:00:02. > :00:06.Welcome to South East Today, I'm Rob Smith. And I'm Polly Evans.
:00:06. > :00:11.Tonight's top stories. He made racist comments on Facebook.
:00:11. > :00:14.A Kent Conservative politician is suspended from the party. Simon
:00:14. > :00:18.Jones is live in the town with the details.
:00:18. > :00:22.Bitten more than 100 times by bed bugs. The Kent sisters who needed
:00:22. > :00:25.hospital treatment after staying in a London hotel. I just by chance
:00:25. > :00:28.lifted up the pillows, and that's when I saw them underneath the
:00:28. > :00:31.pillow. Also in tonight's programme.
:00:31. > :00:35.Waiting for the green light, could plans for a huge wind turbine
:00:35. > :00:37.factory in Kent be under threat? It's A-level results day, but for
:00:37. > :00:42.some good results won't mean choosing university but hunting for
:00:42. > :00:52.a job. And lighting the way, the artists
:00:52. > :00:58.
:00:58. > :01:00.celebrating the history of keeping Good evening. A Conservative
:01:00. > :01:05.councillor in Kent has been suspended from the party for making
:01:06. > :01:08.offensive and racist comments on the social networking site Facebook.
:01:09. > :01:13.Bob Frost, who made the remarks in a conversation about the recent
:01:13. > :01:16.London riots, has now apologised saying he was wrong. Dover District
:01:16. > :01:25.Council says there's no place in society for his comments. Simon
:01:25. > :01:30.Jones reports. As violence and vandalism gripped
:01:30. > :01:40.part of London, Councillor Bob Frost took to Facebook. From
:01:40. > :01:42.
:01:42. > :01:52.When it was suggested to him he could always take a trip to north
:01:52. > :01:54.
:01:54. > :01:57.Jungle bunnies is a derogatory term for black people. You do not expect
:01:58. > :02:05.someone in a position of type that position of power to make comments
:02:05. > :02:09.like this. They are clearly offensive, racist, in fact.
:02:09. > :02:13.Councillor Bob Frost, a teacher here, is now facing questions from
:02:13. > :02:17.all political sides. It sounds to me as though the implication is
:02:17. > :02:23.that it is a racist slur. If the man has any integrity at all, he
:02:23. > :02:32.should resign from both the council's he is on, Dover District
:02:32. > :02:42.Council, and steel town council. is not the first politician to fall
:02:42. > :02:49.
:02:49. > :02:54.This man resigned from the Conservative Party after referring
:02:54. > :02:59.to local women as slugs. Little sympathy for Councillor frost in
:02:59. > :03:04.Dover. That kind of terminology should not be a loser -- used. If
:03:04. > :03:12.you got a problem, do not use race or culture. I think it is rather
:03:12. > :03:16.derogatory. In debate's day and age, it is completely and necessary. He
:03:16. > :03:23.deserved to be dis -- suspended. Whether it be on Facebook,
:03:23. > :03:33.privately, whatever, you cannot use terms like that. Councillor Frost
:03:33. > :03:37.
:03:37. > :03:41.Facebook has made him front page news.
:03:41. > :03:46.Simon it joins us now from Dover. I understand the school, Sir Roger
:03:46. > :03:50.Manwood, where he works, has given its reaction to the comment? In the
:03:50. > :03:54.past hour, it has told us that it does not know the full details but
:03:54. > :03:57.the chair of governors says they are investigating. Nobody from the
:03:57. > :04:01.Conservatives locally would be interviewed on camera today. The
:04:01. > :04:06.deputy leader of the council told us that language like this has no
:04:06. > :04:11.place in our society. Others behind the scenes say they are seething
:04:11. > :04:13.that this councillor could be so naive and offensive. Councillor
:04:13. > :04:19.Frost did not respond to my comments on Facebook trying to get
:04:19. > :04:22.in touch with him today, but in a recent post, he said, I think there
:04:22. > :04:25.is a storm coming in the direction of Dover. I think he was referring
:04:25. > :04:27.to this fall out. Two sisters from Kent, who needed
:04:27. > :04:30.hospital treatment after being bitten more than 100 times by
:04:30. > :04:33.bedbugs while staying at a London hotel, have been awarded
:04:33. > :04:36.compensation for the distress they suffered. Melanie Carmen and her
:04:36. > :04:39.sister Joy travelled to the capital last summer and stayed at the
:04:39. > :04:49.Airways Hotel in Pimlico, which describes itself as among the best
:04:49. > :04:50.
