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Welcome to South East Today. My name's John Young. Tonight's top | :00:04. | :00:07. | |
stories: "Change the law on extradition" - | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
the firefighter convicted of violence in Portugal is released. | :00:09. | :00:19. | |
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He says he never stood a chance. was put in a dungeon with no | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
heating or lighting. They served food under the door. | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
Another emergency on the Thames a rescue is called off tonight after | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
a tug boat from Gravesend sinks. One man is still missing. | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
Also in tonight's programme: It's Festival Friday and we'll be | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
live with a special programme from Eastbourne Airbourne, the world's | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
biggest free seafront airshow. We'll bring you some breathtaking | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
aerobatic displays, as well as all the entertainment that's on offer | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
down here at ground level. And see how I got on barrel-rolling | :00:47. | :00:57. | |
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over Sussex in a World War II US Good evening. Extradition laws need | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
to be changed. That's the claim today by a man from Kent who was | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
jailed in Portugal for his part in a mass fight at Euro 2004. Garry | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
Mann, a former firefighter who's from Faversham, has just been | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
released after serving half of a two year sentence for rioting. He's | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
always denied the charges and says he simply didn't receive a fair | :01:25. | :01:34. | |
trial. Yvette Austin spoke to him this morning. | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
Portugal 2004 and Garry Mann is led away by police. Football fans were | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
in town and trouble had broken out on the streets. The police said | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
Garry Mann was involved. He said he had been drinking in a bar all | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
along. Legal battles ensued and he found himself in a Portuguese | :01:52. | :02:00. | |
prison. The first few weeks were extremely tough. I was put in a | :02:00. | :02:08. | |
dungeon with no heating or lighting. There was excrement on the wall. | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
He's released brings to an end a seven-year saga. In June 2004 he | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
was arrested, tried and convicted in for take out was. In May last | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
year he was extradited to Portugal and this may he returned to a UK | :02:25. | :02:35. | |
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prison to complete his sentence. Gary man - that Garry Mann says | :02:38. | :02:48. | |
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that the extradition warrant was unnecessary. The system is used a | :03:02. | :03:09. | |
cross Europe and it is meant to give members of the European Union | :03:09. | :03:19. | |
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a fair trial a broad. -- abroad. was under a fast-track system that | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
does not apply in Portugal. Normally they would give me time to | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
get evidence, talk to my lawyer and have a decent translation. Normally | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
they would have given me time to get CCTV evidence. I did not have | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
any of that. Garry Mann is looking forward to finding a new job and | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
spending time with his family. Kent Police say they can cope with | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
hundreds of job cuts, despite recent demands on the service. The | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
force is having to cut 1,500 jobs to meet a 20% budget reduction. | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
That works out at roughly the same number of extra staff that were | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
needed to cover this week's riots. The union that represents many | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
officers, the Police Federation, says crime will definitely rise if | :04:00. | :04:08. | |
the cuts go ahead, but managers deny that. Review we have been the | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
force at the moment is we are redesigning at one model. We are | :04:11. | :04:21. | |
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doing it to reassure we -- ensure week reinforce the front line. | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
A search and rescue operation has been called off this evening after | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
a tug boat from Kent sank in the Thames at Greenwich this morning. | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
Chieftain, which is thought to be owned by Palmer Marine Services | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
based in Gravesend, was carrying three crew members one of them is | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
still missing. The incident comes just a week after a man from | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
Swanley died in a similar incident on the river. | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
At the bottom of the screen you can see two men scrambling out of the | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
water to safety. What the picture does not show is that moments | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
earlier, the tug boat they were on sank in the Thames. It happened at | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
around 11 o'clock this morning and a resident in these flat saw it. | :05:04. | :05:13. | |
was in my lounge and I saw eight large barge go by without a tug on | :05:13. | :05:22. | |
a chain. Suddenly, it turned over. Two guys jump out of it and my | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
partner took some photographs. seems that a large barge was being | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
bought by a couple of tug boats. One of them got caught in the | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
