:24.country. Just three days
:21:25. > :21:26.after our football teams started the new season, they're back
:21:27. > :21:29.in action tonight, this time in the Brighton and Hove Albion take
:21:30. > :21:32.on Cheltenham at the Amex looking for their first
:21:33. > :21:35.win under new manager Sammi Hyypia. Charlton are at home to Colchester
:21:36. > :21:38.and Crawley Town take on Ipswich. Gillingham travel to Yeovil anxious
:21:39. > :21:41.to avoid a repeat of Saturday's Now let's face it,
:21:42. > :21:55.most people start to take it easy But not the comic Lynn Ruth Miller,
:21:56. > :22:01.who's recently moved to Brighton. The American octogenarian is
:22:02. > :22:10.believed to be the country's oldest professional stand up comedian,
:22:11. > :22:13.and she's currently putting the crowds through their paces
:22:14. > :22:15.at the Edinburgh Festival. We'll be speaking to her
:22:16. > :22:18.in a moment, but first let's take They have only given me eight
:22:19. > :22:24.minutes up here because they think When you are my age,
:22:25. > :22:31.people think you don't matter. The lifeguard picked me up
:22:32. > :22:33.from the pool, I've got so many body replacements I
:22:34. > :22:40.was a centrefold My pension is really small
:22:41. > :23:00.so I put my kidney on E`bay She joins us now from Edinburgh.
:23:01. > :23:06.Thank you. Thank you for having me. It is lovely of you. In a previous
:23:07. > :23:11.incarnation you have been a primary school teacher, a professor, did you
:23:12. > :23:18.not want a retirement of peace and quiet? Now, that did not occur to
:23:19. > :23:23.me. I was also a writer, I write books and columns, I was a call is.
:23:24. > :23:30.And I have a reviewer. It did not occur to me, retirement was never
:23:31. > :23:35.its has never been in my mind. Was stand`up comedy something you always
:23:36. > :23:42.wanted to do? No, I did not know stand`up comedy existence. I have
:23:43. > :23:45.told this story so many times. I was telling jokes to Holocaust survivors
:23:46. > :23:50.to cheer them up and I ran out of jokes and I went online and saw a
:23:51. > :23:53.sign that said San Francisco, the college and said I would like to run
:23:54. > :23:57.a story about you because I am a journalist and they called me back
:23:58. > :24:04.and said I just love small Jewish women. Which is exactly what I am in
:24:05. > :24:08.the rest is history. I wrote the stories for them, picked up a
:24:09. > :24:14.microphone, told a joke and everyone loved me. And I was 71 years old.
:24:15. > :24:19.And I thought, this is the easiest love I have ever gotten. I do not
:24:20. > :24:26.have to cook dinner, I do not have to change the sheets, I have in. You
:24:27. > :24:31.have also done a striptease as part of your one`woman show. I don't get
:24:32. > :24:38.that much, I don't want to qualify everyone. What has brought you to
:24:39. > :24:43.Britain? I had been doing the Edinburgh Festival for nine years,
:24:44. > :24:49.and everyone always said you should try Brighton so I did in 2009 and I
:24:50. > :24:53.fell in love with Brighton, it is very similar to where I was living
:24:54. > :25:02.at the time which is San Francisco. But smaller, more compassionate and
:25:03. > :25:05.more loving. Brighton is a jewel. To me it is gorgeous. And very
:25:06. > :25:15.progressive and very open. I have never felt that I was all the
:25:16. > :25:20.different or unusual, just one of the great. I love the town. I was
:25:21. > :25:26.doing one of my categories, I believe it was eating his amazing,
:25:27. > :25:33.21 and manager and director of the latest, which is a combination of
:25:34. > :25:39.the magazine, the latest bar, music bar, and the greatest novels and TV,
:25:40. > :25:43.Sony and say what you should do is take the best of all of your shows,
:25:44. > :25:49.put them together and usual. He helped me put bits of my shows
:25:50. > :25:56.together. And we put it on last year. That is great to hear, I am so
:25:57. > :26:00.sorry but we have to leave it there. I had terribly sorry because we have
:26:01. > :26:09.to go to the weather. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. It is
:26:10. > :26:12.lovely of you to have me. What did
:26:13. > :26:20.last night I told you about the perigee moon, the men appeared much
:26:21. > :26:26.better at writing than normal. `` bigger and brighter. You could see
:26:27. > :26:30.the Internet, but that could scupper our chances of seeing something
:26:31. > :26:37.else, which is the Perseus meteor shower. At this time of year every
:26:38. > :26:42.year we pass through the end of the comments that title and the degree
:26:43. > :26:49.of that travels into our atmosphere at around 150,000 mph and on doing
:26:50. > :26:54.so it burns up and that is what we see as shooting stars. We may well
:26:55. > :26:58.get to see many shooting stars from the media shower as long as the men
:26:59. > :27:02.is not too bright. The good news is we should have the clear skies. The
:27:03. > :27:06.last of the showers are sizzling away and we will be left with dry
:27:07. > :27:11.and clear skies as temperatures down to 12 or 13 degrees, which is about
:27:12. > :27:14.what we have last night. Into tomorrow, if you want to get the
:27:15. > :27:18.best of the sunshine and dry weather, do not dilly`dally about in
:27:19. > :27:23.the morning because that is where the best and drive of the day's
:27:24. > :27:28.weather will be. Coming to the PM and after that in the afternoon is
:27:29. > :27:34.where the showers. Popping up again. Although not as heavy as today there
:27:35. > :27:37.will still be a few showers in the afternoon. Temperatures around 20
:27:38. > :27:42.degrees and not quite as easy as it was today. Fewer showers through the
:27:43. > :27:47.model and less easy but still some showers lasting into the evening and
:27:48. > :27:50.once again into Thursday. Although lot of us will have plenty of
:27:51. > :27:56.sunshine there still some of those pesky showers around. For the lady
:27:57. > :28:02.there is a good chance of staying mostly dry with nascent century. ``
:28:03. > :28:06.for Friday. Thank you very much. That is it for
:28:07. > :28:16.now, I am back at 8pm and 10:30pm with Di. `` goodbye.
:28:17. > :28:20.We've got factory boys and butchers' apprentices and office clerks
:28:21. > :28:26.Don't stop moving! If you go back you'll die!