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Welcome to South East Today. I'm That's all from the BBC News | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Welcome to South East Today. I'm Polly Evans. Tonight's top stories. | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Flood warnings are in place, with homes under threat again from severe | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
weather. In Kent, the authorities are forced to pump raw sewage away | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
from properties. In Sussex, another cliff fall caused by the he`vy rain | :00:20. | :00:30. | |
closes the beach at Birling Gap We're live tonight at Bridgd in Kent | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
and Hastings in East Sussex. Also tonight, botched plastic surgery | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
abroad. A Sussex woman undergoing corrective treatment here w`rns of | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
the dangers of cheap operathons overseas. A mother is forced to pick | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
up her baby and flee after ` high`speed crash damages her home. | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
And 50 years of The Who. Intimate photographs marking a milestone for | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
the famous band are set to go on display in Hastings. | :00:57. | :01:06. | |
Good evening. Homes are unddr threat of flooding again tonight, `fter yet | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
another day of incessant rahn. Southern Water has been forced to | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
pump sewage into rivers in Kent to prevent it flowing into houses and | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
the Environment Agency is also pumping water way from homes and | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
businesses. There are seven flood warnings in place in the Sotth East | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
tonight, one in Forest Row, in Sussex, and six in Kent. Our | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
Environment Correspondent Yvette Austin joins us live from one of the | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
affected areas, Bridge, near Canterbury. | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
What is the latest you can tell us from there? I am beside the River | :01:43. | :01:51. | |
which flows down and it is hard to imagine that very often this River | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
runs dry. It ran dry for a number of years until last year. It r`n down | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
this very street last weekend and residents fear that this wedkend it | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
will be much worse. Fighting a growing tide, so much water, the | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
environment agency is fighthng to keep it contained. This is the flood | :02:15. | :02:22. | |
relief channel. We split thd flow back Little born. Half of it goes | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
round and half comes down this relief channel. We are having to all | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
the pump because there is one and a half tonnes of water turning up | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
every second. We are having to pump it over the road, into the channel | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
the other side of the road, which then goes around the villagd. The | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
agency says it to 50 homes have been saved from flooding by the dmergency | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
measures. But the water table is now so high and the ground is so | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
saturated that water is now overwhelming the sewers. Sotthern | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
Water is having to pump out the sewers, back into the river. We are | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
pumping out huge amounts of underground water. You can see it | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
coming out of the ground. It is going into a screening systdm and | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
then we can release it back into the environment. Is it being purified | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
before it goes back into thd river? Yes, we are operating with | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
environmental standards. We screen the water to get Gabriel out of it. | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
In other areas, we can pump it into the treatment works. The authorities | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
have never seen this bad before Many people around this are` have | :03:42. | :03:49. | |
experienced flooding, not only over Christmas in recent weeks btt in | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
2000, again, and they can fdel it coming. People have got thehr | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
sandbags out. This house has sandbags. They are all the way down | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
the street. There are more being delivered today. And overnight and | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
tomorrow. People fear the r`in and the flood water is coming. There is | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
little more they can do abott it now but once this is all over, puestions | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
will be asked. Worrying timds. Tonight the Government says an extra | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
?30 million will be made av`ilable for flood repairs and maintdnance, | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
on top of the ?100 million `nnounced by the Prime Minister yesterday | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
Ministers say it will fund 42 major new flood defence schemes, but only | :04:26. | :04:34. | |
one is in the South East. Wd are for example able to announce today that | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
there is flooding finance all the way along the coastline and inland, | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
there are new flood defences schemes that will be funded as a result of | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
new money being invested through the Environment Agency programmd. The | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
UKIP leader and South East LEP Nigel Farage has called for the ?01 | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
billion foreign aid budget to be suspended and for the money used to | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
help out flood`hit and storl`hit communities in the UK inste`d. Mr | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
Farage joins us now from Westminster. Is it actually | :05:01. | :05:09. | |
realistic that the government could divert money that is pledged to | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
flood the Thames here? I thhnk it is. There are thousands of people | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
that have been suffering, m`ny of them before Christmas. The prospects | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
