:00:05. > :00:08.Welcome to South East Today, I'm Polly Evans. And I'm John Young.
:00:08. > :00:11.Tonight's top stories. Trouble at sea - jobs under threat and fares
:00:11. > :00:18.may rise, as a cross-Channel operator faces a takeover bid.
:00:18. > :00:23.We're live in Dover this evening with reaction.
:00:23. > :00:27.Her yearning to be earning, half a million pounds is invested in
:00:27. > :00:30.apprenticeships for youngsters be shut out of the job market.
:00:30. > :00:38.The soldiers who witnessed the atom bomb. A victory tonight, as they
:00:38. > :00:45.campaign for compensation. Is fully they would say that we are
:00:45. > :00:52.sorry, if you like. They will not do that. But if they admit they are
:00:52. > :01:02.sorry, they will say they did no wrong, and I cannot see them doing
:01:02. > :01:06.
:01:06. > :01:10.it. A bumper crop of melons in Kent? We ask how and why? And on
:01:10. > :01:12.the record - Roger Thorne's life in music. How one man amassed one of
:01:12. > :01:15.Britain's largest collections of gramophones and 78s.
:01:15. > :01:17.Good evening. There are fears tonight that plans to buy out a
:01:17. > :01:23.troubled cross-Channel ferry operator could lead to job losses,
:01:23. > :01:28.and increased prices for passengers. Seafrance axed over 700 jobs last
:01:28. > :01:30.year, after managers admitted the company was "haemorrhaging cash."
:01:30. > :01:37.Now, a rival operator, DFDS, which already runs services between Dover
:01:37. > :01:47.and Dunkirk, has joined forces with LD Lines in a takeover bid. Simon
:01:47. > :01:52.Jones is live in Dover. Exactly how much is this bid worth, Simon?
:01:52. > :01:55.That remains a commercial secret but it could go for a knock-down
:01:55. > :02:02.price because Seafrance has been losing a massive amount of money.
:02:02. > :02:06.The bid has come as a surprise, it was unexpected. But for the 1,600
:02:06. > :02:10.staff, they are asking what it means for them.
:02:10. > :02:14.Rivals in the court throat Channel industry. But now DFDS and LD Lines
:02:14. > :02:19.wants to take over Seafrance, leading to concerns about what it
:02:19. > :02:24.will mean for the workers. In many ways, it is a good thing. It will
:02:24. > :02:28.not be perfect for everybody because she will see a form of
:02:28. > :02:37.rationalisation of jobs. The good news is there will remain two
:02:37. > :02:43.providers. P&O and the new joint venture, but the joint venture will
:02:43. > :02:47.carry out a risk for jobs and capacity. For Seafrance has been
:02:47. > :02:53.caught in competition with other carriers. Prices could go up, bad
:02:53. > :02:57.news for those who shop around for the best deals. Extremely important,
:02:57. > :03:06.for me all 4 us it is the most important thing, the price stay
:03:06. > :03:12.macro price is important. We shop around quite a bit. Seafrance
:03:12. > :03:18.carriage 3 million passengers last year but has been kept going by it
:03:18. > :03:23.bail-out by owners SNCF. It has 650 employees on both sides of the
:03:23. > :03:27.channel and its potential new owner is convinced it can work. It is
:03:27. > :03:32.realistic to have a profitable future, we have documented that
:03:32. > :03:38.over part of the bid, and that covers the majority of assets and
:03:38. > :03:44.staff of Seafrance. There will be no changes in many respects to the
:03:44. > :03:49.services. So in that way we will be keeping jobs at Seafrance. Business
:03:49. > :03:54.experts say it could help Shorrock a struggling centres. It has been
:03:54. > :03:59.probably coming for some time. There has been too much capacity on
:03:59. > :04:04.the Channel. The fares are great for consumers but difficult for
:04:04. > :04:09.companies to make money, and fuel has gone up dramatically and people
:04:09. > :04:15.do not travel to Europe, it is too expensive. Pass injures and workers
