28/02/2017 South East Today

Welcome to South East Today, I'm Natalie Graham.

The brother of a Sussex man found dead in Thailand tells of his fears

that he was murdered - and calls for a more

It is heartbreaking. My mother lost her husband and know her youngest

son. Sussex police are branded

unbelievable by the man who claims he was told to investigate the theft

of his ?40,000 sports car himself It says to car thieves in Sussex

carry on stealing cars because there's very little chance you get

caught. Also in tonight's programme:

A ?400,000 payout for the high flyer edged out

of her job when she returned We're at the UK's largest

Mardis Gras festival - Fat Tuesday. And Brighton is about to be rocked

by the Kaiser Chiefs - we'll be speaking live to one

of the most successful The brother of a man found dead

in Thailand says he fears he may have been murdered -

and wants more done Andrew Apperley, from Eastbourne,

sent messages to his friends and family before his death -

saying he was scared, and claiming The 38-year-old travelled

to a Full-Moon party on the island of Ko Phangan and was reported

missing when he didn't British police are liaising

with Thai authorities to establish Andy Apperley's tragic

death in Thailand has The body of the 38-year-old chef

and landlord from Eastbourne was discovered last week on a beach

on the island of Koth Phangan. His brother, though,

believes messages sent by Andy prior I've got to investigate

as his brother. I've been looking at the computer

for days and days, running a social media campaign and I'm not

going to go away. This has gone global so this

is not going to go away, Andy Apperley sent a series

of increasingly incoherent messages to friends before he disappeared

including one that said OMG, had a mad night,

all the guys wanting kill me. In another message,

he said tripping out, It is heartbreaking. My mum has lost

her husband three years ago and now her youngest son.

It's created a big loss in our lives and he leaves

Andy who had been staying at this hotel on Ko Samui told friends

he was going to a party on the neighbouring island.

