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Welcome to South East Today, I'm Polly Evans. And I'm Rob Smith. | :00:03. | :00:12. | |
Tonight's top stories: a damning report was up parents of a | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
stillborn baby till they are terrible experience at a Sussex | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
hospital with overwork, stressed- out staff. - she says she was going | :00:21. | :00:29. | |
to shut the door and they go me. Kent-based helicopter pilot has | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
died in a crash in Cambridgeshire. Also in tonight's programme: She | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
threw bread out of a car window; the Kent woman who says she'll | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
accept a criminal record over an �80 fine. Can I have that infamous | :00:43. | :00:51. | |
P please, Bob? A blockbuster of a career. Tributes to Kent quizmaster | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
Bob Holness who has died at the age of 83. And making his mark on the | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
London Olympics - the Sussex artist whose design has been turned into a | :00:59. | :01:09. | |
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50p coin. Good evening. A midwife who felt out of control, with staff | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
overworked and stressed, and a failure to pass on information - | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
all may have contributed to a child being stillborn at a Sussex | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
hospital, a damning internal report has revealed. A Sussex coroner held | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
an inquiry into the circumstances around Sam Dice's delivery at the | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton. He was stillborn with the | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
umbilical cord wrapped around his neck. John Young was at Brighton | :01:35. | :01:44. | |
Coroner's Court. At their home in Brighton this couple have one image | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
to remind them of the Sun they never knew. But what the midwives | :01:47. | :01:57. | |
are to them on their arrival at the labour ward was shocking, too. | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
said that she was going to shut the door and ignore me, put me in a | :02:02. | :02:10. | |
room. She really said that? Yes. This morning, coroner heard details | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
of why some have died, strangled by his umbilical cord was possibly | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
also suffering from an infection. His mother said that claims that | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
her baby didn't seem to be moving were ignored by midwives, as she | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
was herself for more than six hours. In a report, the Royal Sussex could | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
their hospital admitted a failure to listen to the concerns of John a | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
parks properly. She should have had a CTG as soon as the baby seemed | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
still. And too few staff -1 midwife admitted she filled out of control | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
but was unable to get back up because the co-ordinator was too | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
busy. Today, John a parks had this message for other mothers-to-be. | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
Just to speak out and be a certain listen to your instincts. Midwives | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
need to listen to the instincts of mothers. No comment from there will | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
Sussex County Hospital, but a statement saying that the thoughts | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
of those at the hospital were with the family of baby samples of the | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
massive incidents like this are incredibly rare, but had Kiev been | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
better, it is possible that the baby Sam's lives could have been | :03:26. | :03:35. | |
said. The hospital says that lessons have been learned. There is | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
now written assessment when mothers say their babies do not seem to be | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
moving and more attention to staffing. Some's parents are not | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
allowed to blame anyone but do not want anyone else to have to go | :03:46. | :03:53. | |
through what they went through. John, what else has emerged about | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
the way the hospital has responded to this? This interim report seems | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
very thorough, 15 pages long, 11 members of staff interviewed. The | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
family met and spoken to, twice, the family does not feel this | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
report is accurate. The hospital says that it shows that they are | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
taking it seriously. Unfortunate timing for the medical world, with | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
the Prime Minister raising eyebrows over nursing standards across the | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
country. There is fair to say that this is not the only hospital under | :04:25. | :04:33. | |
pressure tonight. A helicopter pilot who took off from Manston | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
Airport in Kent has died in a crash in Cambridgeshire. The aircraft was | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
was heading for Fenland Airfield near Spalding when the accident | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
happened. It's not yet known if the pilot, who was flying an aircraft | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
owned by Polar Helicopters, comes from Kent. Ian Palmer reports. Some | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
were up my head, a man lost its life. The helicopter he was flying | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
crashed just outside Ely near Cambridge, just before 1130 this | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
morning. The aircraft and palate had been based at Manston airfield | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
in Kent. The helicopter pilot with a taking off from a flat surface | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
behind me and tragically, the trip to Cambridgeshire would have been | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
the last. No one from the company was available to comment. The | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
helicopter involved is the Robinson are 22. Eye witnesses described | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
what they saw. I just don't round and watch this helicopter coming | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
towards us, then it seemed to break into two then there was a huge | :05:31. | :05:38. | |
crack and it just fell out of the sky. K manager police have lost an | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
investigation. -- Cambridgeshire police. There was a large amount of | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