:04:15. > :04:22.will be watching developments keenly. -- passengers. The bid will
:04:22. > :04:26.be referred to the competition Commission. It is likely against a
:04:26. > :04:34.backdrop of potential privatisation that in the future, things in Dover
:04:34. > :04:36.could look very different. Half a million pounds is being
:04:36. > :04:42.invested in Kent to find apprenticeships for particularly
:04:42. > :04:48.vulnerable youngsters who would otherwise have more problems than
:04:48. > :04:52.most finding a job. 94% of young people with learning disabilities
:04:52. > :04:54.are unemployed. So are 60% of young offenders, and 33% of teenagers
:04:54. > :04:56.leaving care. But the Vulnerable Learner
:04:56. > :05:00.Apprenticeship Project, which is receiving the funding, is one of
:05:00. > :05:02.the most of successful of its kind in the country, finding work for
:05:02. > :05:04.almost 70 young people, as our business correspondent, Mark Norman,
:05:04. > :05:11.explains. Young men given easy labels by
:05:11. > :05:16.society. Hard to get on if you have broken the law and it is hard to
:05:16. > :05:19.get on without a good education. Labels that make it really hard to
:05:20. > :05:22.get a job. That was until the local authority gave them a chance with a
:05:22. > :05:26.paid apprenticeship. People like me would probably still be sitting at
:05:26. > :05:29.home and probably doing nothing. Or maybe getting in trouble again.
:05:29. > :05:32.opportunity to learn skills is keeping Louie out of trouble. He
:05:32. > :05:35.has had to prove himself to get this far, as have two other young
:05:35. > :05:45.men on the scheme. One learning catering skills. The other
:05:45. > :05:46.
:05:46. > :05:51.restoring old coaches. My wife fell pregnant so I needed some way of
:05:51. > :05:56.supporting them, so I found a job and I am here and I enjoy it. It is
:05:56. > :06:03.better than watching television all day, at a lot better. I went down
:06:03. > :06:07.here for a year's apprenticeship and obviously I said, yes, please.
:06:07. > :06:10.Key to any successful apprenticeship scheme are the
:06:10. > :06:15.employers who want to avoid red tape and get support from the local
:06:15. > :06:20.authority. Be applicant must want to come to work rather than have to
:06:20. > :06:25.go to work -- for the applicant. We try to create an environment where
:06:25. > :06:29.they want to come to work. I was not really interested in taking on
:06:29. > :06:35.an apprentice but the authority scheme is could not because they
:06:35. > :06:39.just fund it, but they take care of the payroll. He is getting a job
:06:39. > :06:42.training and an income which would normally not do. But is it worth
:06:42. > :06:46.half a million pounds of taxpayers' money being spent in this way?
:06:46. > :06:51.Young people like this can be expensive on the public purse if
:06:51. > :06:56.they are just left to be at home and not to be engaged in work. They
:06:56. > :06:59.do not become a burden on the state and become more independent to find
:06:59. > :07:00.their own lives. It's a small number of people compared to
:07:01. > :07:03.approximately 10,000 regular apprenticeships across Sussex and
:07:03. > :07:08.Kent, but for these youngsters, this opportunity might not be
:07:08. > :07:11.repeated. Mark Norman reporting. And he's
:07:11. > :07:16.live in Hastings. Mark, there's a real push to promote apprenticeship
:07:16. > :07:21.schemes across the South East, isn't there?
:07:21. > :07:26.Absolutely, and in Hastings, there is a need for more apprenticeships.
:07:26. > :07:30.In Eastbourne, they have created -- finished a scheme creating
:07:30. > :07:36.apprenticeships -- 100 apprenticeships in 100 days. Across
:07:37. > :07:40.the area, there are 4,000 apprenticeships. The councils see
:07:40. > :07:46.it as a way are getting young people off benefits to give them
:07:46. > :07:56.the skills they need for their working lives.
