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Welcome to South East Today, I'm Polly Evans. | :00:05. | :00:09. | |
Tonight's top stories. A �38 million plan to keep the | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
trains going when the temperature drops. | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
Guilty of a �23,000 fraud - the police worker too ill for duty, but | :00:18. | :00:25. | |
all right to work at his wife's florist shop. | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
Do you regret taking the money, the �22,000? You have any intention of | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
paying it back? Also tonight: | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
A fundraising campaign is launched in Gravesend for the baby boy left | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
critically ill after an alleged assault. | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
Playing away - the Guernsey rugby team big on enthusiasm but short of | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
competition, now part of a Sussex league. | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
And light van man - a Kent Christmas enthusiast takes his | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
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Good evening. It's a �38 million plan to keep our rail network | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
moving in severe winter weather. Today, the Transport Secretary | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
Justine Greening came to Kent to announce a programme to tackle the | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
problem of the electric third rail - carrying power for the trains - | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
that contributed to chaos on the network last winter. | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
At this time last year, we were experiencing the coldest winter for | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
more than 30 years, with trains grinding to a halt as rails became | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
clogged with snow. Now Network Rail is to expand the areas where the | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
third rail is heated to try to stop it happening again. Sara Smith | :01:37. | :01:44. | |
reports. If there is one group who won't be | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
hoping for a white Christmas, it is those who run the rail services. | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
The complaints are still ringing in their areas from last year. Today, | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
the Transport Minister met the boss of Southeastern Trains to see how | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
�38 billion is being spent in trying to win to prove services. | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
With this investment, we can make sure the rails do not freeze up. | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
�16 million is being spent to heat the third rail. When that gets iced | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
up, it stops conducting electricity to the trains that they are left | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
powerless. 85% have already been done. The 60 million will mean we | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
can get the rest are done by January, so it will hopefully make | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
an improvement -- 16. There will be 150 new sections of heated third | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
rail in Kent and Sussex, two snow and ice treatment trains, with | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
snowploughs, heated de-icer, and 20 passenger trains with the capacity | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
to DRI says they go. Passengers, one of the most trying aspects of | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
life she was the lack of information. We have put in place | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
new arrangements which allows us to make automatic announcement that | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
stations. We have improved the website services and made available | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
a Twitter feed where people can pick up information. The changes | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
may be welcome but there is an acceptance of how far they can go. | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
I am confident that there will be a significant improvement in moderate | :03:11. | :03:18. | |
snow and ice conditions, but I am not confident that if we have 30 | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
centimetres worth of snow that we will have anything like a full | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
service operating. That is my realistic assessment. When snow | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
comes, there is very little you can do instantaneously, so I suspect we | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
will end up with delays, but all credit for trying. I don't think | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
how much it matters -- how much you spend on it, if it is huge snow, | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
you're in trouble. We will only know for sure when the snow does | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
come again. A Police Community Support Officer | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
who worked for more than a year at his wife's florist shop in Kent | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
while claiming to be too sick for duty has been given a suspended | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
jail sentence for fraud. Daniel Earls told managers he | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
couldn't work due to stress. But he was actually working in | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
Sittingbourne, while claiming over �23,000 in salary and benefits from | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
the Metropolitan Police. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Colin | :04:07. | :04:15. | |
Campbell reports. Do you regret taking the money? | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
Would you like to say sorry for taking the money? | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
Daniel Earls was getting paid to police the streets. Instead, he | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
falsely claimed he was sick and fraudulently pocketed thousands. | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
Whilst working with his wife that this Sittingbourne florists. | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
Especially in these times of austerity, the Met Police are | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
committed to providing value for money to the public and obviously | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
