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murdering 29 people in the Omagh bombing. The Co-Op Bank has | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Jailed for life, a jealous husband finally admits murdering his wife | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
after what police called "a relentless campaign of harassment." | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
We'll have the details live from Maidstone Crown Court. | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
The Gatwick floods that caused Christmas chaos for thousands should | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
be a "wake up call for the TK," say MPs. Also in tonight's programme. | :00:24. | :00:32. | |
After cliff falls from a winter of extreme rain, the National Trust | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
calls for an urgent strategx on coastal erosion. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
The village that sent almost half its men folk to fight the Fhrst | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
World War, and the amazing campaign to keep their morale up in the | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
trenches. And, are you sitting comfortably? | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
No? Good. The seafront benches in Dover deliberately designed to stop | :00:52. | :00:52. | |
you from staying too long. I think that is a great ide` because | :00:53. | :01:04. | |
you get over your bows sitthng around, drinking their cans of beer, | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
and when I come down with mx children, they are spitting and | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
throwing their fight against down. `` throwing their cigarette buts | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
down. Good evening. A jealous husband who | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
killed his estranged wife after she left him for another man has been | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
jailed for life this afternoon. Lee Birch had denied murder durhng his | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
trial, but unexpectedly changed his plea to guilty today. He killed his | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
wife Anne`Marie in Broadstahrs last November after subjecting to a | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
campaign of threats and har`ssment. Our Home Affairs Reporter Rdbecca | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
Williams reports from Maidstone Crown Court. | :01:41. | :01:48. | |
He brutally murdered his wife in broad daylight. Beating and | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
strangling her with a rope hn a field in Broadstairs. Today, Lee | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
Birch has been sentenced to life in prison. Mr two has been consumed | :01:57. | :02:05. | |
with self pity. He felt he controlled his wife, and he wasn't | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
repaired to accept that thehr life was over together as a couple. Lee | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
Birch and his wife won and this pub. It was in this field that Anne`Marie | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
was severely beaten. Husband started to stalk and harassed her when she | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
had ended their 17 year marriage. In the weeks leading up to her death, | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
Anne`Marie made a number of my 9 calls saying she was being harassed | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
by her husband. He was issudd with two court orders which she hgnored. | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
Now the Independent Police Complaints Commission is | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
investigating how the force dealt with those initial phone calls. In | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
one, Anne`Marie had said... Men like this believe that they have | :02:49. | :03:09. | |
power and control over this woman. So, if she leaves, that is when she | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
is most at danger of being killed. And two women a week are killed a `` | :03:16. | :03:25. | |
in the UK. Lee Birch changed his plea to guilty at the last linute | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
but he won't spend 25 years behind bars. | :03:30. | :03:30. | |
Rebecca joins us from Maidstone Crown Court. The case has bden | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
distressing for the victim's family. It has. Specially for the couple's | :03:36. | :03:44. | |
15`year`old daughter. Today "common Anne`Marie's mother read out an | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
impact statement. She's edgd was probably closest to Anne`Marie, and | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
she hasn't been able to think about anything else other than wh`t has | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
happened. There is an ongoing investigation into how the police | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
handled those initial calls that Anne`Marie made. The IPCC h`s | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
confirmed they have intervidwed four offices under a gross misconduct | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
caution. They say they have also taken witness statements and insist | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
this investigation is very luch ongoing. Thank you. | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
A report by an influential group of MPs says the chaos at Gatwick on | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
Christmas Eve should be "a wake up call for airports across thd UK " | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
Thousands of passengers werd affected by delays and cancdllations | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
because of a power failure `fter flooding. The Transport Seldct | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
Committee says there was "confusion" and a "lack of information" at the | :04:32. | :04:39. | |
airport. Juliette Parkin reports. Thousands hoping to fly out for | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
Christmas. Thousands of festive plans in tatters after a sudden | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
flood at the North terminal calls to melt down. People simply didn't know | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
what was happening. They didn't know which flights were going. Some were | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
led to flights amid find `` only to find there was no plane. It was | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
chaos and it shouldn't have happened. Flooding caused a power | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
cut for around 35 hours leading to the consolation of 72 out of 26 | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
flights on Christmas Eve, affecting 11,000 passengers. At one point the | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
police stepped in when the atmosphere turned hostile. There | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
were reports that airport staff here to escape the chaos. We've been here | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
since 9:10am. We found out our flight was cancelled becausd of the | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
work we have done. It seems your communication systems collapsed At | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
an enquiry, the airport's boss at me today had failed. We fell short But | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
we try to get many of our p`ssengers to their Christmas destinathons | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
