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Welcome to South East Today. Tonight's top stories: An exclusive | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
- after two years' delay, the terminal cancer patient who fears | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
she will die before the complaint against a doctor will even be heard. | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
It has already been postponed once, and the danger is I will not be you. | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
The first new grammar school in more than 50 years. People in | :00:34. | :00:43. | |
Sevenoaks have signed a petition for a new school there. Also in | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
tonight's programme: Grape expectations - we visit the Sussex | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
vineyard which will be the largest in the UK. | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
The sunshine coast - how the South East has been sizzling in the | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
Spring heat. We will be soaking up the rays live in Brighton. | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
There's a buzz around the 15-year- old beekeeper from Kent, inspired | :00:56. | :01:06. | |
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to do it by an ad he saw on the Good evening. | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
A Kent woman with terminal cancer fears she may die before her | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
complaint against the doctor who treated her is ever heard. Debbie | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
Westwick, from Canterbury, believes Dr Howard Smedley gave her the | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
wrong treatment. Despite lodging a complaint with the General Medical | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
Council in 2009. It still has not been heard. Dr Smedley rejects the | :01:26. | :01:36. | |
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allegations. Simon Jones reports. She knows time is running out. | :01:36. | :01:46. | |
dying. The more delays there are in the hearing, there is a possibility, | :01:46. | :01:53. | |
although it is listed to be held in June, there is no guarantee that it | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
will be. It has already been postponed once. The danger is a | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
will not be here. Debbie Westwick was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
She says her oncologist did not followed the right management | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
protocol. Dr Howard Smedley had restrictions placed on his work by | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
the GMC, meaning it should have been supervised by another | :02:18. | :02:25. | |
consultant. I think the GMC had handled this appallingly and have | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
that tweeted debut with distain. It is so hard for patients to are | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
fighting doctors and fighting cancer to be fighting to GMC as | :02:33. | :02:42. | |
well. Debbie received her treatment in Canterbury. The trust that | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
employed Dr Howard Smedley said that they had carried out a full | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
investigation and concluded that there was no reason to take any | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
action against Dr Howard Smedley, who retired last year. He recently | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
applied to have his name removed from the GMC register on grounds of | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
ill health, meaning I hearing would be unnecessary. The GMC rejected | :03:03. | :03:13. | |
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She now fears leaving her son behind. It is hard to think that I | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
probably will not live long enough to see him qualified and it is hard | :03:28. | :03:38. | |
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to think I won't see his children. But what can I do? In a statement, | :03:38. | :03:48. | |
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The GMC has made it clear that he rejects the allegations. Simon, | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
what more have the General Medical Council had to say tonight? We have | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
had several complaints that the GMC are taking too long to examine | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
cases. It will this tonight that they understand the frustration | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
among the patients, but in this case they have actively been | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
looking for a new gate and that has been set for June. Debbie Westwick | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
did it reach an out-of-court settlement for �155,000 over her | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
care but the trust did not admit any liability. She says this game | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
is not about money, but holding people to account. She is keen to | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
point out that the care she is now getting in Canterbury is excellent. | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
A controversial new grammar school for West Kent looks likely to get | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
the go-ahead this week, the first new grammar for 50 years. Pressure | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
has been building from people in Sevenoaks, who currently have no | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
grammar school in the area. There are currently 32 grammar schools in | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
Kent. They provide almost 4,500 places each year. But every day | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
1,150 Sevenoaks children travel at least nine miles to grammar schools | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
in Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells. A petition signed by 2,500 people has | :04:59. | :05:08. | |
now triggered a debate at a full council meeting. Sara Smith reports. | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
These are just three of the six grammar-school as a cross Don | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
Bridge and Tunbridge Wells. This former boys' school building his | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
work campaigners hope Sevenoaks might get its first. A new school | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
he would cut out the long bus ride for children who currently pass | :05:23. | :05:31. | |
their 11 plus. This one and led the campaign. Ideally, I knew grammar- | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
