16/03/2017 South East Today

Tonight's top stories: Ukip call on the Conservative MP

for South Thanet to stand down over his election expenses.

Our political editor is live in Craig Mackinley's constituency.

The cancer consultant who harmed 27 patients by carrying out

Strong criticism of the Home Office after a Kent college is forced

to close because of a crackdown on foreign student visas.

It is a model probity. Where is the Home Office's problem?

And the plea for a new operator to take over Hastings Castle

and make it "become the must see attraction it deserves to be."

There are fresh calls for the MP for South Thanet Craig Mackinley

to resign over his 2015 election spending.

It comes after the Electoral Commission fined the Conservative

Party ?70,000 for "significant failures"

The report also found issues with Tory spending in the 2014

In South Thanet, Mr Mackinley narrowly beat Ukip's Nigel Farage.

Tonight the Ukip leader of Thanet District Council said

there should now be a by-election in the seat.

Our political editor Helen Catt reports.

After more than a year of investigating Craig Mackinlay's

campaign a conclusion from the election's watchdog. The

Conservatives it appears understated how much they spent. I think perhaps

now the world will realise what we have been looking at from more than

two years, we were stood at times I gassed on street corners looking at

what was happening and people being bussed in -- we stood shop on street

corners. In the end of course it has not come out and at least the

justice has been served. The Tories spent ?15,000 putting up senior

figures at this hotel. A crack team dies owing to fight Ukip nationally.

With Nigel Farage as a South Thanet candidates, some help fight them and

the Electoral Commission said some of the cost should have been put

down to Craig Mackinlay's campaign. It is damaging because we know at

the local level campaigns matter and parties get advantages by spending

money and having volunteers and that is why we have local spending limits

and so if parties break those limits they are potentially gaining an

advantage and that is obviously serious. The report also looked at

another key Ukip and Tory battle in Kent, the 2014 by-election in

Rochester and Strood. It found tens of thousands of pounds spent on

hotels were not attributed to the candidate's campaign. Back in

Ramsgate these people were unsure how much spending could affect the

outcome. I always felt the very different parties spend a different

money and they spend the money, I do not think it is the same amount

whether. Whether it would make a difference for Nigel Farage... I

remember a pretty big presence compared to the other parties. I

would not have thought anything about spending or capital or

anything like that. For Ukip's it is clear cut. I have been seen Craig

Mackinlay should resign for some time but he takes no notice but now

maybe he will now have two. Craig Mackinlay has declined to comment.

So what does the Electoral Commission report into election

spending reveal about the South Thanet campaign?

Well the Conservatives ran up a bill at one Ramsgate hotel of over

national party expenses, but some of it should have been

listed in Craig Mackinlay's candidate expenses.

There was also a Margate hotel bill of almost ?4000 -

that was completely omitted from all Conservative declarations.

And the report shows this is important because Mr Mackinlay's

candidate expenses listed in the run up to his election came in at less

than ?200 below the amount he was allowed to spend.

Quite clear rules about how that spending should be apportioned

between the national spending return and the candidate spending return.

What we found here is that the spending had been purely

put to the national spending return but there was evidence that activity

had taken place specifically supporting the local candidate.

Helen, this will raise voters' concerns about the practices

What happens next? The Conservatives pay a fine. Kent Police are also

investigating and will need to decide if there's anything for a

criminal charge. If you follow that you could end up with a rerun of the

election here but just omitting or not including spending on its own is

not enough for a criminal charge so this is not a given. Speaking to

people earlier there was this illusion about politicians. Last

month we reported questions raised about the Ukip situation although

Ukip say they are sure they fully complied with all the rules. The Lib

Dems were fine for election spending nationally, Labour were as well.

Even though the scale of the 45 is bigger all these things do nothing

to help the public perception of trust in politicians. -- even though

the Conservative fine was better. -- beggar.

It's emerged that a doctor who was sacked from the East Surrey Hospital

in 2014 for carrying out treatments which harmed 27 patients

may have also benefitted financially from leasing a piece of equipment

to the hospital which he then used on his patients.

Paul Miller was sacked in 2014 after it was found that he used

a new procedure without following proper clinical controls.

Charlie Rose has our exclusive report.