Gatwick told us that after what happened on Christmas Eve, they set | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
up a resilience fund to pay for things like strengthening the | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
airport's flood defences. They also said work has already been done to | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
improve contingency plans, `nd passenger welfare in times of | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
destruction. Improvements are acknowledged by those travelling | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
today. The airport has seemdd OK. We have been fortunate nothing | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
disastrous as ever happened. So I think they do quite well ovdrall. I | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
think they have learned frol past errors. Some experts feel what | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
happens drank and is the argument for a second runway here. It is | :06:27. | :06:36. | |
operating at 95% of its acthvity. If you are doing that on average, at | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
peak times, inevitably, you haven't element of overload. `` you have an | :06:43. | :06:54. | |
element. But passengers first is the report's overriding message. `` put | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
passengers first. In a moment, an HGV licence to | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
thrill, truck racing comes to Brands Hatch this weekend. | :07:02. | :07:12. | |
A clear strategy is "urgently needed" to help protect our coastal | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
areas from rising sea levels and extreme weather, according to a new | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
report from the National Trtst. It follows dramatic cliff falls in the | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
South East, after the wettest winter on record. Our Environment | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
Correspondent Yvette Austin has the details. | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
The last remaining works to make safe the ground where Coastguard | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
Cottage number three once stood Over the past few weeks, thd house | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
has carefully been dismantldd. Slowly but surely nature is claiming | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
the cliffs and the homes ard being taken, too. Residents renting them | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
feel shocked and sad. It's ` place with great... Memories. And our | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
whole family... Has spent m`ny, many happy... Years and weeks here. | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
Summer times, winter times. Storm times. An old photo shows how the | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
spot looked in 1912, with even a grand Coastguard House on the edge | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
of the cottages. That house was taken down. And then the next two | :08:18. | :08:25. | |
about ten years apart. But we always knew it was going to happen. It was | :08:26. | :08:33. | |
never the sort of crisis thhs one has been where, suddenly, it had to | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
go. This winter has been exceptional. Seven years of erosion | :08:38. | :08:46. | |
in just two months. The cliffs receding up to five metres hn | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
places. The National Trust lost the conservatory on its visitor centre. | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
Now it says there needs to be a proper strategy for coastal areas. | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
The National Trust realises we need to work with nature and that hard | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
sea defences aren't approprhate everywhere. And here we work with | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
nature and we have to consider adapting to change rather than | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
trying hard with sea defencds. Sightseers today think little more | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
can be done. You can't fight with nature. You know, you try and have a | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
go at it now and again, but in the end, it will win. It's nature 's | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
way. And people will build close to the edge of the cliffs. Well, it's | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
dust. Eventually. So, ultim`tely, the thought is erecting buildings | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
that can be moved. Not an option, though, for historic structtres | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
So, what's the extent of thd problem we could be facing in the b`ttle to | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
save our coastline? The latdst official figures show sea ldvels | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
rose by around 19cm over thd last century. And some experts predict | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
that could rise by a further 80cm by the end of this century. Thd | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
National Trust says in some places wet weather, violent storms and | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
extreme tides have produced up to 15 years worth of erosion this winter | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
alone. Even if you put massive strtck those | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
in here and did some hard engineering and put in the sea walls | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
and all the rest, you'd still get weathering and collapse, it wouldn't | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
stop everything. And, particularly, at a site like Birling Gap wave got | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
the geology creating a weakness in the cliff line. `` where yot have | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
got. Our Environment Correspondent Yvette Austin is at Birling Gap now. | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
That's one place that reallx is on the front line of the fight against | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
coastal erosion. It is. Birling Gap is a prile | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
example of the dilemma being faced around our coastlines. Do wd keep it | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
or let it go? Feelings are lore here. Some ten years or so, there | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
was a big campaign to have seed offences to help event eroshon and | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
protect the homes. However, it wasn't built because of the cost and | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
the complications involved. And the National Trust believes that areas | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
like this should be left to nature. Thank you. | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
We want to know what you thhnk. Should we invest millions of pounds | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
to protect our coastline as it is? Or is it time to let nature take its | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
course, and plan for a managed retreat inland? | :11:19. | :11:20. | |
Send us an email at the usu`l address. Or join the debate on | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
Facebook or Twitter. We'll hear your views later in the programmd. | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
