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Welcome to South East Today, I'm Rob Smith. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The revenge porn offender who posted photos on X-rated websites is banned | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Leaving his victims suffering fear, discussed and extreme humiliation. | :00:09. | :00:21. | |
There's photos of one of the girls's weddings that he's in and stuff | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
and it's marred all of our memories of certain times in our lives. | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
A memorial match in honour of murdered policeman Keith Palmer. | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
Charlton Athletic donate half tonight's gate | :00:31. | :00:31. | |
We'll be live at The Valley with the details. | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
between staff and management on Southern Rail - | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
Is a legal loophole forcing drivers to spend hundreds of pounds | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
And the nuclear option - how Britain planned to blow up | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
the Channel Tunnel to keep the Russians out, | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
A man who posted images of women he knew onto a so-called | :00:53. | :01:14. | |
revenge-porn website, inviting others to leave graphic | :01:15. | :01:15. | |
Oliver Whiting from Eastbourne stole photos from the social media pages | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
of two women he knew, adding what the judge called "vile, | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
One of his victims was left in tears outside court, | :01:25. | :01:35. | |
and angry, distressed that he won't be going to jail and told us | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
she believed Sussex Police should have done more | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
Our special correspondent Colin Campbell reports | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
Mr Whiting, have you got anything to say to your victims? | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
Spared jail, Oliver Whiting caused his victims | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
fear, disgust and extreme humiliation. | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
What you did has caused a great deal of upset and distress | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
He uploaded innocent pictures of them to a US porn site. | :01:54. | :02:01. | |
Your victims think that you should be in prison. | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
Adding repulsive and extremely aggressive and violent | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
So do you have anything to say to your victims? | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
You are hiding your face now when you put all of their faces | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
He encouraged others to use the images | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
One of the images he posted was of a 16-year-old | :02:16. | :02:25. | |
schoolgirl, another of Nikki Elliott and her young child. | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
They were changed into being explicit photos | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
so they were just normal ones and we were all | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
saying earlier there is photos | :02:34. | :02:34. | |
of one of the girl's weddings that he is in and stuff and it has | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
just marred all of our memories as certain times in our lives | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
because we look at photos and we see that | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
they are photos that have been put on the website. | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
Sentencing him to a six-month suspended jail term, | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
District Judge Teresa Szagun told Whiting "what you used those | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
The accompanying comments were vile, aggressive | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
The impact to the victims has been far reaching." | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
We think that our stuff is safe online, what we put online is only | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
to our friends and family and we just need to make sure that when we | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
upload photos that we're saying they are private between those | :03:13. | :03:14. | |
people but whatever you put online stays online | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
Whiting initially received just a caution for similar offences | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
against four other women last year, prompting anger from victims who | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
They mislaid all of our stuff so we put in a statement | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
and they mislaid it and so that is why it has been reopened. | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
I didn't know criminals were given police escorts! | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
Witnessing Oliver Whiting being guarded by police in and out | :03:40. | :03:47. | |
of court, victims have been left in further distress, | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
knowing their violated personal images remain on the internet. | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
Colin is in Hastings now where the curse was heard today. The US | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
website which he used where the pictures were put up, they have | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
refused to take it down? Yes, we understand that many of | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
these images of young women remain on that unique base pornographic | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
website and despite requests from the victims themselves and from the | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
police, the American company has so far declined to remove the | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
photographs. In court today we heard that Oliver Whiting may be able to | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
get the images removed himself but only after he pays the company a | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
cash payment. Sussex Police say that they provided Oliver Whiting with an | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
escort in and out of court today because they feared there may be a | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
breach of the peace. Sussex Police say that they accept that their | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
offices require better and more training when it comes to dealing | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
with this type of new cybercrime and say that as a process which is | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
already underway. Thank you. | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
Keith Palmer is the policeman who lost his life in Khalid Masood's | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
terror attack on the Houses of Parliament last month. | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
Tonight Charlton Athletic Football Club will donating half of ticket | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
sales from their match to support his widow Michelle, | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
PC Palmer was a regular at The Valley for many years | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
and his usual seat has been draped in a Charlton flag in tribute. | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
22 of his fellow officers will follow the players out | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
of the tunnel before kick-off and then join them | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
Let's cross to The Valley now, and speak to our | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
