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Welcome to South East Today, I'm Rob Smith. And I'm Polly Evans. | :00:04. | :00:07. | |
Tonight's top stories: Record breakers; the South East has the | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
most successful GCSE students in the country. | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
A load of old rubbish or a model for other cities; claims removing | :00:15. | :00:24. | |
bins from Canterbury's streets has made it cleaner. | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
We took the bins away when the riots happened some weeks ago and | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
we were surprised when there were no bins, there was less rubbish. | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
Also in tonight's programme: All at sea - distinguished actor Timothy | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
Spall calls out the lifeboat after getting lost on the River Medway. | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
Hat-trick hero - Chatham's Ashley Jackson leads from the front in | :00:43. | :00:50. | |
England's crushing victory over And how Guy the bandit Thompson | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
will be representing the UK at the world air guitar championships in | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
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Good evening. It's been another record breaking year for teenagers | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
who've received their GCSE results across the South East. Students in | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
the region got the highest proportion of top grades compared | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
to any other part of the country. More than 26% of students achieved | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
an A star or A grade - that's up slightly on last year. And nearly | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
three-quarters of this year's entries achieve a C grade or above. | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
Although some schools have achieved worse results than last year, many | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
have improved. Jon Hunt has been to three of them. | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
Record results, many schools improving. We have been to three | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
state schools to find out what they're doing right. The Howard | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
School says it is because pupils are more motivated. Boys, are you | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
ready? I'll take you a dozen at the time! It used to have a bad image | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
but year-on-year results have been improving. This year is no | :02:04. | :02:12. | |
exception. Really impressed with what I have got. Four A*. The three | :02:12. | :02:22. | |
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A*, five Bs. I got As in English. I am happy. More than 55% of pupils | :02:23. | :02:31. | |
achieved grades A* to C. This is the all-important measure and good | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
grades are more important than ever. One of the reasons results have | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
improved his students are aware it is a tough world in employment. It | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
is wretched. They are well aware be needed good clutch of GCSEs. | :02:49. | :02:56. | |
cat and effect has been the effects in Tunbridge Wells. Students | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
phoning home. I got a very As, a bee and a C. The school was failing | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
and was made an academy in 2009. Before, a 17% achieved the key | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
grades. Today, it has shot up to 46%. No wonder the principle is | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
smiling. It is a fantastic individual results of our students | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
and the massive progress they have made. They have worked hard and | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
been rewarded. At Patcham High School, they have seen a results | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
leap, too. Pupils have the best results ever up 13 percentage | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
points on the key performance measure because of better | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
collaboration. It is a team effort, staff, students and parents and | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
together it has come together. We are delighted today. It's fantastic | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
for the students. To the students getting results today have the | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
skills to make it in the business world? They are educated but not | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
the skills we require. English language is a bit of a | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
disappointment. The quality of maths. Something good old fashioned | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
at mental arithmetic is not there. A record results but clearly | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
concerns that standards are still not good enough. | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
Jon Hunt reporting. We're joined now by Spencer Mehlman, managing | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
director of the website not-going- to-uni, which advises young people | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
on career opportunities. Mr Mehlman, the Federation of Small Businesses | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
aren't impressed with the practical qualities of school leavers, | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
despite record results here in the south east, is that your | :04:37. | :04:47. | |
experience? I think that a good number are ready for work. A lot of | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
young people have not yet picked up employability skills. There is a | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
need for young people to start working at an earlier age part-time | :04:56. | :05:03. | |
work, whether paper rounds, working in a family business and | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
understanding the fundamentals of customer service and business. It's | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
important the education bodies start to in bed employability | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
skills back into the curriculum. It really is missing. Are you seeing | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
an increase in the number of students wanting to come through | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