:04:50. > :04:53.budget hotels in central London. Jon Hunt reports.
:04:53. > :04:57.Melanie and Troy, reliving the itching and aching they suffered
:04:57. > :05:03.when they were bit by bedbugs when they slept. They only realised the
:05:03. > :05:06.following day and assumed at first it was other insect. We were
:05:07. > :05:10.sitting in the theatre, scratching like mad. Then we went back, that
:05:10. > :05:16.is when we sprayed ourselves to make sure nothing would come near
:05:16. > :05:21.us that night. The next morning, that is when my neck came up, my
:05:21. > :05:26.neck was massive. They were rather large bumps, far bigger than any
:05:26. > :05:30.insect bite I have had. They are very red, and they have an
:05:30. > :05:33.information around the outside of them. Then they get painful. You
:05:33. > :05:38.try not to scratch, but it is almost impossible without many
:05:38. > :05:43.bites. Bedbugs are becoming a worldwide problem again. They do
:05:43. > :05:46.not transmit disease, that can be hard to eradicate. Last year,
:05:46. > :05:52.several high-profile shops in New York were forced to close because
:05:52. > :05:56.of its concessions. They are spread through contact, people carry them
:05:56. > :06:01.from surface-to-surface. They feed on blood, 15 minutes at a time.
:06:01. > :06:05.Despite their name, they are not just found in bed, but everywhere
:06:05. > :06:09.indoors, even in Clean hands. important to understand that it is
:06:09. > :06:14.nothing to do with hygiene. They are an exposure pet, you pick them
:06:14. > :06:18.up from one location and deposit them in there -- in the next. As
:06:18. > :06:22.long as people are stationary for significant periods of time,
:06:22. > :06:25.bedbugs can survive in those environment. No one from the hotel
:06:25. > :06:32.where the sisters stayed was available to comment today. Between
:06:32. > :06:36.them, joy and many had been bitten 138 times, and lived in fear that
:06:36. > :06:42.they took some home with them. really was frantic about this. It
:06:42. > :06:46.might sound over-the-top, but I was constantly hoovering. Just in case
:06:46. > :06:52.there was anything in my wardrobe. I was fanatical about it. It took
:06:52. > :06:55.four months for their bite marks to die down. The sisters are received
:06:55. > :06:59.�1,600 each in an out-of-court settlement.
:06:59. > :07:01.In a moment: A stitch in time, the railway engineer from Chatham whose
:07:01. > :07:11.remarkable copy of the Bayeux Tapestry is so good, the French
:07:11. > :07:12.
:07:12. > :07:14.In an exclusive interview with South East Today, the world's
:07:14. > :07:18.leading wind turbine manufacturer is warning the government it won't
:07:18. > :07:21.build a new factory in Kent unless it gets more detail on the UK's
:07:21. > :07:23.plans for renewable energy. The Danish company Vesta has an option
:07:23. > :07:26.to buy land at Sheerness Docks to build a manufacturing plant
:07:26. > :07:35.creating up to two thousand jobs and producing giant offshore wind
:07:35. > :07:39.turbines. But it says politicians have to do more to make it happen.
:07:39. > :07:49.Our business correspondent Mark Norman is at the docks now. How
:07:49. > :07:50.