Tonight's match against the Milton Keynes Dons Football club's home | :05:22. | :05:35. | |
match at the Valley since the Westminster terror attack. This is | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
the first opportunity for the club and the fans to come together and to | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
express their collective grief at the loss of a member of their | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
football family. Murdered in the line of duty, PC | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
Keith Palmer has been hailed a hero who gave his life for others | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
in the Westminster terror attack. To fellow fans of his beloved | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
Charlton, he was family. It is why tonight's game | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
at The Valley will be When something like | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
this happens, you You feel like you owe someone | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
like Keith a fitting tribute and I hope we will give him | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
that tribute tonight. Well, this is the home dressing room | :06:10. | :06:19. | |
at The Valley and this is the special shirt that | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
the players will be wearing tonight, dedicated in memory | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
of PC Keith Palmer. On the back, the hashtag | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
"we stand together". The players are also | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
donating their appearance fees while half the gate receipts will go | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
to PC Palmer's family. In the stands, a solitary | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
white seat will remain empty tonight, a reminder | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
of where Keith Palmer sat Charlton's always been | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
a family club, hasn't it? They've always been | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
for the kids and for any club to lose anyone | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
like that is a big thing. When you walk up the road, | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
you see all the flowers up there It will be a very sad night but, | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
you know, Charlton obviously But this is a tragedy that has | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
united fans of every colour. Chelsea supporter Diana Jupp | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
has made the journey to Unfortunately he lost his life | :07:17. | :07:18. | |
but he was the same as us, We all love football | :07:19. | :07:27. | |
so regardless of what team we support, when a tragedy happens, | :07:28. | :07:40. | |
we all come together. United in sadness, tonight | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
fans will pay tribute We are just over an hour or so away | :07:44. | :07:58. | |
from kick-off but before that happens, PC par's stepbrother will | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
lead at Teamster Knight to the tunnel and then into the centre | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
circle. -- Palmer. They will be joined by 22 former police officers | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
colleagues of PC Clive Palmer to join in a minute's silence. -- | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
Keith. It is certainly to be an emotional night here at the Valley. | :08:18. | :08:18. | |
And Q. How a row over tax for locum doctors | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
could lead to a Kent hospital having to cut back on its accident | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
and emergency cover. One of the top negotiators | :08:26. | :08:35. | |
with the train drivers union Aslef says he's "not surprised" a deal | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
brokered between the union and Southern Rail was | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
rejected by his members because their relationship | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
is "utterly toxic". In an exclusive interview | :08:45. | :08:45. | |
with BBC South East Today, Simon Weller said that drivers have | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
trust issues with Southern The dispute is over the introduction | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
of driver only operation on trains. The deal was rejected yesterday | :08:51. | :09:01. | |
despite the company agreeing that on-board CCTV systems would be | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
upgraded and that on board supervisors would receive | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
extra safety training. In a moment I'll be talking live | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
with a senior member of management from Southern, | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
first Amanda Akass has The defined memory of decades of | :09:13. | :09:23. | |
past industrial accident greet everyone who walks through the door | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
of Aslef's headquarters in London. It leaders had been hoping the | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
latest dispute would soon be consigned to history as well. There | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
is a complete class a drug of Southern and members don't believe | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
Southern will keep to their side of the bargain. The relationship | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
between Southern and their staff, it is just utterly toxic. The way they | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
have been treating people, passengers as well in the run-up to | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
these disputes and during these dispute has broken any trust. The | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
two rejected deal set up a list of exceptional circumstances when | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
Southern would be allowed to run trains without a second member of | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
staff on board. The conductance union the RMT argued that should | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
never happen. While the RMT began their industrial action a year ago, | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
the first of six Aslef strike this was in December bringing Southern | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
services to a complete standstill. But at the start of fabric, Aslef | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
when Southern announced they had come to a deal. It was rejected | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
later that month. The second deal was struck on March the 15th after | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
another three weeks of negotiations. It is almost unprecedented over the | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
history of industrial relations in the UK, we have seen disputes, | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
hostile disputes, bitter disputes that ultimately there is a | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
resolution. We look at the dispute here, it does not seem to be any | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
positive way forward. Commuters are fed up. It is ridiculous that they | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
have not come to more of an agreement. It seems to have got | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
worse. They both have to have their heads banged together. There has to | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
be light at the end of the tunnel, it cannot go on like this forever. | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
It is really annoying. Aslef leaders insist they have the confidence of | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
their members and they are committed to resuming negotiations. But if a | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
