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A reminder of the day's main story... The | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage strongly denies allegations his team | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
broke election expenses law during the bitterly fought | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
A transgender murderer from Sussex, segregated for their own protection, | :00:13. | :00:20. | |
was not unlawfully treated by the Prison Service, | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
The Shadow Health Secretary calls for an inquiry into the poor | :00:23. | :00:30. | |
performance of Coperforma, who lost the contract to run | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
non-emergency transport across Sussex after hundreds | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
Abandoned to die on a roadside in Kent - we check on the recovery | :00:37. | :00:44. | |
of the dog who was so thin she was mistaken | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
All the dog wants is some love and some food and it's obviously | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
been totally left without any of that care. | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
Just a year ago he was an unknown from Uckfield, now he's | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
a big deal at the Brits - Rag'n'Bone man is up | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
Claims that UKIP flouted electoral law during Nigel Farage's | :01:09. | :01:26. | |
unsuccessful bid to become the MP for South Thanet in 2015 have | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
been strongly denied by the former leader. | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
Left-leaning pressure group Hope Not Hate is calling | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
for Kent Police to investigate its allegations that thousands | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
of pounds spent by UKIP were not declared to the electoral watchdog. | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
Mr Farage has told this programme that he has been "absolutely | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
assured" that the returns had been done". | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
However, South-East Today has spoken with a former UKIP campaigner | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
who claims he was paid by the party for working in South Thanet, | :01:58. | :02:11. | |
The fight for South Thanet in the full glare of the world's press was | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
fearsome frantic and nearly two years later that followed is still | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
being felt. Now there are claims from a pressure group that Ukip may | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
not have declared thousands of pounds spent on its attempts to get | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
Nigel Farage and elected as an MP. BBC South East is booking this man, | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
who doesn't want to be identified, he says he works for the campaign in | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
the vital six weeks running up to the election. Definitely on the | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
phone canvassing it was I am calling on the half of Nigel Farage and | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
Ukip, something along those lines. At the door-to-door canvassing of a | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
slightly different because they tried to get the local candidate I | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
does well, but if Nigel was there he was the main focus. It was, this man | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
is running for MP, would you like to meet in? He was paid more than ?1000 | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
bike Ukip, money he said was a disc -- wasn't declared. It is bizarre | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
that that money wasn't registered anywhere. I was specifically working | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
in South Thanet talk and beyond the national expense, but even so it | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
wasn't registered anywhere I was paid that. We watched the South | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
Thanet returns and were unable to find any entry that matched the | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
payments. BBC south-east has spoken to three young activists who | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
confirmed they were paid to work on-site South Thanet. It is unclear | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
where the salaries have been declared. The rules around how much | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
candidates can spend up elections are strict, particularly in the | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
final weeks running up to polling day. Then a Parliamentary candidates | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
can spend a maximum of ?8,700 plus 9p per registered voter. On South | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
Thanet that give a maximum spend of just over ?15,000. Overspending or | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
unknowingly not declaring all costs can lead to criminal sanctions. | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
Nigel Farage Goldust this afternoon that while he did not complete a | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
return to themselves he had been absolutely assured that Ukip had | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
done them as thoroughly and professionally as it could and that | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
he had no reason to think anything was wrong. The basic principle is | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
fairness. What we in this country try to do as boats to the United | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
States were huge money is spent and candidates have to be wealthy, we | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
have tried to make a level playing field so that candidates and parties | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
are not disadvantaged because they do not have much money. These claims | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
about spending on Nigel Farage's campaign comes just months before | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
the deadline for Kent Police to decide whether it is going to take | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
action over the winning candidate, Greg McKinlay. His spending is being | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
