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We are live tonight in Dover as the Olympic torch arrives at the iconic | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
white cliffs. It is day 61 of the torch relay and the crowds have | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
turned out across Sussex and Kent to celebrate. I feel like I am | :00:19. | :00:28. | |
going to explode. It is hard not to cry. The flame was carried to Dave | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
on a historic tall ship. These are the latest pictures as it heads | :00:33. | :00:40. | |
into town. Also tonight, the verdict on G4S | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
from an employee who told him the company didn't have time to sit -- | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
to train him as a security guard. No one knows what is going on. No | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
one gets back to you. Celebrations in East Sussex after plans for a | :00:54. | :01:01. | |
wind farm of withdrawn. And a war of words, be fight to | :01:01. | :01:11. | |
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save Canterbury's collection of Welcome to South East Today live | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
from a wet and windy Dover. I can guarantee you it is not dampening | :01:23. | :01:30. | |
the spirits here. One day 61 of the torch relay, it is due to arrive at | :01:30. | :01:37. | |
the White Cliffs. It is a crowd of around 16,000 people. It looks like | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
there may be more of them. There is plenty of umbrella as. Where has | :01:42. | :01:52. | |
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the torch beam today? It has been to Ashford, Sandgate and Riley. It | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
will come here where the torch will be lit up just before 8pm. Sara | :01:58. | :02:07. | |
Smith has been following the torch on its route today. | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
Less running, more riding as the torch set off today making its | :02:14. | :02:23. | |
descent in Hastings. From then on, it was a more traditional mode of | :02:23. | :02:32. | |
transport, carried by the people it visited. By the time it reached | :02:32. | :02:40. | |
right, enthusiasm was as high as ever. It is as old as the Olympics. | :02:40. | :02:47. | |
We are proud to be part of it. EC's Hamstreet. There have been | :02:47. | :02:57. | |
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people here for more than two hours Beautiful, brilliant, great. | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
can't believe they're so many people in Hamstreet. The stars of | :03:10. | :03:20. | |
the show whether torch bearers. am looking forward to it. Bigging | :03:20. | :03:30. | |
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up the crowd. He sets off. It is a great feeling. Historical moment. | :03:30. | :03:37. | |
It was great to see that flame. Relatively few crowd members will | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
remember the last British Alan Pakes. Even if you're would have | :03:40. | :03:50. | |
seen the last torch relay at. last time, there was 20 people and | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
one person with the torch. Was it different this time? Much different | :03:55. | :04:03. | |
but better. Each torchbearer was greeted with the same cheers. In | :04:03. | :04:13. | |
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Hythe, it was Olivia Willard's 10. Reward for her fund-raising. Just | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
as you thought the crowds couldn't get any louder, the procession | :04:24. | :04:32. | |
arrived in Sandgate. What a contrast when it dipped into the | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
Channel tunnel before emerging into the light and the noise once again. | :04:35. | :04:45. | |
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For his last journey of the day, it took to the Channel again on a tall | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
ship before it moves on to light the cauldron. | :04:53. | :05:01. | |
Where exactly has it been today? Day 61, it started this morning in | :05:01. | :05:11. | |
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Hastings. It went to Hamstreet, Ashford, Sandgate, Ashford and | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
Folkestone. Tonight it is being hosted by a Dame Kelly Holmes and | :05:19. | :05:27. | |
Rob Smith. What a privilege. What can we expect tonight? It is going | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
to be amazing. The crowd is very excited. We are looking forward to | :05:32. | :05:42. | |
it. It is a great atmosphere. It is miserable weather. People are still | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
absolutely loving yet. They have tested the torch so it can | :05:48. | :05:58. | |
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withstand conditions like this. it can stand being in Dover Harbour, | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
a can withstand anything. doesn't dampen their spirits. They | :06:04. | :06:13. | |
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are out in force. All throughout today it, people have been out on | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
the route with smiles on their faces despite the weather. Before | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
this started, they thought this would lose enthusiasm as it has | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
gone round. Not a bit. It is building and building. They got | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
here at 2pm and they were already lining up at the front of the stage. | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
I will be down there later. You will be talking to some of the | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
torch bearers that will be taking part. Absolutely. Also talking to | :06:44. | :06:52. | |
Steve Backley and Hugh Robertson. get to have a chat with Dame Kelly | :06:52. | :07:00. | |
Holmes. We are looking forward to it. From the very blustery day over, | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
we will hand back to the studio for now. | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
A man who was offered an Olympic job by G4S says he is now being | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
turned away because a security company says it hasn't got time to | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
train him. Dan Corke passed the screening | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
process, got a contract and a pay roll number. He has described the | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
situation as a fiasco after the firm said it cannot provide enough | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
guards for the Games. After months of trying to find out | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
what was happening, Dan Corke went to Stratford on Monday for final | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
training and to get his accreditation. Only to be turned | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
away because the company was overwhelmed. It is a fiasco. No one | :07:43. | :07:51. | |
knows what is going on. There is no organisation whatsoever. | :07:51. | :08:00. | |
important was that job? I put a lot of effort into it. Months of work. | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
As far as wanting to work, it has been a nightmare. He applied for | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
