:00:05. > :00:09.Welcome to South East Today, I'm John Young. And I'm Natalie Graham.
:00:09. > :00:12.Tonight's top stories: Threatened with jail - the man who advertised
:00:12. > :00:21.a beach party on Facebook and found himself faced with up to 5,000
:00:21. > :00:24.guests. That the council seem to think I am organising an event like
:00:24. > :00:30.Fatboy Slim. There will not be hundreds of thousands of people. I
:00:30. > :00:32.haven't got a stage set up. family at war: the three sisters
:00:32. > :00:38.contesting their father's will after he married a woman three days
:00:38. > :00:41.before he died. Also in tonight's programme: The windfarm windfall,
:00:41. > :00:46.but how much will our communities see of the millions earmarked for
:00:46. > :00:54.coastal towns? Meet the family - nine kids so far,
:00:54. > :00:58.and twins on the way. The condoned go asking the monks at
:00:58. > :01:01.the monastery any stupid questions, because they cannot talk to you.
:01:01. > :01:11.Remembering Hattie Jacques and friends at the house where she was
:01:11. > :01:15.
:01:15. > :01:18.Good evening. A Sussex care worker who invited a handful of friends to
:01:18. > :01:21.a picnic on the beach to mark Brighton's Gay Pride celebrations
:01:21. > :01:24.has been forced to call it off, after receiving a noise-abatement
:01:24. > :01:26.order threatening him with jail. Wayne Jones used the social
:01:26. > :01:29.networking site Facebook to send out invitations to his free event
:01:29. > :01:33.to protest at the introduction of charges for next month's official
:01:33. > :01:37.Pride party. But within weeks the numbers had spiralled out of
:01:37. > :01:47.control, with thousands saying they were planning to attend. Chrissie
:01:47. > :01:47.
:01:47. > :01:51.Reidy has more. Angry that this year's Gay pride was charging
:01:51. > :01:55.�17.50 to gain entrance to the park for the day, Wayne Jones decided to
:01:55. > :01:59.use Facebook and organise a free picnic or his friends on the beach
:01:59. > :02:02.as an alternative. Yet, out of the blue, he was served with a noise
:02:02. > :02:08.abatement order from Brighton and Hove Council say he could be fined
:02:08. > :02:12.and even jailed for organising what they describe as an illegal rave.
:02:12. > :02:17.Originally what we had planned was for 15 or 20 of us to go through to
:02:17. > :02:20.the beach, have some picnic food and a few drinks, watch the parade,
:02:20. > :02:24.and just relax for the day and enjoy ourselves. The council seem
:02:24. > :02:28.to think that I am organising an event like Fatboy Slim. There is
:02:28. > :02:33.not going to be hundreds of thousands of people coming down,
:02:33. > :02:39.having got a stage set up. I haven't got loud music -- loud
:02:39. > :02:43.music and life bans. I am not a famous person! Initially he not --
:02:43. > :02:47.invited 20 friends. Then friends invited more friends and soon 2,500
:02:47. > :02:56.people confirmed they were attending. Within a couple of
:02:56. > :03:01.months it snowballed to 8,000. Been 2002, the police and council were
:03:01. > :03:05.criticised when 250,000 people descended on Brighton's beach for a
:03:05. > :03:08.Fatboy Slim concert. This year with Preston Park being at fenced-off
:03:08. > :03:13.and licensed for only 52,000 there are concerns that revellers could
:03:14. > :03:18.descend on the beach and end up being turned away. I think he has
:03:18. > :03:21.no -- hit a nerve, and that is why we are getting such a prickly
:03:21. > :03:25.response from the council and a less prickly response from the
:03:25. > :03:29.police. I think the police have been heavy handed and the council
:03:29. > :03:35.have been this advice. I think it is a crass way of trying to drive
:03:35. > :03:38.people up to pay for their tickets at Preston Park. We have been
:03:39. > :03:43.having people telling us that since November they would have picnics on
:03:43. > :03:49.the beach. Would you say the council have screwed it up? Yes, I
:03:49. > :03:53.think they have, actually. Concerned he would face a 20,000
:03:53. > :04:02.pound fine, Wayne felt he had no choice but to close down the page
:04:02. > :04:05.and has cancelled the event. Brighton and Hove council turned
:04:05. > :04:09.down a request foreign interview, but said the people turning up for
:04:09. > :04:19.a picnic on the beach would not be stopped from doing so, we have a
:04:19. > :04:22.responsibility to make sure people can have fun in a safe environment.
