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Today's main headlines in the south east - | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
Former Ukip leader Nigel Farage strongly denies allegations his team | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
broke election expenses law during the bitterly fought | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
A transgender murderer from Sussex, segregated for their own protection, | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
was not unlawfully treated by the prison service | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
Storm Doris arrives tomorrow with gale force winds and travel | :00:26. | :00:33. | |
disruption expected. And we'll be live at the Dartford | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
crossing with what's Claims that Ukip flouted electoral | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
law during Nigel Farage's unsuccessful bid to become the MP | :00:43. | :00:54. | |
for South Thanet in 2015 have been strongly denied | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
by the former leader. Left-leaning pressure group | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
Hope Not Hate is calling for Kent Police to investigate | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
its allegations that thousands of pounds spent by Ukip were not | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
declared to the electoral watchdog. Mr Farage has told this | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
programme that he has been Mr Farage has told this programme | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
that he has been "absolutely assured However, South East Today has spoken | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
with a former Ukip campaigner who claims he was paid by the party | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
for working in South Thanet - but that payment was never | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
declared to the authorities. Our Political Editor Helen | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
Catt has this report. The fight for South Thanet | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
in the full glare of the world's press was fierce and frantic | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
and nearly two years later, Now there are claims from a pressure | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
group that Ukip may not have declared thousands of pounds spent | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
on its attempts to get BBC South East has spoken | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
to this man, who doesn't want to be identified, | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
who says he worked for the campaign in the vital six weeks | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
running up to the election. He was paid more than ?1,000 by | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
Ukip, money he says wasn't declared. I just think it is very, | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
very bizarre that I know I was paid that sum of money and it's | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
not registered anywhere. I know I was specifically working | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
in South Thanet so it can't be accounted on the national expense, | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
but even so, it's not registered We checked the South Thanet returns | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
signed off by Mr Farage and the election agents ourselves | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
and were unable to find any entry BBC South East has spoken to three | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
young activists who confirmed they were paid to work in South | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
Thanet. It is unclear where their salaries | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
have been declared. The rules around how much candidates | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
can spend at elections are strict, particularly in those final weeks | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
running up to polling day. Then a Parliamentary candidate can | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
spend a maximum of ?8,700 plus up Here in South Thanet, | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
that give a maximum spend of just over ?15,000. | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
Overspending or knowingly not declaring all costs can lead | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
to criminal sanctions. Nigel Farage told us this afternoon | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
that while he did not complete the returns himself, | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
he had been absolutely assured that Ukip had done them as thoroughly | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
and professionally as it could and that he had no reason | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
to think anything is wrong. What we in this country have | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
tried to do as opposed to the United States where huge | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
money is spent and candidates have to be wealthy, we have tried to make | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
a level playing field so that candidates and parties | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
are not disadvantaged Meanwhile, an investigation | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
by Kent Police into winning candidate Craig Mckinlay's campaign | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
expenses remains open. They are also part of a national | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
probe into Conservative spending Any suggestion that | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
Ukip may have broken the rules is likely to be | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
to the Conservatives' political advantage. | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
In Ramsgate, this latest twist in the turbulent politics of Thanet | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
has done little to inspire voters. Do you think so? | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
Yes. If there is foul play | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
somewhere from either party. I don't think most people will be | :04:01. | :04:08. | |
that worried about it. More likely the political party who | :04:09. | :04:10. | |
have got a point to make, really. I just basically always think | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
they should be much more careful with the way | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
they are spending the money. A spokesman for Ukip told | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
as the party was confident it had complied with | :04:22. | :04:23. | |
all electoral regulations. Helen - Hope not Hate are calling | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
for a police investigation, There is really a mechanism for the | :04:27. | :04:37. | |
police to investigate whether because there is a time limit. The | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
general election was in 2015, it is too late for that. You might be | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
thinking, what about that watchdog, the Electoral Commission? They're | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
remit only extends to looking at national party spending. They | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
couldn't look at candidate level spending like this. Kent Police has | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
an open investigation in South Thanet and the reason that can | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
continue is because the force had opened it last year and got | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
permission from a judge to extend its time limit. The force will have | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
to decide whether it will take any action in the next few months. | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
A transgender prisoner from Sussex has lost a High Court appeal | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
Christopher Hunnisett was jailed for life over | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
the killing of a gay man, Peter Bick, in Bexhill | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
in 2012, whom she wrongly believed was a paedophile. | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
Hunnisett attempted to perform a sex-change operation on herself | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
while in prison and now identifies as a woman. | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
A judge ruled that the prison service had not acted unlawfully | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
in keeping her segregated from other prisoners for her own protection. | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
Our Special Correspondent Colin Campbell reports. | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
Convicted as a man, living in prison as a woman, Hunnisett claimed | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
