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:00:11. > :00:16.Hello from Langstone Harbour in Portsmouth. Your stories from where

:00:17. > :00:23.we left. Here's what's coming up tonight. Tornadoes and storms across

:00:24. > :00:29.southern England, the expect same Warwick stream weather could be on

:00:30. > :00:33.the way. This was extremely terrifying. My wife was absolutely

:00:34. > :00:44.frightened to death. And predictions for winter, was this morning's storm

:00:45. > :00:52.just the start of it. Boxing Day is notorious for deal force wins. Plus

:00:53. > :01:00.a special report on President John F Kennedy's visit to Sussex at a

:01:01. > :01:07.crucial moment in world history. Two or three months later, he is

:01:08. > :01:25.assassinated. It is his last visit to Britain. This is inside out for

:01:26. > :01:29.the South of England. It's been a Monday most will want to

:01:30. > :01:33.forget, hundreds of trees were brought down by storm force winds

:01:34. > :01:37.overnight. A massive clean`up operation got underway first thing.

:01:38. > :01:41.Was last night's storm was perhaps not as bad as many people had

:01:42. > :01:45.feared, if you come out in the morning and find your car looking

:01:46. > :01:49.like this it is a bad old start to the week. In Christchurch one tree

:01:50. > :01:55.landed on three cars owned by the same family. Big gust of wind, my

:01:56. > :02:00.daughter started screaming saying a tree had come down. I looked out the

:02:01. > :02:08.window and there it is. Property was damaged as trees fell. When it

:02:09. > :02:14.rotated, the roots have lifted the entire shed. The cost is expected to

:02:15. > :02:29.run into millions of pounds, 1.80 2000 `` 122 million homes without

:02:30. > :02:36.power. I have now had to take annual leave. It is my first day of my new

:02:37. > :02:41.job today, not a very good start. This disruption follows an unsettled

:02:42. > :02:48.week, which even sought a Tornado crashing through the streets of

:02:49. > :02:55.Hayling Island. Around 100 homes have been damaged

:02:56. > :03:03.by a tornado. There has been damaged to tiles from rooftops. We were just

:03:04. > :03:07.woken up by this noise and I thought the windows were about to be sucked

:03:08. > :03:15.out of the house. There was foolish, it felt like the roof lifting. My

:03:16. > :03:21.bedroom door burst open. My house shook, I felt that there was an

:03:22. > :03:25.earthquake. The wind had picked the caravan up and thrown it into a

:03:26. > :03:35.tree. As I looked out, there was just a dark tree blown out of the

:03:36. > :03:43.sky. This almighty tree was landed on my parents's car. I have seen it

:03:44. > :03:49.on the television and in America, you do not think what it's like,

:03:50. > :03:53.this was completely terrifying. My wife was absolutely frightened to

:03:54. > :03:58.death. The tornado struck just over a week

:03:59. > :04:02.ago. After last night's storms, it has left some worried about the

:04:03. > :04:12.future. Possibly more of this to come. The whole world has changed.

:04:13. > :04:16.After it passed" and is on the front garden was full of roof tiles. The

:04:17. > :04:27.rear window of my car had been sucked out. It was very surreal.

:04:28. > :04:33.What Anna did not know was that her husband had already seen the tornado

:04:34. > :04:37.forming as he was out windsurfing. I phoned my husband on the beach to

:04:38. > :04:41.check that he was not already on the water, and he said, it was

:04:42. > :04:46.brilliant. I said, yes, it has just hit the house. Luckily he was on the

:04:47. > :04:51.beach with his friends and they were laughing and joking about it. When I

:04:52. > :04:59.said it was to have gone down the road, he was like, really? He came

:05:00. > :05:04.back, so the damage and realised that I was not messing about and he

:05:05. > :05:09.needed to come home. Whilst a twister has left some residents

:05:10. > :05:14.surprised, tornadoes on the south coast are more common than you might

:05:15. > :05:16.think. We have more tornadoes per square metre in this part of the

:05:17. > :05:20.country than anywhere else in the world. We have some real warmth and

:05:21. > :05:24.energy still in the seas and the cold air gives us the instability

:05:25. > :05:29.that causes the tornadoes to develop. When they stray click here

:05:30. > :05:34.run Hayling Island the costs runs into hundreds of thousands of homes.

