:00:07. > :00:08.Welcome to South East Today, I'm Ellie Crisell.
:00:09. > :00:13.Four of our hospitals on the highest alert,one of them almost
:00:14. > :00:15.every day for a month, an NHS director says pressures are
:00:16. > :00:26.I was just siting there, I asked them if they had any chance of a
:00:27. > :00:27.bed. They said they had none. How hundreds of grammar school
:00:28. > :00:29.pupils drop out halfway through their A-levels
:00:30. > :00:31.because the school doesn't think Could there be stormy weather
:00:32. > :00:37.on the horizon as plans go public to double the size of this
:00:38. > :00:40.Thanet windfarm? As the new President takes office,
:00:41. > :00:46.a Kent author's novel about Russian spies and US politics hits
:00:47. > :00:51.the bestseller list. And seeing the light -
:00:52. > :00:53.we get a sneak preview of an illuminating new exhibition in
:00:54. > :01:08.Eastbourne. One of the south-east's biggest
:01:09. > :01:11.hospital trusts has been on the highest possible state
:01:12. > :01:14.of alert since Christmas, meaning that patient safety has been
:01:15. > :01:18.compromised every day In addition, this programme has
:01:19. > :01:21.discovered that patient groups have been warned
:01:22. > :01:23.that the Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton is expecting to continue
:01:24. > :01:26.in that state all winter. It comes on the day that one
:01:27. > :01:31.of the NHS's senior Directors said that pressure on the health service
:01:32. > :01:34.is the "toughest" Our health Correspondent
:01:35. > :01:39.Mark Norman has more. Another week, another insight
:01:40. > :01:42.into the pressure the NHS is under. This trust has been at the heart
:01:43. > :01:46.of the highest state of alert every The impact is being
:01:47. > :01:49.felt by patients. I was taken to A and I
:01:50. > :01:55.had to sleep in A I was just sitting
:01:56. > :02:07.there and said, any There are four levels of alert,
:02:08. > :02:13.Opel 4 is the highest, The trust told us its
:02:14. > :02:26.staff were working hard to give patients the emergency
:02:27. > :02:29.care they needed and it was making improvements to help
:02:30. > :02:31.with the flow of patients. However, the impact on patients
:02:32. > :02:34.is concerning some. Some who have been
:02:35. > :02:37.in hospital, as soon as they are ready to go home,
:02:38. > :02:43.or likely to be asked to go home, the support systems
:02:44. > :02:46.in the community, whether it is family
:02:47. > :02:52.or friends or a service that they pay for, provided
:02:53. > :02:55.by the local council, they are At least three other trusts
:02:56. > :03:03.in Kent and Sussex went to the highest level
:03:04. > :03:05.of alert last week. All our trusts failed to hit
:03:06. > :03:12.the specific target for A At Durham Valley, they even took
:03:13. > :03:15.to social media to encourage former staff members to come
:03:16. > :03:18.back and cover shifts. For our members, they would say
:03:19. > :03:22.they are at the end of their Most organisations across the system
:03:23. > :03:30.had been working at high While Brighton is not in the worst
:03:31. > :03:37.performing trust, it is under pressure and is telling patient
:03:38. > :03:40.groups it doesn't expect to come out Our Health Correspondent Mark
:03:41. > :04:00.Norman is with me now - It is not good news. It is the fact
:04:01. > :04:06.they had been on high alert for a month, and other parts of the NHS
:04:07. > :04:12.have had to get involved. Nearly a 5% increase in the number of people
:04:13. > :04:17.going into it A Delayed transfers of care. The fear is the impact on
:04:18. > :04:21.patients. It is serious. I spoke to the Royal College of nurses and they
:04:22. > :04:22.said it was more bad weather or a flu epidemic it would take the
:04:23. > :04:24.system over the edge. Its being claimed that Kent grammar
:04:25. > :04:27.schools are forcing some children to leave halfway
:04:28. > :04:29.through their A-level studies because their Year 12 grades
