:00:03. > :00:06.Welcome to South East Today, I'm Polly Evans.
:00:06. > :00:10.And I'm John Young. Tonight's top stories.
:00:10. > :00:15.Over 80 and now she's in debt - the woman from Sussex who's care
:00:15. > :00:18.funding has been withdrawn. I am now sitting here waiting to die.
:00:18. > :00:22.That sounds awful, I know. Compensation tonight for the widows
:00:22. > :00:26.of the two fire officers killed in the Lewes Fireworks disaster.
:00:26. > :00:30.Also in tonight's programme: The mystery of why dozens of
:00:30. > :00:34.seagulls have been found dead on a Sussex beach. We're live in
:00:34. > :00:38.Saltdean tonight with the latest. The greatest show on earth deserves
:00:38. > :00:41.the best storytellers. The Kent artist picked to tell tales for the
:00:41. > :00:51.Olympics. And feeling flush - the 22-year-old
:00:51. > :01:01.
:01:01. > :01:04.poker ace hoping to hit a �5 A disabled pensioner from East
:01:04. > :01:09.Sussex says she's "waiting to die" after social services withdrew her
:01:09. > :01:12.care funding. Pam Bartlett, who's in her eighties, used to get �240 a
:01:12. > :01:15.week to spend on carers. But after a re-assessment, that
:01:15. > :01:25.money has been stopped and she says that funding her own care has now
:01:25. > :01:26.
:01:26. > :01:33.left her in debt. Sara Smith reports.
:01:33. > :01:38.Only me. Three times a week, somebody comes to help Pam Bartlett.
:01:38. > :01:42.Whereas she was a paid carer for years, now she does it for free.
:01:42. > :01:47.She is one of three women who continue to visit, despite Pam
:01:47. > :01:49.Bartlett's care funding been stopped. We will get some breakfast
:01:49. > :01:55.and then do your other bits and pieces.
:01:55. > :01:58.I cannot live there without care, she is 82 and I cannot go to bed
:01:58. > :02:03.tonight thinking she has had an accident, she might not have had
:02:03. > :02:07.anything to eat or drink or seen anybody all day. A very active
:02:07. > :02:11.woman into her seventies, Pam Bartlett was that disabled by a car
:02:11. > :02:16.accident. She was assessed at nine years ago as needing care by East
:02:16. > :02:20.Sussex social services and given funding. So she is puzzled and
:02:20. > :02:25.dismayed that it nine years on, with her eyesight deteriorating it,
:02:25. > :02:33.that that money has been taken away. I am not able to do as much as I
:02:33. > :02:38.used to be able to do, because I am much lower, I am Mulder. So without
:02:38. > :02:42.the carers coming in, I really don't know -- I am all that. Social
:02:42. > :02:45.services did not want to talk about the case, but says that only those
:02:46. > :02:50.whose needs are assessed as critical or substantial would now
:02:50. > :02:55.get the support. She is classed as only having moderate needs. It is a
:02:55. > :03:00.way of rationing social care. Critical and substantial are high
:03:00. > :03:05.levels of need and they are almost designed to exclude people who need
:03:05. > :03:12.some support to live independently. And the back row Women's needs seem
:03:12. > :03:16.to have increased, has had Macro degeneration has increased. They
:03:16. > :03:22.will have difficulty moving around their homes. They will have
:03:22. > :03:27.difficulty taking a shower. I am now sitting here waiting to die. If
:03:27. > :03:31.I haven't got any care, then that is the only thing I can look
:03:31. > :03:39.forward to, dying as peacefully as I can. At the moment, she says the
:03:39. > :03:42.only thing keeping her going is the The families of two firefighters
:03:42. > :03:46.killed in an explosion at a fireworks factory have won the
:03:46. > :03:49.right to substantial damages payments from the factory owner.
:03:49. > :03:52.The widows of Geoff Wicker and Brian Wembridge were told by a High
:03:52. > :03:54.Court judge earlier that they, along with 12 other firefighters
:03:54. > :03:59.and police officers who were injured, were entitled to payouts
:03:59. > :04:02.from Martin Winter. The two men were killed in the fire
:04:02. > :04:06.at Marlie Farm in Shortgate near Lewes in December 2006.
