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Welcome to South East Today. I'm Rob Smith. And I'm Polly Evans. | :00:04. | :00:07. | |
Tonight's top stories. The criminals slipping through the net; | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
we reveal the high level of crimes going unsolved in Kent and Sussex. | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
Our home affairs correspondent is live with the details. Stepping in | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
for parents; a Sussex woman fronts an appeal for financial support for | :00:20. | :00:30. | |
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the grandparents raising another You cannot bring a grandson of in | :00:32. | :00:41. | |
reasonable care and then a good way, on a pension. Also in tonight's | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
programme: A billion tonnes wasted every year - the new technology | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
invented in Kent that can help defeat naturally occurring toxins | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
in our food. The sisters - separated as babies - reunited at | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
Christmas for the first time in their lives. She leaves me for | :00:55. | :01:02. | |
Stella. And he is a young man with great expectations - Kentish actor | :01:03. | :01:12. | |
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Douglas Booth talks about his role Good evening. Huge numbers of | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
crimes across the South East are going unsolved, according to | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
figures obtained by the BBC. They reveal that across all types of | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
crime in Kent and Sussex, 70% of it remains unsolved. Despite promises | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
by police that the region is getting safer, when it comes to | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
burglaries and car crimes, four out of every five criminals are | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
slipping through the net. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Colin | :01:34. | :01:43. | |
Campbell has more. There is nothing we have not had taken. We have had | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
the old bucket taken off it. That truck has been taken ones, if it is | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
not nailed down, it will go. Steve Jones's Kent farmers a constant | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
target for thieves and the crime seems to be going unsolved. | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
police have a good follow up, always come and tell us what is | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
going on and try to do their best, but it is a forlorn hope. These | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
people disappear, and there is no catching them. Figures obtained | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
under the Freedom of Information Act sure that a huge quantity of | :02:15. | :02:25. | |
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crime across South East goes What Kent and Sussex police forces | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
are keen to tell us that levels of crime are down and they are, but | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
what they are not so ready to give details of is the percentage of | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
crimes going unsolved, which is why these figures are so interesting. | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
Crimes going unsolved is not a new thing. The abuse are not | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
necessarily, historically, that effective at detecting crime. The | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
fall in crime has more to do with us, and the society in which we | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
lived. By it with significant cuts there are concerns that performance | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
could deteriorate. A as we lose 1500 people we will have less | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
people to target prolific offenders. And, history tells us, that when | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
you target those people you catch them, put them in prison and when | :03:18. | :03:28. | |
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they and prison they cannot Bago your eyes. -- burgle your house. | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
Both Kent and Sussex are above the national average for detecting | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
train, but that is not much comfort if you are a victim of crime. So | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
how does this fit into the overall picture of crime detection in the | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
South East? In Kent only 23% of all crimes were solved in the year to | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
March 2004 - but that had risen to 31% in the 12 months to March this | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
year. And it's a similar story in Sussex, where just 18% of crimes | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
were solved 2004 - compared to 30% this year. And our police forces do | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
have much higher detection rates for certain types of crime. For | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
example, 43% of violent crime was solved in Kent, and 47% in Sussex. | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
One Kent MP, who sits on the Commons Home Affairs Select | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
Committee, says police are doing a good job in reducing crime in his | :04:11. | :04:21. | |
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area. If you take the Medway towns, there are one or two burglaries a | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
day across the Medway towns, quarter of a million people. Not | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
that long ago you would get in double figures of burglaries each | :04:30. | :04:38. | |
day, so the police have made progress on burglary. So how do our | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
police forces compare with others? The England and Wales average | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
detection rate for all crime in the 12 months to March this year was | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
28%, so both the Kent and Sussex forces are slightly better than | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
average. They weren't as good as Dyfed Powys, the best-performing | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