the job in December and was told he qualified when he chased things up | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
and he received an e-mail telling them to give us time over this busy | :08:15. | :08:23. | |
period. G4S do not have enough staff ready, leading to an | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
admission to MPs yesterday. It is a humiliating shambles for the | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
company. Yes or no? I cannot disagree with you. G4S has said it | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
has run out of time to process all applicants. It seems like this | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
organisation has behaved incompetently. There must be | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
something we can do to punish the company for its incompetence. | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
parts of Kent have been caught up in the G4S debacle. Troops here in | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
Canterbury have had to go up to London to fill in security roles | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
that the company itself was -- for the company that was unable to | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
provide. It is frightening if they can't find people's paper work, | :09:08. | :09:17. | |
can't find contacts. Dan Corke was unable to get answers today. They | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
company told us it is sorry it some people have experienced | :09:21. | :09:31. | |
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Police are appealing for witnesses after a man was assaulted in | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
Brighton and left with a blood clot on the brain. The 29 year-old was | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
attacked on North Street just before 6 o'clock on Saturday | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
morning. He was taken to hospital in Haywards Heath for treatment to | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
his head and facial injuries. Two men aged 23 and 24 from Brighton | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
and 27 year-old man from Lewes has been arrested. | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
The unemployment late in the wider south-east has remained unchanged | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
at 6.3% this month. One of the lowest in the country according to | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
figures released this morning. The proportion of unemployed people | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
aged 16 and over was 8.1% for the same period. | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
Plans for one of the South East's largest wind farm suffered a | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
setback today when developers withdrew their application. | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
Campaigners near Polegate in the Sussex said they are delighted that | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
the company behind the plans are having a rethink and it has been | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
known that they are going to try again. | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
For one man, this is good news. The five turbines will be in a road | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
over her from his house. The test mast is in place and the turbines | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
will be half as tall again. There are family homes here that would be | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
deemed unsuitable for living accommodation which will in effect | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
evict those families from those homes. We are not against Green | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
Energy Solutions, we are against the location. It is the power of | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
the turbines that makes them so effective. Twice the height of | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
Nelson's Column, almost the size of the London Eye, producing enough | :11:15. | :11:23. | |
energy to power nearly 7000 houses a year. A report into this runs to | :11:23. | :11:33. | |
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70 pages but its conclusion can be turbines would be too big. That his | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
wife are now council officers have said they don't want these plans to | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
go ahead. -- that is why. The developers need to come back | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
with any plans taking into account the views and their houses. | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
A last February, plans for a wind farm of the Brighton coast were | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
unveiled but it emerged parts of the South Downs National Park would | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
have to be dug up for the cabling. Last winter, the wind turbines off | :11:59. | :12:06. | |
the Thanet only renting half its capacity. There is pressure to save | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
money by cutting subsidies to companies that built them. We will | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
not give up. This is a beginning of how we think about the production | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
of energy and we want to be part of that movement of change. This is | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
Polegate producing energy for the rest of Britain. It is fabulous. | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
They hope to come up with new plans in the next six months. | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
Our top story: Thousands of people have gathered on the streets of | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
Sussex and Kent to watch the Olympic torch relay. On day 61 of | :12:41. | :12:51. | |
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its journey, the flame has been to Hamstreet, Ashford, Hythe, Ramsgate | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
and Sampfire Hoe. Also, a war of words: The fight to save | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
Canterbury's unique collection of it -- many scripts. | :13:01. | :13:08. | |
A it has been a cloudy and breezy day. Well it's stayed dry for the | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
lighting of the cauldron? If you have a story you think we | :13:12. | :13:22. | |
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should be covering, we were glad to An academic from the University of | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
Kent says the sale of a collection of historic documents would punch a | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
heart-breaking hole in its resources. Parts of the Mendham | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
Collection, which is kept at Canterbury Cathedral, is due to be | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
sold off by the Law Society later this year. But the University and | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
the Cathedral say the collection should be kept together. Ellie | :13:59. | :14:08. | |
Price reports. A collection of medieval | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
manuscripts and rare books that up until today contain around 5,000 | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
