27/03/2017 South East Today

Evicted for complaining their flat was mouldy and now housed 30 miles

from their son's school, the working family who say they have

It's completely inappropriate for a family.

Also in tonight's programme, an inquest hears how a mother

of three children was told she was well enough to leave

The half-million bill for rebuilding couple.

The one-day old Happy Meal which made a primary school

head teacher very unhappy about his primary pupils' packed lunches.

And who would live in a pod like this?

The 21st-Century prefab arrives in Kent.

A Sussex family claim they are being punished

by the housing system, after they complained

about their rented home being full of mould.

The council condemned the privately-owned property.

Their landlord evicted them and will not give them a reference

and there is no social housing available for them in Hove.

The Lowe family are now in temporary accommodation in Eastbourne -

a two-hour round trip to their five-year-old son's school -

after being unable to find anything closer,

Nerinda Lowe has been speaking exclusively

A working mother desperate to find somewhere permanent for her family

to live. This was the house for three years. It became riddled with

damp and cold. Absolutely terrible. We could not use two of the

bedrooms. It was extreme malt in the flat, going on every wall. The

mushrooms growing up through the bathroom floor. We met at her

mother-in-law 's house, after the meet the 60 minute journey by public

transport from Eastbourne. The RNA hostel with just one bid between the

three of them. It is an extreme situation which is impossible to

maintain. A young family, working, trying to do the right thing. That

is what the government keeps telling us they should be doing. They got an

eviction landlord from the after complaining to the Council about the

state of the house. The family say they are struggling to rent

elsewhere. Because we are a working family, that is only a personal

discount. This is a result of people's tendency is been ended by

the landlords and, increasingly, people in work. People actually

working who can no longer find appropriate, affordable

accommodation in the area. The family feel stuck in a vicious

circle. Working to make in minutes, but unable to meet the demands of

the private rental sector. The schoolboy 's day began at five

o'clock in the morning. It is unlikely he will get home before

five o'clock in the evening. The rental crisis in the South East

has been described as "a perfect storm" by housing

support services. Latest figures show that,

in Brighton and Hove, the average is ?1,353 per month -

an increase of 7% on last year and yet families can receive

a maximum of only ?834 in housing benefit and even less

if the family have an income. Juliette, do tenants

have any protection against landlords evicting them

when they ask for repairs? We ask that question of the

government and they said they have given councils new power to try and

stop these kind of retaliation evictions. They said they have

provided ?12 million to tackle rogue landlords. We does this leave the

family? They have temporary accommodation in Eastbourne and CV

will try and move them as soon as possible. There are hundreds of

other families in the same situation. The long-term solution?

One posting expert said that needs to be an increase in the supply of

rental accommodation. An inquest has heard how

a mother-of-three was declared well enough to be discharged

from hospital just 25-year-old Sian Hollands died

from a pulmonary embolism at the Darent Valley hospital

in Dartford in November 2015. Her family say she complained to

them about the way staff treated her and her partner says a nurse

told him they needed the bed for another patient.

Simon Jones reports. More than a year after her death,

Sian Hollands' family arrive at the inquest,

looking for answers. Yesterday being Mother's Day, it was

another Mother's Day without her. Sian was admitted to A,

complaining of breathing difficulties and pains

in her chest and stomach. Three weeks earlier,

she had suffered an an ectopic pregnancy at a different

hospital and had lost But her family believe

that, when when she went to Darent Valley Hospital,

the family believe she was simply dismissed as a drug

addict, because she had just come off methadone,

as a recovering heroin addict, and they put her symptoms down

to withdrawal, rather There is anger, there is upset,

there is frustration. Sian's partner said,

the following day, after she was given methadone,

she was told she was well enough to leave, ebven though

she was hyperventilating Her condition deteriorated

and she died. But the A doctor on duty that day

told the inquest that, when she examinded Sian

on the day she was admitted, there was not sufficient evidence

to consider a pulmonary embolism. Simon, how busy was

the hospital at the time? The inquest was told it was

extremely busy. Ambulances were queueing up on sleep. At one stage,

someone was told they would have to go and get a scrum in nearby coffee

shop. The inquest actually started back in January. It was abandoned

because it was decided one of the witnesses needed the road legal

representation. It is expected to last another five days.

