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Welcome to South East Today, I'm Rob Smith. | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
And I'm Polly Evans. Tonight's top stories. | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
She scared off a hammer-wielding burglar with an air rifle - a | :00:14. | :00:23. | |
pensioner tells us tonight she'd do it again. I would do it again | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
simply because it's my home. You know, how dare they? | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
A mother fights for her life in hospital after being run over by | :00:29. | :00:38. | |
her 17-year-old daughter as she was practising reversing. We're live | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
tonight in Cuxton with the details. Also in tonight's programme: | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
The restaurant accused of demonising children for using a | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
mosquito alarm to make groups of youngsters buzz off. | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
A real case history - the cigarette holder used by high-speed record | :00:52. | :01:00. | |
breakers Sir Malcolm and Donald Campbell is up for auction. They | :01:00. | :01:08. | |
never turned on the central heating it's like having to work in a sauna. | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
And the instantly recognisable Sir Donald Sinden is made an honorary | :01:11. | :01:21. | |
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Doctor by the University of Kent. Good evening. A pensioner who | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
scared off a hammer-wielding burglar with her husband's air | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
rifle says she wouldn't hesitate to do it again. | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
Mavis Britcher from Saltwood near Hythe helped to secure a five-and- | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
a-half-year jail term for the intruder Malcolm Haben. But the | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
stress of the experience left her needing treatment for a serious | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
heart condition. She's been speaking to our reporter Simon | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
Jones. She says she instinctively reached for the rifle when she | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
heard a window smash downstairs, and 73-year-old Mavis Britcher | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
didn't hesitate to confront the man, who was trying to get in through | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
the window. I was terrified. I was angry. I think it was rage, not | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
anger. It was pure rage. It just he went whoof! I don't know why I | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
picked it up, really. It was just there, and I grabbed it. | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
husband owns the rifle legally to shoot Jermyn. If it had been a few | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
seconds later, the guy would have gained access to the house, and who | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
knows what would have happened then. I mean, he did have a hammer in his | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
hand. After being confronted, the burglar fled empty handed. He had a | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
bike around the corner, but Mavis Britcher got a good look at him. | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
Her description helped get him to court. Malcolm Hayburn was jailed | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
this week for a string of burglaries. She was a brave lady. | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
Her actions helped us find that criminal. I wouldn't advise people | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
to follow the same actions she did, but I would say help us. Gather | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
intelligence. Remember faces, vehicles if they're used, and | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
remember to call police - 999 - straight away. The ordeal has left | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
her needing treatment for a rare heart condition, which is caused by | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
stressful events. I'm very angry that he - a complete stranger - | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
should cause a health problem like this, because it's going to be - | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
I'm at 73. It's going to be there for the rest of my life. It's not | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
going to go away. I want to live as long as possible. I don't want to | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
be cut short by some person breaking into my home. Kent Police | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
say they're winning the war on burglary with 83 arrests in one | :03:37. | :03:45. | |
week in a new crackdown. A mother is fighting for her life | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
after being hit by a car driven by her 17-year-old daughter as she | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
practised reversing. Sue Duke is in critical condition in a London | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
hospital after suffering serious injuries in a car park of Cuxton | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
Social Club. Ria, what do we actually know about what happened? | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
As we understand it, Sue Duke is still in a critical condition in | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
hospital. Now, this is where the accident happened. Emergency | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
services were called to the scene at around 11.00am Monday morning, | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
and shortly afterwards, an air ambulance turned up and took Sue | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
Duke to the Royal Thon Hospital. Police say they still haven't taken | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
any formal statements from the family members as they're at Sue | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
Duke's beckside. What kind of injuries did Susan Duke actually | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
sustain? She was taken to the neurological unit of the hospital | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
with very, very serious head injuries, and as I say, she's in | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
critical condition. The social club here has been locked up all day. I | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
haven't seen anyone coming or going. No doubt we'll learn more about the | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
circumstances of this accident in the coming days. OK, Ria, thank you. | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
In a moment, the decline of the honey bee leads Kent scientists to | :04:59. | :05:09. | |
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come up with an alternative to help pollinate our crops. | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
A fast-food restaurant in Maidstone is being accused of demonising | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
children and discriminating against young people after installing a | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
controversial alarm which is only audible to teenagers to stop them | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
hanging around the doorway. The manager of McDonald's says they | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