school would be great because that is the easiest solution, but | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
because legally we can't have one I think what they will probably do is | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
say that we can have an Amex which will be a satellite of existing | :05:44. | :05:52. | |
grammar schools. The coalition government has not reversed | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
legislation on a new grammar schools opening. Cut 2600 | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
signatures on this petition means the full council must there be at | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
the call for a satellite grammar in Sevenoaks. The council leader says | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
it will get his party's support. the moment There are a number of | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
parents of young people who have passed the 11 plus with no current | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
places in grammar schools in West Kent because of that under | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
provision. This is the opportunity to deal with the under provision | :06:22. | :06:29. | |
side of grammar school places and builds a school in Sevenoaks. | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
all agree there is a lack of capacity in Sevenoaks, not everyone | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
assumes that a new grammar school is the am - is the answer. Kent has | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
a vision for Kent which has three ambitions, one is putting citizens | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
in control. We want to harness that and to a proper survey of all the | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
families in the area to say what provision do you actually want? How | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
can we make sure that the spaces that are created are relevant to | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
you? It seems that on Thursday new grammar-school provision in | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
Sevenoaks will get the go-ahead. Would the money will come from has | :07:05. | :07:15. | |
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yet to be decided. A parliamentary inquiry into the | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
UK's aviation strategy begins today. The group of MPs says they will | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
explore new ideas that ensure the country can keep pace with | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
countries like Brazil and China. The inquiry has been brought | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
forward after the Government announced that their own | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
consultation on the future of aviation has been delayed until the | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
summer. A central question is that of airport capacity in the South | :07:44. | :07:51. | |
East, a point the Chancellor made in his budget speech last Wednesday. | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
Mean cannot cut ourselves off from the fastest growing cities in the | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
worlds and the transport secretary will set out government thinking | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
later this summer. So, when it comes to increasing airport | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
capacity in the South East, what options will the MPs be looking at? | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
There are expansion plans at Gatwick to cater for an extra seven | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
million passengers a year, but legal restrictions currently | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
prevent a second runway. Airline bosses, including Richard Branson | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
on this programme last week, are calling for the construction of a | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
third runway at Heathrow. But the coalition government ruled that out | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
as soon as they came to power, which has meant plans for a brand | :08:25. | :08:33. | |
new airport in the Thames Estuary have been gaining ground. I am | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
joined now by a Labour MP who is chairing the All Party Group on | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
aviation. This is a hugely controversial issue in the south- | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
east, especially the idea of creating a new airport in the | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
Thames estuary. I don't think that is an option, to be honest. It is | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
more to look at what we have and what we can do in the immediate | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
future deceive the British aviation industry. That is what I am intent | :09:04. | :09:11. | |
in trying to achieve. If they have Boris Ireland idea, that is a non | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
starter? We will examine that along with everything else, we will | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
examine what possibilities there are four that in terms of the | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
environmental impact it would have on the south-east of England. | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
coalition government has said that they have ruled out a third runway | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
at Heathrow, but obviously people like Richard Branson had been | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
saying that that is the most sensible option. Do you have a view | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
as a committee yet? We are certainly pointing in that | :09:40. | :09:47. | |
direction. Unless we examine that, we will have at drain on the number | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
of services that can come into Heathrow. Amsterdam has more | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
regional services from the United Kingdom going to its airport, it | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
seems it is well overdue that there be some short-term answer to this | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
problem. Every time this issue is raised here we get lots of e-mails | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
and phone calls with people saying what about some of the other | :10:11. | :10:18. | |
regional airports? You have to look at what you have got. The best way | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
to have an airport run and have the hub IT is at Heathrow. If it is | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
possible, we would be able to Interlink at other airports in the | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