:04:06. > :04:09.Three years later, the owner of the factory - Martin Winter - and his
:04:09. > :04:11.son Nathan, were jailed for their manslaughter.
:04:11. > :04:15.The Winters' company, Alpha Fireworks, was then fined �30,000
:04:15. > :04:22.for breaching health and safety legislation. Our News Correspondent
:04:22. > :04:27.Mark Norman joins me now. The judge had some pretty strong words today.
:04:27. > :04:31.He did indeed. He made that order after ruling that Mr Winter had no
:04:31. > :04:36.hope of defending the damages claims. He said that Mr Winter had
:04:36. > :04:41.known there were highly dangerous for facilities torched -- store
:04:41. > :04:46.that the site and yet urged the fire fighters on. Geoff Wicker Moss
:04:46. > :04:50.a serving fire fighter, Brian Wembridge was a retired officer who
:04:50. > :04:53.was working for the service. What has been the action this
:04:53. > :04:56.evening? The fire service said this had come
:04:56. > :04:59.out of the blue and because it involves so many officers and they
:04:59. > :05:03.had only just heard of this that they were not prepared to comment,
:05:03. > :05:07.but it does come just a few hours before they release their report
:05:07. > :05:10.into what happened and I understand it will have a number of
:05:10. > :05:13.recommendations and detail about what happened on the day.
:05:13. > :05:18.We will be looking out for that. Thank you very much.
:05:18. > :05:22.In a moment: is it an innovation or a blight on the landscape? The
:05:22. > :05:27.controversial new scheme to encourage long-distance runners on
:05:27. > :05:30.the South Downs. The commanding officer of three
:05:30. > :05:34.Kent soldiers killed by a rogue member of the Afghan National Army
:05:34. > :05:36.has told an inquest their deaths were "shocking".
:05:37. > :05:40.The soldiers, from the Royal Gurkha Rifles Regiment in Folkestone, were
:05:40. > :05:43.killed in the middle of the night, in an attack at a base in Helmand,
:05:43. > :05:52.in an incident described at the time as "a betrayal" of British
:05:52. > :05:59.forces. Members of all three men's families
:05:59. > :06:03.were in court for the start of the inquest, including mothers, widows
:06:04. > :06:09.and sons. The three men were serving with Royal Gurkha Rifles
:06:09. > :06:13.Regiment, based in Folkestone. Off earlier this year, the Battalion
:06:13. > :06:16.received its Afghan campaign medal from the Prince of Wales. Like
:06:16. > :06:21.these British troops in Helmand, they have been patrolling and
:06:21. > :06:28.fighting alongside soldiers of the Afghan National Army, and they were
:06:28. > :06:32.betrayed and murdered by a man they thought were -- was an ally. They
:06:32. > :06:37.were in a compound near Nahr-e Saraj. In the small hours of the
:06:37. > :06:41.morning, the rogue Afghan a soldier at shot major Bowmen in his
:06:41. > :06:48.sleeping quarters, wounded several others and then it through a small
:06:48. > :06:58.grenade into the centre, before fleeing in the darkness. James Bone
:06:58. > :07:01.
:07:01. > :07:03.man was 34 and had been in Afghanistan for several months. One
:07:03. > :07:08.man was just a replacement for an injured colleague and had been
:07:08. > :07:15.there for one month. Lieutenant Colonel General Strickland admitted
:07:15. > :07:19.there had been a risk co-operating with the Afghan army but treating
:07:19. > :07:24.their bus hostile would have presented another risk. Colonel
:07:24. > :07:27.Strickland was asked why he lessons weren't learnt from British
:07:27. > :07:31.soldiers killed by an Afghan police that they were supposed to be
:07:32. > :07:35.training in 2005. The Afghan army and police, he said, were very
:07:35. > :07:40.different and the Army was much more professional and accountable.