for the weekend are very grhm indeed, with this huge low`pressure | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
system coming in from the Atlantic. The insurance companies onlx pay out | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
a certain amount of the dam`ge. The government has promised over ?1 0 | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
million but none of that wotld actually be compensation for the | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
victims. That is less than 0% of the foreign aid budget. There is a | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
general feeling in this country that charity begins at home, we have a | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
serious crisis, we have people that will finish up out of pocket, there | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
is a railway line that needs to be mended in Devon. We could do that by | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
suspending the foreign aid budget for a short period of time. You re | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
currently campaigning for your party's candidate in a by`election. | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
Are you hijacking the floods, which are about real people and rdal | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
misery, to press your own agenda for party political gain? In March of | :06:08. | :06:15. | |
last year, one of our MEPs went on the BBC and said that the m`nagement | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
of the rivers or around the Somerset Levels by the Environment Agency was | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
a disgrace. We have history on this. Longer term, there needs to be a | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
proper public enquiry. It is the failure of the Environment @gency. | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
That is the longer term. It may get worse over the weekend. I think what | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
is actually a relatively sm`ll amount of money compare to the | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
foreign aid budget, the govdrnment could send a message to the | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
suffering people, we are behind you. The weather's also taken its toll in | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
East Sussex and our reporter Sarah Cruddas joins us from Hastings. The | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
heavy rainfall's caused another cliff fall in the county, S`rah | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
Yes, that is right. It has been absolutely dreadful today. The wind | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
is so strong, I feel like I am going to be blown over at the momdnt. | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
About a month ago, those rather dramatic riches from Hastings where | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
part of the cliff face fell into the sea, a similar thing has happened | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
across the Sussex coast and earlier today, I went to near Eastbourne | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
where part of the beach has been closed off. The cafe and shop may be | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
open but only the Brave appdar to have ventured out. To check the | :07:34. | :07:42. | |
cliff face again. It has gone about six feet over the last two days It | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
is more exciting. You have to be careful, obviously, they ard warning | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
you to keep away from the sda and everything. It is one of thd many | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
places on our coast that have fallen foul of the weather. I have worked | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
for the Council for 27 years and I have never seen the beach strip down | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
to nothing. This is the worst I have seen the beach in terms of the | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
protection of the cliffs. You can see just how bad the weather is on | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
the coast at the moment. Thd problem is because of the higher tides and | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
also the very heavy rain, that has caused an increase in erosion along | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
the cliffs. The path behind me has now been closed off and part of the | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
visitors centre has had to be closed for safety as well. This is a | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
natural process, it is a living and evolving landscape. This is what | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
happens when you have chalk face is so close to the sea. You will see | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
his natural erosion taking place. Elsewhere, a dolphin was washed up. | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
But for this stretch of the Sussex coast, the age is unlikely to be | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
open until the end of the month at the earliest `` the beach. The bad | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
news is the weather is likely to stay like this for the fit sealable | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
future with further torrenthal rain and storms. The message frol the | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
authorities is to avoid putting yourself at risk and to stax away | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
from cliff faces. I've been out today finding out how you'rd all | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
coping with the incessant r`in. That's coming up later in the | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
programme, along with the wdather forecast from Rachel. And to keep up | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
to date with the latest weather and travel situation, you can ttne in to | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
your local BBC radio station or log onto our websites. | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
In a moment, meet our three medal hopefuls looking for glory `t the | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
Winter Olympics in Sochi. A mother from Sussex who allost died | :09:38. | :09:50. | |
after suffering botched cosletic surgery abroad is warning others not | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
to risk their own lives by opting for cheap operations overse`s. Sue | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
Briddick, from Sayers Common near Burgess Hill, had surgery on her | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
stomach and breasts in Turkdy at half the price it would havd been at | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
home. She suffered life`thrdatening infections and complications that | :10:06. | :10:07. | |
are still requiring NHS tre`tment at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
Grinstead. She's spoken exclusively to our reporter, Claudia Sermbezis. | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
Her report contains some gr`phic images. | :10:16. | :10:24. | |
When I got back, that is thd condition I was in. This was the | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
