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Welcome to South East Today, I'm Rob Smith. And I'm Polly Evans. | :00:05. | :00:07. | |
Tonight's top stories. Jail for the lonely hearts conwoman | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
who swindled tens of thousands of pounds out of men she met though | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
adverts. People who feel isolated, looking for companionship, they | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
were easy victims, unfortunately. Kent politicians target the News of | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
the World over phone hacking allegations, organising protests to | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
urge a boycott of the paper. Also in tonight's programme: | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
Repaint it or lose it, the council ultimatum to the man who's given | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
his beachhut a psychedelic makeover. We'll be reporting live from Hove | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
seafront. CSI High Halden, the Kent company | :00:39. | :00:48. | |
that's importing real American police cars. Bagpuss was wide awake. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
And the co-creator of that saggy old cloth cat, Peter Firmin, is | :00:51. | :01:01. | |
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given the freedom of the city of Good evening. She lured men in | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
through lonely hearts adverts in order to steal their money. A | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
Sussex woman who swindled up to �100,000 out of the men she met, | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
has been jailed for three years. 51-year-old Loraine Upritchard | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
conned her latest victim, elderly widower James Saunders, out of | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
thousands of pounds by telling the 81-year-old she was awaiting | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
probate to be granted on her late aunt's estate. John Young reports. | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
Finally add court late this afternoon, the woman who showed | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
contempt to the lonely men she defended and indifference to the | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
legal system itself. Arranged a Prichard had failed to turn up will | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
send a team yesterday because of a hospital appointment, and failed to | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
turn up at 2pm because she said her letter never arrive. The police had | :01:54. | :02:01. | |
to fetch her. Once she arrived, the judge said, I will say this in none | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
legal language. You are in my view, a wicked, despicable, gold-digging | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
con artist who fleeced money of lonely old men. A pensioner for | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
Eastbourne -- from Eastbourne was an early victim, James Saunders, | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
was annexed. Police believe there could have been many others are too | :02:18. | :02:28. | |
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embarrassed to come forward. Her The more she had in mind was money. | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
She coaxed them into loans for medical bills, or simply stole the | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
Czechs. What is more, the court heard, she would not stop doing it. | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
In 2007 she was given a community order, was jailed later when she | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
broke out order or whilst simultaneously deceiving her next | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
victim, Mr Saunders. It is all too common. Spot the signs, if someone | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
is asking for money early on, if you do not know them, asks someone | :03:01. | :03:08. | |
you trust first. Loraine Uprichard said there was little she could say | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
in her defence, except that she was have -- having medical problems, | :03:13. | :03:22. | |
did eventually plead guilty and realised she must be punished. | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
Is Mr Saunders likely to ever see his money again? | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
Put bluntly, no. This is perhaps the saddest part of this whole case. | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
James Saunders, the 81 year-old gentleman from Haywards Heath is | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
�11,000 out of pocket. She has -- he has sued debts and has had to | :03:39. | :03:47. | |
sell his car. It was discussed whether it compensation order would | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
be appropriate, but the judge said, she herself had no money. The | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
elderly money has lost what he thought was a good friendship and | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
also his savings. A group of Kent politicians are | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
organising protests outside retailers selling the News of the | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
World in a targeted campaign against Rupert Murdoch's newspaper | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
group, as the police investigate allegations of phone hacking. The | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
local Labour Party group in Canterbury and Whitstable is | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
calling on members to protest at several venues this weekend, to | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
encourage shoppers to boycott the tabloid. And tonight a senior | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
Sussex MP urged the Government to suspend the planned NewsCorp | :04:20. | :04:30. | |
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takeover of BSkyB while the police investigate. Rebecca Barry reports. | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
The swell of anger is spreading. As the controversy over phone hacking | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
at the News of the World refuses to die down. Please do not buy the | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
News of the world. Here in Whitstable they are planning a | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
boycott of the tabloid, with protests outside newsagents and | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
supermarkets. The message we want to send it is that you can make a | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
difference as individuals, do not buy the News of the world. | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
Sunday, anyone calling into this newsagent to pick up their weekly | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
copy of the News of the World will be met with protests outside. | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
Organisers say they want to hit the paper where it hurts. I would not | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