:04:22. > :04:25.Three sisters have gone to the High Court to contest their father's
:04:25. > :04:28.will, after he left his entire four million pound fortune to his wife
:04:28. > :04:31.in a case described by the judge as involving a family "at war with
:04:31. > :04:34.itself. George Wharton got married just three days before his death at
:04:34. > :04:38.the age of 78. His daughters claim there was "undue influence" when
:04:38. > :04:41.his will was filed, so it should be ruled invalid. Sara Smith joins us
:04:41. > :04:46.live from the High Court. Why did Mr Wharton get married when he was
:04:46. > :04:52.so near to death? George Wharton's new wife had been his partner for
:04:52. > :04:56.more than 30 years and she was known to many people as Mrs Wharton.
:04:56. > :04:59.She had helped him build up the business, the leisure business,
:04:59. > :05:03.that they ran together on the Isle of Sheppey. She said they had a
:05:03. > :05:07.pact to marry if one of them got terminally ill, so when he was in
:05:07. > :05:11.the last stage of cancer that is what they did. It on the same day,
:05:11. > :05:18.three days before he died, he wrote a new will leaving everything to
:05:18. > :05:22.her. What have Mr Wharton's daughters said today? By say their
:05:23. > :05:27.father would have wanted to include them in the will but he was too ill
:05:27. > :05:32.to have made the new will in the days before he died and that he was
:05:32. > :05:37.pressured into it by Mrs Wharton. The risk in a family feud like this
:05:37. > :05:40.is that it ends up destroying the one thing at the centre of it.
:05:40. > :05:45.These family disputes over somebody's will cost a great deal
:05:45. > :05:48.of money, and that comes out of the estate. If these disputes are for
:05:48. > :05:53.to right the way through the courts, whichever party wins may find that
:05:53. > :05:56.at the end of the day there is very little money left for anybody.
:05:56. > :06:02.case continues next week and there may be a judgment as early as next
:06:02. > :06:12.Friday. In a moment: Top brass on the Kent
:06:12. > :06:15.
:06:15. > :06:17.coast. One of America's most famous It could be a wind farm windfall,
:06:17. > :06:21.with the Government launching plans for a multi-million pound annual
:06:21. > :06:24.investment in our coastal communities in Thanet today. The
:06:24. > :06:26.Crown Estate, which owns the coastline, earns over �40 million a
:06:26. > :06:32.year from offshore wind farms and other marine projects, and more
:06:33. > :06:36.than half of that money is now being made available. But there's
:06:36. > :06:46.no guarantee any of it will come to the South East, as our Environment
:06:46. > :06:48.
:06:48. > :06:52.Correspondent, Yvette Austin Lucrative generators of electricity.
:06:53. > :06:57.Anybody building a wind farm around the UK has to pay the owners of the
:06:57. > :07:02.sea bed beneath them. Crown Estates, historically the royal family, but
:07:02. > :07:06.now the Treasury. They are incredible beasts, these things.
:07:06. > :07:09.Today the economic Secretary saw the money generating machines for
:07:09. > :07:13.herself and announced some of the cash would be designated for
:07:13. > :07:17.coastal communities. We are making sure some of the revenues we have
:07:17. > :07:20.got from offshore wind farms and other marine activities will
:07:20. > :07:26.support coastal communities and their economic development, whether
:07:26. > :07:29.it is skills, investing in the local economy, they will hopefully
:07:29. > :07:33.create more jobs. The amount of money that the Crown Estates earned
:07:33. > :07:37.from the wind farms is determined by the amount of electricity
:07:37. > :07:41.generated. And as the number of wind farms increases, so will the
:07:41. > :07:46.Revenue. Will we are subsidising the building of the wind farms, but
:07:46. > :07:50.at least some of the money will be going back to coastal communities.
