:00:03. > :00:05.Welcome to South East Today, I'm Polly Evans. And I'm Rob Smith.
:00:05. > :00:10.Tonight's top stories. The mother spared jail after
:00:10. > :00:13.leading an assault on the man who abused her daughter on the internet.
:00:13. > :00:18.Channel Tunnel chaos for the bank holiday as French workers plan
:00:18. > :00:20.indefinite strike action. We'll have the latest live from the
:00:20. > :00:23.Folkestone terminal. Also in tonight's programme.
:00:23. > :00:27.How a treatment for stroke victims being pioneered in Kent could help
:00:27. > :00:30.thousands lead a more independent life.
:00:30. > :00:34.New life through a lens. The Sussex photographer winning prizes for
:00:34. > :00:44.capturing mums in bloom. And a lifetime of service, the 90
:00:44. > :00:51.
:00:51. > :00:54.year old who's clocked up 72 years Good evening. A mother from Chatham
:00:54. > :00:57.who's admitted taking part in an attack on a teenager has been
:00:57. > :01:01.spared a jail sentence, because he'd been abusing her severely
:01:01. > :01:04.disabled daughter over the internet. Sylvia Hooper went round to
:01:04. > :01:06.Christopher Berwick's house in Chatham with other members of her
:01:06. > :01:12.family, because he'd called her daughter Kim a "cripple" on
:01:12. > :01:14.Facebook. Sylvia pleaded guilty to assault, but a Crown Court judge
:01:14. > :01:24.handed her a conditional discharge because of exceptional
:01:24. > :01:25.
:01:25. > :01:30.circumstances. Jon Hunt reports. Tim Hooper has just turned 21. She
:01:30. > :01:34.has been studying GCSEs at college. Like many people her age, she uses
:01:34. > :01:39.Facebook to keep in touch with friends. One of her former friends
:01:39. > :01:46.used the site to aggressively taught her about her disability.
:01:46. > :01:54.was calling me names, I could deal with that. But he always put
:01:54. > :02:01.something aggressive about it me. He called me a retard. He said,
:02:01. > :02:06.also, that no one would want me because I am always in that thing.
:02:06. > :02:10.By thing, I take it he means the chair. Happily was Christopher
:02:10. > :02:14.Berwick from Chatham. His cruel comments left her depressed and
:02:14. > :02:20.suicidal. Her mother, along with a friend and family, went round to
:02:20. > :02:24.his house and assaulted him. Some people would say, you should never
:02:24. > :02:29.take the law into your own hands. The police should have done their
:02:29. > :02:34.job. To me, the system failed her, what was I meant to do? Mrs Hooper,
:02:34. > :02:40.her son and friend pleaded guilty to assault. During the case,
:02:40. > :02:47.Christopher had called -- the court heard that Christopher had called
:02:47. > :02:51.her a cripple. Judges will always take very seriously any case where
:02:51. > :02:56.someone has taken the law into their own hands. People who do that,
:02:56. > :03:01.bring themselves down to the level of criminals. But you cannot really
:03:01. > :03:05.have a blanket policy of just sending everyone to present in that
:03:05. > :03:09.type of case, you have got to allow for individual circumstance.
:03:09. > :03:19.Kent police say they have no records of any calls from their
:03:19. > :03:25.
:03:25. > :03:35.Kim is backing what her family did. Any parent of a disabled daughter
:03:35. > :03:37.
:03:37. > :03:42.would react in the same way. Any brother would react in the same way.
:03:42. > :03:46.Our reporter John joins us from Chatham. This family could be --
:03:46. > :03:50.could have expected to get a jail sentence?
:03:50. > :03:54.They pleaded guilty to actual bodily harm, a crime that can
:03:54. > :03:58.attract a sentence up to five years in prison. Christopher Berwick was
:03:58. > :04:04.punched so hard he then left with the imprint of his attacker's wing
:04:04. > :04:08.in his face. Because of the exceptional circumstances, the
:04:08. > :04:13.judge issued sentences of a conditional discharge and community
:04:13. > :04:16.penalties. There are two victims in this case, Kim, abused over
:04:16. > :04:19.Facebook, and Christopher, the Facebook abuser who was punched in
:04:19. > :04:22.the face. He refused to comment today.
