:00:00. > :00:00.Yard's handling of the case. That's all from the BBC News at Six,
:00:07. > :00:12.Welcome to South Today. In trouble with the lawmakers. Sussex Police
:00:13. > :00:18.are told off by a Parliamentary Committee.
:00:19. > :00:23.Hammers fall silent as a Sussex company of stonemasons goes into
:00:24. > :00:26.administration. Voluntary tagging. Could it be the
:00:27. > :00:32.way of keeping burglars on the straight and narrow? And pick up a
:00:33. > :00:36.postcard, the Parisian adventure that ended up in print and helped a
:00:37. > :00:45.young woman come to terms whth her loss.
:00:46. > :00:50.Sussex Police has been crithcised by a House of Commons committed for
:00:51. > :00:53.making serious mistakes in the way that it dealt with a disputd
:00:54. > :00:56.involving a former minister. The Worthing and East Shoreham LP Tim
:00:57. > :01:02.Loughton was issued with a police information notice after a
:01:03. > :01:06.constituent complained about him. The committee said the notice issued
:01:07. > :01:13.as a warning in harassment cases should be withdrawn but the Sussex
:01:14. > :01:18.force is standing firm. Our Political Editor, Peter Henley,
:01:19. > :01:23.joins me now. Is what's this all about? Some see this as a grubby war
:01:24. > :01:31.of words that escalated out of control, but some say with tensions
:01:32. > :01:34.between the police and politicians that there is more at stake here.
:01:35. > :01:39.Tim Loughton called a debatd in the House of Commons last year to hit
:01:40. > :01:44.back. When he sent a copy of what he said in the xHops to the man, the
:01:45. > :01:50.police accused him of harassment and sent him a police information
:01:51. > :01:55.notice. A House of Commons committee then criticised Sussex Police. Their
:01:56. > :02:01.report came out today. They say they breached the right of MPs, their
:02:02. > :02:05.freedom of expression on in the House of Commons. This was the
:02:06. > :02:10.reaction today of Mr Loughton. This is a damning report on Sussdx Police
:02:11. > :02:12.and damning about the arrog`nce of the senior management of Sussex
:02:13. > :02:18.Police and particularly the Chief Constable who, of course, announced
:02:19. > :02:25.his early retirement whilst this investigation wag was on gohng. The
:02:26. > :02:31.committee found they failed to follow their own guidance on the
:02:32. > :02:39.issuing of PINs and thaul ahr actions have exacerbated already a
:02:40. > :02:46.very difficult situation. They are treating constituents with this use
:02:47. > :02:49.of PINs in an indiscriminant and arbitrary way. On the policd side,
:02:50. > :02:58.there is tension. The Chief Constable made plain his displeasure
:02:59. > :03:06.with Mr Loughton. Did you apoll yis to Mr Loughton? No No. Don't you
:03:07. > :03:08.think you should have done? I have explained this to the committee
:03:09. > :03:32.The mood continued today. They said: They are saying they are gohng to
:03:33. > :03:36.give this report serious consideration, but they are under
:03:37. > :03:40.pressure and Mr Loughton referred this to the police complaints
:03:41. > :03:45.commission and the police commissioner referred it to the
:03:46. > :03:57.police college to look at their use of PINs.
:03:58. > :03:59.One of the country's leading companies of architectural
:04:00. > :04:01.stonemasons has gone into administration. The Cathedr`l Works
:04:02. > :04:04.Organisation based in Chichdster has worked on restoration projects at
:04:05. > :04:06.Buckingham Palace, the London Monument and Chichester Cathedral.
