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Welcome to South East Today, I'm Rob Smith. And I'm Natalie Graham. | :00:03. | :00:06. | |
Tonight's top stories. A four-week-old baby is among ten | :00:06. | :00:16. | |
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children treated for sunburn at a Sussex hospital. There are young | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
children have a relatively high surface area to amass so they are at | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
risk. We have reporters live on beaches in | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
Sussex and Kent as the heatwave continues. | :00:25. | :00:33. | |
Did a drug he took to treat acne cause this man to take his own life? | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
He didn't feel right. He just tried to get the right -- you try to get | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
it out of the system for years. Also in tonight's programme. | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
Six primary schools in Medway are told the must improve as local MPs | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
demand urgent action. The Silver dream machine that Brian | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
rebuilt from a bot 's of bits that is now worth a quarter of �1 | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
million. The return of Trevor the seal causes | :01:00. | :01:10. | |
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Hello, good evening. A four-week-old baby has been treated at a Sussex | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
hospital for severe sunburn. Specialists at the Queen Victoria | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
Hospital burns unit in East Grinstead say they've seen ten | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
babies and children with serious sunburn in the past four weeks. | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
Health specialists have today said the hot weather has contributed to | :01:27. | :01:34. | |
the deaths of hundreds of people across the UK in the last nine days. | :01:34. | :01:44. | |
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Well, let's cross live to Mark Norman who's in Brighton. So, public | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
health officials are warning sunseekers to be extremely careful. | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
Yes, the beach is extremely popular. This lifeguard has been | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
giving advice to people all day. So many of us don't listen to public | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
health messages. The ambulance service took 6000 calls last | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
weekend. Last year, they took 4000. Most of those extra calls were heat | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
and some related. A particular concern when people bring very young | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
children down to the beach and they don't realise what damage the sun | :02:13. | :02:20. | |
can do to their skin. Christine is plastering on factor 50 sunscreen | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
for her children's day out on Brighton beach with a friend, Nikki. | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
Back to 30 as the minimum recommended for such young | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
children. Every time we go to the beach, we make sure we have suncream | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
with us and they both wear their hats. Some people don't have it | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
right. Ten youngsters have been admitted to hospital -- to Sussex | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
hospitals with sunburn, one of them for weeks old. There is a very | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
serious public health message here. It is so shocking that children so | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
young a Dublin hospital. Children have a relatively high surface area | :02:54. | :03:01. | |
to mass so they are at risk of suffering from burns. The Met office | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
are forecasting a high of 31 Celsius in Sussex today. People who enjoy | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
the weather without protection have an increased risk of skin cancer. | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
The NHS advises that babies under six months old should be kept out of | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
direct sunlight, a view shared by many on the beach today. | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
wouldn't even have them out in the sun at all. You'd have them in the | :03:23. | :03:33. | |
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shade, and a number other. opinion is that to let a child learn | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
purposely, it's not very good at all. The baby should not be out in | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
the sun at all. Even in the shade, undercover, under blankets or in the | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
pram, it should have some cream on. The Queen Victoria Hospital that has | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
been treating children with sunburn told us some had burns over 4% of | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
their body. Others were suffering from heat stroke. They also told us | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
that applying sunscreen and wearing a hat was going to make the | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
difference between a summer of fun and a summer spoilt by sunburn. It | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
is such simple advice stash keep hydrated, the hat, the sunscreen. | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
Some bebop I'm drawing the sea on the beach. They've got the right | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
idea according to public health officials. Come and the evening when | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
the sun is not at its strongest. Do not bring children between 11am and | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
3pm. Otherwise, come to the beach and enjoy yourselves. | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
Well, let's cross live to Broadstairs and speak to our | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
reporter Peter Whittlesea. Peter, temperatures there reached 31 | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
Celsius yesterday. What are officials in Kent doing to make sure | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
people stay healthy? Well, they are reiterating the | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
basics. The extra number of people going to hospital suggests people | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
are not getting the message. They've got some cream and non-alcoholic | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
drinks here. The head of poll thick -- public health is here with me. | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
Your worried about young and old people. We are not used to these | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