only use the "mosquito" device, which emits a high pitched whine, | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
as a last resort following complaints from other customers. | :05:29. | :05:39. | |
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Rebecca Barry reports. You can probably tell why it's | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
called the mosquito. It rings in your ears, and yeah, it makes you | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
stop, and then you're like - it does your head in. It's just a very | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
high-pitched annoying sound like your ears are ringing. It does move | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
you. It does the job, I suppose. It's just constant ringing in the | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
ears. It's very annoying. It doesn't help when you're trying to | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
have a conversation with your mates outside. We have adjusted the sound | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
so we can all hear it, but usually people over 25 can't detect such | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
high frequencies. When a group of people are seen to be making a | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
nuisance outside, the manager inside can activate a high-pitched | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
noise which only young people can hear, but charities say it's | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
demonising children. This device is indiscriminate. Those young people | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
who are doing some kind of an offence need to be possibly moved | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
on, but this demonises young people who aren't causing any offence | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
whatsoever, and it's just not acceptable. Paul Ashby is used to | :06:42. | :06:49. | |
more pleasant sounds. He works at a high high shop next door. He says | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
it helps to reduce anti-social behave euro in the area. On a busy | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
day, there is loads of people hanging around, so it can get quite | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
noisy, quite intimidating, and the effect of that noise being on, as I | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
work here, you can see people reacting, without their knowing it, | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
they just disperse. McDonald's say they only ever use it as a last | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
resort. The company that makes the Mosquito says it's harmless. Until | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
that's proven otherwise, young people here will just have to live | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
with it. We have had lots of comments from | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
you on our Face The Problem page today. Daniel Smith says, "I can | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
see why they wouldn't want gangs of teens standing right outside the | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
doors. They'd be intimidating to anyone who wants to go inside". | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
Michelle says "What's the problem? It's a deterrent. If you were of a | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
different age group, I am sure a different deterrent would be in | :07:49. | :07:59. | |
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place, so it's not discriminatory". Three people have appeared in court | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
over an incident in Brighton on Saturday which left a 33-year-old | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
man in hospital with serious head and chest injuries. Patrick Lyons | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
is charged with attempted murder and causing grievous bodily harm | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
with intent. Louise Lyons is charged with grievous bodily harm | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
with intent and actual bodily harm. Both were remanded in custody. | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
Katie Lyons, who is charged with grievous bodily harm with intent, | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
was released on bail. All three are due to appear at Lewes Crown Court | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
on Friday. A mother told police her former | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
partner had threatened to kill her days before she allegedly killed | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
their two children, a court heard today. Fiona Donnison is on trial | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
for the murder of Harry, who was three, and Elise, who was two. | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
Their bodies were discovered in hold-alls in the boot of a car in | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
Heathfield in January last year. The murder of a football coach who | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
managed a team in a Kent league remains a mystery two years after | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
he was shot dead in front of his team-mates. Ryan Musgrove was | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
killed by a masked assassin at the team's training ground in Bromley. | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
Two years on his inquest has been held, but nobody has ever been | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
charged with his murder. Thieves have targeted an Eastbourne | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
business set up by a soldier who nearly died while serving in | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
Afghanistan. Chris Howard lost part of his hand and his lower leg in an | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
explosion in Helmand province. He used his compensation payout to | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
fund the funeral parlour which his mother now runs. But after two | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
tonnes of roof lead was stolen, the premises have been severely damaged | :09:29. | :09:37. | |
by rain. Sara Smith reports. This business was about a family | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
taking a disaster and making something good come from it. When | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
Chris Howard told his Army mates he was planning to use his injury | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
compensation money to set up a funeral parlour, it raised a few | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
eyebrows, but the business was going well - until this. Thieves | :09:54. | :10:02. | |
had stripped the roof of its lead, letting the rainwater pour in. | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
was just disrespectful not for just us, but also for the people what | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
actually come here and want their husbands, wives, sons, daughters to | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
rest. It's now two years since Chris was almost killed in an | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
explosion while on duty in Afghanistan. But instead of giving | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
up home, he used �80,000 of compensation money so his mother, a | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
Mortition at Eastbourne Hospital, could set up this family business. | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
She found the damage caused after two tonnes of lead had been | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
