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Welcome to South East Today, I'm John Young. And I'm Natalie Graham. | :00:05. | :00:09. | |
Tonight's top stories: Threatened with jail - the man who advertised | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
a beach party on Facebook and found himself faced with up to 5,000 | :00:12. | :00:21. | |
guests. That the council seem to think I am organising an event like | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
Fatboy Slim. There will not be hundreds of thousands of people. I | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
haven't got a stage set up. family at war: the three sisters | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
contesting their father's will after he married a woman three days | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
before he died. Also in tonight's programme: The windfarm windfall, | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
but how much will our communities see of the millions earmarked for | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
coastal towns? Meet the family - nine kids so far, | :00:46. | :00:54. | |
and twins on the way. The condoned go asking the monks at | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
the monastery any stupid questions, because they cannot talk to you. | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
Remembering Hattie Jacques and friends at the house where she was | :01:01. | :01:11. | |
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Good evening. A Sussex care worker who invited a handful of friends to | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
a picnic on the beach to mark Brighton's Gay Pride celebrations | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
has been forced to call it off, after receiving a noise-abatement | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
order threatening him with jail. Wayne Jones used the social | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
networking site Facebook to send out invitations to his free event | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
to protest at the introduction of charges for next month's official | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
Pride party. But within weeks the numbers had spiralled out of | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
control, with thousands saying they were planning to attend. Chrissie | :01:37. | :01:47. | |
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Reidy has more. Angry that this year's Gay pride was charging | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
�17.50 to gain entrance to the park for the day, Wayne Jones decided to | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
use Facebook and organise a free picnic or his friends on the beach | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
as an alternative. Yet, out of the blue, he was served with a noise | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
abatement order from Brighton and Hove Council say he could be fined | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
and even jailed for organising what they describe as an illegal rave. | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
Originally what we had planned was for 15 or 20 of us to go through to | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
the beach, have some picnic food and a few drinks, watch the parade, | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
and just relax for the day and enjoy ourselves. The council seem | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
to think that I am organising an event like Fatboy Slim. There is | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
not going to be hundreds of thousands of people coming down, | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
having got a stage set up. I haven't got loud music -- loud | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
music and life bans. I am not a famous person! Initially he not -- | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
invited 20 friends. Then friends invited more friends and soon 2,500 | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
people confirmed they were attending. Within a couple of | :02:47. | :02:56. | |
months it snowballed to 8,000. Been 2002, the police and council were | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
criticised when 250,000 people descended on Brighton's beach for a | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
Fatboy Slim concert. This year with Preston Park being at fenced-off | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
and licensed for only 52,000 there are concerns that revellers could | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
descend on the beach and end up being turned away. I think he has | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
no -- hit a nerve, and that is why we are getting such a prickly | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
response from the council and a less prickly response from the | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
police. I think the police have been heavy handed and the council | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
have been this advice. I think it is a crass way of trying to drive | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
people up to pay for their tickets at Preston Park. We have been | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
having people telling us that since November they would have picnics on | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
the beach. Would you say the council have screwed it up? Yes, I | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
think they have, actually. Concerned he would face a 20,000 | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
pound fine, Wayne felt he had no choice but to close down the page | :03:53. | :04:02. | |
and has cancelled the event. Brighton and Hove council turned | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
down a request foreign interview, but said the people turning up for | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
a picnic on the beach would not be stopped from doing so, we have a | :04:09. | :04:19. | |
responsibility to make sure people can have fun in a safe environment. | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
Three sisters have gone to the High Court to contest their father's | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
will, after he left his entire four million pound fortune to his wife | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
in a case described by the judge as involving a family "at war with | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
itself. George Wharton got married just three days before his death at | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
the age of 78. His daughters claim there was "undue influence" when | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
his will was filed, so it should be ruled invalid. Sara Smith joins us | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
live from the High Court. Why did Mr Wharton get married when he was | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
so near to death? George Wharton's new wife had been his partner for | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
more than 30 years and she was known to many people as Mrs Wharton. | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
She had helped him build up the business, the leisure business, | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
that they ran together on the Isle of Sheppey. She said they had a | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
pact to marry if one of them got terminally ill, so when he was in | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
the last stage of cancer that is what they did. It on the same day, | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
three days before he died, he wrote a new will leaving everything to | :05:11. | :05:18. | |
her. What have Mr Wharton's daughters said today? By say their | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
father would have wanted to include them in the will but he was too ill | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
