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Smith. And I'm Natalie Graham. Tonight's | :00:04. | :00:08. | |
top stories. A dying woman who was the victim of | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
an injustice, a damning report criticises serious failings by two | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
NHS Trusts. We're live in Canterbury with the | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
story. Awaiting the outcome of his appeal, | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
the man convincted of murdering his wife in a fake car crash. In is that | :00:23. | :00:35. | |
reference —— he knows the difference between right and wrong but he | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
doesn't care. Also in tonight's programme. How a | :00:36. | :00:48. | |
90—year—old war veteran came to spend the afternoon with Brad Pitt. | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
And how comic actor and hosed Alexander Armstrong is returning to | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
his first love, singing. —— how comic actor and host. | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
Good evening. A Kent woman who's now dying from cancer suffered serious | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
failings in her care, and has been the victim of an injustice. That's | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
the finding of a damning report into the treatment given to Debbie | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
Westwick, from Harbledown near Canterbury. The Health Service | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
Ombudsman says when she complained, the response of the two hospital | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
trusts involved was wholly inadequate amounting to | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
maladministration. Simon Jones reports. | :01:25. | :01:34. | |
Failed by the NHS, told she needed radiotherapy when in fact she needed | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
a vasectomy after initial treatment. Debbie Westwick now has terminal | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
cancer. We tried for years to get them to sit up and take notice of | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
these real systemic failings in breast Cancer care throughout Kent | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
and they were not interested. That's the truth of it. Now they will say | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
they are sorry for that but it comes late in the day. I don't think it's | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
going to be particularly comforting for Debbie for now —— for Debbie now | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
receiving the apology when she had been trying to get their attention. | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
The health service ombudsman concludes... | :02:12. | :02:26. | |
I didn't expect any special treatment. But I did expect the | :02:26. | :02:35. | |
clinician looking after me to be competent and to provide me with the | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
most effective treatment that was available. And to discover along the | :02:38. | :02:48. | |
way that your treatment has been poor or sub optimal is like being | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
diagnosed all over again. It was this man employed by the NHS Trust | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
to carried out radiotherapy without her informed consent. He's had his | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
name removed from the medical register. This surgeon employed by | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
East Kent Hospital also treated her. His performance was already under | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
investigation. He was later dismissed. Their treatment plans | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
were never fully scrutinised. If they had been, it's possible the | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
failings could have been prevented. It has been a long fight for answers | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
the Debbie Westwick whose initial treatment took place in 2006. The | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
ombudsman concludes he cannot say that had she been treated by | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
different doctors the outcome would have been different. | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
Simon's at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital. The ombudsman also found | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
the NHS Trusts were not open and accountable when Debbie Westwick | :03:39. | :03:50. | |
complained. Their response has been described as wholly inadequate. | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
Tonight, the two trusts have been ordered to write to her to say | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
sorry, and to admit to their failings. Neither trust would talk | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
to us tonight but in statements they insisted that things have changed. | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
As for Debbie, she wasn't well enough to be interviewed today, but | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
she did tell us this was a long and frustrating fight, but she feels it | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
has been worth it to improve the fate of a future cancer sufferers. | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
Thank you. A man who was jailed for life after | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
a court found him guilty of murdering his wife in a fake car | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
crash is waiting for the result of an appeal hearing against his | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
conviction. Malcolm Webster, who's originally from Surrey, was | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
convicted two years ago of murdering Claire Morris from Kent in 1994. | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
Webster was also convicted of staging a similar attempt to murder | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
his second wife in New Zealand. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Colin | :04:40. | :04:48. | |
Campbell has the details. Filmed on his wedding day with the | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
wife he went on to kill, Malcolm Webster claims he is a victim of a | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
miscarriage of justice. He is serving a life sentence for the | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
murder of Clare Morris, her brother says that Malcolm Webster must stay | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
in prison. Malcolm Webster is a psychopath. He knows the difference | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
between right and wrong. The difference with him is he doesn't | :05:11. | :05:18. | |
care. And, so, he will try to get any length in any method to prove | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
