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Welcome to South East Today, I'm Polly Evans. | :00:02. | :00:04. | |
And I'm Rob Smith. Tonight's top stories: | :00:04. | :00:08. | |
Jail for the couple who tortured a young man, making him drink bleach | :00:08. | :00:17. | |
and attacking him with a hammer in a row over unpaid rent. In the end, | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
the event became so extreme for him that he took a knife and stabbed | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
himself to make sure they would have to call an ambulance. | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
Emergency crews are still battling with the aftermath of the Lingfield | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
factory explosion, with concerns over chemicals getting into local | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
rivers. Also in tonight's programme: | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
These men's postcodes will have a dramatic impact on their life | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
expectancy - why men in parts of Medway die ten years earlier than | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
average. We're live with the details of an unsettling report. | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
Roll up for The Kiss in Margate. Rodin's famous sculpture is | :00:48. | :00:58. | |
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unveiled at the Turner Contemporary. Good evening. | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
A married couple who helped a gang torture a man in Crawley - forcing | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
him to drink bleach, and breaking his foot with a hammer - have been | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
jailed. The 21-year-old victim became so desperate to end his | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
ordeal that he stabbed himself in the chest five times. | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
Anna Wibrew was sentenced to six years in prison. Her husband Simon | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
Weller was sentenced to five years. During his ordeal, the 21-year-old | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
Sussex man was also beaten, whipped and sexually assaulted. Lynda Hardy | :01:34. | :01:41. | |
reports. This is a married couple now jailed | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
for a total of 11 years for their part in what was described in court | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
as the torment and torture of a 21- year-old man. The victim was lured | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
to a flat in Crawley where he was imprisoned and tortured over four | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
days more than two years ago. Almost exactly a year after the | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
assault, five members of the gang were given jail sentences each of | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
between 5 and 11 years. Today, Simon Weller and Anna Wibrew were | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
sentenced for their part in the crime. It was that a flat on this | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
road in Crawley where the torture took place. The horrific ordeal | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
included beatings and whippings and then sold was rubbed into open | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
wounds. -- sold. He was sexually assaulted and then smashed on the | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
food for the claw hammer so hard that his toe nails ripped off in | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
the process. He was made to drink bleach, given beer with paracetamol | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
ended, he was whipped with a cane that had been dipped in water, he | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
was hit with a hammer, breaking his toes, and in the event, events | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
became so extreme for him that he took a knife and stabbing himself | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
to make sure they would have to call an ambulance and his ordeal | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
would come to an end. The vicious and prolonged assault was | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
apparently because of a dispute over unpaid rent. Speaking after | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
this afternoon's sentencing, the detective in charge of the case | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
described it as the nasty if he had ever dealt with in his career to | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
date -- nastiest. And that seven people could inflict such hideous | :03:20. | :03:28. | |
acts against another person simply divide -- defies belief. | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
We are Live Earth Hove Crown Court now. Clearly a disturbing case but | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
in the sentencing, the judge recognised that this couple played | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
a lesser role. That is right. Judge Kent said that | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
he was aware that some of the most indecently crawl assaults happened | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
before the couple joined and then after they had left it but he added | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
that they were willing participants for 24 hours, it which they held | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
the victim captive in their flat as a prison that before taking him to | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
a second property. Anna Wibrew was jailed for a year longer than her | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
husband because she had forced the victim to drink bleach. In total, | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
this gang had been towed -- sentenced to over 50 years but at | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
the court were reminded that it was in part captured on a mobile phone | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
and the judge described that footage as a chilling piece of | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
video in which the victim be seen handcuffed and cowering in a corner | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
while he is beaten and while his attackers cheered. | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
Three people are still in hospital after a huge explosion at an | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
industrial estate in Surrey yesterday. | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
Emergency teams have been working through the night at the scene of | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
the fire on the Hobbs Industrial Estate in Newchapel near Lingfield, | :04:42. | :04:49. | |
from where Alex Beard reports. The explosion and fierce fire that | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
ripped through this industrial estate that the building so | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
unstable that fire crews are still unable to put out the fire | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
completed. We have been looking at a hot spots, the small area still | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
left that we cannot gain access to because of the unsafe structure. | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
The roof has partially collapsed. That is stopping us getting today's | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
hot spots. Until we get those clear, we cannot get the fire crews in. | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
This year volume of water required to fight the flames has meant the | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
Environment Agency has worked through the night to stop the local | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
waterways from being contaminated. The poison has run away -- run-off | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
has caused some fish to died already. We are not anticipating | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