items. It deters 400 years of the development of the Christian church | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
and has been kept under the custodianship of Canterbury | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
Cathedral and the University of Kent for 30 years. This collection | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
is incredibly important as a witness to the development of | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
Christianity in England and on the Continent. What happened today is | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
that the most valuable items from that collection, about 300 of them | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
were taken from these shelves, and you can see the gaps beside me. | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
cathedral houses around 35,000 items and the Mendham Collection | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
made up around one-seventh of that. To lose so many books and | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
manuscripts is a massive blow to anyone interested in four centuries | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
of Christianity. The collection starts with texts that might have | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
been read by Martin Luther in the late 15th century. Martin Luther | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
really did come up for the idea of the Protestant church on the toilet. | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
It paved the way for the Church of England many years later. For more | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
serious scholars the collection is a valuable resource. What is | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
interesting about this book is the number of very fine illustrations | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
but what has been removed it today were missals with an even larger | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
and more interesting illustrations. In a statement today the Law | :15:40. | :15:50. | |
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Both say they will consider the offer but with some of the most | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
valuable items already at the auction house, they fear they may | :15:56. | :16:03. | |
be too late. Let's return to the subject of the | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
Olympic Torch. All day you've been sending us some | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
fantastic pictures of the Torch Relay. Please keep them coming. | :16:09. | :16:19. | |
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Here's a selection of some of the Holly Len's picture tells a 1,000 | :16:29. | :16:39. | |
words in Hamstreet. This one is from Hyde. This is the mood in | :16:39. | :16:49. | |
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The Torch is in Dover so let us return there now. Polly and a crowd | :17:01. | :17:09. | |
of thousands of people are waiting for the final torch-bearer of the | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
day. Polly I believe there's another Olympian to keep you | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
company? I had indeed. A close to the Torch gets to London, the | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
closer we are to the Olympic Games. Someone who knows about the | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
excitement and anticipation is Steve Backley. He is a javelin | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
thrower and a Kent-based athlete. How did it feel at this stage when | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
you are approaching the Olympics? This is the home straight. It just | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
gets more and more exciting. The athletes have had aimed for year | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
planner and they have done all the hard work. It is all about getting | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
your head right and not been distracted. You will not see them | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
on the dance floor tonight. It is about getting your head right and | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
staying out of the limelight a little bit until you dive into it | :17:57. | :18:05. | |
fully. You just have to let yourself do yourself justice. Of | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
course, for an athlete, if that is your first games, a home games will | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
be enormous. Just walking out into a home stadium will be incredible. | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
What do you think our hopes are metal wires? Everyone is optimistic. | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
I am very wary of trying to predict medal hopes. 47 last time in | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
Beijing, 19 gold. I think we can beat that. Maybe more than 20 gold | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
and over 50 overall. That would be a huge target and we are capable of | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
it. Thank you. The bidder taking are today are the Torch bearers. We | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
have got have and Rachel. Thank you very much for joining us. You were | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
both from Ashford, how was it when you took to the streets? It was | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
really amazing, just to be able to be there with other family who have | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
come from all over the country to support and all the friends along | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
the sidelines who were cheering you on, it was amazing. Did you find a | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
really amazing? It was incredible. Everybody came at and supported us | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
on the route. The real thing about the Olympics as it is great to be | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
part of it. When we were carrying our Torch, it was the only one in | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
the whole of the world and we were the only one carrying a. It was a | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
great responsibility. What we do with a Torch? I am taking it | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
university to show all of my friends there and take it into the | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
local hospital and I will show all my family and friends as well. | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
Rach relations to birth of year. Thank you very much for talking to | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
us. There are many, many Torch bearers taking part and many of | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
them have a very moving stories, including a young man from Ramsgate | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
who discovered that four members of his family had cancer. | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
When I was first given the Torch on the coach it felt as though time | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
stop. He handed me the Torch and said good luck to everyone on the | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
bus. We cheered like mad. I stepped out and everyone on the Street | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