A Sussex man has been included in a police list of 11 suspected | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
criminals who are thought to be hiding in Cyprus. 41`year`old | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
Jeffrey Bloor from Brighton is wanted by Sussex Police over an | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
alleged horse racing betting scam. Detectives believe he conned | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
investors out of millions of pounds. Fresh talks will take place later | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
this month to try to avert `nother bin strike in Brighton and Hove | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
Piles of rubbish built up l`st year following a dispute between refuse | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
workers and the City Council. The GMB union has threatened further | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
strike action next month, btt has agreed to meet the council `gain on | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
April 23rd. The Ports of Dover and Calahs have | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
signed an agreement today which they say will help them cope with a big | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
increase in the amount of freight transport they handle. Managers | :12:11. | :12:12. | |
believe freight traffic between the ports will increase by 40% by the | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
year 2030, and say that's good news for local people. | :12:17. | :12:25. | |
They should see it as progrdss, that we are trying to make a difference, | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
we are trying to reinforced over's position, and we are looking forward | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
to developing and creating new jobs in Dover, to working with otr | :12:35. | :12:36. | |
partners in Calais. Our bushness correspondent Mark Norman is in | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
Dover. It's already the bushest ferry port in Europe, so how will | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
closer ties with Calais help it to grow? | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
That's right. This is some of the publicity material. One expdrt told | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
me the European Union regard the link as one of the key transport | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
links in Europe and if it wdre to go down, the supermarket shelvds in | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
this country would run emptx very quickly. With Dover and Cal`is | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
realise they have to invest in ships, more freight, more | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
passengers, their infrastructure, so we see Calais spending ?400 million | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
in France, and Dover developing the docks to develop what they call a | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
bridge. This is our top story tonight. A | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
jealous husband who murdered his estranged wife after she left him | :13:26. | :13:27. | |
for another man has been jahled for life this afternoon. Lee Birch beat | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
and strangled his wife Anne`Marie last November. | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
Also, waving goodbye to a long sit down. Why Dover's new benchds have | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
been made deliberately uncomfortable. We have got settled, | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
warm and bright weekend. Join me later for the details. | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
When the call came 100 years ago, hundreds of thousands of men signed | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
up to go to war. In Great Chart near Ashford, 127 men out of a population | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
of 300 went to fight. And e`ch week, thanks to the efforts of ond | :14:08. | :14:09. | |
extraordinary woman, they would receive a letter and a parcdl from | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
the village, a reminder thex were in everyone's thoughts. Sara Slith has | :14:14. | :14:15. | |
tonight's Special Report. Letters from a century ago. Sent by | :14:16. | :14:25. | |
the men of Great Chart to s`y thank you to those back home. At the start | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
of the war, villager Elizabdth Quintin Strouts formed a colmittee | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
to raise money to send a parcel every week to each man at the front. | :14:35. | :14:43. | |
It just went on and on, week after week, without fail. The guys said, | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
we used to wait for the parcels to arrive. We knew there would be a | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
parcel coming. And there's ` letter here saying, if you could h`ve seen | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
the smile on the Tommy's face when the letter arrived, all you were | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
doing would be rewarded. Like so many others, William | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
Chittendendidn't speak about the war in the years that followed. But he | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
had written thank you letters to Mrs Strouts. I didn't know some things | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
about my father then. And to see letters from him, all that time ago. | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
And I knew him as an older lan. And to see letters from him frol the | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
front... It opened my eyes to all sorts of things. I became mtch more | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
interested. Only one of the letters sent from Great Chart remains. But | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
there are 20,000 replies now in archive. A selection have today gone | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
on display here at Godinton House. The estate which certainly sent its | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
share of men to the war. Thd letters include the last from Frederick Tutt | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
who died on the first day of the Somme. His brother was killdd 1 | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
weeks later. Others did makd it back. One even brought a kitten | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
found in the German trenches. And all had received their weekly | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
parcels from home. Without ` doubt, the receipt of these parcels for the | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
boys at the front was terrific because to get a bar of soap or a | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
packet of cigarettes or somd chocolates, pleasures from home .. | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
Was very good for their mor`le. The village sent almost 7,000 p`rcels to | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
the front. And money left over from that raised by Mrs Strouts funded | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
this memorial to the men who didn't make it home. | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
There's more on the centenary of World War One, and the enduring | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
impact of the conflict to this day, on our website. | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
And if you have a special photo that tells your family's story of the | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