stripped from the roof. It was horrible to see the business | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
targeted, she said, "But this is a family which will cope." And for | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
something like this to happen was such a knock-back, but we'll get | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
over it, you know? We have had worse. I have had to stand there | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
watching Chris dying in front of me. He had minutes to live, so this is | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
nothing, really. We'll keep going. We'll keep on opening, no surrender, | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
so we're going to keep going and going. We don't care. We're not | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
going to back down to them. while police are appealing for any | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
witnesses to the theft to come forward, it's business as usual | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
here. As they say, they have faced and overcome much worse. | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
Chris Howard's mother contacted us with this story. So if you have a | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
something you think we should be covering on South East Today, we'd | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
like to hear from you. Call us on 0845 300 37 47, send us an e-mail | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
to South East Today at bbc.co.uk, or text us on 81333, making sure | :11:36. | :11:44. | |
your text message starts with the letters "SE". | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
The Conservative MP for Dover has told Parliament that the Prime | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
Minister's pledge to publish details of all his meetings with | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
the media since he was elected doesn't go far enough. | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
This afternoon David Cameron defended his conduct in the phone | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
hacking scandal, admitting with hindsight he wouldn't have offered | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
the former News of the World Editor Andy Coulson the job of being his | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
press chief. Our political editor Louise Stewart has been watching | :12:04. | :12:14. | |
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the debate in Westminster. Louise, so what exactly did Charlie | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
Elphicke have to say? As you said, the Prime Minister has offered to | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
publish all details he's had of meetings with the media over the | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
past 15 months since he became Prime Minister, but Charlie | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
Elphicke said that's simply not enough, and he has to - all details | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
of meetings have to be published going back as far as the past | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
decade. The Prime Minister has said that contacts with the media will | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
be published since the general election. I have to say I don't | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
think that's good enough. What we need to know is the contacts the | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
Government has had for the last ten years with the media. We need an | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
investigation into the Home Office and what Home Office Ministers are | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
doing. Obviously, his point is it's not just David Cameron who has had | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
close ties to News International, but Labour Prime Ministers too. Now, | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
the debate is still going on behind me in the Commons. Many south-east | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
MPs have taken part in it today. It's a debate about public | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
confidence in the media and policing. The MP for Rochester and | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
Stroud is a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee. They have | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
published a damning report today into the Metropolitan Police's | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
handling of the hacking scandal. He's now renewed his call for | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
locally elected police commissioners. | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
Thank you. It's just gone 20 to 7.00pm. This | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
is our top story tonight: The pensioner who scared off a | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
hammer-wielding burglar with her husband's air rifle, has helped to | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
secure a five-and-a-half-year jail term for the intruder. Mavis | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
Britcher who lives near Hythe says she wouldn't hesitate to do it | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
again. Also: celebrated actor Sir Donald | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
Sinden is given an honourary Doctorate from the University of | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
Kent. And a case of like father like son | :13:58. | :14:08. | |
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- Sir Malcolm and Donald Campbell's cigarette holder is up for auction. | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
Future fruit production in the garden of England has become a | :14:17. | :14:27. | |
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focus for studies on honeybees. The number of managed colonies has | :14:30. | :14:40. | |
fallen by 54% in just two decades. But now a new five-year initiative, | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
costing �10 million, is looking at identifying other species to help | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
with pollination. Our environment correspondent Yvette Austin reports | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
for the latest in our food chain series. The honeybee, the source of | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
all our honey, but that's not all. More importantly, it's a key player | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
in pollinating our crops, but honeybees are in decline. They have | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
fallen victim over the years the disease and pesticides, so now some | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
of the UK's leading researchers are looking at how pollination can be | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
safeguarded in future. The idea of the study is to find out which | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
pollinators are important to apple production. It's not just the | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
honeybee. There is 300 species of solitary bee, 30 species of | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
bumblebee, and any number of them could be important pollinators for | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
apples. We want to find out which are important. Bumblebees are being | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
studied closely, and the red mason bee, has been found to improve the | :15:33. | :15:41. | |
final crop. It's all leading to a change in the way our traditional | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
orchards look. What this trial has shown is actually a wide range of | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
