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Welcome to South East Today. I'm Rob Smith. | :00:04. | :00:07. | |
And I'm Natalie Graham. Tonight's top stories: Facing prosecution - | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
the Sussex hospitals where patients still aren't receiving basic | :00:09. | :00:19. | |
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standards of care. I would have thought eating and drinking is | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
something that we should look at a thing, if we can't give this to our | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
patients, where are we going wrong? Homes across the South East are | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
struck by lightning as intense thunderstorms and batter a Kent and | :00:33. | :00:40. | |
Sussex. Also in tonight's programme: Why wasn't he properly | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
supervised? An inquest jury questions how a prisoner due to | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
stand trial for the murder of his daughter came to commit suicide. | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
The Canterbury artist who is creating crazy concrete reefs in | :00:48. | :00:56. | |
Mexico. My bike has a service where you send them a text message, and | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
this in due back a balance. I think the LOL on the end was a bit harsh. | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
And we meet Angela Marsh, the Sussex comic tipped for great | :01:04. | :01:14. | |
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Good evening. A Sussex hospital trust is being warned to improve | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
patient care or face prosecution. The Care Quality Commission has | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
ruled that, despite previous warnings, the East Sussex Hospitals | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
NHS Trust is still failing to meet essential standards of quality and | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
safety. Even so, the bosses of Eastbourne District General | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
Hospital and the Conquest Hospital in Hastings say they are confident | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
of making significant progress by the September deadline. Sara Smith | :01:39. | :01:47. | |
reports. Two hospitals, one Trust and a | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
deadline of 2nd September. They have to make urgent improvements in | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
patient care. When we first went in February, we advise the trust of | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
what we had found, and when we went back in April, things had improved. | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
But it still doesn't make the progress that it needs to, so they | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
are on their last warning. Incomplete patient records and | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
assessments are leaving patients at risk, says the commission. If the | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
trust do not sort this within the timetable, services could be | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
reduced. I want it sorted. The residents of Eastbourne deserve for | :02:25. | :02:32. | |
it to be sorted. The trust was warned to make improvement after | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
inspections in February, but just last month Neil Adams's brother was | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
discharged without any recognition of his vulnerability. Robert Adams, | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
who has learning difficulties, had been taken to hospital by ambulance | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
after a collapse. He was extremely vulnerable. He was left to walk | :02:51. | :02:58. | |
home from Eastbourne to Seaford, 15 miles, in a pair of pyjamas. He had | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
no mobile phone. By chance he was found by his nephew. It was also | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
observed that patients did not always receive the help they needed | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
to eat and drink. I would have thought that eating and drinking is | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
something they really ought to look at, and think if they can't do that | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
the patience, we really must be doing something wrong. But the | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
Trust insists it has made improvements, and will continue to | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
do so. We have moved on substantially in the areas they | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
identified, and they have lifted to of the warning notices. They have | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
identified that we have got further to do, but we have already shown | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
that we can do this. And they have until 2nd September to prove that. | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
Sara Smith joins us live from Hastings. What sort of sanctions | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
could the trust be facing? commission says the trust has to | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
make these urgent improvements by the deadline, or they could be | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
fined or even prosecuted. They say the trust is failing to ensure the | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
care and welfare of service users, failing to protect them against the | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
risks of receiving unsafe or inappropriate care or treatment. | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
The chief executive who we just heard from, he has been in place | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
for a year, and he has another two months to turn things around. He | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
has a very angry local MP who will be looking for heads to roll if | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
those improvements are not made. Sara, thank you. | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
Lightning strikes have started fires and caused damage at a number | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
of homes across the South East. A man and woman had to be rescued | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
from a property in Ashford after it caught fire just before two o'clock. | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
Fire crews also tackled blazes in Crawley, Medway and Tunbridge Wells, | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
from where our news correspondent Mark Norman joins us. Mark - some | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
spectacular thunderstorms this afternoon, causing widespread | :04:44. | :04:54. | |
problems. Indeed, Natalie. This looks like a | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
quiet residential street now, but lightning struck at the bottom of | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
the Road this afternoon, travelled along the road and hit this | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
telegraph pole. It then hit this chimney breast and Loch -- knocked | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
off some tiles. But then travelled down the living room wall and burst | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
out of the wall. Something similar happened in Ashford. We have spoken | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