:04:22. > :04:25.On BBC Radio Kent's breakfast programme tomorrow, John and Claire
:04:25. > :04:27.will have interviews on this story with the Chairman of the Criminal
:04:27. > :04:30.Bar Association and the chief executive of the charity Beat
:04:30. > :04:33.Bullying. Eurotunnel is facing the threat of
:04:33. > :04:38.strike action over the Bank Holiday weekend after French unions
:04:38. > :04:42.demanded a sharp pay rise. The company says it's suspended taking
:04:42. > :04:46.further return bookings for this coming Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
:04:47. > :04:56.Simon Jones is in Folkestone. Simon, this couldn't come at a worse time
:04:57. > :04:57.
:04:57. > :05:01.for the company. That is right. This weekend is set to be one of
:05:01. > :05:05.the busiest travel weekend of the year. You have got families
:05:05. > :05:08.returning from the summer holidays ahead of the start of the new
:05:08. > :05:14.school year. You have also got people wanted to head over to
:05:14. > :05:18.France to enjoy the long weekend. Eurotunnel is due to carry 100,000
:05:18. > :05:24.passengers over the bank holiday. The problem is, four unions in
:05:24. > :05:29.France have made a pay increase demand of 8%. The unions say if
:05:29. > :05:33.this not agreed to by Friday, they will begin indefinite strike action.
:05:33. > :05:37.Eurotunnel says it simply cannot meet this demand in the current
:05:37. > :05:41.economic climate. Travel experts say this is a big problem for the
:05:41. > :05:46.company. I fear this will cause some significant damage to the
:05:46. > :05:51.cross-Channel market as a whole. One reason people choose to travel
:05:51. > :05:56.to Calais by ferry or by Eurotunnel is because, frankly, it is a lot
:05:56. > :05:59.more civilised than the airline alternative of. It will disrupt
:05:59. > :06:04.potentially tens of thousands of British holidaymakers returning
:06:04. > :06:10.home. It is going to be a major disruption. What have Eurotunnel
:06:10. > :06:14.said? Eurotunnel is suggesting it will be able to run services as
:06:14. > :06:19.normal, because it is the French workers going on strike. They say
:06:19. > :06:24.the British workers will be able to fill in behind them, driving the
:06:24. > :06:28.trains, and even at manning the terminal in France. I understand,
:06:28. > :06:33.today, there have been emergency meetings taking place in Dover
:06:33. > :06:37.between the ferry companies and port bosses with a plan of
:06:37. > :06:41.introducing extra ferry services of the worst so there -- if the worst
:06:42. > :06:44.scenario emerges is. In a moment: Left to rot, the
:06:44. > :06:51.Kentish farmers warning the plum industry could be killed off by
:06:51. > :06:54.cheap foreign imports. Doctors in Kent are trialling a new
:06:54. > :06:58.treatment that could transform the lives of thousands of patients
:06:58. > :07:03.whose awareness of their left side has been affected by a stroke.
:07:03. > :07:06.150,000 people suffer from strokes in Britain each year. As many as a
:07:06. > :07:09.quarter of them could benefit from the new treatment, which is being
:07:09. > :07:18.funded by a �310,000 grant from the Medical Research Council. Sara
:07:18. > :07:23.Smith has this report. When Stephen suffered a huge stroke
:07:23. > :07:26.more than two years ago, he was left paralysed on one side and in
:07:26. > :07:30.hospital for eight months. Gradually, some movement did return,
:07:30. > :07:34.but one thing remained badly affected. Although his eyes were
:07:34. > :07:40.not damaged, his brain could not recognise anything to his left.
:07:40. > :07:43.it is on my left hand side, my balance is not very good, and I
:07:43. > :07:49.would be forever falling over and I worry about breaking my hips.
