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Jeremy Clarkson strikes again - the controversial journalist provokes | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
anger by comparing Kent residents to illegal immigrants. | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
I think that somebody needs to remind Jeremy Clarkson that these | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
kinds of Commons are unhelpful and offensive. | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
TripAdvisor ruined our business - a Sussex B&B owner hits out at | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
malicious reviews. We are live with the details. | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
A massive blaze destroys a chicken factory in Kent. Scores of fire | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
crews were needed to bring it under control. | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
We meet possibly the youngest football manager in the country at | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
a Erith and Dartford. And spring is springing early. Make | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
the most of the unseasonable blooms because the next frost is likely to | :01:00. | :01:09. | |
make them wither. Good evening. The television presenter Jeremy | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
Clarkson is at the centre of a new row, for claiming that people who | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
live in Kent tend to be the sort who "arrived in the back of a | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
refrigerated truck, or clinging to the bottom of the Eurostar". His | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
comments have been described as unhelpful and offensive. | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
Writing in the latest issue of Top Gear magazine, Clarkson compared | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
the Isle of Sheppey to a caravan park and also wrote about what he | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
says are the difficulties of driving through the county, which | :01:33. | :01:40. | |
he labels the Twilight Zone. Simon Jones reports. | :01:40. | :01:47. | |
He is never short of an opinion. In an article about driving to the | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
Isle of Sheppey, Jeremy Clarkson rights, and what of the locals? | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
They tend to be the sort of people who arrived in England in the back | :01:56. | :02:06. | |
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of a refrigerated truck or clinging to the underside of a Eurostar | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
train. But people who works -- work with migrants are not seeing the | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
funny side? I think somebody needs to remind | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
him that these comments are unhelpful and offensive. People who | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
are looking for sanctuary have obviously had to resort to | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
desperate means in the past and quite a few have died in those | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
attempts. That is why I think it is quite unfortunate that this article | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
should make fun of those situations. Last year he was forced to | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
apologise for this, about striking public sector workers on a The One | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
Show. Frankly, I would have them all shot. | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
I would execute them in front of their families. | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
Today in shabby, some feel he has gone too far again. | :03:01. | :03:09. | |
-- Sheppey. He needs to breathe in his exhaust. | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
I have no idea why an individual would have this idea. I found it | :03:14. | :03:24. | |
funny actually. He has also called Gordon Brown of | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
one-eyed idiot and said that Gordon Brown is a one-eyed idiot. -- and | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
said that truck drivers murder prostitutes. | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
Perhaps Jeremy would like to come to Sheppey. I would show him some | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
of the other sides we have here. His supporters say he can take it | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
as well as give it out. Good one! | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
Simon Jones and joins us from the Isle of Sheppey. Has Jeremy | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
Clarkson had anything to say this evening? He was away filming today | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
but the publishers of top gear magazine say that these comments | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
have been taken out of context. They say that regular readers know | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
that these are tongue-in-cheek comments. This was supposed to be | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
an article pointing out how bad some of the roads are in Kent but | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
people to the speaking -- speaking to the people in Sheppey there were | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
a mix of viewers. Some people were very offended, others said, this is | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
Jeremy Clarkson, this is what he does. Others were just fed up of | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
hearing about his outbursts. A Sussex bed-and-breakfast owner | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
says that her business has been damaged and she has been forced to | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
take anti-depressants because of malicious, harsh reviews posted on | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
the travel website TripAdvisor. The website allows guests to review | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
and rate their stays in hotels and B&Bs around the world. But Jane | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
Carter, who runs the Medieval Lodge in Hastings, says they have | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
suffered a disastrous slump in bookings since a reviewer posted a | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
highly critical report. Fiona Irving reports. | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
With more than 50 million visitors to the TripAdvisor website each | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
month, those who post opinions of their stay have massive cloud. For | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
Jane and Richard Carter, who run the Medieval Lodge in Hastings, a | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
couple of bad reviews have made them put their business on the | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
market. This was a dream which has turned | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
into a nightmare. All from TripAdvisor. Definitely. When I | :05:25. | :05:35. | |
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first came here I was so happy go lucky and now I am just what I was. | :05:35. | :05:43. | |
