21/04/2017 South East Today

and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are.

Tonight's top stories: She thought she would die -

the 94-year-old woman left traumatised by the brazen theft

of her pension from her purse. Nigel Farage has confirmed

I would kill him. I don't want to meet him, because I want to be

responsible for my actions, I tell you.

Nigel Farage has confirmed he won't be standing

as a candidate for South Thanet in the forthcoming election.

Also in tonight's programme: building for the future -

a prestigious award for kent scientists who are tackling

climate change by capturing carbon in bricks.

Up and away - Seagulls fans travel to Norwich,

knowing victory tonight will see them be promoted as champions.

And sing when you're running - the karaoke marathon runner hoping

A 94-year-old woman from Sussex who had ?600 stolen on a trip

to her local shop says she was left so traumatised she

Daisy Payne had just withdrawn her pension money

from the post office in Whitehall when it was taken from her purse,

she believes while she had her back turned on her shopping trolley.

This is the moment 94-year-old Daisy Payne picked up ?600 from her local

post office. She had been ill and hadn't been able to collect her

penchant for several weeks. Minutes later, the money had been stolen. I

was sick. I kept crying. I have lost weight. I just wanted to die. That

is how I felt. Because the neighbours all round said they

thought I was on my way out, I was so drawn and what with the worry,

losing all that money. After losing the post office, dizzy and Fred Watt

to a nearby supermarket. By the time they left there, the money had been

taken. The local community was shocked. These people to spray on

the older and the vulnerable and they seem to target them. And old

whoever it is. I think whoever has whoever it is. I think whoever has

done this does need the full force of the law thrown at them. Local

shopkeepers or so upset they have been raising money for Daisy. So

far, donations have reached more than ?250. Devastation. Total

devastation. She is the heart of devastation. She is the heart of

this community and certainly has a special place in my heart and I felt

something had to be done to let her know that we are all year for her,

to support her. Daisy grew up here in Whitehall and spent most of her

life caring for her mother, who died at the age of 100. She is now

extremely angry at the person who did this to her. I want to kill

them. I don't want to meet them because I would be sorry for my

actions, I tell you. I think they are scum. They are too lazy to work.

They just want to rob other people. Daisy says she is determined not to

lose her nerve over what happened as lose her nerve over what happened as

she doesn't want to let the criminals win.

Well, Amanda Akass joins us live from Brighton.

Amanda, what have Sussex Police had to say?

Well, they have confirmed that they are looking into what happened to

Daisy on April the 5th around 330 in the afternoon. Having looked through

the CCTV footage from the post office, it does seem that the thief

must have struck somewhere towards the end of her walk towards the

co-op or indeed in the shop behind me, but police say there are very

keen to hear from anyone who has any information about this. As for that

collection, the local community are putting together for Daisy, there

have been a flurry of donations in the past couple of hours. We now

understand that the total figure has now reached more than ?300. Amanda,

thank you. Nigel Farage the South East MEP

and former Ukip leader, confirmed last night he won't be

standing as a candidate Earlier this week he had suggested

he might stand again for the South Thanet

constituency, a seat he failed He now says he will focus

on his role in Europe instead. This was the reaction

today in Ramsgate. I think it is very wise. I don't

think he wants to have another disappointment and he may as well

stay in Brussels where I think he can do pretty good. Are you

disappointed? Do you think people here will be disappointed. I think

some people will be. Well, he is nothing now anyway, as far as it

goes. He wanted Brexit. We voted for it. That is it. This is a democracy.

The people have made their choice. We have got to get on with it. That

is as far as it goes. As far as Nigel is concerned, he is going to

sit and drink is beer. You're letting down your supporters

there, aren't you? Yes, I know people will be

disappointed. I get that. I came into politics from business. I am

not a career politician. My motivation was to get back the

self-government and independence of our country. We won a referendum. We

won the war. Now we have two won the peace. I had to ask myself how best

to do that, by running to Parliament in this seat where maybe this time,

unlike the last, it will be a level unlike the last, it will be a level

have a very good chance of winning, have a very good chance of winning,

but what would I do as a backbench MP compared to the role that I have

leading a group in the European Parliament? And remember this, two

years of Brexit negotiations. The UK Parliament has nothing to do with

the process. The European Parliament has everything to do with it,

including the right of final veto and I feel that I can use my

platform they are far more effectively. I was having a laconic

website called thought what you wrote that looks at how many people

in the European Parliament actually vote on issues going through there.

It ranks you out of the 750 MDP is 750th in terms of actual active

participation in stuff that is going on in Parliament. How will you make

yourself count if you're not actually taking part in the process?

