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Struck by lightning ` the woman who had a lucky escape when the storms | :00:14. | :00:21. | |
When I got to this level th`t is when the lightning hit. | :00:22. | :00:40. | |
Killed by a polar bear on a shcool trip ` but Horatio Chapple's death | :00:41. | :00:50. | |
wasn't the result of neglect rules a coroner. | :00:51. | :00:58. | |
And as Gravesend is officially the hottest | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
place in the country we look at how the heatwave is proving good for | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
business if you can stay cool. We'll be live with our reporters hn Sussex | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
Brands Hatch ` superbike legend James Toseland talks about his new | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
A Kent woman has told of the dramatic moment she was | :01:15. | :01:34. | |
struck by lightning during last night's violent electrical storms. | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
Susannah Ford`Crush was filling the weather | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
from her bedroom window, whdn a bolt struck scaffolding ndxt door | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
In the space of two hours there were more than 3,000 lightning strikes | :01:43. | :01:53. | |
across the country last night ` and several homes in Kent and Sussex | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
Miranda Schunke's report begins with some flashing images. | :01:57. | :02:08. | |
This shocking moment Susann`h Ford`Crush says she was strtck by | :02:09. | :02:19. | |
lightning. I was sat up herd like this. Both windows were open. I was | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
taking video footage. When H got to this level that is when the | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
lightning hit. She sees the lightning bolt rebound and. I was | :02:33. | :02:46. | |
feet away from not being alhve. Overnight electrical storms filled | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
the skies. This was the scene above Worthing. Homes were also hht. This | :02:51. | :02:59. | |
house was struck and set alhght No one was hurt. We heard a cr`sh. My | :03:00. | :03:08. | |
grandfather was more worried about the house. I was worried th`t he | :03:09. | :03:19. | |
would pass out because of the smoke. Forecasters say the intensity and | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
the location of where the lhghtning with land was tricky to protect It | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
is hard for computer models to predict in advance. That was the | :03:28. | :03:42. | |
case last night. A long strdam of stormy skies was coupled with a | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
sleepless night for many. There is still a chance of more lightning | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
strikes on the horizon. Several people had to close shaves. | :03:56. | :04:05. | |
It was a close shave with n`ture for Susannah Ford`Crush. | :04:06. | :04:15. | |
I am sorry, we have lost th`t report. | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
Later we will have the latest weather. | :04:21. | :04:30. | |
The family of a man who's spent two weeks in a coma after a road | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
rage attack say they're desperate to know exactly what happendd. | :04:35. | :04:36. | |
Wayne Morton ` who has seven children ` got | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
into an argument as he was driving his van at Kingsnorth in Ashford. | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
His wife has spent the past fortnight at his bddside ` | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
and today she spoke to our reporter Charlie Rose. | :04:46. | :05:00. | |
At home and Ashford his wifd and children can only wait and hope | :05:01. | :05:26. | |
He was on his way home from visiting the house of a friend. He got | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
involved in an argument with two other men on a roundabout. Later he | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
was found with head injuries and was taken to hospital in London. | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
This is the area where he w`s found with those serious head injtries. | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
Police say their investigathon is ongoing and they would like to trace | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
two men. They say that saw five B have not been able to talk to the | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
victim because of his condition `` they see that happen till now they | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
have not been able to talk. He is a great father. He is very loving I | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
want him home. Girl guidance ` the teenagers who've | :06:18. | :06:29. | |
spent the week exploring possible A schoolboy savaged to death by | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
a polar bear on a school adventure holiday did not die as a result | :06:33. | :06:42. | |
of neglect, a coronor has rtled Horatio Chapple was killed three | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
years ago while camping on a Norwegian island with the | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
British Schools Exploring Society. Andrew Ruck from Brighton h`d been | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
the mountain leader of the group Horatio Chapple's family had argued | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
there was neglect and a serhes of failures | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
in safety procedures and eqtipment. High in the Arctic Circle ` | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
this is where Horatio Chapple went But the teenager was dragged | :07:05. | :07:15. | |
from his tent by a starving polar The bear went on to attack | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
four other people on the scdne Among them, Andrew Ruck, | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
originally from Brighton, The inquest heard that trip wires | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
designed to keep bears out Close to where the attack h`ppened | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
Jason Roberts, a leading polar safety expert who was not involved | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
in the expedition, showed us how Polar bears are by far the world's | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
largest land predator in size, During the inquest Horatio's family | :07:46. | :07:55. | |
highlighted a lack of rifle training and the ddcision | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
not to organise a lookout for bears One of Horatio's friends told us | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
that evidence was hard to hdar. When you have got so many khds | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
of such a young age together in a really foreign place you have | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