:04:30. > :04:31.were not considered good enough. Parents have told us their children
:04:32. > :04:34.have been made to feel like failures, separated
:04:35. > :04:36.from their friends, and given just weeks to find a new place
:04:37. > :04:39.for their final year at There are 32 grammar
:04:40. > :04:43.schools in Kent. In the last year, 266 Year 12s,or
:04:44. > :04:48.students in the lower sixth form,left by the end
:04:49. > :04:51.of the academic year. Invicta Grammar School had
:04:52. > :04:54.the highest number leave, Our education correspondent
:04:55. > :05:01.Bryony MacKenzie has more. Selective education not just
:05:02. > :05:04.from primary to secondary but in many cases
:05:05. > :05:07.in year 12 as well. But for one parent
:05:08. > :05:10.who wanted to remain anonymous, their child didn't reach
:05:11. > :05:13.the required grades at AS-level They claim the policy
:05:14. > :05:17.at Invicta Grammar left them We felt not completing her education
:05:18. > :05:23.with her peers would be detrimental She just needed more support,
:05:24. > :05:28.mainly with revision techniques. Whether they acted legally or not,
:05:29. > :05:31.their treatment of our daughter, and the harshness of pastoral care
:05:32. > :05:36.we received, was shocking. There is no legislation that allows
:05:37. > :05:41.them to remove students on the grounds of performance
:05:42. > :05:45.halfway through a course. Students are asked to sign
:05:46. > :05:51.a home-school agreement at the beginning of the sixth form
:05:52. > :05:54.course, but that actually Invicta's sixth form
:05:55. > :06:10.learning agreement states: If a student is allowed to continue
:06:11. > :06:22.despite serious reservations... It's a common policy but not
:06:23. > :06:25.one that works at every school. A lot of them make significant
:06:26. > :06:28.improvements between year 12 and the end of year 13,
:06:29. > :06:31.and I think schools need to have faith in their own students
:06:32. > :06:33.and to push them hard Invicta Girls' Grammar denies
:06:34. > :06:37.the claims and says students are supported and advised
:06:38. > :06:42.about what is best for them. Bryony MacKenzie,
:06:43. > :06:49.BBC South East Today, Maidstone. Why does one MP says she is dating
:06:50. > :07:06.the return to southern rail? Controversial plans to double
:07:07. > :07:08.the potential output of the Thanet offshore windfarm have gone
:07:09. > :07:10.on display today in Ramsgate. The windfarm owners, Vattenfall,
:07:11. > :07:13.want to build up to 34 extra They would be significantly bigger
:07:14. > :07:18.and more powerful than the existing 100 and once completed,
:07:19. > :07:22.the whole windfarm could generate enough electricity to
:07:23. > :07:26.supply up 430,000 homes. But some local industries
:07:27. > :07:28.are worried about their impact. Our environment correspondent
:07:29. > :07:45.Yvette Austen has tonight's report. Thanet wind farm generating
:07:46. > :07:52.electricity on a winter day. The idea is to make it bigger. Reacted
:07:53. > :07:57.more top buys of the offshore wind farm. It is a great place to develop
:07:58. > :08:02.and extend and we are confident about it. Technology has moved
:08:03. > :08:09.answers to that then ten, and by ending 34 more turbines, output
:08:10. > :08:13.could double. These turbines look so much bigger up close compared to how
:08:14. > :08:19.they appear from the beach. The new ones will be twice the height of
:08:20. > :08:25.these at 210 metres tall. This will improve the economies of scale. But
:08:26. > :08:31.not everyone is happy with the idea, like the operators of boats who taxi
:08:32. > :08:35.pilot to and from container ships to navigate them through sandbanks and
:08:36. > :08:39.busy shipping lanes to port. They fear losing an additional 27 square
:08:40. > :08:46.miles of seed wind farm, putting ships at risk. The ships require a
:08:47. > :08:50.lot of room to manoeuvre. This is where they are slowing down to pick
:08:51. > :08:54.the pilots up so they become affected by the tides and the wind.