buy it after the scandal, I think it is appalling. I don't think I | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
will buy the News of the world again, I can't believe a word they | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
say down. Four people to get together and show there is a | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
protest, it is very good. So what is it all about? In 2007, Clive | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
Goodman, run editor at the News of the World, and Glenn Mulcaire, | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
private investigation -- private investigator, were jailed for | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
intercepting phone messages. After repeated criticism of the police | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
inquiry, the met announced in the investigation this year. In April, | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
the News International admitted liability in a number of cases | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
involving celebrities. This week it has emerged murdered schoolgirl | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
Milly Dowler's were smells made have been hacked, along with stones | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
-- a voice mails may have been hacked, along with victims of the | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
seven hat -- 7/7 attacks, the so murders and Milly -- Madeline | :06:04. | :06:13. | |
This Kent-based former News of the World journalist is defending the | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
paper. I would estimate at least 10% of the population have hacked | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
into someone's own. Conceivably your broth and may have seemed -- | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
hacked into yours to see if you're having an affair, it is so easy to | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
do. With several major advertisers considering withdrawing support, it | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
seems the surge of disapproval is trickling down to consumers. | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
Our political Editor his life for us in Westminster. I understand | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
more significant developments this evening, Sussex MP Nicholas Soames | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
is calling for specific action? That right. A very lively debate | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
here in the Commons this afternoon, and the Mid Sussex MP, that | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
Conservative member for Mid Sussex Nicholas Soames, he is urging the | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
government to take a pause, as he put it, before going any further | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
with proceeding with News Corporation's bid to take over | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
BSkyB. Would not due process also include now, given that there is | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
clear evidence of serious criminality on the part of some | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
people at News International, off in any event without necessarily | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
referring to the Competition Commission, to calling a Paul's | :07:28. | :07:38. | |
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pending further evidence? What impact will this integration have? | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
You heard there, Tim Luckhurst, a professor of journalism say, | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
although it is a different issue, the BSkyB buyout and a phone | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
hacking scandal, there must now be an inquiry. Government sources say | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
they cannot have this pause because if they do, it could leave them | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
open to called of a judicial review from News Corporation. At the | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
moment, the government is saying they will be no pause but calls for | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
an inquiry are inquiring -- increasing. You can find out much | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
more about the phone hacking investigation on the BBC's website. | :08:10. | :08:20. | |
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In a moment: Find out why the dry The owner of a beach hut on Hove | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
seafront painted in psychedelic colours has been told to repaint it | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
in green and burgundy within two weeks, or face having it taken away | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
from him. There are strict rules on the colouring of the beach huts and | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
a long waiting list for people wanting to have one. Ria Chatterjee | :08:36. | :08:43. | |
is on Hove seafront now. The council are not impressed with the | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
multi-coloured makeover? As you can see, they have actually | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
posted a breach of licence notice on the House -- on the heart itself. | :08:53. | :09:00. | |
It says if the hut had not been repeated and by 4pm next Monday, | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
they will proceed to serve notice determining the licence. | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
-- to terminate the licence. Uniform in size and colour, apart | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
from the one which is breaking ranks and causing a bit of | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
controversy. The owner received a letter from the council telling him | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
to spruce up his heart. What they were expecting was a lick of paint, | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
at the very most. So many people down here love it, they think it is | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
an inspiration, they wonder why they can't do the same. It is | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
cheerful, it is bright. It is very bright and very Hove. Abbey cut | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
like this would set you back about drug �1,000. -- a beach hut like | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
this. But the council still own the land and lease it to the owner, | :09:48. | :09:55. | |
which means the owner has to stick to the council colour scheme, which | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
is green and dark cherry. It has certainly been grabbing the | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
attention of people passing by. doors are wonderful, multi- | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
coloured doors. I think it's something like this were to go on | :10:05. | :10:12. | |
and everybody got the idea, it would look a bit odd. Everyone who | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
bought one at all rents one knows they have to keep it in keeping | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
with all the other beach huts, a soap it has gone over the top. But | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