Thereafter contact with them was lost. I knew he was going to a party

so I was not worried that then the next day we started to pick up more

and we had a phone call from the Foreign Ministry seeing his

possessions were still in the hotel. Then we started to act on that

immediately. Andy's body was found last Wednesday

morning, floating in the sea Police and Foreign Office officials

are supporting the family The family are now considering

flying out to Thailand, frustrated that so little has been

said to them a week The authorities in Thailand are

cunning at the ongoing investigation. I understand and his

body has been taken back to the mainland to allow an autopsy to

happen. Depending on what that autopsy does or does not find will

mean that the investigation will carry on. There will be an inquest

heard in the UK, a formal court hearing to try to establish exactly

how and why he died. A Sussex motorist whose

?40,000 Jaguar car was stolen from his driveway has

branded police "unbelievable", after he claims he was told

to investigate the crime himself. Kevin Standing's car vanished

from outside his home in Patcham He claims Sussex Police told him

"swathes" of crimes are not being investigated -

in order to save money to cope Our News Correspondent

Mark Norman reports. As luxury cars go, the Jaguar

XF is right up there. And you actually look out

the window in the morning and you can't believe

what you are seeing. And there ought to be

a Jaguar sitting here So you phoned the police,

you expected them to come I assumed that you would report it

and at some point the patrol would turn up and take details

and have a look where it was. But they didn't turn up so Kevin

called them yesterday morning and found out they weren't

going to investigate because there It made me wonder why

I paid my Council Tax. A lot of that goes

towards the police. When you need them

they are not there. And then the third body

blow, as it were, you get this letter

in the post today? this arrived in the

post this morning. This will be the last contact

you will have from Sussex It basically says to the car thieves

in Sussex please carry on stealing cars because there's very little

challenge going to get caught. Sussex Police told Kevin

that they would keep the number plates on their computer system

and they told They told us that they focus their

efforts on the crimes which cause It would seem to imply that

if you haven't got any obvious leads you're not

going to follow it up. I don't think we should be

afraid of saying that. If there are there not

any lines of enquiry I think it is proportionate

and it is beholden on us that we serve all of the public by making

sure we investigate whether there are risks, where there are victims

and that the enquiry is proportionate and effective

as a result. So, no tracker in

the car, no CCTV, no Kevin's insurance company

are now dealing with this The 11-year-old girl whose brain

tumour was missed 22 times A Kent couple have been talking

of the terrifying moments when their car was hit by a foreign

lorry in a so-called "side-swiping" incident,

saying their "lives flashed Paul and Suzanne Marshall

from Lamberhurst, near Tunbridge Wells,

say their car span out of control, and travelled backwards at speed

on the M25 motorway. They're calling for foreign lorries

to be fitted with better mirrors on British roads,

as Jon Hunt reports. They survived the terror

of a motorway side swipe As he came to pull out

into the second lane, he hit us in the rear

and caused damage all the way down the side

of This was where the front

of the vehicle smacked into I remember a bang and a smash

and I can remember the glass shattering,

I could feel that. I'm literally facing the other

way, going backwards. It felt like I was

driving a bumper car. I felt like I was in

a vortex, spinning around. And they say your life flashes

in front of your eyes. As this video dramatically shows

it can be hard for truck drivers to see cars passing them

in their blind In this case a British-registered

lorry failed to see The problem is made worse

for foreign drivers in see cars overtaking

them on the right. Mr and Mrs Marshall

want all is to be fitted with wide-angle

mirrors to eliminate This is something that

could be done easily by just I think it would considerably

help the matter. Around 170 crashes

involving foreign HGVs were recorded in Kent, Sussex

and Surrey last year. In the past, drivers coming

through Dover and the Channel Tunnel have been offered

advice and free window lenses that There are now calls

for more permanent warnings The Freight Transport

Association would welcome motorways, especially

on the first few miles outside just to remind truck

drivers and other drivers Is is now mandatory for all

new HGVs over 7.5 tonnes registered since January 2007 to be

fitted with wide angled mirrors that give drivers better reviews

than either side of the vehicle. The mirrors on large

vehicles have been improved and are

still being improved. Lots of large vehicles now

have cameras and sensors to give extra warning

to the drivers. All drivers are being

warned not to cruise beside a lorry on the motorway

and instead pass it without delay. Jon the fact that we have the Port

of Dover and the Channel Tunnel terminal here no doubt means that

Kent suffers more from this problem? collisions in the foreign registered

trucks in Kent last year compared to nine in Sussex. There were 2 million

lorries coming into Britain through the port of Dover or the Channel

Tunnel terminal in 2015. And of all the lorries involved in collisions

in Britain in 2015 just 7% of them involved foreign registered trucks.

A former police chief has urged the government to ban drones

from entering controlled airspace around major airports such

Lord Stevens also a former Metropolitan Police commissioner

told the Lords it was an answer to the problem of near-misses with

It comes as the Government launches a consultation on drone regulation.

The company which runs Southern Rail has warned profits could be hit

by up to ?15 million as a result of nearly a year

Go-Ahead has apologised for the disruption caused

by the dispute with the Aslef and RMT unions over

The RMT has announced another 24-hour walkout

A high-flying architect from Kent - Julie Humphryes - was accused

of maternity paranoia by her boss - but a tribunal found she wasn't

She felt she was being edged out of her ?100,000

a year job by a campaign of sexual discrimination which started

when she became pregnant with her second child.

After spending years and thousands of pounds she has been awarded

significant damages by a tribunal. Her case echoes a new drama on BBC

One, the Replacement which focuses on maternity paranoia and an

architect 's practice. A successful architect appears to be

getting edged out of a job by her replacement when she gets pregnant.

It makes for a gripping drama but it is not still entertaining when you

are experiencing it for real or being told you're just being

paranoid as Julie will tell you. You just instinctively know when it is

filling correct. My subordinate was going to take my role and take part

of my roll over. My former call head of design had taken credit for

projects whilst I was on maternity, passing them off is only his own

work and not ours is contributing together. And it being cut out of

e-mails and meetings and discussions about the future of the business.

