18/10/2016 South East Today


18/10/2016

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Today's main headlines in the South East:

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A suspected illegal migrant is found crushed to death

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We'll be live in Sellindge with the details.

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The family of a man killed by a mental health patient hn Sussex

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says the trust in charge should have learned from previous mistakes.

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We are staying mostly dry btt feeling chilly over the next couple

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of days. A suspected illegal migrant has been

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found dead in the back of a lorry near Folkestone after

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apparently being crushed Emergency services were called

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to the scene at a lorry The vehicle is believed to have

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travelled to Kent from France. This is the moment the emergency

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services opened up the back of this lorry to find the body

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of a suspected migrant. The driver pulled up at the airport

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cafe near Folkestone at arotnd am. The owner of the site says

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he seemed pretty stressed. He was asking for the policd,

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so I followed him over to sde what the problem was, I didn't know

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what it was at all at the thme, and then he asked me to get up

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into the lorry. I could see a boot stuck up

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in the air and I didn't know if it was a boot

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or if there was a leg attached to it, so I moved some magazines out

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of the way and I could see some trousers and there

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was a person there, The lorry was carrying thesd pallets

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packed full of these According to the owner

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of the site here, the man It looked like maybe the boxes had

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shifted and the magazines were all over him and the boxes

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as well, so it looked You couldn't really move anxthing

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out of the way to Earlier this month, 15 suspdcted

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illegal immigrants were found at Clacket Lane services

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in a freezer lorry. Surrey Police said they feared

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they had perished. People here in Kent say inchdents

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involving suspected We've got the Channel Tunnel right

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near, we've got Dover We've had to report to the police

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on a number of occasions imligrants walking along the road,

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immigrants hanging around It's believed the lorry tod`y

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travelled from France. French authorities have said

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they will close the so-calldd Jungle migrant camp in Calais

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by the end of the year. The migrants are taking gre`ter

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risks now to try and get across to the UK while the chance,

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as they see it, is still thdre. However, if there was greatdr

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security in the port, then this would enable a safer

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and more secure crossing The company operating the lorry says

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it's investigating what happened. And Charlie, you've actuallx

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spoken to the driver Yes, I have. I spoke to him this

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evening. He told me he did not want to go on camera but was verx sorry

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about what had happened to the migrant in his lorry here btt he

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also wanted to point out th`t no one cares about lorry drivers. He told

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me that overnight, his lorrx was attacked by 20 migrants. Migrant

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charity said that migrants `re being forced to take greater risks because

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of the increased security in Calais. This evening a mother and hdr two

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children turned up here to lay flowers and the mother told me it

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was important to her that hdr children realised how lucky they are

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that they live here. A woman from Sussex says her brother

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would not have died needlessly if the previous mistakes of a Sussex

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mental health trust Joe Lewis was stabbed to de`th

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in Brighton on Christmas His attacker was a patient

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with the Sussex Partnership Today, repeated failings

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by the trust over many years have As our health correspondent,

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Mark Norman, reports, the trust now insists it's laking

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improvements to services. Oliver Parsons was a patient

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with the Sussex Mental Health Trust when he stabbed and murdered Joe

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Lewis. The case just one of ten whdre trust

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patients killed someone Today's report says Sussex

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partnership made repeated f`ilings in the way they handled those cases,

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something that's When you're told to rectify

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something, you usually go ahead and rectify it,

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but they haven't, they've And if the mistakes were corrected,

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people wouldn't have have been criticised in this review,

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saying risk assessments and risk management were inadequate,

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information from family and carers not used effectively and sole

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of the trust staff didn't understand the extent of their powers tnder

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the Mental Health Act. Across our organisation

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and across Sussex, our staff make these clinical decisions evdry day,

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and as the report highlights, for example with the Mental Health

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Act, these are tough and difficult decisions because they could result

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in someone's liberty being deprived, so they need to be very cardful

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in terms of how they're exercised. And what the report is indicating

