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Today's main headlines in the South East: | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
A man's body has been found after a severe | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
A man's body has been found after a house fire in Sussex - | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
A huge rise in the number of people smuggling operations distrupted - | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
MPs discuss issues uncovered by this programme. | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
It feels like winter. If you are hoping for a bit of snow, there is | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
some in the forecast. I will tell you where and when, at the end of | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
the programme. The body of a man has been | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
found inside a house Fire crews were called | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
to the property in West Hill Road in St Leonards just | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
after 5.30pm this afternoon. The cause of the fire is currently | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
being treated as unexplained. Our reporter Jon Hunt | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
is live at the scene. Jon, what more do we know | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
about the incident? Six fire engines were sent to the | :00:59. | :01:13. | |
scene along with the police and paramedics and specialist medics | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
from the heart team. They are sent to deal with hazardous incidents. | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
Fire crews wearing breathing apparatus were here for around five | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
hours. But sadly they discovered the body of a man inside the property. | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
The property has been significantly damaged by fire and smoke. A lot of | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
damage around the entrance hall. There appears to be smoke damage and | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
broken windows on the first floor as well. Smoke did spread to a | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
neighbouring property and residents in that property had to be evacuated | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
as well. Is there any more information about the cause? The | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
police say at the moment it is treated as an unexplained fire. The | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
scene has been secured. I foresee a significant investigation, probably | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
in the morning, with forensic teams working closely with the fire teams. | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
Aside from the man who died, police said there had been no other | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
injuries. The coroner has been informed. Officers are asking for | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
anything or have any information anything or have any information | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
about what could have caused this fire. Thank you. | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
A body has been found by rescuers searching for a Sussex kayaker | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
Dominic Jackson, originally from Uckfield, was reported | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
He'd failed to return from a sea kayaking trip off | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
A kayak believed to belong to him was recovered earlier this week. | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
A pedestrian's died after being hit by a car on the A27 | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
The driver of the car, a 58-year-old man from Climping, | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
has been arrested on suspicion of causing death | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
Despite treatment by paramedics, the 59 year-old victim | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
The bosses of a care home in Herne Bay have pleaded guilty | :03:04. | :03:13. | |
to health and safety failings that led to the death | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
Joan Daws suffered fatal crush injuries after a large chair tipped | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
against her in a lift at Laleham Residential Home. | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
The case has been sent to Canterbury Crown | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
BBC South East Today can exclusively reveal that there's been | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
a significant spike in the number of people smuggling operations | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
A 32% jump was revealed at a special meeting | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
It was prompted by our investigation which discovered smugglers in Paris | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
getting people to Kent by putting them on lorries owned | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
Here's our Special Correspondent Colin Campbell. | :03:51. | :03:58. | |
It was an investigation revealing how Paris has become a hub for | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
TRANSLATION: They will fit you in a way that even the | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
We exposed a gang offering us guaranteed passage | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
to England in the back of trucks, transporting produce for the | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
Our findings prompted two Kent MPs to | :04:15. | :04:23. | |
demand a private meeting with Government ministers. | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
What the BBC did was absolutely fantastic. | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
That was the sort of evidence I think Border Force need. | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
They can't be everywhere at all times. | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
Top marks to the BBC for what they did. | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
It's been acted upon and let's hope that that is another | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
route into the country, big smuggling operations, | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
worth ?5,000 per person, you know, this big money, | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
The latest figures we have gained show an increase | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
in the targeting of smuggling gangs by the authorities. | :04:53. | :04:54. | |
In 2015, 140 smuggling operations were disrupted. | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
Last year, that figure went up to 185. | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
We understand the Home Office expects the figure for this | :05:00. | :05:09. | |
While some consider it positive news, others | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
believe our fight against smuggling gangs is being hindered. | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
We would argue they are not succeeding in combating | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
We're having some success, but the sad reality is we are seeing | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
increased attempts of getting across the borders. | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
As we showed last autumn, the demolition of | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
Calais' migrants camp has resulted in gangs targeting UK-bound vehicles | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