debris spread out over a large area, and we need to keep that secure to | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
allow the Air Accident Investigation Bureau to go about | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
their work. Being a helicopter we have had some aviation fuel that | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
has been spilled. The helicopter left Manston airport at just the | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
pilot on board, heading for the Fen land there Paul in Lincolnshire. | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
But he never arrived because the aircraft came down. Back in Kent, | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
the man who works opposite the helicopter base expressed deep | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
shock at the news. It is very sad. They are nice people and very | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
helpful towards me and everything. It is a sad situation. I thought | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
that was very quiet their today, they are usually very busy. It is | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
very sad. Local people told me there have been no flights from | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
here since the crash happened. Tonight, it is unclear when they | :06:40. | :06:48. | |
will resume. Ian, do we know any more about the identity of the | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
pilot? We don't know the identity of the pilot. But we know that next | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
of kin have been informed. We don't know if the pilot was a member of | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
staff or you simply chartered the company Accra. But we know that | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
according to an air traffic expert, the aircraft passed over Cambridge | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
just south of the cast -- crash site without any sign of problems, | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
which suggests that whatever happened to the pilot and | :07:15. | :07:25. | |
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helicopter unfolded very quickly. Coming up, the Kent stonemason who | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
makes a regular trip to a London to maintain the plaque in memory of | :07:31. | :07:39. | |
the murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence. A woman from Kent says | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
she's prepared to receive a criminal record rather than pay a | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
fine for throwing the remnants of a sandwich out of her car window. | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
Linda Potter was driving in Princes Park in Chatham when she threw the | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
food - a council officer in a car behind saw her. She now faces an | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
�80 fine but insists she won't pay. Alex Beard reports. When does | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
speeding birds become an offence? Apparently, when you do it from | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
inside a car. It was me that did it, but I don't feel that �80 warrants | :08:07. | :08:15. | |
what I did. I just don't. I am not going to pay it. Linda Potter was a | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
nature reserve in clear. She says she's saucy girls on a grass bank | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
and decided to feed them with the remains of her sandwich. In the car | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
being was a council officer for Sussex days later she received a | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
letter asking her to pay and �80 fine. The pressure group, Keep | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
Britain Tidy, says there is no excuse for litter. Any form of | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
littering from vehicles is to be condemned. We believe people should | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
keep any waste or litter in their vehicle and sell they reached their | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
destination then put it in the event. Drivers in Kent give their | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
reaction. 80 per ounce is a bit steep. A sandwich is biodegradable, | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
so I think it is a bit harsh. have to pay for cleaners to clean | :09:04. | :09:11. | |
up after them, so definitely, �80. It is not enough, actually. If it | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
was a bit of fruit then the birds can eat it, but a sandwich? It is | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
littering, isn't it? We under Potter has until next Monday to pay | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
the fine. If she does not she will be interviewed by the police and | :09:26. | :09:35. | |
court action and the criminal record could follow. Lots of you | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
have been commenting on our facebook page on this story already. | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
David Rogers says: It's biodegradable! Common sense should | :09:40. | :09:47. | |
be used! Shane Waterman says, I am a taxi driver. If I get spotted | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
chucking anything out my car window I can not only get a fine, I can | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
lose my taxi driver's badge - and that means I lose a lot more than | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
an �80 fine. If she can't be bothered to wrap what she didn't | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
want in the wrapper it came in and stop at a bin or take it home, then | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
tough! Jewel Bee: food for birds? Well done for thinking on her feet, | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
and coming up with an excuse for her behaviour, its all complete | :10:08. | :10:15. | |
rubbish which she should have put in a bin. Jenny says that it is far | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
better than cigarette ends that it thrown from car windows - now it | :10:19. | :10:26. | |
they should get done. A lorry driver from Kent who died when his | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
vehicle crashed into a row of parked cars in Brighton yesterday | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
has been named. Roger Smith, who was 52, worked at the Eastmead | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
Trading Estate in Ashford. Queens Park Road was closed and homes | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
evacuated after the collision demolished a wall, damaging a gas | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
main and causing a leak. A post- mortem is due to take place next | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
week. A former Wadhurst GP, jailed for a string of sex attacks on | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
young girls at his surgery, is appealing against his conviction | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
and sentence. Antony Collis was convicted at the Old Bailey in June | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