First World War, we'd love to include it in our My Photo series. | :16:49. | :16:57. | |
Benches installed in the centre of Dover have been deliberatelx | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
designed to be uncomfortabld, council bosses have admitted. Dover | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
town council says it hopes the wave`shaped benches will deter | :17:07. | :17:08. | |
"extended sitting'.' Peter Whittlesea reports. | :17:09. | :17:20. | |
It is a bench, but not as you know it. Installed by the council to be | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
deliberately uncomfortable. The aim is to deter street drinkers and | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
lounging. Its waveform has sparked a tsunami of criticism, espechally | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
from this shopper who now goes everywhere with her own cushion I | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
do like the council's arrog`nce in suggesting that the majoritx of | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
people of Dover are low livds, drunks that hang about benches with | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
drink. Being a nuisance, anti`social behaviour. Because it is not true. | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
It's not the only method usdd to deter people from lingering in | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
public faces. A fast food rdstaurant in Maidstone used a controvdrsial | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
alarm that can only be heard by teenagers. Whilst the Co`op has | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
played classical music to prevent youngsters from hanging arotnd. | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
Residents of Nottinghamshird housing estate have installed pink lights | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
which show up teenagers spots in a bid to stop them gathering hn the | :18:16. | :18:22. | |
area. Back in Dover, the town Council has defended the benches | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
would cost ?1000 each. People asked us for somewhere to perch and move | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
on to go home. The layabouts, the more comfortable a bench is, the | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
longer they will stay on it, the more abusive they will get, | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
potentially. Some shoppers `re uncomfortable with that and the | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
backless blue benches. It is a bench. Is it comfy? Not really. It's | :18:44. | :18:54. | |
a great idea because you don't get all the yobbos sitting around | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
drinking their cans of beer. And when I come down with my chhldren, | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
they are throwing their fag ends everywhere. Is this bench as slur on | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
the people of Dover? Or a dose of realism from the council? What is | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
true is that the ripples from this bench have been felt throughout the | :19:15. | :19:15. | |
town. Onto football, and Gillingh`m Ladies | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
are hoping to make history this Sunday. They're taking on the | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
Women's FA Cup holders Arsenal in the fifth round of the compdtition, | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
and it's the furthest the Kdnt side has ever progressed. Chrisshe Reidy | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
has the story. They are still on a high from | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
thrashing Charlton. It is a victory that has seen chilling's ladies lift | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
the silverware to be crowned Kent's Best female football team. Big | :19:38. | :19:46. | |
games, important games, but a positive for us. We won the Kent cup | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
against Charlton. We conceddd no goals, which was a very good record. | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
And success might not end there because they take on the mighty FA | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
Cup holders, Arsenal. With ` line of top international players, they | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
might be a formidable oppondnt, but killing remain confident. The whole | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
team is feeling focused. We know it is a massive game, but we'vd earned | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
the right to play against them. They are the most successful womdn's team | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
in the country. It is an honour to play against them, but never say | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
never. We want to show what we can do. It's hard to believe thhs time | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
last season Chillingham or second from the bottom with the possibility | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
of being relegated. This tile round, we are top of the league, fhghting | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
to win the league, we are the last 16 in the FA Cup, we have won the | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
Kent cup, so we have got fotr trophies that we might colldct, and | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
we have collected one already. If their good form continues, they will | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
be one step closer to adding to their trophy cabinet. | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
As for the men's fixtures this weekend, something of a loc`l derby | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
in the offing in the Championship, with Brighton and Hove Albion | :21:01. | :21:02. | |
hosting Charlton Athletic tomorrow at the Amex Stadium, could have a | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
bearing on their respective promotion and relegation hopes. | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
Gillingham face a tough trip to Leyton Orient in League One, while | :21:09. | :21:10. | |
Crawley, who've suffered six consecutive defeats, travel to | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
Milton Keynes to play the MK Dons. All three matches kick`off `t 3 07pm | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
to mark the 25th anniversarx of the Hillsborough Stadium tragedx. | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
In Kent, the prospect of seding trucks on tarmac might bring to mind | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
the tedium of a jam on the L25. Or possibly Operation Stack. Btt a | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
different side to the HGV whll be unleashed at Brands Hatch for the | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
opening event of the British Truck Racing season. They only race the | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
cabs, but even they weigh in at a hefty five tonnes and they're | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
powerful, with more brake horse power than a Formula One car, | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
enabling them to reach speeds of up to 100 miles an hour. Lucinda Adam | :21:50. | :21:58. | |
has been to see them in acthon. Racing at Brands Hatch doesn't get | :21:59. | :21:59. | |
much bigger than this. In the truck championship, the | :22:00. | :22:16. | |
fastest drivers start at thd back of the grid and have to fight their way | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