any more. We have people out around the clock increasing the oxygen | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
levels and improving the water quality of the area, so hopefully | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
we are limiting the impact on the environment and the wildlife as | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
much as possible. The industrial site remains closed although some | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
employers from surrounding businesses have returned. Currently, | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
a demolition company is removing the roof of the unit to make it | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
safe for fire crews to enter and put out the rest of the fire and | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
start investigations. Eight people were hospitalised after the fire | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
took hold. 6th -- 5 have been discharged but three remained in | :06:07. | :06:14. | |
Kent -- serious conditions. Two are in East Grinstead and one is being | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
treated in London. In a moment: Iraq veteran Colonel | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
Tim Collins wants to shake up the police, are starting by running for | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
the job of Kent Commissioner. -- starting by. | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
Men who live in the most deprived parts of the Medway Towns die, on | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
average, ten years earlier than their wealthier neighbours. A | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
report by the Public Health Observatory also shows that women's | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
life expectancy is more than three years shorter than average. | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
The local council is looking at the findings which show that while the | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
better-off in the area live to be 77 on average, those in the poorest | :06:49. | :06:59. | |
wards are unlikely to even make it to 70. Sara Smith reports. | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
They may have less than four miles apart but their lives are very | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
different. Gordon Baker is on a good pension after 40 years with | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
the electricity board. Security guard then struggles to make ends | :07:11. | :07:19. | |
wait on his mages for -- making us meet on his wages. The disparity | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
between their life expectancy is is 10 years. One of the main reasons, | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
poorer people are more likely to smoke. I smoke about 20 a day, may | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
be because I am addicted to smoking, but I find it hard to give up | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
because of the stress of work, coming home and trying to sort | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
money out, living expenses. Smoking doesn't just cause lung cancer but | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
heart disease, as well as adding to a host of other health problems. | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
Poorer people also have a worse diet added Medway, the number of | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
those classed as obese are well above the country's average. -- and | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
the Medway. Gordon goes to the gym three times a week and eats | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
healthily. Even as a young man, he stayed away from cigarettes and too | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
much alcohol. We used to meet as a group, a good bunch of friends, | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
have a drink on a Friday night, but that was about all. The rest of the | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
time more sport. If I wasn't playing that, I would be watching | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
and I encouraged both my children to be the same. But the difference | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
between life expectancy in rich and poor is much less pronounced in | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
women, just three years. Us men are much less good at visiting the GP. | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
We lead riskier life styles, so we tend to be more likely to smoke, | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
drink more, we take greater risks, we tend to die a bit more early | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
from accidents, unfortunately, and all of this leads up to that kind | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
of inequality. Tonight, the statistics are being scrutinised by | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
Medway councillors. Life expectancy is improving overall, but there is | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
still more to be done. And Sara is in Medway for us this | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
evening. Why is there such a big gap in life | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
expectancy between rich and poor people? | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
I should say first of all that it has been narrowing over the past 10 | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
years. As a whole, people are Medway are living longer than ever | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
before but the gap is still too big and getting to the heart of that is | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
difficult. It seems that people know they need to stop smoking, eat | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
more carefully, but that the less control they feel they have over | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
their lives, over money and Employment, housing, the less | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
control they seem to be able to exert over their health. So the | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
approach is to be two-pronged. They need support as families, to adopt | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
a healthier lifestyle, but they also need support in the general | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
environment in which they are living and councillors will tonight | :09:43. | :09:50. | |
be discussing some of those issues. A driver has died in a crash on the | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
A23 north of Brighton this morning. A van crossed the central | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
reservation, hitting a lamppost which then fell on a vehicle coming | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
in the other direction. The man in the second vehicle, who was in his | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
fifties, was pronounced dead at the scene. | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
A health trust in Kent has been told it must train staff in Data | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
Protection laws after it accidentally destroyed 10,000 | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
patient records. The Information Commissioner has ruled that staff | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
at Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust were wrong to put the records in a | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
disposal room because there was no other storage space. The mistake | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
wasn't spotted for three months. The brother of a woman from Kent | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
murdered by her husband has called for police to be more victim- | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
friendly as he addressed members of the Scottish Parliament. Peter | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
Morris now campaigns for improved victims' rights, following the | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