to have made the new will in the days before he died and that he was | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
pressured into it by Mrs Wharton. The risk in a family feud like this | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
is that it ends up destroying the one thing at the centre of it. | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
These family disputes over somebody's will cost a great deal | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
of money, and that comes out of the estate. If these disputes are for | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
to right the way through the courts, whichever party wins may find that | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
at the end of the day there is very little money left for anybody. | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
case continues next week and there may be a judgment as early as next | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
Friday. In a moment: Top brass on the Kent | :06:02. | :06:12. | |
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coast. One of America's most famous It could be a wind farm windfall, | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
with the Government launching plans for a multi-million pound annual | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
investment in our coastal communities in Thanet today. The | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
Crown Estate, which owns the coastline, earns over �40 million a | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
year from offshore wind farms and other marine projects, and more | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
than half of that money is now being made available. But there's | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
no guarantee any of it will come to the South East, as our Environment | :06:36. | :06:46. | |
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Correspondent, Yvette Austin Lucrative generators of electricity. | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
Anybody building a wind farm around the UK has to pay the owners of the | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
sea bed beneath them. Crown Estates, historically the royal family, but | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
now the Treasury. They are incredible beasts, these things. | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
Today the economic Secretary saw the money generating machines for | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
herself and announced some of the cash would be designated for | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
coastal communities. We are making sure some of the revenues we have | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
got from offshore wind farms and other marine activities will | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
support coastal communities and their economic development, whether | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
it is skills, investing in the local economy, they will hopefully | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
create more jobs. The amount of money that the Crown Estates earned | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
from the wind farms is determined by the amount of electricity | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
generated. And as the number of wind farms increases, so will the | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
Revenue. Will we are subsidising the building of the wind farms, but | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
at least some of the money will be going back to coastal communities. | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
Hopeful recipients might be people like Steve, who have spent �28,000 | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
on a boat to get a job with the wind farm that failed, and now runs | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
fishing trips. I think of �23 million coming in, shared across | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
the whole they're, that would not go far around the country. But if | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
they can build a swimming pool here, that is where the money should go. | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
Young people today in Ramsgate were hopeful. It does need a lot of help | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
around here. Every penny is going to count, really. It is quite good | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
news. He is all right, but we probably won't see no. It would | :08:24. | :08:31. | |
make a difference if it was put into the buildings or they put it | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
in two jobs and more jobs for people. Definitely that would make | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
a difference. The environment charities education and health are | :08:38. | :08:45. | |
all areas which could get support. So what is the picture when it | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
comes to investment in offshore wind farms here in the South East? | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
Well, we're at the forefront of the UK industry, with 30 turbines at | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
the Kentish Flats development off Whitstable, and 100 turbines at | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
Britain's biggest offshore windfarm off Thanet. But that development | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
will be dwarfed by the London Array, which will see 175 turbines being | :09:02. | :09:11. | |
built in the Thames Estuary. One Kent MP says today's announcement | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
will build on the economic benefits of renewable energy. We have | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
benefited from the wind farms. There has been a lot of money | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
coming into the economy, even if they weren't directly employed jobs. | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
Now I feel that we are in an excellent place with Thanet | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
collection -- College To really pull through with the skills and | :09:30. | :09:37. | |
really become a south-east Hub for the sector. And its not exactly | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
surprising that a Thanet MP would welcome the prospect of further | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
government funding, as it's one of the most deprived parts of the | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
country. The unemployment rate in Thanet is 5.5%. That's more than | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
double the South East average of 2.5%. And only 39% of new | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
businesses created in the area manage to survive after five years. | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
Let's speak to our Environment Correspondent, Yvette Austin, who | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
is live in Margate this evening. Yvette, how much of an impact is | :10:01. | :10:09. | |
this new money likely to have, assuming we get any that is? There | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
is no guarantee, and the �23 million has to be divided across | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
the whole of the UK. England will get a bigger share, when you | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
remember that the Turner contemporary gallery in Margate | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
cost �17 million alone it to build up then you may think that �23 | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
million won't go very far. The individual projects and schemes | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
will have to bid for the cash in the style of the lottery, a method | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
there has been successful for some people in the past, but some people | :10:37. | :10:44. | |
are going to be making a good case for their cash also of -- for their | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
