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Here on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Today's main headlines in the South East: | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
They stepped in during the fire dispute. | :00:12. | :00:12. | |
We reveal the army's drawing up plans to help deal | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
Grounded at Rochester Airport - two men are found guilty | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
of attempting to smuggle drugs into Kent on a light aircraft. | :00:20. | :00:27. | |
The Christmas weekend looks mostly dry, mild and very windy. | :00:28. | :00:38. | |
BBC South East Today understands that the British Army has been asked | :00:39. | :00:46. | |
to put contingency plans in place to step in and ensure commuters get | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
to work if the chaos on Southern Rail continues. | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
This programme has learned that military leave could be cancelled | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
and soldiers instructed to drive buses to help deal with | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
Juliette Parkin has this exclusive report. | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
Trains cancelled, delayed and days of no trains at all. | :01:06. | :01:15. | |
This programme understands enquiries have been made about numbers and how | :01:16. | :01:30. | |
many could be released if needed to transport passengers on buses. | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
Should the Army be drafted in, do you think, in these situations? | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
If it helps get people to work and saves a | :01:39. | :01:46. | |
If it does go ahead, the move is reminiscent of | :01:47. | :02:01. | |
the firefighter strike 14 years ago when Army | :02:02. | :02:02. | |
personnel were drafted in | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
using Green Goddess appliances from the 1950s. | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
The Lewes MP says the current rail crisis has hit an equally | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
with no trains at all on strike days for those on the | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
When I called for this weeks ago, some people | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
It was not to call the Army to drive the trains, | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
some people thought I asked for that, but it is literally to ask | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
for help to transpoert people, because on strike days | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
there is no bus replacement at all, nothing. | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
The ongoing dispute between the RMT union and Southern over | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
changes to the role of guards started in April. | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
The strikes have led to the worst rail disruption | :02:45. | :02:46. | |
The dispute affects up to 500,000 commuters and further | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
strikes are planned at the end of this month and in the New Year. | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
New figures for recent weeks show only 56% | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
The figures show they have been in steady decline | :02:59. | :03:11. | |
It is not just about what is happening at the immediate moment. | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
The Ministry of Defence said it does not have any plans to deploy | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
military personnel in response to the strikes. | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
We have learned leave may be cancelled and Army drivers | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
could be called upon in the worst hit areas. | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
Our reporter Ian Palmer has been following the story. | :03:33. | :03:34. | |
What is the RMT union saying tonight? | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
Paul Cox, the regional organiser of the RMT has told the BBC the | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
government does not need to bring in the army, it needs to settle this | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
dispute. The government has always said this disagreement is between | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
the operating company and unions and it must be said that if it did | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
intervene it could make any negotiated settlement between the | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
parties even more difficult to achieve. This strike has gone on for | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
almost ten months. What it has highlighted is there are fundamental | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
problems with the service and asking the military to drive buses frankly | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
around the south-east is not going to solve those problems. Thanks. | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
If you've have strong feelings about the strike | :04:21. | :04:22. | |
and its consequences we'd like to invite you to take part | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
in a special Question Time style debate about the ongoing crisis. | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
It's being held on Sunday the 8th of January. | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
If you live or work in the South East and want to be | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
in the audience, send an email to [email protected] | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
with your name, address, daytime phone number and tell us how | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
After prisoners tonight took control of a wing | :04:41. | :04:50. | |
at Swaleside Prison the Chairman of the Prison Officers Association | :04:51. | :04:52. | |
has told the BBC that it's a "difficult place to work" | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
This picture is reported to be from inside the prison on the Isle of | :04:56. | :05:07. | |
Sheppey tonight. At least 60 inmates are believed | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
to have been involved The Prison Officers Association said | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
the extent of the disturbance The rest of the prison | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
is said to be secure. Two men who took part | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
in an elaborate plot to smuggle ?2.4 million worth of cocaine | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
into Kent have been found A light aircraft carrying the drugs | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
landed at Rochester airport, This is what cocaine | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
with a street value of almost ?2.5 million looks | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
like. Here it is unpacked by officers | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
after a man due to whisk it Jan Polak claimed he had no | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
idea there were drugs in the shopping bags | :05:46. | :05:55. | |
he picked up. The jury at the Old | :05:56. | :05:56. | |
Bailey did not believe him. The drugs were picked up | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
from a small airport in northern Holland, arriving in Rochester | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
at quarter past 12. At the controls, Dutch national | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
John Buwalda, who told police he The prosecution said that was just | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
a useful camouflage Normally the small airports | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
will have no law enforcement possible then to land, | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