murder of his sister Claire by He told MSPs about the impact the | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
case had on his family as he put forward a petition aimed at | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
improving support for victims of crime and their families. | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
Iraq War veteran Colonel Tim Collins has confirmed he wants to | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
stand as Kent's first police commissioner. Under new proposals, | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
commissioners would replace police authorities. | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
They would also have the power to hire and fire chief constables. As | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
Jon Hunt reports, Colonel Collins says he believes he has the energy | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
and know-how to do the job. Ordered for leading his men in Iraq, | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
made famous by his motivational speech to them on the eve of their | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
tour and today revealed by the Home Secretary as the person the | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
Conservatives are backing to become police crime Commissioner for Kent. | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
He says he wants to get tough on crime, tough on mediocrity and make | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
it easier for officers to do their job. The bureaucrats have tied the | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
hands of the police forces and the policeman will tell you that. If I | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
am elected, I hope to open those handcuffs and give the police both | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
hands to deal with crime. It is not going to be about reaction times, | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
because by the time someone has phoned the police the crime has | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
been committed. It is about driving a crime down. Kent Police is | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
overseen by an authority of 17 members but next year that will | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
change, with a single elected Commission are taking on that role. | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
It is not popular with those representing Kent officers and | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
while their respective Tim Collins, they wonder if he is the right bad | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
for the job. That while they respect. He has a lot to learn | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
about the police. Policing is not the army, it is a civilian | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
organisation. He also needs to engage with policing to find out | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
exactly what it is about and not listen to too many anecdotes that | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
he then goes on to report in speeches. He may be the first to | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
put his name forward but he won't be the last. The elections for | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
police commissioners will be held in November last year. | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
Our top story tonight. A married couple who helped a gang | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
torture a man in Crawley - forcing him to drink bleach, and breaking | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
his foot with a hammer - have been jailed. Anna Wibrew was sentenced | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
to six years in prison. Her husband Simon Weller was sentenced to five | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
years And setting the scene for a new era | :12:58. | :13:08. | |
of theatre in Canterbury as the curtain goes up on the Marlowe. | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
Added the heatwave is certainly over. Lots of cloud around but it | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
has been a dry picture. Will it be lasting? Join me later fall of the | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
details. And if you have a story you think | :13:19. | :13:29. | |
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we should be covering a, we would More than a million children are | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
now being taught in academies. The controversial scheme allows state- | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
funded schools to operate outside council control and have more | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
freedom over what they teach and how much they pay their staff. Well | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
today, a primary school in Smarden in Kent became the 1,000th school | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
to do it. More than 200 failing secondaries were turned into | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
academies under the previous Labour Government in England. But since | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
coming to power, the coalition has widened the criteria for academies | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
to offer successful schools the chance to gain more independence, | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
and more than 1,500 schools have now applied for academy status. | :14:15. | :14:25. | |
Louise Stewart reports. The children may be too young to | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
realise the significance of today's change. This small primary has | :14:28. | :14:36. | |
become the 1 thousandth to convert to academy status. Staff are under | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
no doubt about the benefits. It is extremely exciting for us. We are a | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
small rural primary school in the heart of Kent and Forrester be | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
identified as the 1,000 academy that has been created -- for us, | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
and for Lord Hill to speak to the children has been a real | :14:53. | :15:00. | |
achievement. We now have 1,000 academies opened. Cynics questioned | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
the timing of today's announcement, which coincided with the Education | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
Secretary's keynote speech to the Tory conference. Michael Gove | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
hailed the Academy programme as a success and said they were raising | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
standards generally. The great thing is they don't just raise | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
standards for the children in those schools, they work with schools | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
that are underperforming to raise standards in those schools as well | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
and they give people an example to emulate. But the policy has been | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
controversial. Critics say many schools I converted to academy | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
status because in the face of cuts to the education budget, they | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
helped it would help them Secure more funding. That hope. It is | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
about creating at hereof schools that are different from state | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
schools and we will have an increasingly segregated education | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
system. In Kent, you have a divided system because you have the 11 plus | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
and recreating another division school -- between schools and where | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
you have that, you have social segregation. I will never accept | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