and sentenced to eight and a half years in prison. He was found | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
guilty of eight counts of indecent assault on five girl patients at | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
the Belmont Surgery. He also admitted two counts of making | :10:58. | :11:08. | |
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indecent images of children. Veteran broadcaster Bob Holness - | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
who was one of the first men to play James Bond, on the radio - and | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
was one of the first voices to be heard on the new Radio One when it | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
launched in the 60s - has died at the ageof 83. He was most famously | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
associated with Blockbusters, the game show for sixth-formers that he | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
presented for 10 years in the 1980s. But he was also a popular figure in | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
his home county of Kent, helping several charities and supporting | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
local journalism along the way. Katherine Downes reports. His name | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
was as much part of the game as the catchphrases and Hexagon Plummer. | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
would like to go for a pee, please, Bob. Blockbusters is what all | :11:45. | :11:52. | |
illness is most remembered for in a career that spanned almost 60 years. | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
Board honours went to school at Maidstone Grammar, and later moved | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
to South Africa with his family. He eventually came back to the UK to | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
take his place in the starting line-up of BGs when Radio 1 first | :12:06. | :12:16. | |
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took to the airwaves. -- of D Js. He chaired a programme, a bluff | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
with Nicholas Parsons. Cologne will come to the show in which two teams | :12:24. | :12:32. | |
stars are almost nest of buzzwords, for the opposition to swat at. | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
Everybody loves him. He came across as a benevolent schoolmaster and | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
everyone warmed to him. Back in Kent where he grew up, Bob Holness | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
gave his team has beaten two of your local charities, including a | :12:45. | :12:52. | |
speech therapy Charity based in Ashford. It was bought Lorna Sue | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
came up with the Dick -- with the name for us, find a voice. He said | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
that the original name had been far too long. The point of this charity | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
is helping people communicate better. What better person and Bob | :13:05. | :13:12. | |
Holness, one of Britain's great communicators? What G can be gained, | :13:12. | :13:19. | |
lost or cut from under your feet? Yes, that's right, it is ground. | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
Millions will remember him for his ten-year tenure as ball from | :13:24. | :13:34. | |
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Blockbusters. -- Bob. Goodbye from us, to all of you. Cheers. In the | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
19 years since teenager Stephen Lawrence was murdered, it's become | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
a focal point for those who want to remember him. And in the days since | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
two men were convicted of stabbing him in a racist attack, an engraved | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
plaque on the street in Eltham where he collapsed has again taken | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
on special resonance. But, sadly, it has also attracted vandals who | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
have tried many times to deface the memorial. And when the original | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
plaque was wrecked in a hammer attack, a Kent stonemason decided | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
to take action. Sara Smith has more. Stonemason Gordon Newton has worked | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
on countless memorial stones, all poignant reminders of loch ones who | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
have been lost. But few of them have received so much attention as | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
this one, surrounded by flowers, on the day that two men were | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
imprisoned for the murder of Stephen Lawrence. It was two years | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
after his death at the original stone was attacked and Gordon's | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
daughter suggested that they should help. She was very upset about that | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
and she said that I ought to do something about this. So, we did, | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
we manufactured among more real the size of a paving slab -- we | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
manufactured a memorial. And we installed it at the site. The new | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
stone was cast at this workshop at Philae, near Maidstone. It has been | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
the target of vandals. Each time it has been damaged, the stonemasons | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
have gone back and repair it, determined that it should remain in | :15:05. | :15:13. | |
pristine condition. For Stephen's parents, thrust back into the | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
spotlight this week, it has been a quiet act of kindness during their | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
battle for justice. Overwhelmed, it is such a beautiful, kind and | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
generous act, and I am glad that it has been given some profile today | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
because it is very important. It is that outpouring of generosity that | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
his such a hallmark of who we are as a people and what Stephen means | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
to us as a country. The memorial stone here has become a focal point | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
for those wanting to express their emotions about what happened that | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
night. Stonemasons in at Kent village more than 25 miles away are | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
determined that it should remain year, intact, for many years to | :15:58. | :16:05. | |
come. This is our top story tonight: An inquiry into the | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
stillbirth of a baby at a Sussex hospital has heard that staff were | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
overworked and stressed. A damning internal report into the | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
circumstances of Sam Dice's delivery at the Royal Sussex County | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