:07:50. > :07:54.Hopeful recipients might be people like Steve, who have spent �28,000
:07:54. > :07:59.on a boat to get a job with the wind farm that failed, and now runs
:07:59. > :08:04.fishing trips. I think of �23 million coming in, shared across
:08:04. > :08:10.the whole they're, that would not go far around the country. But if
:08:10. > :08:15.they can build a swimming pool here, that is where the money should go.
:08:15. > :08:19.Young people today in Ramsgate were hopeful. It does need a lot of help
:08:19. > :08:24.around here. Every penny is going to count, really. It is quite good
:08:24. > :08:31.news. He is all right, but we probably won't see no. It would
:08:31. > :08:34.make a difference if it was put into the buildings or they put it
:08:34. > :08:38.in two jobs and more jobs for people. Definitely that would make
:08:38. > :08:45.a difference. The environment charities education and health are
:08:45. > :08:50.all areas which could get support. So what is the picture when it
:08:50. > :08:53.comes to investment in offshore wind farms here in the South East?
:08:53. > :08:55.Well, we're at the forefront of the UK industry, with 30 turbines at
:08:55. > :08:58.the Kentish Flats development off Whitstable, and 100 turbines at
:08:58. > :09:02.Britain's biggest offshore windfarm off Thanet. But that development
:09:02. > :09:11.will be dwarfed by the London Array, which will see 175 turbines being
:09:11. > :09:15.built in the Thames Estuary. One Kent MP says today's announcement
:09:15. > :09:18.will build on the economic benefits of renewable energy. We have
:09:18. > :09:22.benefited from the wind farms. There has been a lot of money
:09:22. > :09:25.coming into the economy, even if they weren't directly employed jobs.
:09:25. > :09:30.Now I feel that we are in an excellent place with Thanet
:09:30. > :09:37.collection -- College To really pull through with the skills and
:09:37. > :09:39.really become a south-east Hub for the sector. And its not exactly
:09:39. > :09:42.surprising that a Thanet MP would welcome the prospect of further
:09:42. > :09:45.government funding, as it's one of the most deprived parts of the
:09:45. > :09:49.country. The unemployment rate in Thanet is 5.5%. That's more than
:09:49. > :09:54.double the South East average of 2.5%. And only 39% of new
:09:54. > :09:57.businesses created in the area manage to survive after five years.
:09:57. > :10:01.Let's speak to our Environment Correspondent, Yvette Austin, who
:10:01. > :10:09.is live in Margate this evening. Yvette, how much of an impact is
:10:09. > :10:13.this new money likely to have, assuming we get any that is? There
:10:13. > :10:16.is no guarantee, and the �23 million has to be divided across
:10:16. > :10:21.the whole of the UK. England will get a bigger share, when you
:10:21. > :10:26.remember that the Turner contemporary gallery in Margate
:10:26. > :10:29.cost �17 million alone it to build up then you may think that �23
:10:29. > :10:33.million won't go very far. The individual projects and schemes
:10:33. > :10:37.will have to bid for the cash in the style of the lottery, a method
:10:37. > :10:44.there has been successful for some people in the past, but some people
:10:44. > :10:47.are going to be making a good case for their cash also of -- for their
:10:47. > :10:50.cash. The Coastal Communities Fund will open for business next April,
:10:50. > :10:53.and the government says details of how to apply will be announced soon.
:10:53. > :10:56.A 40-year-old man has been jailed for six years after admitting
:10:56. > :10:59.causing death by dangerous driving. Jonathan Wenham, who's from
:10:59. > :11:02.Brighton, knew he was above the drink-drive limit when he crashed
:11:02. > :11:08.his BMW into a tree in the city, killing one of his passengers,
:11:08. > :11:11.Nicholas Messenger, from London. A soldier who was awarded the
:11:11. > :11:14.Victoria Cross after rescuing injured comrades under fire in Iraq
:11:14. > :11:16.has now received an honorary degree from Sussex University. Lance
:11:16. > :11:18.Corporal Johnson Beharry received his degree today from the
:11:18. > :11:25.university's Chancellor, the actor Sanjeev Bhaskar, at a ceremony in
:11:25. > :11:28.Brighton. The father of a man from Kent who's
:11:28. > :11:31.in intensive care after a motorbike crash in Indonesia says he fears
:11:31. > :11:34.his son will die, unless he's moved to a better hospital. Richard
:11:34. > :11:42.Plummer, who's from Maidstone, has no travel insurance and his family
:11:42. > :11:45.is facing a bill of up to �100,000 to bring him home. His father's
:11:45. > :11:48.flown to his bedside in Bali, but says he's been shocked by the lack
:11:48. > :11:50.of equipment and poor hygiene at the hospital.