it looks very nice, it would look lovely every -- somewhere else. | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
This is Brighton, it is one known for being out there and different | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
and quirky and unique. That is what Brian is. The council says this -- | :10:36. | :10:43. | |
the standard colours blend in with a seascape, so should they change | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
their policy? I think they should, but I believe there are nearly 500 | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
of these lovely beach huts. If they open the floodgates, it could look | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
like a load of graffiti at the end of the day. So it seems this beach | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
hut will be relinquishing its rebellious roads and falling in | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
line once again. Geoff says he thinks it would be a | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
shame to paid over this, that it should be preserved. As the owner, | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
he is free to sell it, so he's thinking of putting it on eBay. | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
You can always painted differently on the inside! | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
A man has been jailed after he admitted swallowing 101 packets of | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
cocaine and attempting to smuggle them through the port of Dover. 47- | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
year-old Kingsley Nwaneku from London was sentenced to eight and a | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
half years in jail. The packets weighed 1.27 kilos and had a street | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
value of �280,000. Figures released by a health | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
watchdog have revealed Medway NHS has one of the worst records for | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
patients suffering from bedsores. Using NHS data, the research | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
company Dr Foster found Medway NHS was the second worst in the country. | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
The hospital challenged the findings saying the figures didn't | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
distinguish between hospital- acquired bedsores and those | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
acquired by patients treated at home. | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
The Trust running Kent's newest hospital says there's been a big | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
demand from expectant mothers wanting to use its maternity unit. | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust says it's opening an extra | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
room in the delivery suite at Pembury Hospital in Tunbridge Wells. | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
A similar facility in Maidstone will be closed. Campaigners are | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
fighting to keep consultant-led maternity services in the county | :12:17. | :12:27. | |
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town. Homeowners across the south-east | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
are being plagued by unusually high numbers of wasps this year, with | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
the dry spring weather giving the insects a flying start. But the wet | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
June seems to have had the opposite effect on the butterfly population, | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
with numbers significantly down. So far in the south-east it's been an | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
unusual year weather-wise. Springtime was the driest on record. | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
In April just 1 mm of rain fell in some places, less than 10% of the | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
average. But that was in stark contrast to June, which saw 149% | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
more rainfall compared with the monthly average. Our environment | :12:53. | :13:00. | |
correspondent Yvette Austin has this report. | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
A hole in the ground, a perfect nest site for wasps. Each time you | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
get stung by a wasp, it gets worse. One sting can make your hand double | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
in size, if you get stung on the neck, you can stop breathing. | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
are good for the garden, helping pollination and eating green fly. | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
But near houses can be a pest and Paul says this year they are | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
thriving. They are nests a much more active at this time of year | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
than we would normally expect. We are getting many more calls, double | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
the number of calls this year than we had in June last year. People | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
are seeing the much earlier, the nests are much larger. Which is why | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
Jane has called in the pet controllers. She is allergic to | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
vesting and for her, just one is life-threatening. The first time, I | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
came out in great wields come a could not breathe, the mother and - | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
- my mother rushed me to doctors and I was injected. Each time I was | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
stung it got worse and worse than so now I have to carry medicines I | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
can inject myself in a hurry. Whilst the wasps are busy building | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
on a successful early start due to the dry spring, it is a different | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
story for butterflies. This time last year, there were hundreds of | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
butterflies here. Last year, I it filmed lots of different | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
butterflies, the normal common ones that you see, the Peacock, the | :14:27. | :14:34. | |
little red admiral and the tortoise shell. Have you can see now, there | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
are absolutely... It is like a ghost tone -- ghost town. As for | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
the honey bee, this year has been mixed. There were unprecedented | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
amounts of honey collected at the beginning, but the dry weather and | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
resulting lack of nectar took its toll and resulted in so-called | :14:51. | :15:00. | |
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DTB's. -- tetchy bees. People found that there were no stores of honey | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
for the bees to feed on, so they have been having to feed their bees, | :15:07. | :15:15. | |