Paul Miller was sacked over concerns about his treatment of cancer

patients. In a new report more issues have emerged surrounding his

work at the hospital. Particularly over the use of a laser leased from

a company he was connected to. The allegations being raised, if they

are found to be true it is deeply concerning this was allowed to take

place over such a long period of time and checked. The report raised

the fact that numerous people were told about what was going on or at

least they should have had enough information to investigate further

and that was not done. The document reveals Mr Miller leased a laser to

the hospital from a company at which he was a director to treat patients.

It says experts and the treatment of high intensity focused ultrasound,

as experimental but there were concerns over the promotion of this

treatment, with Mr mother apparently manipulating patient relationships

for personal gain. The hospital commissioned the Independent report

to look into how it responded to issues raised about his work.

Patients and their families I spoke to did not want to appear on camera

but one prostate cancer patient who was treated by Mr Miller in 2007

believes the treatment made him impotent. It told me he received no

warning about the possible consequences of the treatment. He

said he was not aware Mr Miller was concerned with the company at least

the machines and said he wonders if he was being experimented on.

Speaking in 2014, Judith's father was among those treated by Paul

Miller. John Beaumont had prostate cancer and died at the hospital in

2008. His doctors said she had nothing but praise for Doctor

Miller. I thought he was charming, always had time for you, always

polite, a lovely man. I said to my dad every time we came out, what a

lovely man. In a statement Paul Miller said any allegations

contained in the new report have not been substantiated.

And you've spoken to Paul Miller today, what did he have to say?

Paul Miller sent me a full statement. He said this confidential

report was prepared to look at the trust's clinical governance

procedures and he says the draft report was prepared without and was

given limited opportunity to comment before it was finalised. He said the

allegations within have not been substantiated and he said I believe

the treatment recommended were in the patient's' best interests but

naturally I am very sorry if any patients were happy with the

treatment I provided. He. He said he cannot comment further at this time.

We trust that commissioned the report were also criticised. They

said, improvements have since been made and regrets historic per

practice research -- lead to patients not receiving the best care

and they apologise to any affected patients.

In a moment, the Brighton charity sending mobile operating theatres

Restoring the old line between Robertsbridge and Bodium has

been a labour of love for the Rother Valley Steam Railway.

Today their dream came a step closer when they were given planning

But the new track will go across the A21 -

which means a new level crossing needs to be installed.

Local businesses have reacted angrily to the news,

saying it makes no sense to slow traffic down on the main road

This is the end of the line, but the old track is gradually growing. A

step closer today, bridging the gap between Robertsbridge and tender. I

am elated. As it exists, the railway is a lovely railway running steam

trains but it does not go anywhere, it just runs up and back. We think

we need to make it a proper railway connected to the junction. It does

mean we can do a lot more interesting things, bring trains off

the main line, get passengers from London. Plans been restoring around

two miles of the original track between N. Bridge St and

Robertsbridge and the B4 Junction Rd in Bodium. Behind me the gate shows

the end of how far the tracks have been laid and beyond that is the A21

and that marks the spot that has caused this controversy. The A21 has

been having a huge revamp in the Tunbridge Wells area and it has been

investment in Hastings, too. For the trains to pass there would need to

be a level crossing stopping traffic for nearly eight minutes at a time,

something that local businesswoman sees no logic in. -- one minutes at

a time. Echoes across the only artery into this area. I -- everyone

knows this is the only artery into this area, I run two businesses here

and without the A21 there are problems. The line has been staffed

by enthusiasts and volunteers. One from local farmers would also need

to be purchased. It the land is used for award-winning hop farming and

there is much for us to be proud of what that man and I would be worried

if it were taken away on a compulsory purchase basis. -- and I

would be worried. It is a step closer to the dream of 2019 opening

but for this steam Railway they will now be to take the plunge the plans

to Parliament. -- take their plans to Parliament.

The RMT union has attacked a fresh agreement between Southern Rail

management and the train drivers' union Aslef

The deal will be put to Aslef members in a referendum,

in the hope it will end the long-running industrial dispute

says it's unacceptable, because it does not guarantee

a second safety-critical person on all trains.

Two million litres of water had to be pumped out

of an underground skate park in Hastings last night.

The burst water main flooded the basement room

at The Source which is underneath the actual skating arena.

Fire crews were at the seafront venue for six hours

The jury in the Shana Grice murder trial has been shown CCTV footage

today showing the movements of the man accused of killing her,

Shana, who was 19, was found dead in her home

Her former boyfriend Michael Lane denies murder.

Piers Hopkirk is at Lewes Crown Court for us.

Piers, what exactly have the jury seen?