:07:56. > :07:57.
:07:57. > :08:02.It is one year, less a day, until the London 2012 Olympic Games get
:08:02. > :08:06.under way and the Olympic torch was this afternoon on the last stage of
:08:06. > :08:12.its tour of the south-east, are on display in Brighton, giving the
:08:12. > :08:22.people the chance to apply to participate in the official the lay
:08:22. > :08:25.
:08:25. > :08:32.next year. The royal seal of approval from a true sports fan,
:08:32. > :08:41.Princess Anne, the only member of the royal family to have taken part
:08:41. > :08:46.in the Olympics in 1976 and Montreal. -- in Montreal. So today,
:08:46. > :08:50.this visit to one of the south- east's training venues is close to
:08:50. > :08:54.her heart. The Princess Royal is officially opening Medway Park
:08:54. > :08:58.Sports Centre a year before the London 2012 Olympics get under way,
:08:58. > :09:03.then this place will be filled with world-class athlete preparing for
:09:03. > :09:07.their big day. Until then, these facilities are being accused by
:09:07. > :09:12.local schoolchildren and the centre will serve the community long after
:09:12. > :09:17.the games. Fabulous new and unities -- amenities, they come here to
:09:17. > :09:24.join with other schools and it is a wonderful experience to have that
:09:24. > :09:27.so close and very locally. I do a dance class, and I'll be -- and I
:09:27. > :09:33.like doing lots of different things. I like watching the athletes
:09:33. > :09:40.compete in the running career because it is really cool! A as
:09:40. > :09:43.part of its �11 million revamp, the centre has a new running track.
:09:43. > :09:49.Medway sporting academy can spot potential runners of the future
:09:49. > :09:53.here. We wanted it to be used for sporting recreational use for the
:09:53. > :09:58.community and that is the Olympic legacy that we are going to have
:09:58. > :10:03.here in Medway. The centre can also host major sporting events. Today
:10:03. > :10:06.it is the start of the modern pentathlon European Championships.
:10:06. > :10:10.He it is brilliant for competing because you can go from one to the
:10:10. > :10:17.other and do not have to get on a bus, so it is a great setting and
:10:17. > :10:21.we are very lucky. Next year, at least from Barbados, Portugal and
:10:21. > :10:25.Senegal will be gearing up for the Olympics here. Before that, the
:10:25. > :10:29.people of Medway can make the most of it.
:10:29. > :10:34.How we hear about legacy and everything looks on track for 2012,
:10:34. > :10:38.what happens after that, will there be a useful these facilities?
:10:38. > :10:44.The leader of Medway council said the legacy of the Olympics would
:10:44. > :10:48.last long beyond 20124 people here. He says this book centre is unique
:10:48. > :10:52.in the south-east because it provides facilities for elite
:10:52. > :10:58.athletes and local people and university students studying sports
:10:58. > :11:01.science. As well as central government funding, some of the �11
:11:01. > :11:04.million came from University of Kent at Medway so people here
:11:04. > :11:12.really do have a very real investment in the centre and its
:11:12. > :11:16.future. Thank you very much indeed. And on Monday, at we will be
:11:16. > :11:20.launching a new series along with BBC Radio Kent and Radio Sussex to
:11:20. > :11:27.chart the highs and lows of local hopefuls as they prepare for
:11:27. > :11:32.selection in the year leading up to the 2012 games. An inquest into the
:11:32. > :11:41.deaths of three Kent-based servicemen killed by a rogue
:11:41. > :11:43.soldier has returned a verdict of unlawful killing. Major James
:11:43. > :11:46.Bowman, Lieutenant Neal Turkington and Corporal Arjun Purja Pun, from
:11:46. > :11:49.the Royal Gurkha Rifles Regiment in Folkestone, were killed in July
:11:49. > :11:52.last year in a premeditated attack. But the inquest concluded there was
:11:52. > :11:54.no evidence of any failure to protect the men properly.
