20/02/2017 South East Today

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Golf's top tournament is returning to Kent -

it could be worth ?100 million to the local economy.

The millions given to agencies

as mental health services hire extra staff.

And it was the warmest days of winter so far, with highs of 18. The

risk of wintry showers by Friday. Golf's most prestigious tournament -

the Open Championship - will be returning to Kent in 2020,

and businesses leaders predict it will have a huge impact

on the local economy. One of the world's biggest

sporting events, when it last came to Sandwich it

drew crowds of 180,000. It's projected that the 2020

tournament will generate ?100 million, and with a potential

global audience of more than 500 million households,

it's a huge showcase for Kent. This is what it is all about.

Crowds, the cameras and the greatest names in the game of golf. Royal St

George 's regarded among the very best courses in the land has once

again attracted golf 's oldest championship to the Kent coast. This

fan or a tourist provider in San at fan or a tourist provider in San at

or around the county, because this is an opportunity for people to use

a sport as a means of bringing more money into the economy. The Open has

history here. It has been 14 times already. First in 1894 and most

recently in 2011. But it is an honour not taken lightly. It will be

a great challenge. It is a big project over the next one half

years, July 20 20. This place, the course will be ready. We have got a

fantastic natural resources Brilliant course but it will need

work and then we can host they are near and the infrastructure gets

bigger every year. Crowds get bigger every year and we hope will continue

to do so. But any town of summit itself, there are memories they

experienced the cars and crowds but not the money. I think a lot of the

shops actually did not benefit from the golf because people had to sort

of walk into sandwich, which is quite a long way from Saint Georges.

six, seven hours a day travelling to six, seven hours a day travelling to

get to watch a few words of golf, so there was conjecture about that. But

as a golfer, it is great! That is why behind the scenes I have been

intense negotiations over travel arrangements and local

infrastructure before the go-ahead was given.

because this really will be a global event, won't it?

It certainly is. Think Wimbledon, the World Cup, Formula one, you are

talking a global television audience of potentially hundreds of millions

of people. All eyes focused on those 650 acres of hallowed links turf at

Saint Georges. It is a lot of pressure on organisers to get

everything just right for players and visitors but pressure to make

sure that Thanet and Kent benefit as well. Last time, tourism so to 3%,

an extra ?77 million for the local economy. This time they are aiming

to break 100 million. ?4 in every ?10 spent

by the NHS in Sussex hiring mental health nurses

from agencies goes directly

to recruitment companies, The Sussex Partnership NHS Trust

will spend more than ?6 million Almost 2.5 million

of that is spent in agency fees. It's admitted it has an urgent need

to recruit and train more staff. Our Health Correspondent

Mark Norman reports. This trust has spent ?6 million this

financial year on agency nurses, and a huge proportion of that money

went straight to the agency. ?6 million, it is

a big sum, isn't it? And you worked out how much

of that is for agency fees? What could you be

doing with that money? Recruit more nurses,

improve patient care. Is it frustrating to know that much

money is just going on fees? I believe that money would be better

spent on patient care, It is a relationship many think

is critical to making people well again

as quickly as possible. we cannot do the therapeutic things

that we want to do with patients. Get them out, get them

back into the community. It also leaves the patients

feeling unsafe. You know, they think,

"Oh, what can I do today They are flexible, can cover

vacancies and sickness at short The answer to the problem -

to recruit more staff. And once you have got them,

make sure you keep them. The pictures are for the trust's

national recruitment campaign But with London so close,

with its higher wages, So, there will be

fast-track promotion But this is a much more structured,

co-ordinated approach And unfortunately, with every

hospital and mental health trust it is a problem that

will not be solved quickly. The train drivers' union Aslef

is set to hold fresh talks with Southern Rail tomorrow,

in an attempt to resolve the ongoing It follows last week's ballot

of drivers, which turned down a deal struck between union

bosses and Southern. Well, our reporter Chrissie Reidy

is at Three Bridges station now. Chrissie, the two parties have

already spent a long time talking - Well, last time of the 11 days of

talks very much involved the TUC, whereas this time there are just two

parties involved, Adelaide and Southern. They will meet at a secret

location tomorrow to see whether between the two of them they can

make some sort of progress. And Chrissie, there's been anger

from the RMT over a letter

sent to its members? There has. The letter that was sent

from Sovereign to RMT members has angered the RMT because it talks

about should members decide they choose to go on strike again, they

could be a breach of contract, that additional sanctions could apply and

that staff should think very carefully before going on strike.