cash. The Coastal Communities Fund will open for business next April, | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
and the government says details of how to apply will be announced soon. | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
A 40-year-old man has been jailed for six years after admitting | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
causing death by dangerous driving. Jonathan Wenham, who's from | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
Brighton, knew he was above the drink-drive limit when he crashed | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
his BMW into a tree in the city, killing one of his passengers, | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
Nicholas Messenger, from London. A soldier who was awarded the | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
Victoria Cross after rescuing injured comrades under fire in Iraq | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
has now received an honorary degree from Sussex University. Lance | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
Corporal Johnson Beharry received his degree today from the | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
university's Chancellor, the actor Sanjeev Bhaskar, at a ceremony in | :11:18. | :11:25. | |
Brighton. The father of a man from Kent who's | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
in intensive care after a motorbike crash in Indonesia says he fears | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
his son will die, unless he's moved to a better hospital. Richard | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
Plummer, who's from Maidstone, has no travel insurance and his family | :11:34. | :11:42. | |
is facing a bill of up to �100,000 to bring him home. His father's | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
flown to his bedside in Bali, but says he's been shocked by the lack | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
of equipment and poor hygiene at the hospital. | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
One of America's most famous military leaders was at Dover | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
Castle today, on a social visit to a British soldier who's become a | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
good friend. General David Petraeus has just stepped down as the US | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
commander in charge of international forces in Afghanistan. | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
He'd previously spent 20 months leading the military campaign in | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
Iraq and his next job will be running the Central Intelligence | :12:05. | :12:15. | |
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Agency, the American secret service. Robin Gibson met him this afternoon. | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
The American general and the British Brigadier, strolling in the | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
grounds of Dover Castle. A special relationship. He is the former | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
commander in Afghanistan, the new director of the CIA, and some say | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
he could run for president. He has come here to see a friend and | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
colleague, Brigadier Simon will see, his regional commander who lives in | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
Dover Castle. He has known and work with the general for years through | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
the Pentagon, Baghdad and elsewhere. I should think you do not get many | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
social days out. This is the first one I've had in a long time. I'll | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
be going to the United States to be reunited with family and preparing | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
for the next chapter in life. have the Stars and Stripes flying | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
here. Isn't that something? It's really wonderful. I've never seen | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
it before. Yes, thank you for everything, Simon. It may be a | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
social call but they have not scrimp on the bomb and circumstance. | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
The Stars and Stripes flying over the tower. And in the garden before | :13:22. | :13:30. | |
lunch the ubiquitous Scottish pipers. I sent an e-mail and got a | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
response within five minutes. He was on an aircraft over the | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
Atlantic going for his testimony to be the new chief of the CA. He said | :13:38. | :13:47. | |
he would love to come over and 22nd July would work. Amazingly due was | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
not the only four-star American general of the castle today. | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
General Barry McCaffrey was in the grounds. He could not resist saying | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
hello. You are the man who shouted out, hello Dave. None of us could | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
do that. But you know him well. has been one of the most brilliant | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
and capable people in our military for years. The day the general came | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
to lunch. A social call that will live in the memory for a long time | :14:15. | :14:25. | |
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A Sussex care worker who invited a handful of friends to a picnic on | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
the beach to mark Brighton's Gay Pride celebrations has called it | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
off, after receiving a noise- abatement order threatening him | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
with jail. Waiyne Jones used Facebook to send | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
out invitations to his party, and within weeks 8,000 people said they | :14:38. | :14:48. | |
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were planning to attend. Also in tonight's programme: The | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
carry on in Kent today to commemorate Hattie Jacques in her | :14:51. | :14:59. | |
home town. And a weekend wonder all weekend thunder? And what about | :14:59. | :15:09. | |
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next week? Join me later for the She already has nine children - and | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
is due to have twins in the autumn - so Tania Sullivan, a mother from | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
Kent, is well qualified to set up a website to share her tips on coping | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
with the challenges of family life. Tania and her husband Michael, from | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
Rochester, have two teenagers who've already flown the nest, but | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
seven of their children are still cared for and schooled at home. | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
Every week they get through 21 loaves of bread, 56 pints of milk | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
and some 35 loads of washing - but they say they wouldn't have it any | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
other way. Lynda Hardy's been to meet them for tonight's Special | :15:40. | :15:47. | |
Report. Meet the Sullivans: Dad Mike and two-year-old Oliver, Mum | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
Tania and 10-month old Joseph, then 11-year old Caitlin, eight-year-old | :15:49. | :15:56. | |
Harry, six-year-old Eddie, then Sid who's five and Paddy who's four. | :15:56. | :16:06. | |
Just having breakfast in this house is quite an operation. Was any of | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
this plan? Did you envisage such a large family? A Aydin think so, but | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