this has been a complete breach. The 45-year-old worked for an | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
entire year at the flower shop when he should have been working as a | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
Community Support Officer. He told his bosses he was too unwell. | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
Excuses included fatigue, stress and the digestor of disorder. | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
have always worked hard and my husband has always worked hard, | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
especially in today's climate, it is not fair. Times are hard | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
nowadays with all the cuts going on and people acting like that, they | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
have got to hold their hands up and accept the punishment. In total, | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
Daniel Earls defrauded the Metropolitan Police and of in | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
excess of �23,000. He was caught when detectives launched a covert | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
investigation. Posing as undercover buyers, they went into the shop and | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
discovered Daniel Earls working behind the till when he was | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
supposed to be at homesick. The judge took into consideration acts | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
of bravery by the disgraced PCSOs. The court heard that on two | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
separate occasions, he had disarmed criminals, one with a handgun, | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
something he declined to comment on. Could you tell us about your | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
bravery, when you disarmed these men? A man with a magnum 44. | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
In addition to the 12 months suspended sentence, Daniel Earls | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
received 300 hours community service and must repay all the | :05:57. | :06:05. | |
money within three months. Coming up in a moment: a very rare | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
opportunity to buy the cathedral residents, on the open market for | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
People in Gravesend have begun fundraising to support a one-month- | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
old baby boy who remains in a critical condition in hospital. | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
Two people have been arrested on suspicion of assault and released | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
on bail. The community say they want to do all they can to help the | :06:28. | :06:36. | |
baby. Simon Jones reports. As the days go by, the number of | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
toys, candles and cards keeps growing. A community coming | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
together in support of the injured baby. At this local cafe, they have | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
begun fund-raising to offer the boy any local help -- any LP might need. | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
People want to support a baby so people will put their hands of | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
their pocket and put some money in. I think it is a really good idea, | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
and I am honoured to do that, to support the baby in any way we can. | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
It is an antidote to some of the angry scenes at the weekend when a | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
vigil became highly charged, with crowds chanting, demanding justice | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
for the baby. Today, locals say their energies are focused on | :07:17. | :07:24. | |
hoping for his speedy recovery. very upset. Heartbroken. -- and | :07:24. | :07:33. | |
very upset. A little baby. Just terrible. I am trying to hold my | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
tears back because I don't want to look silly, but it makes me want to | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
cry, it really does. I just want to pay my respects and I'm just | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
praying that the little boy fights it and pulls through. Buyers are | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
showing the community care -- by us, we are all showing we can be | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
together as one, where usually, there is so much crime but at the | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
moment everybody is together and that is what I like. People in | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
Gravesend remain very concerned about the baby's condition. The | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
police say that hasn't changed. He remains critical but stable in a | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
London hospital. The man and woman arrested on suspicion of a salt are | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
still on bail, as the police say they continued to investigate it | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
any offences had been committed -- suspicion of assault. | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
East and West Sussex Fire & Rescue Services are to merge their | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
existing control rooms into a single, joint control centre. It | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
follows a successful bid for �3.6 million from the Government. | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
Managers say the move will save money and improve co-ordination | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
with other emergency services. The new centre could begin taking 999 | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
calls in 2013. Controversial plans to allow | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
exploration for gas in east Kent coal beds have been approved this | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
afternoon by county councillors. Opponents claim the mining method, | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
known as fracking, caused minor earthquakes in Lancashire and could | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
have the same impact in Kent. A gang of drug dealers behind a | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
nationwide supply network have been jailed for more than 65 years. The | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
group included seven men from Crawley, in West Sussex, and one | :09:06. | :09:16. | |
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from Edenbridge, in Kent. They were sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
today. Volunteers who drive hundreds of | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