:11:50. > :11:54.One of America's most famous military leaders was at Dover
:11:54. > :11:57.Castle today, on a social visit to a British soldier who's become a
:11:57. > :11:59.good friend. General David Petraeus has just stepped down as the US
:11:59. > :12:02.commander in charge of international forces in Afghanistan.
:12:02. > :12:05.He'd previously spent 20 months leading the military campaign in
:12:05. > :12:15.Iraq and his next job will be running the Central Intelligence
:12:15. > :12:15.
:12:15. > :12:20.Agency, the American secret service. Robin Gibson met him this afternoon.
:12:20. > :12:25.The American general and the British Brigadier, strolling in the
:12:25. > :12:30.grounds of Dover Castle. A special relationship. He is the former
:12:30. > :12:35.commander in Afghanistan, the new director of the CIA, and some say
:12:35. > :12:40.he could run for president. He has come here to see a friend and
:12:40. > :12:44.colleague, Brigadier Simon will see, his regional commander who lives in
:12:45. > :12:48.Dover Castle. He has known and work with the general for years through
:12:48. > :12:54.the Pentagon, Baghdad and elsewhere. I should think you do not get many
:12:54. > :12:58.social days out. This is the first one I've had in a long time. I'll
:12:58. > :13:03.be going to the United States to be reunited with family and preparing
:13:03. > :13:08.for the next chapter in life. have the Stars and Stripes flying
:13:08. > :13:13.here. Isn't that something? It's really wonderful. I've never seen
:13:13. > :13:16.it before. Yes, thank you for everything, Simon. It may be a
:13:17. > :13:22.social call but they have not scrimp on the bomb and circumstance.
:13:22. > :13:30.The Stars and Stripes flying over the tower. And in the garden before
:13:30. > :13:34.lunch the ubiquitous Scottish pipers. I sent an e-mail and got a
:13:34. > :13:38.response within five minutes. He was on an aircraft over the
:13:38. > :13:47.Atlantic going for his testimony to be the new chief of the CA. He said
:13:47. > :13:51.he would love to come over and 22nd July would work. Amazingly due was
:13:51. > :13:57.not the only four-star American general of the castle today.
:13:57. > :14:02.General Barry McCaffrey was in the grounds. He could not resist saying
:14:02. > :14:06.hello. You are the man who shouted out, hello Dave. None of us could
:14:06. > :14:11.do that. But you know him well. has been one of the most brilliant
:14:11. > :14:15.and capable people in our military for years. The day the general came
:14:15. > :14:25.to lunch. A social call that will live in the memory for a long time
:14:25. > :14:27.
:14:27. > :14:30.A Sussex care worker who invited a handful of friends to a picnic on
:14:30. > :14:32.the beach to mark Brighton's Gay Pride celebrations has called it
:14:32. > :14:35.off, after receiving a noise- abatement order threatening him
:14:35. > :14:38.with jail. Waiyne Jones used Facebook to send
:14:38. > :14:48.out invitations to his party, and within weeks 8,000 people said they
:14:48. > :14:48.
:14:48. > :14:51.were planning to attend. Also in tonight's programme: The
:14:51. > :14:59.carry on in Kent today to commemorate Hattie Jacques in her
:14:59. > :15:09.home town. And a weekend wonder all weekend thunder? And what about
:15:09. > :15:13.
:15:13. > :15:17.next week? Join me later for the She already has nine children - and
:15:17. > :15:21.is due to have twins in the autumn - so Tania Sullivan, a mother from
:15:21. > :15:24.Kent, is well qualified to set up a website to share her tips on coping
:15:24. > :15:26.with the challenges of family life. Tania and her husband Michael, from
:15:26. > :15:30.Rochester, have two teenagers who've already flown the nest, but
:15:30. > :15:33.seven of their children are still cared for and schooled at home.
