:00:09. > :00:11.Today's main headlines in the South East: Families
:00:12. > :00:14.of the Shoreham aircrash disaster say a new report into airshow
:00:15. > :00:16.safety has left them still waiting for answers.
:00:17. > :00:19.She visited Deal for the New Year's Eve celebrations,
:00:20. > :00:21.now the hunt is on for the man who left this Kent
:00:22. > :00:35.It is horrible. So much pain for days afterward. And another bitterly
:00:36. > :00:43.cold night. With warnings of dense fog for tomorrow's rush-hour.
:00:44. > :00:50.Families of the Shoreham air disaster victims say
:00:51. > :00:53.they are still waiting for answers, even though all 21 recommendations
:00:54. > :00:56.of a major new report have been accepted by the
:00:57. > :01:00.11 men died when a vintage jet crashed on the A27
:01:01. > :01:04.Today's report from the Air Accident Investigation Branch is designed
:01:05. > :01:07.to make sure a similar catastrophe can't happen at an
:01:08. > :01:12.But the families say they're no closer to knowing where blame
:01:13. > :01:23.Nearly a year and a half on from the catastrophic crash that
:01:24. > :01:25.claimed 11 lives at the Shoreham Airshow, today
:01:26. > :01:27.confirmation that the regulations surrounding future airshows will be
:01:28. > :01:32.The Civil Aviation Authority agreeing to all 21 safety
:01:33. > :01:40.recommendations put forward by the Air Accident Investigation Branch.
:01:41. > :01:44.These are perhaps things that should have happened some time ago and I
:01:45. > :01:47.think are common sense so that we can go forward, that we can still
:01:48. > :01:50.have a airshows in the future which really are as safe as possible, not
:01:51. > :01:54.just for the people up in the air but for the people on the ground
:01:55. > :01:57.The recommendations include that the CAA
:01:58. > :01:58.will conduct a review as to
:01:59. > :02:02.whether there should be a minimum differences between display aircraft
:02:03. > :02:06.That risk assessments for displays must
:02:07. > :02:08.include the manoeuvre to be performed by display pilots and that
:02:09. > :02:11.the CAA are not satisfied with the risk assessment, they may refuse
:02:12. > :02:15.permission for the event to go ahead.
:02:16. > :02:19.But the announcement is little comfort for those who await
:02:20. > :02:22.answers for the fundamental questions of what went wrong and who
:02:23. > :02:37.Why have we waited 17 months and we still have no answers?
:02:38. > :02:41.How difficult has it been not having those answers and having to wait?
:02:42. > :02:43.It is hard enough for us,
:02:44. > :02:48.They played for my football club, they became friends.
:02:49. > :02:52.I cannot imagine how it is for the families.
:02:53. > :02:54.It is just ridiculous that it has taken
:02:55. > :02:59.The crash happened back in August 2015, prompting a series of
:03:00. > :03:03.A police investigation into the pilot's
:03:04. > :03:07.actions, an inquest into the death of the 11 men killed and an air
:03:08. > :03:11.accident investigation enquiry into how it happened.
:03:12. > :03:19.To date, none of these have concluded.
:03:20. > :03:21.What everybody wants to know now is how did this happen and
:03:22. > :03:24.the final judgment will be in the final report.
:03:25. > :03:28.And it will then be for the CAA, the coroner and indeed
:03:29. > :03:32.all the legal departments in the country to the NSS what action needs
:03:33. > :03:45.For the families of the 11 men are commemorated here, the long wait for
:03:46. > :03:50.the truth goes on. Well, our reporter
:03:51. > :03:52.joins us in the studio. Juliette, what else have
:03:53. > :04:07.the families had to say today? We spoke earlier to the solicitor
:04:08. > :04:13.representing the families involved here and he told us that their focus
:04:14. > :04:17.was on a weighting that final report by the air accident's investigation
:04:18. > :04:23.Branch and on the pre-inquest review to take place in March. As for the
:04:24. > :04:27.future of the Shoreham Airshow is self, a spokesperson said earlier
:04:28. > :04:31.appropriate to do so, they will appropriate to do so, they will
:04:32. > :04:35.explore the possibility of a 2017 airshow. But in the meantime, they
:04:36. > :04:37.say they are fully operating with the ongoing investigation. Baggie.
:04:38. > :04:40.A derailed freight train has been causing major delays for commuters
:04:41. > :04:42.today AND train operator Southeastern is now warning
:04:43. > :04:44.passengers that the disruption will continue tomorrow.
:04:45. > :04:47.All trains from Tunbridge Wells and Sevenoaks to London Charing Cross
:04:48. > :04:49.and Cannon Street were cancelled completely after a train carrying
:04:50. > :04:56.sand derailed near Lewisham station at around 6am this morning.