his own innocence because the only thing he cares about is himself. | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
Malcolm Webster murdered his wife Clare Morris after staging a crash | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
and setting fire to the vehicle with her inside. It was originally | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
treated as an accident. Five years later, he tried to kill his second | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
wife in New Zealand in the same way. The two cases were then linked. In | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
2011 he was found guilty of Clare Morris' mode and the attempted | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
murder of his second wife. He killed for financial gain. His appeal | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
lawyers argued the original trial was flawed. They claim that evidence | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
from one key witness should never have been allowed. They also said | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
there was insufficient prove he set fire to the car | :06:01. | :06:09. | |
deliberately. This was largely based on one fully admitted evidence. That | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
could have the consequence of resulting in a retrial. Part of the | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
appeal process was about sufficiency of evidence, as I understand it. And | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
if they came to the view there was insufficient evidence, | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
would be successful and the conviction would be quashed. If he | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
hadn't deliberately have taken my sister a way, in the natural course | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
of things, she would have been with me to grieve the loss of her mother | :06:39. | :06:40. | |
this year. I had myself and I shouldn't have had to | :06:40. | :06:48. | |
do that. Judges at the Court of Appeal in Edinburgh will make a | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
ruling at a later date. In a moment, a shocking way to treat | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
fish. The scientists checking on the health of our rivers with stunning | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
results A public health expert who criticised Kent | :06:58. | :07:08. | |
a public health expert who criticised Kent County Council for | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
investing pension funds in tobacco companies has been threatened with | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
disciplinary action. Dr Marion Gibbon is in charge of the | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
authority's anti—smoking schemes. In an interview on BBC Radio Kent she | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
spoke out about the harm caused by smoking. The Unite union is | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
supporting her saying the council's action amounts to an attack on free | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
speech. Our Political Reporter Ellie Price has more. | :07:29. | :07:38. | |
It has sparked the anger of her employer and the threat of | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
disciplinary action. Dr Marion Gibbon questioned the ethics of Kent | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
County Council investing millions on its pension funds into tobacco | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
companies. I'm willing to stand up and say it is difficult to have | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
policies that are detrimental to people 's health when we are now a | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
public health organisation. The council says the issue isn't with | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
the content of what she said but rather the fact she did an | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
unauthorised interview. The union Unite says she has a professional | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
duty to say what she thinks. We've looked at recent cases where people | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
have been afraid to speak up and we've seen the consequences and | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
hospitals. In this case, there may have been some influence politically | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
within the council to take action against this member. No one would | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
come on camera from the council today but it confirmed it was | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
looking into what appeared to be an unauthorised media interview by one | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
of its employees. It said any unauthorised statement of the media | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
is a breach of its employment policies. Kent County Council are | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
not unusual in the relation with the media. Employees do have to be | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
careful about what they put out into the media. The controversy | :08:47. | :08:54. | |
surrounding this has rumbled on for years. It says it has an obligation | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
to maximise returns for its investors. The pension fund has to | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
be completely independent of the political side of life. The | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
objective is to get the maximum return you can for the pensions that | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
are there. And we represent more than 300 organisations. Dr Marion | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
Gibbon says there will be a meeting on Monday in which the council will | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
tell you whether or not it plans to proceed with disciplinary action. | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
Ellie's here in the studio. Dr Gibbon has the backing of other | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
leading health professionals, doesn't she? She does. She has the | :09:26. | :09:33. | |
backing of a professional body who think it is crucial the expertise is | :09:33. | :09:40. | |
respected. And opinions are poised. The council shouldn't be investing | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
in tobacco companies as Kent County Council is, especially since the | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
responsibility for public health has moved to public authorities rather | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
than the NHS. There competing loyalties for Dr Marion Gibbon. On | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
the one hand you've got the professional body, and then on the | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
other hand, you've got a contractual obligation to the employer. Kent | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
County Council spent a lot of money investing and in —— encouraging | :10:03. | :10:11. | |
