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Welcome to South East Today with John Young and Polly Evans. | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
Tonight's top stories: A hospital defends plans to make | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
nurses wear "do not disturb" signs. Critics say it may leave vulnerable | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
patients too scared to ask for help. Befriended by a conman, a Kent | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
pensioner swindled out of hundreds of pounds says she'll never trust | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
strangers again. I am so cross with myself and with people, I just want | :00:25. | :00:34. | |
to hide myself away. And screen at "go away". | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
Also in tonight's programme, sitting tight on a landfill site in | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
Sussex. We meet the residents who say their lives are being ruined. | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
Keeping the Girl Guide tradition alive. Meet the twins with so many | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
badges, they've run out of room. And meet Princess Tia in pink and | :00:46. | :00:56. | |
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Baby Gracie in yellow. Are these Good evening. A hospital in Kent is | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
defending its decision to ask nurses to wear "do not disturb" | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
signs when giving out drugs to patients. Managers at the Queen | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate say the red tabards | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
prevent nurses from being distracted. They say that that, in | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
turn, reduces the number of mistakes on the hospital wards. But | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
as Simon Jones reports, some critics fear it could lead to | :01:26. | :01:33. | |
vulnerable patients being too scared to ask for help. | :01:33. | :01:40. | |
It can be a matter of life and death administering the right drugs. | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
The Tabata and designed to allow the nurses to avoid distractions | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
and get things right. I understand that misses need to be able to | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
communicate well and the caring and sympathetic. This is not what this | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
is about. This is designated time with that individual. But some | :02:00. | :02:07. | |
patients believe the warning could send out the wrong message. It is | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
not the right kind of message. Not from my point of view. I have been | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
in here for years. It is like a traffic sign, that is what I think | :02:19. | :02:26. | |
anyway. I think it is a very good idea because people might disturb | :02:26. | :02:34. | |
them. When they are handing out important drugs. There are only | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
warm for three daily trips around the hospital but that is not to | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
everyone's liking. How would you know as a patient that you could | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
talk to somebody? It might be a couple of hours before somebody | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
else comes round. We would not want it to be seen as a way to reduce | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
the number of qualified nurses on duty. We also like to see it as not | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
a way that patient will be ignored. There are around 600 incidents a | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
year at East Kent hospitals where patients are given the wrong drugs | :03:05. | :03:12. | |
and 85% of cases involve no harm. They say since nurses have started | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
wearing these garments, the number of times they are being disturbed | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
has dropped by 70%. It is about encouraging other staff and | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
visitors not to disturb the nurses when they are doing their round. It | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
is not about patients not being able to talk to nurses when they | :03:30. | :03:37. | |
are on their round for stopping off Bull said -- the hospital said it | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
may decide to take the garments off There are warnings of a crisis in | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
the housing market in the South East over the next five years. The | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
National Housing Federation, which represents housing associations in | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
England, says more and more people will be locked out of the housing | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
market as prices rise and mortgage providers remain nervous about | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
lending. The problem is made worse by a shortage of homes. 750,000 new | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
houses are needed in England by 2025 according to a study, earlier | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
this year, from the Institute of Public Policy Research. 77,000 of | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
these are needed in the South East, which leaves local councils facing | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
major housebuilding projects. In the borough of Tunbridge Wells, up | :04:13. | :04:23. | |
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to 6,000 houses are said to be This is the bedroom for Luke and | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
Isabelle. Luke is nearly 10, Isabel is eight. They share this room. I | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
would love nothing more for them to have their own space. | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
Liz has been trying to get on the housing ladder for 10 years so her | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
two children can have their own bedroom. For now it is a bunk bed. | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
We have to share bunk beds and we do not have our own spaces. When | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
she tries to get to sleep, she snores and she wriggles and it is | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
really annoying. Liz and her husband are key workers and rent | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
this house just outside Tunbridge Wells. They cannot afford a deposit | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
for a home and cannot afford shared ownership so they have to make do. | :05:07. | :05:15. | |
Being able to buy a house is a dream of ours but it is completely | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
out of our reach. There is no way that we can afford the deposit that | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