scrutinised by the electoral commission over accusations over | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
illegal spending by the Conservatives around the country. In | :04:52. | :04:59. | |
Ramsgate, this latest twist in the turbulent politics of planet has | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
done little to inspire voters. It should be fully investigated. If | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
there is foul play somewhere. I don't think most liberal will be | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
that worried about it. More likely the political people who have a | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
point to make. Of course it matters. I think they should be much more | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
careful with the way they spend the money. A spokesman for Ukip told us | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
that they were confident that the party had met all the regulations. | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
Helen, Hope Not Hate are calling for a police investigation. | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
There is not really a way of doing it under the law because police | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
investigate candidate's spending but there is a cut. They have to start | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
proceedings within a year of those returns being filed. We are well | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
past that. What about the election watchdog? They only have the remit | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
to look at party spending on a national level. There are open | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
investigations by both the police and the electoral commission is | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
looking at the spending of the conservative candidate, Craig | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
McKinlay. We expect the commission report to come back soon, they are | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
looking at it as part of a wider look at Conservative spending across | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
the country. Once back comes back, Kent Police have a few months to | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
decide if they are quick to take any further action. -- if they are going | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
to take any further action. -- if they are going to take | :06:31. | :06:31. | |
any further action. A transgender prisoner from Sussex | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
who severely mutilated themselves while in jail, | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
has lost a High Court appeal Christopher Hunnisett | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
was jailed for life over the killing of a gay man, | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
Peter Bick, in Bexhill in 2012. Hunnisett, who now identifies | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
as a woman, wrongly believed In 2015, she attempted to perform | :06:45. | :06:46. | |
a sex-change operation A judge ruled that the Prison | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
Service had not acted unlawfully in keeping her segregated from other | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
prisoners for her own protection. Our special correspondent, | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
Colin Campbell, reports. Convicted as a man living in prison | :06:57. | :07:04. | |
as a woman, temp two claim that they're being segregated behind bars | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
her wrap -- her rights as a transgender women were being | :07:10. | :07:11. | |
violated. She appeared in court via video link, dressed in a blouse with | :07:12. | :07:19. | |
long hair. It is a sad case. Pretty appalling details of what has gone | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
on. But a difficult case for the courts and for the prison | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
authorities. In court, gruesome detail was given about high | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
Christopher Hunnisett had performed an attempted sex change wealth in a | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
prison cell in Durham. He explained how living as a transgender women in | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
prison has resulted in her being segregated, restricting her access | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
to education, work, church and visiting opportunities. Christopher | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
Hunnisett was first jailed in 2002 for the murder of Sussex Preece | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
Rommel Glazebrook. Sure what in the belief acquitted in 2010 after | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
revealing she had been sexually abused as a teenage boy by Reverend | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
Glazebrook. In 2012, Christopher Hunnisett was again jailed, this | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
time for the murder of Bexhill supermarket worker Peter Bick. | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
Christopher Hunnisett falsely claimed that the time that she had | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
been on a mission to rid the world of paedophiles. He had obviously | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
been my brother's torture, judge, jury and executioner all in one hand | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
what a horrid, evil animal he is. Christopher Hunnisett took her case | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
to the High Court after refusing to be placed on a wing for vulnerable | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
prisoners were she posed a potential risk to convicted sex offenders. She | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
has not been allowed to remain in the general prison population for | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
her own safety. It is a no-win situation, but ultimately of course | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
the solution is to find special units, to create special units, for | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
transgender prisoners. Christopher Hunnisett claimed that her human | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
rights had been breached, but the High Court disagreed, saying that | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
segregation is lawful for her own protection. | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