90 % of the views about their B&B on the site are positive. The rooms | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
are wonderful and charming said one. We left feeling very contented and | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
refreshed. But one posted last week said, not a nice time here. The | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
beds were lumpy, the rooms cluttered and the breakfast Creasey. | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
The owners say they are being targeted by guests who stayed here | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
six months ago and since they reviewer went up last week they | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
have had no bookings. Last weekend was the first in six and a half | :06:11. | :06:18. | |
years that this B&B was empty. It is too easy for people with | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
malicious intent to cause serious damage to a perfectly good business. | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
While many see that website as a fantastic tool for planning a trip, | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
James -- Jane says that a couple of bad reviews have damaged her health | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
and her business. He it is very rare that one review | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
will have an impact. I suspect that they have had plenty of reviews. We | :06:41. | :06:49. | |
are all about having travellers get their expectations met. | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
But for the Carters, getting travel as to their door is the problem. | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
Fiona, what can the Carters do about what they claim are malicious | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
reviews? The reviewed they were particularly concerned about has | :07:04. | :07:11. | |
now been taken down, not by them but by TripAdvisor or the reviewer | :07:11. | :07:19. | |
themselves. The company does help with malicious comments but it | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
takes them a while to get them down because of legal reasons. And they | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
can affect bookings. TripAdvisor is used by millions across the globe | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
and it can be very useful for them but the Carters say it is what led | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
them to pack it in. Coming up, Southeastern is accused | :07:39. | :07:47. | |
of ripping off commuters after they raise car-parking charges by 33 %. | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
A huge fire has destroyed two large sheds at a chicken farm in Kent. | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
The smoke from Fridays, near Cranbrook, could be seen from as | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
far away as Hastings and Ashford, as more than 50 fire crew battled | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
the blaze. Investigations are under way to | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
find out how many birds were killed in the fire, but no people were | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
injured at the site, which has been run as a family business for the | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
last 50 years. Alex Beard reports. At its height, 50 firefighters | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
fought the flames as they ripped through two massive chicken sheds. | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
A plume of smoke was visible for miles as these pictures show. It | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
prompted the Health Protection Agency to release a statement | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
warning local residents to stay indoors. Kent Fire and rescue cent | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
10 engines to the fire, which started shortly after 11. | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
There was quite a serious fire in some chicken sheds. It could quite | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
easily have spread to other parts of the building and other sheds so | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
our first priority was, having established nobody was inside, | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
stopping at spreading further. Fridays is a family run business | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
that has been going for 50 years. They said earlier that they had | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
been upset by today's events. As the flames were brought under | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
control, the damage was revealed. Fire investigators now begin the | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
task of finding out how and why it started. | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
Health bosses are challenging a �375,000 fine after hospital | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
computer hard drives containing confidential patient information | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
turned up on eBay. Brighton General Hospital was decommissioning the | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
hard drives using a registered contractor to destroy them. A man | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
from Seaford was arrested on suspicion of theft but no further | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
action was taken. Police have confirmed they are | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
investigating whether drugs were involved in a fight which led to a | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
man's death in Brighton. Two men barged into Christopher McLean's | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
flat in Caledonian Crescent last Friday and a fight broke out. He | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
later died of coronary heart disease. | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
A train company has today been accused of ripping off passengers | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
by putting up car-parking charges, a week after fares increased. | :09:59. | :10:06. | |
Southeastern has been criticised for charge rises of as much as 33 %. | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
The increase in rail fares led to heated clashes in the Commons today | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
between the Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition. Well, | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
let's cross live to Katherine Downes, who is at a car park in | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
Tunbridge Wells that has seen an above inflation increase. How does | :10:19. | :10:26. | |
Southeastern justify the parking increases? | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
They say the majority of station car parks will not see any increase | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
at all and those that do are being brought up in line with the average | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
cost of parking elsewhere. In Tunbridge Wells there are three | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
station car-parks. One will not see any increase, another will see an | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
increase of 10 % and this one, the premiere car-park, will see one of | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