to the occupants of both homes. struck the corner of the chimney | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
stack, broke the tiles, the tiles fell down on the lovely sports car | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
of the man next door, which is so sad. But it seems to have come down | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
the chimney stack and through the wall. I could smell smoke and | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
burning, and my friend went upstairs to my computer room which | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
was set alight, and it had come from the aerial. It had gone right | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
down to the system. It was terrifying. Mark, what about | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
elsewhere in the region? Were heard earlier at a house fire | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
started by lightning. There was another strike at Gatwick which | :05:59. | :06:06. | |
knocked out flights. Then we were sent this stunning picture of the | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
lightning strike in minster. Wafted makes dramatic pictures, it was a | :06:11. | :06:18. | |
terrifying incident. You can see more dramatic pictures | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
In a moment: Down to the final dozen - fighting for a coveted | :06:25. | :06:34. | |
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place in next month's Open at An inquest jury looking into the | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
suicide of a man in Lewes Prison have raised serious questions into | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
how potentially vulnerable inmates are supervised. Tony Couchman died | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
just two days before he was due to stand trial for the murder of his | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
daughter, Victoria. The jury returned a narrative verdict, | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
particularly concerned that no full mental health review was carried | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
out on Couchman, despite having been deemed at risk of suicide or | :06:57. | :07:07. | |
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self-harm some months before. John The suicide of Tony Couchman may | :07:07. | :07:17. | |
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have left his daughter's death shrouded in mystery,. The. That the | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
jour -- the jury chose to flag up in court was that he had been given | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
inadequate mental health support. Also prisoners can be locked up | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
unobserved for too long overnight, especially at weekends. And razor | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
blades are available in cells even to those on suicide watch. | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
The deputy governor of Lewes prison said that to deprive men of shaving | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
kit could lead to anger. They have to strike a balance between | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
prisoners' rights as grown men and a slight risk. This is only the | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
second case of suicide with a razor blade that he had come across. | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
The jury today heard that improvements were already in place | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
both in the criminal justice system and the health service. Some | :08:03. | :08:13. | |
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comfort, perhaps, to those still Ministers have asked Network Rail | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
to explain how train passengers came to be left stranded in very | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
uncomfortable conditions in yesterday's extremely high | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
temperatures. Thousands of train passengers were caught up in long | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
delays getting out of London after a train broke down at Dartford. | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
Passengers on another train forced the doors open to escape the heat, | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
and walked along the tracks. An 11-year-old girl with a rare | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
condition of the immune system, thought to affect only five people | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
in the UK, has died. Melanie Cottle from Folkestone suffered from | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
Chediak Higashi Syndrome, a condition so rare her doctor has | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
not seen it for 20 years. Her family had appealed for people with | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
the blood type B positive to come forward as she was in need of blood | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
donations so she could have a bone marrow operation. But she died from | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
heart failure over the weekend. The head of a Kent primary school says | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
she believes it's morally wrong for teachers to go on strike. Angela | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
Konarzewski says none of her staff at Fleetdown Primary School in | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
Dartford will take part in the day of action planned for Thursday. But | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
union activists say that it's vital that teachers have the right to | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
protest over significant issues like pension cuts. Katherine Downes | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
reports. Thousands of families across the | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
South East are preparing for a day of disruption on Thursday. But not | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
those with children at Fleetdown Primary, though teachers there will | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
be making a stand in another way. think we have a great | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
responsibility towards our children, which is why I feel uncomfortable | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
about striking, and I have done throughout my career. There is a | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
moral issue about whether we should go out on strike, even if we have a | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
very strong point, and leave our children without school that day. | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
But teachers will be making a stand. We wanted a different way of | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
approaching the issue. We are thoroughly concerned and heard by | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
the proposed changes, but at the same time, we feel and understand | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
that there is an obligation that we have towards the children. | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
decided we wanted to make a protest in a different way, and we decided | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
we would put together a letter to send to Michael Gove. We are going | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
to ask our parents if they would be good enough to sign a petition | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
