:00:00. > :00:00.Today's main headlines in the South East:
:00:00. > :00:00.Evicted for complaining their flat was mouldy.
:00:07. > :00:10.Now housed 30 miles from their son's school, the working family who say
:00:11. > :00:15.It's completely inappropriate for a family.
:00:16. > :00:23.An inquest hears how a mother of three children was told
:00:24. > :00:25.she was well enough to leave hospital just hours
:00:26. > :00:37.And after a lovely sunny day what does the rest of the week have in
:00:38. > :00:45.store? All the details later. A Sussex family say they've been let
:00:46. > :00:50.down by the housing system - after being evicted by their private
:00:51. > :00:52.landlord for complaining The council say they haven't got
:00:53. > :00:59.anything suitable for the Lowe family closer than Eastbourne -
:01:00. > :01:01.30 miles from their son's school. A working mother desperate to find
:01:02. > :01:09.somewhere permanent for her family to live.
:01:10. > :01:12.This was their home for three years. It became riddled
:01:13. > :01:17.with damp and cold. We could not use two
:01:18. > :01:23.of the bedrooms. It was extreme mould in the flat,
:01:24. > :01:31.on every wall and surface. The mushrooms growing up
:01:32. > :01:34.through the bathroom floor. Water through the electricals
:01:35. > :01:39.in the bathroom and toilet. We met at her mother-in-law's house,
:01:40. > :01:43.after they made the 60 60 minute journey by public
:01:44. > :01:47.transport from Eastbourne. They're in a hostel
:01:48. > :01:53.with just one bed. Eastbourne, when you're working
:01:54. > :01:55.in Hove, your child has just settled it's just an extreme situation
:01:56. > :02:03.which is impossible to maintain. A young family, working,
:02:04. > :02:07.trying to do the right thing. That is what the government
:02:08. > :02:08.keeps telling us The family were served
:02:09. > :02:12.an eviction notice by their landlord after
:02:13. > :02:13.the council inspected the property,
:02:14. > :02:17.and declared it a health hazard and With no reference and part paying
:02:18. > :02:21.went through housing benefit, the family say they are
:02:22. > :02:24.struggling to rent elsewhere. A lot of places won't
:02:25. > :02:27.even look at you, despite the fact it's a working
:02:28. > :02:30.family, because it's a partial rate The letting agents
:02:31. > :02:36.managing the property on behalf of the private landlord
:02:37. > :02:38.refused to comment today but the council told us that
:02:39. > :02:40.due to a shortage of accommodation in
:02:41. > :02:41.the city, the only suitable property
:02:42. > :02:44.available for the family was Those who work to support
:02:45. > :02:52.families like theirs say Increasingly, we're noticing that
:02:53. > :02:55.that's actually as a result of people's tenancies being ended
:02:56. > :02:57.by the landlords and, increasingly,
:02:58. > :02:59.also for people in work. It's people actually working
:03:00. > :03:01.who can no longer find appropriate, affordable
:03:02. > :03:06.accommodation in the area. The family feels stuck
:03:07. > :03:09.in a vicious circle. Working to make ends meet,
:03:10. > :03:12.but unable to meet the demands of The rental crisis in the south east
:03:13. > :03:21.has been described as a 'perfect Latest figures show that in Brighton
:03:22. > :03:25.and Hove the average cost of renting a two bedroom flat
:03:26. > :03:28.is ?1,353 per month. That's an increase of 7% on last
:03:29. > :03:33.year and yet families can receive a maximum of only ?834 in housing
:03:34. > :03:41.benefit, and less, if the family
:03:42. > :03:44.have an income. Piers, do tenants have any
:03:45. > :03:48.protection against landlords evicting them when they ask
:03:49. > :04:02.for repairs? Well, the government has told us
:04:03. > :04:06.tonight that they have given councils new powers to tackle what
:04:07. > :04:12.they call retaliatory evictions, and I have also made something like ?12
:04:13. > :04:16.million available to tackle rogue landlords. But in terms of trying to
:04:17. > :04:21.find some sort of long-term solution, one housing expert told us
:04:22. > :04:26.that what is needed above all is a greater pool of available
:04:27. > :04:29.accommodation. That, coupled with a need to convince landlords that
:04:30. > :04:31.people on housing benefit really are suitable tenants.