:07:40. > :07:45.The men's assailant is still a wanted man, who has since claimed
:07:46. > :07:48.to have joined the Taliban. A cyclist has suffered serious head
:07:49. > :07:52.injuries after being involved in a collision with a milk float in
:07:52. > :07:54.Brighton. The man was taken to a specialist neurological unit in
:07:54. > :07:59.Haywards Heath with life- threatening injuries after the
:07:59. > :08:02.incident on Madeira Drive. The milk float driver, a 22-year-old man,
:08:02. > :08:05.has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving.
:08:05. > :08:08.A man from Eastbourne has been jailed for four and a half years
:08:08. > :08:11.for robbing a group of foreign students at knifepoint. Angelo
:08:11. > :08:16.Kyprianou, who's 25, demanded money from the Austrian teenagers at a
:08:16. > :08:20.bus stop in Terminus Road in April. He threatened to kill them with a
:08:20. > :08:23.knife hidden in a bandage on his arm until money was handed over.
:08:23. > :08:24.An immigration removal centre in Sussex has been criticised by The
:08:24. > :08:27.Prisons Inspectorate for an "objectionable and distressing
:08:27. > :08:34.practice" in which replacement detainees are taken to Gatwick
:08:34. > :08:39.airport, in case those intended to be deported gain a reprieve. But
:08:39. > :08:42.Tinsley House has been praised for the quality of its staff.
:08:42. > :08:46.Dozens of mutilated and dying seagulls found along a stretch of
:08:46. > :08:50.Sussex beach have shocked and horrified animal rescuers. Nearly
:08:50. > :08:53.30 birds have been found in the last fortnight.
:08:53. > :09:02.Many have been shot and some appeared to have had their heads
:09:02. > :09:08.cut off. Robin Gibson is at the beach now. Robin, it sounds like an
:09:08. > :09:11.extremely distressing case. It it certainly does. What
:09:11. > :09:16.characterises it are two main elements, one is the level of
:09:16. > :09:20.cruelty. As you say, birds have been mutilated and left dying,
:09:20. > :09:26.rather than dead, and it also appears that somebody might be
:09:26. > :09:28.systematically targeting what is a protected bird. That has appalled
:09:28. > :09:32.compensation list -- conservationists. You might find
:09:32. > :09:36.some of the shops at the beginning of the report disturbing.
:09:36. > :09:39.-- shops. It is harrowing. Of birds have been
:09:39. > :09:44.shot with air pellets and ball bearings and some have been
:09:44. > :09:49.beheaded. It has escalated over recent weeks and conservationists
:09:49. > :09:54.fear this is calculated cruelty. find animals that I done that
:09:54. > :09:59.healthy that have just been shot down or caused injury by the public,
:09:59. > :10:03.it is just heartbreaking and we don't like to see it. That is what
:10:03. > :10:06.we are here for. They are on the Red List, so it is vitally
:10:06. > :10:11.important that the young Bar preserve band nobody hurts them.
:10:11. > :10:18.They are a living and breathing it creature and deserve to be here as
:10:18. > :10:21.much as we do. -- that the young are preserved. Wildlife rescuers
:10:21. > :10:27.used this beach to release young seagulls they have nursed back to
:10:27. > :10:30.help. At this stage, they have not learned to be afraid of man. It is
:10:30. > :10:36.pretty abhorrent and terrible that you have to think we you can let
:10:36. > :10:39.birds go for their own safety. -- where. The beach is their
:10:39. > :10:45.environment and you should be able to release somebody wherever. This
:10:45. > :10:49.is happening all along the coast, it isn't just Saltdean. We have had
:10:49. > :10:54.birds brought to us during the year that have been shot on people's
:10:54. > :10:58.roofs. Unfortunately, nobody ever seems to be prosecuted. Seagulls
:10:58. > :11:03.have been placed on the red list of endangered species. Under wildlife
:11:03. > :11:10.protection laws, Harding seagulls is punishable by up to six months
:11:10. > :11:14.in prison and a maximum fine of �20,000 -- harming. We are going to
:11:14. > :11:19.get a petition to get a camera put up under wildlife of the South, so
:11:19. > :11:23.we can communicate with them -- and a wildlife officer. We want to find
:11:23. > :11:28.out who is doing this. They hope that does the school holidays begin,
:11:28. > :11:35.those who love band used this beach will act as a vigilant pairs of
:11:35. > :11:39.Has to be said that man, who is the biggest predator on seagulls, has
:11:39. > :11:45.an uneasy relationship with them. Many people will vouch that they
:11:45. > :11:50.are a pest, they Pooh on cars and buildings, they steal food and they
:11:50. > :11:54.can be aggressive. Some people may not realise that they are
:11:54. > :11:58.endangered. But nobody, even in that love-hate relationship, would
:11:58. > :12:04.like to see this measure of cruelty being perpetrated on birds like
:12:04. > :12:08.these. Questions have been asked in court
:12:08. > :12:15.today about whether a woman accused of murdering her two young children
:12:15. > :12:18.is faking her lack of memory about how they died. Fiona Donnison is
:12:18. > :12:20.accused of murdering three year old Harry and Elise, who was two, in
:12:20. > :12:23.January last year. From Lewes, Jon Hunt reports.