In a moment, the transgender woman angry that

she's not allowed to use the ladies' toilets in her local pub.

The headteacher of a Medway primary school has written to parents,

asking them to make sure their children's packed

after finding one child coming to school with a cold, day-old

Happy Meal, another with four yoghurts and a tube of Smarties

and a third with two packets of crisps and a crisp sandwich.

Head teacher Jioh Carthy branded the lunche

Our reporter Sara Smith is at Byron Road Primary

School in Gillingham. Sara, you have been speaking

with parents there today. What do they make of this?

I did not meet anyone who admitted sending their child into school with

their deal takeaway. There are government guidelines which outline

all the food groups which should go into a packed lunch. Some of these

could seem a bit daunting to do every day. The headteacher of

another school I visited Saint, ideally, all the children would

provide the hot news that the school provides, so that they would know

they were getting the nutrition they required. It is a balancing act

providing healthy food alongside food which your child will

definitely eat. But the headteacher at the school believes the skills

have been tipped for too far in the wrong direction. When the old happy

meal, crisp sandwiches accompanied by a packet of crisps. Very few

healthy minerals or facts. The unusually high in the things we're

trying to educate people to avoid. He then said they were happy to be

given advice and did try to pack healthy lunches. I think is

important to do it as best as you can. How easy is it? It is not

actually very easy. We ppm eight nutritional packed lunch for our

children. We follow the same guidelines. Two years ago, sugary

drinks were banned at the school. Headteacher is looking to improve

the food, but says it is a sensitive area. There is a lot of peer

pressure. You can imagine the pressure on parents to buy poor

children perceive as being acceptable and cool with in the

school context. There is a lot of issues at play. You want to bring

your appearance alongside you to the school when you make these sort of

changes. The message seems to get past the children. I like

gymnastics, saw I try and eat healthily. I have here that if you

eat a lot of broccoli, you have the huge beard when you grow up. The

Commons health committee published a recent report saying the government

was not doing enough to tackle childhood obesity. In a statement,

the headteacher he said that schools have a very important place in

making sure children eat healthily but it can be difficult for parents

and carers to provide the healthy packed lunch every day, especially

if they are on a tight budget. That is why he sent out the site with the

guidelines. We would like to know

what you think. Should schools dictate

what goes in a lunchbox? E-mail us at

[email protected], One of Brighton's biggest

attractions, the i360, will remain closed for third day

in a row, due to a temporary fault. The ride, which has been

plagued with problems since it opened last August,

will remain closed until Wednesday, at the earliest, while technicians

continue to carry out checks. It is the seventh

breakdown in eight months. People who have pre-booked tickets

are being offered a refund. A 30-year-old drug dealer

who was stopped by Kent Police in Ashford has been jailed for two

and a half years. Daniel Dawson, of Wivenhoe

in Ashford, had pleaded guilty to possessing Class A drugs

with intent to supply. Police stopped his car

in October 2015 and, after searching his vehicle,

officers found nine bags of cocaine, along with tools under the passenger

seat and more than ?400 in cash A brewing couple have been fined

?500,000 after a lengthy dispute with the neighbour.

A tizzy celebrated rock classic, but singing the song saw them arrested

by armed police and stuck in a prison cell for seven awards. His

neighbours told police said that the lyrics were roughing it against

them, prompting his arrest. One bizarre moment in an ongoing

boundary dispute. It has been rumbling on low for more than a

decade. It has been anaemia. Very sad. I condemned to live in this

beautiful place and it has become anaemia. There is no other way to

describe it. -- a nightmare. Terry Simou moved into his house

in the village in 1996. But in 2004, he says his

new neighbours Michael and Hazel Salliss helped

themselves to a chunk of land That part of land was taken? Yes,

that used to be offence. He just dismantled it and took it away.