:07:49. > :07:53.could only shake on the right hand side, I had to shave the other side.
:07:53. > :07:57.Your tablets, wasn't it, if I put the tablets on his left hand side,
:07:57. > :08:03.he would not be aware they were there. He would not into people, I
:08:03. > :08:08.would be forever apologising, because he would not see them. But
:08:08. > :08:12.it does not look like he cannot see them. But this little machine has
:08:12. > :08:17.made a big difference to Stephen's life. Developed in collaboration
:08:17. > :08:22.between the Kent and Canterbury Hospital and the University of Kent,
:08:22. > :08:27.it delivers a small electric current to the nerve behind the ear.
:08:27. > :08:31.Parties connected to a system which controls balance, and that in turn
:08:31. > :08:36.stimulates the temporal lobe on the damaged right side of the brain,
:08:37. > :08:42.reawakening its awareness of those things on the left. We have seen
:08:42. > :08:46.some significant benefits. So, our goal now is to try and this --
:08:46. > :08:51.tried this on a much larger people to see if the benefits we have
:08:51. > :08:58.shown in those benefit are more widespread. Simple drawing tests
:08:58. > :09:02.showed just how some much -- just so much people are affected.
:09:02. > :09:07.vision is OK, but his brain is not receiving the left side of the
:09:07. > :09:13.world. But since his treatment, Stephen's left hand world is coming
:09:13. > :09:18.back to him. I have got a mobility scooter, I can go out all the time
:09:18. > :09:23.because I have got more attention to the path -- to my left hand side.
:09:23. > :09:27.The new trial will find that if others can benefit as much.
:09:28. > :09:30.A woman in her 50s has died after being hit by a car in north Kent.
:09:30. > :09:32.The woman suffered fatal injuries during the incident near a
:09:32. > :09:37.McDonald's restaurant on Cobham Terrace in Greenhithe shortly
:09:37. > :09:40.before 7:30 this morning. Police are appealing for witnesses.
:09:40. > :09:44.Police are continuing their appeal for help to identify a man who's
:09:44. > :09:48.been found suffering from complete memory loss. The man, who's in his
:09:48. > :09:51.late 50s to early 60s, claims to have woken up on a beach in Deal in
:09:51. > :10:00.Kent last Wednesday. He then walked into the town's Victoria hospital
:10:00. > :10:03.saying he had head pains and amnesia.
:10:03. > :10:06.CCTV images have been released by the British Transport Police of
:10:06. > :10:10.people they want to talk to after a number of alleged crimes on our
:10:10. > :10:12.railways. They're looking for this man after a woman had her phone and
:10:12. > :10:16.camera stolen on a train between Crowborough and London Bridge. And
:10:16. > :10:18.they want to speak this man after a woman was punched in the face
:10:18. > :10:25.travelling from Brighton to Worthing. And they're searching for
:10:25. > :10:28.these people after a man had his computer stolen at Strood station.
:10:28. > :10:31.A British lorry driver who smuggled more than 6 million cigarettes
:10:31. > :10:34.through Dover has been jailed for four and a half years. 45 year old
:10:34. > :10:36.Colin Beattie was found guilty of evading more than �1 million in
:10:36. > :10:39.excise duty following an investigation by Revenue and
:10:39. > :10:41.Customs. He was caught in 2009 after travelling from Calais by
:10:41. > :10:45.ferry. Two people have been arrested
:10:45. > :10:48.following a fire in Rochester. 13 people were rescued from a block of
:10:48. > :10:51.flats off Gravel Walk in the town just after midnight. A man and a
:10:51. > :10:54.woman were arrested in the early hours of this morning on suspicion
:10:54. > :11:03.of arson with intent to endanger life, and are currently in police
:11:03. > :11:08.custody. Lynda Hardy reports. Back at his block of flats from
:11:08. > :11:12.where been was dragged to safety last night after a fire believed to
:11:12. > :11:17.have started in the ground floor filled the building with smoke.