Hospital in Brighton also heard that a midwife on duty at the time | :16:17. | :16:26. | |
felt she was out of control. Also in tonight's programme: Taking on | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
the high flyers. Gillingham warm up for their FA Cup clash against | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
Premiership side Stoke City. And it's a mint - the Sussex artist | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
whose making his mark on the London Olympics with a winning design for | :16:40. | :16:49. | |
a 50p piece. Scientists at the University of Kent are working on a | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
new system that they hope will help crack down on the illegal | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
international trade in endangered species. Researchers at the Durrell | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
Institute of Conservation and Ecology are developing technology | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
that will sift through millions of items offered for sale on the | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
internet every day - and spot those that could be criminal. Our | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
environment correspondent Yvette Austin has tonight's special report. | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
There are strict rules governing international trade in in the age | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
of wildlife, whether it is plants or animals. Permits are needed, | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
which are costly. There is a high temptation for people to trade on | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
the Internet. Here are some photographs of some popular groups | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
of species and some of these will sell for thousands of pounds, so | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
there is a big incentive to potentially dig them up from the | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
wild, and in some cases these are protected by national legislation | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
and, in others, you require a permit to move them across the | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
border, so we're trying to identify which ones are all illegal origin. | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
This Eve they add for a newly discovered species requires a | :17:54. | :18:04. | |
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permit to cross borders. -- this eBay ad. Has it been grown for | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
cultivation to get it up for sale? The trade in ivory is a particular | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
problem, despite a worldwide ban. EBay has a ban on selling ivory on | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
its site, but recently it had to withdraw this item at the request | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
of the International Fund for Animal Welfare. Over 3,000 | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
elephants have been killed. Every piece of ivory represents a killed | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
elephant. We cannot find any evidence to show that this ivory | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
has been sold legally so we are very concerned. Reptiles and | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
amphibians sales are popular, with some animals being taken up | :18:46. | :18:53. | |
illegally from the wild. This is a Kaiser's Newark, from Sonoran, | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
critically endangered, probably down to less than 1,000 animals, | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
and it is a species that has received international protection, | :19:01. | :19:08. | |
primarily because of the internet trade. EB has a policy of no sales | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
at all of living animals. Academics are trying to find a way of | :19:13. | :19:23. | |
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identifying people who flout such policies. It's the FA Cup 3rd round | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
this weekend - when the big boys come into the competition - and it | :19:27. | :19:34. | |
always throws up some great stories. Back in 1999, Gillingham sacked | :19:35. | :19:36. | |
their manager Tony Pulis in acrimonious circumstances, leading | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
to a bitter legal battle. 13 years on, he's returning to The | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
Priestfield tomorrow as the manager of Premier League Stoke City, as | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
they take on the Gills. Neil Bell's in Chatham now - so what kind of | :19:47. | :19:56. | |
reception is Pulis likely to get? If not and he was well, and | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
certainly a warm response from the majority of Gillingham fans. He | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
played a big part in what is now considered to be a golden era for | :20:04. | :20:12. | |
the club. Some feel that he could have taken them even further. | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
were the dream team, the young German who rescued Gillingham from | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
administration and his ambitious manager. They transformed the | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
club's fortunes before it all went badly wrong. And the hiss and | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
colour was Dean Campden under 20 Peerless. He believes that fans of | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
Gillingham still have fond memories. And she have a lot has been said | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
and a lot has gone on, but times move on, and I'm sure that he has | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
moved on and has done fantastic work at Stoke City. He has done a | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
fantastic job. Tony Populus has guided stalks at the end to the top | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
half of the Premier League and into Europe and enjoyed plenty of | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
success at his four years at Gillingham, winning 43% of his | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
games for the four years he was in charge and taking them to the 1999 | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
play-off final at Wembley. The question for many Gillingham fans | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
is what with a pattern to the club if he had not fallen out with his | :21:14. | :21:21. | |
German? He would have got us into the championship, and the team he | :21:21. | :21:30. | |
was building was good enough. -- with his chairman. In reality, the | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
gulf between Gillingham and Stoke City could hardly be greater, but | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
in the FA Cup in front of a capacity crowd, with nothing much | :21:37. | :21:44. | |
to lose, who knows? There will be exclusive commentary on the game on | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
BBC Radio Kent kicking off at 3 o'clock. Brighton will be | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
favourites going into their match against non league Wrexham at The | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