it has been gradual. -- I didn't think so. You have one trial at a | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
time and adapt slightly, and then they fit in with the routine -- one | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
child. Tania's now writing a blog about life in their big and growing | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
family. Larger than average families are not very much seen, so | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
there's a lot of curiosity and questions about the large families, | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
just the logistics and the howls and Wise. People automatically | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
assume it is much harder than it actually is. After breakfast the | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
meal table becomes a large desk as the children are home schooled. | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
is quite fun, because you have lots of activity going on, whether we | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
are at home or outside doing something. It's always hectic. | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
works full time and the family say they're careful with budgeting, | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
buying clothes in sales and baking their own bread and cakes. So with | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
twins on the way in November, will that be it for the family? We never | :17:15. | :17:22. | |
know. Obviously the older ones are getting bigger, so they hope -- | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
will power. We just have to wait and see. There is plenty of room it | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
yet. Going out takes time, as everyone gets strapped into the van. | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
Today they enjoyed themselves at a wild animal park. One large family, | :17:33. | :17:43. | |
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It was the last day of term for many schools today, but one 11- | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
year-old from Crawley won't be spending the summer on his X-box or | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
out with his mates in the park. Instead, Charlie Doherty's cycling | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
from Brighton to Scotland, raising thousands of pounds for charity. | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
It's not the first time we've introduced you to Charlie. He | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
joined us live here in this studio in January, and told us how he's | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
given away all his birthday and Christmas money every year since he | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
was four. And this afternoon I met up with him, for our Story Update. | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
Getting ready for a bike ride with his mum, but this is no ordinary | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
bike ride. There's a lot to carry on this one - tents, food, water - | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
and fundraising kit, too, for Mary's Meals, a charity that | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
provides school meals for children in East Africa. The three and a | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
half week's worth of directions alone add to the load. Still, | :18:36. | :18:43. | |
Charlie's got the wheels for it. makes it really solid and easy to | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
start. They can lock and unlock. And if the face on the right rings | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
a bell, that's because back in January we told you about his | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
basketball birthday party, raising money for the same cause. This boy | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
has been handing over his birthday money to charity as long as he can | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
remember. Why does he do it? Because there are starving children | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
all over the world, and sometimes I think that when I think about it, | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
why do we have all of this? Like this bike, even, when some people | :19:12. | :19:19. | |
have nothing and they cannot even afford food, drink or anything. I | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
just can't get it, how we live like this and they live like that. I | :19:23. | :19:31. | |
think it's unfair. He has persuaded his school chums it is unfair to. | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
What do they think of the charities chosen? Very good. It is amazing | :19:36. | :19:44. | |
that he is doing it all. It sounds really hard. What I think is so | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
amazing is that he has arranged a whole thing himself, and I think | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
that's incredible for a boy of his age, to do that. I think it is | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
brilliant. He came up with the idea and made it happen. That is Charlie | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
through and through. And his mother's not going to argue with | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
that. You get the impression, she doesn't like to argue with him. | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
mums I was saying I wouldn't to attend the journey. I don't know | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
how far we will get, but we have to give it a try, because he says we | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
are not even trying. So there we go, Charlie in the lead, and mum | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
following behind. You get the sense we have not heard the last and this | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
young fundraiser. He is an inspiring young man. You | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
may have noticed he is a Sea gulls fan. He has given up tickets to the | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
first match there. And if you want to contribute to | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
Charlie's fundraising efforts, we've put a link on our Facebook | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
site: facebook.com/bbcsoutheasttoday. | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
His father was one of the leading lights of British Formula One. And | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
now Martin Brundle's son Alex is hoping to follow in his famous | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
footsteps. The 20-year-old is a rising star on the Formula Two | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
circuit and hoping success at Brands Hatch in Kent this weekend | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
could get him a shot at F1. Neil Bell has the details. It's | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
difficult to imagine Alex Brundle doing anything else but motor | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
racing. He may only be 20 but he's already a veteran having made his | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
go kart racing debut aged just eight. But he is well aware he has | :21:10. | :21:20. | |
big boots to fill. His father Martin was one of the worlds top | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
drivers in the 80's and 90's winning Le Mans and the world | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
sportscar championship as well as driving in over 160 grand prix. | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
There is a lot of expectation on your shoulders from a young age, | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
which I found difficult. But he was able to help me out side of the car, | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
but in the car you have to find your own way. Alex will be racing | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
at Brands Hatch this weekend in the highly competitive Formula 2 | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
