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Welcome to South East Today, I'm Rob Smith. And I'm Polly Evans. | :00:03. | :00:07. | |
Tonight's top stories: A year after Pfizer's closure | :00:07. | :00:13. | |
announcement, a breakthrough deal which could save hundreds of jobs. | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
Five years' jail for the Sussex legal secretary who went on a | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
"frivolous and extravagant" spending spree with clients' money. | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
We're live with the details. Also in tonight's programme: | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
Six months from the Opening Ceremony - anger in the Kent and | :00:27. | :00:37. | |
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Surrey villages snubbed by the How Charles Dickens, the Victorian | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
author, made the county of Kent world-famous on the silver screen. | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
And could they be the answer to convincing children to eat their | :00:49. | :00:58. | |
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greens? Chocolate-covered brussels Good evening. Workers at the | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
pharmaceutical company Pfizer in Sandwich have been told that a | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
potential buyer has been found for the site. Last February, the drugs | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
giant announced that it would be pulling out of East Kent, with the | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
loss of nearly 2,500 jobs. Now, it has emerged investment firm London | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
and Metropolitan International Developments Limited are in | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
detailed talks with Pfizer, which it hopes could see hundreds of jobs | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
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saved. It is almost a year since Pfizer | :01:36. | :01:45. | |
announced it was leaving its site. Today, it seems the site has found | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
a buyer. Deals always need to be finalised, so there is no certainty, | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
but I have met the company and they are very committed. They have | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
already committed money and time over the last nine months to this | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
process. They have got a strong vision for the area, as I think it | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
will be very useful and important. Last February, Pfizer announced it | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
would be pulling out of east Kent. In November, the company said six- | :02:16. | :02:24. | |
under and 50 jobs would be retained. Today, Pfizer is in talks for a | :02:24. | :02:32. | |
buyer. -- 650. That buyer is a consortium. The developer behind | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
project in the UK and Europe, including Bicester Village. | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
Because it is still early days, no one from Pfizer was available to | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
talk. But the company are describing this as a "positive | :02:49. | :02:58. | |
milestone". The possibility of jobs here is very welcome at News. | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
can't say no to extra trade. When the news broke, we were all very | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
worried, but Sandridge has been very good and this last year. | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
seems such a terrible shame to waste all those wonderful buildings, | :03:15. | :03:24. | |
and not being able to work. Business leaders in Thanet are | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
giving the news a cautious welcome. It is in the early stages, and with | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
exercises like this, there are commercial confidences that must be | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
respected. They have to be reported to the city before we find out | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
about them in the public realm, but it is great news, and we are | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
delighted the government is taking this so seriously. Today, | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
celebrations were held to mark Firth sale of Pfizer's Social Club. | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
The new owners say it will become a community sports centre. In three | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
or four months, we should know if the main site up the road will also | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
have a happy ending. Well, our political editor, Louise | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
Stewart, joins me now. Louise, there's been a lot going on behind | :04:10. | :04:17. | |
the scenes to secure a future for the park? Yes, it is almost a year | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
sense a taskforce was set up, led by the leader of Kent County | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
Council, along with the local MPs. That is trying to secure the future | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
of the side. In of August, the site was awarded enterprise zone status. | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
What that means is that businesses get better tax breaks, faster | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
broadband, easier planning rules if you like. This is not a done deal | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
yet. This is a very positive step forward, but the company say the | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
fact that this site has enterprise zone status, it is it very positive | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
way to market it. A Sussex legal secretary - who | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
stole nearly half a million pounds from clients to fund a "frivolous | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
and extravagant spending spree" - has been jailed for nearly five | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
years. Arscotts Solicitors in Hove went bust after 25-year-old Leanne | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
Harris made a string of transactions between clients' | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
accounts in an attempt to cover up what she was doing. Our reporter, | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
Steve Gaisford, was at court for sentencing. He joins us from there | :05:18. | :05:25. | |