:05:35. > :05:39.`` when they strike like your own Hayling Island. We have even had a

:05:40. > :05:54.kidney picked up and thrown into the neighbours's pond. `` a canoe picked

:05:55. > :05:58.up. How lucky that this happened early on Sunday morning when people

:05:59. > :06:05.were not out and about because this stuff flying around could do some

:06:06. > :06:10.serious damage. This man witnessed the twister first`hand. You saw it?

:06:11. > :06:16.I saw it from the bedroom window at the back. My wife had gone to make a

:06:17. > :06:22.cup of tea. I heard this noise that sounded like an army tank going

:06:23. > :06:26.along the road. I got up and looked out the window. As I whipped out I

:06:27. > :06:32.could see this swirl going round. To me it looked like a gazebo flying

:06:33. > :06:40.around in the sky. And then all of a sudden it was just gone. You

:06:41. > :06:44.actually saw the tornado. Twisting round like that, yes. It came

:06:45. > :06:51.straight across, hit this garage, hit the roof there. Went on to the

:06:52. > :06:56.roof there that has been repaired. It took one side of the flats's

:06:57. > :07:04.roof. It has gone around the property. And even this. Everyone is

:07:05. > :07:07.amazed that this is still standing. You can follow the path of the

:07:08. > :07:12.tornado just by looking at the damage. It is clear that it came

:07:13. > :07:16.over here and then down this road. You can see from all the roof tiles

:07:17. > :07:20.the damage we are tiles have been lifted off by the force of the wind.

:07:21. > :07:27.And then it carried on its course. This pure householder here has

:07:28. > :07:33.suffered quite a bit of damage in the garden `` poor householder. All

:07:34. > :07:41.these pillars have been taken out. That has been ruined. The metal has

:07:42. > :07:45.been penned back on the garage. Then it went on across the, taking out

:07:46. > :07:52.more roof tiles and onto the sailing club, which is where we are going to

:07:53. > :07:55.go next. This was the scene that greeted boat

:07:56. > :08:02.owners as they arrived at the sailing club. But he is piled high,

:08:03. > :08:10.masts twisted and snapped and damage estimated at more than ?100,000. The

:08:11. > :08:18.exact moment the Time Lord will `` that tornado struck was captured on

:08:19. > :08:21.CCTV. We came down to have a look and we found bolt hole over the

:08:22. > :08:34.place with bits missing and carnage, basically. `` boats all

:08:35. > :08:41.over the place. There were very few people about, so there was no actual

:08:42. > :08:45.injury, which is tremendous. Not so tremendous as the damage done to

:08:46. > :08:52.people's prized sailing dinghies. Many will be written off. This is a

:08:53. > :08:57.sad old site. It was originally parked just over here beside this

:08:58. > :09:02.turquoise one. It has gone 40 feet, snapped the massed into. It has

:09:03. > :09:06.obviously had something on the way. It looks as if something has

:09:07. > :09:10.skewered it. It has smashed a hole through the deck and come back out

:09:11. > :09:13.through the bottom of the hole. The whole thing was attached to its

:09:14. > :09:18.trailers well. It has picked the whole trailer up and then the

:09:19. > :09:30.trailer as well. Wherever there are no massed `` masts is the root of

:09:31. > :09:42.the tornado. It has gone that way and then out to sea.

:09:43. > :09:48.These farmers are standing where 12 hours before a hut had housed the

:09:49. > :09:53.poultry. Tornadoes in the south have been making headlines for decades.

:09:54. > :09:59.Of the 700 chickens, barely 100 survived. Earlier this year, a

:10:00. > :10:04.twister of a milder variety was caught on camera in Hampshire.

:10:05. > :10:08.Previously on the Isle of Wight this quartet 's was filmed on a popular

:10:09. > :10:11.picnic spot. And how about this, a 2000 feet high water spout, again

:10:12. > :10:33.seen off the Isle of Wight. When it comes to wild weather, the

:10:34. > :10:37.residents of Sophie down the coast from Hayling, know a thing or two.