:12:23. > :12:27.Fiona Donnison claims she has no memory of killing Harry and Elise,
:12:27. > :12:31.but questions were raised in court today about whether she is faking
:12:31. > :12:34.her memory loss and symptoms of depression. Dr Amory Clarke, a
:12:35. > :12:44.clinical forensic psychologist, had conducted a series of tests earlier
:12:45. > :13:06.
:13:06. > :13:11.this year. Defending, Mr Simon But later, the prosecuting QC
:13:11. > :13:15.claimed that one of the many tests conducted was directly appropriate
:13:15. > :13:20.for exposing a patient that was fading symptoms. The result of this
:13:20. > :13:26.one test was directly at odds with the of conclusions of Dr Amory
:13:26. > :13:36.Clarke. Dr Clark was asked back where on this recognised test did
:13:36. > :13:42.
:13:43. > :13:46.Fiona Donnison's children were found dead in the boot of her car
:13:46. > :13:56.in Heathfield in January last year. She denies murdering them. The
:13:56. > :13:58.It is just coming up to a quarter to seven. Our top story tonight:
:13:58. > :14:01.A disabled pensioner from East Sussex says she's "waiting to die"
:14:01. > :14:04.after social services withdrew her care funding. Pam Bartlett, who's
:14:04. > :14:10.in her eighties, was reassessed and the council decided she simply no
:14:10. > :14:13.longer qualifies. Also tonight:
:14:13. > :14:16.Telling Olympic tales; the lucky few chosen to relay the story of
:14:16. > :14:21.the 2012 games as the countdown begins.
:14:21. > :14:28.And will he fold under pressure? The poker ace from Kent hoping to
:14:28. > :14:38.hit a �5 million jackpot in Vegas. And if you have a story you think
:14:38. > :14:52.
:14:52. > :14:55.we should be covering, we would They're graphic images which show
:14:55. > :14:57.the consequences of trespassing on the live railway tracks. As the
:14:57. > :15:00.summer holidays begin, Network Rail has released pictures showing the
:15:00. > :15:03.burns people have suffered in the hope it prevents more people being
:15:03. > :15:08.killed or injured. Here in the south-east, there were
:15:08. > :15:15.more than 760 cases of trespass on the rails last year alone. You may
:15:15. > :15:21.find some of the images in Simon Jones' report distressing.
:15:21. > :15:25.It is designed to shock for the internet generation. But most of
:15:25. > :15:30.the footage did this YouTube campaign is to graphic to broadcast
:15:30. > :15:35.on TV. If it enters one Armand goes out of the other wrong, it will
:15:35. > :15:38.cross a heart and caused it to stop. It has won the backing of the
:15:38. > :15:44.mother of a girl who was electrocuted taking a short cut
:15:44. > :15:50.home in it's not planned. Into they's Society, their plate graphic
:15:50. > :15:54.games. -- in today's Society, children played graphic games, they
:15:54. > :15:59.are desensitised to death. So in order to really get the message
:15:59. > :16:03.across, it has got to be quite graphic. I know parents at home may
:16:03. > :16:07.say, that is my kid that has got to come home with nightmares, but I
:16:07. > :16:13.have had every night having nightmares to change the situation
:16:13. > :16:21.I am in. In the past year, there have been 290 incidents of
:16:21. > :16:24.trespassing in Kent. In Sussex, 232. In Surrey, 241. One of the things
:16:24. > :16:29.people don't realise is the electricity in the third rail is
:16:29. > :16:33.always switched on. It is important we raised this message, because as
:16:33. > :16:36.we reached the summer holidays, we see a peak in the number of
:16:36. > :16:39.involving a third rail, and we think it is because young people
:16:39. > :16:46.are tempted to mess around with the railway because they have more time
:16:46. > :16:49.on their hands. Trespass, vandalism by the tracks, making a run for it,
:16:50. > :16:55.even clinging to trains. Shocking images in the campaign backed by
:16:55. > :16:58.one man who lost his girlfriend to taking a short cut on the tracks.