Firstly, that is utter rot. Secondly, and here is the thing.

Just weeks after the Brexit date at the end of March in 2019, there will

be a European election. MEPs will want to get re-elected. What I am

going to do and I am starting next week with German media is I will be

losing -- using my platform, using media, saying to the people, you

manufacture motor cars and make wine and chocolate. Britain is your best

overseas marketplace in the world. It is so good, jokingly they to us

as treasure Island. I will be sailing, make sure your MEPs do not

veto the deal. Sure they vote for a sensible Brexit arrangement that is

good for Britain and good for your jobs. And do you think you will

actually be heard well enough, given the fact that you have spent so many

years relentlessly insulting members of the European establishment? The

more I insult the establishment, the more the people in Munich are likely

to read their newspapers or watch their television. Let's be honest.

The European establishment in Brussels is increasingly loathed by

people across all 28 member states. I have a unique platform in that

European Parliament. I am the only Eurosceptic out of the 580 million

people living in the EU with a front row bench. And I tend to use that

for a positive, constructive engagement with European voters, to

threaten their MEPs to say vote for a decent Brexit deal or we are going

to sack you. OK. Thank you very much.

In a moment: We speak to the disabled man who says he's

a prisoner in his own home after losing his motability car.

There's been a dramatic increase in the number of men in Kent seeking

The Release the Pressure campaign was launched in response to figures

revealing that suicide is the leading killer

Three quarters of all those who took their own life in 2015 were male.

Those at highest risk are aged between 30 and 59.

And in the past year the Kent telephone hotline has taken calls

from more than 6,500 men seeking help.

This afternoon, the mental health charity MIND opened

a new Crisis cafe - and our reporter Charlie

Mike stops calls this song Jack Payne More -- Noel More. It said it

-- Pain No More. I really wanted to write something passionate and

meaningful and it really took off. I kind of does put it online to show

my friends and they ended up sharing it. It got shared so many times all

over the world and I was getting fan mail in the hundreds daily just from

people who also suffer from mental health and depression. And it really

did make you want to continue on and have something to live for. A

campaign aimed at ending male suicide in Kent has seen more than

6500 men call a special helpline in the past year. It comes after Prince

Harry revealed he sought help after not thinking about the death of his

mother. And the Duke of Cambridge said the British stiff upper lip

should not be allowed to endanger mental help. Obviously, the number

of sad situations that come from suicides particularly and self harm,

and I think it is just a tragedy that we are not dealing with that.

And for Mike, it is also the social side of making music which has been

helped others, it has fed him and helped others, it has fed him and

inspired him to do more. So it is not just about the music but also

about how it has helped him to connect with people that really

appreciate unlike what he is doing, that has helped him, do you think?

Definitely, yes, I think so. And his message to anyone who may be

experiencing similar problems is to open up and talk about it. I think

you are more of a man if you're willing to speak about your problems

and I would say there are so many foundations and charities you can

speak to, they will go out there way to help you. I am receiving a lot of

good help at the moment. Newly married and with a record label

interested in his music, these are better times for Mike stops.

Charlie, Mike talks there about the importance of talking through mental

health issues, something perhaps men struggle with more than women will

stop tell us, there is a special mental health support facility

opening there in Maidstone to encourage that. Yes, it is

the Hope Cathy and it is about half the Hope Cathy and it is about half

a mile up the road here from me and it open for the first time tonight

at five p.m.. The people who run it did not think it was a good idea for

our cameras to be there right now because there are probably people

you should be able to see those you should be able to see those

pictures now. It is designed to be a place where people can feel safe in

the company of like-minded people and also where they can seek the

help and guidance of experts. It is being funded mainly by the NHS and

it is a free service. Along with a cabbie which opened in Tonbridge

last night, there is now a service operating for the people of West

Kent ) from the Thursday to Sunday. C, thank you. A man arrested after

offensive messages were posted on Twitter.

A man arrested after offensive messages were posted on Twitter

about Katie Price's disabled son has been cautioned.

The TV star said she received messages earlier this year

which featured images mocking her 14-year-old son,

A 19-year-old from Newick in East Sussex, was arrested

on suspicion of causing racially aggravated harassment, alarm

A disabled man from New Romney claims he's been left a prisoner

in his own home after his motability car was taken away when his

Mark Gasson says it's left him unable to do voluntary work

A week ago it was revealed that more than 51,000 people have

had their vehicles taken away since changes to

The government says expanding the new criteria would add over

3 billion pounds to the benefits bill in the next six years.