websites like yours because of fears of tuition fees? We have been | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
inundated. This month we are seeing in excess of 100,000 young people | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
coming through, applying for thousands of different | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
opportunities. If somebody wants to follow a profession and become a | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
lawyer or an accountant, they need A-levels and degrees. No, they | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
don't. It's a misconception. There are very good vocational routes | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
into those tried and tested professions. You can become a | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
solicitor or legal executive through the various programmes or | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
become an accountant through vocational learning. Utilising the | :06:02. | :06:10. | |
trade bodies. This is on our website and I urge young people to | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
have a look. Finally, for some of the people who would not have got | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
great grades, is it all over for them? Absolutely not. Do not panic, | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
have a look, make an informed decision, lots of young people | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
coming out with degrees are struggling to find work. It's | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
important you get a foot in the door and a really positive attitude. | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
Thank you. And you can find out more about how students in the | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
South East have done on our political editor's blog at | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
bbc.co.uk/louisestewart. You can also follow her on Twitter | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
@BBCLouise. They were removed because of fears | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
they'd be set alight and used in the recent riots. Now, Canterbury | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
City Council says its decision to take rubbish bins away from the | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
City Centre has actually led to the streets being cleaner. And they say, | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
in many areas, there is no plan to bring the bins back at all - to the | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
surprise of local traders. Simon Jones reports. | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
The bustling city centre full of shoppers, tourists and Traders. But | :07:13. | :07:20. | |
something is missing. The bins. would be terrible. Absolutely | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
devastating. They should put them back. The need the bins. There's no | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
way to put rubbish. People are more so about -- civilised. People take | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
their rubbish home. To keep it clean, get more bins. It was | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
rioting in London and fears it would spread to Kent that led to | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
the removal of the bins for safety. Canterbury City Council have | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
removed around 50 bins from the city centre. They used to line the | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
High Street. They say it's not just about saving money but it admits it | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
has been surprised by the results. The most important thing is the | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
city stays clean. This experiment shows this is the case. We thought | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
we would keep the bins gone, in some areas we have replaced the | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
bins but in many areas it is Tokely. Our cameras found a bins make some | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
people used the pavement instead. The council insists money saved has | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
been used for more regular cleaning patrols. Campaigners say it is up | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
to everyone to take the issue seriously. It is personal | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
responsibility and businesses responsibility to take action to do | :08:40. | :08:47. | |
the right thing. Put it in a bin or take a 10th. 20 of the 50 bins are | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
in the process of being put back in hot spots. Canterbury believes it | :08:53. | :09:03. | |
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is about rethinking what we do with are rubbish. | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
Did he interview a man dressed as a carrot? | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
He did! In a moment: Could a farmer have come up with a novel use for | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
the Kent plums left to rot because the supermarkets aren't buying | :09:13. | :09:23. | |
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He was filming for his latest BBC series but the actor Timothy Spall | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
found himself all at sea off the Kent coast and had to be rescued by | :09:31. | :09:40. | |
lifeboat. The start of a 1980s CD series was near Coimbra when he and | :09:40. | :09:47. | |
his crew realised they were lost. Our reporter is in Sheerness. Where | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
were they trying to go? Chatham a marina is where they were | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
aiming to go but Timothy Spall and his crew were trying to get a | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
Chatton arena when at 9:30pm last night they ran off course. They | :10:01. | :10:08. | |
were bought the Princess material - - Matilda. They were filming the | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
final episode of a sailing programme. They were trying to get | :10:13. | :10:20. | |
to the Chatton Marina, found themselves disorientated the and | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
the lifeboat macro had to escort them back. You had a training | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
session last night and you overheard him talking to the | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
coastguard. We was finishing a poor training and we heard him on | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
Channel 16 calling up the coast guard to say he was confused in the | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
Medway. He did not know where he was. So what did you do? The pager | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