In a moment: Safeguarding the nation s heritage: How scores | :09:04. | :09:05. | |
of organisations have gathered in Kent to debate crime | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
The Shadow Health Secretary has called for a public inquiry | :09:09. | :09:18. | |
into the controversy surrounding the awarding of a major ambulance | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
contract to a private company in Sussex last year. | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
Coperforma suffered a series of disastrous headlines | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
after taking over last April, having to apologise when hundreds | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
In July, one of Coperforma's sub-contractors went bust, | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
In November, the NHS trust lost patience and announced | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
they would strip Coperforma of its multi-million pound contract | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
and bring the non-emergency transport service back in-house. | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
Today, there were angry scenes in the Commons as the Prime Minister | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
defended the Government's record on public-private | :09:53. | :09:54. | |
Our Health correspondent, Mark Norman, reports. | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
These are drivers for the NHS nonemergency patient | :10:02. | :10:03. | |
Addressing them, the Shadow Secretary of State for Health | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
who is making some political capital of the fact that Coperforma won't be | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
running the service from 1st April and is calling for answers | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
I think there are serious questions now that need to be answered | :10:13. | :10:20. | |
and I hope that there will be an enquiry into how this contract | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
was awarded because, clearly, it was not in the interest | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
of taxpayer, and not in the interest of patients in this community. | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
Over the last year, these drivers have had issues with pay, | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
It's made them uncertain about the new contracts | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
with the new provider, South Central Ambulance Service. | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
At the moment, we're going through training before | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
We are all apprehensive, especially after what's happened to us. | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
The NHS is there for the public, not for the private people to come | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
in and take that away because, obviously, we have experienced | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
it first hand, that standards are not as good. | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
And that political debate over the NHS and the way it's run | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
was the subject of a feisty exchange at Prime Minister's | :11:09. | :11:10. | |
So why is it that one in six of A units in England are set | :11:11. | :11:19. | |
Back in Sussex, NHS bosses are planning for the new transport | :11:20. | :11:31. | |
provider to start work next week and take over the contract | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
Having recognised the problem and cancelled the Coperforma | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
contract after just a few months, they will be hoping for a smooth | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
Our Health correspondent, Mark Norman, is in Hove. | :11:43. | :11:50. | |
Mark, you've highlighted problems in the NHS in Sussex, | :11:51. | :11:52. | |
but there's news tonight of possible major changes of services in Kent. | :11:53. | :12:04. | |
That's right. We have been hearing from staff at the hospital in | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
Canterbury who were telling us they're a possible major changes | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
being planned because of issues around staffing levels, changes | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
around medical admissions, possible plans to downgrade the urgent care | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
centre at the hospital, already downgraded from an accident and | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
emergency a few ago, and turn it into a major minor injuries unit. I | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
ever, I have had a long discussion with the trust he tell me that this | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
assembly contingency planning and that they are looking at worst-case | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
scenarios and that there are hospitals are safe and fully | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
staffed. I said are you planning for possible worst-case scenario in the | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
next week's or months, and they didn't get a straight answer. The | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
trust only that the hospitals are safe and staffed and this is simply | :12:52. | :12:53. | |
contingency planning. Air accident investigators say | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
they will publish their final safety report into the Shoreham air | :12:58. | :12:59. | |
disaster next week. 11 men died when a vintage | :13:00. | :13:01. | |
Hawker Hunter jet crashed Families of the victims | :13:02. | :13:03. | |
have been calling for the publication of the findings | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
by the Air Accidents Sussex police are also investigating | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
the role played by pilot Andy Hill, A Sussex factory worker has been | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
charged with making online threats against the MP | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
for Eastbourne on Facebook. 50-year-old Mark Sands, | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
who lives in Eastbourne, is accused of sending an "offensive, | :13:26. | :13:26. | |
indecent, obscene or menacing Well, let's cross live | :13:27. | :13:36. | |
to our correspondent Yvette Austin, 50-year-old Mark stands, accused it | :13:37. | :13:53. | |
sending an offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing message to the | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