That relates to planned strikes on Wednesday set to start at midnight.

And you can keep up to date with the latest travel

information on your local BBC Radio Station from 6am.

The Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee says she's 'shocked'

at the conditions unaccompanied children are living in

at the Dunkirk migrant camp in northern France.

Charities say hundreds of young people have returned

and are risking their lives trying to get on lorries bound for Kent.

On Wednesday, the committee has an emergency session

Our reporter Simon Jones accompanied Yvette Cooper

Yvette Cooper said she wanted to see the situation for herself.

Some young people who had been moved to centres across France

when The Jungle was shut have now returned after they

say their requests to be transferred to the UK were turned down.

This camp in Dunkirk is home to around

Officially, there should be no unaccompanied children here,

but the charities say since the start of the year

they have alerted the authorities

to 97 who are calling this home.

How can you have small kids living in conditions like this?

You know, you see that little girl up here

and you think these kids are at such risk.

Since The Jungle was closed, going up in flames,

750 children have been brought to the UK.

Next month, the government is ending the so-called Dubs scheme

which allowed some of the most vulnerable children with no family

It says it was encouraging them to make

perilous journeys, leaving them vulnerable to traffickers.

Instead, it will resettle 20,000 refugees,

including children, from camps bordering Syria.

that we have really been on the front line of this.

We have no families available to take in

Without having Britain and France working together on

proper, managed systems to help these lone child refugees,

instead what happens is they end up

And it is the traffickers actually that are driving them

Yvette Cooper will deliver her verdict to fellow MPs at an

emergency session of the Home Affairs Commissioner on Wednesday.

Simon Jones, BBC South East Today, Dunkirk.

Now let's take a look at the weather in the South East

for the next few days with Rachel Mackley.

Positively springlike! We saw temperatures comfortably around 17

or 18 degrees. Very mild, warmest day so far this winter. We stay mild

for the next couple of days. Rain at times and it is turning really

chilly Thursday and into Friday, with the risk of one or two wintry

showers by Friday. Overnight tonight, we stay very mild.

Overnight temperatures of around ten or 11 degrees, higher than the

values we would normally expect during the afternoon at this time of

year. Mild and initially wet. We have got this becoming weather

front. Try by the afternoon, is not much brighter. Temperatures

tomorrow, still miles for a time of year but of course down on the

values we have had today. 12 or 13 degrees are high for tomorrow.

Westerly wind staying with us and from Tuesday into Wednesday it is a

amalgamate. Some drizzle at times a day good deal of cloud. Overnight

lows of around nine or 10 degrees. Initially dry for Wednesday but

there will be outbreaks offering. Once again by the afternoon

temperatures should comfortably be at around ten or 11 degrees. The

shift that we are expecting to see is really as we go from Wednesday

over into Thursday. There is a steep area of low pressure, it is bringing

heavy rain and the winds will be back to a north-westerly direction.

We started to feel cold as we head to the deeper Thursday and over into

Friday there is the risk of one or two wintry showers. Here is the

outlook for us in the south east. little milder, but it will be a wet

start and it will brighten up later. As you have just seen, after a day

in which some of you have been shedding the layers, you will be

putting them back on for the rest of this week. Big changes ahead, all

down to where the air has been coming from. Today, it originated in

the Caribbean, hence the name tropical maritime air. Temperatures

peaked at 18 degrees. But later this week, the winds go to the

north-west, a