:10:38. > :10:44.They have lived through tornadoes. The last one in 1998. In a few

:10:45. > :10:49.violent moments, hundreds of lives were turned upside down. The 1998

:10:50. > :10:55.storm did ?10 million worth of damage. Ten years earlier, had

:10:56. > :11:01.another one. So does this mean its hotspot and get more? We look like

:11:02. > :11:06.we're going to see more extreme conditions. The atmosphere can hold

:11:07. > :11:10.more moisture. It has more energy out there, so we could see more

:11:11. > :11:15.tornadoes in the future. We will have to batten down the hatches in

:11:16. > :11:18.the South? If you like going out looking for these things, they may

:11:19. > :11:23.happen on a more frequent basis, so you can go out and take photographs

:11:24. > :11:27.and see if you can spot one yourself. And that's exactly what

:11:28. > :11:34.Tony does for a research organisation. A group affiliated to

:11:35. > :11:39.Brookes University. I always had a curious mind and I love the weather

:11:40. > :11:42.extremes. And I like to research. Just two days after the Hayling

:11:43. > :11:47.Island tornado there was what looks like another one just along the

:11:48. > :11:51.coast in West Sussex. It would appear from the damage spread around

:11:52. > :12:01.that we have had a very narrow spout, shall just there. It has

:12:02. > :12:06.lifted a small roof and tossed it properly 100 yards in that

:12:07. > :12:12.direction. I would envisage wind speeds of between 55 and 73 mph. It

:12:13. > :12:16.is actually quite, quite weak, as far as tornadoes are concerned, but

:12:17. > :12:22.it was a very straight line, very narrow and isolated. It was a water

:12:23. > :12:26.spout and then a tornado. It came ashore from the sea and then became

:12:27. > :12:33.a tornado. It's not the first time Tony has been to that exact spot. I

:12:34. > :12:38.was here in 1999 and I have a damaged track which is a few hundred

:12:39. > :12:40.yards up the road and it runs in line with this track and it's

:12:41. > :12:48.incredible we're standing here, years later, doing a similar

:12:49. > :12:52.investigation. This area is prone to tornadoes and watersports especially

:12:53. > :12:58.in October, November, December, and there are some research coming on

:12:59. > :13:03.with regards to the Isle of Wight having a spinning effect which is

:13:04. > :13:05.translating down to small tornadoes. And sometimes large

:13:06. > :13:11.tornadoes, which then go to mainland. Can we predict when

:13:12. > :13:14.certain weather events might happen? Conventional forecasts like

:13:15. > :13:22.to play it safe but there are other ways. See that little horses tell?

:13:23. > :13:26.That's a change in the weather. Dave is happy to give long`range weather

:13:27. > :13:33.forecasts. He is a philologist, which means he reads the weather do

:13:34. > :13:37.according to nature. I look at what nature tells me and it's up to me

:13:38. > :13:42.then to interpret what nature is telling me. Over the years, he's

:13:43. > :13:46.tested out thousands of old sayings and now lives by the ones which

:13:47. > :13:50.seemed to work whilst throwing out those which don't. There are

:13:51. > :13:55.millions of acorns this year. There are saying is that if the leaves are

:13:56. > :13:59.still on the oak tree by leaf fall, the end of this month, a hard

:14:00. > :14:04.winter. The reason for the leaves being on the trees is very simple.

:14:05. > :14:10.They provide cover, protection for the birds. He claims he's got a 90%

:14:11. > :14:19.success rate for his forecasts. For the winter birds, food. So this

:14:20. > :14:24.means the winter birds... Winter is going to be long and hard because

:14:25. > :14:28.it's got to provide. The more acorns, berries and leaves, the

:14:29. > :14:36.tougher the winter we have got? Yes, it doesn't look a lot to you but

:14:37. > :14:39.this could be Christmas dinner. A lot of meteorologists won't tell us

:14:40. > :14:44.whether it's going to be a white Christmas. But you will. They don't

:14:45. > :14:48.do seasonal forecasts any more because they can't afford to be

:14:49. > :14:52.wrong because they get the finger pointed at them, but it doesn't

:14:53. > :14:57.affect me. If I'm wrong, I will put my hands up, but I'm not often

:14:58. > :15:04.wrong, so I can say, from Boxing Day) up to Palm Sunday, it's going