:11:55. > :11:58.A 25-year-old man was arrested in Tunbridge Wells today in connection
:11:58. > :12:01.with the death of a Sussex farmer. Julian Gardner died after being
:12:01. > :12:04.crushed by two vehicles at his farm near Robertsbridge last year. Last
:12:04. > :12:08.month, six men appeared in court in connection with his death. Several
:12:08. > :12:11.other people have also been arrested during the investigation.
:12:11. > :12:14.Bin men are refusing to collect waste from a street in Brighton,
:12:14. > :12:17.after one of them was punched by an angry resident. People in
:12:17. > :12:20.Moulsecoomb Way are annoyed that black bags left next to their
:12:20. > :12:28.wheelie bins are not collected. But the GMB union says the binmen are
:12:28. > :12:31.doing their jobs properly, as directed by the council.
:12:31. > :12:36.Veterans of nuclear-weapons tests he claimed exposure to radiation
:12:36. > :12:42.permanently damaged the health have been granted permission by the
:12:43. > :12:45.Supreme Court to fight for compensation. More than a thousand
:12:45. > :12:47.ex-servicemen, including many in Kent and Sussex, say they became
:12:47. > :12:50.ill after witnessing atomic tests in the 1950s.
:12:50. > :12:53.The Ministry of Defence denies their claims and says they have
:12:53. > :12:55.left it too late to ask for damages. Our political editor, Louise
:12:55. > :12:58.Stewart, has been speaking to veterans in Bexhill.
:12:58. > :13:03.This powerful blast followed by the distinctive mushroom cloud was one
:13:03. > :13:07.of a number of nuclear tests for the so-called H-bomb carried out in
:13:07. > :13:12.the Pacific and at Christmas Island at the height of the Cold War. The
:13:12. > :13:16.servicemen here who oversaw the testing had little by way of
:13:16. > :13:22.protective clothing. Many ex- servicemen including Malcolm
:13:22. > :13:26.believe the exposure to radiation during tests conducted between 1952
:13:26. > :13:30.and 1958 left them with health problems including cancers, skin
:13:31. > :13:35.defects and infertility problems. have had chest infections, I have
:13:35. > :13:41.had bits cut out, we had a daughter before we went to Christmas Island
:13:41. > :13:45.and no problem, came back and tried for another, my better half had a
:13:45. > :13:50.massive miscarriage. And the doctors put it down, all suggested
:13:51. > :13:54.it could be radiation. More than 1,000 veterans have been battling
:13:54. > :13:59.the Ministry of Defence for compensation for their poor health
:13:59. > :14:03.since 2004. Two years ago, the High Court gave one in 10 the right to
:14:03. > :14:08.sue because the cases had been brought to light to be heard. Today,
:14:08. > :14:12.the other 90% saw that decision overturned at the Supreme Court, so
:14:12. > :14:17.they can fight for compensation. The veterans have fought for many
:14:17. > :14:22.years for justice and this is a step on the way. The government has
:14:22. > :14:28.said flatly denied veterans the opportunity to have just slip -- to
:14:28. > :14:32.have justice before the end their lives -- stead vastly. George
:14:32. > :14:36.witnessed the nuclear testing and served on the same aircraft carrier
:14:36. > :14:41.as Malcolm but is not taking action because of the cost, legal aid was
:14:41. > :14:47.withdrawn years ago, but he believes veterans are owned a debt
:14:47. > :14:50.of honour. They should get something but generally speaking,
:14:50. > :14:55.the veterans wonder why a in other countries they have made
:14:55. > :15:03.settlements with their veterans and this country has never done
:15:03. > :15:07.If only they would say, we are sorry. They are not going to do
:15:07. > :15:16.that because if they admit they are so rich, they are admitting they
:15:16. > :15:23.are wrong. The MoD says it cannot - - acknowledges a debt of gratitude
:15:23. > :15:27.but denies any responsibility. A victory at the Supreme Court but
:15:27. > :15:32.this does not mean there is a guarantee they will win
:15:32. > :15:36.compensation, does it? Absolutely not. This is a significant step
:15:36. > :15:41.forward for the veterans but it is not the end of the road. The
:15:41. > :15:45.veterans I spoke to earlier were 76 and 78 and they are among the
:15:45. > :15:49.youngest of the group. The lawyer pointed out that the veterans are
:15:49. > :15:53.dining at the rate of three every month and that means that even if
:15:53. > :15:58.they go forward and pursue this, many of them will not be around to
:15:59. > :16:02.see the outcome -- they are dying at the rate of three a month.