:04:07. > :04:09.Ninety staff face an uncert`in future with the administrators
:04:10. > :04:11.warning of significant job losses. Sarah Farmer sent this report from
:04:12. > :04:16.Chichester. T Cathedral Works Organisation specialise inndd
:04:17. > :04:19.cservation of buildings for over 50 years. Yesterday, the adminhstrators
:04:20. > :04:22.were appointed and they told me today there have been mass
:04:23. > :04:26.redundancies. They say although it is early days, they hope to sell off
:04:27. > :04:29.part of the business. I havd spoken to a couple of workers who have been
:04:30. > :04:33.in and out of the building here today. One of them spoke of poor
:04:34. > :04:37.management which led to this situation, but another spokd highly
:04:38. > :04:48.and praised the work that hd has done with the CWO for the p`st two
:04:49. > :04:54.decades. CWO's CV gleams with projects like the monument `nd
:04:55. > :05:03.Windsor Castle and they havd under taken work at Buckingham Palace but
:05:04. > :05:08.there are ongoing projects. At Crawley they are one year into a
:05:09. > :05:12.five year scheme. With five apprentices on the books and father
:05:13. > :05:19.and son teams working side by side, the company was keen to preserve and
:05:20. > :05:23.nurture the craft. While administrators work to resolve the
:05:24. > :05:25.situation, there is an anxious work for the staff to see what the future
:05:26. > :05:32.holds in store for them. She was a happy go lucky girl, who
:05:33. > :05:36.brought immense joy to family and friends. That was how the f`mily of
:05:37. > :05:40.Elisha Langley described her as they listened to more details of how an
:05:41. > :05:43.abnormality in her skull whhch went unreported may have led to her
:05:44. > :05:45.developing a fatal brain abscess. Elisha died in December 2012 just
:05:46. > :05:48.over a month after undergoing routine day surgery at the
:05:49. > :05:56.Basingstoke and North Hampshire hospital. Jo Kent reports. Dlisha
:05:57. > :06:01.Langley was born with a gendtic abnormality. Although 20 whdn she
:06:02. > :06:05.died, she had the appearancd of a ten`year`old. There was somdthing
:06:06. > :06:13.else, a defect in her skull no one knew about. In November 2012, Elisha
:06:14. > :06:18.Langley had surgery to remove a cyst. The author of a report into
:06:19. > :06:23.her death, Professor Macfie, said it should have raised alarm bells.
:06:24. > :06:33.Elisha Langley died a month later from a brain abscess. On discovery
:06:34. > :06:42.of the abscess, Elisha was transferred to south General
:06:43. > :06:48.Hospital. The consultant sahd the treatment may have taken a different
:06:49. > :07:02.course in the abscess was spotted earlier. Elisha's mother sahd her
:07:03. > :07:06.daughter was driven to bite her own arm because she was in pain. The
:07:07. > :07:12.family say it should never have come to this. Professor Macfie s`id
:07:13. > :07:20.because of Elisha Langley's other health issues, early detecthon may
:07:21. > :07:35.not have made a difference. In his evidence, the cull consultant
:07:36. > :07:43.said the procedure of drainhng a brain abscess was not normal. The
:07:44. > :07:49.earlier, I treat patients the more likely to survive.
:07:50. > :07:57.Convicted criminals in west Sussex are being invited to wear an
:07:58. > :08:01.electronic tag. The tag will track their movements to provide ` record
:08:02. > :08:08.of where they should or shotld not be. Almost half of inmates, the
:08:09. > :08:13.voluntary scheme is designed to keep them on the straight and narrow
:08:14. > :08:18.Tagging is nothing new. Curfew tags are often given no those living
:08:19. > :08:22.prison early and are enforcdd by the courts. But with re`offending rates
:08:23. > :08:26.high, their effectiveness is being questioned. Enter the next
:08:27. > :08:29.generation of tags, being used by Sussex Police. These are voluntary
:08:30. > :08:37.and can be worn by someone `lready tagged with an old style device
:08:38. > :08:41.Featuring GPS technology, they offer live information on the wearer's
:08:42. > :08:45.location. They remove the nded for curfews and home visits bec`use
:08:46. > :08:51.officers can already see whdre that person is 24 hours a day with a
:08:52. > :08:55.glance at a screen. Police lostly have repeat burglars in mind here.
:08:56. > :09:00.They can quickly link suspects to a break`in or rule them out of the
:09:01. > :09:05.investigation early on. Now, out of prison, Duncan will wear thd new tag
:09:06. > :09:10.until 2016. He has got a stdady job and is getting on with life,
:09:11. > :09:14.reassured this system means he can't be wrongly suspected of comlitting
:09:15. > :09:20.crimes. It shows trust to probation that I'm
:09:21. > :09:26.willing to change. It just proves to them I'm changing. It is not me
:09:27. > :09:31.Like burgling houses around here when there is people in the papers.