better deal is not reach, they say that the strikes are not off the | :11:10. | :11:11. | |
table. I'm joined by Angie Doll, | :11:12. | :11:12. | |
from Southern Rail. Thank you for being with us this | :11:13. | :11:21. | |
evening. Rail users will be massively disappointed that this | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
deal, the second time round was not accepted by members. The problem | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
seems to be that just not enough drivers trust you. | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
I am out on the network every day speaking to our drivers and our | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
staff and I do not think this is about an issue of trust. I see there | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
is a good relationships and trust with our managers on the ground. It | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
is very disappointing that this ballot was rejected by such a narrow | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
margin. But it was rejected and it comes down to the fact that they do | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
believe, a lot of drivers do believe that you should have a second safety | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
critical person on all trains. We will be going back to talks next | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
week with Aslef again. Aslef's executive did endorse this agreement | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
and pitted out to their members to recommend that they except the | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
ballot. We will be going back to speak to Aslef next week to explore | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
a little bit more and understand the reasons why... Unless you have a | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
safety critical person on all trains, they are going to say no | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
again and again. That is what Bsaid right from the beginning, that is | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
what Aslef have said and if you will not concede that point, it is not | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
going to end. The dispute with Aslef is different to the dispute with | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
RMT. We have a good relationship with Aslef, we have been in talks | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
with them. Both parties are committed to finding a resolution. | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
We know what the resolution is, to have this second safety critical | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
person on the train. We offered a good deal and we need to explore now | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
with Aslef negotiating team and talking to our members to understand | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
whatever we need to do differently to get this over the line. It was | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
very close, just margin will be the number of people that voted against | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
it there are a lot of drivers out there who will support this deal. We | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
are absolutely knitted to getting this across the line. Why is | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
Southern so committed to not making that final commitment to not having | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
a second safety critical person on every train? We have said that we | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
have a second person on the train where we have had a conductor. We | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
had moved to this method of operation and we've made the changes | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
back in January. All the staff are now working as the on-board | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
supervisors and adapting to the road really well. We are looking for some | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
exceptional circumstances but as I said, we are committed to meeting | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
with Aslef next week and exploring more, what further concessions need | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
to be made to get this agreement over the line. You think Aslef can | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
deliver deal? I think we can. Both parties here are committed to | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
finding and enter this, not only for the passengers sick but also our | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
staff's sake. Angie Doll, thank you for being with us. | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
Six Iranian migrants have been rescued from a sinking boat | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
as they attempted to cross the English Channel from Calais | :14:02. | :14:03. | |
French authorities received a distress call from the small | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
fishing vessel just after midnight and found the group one mile | :14:08. | :14:09. | |
It comes after a dozen incidents off Kent and Sussex last year. | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
Customs officers are searching for a lorry driver who's gone | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
on the run after being caught smuggling more than | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
5.7 million cigarettes into the UK through Dover. | :14:23. | :14:24. | |
Richard David Curtis, from South Yorkshire, | :14:25. | :14:25. | |
hid them beneath boxes of frozen chips. | :14:26. | :14:27. | |
He failed to turn up to his trial at Maidstone Crown Court | :14:28. | :14:29. | |
and was found guilty of evading more than ?1.3 million in excise duty. | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
This programme can exclusively reveal that the future | :14:37. | :14:38. | |
of the Kent Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance is secure. | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
Fears were raised when it was announced that development | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
at Redhill Aerodrome could mean it would have to move but today it's | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
been announced that a new 25-year lease has been signed | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
for the operation to remain at the aerodrome. | :14:55. | :15:06. | |
A Kent Hospital is making contingency plans to cope if age | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
doctors refuse to work later this week in a row over changes to their | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
tax that could see their take-home pay cut by 20%. This programme has | :15:15. | :15:25. | |
been a document drawn up by medical staff at the Queen Elizabeth, the | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
Queen Mother Hospital in Margate which could see major changes. | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
From Thursday, it is feared many are set to stay at home in a row over | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
tax rules. BBC understands that at least one Kent hospital, the Queen | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
Elizabeth, the Queen Mother in Margate has already rearranged its | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
rotors in anticipation. I think anything that takes pay away | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
from locums at the moment is bad. We need to support all of them at the | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
moment because otherwise serve are going to be on safer patient and we | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
cannot have that. Government route changes mean locums will have to pay | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
more money in tax and seeing their take-home pay full overnight. We | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
understand that some are asking hospitals to up their rates to make | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
the difference which many can't do. South Thanet MP and chartered | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