insects are responsible for pollination. This is a traditional | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
orchard with grass strips up the middle. In the future we're looking | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
at cult a VATing flowers up the middle to try to entice these | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
insects in. Rather than strips of grass, we may have something like | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
this, which is a more natural habitat nor pollinating insects. | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
Other studies are look at doing the same with black currants.? When we | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
were doing the studys of these crops across Kent, we didn't find | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
any honeybees pollinating the crop. It was only wild bees. Those | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
numbers are in decline. Although we're not seeing at the moment an | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
effect on fruit yield, there is a worry if this decline continues, | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
there will be an effect into the future. Introducing native | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
bumblebees, it's thought, could be one solution. Whereas the normal | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
honeybee doesn't work under a 15 degrees, the bumblebee will work at | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
lower temperatures, and probably for longer hours and in poorer | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
weather - in cloudy and wet weather. The bumblebee will work. Ultimately, | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
the aim is for harvests like this to be guaranteed in the future, so | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
there needs to be an insurance that if one species is lost, there will | :17:01. | :17:11. | |
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He's got one of the most recognisable faces - and voices - | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
of the British stage and screen. And today Sir Donald Sinden was at | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
Canterbury Cathedral to receive an honorary degree from the University | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
of Kent. Now 87, Sir Donald grew up in Ditchling in East Sussex, made | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
his stage debut in Brighton, and now lives in Tenterden in Kent. | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
Claudia Sermbezis reports Three days after becoming the Open | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
champion at Royal St George's, Darren Clarke has been back in Kent. | :17:35. | :17:44. | |
I am certainly not loaded. You say my books are lousy. Can't I say | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
you're a lousy butler? If you have said that who am I to disagree? | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
Donald Sinden was spotted in an amateur show and asked to join a | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
company entertaining the troops during World War II. This launched | :17:56. | :18:04. | |
his career on stage, then film. Corral Sea, 1952, yes. That's a | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
long time ago. I can't remember it, but I started working in 1942, yes. | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
A couple of years ago, my only sea experience was mucking about... | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
distinctive voice and commanding presence soon led to a seven-year | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
contract as a rank film artist at Pinewood. Yours? From the Admiralty. | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
Knighted in 1997, today Sir Donald Sinden received an honourary degree | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
in Canterbury Cathedral from the University of Kent. Do I look | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
stupid in this? LAUGHTER | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
I thought they were joking, I am afraid. Suddenly, to be made a | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
doctor - I thought they were going to say, "He's going to be | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
doctored," not quite the same thing! But it's terribly exciting, | :18:50. | :18:57. | |
as a matter of fact, and I follow a long line of illustrious | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
predecessors, and it's very flattering. May I complement you on | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
your malt whiskey? In 1975, Two's Company made Sir Donald a star on | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
TV. See what I did - I played the butler in that, yes. You have a | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
better memory than I have. His next big hit was playing a snooty | :19:15. | :19:22. | |
antiques dealer in the '80s. I did that for eight years - no, 12 years, | :19:22. | :19:29. | |
yes. I have forgotten that, you know? Oh, dear - never the twain. | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
With such a full, varied career behind him, it's no wonder some of | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
Sir Donald's biggest successes have slipped his mind. | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
There's a plan that was born to wear a cape and a hat. Indeed, | :19:43. | :19:51. | |
indeed, with aplomb. A silver cigarette case owned by | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
speed record breaker Sir Malcolm Campbell is to be auctioned in | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
Lewes. It was given away by his son Donald - another speed merchant - | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
who was killed trying to break the water speed record in 1967. The | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
case was given to Beryl Norris, from Hove, who was the wife of the | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
chief engineer and designer of Donald Campbell's famous Bluebird | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
craft. Robin Gibson reports. They were a 20th century speed | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
dynasty. This is sir Malcolm Campbell, a heroic figure, who | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
captured records on land and water for his country. His son Donald | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
followed in his footsteps, only faster. With just one more step run, | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
the water conditions were really beautiful, and the only ship | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
behaved magnificently. So it's engraved with all the... Names of | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
friends of his. It's a Campbell heirloom, a cigarette case passed | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
from father to son. That's his name up there. It carries many | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
signatures etched in the silver, friends of Sir Malcolm, a precious | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
family memento. He said to me, "Come on, Beryl," always called me | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
darling. "I have a present for you." I said, "I can't take that | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
Don. It belonged to your father." He said, "You're the one that's | :21:10. | :21:17. | |
going to have it. Now put your cigarettes in it." I said, "I | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
haven't got any." Her husband designed the famous Bluebird cars | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
