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Welcome to South East Today, I'm Polly Evans. And I'm Rob Smith. | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
Tonight's top stories: Hunting the hoaxer - police release CCTV | :00:10. | :00:16. | |
pictures of a man they want to talk to over Canterbury's bomb scare. | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
This is a very serious incident that's caused a lot of disruption | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
and carries a very weighty prison sentence and we are keen to | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
identify who is responsible and make sure they're brought to | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
justice. A rising tide of homelessness? As | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
the economic squeeze continues, charities warn more and more | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
families are at risk. Also tonight: Walking for the victims; the | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
brother of a Kent woman killed by her husband sets off on a 150 mile | :00:40. | :00:50. | |
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journey to raise awareness. The teenager who turned his life | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
around to become the youngest ever student at the London School of | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
Musical Theatre. The oldest swimmer in town; at 70 | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
years and 4 months old Roger Allsopp breaks the record for the | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
Channel crossing. I am feeling very elated to have done it but a bit | :01:12. | :01:21. | |
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rough, mostly everything's been Good evening. | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
Police investigating two bomb hoaxes in Canterbury on Friday, | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
which brought much of the city centre to a standstill have | :01:30. | :01:37. | |
released CCTV images of a man they want to speak to. Detectives say | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
they're determined to bring whoever was responsible to justice. More | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
than 100 officers were involved in the incident, which began on Friday | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
afternoon and wasn't resolved until the next day. Dressed in cycling | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
gear and wearing a rucksack, this is the man the police want to speak | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
to. This individual was near to Marks & Spencer at the time of the | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
second incident. He has been behaving in a way that's unusual | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
for the area of that particular time. As you can see from the | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
pictures, he appears to be heavily disguised. We are keen to see if | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
anybody can identify who this is, let us know. The normal bustling | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
city centre in lockdown. This was Canterbury on Friday night as fear | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
of the unknown spread. Some caught up directly in the drama. We all | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
just evacuated, so, yeah, had to get out of there. How worrying was | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
it? Very, I was traumatised. started when the emergency services | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
were called to a hoax device at the railway line in Old Dover Road at | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
4.21. About 50 minutes later the fire service were called to Marks & | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
Spencer where staff had discovered a fire in the baby changing area. | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
The city centre was closed off while police investigated the | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
incidents. It wasn't reopened until 2.57 the following morning. | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
actual gate to where they found the device was there and they went down | :03:05. | :03:12. | |
into - on to the line, and found whatever, a package of some sort, | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
came back up and came to the pub, told us to move. The area around | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
the railway line remained cordoned off for hours, closing one of the | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
main routes into Canterbury. In all, around 100 police officers were | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
involved along with the army bomb disposal team, this was an | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
operation that cost big money. The police say the motive remains | :03:35. | :03:43. | |
unclear. But they're circulating these pictures beyond Kent in their | :03:43. | :03:53. | |
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hunt for information. Homelessness could spread to the middle classes | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
if the economy continues to stall, charities are warning, with | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
evidence that even places like Crawley, which once had 0% | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
unemployment, is now feeling the strain. Homeless charity Open House | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
turned away 2,450 people who wanted a bed for the night over the last | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
12 months, that's an increase of 14% from the previous year. And the | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
local council says there is also a 12% rise in households waiting to | :04:12. | :04:19. | |
be accommodated, to 3,188 Jon Hunt reports. | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
They know they're busy than normal at this homeless hostel and day | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
centre because the kitchen has been running out of baked beans sufpb is | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
the demand for breakfast. I used to finish breakfast about half ten, | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
quarter to 11, now I am not much finished before lunch. Danny | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
Armstrong came to the hostel after his relationship broke down. He | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
used to run his own small business, but he is now having difficulty | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
getting that going again. To be in this place at 28 years old, it's | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
soul-destroying to be honest with you. You know, to think of what I | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