:16:03. > :16:06.Our top story: There are fears of job losses in Dover as news emerges
:16:06. > :16:09.of a take-over bid within the cross-Channel ferry industry.
:16:09. > :16:12.Seafrance faces a joint bid from LD Lines and DFDS. It's thought
:16:12. > :16:20.passenger fares may rise as a result.
:16:20. > :16:23.Also in tonight's programme: Musical memories. How a Surrey man
:16:23. > :16:31.managed to cram one of Britain's largest gramophone collections into
:16:31. > :16:36.his terraced house. And with sunny spells helping the
:16:36. > :16:46.temperatures top at 24 degrees, will we be enjoying this across the
:16:46. > :16:47.
:16:47. > :16:50.weekend? I will have the full The Garden of England is famous for
:16:50. > :16:56.traditional fruits like apples, pears and cherries. But Kentish
:16:56. > :16:59.melons could soon join them on sale in our supermarkets. The first crop
:16:59. > :17:04.of 10,000 orange flesh melons is being harvested this week as part
:17:04. > :17:07.of a commercial trial in East Malling. Growing the fruit at home
:17:07. > :17:11.will avoid the 1,000 mile journey most of our melons make in trucks
:17:11. > :17:15.from Spain. And growers are confident that fewer food miles
:17:15. > :17:20.will mean the fruit is riper and tastier. Ria Chatterjee has the
:17:20. > :17:25.latest report in our Food Chain series.
:17:25. > :17:32.The Garden of England's newest addition, all shapes and sizes, all
:17:32. > :17:36.colours. This is full of the millions we know. Cantaloupes and
:17:36. > :17:41.Ghaly are melons but this is the world's tunnel, melons are flying
:17:41. > :17:46.the flag for Turkey, Iran and the USA. Some of them look really weird
:17:46. > :17:52.and wacky, different tastes and colours, and it brings a bit more
:17:52. > :17:58.fun to the Melin industry rather than the staple varieties -- the
:17:58. > :18:02.melon industry. The team went to France to see how they did it.
:18:02. > :18:08.genuinely put them on a tunnel of this size and only put three or
:18:08. > :18:13.four rows in. We are putting them on second-hand strawberry beds. We
:18:13. > :18:18.have five Rose and so obviously we have more plants. Where they get
:18:18. > :18:22.five or six melons to plant in France, we have got up to nine of
:18:23. > :18:32.marketable size. Let's put them to the taste test. I will not tell you
:18:32. > :18:39.which one is which. Have a taste. # Knew a twisting my melon # This
:18:39. > :18:45.is the one from the U K! You are preferring this one! It is
:18:45. > :18:52.from the UK! Which one do you prefer? That one. It is very sweet.
:18:52. > :19:00.It tastes of sunshine. And again. I will not tell you which one is
:19:00. > :19:07.which. Very nice. Last hope for Spain. This one? Why? And like the
:19:07. > :19:11.flavour. Growing melons seems to be an option where we can replace
:19:11. > :19:16.something we already grow with something new to keep UK consumers
:19:16. > :19:26.eating more fruit. Once tested for quality, they are set to end up
:19:26. > :19:31.
:19:31. > :19:35.Archaeologists tend to go digging in a place where they know they're
:19:35. > :19:39.likely to find a Roman villa or an iron age fort but a team in Sussex
:19:39. > :19:42.has shown that wherever you go, you're likely to find some history.