high temperatures. Children can easily get sunburned. They need some | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
cream. If you know any old or vulnerable people, make sure they've | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
got fluids and don't leave children or pets in your car. Kent police are | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
saying they have had to respond to a number of incidents where animals | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
have been left in cars and they've had to break in. It is also about | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
being safe in the sea. After 6pm, there are no lifeguards so Dave, | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
you've got a message. What do you do if you want to enjoy the weather? | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
Make sure you're aware of the conditions, in terms of the sea, in | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
terms of the tides, and make sure you've got someone with you at all | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
times, preferably a good swimmer. If you see somebody in danger, call the | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
Coast Guard. Is it more dangerous than it looks? It is reasonably | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
benign today but things can go wrong very quickly in the water and | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
although it looks quite calm, most people here are having a fun time, | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
but things can go wrong here. Lifeguards have been telling you | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
that despite warnings, people have been jumping off the peers, and | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
children are being lost on the beach. | :06:18. | :06:28. | |
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Plenty of advice on how to keep cool on the BBC weather website. Coming | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
up, lay to rest at last. The crew of a bomber shot down in Italy just | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
before the end of the war. The parents of a young man from Kent | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
who killed himself say that a drug he took for acne contributed to his | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
suicide. Melvin and Lorraine Sillcock from Sittingbourne spoke | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
out following an inquest into the death of their son James. The | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
26-year-old footballer took his own life after what his family say were | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
years of mental health problems which he blamed on a controversial | :06:56. | :07:05. | |
drug he took for his acne. Claudia Sermbezis reports. | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
James Sillcock described himself as having been a happy boy who wouldn't | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
change a thing from his childhood. When he took his life last | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
December, he left his parents several letters. It was perfect. I | :07:18. | :07:25. | |
was so lucky with what I had. Even, however, to this day I can't believe | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
how easily things can change and how needlessly they did change. I could | :07:28. | :07:38. | |
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never have dreamt that taking my life -- taking the drug ten years | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
ago would leave my life in tatters. He got dry mouth, dry skin, his hair | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
thinned, he lost energy. He watched a BBC documentary last November | :07:52. | :08:02. | |
about a young man who took his life after taking the drug. | :08:02. | :08:09. | |
What a terrible, terrible tragedy. We watched it together. I did | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
mention to James, do you have dark thoughts, James? You didn't answer | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
me. More than half a million people have been prescribed RoAccutane | :08:17. | :08:24. | |
worldwide. The figures show one in 10,000 people will experience side | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
effects. The watchdog has recorded 43 suicides connected to the drug | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
since it has been licensed. The manufacturer of the drug said | :08:32. | :08:42. | |
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drug, it is difficult to see how the world moves on. It is just an | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
extract of what he left us. Just a life sentence. Every day it is in | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
your mind, what could we have done to have helped him? RoAccutane is | :09:09. | :09:17. | |
still prescribed in the UK. James as A woman in her 20s has been | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
airlifted to hospital after she was hit by a piece of concrete falling | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
from a roof in Kent. The emergency services were called to Sandgate | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
Road in Folkestone just after 12:30pm this afternoon. The extent | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
of the woman's injuries has not yet been established. | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
The Chief Constable of Sussex has criticised a report by Her Majesty's | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
Inspectorate of Constabulary into the state of police finances. Martin | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
Richards said the report's claim that the force had not been | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
successful in protecting frontline policing failed to reflect the full | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
picture. However, he said a decline in emergency response times in | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
Sussex is an area the force is looking into as a matter of urgency. | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
Ofsted is demanding that six schools in Medway must improve. Last month, | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
the schools inspectorate announced it was investigating after finding | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
almost half the primaries in Medway were not reaching a good enough | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
standard. Today's Ofsted report comes as local MPs demanded urgent | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
action after the area's primary schools came bottom in England in | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
the last set of school league tables. Our political reporter Ellie | :10:14. | :10:24. | |
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Price has more. Teaching is not consistently good, | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
pupils are not always encouraged to take an active part in lessons, and | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