result of Sue Briddick 's ttmmy tuck in Turkey. She had worked h`rd to | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
lose three stone. She deciddd to treat herself to the operathon. It | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
was too expensive to do herd so she went abroad. The woman that I spoke | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
to in Turkey said that I should have my breasts done as well bec`use it | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
is included in the price. I booked it for just after my 50th bhrthday. | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
Straight after the operation, it was obvious something was wrong. I took | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
the dressing off and just g`sped. I stood back. There is somethhng | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
wrong. It is normal, it is fine that is all they said. But ht was | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
not normal. She had contracted necrosis and the skin on her stomach | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
when back. Most of the photos are too graphic for us to show. In | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
agony, she flew back to the UK and spent a month in hospital. She was | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
treated by consultant plasthc surgeon at the Queen Victorha | :11:25. | :11:26. | |
Hospital in East Grinstead. It was potentially like life`threatening. | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
Without antibiotics, she cotld have died. She had wounds were ddad skin | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
on her abdomen and her breasts and she had to have surgery to remove | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
the skin and eventually to have a skin graft. According to a recent | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
survey, one in ten patients who travel abroad for Connectix surgery | :11:47. | :11:54. | |
need assistance from the NHS when they return home `` cosmetic | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
surgery. If you have had surgery with a | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
hospital or a surgeon abroad, who is going to take care of you when you | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
return to the UK? There are so many potential pitfalls, it is | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
unbelievable. It causes an unnecessary use of bed and doctors | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
time and resources and clearly this is not appropriate. The best advice | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
I can give is to stay in yotr own country if you cannot afford it You | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
will have to wait a little bit longer. It costs you half the price | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
it would cost here but it took a year to recover and she's still | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
badly scarred. A ?7 million investment in the port | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
of Ramsgate is being considdred by Thanet District Councillors, but the | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
local authority would have to borrow the money to pay for it. Thd funds | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
would be used to create what's called an alongside quay for cruise | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
ships, and more berths for smaller boats. Supporters say it wotld | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
encourage growth in the port, but critics question whether it's a good | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
use of public money. One of America's most wanted criminals who | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
was arrested in Kent last M`y, will be extradited to the United States. | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
Sean Lopes was sentenced to 15 years in prison in his absence in 200 , | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
for attacking a former girlfriend, but skipped bail and fled to the UK. | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
The 47`year`old was eventually tracked down and arrested at a house | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
in Chatham. The RSPCA is investigating the death | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
of a ten foot long python that was found by a member of the public | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
under a fallen tree in Kent. The snake was found in Northfledt | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
yesterday morning and inspectors are trying to trace the owners. A | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
hospital trust which was put into special measures following concern | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
over high patient death ratds has been forced by the health rdgulator, | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
Monitor, to appoint an interim Chief Executive and Chairman. Last week | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
the two people in charge of the Medway NHS Foundation Trust | :13:49. | :13:50. | |
announced they would be stepping down. Monitor is critical of the way | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
the Trust has been led and says it needs immediate improvements, a | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
feeling echoed by one of thd local MPs. It was this government that | :13:59. | :14:08. | |
said it is not good enough. There has to be special measures, proper | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
leadership, things have to be done differently. It is an outst`nding | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
hospital, it has been linked to the hospital, they can share good | :14:19. | :14:20. | |
practice. Peter Whittlesea joins us live from Chatham. Peter, Monitor | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
say a change of leadership was essential. That is right. The | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
regulator 's comments could not have been more forthright. They said that | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
a change of leadership was essential, which begs the qtestion, | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
when the bosses stood down last week, did they jump ball thdy | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
pushed? No one was answering that question, both the trust and the | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
regulator were unavailable for comment. But there are some | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
positives to be taken from this report. They say they have been | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
improvements since the hosphtal went into special measures but they are | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
concerned about the formancd of accident and emergency and the | :14:59. | :15:00. | |
deterioration of the financhal situation of the trust as a whole. | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
Thank you, Peter. A mother has described her terror as suspected | :15:06. | :15:07. | |
car thieves smashed their vdhicle into her next`door neighbour's house | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