:19:42. > :19:47.For the past fortnight, 70 volunteers have been helping to
:19:47. > :19:50.excavate a park in the centre of Eastbourne. They have found
:19:50. > :19:56.evidence of human activity going back thousands of years. Natalie
:19:56. > :19:58.Graham joined them. The Sussex seaside resorts were
:19:58. > :20:06.thriving in Victorian times and that's when Eastbourne's rapid
:20:06. > :20:08.The town was designed as a resort built for gentleman by gentleman
:20:09. > :20:14.and Grange Gardens, the site of a two-week long archaeological dig,
:20:14. > :20:20.is an example of that genteel development. We knew that it had
:20:20. > :20:26.been a garden in the a 1990s and before that, it was open fields --
:20:26. > :20:30.1890!. It was empty. For an archaeology, that means everything
:20:30. > :20:34.could be sealed underground, so I was just looking for evidence of
:20:34. > :20:38.people been here before the Victorian garden. What was going on
:20:38. > :20:40.in this part of the Eastbourne, which is now so built up?
:20:40. > :20:43.And so far they've found lots of evidence of human activity
:20:44. > :20:49.stretching back over 2,000 years. This is just some of the material
:20:49. > :20:54.they have found over the last two weeks. Lots of pottery, some of it
:20:54. > :21:02.dating back to Roman times, and glass from Victoria and Roman times.
:21:02. > :21:08.This is the end of a clay pipe that is probably 200 years old.
:21:08. > :21:12.We found a Victorian pavement, mainly bones, glass. It has been
:21:12. > :21:16.great. Getting you out in the sunshine, meeting people, and
:21:16. > :21:20.finding out the heritage of underground.
:21:20. > :21:23.Among the finds which will now be catalogued is a cap badge from the
:21:23. > :21:27.First World War. This is just a small piece of evidence left behind
:21:27. > :21:30.by one of the many people who have been at this spot over the past
:21:30. > :21:33.2,000 years. This dig only cost a few hundred pounds and the
:21:33. > :21:43.organisers are hoping they can make a similar contribution to local
:21:43. > :21:46.Amazing what condition you can get them into.
:21:46. > :21:49.Staying with wonderful old discoveries, here's the story of a
:21:49. > :21:52.man who lived in a modest terraced house near Oxted in East Surrey but
:21:52. > :21:56.managed to amass one of Britain's largest ever personal collections
:21:56. > :21:59.of gramophones and old 78 records. Roger Thorne has passed away now,
:21:59. > :22:03.but his 300 gramophones and 30,000 discs have been put up for auction
:22:03. > :22:13.and are expected to raise over �50,000 for charity. Sara Smith
:22:13. > :22:21.
:22:21. > :22:28.To have one of these beautiful machines in your home would take up
:22:28. > :22:32.a bit of space. Roger Thorne had 300. And that is not counting the
:22:32. > :22:36.phonograph! And thousands of records, all squashed into this
:22:36. > :22:42.tiny terraced house -- the phonographs and thousands of
:22:42. > :22:46.records. This machine is an obvious gramophone. That was the last word
:22:46. > :22:51.in acoustic reproduction, which is what a wind-up gramophone is all
:22:51. > :22:58.about. It was the hi-fi of the 1930s, a well-to-do person who
:22:58. > :23:03.liked classical music would have bought it.
:23:03. > :23:07.CLASSICAL MUSIC. George is a fellow collector and new Roger and his
:23:07. > :23:14.eccentricities well. He collected anything he could get his hands on.
