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Welcome to South East Today, I'm Polly Evans. And I'm Rob Smith. | :00:02. | :00:06. | |
Tonight's top stories. The prime minister pledges his | :00:06. | :00:09. | |
support to the family of a woman believed to have been beheaded by | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
kidnappers in India. We'll have the latest on the Surjit Kaur case live | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
from chatham. The family of Keith Brook, who | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
drowned in the River Medway yesterday, say they can't | :00:19. | :00:26. | |
understand how it happened. I had to wait to ID him. And it's not | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
very nice when you have to ID your own son. | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
Also in tonight's programme. The financial strain of taking the | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
train. Labour urge the government to tackle rising prices for road & | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
rail commuters. Keeping a watchful eye on the | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
birdies. A Kent cameraman's mission to protect wildlife on the golf | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
course. And swapping four wheels for two, | :00:48. | :00:58. | |
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the Sussex school mums' scooter Good evening. The Prime Minister | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
has promised to do everything he can to help the family of a Kent | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
woman who's believed to have been kidnapped and beheaded while on | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
holiday in India. Surjit Kaur, a 67-year-old mother-of-three from | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
Chatham, was killed during a trip to the Punjab region of her | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
homeland. Two men are awaiting trial on kidnap and murder charges. | :01:22. | :01:29. | |
Simon Jones reports. A son who needs to know why his | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
mother was found dead, some 800 miles from the area she was staying | :01:34. | :01:41. | |
in, while holidaying in India. numb. Absolutely numb. Totally numb. | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
Just couldn't believe it. We still don't really believe it now. She | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
was always there for us, you could always turn to her. Day or night. | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
This is just terrible for us. We have got no want to give us advice | :01:57. | :02:05. | |
and stuff these days. The family's concerns have now been taken to the | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
top. Can I ask the British Government to urge the Indian | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
authorities to carry out a full, transparent, thorough investigation | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
and bring to account those responsible for this horrendous | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
murder so that my constituents and his family can get some justice | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
format -- for their mother? Foreign Office has been providing | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
the family with support. I have to say to him, responsibility for | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
investigating crime committed overseas have to rest with the | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
police and judicial authorities in that country. Punjab journalist | :02:36. | :02:46. | |
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told us the latest on a two men So the Prime Minister says he is | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
going to give you what help he can. What do you make of that? Just give | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
us help and support with it, really. We have never been in this | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
situation before. I would just like to get the best hope I can, really, | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
to get justice. We have put diplomatic pressure on the Indian | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
authorities to say they have to investigate this fully, thoroughly | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
and fairly, and bring those to account. Beyond the horror, now, | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
the fight for justice. Simon Jones reporting, he joins us | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
live now from Chatham. I understand the Foreign Office has promised to | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
meet the family? That's right. The family feel they have had very | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
little support from the Foreign Office has so far, particularly as | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
they have been here in Chatham and that events have been unfolding so | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
far away. They welcome this offer of a meeting. David Cameron is keen | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
to stress there is only so much the British Government could do. That | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
attack elite -- the family were particularly upset that they were | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
unable to get to conjure up before the body was cremated, and they | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
will now be holding their own memorial service. | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
The family of a man who died after falling into the River Medway say | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
they simply can't understand how it happened. 42-year-old Keith Brook, | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
from Snodland, drowned yesterday afternoon. In an emotional | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
interview today, his mother told us he was able to swim. Our reporter | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
Jon Hunt is at the scene of the incident in Maidstone. Jon, what | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
more do we know about Mr Brook's death? | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
Police have given nothing more or way, but accounts I have been | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
hearing suggests that Keith may have been with friends, may even | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
have been joking around before falling into the river. Now with | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
Keith's mother saying that he could swim, combined with the speed of | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
his demise, it raises more questions. | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
Pat was there when Keith was pulled from the river. And had to confirm | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
to police that it was her son. is not very nice when you have to | :04:56. | :05:05. | |
ID your own son. The only thing I am thinking, because he could swim, | :05:05. | :05:12. | |
I don't know why he didn't get out. I can't say any more, and just | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
going to miss him, sorry. Emergency services on the scene in minutes | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
after reports Keith had fallen into the river. Eyewitnesses say | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
strangely he seemed one minute to be swimming, the next minute, | :05:25. | :05:33. | |
lifeless. I didn't think I would find my son drowned. I haven't had, | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
the police haven't told us what he has died of or anything. He was on | :05:38. | :05:46. | |