health. So this is highly unusual. A two—year—old girl has been injured | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
in a suspected hit and run incident in Margate. She was treated by | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
paramedics in Cecil Square this afternoon after being hit by a green | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
car, which drove off towards Union Row. Kent Police are investigating. | :10:21. | :10:28. | |
The process to pick the operator for a new seven—year South East rail | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
franchise has begun. The successful bid for the combined Thameslink, | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
Southern and Great Northern franchise will be announced in May | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
next year, and the new operator will take over by July 2015. It will be | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
the largest rail franchise in the country. | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
Controversial plans for a permanent traveller's site have been submitted | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
to the South Downs National Park Authority. The site is inside the | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
park in Horsdean, on the outskirts of Brighton, and would create 12 | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
permanent pitches and 21 short term pitches. | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
Iain Dale, the publisher and political blogger from Kent, has | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
received a police caution for common assault, after a scuffle with a | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
protester during the Labour Party Conference in Brighton. Mr Dale | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
tried to stop an anti—nuclear campaigner from appearing on screen | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
during a TV interview with the former Labour spin doctor Damian | :11:15. | :11:22. | |
McBride on Tuesday. Mr McBride was promoting his book and Mr Dale is | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
his publisher. Rebecca Williams has been following | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
today's developments and joins us from Brighton Police station. This | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
is hugely embarrassing for Iain Dale, isn't it? It certainly has. | :11:32. | :11:41. | |
Iain Dale arrived here at this station this morning to be | :11:41. | :11:42. | |
questioned by police. He has received a caution after grappling | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
with a protester in a live television interview. This happened | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
on Tuesday. The former spin doctor Damian McBride had been given a | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
number of interviews —— had been giving a number of interviews. At | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
one point, a man came under the camera waving a banner. Damian | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
McBride's publisher Iain Dale stepped in. He got involved in this | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
altercation with the protester and his dog, which you can see on | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
screen. It was picked up a camera crews and has since been put out on | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
the news channels numerous times. Iain Dale came to the police station | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
on the day of the incident and he's been back here again today. And he | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
has also publicly apologised for what went on. That's right. On his | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
blog today he said he was sorry to the campaign. He said he was well in | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
his rights to act as he did raising awareness for his cause. He said it | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
has been hugely embarrassing not only for him but also for his | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
friends and family. He has agreed to reimburse the protester for his | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
placard and also make a donation to a charity of his choice. Thank you. | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
This is our top story tonight: Two NHS Trusts in Kent have been told | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
they seriously failed in their care of a woman who's | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
cancer. A damning report by the Health | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
Ombudsman says when who lives near Canterbury, | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
complained, the way she was treated was wholly inadequate and amounted | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
to maladministration. Also in tonight's programme: Why | :13:16. | :13:26. | |
Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt needed advice from a World War II veteran, | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
Peter Comfort. Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong. I will be revealing | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
something about myself that you maybe didn't know. | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
If you have a story you think we should be covering on South East | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
Today, we'd like to hear from you. You can call us on 0845 300 37 | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
Stunning fish with an electric current doesn't, on the face of it, | :13:43. | :14:00. | |
seem like a good way of ensuring they're healthy. But that's exactly | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
what the Environment Agency has been doing in Kent today. Its staff are | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
carrying out a survey of our rivers to count fish, and are using the | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
numbers to assess whether our marine life is struggling or thriving. Our | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
Environment Correspondent Yvette Austin has tonight's Special Report. | :14:14. | :14:25. | |
Fishing on the upper Medway, Environment Agency style. No hooks | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
or baked but the fish up involuntarily attracted to a mild | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
electric current. Two electrodes are used. One is on the riverbed and the | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
other is in the form of the hoop the fisherman is carrying. It is this | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
which cause them in and momentarily stuns them for an easy catch. 160. | :14:42. | :14:55. | |
Wild trout. These are very well oxygenated waters. The water is | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
quite clean and of very good quality with good food and good habitat. 60 | :14:59. | :15:06. | |
fish are gathered in the first sweep of the hundred metre catch Sohn, | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