accountant believes any stay at home will be short lived. There is no | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
other provider our bird that will be buying their services. I think we | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
have got to live in the real world. It is not going to happen and I will | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
be fighting against any thing that is going to upset services at the | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
hospital. BBC understands that the hospital has rejected some of the | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
measures drawn up by staff to deal with the shortage of ligands. In a | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
statement, the trust said we had not considered and not introducing any | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
partial closers, temporary or otherwise to the accident and | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
emergency department of the hospital. All the closure of | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
Buckland Hospital. As paying more money, a new rate of ?75 per has | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
been rated four locums, Negri 's of more than 10%. The deputy executive | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
has told us they are considering the look rate but has not agreed one as | :17:03. | :17:04. | |
of yet. Our reporter Sara Smith | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
is in Margate now. A lot of people are going to be | :17:08. | :17:18. | |
worried about the situation. They are, east Kent hospitals trust, | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
which this is a part, they have long had to rely on locums. Freelance | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
doctors if you like because they have problems recruiting staff. It | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
is a national problem but they say they have a particular problem here | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
because of what they describe as their relatively isolated location. | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
Staff are tempted to the big teaching hospitals in London. Two | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
weeks ago, we reported Abbey Kent and Canterbury Hospital which is | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
another hospital this trust, they were having to ship out that junior | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
doctors here to the hospital in Ashford because they did not have | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
the consultants to oversee their training. 88 times they have | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
advertised for consultants over the past few months. What they say here | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
is that whatever happens, there will not be any temporary partial | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
closures of accident and emergency. Thank you. | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
Motoring organisations say it's scandalous that hundreds of pothole | :18:15. | :18:16. | |
compensation claims from drivers in Kent have been rejected - | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
on the grounds the council was planning to repair the roads | :18:20. | :18:21. | |
A little known law permits authorities to dismiss claims made | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
by motorists whose cars have been damaged by defective roads, | :18:26. | :18:27. | |
if they can demonstrate the road in question was scheduled for repair | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
Recent analysis showed the overall road repair bill for councils | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
nationally could reach ?14 billion within two years. | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
Causing misery for motorists and often costing them money too. | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
Repairs to pothole damage at this garage in Tunbridge Wells are | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
increasingly common, particularly to the car springs. | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
One bit flies off into the road normally, it can go in | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
to a tyre, it can go into a brake hose and the other bit stays in, it | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
Kent County Council won't pay compensation if they | :19:04. | :19:11. | |
But even if they did, they give themselves up | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
So if a car is damaged in that time, they won't offer compensation. | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
Between 2015-2016, 395 claims were rejected | :19:20. | :19:20. | |
on the basis that there was a plan in | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
place to repair the defect within a reasonable time. | :19:24. | :19:25. | |
Over those two years, pay-outs were made | :19:26. | :19:35. | |
in 208 cases, totalling over ?45,000. | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
That is according to a freedom of information request by | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
I think that's quite unfair and I've known | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
potholes to be around a lot longer than a month so, yeah. | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
Because you can't avoid it sometimes. | :19:48. | :19:48. | |
Almost but I swerved and then almost hit another | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
Not good enough, absolutely, it should be repaired as soon | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
Otherwise anyone could have an accident or even injure | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
Motoring organisations want more clarity. | :20:03. | :20:17. | |
I think the legislation isn't actually | :20:18. | :20:18. | |
strong enough and what we need is central government to actually help | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
out in this scenario and help determine what a reasonable | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
KCC say the repairs are prioritised based on | :20:25. | :20:26. | |
As long as we have met that criteria and | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
fixed it in the time we have said we are going to fix it, | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
It can seem quite harsh but we have got to | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
make a judgment about the safety of the rule dues and healthy for | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
dangerous that pothole is going to be. | :20:43. | :20:43. | |
They say they are spending an extra ?2.5 million on blitzing | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
Simon Jones is in Aylesford for us now. | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
Simon, how many potholes are actually being repaired? | :20:54. | :21:03. | |
Each week, Kent gets reports of 300 potholes that need repairing and one | :21:04. | :21:11. | |
week last month, that figure doubled to 600. This road is just round the | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
corner from the depot where the pothole villas are based but rather | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
embarrassing, down there you can see a big pothole in the raid and then | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
right next to it, and even bigger pot hole. The big question is if you | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
cannot get an sensation if the council does not know about the | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
potholes, if you cannot get compensation if they do know about | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
the potholes that they are planning to repair them in a certain time | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
frame, when can you should get any money? It is if they miss themselves | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
imposed deadline and your car gets damaged, you might get compensation. | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