:07:50. > :07:53.much at risk is the project? think the company are very serious
:07:53. > :07:57.about this. This is just a part of the site where they want to build
:07:57. > :08:00.this factory, right next to the deep water port. The company have
:08:00. > :08:03.always said they needed certain commitments from government, they
:08:04. > :08:07.have been in London talking to the government this week. The longer
:08:07. > :08:14.this goes on, the more frustrated the company becomes.
:08:14. > :08:17.This is how Vesta says its wind turbines factory would look. Local
:08:17. > :08:21.politicians and the country -- company say it wanted to be built,
:08:21. > :08:24.but it has never happened, and it might not happen if the government
:08:24. > :08:29.does not clarify how they will support the industry financially.
:08:29. > :08:32.It we do not get answers, or the framework is not in place, our
:08:32. > :08:37.customers will not to buy the turbines, and we will not by the
:08:38. > :08:43.Turks -- the factory. Vesta currently supplies 40% of the
:08:43. > :08:48.world's offshore turbines. I have an option on on that land in
:08:48. > :08:53.Sheerness docks. -- they have the option. It could create 2000 jobs
:08:53. > :09:00.directly and indirectly. Despite months of talks and a government
:09:00. > :09:04.White Paper Supporting renewable energy, Vesta says it is uncertain
:09:04. > :09:08.about how its customers will be paid for the electricity produced,
:09:08. > :09:12.because the system is being replaced. People do not know how
:09:12. > :09:16.this will pay out, it is hard to get financing of the back of the
:09:16. > :09:19.government's documents so far. We have got a long-term strategic
:09:19. > :09:23.vision from government, we know what they would like to see, it is
:09:23. > :09:27.whether they will translate that into a long-term commitment that
:09:27. > :09:31.people can build businesses on. Their government say their priority
:09:31. > :09:34.is to drive down the cost of offshore wind. The local government
:09:34. > :09:40.-- the local authority wants more clarity from central government.
:09:40. > :09:46.be able to make the kind of a investment that Vesta #ColourCyan
:09:46. > :09:52.Need to make, they need some clarity for the next 40 or 50 years.
:09:52. > :09:59.We would like government to make that decision. Does companies that
:09:59. > :10:03.will -- of those companies that will buy the turbines, they count
:10:03. > :10:08.seat -- they need the right political framework. There is a
:10:08. > :10:13.willingness on both sides to build this factory, but Vesta can be
:10:13. > :10:17.ruthless. It closed down its factory on Isle of Wight in 2009
:10:17. > :10:20.because of poor orders, with the loss of over 400 jobs.
:10:20. > :10:24.The government have told me late this afternoon that they will
:10:24. > :10:28.consult on some of these issues soon, and they have promised in the
:10:28. > :10:33.past to come up with decisions by the end of the year. Vesta will be
:10:33. > :10:38.hoping they stick to that promise. You can watch and extending --
:10:38. > :10:42.extended into the with the boss of Vesta on our side.
:10:42. > :10:45.A man who died when the tugboat he was working on sank in the Thames
:10:45. > :10:49.has been named. Darren Lacey from Gravesend was one of the crew
:10:49. > :10:52.members on the Chieftain when it sank off Greenwich Pier last Friday.
:10:52. > :10:54.His body was recovered on Monday. A post mortem found that he had died
:10:54. > :10:57.by drowning. The operators of Manston Airport
:10:57. > :11:00.are warning any move to ban night flights could threaten its
:11:00. > :11:04.financial viability. The loss- making airport operates occasional
:11:04. > :11:14.flights at night but wants to include scheduled departures.
:11:14. > :11:14.
:11:14. > :11:17.Opponents of the scheme say it would ruin their quality of life.
:11:17. > :11:19.A care home in East Sussex is facing closure after an inspection
:11:19. > :11:22.report by the government's healthcare watchdog highlighted
:11:22. > :11:30.numerous problems. The Mount Denys care home in Hastings cares for up
:11:30. > :11:35.to 30 people with dementia. What exactly does the report say?