:15:05. > :15:10.to be cold. Snow and ice. It's going to cause problems for a lot of

:15:11. > :15:13.people. No snow on Christmas Day but both Dave and professional

:15:14. > :15:19.forecasters alike seem to agree we could be in for a very cold winter

:15:20. > :15:22.in the New Year. It's far too far in the future to have the details to

:15:23. > :15:26.know whether a particular day is going to have a certain kind of

:15:27. > :15:29.weather, but there is a signal we could get blocking systems which

:15:30. > :15:34.Britain the cold bitter winters that we have seen lately. When we filmed

:15:35. > :15:44.and lastly, did Dave forecast this morning's bad weather? 28th, stormy

:15:45. > :15:50.day. It will always be a stormy day and at a Met Office stormy period

:15:51. > :15:53.any case, so storms on Monday. If you have got any wild weather

:15:54. > :16:02.stories, I would love to hear all about them. Next tonight, it's 50

:16:03. > :16:08.years since President John F Kennedy was assassinated. But did you know

:16:09. > :16:14.it's all so 50 years since JFK visited Sussex? Glen Campbell has

:16:15. > :16:17.been even exclusive access to the archives of the Sussex Police

:16:18. > :16:27.authority which show a very historic visit to the south. Thousands of us

:16:28. > :16:34.past it every day, and nowhere is it even exists. Let alone what it

:16:35. > :16:39.commemorates. For 50 years, this white stone plaque is marked the

:16:40. > :16:48.weekend President John F Kennedy visited the Sussex village of Forest

:16:49. > :16:53.Road. The Sussex Summit is almost like an Indian summer. She is John F

:16:54. > :16:57.Kennedy, unknown to him, of course, is last visit to Britain, to Europe.

:16:58. > :17:05.He is going to be assassinated a few months later. I was the one person

:17:06. > :17:10.that have that key to the room that had the hot line to the President

:17:11. > :17:24.in. It crossed my mind to go in and say, . Hi there.

:17:25. > :17:28.COMMENTATOR: He was visiting his sister in Derbyshire. A few things

:17:29. > :17:34.are not scheduled on this trip. Harold Macmillan only has 20 minutes

:17:35. > :17:40.of the President's time and a lot to talk about. Nuclear tests and the

:17:41. > :17:45.NATO themes are on the list. June 1963, the world was a

:17:46. > :17:49.precarious place. The height of the Cold War. The USA and Soviet Union

:17:50. > :17:55.facing one another in a nuclear arms race and was in this atmosphere,

:17:56. > :18:00.president John F Kennedy flew into Gatwick for talks with Harold

:18:01. > :18:05.Macmillan at his country estate, Birchgrove, just outside East

:18:06. > :18:14.Grinstead in Sussex. The main achievement, a test ban treaty. One

:18:15. > :18:20.was older and one was younger. One had enjoyed the playboy life, and

:18:21. > :18:24.the other was very demure. But they understood each other faced huge

:18:25. > :18:31.problems. The big question, when agreement leave `` lead to agreement

:18:32. > :18:36.in Moscow? The President's and visit came a few days after perhaps the

:18:37. > :18:41.most famous speech of his political career. His historic address to

:18:42. > :18:55.hundreds of thousands in Berlin. Today, in the world of freedom,

:18:56. > :19:00.hundreds of thousands in Berlin. This is a major period of his life

:19:01. > :19:03.because he is given a speech many people remember as one of the

:19:04. > :19:10.significant events of the Cold War which defined the Soviet Union. He

:19:11. > :19:14.goes to Ireland, to visit his family, and then comes to see his

:19:15. > :19:18.old friend, Harold Macmillan. Fast forward 50 years and the starting

:19:19. > :19:27.point for our story is here at the Sussex County records office. With

:19:28. > :19:31.the help of Brighton historian Paul Eldred, we found the original police

:19:32. > :19:37.files detailing the president 's visit to Sussex in the summer of

:19:38. > :19:41.1963. Half a century later, they're still information that we are not

:19:42. > :19:52.allowed to see. Sensitivities, still run high, I suppose. There were

:19:53. > :19:55.three jets before they started. Two American helicopters, two

:19:56. > :20:03.presidential cars, 100 members of the press, Brighton's two largest

:20:04. > :20:08.hotels were completely blocked out. Every hotel within Sussex seem to

:20:09. > :20:11.have been booked up. It was absolutely enormous. Two helicopters

:20:12. > :20:15.for the President and these went straight to Birchgrove and landed

:20:16. > :20:20.within the estate. As the helicopters were used to connect to

:20:21. > :20:25.Brighton and they landed on the health and Brunswick lawn.