and water craft for Donald Campbell. He says, "Will you design a | :21:27. | :21:34. | |
Bluebird for me, a car?" He came and told me, "What do you think?" I | :21:34. | :21:44. | |
said, "Go ahead. Do it." Seen here with Prince Philip, two Bluebirds | :21:44. | :21:51. | |
and a boat were designed. A lot of people sit on their behinds in the | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
comfort of their home and watch TV. What do they know? He broke eight | :21:57. | :22:06. | |
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records before his death on Coniston water in 1967. To bay, | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
complete accident I'm afraid. Over. It's a piece of history. Having the | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
connections to the Campbell family, then through to Lou's wife Beryl | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
Norris and he playing such a major role in the design of the Bluebird, | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
it ticks all the boxes. Memories never come cheap. The | :22:33. | :22:42. | |
estimate at auction in September is A quick mention of a special | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
programme being broadcast tonight to celebrate 50 years of regional | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
television news. It's called Regional TV: Life Through a Local | :22:50. | :23:00. | |
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Lens, and it's on at 9.00pm on BBC Yesterday was fine enough, but it | :23:07. | :23:17. | |
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has been wet at times today. You probably don't like reminding that | :23:18. | :23:28. | |
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yesterday last year was the hottest ever temperature, getting up to 19C | :23:30. | :23:37. | |
and 36C. Today, just a measly 19C, 66 in Fahrenheit, not even scraping | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
into the 70s. Things aren't massively improving. I think we'll | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
get better slightly for the weekend. It's not warming up. Neert getting | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
a snifter of those temperatures. For the rest of this evening and | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
tonight, we're looking at a lot of high cloud. That is producing a bit | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
of rain. It's tending to evaporate as it hits the ground. A lot isn't | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
reaching the surfas. You might see the odd little bit of rain here and | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
there. It is certainly going to be cloudy for the rest of the evening | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
into tonight. The rain not especially heavy. It's just a | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
little bit drizzly in places. That's how it stays for the rest of | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
the evening, overnight, into tomorrow. No huge improvements as | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
we go into tomorrow. Temperatures will get down to about 13-14C. | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
We're keeping hold of the light winds as well. It will be light | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
winds into tomorrow, but we'll start off fairly cloudy. I think if | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
you're along the north and east Kent coast, you may see rain edging | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
in again. Showery in east Kent. Further to the west, maybe a dry | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
start. You'll get your showers later. On and off with the showers | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
through tomorrow. They'll be dry in between. It's not going to be a | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
wash-out through the day. Some places staying dry altogether and | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
still some sunny spells. Where we get the sunshine, it will be quite | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
warm. We don't get much of it - getting up to 18C-19C and light | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
winds. Tomorrow, a few showers here and there, but the good news is as | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
we go into Friday and the weekend, high pressure really is trying to | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
push in, so I think it should be drier on Friday, with some sunshine, | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
and even across the weekend as well. We're hope we'll hang on to the | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
drier weather and that high pressure starting to spread its way | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
in, but I think at best across the weekend, it will be fairly cloudy | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
with just some sunny spells, but hopefully staying a little bit | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
drier than it has done for today, tonight and tomorrow. So the | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
weekend is looking a little bit better. | :25:31. | :25:40. | |
David Cameron has admitted that with hindsight, he wouldn't have | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
hired the former News of the World editor Andy Coulson. During an | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
emergency debate, he told MPs he was extremely sorry for the furore | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
caused. A pensioner who scared off a | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
hammer-wielding burglar with her husband's air rifle says she | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
wouldn't hesitate to do it again. Mavis Britcher from Saltwood near | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
Hythe helped to secure a jail term for the burglary. | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
A McDonald's in Maidstone has been accused of discriminating against | :26:12. | :26:22. | |
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young people by installing an audible alarm to fend off teens. | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
We have had e-mails in. "Making young people disperse can | :26:27. | :26:36. | |
only be a good thing, but does open up the prospect of authorities - | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
for those to hang out there in the first place." Another, "Let me be | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
clear - it is targeted, discriminatory. The problem is | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
being dispersed elsewhere." He's unhappy. I think you would have a | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
good argument with Adam. He says "In this maelstrom of political | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
correctness, children have more rights than adults without any of | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
the understanding of responsibility. In the long run, it does children | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
and young people more harm than good not to show them what the | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
boundaries are." Ray says, "Good for McDonald's. Having had a shop | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
myself where there were lots of teens outside the door, it scarce | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
off customers." "I think the Mosquito is a good | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
idea. It's necessary to move youngsters on. More importantly, | :27:22. | :27:29. | |
gangs of teens can be intimidating on their own for people who want to | :27:29. | :27:35. |