which is netted off either end of the process. Two more sweeps are | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
necessary to ensure an accurate count. The total catch? 125 fish of | :15:14. | :15:21. | |
eight different species. The top three? 17 brown trout. 17 Grayling, | :15:21. | :15:29. | |
and 16 minnows. A good sign for the river as minnows are good food for | :15:29. | :15:37. | |
other fish. Brown trout, 286. Is it a good size? That is very good. | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
Three to four years old. They only grow to about four years old anyway. | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
Counts like this are carried out on 530 sample sites across rivers in | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
the South East. It's done every year to collect data which can then be | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
compared. This has been repeated for many years and it tells us what we | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
need to do to improve the river. We have put in gravel here, which has | :15:59. | :16:06. | |
improved quality. The fish are released back into the river, no | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
harm done. For this part of the Medway, a healthy fish life | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
indicates a healthy river. When war veteran Peter Comfort was | :16:13. | :16:25. | |
invited to advise a group of actors about the reality of life in a tank | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
unit during the D—day landings, he had no idea he was about to rub | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
shoulders with Hollywood royalty. The 90—year—old from Ripple, near | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
Dover, found himself on set with Brad Pitt but had no idea who he | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
was. The actor's playing a World War Two soldier in his latest movie, | :16:40. | :16:52. | |
Fury. Sara Smith has more. With a string of blog dusters on his | :16:52. | :16:59. | |
CV and as half of Hollywood's biggest power couple, Brad Pitt | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
doesn't slip under many peoples radar but the first beta comfort had | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
heard of him was when he was asked to go on the set of his new movie to | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
talk tanks. He came up to me, shook my hand. He said, nice to see you. I | :17:10. | :17:17. | |
said, Brad Pitt, I didn't know what to look like until last night, until | :17:17. | :17:24. | |
I googled you. The last film I saw was the bridge over the River quite! | :17:24. | :17:31. | |
And they were all laughing. He didn't mind that? Not at all. He | :17:31. | :17:38. | |
said, bloody good film. Peter Comfort's Tank Regiment was at the | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
forefront of the D—day landings in June 44. As he puts it, they're not | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
many left now who can talk first—hand about those experiences, | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
and the actors questions. You were petrified. And you weren't | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
petrified. You were doing the job. And I did emphasise the fact that | :17:59. | :18:07. | |
you were 21, and you were willing to have a go. And they were the enemy. | :18:07. | :18:14. | |
They were trying to kill you, and you would do likewise. On the film | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
set, he was invited to board at Tank in the first time since 70 years. By | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
then, armed with a bit of knowledge about the man next to him. And I | :18:24. | :18:32. | |
told my son. . . He said he is God in the film world. I suppose at the | :18:32. | :18:41. | |
back of everything, I'm proud to have met him, considering he scored! | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
I'm always pleased to meet God! When the new film comes out, he will be | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
watching, he says. He might even take up an invite to the Premier. | :18:51. | :18:59. | |
He might go to the Premier, he's not sure! | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
She's one of the best ballerinas in the world and today Erina Takahashi | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
has performed for more than 1,000 children in Kent. A special floor | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
was installed at St Mary's Church in West Malling to enable the | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
Japanese—born star of the English National Ballet to dance. It's part | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
of the Music at Malling Festival which aims to give local children | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
access to world class performers. Claudia Sermbezis reports. | :19:20. | :19:37. | |
Erina Takahashi knew she wanted ballet to be her life when she was | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
ten, the same age as most of her audience today. She hopes watching | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
her dancing will inspire these youngsters to feel passionate about | :19:46. | :19:47. | |
ballet, about music. I always loved the ballet, dancing, | :19:47. | :20:00. | |
with the music going on, I was jumping around. It is a great | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
opportunity for the kids to not necessarily do ballet, but it will | :20:06. | :20:14. | |
give them coordination and other things, so it is an important thing. | :20:14. | :20:24. | |
This is her dancing with the English National Ballet. She left Japan to | :20:24. | :20:31. | |
follow her dream of dancing as a al arena. She was lead principal in | :20:31. | :20:42. | |
2007. The children themselves wrote and performed for today's event. | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
Some are already learning instruments and taking ballet class. | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
It was really, like, really good. And it really inspired me to keep | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
going. It was really nice and I loved the music. It was really | :20:58. | :21:05. | |
relaxing. I thought it was brilliant. Conduct and finalist | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
Thomas can set up the event today. He learned the violin as a schoolboy | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
here. I come from here originally and I wanted to really show the | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
community where I came from what can be achieved. And it really raises | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
the level of what people should expect from themselves and what is | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
possible. There was also —— it was also so unique to see a bad arena 's | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
feet glide by so closely. It's thought the 1100 children will | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