:16:58. > :17:03.The police and the paramedics were unable to get to us because the
:17:03. > :17:09.line was still electrified. Unfortunately, by the time they had
:17:09. > :17:13.reached us, she had passed away. The power of the live rail to
:17:13. > :17:16.change lives forever. Simon Jones is at Tunbridge Wells
:17:16. > :17:22.station now. This is the latest campaign by Network Rail, but that
:17:22. > :17:26.suggests so far the message hasn't been getting through?
:17:26. > :17:33.In the past year, for people have been electrocuted on the line in
:17:33. > :17:37.Kent and Sussex. -- four. As you saw in that report, the mother of
:17:37. > :17:41.Jade Kenyan, who was killed in 2006, has campaigned ever since for rail
:17:41. > :17:46.safety, but Network Rail say to of the most recent deaths have been in
:17:46. > :17:49.the same place that it Jade Kenyan died. A survey suggests that two-
:17:49. > :17:54.thirds of parents have never spoken to have their children at about
:17:54. > :18:02.dangers of the line. They say that how you can receive from the shock
:18:02. > :18:06.would be 10 times that you would receive from the electric chair.
:18:06. > :18:09.-- the power. The South Downs Way has long been
:18:09. > :18:14.enjoyed by ramblers, with its fine views over the Sussex Downs, but a
:18:14. > :18:16.row is now underway over efforts to market it to long-distance runners.
:18:17. > :18:19.The Trailblaze scheme sees runners swiping a white plastic box at
:18:19. > :18:21.various stages of their run - blighting the landscape, according
:18:21. > :18:26.to some objectors, and commercialising a beautiful stretch
:18:26. > :18:33.of countryside. Rebecca Barry's been listening to both sides of the
:18:33. > :18:38.debate. For people like Stewart, this is
:18:38. > :18:41.the only way to enjoy the South Downs. Now a new way of
:18:41. > :18:46.experiencing the countryside is keeping him going further and
:18:46. > :18:50.faster. A string of electronic checkpoints means he can block his
:18:50. > :18:56.road. Runners pay �70 for a year's subscription.
:18:56. > :19:00.Why not time yourself? You could do that, but the added bonuses you are
:19:00. > :19:05.looking for the checkpoints, and it is a bit like a treasure hunt. You
:19:05. > :19:11.find the checkpoint, it gives you a little beep and you go off to the
:19:11. > :19:15.next one. It is just that added extra. It is a bit like
:19:15. > :19:20.orienteering. You used a tad like this to register at one of the
:19:20. > :19:23.checkpoints. There are around 10 across 100 miles. It records your
:19:23. > :19:27.speed and distance and posted on line.
:19:27. > :19:32.But not everybody is happen -- happy, arguing it is
:19:32. > :19:36.commercialising public land. Hundreds have signed a petition.
:19:36. > :19:41.is the boxes themselves, they are running true shed on the ethos and
:19:41. > :19:45.the feel of the place. -- an intrusion. They are more at home on
:19:45. > :19:50.a public lavatory ban on gateposts in the South Downs. It is intrusive,
:19:50. > :19:53.it simply doesn't go. Government's adviser on the
:19:53. > :19:58.Environment, natural England, says it is listening to feed back, but
:19:58. > :20:00.it needs to find new ways of raising money. They are studying
:20:00. > :20:05.roads and we want people to experience it and running and
:20:05. > :20:07.walking is a good way are staying fit. If you do it in this
:20:07. > :20:11.environment, you may continue, so therefore these routes need
:20:11. > :20:16.maintaining. They are under pressure in some. So we need
:20:16. > :20:20.opportunities to raise money. Betrayal place scheme is running as
:20:20. > :20:25.a pilot for a year. -- the Trailblaze. The company is looking
:20:25. > :20:28.at ways of keeping it more in keeping with the landscape.