Since we started in 1999 the company just grown and grown. Julie was and

design director for this company and although the design seemed

forward-looking Barat your former employee at removal ruled was

sexless coronation. Three in four women say they have had a negative

experience with more than one saying if our lead leaving the job. We have

had recent experiencing the number of and making complaints about this

is more common than ten years ago. And it is something we have coming

across. Discrimination against Julie started with offhand comments about

what she would and wouldn't want to do as a mother. Something the father

brought into place did not face. Her old firm has yet to pay a penny of

the damages she was awarded so it has cost hundreds of thousands to

get justice. And the three-part psychological

thriller - The Replacement - starts on BBC One tonight

at nine o'clock. The brother of a man found dead

in Thailand says he fears he may Andrew Apperley, from Eastbourne,

sent messages to his friends and family before his death -

saying he was scared, and claiming They're flying high -

but can the Seagulls take a decisive step towards the premier league

in their top of the table match After a bright start it turned wet

today and are very similar picture for tomorrow. I will have more

details later in the programme. The family of an 11-year-old Kent

girl whose brain tumour was missed 22 times before

she received emergency surgery are backing a fundraising appeal

to help research the disease. Poppy Eden's condition

was overlooked by several medical professionals over three years

before she got a diagnosis. Now she's working with

the charity Brain Tumour Research to highlight the 16,000

people diagnosed every which kills more people under 40

than any other form of cancer. Despite that, brain tumours attract

just one per cent of national Peter Whittlesea has

tonight's Special Report It has been a remarkable road to

recovery. Back at school and back in

the saddle, learning to ride safely. A year ago, Poppy Eden was learning

to walk again after recovering from a ten-hour operation to remove

a brain tumour. Despite suffering from headaches

and sickness, doctors failed to diagnose her condition

until her parents took I didn't really understand

the name brain tumour or the diagnosis brain tumour,

what it was, what it meant, When I got into the ambulance,

my mum was saying, you'll be all right, and I was saying,

I don't understand what it is, I did get a little bit

more anxious about it. Failure to spot the symptoms earlier

meant she was at risk of having a seizure.

She was taken immediately by ambulance to King's

for an emergency operation, a journey her mum will never forget.

We have never been through anything is emotionally draining analyse

before. -- in our lives. We knew it was serious,

but we just didn't know your daughter being rushed

to hospital for an operation. I can't describe it,

it was just awful. We are starting brain tumour

awareness month. The more awareness we have the better. The message is

clear. Don't ignore the early signals because Ellie diagnosis can

save lives. -- earlier. In this country we call

it Shrove Tuesday - But in Brazil and New Orleans,

they call it Mardi Gras - which translates into English

as Fat Tuesday - because it's the last day for a good

blowout before Lent. In Hastings - where

they love a good party - they mark the day and the season

with a music festival which is Its a celebration of the vibrant

music scene with a bit of carnival You can't help but think Hastings

was made for this. A bit of off the wall joyful, with more than a hint

of eccentricity it is an echo of the goings on this day in New Orleans.

Here it is not quite up to the full Mardi Gras madness but it is growing

year by year. We are working on it. We have somewhere to go. It is the

biggest Mardi Gras and the whole of the UK. We are way ahead of anyone

else in that respect. People find bands playing all over the place.

This evening the bands have slowly started to live in town. -- arrived.

This is Nigel Clark of Dodgy warming up in a seaside bar with their hit

song of the summer Staying Out for the Summer. Sometimes it can get a

little bit boring so having a music night on Tuesday, it is a bit like

the Carnival in Brazil without the weather. Because it is the last

night they wanted to do something special so they have 24 bands each

playing a 20 minute set -- 320 minute sets all over. -- three sets

of 20 minutes all over. It is going to be fun. The five days of live

events has been a showcase for the vibrant music scene in the area. It

significant role in bringing visitors and prosperity was

recognised formally today, Fact, Tuesday -- Fact Tuesday with the

news that two other towns and launching themselves in the same

way. -- Fat Tuesday. They've won Best British Group,

Best Album, scored several hit singles and made

multi million selling LPs. The Kaiser Chiefs have had a massive

impact since they came onto the scene back in 2004

with their infectious Hey did so well, lead singer

Ricky Wilson even had a spell as a judge on the TV talent show

The Voice! as a judge on the TV

talent show The Voice. But he's now focussing

on a new album and new tour with the band, and tonight they're

playing to a packed Our reporter Charlie Rose

is there now - so Charlie what can They can expect a lot of energy and

melodies and a big dollop of good old-fashioned guitar music. I will

be talking to the band in just a few moments. Let's have a look at what

the Kaiser Chiefs are famous for. # # There's a hole in my soul. #

Joining me now as Simon Rex and Ricky Wilson of the Kaiser Chiefs.