:04:57. > :05:01.Plans by East Sussex County Council to cut funding to the Duke
:05:02. > :05:02.of Edinburgh's award scheme have been shelved.
:05:03. > :05:05.A petition was handed in to the council today
:05:06. > :05:07.as the cabinet was meeting to discuss the council Budget,
:05:08. > :05:17.where it was decided not to go ahead with axing the scheme.
:05:18. > :05:20.A woman left blinded in one eye after getting caught up in a fight
:05:21. > :05:23.on new years eve says she's been left angry, and unable to move
:05:24. > :05:26.on with her life until those who caused her injury are caught.
:05:27. > :05:29.Cora Mitchard was at a fireworks display in Deal when a fight broke
:05:30. > :05:33.out near her, and she was hit in the face with a beer can.
:05:34. > :05:36.Doctors say she has lost 85% of vision in her eye.
:05:37. > :05:40.She remembers New Year's Eve for the wrong reason.
:05:41. > :05:43.Celebrating outside a pub, someone threw a beer
:05:44. > :05:51.The impact fractured her eye socket and blinded
:05:52. > :06:00.It's awful, not being able to see anything but hearing
:06:01. > :06:04.everything going on, it's so different.
:06:05. > :06:07.So much pain for days after that, all the bruising came up
:06:08. > :06:18.The 24-year-old came to this pub on New Year's Eve to enjoy
:06:19. > :06:21.Her boyfriend went inside to buy some drinks.
:06:22. > :06:28.Cora was here just three minutes before the
:06:29. > :06:31.We were told there was a possibility she
:06:32. > :06:34.might lose the eye, so we were pleased
:06:35. > :06:36.when she was told she was
:06:37. > :06:39.not going to lose the eye, even if there is no sight there,
:06:40. > :06:45.After the incident, police interviewed a number
:06:46. > :06:49.Detectives say they want anyone who is there to come forward
:06:50. > :06:55.I make an appeal to the people involved in this to
:06:56. > :06:58.come forward and allow us to understand what has gone on so we
:06:59. > :07:02.can resolve this matter and give justice to the victim.
:07:03. > :07:05.Cora lives on a houseboat on the peninsula.
:07:06. > :07:07.Since being blinded in one eye, she has
:07:08. > :07:10.found it difficult to move around the boat.
:07:11. > :07:13.It is completely blurred at the moment, I have got nothing
:07:14. > :07:17.Coping really well with it, a lot better than I
:07:18. > :07:29.Still learning to get around and do everyday activities like normal,
:07:30. > :07:33.The 24-year-old will have more surgery on her eye
:07:34. > :07:35.Her vision will never be the same again.
:07:36. > :07:51.50 new schools will need to be built in Kent over the next
:07:52. > :07:53.five years to meet a population boom that requires an additional
:07:54. > :07:58.Kent County Council say some 47 new schools are needed
:07:59. > :08:01.across the county and the leaders at the council
:08:02. > :08:05.But there is a warning that the authority may not meet
:08:06. > :08:10.demand if planned free schools are not opened on time.
:08:11. > :08:14.The local authority has the statue duty to make provision of those
:08:15. > :08:17.places, yet a Whitehall department is predominantly responsible for
:08:18. > :08:20.delivering those new school places so we don't have the control that we
:08:21. > :08:23.have had in the past and we have delivered
:08:24. > :08:27.right number of school places in the right
:08:28. > :08:30.place at the right time, we
:08:31. > :08:33.question whether the education funding enters the Whitehall
:08:34. > :08:36.department with a structured record is capable of delivering at the
:08:37. > :08:41.right time in the right place and at the same cost.
:08:42. > :08:43.Simon Jones is at County Hall in Maidstone.
:08:44. > :08:47.Why is there such a big rise in the number of school places that
:08:48. > :09:07.Bred the council says over the past few years it is created a new 10,000
:09:08. > :09:11.places, but if it's going to create another 23000 by 2022, new schools
:09:12. > :09:16.will be needed, because there has been a big baby boom in the area and
:09:17. > :09:20.on top of this, London councils are increasingly sending families down
:09:21. > :09:23.to live here. That has been an influx of families from eastern
:09:24. > :09:27.Europe and there is a huge house-building programme in the
:09:28. > :09:31.coming years. The council says if new schools are not built Benny
:09:32. > :09:36.Mayotte educate children in mobile classrooms. We're the Department for
:09:37. > :09:39.Education for a comic, but they did not provide one. -- we as the
:09:40. > :09:43.Department audit aged. In tonight's football,
:09:44. > :09:45.Brighton have returned to the top of the Championship
:09:46. > :09:47.with a 1-0 victory over The Seagulls are now two points
:09:48. > :09:52.clear of Newcastle having played In a moment, the national
:09:53. > :09:59.weather forecast, but first, let's get
:10:00. > :10:02.the picture in the South East,