to be more careful. I just hope it does not | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
happen to anyone else. But | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
the coroner said problems rdgarding the faulty tripwire system, issues | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
with a rifle failing to fird, and the decision of expedition leaders | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
not to hold a lookout for bdars did The holiday organisers said every | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
trip now has to carry a lookout Horatio's mother | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
and father urged parents to question the organisations that may be | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
taking responsibility Detectives investigating | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
the disappearance of 40`year`old Gravesend woman Jane Dale h`ve found | :08:47. | :08:55. | |
a body in woodland at Biggin Hill. The discovery was made near | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
Norheads Lane, near to wherd the car of the mother`of`three | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
from Gravesend was found. Officers are treating the ddath | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
as unexplained. The Roma gypsy parents of two young | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
boys placed for adoption by Kent County Council with a gay couple, | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
have been told by a top judge the The couple, from Bradford, | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
had objected after the council put the children ` aged four and two ` | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
with a same sex couple. The widow of a man who died | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
from head injuries while working at Gatwick Airport has met with | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
bosses and a local MP there today, campaigning for safety helmdts to | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
be provided for other staff. 62`year`old Mike Miles fell four | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
feet from a step while loading meals onto a plane | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
for an airline catering company He suffered a serious head hnjury | :09:39. | :09:58. | |
and later died in hospital. To date his wife has been back to the | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
airport to campaign for workers like him to be issued with helmets. | :10:03. | :10:14. | |
Gatwick Airport are hoping to instigate whistle`blowing f`cilities | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
for the employees who are unfairly pressurised and are fearful to | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
report dissatisfaction with equipment or shift systems. The | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
victim worked for a catering company. 2000 people are backing the | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
campaign. The NP is writing to the company that victim worked for to | :10:37. | :10:46. | |
ask them introduce helmets. This was one accident too many. Gatwhck | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
Airport were encouraging. They want to do what they can to make people | :10:53. | :11:02. | |
working on their airport safer. Gatwick Airport says if hellets are | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
introduced they will help to check employees are wearing them | :11:08. | :11:28. | |
correctly. Susannah Ford`Crtsh has described the moment she was struck | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
by lightning. Several properties in the region had to be evacuated | :11:35. | :11:36. | |
because of the weather. Drawing on experience ` | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
much loved children?s illustrator Quentin Blake unveils a unipue new | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
exhibition in Hastings. When David Cameron upped | :11:43. | :12:02. | |
the number of women in his cabinet from three to five earlier this | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
week, it made front page news. So how many role models are there | :12:06. | :12:07. | |
for girls who are about to lake The Thanet MP Laura Sandys has just | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
taken a group of pupils on ` tour of businesses, | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
parliament and Oxford University to Sara Smith has tonight's | :12:17. | :12:17. | |
Special Report. Speeding towards a wind farl. These | :12:18. | :12:34. | |
teenage girls have spent thd week exploring opportunities for the | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
futures. On Wednesday it was Westminster. Feed to the corridors | :12:40. | :13:00. | |
of power. `` they had each of the corridors of power. They have also | :13:01. | :13:14. | |
been to Oxford University, ` TV studio, and a pharmaceutical giant. | :13:15. | :13:24. | |
The girls were deciding to drop out of further education. It has the | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
opportunity to make them re`lise that they can have the opportunities | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
that everybody else has. Thdy have to aim higher. | :13:34. | :13:41. | |
Today they were at the base of a company that builds wind farms | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
across Europe. Engineers come out here to carry out | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
maintenance checks. At the Roman none of them are women, but maybe | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
this generation will be the first to change that. Now I am thinkhng to | :13:57. | :14:08. | |
aim higher. Why were you not thinking to aim higher before? I did | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
not think it was something that I could do. I definitely want to go to | :14:13. | :14:24. | |
university now. This may be just one week. The hope place it could | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
transform the rest of their lives. Well last night's storms have | :14:28. | :14:39. | |
cleared the way today for what is now officially | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
the hottest day of the year ` and many people are taking `dvantage | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
of the wall to wall sunshind. In a moment we?ll be in Gillingham | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
talking to our reporter there about how people have been keeping | :14:52. | :14:53. | |
cool in the sun, but first we'll go to Brighton and | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
speak to our reporter Ian P`lmer. I understand | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
the good weather has been working It is. The summer period is | :15:01. | :15:13. | |
important for many businessds. Edinburgh writer and there `re 24 | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
tales and bed and breakfasts looking for custom. | :15:21. | :15:29. | |
It is a day for capturing The Sun. Will the high`temperatures dncourage | :15:30. | :15:40. | |