roared. I felt tiny compared to the size of the crowd. The policeman | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
said I had about 20 seconds and my legs turned to jelly. He said I | :20:21. | :20:27. | |
would be fine. The lady came over and she put the Torch on mind and | :20:27. | :20:37. | |
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we had a hard and then I went off. My heart was just beating. We have | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
had a very tough time. I find it very hard to talk about it. My | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
sister and my mum, we have stuck together so well as a family | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
despite everything bad that has happened, with all the cancer. We | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
have always been very close and when I saw their faces, it fills me | :20:58. | :21:04. | |
up and makes me so happy. Honestly, it is told not to cry. You feel all | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
your emotions stirring up beside you and it is amazing. I will never | :21:09. | :21:18. | |
forget it ever. Rizzle Kicks are entertaining the crowd here and the | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
Torch is making its way to Dover. Our reporter is there now. It is | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
expected imminently. Any sign of the lack? | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
Yes, it came a few moments ago. It was up on the tower about five | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
minutes ago. Graham Hutchison, a 52-year-old and a local man carried | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
it up with 144 steps to the top of the keep and handed it over to a | :21:41. | :21:48. | |
13-year-old, Sophie Waller, who is a national swimmer. They said back | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
off again. It is are, of course very exposed and windy up here. It | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
is cloudy as well. It is dramatic and there are more historic, | :21:59. | :22:07. | |
dramatic and iconic landmarks -- there were few more historic | :22:07. | :22:15. | |
landmarks than this. There is another Torch Relay being run by | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
enthusiastic amateur runners who are going to run the whole distance. | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
This is one of the local runners who will be doing now. In a few | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
minutes' time you will take over your Torch Relay. Yes, I will run | :22:28. | :22:36. | |
to Deal any moment now. Why are you doing it? This is a charity event | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
raising money. We have run every step of the 8,000 miles of the | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
Torch Relay with no buses or trains or anything. You're not taking | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
anything away from the official relay but you want to do the whole | :22:50. | :22:57. | |
thing? Absolutely. There are about 10 mile legs for each leg and we do | :22:57. | :23:07. | |
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it every day. Very best of luck. Here is there relay team. Travis | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
full takeover in just a minute. Where have you come from? I have | :23:18. | :23:28. | |
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come from high youth. That is an excellent effort. | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
They really are very special locations that the Torch has been | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
visiting here in Dover. They are iconic locations. I am lucky enough | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
to be here on the stage later on when it arrives here and the | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
cauldron get slit. Join us for a special programme but for now I | :23:48. | :23:55. | |
will hand you back to the studio. Five in a few moments time Dame | :23:55. | :24:05. | |
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Kelly Holmes will be presenting a special live programme from Dover. | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
Tomorrow's is the relay's third full day in the South East. If you | :24:09. | :24:19. | |
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want to catch a glimpse of it, this BBC Radio Kent will be broadcasting | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
live from Deal for their breakfast programme tomorrow morning. The | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
court will travel towards Thanet, Canterbury and Maidstone. | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
Throughout the week you can get involved in the Torch Relay on | :24:40. | :24:50. | |
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Let us get the all-important Let us get the all-important | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
forecast now. Rachel, it is fair to say it has been pretty wet. | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
It is a very great picture here now. It has been clouded throughout the | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
day with outbreaks of rain. It is a cloudy and breezy picture with | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
quite a muggy night. This is the satellite and radar Chard from | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
earlier with plenty of cloud around and outbreaks of rain. Breeziness | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
around. The torches heading from Hastings to Dover and at the moment | :25:25. | :25:34. | |
it is a great picture.. It feels much cooler than the numbers | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
suggest. Tonight the rain will ease. Plenty of cloud with a muddy field | :25:38. | :25:47. | |
to the night. Tomorrow we start the day and it will be mostly dry but | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
there is a chance of a shower from the word go. The Torch will travel | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
to Canterbury and then to Maidstone. It is a breezy picture with | :25:57. | :26:07. | |
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westerly winds. Temperatures in the mid-teens. The best advice is to go | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
out with a brolly. If you do get a shower where it will be pretty | :26:11. | :26:21. | |
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heavy but they are pretty hit and miss. The winds will ease off. The | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
Torch will be leaving the South East and there is a chance of | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
seeing a shower again. As we head towards the weekend we have high | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
pressure building so in the next couple of days there is a chance of | :26:34. | :26:41. | |
seeing a showers but the temperatures are increasing. | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
Temperatures creeping up towards average for Saturday with plenty of | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
sunshine and then through the weekend we could even see 22 on | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
Sunday. Finally some much wanted sunshine. In the next couple of | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
days the Torch makes its way through the South East and on to | :26:59. | :27:01. |