force in terms of crime detection, with 49% of all crime solved. But | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
they were better than the worst performers, Surrey and the West | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
Midlands, where just 20% of all crimes were solved. Let's cross | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
live to our Home Affairs Correspondent Colin Campbell. How | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
can police forces improve their detection rates for crimes like | :05:08. | :05:18. | |
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burglary and car crime? Criminologists Saudi -- say that | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
crimes like burglary and car train can be tackled by the police by | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
looking at forensic work, investigating using forensic | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
techniques. The other issue is to try to catch the criminals in the | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
act as they tried to break into cars and homes, at night. One | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
technique that has been successfully adopted by Sussex | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
police is the targeting of prolific offenders, individuals who carry | :05:46. | :05:54. | |
out huge amounts of crime within their own community. Policing | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
Minister Nick Herbert has told us that there's an unhealthy obsession | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
with police officer numbers. According to him, the real issue is | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
how resources are deployed and he believes forces can make savings | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
while maintaining or improving their service to the public. An 83 | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
year-old woman from Sussex has been made the face of a national | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
campaign, calling for grandparents who take on, and bring up, a | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
grandchild to be paid a "kinship allowance". Pat Knight has taken | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
care of her 14 year-old grandson Reece since he was five, following | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
the death of his mother - but always struggling financially, | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
since her only income is her pension. Katherine Downes reports. | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
With a 14-year-old grandson to buy for, Christmas is a difficult time | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
for Pat. What can you buy a 14- year-old that is a reasonable price | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
today? It is all electronics, mobile phones and everything else. | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
You cannot just suddenly deprived child because we are bringing him | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
up. He should have the same as other children. The rest of the | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
year is a struggle, too. This has led with his grandparents since his | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
mother died but because his grandparents are not recognised as | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
foster parents, they do not get any benefits or allowances. It is much | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
nicer for a child to live with a grant parents than going into care. | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
I am fortunate having my grandson to bring up after losing my | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
daughter, but families do need help. Around 300,000 children across the | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
country are cared for by grandparents or other family | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
members. Pat says it costs at least at the pounds per week to provide | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
basic care for police and they have had to take �70,000 of equity from | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
their house in order to get by. Love authorities are very cash- | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
strapped, we have many children who do not have grandparents to help | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
out, so often the take the view that this child is safe now, we | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
will leave the grandparents to get on with it. Sussex County Council | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
says it supports many families of will they do not legally have to. | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
Now, there are calls for a change in that system. In the end, we have | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
to threaten the council with judicial review. That should not | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
have been necessary. It should have been the case that he was assessed, | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
and he was determined to leave the clinic. Pat says that she has | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
splashed out the cash for Christmas on her grandson. But it is not | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
something you expected. I don't mind not getting big things. I | :08:32. | :08:42. | |
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don't mind getting little things. Coming up, crashed for cash. A 12 | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
man gang of car insurance fraudsters are jailed. | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
Controversial changes to the planning system have been | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
criticised by a group of MPs, who say there's a danger that too much | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
emphasis could be given to economic growth, at the expense of | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
environmental and social concerns. But the Planning Minister, and | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
Tunbridge Wells MP, Greg Clark insists it's about putting power | :09:02. | :09:11. | |
into the hands of local people. Simon Jones reports. They say they | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
are fighting to protect the green belt around Gravesend. Local | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
campaigner and councillor Mike Snelling fears that hundreds of | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
homes could be built here. The next review will take more of the green | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
belt and you will pave over the whole of this county. There have | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
