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Welcome to South East Today. A special programme today live from | :00:05. | :00:10. | |
the Turner Contemporary in Margate. Today, the Queen has been visiting | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
the area for the first time in 18 years. We are so excited, the | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
children are absolutely buzzing, they are so thrilled to see the | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
Queen. What a memorable day. Thousands turned out to greet Her | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
Majesty and she not only visited the new gallery but went walkabout | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
in the old town and also met veterans to mark Armistice Day. | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
Also in tonight's programme: Hundreds of sham marriages but so | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
far only nine illegal immigrants have been deported following the | :00:37. | :00:46. | |
Sussex fake wedding scandal. BELL TOLLS. | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
Remembering the fallen - the south- east marks Armistice Day. | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
Aiming for the World Championships - the 16-year-old go-karting ace | :00:54. | :01:04. | |
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with ambitions to be the next Lewis Believing that welcome to a special | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
edition of BBC South East Today -- good evening and welcome. We are at | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
the Turner Contemporary Gallery, because the Queen has been visiting | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
here today, not just here, not just to see Rodin's The Kiss, but to see | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
this building as part of the huge regeneration plan that is actually | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
trying to change the face of the town of Margate and of Thanet. It | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
is a town that has had a big knock as the years have gone by but it is | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
starting to turn itself around. This visit by the Queen is seen by | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
many as a really significant day for the people of Margate. | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
After a chilly weight, the chauffeur-driven car arrived at the | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
Turner Contemporary, and the crowd went wild. Margate hasn't seen a | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
day like today for nearly 20 years and there is a real sense of | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
excitement and the next -- anticipation here, particularly | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
from the entire school of hadn't been in Broadstairs, he turned out | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
to see Her Majesty. That hadn't been. It is the best thing in the | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
world. A I hope we can see the Queen again. It is fantastic to see | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
the Queen here in Margate. They are so excited. We came down at 8 | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
o'clock to set up our picture and we are so excited. The children are | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
buzzing, they are so thrilled to see the Queen, what a lovely | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
memorable day for them. Inside the gallery, the atmosphere was more | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
muted but no less enthusiastic. Politicians, dignitaries and | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
artists were amongst the invited guests as the Queen viewed the | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
gallery's exhibits and enjoyed a lunch of halibut and vegetables. | :02:54. | :03:02. | |
is such an change, beating the Queen in Margate, in a gallery that | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
couldn't have existed in my teens - - meeting the Queen. I am thrilled | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
for Margate, really. Before it opened, they had hoped the gallery | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
might attract 150,000 people in its first year. To date, more than | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
300,000 have visited. There is a real sense that what they Gallery | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
and other things that the town has, it has really moved on. What we | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
have is an international gallery, rooted very firmly in the locality. | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
To date's visit by the Queen crowns and opening here that has exceeded | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
the everyone's expectations -- today's. | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
I am joined by the director of the Turner Contemporary art gallery, | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
and I should imagine, it's usually exciting day for everybody. It has | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
been incredible, a lovely day for all of the visitors and especially | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
for the town and for the art gallery. How did you manage to | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
persuade the Queen to come here? invited Her Majesty and she | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
graciously accepted the invitation, so it is a huge moment and very | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
special when she said she was coming, and we have done lot of | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
planning and preparation round of this visit. What did she make of | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
it? It is contemporary art, items that are slightly off-the-wall as | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
well as the more usual to dimensional paintings. I think she | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
was -- I think she thoroughly enjoyed her visit, she spent time | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
with the students in the studio and she liked a lot of the work | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
upstairs, particularly the works by Turner, but the prince was | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
interested in the work behind a bit. The reason she came as well is | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
because this gallery is part of the whole plan to regenerate Margate. | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
Was that clear in the understanding of why she had come today? | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
really wanted to see what the economic impact and benefit of | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
having the gallery was on the town and she spent a lot of time out of | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
the town this morning before she got to the gallery. You are | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
confident it is having an impact? We have had 300,000 visitors, which | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
is issued accolade, since April this year, and we are hoping to get | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
thousands more -- a huge accolade. Admission is free and we believe we | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
are really transforming Margate. Thank you very much for being with | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
us. Regeneration really is the name of the game for Margate. It is a | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
town that as I said has suffered so serious knocks as the years have | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
gone by, not least when the package holiday destinations dried-up, with | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
the advent of cheap flights to holiday destinations and a decade | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