a lot of tablets. He was not a very well man. He wasn't very well. | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
family and friends say he was a happy man who like a joke. It is | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
possible his death was because of the debt -- a joke gone wrong. | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
looked over to see two people pursue each other next to the world | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
-- next to the river. I didn't think anything of it, I walked back, | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
but as I was coming back from where I had been, I saw them pushing each | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
other and the next thing I knew they were both in the river. The | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
girl was screaming and panicking. Then the man, whoever it was, just | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
did not come back up. It is clear it Keith like to drink. Whether | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
that was a factor here will be a matter for the coroner. His family | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
will miss his humour. He always laughed, no matter what he said to | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
him. When he was drunk, if you said something, he would laugh at you. | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
Even when you had a go at him, he would laugh at you, trying to make | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
a joke. That was Keith. I will just remember that he was a cheerful | :06:41. | :06:48. | |
bloke. Cheerful is how two of Keats | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
friends have described in this afternoon, Gary and John say they | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
went to school with him and known him all his life. His death of the | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
River Medway here, the third in eight weeks, appears to have been a | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
tragic accident. In a moment: From boom to bust. The | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
Ashford businesswoman who used to turn over �1 million a year on | :07:05. | :07:15. | |
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bankruptcy and the struggle for Rising prices on the roads and | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
rails are hitting commuters in the pocket, and tonight the Shadow | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
Transport Secretary Maria Eagle is in Chatham to urge ministers to | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
rethink their plans to increase train fares. Prices are set to rise | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
by inflation plus 3% every year for the next three years. At the moment | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
that means a rise of 8.2%. For a commuter travelling up from Chatham | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
to Victoria, the annual season ticket would go up by �273, to just | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
under �3,600. The commute from Hastings to Charing Cross would go | :07:47. | :07:57. | |
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up by �324, to almost �4,300. is about covering a financial gap | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
that the government have politically chosen to create. And | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
so instead of cutting the deficit at a more sensible pace, over the | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
next four years, they have decided to do it all at once, and as a | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
direct result of that choice, hard- pressed families here in Chatton | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
are going to pay the price in massively increased rail fares at | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
the next three years. But rail passengers faced big rises under | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
Labour too. In 2008 the cost of regulated season tickets rose by | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
4.8% on average. In 2009 they went up 7%. There was an average | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
increase of 1.1% last year too. And fares on some unregulated services | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
went up by far more, leaving commuters at Chatham Station | :08:37. | :08:47. | |
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struggling to afford their tickets. It has gone up, and it has affected | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
the amount of spare money I have especially on proper childcare | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
bills. Everything else at the moment, with a young family. With | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
the job do -- the job I do, there is no or else to work but London. | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
It is expensive to travel up, nearly �4,000 per year. Mind has | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
gone up �400 in one go, but I have had a pay freeze in the last three | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
years. With the cost of petrol, it is no cheaper to drive, it is | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
almost like I can't afford to go to work. Whatever government have to | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
say about these inflation-busting fares in the south-east? I spoke to | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
the rail minister earlier, and she said that basically, they have had | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
to increase prices on the railways to improve the rail infrastructure | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
and increase capacity because of overcrowding. She said that is all | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
a necessary thing they have to do. She also pointed to the fact that | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
3% above increasing -- and the 3% above inflation increase was | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
introduced by the previous Labour government. Next year's fare rises | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
will be based on the July inflation level, so we'll have to wait a few | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
weeks until we find out the exact figure. In the meantime, passenger | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
groups say they will continue to lobby the government to try and | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
keep fare rises to a minimum. Four men have been arrested after | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
an attempted armed robbery at a bank in Surrey. They were captured | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
outside the Santander Bank in Oxted yesterday evening. Police say a | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
gang armed with hammers smashed their way into the bank and | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
assaulted two security guards. Officers used a Taser gun to | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
disable two of the men. Campaigners fighting plans to | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
extend a quarry in woodland near Maidstone are calling for a public | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
inquiry. The Woodland Trust says if ministers allow the plans for the | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
33 hectare site in Barming to go ahead, they'd be breaking a pledge | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
not to allow developments on ancient woodland. | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
The retailer John Lewis has announced plans to create 160 jobs | :10:40. | :10:50. | |