The Home Office say they are working closely with | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
their French counterparts to break up the smuggling operations. | :05:43. | :05:50. | |
Our reporter Peter Whittlesea has been following the story for us. | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
This programme's investigation prompted the MPs to meet, | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
do they feel enough is being done to tackle the problem? | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
They said that from the meeting, the gang we exposed in that report were | :06:05. | :06:12. | |
actually being looked into by the French authorities. And on this side | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
of the Channel, the British authorities are trying to see what | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
they are doing here. British and French governments have said for a | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
long time, the only way to crack down on people smugglers is joint | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
cooperation. The Home Office says it is actually happening, hence the | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
increase in detection rates. But the union that represents border force | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
workers said that good work could be put in jeopardy because they are | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
facing 15% cuts. MPs are concerned migrant camps are reforming and | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
people smugglers are returning. You have been to Calais recently, is | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
that the situation on the ground? Last week I was in Calais and | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
charity workers said there are up to 500 migrants who have returned to | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
the Calais area. The official camp at Dunkirk has increased to 1500 | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
migrants. I spoke to migrants who said there are people smugglers back | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
in the area touting for business. This is the concern of MPs like | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
Craig McKinley, his say more camps could crop up and more people | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
smugglers could be going back to France. | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
Four years ago Alfie Peak was attacked in Bexhill | :07:25. | :07:26. | |
after an argument over a bag of chips. | :07:27. | :07:28. | |
Last October the four men who continued to beat him even | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
when he was unconscious were jailed for a total of 55 years. | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
Despite suffering life changing injuries, Alfie and his partner | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
Bringing joy to a family after so much sadness and tragedy. | :07:37. | :07:48. | |
He has really giving us something to look forward to. | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
And a future, really, which is something we kind | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
Our future had gone, it has been taken. | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
That is exactly how Alfie described it to me before, | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
that he felt his life was over, really. | :08:04. | :08:05. | |
Alfie Peak suffered a catastrophic brain injury after being set | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
upon outside a takeaway in Bexhill in 2013. | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
Four men were jailed for the attack in October which left Alfie | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
Alfie was unconscious on the floor, and he was continued to be beaten | :08:16. | :08:24. | |
Tanya White has stood by Alfie throughout his long rehabilitation. | :08:25. | :08:33. | |
He's trying to learn to walk again, the signals from his brain | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
It has put pressure on the couple, and Tanya admits that there have | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
been times where she has wondered if she could stick with it. | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
Everything is really difficult for him. | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
That has spills out onto all of his family and friends. | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
Emotionally, really draining and really difficult. | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
I know you feel that because you can't do all those other | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
things that it makes you not a very good dad. | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
But one day you will realise that you are an amazing dad. | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
The couple say the attackers took everything from them. | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
But their bubbly new baby boy is making life worth living again. | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
That's it from me, we'll have the national weather | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
in a moment, first here's the forecast for the South East | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
You are quite excited by the talk of snow. I started the programme | :09:33. | :09:44. | |
talking about the risk of snow tomorrow. Overnight into Saturday is | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
when you are likely to see the risk. We have showers filtering in just | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
from the cloud we have had today. The temperatures in our town is | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
holding up slightly above freezing, but below freezing elsewhere. Watch | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
out for ice tomorrow morning. There might be a dusting on the ground at | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
high levels. But it is tomorrow evening when we start to see a risk | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
of showers coming through. Temperatures struggling tomorrow, | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
two or three degrees. As we go through tomorrow night, a feature | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
running in from the North Sea to our part of the world and that is | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
introducing some showers as it comes in overnight. We are talking about | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
the risk of snow. Let's have a look at how we start Saturday morning. We | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
could have, over higher ground, maybe a centimetre or two. They are | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
hit and miss. As we go through Saturday afternoon, temperatures | :10:41. | :10:42. | |
struggling again but coming up a little bit. Won't feel any great | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
shakes, because what is happening through the second half of the | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
weekend, the wind will pick up and it will feel raw. N'Gales along the | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
coast on Sunday. Any Outlook, temperatures coming up a little bit, | :10:58. | :10:59. | |
but it will feel very cold sleet and snow. The outlook, Sunday | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
will turn a bit less cold again. All the way up seven Celsius. | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
At this time of year we can often get the weather stories that reflect | :11:10. | :11:15. |