elderly patients to hospitals in the south-east say they can't cope | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
with a surge in demand, which could be potentially life-threatening to | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
patients. It follows the Maidstone and | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust's decision to cancel its own | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
transport service, saving more than �400,000 year. The Community Car | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
Service in Tunbridge Wells says it now desperately need more drivers | :09:35. | :09:45. | |
and funding. Lynda Hardy reports. It is patients like George, who is | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
having chemotherapy, who need the help of the volunteer drivers to | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
get to hospital. This service is a lifeline, because otherwise I would | :09:53. | :10:00. | |
have to pay a lot of money for taxes, and -- for a taxi, or I | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
could catch the bus, but that is not convenient after chemotherapy, | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
because you really cannot travel after chemotherapy on public | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
transport. You are feeling sick, week, tired, it just doesn't happen | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
on the bus. You really cannot do that. But he is just one of | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
hundreds of patients who now need the volunteer drivers, since the | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
local hospital trust stopped its transport service. We are getting | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
rather snowed under. We need more drivers. We needed to cope with | :10:34. | :10:43. | |
them all. They have just taken on six more drivers, but even they | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
won't help to meet rising demand, meaning that potentially here they | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
won't be able to help take some patients to their appointments. | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
we are not there to pick someone up to take them to their hospital | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
appointment, they may decide to opt to go to the appointment. That | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
might not really matter if it is a blood test or an eye test, but if | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
it is chemotherapy or radiotherapy or a test to find out if you have a | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
real medical problem, that could be potentially life-threatening. | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
the solution, this small organisation says, is it needs more | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
funding and all volunteers. Otherwise they won't be able to | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
continue to help take hundred snow Hospital. | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
Lynda Hardy reporting, and she joins us live in Tunbridge Wells, | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
where the volunteer service is based. What has the Maidstone and | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust had to say about this? | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
It says it ended its own voluntary card scheme in October because the | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
cost of running it was diverting hundreds of thousands of Pounds | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
from frontline care. But it says any patients that need help | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
reaching hospital because of born ability or a medical condition may | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
be entitled to use their own ambulance transport scheme -- the | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
vulnerability. And it says it is the king at improving access to the | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
hospital, possibly with local schemes like this, which is much | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
cheaper than using a taxi, sometimes harder price, so much | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
more affordable for the many older people who use it -- sometimes half | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
the price. Our top story tonight: | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
The Transport Secretary Justine Greening has been in Kent | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
announcing how �16 million is being spent on a system to keep the third | :12:19. | :12:26. | |
rail heated in freezing conditions. It is part of the 38 million pound | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
project to keep the railways going when bad weather hits. It's hoped | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
the scheme will keep Kent and Sussex railways going when bad | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
weather hits. Also in tonight's programme: | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
The best bat - England captain Andrew Strauss on why he always | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
picks Sussex willow. And joined me to see why this | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
Christmas enthusiast is taking his light show on the road with his | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
An historic house within the precinct of Rochester Cathedral is | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
up for sale for the first time in 600 years, to help ensure access to | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
the cathedral remains free for visitors. The cathedral attracts | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
around 126,000 people every year, but it has annual maintenance costs | :13:04. | :13:13. | |
of �850,000. It's hoped the sale of College Green, which is part of the | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
Old Bishops Palace, will raise �650,000. Robin Gibson has | :13:17. | :13:26. | |
tonight's Special Report. It is a beautiful house in its own | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
right, lying in the shadow of Rochester Cathedral, it has been a | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
church building since medieval times. Part of the old Archbishop's | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
palace and home to historic names, Sir Thomas More, and of the martyr | :13:42. | :13:50. | |
John Fisher. We bring you to pieces of news. The Pope has made you a | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
cannon. -- two pieces of news. The second is that Parliament has | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
decreed that to maliciously denied the King's supremacy is now a | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
treasonable offence. Punishable by death. He was arrested by Henry VII | :14:05. | :14:12. | |