now. Steve, what was her motivation? Shortly before | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
sentencing, her defence lawyer spoke of her husband's psychotic | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
personality that led to her feeling the need to placate and please them. | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
She did so through extravagant spending. Although not responsible | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
for the law firm's demise, the judge said "you have done huge | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
damage to those who trusted to". This was the response on behalf of | :05:52. | :06:00. | |
the firm and families she stole from. The fact she has contributed | :06:01. | :06:10. | |
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to was a lot of 30 jobs. She caused great upset to the families, and | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
deprived a 19-year-old lady of all her life savings. Despite Lehane | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
Harris being ashamed of what she did, she started custodial sentence, | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
and will no doubt have time to think about the lives she has | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
affected because of her financial greed. | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
In a moment: Taking on the elements - a new exhibition of Turner's work | :06:32. | :06:41. | |
in his hometown of Margate. It's exactly six months to go until | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
the opening ceremony of the olympic Games in london - but while many | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
places are gearing up to welcome the Torch relay, five villages in | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
Kent and Surrey say they have been snubbed. The route takes the torch | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
along the M25 for a short stretch - and the villages alongside say they | :06:57. | :07:06. | |
are missing out on a once-in-a- lifetime opportunity as a result. | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
Michael is definitely on the ball when it comes to the Paralympic | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
sport. So he was disappointed when he heard the relay has snubbed one | :07:18. | :07:25. | |
of the most historic court regions in Kent. I think it would have lots | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
of inspiration. A similar sentiment shared at the neighbouring schools. | :07:32. | :07:39. | |
When you have got these historic villages and towns, to show care to | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
the rest of the world, they have missed it. The torch will make its | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
way through the South East. However, when it leaves Sevenoaks, it will | :07:49. | :07:56. | |
head along the M25 missing out all these villages. I think it is a bit | :07:56. | :08:06. | |
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sad, that this place will be missed out and it will go down the | :08:06. | :08:14. | |
motorway. I hope that people will be able to take part in the | :08:14. | :08:24. | |
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Some of whom were lucky enough to see the flame carried through the | :08:28. | :08:35. | |
town it was this man. This is the athlete that was chosen to run up | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
with the flame. In actual fact, I saw the torch in a matter of | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
seconds. Villagers say they will celebrate the torch relay, even if | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
they must travel further. The administrators of Thamesteel in | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
Sheerness - which has just made 350 workers redundant - are to take out | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
an advert in a national newspaper to try and find a buyer for the | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
factory. The local MP says he hasn't given up hope that the steel | :09:05. | :09:15. | |
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manufacturing plant can be saved, but he is planning for the worst. | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
The administrators were only appointed yesterday, but they have | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
been in touch with people who have expressed an interest with | :09:22. | :09:31. | |
purchasing the side. A new �420 million redevelopment of | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton has been unanimously | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
approved by Brighton and Hove Council. The Trust wants to replace | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
some of the old buildings with a new 12-storey block. It also wants | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
to create a Major Trauma Centre for Sussex. | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
A 67-year-old woman has been charged in connection with the Gary | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
Hampson murder investigation. Gary Hampson was reported missing in | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
January last year. His blood was found at the garage he managed in | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
Little Western Street, Brighton. Linda Rosenberg has been charged | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
with acts intending to pervert the course of justice. | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
For the last decade, the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment has been | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
fighting almost continuously on the front line in Afghanistan. Mainly | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
recruiting across the South East, they are currently on tour in | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
Helmand Province, on what's probably their last tour. In a | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
moment, we will be talking live to our correspondent, Mark Norman, who | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
is in Lashkar Gah. But first, he has sent us this report about their | :10:28. | :10:38. | |
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work with local Afghan police. This is how most of us arrived, the | :10:45. | :10:54. | |
helicopter. But when the 1st Battalion arrived, they had a job | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
to do - to mental local police forces, so that eventually, they | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
would become responsible for security when we go home. Two | :11:06. | :11:14. | |