:09:32. > :09:36.It is someone else because the tag proves it is not me.
:09:37. > :09:40.Figures show that 46% of adtlts leaving prison reoffend. In Sussex,
:09:41. > :09:44.20 offenders have volunteerdd for the scheme so far. Seven months in
:09:45. > :09:50.and none of those wearers h`ve gone on to commit further crimes. Others
:09:51. > :10:00.would like to see more emph`sis on helping ex`offenders find work,
:10:01. > :10:07.housing and training. I spoke to detective chief hnspector
:10:08. > :10:13.Tanya Jones and asked her why people are volunteering? People ard coming
:10:14. > :10:16.forward. They are people w want to change their offending. This means
:10:17. > :10:20.they get more freedom back. Normally, we might have a nhght`time
:10:21. > :10:26.curfew that someone has to stay in during the night for ten to 12
:10:27. > :10:29.hours. And be checked during that time to make sure they are hn and
:10:30. > :10:35.not out and offending. By doing this, they get back their lhfe if
:10:36. > :10:38.you like and additionally they know that they are less likely to get
:10:39. > :10:43.stopped by police and searched if we have had crimes in those ardas.
:10:44. > :10:47.There is only 20 people being followed in this pilot schele. You
:10:48. > :10:54.have been doing it since July. The re`offending rates, well yot haven't
:10:55. > :10:57.got any `` re`offending ratds so far. Surely you have got to look at
:10:58. > :11:03.the rates long`term? For nine months, a lot of individuals are
:11:04. > :11:07.very prolific criminals who are regularly going out and doing
:11:08. > :11:13.residential burglaries. For them not to have offended or that amount of
:11:14. > :11:18.time is significant. If we can break the cycle of offending and get them
:11:19. > :11:22.in a different way of living that's what we are trying to achieve and
:11:23. > :11:26.therefore, it is successful. How cost effective is the schemd? I know
:11:27. > :11:30.it is small`scale at the molent but if it was to go bigger becatse you
:11:31. > :11:36.have not got the man power to just watch monitors the whole tile? No.
:11:37. > :11:42.Absolutely. It saves us polhce time in lots of ways. We are not sending
:11:43. > :11:48.out officers as I say to chdck those night`time curfews or to find one of
:11:49. > :11:51.our main offenders in an arda where we have had a burglary. It stops
:11:52. > :11:54.that level of crime occurring so we are not investigating that `nd
:11:55. > :11:59.saving time there and we ard only putting this on a small amotnt of
:12:00. > :12:07.people who are prolific and who need to be willing to do this. Thank you.
:12:08. > :12:11.Stay with us. Still to come: Show casing netball as the teams and
:12:12. > :12:20.fans prepare for the Super League match this weekend. A builddr has
:12:21. > :12:25.described the moment his frhend was crushed to death by a forklhft truck
:12:26. > :12:29.in Newbury. Read Crown Court heard that father of two, Mark Williams
:12:30. > :12:34.had complained to managers the day before he died that the are` he was
:12:35. > :12:39.working in was too small to manoeuvre the vehicle properly. Ben
:12:40. > :12:44.Moore is in our Reading studio. We heard from an eyewitness today then?
:12:45. > :12:51.Yes, we heard from a long thme colleague of Mark Williams. He and
:12:52. > :12:56.Mr Williams were driving tele handlers, that's a forklift truck
:12:57. > :13:04.with a long extendible arm. They worked on the Parkway site. They
:13:05. > :13:08.worked for a roofing companx. Both companies are on trial for breach of
:13:09. > :13:12.health and safety laws. The witness described the site as crowddd with
:13:13. > :13:20.lots of other contractors and equipment and he noted that meant it
:13:21. > :13:26.was hard to negotiate. He s`id Mr Williams to to make lots of turns to
:13:27. > :13:30.get pal lets up to the roof area. He said that Mr Williams had told him
:13:31. > :13:36.he had gone mad about these conditions and raised them `t a site
:13:37. > :13:40.meeting the day before he dhed. Mr Williams mother and sister were
:13:41. > :13:45.visibly upset as the witness described how he saw one palate
:13:46. > :13:49.start to lump away and the tele handler toppled. He said Mr Williams
:13:50. > :13:53.tried to leap from the cab, but he was caught underneath it and he died
:13:54. > :13:57.at the scene. The defence also had their day in court today. In
:13:58. > :14:03.cross`examination they said that the emis a emphasis and ethos of the
:14:04. > :14:06.site was safety. The case continues. Ben, thank you.
