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In the south-east: for the news where you are.

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Kent Police spends more than any force outside London on informants.

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As budgets shrink, critics ask if it's value for money.

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The family of a Sussex kayaker missing off the Scottish coast say

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And with high pressure building to the east,

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it's going to stay cold and cloudy for the next couple of days.

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Kent Police paid more to informants over the last five years

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than any force in England other than the Metropolitan Police.

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Police chiefs have defended spending more than a million pounds in that

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Critics say it's questionable at a time of budget cuts.

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Sussex force paid out half a million pounds in the same period.

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Here's our special correspondent Colin Campbell.

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The Dome diamond heist, an audacious attempt by criminals,

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some from Kent, to steal gems worth millions - foiled by police thanks

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Detectives who have used informants, grasses or snitches

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as they are commonly known, believe they are a vital tool.

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You certainly see examples of the use of informants

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dramatically where you get armed police swooping on robberies, bank

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robberies, security van robberies, jewellery robberies,

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but they're very valuable in terms of gathering

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You might get a situation where you've got tensions

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Police can deploy resources to prevent violence.

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Although police budgets have been cut by 18% in real terms,

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expenditure on informants has, it seems, remained pretty constant.

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The figures we've obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show

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that police forces across the UK paid more than ?22 million to

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The biggest spender was the Met Police, who paid

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Third on the list, after the Police Service

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of Northern Ireland, is Kent Police, who handed over more

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But some believe police are too reliant on informants.

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Dave Fraser lives in Kent, a former criminal and son of south

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He says he was acquitted following tarnished evidence

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I've always thought it was a waste of money, anyway.

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You dangle money in front of people, they won't tell the truth,

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especially if there is a lump of money involved.

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They'll tell lies along the way and, bear in mind,

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They might deny that but they get more money.

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I hate to think where that money goes.

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Many informants are themselves criminals.

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Kent Police described their use as an effective and legitimate

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tactic, helping to prevent and detect crime of

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So, as you may have heard, the Prime Minister got

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the approval of most MPs tonight to start the formal process

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for Britain to leave the European Union.

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But the power to trigger Article 50 is just the beginning

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of the undertaking and the decision to leave is still hotly debated

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Across the south-east, 55% voted Leave and 45%

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Our two strongest votes locally were in Brighton and Gravesham.

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68.6% of people in Brighton and Hove voted to remain.

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In Gravesham, 65.4% voted to leave.

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Our reporter Peter Whittlesea is here, you've been watching how

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the South East MPs voted - any surprises tonight?

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There were only three areas in the south east that voted to remain.

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Tunbridge Wells, livers, Brighton. If anybody would vote against this,

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it is MPs and that every. No surprise that Carolyn because of the

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Greens voted against it and said that the Labour Party were in

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Hove. He is a well-known Labour Hove. He is a well-known Labour

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rebel and is one of the 52 who went against his party line. Conservative

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MPs have very much fallen in line. There were quite a lot of Remainers

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that before the referendum and back then the Government was programming

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and now it is Pro-leave it is not surprising that the Conservatives

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have fallen in mind. One last thing is that an MP didn't vote because he

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has a crucial role in scrutinising the bill and he wants to remain

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independent. Thank you. Fresh talks on the long-running

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dispute over the role of conductors on Southern Railway will be

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held next week. The RMT union announced

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that the meeting will take place It comes after an agreement

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was reached between the company and the drivers' union Aslef,

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which has gone out to Hope is fading for a Sussex man

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who went missing whilst kayaking off the Scottish coast three days ago

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according to police. 35-year-old Dominic Jackson,

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who moved to Scotland from Uckfield, disappeared during a sea kayaking

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trip on Sunday. His family are hoping

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he'll be found alive. Here's our news correspondent

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Bryony MacKenzie. Dangerous waters and adverse

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weather conditions. Police say the search

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for Dominic Jackson has become more The 35-year-old set out