Our correspondent Bryony MacKenzie reports.

Using a walking frame, Mark Gast on's real muscle weakness disorder

means he struggles to get around. For the last 20 years, he has been

entitled to a car under the malt ability scheme. Now he has been

reassessed and the card taken away. It is a misery now. I go to bed at

night and I think what is the point because I have nothing to get up

for. I know the answer is I need my vehicle back. Then I know I can go

back to my job that I have been doing for the last eight or nine

years, which I enjoy every day. Mark missed out on qualifying for a

motability vehicle by two points. His mother thinks the changes to

assessments are not working. The Government awarded these for life.

Surely that means something. But according to the work and pensions

now, that doesn't count. That has all stopped. In 2013, new

assessments called personal independence plans were introduced.

Now only those unable to walk further than 20 metres qualify for a

vehicle. It is claimed more than 51,000 people have had their

motability vehicle is taken away in the past four years. Some 60% have

appealed against these assessments and they have been upheld so such a

high rate of successful appeal just shows that the assessment have not

been conducted equitably or fairly. So it is definitely time for a

change. The Government says there are now more people on the

motability scheme than in 2010, and if they expanded the criteria, it

could add an extra ?3.7 billion to the benefits bill by 20 to 23. Those

who are appealing their assessments will get to keep their motability

vehicles for at least six months until a decision is made. For Mark,

the battle to get his vehicle and independence back continues.

It's 18 minutes to seven, this is our top story tonight

A 94-year-old woman from Sussex who had ?600

stolen on a trip to her local shop says she was left

so traumatised she thought she would die.

Daisy Payne had just withdrawn her pension money

I'm in Norwich, where Brighton could secure at the championship title

this evening. And it has been pretty cloudy today, but the sunshine

should make a return in your weekend forecast.

Scientists from Medway have won a prestigious award for an invention

that they believe can help combat climate change

by capturing Carbon Dioxide in building materials.

In 2010, we reported that the University of Greenwich

team in Gillingham had worked out how pumping CO2 through ash

and water could create limestone pellets.

Now the team has won the Queens Award for Enterprise -

and the chemical reaction is being used on an

Our environment correspondent, Yvette Austin, has

Industry on our doorstep and around the globe is facing the challenge of

reducing emissions of carbon dioxide. Helping governments achieve

targets to limit global warming. Now scientists in Kent have developed a

way of permanently capturing CO2 within industry waste like ash. And

it has turned into an everyday building material. The whole process

is thanks to a simple chemical reaction. If you take the calcium

oxide, which is found in many wastes, and then you add the CO2

with the somewhat to help it along, the result is calcium carbonate. Or

limestone. A bit of water in there and we mix this by hand. So there we

go. Quickly done. Good. So we will take it over to our source of CO2.

There we go. That should do. Put the top on. And just put that they are.

And you can see it is already reacting. The reaction is very

vigorous. And that CO2 is becoming mineralised. It is turning into a

solid. And as it is removed from the bottle, then the bottle is

collapsing because of the vacuum that is formed. Carbon capture in

front of your very eyes. Back in 2010, reported on how the method was

being tested. Now there are two plans and another on the weight an

amount of CO2 equivalent of planting millions of trees. The plan is to

expand using all kinds of wastes. What we are doing now is working

with lots of big international companies, principally to capture

the CO2 from places like cement works or steel works and treat their

waists. So not only preventing the CO2 escaping into the atmosphere but

also using waste which would have gone to landfill.

Tonight could find Seagulls fans on cloud nine for

the second time this week - if Brighton and Hove Albion win

against norwich they will secure the Championship title.

The club have already made sure of promotion to the Premier League,

returning to the top flight after a 34 year absence.

Our reporter Ian Palmer is in Norwich now - Ian -

it's not a foregone conclusion, but - excitement must be building?

It certainly is. There has never been a night like it, really. A win

here and the championship title is there is. With everything that has

happened this season and of course earlier this week Brighton

gathering here tonight are bursting gathering here tonight are bursting

with pride. And excitement. It would be fantastic. What a great

achievement for the team and the manager and the club as a whole and

the supporters. Brilliant. Brilliant if we can achieve it tonight. A good

manager. A good team at the moment. I just hope we do it. Incredibly

exciting. You just can't believe for the club was 20 years ago and where

it is now and obviously the heartbreak of last season and we all

went up to Middlesbrough for the away game and things have turned

around superbly foreigners. -- superbly for us.