which they will send in as well. It's an approach that's supported | :10:21. | :10:28. | |
by pupils' parents. I am proud of the school that they are not | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
striking, because it would be inconvenient, but I do agree with | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
their pensions and their rights, too. They are not striking, but | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
making their views known in a way that puts the children first. | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
schools, though, are being forced to close as a result of the strike. | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
141 Schools in Kent will be closed or partially closed out of 600 in | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
the authority. In Medway, 32 will be closed or partially closed, in | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
East sussex 75 will be affected, Brighton and Hove will see 43 shut | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
or partially shut and finally a picture is gradually emerging in | :10:57. | :11:07. | |
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Surrey, where 120 schools are I am prepared to put up with a | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
lifetime of lowish pay, but I want to have reasonable salary -- | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
pension to look forward to, but I'm not prepared to put up with lowish | :11:22. | :11:32. | |
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pay and no pension. Trish has been excused her duties in parliament to | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
help out at her local school on Thursday. Until then, one last | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
ditch attempt and David Cameron. These strikes are wrong. For you, | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
for the children, for the good of the country. These changes we | :11:44. | :11:51. | |
Northumbrian police are trying to trace a suspected sex offender who | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
may be in Kent or Sussex. Spencer Philip Clark is wanted on suspicion | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
of sexually assaulting a 14-year- old he met through a dating website. | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
Officers believe he may be in the South East because he has | :12:02. | :12:11. | |
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The government is being condemned for planned cuts to the probation | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
service in Kent. The shadow justice minister Helen Goodman told the | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
Commons that the county was facing a cut of �1 in every seven. The | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
justice secretary, Ken Clarke, blamed overspending by the previous | :12:26. | :12:36. | |
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It's been reported that the police dog handler at the centre of an | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
inquiry after two dogs were found dead in a locked car as | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
temperatures reached 30 Celsius has received hospital treatment for an | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
apparently self-inflicted injury. Today Britain's most senior police | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
officer has said he's very saddened by the deaths at a police dog | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
training centre in Kent. Sir Paul Stephenson said Scotland Yard is | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
taking the matter "very seriously". Simon Jones reports. | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
Colleagues in shock. Two dog's dead after it appears they were | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
forgotten about in a locked car. It prompted Britain's most senior | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
police officer so Paul Stephenson to state that he was very saddened | :13:08. | :13:16. | |
by what had happened. The officer believed to be involved is Sergeant | :13:16. | :13:25. | |
Ian Craven, filmed dog handling here. You don't want an adult talk | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
constantly looking for attention, and we want the dog that will sit | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
there and ignore them. On Sunday, the two dogs were found collapsed | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
and couldn't be saved. It is believed the officer threw himself | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
on a colleague's car when he had the dog had died. In a statement, | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
the Metropolitan Police confirmed that an officer went missing from | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
duty. A search was launched because of concern over his well-being. He | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
was eventually recovered with an injury to his hand. I was shocked | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
when I heard it was a police handler dock, because we tend to | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
hold that these people know better. The RSPCA and the police themselves | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
are now investigating. It should never have happened, and I can | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
fully understand the anger, the sadness, the disappointment of dog | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
lovers everywhere, and that includes every other member of our | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
dog section and the police. But we need to take the emotion out, look | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
at the facts and work out how the tragedy happened. The officer is | :14:28. | :14:38. | |
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It is 16 minutes to seven. This is our top story tonight. A Sussex | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
hospital trust has been warned it faces prosecution if it doesn't | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
improve patient care. The Care Quality Commission says despite | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
previous warnings, staff at Eastbourne District General and | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
Hastings Conquest hospitals are still failing to provide the | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
essential standards of quality and safety. The Trust has until | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
September to make significant progress. | :14:56. | :15:04. | |
Also in tonight's programme: I went to visit my friend and her new baby. | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
That's tedious, isn't it? We need Angela Barnes, R comic tipped for | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
success. And what a difference a day can make. After the dramatic | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
weather, things are coming down. If you have a story you think we | :15:21. | :15:31. | |
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should be covering on South East Most artists opt for a gallery to | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
display their work, but a sculptor from Kent has chosen a very | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
different location. Jason deCaires Taylor from Canterbury has crafted | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
an underwater world of concrete creations near Cancun in Mexico. | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
His latest installation, a VW Beetle, has just been lowered onto | :15:56. | :16:06. | |