The council points that this money comes from the public purse and if | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
they pay out compensation, it is taking money away from fixing more | :21:49. | :21:50. | |
potholes. Oliver Whiting from Eastbourne | :21:51. | :21:52. | |
posted stolen images of women he knew to a so called revenge-porn | :21:53. | :22:06. | |
website along with "vile, Sussex Police should have done more | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
to protect her and other women. And after a damp start, | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
the afternoon brightened up with more sunshine on the | :22:16. | :22:17. | |
way for tomorrow. I will have the details | :22:18. | :22:19. | |
for you in the forecast a little If you have a story you think | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
we should be covering on South East Today, | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
we'd like to hear from you. You can call us on 0345 300 37 47, | :22:27. | :22:28. | |
or send us an e-mail to We are also on Facebook or you can | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
tweet us @bbcsoutheast. In the 1950s, at the height | :22:33. | :22:41. | |
of the Cold War, Britain was working on secret plans to defend | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
the country in the event of a Russian invasion, | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
including plans to blow up the Channel Tunnel | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
with an atomic bomb, even though it hadn't | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
been built yet. Newly released files reveal that | :22:53. | :22:54. | |
in 1959 the Ministry of Defence advised any physical link | :22:55. | :23:03. | |
with the continent could be vulnerable and should | :23:04. | :23:04. | |
be "totally destroyed for defensive purposes | :23:05. | :23:06. | |
if necessary". But conventional explosives wouldn't | :23:07. | :23:07. | |
be destructive enough. Only an atomic bomb would | :23:08. | :23:09. | |
be "100% effective". Fortunately the suggestion | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
was later abandoned as it was realised there would be | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
a certain amount of This is something more than the | :23:16. | :23:33. | |
first atomic bomb. It is a shocking revelation. Can it really be true | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
that an atomic bomb was ever considered as a way of sabotaging | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
the Channel Tunnel in the event of a national emergency by defence | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
experts advising the government? A silly idea. Crazy. It would do more | :23:47. | :23:56. | |
damage than anything else. They contingency plans that may, properly | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
won't need that. Properly floodlit. Can you imagine what would happen? | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
It would be like a double barrel shotgun going off in both directions | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
and operas well. The story has emerged from Department letter was | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
kept in the National Archives. They revealed that as far back as the | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
1950s, the idea of a nuclear blast to destroy the tunnel was under | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
discussion. None of this with here then. The Channel tunnel system that | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
we take for granted today was just a dream. The idea of destroying | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
something which had not even been built, I guess that was a bit of | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
blue sky or grey sky thinking in a world stock in Cold War made. For | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
the second test, this was the plan. A propaganda film from 1940s | :24:45. | :24:53. | |
illustrate the concept dramatically. The sound of the debtor nation | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
reaches us. And if the technology existed, the arms race between the | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
Western powers and the Soviet Union provided the motivation. Nuclear war | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
seemed very real prospect. Duck and cover underneath the table desk. It | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
was finally considered too expensive and too costly in terms of the | :25:15. | :25:16. | |
desert station that would have ripped through Kent. -- devastation. | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
So ticking nuclear time bomb never happen. | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
Let's take a look at the weather. No nuclear fallout clouds to worry | :25:27. | :25:34. | |
about. Plenty of blue skies on the way? | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
Lots of cloud around, it does not seem so long ago that we were widely | :25:39. | :25:46. | |
seen highs of 22 Celsius. Looking at the stats generally, so much, for | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
the south-east, that made it the joint milder is on record. An | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
average amount of rain. This morning, how brave the rain, not | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
particularly heavy but cloudy, damp start to the day. A bit more | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
brightness the afternoon. 13 Celsius. As we had to tonight, still | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
some cloud, some patchily rain but the most part it is going to be | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
easing. Pressure builds. We have got clearer skies, later winds and some | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
mist and fog patches around. Overnight, six or seven Celsius in | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
towns and cities, dropping to three or four in more rural slots. A | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
chilly start to the day tomorrow. It will be bright. Through the | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
afternoon, a bit more cloud cover around. The wind still relatively | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
white, they are coming from a chilly north westerly direction. Why the | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
temperatures tomorrow afternoon once again around average, 11 or 12 | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
Celsius. More cloud around during the afternoon. Eventually as you | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
head through the first part of Wednesday evening, the chance you | :26:48. | :26:50. | |
could catch one or two isolated showers. Towards the early hours of | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
Thursday morning, they ease, clearer skies develop once more. Campus is | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
milder but still widely in single figures, dropping to around six or | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
seven buses and more rural spots. Quite chilly as we start the day for | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
Thursday. Very similar whether through Thursday and Friday. This | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
area of high pressure in control of things. The wind eased off, cloud | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
cover, decent spells of sunshine as we look towards the weekend. Chilly | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
nights but during the afternoon, both Saturday and Sunday, expected | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
to reach 15 or 16 Celsius. Today was cloudy, disappointing with the | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
sunshine but it should be back towards the end of the week and the | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
weekend. It is not looking too bad at all. I | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
will be back at 8pm and 1020 5p with the updates. Have a very good | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
evening. -- 10:25pm. Goodbye. | :27:44. | :27:44. |