we need to have at the moment. problem is not enough new homes are | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
being built. In the Tunbridge Wells area alone, they need to build a | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
further 6,000 to meet demand by 2026. But in an area where they | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
want to build 600 of those, there is local resistance. Essentially | :05:40. | :05:47. | |
3,000 homes here and 600 would be a huge increase. The infrastructure | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
would not cope. Developers have struggled to get planning | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
permission to build here in the past but reforming planning laws is | :05:55. | :06:02. | |
a government priority. There are more at pick up the planning system, | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
starting afresh by making it much more faster. The greater amount of | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
land is available and we have released enough land to build the | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
equivalent of two Leicesters. Government says affordable new | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
We're joined now by Matt Griffith, from the Priced Out Group, which | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
campaigns for first-time buyers. We've heard there that fewer people | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
are now owning their own home, and not enough houses being built. The | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
Government's answer is to build more houses, and make it easier. | :06:36. | :06:44. | |
Where do you stand? We represent people who cannot afford houses. | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
People in their twenties and thirties are finding it difficult | :06:46. | :06:54. | |
to save up for a deposit. People are faced with a rather unenviable | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
choice, greater debt to get themselves a house which has lots | :06:58. | :07:07. | |
of long term consequences or in rented accommodation. And they can | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
get kicked out at short notice. What do you consider to be the | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
solution? Is the Government correct, more houses? We need to build more | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
houses and it is great that the Government is doing that and it | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
could improve how it is going to do that but it will help with the | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
supply. But other issues like the fact that we have had a very large | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
mortgage boom and the Government has intervened to stop house prices | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
coming down so quickly. Could I pick up on one point, when the of | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
our viewers may feel they like to live up in the green areas of Kent | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
and Sussex, we do not want green areas been spoiled? It is right to | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
put it into context. Only 9% of the ground is built on. You could | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
release a small amount of land to build a few more houses which would | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
make a fairly big difference to affordability. I grew up in a rural | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
village and that has not had any housing since the end of the Second | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
World War. Just small, incremental growth has been stopped by the | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
planning system and it is really a release of further land that needs | :08:22. | :08:32. | |
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to happen. I am afraid we have to We'd like to know what you think. | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
How should we help first-time buyers get on the property ladder? | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
Should we be more like some Europeans and be happy to rent? E- | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
mail us, or contact us via Facebook. We'll read some of your thoughts at | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
the end of the programme. In a moment, 11 hours down, just | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
five to go. The man hoping to become the oldest cross-Channel | :08:50. | :09:00. | |
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People living near a landfill site in Sussex say that the thousands of | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
seagulls who are feeding there are making their lives a misery. Some | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
residents in Magpie Close in St Leonards say the noise and mess | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
from the birds sitting on their roofs is becoming unbearable. But | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
the site managers say they're doing everything they can to address the | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
problems. Our reporter Robin Gibson is live overlooking the site in St | :09:25. | :09:32. | |
Leonards now. What's causing the problem? Quite simply, it is food. | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
Domestic food waste and commercial waste comes here. The birds follow | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
it. Despite efforts to control them, it seems the residents believe they | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
are growing in huge numbers and the biggest problem then comes when the | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
birds fly away from this site, descend on the roofs of houses | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
nearby in their thousands, literally doing what the birds do, | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
littering the place up. While some residents did not welcome the | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
publicity, others said it was making their lives a nightmare and | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
was a health hazard. You put up with it because it is there but | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
they should not be there, really. Not any quantity that they are. You | :10:11. | :10:19. | |
do not mind the odd dozens but we are talking thousands. That is not | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
as many as you first saw when you came in. What would you like to see | :10:23. | :10:30. | |
happen? We would like to see them in a different area, not a built up | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
area like this because it is not healthy. What is being done to | :10:33. | :10:40. | |
solve it? The company that operates here has a legal requirement to | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
control the birds and it has done that. It has birds of prey that | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