:11:18. > :11:23.opened my door, and the smoke was that bad it made my eyes scathing.
:11:23. > :11:28.I could not breathe. I opened my front door, saw what happened, shut
:11:28. > :11:35.it, called My neighbour who was ahead the sleeper. I called the
:11:35. > :11:38.fire engine. They were in the -- they were there within five minutes.
:11:38. > :11:43.Residents are not being allowed back here for the foreseeable
:11:43. > :11:48.future, after their home, a place which is now a crime scene. The
:11:48. > :11:53.flats are being boarded up to stop anyone getting in as a police
:11:53. > :11:57.investigation continues and the damage is assessed. We have got
:11:57. > :12:01.Surveyors reviewing the property. The police are treating it as a
:12:01. > :12:07.crime scene so we have to wait for them to give us a cure had to going
:12:07. > :12:14.and carry out any work. Until we have done a thorough assessment, it
:12:14. > :12:19.is premature to see -- say when residents can get back in.
:12:19. > :12:22.safety checks continue, those who live here face another night in a
:12:22. > :12:32.hotel or staying with friends and relatives, uncertain when they will
:12:32. > :12:33.
:12:33. > :12:37.be allowed to return home. It is 6:40pm. A mother from Chatham
:12:37. > :12:42.who has admitted taking part on an attack on a teenager has been
:12:42. > :12:45.spared attendance because he had been so dealing -- abusing her
:12:45. > :12:48.severely disabled daughter over the internet.
:12:49. > :12:51.Also in tonight's programme: 72 years in the job. The 90 year
:12:51. > :12:54.old from Folkestone who shows no sign of work fatigue.
:12:54. > :13:04.And blooming marvellous, the pictures of mums to be that are
:13:04. > :13:23.
:13:23. > :13:26.winning awards for a Sussex It's the height of the British plum
:13:26. > :13:29.season, and in Kent, where half of all English plums are grown,
:13:30. > :13:32.they've got a bumper crop. But tonnes of perfectly good plums
:13:32. > :13:37.could be left to rot because growers say supermarkets are
:13:37. > :13:40.importing cheaper fruit from Europe. The National Farmers Union says it
:13:41. > :13:47.could lead to the end of the British plum industry. Rebecca
:13:47. > :13:52.Barry has the latest in our Food Chain series.
:13:52. > :13:56.Dumped and left to rot. This could be the fate of tons of plums are
:13:56. > :13:59.produced in Kent because farmers cannot sell them to supermarkets.
:13:59. > :14:03.Several growers have not bothered even picking their fruit because
:14:03. > :14:08.there was not a market. They were told they could not sell it, which
:14:08. > :14:12.is a very sad occasion for Kent. We have fantastic plum crops. We are
:14:12. > :14:16.the garden of England but we are not allowed to sell it. Here, the
:14:16. > :14:20.fruit is kept in cold stores. If they do not sell it soon, it will
:14:20. > :14:25.be thrown away. A punnet of Victoria plums like these are
:14:25. > :14:31.produced in Kent will cost supermarkets 65p. They can get them
:14:31. > :14:35.from abroad for as little as 45p. That means of tonnes of crude like
:14:35. > :14:41.this will simply go to waste. Samarkand farmers are even planning
:14:41. > :14:48.to rip up their plum trees to start again with a different crop. --
:14:48. > :14:52.some Kent farmers. We are at the height of the English plum season.
:14:52. > :14:57.I was in a supermarket yesterday, there were plums from Sweden --
:14:57. > :15:01.France and Spain but there were no English plums. We have a bumper
:15:01. > :15:05.crop of beautiful British fruit available right now, and consumers
:15:05. > :15:11.are not being given the opportunity to buy British trick. So we went to
:15:11. > :15:17.look for ourselves. Sainsbury's had won a variety of Kent plums, but
:15:17. > :15:22.three others from Spain, France and Portugal. At Tesco, we had Kent
:15:22. > :15:26.plums and also some from Portugal. Is the pressure for a bigger
:15:26. > :15:30.profits squeezing out bigger growers? I do not accept that.