:15:33. > :15:37.Every week they get through 21 loaves of bread, 56 pints of milk
:15:37. > :15:40.and some 35 loads of washing - but they say they wouldn't have it any
:15:40. > :15:47.other way. Lynda Hardy's been to meet them for tonight's Special
:15:47. > :15:49.Report. Meet the Sullivans: Dad Mike and two-year-old Oliver, Mum
:15:49. > :15:56.Tania and 10-month old Joseph, then 11-year old Caitlin, eight-year-old
:15:56. > :16:06.Harry, six-year-old Eddie, then Sid who's five and Paddy who's four.
:16:06. > :16:11.Just having breakfast in this house is quite an operation. Was any of
:16:11. > :16:17.this plan? Did you envisage such a large family? A Aydin think so, but
:16:17. > :16:21.it has been gradual. -- I didn't think so. You have one trial at a
:16:21. > :16:25.time and adapt slightly, and then they fit in with the routine -- one
:16:25. > :16:30.child. Tania's now writing a blog about life in their big and growing
:16:30. > :16:34.family. Larger than average families are not very much seen, so
:16:34. > :16:40.there's a lot of curiosity and questions about the large families,
:16:40. > :16:44.just the logistics and the howls and Wise. People automatically
:16:44. > :16:50.assume it is much harder than it actually is. After breakfast the
:16:50. > :16:55.meal table becomes a large desk as the children are home schooled.
:16:55. > :17:01.is quite fun, because you have lots of activity going on, whether we
:17:01. > :17:04.are at home or outside doing something. It's always hectic.
:17:04. > :17:09.works full time and the family say they're careful with budgeting,
:17:09. > :17:15.buying clothes in sales and baking their own bread and cakes. So with
:17:15. > :17:22.twins on the way in November, will that be it for the family? We never
:17:22. > :17:25.know. Obviously the older ones are getting bigger, so they hope --
:17:25. > :17:30.will power. We just have to wait and see. There is plenty of room it
:17:30. > :17:33.yet. Going out takes time, as everyone gets strapped into the van.
:17:33. > :17:43.Today they enjoyed themselves at a wild animal park. One large family,
:17:43. > :17:52.
:17:52. > :17:55.It was the last day of term for many schools today, but one 11-
:17:55. > :17:58.year-old from Crawley won't be spending the summer on his X-box or
:17:58. > :18:02.out with his mates in the park. Instead, Charlie Doherty's cycling
:18:02. > :18:06.from Brighton to Scotland, raising thousands of pounds for charity.
:18:06. > :18:09.It's not the first time we've introduced you to Charlie. He
:18:10. > :18:12.joined us live here in this studio in January, and told us how he's
:18:13. > :18:19.given away all his birthday and Christmas money every year since he
:18:19. > :18:23.was four. And this afternoon I met up with him, for our Story Update.
:18:23. > :18:28.Getting ready for a bike ride with his mum, but this is no ordinary
:18:28. > :18:31.bike ride. There's a lot to carry on this one - tents, food, water -
:18:31. > :18:34.and fundraising kit, too, for Mary's Meals, a charity that
:18:34. > :18:36.provides school meals for children in East Africa. The three and a
:18:36. > :18:43.half week's worth of directions alone add to the load. Still,
:18:43. > :18:49.Charlie's got the wheels for it. makes it really solid and easy to
:18:49. > :18:52.start. They can lock and unlock. And if the face on the right rings
:18:52. > :18:54.a bell, that's because back in January we told you about his
:18:54. > :18:58.basketball birthday party, raising money for the same cause. This boy
:18:58. > :19:03.has been handing over his birthday money to charity as long as he can
:19:04. > :19:08.remember. Why does he do it? Because there are starving children
:19:08. > :19:12.all over the world, and sometimes I think that when I think about it,
:19:12. > :19:19.why do we have all of this? Like this bike, even, when some people
:19:19. > :19:23.have nothing and they cannot even afford food, drink or anything. I
:19:23. > :19:31.just can't get it, how we live like this and they live like that. I
:19:31. > :19:36.think it's unfair. He has persuaded his school chums it is unfair to.