the biggest increases in the recent -- region. | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
A few hours ago Cameron and Miliband went head-to-head over | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
fare increases. Will he stand up to the rail | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
companies and get a better deal for commuters? Money for railways can | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
either come from the taxpayer or the traveller. | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
Season-ticket holders in the South East were angry when they were made | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
to pay an average of 6 % more for their tickets at the start of the | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
year. Now some will have to pay more for parking. | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
Commuters have very little opportunity but to park their car | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
in a train station. They have seen massive increases in rail fares and | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
this is another way to exploit commuters. | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
Out of 67 station car parks in the South East, 22 will see increases, | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
five will see false and 40 will have no change. For a daily ticket, | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
commuters from robbers Bridge will see the biggest rise, up one-third. | :11:53. | :12:01. | |
And a car-park in Tunbridge Wells station sees an increase of �186. | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
They should have a reasonably priced parking facility available. | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
It is our way of getting more money out of the poor old commune -- | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
commuter. Southeastern say that only a minority of their car-parks | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
are going up in price to bring them in line with other ones and any | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
increase goes to pay for rise in rental costs. Campaigners are | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
asking the Government to intervene and stop this daylight robbery. | :12:32. | :12:39. | |
Only a small percentage of commuters use car-parks, say the | :12:39. | :12:49. | |
A medical student from Chatham has told the court she had lied to | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
police after being charged of the murder of a Sikh television | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
presenter. 20 year-old Mundil Mahill is charged with the murder | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
of 21 year-old Gagandip Singh. She is accused of tricking him to come | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
into her home in Brighton where it is alleged he was beaten | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
unconscious by two male friends. Has Miss Mahil explained why she | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
lied to the police? Miss Mahil said that before going to the police, | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
she contacted her brother for advice. He was a police officer. | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
She told the court that he told her not to mention him, and not to | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
mention the fact that they had had meetings with fellow accused, | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
Harinder Shoker. When Miss Mahil went to the police station | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
voluntarily she was quickly arrested on suspicion of murder and | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
questioned. One of the questions was, when was the last time you met | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
Harinder Shoker? She said two weeks ago, which was a lie because they | :13:41. | :13:48. | |
had met that very evening. Her defence barrister, Michael Birnbaum, | :13:48. | :13:55. | |
asked her, was shot on to trees for? Not entirely, no, she replied. | :13:55. | :14:05. | |
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What was the extent of Miss Mahil's lying? She pretty much told the | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
court she had been truthful for the rest of her answers, but there was | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
one further life. Again in reference to Harinder Shoker. She | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
quickly corrected herself and told the court today she had corrected | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
herself because she felt she could not protect him any longer. | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
Harinder Shoker, Mundil Mahill and Darren Peters all denote -- deny | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
murder. Trial resumes tomorrow. It is coming up to 6:45pm. The top | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
story. Jeremy Clarkson, a controversial TV presenter, has | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
caused another rout by comparing people who live in Kent to illegal | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
immigrants. His comments have been described as unhelpful and | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
offensive by the refugee network. Also tonight, spring has come | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
blooming early, but what it means for our plants if they flower in | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
January? It has been another cloudy and mild | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
picture, but is set to change as we end the week. Join me later in the | :15:04. | :15:12. | |
programme for a 45 they could -- a fall a five-day forecast. | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
A family of an Eastbourne benefactor who donated a fortune to | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
the town to create a memorial to its war dead sad they are sad and | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
it will be demolished. Gilbert Foyle, who founded the famous | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
Foyle's bookstore, donated �70,000 to Eastbourne after witnessing the | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
impact of German bombing raids in World War II. It is the equivalent | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
of �2.5 million in today's money. It was used to build the Wish Tower | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
Cafe in 1961, but as we reported on New Year's Day, Eastbourne council | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
says it has fallen into such disrepair, it will have to be | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
knocked down. Surveying his father's legacy. John | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
Foyle says he is saddened by plans to demolish the place of leisure | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
his father helped to create for the people of Eastbourne. He loved | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
Eastbourne. He served Eastbourne, on the local council. And he loved | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
the town. At the turn of the 20th century, Gilbert Foyle failed his | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
civil service exams. With his brother with him, they sold their | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