they are too dependent on adults aboard. Fairview community primary | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
School was rated good by Ofsted but now it requires improvement. One of | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
six schools told the same thing today in Medway. We are worried and | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
we hope they are going to improve because he is only a year through. | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
Of course I am worried. His crucial years year five and this is a -- | :10:53. | :11:00. | |
this is a bad year for him. doesn't bother me. They are aware of | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
it, they are acting on it. Studies investigating Medway as a | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
whole to find out why primary scores how not provided the expected level | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
of education. 8000 children are attending a primary which was judged | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
less than good at its last inspection. Primaries in Medway also | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
came bottom in the school league tables last year. We are on the | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
right track and, once again, all of the schools, whether Academy 's home | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
on Academy is, are working together to ensure that we provide the best | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
education system. It has not been as quick, but we are doing our very | :11:37. | :11:45. | |
best. Not one of these schools has improved that Ofsted rating, and one | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
has actually gone down. Medway said it was going to improve standards. | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
There is no evidence at all from these Inspectorate reports that that | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
has happened. Not all the reports paint a negative picture. This | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
school was one of two that received a good rating. There are schools up | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
and down the country that are continually trying to improve. And | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
you don't go on an improvement journey and stop. There is always | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
another challenge to face and always more improvement is possible. | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
full report is expected in September. | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
Ellie is in Chatham. From the outside, it looks as if Medway's | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
educational system is in crisis. Is that the case? That is what this | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
report is seeking to establish when it is published in September. | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
Today's report has not made for Rosie reading but I have spoken to | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
some Medway MPs who say that it is concerning that many secondary | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
schools in this area do comparatively well, and there are | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
some peculiarities of this catchment area that make life difficult, but | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
we are talking about academies and local authority maintained schools. | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
This falls under the statutory responsibility of the council. | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
They've got a new team in place and they need to be given time to make | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
changes, they say. This is our top story tonight. A | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
four-week-old baby is among ten children who've been treated for | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
sunburn at a Sussex hospital over the past four weeks. As the heatwave | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
continues, public health officials are warning sunbathers to be | :13:24. | :13:34. | |
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extremely careful. Also in tonight's programme: The | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
amateur Kent golfer having the round Kent golfer having them around | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
others live at this year's open championship. | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
At the 13th consecutive day that someone across the UK has seen | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
temperatures above 20 degrees. Are these temperatures going to last? | :13:48. | :13:55. | |
Join me later to find out. The crew of a World War II bomber | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
which was shot down over Italy just days before the Germans surrendered | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
there has finally been laid to rest, after the wreckage of the aircraft | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
was recently unearthed. The pilot grew up in Redhill and the niece of | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
one of the other crewmen lives in Forest Row. She travelled to Italy | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
for the burial, as did Jon Hunt, who has sent back the second of his | :14:13. | :14:21. | |
special reports. She travelled from Sussex to bring | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
peace to her family. She is here to honour her uncle, flight Sergeant | :14:25. | :14:32. | |
Alexander Bostock, the wireless operator and gunner aboard Bravos | :14:32. | :14:39. | |
Ulu 590, a Boston bomb on like this one, shot down over Italy in April | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
1945. He says his death and particularly the timing of his | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
passing left a black hole in the life of his mother. To lose a son in | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
the last week of the war and in circumstances where he was missing, | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
and she hoped he would always return, waiting for a knock on the | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
door, the war was over and people around were euphoric, and she had | :15:04. | :15:12. | |
this huge loss, and she didn't ever come to terms with it. Alexander | :15:12. | :15:21. | |
Bostock, who was 20 when he died, and history crewmates were given a | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
burial today. The same squadron in World War II for whom the men | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
served. Quite moving to see all four men buried together, as they died | :15:29. | :15:36. | |
together. These young men the world one of our family, one of our | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
squadron, and they died in the service of their country and the RAF | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
and the squadron will always remember them. The wreckage remains | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