could have had if I hadn't embarked on this relationship, you know, if | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
I stayed and worked at what I was doing, things would be a lot | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
different now, yeah. According to centre staff here increasing | :05:08. | :05:15. | |
increasingly the client ele is changing. They're falling on hard | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
times because of the recession, as opposed to people more long-term | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
homeless. The centre takes in homeless people from all over the | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
south-east, but they only have 24 adult beds available. A of people - | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
- a number of people they can't help has been rising, in the last | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
year alone they've had to turn away almost 2,500 people. Their only | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
inspection is to sleep rough, sometimes even outside the hostel | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
gates and they predict here it's only going to get worse. | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
someone's been asked to leave a tenancy it could take months to | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
evict because they've rights, so there's a lot more to come and our | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
incomes will increase and possibly funding will decrease, it's going | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
to be hard. It's more than two years since the recession started | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
and now now its worst effects are beginning to bite. | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
Kay Boycott is from the homelessness charity Shelter and | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
joins us now from Westminster. We heard there that they're seeing | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
more people from the professional classes but homelessness still much | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
more likely to affect people from poorer backgrounds, isn't it? Is | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
middle class homelessness a real concern? At the moment every two | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
minutes someone faces losing their home so this is something that goes | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
across everybody. Of course if you are on low are incomes and you have | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
less of a financial cushion then you are more likely to face | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
eviction or repossession but we are seeing increasing numbers of middle | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
class people affected. There were over 40,000 repossessions this year | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
and that's set to continue and that's before interest rates go up. | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
There is still far more people who don't own their own homes than | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
people who do and whilst wages are falling behind interest rates | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
remain low. So for some people actually the cost of living isn't | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
as much as it has been. No, well certainly in terms of housing costs | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
interest rates have helped but we see private sector wages have been | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
squeezed across everywhere living costs are going up so the numbers | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
of people coming to us who are saying they've been trying to keep | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
their head above water, maybe taking on extra jobs if work is | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
available but they're seeing drops in income and one small thing can | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
tip them over the edge. With the prospect of a interest rate rise in | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
future this is a time for people to look at budgets and finances and | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
say let's ditch those extras, those lifestyle extras that we may be | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
won't be be able to affords in six months? Lots of people have already | :07:42. | :07:50. | |
done that and millions of people are saying even a 1% rise could tip | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
them over. If you think you are going to miss a payment you must | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
seek advice. Go to Shelter, go to citizens stebs citizens -- Citizens | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
Advice Bureau, there are many people just about keeping it | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
together and if interest rates go up that could worsen significantly. | :08:03. | :08:10. | |
Thank you. Coming up:. Give me a call, please! | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
Seriously, give me a call. One call was all it took, the student who | :08:16. | :08:26. | |
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persuaded Steve Coogan to take a role in his horror movie. | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
The brother of a Kent woman murdered by her husband began a 150 | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
mile walk today, on behalf of the victims of crime and their families. | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
Peter Morris from Gillingham started his campaign following the | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
conviction of Malcolm Webster earlier this year. Webster had | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
faked a car accident in which his wife Claire burned to death to | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
pocket �200,000 in insurance. The crime was only uncovered when he | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
attempted to kill his second wife by setting up another car smash. | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
Robin Gibson reports. He set out to walk 150 miles to the | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
Scottish parliament from his sister's grave. It's an unmarked | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
grave now, the family of Claire Morris successfully campaigned to | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
have the headstone dedicated to a dear wife removed. It had been | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
placed there by the husband who killed her. This walk is not about | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
me. What I have been through and my family are just examples. They're | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