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by opening a new superstore in Ashford. It will open in autumn | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
2012. It follows the opening of a similar store last year in | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
Tunbridge Wells, which created 190 new jobs. | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
Claire Morris was murdered by her husband, who drugged her and faked | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
a car crash to claim the life insurance money. Now her brother is | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
hoping to create a foundation in her name that would provide year- | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
round support for the families of murder victims. Peter Morris, from | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
Gillingham, wants to build a retreat, where grieving relatives | :11:09. | :11:18. | |
could receive support and therapy. Sara Smith has more. | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
It was just eight months after Claire Morris married Malcolm | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
Webster that he would kill her. This car crash are assumed to be an | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
accident. For Claire's family, morning her death at the time was | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
bad enough. When years later it was revealed as murder, it was like | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
losing her again. Now her brother wants to help others cope with what | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
they are going through. I think it would be a good thing for people to | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
be able to go to a good, homely, holiday environment, where they can | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
recharge their batteries and also, if I was able to, to re-inspire | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
them to get their lives back together. I hear so many stories of | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
people who feel that they suffer themselves a life sentence, even | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
though they are not the criminal. He it is 17 years since the crash | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
which killed his sister. Five years later, Malcolm Webster, a former | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
nurse, would try to kill his second wife in a similar plot in New | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
Zealand. Last month he was found guilty of Clare's Berger and the | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
attempted murder of his second wife. While make -- while Malcolm Webster | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
will be spending a long time in jail, Clare's brother is planning | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
the retreat. Do you understand what it is like to have your loved one | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
kept in a mortuary for three or four months? Do you have an | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
understanding of having your loved one have three post-mortems? | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
Somebody who has been through that, understand, you do not have to go | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
through great detail, it is just that immediate empathy. If he and | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
other people had somewhere to go, just to try and get back into | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
normality, to us to try and build himself back up so that they can go | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
out and deal with the big wide world. | :13:04. | :13:13. | |
Peter is now trying to raise the funds for his plan to do just that. | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
Our top story tonight. The Prime Minister has promised to do | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
everything he can to help the family of a Kent pensioner who's | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
believed to have been kidnapped and beheaded while on holiday in India. | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
Surjit Kaur, a mother-of-three from Chatham, was killed during a trip | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
to the Punjab. Two men are awaiting trial on kidnap and murder charges. | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
Also in tonight's programme. Giving wildlife a fair chance on the | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
fairways. The Kent camerman on a mission to let nature thrive on the | :13:35. | :13:42. | |
golf course. And are we going to get a lunar | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
look-in with the total lunar eclipse tonight? I am going to let | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
you know when and where to look, and if the cloud will actually | :13:49. | :13:57. | |
For the last 30 years they've operated as a family business, | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
making bespoke animal shelters near Ashford. Forsham Cottage Arks had | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
an annual turnover of more than �1 million and employed 35 people, but | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
this month they've gone bust. Across the UK almost 280,000 | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
businesses go under every year. The figure in Brighton, Sussex and | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
Surrey was almost 15,000 in 2009. And more than 7,000 in Kent and | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
Medway. Our business correspondent Mark Norman has tonight's Special | :14:23. | :14:31. | |
Report. We were a big family, we enjoyed it, | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
it was a lovely place to be. They made posh chicken cooks and kennels, | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
exhibited at Chelsea Flower Show, and won prizes from BBC's | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
Gardeners' World. This is now a family business that has gone bust. | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
Mortgaged to the held, they owe the taxman and the Bank huge amounts. | :14:50. | :14:57. | |
After 33 years, this is hard. had a magic Ward, -- magic wand, I | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
would still borrow against my house and I would still have my company. | :15:00. | :15:08. | |
We love it and we leave it. I am going to cry. Yes, it is a problem. | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
Some of the most common reasons for businesses to fail include failing | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
to control the cash going out and coming into the business, failing | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
to control costs, ruthlessly, and failing to pay Crown taxes, | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
including PAYE and VAT. Experts believe many people who run | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
companies do not recognise when they are getting into trouble and | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
do not ask for help soon enough. they face a bad month, they | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
recognise that head for the next month will be better. One month | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
sometimes becomes three months, it becomes two quarters of VAT they | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
have not paid, becomes, shall we remortgage the House? So they are | :15:45. | :15:52. | |
optimists and it is fine at the right time when they seek advice. | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