Eastbourne MP temp one. Sussex Police said that he will appear | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
before Hastings magistrates next month. In a separate case, | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
73-year-old man is being held by West Sussex Police in connection | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
with allegations that two MPs received offensive messages on | :14:12. | :14:12. | |
social media last year. Increasing numbers of vulnerable | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
child migrants are returning to Calais, putting their lives | :14:16. | :14:17. | |
at risk trying to cross the Channel by getting | :14:18. | :14:19. | |
on lorries bound for Kent. That's the warning today given | :14:20. | :14:21. | |
by aid charities to an influential They say some unaccompanied minors | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
who have family in the UK have now lost faith in the system | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
and are taking matters You have the papers that you could | :14:31. | :14:47. | |
appeal? Yeah, yeah. At the start of the week the chair of the Home | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
Affairs Select Committee went to Dunkirk and Calais to speak to | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
children who had applied to come to did UK under a scheme called the | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
Dublin regulation. Today, more questions in Westminster. In Dunkirk | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
on Monday I spoke to a 13-year-old and 14-year-old who had been | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
rejected for dubs and applications, both of whom said they had nothing | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
in writing at all and just an oral decision from someone at the centre, | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
so he didn't even know why it was they had been rejected. When the | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
Calais Nolan as The Jungle close, more than 2,000 children were moved | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
to centre to cross France. 750 were given permission to come to the UK | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
because they had family here were considered to be extremely | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
vulnerable. Some children refused permission to claim the applications | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
were judged fairly. We have seen children coming out of the camp, | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
moving back to Dunkirk and Calais and taking their lives into their | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
own hands against. Many local authorities here say taking in more | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
children has big financial implications. It is almost chipping | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
and egg about capacity. We have children's home providers, Kerry | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
even support providers saying we can find you some advisers and some | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
accommodation, but that has to be paid for. In response to the | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
concerns of the charity, it says it needs to find the balance between | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
enabling legitimate children become to the UK and ensuring that local | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
authorities have the capacity to for them. -- to care for them. | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
Well, our reporter Simon Jones is in Dover for us now. | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
Simon, there seems to be no clear consensus on how to deal | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
with the vulnerable children arriving in Calais. | :16:28. | :16:29. | |
On Monday, Yvette Cooper told me she was shocked at the conditions in | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
which some children were living over in Dunkirk. At the Home Affairs | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
Select Committee today is one of the MPs bid to the charities that many | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
people did not believe that some of those claiming to be children were | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
actually children. What they did seem united on was the belief that | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
they need to tackle the people traffickers. Save the children said | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
today they could not going to the Cabot Dunkirk and speak to children | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
for fear that those children would face reprisals from the traffickers, | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
another sign that this situation is extremely difficult to resolve. | :17:00. | :17:01. | |
Nigel Farage has strongly denied claims his party broke electoral | :17:02. | :17:14. | |
expenses law during the 2015 campaign in South Thanet. | :17:15. | :17:27. | |
Also in tonight's programme: Just a year ago he was an unknown | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
from Uckfield, now he's a big deal at the Brits - Rag'n'Bone Man is up | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
We are expecting storm Doris opened next day. Warnings for us in the | :17:35. | :17:50. | |
south-east about gale force winds with travel disruption expected. I | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
will have the details for you later in the programme. | :17:54. | :18:11. | |
Plundering shipwrecks, robbing ancient buildings, | :18:12. | :18:12. | |
and illegal metal detecting - just some of the crimes | :18:13. | :18:14. | |
that our most significant historical sites are subject to. | :18:15. | :18:16. | |
But today more than 50 organisations have gathered in Kent to discuss how | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
to make our shared national heritage less vulnerable to | :18:21. | :18:22. | |
Research from English Heritage found nearly | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
a fifth of all listed buildings are affected by crime each year. | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
Across the country that works out as 70,000. | :18:28. | :18:29. | |
Here in Kent there are nearly 18,000 listed buildings - | :18:30. | :18:31. | |
and 11 protected shipwrecks, more than anywhere | :18:32. | :18:33. | |
Claudia Sermbezis has tonight's Special Report. | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
Eight 2,000 and -- 2,000 year old ball stolen, a statue Tunbridge | :18:39. | :18:48. | |