just examples of what victims of crime have to go through. I am very | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
much hoping that as I walk down to Holyrood I will meet other people | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
and they will give me their stories as well. For 17 years Claire's | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
husband Malcolm Webster managed to pass off her death as a tragic road | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
accident. But in 1999 he tried to kill his second wife in New Zealand | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
in another accident. Detectives reinvestigated Claire's death and | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
in May Webster was convicted of her murder. The motive each time had | :09:52. | :09:59. | |
been money. The ordeal of Claire's murder and its aftermath spurred | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
the Morris family to join campaigners who want the rights of | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
both the victims and their families recognised. The bereaved family, | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
their needs are secondary to the crim criminal. His or her human | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
rights have to be respected at every moment through the process. | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
But nobody really considers the human rights of either the victim, | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
who is dead, or the bereaved family. I heard a story of a lady in London | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
whose son was murdered and after the court case she didn't go out of | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
her house for five years and my question as far as that's concerned | :10:35. | :10:42. | |
recovery? There are two long roads and there's a gap between the two | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
roads which people can fall down. The walk in part will raise funds | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
to build a refuge for victims' families as well as raising | :10:49. | :10:59. | |
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awareness of their treatment during murder cases. | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
A Kent Hospital's decided to take off the words "do not disturb" from | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
signs worn by nurses giving out drugs to patients. Managers at the | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate said the red | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
tabards were designed to prevent nurses from being distracted, | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
reducing the number of mistakes on the hospital wards, but they're | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
taking off the three words to avoid misinterpretation by visitors and | :11:18. | :11:25. | |
other members of staff. Detectives have released images of five men | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
they want to talk to after a teenager was attacked and had his | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
moped stolen at Strood railway station. The 17-year-old from | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
Rochester was approached by a group of people, and punched in the face. | :11:37. | :11:45. | |
He escaped with a friend on another moped along Rochester High Street. | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
Police and social services want to speak to the mother of a four-year- | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
old girl who was found home alone in Crawley. The girl was discovered | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
after a 16-year-old boy was arrested in the Maidenbower area of | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
the town on suspicion of a driving offence, while the child's mother | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
was apparantly away on holiday. Rebecca Barry is in Maidenbower now. | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
How did the police make this discover? It started here, in the | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
early hours of yesterday morning two teenagers were stopped by | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
police on suspicion of being in a stolen car. It was only when police | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
began their further inquiries that they found a four-year-old girl | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
alone at a home nearby. One of the 16-year-old boys was subs kwebtly - | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
- subsequently arrested on suspicion of child neglect. It's | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
thought he had been left in charge while the mother was on holiday. I | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
have been speaking to people here and they're shocked by the | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
allegations. It's a quiet area popular with young families. Police | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
say they expect the mother to return to the UK tonight. Until | :12:41. | :12:50. | |
then the west Sussex County Council say the child is being cared for. | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
Kent Fire & Rescue Service have revealed they intend to close a | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
number of fire stations to save money. The Service must find cost | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
savings of �12 million - 25% of its budget. Fire chiefs have, however, | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
guaranteed there will be no compulsory redundancies. Our home | :13:01. | :13:11. | |
affair correspondent, Colin It's a Kent Fire and Rescue have 64 | :13:11. | :13:20. | |
stations and they accept some will have to close. We cannot give a | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
definitive answer. It is important to think about if we are in the | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
right place. The service must save �12 million over the next three | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
years. It has 1500 firefighters, half of them part-time. 70 full- | :13:37. | :13:46. | |
time posts will be lost through natural wastage. We have a | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
traditional fire engine that club - - carries equipment and a large | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
number of firefighters. We want to use resources to better effect. | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
says it is being innovative. The use of new equipment will save | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
several million. Smaller rapid- response vehicles are on trial. | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
time you will be able to use it with fewer people. Get in and deal | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