Despite a bulging order book, despite -- every pin it represents | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
new work, Cindy has found that bird flu and the recession has brought | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
her business to the end. You get behind with your bills, you can't | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
pay your tax. We are up-to-date with paperwork, but we cannot claw | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
away out. Although you try, and to beg and control and ask for time, | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
in the end, time runs out. Cindy feels not enough is being done to | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
help people in her position. Time has now run out. She is now | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
personally bankrupt, and in the next few weeks, she will likely use | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
Bath lose her home, her business and any hope she might have had of | :16:32. | :16:39. | |
saving her company. Lots of these businesses that fail | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
are sole traders of family firms. How tough this -- how tough is it | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
for them in the current climate? They are quite vulnerable. Three | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
and a half million people run small family businesses, and retell is | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
one of the most popular ways of opening a new business. Even here | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
in a vibrant economy of Brighton, they go under. Just behind me, a | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
kebab stall has gone down, and here, a town store. Many small businesses | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
use their house as collateral to finance the business, so when it | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
goes wrong, they lose their business, their income and their | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
home. As we saw with Cindy, we saw how distressing that whole | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
situation can be. Cindy Pellett did contact us with | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
her story. If you have a story you think we should be covering, | :17:23. | :17:33. | |
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Next month the eyes of the world will be focused on Kent for the | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
Open Championship at Royal St George's near Sandwich. But one | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
local cameraman has been looking beyond the finely manicured greens | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
and carefully tended fairways to focus on the wildlife that thrives | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
there. Across the UK, golf courses cover more land than all of the | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
RSPB's nature reserves put together, and as part of the BBC's | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
Springwatch series, Kent cameraman Richard Taylor-Jones has been | :18:00. | :18:10. | |
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finding out if sport and nature can Gosh! Literally, a minute ago, | :18:17. | :18:24. | |
nothing. Then suddenly, the air is just alive with skylarks singing. | :18:24. | :18:33. | |
Well, there is one. A bit of a territorial dispute. Saying, this | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
is my patch, go back to your patch. Golf courses often get blamed for | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
whipping up good habitat. Clearly here, this is good skylark habitat. | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
I think they realise -- the reason for that is because you have got | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
this rough area where the birds like to nest in, next to the very | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
short fairways and greens of which are ideal skylark landing pads. | :18:57. | :19:04. | |
There is a wheat beer. Sorry, got distracted by another bird. A | :19:04. | :19:10. | |
female hen harrier. Well I never! I have to say, I was not expecting to | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
see a hen harrier on the golf course. Gosh! Ay sound surprised at | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
all this wildlife, but I should not be. These courses are amongst the | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
best in Britain for Nature. Classified as European Special | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
Areas of Conservation. Golf courses are nature reserves in my opinion. | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
We are looking at something in the order of 3200 golf courses in the | :19:34. | :19:44. | |
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UK, occupying 100,000 Heck tears of land. We need more of them to | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
recognise the importance of managing wildlife. All's work shows | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
his can be done. I hope more golf has become more aware of the | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
wildlife that surrounds them. After all, long before mowers were | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
invented, golfers had to rely on grazing rabbits to keep the grass | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
short on their greens and fairways. Back then, golf needed later. In | :20:07. | :20:15. | |
today's world, nature needs goal. - - back then, both needed nature. In | :20:15. | :20:25. | |
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They say it is like a good walk spoiled. | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
Those little chicks were like the news run during the sandwich | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
around! In cricket, there are few more | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
frightening prospects than facing a genuinely quick bowler and having | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
just a fraction of a second to decide whether to try and play a | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
shot or get your head out of the way of the ball coming at you at 90 | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
miles an hour. But psychologists at the University of Brighton have | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
come up with a new kind of training simulator that they claim can help | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
a batsman anticipate what the ball is going to do, and buy a few | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
valuable extra moments. Natalie Graham reports. | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
In comes the legendary Pakistani bowler who also played for Sussex. | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
Facing him at the crease, in a run in Eastbourne, is Jimmy Adams, the | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
former West Indies captain. They have never played like this | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
together before. It is a simulation developed at Brighton University to | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
help batsmen make better split- second decisions. Maybe going back | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
20 years, if I had more practice of this, maybe I might have played him | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
a little bit better! Seriously, I think this is something which could | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
probably help players of any ilk. Just because it is such a vital | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
part of batting, the facts that you have to concentrate on particular | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