:14:07. > :14:10.Although the rain has stoppdd, farmers across the south ard facing
:14:11. > :14:16.up to the future and the next crop with ground saturated by water, many
:14:17. > :14:20.are looking at how to prevent their fields flooding next time. Some are
:14:21. > :14:24.angry at the amount of environmental red tape stopping them from carrying
:14:25. > :14:29.out drainage work. This may look like a lake ftll of
:14:30. > :14:36.water, but last year, it was a field full of cows. There is physhcally no
:14:37. > :14:44.facility to drain this water off in a hurry. For dairy farmer, @ndy it
:14:45. > :14:53.is not a pretty sight. Andy says he was willing to pay thousands to get
:14:54. > :14:56.the silt taken from the Rivdr Frome. The fact is when you have
:14:57. > :14:59.obstructions in the river, the water can't flow down it as effichently as
:15:00. > :15:03.it should. I should have bedn encouraged to do that. Not told by
:15:04. > :15:08.the Environment Agency that I couldn't do it. He feels he has
:15:09. > :15:13.become a victim of bureaucr`cy. We live on the whichever. We f`rm on
:15:14. > :15:19.the river. We have to earn our living out of the river. Wh`t they
:15:20. > :15:26.do controls my business, and I'm not allowed to help myself to gdt it
:15:27. > :15:31.back on target. Simon's farl was a victim of the summer floods of 012.
:15:32. > :15:36.It ruined most of his crops. He says when he tried to clear ditches and
:15:37. > :15:41.depry from the river, it took months to get permission and he allost got
:15:42. > :15:57.prosecuted. We have remove dead trees that are over, and under the
:15:58. > :16:00.channel. We moved the odd b`nk. As the water levels start to stbside,
:16:01. > :16:05.finding a long`term solution to the aftermath of the flooding h`s only
:16:06. > :16:12.just begun. The Environment Agency says dredging is not always the best
:16:13. > :16:15.way forward and along with Natural England, they say they are committed
:16:16. > :16:21.to worging with those `` working with those affected. #3 Tonx is here
:16:22. > :16:26.with the sport and all eyes on Wembley last night. Two of the
:16:27. > :16:55.Southampton players got the chance to impress Roy Hodgson. He said
:16:56. > :16:58."Can I have a word?" He said I am going to give you an opporttnity to
:16:59. > :17:04.come on. It will be at half`time or ten minutes into the second half. As
:17:05. > :17:08.soon as he told me, the nerves did sta rt to kick `` start to kick in
:17:09. > :17:12.and I was excited to be plaxing for my country. It was such a proud
:17:13. > :17:17.moment, not just for me, but for my family as well that were thdre
:17:18. > :17:24.watching and it is an honour. Well done Luke Shaw.
:17:25. > :17:37.Netball's biggest match is taking place this weekend. 3,000 f`ns will
:17:38. > :17:42.watch the match. The Super League match is the highlight of the
:17:43. > :17:58.sport's calendar. Saturday, we are going to play in
:17:59. > :18:02.front of 3,000 people. The Lavericks got beaten on Saturday and they are
:18:03. > :18:07.going to be up for this. Totgh words from their coach before the biggest
:18:08. > :18:13.domestic netball match playdd in this country. Surrey Storm take on
:18:14. > :18:18.Hertfordshire Mavericks on Saturday in front of a record crowd `t the
:18:19. > :18:23.Olympic Park in London. It hs the mid`way point in netball's Super
:18:24. > :18:27.League season which is building a stronger following. The sport has
:18:28. > :18:36.been growing over the years. It was all about the brand and building up
:18:37. > :18:43.the fanbase. It has taken a while, but it is something we all bought
:18:44. > :18:47.into it. Every schoolgirl plays netb`ll so
:18:48. > :18:51.they have all had some tastd of it at some point. The biggest surprise
:18:52. > :18:56.for people is when they comd to some of our games is the pace and
:18:57. > :19:01.physicality of the games. It is like nothing they remember from school.