went off and we went off to escort him to Queen Rye Harbour. I gather | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
it's not the first time he has been caught out. Is it particularly | :10:55. | :11:02. | |
difficult to navigate? There are lots of mud flats in a tricky areas | :11:02. | :11:10. | |
around the creeks. As well as that, the advice is to look for a green | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
light which is difficult amongst houses and the Isle of Sheppey can | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
be tricky. He taught himself to navigate, was he prepared? | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
probably could have done with a bit more practice in night navigation | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
because navigating in the day you can see the land around due. At | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
night it is just the lights. Wind to realise it was Timothy Spall? | :11:35. | :11:43. | |
When I boarded the boat. It was the Brummie accent! We tried to chat to | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
Tim and his team but the last few days have been trying and he is | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
shattered. This evening he and his team are still at Chatham Marina | :11:52. | :12:01. | |
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and Tech 3 they can get going again. A man who said he had memory loss | :12:02. | :12:10. | |
has been identified. He is 59 years old and from Derbyshire but the | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
police say he can't be named for welfare reasons. His wife and | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
stepchildren have confirmed who he is and he's still being treated in | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
a Margate hospital. Kent Police are looking to talk to | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
anyone who spoke to a 32-year-old woman in the days before her murder. | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
Jenny Banner from Chatham was found strangled at her home last Friday. | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
43-year-old Marcus Coates, also from the town, has been charged | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
with her murder. The Cross-Channel ferry operator SeaFrance is running | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
16 extra crossings over the bank holiday weekend to meet extra | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
demand after Eurotunnel announced it faced strike disruption. | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
Yesterday the company announced it's facing the threat of | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
'indefinite' strike action from French workers demanding an 8 per | :12:40. | :12:47. | |
cent pay rise. The go-ahead had finally been given | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
for a London Eye style Ferris wheel on Brighton seafront. Permission | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
has been given to developers Paramount Attractions to build on | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
part of the pavement on Madeira Drive opposite the Sea Life Centre. | :13:00. | :13:10. | |
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The company behind the Brighton O A man left with long-term health | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
problems after contracting salmonella while on holiday, is | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
fighting for compensation in court. Stewart Green from Dartford | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
couldn't work for a month after catching the potentially fatal | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
bacteria while in the Dominican Republic. He says Moss after | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
contracting the disease, he is still suffering. -- months. | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
Two years ago, Stewart Green want to the Dominican Republic. It | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
turned to disaster when he contracted salmonella. While | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
vacation memories may have disappeared, the symptoms have not. | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
He still suffers from diarrhoea and vomiting. Around someone's house, | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
you know you are going to make a smell, it is a worrying thing. | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
Green's lawyers have no doubts about their clients' claims that a | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
hygiene in the resort was inadequate. The food was | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
undercooked, there was flies in the food, there was a lot of problems | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
with the hotel. But the tour operator First Choice said nine out | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
of ten customers are happy with the hotel. In a state bent, it said, | :14:15. | :14:25. | |
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first choice closely audits all the Within two weeks, he lost nearly | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
two and a half stone, and if that was any of the children, it could | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
be devastating and a different story. In the meantime Mr Green and | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
his solicitor waiting for a response to the latter they have | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
sent to first choice. It is coming up to 6:45pm. | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
Tonight's top story - GCSE students in the South East have got a | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
highest proportion of top grades compared to any other part of the | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
country. Even at its schools failing in the recent past, results | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
have been strong. Also tonight, taking an axe to the | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
competition, the Brighton man hoping to become the champion of | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
the world at air guitar. We have heavy and persistent | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
guerrilla -- rain, will its tidy up for Festival Friday? Join me later | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
to find out. If you have a story to tell us, you | :15:22. | :15:31. | |
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You may remember that yesterday we told you about the Kent plum | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
farmers who say they are facing ruin because they cannot sell their | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
produce, all of their produce, to that supermarkets. Tons of good | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