middle of the river. It then it flipped over and sank within | :05:37. | :05:44. | |
seconds. It was quite a big barge. It was a massive crane, so you can | :05:44. | :05:53. | |
imagine the weight and size of the thing. The tug boats was a | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
registered in Gravesend and it is believed that is where it was | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
heading. Two men were rescued, but one man is still missing. A major | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
search and rescue operation was launched earlier, but it has now | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
been called off. The Maritime and Coastguard Agency have now launched | :06:13. | :06:20. | |
an investigation into what happened. In a moment - it ready for the off | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
and an important date in Kenya. A Sussex charity hopes to meet Barack | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
Obama's grandmother to help tackle famine. | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
But first, it is that time on a Friday evening in August when we | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
leave the studio and head out on the latest of our Festival Friday | :06:40. | :06:49. | |
series. This evening Polly and Rob are at Eastbourne Airbourne. What | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
is the atmosphere like? It is great. You join us at an | :06:55. | :07:04. | |
opportune moment when an American fighter plane is there a HET. | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
Thousands and thousands of people have turned out to see the show, to | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
see us and more importantly, to see the aeroplanes. We've seen | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
aerobatics and we will be seen the Red Arrows. | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
Them as a lot going on on the ground as well. In the main arena | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
there is hand-to-hand combat among us the Marines. In a moment we will | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
speed one of the pilots taking part in the aerobatic displays and we | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
will find out what this event does of tourism in Eastbourne. Firstly, | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
Ian Palmer has been soaking up the atmosphere of the day. | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
Wing walking over Sussex. It must be Eastbourne Airbourne. I never | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
get nervous before a wing walk. I have wanted to it since I was six | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
years old. I have been doing it for five years and every time it is a | :07:54. | :08:03. | |
magical experience. The event has come a long way since it first | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
started in 1993. So much so, Nigel and Carol Smith built their annual | :08:08. | :08:18. | |
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holiday around it. The airshow at is an extra thing to do. We really | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
enjoy it. For not liking aeroplanes I have become addicted. This bomb- | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
disposal robot is part of an army boat show. Everyone knows an army | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
marches on its stomach and this is where the Cook's try to fill it. | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
The we are chefs by trade, so we look at what the troops are doing. | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
If they have got a heavy schedule, we will know them up with | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
carbohydrates. Jumping out of aeroplanes and helicopters is not | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
normal behaviour, but today there are plenty willing to do it. One of | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
the best ways to enjoy this guy is to get out of their aircraft. | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
Everyone on the display team has at least 200 jams, which is the | :09:02. | :09:11. | |
minimum you need. A special moment was reserved for Britain's plane, | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
the Spitfire. They are fantastic. Just wonderful to see all these | :09:16. | :09:25. | |
people enjoying our history and having fun and feeling very relaxed. | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
It was and relaxing 70 years ago when the skies over the South East | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
were four of World War II fighter planes. Today's Battle of Britain | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
Memorial Flight bypass is a salute to hour aviation history. A History | :09:40. | :09:49. | |
kept alive by this unique event. That Battle of Britain Memorial | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
Flight is one of the most popular events here and we have got one of | :09:53. | :10:03. | |
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the men involved. Hello. You are responsible for checking of the | :10:05. | :10:12. | |
equipment, aren't you? Yes. I look after parachutes, life preservers, | :10:12. | :10:22. | |
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oxygen masks. All the kit the aircrew were. -- where. There is | :10:25. | :10:34. | |
quite a responsibility. Yes. If the parachute doesn't work, we will fix | :10:34. | :10:42. | |
it for free! There is a lot of sentiment and emotion involved in | :10:42. | :10:51. | |
watching the Memorial Flight. crowd love it. There are a lot of | :10:51. | :10:58. | |
veterans still around today. The long Custer represents that 55,000 | :10:58. | :11:08. | |
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people who died. -- B Lancaster. This is a big deal for Eastbourne | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
and Rob is finding out what it means for tourism in the area. | :11:13. | :11:23. | |
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There is a lot for people to get involved in and take a look out. | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
These bomb-disposal robots are similar to those been used in | :11:30. | :11:38. | |
Afghanistan. They read thousands of people here and here, of course, is | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
a Hawk jet. Neil Stanley is from Eastbourne Council. You are pleased | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
to see a lot of people here today, aren't you? It is fantastic. | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
Everyone is having fun. This is hugely important for the town | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
because this event is were up 10 % of the town's income. You yes. It | :11:59. | :12:08. | |