by being segregated behind bars, her rights as a transgender woman | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
She appeared in court via video link, now with long hair, | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
Pretty appalling details of what has gone on. | :05:58. | :06:07. | |
But a difficult case for the courts and for the prison authorities. | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
In court, gruesome detail was given about how Hunnisett had performed | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
an attempted sex change whilst in a prison cell in Durham. | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
The former altar boy explained how living as a transgender women | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
in prison has resulted in her being segregated, | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
restricting her access to education, work, church | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
Hunnisett was first jailed in 2002 for the murder of Sussex | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
She was sensationally acquitted in 2010 after revealing she had been | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
sexually abused as a teenage boy by Reverend Glazebrook. | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
In 2012, Hunnisett was again jailed, this time for the brutal murder | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
of Bexhill supermarket worker Peter Bick. | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
Hunnisett claimed at the time that she had | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
been on a mission to rid the world of paedophiles. | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
He had obviously been my brother's torturer, judge, jury | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
and executioner all in one hand what a horrid, evil animal he is. | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
Hunnisett took her case to the High Court after refusing | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
to be placed on a wing for vulnerable prisoners | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
where she posed a potential risk to convicted sex offenders. | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
She has not been allowed to remain in the general prison | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
Hunnisett claimed that her human rights had been breached, | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
but the High Court disagreed, ruling that segregation is lawful | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
Air accident investigators say they will publish their final safety | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
report into the Shoreham air disaster next week. | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
11 men died when a vintage Hawker Hunter jet crashed | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
Families of the victims have been calling for | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
the publication of the findings by the Air Accidents | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
Sussex Police are also investigating the role played by pilot Andy Hill, | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
A Sussex factory worker has been charged with making online | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
threats against the MP for Eastbourne on Facebook. | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
It's alleged the threats were made towards Caroline Ansell. | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
50-year-old Mark Sands, who lives in Eastbourne, | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
is accused of sending an "offensive, indecent, obscene | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
The Shadow Health Secretary has called for a public inquiry | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
into the controversy surrounding the awarding of a major ambulance | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
contract to a private company in Sussex last year. | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
Coperforma suffered a series of disastrous headlines | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
after taking over last April, having to apologise when hundreds | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
The NHS is taking over the running of the service. | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
Major travel disruption's expected tomorrow as Storm Doris is forecast | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
to bring gusts of up to 70 miles an hour across the south east. | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
The Dartford Crossing could be closed - our reporter Chrissie Reidy | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
is live there for us now. Chrissie - what more do we know? | :08:55. | :09:04. | |
Gusts of 70 mph expected in some places tomorrow. Highways England | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
have set out that the QE2 bridge is likely to close tomorrow. They will | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
not make their final assessment until 4am tomorrow morning but it is | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
likely and as it stands, they will close it as a safety precaution. | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
And Chrissie, it's not just road users expected to be affected? | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
Network Rail have said they are going to impose a 50 mph speed limit | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
on certain services tomorrow and there will be changes to Southern | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
Rail and the Gatwick Express so I think it is likely or rather | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
inevitable there will be disruption both on the road and rail. Check you | :09:42. | :09:43. | |
travel. Thank you. That's it from me, the national | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
weather forecast coming up in a moment but first let's get | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
the picture in the south east with Rachel Mackley. | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
Rachel. We are expecting gale force winds | :09:54. | :10:03. | |
tomorrow and for us in the east, a yellow warning is out. In the early | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
afternoon, inland gusts could be seen between 50 and 60 mph. | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
Potentially up to 70, so do take care if you are planning to travel. | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
Overnight tonight, those wins will pick up and there will be rain at | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
times. Not very heavy but even so, wet and mild end to the night. | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
Overnight temperatures eight or 9 degrees. This warning from the Met | :10:28. | :10:40. | |
Office of low pressure, Storm Doris. Things ease off for a time and then | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
those wins pick up during the early part of the afternoon. That rain | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
heavy for a time and it will feel cooler behind the cold front. | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
Temperatures by the afternoon falling away and top temperatures | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
tomorrow, nine or 10 degrees. The main story is the strength of the | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
winds, between 20-30 mph. This is the | :11:03. | :11:04. | |
some sunshine around and light winds. For more on Doris and its | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
impact, here is the national weather. | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
Good evening, a rough patch weather on the way. Time to fasten your seat | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
belt. A high wind warning from the Met office, an amber one, so pretty | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
severe. Let's see where Storm Doris is right now, only just developing | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
to the west of the UK, in its early stages which is not good because it | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
will be at its peak when it crosses the UK. You can see this hook of | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
cloud which is where the twisting is starting to happen, which is where | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
the big mid-latitude cyclone is starting to develop and it will slam | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
into the centre of the UK during the morning and move across the country | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
through the morning and into the afternoon. Two rounds from this | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
storm, we will see some snow across southern and central parts of | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
Scotland first tonight and into the early hours of Thursday morning. | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
Let's look at the snow, also an amber warning from the Met office, | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
the Southern uplands, the borders, | :12:03. | :12:04. |