:04:32. > :04:34.A Kent woman who disappeared 20 years ago was unlawfully killed,
:04:35. > :04:37.Sandie Bowen, originally from Folkestone, was murdered
:04:38. > :04:41.by her husband in 1997, but he never revealed
:04:42. > :04:48.Last month her remains were discovered at a reservoir
:04:49. > :04:50.in Monmouthshire in Wales. She'd been tied to a
:04:51. > :04:54.Michael Bowen has been released after serving 15 years in prison.
:04:55. > :04:56.The Crown Prosecution Service says no further action
:04:57. > :05:02.An inquest has heard how a mother-of-three was declared well
:05:03. > :05:04.enough to be discharged from hospital just
:05:05. > :05:10.25-year-old Sian Hollands died at the Darent Valley hospital in 2015.
:05:11. > :05:13.Her partner told the inquest today that staff said they needed the bed
:05:14. > :05:17.for another patient. Simon Jones reports.
:05:18. > :05:20.More than a year after her death, Sian Hollands' family
:05:21. > :05:23.arrive at the inquest, looking for answers.
:05:24. > :05:31.Yesterday being Mother's Day, another Mother's Day without her.
:05:32. > :05:35.Sian was admitted to A, complaining of breathing
:05:36. > :05:37.difficulties, and pains in her chest and stomach.
:05:38. > :05:39.Three weeks earlier she had suffered an
:05:40. > :05:42.ectopic pregnancy at a different hospital and lost a huge amount of
:05:43. > :05:44.blood, but her family believes when she went
:05:45. > :05:47.to Darent Valley Hospital she was simply dismissed as a drug
:05:48. > :05:50.addict because she had just stopped taking methadone to come off heroin,
:05:51. > :05:53.and her symptoms were put down to withdrawal rather than being
:05:54. > :06:00.There is anger, there is upset, there's frustration, why did
:06:01. > :06:05.Sian's partner, Carl Elaine, said the following day, after she was
:06:06. > :06:08.given methadone, she was told she was well enough to leave, even
:06:09. > :06:10.though she was hyperventilating and struggling to walk.
:06:11. > :06:14.Her condition deteriorated and she died.
:06:15. > :06:16.But A doctor Leila Muhammed on the left
:06:17. > :06:19.told the inquest when she examined Sian Hollands on the day she was
:06:20. > :06:23.admitted, there was not sufficient evidence to consider a pulmonary
:06:24. > :06:35.A ward sister at A told the inquest today that at the time it
:06:36. > :06:39.was as dreamily busy with ambulances queueing up outside.
:06:40. > :06:41.The troubled i360 attraction in Brighton, will remain closed
:06:42. > :06:44.for third day in a row because of a temporary fault.
:06:45. > :06:47.It's the seventh breakdown in the eight months since
:06:48. > :06:52.The i360 will be closed until Wednesday at the earliest
:06:53. > :06:57.while technicians continue to carry out checks.
:06:58. > :07:01.The headteacher of a Medway primary school has written to parents urging
:07:02. > :07:05.them to make healthier choices for their children packed lunches -
:07:06. > :07:07.after finding one child had a day-old Happy Meal,
:07:08. > :07:10.another, four yoghurts and a tube of Smarties,
:07:11. > :07:16.and a third had two packets of crisps and a crisp sandwich.
:07:17. > :07:18.Sara Smith reports from Byron Road Primary School in Gillingham.
:07:19. > :07:20.It's quite a balancing act, providing food
:07:21. > :07:25.that is healthy and that your child will actually eat,
:07:26. > :07:28.but some packed lunches coming into this school
:07:29. > :07:30.definitely tip the scales in the wrong direction, said
:07:31. > :07:35.a takeaway, bought the day before.
:07:36. > :07:38.Crisps, accompanying a crisp sandwich.