:19:02. > :19:07.3,000 tickets have been sold for Netball London Live. Surrey Storm
:19:08. > :19:09.hope their performance will inspire other women to take part in netball
:19:10. > :19:26.and sport. It should be a good weekend.
:19:27. > :19:30.Basingstoke Bison beat Milton Keynes last night.
:19:31. > :19:35.Losing a loved one can be devastating, but the story of one
:19:36. > :19:41.woman from Dorset shows that celebrating a life can be an
:19:42. > :19:57.uplifting experience. Rachel was due to go to Paris for her mum's 60th
:19:58. > :20:01.birthday. Paris was a city H wanted to visit for many years. I really,
:20:02. > :20:10.really wanted to go with my mother, but unfortunately if neb 2002, she
:20:11. > :20:16.passed away suddenly from bow well cancer `` bowel cancer. It was very
:20:17. > :20:20.sudden. A complete shock for the family and we couldn't go on the
:20:21. > :20:25.trip to Paris. It was a verx dark time for you? It was. It was
:20:26. > :20:29.confusing and I didn't know what to do with my grief. I didn't know how
:20:30. > :20:34.to make myself feel any better. But you went anyway to Paris. You
:20:35. > :20:41.decided to go. You had a pl`n. Tell me about the plan. Right, I mean,
:20:42. > :20:51.are I found the first very difficult and the milestones of the ydar were
:20:52. > :20:56.getting tough and I had my lum's 60th birthday. I decided to scatter
:20:57. > :21:01.60 postcards around the citx of Love. I went with a group of friends
:21:02. > :21:06.and we did that all over thd city. Where did you leave them? Wd left
:21:07. > :21:12.them all over the place. In the Metro. On postcard racks whhch I
:21:13. > :21:17.found fun. You had written on the back of them. Tell us what xou had
:21:18. > :21:24.written? I had written a message and it said I'm Rachel from London and
:21:25. > :21:31.I'm here to celebrate my mother s 60th and popped my E `mail `ddress
:21:32. > :21:34.on the bottom if the hope that somebody would get back to le. What
:21:35. > :21:39.did you want them to do? To say hello. Or did you want more than
:21:40. > :21:44.that? I was reaching out re`lly I think I was finding it diffhcult to
:21:45. > :21:50.talk about mum freely that xear with death being quite a taboo. H just
:21:51. > :21:55.thought I would reach out and see if anybody got back to me and tell me
:21:56. > :21:58.where they found it. Did yot go was it random or did you go for
:21:59. > :22:05.specific, iconic places as well Yeah. I mean, I left one underneath
:22:06. > :22:09.the Eiffel Tower. I passed ht to some girls really. I gave it to them
:22:10. > :22:12.almost to carry on the misshon. I didn't know who they were. They were
:22:13. > :22:19.strangers. This was random though. We felt like we just wanted to do it
:22:20. > :22:25.when it felt right rather than too much planning. When did you get a
:22:26. > :22:28.reply? How surprised were you? Mm, it was incredible. It was three days
:22:29. > :22:32.after I return from Paris. So we were keen to keep the buzz going
:22:33. > :22:37.from the weekend. So my housemate and I went for a night out `nd we
:22:38. > :22:45.alarmed quite a few passengdrs on the over ground back to our house as
:22:46. > :22:48.I saw an e`mail saying Paris postcard and we screamed. It was a
:22:49. > :22:52.funny reaction from people `round us. I couldn't believe it h`d worked
:22:53. > :22:59.and someone got back to me. It led to a blog. You do a blog and you
:23:00. > :23:01.incorporate some of those. Give us an idea of some of the things people
:23:02. > :23:05.were saying to you? They were replying to a they were all really,
:23:06. > :23:09.really, really lovely about the tributes. They said that thdy could
:23:10. > :23:15.relate to my words. It showdd me that, you know, losing someone that
:23:16. > :23:17.you love is universal, we all go through it and they were just
:23:18. > :23:21.touched by the message and they wanted to reach out and get back in
:23:22. > :23:24.touch with me and they told me, you know, their stories and who they
:23:25. > :23:28.were and where they were from and from there I have kept in touch with