Afghan police officers are getting a lesson in how to deal with | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
casualties. What happening is it that they are conducting a basic | :11:19. | :11:27. | |
first aid training. They also go out to a lot of post explosions etc | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
and have to do with casualties, because the are the first | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
respondents to this scene. Because we have the capability in our | :11:37. | :11:47. | |
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forces, we are given good guys these lessons. The battalion are | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
putting a huge effort into getting the local police into shape. The | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
local headquarters are outside the British base. For security reasons, | :11:56. | :12:06. | |
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an officer took my camera. Control of the area it was handed over to | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
the Afghans in July. This is their control room. There is a success, | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
but also challenges. One of the greatest challenges is that the | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
literacy rates are low. We are seeing progress, in their ability | :12:31. | :12:38. | |
to operate as police rather than just soldiers. Also, their ability | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
to plan operations. But progress will have to be fast, because they | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
will be leaving. International forces are scheduled to leave | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
Afghanistan at the end up 2014. Soldiers are playing their part, | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
and after that date, Afghanistan's security will be in the hands of | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
the Afghan people. That report by Mark Norman. Well, | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
he joins us live now from LashKar Gah. Mark, the training has been a | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
long process. How optimistic are they that the Afghan police will be | :13:08. | :13:18. | |
ready to take over when the British eventually leave? People here are | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
optimistic but there are challenges. The army working with Afghan police | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
to try and get that sorted. The politicians have to create | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
institutions, and then there is the question of that deadline, | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
impacting on those other two challenges. The regiment of feel | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
they have dumped some very good work, so yes, optimistic, but they | :13:42. | :13:52. | |
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The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is in detailed talks with a potential | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
buyer for its operation in east Kent. The company announced nearly | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
a year ago it would be closing its operation in Sandwich, which | :13:58. | :14:05. | |
employed 2,400 people. A deal could save hundreds of jobs. | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
Also tonight, how Britain's greatest novelist inspired | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
Britain's greatest film-maker. Brussels sprouts - just gift-wrap | :14:17. | :14:26. | |
them and cover them in chocolate. His connection to Margate is such | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
that the town's new gallery is named after him. Well, tomorrow a | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
major exhibition of the work of JMW Turner opens at the Turner | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
Contemporary. It brings together more than 80 pieces of his work, | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
including those inspired by that very stretch of Kentish coast. Sara | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
Smith is live at the Turner Contemporary for tonight's special | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
report. Sara, this is a big moment for the Turner Contemporary, isn't | :14:45. | :14:54. | |
it? It certainly is. They have always had at least one Turner | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
painting since the gallery opened nine months ago. Now they have 88. | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
Tonight is the launch party but we got to have our look around earlier | :15:03. | :15:10. | |
today before anyone arrived. From the eye of the storm to the | :15:10. | :15:17. | |
calm of the seashore. Fiery sunsets to domineering mountains. Even | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
where the subject appears man made, it is nature which provides the | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
drama. All the time Turner is developing his work, breaking the | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
artistic principles of his day. This is quite a different look at | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
her -- at things and how he developed his way to paint. How he | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
developed a parting from watercolour technique his flowing | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
style that was so much criticised during his lifetime. In the centre | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
of this exhibition, these pieces are grouped to give some impression | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
of the impact this town had on the artist. Living here as a boy and | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
again as a young man, his fascination with the sea and sky | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
was said to have sprung from the hours he spent absorbing this | :16:05. | :16:12. | |
landscape with this particular north coast like. This room | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
demonstrates his fascination with the elements and retells the story | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
of how the natural world had come to dominate his work. From the | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
power of the sea to the destructive force of fire. He himself witnessed | :16:26. | :16:34. | |
the Houses of Parliament ablaze in 1834. After the gallery, where the | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
visitors have exceeded all expectations, this exhibition is | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
another cause for celebration. is the moment we have been waiting | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