or so ago, it is fair to say Margate was a town that many people | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
saw as being on its uppers, but now things seem to be a little bit as - | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
- on the up, as Mark Norman reports. The crowds gathered opposite a few | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
of the new shops that have opened in the New Town since the Turner | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
Contemporary became a reality. A visible sign of the regeneration | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
that has happened here and that Margate has been striving for for | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
almost two decades. It is really exciting. It just means such a lot, | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
to put Margate back on the map, for them and for everybody else, to see | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
what has happened here over the last year or so. It just shows | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
there is a lot more that has happened here. There is always | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
negative stuff about Margate, and it is in the writ -- middle of a | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
regeneration, it is still going on, still a lot can happen, and people | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
who are negative that I they need to get on to do something to | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
improve it or shut up. Latest figures available from 2009 show | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
that day-trippers bring in �175 million a year to Thanet. 35 the | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
businesses have opened in Margate's old town in the last 18 months -- | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
new businesses. But problems remain. 37% of retail space in the town | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
centre remains empty. Walk along the seafront from the turn and you | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
come to Arlington House. Empty shops, but plans for an 83,000 | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
square foot Tescos superstore. Residents say it is too big and | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
went regenerate their end of town, it will ruin it. The small shops in | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
this area are all very, very concerned that Tesco is going to | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
Kevin and is going to wipe them out, because they undercut on prices -- | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
going to come in. It could sound the death-knell for other shops in | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
the area. While Arlington House residents fight for their future, | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
the Council are also looking at wider projects. The visit from Her | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
Majesty the Queen has just actually completely topped all of the very | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
positive things that have happened over the past 18 months that I | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
think we are all very much begin forward to continuing with the | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
regeneration projects that are still on going. It has been an | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
exciting day for businesses in the heart of Margate. It is there up to | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
businesses across the town and the region to build on this mood of | :07:48. | :07:57. | |
optimism. Is there genuinely grounds for | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
optimism? Let's talk to some people who should know. Daniel Goldman, | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
you are a cafe owner in the town. You have been here since 2003. | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
That's right, I have been trading since the beginning of that year. | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
How much has it changed? Very much so. We have seen how the cafe | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
culture has taken off and with the investment in the Turner | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
Contemporary, the rise in visitors we have had. When you see something | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
like 35 new businesses in the old town opening up in 18 months, is | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
that competition of good news? is not competition, it is great for | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
business. It is good to see and the nice thing about the old town, they | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
are all independent traders and there is a really good feel to the | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
town and we are getting consistent visitors. Let's talk to sue Horton. | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
Your role is to encourage regeneration not just in Margate | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
but across Thanet. Are you genuinely seen a difference? Yes, I | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
think it can only be good for the whole area, not just Margate, the | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
whole of Thanet, because anyone who is investing in this area, it is | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
going to improve the business coming into the town, investment in | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
the can and Thanet as a whole. important is this building to | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
actually making a difference? If you are unemployed, or 18, 19 or 20, | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
don't feel you have prospects, does it make her any arts having | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
international art gallery on your doorstep -- does it make any odds? | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
I think so, it brings interesting to the area, people can focus on | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
something else, a new career that they not -- may not have thought | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
other the past. It is offering training opportunities to younger | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
people and giving them more opportunities generally, and | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
blinking back in with the trading opportunities that we delivered to | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
the unemployed -- linking back. Thank you very much. Today of | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
course is also the 11th of the 11th, it is Armistice Day, and the Queen, | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
when she was touring the old town and looking at some of the new | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
businesses, also to have tiger that scheduled to that -- talk to some | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
war veterans and here some of that -- and here some of their stories. | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
We have also been looking at how you have been marking your | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
Armistice Day across the south-east. Even though the Queen's arrival was | :10:14. | :10:24. | |
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just moments away, at 11 o'clock, Margate fell silent. | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
BUGLE PLAYS. Then a chance for veterans to share | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
their memories with the Queen. Never in my lifetime did I ever | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
think I would meet the Queen. Ever. What did she say to you? She just | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
said that we did a good job and she is as proud of us as we are as | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
proud of her. Particularly be the 11th of the 11th of the 11th, how | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
can you top it? You can't. Acts of remembrance right across the south- | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