been protests near by. The Government says it needs to make | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
the planning process simpler and faster to meet the housing shortage | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
with a presumption in favour of sustainable development. Others | :09:45. | :09:52. | |
advise caution. There is a general feeling that this document is | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
waited simply towards economic development at the expense of | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
social and environmental factors. We are saying that there has to the | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
balance. The Government insists it is listening to warnings, but | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
changes could lead to bad developers. That is why we have the | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
planning system. It is there to make sure that we have the homes | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
and jobs that the next generation need. But not at the expense of the | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
countryside and the historic environment. This is clearly an | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
issue people feel passionate about. Here in grave shown, the council | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
has received so many responses over its development plans for that next | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
20 years that it has had to extend the deadline. The Government needs | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
to let lobbied will get on with local planning. But the Government | :10:40. | :10:50. | |
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says it is put in power in hands of local people. -- putting. Our | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
Political Editor Louise Stewart joins us now from Greg Clark's | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
constituency of Tunbridge Wells. Louise, what are the select | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
committee's recommendations? were concerned about one phrase, | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
which said there was a presumption in favour of sustainable | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
development. They worry that the Government might put forward | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
growing the economy of, before the environment. When George Osborne | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
said the planning reforms were the key to get the economy growing | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
again, but the planning minister and Tunbridge Wells MP, Greg Clark, | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
said he has listened, he welcomes this report, and he says he also | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
planning reforms will give local people greater control over | :11:30. | :11:37. | |
planning decisions. A serious case review into the deaths of two young | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
brothers in a house fire in Eastbourne says fire safety was not | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
identified as an "imminent problem" at the property. Seven-year-old | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
Lewis Jenkins and five year old Taylor were found in a makeshift | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
den under the stairs in 2008. Investigators concluded that | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
"opportunities were missed to develop a fuller picture of what | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
was going on and what standards of parenting" the boys received, but | :11:53. | :12:01. | |
added that the boys deaths could not have been presented. -- boys' | :12:02. | :12:09. | |
deaths. A sexual predator who groomed and sexually abused young | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
girls over a period of 21 years has been jailed for nine years. 54 | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
year-old Stephen Marsh from Brighton was found guilty of | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
indecent assault, possession of indecent images of children and | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
voyeurism at Lewes Crown Court. A Kent victim of a so-called "cash | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
for crash" scam says the road accident caused by the fraudsters | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
could have killed her. Marie Beard, an IT manager from Ashford, was | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
targeted by a gang of 12 men operating in the south east. The | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
men would deliberately brake sharply in front of innocent | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
drivers, causing a crash in order to claim on their insurance. The | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
men have now been sentenced for the insurance scam, the first of its | :12:41. | :12:51. | |
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Driving home, at Mary macro had no idea she was an easy target. I was | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
that close to going out on the Catholic -- carriageway and going | :13:00. | :13:08. | |
out in traffic. The perpetrators look for easy victims. In this | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
similar bogus crash, the gangs decoy car makes a last-minute | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
manoeuvre and the victim crashed into them. The decoy speak of other | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
drivers of the second car are also pretending to be victims. Had my | :13:22. | :13:29. | |
car not have had EBS breaking, the car may have gone straight into the | :13:29. | :13:36. | |
pathway of other traffic, killing me and someone else. I really don't | :13:36. | :13:43. | |
understand how people have no thought for someone else's safety. | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
The 12 gang members tried to claim huge sums of money from insurance | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
companies for made up injuries. They were caught when police | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
noticed alarming similarities in the description of two cars | :13:56. | :14:03. | |
involved in numerous accidents. impact severely on road safety. The | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
risk of injury is very high but totally a necessary. It is very | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
callous and cold. The Act was repeated 30,000 times last year at | :14:14. | :14:21. | |
a cost of �350 million to Insurers, which means each of us has to pay | :14:21. | :14:28. | |
an extra �50 on our premium. The Kent gang have now been jailed for | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