for treason. He didn't accept him as the Supreme Head of the church, | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
so he lost his head for it and 1535 -- Henry VII. The house and all of | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
its ghosts are being sold for �650,000, so it will be a private | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
home for the first time since the 1,400s. Where else can you find at | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
the centre of the city a walled garden with no passing traffic, | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
very little traffic, you get bored by for it than by car, within a few | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
hundred yards of the High Street -- you get more on foot. The cathedral | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
itself is just a few hundred yards from John Fisher's home and it is | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
recognisable as the place he knew. In a way, he has never gone away. | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
This is him remembered in this altar screen. He left other things | :14:54. | :15:02. | |
too. We still have a number of things. This was published in 1527. | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
This is actually a book from the 16th century? The this was | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
published in 1527 and it is one of the few we still have in our | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
possession. The house has been through many changes in she knew it, | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
but it is hard to imagine anyone living here without feeling the | :15:18. | :15:27. | |
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atmosphere of the past -- since he Jan and Evelyn from Gravesend were | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
separated when they were just toddlers in the 1950s and the | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
sisters have spent the last 60 years thinking that they would | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
never see each other again. While Evelyn stayed with her mother | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
in Kent, Jan was adopted by a family in Canada. But now, thanks | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
to the internet and social networking, they have found each | :15:45. | :15:52. | |
other again. Ian Palmer has the heartwarming story. | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
Sisters who haven't met for 50 years. Touching the screen is the | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
closest they can get. They found each other by the social networking | :16:02. | :16:10. | |
side Facebook. I was excited, I cried, I screamed. I panicked! I | :16:10. | :16:19. | |
thought, what do I do now? What do I do? Then I calmed down and I | :16:19. | :16:26. | |
wrote the Mail. I just couldn't believe it at first. I just started | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
screaming and calling to my husband, who was in the other room, and he | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
thought there was something wrong with me, and he came running out. | :16:35. | :16:43. | |
And I said, Jan Has found me! And I just started crying. The story | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
begins with a divorce in the early 1950s. Six-month-old Evelyn stayed | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
with her mother in Gravesend and her two year-old sister and her | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
brother were taken into care. Her brother remained there until he was | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
16 and Jan Was adopted by Canada at the age of eight -- by a family in | :17:02. | :17:09. | |
Canada. My mother wanted me to tell Jan How much she loved her. So now | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
I can do that. Months of conversation found there was much | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
in common between the women, similar interests, the same number | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
of sons and even the same hairstyle. But the similarities don't end | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
there. Both women had very bad accidents in 1992, leaving them | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
with severe back injuries. The sisters will meet each other for | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
the first time in 60 years later this month. Jan is coming to Kent. | :17:35. | :17:44. | |
They lost each other once, they It will be great when they finally | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
catch up with each other. What is Guernsey famous for? Wooly | :17:48. | :17:55. | |
jumpers and fishing, and dairy cows. That is what I would have said. | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
It's not really renowned as a hotbed of rugby. So the local youth | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
squad, the Guernsey Colts, were faced with a problem. They had lots | :18:02. | :18:03. | |
of enthusiasm, but no-one to play against. | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
So what did they do? They joined the Sussex Colts league. Not put | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
off by 150 miles of English Channel between them, they regularly fly in | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
to Gatwick for their fixtures. Charlie Rose reports. | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
The people of Guernsey love their rugby. But with just 62,000 people | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
living on the island, less than the population of Hastings, competition | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
can be fairly limited. There is only one club and unfortunately, we | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
are it. So to get a decent game, they come to Sussex. Getting there | :18:37. | :18:45. | |
and back is the 60 hour day, with the 320 mile round air journey. In | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
the Sussex League, they will be making the trip nine times. A 7am | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
flight from Guernsey to Gatwick and then a train ride down to wherever | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
we are playing, play the rugby, train back to Gatwick and then | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
7:30pm flight to Guernsey, meaning we are all home by 9pm. It is | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
difficult to drag myself out of bed by fire in the morning, but it is | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
something I enjoy so it is worth it in the end -- 5. It is great that | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
south-east rugby is strong enough that they can choose to play in the | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