:20:28. > :20:32.Tomorrow, it'll be one year to go until the start of the London
:20:32. > :20:37.Olympics. And to celebrate the countdown, 100 people have been
:20:37. > :20:42.chosen as 2012 "storytellers". Their task - to use their creative
:20:42. > :20:51.skills to document the build-up to both the Olympics and Paralympics.
:20:51. > :20:56.And as Neil Bell reports, among them is a painter from Tonbridge.
:20:56. > :21:00.For sheer drama and spectacle, the Olympic Games are hard to beat. For
:21:00. > :21:04.10 days next summer, a record will be broken, new heroes will be
:21:04. > :21:09.discovered and for competitors, hopes will be -- or dreams will
:21:09. > :21:14.come true. Tonbridge artist Sarah Ledger, who met today with her
:21:14. > :21:18.fellow storytellers, it is a fantastic opportunity. I am also
:21:18. > :21:21.happy to be involved, I am very passionate about sport, so to be
:21:21. > :21:27.able to combine that with my work and being involved in this event,
:21:27. > :21:31.it is amazing. I am very excited. Sarah and her artistic colleagues
:21:31. > :21:35.will be given a free rein to celebrate the game's highlights --
:21:35. > :21:40.the Games's. They will be encouraged to go behind the scenes
:21:40. > :21:44.as well. What it will give us after the Games is a fantastic record of
:21:44. > :21:49.all of the stuff that has really gone on before, and during the
:21:49. > :21:55.games. So in 50 years' time, we can show our grandchildren what fun we
:21:55. > :21:58.all had in 2012. For us, a great nation of storytellers, a fantastic
:21:58. > :22:03.history from Geoffrey Chaucer onwards, this is a great
:22:03. > :22:06.opportunity just to tell the story with a regional flavour as well. We
:22:06. > :22:12.always said the Olympic Games needed to be staged in London, but
:22:12. > :22:16.they were not just a London story, they were a UK story. Here comes
:22:16. > :22:19.Chris Hoy, turning on the style. will not just be the exploits of
:22:19. > :22:24.the medal winners that the storytellers will celebrate, but
:22:24. > :22:28.the passion, pageantry and colour. The London Games can hardly fail to
:22:28. > :22:32.inspire some memorable words and images.
:22:32. > :22:34.I cannot wait, a year from now. Meanwhile, members of the Nepalese
:22:34. > :22:37.Paralympic Committee are in Kent visiting prospective training
:22:37. > :22:40.facilities ahead of London 2012. A delegation is looking at facilities
:22:40. > :22:45.in Ashford and Canterbury, as well as signing a formal contract with
:22:45. > :22:49.Kent County Council about using the county in the run-up to the Games.
:22:49. > :22:52.It's just a few days to go now until another big day for sport,
:22:52. > :23:00.when Brighton & Hove Albion take on Premier League Spurs at the Amex
:23:00. > :23:05.stadium. Tonight, BBC Sussex are broadcasting live from the stadium
:23:05. > :23:08.with a special pre-season fan Forum, taking place from 7pm. The panel
:23:09. > :23:12.includes club chairman Tony Bloom and manager Gus Poyet.
:23:12. > :23:17.He's just 22 but in a few months' time, a young poker player from
:23:17. > :23:20.Kent could be feeling flush to the tune of �5.3 million.
:23:20. > :23:25.Sam Holden from Canterbury has only been playing his hand for a year
:23:25. > :23:28.but he's proven to be something of an ace at the game. Now he's made
:23:28. > :23:36.it to the finals of a top competition in Las Vegas. But will
:23:36. > :23:39.he fold under pressure? Peter Whittlesea reports.