:11:35. > :11:39.It is pretty blunt. What it says is, let be clear, this is a home for
:11:39. > :11:42.people who have dementia, particularly difficult people. They
:11:42. > :11:46.are the most challenging. It was put together by the Care Quality
:11:46. > :11:50.Commission, the watchdog. They do not say in their report that they
:11:50. > :11:57.will close the place down, but they do ultimately have that power. The
:11:57. > :12:00.report says that there is an urgent need for improvement. It says that
:12:00. > :12:05.70 cases have been recorded of violence in the space of one month,
:12:05. > :12:09.more than two a day. Either between the residents themselves, all
:12:09. > :12:13.residents attacking staff. This is not about staff stressing --
:12:14. > :12:18.abusing residents. Quite the reverse. Why, because scarf --
:12:18. > :12:22.staff did not spot warning signs. The report says the staff did not
:12:22. > :12:28.know each resident well enough to spot what will upset them, that was
:12:28. > :12:31.picked up by a national charity. Challenges that current care homes
:12:31. > :12:35.have is that they are institutionalised and have
:12:35. > :12:39.timetables. That have to be turned on its head. We have to look at
:12:39. > :12:43.people with dementia, understand what dementia is and work with
:12:43. > :12:46.individuals. It is not about caring with people -- caring for people
:12:46. > :12:52.within a timetable, it is about looking at two residents and
:12:52. > :12:55.finding a way and mean of caring for them with dignity and respect.
:12:55. > :12:58.This home is run by East Sussex County Council, what has their
:12:58. > :13:01.response been? They refused to give any interviews
:13:01. > :13:07.today, they wanted to wait until the full report is issued next
:13:07. > :13:12.month. They say they alter this. They have already put them - given
:13:12. > :13:16.them more staff and there are more tailor-made care plans. What's more,
:13:16. > :13:19.they say these improvements have been in place since the inspection
:13:19. > :13:22.towards the end of July. We will now wait to see the follow-up when
:13:22. > :13:25.the report comes out next month. With university fees rising from
:13:25. > :13:28.next year, the pressure on students opening their A-level results today
:13:28. > :13:31.has been higher than ever. For some in the South East, it means not
:13:31. > :13:34.taking a gap year. For others it means opting out of further
:13:34. > :13:39.education altogether and trying their luck in the increasingly
:13:39. > :13:45.tough job market. Peter Whittlesea reports.
:13:45. > :13:50.Is that what you were hoping for? But his amazing! This is what we
:13:50. > :13:55.expect on results day. But it could it soon be more like this? Business
:13:55. > :13:59.as usual? Tom opted for an apprenticeship in accounts. And he
:13:59. > :14:03.has not looked back. You can look the book theory -- learn the book
:14:04. > :14:07.theory, but you cannot have the real life experience of the systems,
:14:07. > :14:12.how things behave, when errors occur, in real life, and how you
:14:12. > :14:16.deal with it. Customers have issues, you do not learn is at university.
:14:16. > :14:20.This year, record numbers have applied to university., was
:14:20. > :14:24.planning to take a year off, but because he had done better than he
:14:24. > :14:31.expected, he is looking to going straight to university. He starts
:14:31. > :14:35.his course before tuition fees go up from �4,000 to �9,000 per year.
:14:35. > :14:39.�18,000 is a lot of money. Especially for someone who is just
:14:39. > :14:45.18 years old, just out of school, and cannot afford it. I will look
:14:46. > :14:49.at all the different options I have, all but it from you need -- all the
:14:49. > :14:53.different universities I can go to. Some feel they are better off going
:14:53. > :14:58.straight into the job market rather than running up debts. I did
:14:58. > :15:01.consider going to university, but I went to go and work for a bank. I
:15:01. > :15:07.did not want to go to university because of the financial cost, too
:15:07. > :15:10.much on a loan, and there is no guarantee of a job afterwards.
:15:10. > :15:15.education professionals believe work place degrees and
:15:15. > :15:18.apprenticeships will become more popular as tuition fees increase.