food could be left to rot. After seeing our story, another Kent | :15:54. | :16:01. | |
farmer may have a solution. A deal that could secure the future | :16:01. | :16:09. | |
of his business. That is criminal, isn't it? | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
After seeing our coverage yesterday, another farmer has stepped in | :16:13. | :16:20. | |
offering to buy tons of plums that would otherwise be left to rot. | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
It is good news not only for this year, but for next year, because | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
now we have areas we can sell our plums, so it will pay for the cost | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
of the picking and maybe a little bit more, instead of putting them | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
on the dump. But what does another farmer want | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
with tons of ripening fruit? I saw the news yesterday, the problem | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
with plums, and consequently we currently import plum puree for | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
mixed fruit jam that we manufacture. Ten miles up the road, Bill has | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
just opened the country's first a septic processing plant where they | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
make purees with a long shelf life without any preservatives. Will | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
these plums pass the grade? taste of this, it is absolutely | :17:07. | :17:14. | |
excellent. It is a fresh, unique, kind of plum taste. It is far | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
superior to what we are buying from the Continent, and we are happy to | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
take it on. Now the plums have passed the test, | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
they will be next in line for this. They will be cut and turned to a | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
pulp, then the process can begin. The puree is rapidly heated to | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
around 95 degrees which kills off any mould spores and bacteria. It | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
is then called before being packed into sterile bags. It could then | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
last for up to a year. Sometimes it is just misshapen fruit which does | :17:46. | :17:53. | |
not make it to the shop. For farmers struggling to make a living | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
through supermarkets alone, this could provide a much-needed | :17:56. | :18:06. | |
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De after nine months out of action Chatham's Ashley Jackson marked his | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
return to the England hockey team with a hat-trick as the side | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
crushed France 8 - 1 in the European Championships. | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
It was a bus for Jackson, who was sidelined through injury. He is | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
surprisingly critical about his own performance. | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
It was to be the start of a great day for an England side defending | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
their Ural hockey Nations title in the quarter-finals. To say they had | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
the French on the back foot turned out to be an understatement. | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
And prominent in the scoring spree was Chatham's Ashley Jackson, he is | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
still nursing his way back to full form after months on the bench | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
through injury. His blazing hat trick was reasons to celebrate, you | :19:00. | :19:09. | |
might think. Today are thought my performance | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
was way down, so it depends on how you look at it. There were a number | :19:14. | :19:21. | |
of chances we had, but the team is winning, and we are building every | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
stage we are going through. Hopefully we can take it up to the | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
next step for Germany and the semi- finals. | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
It is the sort of scorecard he will remember on his way back to form. | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
The team's bid to retain their title in the tournament played in | :19:35. | :19:43. | |
Germany looks on course. The first corner that went in in the first 20 | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
minutes meant that we were in the right frame of mind. It was always | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
going to be comfortable from them. His home club, East Grinstead, will | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
be avidly looking out for the young staff. Especially when he says that | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
three sq -- three goals in a quarter-final just is not good | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
enough. Cricket - Sussex have lost to India | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
by six wickets at a halt today. Sussex bowled out for 236, and | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
India then reached the target with a loss of just four wickets. Virat | :20:15. | :20:23. | |
Kohli was the top scorer. This is the more that we have all | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
been waiting for. Depending on your view, it is either a highly skilled | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
use copper formers or something kids grow out of. A musician from | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
Brighton forever takes it very seriously. | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
His name is Guy "The Bandit" Thompson, and he has been crowned | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
air guitar champion of the UK at the weekend. Now, he is going to be | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
going to the international finals in Finland tomorrow. | :20:50. | :21:00. | |
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Take it away, Guy. AIR GUITAR GUITAR -- plays. | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
If you are into a air guitar, you will be admiring the power chords, | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
but if like me you are wondering, where is the guitar, there is not | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
one. Air guitar is all about pretending you have a guitar, and | :21:17. | :21:25. | |
it is not easy. The high notes you move into your body, the loan notes | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