:23:39. > :23:45.While at university in Canterbury, Sam Holden not only studied for a
:23:45. > :23:51.degree, but learned to play poker. Now he is in the third largest life
:23:51. > :23:55.Tournament in their history of the game. It was all very surreal, it
:23:55. > :24:01.is what every poker player aspires to, to make this tournament and it
:24:01. > :24:05.did feel like winning a tournament, but it certainly didn't sink in. Up
:24:05. > :24:10.until that point, you just take it hand by hand and day-by-day. It
:24:10. > :24:14.suddenly sneaks up by new that you are in the final. So how did the
:24:14. > :24:20.qualifies? The first step was raising the entry fee of $10,000.
:24:20. > :24:26.His friends and investors contributed $6,100, and he made up
:24:26. > :24:33.the rest. That means he will only keep 39% of his winnings. It is not
:24:33. > :24:40.the first young graduate to make it big. Last year, a young lady from
:24:40. > :24:47.Kent won �1.1 million playing poker in San remote. Sam is best Sam's
:24:47. > :24:51.father is proud of his sons past -- San's achievement. He is very good,
:24:51. > :24:55.but this poker face, I don't know where he gets up from for all stop
:24:55. > :24:59.Sam Holden has been professional for a year but keeps his cards
:24:59. > :25:02.close to his chest when talking about weddings. I'm very much in
:25:02. > :25:07.profit. Tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands question mark
:25:07. > :25:12.I would rather not say, but I was doing fine.
:25:12. > :25:18.If he wins in Las Vegas in November, he really will be doing well. Even
:25:18. > :25:23.have their up -- even after paying his investors, the top prize would
:25:23. > :25:26.see him taking home a call �2 million.
:25:26. > :25:31.-- cool. Something tells me we will be
:25:31. > :25:34.seeing him again. Good luck to him. Let's get a check on the weather.
:25:34. > :25:39.If you have got any outdoor plants, you are taking a better their
:25:39. > :25:43.gamble, because the weather is gamble, because the weather is
:25:43. > :25:46.pretty unexciting and dreary -- plans. Tonight, much more cloud
:25:46. > :25:51.cover and the chance of some drizzle but nothing event for.
:25:51. > :25:54.Today has been any East-West divide, and the east were the ones to get
:25:55. > :25:59.the cloud cover. There is still a fair bit around added seems to
:25:59. > :26:03.continue over the next few days. Tonight, that we could see the odd
:26:03. > :26:06.bit of drizzle towards the coast but it should be dry and the just a
:26:06. > :26:11.lot of cloud around. Those temperatures round to around 12
:26:11. > :26:15.degrees, so at least those figures are holding up. Tomorrow, another
:26:15. > :26:18.cloudy day. There may be a little bit of drizzle once again towards
:26:18. > :26:25.the east Kent coast, but other fund that cover a dry picture with not
:26:25. > :26:28.much sunshine. -- other than that. Nothing to substantial.
:26:28. > :26:32.Temperatures up to around 21 degrees at their highest. Tomorrow
:26:32. > :26:38.night, similar weather continuing it, a lot more cloud and there
:26:38. > :26:42.could be a little bit of drizzle, the odd shower, but for most of us,
:26:42. > :26:46.a dry picture. By Thursday morning, we will see some more breaks and
:26:46. > :26:50.that cloud. Temperatures down to around 12 degrees and high pressure
:26:50. > :26:55.is not far away. We will start to see a little bit more sunshine.
:26:55. > :26:59.Still nothing that eventful, but those temperatures will be up ever-
:26:59. > :27:04.so-slightly. The next few days will bring us a mixture. Just a recap
:27:04. > :27:09.tomorrow, those temperatures getting up to around 20, 21 degrees.
:27:09. > :27:14.As you can see, a lot of cloud. Come Thursday, a bit more sunshine.
:27:14. > :27:20.Those temperatures up as well. It may actually feel like you like for
:27:20. > :27:24.the day, but come Friday, the wet weather is back. We could see some
:27:24. > :27:28.heavy showers in places, at those temperatures down as well, but by
:27:28. > :27:30.the weekend things are improving. They may not be the highest of
:27:30. > :27:33.They may not be the highest of temperatures but there should be