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the sea bed. Juliette Parkin has Not an accident, not an abandoned | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
piece of scrap - but a cement sculpture destined for life under | :16:11. | :16:19. | |
the ocean. What started as a small- scale project has grown into a | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
watery underworld of 400 sculptures, all planned with the marine | :16:21. | :16:31. | |
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The Volkswagen was particularly designed for crustaceans and | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
lobsters, and they like particular spaces with particular sizes at the | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
particular height. I am looking at making a bigger piece which | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
actually has normal urban architecture, but designed for | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
marine life, so each house would be designed for a different type of | :16:55. | :17:05. | |
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The artist, who had experience in traditional stone-carving | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
techniques in Canterbury Cathedral, has left his mark on his home city | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
with an installation fixed to the bed of the river Stour. Alluvia is | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
cast in cement, the sculptor using the special materials needed to | :17:21. | :17:30. | |
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encourage marine life to flourish I was living on an island that had | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
a lot of problems of hurricane, and some of the can hurricane -- coral | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
reefs had been particularly wiped out. I was looking for ways to | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
express myself artistically, but also do something practical for the | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
environment. The long-term aim - to create | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
artificial reefs and protect the natural ones by giving tourists | :17:52. | :18:02. | |
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There are just a couple of weeks to go until the Open Golf Championship | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
starts at Sandwich, where the likes of Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
will battle it out for the most prestigious prize in the sport. But | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
alongside them will be a number of people you are unlikely to have | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
ever heard of - amateurs and club pros who have battled through | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
qualifying tournaments for the right to have a crack alongside the | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
best in the game. Neil Bell reports on those competing for the final 12 | :18:28. | :18:37. | |
spots. For these golfers, the chance to | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
play in the Open is one of the highlights of their career. | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
Thousands of players around the world were hoping to make it to | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
sandwich. This was their final chance. Michael Campbell, based in | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
Brighton, was one of the biggest names involved today, and well | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
placed at the halfway stage. used to the pressure of a golf | :18:58. | :19:06. | |
tournament. Are just going low, it is a strong field once again, with | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
a bunch of amateurs out there playing. So it is a true test of | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
golf. The Windies up for the second round, which is great. Tom Sharratt | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
successfully qualified for the Open as an amateur three years ago, and | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
eventually finished 19th. He knows how nerve-racking the process can | :19:22. | :19:29. | |
be. There is no point. If you finish 4th, you wait -- may has | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
well finished 44th. If it is your day, it comes off, and if it | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
doesn't, you can always come back next year. But that almost didn't | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
happen for Benn after he was diagnosed with cancer just months | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
ago. Despite weeks of treatment, he would love to make it to the open. | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
I will be disappointed if we don't. I am lucky to be here, lucky to be | :19:52. | :20:00. | |
playing golf again. But I can't seem to put a score together. | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
Weather interruptions this afternoon halted play, and | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
increased the tension. The scoring on all four courses was impressive. | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
It may well be later this evening or even tomorrow before the | :20:11. | :20:21. | |
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identity of the 12 golfers will be It will be exciting if one of them | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
do as well. Now, if you're worried you might be getting too old to | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
play your favourite sport, you might want to think again. The | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
Sussex over-70s cricket team have never been beaten. Yesterday they | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
defeated Worcestershire at Malvern by 54 runs in the Over-70s League, | :20:35. | :20:43. | |
which was set up last year. We have a player with two new knees and two | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
new hips. I have had a knee replacement. At our age, if you | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
enjoy the gauge so much -- the game so much, you put up with the pain. | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
I tell you, they are quick between the wickets! She turned | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
professional comic just 18 months ago as a tribute to her late father, | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
who thought she had the gift for making people laugh - and Angela | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
Barnes from Brighton is already getting noticed on the comedy | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
circuit. She's just won the much coveted BBC Radio Two New Comedy | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
Award, which in the past has recognised the talents of Lee Mack, | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
Rhod Gilbert and Alan Carr. Robin Gibson has been to meet her, and | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
joins us now from Brighton. Robin, she's a Kent and Sussex girl | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
through and through, isn't she? I think we will claim her as one of | :21:24. | :21:31. | |
ours. She was a student here in Brighton. She still works here, so | :21:31. | :21:38. | |
no stranger to venues like this one here. She still has a day job here, | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
although after these awards, she may find herself in a lot of demand | :21:41. | :21:51. | |
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A giddy moment she still finds hard to accept. She only gave the | :21:51. | :22:00. | |