People have no been landed with a ?500,000 legal bill. In these

disputes, compromises often the best policy. But this may not even be the

end of the line. Mr Salliss says he was not able to attend the trial

because of illness and therefore she should have the right of appeal. The

appealing as being -- the ruling is being appealed, but clearly is

hoping the 14 year legal battle is no opinion.

What have the Sallisses said about this?

We asked them for a comment, but they would not talk in Camelot. But

this is what the County Court judge said. They have attempted to bully

the neighbours in order for them to adjust to boundaries to suit your

own requirements, without any attempt at consultation or

negotiation. Three Appeal Court judges will rule on the Salliss

appeal that the future date. the kit-house community

popping up in Kent. The pod homes which take

just six weeks to build. Some glorious sunshine today, but is

going to last? Find out at the end of the programme.

The landlord of a Sussex pub where the Westminster terror

attacker Khalid Masood carried out another knife attack 17

years earlier says he was known locally as "a bit of a headcase".

Alan Bellfield was behind the bar at the Crown Thistle in Northiam

on the night Masood got in to an argument with

another customer and slashed his throat.

Khalid Masood spent many years living in various towns

He was born in Dartford in 1964, as Adrian Elms,

His mother, Janet Elms, went on to marry a man in Crawley.

The family moved to Rye, before settling in Tunbridge Wells,

He had two children with his first wife, Jane Harvey,

and they lived in Northiam in East Sussex, before he moved

to Eastbourne in 2001, where he carried out

another knife attack. Peter Whittlsea reports.

His name an unchanged, but the face of the Westminster attacker was

instantly noticeable to Peter, the former landlord of the pub. He will

never forget the night he calmly walked into the pub and slashed

another customer with a Stanley knife.

He obviously knew that he would come in here and have a quiet drink.

He'd sit in there on his own, and, literally, the guy walked in,

showed no emotions at all and just walked straight up

and slashed him straight round the neck.

Before that, many people had regarded them as a pleasant family

man. A true picture of how he turned to a life of claim has begun to

emerge. In 1983, he picked up his first conviction for criminal

damage. In 2000, he was jailed for previous bodily harm for two years.

Three years later, he was jailed for six months for the position of the

knife of the another attack in Eastbourne. One of his former

friends said he had a short fuse and struggle to control his anger. I

backed up a truck in the car park. I saw in the. He had knife. I was

walking towards him and I thought, he is a totally different frame of

mind. Many people thought he was mentally unstable bike then and

needed medical treatment to control his unpredictable and for violent

behaviour. him as having that a split

personality? It seems to be a constant theme. Very much a family

man on one hand. But when it was on the zone, he could be aggressive and

very violent. Seem to be looking for violence. At the personality of who

he wanted to settle scores. He loved here in his mid-50s. The man he

attacked with some 30 years older. The injuries were so severe they

thought the man could die. After he was imprisoned for the attack, he'd

never return to the Celia. -- this area.

And there is a special BBC programme tonight on Masood

and the attack on Westminster. That is at 7.30 on BBC One.

A woman from East Sussex who recently transitioned after more

than 50 years as a man, says she is upset that the pub

where she regularly drinks will not allow her to use

Ashleigh Haffenden changed gender three months ago.

The landlord at the pub in Bexhill says he just wants to make sure

all his customers feel safe and comfortable.

He was born a boy but always felt like a woman trapped in a man's

body. Ashleigh Haffenden It is no trans gender and is exploring ways

of becoming a woman. But at a local pub, the blues have tried to stop

using the ladies toilet. At the time, it made you feel like what?