:20:26. > :20:31.Birchgrove, the house, really acted as a stage for a play with all the

:20:32. > :20:34.comings and goings of the international summit. Using the

:20:35. > :20:38.files as our starting point, we have decided to track down some of the

:20:39. > :20:46.eyewitnesses present during JFK's last visit to Britain. This is

:20:47. > :20:51.interesting, Sunday morning, 8:15am, President Kennedy left

:20:52. > :20:56.Birchgrove for Forest Row, when he went to church. News he was

:20:57. > :21:01.attending Mass in a tiny Sussex village wrought out hundreds of

:21:02. > :21:06.local onlookers. It's an amazing moment for the blizzard, the only

:21:07. > :21:11.opportunity the general public really had to seek Kennedy close`up.

:21:12. > :21:18.He came out in his bubble top car, and drove two miles into the village

:21:19. > :21:27.to go to Mass. The vehicle they used was the same vehicle that was used

:21:28. > :21:31.later Kennedy was assassinated in in Dallas, so it was the same scene

:21:32. > :21:36.which became a part of history a few months later. Among the hundreds of

:21:37. > :21:44.local people gathered waiting to see the President, Lillian Shawcross and

:21:45. > :21:48.Doreen Mahoney. Both still living Forest Road today. You could see the

:21:49. > :21:53.rooms of the houses and because we wanted a better view, my mother and

:21:54. > :21:58.I stood on the side of the Bath and we could see right across. You saw

:21:59. > :22:05.the President arrived? With security men? Yes, and after the service,

:22:06. > :22:10.when they came out, we still got a very good of you right across.

:22:11. > :22:15.Exciting, really, because we never had anybody that big. He was a

:22:16. > :22:22.lovely man, a lovely man, everybody loved him, really.

:22:23. > :22:32.Two miles away from the hustle and bustle of the presidential visit,

:22:33. > :22:36.police constable Peter Etheridge was patrolling East Grinstead high

:22:37. > :22:41.Street. He had been left out of the Sussex Police operation to protect

:22:42. > :22:46.JFK and was quietly a bit annoyed. But his luck was about to change.

:22:47. > :22:52.Everyone else seemed to be rushing about doing things and I felt just

:22:53. > :22:57.neglected, if you like. And I was on patrol in East Grinstead high

:22:58. > :22:59.Street, and Ken Hutchinson, the detective sergeant, drove up

:23:00. > :23:06.alongside me and said, quick, jump in. He took me home, and I got my

:23:07. > :23:12.jacket, I had no idea what it was for. He drove me down to Birchgrove,

:23:13. > :23:18.where the Prime Minister Macmillan lived and all these people, all of

:23:19. > :23:24.them American, with lovely uniforms on, lots of gold braiding, and he

:23:25. > :23:29.said, this is Detective Sergeant, elevating my right, of course,

:23:30. > :23:36.Etheridge, and, would you believe it, they all shook my hand? Please

:23:37. > :23:41.to meet you, sir. We're off to lunch. Here is the key to the room

:23:42. > :23:49.with the hotline in. They gave me the key. And they were gone. And I

:23:50. > :23:53.was left in the Prime Minister 's house all alone. Now retired and

:23:54. > :23:59.living in Chichester, his brief stint in charge of security remains

:24:00. > :24:03.one of his career highs. I wondered all around Harold Macmillan's

:24:04. > :24:07.house, really. I could hear voices in the distance. That might have

:24:08. > :24:12.been in the kitchens. I can't remember now how I knew it was

:24:13. > :24:16.JFK's bedroom, or to be his bedroom, but it must have had his room on the

:24:17. > :24:23.door but I know I sat on the bed and bounced up and down. I didn't pride,

:24:24. > :24:28.but I've got to do something with the time I was there. I looked in