you are down. It is no good to do just this, it looks like you do not | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
have a guitar. You may have missed it, but the air guitar | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
championships have been around since the late 90s. The | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
international final in Finland will include competitors from at least | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
20 countries - a bit like your revision, for hard people. Moving | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
your arms about, and looking like you have a bendy guitar, or not | :21:54. | :22:01. | |
just hitting the notes but having your hands in the same position. | :22:01. | :22:08. | |
Not convinced? Neither was this Radio 1 disc jockey, track down by | :22:08. | :22:18. | |
an air guitar expert. I just shout at the TV. Each to their own! | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
is not going to hold are marked down -- back, but there is one | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
obstacle. I pulled a muscle in my back, but I'm sure I get out there | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
and it will be different. We will all be cheering you on. The prize | :22:33. | :22:40. | |
for the winner - a real guitar, but I am not sure guide needs it. | :22:40. | :22:47. | |
Extraordinary. John is in Brighton now. There is some rivalry in the | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
titles. Yes, there is quite an air guitar underworld here. There is an | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
event coming up in two weeks' time here at Brighton which calls itself | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
the national final of the UK air guitar championships. Hang on, | :23:02. | :23:09. | |
isn't that what guy has just one? I got him on the phone, and asked him | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
if there had been a mix up. He said, no, there are various events like | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
this, but he is the real thing - the air guitar UK champion. That is | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
what he will be taking part in, flying the flag for the UK, | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
tomorrow. We are all very proud! I hope he | :23:28. | :23:38. | |
does not try to fly in an imaginary This morning we had a great start | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
to the day - rain particularly in the West. It dried up into the | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
afternoon, and it stays dry tonight, but we will see heavy and | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
persistent rain pushing up from the south, or wait and unsettled end to | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
the night. It should surely -- slowly clear by the afternoon. | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
Earlier today we had a weather front spreading eastwards. Some | :24:03. | :24:10. | |
lively downpours during rush hour, and then it cleared up. It was | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
still an unsettled day for many. Top temperatures getting up to | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
highs of 19 degrees, fairly disappointing for August. As we | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
move through this evening, it was be staying dry macro for a while. | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
But we have got a Met Office weather warning, but we could see | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
up to 15 mm of rain. Some flash flooding likely. We're seeing this | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
rain pushing up from the south, so all white and unsettled end tonight. | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
25-35 mm of rain, and possibly up to 50 mm. Temperatures not dropping | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
much below 13 of 14 degrees. Fairly tricky rush hour tomorrow morning, | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
but that rain will slowly pull away, and it will be increasingly dry. | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
Fingers crossed for Festival Friday. Still plenty of cloud, temperatures | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
fairly depressed. Top temperatures of 20 degrees, that is 68 in | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
Fahrenheit with moderate south- westerly breeze is. It stays mostly | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
dry as we move overnight, eventually those showers will clear, | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
more in the way of clearer skies. Temperatures a little bit cooler | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
than recently - knows there of around 11 degrees. Towards the | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
weekend some showers around for Saturday, Clearing as we move into | :25:34. | :25:43. | |
Sunday. Improving as well by Monday, even some sunshine! | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
Not too bad for Festival Friday, because we have been enjoying the | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
fun in Broadstairs, Eastbourne and Bexhill. Tomorrow, we will be at | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
Herne Bay. When the sun shining and summer is | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
in full swing, there is nothing better than getting out of the | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
office for a trip to the seaside, and that is what we have got | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
planned every Friday in August. We are entering the first force | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
buried by taking South East Today on the road to join you at some of | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
the biggest summer celebrations across Kent and Sussex. | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
We will be on location each Festival Friday, and would love as | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
many of you as possible to come along and join in the fund. | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
Do join us tomorrow at lunchtime and at 6:30pm for that Herne Bay | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
Festival. Let us run through the headlines - | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
Libya's colonel Gaddafi is on the run, but has issued another call to | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
arms. He has told supporters to resist what he called the enemy | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
rats in the capital Tripoli. Medical staff are working at full | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
stretch to deal with the casualties. It has been another record-breaking | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
year for GCSE results across the South East - students in the region | :26:55. | :26:58. |