09/03/2017 South East Today


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Today's main headlines in the South East:

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Closure at last for family of a Kent woman murdered 20 years ago -

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after her body is found in a Welsh reservoir.

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which is what she deserves more than anything.

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Another migrant camp doubles in size 40 miles from Calais -

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where charities have been ordered not to give out food.

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And it's been a lovely day with highs of 17 degrees, but it will be

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cooler tomorrow. Police confirmed today that human

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remains found in a Welsh reservoir ARE those of a Kent woman

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who disappeared 20 years ago. Sandie Bowen was originally

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from Folkestone - and her daughter who lives in Cheriton says

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the family now has closure at last. Sandie's husband was found guilty

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of her murder and jailed - but Michael Bowen never revealed

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what he'd done with her body. Sandie's daughter Anita Giles

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says she believes he should still be in jail.

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Sara Smith reports. A mix of wanting to know

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what happened to her mum and a tiny fraction of hope

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that without a body, she might not be gone

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after all. Obviously I never knew what had

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happened, only what had been surmised by the court case that

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the probability was that she was murdered, she was

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dumped, disposed of, never knowing where,

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and that is Her mother Sandie

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was running a B in Folkestone who was working on the channel

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tunnel construction. His third wife, she went back

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to live with him in Wales, but in a jealous

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rage she killed her. He was convicted of her

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murder a year later and then jailed, but would not

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say where her body was. Last month, remains were found

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at a reservoir in Wales. Now, DNA tests have confirmed

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they were Sandie's. Now her daughter

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is planning a private ceremony to finally say

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goodbye to her mother. She will bring her ashes home

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to be scattered in Kent. Normal people lose somebody,

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they're able to bury It never goes away, and

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you never get over losing somebody so close to you, but to have that

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constantly... all the time, in the

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forefront of your mind. Not a day goes by when I didn't

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think about my mum. Michael Bowen was released

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on licence two years ago. His victim's daughter says

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he should have had to give up his dark secret before

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that was allowed to happen. Sara Smith is live in Cheriton -

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and Sara, Sandie Bowen's daughter is supporting a campaign

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for a change in the law... Yes, a campaign called Helen's law

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which was set up by the famine of Helen McCall from Merseyside who was

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murdered nearly 30 years ago and her body has never been found. The

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killer wouldn't say where it was, even after as in this case it was

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found guilty of murdering and sent to prison. The new law would mean

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that killers couldn't get parole if they refused to say where the

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victims are. MPs voted of this in favour in the autumn but it needs a

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second reading before passed into law.

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The government has in the last few hours released dozens of pages

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of correspondence with Surrey council in the ongoing row

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about an alleged 'sweetheart deal' over plans to raise council tax

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by 15%. It suggests that a late night

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conversation between a Surrey MP and a Government Minister may have

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been instrumental in calling off the referendum.

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The Prime Minister and the Council Leader David Hodge have both

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repeatedly denied any special deal was agreed.

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Our political editor is here with us. Why has the government on

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Both it and Surrey seem to have a loss of freedom of implications

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requested. We want to get it all out there. You think that we have

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learned this evening are that the Treasury and the Department of

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Health were both approached for Esh cash for Surrey but no joy. There

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was also letters that seemed to back up the idea of frantic last-minute

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no negotiations, so the day before, began to budget setting, the letter

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from the government says to Surrey that it gets that it cannot take any

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further a scheme that sorry seems to have pinned its Oberon, making it

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the first Council of its type to call its business rates with the

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following morning, though, there is a text message sent by Surrey offers

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to a government official, talking about an unnamed Surrey MP having

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had a phone call late last night with Sajid Javid, the Minister. In

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the text seems to indicate that governments are willing to in get

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funding from 20 team. A shredded as an 18. The government has said that

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what Surrey was told was that it can apply next year for the scheme when

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all other councils like it can do, so that is a special deal. Remember

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that secret recording, though, that earlier in the week? Earlier, the

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David Hodge Surrey leader said that he would go for a referendum again

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next year if agreement went on it. now, if the government were to deny

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Surrey's accusation this year, it was difficult to see how they could

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do that without causing an even bigger row than they have had this

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time round. The jury in the trial of a man