up to three years. The fraud staff who caused this crash admitted to | :14:33. | :14:42. | |
living illegally in the UK for 14 Tonight strops story: A huge | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
numbers of crimes across the south- east are going undetected. Across | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
all types of crime, 70% remains unsolved. The police say they are | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
committed to improving detection rates and cutting crime. | :14:57. | :15:07. | |
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Also: Wish you were at his home for Christmas? The man who has turned | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
his whole house in to a lights macro. | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
Reunited for Christmas - the sisters who haven't seen each other | :15:16. | :15:26. | |
It is estimated that a billion tons of food is thrown away each year | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
across the world because it is contaminated by naturally occurring | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
poisons. It is believed much of it goes undetected because testing is | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
expensive and laborious. A Kent firm has spent millions of pounds | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
developing a machine to detect fungal toxins found in products | :15:46. | :15:54. | |
like nuts. Making a hazelnut puree - the first | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
stage of a testing process that can detect harmful toxins in food. In | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
the developing world, fungal micro toxins are a particular problem, | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
thriving in humid conditions and can affect a wide variety of crops. | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
It is estimated a quarter of crops are contaminated worldwide and they | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
can be deadly. They can affect the kidney, the liver and some produced | :16:21. | :16:31. | |
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cancer. In Europe, the risks are much less than saying the | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
developing world where some of the toxins in contaminated foods form | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
part of the staple diet. None the less, because some of the toxins | :16:42. | :16:50. | |
can produce can so, the EU, for example, has strict regulations. | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
The old way of testing it requires scientists and time but the new way | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
is simple. This is the equipment people have to use at the moment. | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
It is expensive and complex. It has to be used by trained scientists. | :17:05. | :17:13. | |
But here... This is the instrument we have developed and as you can | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
see, it is compact and less expect -- expensive and can be used | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
specifically by a non- scientist. minute amount of hazelnut extract | :17:24. | :17:31. | |
can get a reading in a few minutes. It shows that the amount of toxins | :17:31. | :17:40. | |
- and there are strict limits on the amount. From small beginnings, | :17:40. | :17:50. | |
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the firm hopes to launch its He's not a household name yet, but | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
by the New Year he certainly should be. The impossibly handsome Douglas | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
Booth, who's 19 and from Kent, is about to hit our screens in the | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
BBC's big Christmas costume drama, Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
Millions are expected to settle down to watch the lead actor, who's | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
from Sevenoaks. He has already modelled in several campaigns for | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
the luxury English label Burberry, and early next year he'll filming | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
in Italy starring in a new adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. | :18:20. | :18:30. | |
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Matt, marshes and tales of misery. I am known as Pit. When we meet him | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
as a young man, the responsibility for taking the character of the | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
page is down to Douglas Booth. drew me to the character was the | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
journey he goes on which is rare in a screenplay today. To get a | :19:02. | :19:12. | |
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character with such a journey. Be Going on an equally dramatic | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
journey is the actor Ray Winstone. The run thing it -- the one thing | :19:18. | :19:26. | |
it wasn't was glamourous. It is like having a suit on. After three | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
days of mud, you are over it. You want to get back to wearing a nice | :19:31. | :19:41. | |
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The characters are written so well. And the actors are brilliant. | :19:55. | :20:04. | |
are from the forge. I am not have married. The tale of his tumultuous | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
life will unfold over the next three nights and millions are | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
expected to watch. When you are filming, the camera represents many | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
millions of people and it is terrifying say you can't think of | :20:21. | :20:28. | |
that. Closer to the time, in the week leading up, you can't see a | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
paper without seeing it and people talking about it. I'm getting a | :20:32. | :20:40. | |
little nervous. As we settled down to what, we will all see there is | :20:40. | :20:49. | |
I'm sure he is destined for great things. | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
Today, a reunion has taken place which one family has waited 60 | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
years for. Evelyn Plumridge was split up from her sister when she | :20:58. | :21:04. | |
was just six months old. She searched all her life. | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
She even managed to trace her fine -- family name and traced her | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
through Facebook. This will be their first Christmas together and | :21:13. | :21:22. | |