south-east. Stakeholders in the aviation industry have been invited | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
to present the inquiry with written evidence and they have got until | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
16th May to do so. Hull Crown Court has heard that a | :10:44. | :10:53. | |
restaurant manager at Gatwick airport subjected to teenage girls | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
to sexual harassment. He is accused of brushing himself girls - | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
brushing himself against girls or touching them. He denies the | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
allegations. A crackdown and drug dealing in | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
Brighton has led to more than 250 charges. Sussex police say they | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
have brought 37 charges against one suspect alone and that they have | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
seized their to �6,000 worth of heroin in a single raid. | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
Planting of grapevines has begun today in Sussex at what will become | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
one of the biggest vineyards in Europe. The owners in Alfriston | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
hope it will eventually produce more than a million bottles of | :11:29. | :11:39. | |
sparkling wine a year. Steve Gaisford reports. Mark Driver had | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
always dreamt of owning have been yard and after 18 months of | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
planning that has finally happening. Work started early this morning and | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
at the end of this week 50,000 fines will have been planted in | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
this field near Alfriston, signalling the birth of Britain's | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
largest have been yard. It is the same type of Jock, the same soul | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
and the same climate. We are getting the same whether they have | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
had in champion for dozens of years. So when the first planting face has | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
been completed, it will be a 50 acre vineyard. The plan is to | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
extend it out to 350 acres making it one of Europe's largest single- | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
site vineyards. The weather could not be better for the planting | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
process. We have got nice blue skies and a sunny day, so it should | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
be good. A do weather is not always like this, are you concerned? | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
need a bit of rain for the fines to grow, so we're hoping for a bit of | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
rain in the next week or so. question on everyone's lips, when | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
can we tasted? The first bottles won't be on the shells and | :12:53. | :13:02. | |
available to taste until 2016, so we have a few years. The estate | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
along with more established vineyards in the area will soon | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
become a collective force in sparkling wine. One that will no | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
doubt challenge their Champagne region. The estate expect their | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
price of sparkling wine to commit just beneath that of champagne, but | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
that is not to say it would be as good. They are expecting the 1 | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
million bottles produced East - each year to be the first flying | :13:32. | :13:41. | |
off the shells. Our top story tonight: A Kent woman | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
with terminal cancer believes she might die before the complaint she | :13:45. | :13:54. | |
has made against the doctor that treated her is ever heard. | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
The 15-year-old beekeeper who is causing a bit of a buzz in | :13:57. | :14:05. | |
Maidstone. It has been another warm dry and | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
bright day to day and this weather is set to continue. Join me later | :14:10. | :14:17. | |
in the programme for all the It won't have escaped your notice | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
that the weather we are having is more like June than March! And it | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
is set to continue. Temperatures reached 21 degrees at the weekend | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
and conditions are forecast to continue in the same vein until at | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
least the end of the week. While for many the sunshine is welcome, | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
there are downsides. Tonight, we have three linked reports. Bryony | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
Mackenzie has been to West Sussex, looking at how we can all plant for | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
a drought-resistant garden. Rachel Mackley has been investigating | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
early forest fires, but, first, Alex Beard reports from Brighton on | :14:43. | :14:53. | |
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how the warm weather is bringing a boost to many traders. | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
The adverse, buskers and beach lovers were out enjoying the sun in | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
Brighton. For businesses feeling the benefit? Ron Smith has run a | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
shop for six years and he knows the impact sunny weather can have. | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
is all-important. The weather is the business, for everybody on the | :15:14. | :15:23. | |
seafront. We are all eternal optimists here, are we? A weekend | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
of sunshine and a welcome boost in his trade as visitors flock to the | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
seaside. We have come down from the Midlands this morning. It is hot | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
now, so we are happy. It is such a nice day. We have seen so many | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
people in Brighton today, but it could not really be better. It has | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
been really good. Both businesses and visitors are making the most of | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