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accused of murdering his ex girlfriend at her home in Portslade

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have been played a recorded telephone conversation

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between the two, in which he told Shana Grice and Michael Lane

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were talking after Lane had taken a key from her home,

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let himself into her house and gone into her bedroom

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while she was asleep. Shana was found dead at her home

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just over a month later. The largest 20mph zone

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in Kent will be launched in Tunbridge Wells tomorrow

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to tackle the problem of speeding. The controversial speed limits have

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already been introduced in other parts of the South East,

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including Brighton and Ashford. But one council in the North

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of England is reviewing its scheme after a study suggested the average

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speed of drivers had only gone down Now, while police maintain

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a zero tolerance approach to migrants in Calais,

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another camp is developing 40 miles It's doubled in size in recent

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months, and has become a magnet for people trying get to Kent

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via the Channel. 120 migrants are now

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being turned away Peter Whittlesea has sent this

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report from the town of Steenvord. On the edge of the motorway this

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wood is home to around 100 migrants. The camp has been closed twice

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in the last six months, but when the police leave the many

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migrants return. The land owner said the French

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authorities are failing to act. TRANSLATION: I can no

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longer use the wood, I can't let my children

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there, I bought land in the countryside so my children could

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The authorities do what they can but the migrants come in

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One local charity in says since the Calais Jungle has

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closed, the number of migrants in area has doubled, and with no

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official hostels, migrants camp where they can.

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The increased security and the mayor of Calais's

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decision to stop charities issuing food, it is to encourage people from

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staying away Calais but doesn't address the problem that migrants

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Outside of these zones in the city, we can distribute food but as

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numbers increase it will become visible, and that is will

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happen when that critical mass appear back in Calais.

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Where are we going to feed those people?

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But back in Britain there is zero tolerance

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to migrants living in Calais, backed by Dover MP.

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They need to make sure that the Jungle

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doesn't reform but that they stop these migrants

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getting into Calais before they missed the opportunity to get

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120 migrants are being arrested in Calais each day,

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charities call for a solution, is not to move it

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Now it's been a very spring like day,

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but it's not going to last, is it, Nina?

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Unfortunately not, we saw 17 degrees in a couple of places today with all

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of that lovely sunshine around, but tomorrow it will increase the cloud

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and temperatures will come down. After a taste of spring today it is

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all change for tomorrow. We will hold out a little bit of hope for

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Saturday, a return of some of the brighter signs. Through tonight,

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starting off with clear spells, cloud thickening up, and we see

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Misty and murky conditions around Sussex coasts. Temperature is in the

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countryside around 4 degrees, but for most starting at around 5-6.

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Some early brightness across parts of east Kent, further west to seeing

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increasing amounts of cloud, cloud bringing with it patchy light rain

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and drizzle, throughout an afternoon. Sunshine across east Kent

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could see highs of 13-14 degrees, but with cloudy skies across the

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afternoon most of us will be pegged at 9-10. A slow start to Saturday,

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with cloud still around but during the afternoon holes in the cloud

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brighten up nicely, with some sunny spells developing. Winds from the

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south as well, lifting temperatures widely, 13-14 degrees, a fee places

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might just match that 16-17. Things change against terror with Weathers

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and cloud outbreaks of rain, temperatures back down again on

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Sunday. The day. On Sunday, cloudier, maybe

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spots of rain. Good evening, in the spring sunshine

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we saw temperatures as high as 17.5 Celsius. Not as warm or Sonning on

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Friday. Still a lot of dry, settled weather in the forecast for the next

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few days. This was the sunset captured by one of our Weather

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Watchers. Clear skies there. We have had increasing amounts of cloud

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moving in from the West. Through the remainder of tonight we will

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continue to see that cloud across the south-west of England, the

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Channel Isles, weaving in across Wales, Northern Ireland and western

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Scotland. Bringing with it some outbreaks of drizzly rain,

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particularly around the coast and the hills. Further east, clear skies

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and the coldest temperatures. We are likely to see frost across eastern

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parts of Scotland by Friday morning. The west of Scotland will see the

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cloud moving in, bringing spots of light, drizzly rain. A similar

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picture for Northern Ireland.

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