Amex. The Seagulls rediscovered scoring and winning ways on Monday | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
and although tomorrow's visitors have FA Cup giant-killing history, | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
Brighton will expect to avoid an upset. Crawley fans will be hoping | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
that victory over Bristol City tomorrow will set up a repeat of | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
last year's glamour tie against Manchester United at Old Trafford. | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
If they go further in the competition, by mid-March, | :22:10. | :22:17. | |
supporters will be able to watch from a new 2,000-seater stand. | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
Through not only will it look like a proper football stadium, being a | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
four-sided stadium, I gather us the opportunity to sell more seas. We | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
have been selling out every single match recently, so there is a real | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
need for additional seating at the stadium. Charlton may be flying | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
high at the top of League One but Chris Powell's team will face their | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
toughest test of the season at Premier League Fulham. The Addicks | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
go into the tie having lost only once in their last 13 fixtures. | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
will go there with good heart, and I think we should, we should go | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
there and express ourselves, because it is a good opportunity | :22:54. | :23:01. | |
for us to show everyone what we are about. Congratulations to en suite | :23:01. | :23:11. | |
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United, who will be flushed with success after winning the best loo- | :23:12. | :23:19. | |
sers competition, after facilities which had been judged not to even | :23:19. | :23:29. | |
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be bought Standard! I see what you did there! -- bog standard. A | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
Sussex artist, who has engraved portraits of the Queen and Princess | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
Diana for Royal Mint coins, has had his design of a judo throw turned | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
into a 50 pence piece to mark the Olympics. David Cornell beat off | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
thousands of entrants in the competition to find designs for 29 | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
sports from the 2012 Games. But it's not his first commission. To | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
say he's prolific is an understatement. David has sculpted | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
more official portraits of the Royal Family than any one else He | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
has already designed over 4000 coins and, among others, he has | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
worked with Picasso, Dali and Chagall. Fiona Irving has been to | :23:56. | :24:02. | |
Bexhill to meet him. It is a move which endured whose shoulder | :24:02. | :24:10. | |
decades ago, but David Cornell used it as his chance to make his mark | :24:10. | :24:20. | |
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on the Olympics. That fraud damaged my shoulder very severely, if you | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
do the bleak fall, you lose a point, so I was keen to avoid that. Now in | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
circulation, David's 50 pence piece is one of several designs depicting | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
Olympic and Paralympic sports. He beat off almost 30,000 entrants, | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
for his design to be immortalised in metal. It is not unheard of for | :24:45. | :24:52. | |
coins to be in existence for hundreds of years. This is a huge | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
event that will be commemorated by these coins. It is not the first | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
coin design by David. He has created thousands, including a | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
memorial coin for Princess Diana. And these are the portraits for a | :25:07. | :25:14. | |
�5 coin which was to mark Prince William's 21st. It was a particular | :25:14. | :25:21. | |
challenge for David, because William insisted on using a | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
portrait of him smiling, and bring the detail of teeth for a coin | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
engraver is incredibly difficult. It has coins which he keeps on | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
coming back to, despite his sculptures of famous people. | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
fitness of the blanks after an hour, and for economic reasons they might | :25:42. | :25:49. | |
want to use less metal, the coins are getting smaller. So you're | :25:49. | :25:57. | |
talking about less than 40,000s of an inch. So the change in your | :25:58. | :26:07. | |
pocket might be getting smaller commended. The recent bad weather | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
has led to problems for some of our wildlife. Four grey seals found on | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
beaches in Kent after this week's storms are being cared for by the | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
RSPCA centre in Hastings. The bad weather coincided with the time | :26:16. | :26:24. | |
that grey seals are weaned from their mothers. Some of them are | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
half their body weight and, along with two common seals at the centre, | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
are being fed-up before they're released. I hope that the weather | :26:29. | :26:36. | |
is going to improve it for them for the weekend. Rachel is here. | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
have some cloud and patchy light drizzle going through tonight into | :26:39. | :26:48. | |
tomorrow morning and it leads us Some more cloud cover going into | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
the last part of the afternoon as that warm front spreads East was | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
also temperatures in single figures today, with a light, north-westerly | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
breeze. Plenty of cloud around tonight, outbreaks of light, patchy | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
rain and drizzle. Winds will be picking up and easing again, by | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
dawn. Temperatures, hardly changing from daytime values. It will be a | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
cloudy and a damp start, but cloud will clear, increasingly break into | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
the afternoon, winds from a north- westerly direction, peaking at 20 | :27:25. | :27:34. | |
mph. Mild for the time of year, getting up to double figures. | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
Overnight, remaining cloudy and breezy. Temperatures hardly | :27:37. | :27:43. |