:23:14. > :23:19.A gramophone, phonograph, records, cabinets. All of it. He never
:23:19. > :23:23.played any records as far as I know and as far as I know, he never
:23:23. > :23:27.properly repaired any gramophones. But while Roger may not have used
:23:28. > :23:32.them, many of them are still in working order, despite first been
:23:32. > :23:38.used more than a century ago. This is the oldest gramophone in the
:23:38. > :23:42.collection dating back to 1899. It is one of the first ever made. If
:23:42. > :23:47.you are struggling to remember why you have seen it, try to picture a
:23:47. > :23:51.little dog sitting about here... All these records and players were
:23:51. > :23:56.gathered up by Roger and brought back to his house in a suitably
:23:56. > :24:01.unusual way. He would turn up with loads of records and two scruffy
:24:01. > :24:06.dogs and himself and a Robin Reliant, with bits hanging off it!
:24:06. > :24:10.And just in case you'd doubt in Roger's qualification as a true
:24:11. > :24:17.English eccentric, all the money raised by tomorrow's auction is
:24:17. > :24:21.going to an animal rescue centre in Kent.
:24:21. > :24:29.Wonderful old machines. Fair to say the sound quality has improved over
:24:29. > :24:36.You know how yesterday I was saying how gorgeous this weekend is going
:24:36. > :24:40.to be. I looked at the chart this morning, preparing to cry, but it
:24:41. > :24:45.gives me great pleasure to show you the charts! It is still looking
:24:45. > :24:51.fine. You don't have to be a meteorologist to note is the widely
:24:51. > :24:55.spaced isobars. Plenty of sunshine for Saturday and especially Sunday.
:24:55. > :25:01.I think that will last into Monday as well. Temperatures will be
:25:01. > :25:05.getting up to 24 degrees. I can use the same chart as if the day
:25:05. > :25:09.totally unadulterated because nothing has changed. It is going to
:25:09. > :25:15.be sunny, dry and warm a cross the weekend, getting into the mid-70s
:25:15. > :25:25.by Sunday. For now we have a bit of a mixture, with thick cloud moving
:25:25. > :25:30.
:25:30. > :25:35.Sussex, Surrey and West Kent having a bit more cloud but generally, a
:25:35. > :25:40.fine and dry evening. With lots of clear skies, we will see a few mist
:25:40. > :25:46.and fog patches forming by the end of the night. Into tomorrow, it
:25:46. > :25:50.will be a beautiful start once any mist burns away. Beautiful for the
:25:50. > :25:54.morning and most of us will find we have a better day than we did today,
:25:54. > :25:58.the only difference being that into the afternoon a week weather front
:25:58. > :26:04.could give the odd sprinkle of rain, but that is more likely to happen
:26:04. > :26:09.tomorrow night if at all. Other than that, a very fine day tomorrow
:26:09. > :26:14.with light winds. Temperatures like today. As for tomorrow evening, we
:26:15. > :26:18.have still got some showers hanging on for a greater risk of showers as
:26:18. > :26:22.we go into the first part of Saturday morning but then the
:26:22. > :26:30.sunshine will be increasing and so will the temperatures, getting up
:26:30. > :26:34.to about 25 for London on Sunday and 23 or 24 for us in the felt the
:26:34. > :26:43.east. So I haven't had to back- pedal yet! It is lovely and warm as
:26:43. > :26:47.well. Even lasting into the start Thank you! We are hoping there is
:26:47. > :26:52.good weather on the way next month as well because we have four very
:26:52. > :26:56.special programmes coming up. When the fund is shining, there is
:26:56. > :26:59.nothing better than getting out of the Office for a trip to the
:26:59. > :27:03.seaside and that is exactly what we have got planned every Friday in
:27:04. > :27:11.August. We are entering the festival spirit
:27:11. > :27:14.by taking south-east to UMPIRE: Game, -- South East Today out of
:27:14. > :27:18.the road. We would love as many of you as
:27:18. > :27:21.possible to come and join in the fund. Come on!
:27:21. > :27:24.We start at Broadstairs Folk Week on August the 5th, head to
:27:24. > :27:27.Eastbourne Airbourne on the 12th, join in the roof party at Bexhill's
:27:27. > :27:35.De La Warr Pavilion on the 19th, and finish at Herne Bay Festival on