Sussex League rather than anywhere else, which is really good. They | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
haven't got much opposition where they are. With all of the group's | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
making trips to the UK, it costs the club and the sponsors around | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
�130,000 per season and they are offering a �1,000 incentive for any | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
team to come to the Channel Islands and play them. None of this the 16s | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
had taken us up on the offer but hopefully as we continue to grow | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
relationships, a few of them will come over -- none of the Sussex | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
teams. And we will get to play a home game. If you want to see them | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
in action, their next Sussex League match is against a field on 8 | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
January. That is dedication for you. Talking | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
of dedication... See what I did? Andrew Strauss is the most | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
successful England cricket captain of modern times, winning the Ashes | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
home and away, leading his team to a whitewash against India and | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
taking them to number one in the world test rankings. | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
And he's done it with a bat made from willow grown in Sussex, and | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
handmade in the village of Robertsbridge. I caught up with him | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
at the Gray Nicholls factory, as they worked on the bats he'll be | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
using in the upcoming winter series against Pakistan. | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
For 130 years, they've been making cricket bats here. And any number | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
of England players have scored heavily with a Gray Nicholls bat in | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
their hand. Andrew Strauss is no exception. Today, I wanted to ask | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
him about his future as captain, the winter tour and his teammate | :20:38. | :20:47. | |
from Sussex, Matt Prior. Well, to me, he is the best wicketkeeper- | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
Batman and the world by a long way at the moment and he can take the | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
game away from the game -- opposition. He brings a huge amount | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
of the field, he is one of the main architects of the team environment, | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
he helps the youngsters a lot and increasingly he has become a really | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
important cog in the wheel of making sure that the team keeps | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
operating smoothly. In terms of youngsters coming through, are | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
there any in Kent and Sussex that you are keeping half an eye on and | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
thinking, maybe in a few years' time...? I'm sure there are, but I | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
tried to focus on Middlesex beating Kent and Sussex. We don't like them | :21:26. | :21:32. | |
very much. You have been captain for how long now? Three years. | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
are you finding it? It has been said before that after five years, | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
you are kind of burned out. How are you feeling it yourself? I am not | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
burn their cheque. I have had a couple of months off, which has | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
been fantastic -- I am not burned out. I don't know how long I'll | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
keep doing it, but I am loving it still. We have made some incredible | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
games as a side and I'm still motivated to make sure we keep down | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
that path. Ask me again in 18 months or so and we will see if I'm | :22:04. | :22:11. | |
still giving the same answer. this winter, then, Pakistan, it is | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
an away tour but it is a way for both teams, it is a weird situation. | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
Slightly strange playing in Dubai. We haven't played there before. | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
Pakistan have been playing there recently, so they will still have | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
some advantage in the sense that they know the conditions better | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
than us. It should be a good series, Pakistan are in good form and | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
played well against Sri Lanka and it will be a big test for us. | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
a really nice guy and the bats in the background are the ones he is | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
actually going to be using. If there you go. | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
Christmas is coming and it's the time of year to fish about in the | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
loft and dig out the baubles and the tinsel. Unless, of course, | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
you're Stan Truelove from Canterbury. It a bit more | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
complicated for him. Over the last seven years, he's | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
spent �7,000 on Christmas lights at his home, racking up an electricity | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
bill of �365 a month, to raise more than �30,000 for charity. | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
This year, for the first time, he's taking the show on the road. Peter | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
Whittlesea is live in Canterbury now to explain. | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
This time last year, there was nine inches of snow on the ground. | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
Tonight, just be artificial stuff. Because of bad, 1,000 fewer people | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
last year came to see this Christmas display. Stan was really | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
disappointed, because it takes a more than three weeks to put all of | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
these lights up. So the big question is, what you do if you | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