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is worth �27 million. It puts up son -- us on the map. You did | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
charge for the event a few years ago and the number has dropped off. | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
Can use continue providing the event for free. It is worth the | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
investment. It is busy today. Something like 35,000 ice-creams | :12:27. | :12:34. | |
are sold over the weekend. Back is right. The seafront is heaving and | :12:34. | :12:41. | |
it has been a fantastic day out. Thank you. That a fighter jet is | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
going to continue, so let's go back to the studio. | :12:45. | :12:53. | |
We will go back to East or later. A charity worker from Sussex is | :12:53. | :13:03. | |
hoping to meet President Obama in Kenya. Rick Sharp have sent a | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
makeshift medical centre at to Kenya. The President's grandmother | :13:07. | :13:17. | |
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Sarah lives in Kenya and he will be Once everything is unloaded in | :13:24. | :13:34. | |
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Kenya, the container itself will become a medical clinic. At �35,000 | :13:35. | :13:42. | |
for a built of brick clinic, we couldn't afford that. Consequently, | :13:42. | :13:49. | |
we hope really going to do 10 of these in five years. It is ideal. | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
The charity has also started a five-year malaria awareness | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
campaign with another charity run by President Obama's grandmother. | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
That will lead to a meeting with President Obama during an official | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
visit to Kenya next month. meeting with President Obama speaks | :14:08. | :14:15. | |
for itself. It raises the profile no end. They announced but Sarah | :14:15. | :14:22. | |
Obama, she is actually putting up money and they said they have | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
already got us on the list and they hope we're going to help. And so | :14:28. | :14:38. | |
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the container head -- headed off on its trip to Kenya. | :14:38. | :14:46. | |
And thanks to a -- to rig Sharpe himself for getting in touch. If | :14:46. | :14:54. | |
you have got anything to say, you can give us a call or e-mail us, or | :14:54. | :15:04. | |
text us. A 21-year-old man from Dartford who | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
fell overboard in a boating accident off Greece says he's lucky | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
to be alive. Adam Rose fell overboard and was struck by the | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
boat's propeller while on holiday in Zante. He was rescued when his | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
friends dived in to save him from drowning. He's been treated at | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
Darent Valley Hospital. Final preparations are underway for | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
tomorrow's annual Gay Pride Festival in Brighton, with tens of | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
thousands of people expected in the city. For the first time, | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
organisers are charging people to attend the final event at Preston | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
Park. The police say they'll be clamping down if large illegal | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
public parties spring up elsewhere. It's been confirmed that a new | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
world record was set in April for the most hot air balloons to cross | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
the English Channel. 49 balloons crossed from Lydden Hill Race | :15:42. | :15:50. | |
Circuit in Dover to Calais Airport. Football now, and after an almost | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
perfect start to the new football season last weekend, the South | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
East's top teams will be hoping for something similar tomorrow. But, as | :15:56. | :16:06. | |
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Neil Bell reports, three of them face tricky away games. After the | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
euphoria of their first home win last weekend, Brighton will be | :16:11. | :16:21. | |
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hoping for an equally impressive result at Portsmouth. I need to be | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
calm and realistic. We need to slowly become a proper championship | :16:30. | :16:40. | |
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team. If people think it is going to happen this year, we already won | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
the league last year, we need to become. Charlton should be full of | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
confidence for their trip to Notts cans -- Notts County following | :16:51. | :17:01. | |
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their victory over Bournemouth. This was a sublime strike. | :17:02. | :17:12. | |
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Gillingham travelled to crew. It is a big day for Crawley, who take on | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
Macclesfield in their first ever home league game. They will be | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
hoping to celebrate with a victory after an impressive draw at Port | :17:20. | :17:28. | |
Vale last Saturday. That is it from me and the rest of | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
the team in the studio but there is now plenty more to come from a rope | :17:33. | :17:42. | |
and pulley at Eastbourne. -- From Rob and Polly. We had just come | :17:42. | :17:52. | |
down to the sea fund. This is a festival on a massive scale. There | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
are 100,000 visitors over format days. They have consumed 35,000 | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
ice-creams and they will sway the 1000 gallons of tea and coffee. | :18:03. | :18:11. | |
That is quite a lot! We were going to be seeing the Blades buying but | :18:11. | :18:19. | |
the crowds are a bit low for that. -- flying. We wanted to get an idea | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
of what it is like to actually be in a plane and go up there. I was | :18:25. | :18:35. | |
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fortunate enough to actually get If you want to loop the loop, there | :18:35. | :18:43. | |