second best for this country. 1.2 million children are now being | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
taught in academies and with 70% of schools in Kent applying to convert | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
to academy status, they could soon be many more. | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
Louise Stewart is at the Conservative Party Conference now. | :16:16. | :16:23. | |
I understand the Prime Minster also addressed the issue of acadamies. | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
Yes, that's right. At the start of Michael Gove's speech, there was a | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
live link-up to the Prime Minister, David Cameron, who was visiting an | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
academy in Manchester. I think the message is clear. Although as you | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
heard in the report, this has been controversial, not only is it the | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
education parts -- Education Secretary's flagship policy, at the | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
Prime Minister gives it his backing. Tonight is the end of conference, | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
after four weeks, and David Cameron would give his keynote speech to | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
conference. Quite a gloomy week in terms of the economy and the lack | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
of growth, and what he will want to do is talk up the achievement of | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
the Conservatives and send them home on a high. | :17:06. | :17:16. | |
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They wanted to create a landmark building, at �25 million of temple | :17:23. | :17:31. | |
to the dramatic arts in Canterbury and tonight, very rebuilt the | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
Marlowe will open tonight. Prince Edward and the Countess of | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
Wessex were the -- will be the special guests at a royal gala | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
evening. Robin Gibson is there. And exciting evening in prospect. | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
The champagne has been flowing at this royal gala performance. A | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
couple of hours ago, the royal guests arrived, and a lot is | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
hanging on this the Marlowe Theatre, at a bit like the Margate busy M. | :17:58. | :18:06. | |
People are hoping this will somehow signalled away -- but Margate is | :18:06. | :18:15. | |
the M. And -- Museum of Macro. But today has been all about getting | :18:15. | :18:24. | |
The planning and dreaming is over, today, the Marlowe theatre goes | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
live. Its first night. So everything has a feel of being a | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
first. It is wonderful to be in on a project like this. It is | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
fantastic. The Arts are in Fourie hard time, I am afraid to say, but | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
this is an exception -- are in for a hard time. It is a wonderful | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
building and I'm sure it will be very successful. The Philharmonic | :18:49. | :18:56. | |
will be here regularly. Accompanied by the Philharmonia | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
Orchestra, Sir John and soprano, and will be singing a wide | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
programme tonight for the gala opera evening. There has been a | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
keen sense of nervous anticipation around the building. Here we are at | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
last, obviously we are feeling a bit apprehensive, but we have done | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
the rehearsals, we have done the preparation and I think it will be | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
a triumphant occasion and a fitting opening to this fabulous new | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
theatre. It is all new and vivid, but the Marlowe has a lot of | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
history for a lot of people, so the spirit of its past is important to | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
them. Paul was wearing blue and yellow tights. I couldn't resist | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
him. I wasn't on stage at the time. This was in the street. We met | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
there and we started producing in 2005 and we have been doing it ever | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
since then. I walked into that auditorium at the weekend for the | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
first time and I genuinely got goose bumps. Some shows in the | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
Marlowe's first season have already sold out. And this, the opening | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
night with the royal guests, was never in question. Every one of the | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
theatre's plush Italian leather seat will be occupied. If that is a | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
pattern for the future, then millions will be considered to have | :20:12. | :20:21. | |
been well spent. This is a night for a lot of loyal | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
supporters of the Marlowe to come forward, because a lot of money has | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
been raised through a public donation. One who cannot be here | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
tonight is a movie star and Canterbury by Orlando bloom. He is | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
not able to be here, but he has given our message for me to read. - | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
- a message. He says it is a wonderful prospect -- have such an | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
exciting new theatre in Canterbury, particularly for actors to tour | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
outside of London. I look forward to enjoying many performances there | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
and I hope tonight's opening goes off with a bank. At the moment, it | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
certainly looks as though it is going to. People are taking their | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
seats. Just very quickly, do we know why | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
he couldn't turn up? I don't. I believe he has some | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
filming commitments. I think he was genuinely very disappointed he | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
could not be here and hopes to be here in the future, that is the | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
word on the street. Robin, thank you. It looks very | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
swish. Very different to the old one. | :21:26. | :21:35. | |
That move onto some football news. Gillingham will be hoping to put | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
Saturday's defeat behind them when they meet Barnet in the Johnstone | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
Paint Trophy tonight. It's the second time the sides have met so | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
far this season. Back in August, they drew 2-2 in north London | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
thanks to goals from Lee Spiller and Jack Payne. | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
Spinner Monty Panesar has signed a three-year contract extension at | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
Sussex. The 29-year-old was the second-highest wicket-taker in | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
Division One of the County Championship this year. He's taken | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
121 first-class wickets in two seasons since moving to Hove from | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
