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funding has been withdrawn.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