were only discovered two years ago by amateur archaeologists. | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
Yesterday, the crew members families were presented with items found at | :15:50. | :15:59. | |
crash site. Roger Raikes, brother of David Raikes, the pilot, remembers | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
the shock about his death. He was very funny. And he wrote some | :16:04. | :16:11. | |
amazing poetry. He was very popular. And, then, when he was shot down, | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
about a week or two before the war, we were shattered. Today was a | :16:17. | :16:24. | |
chance to remember, to honour, and more importantly, to lay these brave | :16:25. | :16:34. | |
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Hampton Court Palace has seen many things in its 500 year history but | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
never before has it hosted a group of excitable schoolchildren for a | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
week-long sleepover! The children from the Canterbury Academy have | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
moved into properly experience life in Henry VIII's majestic Tudor | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
palace. We went to meet them as they took part in maths, English and | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
drama classes. Darling, I have to go. My gout is so | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
sore, I am going to my chapel, come and find me later. Guard! Drama in | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
the Tudor court. For 80 children from Canterbury Academy, this is a | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
classroom with a difference. One of my maths lessons, we went into the | :17:24. | :17:31. | |
courtyard, the clock courtyard. And we had to do measuring angles and I | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
struggled with angles, and it has helped me loads and I'm starting to | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
work out how to do different things. In the classroom, you are | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
always looking at the same thing so there is no new inspiration. Just | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
looking at the Palace gives you so much new inspiration. At school, | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
your foot in a classroom, and it is very boring. -- you just put in a | :17:53. | :18:00. | |
classroom. Out here, you are actually there. And it takes it to a | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
whole new level. From English in Henry VIII's banqueting hall, to | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
geometry class in the gardens, this is the first time schoolchildren | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
have been allowed to stay overnight. The first non-royal children to | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
sleep within the palace grounds in 500 years. There was a school on | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
site many years ago, and, of course, there were children at court | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
many years ago. But it's definitely the first time we have had a school | :18:27. | :18:34. | |
staying over and I hope it will not be the last. 55% of these people are | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
entitled to a free school meal, many of them would struggle in a formal | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
educational setting. The key thing for them is to be immersed in the | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
wonderful context, the calming environment, and the learning coming | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
out of it is a result of being exposed to this. Tonight, they feast | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
with the Tudor banquet, the first school students to successfully | :18:54. | :19:04. | |
invade the 16th century palace. I bet it felt like an invasion as | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
well! You may remember that back in May, | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
when the weather was cool and wet, a grey seal arrived on the beach in | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
Seaford, in East Sussex, and attracted crowds of people down to | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
the seafront to see him. Trevor, as he became known, seems to have | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
headed a bit further along the coast and has now popped up in West | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
Sussex, where he's been filmed swimming with people, but wildlife | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
experts are warning the public to keep their distance. Rebecca | :19:27. | :19:34. | |
Williams reports. Swimming with Trevor. That is what | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
the seal has been named by locals. He's been visiting some of the South | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
closed's best-known beaches and he has created quite a stir. We were | :19:43. | :19:50. | |
concerned he might bite us. But he kept bobbing up and down, he looked | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
friendly comedy had these lovely bristles. So we just kind of carried | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
on hanging out with it. The longer we spent with it, because it came. | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
Trevor was first spotted two months ago, and then he was seen in | :20:04. | :20:11. | |
Sleaford. -- Seaford. The 55 mile journey has taken would have taken | :20:11. | :20:18. | |
him three quarters of an hour. a real treat. We haven't had seals | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
here for quite awhile. The harbour, there is a small population of | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
seals, but they are harder to see for the average public walking | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
along, so, here, it is a great treat for people to walk along and see | :20:31. | :20:41. | |
wildlife. Pictured in the Seaford in May, Trevor appeared to be shedding | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
his winter coat. Despite the cold weather, hundreds of people flocked | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
to the beach to get a glimpse of him. Experts are advising people not | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
to approach or swim with the animal, and although he hasn't bitten yet, | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
grey seals are known to do so. Fantastic! Good old Trevor! | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
Golf's Open Championship is under way at Muirfield in Scotland and | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
Steven Tiley from Canterbury has made a remarkably good start this | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
morning. The 30-year-old amateur is making his fourth appearance at the | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
tournament, having had to come through local qualifying to make the | :21:12. | :21:20. | |
field in Scotland. He finished the day one over, but at one point was | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