-- Rix. Your latest album has been described as Love album but you're

too much oil chaps from Leeds. -- Machell. -- macho. Every song on the

radio was about a boy or a girl both. I think it will be good

tonight. This is sort of the album to so we're playing some songs from

the new album and some of the hits. A few surprises? It will be a great

night. It will be a fourth time in this room. We love coming back to

Brighton. We love the seaside. We are suckers for it. People will know

you not just from the Kaiser Chiefs but the Voice as well. Can we see a

return for you TV talent judging? I was a judge. I was not a contestant.

I got paid. Don't you? I don't know, maybe one day. At the moment we are

concentrating on becoming the best band in the world. We will see. I

think he would make a great contestant on the Voice as well.

Thank you very much for joining us. The Kaiser Chiefs in Brighton. I'm

sure fans will have a lot of fun this evening. Ricky Wilson is a good

lad, isn't it? Football, and in just under an hour

Championship leaders Brighton and Hove Albion face second-placed

Newcastle at the Amex in what could be the defining

match of their season. Victory will take them

a decisive step towards otion to the Premier League -

which would bring the club The Seagulls were last

in the top flight - when it was the old First Division -

back in 1983. Tonight's match pits the team

with the best home record in the Championship -

Brighton - against the team with Our reporter John Young

is at the stadium for us now - As it is for Newcastle. It is a huge

important game. As it is for Newcastle. It is a huge

game and such an exciting season. There are still 12 games to go

before decisions are made in May. But you don't have to be an expert

in football follower that closely to get excited about the arithmetic.

This is the momentum match. That is just one point between them and

three points at stake. If Newcastle when suddenly it all seems to slip

away for the Seagulls and that of the Seagulls when suddenly they are

stretching out ahead. We asked former Seagulls player and a bit of

a legend what he made of it all. Mind you, they've said that

on a couple of occasions before. But you look at the quality

of the team, look how many points they are in front of the likes

of Huddersfield, Reading etc. I still think we'll slip up,

and what doesn't kill Got to the play-offs a couple

of years running and missed out - crikey, that would make you hungry,

would it not? I think it is fair to say that all

eyes are on the stadium tonight. I was having a chat with fellow who

looks after all the journalists here and he says there is more interest

on this mass tonight than any other match this season from across the

all country. I will be back at half past ten but hopefully some goals,

hopefully some goals from the Seagulls. It is pancake Day and that

also means it is a rare opportunity for our MPs to show off their

prowess with a pan. Tracy Crouch took the honours. It took six

minutes and 31 seconds for the MP to beat the Lords and the media. This

is the third year she has won it. Does that mean she gets to keep the

pancake? If she wanted after all that tossing at Westminster. I don't

think I would. It was sunny today, ritual but it was also very cold.

-- Rachel. MacLeod was beckoning and that was ahead of rain. It says that

way for the first part of this evening but it should be passing

through. Bright start but Wayne through the afternoon stays with us

through the next couple of days. Still cold and will stay unsettled

even as we look towards the weekend. -- rain through the afternoon. We

will still be seeing that rain but it does clear and behind it we will

hold onto the wind is so tempted most part staying above freezing

with lows overnight or three degrees of 4 degrees. Initially a sunny

start Wednesday but as we had through the day we will see a rain

heavy at times pushing up through the South. There will be a westerly

breeze. A bright start but cloud cover thickens. From midday all of

us will see that rain. Heavy at times and temperatures perhaps

reaching highs of 7 degrees 8 degrees. With wind and rain feeling

a lot cooler than that. As we had through from Wednesday into Thursday

we will see much of that rain heading eastwards. There will be

clear skies but it still stays breezy and overnight camp just three

degrees of 4 degrees and the driest are day this week will be Thursday.

By the afternoon temperatures in double figures. It doesn't. Wet and

windy and feeling chilly as we look towards Friday and the weekend.

Thank you. That is it from us this evening. I will be back at eight

o'clock and 25 minutes past ten. So, apparently Red Nose Day

is back... Cool. So, we...

We love Red Nose Day. Yes. So, Comic Relief have asked

if we can help with a bit a reboot of the show.

OK, cool. So, we... Like Brown Nose Day.

Well, no, hang on. Apparently, the big thing this year

is that it will actually be funny. So, the thinking was that, as head

of brand, you could perhaps... Sure. ..you know, take it on

and come up with some ideas. This is going to be so fun.

Right, yes. Red Nose Day -

coming soon to BBC One. Hopefully.