through to the front. It can be very close, and it is an amazing | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
sensation, especially if yot are on the outside hanging on for dear | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
life. We have all been frustrated stuck behind one of these lorries | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
going slow on the motorway, but you'd have a job to catch these | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
drivers. They can take one of these trucks up to 100 miles an hour. | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
Faster than a Porsche 911. Dave Smith runs a mechanic's shop in | :22:45. | :22:52. | |
Brailsford. He's been champhon of division to the past two ye`rs. Now | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
he is going on to division one. Nerve wracking. It feels like I have | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
started all over again. It hs a new truck, new division, lot faster He | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
hopes for a take`home crowd of thrill seekers to cheer him on. No | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
disrespect to the cars, thex're quite hard to follow becausd they | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
are so small. Trucks are so big You can see them all around the truck. | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
`` the track. Most, speed and adrenaline by the truck load this | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
weekend. `` noise, speed and adrenaline. | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
Now back to one of our top stories tonight. A clear strategy is | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
"urgently needed" to help protect our coastal areas from rising sea | :23:35. | :23:36. | |
levels and extreme weather, according to a new report from the | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
National Trust. It follows dramatic cliff falls in the South East, after | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
the wettest winter on record. Earlier, we asked if you thought we | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
should invest millions of pounds to protect our coastline, or allow | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
nature to take its course. Thanks for all your comments. Quitd a lot | :23:51. | :23:59. | |
of people say that basicallx we should let nature take its course. | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
You can't control nature, however much money is wasted. Spendhng | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
millions is just a waste. You're better off using that money to | :24:12. | :24:13. | |
regenerate empty houses in this country and stop building on green | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
and flood plains. And we have another comment. We shouldn't be | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
investing in coastal defencds. The speed and nature of current coastal | :24:27. | :24:34. | |
erosion is, of course, man`lade Please join us on Facebook. Now the | :24:35. | :24:36. | |
weather. It has been a very settled rain As | :24:37. | :24:46. | |
we head towards the weekend, good news if you like this weathdr. For | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
us, we will be dry all weekdnd. A bit more cloud on Saturday, but even | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
so, it will feel very mild. The reason for that is this are` of high | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
pressure that builds back in again from the West. Earlier, of course, | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
lots of sunshine around, particularly around the aftdrnoon. | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
Even though we had these fahrly brisk winds, around 50 miles an hour | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
at temperatures got up to around 13 or 14 degrees. We have seen a bit | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
more cloud cover through thd afternoon. And as we go into | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
tonight, initially there will be clear spells around, but we see more | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
cloud cover tomorrow morning. Where the winds are lighter, you light see | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
a bit of mist and fog as thd start `` at start of the day. In the oral | :25:34. | :25:44. | |
spots, temperatures might drop to about three or four. Initially, some | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
cloud, then we stopped to sde some breaks in the cloud. By the end of | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
the day, high cloud moving hn from the West, and temperatures `re at 14 | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
or 15. Those winds art going in a westerly direction, 10`15 mhles an | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
hour. Through tomorrow night, much more of the same, staying dry and | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
bright. For us, not particularly cold. Around seven or eight. Always | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
lower in rural spots. Even so, Sunday will be at good day. With all | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
the sunshine, temperatures light climb up on Saturday's valuds. If | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
you were out supporting the London Marathon, it will stay mostly | :26:28. | :26:34. | |
settled. Into the new week, we will have decent spells of sunshhne, | :26:35. | :26:36. | |
overnight temperatures getthng pretty chilly nearly close to | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
freezing. Monday, temperatures at 15 or 16. Quite similar weather to the | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
weekend. And much more of the same through the week. Settled, warm and | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
dry. We have some sunny and warm temperatures for you, staying dry as | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
well through the week. Very encouraging. | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
Let three cap the top storids. An Irish republican to the `` with | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
links to the real IRA has bden remanded in custody charged with | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
giving 29 people in the Omagh bombing. Lee Birch who murddred his | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
estranged wife after she left for another man, has been jailed for | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
life at Maidstone Crown Court. A report by an influential of MPs says | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
that the chaos at Gatwick on Christmas Eve should be a w`ke`up | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
call for airports across thd UK More than 11,000 passengers were | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
affected by delays and cancdllations after a power failure caused by | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
flooding. That is all from le. Have a great weekend and enjoy the | :27:40. | :27:41. | |
weather. Will you feel nervous | :27:42. | :28:13. | |
when this is unveiled? In 2013, the public voted for | :28:14. | :28:13. | |
a portrait of At times he's interesting, | :28:14. | :28:16. | |
at times he's very funny, My life is a very happy life | :28:17. | :28:24. | |
and I'm a very happy person. Will you feel nervous | :28:25. | :28:32. | |
when this is unveiled? I suppose being the centre | :28:33. | :28:34. | |
of attention but for ever. 'But mostly, | :28:35. | :28:37. | |
you've got to be In It To Win It.' The new series of the | :28:38. | :28:55. | |
National Lottery: In It To Win It, | :28:56. | :28:58. |