Northamptonshire. When it first went on display a | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
century ago, it provoked outrage and concerns that returning | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
soldiers from the Great War would be unable to cope with the sight of | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
two naked people in a passionate embrace. | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
Since then, it's become the nation's favourite work of art, and | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
Rodin's immediately recognisable sculpture The Kiss has gone on a | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
year-long display at the Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate. | :22:18. | :22:26. | |
Ria Chaterjee reports. This particular version of a The | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
Kiss has been on the move since it was first bought by a wealthy art | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
collector in Lewes in the early 1,900. Now for a while at least, it | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
home will be the Turner Contemporary. The Kiss is | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
considered to be one of the great images of erotic love. The statue | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
is depicting the story of two 13th century lovers, Paolo and Francesca, | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
which was the original title. Francesca was an Italian noblewoman | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
who fell in love with her husband's younger brother and Rodin is | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
capturing these figures when they have their first embrace. When The | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
Kiss went on display in Britain in 1914, it caused public outrage. So | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
much so, it went into hiding in a garage for a number of years. It is | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
said to be grabbing people's attention in Margate. But many are | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
coming to the gallery just disappeared. It is so realistic. | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
You can envisage them being alive. -- just to visited. The muscles and | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
everything is so amazing. It is lovely. I walked in and there it is, | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
it is wonderful. I think it looks nice and passionate, they look like | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
they are enjoying themselves. So much then not even looking at the | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
view. It is depicting the up -- young blood and I think it is | :23:52. | :24:00. | |
fabulous. -- love. Only last month, it was on display at the gallery in | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
Lewes for their Millennium Exhibition. Until the end of next | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
year, this seemingly nomadic art piece will look out across the Kent | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
coast. It is becoming a real cultural | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
destination, the south-east. If you want high art, go to Margate. | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
Or Canterbury. It was kind of breezy in Margate | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
today, we could see that. Rachel is here to give us the details of the | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
weather for the next day or so. The heatwave is well and truly over. | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
Plenty of crowd around today and some breezy south-westerly winds. - | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
some breezy south-westerly winds. - - cloud. Tomorrow, some decent | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
spells of sunshine in the morning but the cloud will thicken into the | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
after bid and it will stay dry through the day but it will be wet | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
overnight. Temperatures today have been around 18 or 19 degrees. | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
Cooler than yesterday but still above average for the time of the | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
year. By the end of the week, temperatures returning to the mid- | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
teens, so remark -- markedly cooler than the weekend. Low-pressure | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
firmly in control, with his band of light rain sinking southwards. | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
Mostly in the south-east just plenty of cloud, dry with the Spitz | :25:13. | :25:22. | |
and spots of rain. Temperatures in the top teams, around 19 degrees | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
four-star --. Very little changes as we move into tonight. Lot of | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
cloud around, that when continuing, so fairly breezy, and temperatures | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
not changing much from their daytime values, between 15 and 17 | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
degrees. As we move into tomorrow, a mild start to the day. Some | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
decent spells of sunshine but in the afternoon, the cloud cover will | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
Figov added that is ahead of this band of rain that is spreading | :25:48. | :25:55. | |
eastwards. -- will thicken. A mostly dry start to the day, decent | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
spells of such that through them morning, Bose South westerly winds | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
picking up at -- spells of sunshine through the morning. Temperatures | :26:05. | :26:12. | |
similar to today, ranging between 17 and 20 degrees, 68 in Fahrenheit. | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
Tomorrow night will be dry for a time and then we will see that rain | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
spreading eastwards. It is a wet and windy night, with temperatures | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
overnight cooler than they have been receptive. Lows of around 10 | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
degrees but the rain will clear. Thursday, those temperatures not | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
getting much above the 14 degrees, and mostly dry. As we end the week, | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
high pressure starting to build from the South West. A mostly dry | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
picture for Friday with decent spells of sunshine but the rain is | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
spells of sunshine but the rain is going to be back again on Saturday. | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
Thank you. That was all hot and sunny at the weekend. | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
Tonight's top national and local news: | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
The family of the British student Meredith Kercher, who was murdered | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
in Italy four years ago, say the investigation into her death is now | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
back to square one. They were speaking after an Italian court | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
cleared Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito. | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
A Sussex couple were jailed today for their involvement in the | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
torture of a man who stabbed himself in the chest to try to kill | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
himself after being kept prisoner for three days. The 21-year-old was | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
beaten and made to drink bleach. And the new Marlowe Theatre opens | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
for business tonight for the first time, with a royal seal of approval. | :27:28. | :27:31. |