patrol the area and it has pyrotechnics to scare them off. | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
Ironically it may be that problem. Transferring the problem, and the | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
company wants to reassure the residents it is doing all it can to | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
alleviate and it is in with discussions with the Environment | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
Agency to see what they can do in the future. | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
Patient safety has improved in a mental health hospital in Sussex, | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
according to an independent report. Last year, four patients committed | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
suicide at Mill View Hospital in Hove. But the NHS Trust says more | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
than 30 recommendations have now been put in place since a review | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
into safety. Some of the changes have included increasing the number | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
of activities for patients and improving the supervision of staff. | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
The River Darent has been named among ten of the most improved | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
rivers in the country. The Environment Agency says efforts by | :11:32. | :11:33. | |
farmers, businesses and water companies have reduced | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
environmental damage so 35 million fewer litres are lost from the | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
river each day. This has increased its flow, boosting populations of | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
wildlife such as trout and pike. Parts of Kent have seen among the | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
biggest rises in immigration in the UK in the last few years. The | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
growth in the number of overseas nationals registered in | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
Sittingbourne, Sheppey and Faversham is the sixth biggest in | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
the country. In Swale, the number of migrants increased eightfold | :12:01. | :12:08. | |
between 2002 and last year. A pensioner from Canterbury says | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
she's been left terrified of strangers after being targeted by a | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
conman she befriended while walking her dog. The conman, Christopher | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
Telemaque, has been jailed for 44 months for stealing family | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
jewellery and cash from Janet Hughes. She's now warning others | :12:20. | :12:30. | |
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not be taken in by strangers. Lynda He was a man Janet Hughes | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
occasionally bumped into while walking her dog. Little did the 74- | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
year-old widow realise he was gaining their confidence to steal | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
hundreds of pounds and precious items of family jewellery. Now I am | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
terrified. I am so cross with myself and with people, that all I | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
want to do is scream "go away" if anybody comes to the door that I am | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
not expecting. If I am out shopping, I am on age. Christopher Telemaque | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
is starting a 44 month sentence after a court was told how he had | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
conned Mrs Hughes after giving him cash with a hard luck stories. | :13:13. | :13:23. | |
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opened the box and it was empty, all gone. She discovered she had | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
engagement rings stolen. It seems my stupidity did not give my | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
grandchildren the opportunity to be able to have the pleasure of them | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
and look after them for their generation. When she confronted | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
Telemaque, he persuaded her to buy back some of her jewellery from | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
shops where he had pawned it for cash. Police say he was an | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
experienced crook he had used classic techniques to gain her | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
confidence. It is a terrible incident, really. He is obviously | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
thinking about it and preyed upon her good nature, realised that she | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
is kind and gentle, a kind lady and took it upon himself to rob her. | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
am very cross with myself for being so gullible. I have not met anybody | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
quite like this before. She has told the story as a warning to | :14:15. | :14:24. | |
others not to be taken in by Our top story tonight. A Kent | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
hospital has defended its decision to make nurses wear "do not | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
disturb" signs while handing out drugs. Managers at the Queen | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate say it will prevent | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
staff being distracted. But charities have raised concerns that | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
vulnerable patients in need, will be scared to ask for help. Also in | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
tonight's programme, the Girl Guide twins with so many badges, they're | :14:44. | :14:51. | |
running out of room. And how the costs add up when | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
you've got six pretty bulldogs to look after, all with a sense of | :14:54. | :15:04. | |
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At 12 years old, most children don't have a care in the world, | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
other than maybe the latest computer games or upping their | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
pocket money. But Alan Beckett isn't like other 12-year-olds. Alan | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
spends much of his young life caring for his 10-year-old brother, | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
who suffers from a degenerative condition. And he's one of the | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
people from Sussex set to receive an award for their work and | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
dedication in helping children with serious illnesses. Alex Beard has | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
been to meet him for tonight's special report. | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