they do not normally have to do that. Scientists look upon the Look | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
North -- the like of wasps and bees as important indicators to what is | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
happening in the environment, they will look at this year with | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
interest. The top story tonight. A Sussex | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
woman who conned hundreds of thousands of pounds out of elderly | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
men she met through lonely hearts ads has been jailed for three years. | :15:38. | :15:46. | |
Loraine up Prichard told 181 year- old victim she was waiting for | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
money for her light -- aren't's estate. | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
A marvellous Mechanical Mouse organ! The man who made Bagpuss and | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
his friends is to be made a Freeman of the City Canterbury 4th. | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
If you are yearning from a break from your body, I might be able to | :16:07. | :16:15. | |
find the one. -- if you are yearning for a break from your | :16:15. | :16:25. | |
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He's widely remembered in Brighton and elsewhere as a colourful, | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
loveable royal rogue. A collection of larger than life George IV | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
characters dating back to the 1700s portray him as just that. The | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
images on show in Brighton Museum are part of a request by the former | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
government minister Lord Baker who's a bit of a fan. Robin Gibson | :16:46. | :16:56. | |
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It was a time when offences Against the State were still punishable by | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
death. But looking at these, you get the impression that even a | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
royal like George was allowed to have no secrets, and openly mocking | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
him was fair game. I think they have a tumour but also an | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
intelligent about them, and give a very complex image of the political | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
and social life in the Regency era -- I think they have a humour. It | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
is a good image of George, but it is sometimes very rude. None of his | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
blushes were spared, his many affairs, his squandering of public | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
money and his flamboyant of Scottishness. -- his flamboyant | :17:49. | :17:57. | |
foppish this. He bought up every caricature of himself, and every | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
edition, to prevent them from being distributed. They are hugely | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
sought-after today. These pictures came from the private collection of | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
Lord Baker who has written a book about what he sees -- as extreme | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
paparazzi, and he should know as a former government minister. Various | :18:16. | :18:22. | |
targets are depicted as vomiting, urinating, defecating, spitting, | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
everything. There are bare bottoms and bare breasts. It is very | :18:26. | :18:33. | |
explicit. There was no censorship. In France, there was censorship, | :18:33. | :18:40. | |
you leave a 14 had a cartoonist torn apart by horses. -- Lou week | :18:40. | :18:49. | |
14th. These some of the man seen by his people not always kindly. -- | :18:49. | :18:55. | |
some up the man. They may be period pieces, but there are so many | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
issues here that have never gone away. Freedom of information, | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
intrusiveness, privacy. All the things we remember George for, it | :19:03. | :19:13. | |
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is amazing the super injunction is As all-American... | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
We were shocked to their! We were so shocked. | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
From the Dukes of Hazzard to Hill Street Blues to NYPD Blue, American | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
cop cars have always held something of a fascination for us over here. | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
Bigger, flashier, noisier than any motor you'll find on The Bill. Now | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
a Kent company is offering the chance for people to live out their | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
fantasy of driving a real American police car by selling real American | :19:42. | :19:52. | |
police cars. Caroline Feraday has been to see them. | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
As all-American as the hamburger. The Ford -- the Ford Police | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
Interceptor, a cop car, not exactly what you expect to find in the | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
heart of the Kent countryside where this company is importing and | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
restoring them. They have been used by sheriffs, state troopers, the | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
police over their. And inside you have the genuine light consols, the | :20:13. | :20:19. | |
PA systems, they do not just look good, they sound good. They have | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
100 visible air horns. The lights all work on them. They are | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
incredible cars to here as well as look at. I have found a really good | :20:28. | :20:38. | |
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You have got to get used to sitting on the wrong side, but it is | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
automatic, easy to drive, and you do not have to put your foot on the | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
accelerator much to feel there is a lot of poker on the bonnet. Before | :20:53. | :21:00. | |
0.6 litre engine, to be exact, -- a 4.6 litre engine, and in theory it | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
could run on ethanol and therefore cooking oil. From Beverly Hills Cop | :21:05. | :21:15. | |
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to the Blues Brothers, it is an iconic image, familiar to us all. | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
think there are sufficient number, and I mean that in the nicest way, | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
nutters out there who would want them as their everyday cars almost. | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
They are not particularly cheap, �22,000. Despite that, it seems to | :21:31. | :21:38. | |
be turning their heads of local officers. So if you want to play | :21:38. | :21:45. | |
Cagney and Lacey for yourself, now is your chance. | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