:08:55. > :08:58.This is where you don't want to close in the area. It will be
:08:59. > :09:06.uncomfortable if you are the captain of a cargo ship. You would be
:09:07. > :09:10.worried about slowing down. Fishermen are worried too. Anything
:09:11. > :09:16.that takes up any area that we are working in and reduces our
:09:17. > :09:22.capability of catching is a concern. It is said the plan is still an
:09:23. > :09:25.early stages and people views would listen to. This is part of a
:09:26. > :09:30.consultation process. We have already engaged them I will be again
:09:31. > :09:35.about their issues and will be addressing those as a movie project
:09:36. > :09:37.forward. Early next week, exhibitions are being held so people
:09:38. > :09:39.can learn about the plan and see what it might look like. There is a
:09:40. > :09:42.lot to before construction. Yvette Austen joins
:09:43. > :09:44.us from Ramsgate now. They look quite sizable
:09:45. > :09:57.turbines, Yvette? And they are the latest technology
:09:58. > :10:05.capable of generating up to 80 megawatts each. They say that you
:10:06. > :10:09.will see little difference from the shore because they are so far away
:10:10. > :10:14.and local people say they welcome the boost to economy. I am sure that
:10:15. > :10:17.the company would want to see collisions with ships because it is
:10:18. > :10:20.the people who are out at sea would be most concerned. We will see how
:10:21. > :10:21.it develops. A Sussex teenager who admitted
:10:22. > :10:24.selling thousands of pounds worth of fake festival tickets has been
:10:25. > :10:28.sentenced to 21 months in a young Benjamin Hyland-Ward from Saltdean,
:10:29. > :10:33.left hundreds of people disappointed after taking ?60,000
:10:34. > :10:37.for tickets that he failed to produce for the Bestival event
:10:38. > :10:40.on the Isle of Wight The 19-year-old had pleaded guilty
:10:41. > :10:46.at Lewes Crown Court. Two members of a drugs gang have
:10:47. > :10:49.been jailed following the discovery of almost 8 million pounds worth
:10:50. > :10:53.of cannabis in Sittingbourne. 57 year Thomas Cullen from Liverpool
:10:54. > :10:58.was sentenced to 8 years in prison and 48 year old Joseph Graham
:10:59. > :11:00.to 6 years. Kent Police discovered the drugs
:11:01. > :11:03.when they searched an industrial A Sussex MP says she "dreads"
:11:04. > :11:08.the prospect of returning to what the Southern's operator
:11:09. > :11:12.calls a "normal timetable". A full service is expected to be
:11:13. > :11:16.restored from Tuesday next week after the train drivers' union ASLEF
:11:17. > :11:19.suspended industrial action. Our reporter Juliette Parkin is live
:11:20. > :11:23.in Uckfield for us now. Juliette, surely this is good news
:11:24. > :11:44.at last for passengers. Then it is understandable. After
:11:45. > :11:49.what she calls 18 months of misery for commuters in her constituency
:11:50. > :11:57.and elsewhere in the south-east, places like New Haven had been cut
:11:58. > :12:02.off at the height of this dispute. Those talks, we have just heard will
:12:03. > :12:09.resume on Monday and there is a promise of a fool normal timetable.
:12:10. > :12:10.She says even a fool and normal timetable on Southern is inadequate.
:12:11. > :12:13.We do dread returning to a normal Southern timetable,
:12:14. > :12:15.we want a good Southern timetable, trains that
:12:16. > :12:17.turn up on time, that aren't cancelled, aren't delayed, don't
:12:18. > :12:25.terminate early at stations, are accessible for all passengers.
:12:26. > :12:35.And what was the Government's response today?
:12:36. > :12:41.In response, the transport minister said the service has been utterly
:12:42. > :12:46.not good enough. He says they have to get back to improving the line.
:12:47. > :12:51.There is another union involved, the R in the union, who are angry that
:12:52. > :12:55.they have not been included in this round of talks. Southern say they
:12:56. > :13:01.are happy to get involved in another round of talks with the RMT. No
:13:02. > :13:02.cause this evening for commuters to start celebrating.
:13:03. > :13:05.Campaigners in Folkestone have vowed to fight plans to demolish
:13:06. > :13:08.a dance studio in the town, which has been teaching dance
:13:09. > :13:11.and hosting community events for 80 years.