always remember it. He's one of the country's best known | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
faces, as comedian in duo Armstrong and Miller, sometime host of Have I | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
Got News For You, and presenter of the TV quiz show Pointless. But what | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
Alexander Armstrong really loves to do is sing. He was a chorister as a | :21:50. | :21:57. | |
child, so he's always been able to hold a tune, but now Alexander is | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
really putting his reputation on the line by appearing on stage as a | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
singer with his own band. John Young has been to meet him. | :22:04. | :22:12. | |
You may associate Alexander Armstrong with many things, a bit of | :22:12. | :22:20. | |
slapstick... A fancy drink... A quiz show with numbers... And a quiz show | :22:20. | :22:27. | |
with an edge. So, you have seen this show before? You know what it | :22:27. | :22:35. | |
entails? I think so. This show at Tunbridge Wells this evening and | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
Canterbury next month, it is something different again. Alexander | :22:39. | :22:40. | |
Armstrong the singer. It's lovely to be in front of an | :22:40. | :23:04. | |
audience, and there is a lot of comedy involved inevitably. But you | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
feel quite exposed as a singer. What is the percentage in your show of | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
using ink? I would say it is mainly me. We do have a fantastic van. It | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
would be a shame for them to sit there and with all their fans. But a | :23:21. | :23:28. | |
third of the show was —— third of the show is comedy. | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
third of the show was —— third of script, though. Now you are a | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
singer, is that a cut above comedy? And the quizmaster? I don't know. It | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
is a hobby for me. I've sung all my life. The only official training I | :23:44. | :23:51. | |
have was as a boy. As a comedian, he has had a pop at telling reporters | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
swing. You're absolutely right. We swing. You're absolutely right. We | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
started as early as last night. Flattery was the best approach, I | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
thought. What's next? Drama? Downton Abbey? Lady Mary 's husband! There's | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
a role. That could be you! Do you think? | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
Lady Mary might rather enjoy something like this. | :24:21. | :24:29. | |
The trouble is, it's hard to know when to take him seriously. | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
And he is seriously talented! Some two—year—olds are still a bit | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
unsteady on their feet, but one toddler from East Sussex has proved | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
he's already a whizz on two wheels after being named national champion | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
for his age group at the Strider British Balance Bike Championships. | :24:43. | :24:51. | |
Who knew such a thing existed? Ned Jones from Sedlescombe near Battle | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
beat more than 200 riders from around the country to take the title | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
at the grand final in Manchester. He was so pleased with the win, he even | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
completed three victory laps of honour. Goodlad! I love toddler | :25:01. | :25:09. | |
sports News. Can we have it every day? | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
I've got some good news with the weather as well. Saturday is looking | :25:14. | :25:22. | |
dry. If you're going to be staying in the South East, Saturday looks to | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
be a little bit dry for us. We will get to that later. Earlier today, | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
there was some cloud around, certainly as we started the day, it | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
brightened up nicely and it stayed dry. There were some showers around, | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
but for the most part we were dry. These temperatures up always cooler | :25:40. | :25:49. | |
in the afternoon. We saw 17 and 18 today. That's respectable. Tonight, | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
some clear bob skies around, some showers, but for the most part, | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
staying drive. It is a cooler picture as well. The temperatures | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
drop as well. In towns and cities, 11 or 12. Milder along the coast. | :26:04. | :26:11. | |
Tomorrow, it is going to be overcast, but this area of high | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
pressure is influencing us. We've got this south—east Italy breeze. | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
This area of low pressure, that is potentially going to be affecting us | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
drink the weekend. Tomorrow, it stays settled. More cloud but | :26:23. | :26:32. | |
brightening up in the afternoon. Temperatures are average, highs of | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
17 or 18, a little bit cooler along the east coast with those easterly | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
breezes. Picking up at around 11 miles an hour. Tomorrow night, | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
staying dry mostly with the chance of some showers. Temperatures | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
dropping to around 11 or 12, always just mild around the coast. For us | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
in the South East, it looks like we will be bright and breezy during | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
Saturday, those showers staying to the south—west of us. Starting the | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
day, it is going to be cloudy, but by the afternoon, brightening up. | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
For the most part, it is going to be dry, highs of 18 or 19. Going into | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
Sunday, mostly dry picture but increasingly windy. Top | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
temperatures, 19 or 20, reducing that rain into the new week. We | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
still got the area of high pressure dominating. So mostly settled into | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
the new week, but tomorrow, a dry picture. | :27:32. | :27:38. | |
Better than we thought! We've waited a long time for a half | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
decent weekend. I will be back with the HP and 10:25pm news. Join me | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
then. | :27:45. | :27:46. |