Terrible. I sat in the corner quietly. I had a few tears in my

eyes. I felt like a. Under the 20 guinea qualities like, transgender

is a characteristic which cannot be discriminated against ethnically or

indirectly. Last Saturday, Ashleigh Haffenden wanted to use the wash

area, but the owner of the pub after two use the disabled toilet instead.

The manager did not want to give an interview, but often have the

disabled toilet as an alternative because some of it customers

complain. The owner said after nine o'clock, the pub they come nightclub

and the need to make sure that the customers are safe. The issue can be

very contentious. Headlines were made recently when a rate this

transgendered and is no sting in a women's prison. There are occasions

when that could be problems when people are maybe in a street --

state of undress. Ashleigh Haffenden Has been attacked in the street for

the way she looks and says nobody should be treated as a second-class

citizen. I have with so many years to fly and I am no still being held

back. The 52-year-old Wolseley she will abide by the rules of the pub,

but hopes that they will change the rules shortly.

It is being seen as a way of speeding up house building,

The first so-called ready-made pod homes are being put up in Chatham.

They are 85% complete when they arrive on site

from Scotland, with only the roof needing to be added on-site.

But a one-bed apartment will set you back ?185,000.

Lowered in section by section, to create what is being called

a kit-house community, these pods, made up of steel frames

and brick tiling, are built hundreds of miles away, in Scotland,

and then brought down south by lorry.

It is a process that is much quicker than traditional methods,

This is a 50% saving on time to build a house.

If we had power and water, people could move in 45 days

from the day you say, "I like the house".

A whole house can be erected rapidly by manual labour.

The temporary prototype houses are the first of 30,000 to be

It brings to mind the penchant for pre-fabs after World War II to

Now the local plan suggests 30,000 new homes are

A three-bedroom pod house here costs in the region of ?330,000,

but because only 15 new properties are being built on this site,

none of it has to be classified as affordable housing and that is

something the council says it will consider in future

We, as a planning committee, have been given a number

of opportunities to look at other companies' presentations.

There are certainly smaller and cheaper models on the market.

This, at the moment, is something we were prepared to go with.

There is no reason why we shouldn't take this

The first homes will be ready by mid-April.

If they prove successful, the pods could be built in

Now, back to one of our top stories - the headteacher who has written

to all parents, asking them to ensure they provide healthy

Jon Carthy outlined some of the recent lunches,

which included a cold Happy Meal, and another with two packets

We asked whether headteachers should get involved in kids' food choices.

we have heard a lot of responses. Julie says it is good to have

guidelines, but schools need to lead by example with the school dinners

and only serve healthy desserts. Germanys says, good on the teachers.

Many parents can be bothered to cook the children a good meal or take the

trouble to is pack a healthy packed lunch. Elizabeth agrees with the

school. And McDonald's from the nice night before is novelties suitable

meal for a child. Peter says I do not think enough time is spent on

the other side of the equation. If the children are more outdoor

activity, they would soon run off the calories from an unhealthy diet.

It is bit of the children eat something rather than nothing.

Please keep up the debate on our Facebook page or on twitter.

Now, we can catch up with the weather outlook.

Not so much is sunshine around first thing for many others. But it was a

lovely afternoon to get out and about. We started off with that

cloud. Through the morning and into the afternoon, it headed to the

North and the temperatures responded. 14-15 C. Average for this

time of year. More sunshine to finish the day today. Temperatures

will drop to 4-5 C in the countryside. A few degrees higher in

the Thames. It could be a little rest tomorrow morning. It will burn

away and we should see some showing once again in the afternoon. The

small risk of the odd shower in the afternoon. If we do get one, it

could be on the heavy side. Temperatures similar to today.

Tuesday night. The cloud thickens. One of two light showers. A cloudy

start to witness the. -- Wednesday. A predominantly dry during the

course of the day. Temperature 15-14 C. Mainly dry this week.

Sunshine attains. Temperatures average for this time of year. Rush

hours on the way for the end of the week.

We are back with the headlines at 8pm and the late news at 10.30pm.