:15:18. > :15:22.Partly because people are concerned about the fees going forward, and
:15:22. > :15:28.partly because people are getting more realistic about the need to
:15:28. > :15:31.actually earned money. And keep the cost of a degree to a minimum. Many
:15:31. > :15:41.students at this academy are looking to go to local universities
:15:41. > :15:42.
:15:42. > :15:44.to save on accommodation costs. It is coming up to 6:45pm. Our top
:15:44. > :15:47.story tonight. A Conservative councillor has been
:15:47. > :15:50.suspended from the party for making racist comments on Facebook. Dover
:15:50. > :15:56.District Council says there's no place for the sort of comments made
:15:56. > :16:00.by Bob Frost in a conversation Also in tonight's programme.
:16:00. > :16:09.The married masters of the arts and crafts. Works by William and Evelyn
:16:09. > :16:14.de Morgan go on display in Sussex. And they are still lighting the way
:16:14. > :16:19.from their primitive and history to the 21st century, a celebration of
:16:19. > :16:23.keeping our shores shipwreck three. It's almost a thousand years
:16:23. > :16:26.younger and only a third of the length, but now a replica section
:16:26. > :16:29.of the Bayeux tapestry, stitched in Kent, is heading to Normandy as
:16:29. > :16:32.part of celebrations commemorating the founding of the French state.
:16:32. > :16:34.Andy Wilkinson from Chatham has been working on his a half size
:16:35. > :16:38.reproduction of the battle scene from the famous tapestry for 15
:16:38. > :16:46.years, and now it's nearing completion. Fiona Irving has
:16:47. > :16:50.tonight's story update. It was the bloodiest battle to be
:16:50. > :16:55.fought on the Sussex soil. As the English tried to fight off their
:16:55. > :17:02.northern invaders. Those are the scenes despite -- depicted in the
:17:02. > :17:05.Bayeux tapestry and reproduced by Andy Wilkinson, a railway into --
:17:05. > :17:10.Engineer from Chatham, who before he started, could not even so a
:17:10. > :17:14.button. I have had no more or boat -- I have had no formal training in
:17:14. > :17:18.art. No one has shown me any needlework, apart from one stage
:17:18. > :17:24.that I felt I needed to know, across someone had to do it and
:17:24. > :17:32.they told me. Apart from that, I have done it all myself. Why? I
:17:32. > :17:37.have no idea! Just because I can. Andy's tapestry is 40 ft long. 140
:17:37. > :17:43.stitches in a square inch. It has taken him 10,000 hours to embroider.
:17:43. > :17:48.It is not an exact replica of the Bayeux tapestry but an
:17:48. > :17:53.interpretation of it. He has kept to the essence of it and kept the
:17:53. > :17:58.famous scene of King Harald with an arrow in his eyes. On the bottom,
:17:58. > :18:02.they have very small eyes, on the original. To make it half-size it
:18:02. > :18:11.is impossible to sow, so I have had to leave them off. So some of my
:18:11. > :18:14.animals are blind! This weekend, he is after Normandy to show off his
:18:14. > :18:24.handiwork to residents whose ancestors were part of the only
:18:24. > :18:24.
:18:24. > :18:26.In many ways, it's a sort of homecoming for a collection of
:18:26. > :18:30.extraordinary paintings and ceramics created by a unique
:18:30. > :18:34.husband and wife team which has gone on display in East Grinstead.
:18:34. > :18:37.William de Morgan was born in 1839. He was one of the most important
:18:37. > :18:41.ceramic artists from the arts and crafts movement of the late 19th
:18:41. > :18:44.century. And his career break came when he began collaborating with
:18:45. > :18:54.William Morris. Meanwhile his wife Evelyn created a whole series of
:18:55. > :19:04.