for for 10 years. An exhibition Democrat -- dedicated to JMW Turner | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
in Margate. It is a special moment for all this. The exhibition | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
includes experimental works by Turner which have never been seen | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
before but which helped him to create his style. It culminates in | :17:03. | :17:12. | |
a room our future oils which brings together everything he had learnt. | :17:12. | :17:22. | |
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-- book massive oils. I doubt this will be anything but a massively | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
popular exhibition. They have not struggled bringing the people in | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
since they opened nine months ago. It opens to the public tomorrow, it | :17:33. | :17:43. | |
is free to get into and it runs until May. | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
Next month marks the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens, one | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
of the greatest authors this country has produced. The writer, | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
who spent his childhood in Kent and returned to the county to live, | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
often used it as a vivid backdrop to his tales. | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
Tales which, because of his brilliant powers of description and | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
the continuing relevance of his themes, have been adapted for stage | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
and screen over and over again. For the first in our series of special | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
features marking the bicentenary, I've been finding out more about | :18:07. | :18:17. | |
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why film-makers keep returning to Of my father's family name be | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
Philip and my Christian name Philip, my infant at tongue could make of | :18:31. | :18:41. | |
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both names nothing longer than Pip, so I called myself A pit. -- called | :18:43. | :18:52. | |
myself A pit. This is David Lean's adaptation of Great Expectations | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
and it is hard to think of anything that better captures the cinematic | :18:58. | :19:05. | |
quality of Dickens' scene-setting and his mastery of suspense. The | :19:05. | :19:15. | |
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film captured the imagination of a post-war audience, with Pip's story | :19:15. | :19:23. | |
capturing the desire for better times. Fast forward to 2010 and | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
again the north Kent marshes are recreated in all of their bleakness | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
for BBC adaptation. The themes of greed and ruin and above all hope | :19:32. | :19:39. | |
for the future once again seemed so pertinent. Dickens' scene-setting | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
is undeniably vivid but it is also a incredibly well developed | :19:44. | :19:51. | |
characters that keep audiences gripped. It is such a roller- | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
coaster ride, and that is what drew me to the character, the | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
relationships he has with so many characters. It is rare to have | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
relationships with so many which characters. Do you not think as I | :20:06. | :20:16. | |
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Yes. From the start, Dickens' work was illustrated and adapted for the | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
stage and, although he died two decades before the advent of cinema, | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
in the silent film era no less than 100 movies were based on his work. | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
He is the only writer of the 19th century that thought cinematically | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
before movies existed. The descriptions he wrote are | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
incredibly visual. He thought visually, he thought theatrically, | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
which was why he was so popular for theatre adaptation in the 19th | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
century. And he is not afraid to leave characters behind and then | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
pick them up later on in his work. You see that a lot in cinema, don't | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
you? To way in which restructures his story and creates his | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
characters was very complicated for the time in which she wrote. -- the | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
way. It was a way which was a gift to cinema. Cinema can cut between | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
time and place, between all kinds of places and countries and | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
different time periods and Dickens did that in his fiction first. | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
Moving back and forth from violent glimpses of the criminal underworld | :21:40. | :21:47. | |
like this in David Lean's other masterpiece, Oliver Twist, to be | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
sentimental heroes struggling for the better life, the author lit -- | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
always leaves his public wanted me -- wanting more. Please, sir, I | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
want some more. Now, you have the chance to join us, | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
as well as stars of stage and screen, for a special screening of | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
David Lean's 1946 classic Great Expectations in the nave of | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
Rochester Cathedral on 10th February. | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
There are a limited number of pairs of tickets on offer. You need to be | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
over the age of 14 and be able to get to the screening by 6:45 on the | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
evening. Go to our website bbc.co.uk/kent and look for the | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
Dickens link on the TV and radio page. Fill out the application and | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