The CCTV shows Michael Lane leaving his home in his car on the morning

of her murder at 7:25am. The camera then picks up his car a few minutes

later parking in a road near Shana Grice's home and he is seen getting

out of the car and walking away. The next half an hour he is not picked

up by any CCTV at all and it is that 30 minute window the prosecution

allege he went to Shana Grice's house and he murdered her. Michael

Lane denies murder. Case continues. They're shipping containers

transformed into mobile operating 'theatres and now the first

procedures have been carried out It's thanks to Charity

Samaras Aid Appeal, which was started by a Sussex mum,

in response to seeing children in winter camps with only

flip flops for shoes. been sent to Syria,

at a cost of around ?30,000 each, two are now

on their way to You may find some of the images in

Amanda Akass's report disturbing. This woman has been badly hurt in an

explosion. There are no ambulances or structures so she has been

brought to find help in the back of a car. They really are a team that

the reality of fending medical care in a country destroyed by fighting.

She was in excruciating pain and are simply not the medication needed to

provide treatment. She began collecting treatment for Syrian

refugees from parents at her son's school. She set off on the spot

hospitals are there last summer but to help in places like Aleppo a new

solution was needed. -- set up three small hospitals. We first they

looked for an appropriate building to work from but most of the

buildings have been partially or completely destroyed, so this

enables others to provide any way we can control the conditions.

This is just a regular shipping container stacked up with boxes of

donations to go a long journey to Syria. Once distributed it will be

transformed into life-saving mobile operating theatre and intensive care

unit. The team are busy converting containers when they arrived

in the first operation was carried out today. The medical director of

the charity agreed to an interview but asked for his faith not to be

shown as so many former colleagues have been attacked or kidnapped. He

says they are vital as hospitals are often swamped.

Some people just will lose their hand, some are shot in the chest and

add -- abdomen and it is very difficult to see these people dying

in front of us and we cannot provide treatment. She is hoping to 15 of

these meditainers up and running by the summer.

Ukip has renewed calls for the MP for South sat -- South Thanet to

resign over his 20 15th election spending after the Conservative

Party was fined ?70,000 of breaking election spending rules.