competition a go at the last moment, with little or no expectations. | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
have still not quite got my head around it. Suddenly around getting | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
offered gigs that two weeks ago I would never have been offered, | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
which is brilliant, and they get to play these clubs are no wanted to | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
play for ages. I am 34, which I was absolutely | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
fine about until I realised I had outlived five Blue Peter dog. | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
worked hard for it, chasing standup dates in front of many... And not | :22:26. | :22:34. | |
so many. She's still a very funny woman. Wherever I go and the | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
country, they love Brighton. It is because we are so optimistic here. | :22:39. | :22:47. | |
We sell buckets and spades. It is a She lives in Brighton and grew up | :22:47. | :22:55. | |
in Maidstone, home turf. I love playing in Kent, because I am from | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
Kent and have jokes about Kent. My dad used to come to all the comedy | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
nights, and he would say, have a go, you do it. I would say no, I am too | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
shy. Then I lost my dad very suddenly a few years ago, and it | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
made me think, I should have just done it. So I signed up to a course | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
in 2009, and six months later I started doing gigs. | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
Some critics said in the male- dominated world of comedy she was a | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
token gesture in the comedy awards final, but she showed them. This is | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
really awesome. Thank you. A really popular winner here tonight. Well, | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
a great talent and a very nice person. We put two in front of a | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
microphone with just as in the room, and I have to say, she did have us | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
in stitches. So, where can you catch up with the homecoming queen? | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
She is in Hastings later this week, and next week back here behind me. | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
So you could come and make your minds up. | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
Thank you very much. Very mean to put her to the test! But she did | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
make them laugh. Staff and pupils at a Kent school are spending the | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
entire day in complete silence. The challenge of teaching 1,000 pupils | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
without speaking at Maidstone Grammar School for Girls was staged | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
to raise money for a new building and to highlight the importance of | :24:12. | :24:22. | |
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We could never do that, could we? It wouldn't work here. Now, the | :24:25. | :24:35. | |
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weather has been doing dramatic What a difference a day makes. | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
Yesterday, are standing temperatures. Today, a different | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
picture. I have received so many tweeds about the what the weather | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
has been like way you are. It has been a case of short, sharp showers, | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
some of the money 30 seconds but pretty dramatic, and a lot of | :24:54. | :25:04. | |
thunder and lightning. Tonight,, and cooler. We should be seeing all | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
of the thunder and lightning dying out. All of this heavy cloud has | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
now cleared away, but we are still seeing a small amount around. That | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
is going to mean still a few more showers to come, particularly | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
towards Folkestone, but overnight it should be a pretty dry picture, | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
becoming clear for many of us. Temperatures down to about 12 | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
Celsius, so quite a bit cooler. Tomorrow we will start to see a | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
little bit of sunshine. Around the middle of the day, the clearest | :25:36. | :25:44. | |
skies will occur, and then it will cloud over again. Those | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
temperatures, only up to 21 Celsius, so quite a lot cooler then | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
yesterday and today. Tomorrow night, cooler once again, a low of about | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
ten Celsius. Clear Sky for most of us, and that will be how things | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
will be over the next few days. High pressure in charge by Thursday, | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
sitting across the south-west of England, but for us and the South | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
East, there will be quite a bit of sunshine, although those | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
temperatures really just not that impressive for this time of year. | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
Yesterday was very hot, but it is a different -- different story for | :26:24. | :26:30. | |
the next few days. There will be a little sunshine around, the odd | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
shower creeping in by the evening. Come Thursday and Friday, a mixture | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
of cloud and sunshine, but the weekend should bring us some | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
writers sunshine, even though temperatures are really not up to | :26:41. | :26:50. | |
much. And that is the weather for Not too bad, but it doesn't seem to | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
know what it is doing. Well, let's recap tonight's top stories. David | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
Cameron has urged thousands of public sector workers not to go on | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
strike on Thursday. In a speech in Birmingham this afternoon, he said | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
the proposed changes to their pensions were fair and essential. A | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
hospital trust in Sussex has been given a warning to urgently improve | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
patient care, or it could face prosecution. The Care Quality | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
Commission has ruled that despite previous warnings Eastbourne | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
District General and the Conquest Hospital in Hastings are still | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
failing inessential standards of safety. | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
And an artist from Canterbury has created an underwater world of | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
concrete sculptures of the coast of Mexico. They include a VW Beetle | :27:31. | :27:33. |