US Open champion Rory McIlroy has been in Kent today practicing at | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
Royal St George's. McIlroy posted a photo of himself on the 18th green | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
this afternoon on his Twitter account. The 22-year-old is the | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
bookies' favourite to win The Open, which starts next Thursday in | :21:58. | :22:05. | |
Sandwich. If he does so he'll pick up a cheque for �900,000. | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
He will be able to drive sheep through the centre of Canterbury | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
and follow in the illustrious footsteps of Lord Baden-Powell and | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
Field Marshall Montgomery. Within the next half an hour, Bagpuss's | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
co-creator Peter Firmin will be made a freeman of the city of | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
Canterbury for the contribution he's made to children's television. | :22:25. | :22:35. | |
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He helped create noggin the Nog and When it comes to viewers' polls, | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
this saggy old cloth cat has bagged many awards. From the nation's | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
favourite children's TV programme, to our most beloved television | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
animal. Amazingly his co-creator have never won a major award. For | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
Peter Firmin, surviving founder of Smallfilms, this is about to change | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
as he is given the freedom of the city of Canterbury. I am greatly | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
honoured. Knowing all the time that without Oliver, who was my | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
colleague for so many years, it would not have happened. You have | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
not been honoured for all the things you have done, have you? | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
is much more important that what to do is like or loved and appreciated | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
by your audience. When children, even children today still know | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
about Bagpuss and Ivor the Engine. It is enough. Let's not forget The | :23:28. | :23:35. | |
Clangers. That is a clanger. And that is another clanger. They | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
manage it -- they're magical world wars are brought to life by the | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
mellifluous tones of Oliver Postgate who died two-and- a-half | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
years ago. The small film programmes were all made in a barn | :23:47. | :23:54. | |
at Peter's house near Canterbury. That unrivalled success as children | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
television creators is being alongside achievements of previous | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
three men. We hardly ever give a freedom oust -- out, three years | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
ago was the last time to the local regiment who had come back from | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
Afghanistan. We are careful to give it to people who deserve it. As one | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
half of the successful partnership, Peter says tonight's award is down | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
to one man. I will be thinking of Oliver, because without Oliver, | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
this would never have happened. The fact that Oliver asked me to work | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
with him all those years ago, and the fact it has lasted so long, we | :24:29. | :24:37. | |
had such a success for Korea together. Maybe this award is the | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
start of things to time -- things to come. I am sure Bagpuss | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
enthusiasts begin, Sir Peter Firmin has a certain ring to it. | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
It makes you feel warm and fuzzy, doesn't it? | :24:54. | :25:03. | |
I think it was Bagpuss that got me into the colour pink, as you can | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
tell! It might be ending fine and dandy through the evening with some | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
Lundy -- lovely sunshine, but there is some rain eyeing us up from the | :25:12. | :25:22. | |
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west. It is going to be grey tomorrow, it is edging towards us. | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
Later on tonight, it will start to tickle the far west of the region. | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
Maybe getting into West Sussex and Surrey by the end of the night, a | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
few showers nosing in across the coast at the end of the night. For | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
the majority of us, it will be dry overnight. Still breezy with cloud | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
increasing, it will not be especially cold. A fairly mild but | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
breezy start to the day tomorrow, and whatever we start with, it's | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
just a matter of it -- rapidly goes downhill. Like today, East Kent | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
could say drier. The majority of the rain will be elsewhere, but | :25:59. | :26:06. | |
most of us are seeing more rain, on and off, mostly on rather than off. | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
Lots of showers, some had become a three tomorrow. Still quite gusty | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
throughout the south coast. A rather damp day in prospect for | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
tomorrow, breezy, and also it is going to be feeling a little bit | :26:19. | :26:29. | |
cooler than we have had today. We got up to 213 today. Beyond that, | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
more rain coming through. -- we got up to 21 degrees three today. Even | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
on Friday, more showers coming through. It does not bode well for | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
the weekend, but actually I think the high fresher Bulman up a bit | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
for Saturday and Sunday. -- the high pressure will man up a bit. | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
Sunny spells, the wind will be lighter, and temperatures will be | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
starting to creep above average. Rain for the next couple of days | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
but better for the weekend. I have not only been embracing but hugging | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
and kissing the social networking site. I have joined Twitter, | :27:06. | :27:16. | |
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Make sure you find the official BBC Facebook account! If he wants to | :27:21. | :27:28. |