:07:39. > :07:44.They don't really contain very much in the way of
:07:45. > :07:50.vitamins and minerals, certainly very few healthy fats if any at all,
:07:51. > :07:58.and they are usually very high in the things
:07:59. > :08:00.that nowadays we tried to
:08:01. > :08:02.Parents today said they were happy to be
:08:03. > :08:05.given advice, and has tried to pack healthy lunches.
:08:06. > :08:08.I think it is a wise thing to try and get them to
:08:09. > :08:15.And how easy is it? Not always easy.
:08:16. > :08:17.It's the parents's responsibility to prepare their packed lunch for their
:08:18. > :08:19.kids, at least nutritional for the kids.
:08:20. > :08:22.My other half's a childminder, so we have all the posters up, drink
:08:23. > :08:24.Coke with water and all that sort of thing,
:08:25. > :08:30.Two years ago, this school in Wateringbury
:08:31. > :08:31.banned sugary drinks in
:08:32. > :08:34.The head's looking to improve the food they eat
:08:35. > :08:36.too, but admits it's a sensitive area.
:08:37. > :08:39.You can imagine the peer pressure is huge for what is put
:08:40. > :08:43.into children's lunchboxes, and you can imagine, you know,
:08:44. > :08:45.the pressures on parents to buy the things that
:08:46. > :08:47.children perceive as being acceptable and cool within the
:08:48. > :08:55.So there's so many issues at play here, and really
:08:56. > :08:58.wants to bring your parents alongside you as a school when you
:08:59. > :09:00.The message about nutrition certainly
:09:01. > :09:02.seems to be getting through to the children have.
:09:03. > :09:05.I'm in gymnastics so I kept to kind of eat healthy as
:09:06. > :09:08.well, so I can do the stuff that I want to.
:09:09. > :09:11.It matters to me because I play a lot of sports and I want to
:09:12. > :09:16.I have heard rumours about broccoli where if you need a
:09:17. > :09:19.lot when you grow up you have a big bushy beard,
:09:20. > :09:22.and I'd love to have a big beard when I grow up.
:09:23. > :09:25.Today, MPs on the Commons health committee released a report
:09:26. > :09:27.criticising the government for not doing more to tackle childhood
:09:28. > :09:40.Now lets take a look at the weather for the week ahead with Nina Ridge.
:09:41. > :09:45.Nina, we've got some more sunshine tomorrow?
:09:46. > :09:51.More sunshine indeed, a lovely day today as well. Writes guys out there
:09:52. > :09:56.and temperatures above average as well. It stays mild, predominantly
:09:57. > :10:01.dry and a few showers around, but cloud comes and goes, and so not
:10:02. > :10:05.glorious all the time but there will be some sunshine around at times.
:10:06. > :10:08.Through the night, some clear spells and breaks in the cloud allowing
:10:09. > :10:15.patchy mist to form. Temperature dropped to 6 degrees, but thing in
:10:16. > :10:19.the morning. Mist clears quickly, certainly during the morning, and
:10:20. > :10:24.for the afternoon cloud and these small chance of a shower but most
:10:25. > :10:29.places they dry. On the postman at images of 12 degrees, inland as her
:10:30. > :10:33.trauma, 13 to 14. That cloud builds a touch on Wednesday and we see more
:10:34. > :10:37.overcast skies with the odd fleeting shower perhaps but most places miss
:10:38. > :10:41.them and stay dry, and if we do get some brightness we keep those
:10:42. > :10:46.temperatures around 14-15 degrees. Until we get to the end of the week,
:10:47. > :10:49.we start to see a change, low-pressure sitting out to the
:10:50. > :10:52.north and west of us but we have just enough influence that high
:10:53. > :10:57.sitting across northern to keep the showers away through the day on
:10:58. > :10:58.Thursday, where with southerly winds that really lift the temperatures to
:10:59. > :11:00.highs For the weekend, looking a bit
:11:01. > :11:02.showery on Saturday, dry and brighter on Sunday and if we go back
:11:03. > :11:05.to the temperatures in the next couple days, you see those highs on
:11:06. > :11:18.Thursday. He is John Hammond with the national
:11:19. > :11:26.this cyclone Debbie crashes onto the Queensland coast with violent winds
:11:27. > :11:27.and flooding rains, that will head southwards in the next