:19:04. > :19:10.classically inspired paintings. He was the ceramicist of his time,
:19:10. > :19:12.and she was a rarity, a professional woman artist. William
:19:13. > :19:21.and Evelyn de Morgan were true Renaissance people -- Renaissance
:19:21. > :19:26.people, and excelled of the art of the late Victorian era. Here, we
:19:26. > :19:31.have a very different piece, a galleon panel. This was one of the
:19:31. > :19:35.commissions he did for the P&O liners. By the 1880s, steamships
:19:35. > :19:42.had become a popular and luxurious way of travelling. William de
:19:42. > :19:46.Morgan was provided -- was asked to provide the decorations for 12 P&O
:19:46. > :19:50.liners. These galleons were quite typical of the ships that he
:19:50. > :19:53.created, they are rather jaunty vessels. They are not looking
:19:53. > :19:59.particularly see were the, you cannot imagine they would last very
:19:59. > :20:03.long in a storm! He was an optimist, then? You could say that. The sea
:20:03. > :20:08.and sea creatures were a recurring theme for both artists.
:20:08. > :20:16.Particularly as Evelyn got older, she got interested in spiritualists,
:20:16. > :20:24.so her later work has an ethereal quality to it. The exhibition is on
:20:24. > :20:28.show at Standens, a house designed by Philip Webb four prosperous
:20:28. > :20:34.London solicitor, James Beale. wanted a holiday home for his
:20:34. > :20:38.family, his seven children and wife. It was designed in the Arts and
:20:38. > :20:42.Crafts style. He was a close friend of William Morris, the father of
:20:42. > :20:44.the Arts and Crafts movement. William Morris was responsible for
:20:44. > :20:49.furnishing the house with the patterns and wallpapers and fabrics
:20:49. > :20:54.we see today. It is appropriate the exhibition should be here. That the
:20:54. > :20:59.Morgan family were friends with William Morris, and James Beale was
:20:59. > :21:03.a fan of William de Morgan's work and collected several pieces. It
:21:03. > :21:06.runs until the end of October. Football, and after another
:21:06. > :21:12.impressive victory last night, some Brighton and Hove Albion fans may
:21:12. > :21:15.already be dreaming of a second successive promotion. The Seagulls
:21:15. > :21:22.are joint top of The Championship after beating Cardiff and making it
:21:22. > :21:27.three wins out of three this season. Ian Palmer reports.
:21:27. > :21:31.In truth, a heart belonged to Cardiff, apart from an Ashley
:21:31. > :21:36.Barnes shots. It was after six minutes, it were judged the off
:21:36. > :21:42.side. Six minutes before half-time, the striker tried again. One-0-
:21:42. > :21:45.Brighton. Following the turnover, a foul gave Barnes the chance to
:21:45. > :21:55.double the lead from the penalty spot. They say you are never more
:21:55. > :21:57.
:21:57. > :22:01.than three passes away from a goal, and so it proved. One... Two...
:22:01. > :22:06.Three. The Brighton manager, Gus Poyet, revealed why his side is
:22:07. > :22:11.playing so much. We tried to make sure that no one can beat us. We
:22:11. > :22:15.are a team, we play as a team. We all understand the game, the way
:22:15. > :22:20.that I would like. The weight that is better for the players as well.
:22:20. > :22:29.And it is working. The needless penalty led to the hosts scoring a
:22:29. > :22:32.goal. But by then, the result was never in doubt.
:22:32. > :22:34.In the days before satellite technology they saved thousands of
:22:34. > :22:38.lives along our coast from their earliest incarnations as simple
:22:38. > :22:41.bonfires to the towers that still stand today. Kent's lighthouses
:22:41. > :22:44.have kept sailors safe in treacherous seas, but now they're
:22:44. > :22:53.home to an art project inspired by a later form of communication
:22:53. > :23:02.pioneered along our coastline. Sara Smith has more. This report
:23:02. > :23:05.contains some strobe lighting. It is more than 100 years since the
:23:05. > :23:08.old Light House in Dungeness was built, but several years before it
:23:08. > :23:13.opened, another form of communication was being developed
:23:13. > :23:18.on this stretch of beach. These sheds were home to some of
:23:18. > :23:22.Marconi's early experiments with radio waves. The inventor would go
:23:22. > :23:26.on to receive the first international radio transmission a
:23:26. > :23:31.little further along the coast. It is these two forms of communication,
:23:31. > :23:35.light and sound, which are the inspiration for this project.
