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In the south-east: for the news where you are. | :00:07. | :00:07. | |
Kent Police spends more than any force outside London on informants. | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
As budgets shrink, critics ask if it's value for money. | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
The family of a Sussex kayaker missing off the Scottish coast say | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
And with high pressure building to the east, | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
it's going to stay cold and cloudy for the next couple of days. | :00:26. | :00:39. | |
Kent Police paid more to informants over the last five years | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
than any force in England other than the Metropolitan Police. | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
Police chiefs have defended spending more than a million pounds in that | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
Critics say it's questionable at a time of budget cuts. | :00:52. | :00:59. | |
Sussex force paid out half a million pounds in the same period. | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
Here's our special correspondent Colin Campbell. | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
The Dome diamond heist, an audacious attempt by criminals, | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
some from Kent, to steal gems worth millions - foiled by police thanks | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
Detectives who have used informants, grasses or snitches | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
as they are commonly known, believe they are a vital tool. | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
You certainly see examples of the use of informants | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
dramatically where you get armed police swooping on robberies, bank | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
robberies, security van robberies, jewellery robberies, | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
but they're very valuable in terms of gathering | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
You might get a situation where you've got tensions | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
Police can deploy resources to prevent violence. | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
Although police budgets have been cut by 18% in real terms, | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
expenditure on informants has, it seems, remained pretty constant. | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
The figures we've obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
that police forces across the UK paid more than ?22 million to | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
The biggest spender was the Met Police, who paid | :02:04. | :02:12. | |
Third on the list, after the Police Service | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
of Northern Ireland, is Kent Police, who handed over more | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
But some believe police are too reliant on informants. | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
Dave Fraser lives in Kent, a former criminal and son of south | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
He says he was acquitted following tarnished evidence | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
I've always thought it was a waste of money, anyway. | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
You dangle money in front of people, they won't tell the truth, | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
especially if there is a lump of money involved. | :02:39. | :02:40. | |
They'll tell lies along the way and, bear in mind, | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
They might deny that but they get more money. | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
I hate to think where that money goes. | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
Many informants are themselves criminals. | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
Kent Police described their use as an effective and legitimate | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
tactic, helping to prevent and detect crime of | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
So, as you may have heard, the Prime Minister got | :02:58. | :03:13. | |
the approval of most MPs tonight to start the formal process | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
for Britain to leave the European Union. | :03:17. | :03:18. | |
But the power to trigger Article 50 is just the beginning | :03:19. | :03:20. | |
of the undertaking and the decision to leave is still hotly debated | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
Across the south-east, 55% voted Leave and 45% | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
Our two strongest votes locally were in Brighton and Gravesham. | :03:27. | :03:35. | |
68.6% of people in Brighton and Hove voted to remain. | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
In Gravesham, 65.4% voted to leave. | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
Our reporter Peter Whittlesea is here, you've been watching how | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
the South East MPs voted - any surprises tonight? | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
There were only three areas in the south east that voted to remain. | :03:53. | :04:00. | |
Tunbridge Wells, livers, Brighton. If anybody would vote against this, | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
it is MPs and that every. No surprise that Carolyn because of the | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
Greens voted against it and said that the Labour Party were in | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
Hove. He is a well-known Labour Hove. He is a well-known Labour | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
rebel and is one of the 52 who went against his party line. Conservative | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
MPs have very much fallen in line. There were quite a lot of Remainers | :04:29. | :04:40. | |
that before the referendum and back then the Government was programming | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
and now it is Pro-leave it is not surprising that the Conservatives | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
have fallen in mind. One last thing is that an MP didn't vote because he | :04:51. | :05:01. | |
has a crucial role in scrutinising the bill and he wants to remain | :05:02. | :05:02. | |
independent. Thank you. Fresh talks on the long-running | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
dispute over the role of conductors on Southern Railway will be | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
held next week. The RMT union announced | :05:09. | :05:10. | |
that the meeting will take place It comes after an agreement | :05:11. | :05:12. | |
was reached between the company and the drivers' union Aslef, | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
which has gone out to Hope is fading for a Sussex man | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
who went missing whilst kayaking off the Scottish coast three days ago | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
according to police. 35-year-old Dominic Jackson, | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
who moved to Scotland from Uckfield, disappeared during a sea kayaking | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
trip on Sunday. His family are hoping | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
he'll be found alive. Here's our news correspondent | :05:37. | :05:37. | |
Bryony MacKenzie. Dangerous waters and adverse | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
weather conditions. Police say the search | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
for Dominic Jackson has become more The 35-year-old set out | :05:52. | :05:53. | |