:19:36. > :19:44.What do they think of the charities chosen? Very good. It is amazing
:19:44. > :19:48.that he is doing it all. It sounds really hard. What I think is so
:19:48. > :19:52.amazing is that he has arranged a whole thing himself, and I think
:19:52. > :19:57.that's incredible for a boy of his age, to do that. I think it is
:19:57. > :20:00.brilliant. He came up with the idea and made it happen. That is Charlie
:20:00. > :20:05.through and through. And his mother's not going to argue with
:20:05. > :20:08.that. You get the impression, she doesn't like to argue with him.
:20:08. > :20:12.mums I was saying I wouldn't to attend the journey. I don't know
:20:12. > :20:17.how far we will get, but we have to give it a try, because he says we
:20:18. > :20:22.are not even trying. So there we go, Charlie in the lead, and mum
:20:22. > :20:25.following behind. You get the sense we have not heard the last and this
:20:25. > :20:31.young fundraiser. He is an inspiring young man. You
:20:31. > :20:35.may have noticed he is a Sea gulls fan. He has given up tickets to the
:20:35. > :20:37.first match there. And if you want to contribute to
:20:37. > :20:41.Charlie's fundraising efforts, we've put a link on our Facebook
:20:41. > :20:44.site: facebook.com/bbcsoutheasttoday.
:20:44. > :20:47.His father was one of the leading lights of British Formula One. And
:20:47. > :20:51.now Martin Brundle's son Alex is hoping to follow in his famous
:20:51. > :20:53.footsteps. The 20-year-old is a rising star on the Formula Two
:20:53. > :20:59.circuit and hoping success at Brands Hatch in Kent this weekend
:20:59. > :21:02.could get him a shot at F1. Neil Bell has the details. It's
:21:02. > :21:07.difficult to imagine Alex Brundle doing anything else but motor
:21:07. > :21:10.racing. He may only be 20 but he's already a veteran having made his
:21:10. > :21:20.go kart racing debut aged just eight. But he is well aware he has
:21:20. > :21:23.big boots to fill. His father Martin was one of the worlds top
:21:23. > :21:25.drivers in the 80's and 90's winning Le Mans and the world
:21:25. > :21:29.sportscar championship as well as driving in over 160 grand prix.
:21:29. > :21:33.There is a lot of expectation on your shoulders from a young age,
:21:33. > :21:38.which I found difficult. But he was able to help me out side of the car,
:21:38. > :21:41.but in the car you have to find your own way. Alex will be racing
:21:41. > :21:47.at Brands Hatch this weekend in the highly competitive Formula 2
:21:47. > :21:51.Championship. This season's winner will get a test drive for the
:21:51. > :21:56.Williams Formula One team. It is a fantastic platform and it teaches
:21:56. > :21:59.the drivers a lot. And the champion gets a Formula One test, and there
:21:59. > :22:03.is no better way to get on to the grid than getting yourself in one
:22:03. > :22:08.of the cars. Turning into the corner, picking up the throttle,
:22:08. > :22:11.and I have to get it on hard and early. While Alex is hurtling
:22:11. > :22:15.around the track, his dad will be striding through the pit lane in
:22:15. > :22:21.Germany there will be keeping close tabs on his son's progress. He is
:22:21. > :22:25.critical. If I won the race from pole position with the fastest lap,
:22:25. > :22:30.he would criticise how I sprayed the champagne, but I need that. It
:22:30. > :22:34.is an endurance exercise and you need encouragement. There will be
:22:34. > :22:44.thousands cheering on the winner this weekend, but it Alex makes it
:22:44. > :22:48.
:22:48. > :22:51.to Formula One, his dad will broadcast his exploits to millions.
:22:51. > :22:54.She was the strict matron who tried to keep the likes of Barbara
:22:54. > :22:57.Windsor and Kenneth Williams in line. Who was she? The Carry On
:22:57. > :23:00.actress Hattie Jacques, of course. Widely loved in the series, but
:23:00. > :23:02.it's not widely known that she was born in Sandgate, near Folkestone.
:23:02. > :23:11.It's a secret no more, though, as Claudia Sermbezis explains, she's
:23:11. > :23:21.earned a blue plaque. Good evening, Miss Haggard. Carry
:23:21. > :23:21.