:13:12. > :13:14.The decision to close the Dance Easy Studio in order
:13:15. > :13:17.to build 6 private flats comes at a time when traditional forms
:13:18. > :13:20.of dance have never been more popular, thanks to shows
:13:21. > :13:37.It is a family entertainment show that has millions of fans of all
:13:38. > :13:42.generations. Strictly Come Nursing is a successful programme. They last
:13:43. > :13:47.dance at this studio in Folkestone. But that hasn't stopped it from the
:13:48. > :13:54.threat of been closed down. I causally tell people when they start
:13:55. > :14:02.new businesses, to come here. The building came a dance school in
:14:03. > :14:05.1934. These dancers have been... The owner was a knock it down and turn
:14:06. > :14:12.it into flats and locals are fighting it. There are lots of flat
:14:13. > :14:20.already here. There aren't community spaces. When they demolish it, they
:14:21. > :14:24.will demolish more than 1970s light fittings and an oak sprung floor,
:14:25. > :14:34.they will demolish aspirations of young people. It is for yoga, for
:14:35. > :14:42.dancing,... Protesters have produced this video urging people to oppose
:14:43. > :14:48.the plan is. The owners bought the dance school in the 1970s. They
:14:49. > :14:53.competed as dancers before and after they were married. The only bit that
:14:54. > :14:58.persuaded me to do it is that the law was Canadian maple. All the
:14:59. > :15:03.professionals have danced on it. They all remarked on the floor.
:15:04. > :15:09.Opponents to the plans have until Tuesday to object. If approved, the
:15:10. > :15:19.dance Easy studio could be holding its last dance by the summer.
:15:20. > :15:23.This is our top story tonight. For other hospital trusts are on high
:15:24. > :15:24.state of alert, under pressures one NHS Director
:15:25. > :15:26.says are the toughest The Royal Sussex Hospital
:15:27. > :15:30.in Brighton has been in that situation every day for a month -
:15:31. > :15:44.and warns it will remain the rally driver with a race on her
:15:45. > :15:49.hands. Louise Cook puts out charges at Kirby on eBay to raise funds.
:15:50. > :15:51.Baulk and if you are enjoying the weather, good news, lots of
:15:52. > :15:58.brightness over the weekend. This afternoon Donald Trump has been
:15:59. > :16:02.sworn in as the 45th US president. His campaign has been
:16:03. > :16:04.controversial throughout, not least because of claims
:16:05. > :16:07.and counterclaims that Russian spies were somehow
:16:08. > :16:10.involved in the outcome. The situation has led
:16:11. > :16:12.to a spy novel written by a kent author in 1980,
:16:13. > :16:16.becoming top of the book Ted Allbeury, from
:16:17. > :16:19.Tunbridge Wells, wrote a spy novel about how
:16:20. > :16:27.the Soviet Union tried to get their own man
:16:28. > :16:30.elected as US President. Jon Hunt has tonight's
:16:31. > :16:31.special report. Ted Allbeury, A former
:16:32. > :16:33.British spy, a prolific He wrote more than 40 novels,
:16:34. > :16:39.many from his home. But, in 11 years
:16:40. > :16:41.since his death, a book he wrote nearly 40 years ago
:16:42. > :16:45.is once again popular. It is all because it
:16:46. > :16:47.bears an uncanny resemblance to current
:16:48. > :16:51.political events in America. It is about what would happen
:16:52. > :16:54.if the Russians were able to effectively get their own
:16:55. > :16:58.man in the White House. Sally Bowman is the
:16:59. > :17:08.author's daughter. --Boorman She is pleased
:17:09. > :17:10.that her father's work is I think it is quite a nice
:17:11. > :17:14.testament to my dad, and I think he would
:17:15. > :17:16.be quite tickled. I don't think the attention
:17:17. > :17:18.is undeserved. Donald Trump was sworn
:17:19. > :17:20.in as the new US President today, amid claims that Russian
:17:21. > :17:22.intelligence agents hacked Ted Allbeury's spy thriller tells
:17:23. > :17:28.a story which has parallels The whole nation is excited that