from the harbour Portsoy harbour in Scotland on Saturday morning, | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
but did not return. On Monday, search and rescue teams, | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
along with 30 volunteers, began scouring the coast and water | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
looking for him. We've also got lifeboats | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
from Buckie, Macduff and Fraserburgh who are searching the coastline | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
as well as aircraft A kayak believed to belong | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
to Mr Jackson has since been recovered off the Caithness coast | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
along with a paddle Tonight, police have released images | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
of this yellow jacket and buoyancy Despite there being no other sign | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
of him, his family say they are still hopeful | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
he will be found alive. There are so many inlets, | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
coves and different places where Dominic could have come ashore | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
and been stuck by sheer cliffs or come ashore with his kayak | :06:44. | :06:45. | |
and climbed a rock to take a photo, There's no reason for us to think | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
he has gone offshore, so we're hoping that as the boat has | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
capsized, he has managed to swim to shore and is waiting | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
on the rocks to be rescued. Mr Jackson moved from Uckfield | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
to Aberdeenshire 13 years ago. Although a novice to the sport, | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
he was described as being super fit. But as bad weather persists, | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
this could now turn from a rescue Hotels and B across | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
the south-east say they'll be forced to dramatically increase prices | :07:13. | :07:24. | |
and risk losing customers because of The new tax on family-run | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
businesses will see some bills Karen Cheater bought | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
the Langtons Guest House in 2009. But after the valuations agency more | :07:35. | :07:45. | |
than doubled the rateable value of their property, | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
business rates have shot up. The price of our property hasn't | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
gone up 120% in the time we've been here, since 2009, | :07:51. | :07:58. | |
and certainly the rates we're charging for our rooms | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
haven't gone up, you know, more than ?5 to ?10 | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
in the whole of that period because the market | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
is so competitive. Tourism is estimated to be valued | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
at ?3.6 billion in Kent. Eastbourne tourism alone contributes | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
388 million to the economy. The Government says that | :08:14. | :08:24. | |
across the UK, three quarters of businesses will see either no | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
change or a fall in their bills - but small business leaders say | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
the system is broken. I think this is a completely | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
outdated tax and it's clear from these kinds of anomalies that | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
we're seeing, where some businesses in places in Kent and Sussex | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
are being completely clobbered while others are maybe not | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
seeing their bills go up all that much at all and in some areas people | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
are seeing their bills come down, based on what is really an arbitrary | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
measure on this rateable value of their property rather than how | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
profitable the business is. The Government says it's delivering | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
the biggest ever cut in rates and from April a third of businesses | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
will pay no rates at all. Guesthouses in Eastbourne | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
are therefore bemused why their bills are going up | :09:07. | :09:07. | |
by so much. That's it from me, we'll | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
have the national weather Thank you very much. It has been | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
the forecast for the Thank you very much. It has been | :09:18. | :09:26. | |
much colder judo. The temperature has really struggled. We will have | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
to get used to that. We have a very static weather system. There is a | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
lot of cloud and the temperatures are below average for the time of | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
year. There is a blanket of client of the night tonight. It produces | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
us. Temperatures are getting very us. Temperatures are getting very | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
close to freezing again and it could be quite misty and Mikey first thing | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
tomorrow morning. We will keep a lot of the club through the day. It will | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
be recast into the afternoon. The rain showers will come and go. | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
Nothing settling and nothing significant. Most places will be dry | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
throughout the afternoon. Temperatures about the cost could be | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
4 degrees. In mind, much colder at 2-3. Thursday evening, the club | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
stays with us. Another cold start on Friday morning. -- the cloud stays | :10:27. | :10:36. | |
with us. If anything, even colder. Temperatures are clearly rising from | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
their starting values. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the high | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
pressure is staying firmly of -- across Scandinavia. Very little | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
brightness throughout the weekend. It will be overcast and great with | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
night-time temperatures dipping to around freezing and the wind is | :10:59. | :10:59. | |
picking up. But look at the cloudy and Ben Rich will take you | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
through the bigger picture. Good evening. Over the next few days | :11:03. | :11:13. | |
I suspect it's going to feel like we have been plunged into the deep | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
freeze. Cold weather on the way and not necessarily crisp cold weather, | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
with blue skies. A lot of cloud, there was some sunshine today across | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
parts of west Wales, for instance. That lifted temperatures up to 11. | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
But further east as you can see from the picture, there was a lot of | :11:33. | :11:34. |