we were at Gatwick to see their first meeting. | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
Separated by six decades and thousands of miles. Years of | :21:25. | :21:34. | |
waiting finally came to an end. have been searching for 40 years | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
and I've found her at two years ago. It has taken two years to get this | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
together. Over the moon. I cannot describe it. I can't describe how I | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
feel. What will you be doing for the next five weeks. And every | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
Christmas? Talking about everything. It is the conclusion to a story | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
when -- which began when their parents divorced in the early 1950s. | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
Even in stayed with her mother and her two-year-old sister Jan and | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
brother, Reggie, were taken into care. He remained there until he | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
was 16 and Jan was adopted by his family in Canada at the age of | :22:17. | :22:24. | |
eight. We have been counting down the days. Then it turned into hours. | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
Then minutes. And then, how many seconds? There are no words to | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
express what it feels like to finally be back home with family. | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
It has been far too long. A great aunt, aren't and sister. The whole | :22:40. | :22:48. | |
family were now spend their first ever Christmas together. This is | :22:48. | :22:56. | |
the best present ever. Ever. Nothing I wanted more in the world. | :22:56. | :23:06. | |
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Now for an audio-visual treat which has been exciting Krebs in Kent. A | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
man has taken Christmas decorations to a whole new level. | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
He has taken care to programme his lights so they flash in time to a | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
catalogue of festive music. It will -- Peter Whittlesea is there now. | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
We have seen a lot of Christmas lights this Christmas and | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
decorations but is this the ultimate in festive houses? There | :23:38. | :23:45. | |
are more than 18 different sets of lights which synchronise in time to | :23:45. | :23:52. | |
the music. That is not all. Look at this! Motorists can tune in to the | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
radio station and enjoy the light show in the privacy of their own | :23:56. | :24:04. | |
car. How cool is that? All of this has been put together by one man. | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
It takes around three weeks to do it in November. Mark, why do you do | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
it? Because alike Christmas lights. It takes about 20 hours to | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
programme each song, doesn't it. does. It synchronise his with the | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
music. What do people say? The vast majority like it. Some think I am a | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
bit sad and find it embarrassing but I think everyone enjoys it. | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
Your daughter says she finds it a bit embarrassing because everyone | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
knows who you are and what you are doing. That's true but I like it. | :24:42. | :24:49. | |
How much does it cost? I don't know, to be honest. It is just a gradual | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
process of adding a bit more each year. Thank you. Mark things he is | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
the only synchronised Light Show in Kent. If anyone knows of any more, | :25:01. | :25:09. | |
give us a ring. A few weeks ago we found out what | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
Peter Andre thought of sprites but I bet you wonder that -- what his | :25:15. | :25:25. | |
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By to all the viewers of BBC's South-East, whatever you wish for i | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
hope you get and happy new year. Happy new year to everyone watching | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
BBC south east today. A very happy Christmas to you all. I hope you | :25:39. | :25:46. | |
have a wonderful holiday, achieve and receive everything you wish. | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
Andrew Strauss from the England cricket team here. I would like to | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
take the opportunity to wish everyone in Kent and Sussex a very | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
merry Christmas and happy new year. We will have more of those tomorrow | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
and Friday. Letters find out what the weather | :26:02. | :26:12. | |
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will be doing with Rachel. -- let It will stay dry. A good deal of | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
ploughed but staying mostly drive. Pretty mild for the time of year. | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
The chance of a glimmer of sunshine. The rain will spread eastwards | :26:26. | :26:35. | |
threat the morning, leaving behind a dry a picture. Wins from a north- | :26:35. | :26:45. | |
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The average for the time of year it is about eight degrees Celsius. | :26:48. | :26:58. | |
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Tonight, we will hold on to the cloud, acting like a blanket. | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
Tomorrow, at a cloudy start. Settled in terms of the weather. | :27:03. | :27:10. | |
The chants of a glimmer uprightness in the afternoon. -- the chance. | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
Wins from a south-westerly direction introducing milder air. | :27:15. | :27:25. | |
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All change as we go into Friday. A cold front slowly spreads east | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
Woods bringing rain for us all. Temperatures still in double | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
figures for Friday but when the cold front clears it will leave | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
cooler air. A touch of ground frost for Christmas Eve. Dry for the | :27:42. | :27:48. | |
Christmas weekend. Christmas Day is likely to be cloudy and mild with | :27:48. | :27:56. | |
I think that is a good thing because at least we can get where | :27:56. | :28:00. |