:15:30. > :15:34.There are Kentish plums out there, they are great value, go into the
:15:34. > :15:39.shop and look for them, they are on promotion, buy them and we will
:15:39. > :15:49.sell even more. If not, this could be the picture across Kent, where
:15:49. > :15:52.
:15:52. > :15:56.half of England's plums are grown At 6.30 this morning, as ever, Yve
:15:56. > :15:59.Moore was first to arrive at her office. Some of you may think
:16:00. > :16:03.that's remarkable in itself but when you learn that she is 90 years
:16:03. > :16:06.old, it becomes pretty amazing. Yve has worked for the same legal firm
:16:06. > :16:10.in Folkestone since she was a teenager in the 1930s and 72 years
:16:10. > :16:18.later, she remains a vital and valued member of the team. Robin
:16:18. > :16:23.Gibson reports. She has seen more of these stairs
:16:23. > :16:28.than anyone in the building, because Yve Moore came to work here
:16:28. > :16:38.for just six months in 1939, and she is still holding her own, both
:16:38. > :16:43.
:16:43. > :16:48.at work and on these stairs, 72 She is an important part of the way
:16:48. > :16:51.the office runs. She is still a significant member of our staff.
:16:51. > :16:57.She has got an enormous amount of experience and knowledge which we
:16:57. > :17:04.rely on and draw on every day. So, really, we cannot think of being
:17:04. > :17:10.without her. It keeps me active, rather than, you know, growing like
:17:10. > :17:17.a cabbage! Her story sets the current debate on retirement at 65
:17:17. > :17:22.or even 70 on its head. I did retire for half a day. Half a day?
:17:22. > :17:29.You actually said, I am retiring? said, I am going to retire, but
:17:29. > :17:36.they said, come back, we wanted to do this and that, and we stayed.
:17:36. > :17:41.Yve is no slouch. By 6:20pm, every day, she sets off down the garden
:17:41. > :17:44.path to walk to work. At 6:30am, she is first to arrive at the
:17:44. > :17:49.office and has done a lot of work before anyone else is even in the
:17:49. > :17:53.building. She has always been one for routine. The young secretary
:17:53. > :17:59.posing in the office garden has matured, in a way, into its heart
:17:59. > :18:06.and soul. She has got a wonderful memory. She has got a good sense of
:18:06. > :18:13.humour. She may be 90, but I think we forget she is 90. Every decade
:18:13. > :18:22.past is greeted with a party. So where will it all again? I will be
:18:22. > :18:27.here until I am chucked out, or can't come in!
:18:27. > :18:30.We have got lots of respect for Yve, I do not know why she does -- I do
:18:30. > :18:33.not know how she does it! Brighton and Hove Albion's great
:18:33. > :18:36.start to the season continued last night as the Seagulls kicked
:18:36. > :18:39.Premier League Sunderland out of the Carling Cup with an extra time
:18:39. > :18:42.victory at The Amex. Charlton will join them in the third round after
:18:42. > :18:45.beating Reading, but Crawley are out after their defeat by Crystal
:18:45. > :18:49.Palace. Ian Palmer reports. Brighton have had some sweet
:18:49. > :18:51.victories of late but this is right up there with the best of them. 90
:18:51. > :18:55.minutes couldn't separate the Seagulls from Sunderland, so extra
:18:55. > :18:58.time followed. Six minutes later it took the head of the new signing
:18:58. > :19:01.Craig Mackail-Smith to put Brighton into the third round of the
:19:01. > :19:09.competition. The manager Gus Poyet praised his team's performance but
:19:09. > :19:16.warned them not to get ahead of themselves. We need to keep things
:19:16. > :19:22.calm. We have had a dream start. Every week, it is getting better
:19:22. > :19:26.and bigger. At the same time, we do not want to think we are too good.