more people to holiday in Britain? As soon as the weather forecast is | :15:41. | :15:47. | |
done for the weekend the form rings. Friday afternoon, Saturday lorning. | :15:48. | :16:00. | |
This hotel has 11 rooms. A study carried out by researchers sees more | :16:01. | :16:09. | |
than 200,000 jobs are directly supported by the seaside totrism | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
sector. There are a lot of good eating and drinking places `nd | :16:17. | :16:25. | |
nightclubs. To does is vital for the local economy. More than 15,000 | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
people rely on it for their income. Many of them work in hotels totters | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
around the city. Away from Brighton people wdre | :16:37. | :16:53. | |
enjoying the high temperatures. It has not been this hot since this | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
time last year. But why are some so keen to holiday at home? It is | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
cheaper. It is less travellhng. Why go abroad when there are so many | :17:07. | :17:14. | |
places in this country to go to At this hotel the good weather | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
continues to bring in bookings. On the beach summer this year. | :17:20. | :17:27. | |
People are enjoying the Golden hour of sunshine. How have peopld from | :17:28. | :17:38. | |
across the region in keeping cool during this hot period? | :17:39. | :17:52. | |
There are still lots of people here. People have been coming in here all | :17:53. | :18:04. | |
day. Despite the heat peopld did not seem to mind a bit. | :18:05. | :18:13. | |
In jailing the best way to stay cool steelhead here. `` in Gillingham the | :18:14. | :18:30. | |
best way to stay cool as to come here. Lovely water and a nice | :18:31. | :18:43. | |
breeze. In Canterbury it was a more civilised affair. Drink plenty of | :18:44. | :19:03. | |
water. Feed yourself with cold food. Temperatures were cooler here. | :19:04. | :19:11. | |
Some people took to messing around on the water. It has been nhce. I | :19:12. | :19:28. | |
wish it was like this every day I get out of the heat if it is too | :19:29. | :19:38. | |
hot. I train lots of water. Many welcome to the hotter temperatures | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
today. The burning question that is there more to come? | :19:44. | :19:51. | |
Is it going to last? If this is any indication, these | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
people hope it will be just the start. | :19:57. | :20:06. | |
Quentin Blake is perhaps best known as the illustrator of many of Roald | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
Dahl?s stories ` and this stmmer he is the star attraction at H`stings | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
Jerwood Gallery as they emb`rk on a summer Drawing Festival. | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
He's been working on a serids of pieces inspired by other artists in | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
the Jerwood Collection and producing a children's guide to the g`llery. | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
In the presence of a master. It is intriguing and fascinating. | :20:22. | :21:04. | |
He is now working in Hastings. We watched him at work. I h`ve done | :21:05. | :21:20. | |
a portrait of them on an easel. There is a whole series of drawings | :21:21. | :21:28. | |
with very simple lines. But do not be fooled. He agonised over the job. | :21:29. | :21:39. | |
He came to us to suggest his idea. He has captured the beach, the local | :21:40. | :21:54. | |
people, the street scenes. H have tried to be a philosopher, but | :21:55. | :22:08. | |
cheerfulness keeps breaking in. The style is somewhere between | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
illustration and caricature. He has brought the world to life. H like | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
the idea that I am doing it. James Toseland is one of those | :22:22. | :22:32. | |
people who is overwhelminglx talented ` | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
a former world superbike ch`mpion, he's also a very good musichan. | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
This weekend he's returning to the moments on the track ` Brands Hatch. | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
But he won't be riding. Instead he's entertaining the crowds | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
with his rock band, playing tracks from his new album Renegade. Neil | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
Bell has been to meet him ahead of It is light, quick and dangdrous. | :22:54. | :23:14. | |
That is why tens of thousands of people will be here. Few were more | :23:15. | :23:25. | |
talented and popular than J`mes Tours London. He is also a gifted | :23:26. | :23:35. | |
musician. He was world Superbike Champion in 2004. In 2007 hd was the | :23:36. | :23:47. | |
champion again. Having retired from racing he has embarked on a new | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
career as a rock musician. He is looking forward to wrestling things | :23:53. | :24:02. | |
up this weekend. I have not been backs and 2007. To | :24:03. | :24:14. | |
play in front of the crowd hs going to be great. | :24:15. | :24:31. | |
If I spend my time thinking of what I am going to do I will not be | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
concentrating. You have got to love for the moment. | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
There will be a huge cloud on Sunday. `` a large attendance. | :24:43. | :24:57. | |
We had storms last night. Lovely weather today. | :24:58. | :25:06. | |
We have got more of the sea in the season tomorrow. | :25:07. | :25:19. | |
Top temperature was 32 Celshus. Clear blue skies this afternoon | :25:20. | :25:28. | |
Tonight there will be thunddrstorms. Temperatures tomorrow will not be | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
quite as warm as today. Temperatures tonight will not drop much below 19 | :25:36. | :25:46. | |
Celsius. Stifling and warm temperatures. Tonight we ard | :25:47. | :26:07. | |
expecting to see thunderstorms. There could be one inch of rain fall | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
in just one hour. There is `n amber warning. That will be valid tonight | :26:15. | :26:25. | |
and tomorrow. Initially we shall see late evening sunshine. Therd will be | :26:26. | :26:37. | |
thunderstorms again. Temper`tures not particularly comfortabld. It | :26:38. | :26:51. | |
will be a very humid night. First thing tomorrow there will bd clouds. | :26:52. | :26:58. | |
There will be showers and then the sunshine will be back. In the early | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
part of the afternoon the hdat will rise. We are expecting further | :27:04. | :27:15. | |
thunderstorms. Tomorrow night temperatures will be a little | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
fresher. Sunday is a slightly calmer day. There could be the chance of a | :27:23. | :27:37. | |
shower. Camera into next wedk. Thank you for watching. | :27:38. | :27:44. | |
We will leave you with Brighton this evening. Goodbye. | :27:45. | :27:48. |