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In tonight's South East Today: We'll have more reaction from passengers | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
here to the news that the Southern rail strike just became | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
We'll report live from Crowborough Station tonight. | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
The mother killed by cervical cancer, the age for a test is over | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
25, she wasn't offered one because she was 24. | :00:23. | :00:30. | |
After a full day started was a bright afternoon, the fog is back | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
tomorrow. It's been a day of high drama | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
and bitter disappointment for rail passengers, | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
as it became clear that the Southern Rail dispute appears | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
further than ever tonight Just before half past one this | :00:46. | :00:46. | |
afternoon, it was announced that members of the drivers union, | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
Aslef, had astonished their leadership by rejecting a deal | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
that many thought would bring It means that strikes by the RMT | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
union, which have been going on since last April, | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
are now likely to continue. Aslef, the second union involved, | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
joined the industrial action in December, bringing many services | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
to a standstill altogether. Two weeks ago, many passengers hoped | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
Aslef would bow out, after their leadership | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
announced their deal, but today, their membership | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
narrowly rejected that deal. Nafisa Sayani has been | :01:20. | :01:20. | |
following today's developments. After ten months of dispute, 28 days | :01:21. | :01:38. | |
of strikes, 13 days of talks and 14 days of hope that it might be near | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
an end tonight the deadlock is more stark than ever. The reaction from | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
commuters in Brighton. It has been like this for almost one year, | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
really bad strikes in industrial action and it is unbelievable how | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
there is still in dispute and no resolution. And disappointed because | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
I pay a lot of money to travel to brighten every day and I think the | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
service yet it is ridiculous I have to say. I think it is, what is the | :02:08. | :02:15. | |
point of going on strike unless you hold out for a what your true | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
beliefs are and principles? The result was a stunning blow for the | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
leaders of Aslef, whose members nearly always accept the | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
recommendations. But this time although it was close. Version 4.1 | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
membership -- 54.1% of the membership through the deal out. | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
Just over 700 members voted, nearly three quarters of the membership. It | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
was a vote of loyalty, for the drivers union to the conductor 's | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
union. Aslef the train drivers obviously share the concerns of our | :02:51. | :02:58. | |
members, the deal on offer did not guarantee a second safety critical | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
person or every trading and it was not acceptable. Neither Southern nor | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
Aslef's leaders were getting interviews, local MPs wear. Unions | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
must understand the full impact they are having on the people they serve, | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
the people I represent. Industrial action is not the way to settle the | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
point at issue. What is at stake is passenger safety and I am persuaded | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
that when you have long 12 carriage trains and have them increasingly | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
going through stations that are not staffed though if there is a | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
accident god forbid that having a second safety critical person on the | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
train helps save lives and that is the bottom line. In a statement | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
Southern Rail said they were hugely disappointed by the news. Conductors | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
have been given hearts, passengers remain caught in the middle. | :03:53. | :03:53. | |
Well this is shaping up to be one of the most damaging industrial | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
It's been estimated that existing problems with Southern Rail, | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
along with the industrial action, has cost the UK economy. | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
That amounts to ?11 million per day of strike action. | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
With estimates that more than three hundred thousand South East | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
commuters have been affected by the on going problems. | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
This was the reaction of one group today that represents passengers. | :04:15. | :04:25. | |
Passengers have the with terrible performance, inconvenience to their | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
lives for months. This look like a resolution had been found buried now | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
look local a quote the year so it is extremely important that all parties | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
get back on the table and ensure that a quick resolution is found. | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
Let's go to Crowborough now for some final thoughts on this | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
from the railway station there, Brihony, angry passengers, | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
angry drivers and conductors, where do we go from here? | :04:48. | :04:58. | |
All interested parties have been issuing statements and once you | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
start reading them you realise that they don't add very much at all, | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
southern see the watch to meet Aslef at get back around the table and | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
agree a way forward and also that they want to understand the issues | :05:12. | :05:19. | |
that led to the outcome. The RMT said that it wants to get back | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
around the table but it's strike is still going ahead next Wednesday. | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
The government which usually stays quite quiet during this ongoing | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
debate says it wants the unions to work with the members an idyllic and | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
back. It seems to be the same phrases and arguments and | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
incomprehension from both sides, and the passengers at the station and | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