the leading Englishman in third place. Our reporter joins us from | :21:22. | :21:32. | |
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Muirfield now. A good day at the office for Steven Tiley. | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
It really has been for a player who is here for the fourth time. I'm | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
standing right on the course, on the ninth hole, this is very rough grass | :21:42. | :21:49. | |
around me. Steven -- Steven Tiley did not have trouble with it. He | :21:49. | :21:58. | |
could repeat the feat from three years ago, but he dropped back and | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
to the rest of his round and go well. Particular on the back nine. | :22:02. | :22:11. | |
He ended up with one over. So, he is some weight off the lead. Things | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
just wrapping up here on Muirfield on day one. He has another chance | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
tomorrow, let's see how he gets on in round two. | :22:18. | :22:27. | |
We will watch with interest. Matt Prior couldn't stop the batting | :22:27. | :22:34. | |
in the second Ashes test at Lord's. He made six runs before he was | :22:34. | :22:44. | |
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bowled out. England lead 289-7. For 45 years, Brian Hills dream of | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
owning a Vincent Rapide motorbike. He nearly bought one in pieces in | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
1968 but he didn't have the 50 quid asking price. He thought he had | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
missed his chance forever. His late friend had the cash and did buy it. | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
When he died recently, he left the bike, in pieces, to Brian. Brian has | :23:07. | :23:17. | |
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rebuilt it, and now it is worth more This is a true biker 's tale. A love | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
story with a happy ending. Brian Hills is riding his dream machine, a | :23:29. | :23:39. | |
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Vincent Rapide, built in 1937. quite old technology. We've got | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
these external pipes feeding oil up to the valves. A man who lives for | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
bikes. He knows this one especially well. Are these moving parts? They | :23:48. | :23:55. | |
seem to add to the misty of the thing. That is right.He came across | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
it for the first time in 1968, a bike boxes the �50, which she | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
couldn't afford. I was a student, I couldn't afford it. I asked my dad | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
if you would lend me �50. That was not an inconsiderable sum of money | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
to him because that represented four months mortgage payment. A biker | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
friend did have the money. John Lumley bought the bike for �40. Five | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
years ago, when he died, he bequeathed it to Brian, still in the | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
box as he had bought it in. I knew that John had done this gesture | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
because he knew the sort of guy I was. I wouldn't hang about and I | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
would actually get up and running and make good use of it. So I | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
applied myself. It took me about eight months and about a thousand | :24:39. | :24:48. | |
hours of work. Probably, you know, 9000 and �10,000 on parts and | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
services. None of this have to do with money. Only a handful of these | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
machines were made. They are revered. And they have a value. The | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
last Vincent Rapide to go to auction fetched �225,000. They are | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
mechanical works of art and people love to sit and look at them. You | :25:09. | :25:16. | |
don't need to start it up. When it is started up, it is a snarling | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
beast, a nickname given to it. could definitely buy Rolls-Royce or | :25:22. | :25:29. | |
a Ferrari for this money. But I don't think he will be selling it. | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
Do you? That is a beautiful machine but I | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
don't think I'd be brave enough to don't think I'd be brave enough to | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
write something worth more than my write something worth more | :25:38. | :25:48. | |
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Right, we are fanning ourselves in here. Rachel is outside. Is there | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
end to this? Today, lots of sunshine around, but | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
a bit of shift in temperatures between East and West. We can | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
temperatures in Manston not getting above 17, whereas further west, | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
highs of 28. There was a high pollen count and will continue for the next | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
couple of days but things. To feel fresher with these north-easterly | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
breezes. So for those who have been finding the heat uncomfortable, | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
temperatures will drop a bit. Earlier, lots of sunshine around. | :26:21. | :26:28. | |
The north-easterly breeze not getting much above 15. Tempters in | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
the east coast have been in the low 20s. Further west, temperatures | :26:32. | :26:40. | |
close to 30. Mostly highs of 20 or 29 degrees. Going through tonight, | :26:40. | :26:47. | |
another very muddy and warm night. It is still going to be in its | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
teams. Perhaps we will see some mist and fog forming. For the most part, | :26:52. | :27:00. | |
it is dry and Maggie. Temperatures are 15 or 16. With those clear | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
skies, and very warm temperatures and sunshine from the word go, it is | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
another very warm day tomorrow. Some breeze bringing some high-level | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
cloud, but even so temperatures well into the 20s. Along the coast, | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
around 2425 degrees. Into Saturday, we are expecting a lot of cloudy, | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
round so you might start the weekend with a bit of cloud but by the | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
afternoon, once again, it should brighten up. Temperatures for | :27:26. | :27:34. |