:19:26. > :19:29.And get a bad result in three or four days. We need to make sure we
:19:29. > :19:32.keep playing like we are. neutrals say Brighton deserved
:19:32. > :19:34.their win. Mackail-Smith coming close with an earlier effort in
:19:34. > :19:39.normal time. Sunderland's best chance came soon after the start.
:19:39. > :19:42.Brighton's unbeaten record continues. The final score 1-0.
:19:42. > :19:45.Charlton are also unbeaten. Their match against Reading ended 2-1 to
:19:45. > :19:50.the Addicks. It's a major scalp given Reading were Championship
:19:50. > :19:54.finalists last year. Paul Benson opened the account after 25 minutes.
:19:54. > :20:01.Jason Euell scored the second after the break. Reading pulled one back
:20:01. > :20:06.to make it a rather nervy end. The final score 2-1. It wasn't a happy
:20:06. > :20:09.evening for Crawley Town. They were beaten 2 nil by Crystal Palace. The
:20:09. > :20:13.Red Devils started well with a number of well crafted attempts but
:20:13. > :20:16.Zaha ensured the night belonged to the home side. Crawley never gave
:20:16. > :20:24.up though. That attitude will serve the League Two side well later in
:20:24. > :20:27.the season. The final score 2-0 to Crystal Palace.
:20:27. > :20:32.And you can see extended highlights of all the Carling Cup matches
:20:32. > :20:34.later tonight on The League Cup Show at 11.30 here on BBC One.
:20:34. > :20:36.East Grinstead striker Ashley Jackson has helped England thrash
:20:37. > :20:42.France to reach the semi-finals of the European Hockey Championships
:20:42. > :20:45.in Germany. Jackson grabbed a hat- trick in an impressive 8-1 victory
:20:45. > :20:52.that sets up a likely clash on Friday against hosts Germany for a
:20:52. > :20:54.place in the final. And good luck to Natalie Seymour from Canterbury,
:20:54. > :20:59.along with her England colleagues, as they take on Netherlands
:20:59. > :21:02.tomorrow in their european championships semi-final.
:21:02. > :21:05.When a pregnant Demi Moore posed naked for the cover of a magazine,
:21:05. > :21:08.it caused a sensation. Since then celebrities including Halle Berry,
:21:08. > :21:13.Monica Belucci and most recently Mylene Klass have all recreated her
:21:13. > :21:16.pose. Now a Sussex photographer who specialises in taking pictures of
:21:16. > :21:20.pregnant women and their newborn babies has been named the South
:21:21. > :21:29.East's Master Photographer of the year. Sarah Tate from Heathfield is
:21:29. > :21:33.now in the running for a national title. Claudia Sermbezis reports.
:21:33. > :21:39.Let's get him in position first so he is nice and comfy. Keep his arm
:21:39. > :21:44.there if you want to. They beat Scott is six days old, but this is
:21:44. > :21:50.his second visit to Serie -- Sarah Tate's studio. Last time, he was
:21:50. > :21:55.not born. Now one of Sarah's images has been chosen as the best in the
:21:55. > :22:00.South East. The pregnancy one, that one just stood out immediately, as
:22:00. > :22:04.soon as I started editing it. The look on her face, the way she was
:22:04. > :22:12.standing was lovely. It is something that I work for every
:22:12. > :22:16.year. So to act to resubmit it, and then, one of the most prestigious
:22:16. > :22:21.judges, a for him to actually pick my images and state some lovely
:22:21. > :22:29.things about them was an ageing -- amazing pulled Judi was eight-and-
:22:29. > :22:34.a-half months pregnant when she decided to have her photo taken.