with the fire and save the life- saving equipment for when the | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
public need it. Kent is the first service in the country to push | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
through controversial changes to Retained firefighters contract. | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
They have become part-time firefighters. A number have quit | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
over changes. I unfortunately, under the old system, we could not | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
provide the guarantee across individual areas that we have the | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
right level of resources in place. Now we can provide the fire cover | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
at the right time and according to the risk in place. Like many | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
organisations, it is facing one of its biggest challenges. In order to | :14:54. | :15:01. | |
save millions, there are fears safety could be put at risk. Our | :15:01. | :15:09. | |
reporter joins us. Have you had any response from the union? The union | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
chose not to provide a television interview. I spoke to the Secretary | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
for the union in Kent over the telephone. He said he is concerned | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
that there will be fewer firefighters in Kent who will have | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
to work longer hours and much harder. That could be a safety | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
issue. He said he is concerned about potential closure of fire | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
stations. He said he would oppose any that are earmarked. It is not | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
clear how many stations would close. We understand an announcement will | :15:45. | :15:53. | |
be made in October. The top story tonight. Police investigating to | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
bomb hoaxes in Canterbury on Friday that brought the city centre to a | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
standstill have released CCTV of a man they want to speak to. | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
Detectives are determined to bring any body responsible to justice. | :16:06. | :16:13. | |
Also, 70 years and four months old, Roger Allsopp is the oldest person | :16:13. | :16:20. | |
to swim the Channel. It has been about shades of grey today. Will it | :16:20. | :16:29. | |
brighten up over the next couple of days? Join me later to find out. | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
The teenage tearaway falling in with the wrong crowd in danger of | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
going off the rails and rescued by a starring role in the school | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
production. It sounds like a plot from a movie, but Alaric Green has | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
lift it. And since we featured him on the programme, he has lost more | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
than five stone in weight and become the youngest student to be | :16:52. | :17:02. | |
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taken in by the London School of Musical Theatre. | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
It is hard to believe that this is the voice of a teenager. What is | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
more remarkable is that Alaric Green had no idea he could sing. | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
This and rich baritone voice has landed him a place at the London | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
School of Musical Theatre where, at 17, he will be the younger student | :17:27. | :17:35. | |
ever. In the audition I thought everything was wrong, my answers | :17:36. | :17:44. | |
were wrong, it was nerve-racking. I had a second and again got | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
everything wrong in my eyes. They said come to the school, and I was | :17:49. | :17:59. | |
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amazed. He made his debut in a school production 18 months ago. | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
Immediately, the producer knew he had something special. In it is an | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
extraordinary voice. He needed to go somewhere that would know what | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
to do with it. The head of music said, I am thrilled I am going to | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
have this fabulous baseline through every song. I thought of him | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
standing at the back of booming through everything! In discovery of | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
the straw in -- extraordinary voice has been a turning point in more | :18:32. | :18:42. | |
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ways than one. When I look back, I think he was a depressed child. It | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
gave him the confidence to lose weight. He used to be awkward | :18:48. | :18:55. | |
around people. He is now Mr Popular. This opportunity has given him a | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
chance to take his life in a different direction. As long as he | :19:00. | :19:10. | |
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keeps his feet firmly on the ground, the sky is the limit. | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
You might think that turning a school project into a full-length | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
feature film is impressive. 17- year-old Liam Hooper has gone one | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
better by persuading an international movie actor to appear | :19:25. | :19:34. | |
in it. A horror story, Darkwood Manor, started life at a school in | :19:35. | :19:44. | |
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Brighton. It is finished and star Steve Coogan. He is behind you! The | :19:51. | :20:00. | |
school is about -- it is about a school trip that goes wrong. A | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
there is an aspect of in not taking itself too seriously. | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
Just to reassure you, the Queen is not dead. | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
In is not just horror that has influenced him, but comedy. He is a | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
fan of Steve Coogan and jumped at the chance to feature him after | :20:20. | :20:30. | |
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discovering a friend of his new him. I am a big fan. I was holding back | :20:30. | :20:38. | |
on things I wanted to say. He was very polite and professional. This | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
is where we shot one of the most brutal scenes in the film. It was | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