textbooks and set up a book business. Within five years, they | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
opened a shop in London's Charing Cross Road. At the time, it was the | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
largest bookstore in the road. -- in the world. He retired to | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
Eastbourne and witnessed much suffering during the 1940s | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
following repeated bombing by the German air force. A family friend | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
says his donation of �70,000 to build the Wish Tower Cafe | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
represented virtually every penny he possessed. And his sons, Eric | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
and John, readily agreed that their father should give away what was, | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
perhaps, their inheritance. And he went to live in a rented flat in | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
Eastbourne, having giving everything away. The authority in | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
East Bourne regain possession of the building in October last year | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
and decided the structure was not worth refurbishing. It says any | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
permanent building erected in the future will recognise Gilbert | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
Foyle's legacy. The council is very aware of the massive contribution | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
and generosity of the family to Eastbourne. Not just the Wish Tower | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
Cafe, but it crossed the town. We respect that generosity and | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
whatever we do with this site it will reflect that. John Foyle says | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
he will watch what happens here. The building will be raised to the | :17:36. | :17:46. | |
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He is one of the youngest talents in football, and could be destined | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
for the very top. The 20 year-old Sam MacNeil says he wants to be a | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
major player in the Premiership One day. The young man from Dartford | :17:59. | :18:06. | |
has already hung up his boots. A former grammar school boy is the | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
manager of Erith and Dartford football club, so we found that why | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
he has stopped playing for a life in the dug-out. | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
He is the future of youth football. Off the pitch. Sam MacNeil is young, | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
full of ideas and ambitious. The 20 year-old has just taken charge of | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
Erith and Dartford football club. If you come in as a young coach, | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
Andy do not know what you're doing, you find a problem. I have come in, | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
sat down with the players, we had a chat about weight -- what we wanted | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
to do and where we want to go, and everyone understood. I have had the | :18:40. | :18:47. | |
full support of every single player, no matter what age. The A star | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
people could have chosen any career, but he has jump feet-first into the | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
school of hard knocks. He has had his first defeat. I have to tell a | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
group of top players that they were over 30 that they will watch me -- | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
were not needed. I was only 19. It is not something that fazes me. | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
MacNeil's desire for the game is not unique. 70 year-old Sir Alex | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
Ferguson was 32 when he started. The Chelsea manager Andre Villas | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
Boas was 21 when he became head coach of the British Virgin island. | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
And Carl Robinson is 31, the manager of the MK Dons was 29 when | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
he was appointed. It is fantastic to see such a young person managing | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
and adults team. We quite often see young people managing youth teams, | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
but for a young person to be managing a team at this level is | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
quite rare to see. There is no cash rich oil billionaire behind this | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
club. Success will have to start at grassroots level. Knowing Sam, he | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
was to go all the way. It is very important to him. Sam MacNeil | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
support to -- Newcastle United. If you fancy a flutter on him becoming | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
manager of them one day, bookmakers are taking bets. | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
He has got a lot of confidence! A Kent couple have spent most of | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
their married life at sea. Their ocean-going adventures together | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
began in the 1950s in a former Hitler Youth boat that was | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
requisitioned by the Royal Navy. Since that time, they have and | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
three other boats which have taken them two countries across the world. | :20:27. | :20:37. | |
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This is Bill and Laurel Cooper's This photograph goes back to the | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
time which was our first, our first long sea cruise. We're going back | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
to 1954, when we sailed from Malta, where Bill was based at the Navy, | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
in one of Hitler's Hitler Youth boats. We had reclaimed it after | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
the war. There were several of them in a mortar. You could borrow one | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
and go on a cruise, and that is what we did for a month with our | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
six-month-old baby. It sowed seed in my mind that one day, I wanted | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
to retire and go cruising round the world in a boat I would build | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
myself. We started building it in Maidstone. We had her for 10 years. | :21:20. | :21:27. | |
We cross the Atlantic in her, and went to America, or up to road | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
Ireland. And we won an award for getting through a hurricane north | :21:32. | :21:39. | |
of Bermuda. We swapped her, we bought a cargo barge in Holland. | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