:22:34. > :22:40.were going to go a week later, and I am glad because I got stretch
:22:40. > :22:47.marks overnight! The fashion for photographing pregnant women took
:22:47. > :22:52.off three it -- 20 years ago after Demi Moore stripped off to show her
:22:52. > :22:56.burgeoning band. I saw them in a magazine, and that is probably what
:22:56. > :23:01.convinced me what it looked like. It was a really iconic image. I
:23:01. > :23:05.think we have got one with Julie, it is a really good shop which will
:23:05. > :23:14.go in our bedroom, because she does not want to show the rest of the
:23:14. > :23:20.House! It will take pride of place. That is lovely, well done. Sarah
:23:20. > :23:24.has also won an award for best children's portrayed with this shot.
:23:25. > :23:32.Now her picture is in the running for the master photographer
:23:32. > :23:42.national finals in October. That is like week -- that is what
:23:42. > :23:44.
:23:44. > :23:54.we like to bring the at 6:30pm, It was quite a great start to the
:23:54. > :23:54.
:23:54. > :24:03.day, -- quite a grey start. Mostly dry, into tomorrow, we will see a
:24:03. > :24:06.heavy rain and light winds. It will be feeling cooler than today. Today,
:24:06. > :24:12.initially we saw some showers first thing. They have been clearing. It
:24:12. > :24:22.has been increased my dry. The weather fronts state well to the
:24:22. > :24:29.
:24:29. > :24:33.Despite the breezes, it has felt a good deal warmer than yesterday. As
:24:33. > :24:37.we move through the first part of the evening, and nice, fine and
:24:37. > :24:43.bright evening. It stays dry into tonight, but the cloud cover will
:24:43. > :24:50.be thickening. We will see rain at first thing tomorrow. Tonight, it
:24:50. > :24:55.stays dry, quite a mild night. Initially, a dry starts to tomorrow.
:24:56. > :24:59.Very quickly, the rain will be spreading across the South East,
:24:59. > :25:09.some heavier pulses of living that. Because the breezes are fairly
:25:09. > :25:09.
:25:09. > :25:14.light, is will not be moving quickly. Temperatures similar to
:25:14. > :25:19.today but feeling cooler under that cement -- unsettled weather.
:25:19. > :25:25.Tomorrow night, that rate will clear up east. -- the rain will
:25:25. > :25:34.clear it east. We will have further rain pushing in it from the south.
:25:34. > :25:39.Some heavier horses. -- some heavy horses. Unfortunately for Festival
:25:39. > :25:47.Friday, it is looking fairly grotty. Take your umbrella as if you were
:25:48. > :25:54.going along. That rain will be clearing, but it will be a dull
:25:54. > :25:58.picture. Sorry about that! The area of low pressure is going to be
:25:58. > :26:03.moving in across the south-east, eventually clearing away. By the
:26:03. > :26:09.time we get to the weekend, high pressure building from the south-
:26:09. > :26:19.west. The Iraq showers on Saturday but increasingly bright on Sunday.
:26:19. > :26:22.
:26:22. > :26:25.I am ignoring the end of that bulletin! I will be dusting off my
:26:25. > :26:29.wet suit. This week, we are going to Herne Bay.
:26:29. > :26:33.When the sun is shining and summer is in full swing, there is nothing
:26:33. > :26:37.better than getting out of the office to the seaside and that is
:26:37. > :26:41.exactly what we are doing every Friday in August. We are entering
:26:41. > :26:46.the festival spirit by taking South East Today out on the road to join
:26:46. > :26:50.you at some of the biggest summer celebrations across Kent and Sussex.
:26:50. > :26:58.We will be live on location each battle Friday and we would love as
:26:58. > :27:03.many of you as possible to come along and join in the fund.
:27:03. > :27:08.Bring your raincoat and join us this Friday at Herne Bay!
:27:08. > :27:12.Let's have a look at the headlines. The Libyan capital has seen some of
:27:12. > :27:16.the most intense clashes yet as rebel forces have come under
:27:16. > :27:18.renewed fire of bright -- from diehard supporters of Colonel
:27:18. > :27:22.Gaddafi. A mother from Chatham who admitted
:27:22. > :27:25.taking part on a violent attack on a teenager has been spared a jail
:27:25. > :27:32.sentence because he had been abusing her severely disabled