many more that have affected it is the same sense of despair. | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
Well you've been reacting to this story on email | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
Alan has been in touch and said the commuters especially in the region | :05:50. | :06:03. | |
should sue the unions to cover the losses, job losses and the damaged | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
home life. Brian says I support the drivers, it | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
does not matter what the second person is called the cutting staff | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
overtime. And the final from France's says how | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
can Chris Grayling the Secretary of State for Transport remain in post | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
when he does nothing. There will be more reaction on BBC | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
Sussex and Surrey radio. A lorry driver has admitted causing | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
the death of a pensioner Barbara Phipps, who was | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
seventy-three, died after being knocked off her bicycle | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
on the A2 London Road William Magee, who's | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
from Chelmsford, has pleaded guilty to causing death | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
by careless driving. He's due to be | :06:45. | :06:45. | |
sentenced next month. This programme has learned that | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
a board level meeting was held two weeks ago | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
at the South East Coast Ambulance Service, | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
at which an action plan to tackle harassment and bullying | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
at the troubled Ambulance The revelation comes | :07:00. | :07:00. | |
after allegations were made of bullying against call centre | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
staff at the South East Coast Ambulance Trust's centre | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
in Coxheath, near Maidstone. The family of a kayaker found dead | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
after going missing at sea say they will be "forever | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
grateful" to the people Dominic Jackson, who | :07:14. | :07:15. | |
grew up in Uckfield, disappeared two weeks ago off | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
the Scottish coast. His family have set up a charity | :07:21. | :07:21. | |
in his name to promote sea safety. They're raising awareness | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
about Personal Locator Beacons, which they believe could have saved | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
Dominic's life. The family of a young mother of four | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
from Gravesend who died of cervical cancer - | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
is calling for the screening Sadie Blackston, who was from | :07:36. | :07:37. | |
Gravesend, had been to her GP several times complaining of pain | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
and bleeding, but her family says she was never offered a smear test, | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
because they are only routinely offered after the age of 25, | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
and she was twenty four. She was only diagnosed | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
after she collapsed. Her family spoke to our | :07:54. | :07:55. | |
reporter, Simon Jones. Just a year after being diagnosed | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
with cancer, Sadie Blackston It has really heartbroken me, | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
I was there for it all I can't even tell you the pain, | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
every day I wake up through the days and when I go to sleep, | :08:09. | :08:22. | |
just, she has taken a massive Currently, women aged | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
between 25 and 64 are offered regular cervical screening, | :08:26. | :08:39. | |
the cancer affects more than 3000 women per year, | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
among them 65 people under 25. Sadie's family believed that had | :08:44. | :08:45. | |
she been offered the test at a younger age the cancer | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
could have been prevented. I think it should be offered, | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
because of the age she was at, it is not just her losing her life | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
it is also her four children because they have no mum now | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
So the age should be lowered from 25 But the UK national screening | :09:02. | :09:12. | |
committee has concluded testing under the age of 25 can do more harm | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
than good, it can cause too many false positive results leading | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
to unnecessary treatment. As a charity we are guided by Best | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
practice, we are guided by research and evidence as the current evidence | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
shows that in countries where screening is offered | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
at younger ages there is not much difference in terms of outcomes | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
of patients saw in the UK we are guided by the evidence | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
and the evidence says that screening But Sadie's family say that | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
in her memory the fight goes on. That's it from your news team here. | :09:42. | :10:03. | |
We had the national weather forecast in the moment but he lives Rachel. | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
It is a mistake for the start of the day and by the afternoon almost | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
clear blue skies. Overnight tonight we have a weakening weather front so | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
it would be wall-to-wall rain but certainly patchy drizzle around for | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
a time. Where we see clear skies with lighter winds there will be | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
some mist and fog, again very mild. Look at the overnight temperatures | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
of seven or 8 degrees. Normally we expect these kind of packages during | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
the afternoon, very mild nurseries that the day tomorrow and a | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
nationally -- initially it will be down. The high pressure will build | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
and be dry with probably a bit more cloud cover around and we had today. | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
By the afternoon temperatures Whiteley will be in double figures, | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
reaching heights of around 11 or 12 degrees, again with light south | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
westerly breezes. Friday entered Saturday stays dry and again very | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
mild, overnight temperatures of five or 6 degrees. Use | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
forthcoming weekend. Here is Nick Miller with a resume of the National | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
weather picture. Hello, rain for some of us today | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
although it won't make much of a dent in the dry winter so far across | :11:13. | :11:14. | |
much of the | :11:15. | :11:15. |