Championship. This season's winner will get a test drive for the | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
Williams Formula One team. It is a fantastic platform and it teaches | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
the drivers a lot. And the champion gets a Formula One test, and there | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
is no better way to get on to the grid than getting yourself in one | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
of the cars. Turning into the corner, picking up the throttle, | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
and I have to get it on hard and early. While Alex is hurtling | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
around the track, his dad will be striding through the pit lane in | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
Germany there will be keeping close tabs on his son's progress. He is | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
critical. If I won the race from pole position with the fastest lap, | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
he would criticise how I sprayed the champagne, but I need that. It | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
is an endurance exercise and you need encouragement. There will be | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
thousands cheering on the winner this weekend, but it Alex makes it | :22:34. | :22:44. | |
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to Formula One, his dad will broadcast his exploits to millions. | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
She was the strict matron who tried to keep the likes of Barbara | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
Windsor and Kenneth Williams in line. Who was she? The Carry On | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
actress Hattie Jacques, of course. Widely loved in the series, but | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
it's not widely known that she was born in Sandgate, near Folkestone. | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
It's a secret no more, though, as Claudia Sermbezis explains, she's | :23:02. | :23:11. | |
earned a blue plaque. Good evening, Miss Haggard. Carry | :23:11. | :23:21. | |
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It was Hattie Jacques quintessential performance which | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
cemented the image of the no- nonsense matron with a gleam in her | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
eye. Ah, Matron, what now? sorry to trouble you, doctor, but | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
I've been thinking about this camping trip. She was born | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
Josephine Edwina jakes in this house in 1922. The plaque is very | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
important to us, and someone like Hattie Jacques is a national | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
treasure, but I think she was only there for a couple of years and | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
then moved to another house in Sandgate. This afternoon to | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
celebrate the plaque and Hattie Jacques's live, a tea party was | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
thrown. How would Godfry became friends with the producer of the | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
Carry On films and got to know Hattie at cast parties. She was fun, | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
she really was. I think she was always very much like she was on | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
stage. Four of fun, always enjoyed life -- full of fun. We just really | :24:17. | :24:27. | |
enjoyed meeting her in those days. Matron, this is the men's! Galway, | :24:27. | :24:34. | |
Dr Sopor. Hattie Jacques appeared in 14 Carry On films from 1958 | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
until 1974 and was close friends with her co-stars, particularly | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
Joan Sims and Kenneth Williams. Doctor, I must confess I am not an | :24:43. | :24:51. | |
expert in these matters... In Carry On Cabby, that was her favourite, | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
in 1963, she was given a more romantic role, and that was her | :24:55. | :25:03. | |
favourite film of the whole series. Home again, home again. She also | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
had a long professional partnership with Eric Sykes and starred in his | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
long-running sitcom in the 1970s. This is the third plaque to | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
commemorate her life, the other at her former home in at Earl's Court | :25:15. | :25:25. | |
She was a legend, and now to a legend who carries on whatever the | :25:25. | :25:33. | |
This little globe is being shoved out the way, and about time too. We | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
do have some shower power tonight. The showers are just gathering to | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
the North West at the moment, and as you can see, they are creeping | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
towards us, and in the next couple of hours they will make their way | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
into the north-west of the region and then spread elsewhere. They are | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
showery, so I mean some places will not see anything at all, but my | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
guess is how they are developing at the moment means we will see | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
showers after dark tonight. After about 9:00pm, until the early hours, | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
most of us will see a few showers with temperatures getting down to | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
11 or 12 degrees. Into tomorrow morning it will look like it starts | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
as a horrible weekend, but the showers move away quickly and by | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
10am the last of the showers will have gone, maybe just a little one | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
poking in later on. Most places will be dry after that with sunny | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
spells, although maybe not as much sun as we have seen today. In the | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
east of Kent, they have not fared quite so well because of the change | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
of direction of the winds, and a strong north-westerly means cooler | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
temperatures will come in around the East Kent Coast line, but other | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
than that it shouldn't be too bad a day. The good news starts after | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
that. Although the winds will get stronger into Sunday it looks as | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
though the cloud will be moving away and the weather front gets | :26:51. | :26:57. | |
close, but no cigar. It moves away and for the rest of Sunday it is | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
beautiful and sunny, although the north-westerly wind will be noticed | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
along the north Kent coast. We will be judging the annual sandcastle | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
competition in Folkestone, and you can turn up at 11:00am and enter. | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
You have two and a half hours to create your masterpiece. It will be | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
sunny, but breezy, and that is true across the whole of East Kent on | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
Sunday, but after that it doesn't go downhill for the working week. | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
If anything the sunshine increases and the temperature, at last, gets | :27:27. | :27:34. |