Wells Park and two weeks ago to diapers and alleged with removal | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
from a sunken warship. Heritage crime is a big business. A lot of | :18:54. | :19:01. | |
stuff has been left behind over thousands of years, whether it be | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
features in the landscape, objects in the ground. It is a shared | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
cultural resource. The launch of heritage watch and the introduction | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
of the countryside is using modern technology to help us protect the | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
past. The app is intended to encourage people to report | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
suspicious behaviour or prime around heritage sites. He opens up the app | :19:25. | :19:33. | |
and if it is safe to do so takes a picture. It is a scheme that this | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
estate manager could have benefited from two years ago. Two statues were | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
stolen from Coddington house. They were very fine lead statues and we | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
had done our best to secure them and they had some alarms, but the | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
thieves were clever and managed to remove them from the plinths and | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
take them away and we never saw them again. Leeds Castle is an isolated | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
rural estate and for the curator there is always an element of risk | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
when deciding to put things on display. It is so important to keep | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
in contact with other heritage organisations about heritage crime | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
that goes on, not only damage to buildings and structures, but also | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
theft from our interior collections because once something is gone it | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
really is gone and these things tend to be one and are irreplaceable. It | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
is hoped the new scheme will lead to more heritage crime convictions. | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
An emaciated dog found abandoned in Maidstone is now | :20:34. | :20:35. | |
receiving specialist care at an RSPCA animal centre. | :20:36. | :20:37. | |
Officers say they believe the female lurcher was just hours from death | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
Snoopy, as they've called her, was so thin she was mistaken | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
Officers say they were shocked at her condition and believe she had | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
been deliberately starved and kept in a confined space. | :20:51. | :20:52. | |
If Snoopy hadn't been found last Thursday evening, | :20:53. | :21:08. | |
it is almost certain she would have died during the night. | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
She was left shivering and starving on Wooley Road in Maidstone, | :21:12. | :21:13. | |
but miraculously, passing motorists rescued her. | :21:14. | :21:15. | |
Now, RSPCA officers are trying to find out | :21:16. | :21:17. | |
I mean, she could have escaped, but how extreme she is, | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
if she had been a stray, she would have been scrounging | :21:23. | :21:24. | |
She doesn't appear to have had any food for a considerable time. | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
All the dog wants is some love and some food and it's obviously | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
been totally left without any of that care. | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
Snoopy is now being looked after at Leybourne RSPCA centre. | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
Because she's so thin, there's every chance | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
When Snoopy was found she weighed just over ten kilograms. | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
The average weight for a dog like her is about 15 to 16 | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
kilograms, so she still has a long way to go. | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
Snoopy is being fed five times a day. | :21:57. | :21:58. | |
Since she was rescued she has now put on nearly half a kilogram. | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
With a dog this emaciated, you can't just give her a big load | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
That will cause problems in the long run. | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
It needs to be fed little and often and you just kind of take it as it | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
comes and let her put on weight at a manageable rate, esentially. | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
The RSPCA says it will be a slow and steady recovery and its officers | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
will continue their search to find out who mistreated her. | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
Only a year ago, Rory Graham was an aspiring blues singer, | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
almost unknown outside of his hometown of Uckfield. | :22:36. | :22:37. | |
Today, he's on the fast track to becoming a global star under | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
His debut single, Human, has already gone platinum, | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
selling more than 600,000 copies in the UK alone. | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
It has also reached the Top 10 in 29 countries around the world. | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
His debut album, also called Human, was released this month | :22:53. | :22:54. | |
and is already officially the fastest selling male debut | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
album of the decade, selling 117,000 copies | :22:58. | :22:58. | |
He's already been named the Critics' Choice at this year s Brit Awards | :22:59. | :23:06. | |
and he's hotly tipped to pick up another tonight. | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
Lizo Mzimba is on the red carpet at the O2 in London for us now. | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
Well, it has been an amazing evening so far. Rag'n'Bone Man already named | :23:14. | :23:30. | |
the winner of the critics's choice awards. That is picked by industry | :23:31. | :23:38. | |