Also in tonight's programme, how pupils have been giving

Rizzle Kicks star Jordan Stephens a grilling for this

If it was a mistake along the coast today in line and we have highs of

17 Celsius. Looking cooler towards the weekend. I will have the

forecast later in the programme. A college that provides training

for Catholic nuns and priests in Kent is closing down and moving

to Rome because the Home Office is looking to crack down

on illegal migration. Former MP Anne Widdecombe

is furious, accusing officials "failing to

understand religious life". St Anselm's in Margate has been

training people in catholic In that time it's trained more

than 5000 students from more 90 But now the college says it will

have to close its doors in June. Ian Palmer has tonights

Special Report. It is a college that has

taught leadership skills to bishops and archbishops

from around the world. The Voice of Christian Fellowship

at St Anselm's Institute in Margate In January the college was told

by the Home Office visa applications from overseas students will no

longer be accepted Father Len Koffler is the director

and founder of the college. 85% of our participants come

from abroad and it would be a financial disaster

to carry on here. Home Office officials visited

the college in October last year The former MP for Maidstone

and Christian commentator, Ann Widdecombe, says the Government

has failed to understand the nature I would like the Home Office

to instruct its staff to take account of the particular

circumstances of religious life, not to expect families of, say,

Catholic priests to be at home Just understand the religious life

and also to give much more importance to wear a college has,

as this one has, 100% success rate In a statement the

Home Office says... Here at the college

they employ ten people, they will all lose their jobs

and so too will be the revenue the college raises and is spent

in the local community. Claire Maguire is the college

registrar and says student applications have fallen

significantly since There must be some way of more

personal relationship. There was in the past,

it was always there in the past. Someone came up from Dover,

checked all the passports, check the details of the students,

that is all gone. Jordan Stephens is one half

of Brighton music duo Rizzle Kicks, and well used to the process

of being interviewed. But today he was facing

a different sort of grilling - It was all part of the BBC

News School Report Day. As our Education Correspondent

Bryony MacKenzie found out, the young reporters

from Cardinal Newman Catholic School were particularly keen on asking

about his campaign to raise awareness about mental

health difficulties. He found fame with the hip-hop duo

Rizzle Kicks, now Jordan is being asked questions by school

reporters about the tough Have you or someone close

to you experienced either mental health issues or the stigma

attached to that? In school during my GCSEs I got

diagnosed with ADHD. I was called, I was always the hyper

kid, I got told to calm down all the time and it is the most

infuriating sentence for someone Jordan began his own social media

campaign to get young people talking Becoming famous gives

you all this kind of stuff, and I was able to afford a flat

and these kind of things that people who are working day

in and day out to try and get, but the reality is that does not

compensate for any emotional stability and it can in fact

contribute to quite deeper According to a school report survey

a half of all pupils admit to having negative feelings but do not

ask for help. Being in year nine, sort

of changing as a person, It was something

I have control over. Florence developed

anorexia when she was 14. The reason I did not come out

and say what I had been through was because people did not

understand where I was coming from and it took a lot of guts

for me to say I have a problem. Also, I was in denial

because I was embarrassed and thought that it was not normal

and it was not Jordan wants his message to reach

primary age children. To just remove the idea it is some

taboo to be open about how you feel. Giving help to those

who need it, even earlier. And you can find more stories

from young reporters in the south-east on our local live

pages: Hastings Castle was

the first to be built by the Normans after the

conquest, and even features in But what was at the cutting edge

of military technology 950 years ago is now little more

than a picturesque ruin perched high Hastings Council however

is looking for someone to breathe new life into it -

with the aim of making it a jewel in the crown for to attract

thousands of visitors to the town. Shrouded in sea mist,

at 950 years old Hastings Castle is, The council would love to do more

to make the most of it but does not have the money to build a decent

visitor centre and other facilities. The search is now on to find

a partner who does. This site is where William

the Conqueror first set up his castle, but his was a wooden

castle that he brought I think the point of it is this site

and the history of it and the importance this very spot

played in the development of After his victory at the Battle

of Hastings William ordered But when the town's military

significance declined it did, too. The castle was abandoned for

centuries until it was rediscovered by the Victorians and they set

to work rebuilding part of it. Today it is impossible

to say what is their work Today they came again

from across the Channel, but this time it was

students, not soldiers. For many visitors the

castle gets it ignored. These days there are other

attractions in Hastings. The newly refurbished pier

which opened last year There is a new underground skate

park inside an old Victorian swimming pool, and of course

the Jerwood Gallery. This year it will celebrate

its fifth anniversary. It is a big feature of the town

but it should be more Looking at it at the moment it

could do with a revamp. That is what the council hopes

a new partner could do. Sara is live in Hastings now,

Sara, who do they hope They are interested in anyone who

will commit to investing. Perhaps somebody already involved with a

tourist attraction in the town. What the council want is a proper visitor

Centre where people can come and learn all about the Norman Invasion

and enjoy those incredible stories behind the ruins. Twice they have

apply for lottery funding and twice they have been rejected. It is a

long and complicated process one they're not inclined to go through

again but his white this time they are looking outside help. -- and

that is why this time. Extraordinary sea mist they are.

You could sell in the temperatures along the coast, nine Celsius and

further inland where we sought the best of the brightness temperatures

were around 17 Celsius. Clearer skies yesterday with highs of 19

Celsius in Gravesend. Slightly down on that today. Other places

struggling to the -- out of single figures. Turning wet and windy but

through tonight it is initially drive. This cold front tracking

eastwards and behind it fresher feeling. Temperatures tomorrow could

be as low as three Celsius in rural spots. A chilly start for Friday but

a pretty decent day overall. Temperatures return to the average

for the time of year but again we see decent spells of sunshine and

eventually some rain heading our way towards Friday into Saturday. In

daylight hours a rather nice day. The winds pick up for a westerly

direction, 15-20 mph. Just yesterday temperatures nearly reaching 20

Celsius. Tomorrow closer to ten. Friday into Saturday, we see another

weather front with more cloud and at times outbreaks of rain. Because of

that temperatures relatively mild. Some rain looking toward the weekend

but not the wash-out. It wet start on Saturday, lots of cloud but for

us by the afternoon are not looking too bad and we see some brighter

bricks in more sheltered spot temperatures reaching highs of 13

Celsius. Further outbreaks of rain into Sunday, a breezy picture and

towards the new week, further rain, the wind will pick up for a time and

temperatures are doing well to get out of single figures. Lots of rain

on Monday into Tuesday. For the weekend, tomorrow is mostly dry, the

winds will pick up feeling cooler and rain at times.

We enjoy spring while it lasted, we? That visit from us the moment. I

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