:23:21. > :23:25.It was Hattie Jacques quintessential performance which
:23:25. > :23:31.cemented the image of the no- nonsense matron with a gleam in her
:23:31. > :23:36.eye. Ah, Matron, what now? sorry to trouble you, doctor, but
:23:36. > :23:42.I've been thinking about this camping trip. She was born
:23:42. > :23:46.Josephine Edwina jakes in this house in 1922. The plaque is very
:23:46. > :23:49.important to us, and someone like Hattie Jacques is a national
:23:49. > :23:52.treasure, but I think she was only there for a couple of years and
:23:52. > :23:57.then moved to another house in Sandgate. This afternoon to
:23:57. > :24:01.celebrate the plaque and Hattie Jacques's live, a tea party was
:24:01. > :24:05.thrown. How would Godfry became friends with the producer of the
:24:05. > :24:10.Carry On films and got to know Hattie at cast parties. She was fun,
:24:10. > :24:17.she really was. I think she was always very much like she was on
:24:17. > :24:27.stage. Four of fun, always enjoyed life -- full of fun. We just really
:24:27. > :24:34.enjoyed meeting her in those days. Matron, this is the men's! Galway,
:24:34. > :24:38.Dr Sopor. Hattie Jacques appeared in 14 Carry On films from 1958
:24:38. > :24:43.until 1974 and was close friends with her co-stars, particularly
:24:43. > :24:51.Joan Sims and Kenneth Williams. Doctor, I must confess I am not an
:24:51. > :24:55.expert in these matters... In Carry On Cabby, that was her favourite,
:24:55. > :25:03.in 1963, she was given a more romantic role, and that was her
:25:03. > :25:07.favourite film of the whole series. Home again, home again. She also
:25:07. > :25:10.had a long professional partnership with Eric Sykes and starred in his
:25:11. > :25:15.long-running sitcom in the 1970s. This is the third plaque to
:25:15. > :25:25.commemorate her life, the other at her former home in at Earl's Court
:25:25. > :25:33.She was a legend, and now to a legend who carries on whatever the
:25:33. > :25:38.This little globe is being shoved out the way, and about time too. We
:25:38. > :25:41.do have some shower power tonight. The showers are just gathering to
:25:41. > :25:45.the North West at the moment, and as you can see, they are creeping
:25:45. > :25:49.towards us, and in the next couple of hours they will make their way
:25:49. > :25:52.into the north-west of the region and then spread elsewhere. They are
:25:52. > :25:58.showery, so I mean some places will not see anything at all, but my
:25:58. > :26:01.guess is how they are developing at the moment means we will see
:26:01. > :26:05.showers after dark tonight. After about 9:00pm, until the early hours,
:26:05. > :26:10.most of us will see a few showers with temperatures getting down to
:26:10. > :26:14.11 or 12 degrees. Into tomorrow morning it will look like it starts
:26:14. > :26:19.as a horrible weekend, but the showers move away quickly and by
:26:19. > :26:23.10am the last of the showers will have gone, maybe just a little one
:26:23. > :26:27.poking in later on. Most places will be dry after that with sunny
:26:27. > :26:31.spells, although maybe not as much sun as we have seen today. In the
:26:31. > :26:37.east of Kent, they have not fared quite so well because of the change
:26:37. > :26:39.of direction of the winds, and a strong north-westerly means cooler
:26:39. > :26:44.temperatures will come in around the East Kent Coast line, but other
:26:44. > :26:47.than that it shouldn't be too bad a day. The good news starts after
:26:47. > :26:51.that. Although the winds will get stronger into Sunday it looks as
:26:51. > :26:57.though the cloud will be moving away and the weather front gets
:26:57. > :27:01.close, but no cigar. It moves away and for the rest of Sunday it is
:27:01. > :27:06.beautiful and sunny, although the north-westerly wind will be noticed
:27:06. > :27:11.along the north Kent coast. We will be judging the annual sandcastle
:27:11. > :27:14.competition in Folkestone, and you can turn up at 11:00am and enter.
:27:14. > :27:18.You have two and a half hours to create your masterpiece. It will be
:27:18. > :27:22.sunny, but breezy, and that is true across the whole of East Kent on
:27:22. > :27:26.Sunday, but after that it doesn't go downhill for the working week.
:27:27. > :27:34.If anything the sunshine increases and the temperature, at last, gets