want people to see this light display but they can't come and see | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
it? He decided to take it to them with his mobile band of Christmas | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
cheer. Every night, Stan Truelove's first | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
task is to turn on the Christmas lights. Then the helpers arrived | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
for his mobile display. It is not easy negotiating doorways when you | :23:59. | :24:06. | |
are a 7 ft Mr frosty, but he loves the build-up. The faces of the | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
children were they drive up, not a man -- not believe in the event of | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
lights that standards are back a whole atmosphere around here. | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
you mind the cold? It is not too bad, I normally stand down the road | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
are directing traffic. Now stand his mobile with his illuminated | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
sleigh, he wants to reach as many people as possible and spread his | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
Christmas cheer. I am the Big Father Christmas, I just haven't | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
got the outfit. I think it is lovely. Especially when we have | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
Father Christmas and Vester frosty, and all the help us. -- Mr frosted. | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
He is crazy but crazy good, because he raises a huge amount of money | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
for the hospice. And he loves every minute of it, and can't wait for | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
Christmas to come round each year. If you see light at Christmas | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
carols and all of these people walking past your window, Stan | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
could be driving past -- if you see lights and. He is in the Canterbury | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
area every night for three hours a night and the hopes to raise �3,000. | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
It is impossible to feel humbug when these are around you. | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
Thank you, Peter. It is practically Lapland. | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
On wheels. And if there's a spectacular | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
Christmas display where you live, please let us know. Send an email | :25:30. | :25:37. | |
to the usual address or get in touch via our Facebook site. We are | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
feeling very Christmas in air and the weather is decidedly wintry. | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
It has been a very cold picture, it was cold and bright to start the | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
day, more cloud cover in the afternoon, some outbreaks of light | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
rain this evening and tonight as well, but by tomorrow it will have | :25:54. | :25:55. | |
well, but by tomorrow it will have clear and it will be a chilly | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
picture for us all. Very cold westerly winds will pick up to | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
around 30 mph, so cold and blustery. Today, we had a bright start to the | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
day, strong winds, you can see the isobars, the westerly winds up to | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
25 mph. We had seen cloud cover and light rain because the warm friend | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
is spreading eastwards tonight. Today, a dry picture, westerly | :26:21. | :26:30. | |
winds. Top temperatures of 80 degrees. As we move through tonight, | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
the wind welding and continue to strengthen with a blustery picture, | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
and the unsettled weather means that temperatures will hardly | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
change from the daytime barriers, ranging between five-seven degrees. | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
That rain will slowly clear tomorrow, a mild start to the day | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
but you consider tightly spaced isobars, me in the wind will be | :26:51. | :26:57. | |
noticeably blustery from a westerly direction. -- meaning. Temperatures | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
up to around 48 Fahrenheit, but it will be a lot cooler than the | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
numbers suggest. At the centre back to sunshine, Chris Bain cold and | :27:07. | :27:14. | |
bright, are holding on to be clearer skies -- crisp and cold. | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
Temperatures dropping to four degrees with a widespread ground | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
frost, so we start Thursday with a frosty start but it will be quite a | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
mild picture. Temperatures stay in double figures but a wet and windy | :27:26. | :27:33. | |
day, rain for Russell and the westerly winds again. -- for us all. | :27:33. | :27:40. | |
Low-pressure in charge of things, Thursday is unsettled, Thursday dry | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
and bright but called by Friday. Similar for Saturday, a good deal | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
Similar for Saturday, a good deal of sunshine but staying pretty cold. | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
Let's go back to the top story. The Transport Secretary Justine | :27:53. | :27:59. | |
Greening has visited Kent to give details of a �38 million investment | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
to win to prove the railway network across the south-east. �60 million | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
is being spent on a system to keep the third rail, which delivers | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
power, heated in freezing conditions -- 16. | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
We are joined live from Brighton station. The train companies are | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
pretty confident that these changes are going to make a difference? | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
I think everybody accepts that if there is huge amount of snow, there | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
will be disruption, but this is about keeping those disruptions to | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
an absolute minimum and what the train companies hope is that by | :28:29. | :28:33. | |
heating the rails, especially at stations and signals where they | :28:33. | :28:37. |