expert and critics. Look at the people who have won before, the | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
likes of Sam Smith, a Dell and Rag'n'Bone Man has been selling huge | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
numbers of albums. His debut album outsold the rest of the top ten that | :23:48. | :24:00. | |
together on a distributor. -- put together. | :24:01. | :24:01. | |
He's never had a singing lesson, but tonight he's likely to become | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
one of the UK's best-known musicians # But I'm only human after all. | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
likely to become one of the UK's best-known musicians. | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
The singer-songwriter from Uckfield took the name Rag'n'Bone Man | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
from the 1960s sitcom Steptoe and Son. | :24:22. | :24:22. | |
But this former care worker isn't fazed by the call of fame. | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
I don't know about dreaming about being the stage here. | :24:29. | :24:30. | |
Like, I used to watch it all the time, but I never | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
Like I say, I just carry on doing what I'm doing. | :24:34. | :24:46. | |
I don't feel like that weight on my shoulders or anything. | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
# Every word you say has been hanging over my head #. | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
Already named Critics' Choice winner for 2017, | :24:53. | :24:54. | |
a title previously held by Brighton's James Bay | :24:55. | :24:56. | |
and Tom Odell, for the first time ever a Critics' Choice winner has | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
been nominated for Best British Breakthrough Artist. | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
For Brighton, you know, we are known for Nick Cave and Fatboy Slim. | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
But to have someone as cool as Rag'n'Bone Man as well now... | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
I think when you listen to his voice, it's a global voice. | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
It's not just like a chart voice, it's not an overproduced track, | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
it's an absolutely beautiful emotive track and it's quality. | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
You can catch him on tour in Brighton on 20th May. | :25:26. | :25:36. | |
A lot of highlights from tonight are likely to include performances from | :25:37. | :25:52. | |
the likes of Ed Sheeran, little mix, Katy Perry, but for Rag'n'Bone Man | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
this is probably the going to be a night he will never forget. Iqbal | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
are already talking about next year's BRIT Awards when they are | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
tipping him to be nominated in many different categories because of its | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
outstanding talent. He does have an extraordinary voice. | :26:14. | :26:21. | |
Widespread travel disruption is expected and the reason for that is | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
gale force winds. There will also be some heavy rain that the winds are | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
expected to be a problem. The reason is they are going to be developing | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
through the day so inland we could well be seeing gusts up to 60 mph | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
and we will see a second wave of those winds during the early part of | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
the afternoon, so particularly for the later rush-hour, the advice is | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
to check on the latest weather forecast before you travel. Through | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
tonight, it is a more calm picture, the winds will pick up a little bit | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
and will be some rain but for the most part a calmer than it will be | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
tomorrow. Very mild with overnight temperatures of nine or 10 degrees. | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
Warnings eyed about the winds valid the day tomorrow. It is going to be | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
a blustery start. We have this cold front around and behind it and it | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
will be feeling a lot cooler. The first wave of the strong winds | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
happens in the morning. From about eight o'clock we start to see the | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
rain, really strong gusts and that will clear through and during the | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
early part of the afternoon we are expecting the winds to pick up | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
again. Along the south coast we could see gusts up to 70 miles an | :27:33. | :27:39. | |
hour. The wind is from a westerly direction, 20 or 30 miles an on | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
average. To take care in the first part of the day. The top | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
temperatures of ten or 11 achieved by midday. It will feel cooler as | :27:50. | :27:56. | |
that's front passes through. Overnight temperatures of around two | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
or three degrees, in rural spots there maybe a touch of frost. The | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
winds will start to ease off and a much more calm day is expected as we | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
go through the day on Friday. Temperatures by the afternoon 910 | :28:10. | :28:12. | |
degrees but the westerly winds will ease off, once again 15 or 20 miles | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
an hour. Looking towards the weekend, there will be rain around | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
first thing on Saturday morning but that will clear. After dark some | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
rain. For something more cloud around will be unsettled into the | :28:27. | :28:32. | |
new week. But the main uses storm Doris will arrive tomorrow is do | :28:33. | :28:35. | |
take care if you plan to travel. That visit from us at the moment. I | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
will be back with the ladies at 10:30 p.m.. I will see you tomorrow. | :28:41. | :28:42. | |
Have a very good evening. ..as Drive, Five To Five and | :28:43. | :28:43. | |
Nightfall fight for the win. | :28:44. | :28:56. |