if you are successful we will be in touch. | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
Brighton take on Premiership Newcastle in football's oldest | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
competition, the FA Cup, at the Amex on Saturday. But the manager, | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
Gus Poyet, isn't taking anything for granted. | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
The omens are good because the Seagulls have yet to lose this year | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
and the visitors have conceded seven goals in their last two away | :22:45. | :22:55. | |
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Neil Bell has more. And Crawley Town have signed 20- | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
year-old striker Sanchez Watt on loan from Arsenal in time for their | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
tough FA Cup tie at Hull City tomorrow. Last season the Reds | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
famously took on Manchester United in the competition. Around 1200 | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
Crawley fans are heading to Hull, but manager Steve Evans admits, | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
despite performances in the Cup this season, his side go into the | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
tie as underdogs. Meanwhile, in League One, leaders | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
Charlton travel to Exeter having extended the deal of leading scorer | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
Bradley Wright-Phillips until the summer of 2013. The 26-year-old | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
made his 25th League appearance of the season last weekend, | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
automatically triggering the extension. | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
And in League Two Gillingham boss Andy Hessenthaler says his team | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
need to "get back on track very quickly" after two successive | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
defeats. New signing Gavin Tomlin - who scored twice in last Saturday's | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
home defeat - hopes to be fit to face Accrington Stanley despite | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
picking up a calf strain. What is it with Brussels sprouts? | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
They are healthy and nutritious and packed with vitamin A and C and | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
folic acid and dietary fibre. And yet for some reason getting kids to | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
eat them is often a challenge. In a bid to convert the unwilling, | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
a farmer near Gravesend is trying to rehabilitate the little | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
brassicas, by selling them gift- wrapped and covered in chocolate. | :23:57. | :24:07. | |
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Yes. Lynda Hardy reports. The Brussels sprout. That famous | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
festive Lovett or hated vegetables. You would think it would be really | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
rather redundant now the festive season is a distant memory. Not so | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
in this part of Kent, where they have thought up an unusual way of | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
Remarketing be more commonly seen at Christmas vegetable. We got the | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
idea at Christmas dinner. My son Charlie does not like Brussels | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
sprouts and he pushed them off the plate. It came up as a joke about, | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
I bet he would if they were covered in chocolate. Who better to test | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
the and then some unsuspecting children in Tunbridge Wells? -- | :24:49. | :24:57. | |
test them. The outside is really nice. I'm not sure about the inside, | :24:58. | :25:07. | |
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though. What do you think? Nice. What do you think is inside it? | :25:08. | :25:18. | |
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Brussels sprouts. His last -- is that what it is? Cool! Do you like | :25:18. | :25:27. | |
Brussels sprouts? Created by a couple who run the | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
local granary bakery, the sprouts are simply washed with their top | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
layer taken off before being coated in chocolate just in time for | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
Valentine's Day. So it would seem that a Brussels sprout is not just | :25:40. | :25:50. | |
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for Christmas. There is your Valentine's Day | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
present for the missus. And congratulations to Neil Bell. | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
He's just been awarded Sports Journalist of the Year at today's | :25:59. | :26:09. | |
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For the first time this winter we are looking to the east our weather. | :26:12. | :26:19. | |
In the next few days it will get very gradually colder day-by-day. A | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
fair number of showers are round at the moment but that will slip away. | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
A weather front desperately trying to move in from the west will grind | :26:28. | :26:34. | |
to a halt because high pressure is increasing to the east of us. Cold | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
winds mackerel slowly setting. Today we started off gloriously | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
sunny. Showers will be making their way south across the course of the | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
day. We have had a fair number of showers today. Even some rumbles of | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
thunder along the south Sussex coast. We will keep these showers | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
for a few hours, spreading eastwards and that gradually | :26:57. | :27:05. | |
spreading away. A touch of frost in some spots as temperatures dip down | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
to freezing or just above. A grey start tomorrow but it should be | :27:10. | :27:16. | |
largely dry. The cloud breaking, sunny intervals developing, but it | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
will be a cold day, colder than today, best temperatures five or | :27:20. | :27:24. |