:23:29. > :23:34.most of them. Most unusual one or the one that stood out for xou? I
:23:35. > :23:38.grew up dancing when I was xounger and my mum passed that down to me,
:23:39. > :23:45.she was creative and loved to dance. New York City ballet dancer one
:23:46. > :23:49.found one and took it back to New York with her and so when she
:23:50. > :23:53.contacted me to say she had taken the postcard back and left ht there,
:23:54. > :23:59.I then followed it up and flew out to New York and left 60 there as
:24:00. > :24:05.well. So you have done it in Paris and you moved to New York and did it
:24:06. > :24:10.there. What has it helped you come to terms with? What have yot learned
:24:11. > :24:15.from this fabulous adventurd that started in a dark place? It has been
:24:16. > :24:19.a beautiful distraction. It helped me channel me to do something that I
:24:20. > :24:23.love. I also know that it is something my mum would adord. If she
:24:24. > :24:32.heard about this story, I know she would be the first one to phck up
:24:33. > :24:37.the phone to Who Owns Me tell me what happened. I feel that H'm
:24:38. > :24:43.getting to do everything I want to do, but keeping her memory `live
:24:44. > :24:50.while I'm doing it. It is a wonderful uplifting story. Rachel is
:24:51. > :25:01.launching her book as we spdak. It is called 60 Postcards. The New York
:25:02. > :25:19.ballerina is planning to flx over and take part.
:25:20. > :25:24.We had some cloudy skies today, but brightness by the end of thd day
:25:25. > :25:27.which is the good news and things will tend to improve as we head
:25:28. > :25:34.towards the weekend with high pressure building. Cloudy overnight
:25:35. > :25:38.tonight. We will see rain creep in for western areas during thd second
:25:39. > :25:42.part of the night. Mainly lhght to moderate rainfall and staying mild
:25:43. > :25:48.with a low of seven to eight Celsius. It is an ease/west divide.
:25:49. > :25:52.There will be bands showers or longer spells of rain moving their
:25:53. > :25:57.way eastwards through the morning, but they will clear quickly so
:25:58. > :26:02.behind it, an improving picture By the afternoon we will see lots of
:26:03. > :26:06.sunshine and mild in the sun. Temperatures three Celsius `bove the
:26:07. > :26:11.seasonal average. Breezy along the South Coast, but the winds light
:26:12. > :26:14.inland. Tomorrow night, we will have clear sighs. That will enable
:26:15. > :26:18.temperatures to fall away r`pidly, but welds a band of cloud, list and
:26:19. > :26:22.fog creep in from the English Channel with outbreaks of r`in for
:26:23. > :26:25.southern coastal counties. There is the chance we could have a touch of
:26:26. > :26:29.frost tomorrow night, particularly for parts of Oxfordshire whdre we
:26:30. > :26:35.have had the clear spells for the start of the night. Along the South
:26:36. > :26:40.Coast, milder air will push in with lows of five to seven Celsits. High
:26:41. > :26:43.pressure continues to build in from the south`west. That means we are
:26:44. > :26:47.going to see settled condithons a cloudy start to Saturday, btt an
:26:48. > :26:50.improving picture. Highs of 14 Celsius, possibly 15 Celsius, the
:26:51. > :26:55.highest of the temperatures will be through parts of Sussex and Surrey.
:26:56. > :26:58.So lovely spring`like conditions through the weekend. Sunday starts
:26:59. > :27:02.off on a positive note, but clouding over later in the day. Now, high
:27:03. > :27:07.pressure, what does that me`n? It will be dry. I can't promisd lots of
:27:08. > :27:11.sunshine, but there will be drier conditions than the last few months
:27:12. > :27:15.thankfully. Frosty nights as well. A cold start to each day, but lots of
:27:16. > :27:16.sunshine on offer and staying settled bar the rain tomorrow
:27:17. > :27:28.morning. Now, be with us tomorrow if you can.
:27:29. > :27:33.We will be discovering why patients in intensive care as well as those
:27:34. > :27:38.coming out of acomas are behng encouraged to get on their bikes
:27:39. > :27:40.even before they have left hospital. Thanks for watching.
:27:41. > :27:43.Good night.