east. BELL TOLLS. | :11:03. | :11:13. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 62 seconds | :11:13. | :12:16. | |
11th November is always an extremely poignant day for veterans, | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
a chance to look back. Here in Margate, in the future, they will | :12:20. | :12:30. | |
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remember it as the day the Queen visited Margate. | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
Sorry, we seem to have lost the sound link to Margate. In the rest | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
of today's news: Only nine illegal immigrants have | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
been deported following the scandal of hundreds of sham marriages in | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
East Sussex, according to official figures. More than 370 weddings | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
conducted by the Reverend Alex Brown in St Leonards between July | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
2005 and July 2009 were thought to be bogus. Last year, the Border | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
Agency told us they'd be taking a tough stance with those who tried | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
to gain the right to live in Britain by taking part in a sham | :13:04. | :13:13. | |
marriage. Colin Campbell reports. They married to try and stay in | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
this country, and for many, it appears to be working. It seems | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
totally inadequate. I think the citizens of Hastings and the rest | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
of the country would normally expect the consequences to have | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
been felled by the people who committed this crime well before | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
now, so I will be urging the Border Agency to take more serious action | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
to get rid of the people who committed these crimes if possible. | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
The Border Agency reviewed 379 weddings conducted by Reverend Alex | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
Brown. Around 170 individuals, predominantly men, buried by the | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
priest, have had residency applications rejected -- married. | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
But only nine have been deported. Worryingly, 27 have vanished. Over | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
a year ago, the Border Agency sounded optimistic about tracking | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
down the offenders. We would have to be able to find most of them if | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
not all of them, but if you are in the country illegally and you know | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
that, sometimes people disappear and you have to work that bit | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
harder to find them. Most of the sham weddings involved east | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
European women marrying West African men who wanted to cheat the | :14:17. | :14:24. | |
system. This lady was paid �1,500 cash to marry a Nigerian who was | :14:24. | :14:32. | |
facing deportation. I think he wanted to documents. For working. | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
The UK Border Agency say the 170 people that got married here then | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
applied for residency, which has been rejected, still have the right | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
for appeal and that that action will be taken once procedures are | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
exhausted. 70 suspected bogus marriages have now been deemed to | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
genuine. Loving relationships, not marriages of convenience. | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
In other news, a man who was caught on CCTV swinging a cat around his | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
head has handed himself in to Margate police station. The | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
pictures coming up are quite upsetting. They were filmed in | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
Ramsgate last month. RSPCA officers are now questioning the man in | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
connection with the incident. An inquest has heard that a woman | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
from Kent died after her learner- driver daughter accidentally ran | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
her over when she had fallen to the floor during a lesson. 41-year-old | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
Susan Duke suffered serious head injuries in July when her 17-year- | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
old daughter Lauren Duke reversed over her in a car park in Cuxton. | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
She was taken to hospital but died two days later. | :15:31. | :15:41. | |
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Witnesses to come forward on the A new smartcard that makes it | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
quicker and easier for passengers to buy train tickets is being | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
trialled from today in Sussex. It's called "the key" and, like London's | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
Oyster card, is designed to be topped up. Southern Railways have | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
launched the pilot scheme on the line from Brighton to Seaford as a | :15:56. | :15:57. | |
greener alternative to paper tickets. | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
A fierce campaign is underway against plans for a windfarm in | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
Sussex. A development company called Galliford Try Renewables | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
wants to erect five turbines to generate enough electricity to | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
supply Polegate and the nearby village of Westham. Protestors say | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
the turbines would be far too big and blight the area. Our | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
environment correspondent Yvette Austin reports. | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
Lying at the foot of the South Downs, the fields of Shap them. The | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
views across to the Pevensey Levels. Amongst residents, the concerns are | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
that the landscape will be wrecked by giant wind turbines. No. 1 would | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
be there, number two behind the big house on the skyline, number three | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
where the Masters, number four over there and number five a bit further | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
to the right -- where the mast is. They are too big, too close, they | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
will impact, they will make too much noise and disturb people's | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
lives day and night. This won't generate enough electricity to be | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
worthwhile and the children and grandchildren, of which I have a | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
few, will have to pay the bill. It will come out in their electricity | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
bills and their taxes, and they will get very badly -- bad value | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
for money. The five turbine is will be clearly seen for miles around. | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
Each one would be 415 ft tall, from its base to the tip of the top | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
blade. That is more than twice the height of Nelson's Column and | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