Two months after this photo was taken, Craig Beckett on the right | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
was confined to a wheelchair. He is unable to lift arms and legs and | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
can no longer talk. His brother, 12-year-old Adam, was thrown into a | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
caring role, a challenge he rose to. Mum it needs to have a rest at | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
least once a day, at least one hour of rest a day. Otherwise I think | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
she may not be able to cope properly. Both brothers were | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
diagnosed with adrenoleukodystrophy. This means the fatty cover all | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
nerve fibres is progressively damaged because of a faulty gene. | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
It is affecting Craig much more than his brother. If Adam his not | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
very well himself but takes everything in his stride. He helps | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
that with Craig, Adam wanted to be there in hospital with him and | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
learn about him. He is always on hand and keeps him occupied for all | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
ages. Nominated by his mother for the World child awards, Adam has | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
won the most caring child category. Joining him will be Martin from a | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
local Heritage School, he has dedicated the last 20 years to | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
improving the lives of children with his innovative creations. | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
have known many young people and been inspired by young people I | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
have worked with. They have endless patience in putting up with the | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
crazy things that life has presented them. One of those | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
inventions is a wheelchair tracking system. An underground network of | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
wires follows the wheelchairs. Young people that have problems | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
driving their wheelchairs, they can get around the environments and get | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
to places on their own. All winners are meeting Prince Harry at an | :17:17. | :17:27. | |
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Two sisters from Gravesend have proved that a bit of healthy | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
sibling rivalry can produce positive results, especially when | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
you're twins, and you're both in the Girl Guides. Abby and Bethany | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
Williams are thought to have become the first twins to gain every | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
single Guide badge. That's 45 in all, covering everything from | :17:44. | :17:51. | |
camping to circus skills. Rebecca Barry has been to meet them. Film | :17:51. | :18:00. | |
lover. Team leader. Culture. Science. Water the Bethany can do, | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
Abby can do better and that determination has secured these | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
twins every single guiding bad, all 45 of them, each. Not many people | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
have got them all. It is great to feel that we are the only twins who | :18:13. | :18:21. | |
has been able to get them. We felt we had to get one before the other | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
and do them at different times as well but we decided to finish them | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
together. It has been three years of hard work and not just for the | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
girls. Dad has to do all the driving. | :18:32. | :18:42. | |
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If what -- what Bagehot would you These pictures show some of the | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
earliest recruits. ARCHIVE FOOTAGE: The campfire | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
cooking has changed as well! This is the first time that both girls | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
have received a very bad. Every Wednesday when they have come back, | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
they have got another badge. It is continuous. Bethany had to be a | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
paramedic one day. Perhaps these achievements will help. It will be | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
good on our CVs. Not many people will have done this. They will be | :19:14. | :19:22. | |
unique. Well, almost unique! where on earth will we put this? | :19:22. | :19:32. | |
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Sometimes the trickiest thing is A lot of sewing for somebody! | :19:35. | :19:44. | |
Dedication! They say we're a nation of animal | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
lovers, but how much would you be prepared to spend to keep your pet | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
happy? Because a woman from Kennington, near Ashford, has spent | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
quite a small fortune on hers. Nearly �15,000 a year, to be | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
precise - all to make sure her brood of six bulldog bitches look | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
at their best. Oh, and the bill may be about to rise as she thinks one | :20:00. | :20:08. | |
of them may be pregnant. Sara Smith met the family. This is a Lola, | :20:08. | :20:18. | |
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this is scarlet. Little bell... Angel sky, they beat Gracie and | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
Princess Tia. These have a lifestyle to match. | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
Fresh meat and vegetables is the diet. We have got the natural | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
yoghurt, the goat's milk, fresh vegetables. Same as we would eat. | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
Really good for them. Lots of iron. They even have their own dressing | :20:38. | :20:45. | |
room. Stuffed with extraordinary outfits. Oh, Tia, back to the 80s! | :20:45. | :20:52. | |
Carron at admits she cannot help treating them. You get up in the | :20:52. | :20:59. | |
morning, wash them, take them for a walk, take them to the park. This | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
is part of the family. It is not cheap though. �200 a month each on | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
food and supplements, �100 on grooming products, and �75 on an | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
outfit, not to mention insurance and vet's bills, it adds up to | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