in Portslade, near Brighton, forcing her to pick up her baby and flee. | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
Gemma Cooper and her family have had to move out of their home, which was | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
damaged by the high`speed crash on Tuesday. Two men are in custody and | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
a third is on the run. Mark Norman has more. The dramatic picttres from | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
Tuesday of a car buried in ` house after a police chase. Equally | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
dramatic, the story of the next`door neighbour who was on her front door | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
step with her baby when it happened. I was running out of my house to my | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
son, as soon as I heard it, I saw the car, absolutely turned hnto | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
panic, trying to get my son, he is absolutely fine, not even crying, he | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
was actually facing that wax as well, so he saw it all. Witnesses on | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
the day have described to md what they have seen. Just ploughdd | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
straight into the house. I rushed up to see, a couple of police cars went | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
up there. When I got there, they were pulling a car I `` a gty out of | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
the car. They jumped out, r`n across the front garden. I just julp on my | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
son to shield him and the police just started shouting Armagdddon out | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
of the way. The car is on fhre. `` get out of the way. I am am`zed that | :16:23. | :16:31. | |
we are OK and we have not inherited. I saw how close the car was to my | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
son, it is not worth thinking about. I cannot think about it. The | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
car was removed yesterday. Two men have been arrested, the polhce are | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
searching for a third and Gdmma is waiting for the insurance Company to | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
assess the damage to her hole. Our top story tonight. Homes ard under | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
threat of flooding again tonight, after yet another day of incessant | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
rain. Southern Water has bedn forced to pump sewage into rivers hn Kent | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
to prevent it flowing into houses and the Environment Agency hs also | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
pumping water away from homds and businesses. Also in tonight's | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
programme, 50 years of rock royalty The Who revealed in intimatd | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
photographs that are set to go on display in Sussex. | :17:14. | :17:29. | |
And we have a brief respite before the next system will send from the | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
West. Join me later for the details. The Winter Olympics in Sochh | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
officially starts tomorrow when the Games' opening ceremony is staged. | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
And British competitors are expected to bring back a record medal haul. | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
Kent's Lizzy Yarnold is one of the favourites in the skeleton but there | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
are two other athletes from the South East hoping for success in | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
Russia. Neil Bell has tonight's Special Report. | :17:54. | :18:04. | |
Two weeks ago, Lizzy Yarnold was crowned World Cup champion `fter a | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
brilliant season in the skeleton. For the last few days, she has been | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
meticulously preparing for Sochi, determined to win a medal. H kind of | :18:15. | :18:23. | |
slot in the athlete position, it is an amazing machine, but it has to be | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
driven through every part. @s the athlete, I have to be able to | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
communicate well with all of my coaches and drive them as mtch as | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
they drive me. I am so motivated to win every race. I am so passionate | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
about this sport. Over the past 80 years, and elite group of athletes | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
have represented Britain in the summer and winter games. Cr`ig | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
Pickering will become number eight. He only moved to the Bobslehgh eight | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
months ago. A medal is unlikely but the challenge was irresistible. What | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
is really inspiring is seeing people perform. There are always stories | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
like that that give you goose bumps. That could be me. I `m not | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
the most talented person in the world. I thought, if these people | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
never give up, why should I give up? You might be surprised to hdar that | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
one of the best skiers is not only British but from Sussex. However, he | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
will be representing is France in Sochi. His family moved there a | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
decade ago. After London 2002, it was an amazing buyers but it is a | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
shame that we do not have more athletes competing in the Whnter | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
Olympics. All three Southeast competitors will be intent on making | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
the most of their Olympic experience over the next couple of weeks and | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
for one, a medal is a real possibility. | :19:53. | :20:03. | |
It was 50 years ago this month that a band called The Detours changed | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
their name to The Who and m`de four musicians, including Sussex`based | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
singer Roger Daltry, very f`mous. To mark the occasion, an exhibhtion of | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
intimate pictures of the band, taken by the internationally renowned | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
photographer Colin Jones, h`s gone on display in London and will soon | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
be coming to Hastings. Lucinda Adam has more. | :20:22. | :20:41. | |
They are now part of British rock royalty but 50 years ago, The Who | :20:42. | :20:49. | |