:23:35. > :23:39.Artists Jonathan Wright's piece recreate the work of another
:23:39. > :23:47.communications pioneer working on the south coast, John Logie Baird.
:23:47. > :23:51.This particular a piece transmits an image of this lighthouse on the
:23:51. > :23:57.tiny television which mimics one that John Logie Baird invented in
:23:57. > :24:06.the 1930s. So we are seeing and technology that relies on sound to
:24:06. > :24:11.generate the image. Around the coast at Gillingham peer, this
:24:11. > :24:15.former light ship, now an -- now an art space, is alive again with a
:24:15. > :24:20.haunting sound that Steve Macpherson used to here as a boy.
:24:20. > :24:30.His vocal interpretation of the light ship's for corn, warning see
:24:30. > :24:35.Goa's of treacherous sand bags. -- foghorn. I would listen to the
:24:35. > :24:39.foghorn, the moan constantly going on, feeling safe in my bed, someone
:24:39. > :24:45.was out there watching over people. The odd project run by the
:24:46. > :24:55.Folkestone fridge -- the art project is timed to celebrate
:24:55. > :24:59.International Life House day. -- like how stay. They have had to
:24:59. > :25:04.move this light house because the shingle kept moving the see further
:25:04. > :25:10.away. This one was replaced when the view of it was obscured by this.
:25:10. > :25:20.While white houses a while -- a while like houses like this one in
:25:20. > :25:24.Dungeness are no longer used, it There was a little bit more
:25:24. > :25:28.sunshine around this evening, the first expected, but we have seen
:25:28. > :25:32.more in the way of cloud, some outbreaks of heavy and thundery
:25:32. > :25:36.rain. That clears through this evening, and tomorrow is a much
:25:36. > :25:42.clearer and drier picture. Beasant spells of sunshine, it should stay
:25:42. > :25:49.dry and the winds should be easing off. Some heathery and thundery
:25:49. > :25:55.outbreaks of rain today, -- heavy and thundery. Temperatures were
:25:55. > :25:59.struggling. The winds from a north- easterly direction. Fairly breezy.
:25:59. > :26:03.The reason for that, we have had a weather front with an associated
:26:03. > :26:06.band of heavy rain pushing up from the south-west throughout the day.
:26:06. > :26:11.There has been some levels of uncertainty about how much we would
:26:11. > :26:16.see. It did sink a bit further south than we expected so all of us
:26:16. > :26:19.have seen plenty of cloud and the chances of outbreaks of rain. That
:26:19. > :26:24.rain will be clearing through this evening, it is increasingly drier,
:26:24. > :26:29.more in the way of clear skies to end the night. As a result, a
:26:29. > :26:34.slightly chilly feeling night. Lows of eight or nine degrees. With
:26:34. > :26:39.those clearer skies, a bright starts tomorrow. As we move into
:26:39. > :26:46.the afternoon, high cloud bubbling up but it will just be turning the
:26:46. > :26:53.sunshine hazy. Nothing like their dull picture we saw today. Light
:26:53. > :27:01.and variable winds. Good news for Festival Friday. Into tomorrow
:27:01. > :27:11.night, it stays dry, and while the feeling night. -- a milder feeling
:27:11. > :27:12.
:27:12. > :27:15.night. The sunshine stays with us When the sun is shining and summer
:27:15. > :27:19.is in full swing, there is nothing better than getting out of the
:27:19. > :27:23.office to the seaside, and that is exactly what we are planning every
:27:23. > :27:27.Friday in August. We are entering the festival spirit by taking South
:27:27. > :27:31.East Today out on the road, to join you add some of the biggest summer
:27:31. > :27:35.celebrations across Kent and Sussex. We will be live on location each
:27:35. > :27:41.battle Friday and we would love as many of you as possible to come