:17:29. > :17:34.they've got a new kind of man, somebody who isn't
:17:35. > :17:49.a lifetime professional politician. The author's former agent isn't
:17:50. > :17:52.surprised that life appears to be Ted was often described
:17:53. > :18:00.as the spy writer's spy Partly because the had a very
:18:01. > :18:05.distinguished career in He was very aware of
:18:06. > :18:11.the kinds of things that Ted Allbeury is believed
:18:12. > :18:16.to be the only secret agent to have parachuted
:18:17. > :18:21.into the Germany in World War II. He ran agents during
:18:22. > :18:23.the Cold War, and was Speaking to the BBC
:18:24. > :18:28.in 1986, he explained that it was his own experiences as a spy
:18:29. > :18:32.that made his books authentic. Authenticity comes
:18:33. > :18:37.from knowing how you got recruited, knowing what
:18:38. > :18:38.the training is like, knowing
:18:39. > :18:42.what it feels like when you His book is now in the top ten
:18:43. > :18:47.of its genre on one online store, and now there is talk
:18:48. > :18:50.of new publishing deals and even the From the time man first
:18:51. > :19:05.gripped a paintbrush, artists have been fascinated
:19:06. > :19:09.and inspired by the study of light. Now the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne
:19:10. > :19:14.is dedicating its major new exhibition to art
:19:15. > :19:16.influenced by light. Called 'A Certain Kind of Light'
:19:17. > :19:20.the exhibition covers six decades featuring artists from LS
:19:21. > :19:23.Lowry to Anish Kapoor. It opens tomorrow but today Piers
:19:24. > :19:46.Hopkirk was given a sneak preview. It is somehow fitting that the town
:19:47. > :19:50.which boast the Sunnis climate in the UK should devote a exhibition to
:19:51. > :19:57.artists and their relationship with light.
:19:58. > :20:04.Baulk light has always fascinating artist, both as material and as
:20:05. > :20:12.subject matter. What you see here is an extraordinary mirror ball that
:20:13. > :20:18.has an is very surface... It's recorded every solar eclipse that
:20:19. > :20:25.has been documented. The whole room circles and spends as a solar
:20:26. > :20:28.eclipse is place. Dry together paintings, sculpture, installations
:20:29. > :20:36.and photography, this is a reflection of British art over five
:20:37. > :20:49.decades. This is a work by Anne Easterbrook, one of the great
:20:50. > :21:00.British sculptors. He is interested in -- Annish Kappoor. It is was like
:21:01. > :21:03.hours going through the rabbit hole. This shoddy editing work oppose the
:21:04. > :21:08.Eckstein rephrased to give the exhibition space its own rainbow. It
:21:09. > :21:16.is made up of 360 lives and requires twice that. People were being around
:21:17. > :21:20.for twice that... Tensioning and walking around. It is quite a
:21:21. > :21:24.beautiful thing. You can't visibly see the thread but you could see
:21:25. > :21:29.people walking and shipping it around. It's an odd form of my
:21:30. > :21:34.neighbours on for days. In the exhibition has been drawn from the
:21:35. > :21:41.Arkansased collection, the touted as one of all venues as part of the
:21:42. > :21:44.partnership programme. It is brilliant for Towner, it is built
:21:45. > :21:50.for Eastbourne developed to bring these big names and lesser-known
:21:51. > :21:58.ones together an ease and basses thematic group shows. It is
:21:59. > :22:02.brilliant. A certain kind of light opens tomorrow.
:22:03. > :22:05.Brighton are hoping to bounce back from their defeat at Preston
:22:06. > :22:08.when they face Sheffield Wednesday at home this evening.
:22:09. > :22:12.The Seagulls suffered their first loss since September on Saturday,
:22:13. > :22:15.but they'll go back to the top of the table if they win
:22:16. > :22:30.They are a good side. That showed in the fact that they got in the
:22:31. > :22:35.play-off final last season, and I think they have added well to the
:22:36. > :22:46.squad. That makes them equally as good if not better than last year.