areas, get information in from visual cues. The idea of this set- | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
up is the player can train his brain. Anticipate how the ball will | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
land by looking at the borders -- bowler's body movement. If you can | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
find some fast bowlers, let us see how well they handle it. Getting it | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
wrong can be catastrophic, as many batsmen will testify. The fearsome | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
four, the West Indian bowlers who terrified their opponents in the | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
Seventies and Eighties, inspired a recent film. He has hit him! That | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
may have broken his jaw. simulator developed in Eastbourne | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
will be used to train Sussex cricketers. It is also a good tool | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
for players to get warmed up, drill their skills, it is a mental warm | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
up, you're not necessarily hitting balls but you are getting the | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
mental process. If I am getting ready to bat in a Test match, at | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
next man in, I do not have time to get into the net but they could do | :22:41. | :22:48. | |
five minutes and this in a quiet room. This could held top flight | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
batsman fine-tune their sports -- response to spin bowling. | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
Serena Williams' competitive comeback at the Aegon International | :22:54. | :23:01. | |
in Eastbourne is over. The American, who's spent the past year out with | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
injury and illness, has been beaten by top seed Vera Zvonareva by two | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
sets to one. Most of us take on the school run | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
on foot or by car. But increasing numbers of children get to school | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
on two wheels, and some parents are travelling by scooter too in order | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
to keep up. It's led one group of mums in East Sussex to form a | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
scooter club and they say it's helping them keep fit. Alex Beard | :23:22. | :23:32. | |
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Exhaust fumes, traffic jams, the fight for a car parking space. A | :23:34. | :23:44. | |
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familiar story for many parents But a group of mothers from | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
Eastbourne may have found a more tranquil and healthy solution to | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
the school run. You quickly realise you are either going to have to get | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
a good pair of shoes to keep up with them, or you're just going to | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
struggle to keep up with the school run. It is a great way of being | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
able to do the school run and peace -- be fit with them. Taking a | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
scooter to school has become such a success that a group of parents now | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
week -- meet every week for eight per adult owner -- adult only | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
session. It is great fun, really exhilarating, it is not hard work | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
at all. It is not just the mums to enjoy the new school run. It is | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
really fun. I can go really fast, going down hills. I go really fast. | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
The usual complaints around school gates at drop-off time is too many | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
parked cars. Not the issue here. The company that supplies the | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
scooters have been so impressed with the ski to fit this group, it | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
may now act as a blueprint to roll- out across the country. -- the | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
scooter fitness group. It is going to roll out across the | :24:52. | :25:01. | |
country! Do you see what she did We are all waiting in anticipation | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
for the lunar eclipse, then the June weather comes a rank and you | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
cannot see a thing! The SouthEast's will be the best | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
place to see the longest eclipse, and by -- but we have got a lot of | :25:13. | :25:23. | |
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cloud. We might seat it later on. The total eclipse will be from 9pm | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
till 10pm. Look towards the east or south-east any time after 9 o'clock | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
and you are more likely to get the chance to see that total lunar | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
eclipse in that -- if the sky is clear. After that, you will see | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
just a partial lunar eclipse. Are we going to get these clear skies? | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
This is the weather front I mentioned. It is bringing some | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
drizzle and a few showers as well. You could not have timed this worse. | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
It is across as just for me once the clear skies. Although there are | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
not too many showers, there will also be a few breaks. Hopefully, | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
some breaks between 9 and 10 and some of us could see the total | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
eclipse. If you miss it to write, you get another chance at the end | :26:07. | :26:14. | |
of this year, December tent, a ball that -- although that will not be a | :26:14. | :26:21. | |
total lunar eclipse. If you share - - a few showers tonight. Tomorrow, | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
we will see even more showers, particularly in the morning. Some | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
of them will be heavy, thunder and lightning and Hell is possible. It | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
will be heaviest in the morning, a little bit more sunshine in the | :26:34. | :26:41. | |
afternoon. Some good sunny spells in the afternoon, but in the | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
morning, a few showers. Definitely take a waterproof or an umbrella if | :26:46. | :26:54. | |
you're heading off to the Antiques Roadshow at Hever Castle. There | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
will be showers, and the showers will eventually fade away. Some | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
such have and dry weather to end for some of us tomorrow, before on | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
Friday, another complicated weather system. For the majority of us, the | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
most of Friday will be dry with sunny spells to start. This area of | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
rain could affect us later on on Friday. For the weekend, possibly a | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
little bit more positivity to look forward to. Breezy on Saturday, | :27:21. | :27:27. |