24/01/2017 South East Today

Today's main headlines in the South East: Families

of the Shoreham aircrash disaster say a new report into airshow

safety has left them still waiting for answers.

She visited Deal for the New Year's Eve celebrations,

now the hunt is on for the man who left this Kent

It is horrible. So much pain for days afterward. And another bitterly

cold night. With warnings of dense fog for tomorrow's rush-hour.

Families of the Shoreham air disaster victims say

they are still waiting for answers, even though all 21 recommendations

of a major new report have been accepted by the

11 men died when a vintage jet crashed on the A27

Today's report from the Air Accident Investigation Branch is designed

to make sure a similar catastrophe can't happen at an

But the families say they're no closer to knowing where blame

Nearly a year and a half on from the catastrophic crash that

claimed 11 lives at the Shoreham Airshow, today

confirmation that the regulations surrounding future airshows will be

The Civil Aviation Authority agreeing to all 21 safety

recommendations put forward by the Air Accident Investigation Branch.

These are perhaps things that should have happened some time ago and I

think are common sense so that we can go forward, that we can still

have a airshows in the future which really are as safe as possible, not

just for the people up in the air but for the people on the ground

The recommendations include that the CAA

will conduct a review as to

whether there should be a minimum differences between display aircraft

That risk assessments for displays must

include the manoeuvre to be performed by display pilots and that

the CAA are not satisfied with the risk assessment, they may refuse

permission for the event to go ahead.

But the announcement is little comfort for those who await

answers for the fundamental questions of what went wrong and who

Why have we waited 17 months and we still have no answers?

How difficult has it been not having those answers and having to wait?

It is hard enough for us,

They played for my football club, they became friends.

I cannot imagine how it is for the families.

It is just ridiculous that it has taken

The crash happened back in August 2015, prompting a series of

A police investigation into the pilot's

actions, an inquest into the death of the 11 men killed and an air

accident investigation enquiry into how it happened.

To date, none of these have concluded.

What everybody wants to know now is how did this happen and

the final judgment will be in the final report.

And it will then be for the CAA, the coroner and indeed

all the legal departments in the country to the NSS what action needs

For the families of the 11 men are commemorated here, the long wait for

the truth goes on. Well, our reporter

joins us in the studio. Juliette, what else have

the families had to say today? We spoke earlier to the solicitor

representing the families involved here and he told us that their focus

was on a weighting that final report by the air accident's investigation

Branch and on the pre-inquest review to take place in March. As for the

future of the Shoreham Airshow is self, a spokesperson said earlier

appropriate to do so, they will appropriate to do so, they will

explore the possibility of a 2017 airshow. But in the meantime, they

say they are fully operating with the ongoing investigation. Baggie.

A derailed freight train has been causing major delays for commuters

today AND train operator Southeastern is now warning

passengers that the disruption will continue tomorrow.

All trains from Tunbridge Wells and Sevenoaks to London Charing Cross

and Cannon Street were cancelled completely after a train carrying

sand derailed near Lewisham station at around 6am this morning.

Plans by East Sussex County Council to cut funding to the Duke

of Edinburgh's award scheme have been shelved.

A petition was handed in to the council today

as the cabinet was meeting to discuss the council Budget,

where it was decided not to go ahead with axing the scheme.

A woman left blinded in one eye after getting caught up in a fight

on new years eve says she's been left angry, and unable to move

on with her life until those who caused her injury are caught.

Cora Mitchard was at a fireworks display in Deal when a fight broke

out near her, and she was hit in the face with a beer can.

Doctors say she has lost 85% of vision in her eye.

She remembers New Year's Eve for the wrong reason.

Celebrating outside a pub, someone threw a beer

The impact fractured her eye socket and blinded

It's awful, not being able to see anything but hearing

everything going on, it's so different.

So much pain for days after that, all the bruising came up

The 24-year-old came to this pub on New Year's Eve to enjoy

Her boyfriend went inside to buy some drinks.

Cora was here just three minutes before the

We were told there was a possibility she

might lose the eye, so we were pleased

when she was told she was

not going to lose the eye, even if there is no sight there,

After the incident, police interviewed a number

Detectives say they want anyone who is there to come forward

I make an appeal to the people involved in this to

come forward and allow us to understand what has gone on so we

can resolve this matter and give justice to the victim.

Cora lives on a houseboat on the peninsula.

Since being blinded in one eye, she has

found it difficult to move around the boat.

It is completely blurred at the moment, I have got nothing

Coping really well with it, a lot better than I

Still learning to get around and do everyday activities like normal,

The 24-year-old will have more surgery on her eye

Her vision will never be the same again.

50 new schools will need to be built in Kent over the next

five years to meet a population boom that requires an additional

Kent County Council say some 47 new schools are needed

across the county and the leaders at the council

But there is a warning that the authority may not meet

demand if planned free schools are not opened on time.

The local authority has the statue duty to make provision of those

places, yet a Whitehall department is predominantly responsible for

delivering those new school places so we don't have the control that we

have had in the past and we have delivered

right number of school places in the right

place at the right time, we

question whether the education funding enters the Whitehall

department with a structured record is capable of delivering at the

right time in the right place and at the same cost.

Simon Jones is at County Hall in Maidstone.

Why is there such a big rise in the number of school places that

Bred the council says over the past few years it is created a new 10,000

places, but if it's going to create another 23000 by 2022, new schools

will be needed, because there has been a big baby boom in the area and

on top of this, London councils are increasingly sending families down

to live here. That has been an influx of families from eastern

Europe and there is a huge house-building programme in the

coming years. The council says if new schools are not built Benny

Mayotte educate children in mobile classrooms. We're the Department for

Education for a comic, but they did not provide one. -- we as the

Department audit aged. In tonight's football,

Brighton have returned to the top of the Championship

with a 1-0 victory over The Seagulls are now two points

clear of Newcastle having played In a moment, the national

weather forecast, but first, let's get

the picture in the South East,