almost as tall as the London Eye. Supporters say they are a must for | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
future energy needs. Solar power and offshore wind are not going to | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
make up enough to make the sort of cuts in carbon emissions we needed | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
the timescale we need, so we need to be thinking about the | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
environment and not our own backyards. The Government wants 15% | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
of all other energy to be from renewables by 2020. The current | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
figure is less than 4%. The company behind the project says it feels it | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
is helping to meet the target and says it has carried out extensive | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
studies and consultation with a leading environmental bodies and | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
they have not objected to the scheme. | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
It's the opening round of the FA Cup this weekend with several of | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
the south-east's clubs in action. Charlton travel to Halifax on | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
Sunday, and tomorrow Crawley go to Bury, with Gillingham away at | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
Bournemouth. The Gills will be without their loan strikers Jo | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
Kuffour and Frank Nouble. That means a big chance for their | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
teenage goalkeeper, Paulo Gazzaniga, who is standing by to deputise for | :18:19. | :18:28. | |
the injured Ross Flitney. We have been at Bournemouth before, played | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
there many times, played them in the FA Cup. I remember it was the | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
day I got carried off with my injury. So we have got them result | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
Bournemouth, it is one we look forward to and have no fear of | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
going there. Four years ago, Hastings teenager | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
Jack Barlow had never been near a racetrack. Next week he sets off | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
for Dubai determined to return home as a World Champion. If that wasn't | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
enough, the 16-year-old has set himself a five-year dealine to | :18:54. | :19:04. | |
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break into Formula One, as he told Neil Bell. | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
The conditions may have been a bit murky this morning, but Jack | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
Barlow's aim is crystal clear. Ever since he came across a go-kart | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
track on a family holiday for years ago, he has been hooked, and has | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
established themselves as one of the most outstanding prospects in | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
the country. Next week, he takes off -- he heads off to take up some | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
of the best around in Dubai at the world finals. You have to learn | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
your place, you can't buy your way into it. You did pretty well last | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
year, can you do better this year? Last year was a really good year, I | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
was leading on the RAST -- last lap and finished 4th, but I feel like I | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
have matured and have a really good chance this year. During his brief | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
but highly successful career, Jack has met his heroes Lewis has up -- | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button, they also began go-karting. Victory | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
in Dubai would be a massive boost to his chances of joining them in | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
Formula One. You see a lot of drivers now, Jenson Button and | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
Lewis Hamilton have won the Formula One title, and ever since then, go- | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
karting has got a bit begat and everyone wants to be like Jenson | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
Button and Lewis Hamilton and guided tour. It is just money, | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
because sometimes you can't fund four or �5 million of to get into | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
F1, but that is what Jack wants to do. At if it doesn't work out, we | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
can say we tried. We have had for grid years of racing it, it has | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
brought us closer together, caused arguments as well, about money, but | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
he loves what he does. Competition in motor sport is intense and | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
worldwide, but it Jack Barlow continues his current rate of | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
progress, success appears to be a racing certainty. | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
He has got bags of conference. -- confidence. | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
A woman from Eastbourne is on track to raise �1 million for charity. | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
Margaret Fox has spent the last 30 years raising hundreds of thousands | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
for local charities. Today, she hopes to raise the final �3,000 | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
needed to reach the �1 million target. It is all in aid of the air | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
ambulance and I hope everyone out there could come down and give us | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
their support and help us raise that one million, because this is | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
my final push, and that I have got my million. That is all I want out | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
of life. That is it from the studio, I will be back on Monday, but from | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
all of us here have a good weekend. I will have you back to Margate, | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
where the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have spent the day | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
visiting the Turner Gallery, the old town and back row people. -- | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
the RNLI. What a memorable day for the people there. | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
Yes, hopefully you can he be now, we have but another coin in the | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
meter. -- he may now. This is an international picture from the | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
Canadian artist Jack Walker. The theme of the expected -- exhibition | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
is of nothing but youth, and you can see all sorts of work by great | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
pop artists by Peter Blake and David Hockney and Henry Moore and | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
even original paintings by Turner himself of. Watercolours are part | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
of Kent and local wildlife and so forth. Cheek by jowl is a work like | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
this, a photograph of youngsters from the technology college then by | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
the road. -- down the road. There has been a whole palette for the | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
Queen and the Duke to look at today. Once they had been in the gallery, | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