quite scary. He began work on the film three years ago while still at | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
school. He asked fellow pupils and teachers to take part. Walking | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
along the corridor, he said Sir, do you want to be an eye film? Two | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
months later his script arrived on my desk and I realised I got myself | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
into something bigger than I thought. This is the location for | :21:12. | :21:22. | |
the mysterious Darkwood Manor. is where we shot the death. | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
film will premiere at midnight in September at the Duke of York | :21:25. | :21:35. | |
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picture house. Today is transfer deadline day for | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
football clubs. One deal that was done was Charlton goalkeeper Roger | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
Levitt -- Rob Elliott has moved to Newcastle, coached by former | :21:46. | :21:53. | |
Charlton boss Alan Pardew. Meanwhile, Gillingham's Simon King | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
has joined Plymouth on a one-month loan. | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
Crawley Town were knocked out of the Johnstone's Paint Trophy after | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
losing to Southend United. It was this penalty from Liam Dickinson | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
who was later sent off for violent conduct, that gave the hosts a 1-0 | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
victory. In cricket, Luke Wright has | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
undergone surgery on his right knee. The England one-day international | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
has not played since July but his coach says he is recovering well. | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
A retired surgeon has achieved his ambition to set a world record as | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
the oldest person to swim the English Channel at the age of 70 | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
years and four months. Roger Allsopp left Shakespeare Beach 8am | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
yesterday. By seven in the evening, he had only reached the halfway | :22:46. | :22:53. | |
mark. Finally, after 17 hours and 51 minutes, he arrived in France at | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
around 2am today. Delighted and exhausted in equal | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
measure. This morning, Roger Allsopp climbed out of the sea and | :23:03. | :23:11. | |
into the record books. I am feeling elated to have done it. It was a | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
bit rough. Everything has been shaken up and most things are | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
hurting. A was it as you expected? It was more taxing. There was a | :23:23. | :23:31. | |
north wind. It was the only time we could have gone in the last ten | :23:31. | :23:38. | |
days. After months of training, the swim took almost 18 hours. A battle | :23:38. | :23:46. | |
with tidied and tired nurse. At 70, he is the oldest person to have | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
achieved this win -- tired and us. The first was Captain Webb. Since | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
then hundreds have tried it but fewer than 10% go the distance. | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
This was an incredible challenge for Roger Allsopp, and also one | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
with a greater purpose, to raise money for equipment for research to | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
offer early warning signals for cancer. He is a retired breast- | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
cancer surgeon. He used to come in every week for many years. He sees | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
what we do in the laboratories and he sees the patients. The challenge | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
of the channel has been a regular fundraiser. This comedian ran it | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
for sport relief. One famous face may be sorry to see this latest | :24:32. | :24:42. | |
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record. The uncle of Matt Damon was the previous oldest swimmer. He was | :24:43. | :24:51. | |
75 days. Roger Allsopp is 70 years and four months. | :24:52. | :24:59. | |
Our reporter joins us live. It was an extraordinary thing to do. | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
slowly recovering but resting at a hotel. When I met him, he was | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
clearly exhausted. No surprise. He arrived in France in the early | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
hours and came back without any sleep and taught to the press. I | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
asked him if he was planning another challenge. He looked at me | :25:19. | :25:26. | |
as if I was mad. I think he is glad to be back on dry land. Having a | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
well-earned rest! We will check on the weather. There | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
is news of possible sunshine. Fingers crossed. It has been a grey | :25:39. | :25:46. | |
day today. It did stay dry. Fingers crossed for the rest of the week. | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
Decent spells of the sunshine. It should be feeling warmer. At the | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
moment we have high pressure in control. Normally, we would see | :25:56. | :26:05. | |
plenty of blue skies, but we have cloud caught under of that. We had | :26:05. | :26:12. | |
light winds. Temperatures as high as 18 degrees. Staying dry as we | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
move into tonight. Clearer skies to end the night. It is not feeling | :26:17. | :26:25. | |
too bad. Overnight, getting down to 11 degrees. It will be a bright | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
start to the day. Holding on to the sunshine. The wind will move to an | :26:30. | :26:40. | |
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easterly direction through the day. Picking up a touch. Tomorrow night, | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
a variable amounts of the cloud. We could see the odd light shower. It | :26:51. | :27:01. | |
will be mostly dry. Temperatures in double figures. To end the week, it | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
will be a bright Friday. Up to 25 degrees and plenty of sunshine. It | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
will be feeling more like summer than today. For the weekend, on | :27:12. | :27:20. | |
Saturday, dry and bright. As you can see, this area of low pressure | :27:20. | :27:26. |