the warm snap because there is no guarantee it will continue. | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
Today 32 acres of Ashdown Forest in Kent are blackened and burnt. While | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
further yesterday was battled by over 100 firefighters and has not | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
be cared out until this morning. This winter in the south-east you | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
have seen three-quarters of the usual amount of rainfall and have | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
very little significant rain this month, the undergrowth here is | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
tinder-dry. You have got this letter layer, the residue from the | :16:21. | :16:28. | |
winter, and even after a week of rain, within a matter of hours with | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
weather like this it will be dry and up again for fires. Just last | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
Wednesday a large area of Scotland in Hastings cult-like and with the | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
heatwave set to continue this week via Cruise caressing for people to | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
enjoy the countryside, but take care. | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
Primulas love it, magnolias thrive on it, even Dafydd also partial to | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
it, but if you can't water your favourite plants and flowers, how | :16:56. | :17:03. | |
does your garden grow? We are at the Mediterranean border. Basically, | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
they are drought tolerant. There are lots of heat loving companions | :17:08. | :17:15. | |
to fill our beds with, some prettier than others. Vanessa has | :17:15. | :17:23. | |
more tips. We use water restoring granules here. We would encourage | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
people to plant small plants so that they're able to adapt to their | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
conditions. Signs of summer are all around, but they may need a bit | :17:31. | :17:41. | |
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more care. Alex, the Sun has been proving very | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
popular there today. It has. The seafront is still quite busy with | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
people. Use of the pictures of the weekend when the beach was actually | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
quite busy. The traitors and was speaking to said that provided a | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
much-needed boost in business. It is not good news for everybody and | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
on 5th April the hosepipe ban comes in, and that is an unwelcome side- | :18:08. | :18:18. | |
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A teenager from Kent has become one of the youngest in the South East | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
to qualify in beekeeping. Unusually, for a young apiarist, he hasn't | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
learnt his skills from anyone in his family. Jordan Whitcombe, who | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
is 15 and lives in Maidstone, was inspired by a TV advert for cereal | :18:36. | :18:43. | |
he watched a few years ago. Charlie Rose reports. | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
This is one of the most important things. It keeps bees off your face | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
and head. Other teenagers are following the latest fashion trends, | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
that this is the only outfit Jordan Whitcombe is in two. It is a | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
compelling hobby. Each time you look at the Hyde you learn | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
something new. They are also quite friendly creatures. So, did these | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
understand him and his school friends do, too. And when to prime | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
the school with him and he was obsessed then. He even made so a | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
little peaky is were you could see how they make their nest. You can | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
really see the dedication, what he enjoys doing and what is | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
interesting is. A Jordan will make an excellent beekeeper. It is | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
nearly a year since we passed him for his exam and there was no | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
question that he passed well indeed. Mum is proud. She is quite keen on | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
the product, too. But those bees may just guessed - may just get | :19:48. | :19:56. | |
everywhere. He is taking babies to school? On purpose? No, they just | :19:56. | :20:05. | |
crawled in! Turning professional is a serious business. Well, in his | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
five hives he has 40,000 bees and to turn professional he would meet | :20:09. | :20:16. | |
- would need a much bigger garden to fit 1.5 million bees. It is | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
almost like he wants to know each and every one of them. They can | :20:20. | :20:30. | |
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read my emotions. Most of the time Gillingham Football Club chairman | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
Paul Scally has warned supporters that the club may be forced to | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
leave the Medway Towns. He says that if a proposed Chatham Docks | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
redevelopment proposal gets the go- ahead the club would have no option | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
but to move. Our sports reporter Neil Bell joins us from Chatham. | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
How serious is this? It is never easy to tell what Gillingham. The | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
problems surrounding Asda superstore which is part of the | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
redevelopment plans. The chairman has written to the councillors to | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
oppose it because he says if it gets the go-ahead that would like | :21:10. | :21:20. | |
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his stadium plans. It was a disappointing weekend for | :21:22. | :21:31. | |
Gillingham on the picture as well. Brighton remain in 4th place in the | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
championship but know they could have done better after they went in | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
front at Nottingham Forest. They held out until four minutes into | :21:39. | :21:48. | |