�1,200 per month. This is our hobby, our life. They | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
are our kids and if I had more money I would spend more money on | :21:26. | :21:32. | |
them. It is unconditional love. dogs go on regular modelling | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
assignments and also competitions. But the family may not be quite | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
complete yet. One of them is expecting puppies. Six Bulldogs may | :21:43. | :21:53. | |
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Barking... I am saying nothing! A retired breast-cancer surgeon is | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
hoping to become the oldest man to swim the Channel. 70-year-old Roger | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
Allsopp left Shakespeare Beach at Dover just after 8 o'clock this | :22:03. | :22:10. | |
hours. He's hoping to complete the challenge by around 11 o'clock | :22:10. | :22:18. | |
Let us speak to Mike who is on board the support boat. Is | :22:18. | :22:24. | |
everything going to plan? Everything is going fine. Roger is | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
swimming very strongly indeed. We are nearly 11 hours now into the | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
swim, well over half way. Heading down the French shipping lane on | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
the French side of the Channel. those of us who do not know how it | :22:42. | :22:51. | |
works, is he getting food and drink regularly? Yes, we feed him almost | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
exclusively liquid feed. High- energy drinks and we feed those | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
every 30 minutes. He has tried to break the record before, why is he | :23:01. | :23:09. | |
doing it again? I didn't quite hear that... He did swim the Channel | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
five years ago, yes. What is motivating him? Could you say that | :23:15. | :23:24. | |
again? What is his motivation most people would be terrified! If he | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
completes the swim, he will be the oldest person ever to have swum the | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
Channel but he has more motivation than that. He is trying to raise | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
�750,000 to buy a new piece of equipment to help with cancer | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
research. Something that he has been involved with when he was a | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
surgeon before he retired. They need that sort of money to buy a | :23:50. | :23:58. | |
new piece of equipment which will then help diagnose breast cancer | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
and testicular cancer at a much, much earlier stage. A very worthy | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
cause and we wish him the very best of luck. Thank you for joining us. | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
You are very welcome. What a great achievement. I know he tried to go | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
a few days ago but the weather has not been on his side. It was this | :24:17. | :24:26. | |
I have got some Met Office statistics, I do not think anybody | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
will be surprised because if you have not already had, it has been a | :24:29. | :24:36. | |
fairly rotten summer for many of us. Certainly it is now looking like it | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
will be the coolest summer since 1993 and also a crossed all this, | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
most of us see 25% plus sunshine then we would normally. I am afraid | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
that cloud layer has been with us for the past few days and is still | :24:49. | :24:56. | |
with us. It still means temperatures less than average. It | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
is just staying put for at least another 24-48 hours. Overnight | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
tonight it stays cloudy. The high pressure remains but if you want it | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
to stay dry, it least it will stay dry. Temperature should not drop | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
below around 12 degrees. Like winds, lot of cloud to my staying dry but | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
also not to chilly. Into tomorrow, the a similar day to today. If you | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
get any sunshine at all, you will be very lucky indeed. Most of us | :25:26. | :25:33. | |
will be staring at the grey all day long, maybe just a few glimmers of | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
brightness particularly around the middle of the day when we could see | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
temperatures getting up to around 17 degrees. However when it is | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
fairly thick and cloudy, temperatures hover around 16 | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
Celsius, pretty rubbish for this time of year. It should be more | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
like 21. Into Thursday, things are not improving too quickly but as | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
the high pressure moves eastwards, we might start just moving in a | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
little bit of dry air. That means we get less moisture and it means | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
we will see some cloud brakes and that is how we may end the week. | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
And that is where we have a dramatic effect on our temperatures. | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
Although it is fairly cool at the moment, by the time of the weekend, | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
we might be back up above average with more sunshine so hang in there | :26:20. | :26:30. | |
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Let's recap tonight's headlines. The figures and in their own homes | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
is 70%. People are finding it more difficult to get on the housing | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
ladder. We asked you what you thought the solution was. Pauline | :26:44. | :26:52. | |
has e-mailed us from Whitfield in east Kent, I have listened to a man | :26:52. | :27:00. | |
upset about 600 houses being built in Paddock Wood. I live in | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
Whitfield, 1,800 houses and there are talk of another 8,000 houses. | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
It has nothing to do with more homes or affordable homes, he | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
thinks the problems is wage rises keeping up with inflation and the | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
rising cost of utilities. The Government has restricted wage | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
rises and if people wanted to afford a home at the current prices, | :27:20. | :27:26. | |
they would need around �25 per hour. Her and Richard has warned us that | :27:26. | :27:31. |