did not actually cross any oceans in that boat but we did a | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
tremendous lot of sailing, we went right down the Danube, going | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
through the Yugoslav there when war broke out, which was not a good | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
idea. We were in a town when it was bombed. They missed us, | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
fortunately! Now we are in our geriatric boat. The end of the | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
cruising has come. I am well into my eighties, it is probably time | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
to... Time to stop? Time to stop, yes. That was the story behind Bill | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
and Laurel Cooper's photo. We would like you to send us your memorable | :22:16. | :22:26. | |
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We know that it has been a strange old the if the weather. We have had | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
drought orders in part of the south-east, the warmest water on | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
record, all coming after the coldest winter in a century. So it | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
is not a great surprise that strange things are going on in the | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
garden. Woodland Trust across Kent and Sussex are reporting thousands | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
of wild flower species are in bloom months earlier than normal. Make | :22:52. | :23:02. | |
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the most of it, a sharp frost would Some are too late, others too early. | :23:06. | :23:15. | |
For gardeners, one thing is certain. It has been an extraordinary year. | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
I have been gardening now for 30 years, and I have been here for 22 | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
years. This last 12 months has been the most bizarre gardening year I | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
have experienced. From extreme drought last spring, through to a | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
current drought, and plants do not know whether they are coming or | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
going. Here, Kew Gardens's country home, these roses are still in | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
bloom from the summer, so for the first time, they are flowering | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
alongside this winter plant and they are not alone. These are two | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
plants which are never normally blooming at the same time. The | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
white camellia flowers throughout the winter, but the red one should | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
not flower until March. The temperature last night was six | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
degrees, a lot higher than average for the time of net -- time of year. | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
It is the length of the mild spell, four months so far, which is | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
confusing the plants. Those which get ahead of themselves might be | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
vulnerable when the frosts to come. That is the concern here in Kent. | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
It is now starting to push out new leads. The first frosts that come | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
along, these will all get damaged and down the plant, you could use | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
it. These should normally be completely closed like this one | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
here. Also at risk are seedlings which had germinated months ahead | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
of Schedule. Most bigger plants will bounce back. For now. If you | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
get a succession of similar unusual years, plants become increasingly | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
stressed. And then they are vulnerable to fungal diseases or | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
pests and that is when they can get problems. Those whose livelihoods | :24:50. | :24:57. | |
depend on it will be watching carefully. | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
What a lovely day it has been today. You have been sending us your | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
pictures of these effects the mild winter has been having. This is a | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
rose making an early appearance in Hassocks in West Sussex. Here is | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
another rose in Kent. And these are camellias, in Haywards Heath. He | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
says, they would normally flower in his garden in March or April. This | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
is not just plants, this is a one- day old miniature goat from Alkham | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
Valley community project small animal unit. | :25:33. | :25:43. | |
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It is just too cute! Might selectee The day was a gorgeous day, mild, | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
plenty of sunshine and it stays mild through tonight. The best of | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
the brightness is tomorrow morning, the cloud cover will be thickening | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
in the afternoon. Staying mild throughout the day, temperatures in | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
double figures. High pressure is still very much in control of | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
things. It is taking some cloud around, but there were some | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
brighter breaks in the afternoon. The best of the sunshine, not | :26:08. | :26:17. | |
feeling too bad. Those winds are still staying pretty light and | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
variable. Three tonight, we are holding on to the mixture of cloud | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
and clearer skies. Temperatures a little bit cooler than they were | :26:25. | :26:33. | |
last night. Still above average for the time of year. Tomorrow morning, | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
the best of any brightness will be get into the afternoon. The cloud | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
cover will thicken, and that is has this a weather front spread south- | :26:41. | :26:50. | |
east would. Thicker cloud, not too much in the type of rain -- in the | :26:50. | :26:59. | |
way of rain. Temperatures still in double figures. Plenty of cloud | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
cover around, that will be clearing through the evening. It leaves | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
behind quite a different picture. Clearer skies, under those skies | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
temperatures dropping to one or two degrees. A widespread ground frost | :27:11. | :27:17. | |
and fog patches forming. Plenty of sunshine for us on Friday, high | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
pressure in control. A similar picture over the weekend, plenty of | :27:21. | :27:30. |