And Brighton deserve to be at the top of the table. The statistics

bear that out. They have the best away form and have been unbeaten for

October, November and December. They have the tightest defence. 36 goals

conceded with 21 clean sheets. It has been a momentous weeks for those

players of course, but the Brighton manager says he thinks that his

players will remain focused for tonight's game. We want to make a

good account of ourselves. We have managed to do that all season and it

is something that we do not want to stop now. So I am the one that has

two perhaps focus that little bit more, but everything that is

surrounding the last few days has been expected. Elsewhere in

gymnastics,... A Kent gymnast has won

bronze at the European James Hall - from the Pegasus

Gym Club in Maidstone - finished third in the all-around

final this afternoon. His club colleague Courtney Tulloch

goes in the individual To be honest, I am trying to compose

myself right now. I can't believe it. Third place at the European

Championships. I have been two World Cups and have always been for a

perfect sex and to come here and do my best gymnastics and, wait bird in

Europe,. -- third or fifth or sixth. Meanwhile the domestic hockey season

also reaches its climax tomorrow with two of our top teams going head

to head at the Investec Women's East Grinstead and Holcombe face

each other in London with the winner East Grinstead -

featuring 2016 Olympic gold medallist Laura Unsworth -

are looking to become champions, in only their second season

in the top division. Well, the Brighton fans are hoping

for history to be made and it is not long to wait now. Great tie, Ian.

Good luck to them. More than a quarter of a million

people applied for a place - But this Sunda,y some 30,000

people will take part in the London Marathon -

and between them they'll raise Among them will be Graham Burns

from Broadstairs - who, as Peter Whittlesea reports,

has more than just his running performance to think

about on the route - and is likely to be getting

very out of breath. You have the class of drug it is.

Easy clinical research director trying to develop today the wonder

drugs of tomorrow that will help cure cancer. But when Graeme Burns

is not analysing data, he combines his two passions to create an

unusual way of raising thousands of pounds. For charity.

HE SINGS. Do you do requests? I do. If it is on the machine. If you

hadn't guessed, Graham is believed to be Britain's only karaoke

Marathon man and singing and running is not easy. The goal is to sing for

the whole 26.2 miles. You are a serious marathon runner. Yes, when I

am singing I have to add another two or three hours on. If you stop for

an interview, you will not say no. Karaoke man. Yes, the goal is to

sing and run the whole way round. HE SINGS. But there is a serious side.

He hopes to break the ?50,000 total for his charity, Breast Cancer Now.

Many women still die of breast cancer out of the 50,000 to get it,

so that has to stop. Some of the guys want to sing with me, so I give

them the microphone. Singh. HE SINGS.. Graham has a playlist of

around 40 songs and expects to sing them all several times before he

finishes the marriage bond. He is really enjoying himself there. He is

indeed an good luck to everyone who is taking part in the Maritime.

Indeed. Will it stay fine and dry? It will stay dry. We have that cloud

to today. It has been a gloomy affair for most of us. Seems very

typical like this. We would thought we would concentrate on something a

little more springlike we have some beautiful bluebells being sent into

us, making it look pretty nice out there at the moment. As we go

through this weekend, we will keep a predominantly dry clean. Some

showers around and patchy rain at times. A lot of cloud on Saturday

but I am hopeful by Sunday we will have some sunshine. Overnight

tonight, all of the clouds and rain holds temperatures at around 8-9dC.

In article 30 Saturday morning but it will be overcast. The room will

be patchy and light. It is living through. Later on in the afternoon,

we will start to season breaks in the cloud. Temperatures 12-13dC, so

some degrees down. It will be a touch cooler. A cold start on

Saturday morning at around 5-6dC. Sunday sees the cloud breaking up to

give some bright and sunny spells at times. Still potentially the chance

of the odd shower or two but I think of the odd shower or two but I think

again most places will be dry. We will see temperatures at around 12

to 13 Celsius. A change in the forecast through Monday and Tuesday.

A cold front is moving south. We will see those winds coming down

from the north, so it will turn much colder. We will see a mixture of

some night-time frost. Frost! That some night-time frost. Frost! That

is not what we want to year in April. Do better next time. Just

before we go, a little earlier in the programme we were telling you

about the 94-year-old lady from white clock who had ?600 stolen from

on error, we have had four colours on error, we have had four colours

offered to donate money for drugs including two collars

Why didn't we go to the library today?

Because we don't have a library any more. Why?

The school's had to make big cuts. Cuts like with a knife, miss?

No, it means that the school can't afford to pay for things like

the library any more or shows or books or school visits.

CHILDREN: Awww! No more school visits?

Miss, will every school stop having school visits?

Well, every school in England will have to make big cuts.