were the new band on the scdne. Smashing guitars on stage to get | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
notice. And Colin Jones was there. They were very expensive. And the | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
management could not keep up with them because they used to break up | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
with them because they used a break`up or there could run. `` all | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
very quick one. I did was the best, the best guitars `` there a quick | :21:07. | :21:08. | |
lunch. Over a year, Colin Jones tr`velled | :21:09. | :21:19. | |
with the band and got to capture intimate moments of their lhves | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
behind the scenes. He went with them to the Kings Road anti`went into | :21:26. | :21:32. | |
their houses and he took a photo of John Entwistle sitting with his | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
mother. Roger Daltrey lying in bed. Very close and personal view of the | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
ban. When a magazine wanted a colour photo for its cover, the band did | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
not hesitate to help find the perfect background. I said to Keith | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
Moon, where I going to get ` Union Jack? He said, I know where there is | :21:56. | :22:04. | |
one. Out of the front of thdse international hotels, you h`ve these | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
flags flying, he climbed up to flagpole and got a flag. We painted | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
upon the in the hotel. That is how we shot it. The exhibition continues | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
in London for six weeks before moving to the Lucy Bell Gallery in | :22:20. | :22:21. | |
Hastings in March. Lovely. In last night's programme, | :22:22. | :22:33. | |
Rob, you asked the burning puestion ` surely some time soon, won't we | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
run out of rain? Sadly, it doesn't look like it's going to happen any | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
time soon. I've been out and about today, finding out if you'rd as fed | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
up as me with this endless, endless rain. It is a bit of a soggx start | :22:50. | :22:57. | |
to the year. Heavy rain at times. Watch for the rain. Heavy showers. | :22:58. | :23:09. | |
It is, they say, an ill wind that blows nobody any good. All right, | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
the weather is relentlessly aweful, it is the wettest winter on record. | :23:17. | :23:27. | |
But it could be worse. Couldn't it? I mean, it could be snowing. Snow | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
would not be a problem. It hs just getting around, that would be a | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
problem, but apart from, I would rather have snow than rain. | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
Definitely. I have come to Dartford market. Ordinarily, it would be | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
absolutely thriving at this time of day. At least if it snows, xou know | :23:49. | :23:56. | |
not to come. Otherwise, you come and then find out there is no one here. | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
The stock is all over the floor the wind, it is really bad. This weather | :24:02. | :24:09. | |
is the worst we have ever sden. Take it on the chin and move on to next | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
week. Or go on holiday. A holiday? That is a good idea. Where would you | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
rather be. In Cyprus. Somewhere hot. I do not mind. Anywhere hot. Right | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
now, I would rather be somewhere in Spain. But actually, it turns out | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
that moaning about the weather is probably the best thing we can do. | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
Maybe it is nice to get it off our chests and say we are in thd same | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
boat, there we are, maybe try and be a little bit light`hearted. All | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
right, to be fair, the weather is awful. But at least it is nhce | :24:50. | :24:59. | |
weather for them. I wanted to say it was nice weather for ducks but there | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
was a heron. I love the way that everyond forgets | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
how difficult it is when it snows. No problem. How quickly thex forget. | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
No snow but we are all in the same boat when it comes to rain. As we go | :25:17. | :25:24. | |
through tomorrow night, we have another weather system moving in. | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
Further outbreaks of rain and really strong winds. Some sunshine for | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
tomorrow. But the wind is phcking up again as we head for Saturd`y. We | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
have an amber warning about rain. 20 millimetres of rainfall, expect to | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
see much more tonight as well. Temperatures today as he `` have | :25:46. | :25:53. | |
reached nine Celsius but it has felt significantly colder than that. As | :25:54. | :26:03. | |
we go through tonight, slowly, this weather system will clear e`stwards. | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
Tonight, it will stay very wet indeed. Temperatures relatively | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
mild, as a result. Not a pldasant picture. Tomorrow, we will see an | :26:14. | :26:22. | |
improving story to start. Some sunshine in the first part of the | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
morning and the afternoon as well. Top temperatures nine Celsits. The | :26:29. | :26:36. | |
wind is picking up signific`ntly as we go through tomorrow night. Very | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
wet and windy in the evening. Temperatures similar to what we are | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
expecting to see tonight. As we head toward Saturday, if you havd plans, | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
Sunday is the better day for it It will be very wet and very whndy | :26:52. | :26:59. | |
Temperatures around 10 Celshus but feeling significantly colder than | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
that. Sunday, some really hdavy thundery showers around. As we head | :27:04. | :27:12. | |
into the new week, Monday looks to be a little drier. Another weather | :27:13. | :27:23. | |
system on its way in. You've been talking about the | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
weather on our Facebook sitd. Vanessa Mutch says she's buhlding an | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
ark and Corina Rox picks up on that theme, saying all the local animals | :27:31. | :27:37. | |
are walking about in pairs. But the last word goes to Geordie | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
Trevillion, who says: "I noticed slight ridges developing behind my | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
ears. Yes, I'm developing ghlls " Goodbye. | :27:45. | :27:48. |