is really only one way to find out if you have got the right stuff. | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
This is a big aeroplane, very powerful. Second -- Second World | :18:49. | :18:58. | |
War training aircraft. With its 600 horsepower engine, it is a very | :18:58. | :19:07. | |
stable, heavy lump. Even so, once she is in the air, she becomes | :19:08. | :19:15. | |
graceful. That was beautiful! Unfortunately, there was a very low | :19:15. | :19:25. | |
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cloud the day we went up, but we did manage to punch through. Then | :19:29. | :19:39. | |
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Richard was able to show me what she can really do. That is awesome! | :19:39. | :19:46. | |
What a feeling. Fantastic. And then, after a barrel rolling, we loop the | :19:46. | :19:56. | |
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loop, going completely upside down over Sussex. The Texan was built by | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
the Americans in the 40s for fighter pilot training and the RAF | :20:04. | :20:14. | |
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build their own version, calling at the Harvard. These are the kind of | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
aircraft back people who went on to buy spit buyers would have trained | :20:19. | :20:27. | |
in. It really is a privilege. -- Spitfires. Then all too quickly, we | :20:27. | :20:35. | |
were back on the ground. There is a lot of power there, but it is built | :20:35. | :20:45. | |
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that fires to last. -- of that size to last. When we see the guys at | :20:54. | :21:01. | |
Airbourne, how would that compared to what we just did? I do them | :21:01. | :21:09. | |
slightly lower to the ground and tie them closer together, but that | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
is what you will see at Airbourne. It is brilliant, can we do It | :21:15. | :21:24. | |
Again? It was absolutely fantastic, what a privilege. The blades are | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
one of the world's best aerobatic display teams. They performed | :21:28. | :21:36. | |
earlier on. James from the blades is with us. Tell us about the kind | :21:37. | :21:45. | |
of planes your guys fly? It is a German-built aircraft with | :21:45. | :21:54. | |
formation aerobatics in mind. They really can throw the aircraft | :21:54. | :22:04. | |
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around. And all of these people, they are ex Red Arrows pilots? | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
they know what they're doing when they're in the sky. And some of the | :22:09. | :22:19. | |
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stunts are extraordinary. Yes, they're all in formation, it is a | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
real crowd-pleaser. I know people have been really enjoying what has | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
been going on today. Polly is in the depths of the crowd. Yes, we | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
keep saying 100,000 visitors. People have actually come from all | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
over the world to attend. This woman has come from New Zealand. | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
What do you make of it? It is different, but it is also the same. | :22:51. | :23:00. | |
This show is amazing. Yes, it is quite incredible. You have come | :23:00. | :23:09. | |
from Loughborough? Yes, indeed. What do you enjoy about it? Seeing | :23:09. | :23:19. | |
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the Red Arrows. These girls, what are you enjoying about a day? | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
enjoyed the wing walkers. We do like to do something like that? | :23:27. | :23:37. | |
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I would like to fly in red arrow. Hello, this is the other thing, it | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
is so loud here! He has the ear protectors on, this little boy. Is | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
he having a good time? Yes, he is loving it? By your local? | :23:51. | :24:01. | |
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Folkestone. -- Are you local? We hope you all enjoyed it. In the | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
meantime, the cloud is setting and so we're hoping they will have a | :24:07. | :24:16. | |
clear view. Yes, plenty of cloud around. Earlier there was plenty of | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
sunshine along the south coast. As we move into the evening, there | :24:20. | :24:29. | |
will be patchy rain and drizzle. It will clear up around lunchtime | :24:29. | :24:36. | |
tomorrow. If you're planning on coming to Eastbourne Airborne over | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
the weekend, ones that rain clears, it will be increasingly trying to | :24:41. | :24:51. | |
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the afternoon on Saturday -- dry into the afternoon. Into Sunday, | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
some rain overnight. That should clear through the early hours of | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
Sunday. Plenty of cloud around but fingers crossed for some hazy | :25:02. | :25:12. | |
sunshine. Top temperatures of 21 degrees. As you can see, earlier | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
today it was quite a grey start to the day. Along the south closed | :25:17. | :25:27. | |
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plenty of hazy sunshine. -- the south coast. There has been some | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
patchy rain and drizzle. As we move into the night, is similar story. | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
Mostly dry but some patchy rain and drizzle. Not until tomorrow morning | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
that we see some rain. Overnight with the cloud cover it will be | :25:43. | :25:52. | |
quite warm. Tomorrow morning, this weather front spreading east. It is | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
likely to be clearing slowly through the morning. In the | :25:58. | :26:05. | |
afternoon, top temperatures of 21 degrees again. On Sunday, once | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
again we will see some don't. Temperatures not much below 15 | :26:11. | :26:21. | |
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degrees. Highs of 21 Aug 22 degrees in the afternoon. Monday sees | :26:24. | :26:34. | |
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plenty of sunshine. It is the end of their fantastic festival Friday | :26:35. | :26:44. | |
day here. Don't forget, you can visit a Facebook paged to see | :26:44. | :26:53. |