they moved into the RNLI the building to see the work being done | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
there, and our reporter is that the building now. | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
This lifeboat station has been here a lot longer than the gallery, it | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
was built in 1970 died after the previous Lifeboat Station was | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
washed away -- 1979. The peer was washed away in a storm. This boat | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
will go out in all weathers. -- pier. They told me today that royal | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
visit or no royal visit, if they had had an emergency call today, | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
they would have answered it and I think they are all pretty pleased | :23:01. | :23:10. | |
that it didn't happen. It was Queen Victoria who made the | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
lifeboat service Royal in 1854. Today's Queen had a glimpse of how | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
the modern service operates, meeting the 30 volunteer crewmen as | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
well as fundraisers and supporters. It is fantastically special for the | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
table volunteers here. The RNLI is a charity, we are run by its | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
volunteers, so to meet the Queen is a record for the effort they put in. | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
The royal couple also met a former sailor who had served under Prince | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
Philip 60 years ago in the Navy. actually said, you are the second | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
person we have met who served on that. They met them in the old town | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
this morning. Up are those without a royal appointment, it was getting | :23:52. | :24:02. | |
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the best base for the best view -- It is part of my culture. She is my | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
Queen and that is why I am here. This whole school turnout for the | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
visit. They are so excited, it is fantastic. One other children said | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
he knew he would recognise that because he had seen his face on the | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
money, which I thought was charming. -- he knew he would recognise their | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
because he had seen her face on money. As the Queen toured the old | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
town, one Posy was presented by a boy born 11 years ago today, his | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
11th birthday on the 11th of the 11th. She asked if it was my | :24:40. | :24:48. | |
birthday and I said yes. It might not have been the nicest day to be | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
beside the sea, but it didn't seem to put anyone off. I have seen the | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
Queen today for the first time in my life, so happy to see how. | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
first time I have seen how come to Margate. Something I have not seen | :25:01. | :25:11. | |
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before. Mid-afternoon, having made everyone's day, she was off, back | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
to the royal flight home. And I think it did make everyone's | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
day that the Queen was here, in their town, walking around Margate | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
and they really felt... Sarah, thank you very much. There | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
were thousands and thousands of people in the area looking at what | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
was going on, taking photos, and we know that because the hundreds of | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
you have been up loading them to our Facebook page. We can take a | :25:40. | :25:48. | |
look now. If you want another look, go to Alla Facebook page. -- our. | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
If you have taking your own, you can add them to the collection, we | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
would like to be able to see all of them. If we take a look here, this | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
is one of J M W Turner's paintings and you can see that beautiful blue | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
sky in the background. Sadly, we didn't have that today in a Thanet. | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
Will it improve over the next day? Rachel has all the latest. | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
It certainly was a dull and damp picture today. As we move through | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
picture today. As we move through tonight, we have further rain that | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
will clear through tomorrow and it will be that dry and brighter | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
picture over the weekend and it did in the week. The reason is we have | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
a cold front spreading eastwards, which will clear through the | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
morning tomorrow and we will start to draw much milder air from the | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
near Continent, so temperatures will be around what we would | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
normally see in May. As we move into tonight, we will hold onto | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
that cloud, some light patchy rain and drizzle where the cloud get fit. | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
Overnight temperatures very mild for the time of year, hardly | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
changing from the daytime values. As we move through tomorrow morning, | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
the rate will clear eastwards, brightening up into the afternoon - | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
- the rain. Very mild the time of the year, highs of around 16 | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
degrees, 61 in Fahrenheit. It is worth mentioning that tomorrow is | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
your opportunity to film Something For the BBC's film Britain in a day, | :27:08. | :27:16. | |
you can see more at the website. Tomorrow night forestay dry, cloud | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
going away, lows of around nine degrees. Remembrance Sunday will be | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
more in the way of hazy sunshine as we move into the afternoon, while | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
for the time of that year, up to 14 degrees, 16 as you move towards | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
London. Into the new week, and more in the way of sunshine but | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
temperatures 10 average for the time of the year, highs of around | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
time of the year, highs of around 12 degrees. A dry and brighter | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
picture all round. Rachel, thank you very much. That | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
is all we have time for this evening. It has been a really, full | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
day in Margate, people have really enjoyed the royal visit from Her | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
Majesty the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip. It has | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
been a day of colour and excitement that we will leave you with some | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
images that show you exactly what has been going on with the Royal | :28:01. | :28:11. | |
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