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from the harbour Portsoy harbour in Scotland on Saturday morning,

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but did not return. On Monday, search and rescue teams,

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along with 30 volunteers, began scouring the coast and water

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looking for him. We've also got lifeboats

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from Buckie, Macduff and Fraserburgh who are searching the coastline

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as well as aircraft A kayak believed to belong

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to Mr Jackson has since been recovered off the Caithness coast

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along with a paddle Tonight, police have released images

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of this yellow jacket and buoyancy Despite there being no other sign

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of him, his family say they are still hopeful

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he will be found alive. There are so many inlets,

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coves and different places where Dominic could have come ashore

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and been stuck by sheer cliffs or come ashore with his kayak

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and climbed a rock to take a photo, There's no reason for us to think

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he has gone offshore, so we're hoping that as the boat has

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capsized, he has managed to swim to shore and is waiting

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on the rocks to be rescued. Mr Jackson moved from Uckfield

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to Aberdeenshire 13 years ago. Although a novice to the sport,

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he was described as being super fit. But as bad weather persists,

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this could now turn from a rescue Hotels and B across

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the south-east say they'll be forced to dramatically increase prices

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and risk losing customers because of The new tax on family-run

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businesses will see some bills Karen Cheater bought

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the Langtons Guest House in 2009. But after the valuations agency more

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than doubled the rateable value of their property,

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business rates have shot up. The price of our property hasn't

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gone up 120% in the time we've been here, since 2009,

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and certainly the rates we're charging for our rooms

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haven't gone up, you know, more than ?5 to ?10

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in the whole of that period because the market

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is so competitive. Tourism is estimated to be valued

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at ?3.6 billion in Kent. Eastbourne tourism alone contributes

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388 million to the economy. The Government says that

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across the UK, three quarters of businesses will see either no

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change or a fall in their bills - but small business leaders say

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the system is broken. I think this is a completely

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outdated tax and it's clear from these kinds of anomalies that

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we're seeing, where some businesses in places in Kent and Sussex

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are being completely clobbered while others are maybe not

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seeing their bills go up all that much at all and in some areas people

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are seeing their bills come down, based on what is really an arbitrary

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measure on this rateable value of their property rather than how

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profitable the business is. The Government says it's delivering

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the biggest ever cut in rates and from April a third of businesses

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will pay no rates at all. Guesthouses in Eastbourne

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are therefore bemused why their bills are going up

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by so much. That's it from me, we'll

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have the national weather Thank you very much. It has been

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the forecast for the Thank you very much. It has been

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much colder judo. The temperature has really struggled. We will have

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to get used to that. We have a very static weather system. There is a

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lot of cloud and the temperatures are below average for the time of

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year. There is a blanket of client of the night tonight. It produces

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us. Temperatures are getting very us. Temperatures are getting very

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close to freezing again and it could be quite misty and Mikey first thing

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tomorrow morning. We will keep a lot of the club through the day. It will

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be recast into the afternoon. The rain showers will come and go.

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Nothing settling and nothing significant. Most places will be dry

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throughout the afternoon. Temperatures about the cost could be

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4 degrees. In mind, much colder at 2-3. Thursday evening, the club

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stays with us. Another cold start on Friday morning. -- the cloud stays

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with us. If anything, even colder. Temperatures are clearly rising from

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their starting values. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the high

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pressure is staying firmly of -- across Scandinavia. Very little

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brightness throughout the weekend. It will be overcast and great with

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night-time temperatures dipping to around freezing and the wind is

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picking up. But look at the cloudy and Ben Rich will take you

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through the bigger picture. Good evening. Over the next few days

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I suspect it's going to feel like we have been plunged into the deep

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freeze. Cold weather on the way and not necessarily crisp cold weather,

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with blue skies. A lot of cloud, there was some sunshine today across

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parts of west Wales, for instance. That lifted temperatures up to 11.

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But further east as you can see from the picture, there was a lot of

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