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to us is that we need to thhnk more of our general population,

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and that's something that wd'll be This is very much a step

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in the right direction. What we want the NHS and NHS

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organisations to do is learn from their mistakes and acttally be

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much more open, avoid having a blame culture,

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but look into what went wrong, what could be changed,

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what can be done differentlx. Families who have been faildd

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are understandably sceptical. They say that, unless the NHS does

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learn lessons, others will suffer A senior aide to one of Kent's MPs

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has been arrested on suspichon of rape following an alleged attack

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at the Houses of Parliament. It is understood that Sam Armstrong,

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who is Chief of Staff to Craig Mackinlay, the Conservative

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MP for South Thanet, was released on bail

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after being arrested last wdek. Our reporter, Amanda Akass,

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has been following this story. Amanda, what do we know

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about this incident? We know the Metropolitan Police said

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their detectives are investhgating an allegation of rape which is

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claimed took place at the Houses of Parliament on Friday morning. They

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say a 23-year-old man was arrested on Friday on suspicion of r`pe. He

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has been bailed until mid J`nuary. It is understood that that lan is

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Craig McKinley's assistant. A spokesman says he was made `ware of

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these allegations and has ghven police permission to access his

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office in Westminster. He is continuing to monitor the shtuation.

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A spokesperson for the Housd of Commons says Parliament is working

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closely with the police and they cannot comment any further on the

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investigation which is ongohng. In 1928, when Britain's atthtude

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towards single mothers was very different to today,

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Mary Hunter was put up This summer, she made an am`zing

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discovery - that she had a sister. Now Olive Busby has travelldd

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all the way from Perth in Atstralia As Chrissie Reidy reports,

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it was an emotional meeting. Sisters who've just met

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for the very first time - We just fell into each other's arms

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and cuddled each other. I've never had brothers

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and sisters, you see. Mary began delving into her

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background some 15 years ago after Born to a single mother in 0928

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Mary was given up for adopthon but, aged eight, her adoptive mother

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put her in an orphanage. They were very poor and,

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having adopted me, perhaps she couldn't afford

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to keep me, I don't know, Olive came along 12 years l`ter

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when their biological mother, Florence, settled down

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with a new family. I do wish I'd known,

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I really do wish I'd known. And it might have even made

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a difference to our lives. I might not have even gone out

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to Australia if I knew I'd had I feel very upset that we h`ven t

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met before because I felt I lost out I don't feel I had a real childhood

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like I see other families. Three quarters of a century may have

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passed but these long-lost sisters My only regret is that it h`s taken

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so long to do so. And now that we've got each other,

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I don't want to let her go! Chrissie Reidy, BBC

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South East Today, Tunbridge Wells. Three of the South East's football

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teams are in action tonight. In the Championship,

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Brighton's decent form continued with a 1-0 win

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over Wolves at the Amex. In League 1, Gillingham drew

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with visiting Walsall 1-1. And it was a point for Charlton

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as well - drawing away Now let's take a look at thd weather

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picture in the South East for the next couple of days

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with Rachel Mackley. We had rain first thing this

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morning. That cleared and bdhind it, dry if not bright afternoon. 14 or

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15 degrees is high. Feeling cool with those brisk north-westdrly

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winds. We hold onto those through the night even so, chilly nhght

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Temperatures in single figures. Seven or 8 degrees as we st`rt the

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day for Wednesday. Clear skhes mean lots of sunshine. We have got this

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area of low pressure. The ftrther east you are, the more likely what

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to catch a shower. For the lost part, a decent autumnal day. Lots of

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sunshine around and by the afternoon, similars temperatures to

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the day, highs of 13 or 14 degrees. From Wednesday into Thursdax, for

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the most part, dry night, qtite cool with overnight lows of seven or 8

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degrees. More of the same as we had to the day on Thursday. The further

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east you are, the more likely he will catch the odd isolated showers

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with highs of 15.

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