maybe offload goods, without any real difficulty, | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
without encountering somebody | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
from the border force or the police. John Buwalda had taken | :06:26. | :06:34. | |
the cocaine in a suitcase and booked into the neighbouring | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
Holiday Inn hotel. Then Yan Polak transferred the drugs | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
to two shopping bags and left. His van was parked in the adjacent | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
retail park and had a hidden compartments designed | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
into the seats. But both he and Buwalda | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
were arrested within minutes. The judge told them they would be | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
sentenced in the next three months and they should both be aware | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
that there would inevitably be The maximum for a crime like this | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
is 20 years in prison. A former Charlton Athletic youth | :07:05. | :07:14. | |
footballer who says he was abused at the club as a teenager has spoken | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
to this programme about how he's still struggling to come to terms | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
with what happened to him. Over the past few weeks, | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
club after club has announced it is investigating claims of abuse | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
within the sport. Our reporter Lauren Moss went | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
to meet Paul Collins at his home. Playing football was | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
Paul Collins' dream. A dream he said was | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
shattered by the abuse he suffered at the hands | :07:41. | :07:42. | |
of talent scout Eddie Heath | :07:43. | :07:43. | |
while he was a teenager He always said, "Hello, | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
Collins, how are you?" Slap your leg, "You played well | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
today", and he would move his hand up to the top of my | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
thigh and squeeze me. But his hand would go deeper | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
than what he should have done. He'll just carry on as normal | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
like nothing had happened. Paul said the abuse | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
went on for years. into a little room | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
and he'd rub you down. There was times I lay | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
there and thought, I hope somebody When he walked away | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
from football he locked Three days later, he | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
wants to look at them again and show his wife | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
for the first time. I knew this moment | :08:30. | :08:31. | |
would come eventually. Since last month when other former | :08:32. | :08:43. | |
players came forward saying how they were abused when they were children, | :08:44. | :09:01. | |
the NSPCC has received Paul has kept the memories of | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
what happened to him locked up in a garage where he grew up | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
more than 30 years ago. He believes his story, like many | :09:12. | :09:13. | |
others, may only be the tip | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
of the iceberg. These paedophiles will | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
always gravitate towards situations where they can get | :09:19. | :09:27. | |
access to young people. I would not be surprised | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
if we do see other sports and other areas | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
of society with similar | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
problems coming to light. In a statement, Charlton Athletic | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
said there is an internal investigation under way in the club | :09:42. | :09:43. | |
and they are taking the matter seriously, working | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
alongside the police. believed to be the biggest in | :09:47. | :09:47. | |
history, continues. That's it from me, we'll | :09:48. | :09:56. | |
have the national weather in a moment, first here's | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
the forecast for the It has been a beautiful day with | :10:00. | :10:10. | |
high pressure to thank for that. Going through tonight we will hold | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
onto clearer skies and the wind is going to be picking up. Overnight | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
temperatures of five or 6 degrees. Lots of sunshine first thing | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
tomorrow. A really blustery day for us. Eventually in the tail end of | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
the afternoon we will see a band of rain and looking to the Christmas | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
weekend we have got storm Barbara about, and for us in the south-east | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
we will mostly see that in terms of the wind. A blustery afternoon | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
tomorrow, temperatures reaching nine or 10 degrees, and going from Friday | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
into Christmas Eve, that is when we really see the wind picking up. | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
Storm Barbara mostly affecting northern Scotland but a blustery | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
evening for us all. That rain rattles through as a result and | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
behind that, clearer skies, falling temperatures and we start Christmas | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
Eve on a bright and chilly note. The itself, it's not white, but it's | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
warm. Temperatures could reach 15. I suppose you could say today was | :11:04. | :11:15. | |
the calm before the storm. A winter chill, plenty of sunshine, but more | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
wintry showers in Scotland, more snow over the higher ground. Some of | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
this snow will melt for a time tomorrow because there is wind and | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
rain coming in from the Atlantic. So we'll leave the Highlands behind, | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
head out and look at the cloud here, this tell-tale hook of cloud, | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
signifies a storm is developing, this is Storm Barbara, of course, it | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
is a deep and deepening area of low pressure, rushing towards the | :11:41. | :11:42. | |
north-west of Scotland. Steppingening the winds and bringing | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
rain into the north-west by tomorrow morning. Ahead of it fairly quiet. | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
Already the showers in the north less wintry. Fewer and clearer | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
skies, across England and Wales for a time, it could be chilly. One or | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
two mist and fog patches. Out to the west winds pick up later, cloud | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
increases and the rain arrives and very quickly tomorrow across | :12:03. | :12:04. | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland it'll | :12:05. | :12:05. |