stoppage time before there was a late equaliser. I am not pleased at | :21:48. | :21:58. | |
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all. In the last few weeks we had the excuse of the pitch, so there | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
is no excuse. We need to sort out to keep things away from home. | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
is now just one win in five games for Charlton. An early penalty was | :22:09. | :22:17. | |
dispatched by Jordan Rhodes for his 35th goal of the season. Russell, | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
who conceded the penalty, was later sent off. They are still eight | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
points clear at the top of the table. Crawley moved up to 4th in | :22:25. | :22:35. | |
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We have to rattle one or two cages today, but they got flying in the | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
second half. Gillingham remain four points off the play-offs despite a | :22:51. | :23:01. | |
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dream start. Bradford pulled a goal back hands with six minutes left, | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
they grab the controversial equaliser which was called off side, | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
but was allowed to stand by the referee. You do wonder how some | :23:11. | :23:18. | |
managers have any hair left. Herne Bay still have a great chance of | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
going to Wembley. Their FA Vase semi-final was the Kent team's | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
biggest game for years and they came back from two goals down to | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
grab a draw with West Auckland. The teams meet again in the second leg | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
next Saturday. Sussex wicketkeeper Matt Prior helped England make a | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
great start against Sri Lanka in the First Test. Prior caught | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
Sangakarra early on as England reduced the home side to 15 for | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
3.But they rallied to reach 289 for 8 by the close. Many | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
congratulations to the thousands of people who came out for Comic | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
Relief yesterday I was down at Brighton where, as usual, there | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
were some extraordinary outfits and a great party atmosphere. | :23:46. | :23:56. | |
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Organisers believed it was the best turnout ever. Just think what it | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
would have been like if you had enjoyed that sort of weather for | :24:02. | :24:10. | |
you triathlon a week ago? At big thank-you to everybody who | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
sponsored me. That figure was about �3,000. Well done to everyone who | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
took part. Small and unique, delicate and expensive - a rare | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
Turner painting of Sussex has arrived in Brighton. The | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
watercolour, which showcases the Brighton Pavilion, has recently | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
been brought in New York for �225,000. It will go on show at | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
Brighton Museum at the end of month and it is the first time in 100 | :24:32. | :24:41. | |
years that it has gone on public display. We watch the auction | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
online live. The price went up and up. When the hammer fell and it | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
went below the estimate, there was a roar of laughter and cheers from | :24:51. | :25:01. | |
the Office when we realised we had secured this wonderful picture. | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
A company in Dover is trying to raise �14 million to recover and | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
restore a former cross-Channel steamship. The Dover carried around | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
1,000 cars to and from the Continent during the 1960s. 30 | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
years ago she was sold and ended up as a nightclub venue in Tyneside. | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
We are looking to preserve her. She is owned by nobody at the moment | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
and we are hoping that the permission of the various | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
stakeholders and balls in the north-east and here in Dover that | :25:32. | :25:40. | |
we can make acquisition of the vessel very soon. It was a | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
legendary nightclub in Newcastle. Let's get a check-up on the weather | :25:45. | :25:55. | |
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Today again was warm, settled and drive. It will stay clear of three | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
tonight. Plenty of sunshine on offer and it will feel warm tonight. | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
The reason for that is this high pressure dominating. We have gentle | :26:06. | :26:12. | |
north-easterly breeze. Highs in Dover of around 12 degrees and in | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
Brighton we have seen highs today of the 18 degrees. Through tonight | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
we will hold on to the Clear skies with temperatures falling pretty | :26:20. | :26:27. | |
quickly. It will be cool overnight. High pressure is in control again | :26:27. | :26:37. | |
tomorrow. It will be another warm and settle day. Blue skies through | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
the afternoon with the gentle north-easterly winds. The further | :26:41. | :26:47. | |
west you go the higher the temperature in a region. If so, | :26:47. | :26:54. | |
Clear skies again overnight into Wednesday. Temperatures by Don down | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
to four or five degrees. Wednesday list that will be the warmest day | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
of the week with temperatures in London as high as 23 degrees. Just | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
to put that in context, the average for the time of year is 11 degrees. | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
High pressure will be moving westwards, so that the time we get | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
to Friday we have more cloud cover around. By Saturday the chance of | :27:16. | :27:24. | |
some much-needed rain. So, here is the outlook. Wednesday will be the | :27:24. | :27:34. |