:22:47. > :22:47.Charlton athletic at Scunthorpe. They will travel to Sheffield United
:22:48. > :22:54.in League 2. Maidstone rally driver Louise Cook
:22:55. > :22:56.is the first woman to win a non-gender FIA rally championship
:22:57. > :22:58.trophy, and it's her However, if you're an eBay bidder
:22:59. > :23:02.you could be its new owner, she is so desperate to continue her
:23:03. > :23:05.rallying career she's been forced to auction it
:23:06. > :23:08.online to raise funds. The situation has come
:23:09. > :23:11.about after two major sponsors dropped out,
:23:12. > :23:13.leaving her needing to find 25 thousand pounds to start her season
:23:14. > :23:33.at the Rally of Sweden Louise has been competing
:23:34. > :23:42.professionally in rally driving for seven years. In 2012, she became a
:23:43. > :23:47.world record in the sport. When I first set foot in a rally car, I
:23:48. > :23:56.found it amazing to just be controlling it and instantly hoops.
:23:57. > :24:01.It is such an amazing feeling. But now she may be forced to drop out of
:24:02. > :24:06.the latest competition. Her main sponsors have delayed their plans.
:24:07. > :24:10.She is trying to raise the money herself by putting her winning
:24:11. > :24:16.trophy for sale. When effort lifted it, I felt sick, it didn't feel
:24:17. > :24:22.right. After a couple of days, I got used to the idea and edges are, I
:24:23. > :24:27.would rather let the trophy let the whole season go. Crowd find a group
:24:28. > :24:31.set up by supporters have raised enough to halt the option for now,
:24:32. > :24:38.but with nearly ?20,000 left in fine, the 29-year-old may still be
:24:39. > :24:41.forced to sell. Women face greater challenges in finding sponsorship
:24:42. > :24:44.for the sports than men, partly because of the perception of the
:24:45. > :24:51.sport, that it is sometimes perceived as a women's sport and and
:24:52. > :24:56.so less technical and less valued than men's, partly because of the
:24:57. > :25:00.lack of coverage. Despite this, Louise says he's not giving up. The
:25:01. > :25:05.higher, crossing the finish is her only option.
:25:06. > :25:14.Bravely day. Rachel, is it that continue been a skilled?
:25:15. > :25:27.-- this cold? Today we had highs of around two or three Celsius. The
:25:28. > :25:33.sunshine will last. Clear skies mean those temperatures plummet tonight.
:25:34. > :25:38.Those of around minus five Celsius. It stays dry over the next couple of
:25:39. > :25:43.days, lots of sunshine, perhaps a touch more clout for Sunday, but
:25:44. > :25:51.very bright and it is going to be very cold. Overnight, like the wind
:25:52. > :25:54.and clearer skies, we expect to see some hill fort here and there, and
:25:55. > :26:02.once again, the temperatures plummet. Several degrees down on
:26:03. > :26:07.that in the rule all spots. Widespread, hard frost is that the
:26:08. > :26:12.weekend. Saturday, lots of sunshine from the word go. We are still under
:26:13. > :26:19.the influence of this area of high pressure. The wind will change
:26:20. > :26:25.direction, but it is light, 510 mph. We will do well with temperatures,
:26:26. > :26:32.they will creep up... Keep the heating on, lots of sunshine though,
:26:33. > :26:35.but crisp and cold winter's day. You can spot the difference between
:26:36. > :26:42.Saturday and Sunday. As we head to Saturday night, temperatures will
:26:43. > :26:46.quickly fall away, it is more likely to be a cold night and I'm tonight.
:26:47. > :26:55.In towns and cities LB around minus two Celsius. You can see -6 and -7
:26:56. > :27:00.in rural spots. Italy killed at least at Sunday. A touch more clout
:27:01. > :27:05.cover around, but very similar picture. A good deal of sunshine, by
:27:06. > :27:08.the afternoon the temperature will be around for five or six Celsius.
:27:09. > :27:19.Many of is still hovering around two or three. Enter the next week, even
:27:20. > :27:23.as we look towards Thursday, the high pressure doesn't look to be
:27:24. > :27:27.going anywhere. There will be a touch more clout and Tebbit is ever
:27:28. > :27:36.so slightly less cold. Sunshine over the weekend but staying cold. That
:27:37. > :27:38.is egg from us for the moment. I am back with the late news at 10:30pm.
:27:39. > :27:54.Have a good evening. TV: He's not your father.
:27:55. > :28:07.WOMAN GASPS so why not pay your TV licence in
:28:08. > :28:19.weekly instalments, too? Parents are facing an explosion in
:28:20. > :28:29.the number of children saying