:24:29. > :24:37.Macmillan's medicine cabinet and he seemed to suffer with what I know

:24:38. > :24:42.suffer from. And I suppose, over an hour, I suppose, I heard voices and

:24:43. > :24:46.went downstairs and my moment of glory was over. The Earl of

:24:47. > :24:50.Stockton, Harold Macmillan's grandson, lifted Birchgrove and

:24:51. > :24:57.witnessed all the comings and goings of the Sussex summit of 1963. In the

:24:58. > :25:04.run`up to it, there was talk that they should go to Chequers. And the

:25:05. > :25:10.Queen even suggested Windsor Castle. And I think it was my

:25:11. > :25:16.grandmother who said, no, Harold, he's coming to our home. You have

:25:17. > :25:21.got to remember that these times, politicians to meet as they do now

:25:22. > :25:24.in summit G20, they have to steal time from other things, because

:25:25. > :25:29.there were no formal summit that they're going to be at the mess they

:25:30. > :25:32.create events themselves, and the fact it in the house of Harold

:25:33. > :25:39.Macmillan, shows it was a personal visit. The Sussex summit took place

:25:40. > :25:43.in the crucial months leading up to the signing of a nuclear test ban

:25:44. > :25:48.treaty which will ultimately bring an end to very real fears of nuclear

:25:49. > :25:53.war between the United States and the Soviet Union. There was a degree

:25:54. > :26:01.of almost father`son relationship between the two of them. That was

:26:02. > :26:09.reinforced by the Cuban missile crisis. My grandfather was speaking

:26:10. > :26:13.to them three or four times a day. Mr McMillan was home from Russia and

:26:14. > :26:20.the Cold War had undoubtedly thought as a result of his enterprising

:26:21. > :26:28.visit. Jack had no exposure and found the Russian prime minister

:26:29. > :26:32.very difficult to deal with. My grandfather said, you have got to

:26:33. > :26:37.stand up to him because you must be careful not to provide him with an

:26:38. > :26:40.excuse to do something stupid. In an all too short flurry of Secret

:26:41. > :26:46.Service activity and British hospitality, President John F

:26:47. > :26:50.Kennedy left Sussex 24 hours later. It was to be his last visit to

:26:51. > :26:59.Europe. In November that year, he was assassinated. He shook hands

:27:00. > :27:07.with us. And he said, I guess I'll be seeing you in Washington soon.

:27:08. > :27:15.And I think almost his last words to Harold work, we must do this again

:27:16. > :27:26.and soon. And he got into the helicopter. It dipped slightly as

:27:27. > :27:30.they flew out. When told of Kennedy's death, Harold Macmillan,

:27:31. > :27:39.who had just resigned, due to ill`health, make this entry his

:27:40. > :27:44.diary. "Alas, I was never to see my friend again. Be for those leaves

:27:45. > :27:51.had turned and fallen, he was snatched by an assassin's bullet."

:27:52. > :27:56.Glen Campbell with that report. Right, that's it for now and indeed

:27:57. > :27:59.for the series, but we are back early in the New Year but keep your

:28:00. > :28:05.e`mails coming in. We can't do it without you. Talking about females,

:28:06. > :28:12.let's have a look at what you have been saying. Lots of reaction about

:28:13. > :28:16.our story about the dog attack in Dorset. The woman should have all

:28:17. > :28:17.heard dogs taken away. It's obvious she's not strong enough to control

:28:18. > :28:41.this type of dog. If you have got a story we should be

:28:42. > :29:06.investigating for the next series, e`mail me.

:29:07. > :29:10.Hello, I'm Riz Lateef with your 90-second update. Four people are

:29:11. > :29:13.dead after the worst UK storm for years. Hurricane-force conditions

:29:14. > :29:17.left almost half a million homes without power. In some areas wind

:29:18. > :29:23.speeds reached up to 99 miles-per-hour. The weather caused

:29:24. > :29:26.travel chaos for many. Rail and road services were disrupted because of

:29:27. > :29:29.fallen trees, while over a hundred flights had to be cancelled at

:29:30. > :29:31.Heathrow. Get the latest updates on BBC Local Radio.

:29:32. > :29:33.On trial over the phone-hacking affair.