:00:05. > :00:10.Welcome to South East Today. A special programme today live from
:00:11. > :00:16.the Turner Contemporary in Margate. Today, the Queen has been visiting
:00:16. > :00:19.the area for the first time in 18 years. We are so excited, the
:00:19. > :00:24.children are absolutely buzzing, they are so thrilled to see the
:00:24. > :00:27.Queen. What a memorable day. Thousands turned out to greet Her
:00:27. > :00:31.Majesty and she not only visited the new gallery but went walkabout
:00:31. > :00:34.in the old town and also met veterans to mark Armistice Day.
:00:34. > :00:37.Also in tonight's programme: Hundreds of sham marriages but so
:00:37. > :00:46.far only nine illegal immigrants have been deported following the
:00:46. > :00:51.Sussex fake wedding scandal. BELL TOLLS.
:00:51. > :00:54.Remembering the fallen - the south- east marks Armistice Day.
:00:54. > :01:04.Aiming for the World Championships - the 16-year-old go-karting ace
:01:04. > :01:16.
:01:16. > :01:19.with ambitions to be the next Lewis Believing that welcome to a special
:01:19. > :01:22.edition of BBC South East Today -- good evening and welcome. We are at
:01:22. > :01:27.the Turner Contemporary Gallery, because the Queen has been visiting
:01:27. > :01:31.here today, not just here, not just to see Rodin's The Kiss, but to see
:01:31. > :01:36.this building as part of the huge regeneration plan that is actually
:01:36. > :01:41.trying to change the face of the town of Margate and of Thanet. It
:01:41. > :01:46.is a town that has had a big knock as the years have gone by but it is
:01:46. > :01:50.starting to turn itself around. This visit by the Queen is seen by
:01:50. > :01:54.many as a really significant day for the people of Margate.
:01:54. > :02:00.After a chilly weight, the chauffeur-driven car arrived at the
:02:00. > :02:05.Turner Contemporary, and the crowd went wild. Margate hasn't seen a
:02:05. > :02:08.day like today for nearly 20 years and there is a real sense of
:02:08. > :02:13.excitement and the next -- anticipation here, particularly
:02:13. > :02:19.from the entire school of hadn't been in Broadstairs, he turned out
:02:19. > :02:25.to see Her Majesty. That hadn't been. It is the best thing in the
:02:25. > :02:29.world. A I hope we can see the Queen again. It is fantastic to see
:02:29. > :02:33.the Queen here in Margate. They are so excited. We came down at 8
:02:33. > :02:36.o'clock to set up our picture and we are so excited. The children are
:02:36. > :02:41.buzzing, they are so thrilled to see the Queen, what a lovely
:02:41. > :02:46.memorable day for them. Inside the gallery, the atmosphere was more
:02:46. > :02:50.muted but no less enthusiastic. Politicians, dignitaries and
:02:50. > :02:54.artists were amongst the invited guests as the Queen viewed the
:02:54. > :03:02.gallery's exhibits and enjoyed a lunch of halibut and vegetables.
:03:02. > :03:06.is such an change, beating the Queen in Margate, in a gallery that
:03:06. > :03:10.couldn't have existed in my teens - - meeting the Queen. I am thrilled
:03:10. > :03:16.for Margate, really. Before it opened, they had hoped the gallery
:03:16. > :03:20.might attract 150,000 people in its first year. To date, more than
:03:20. > :03:26.300,000 have visited. There is a real sense that what they Gallery
:03:26. > :03:31.and other things that the town has, it has really moved on. What we
:03:31. > :03:36.have is an international gallery, rooted very firmly in the locality.
:03:36. > :03:41.To date's visit by the Queen crowns and opening here that has exceeded
:03:41. > :03:45.the everyone's expectations -- today's.
:03:45. > :03:49.I am joined by the director of the Turner Contemporary art gallery,
:03:49. > :03:53.and I should imagine, it's usually exciting day for everybody. It has
:03:53. > :03:57.been incredible, a lovely day for all of the visitors and especially
:03:57. > :04:01.for the town and for the art gallery. How did you manage to
:04:01. > :04:05.persuade the Queen to come here? invited Her Majesty and she
:04:05. > :04:09.graciously accepted the invitation, so it is a huge moment and very
:04:09. > :04:14.special when she said she was coming, and we have done lot of
:04:14. > :04:18.planning and preparation round of this visit. What did she make of
:04:18. > :04:23.it? It is contemporary art, items that are slightly off-the-wall as
:04:23. > :04:27.well as the more usual to dimensional paintings. I think she
:04:27. > :04:31.was -- I think she thoroughly enjoyed her visit, she spent time
:04:31. > :04:34.with the students in the studio and she liked a lot of the work
:04:35. > :04:39.upstairs, particularly the works by Turner, but the prince was
:04:39. > :04:44.interested in the work behind a bit. The reason she came as well is
:04:44. > :04:47.because this gallery is part of the whole plan to regenerate Margate.
:04:47. > :04:50.Was that clear in the understanding of why she had come today?
:04:50. > :04:55.really wanted to see what the economic impact and benefit of
:04:55. > :04:58.having the gallery was on the town and she spent a lot of time out of
:04:58. > :05:03.the town this morning before she got to the gallery. You are
:05:03. > :05:07.confident it is having an impact? We have had 300,000 visitors, which
:05:07. > :05:12.is issued accolade, since April this year, and we are hoping to get
:05:12. > :05:16.thousands more -- a huge accolade. Admission is free and we believe we
:05:16. > :05:20.are really transforming Margate. Thank you very much for being with
:05:20. > :05:23.us. Regeneration really is the name of the game for Margate. It is a
:05:23. > :05:28.town that as I said has suffered so serious knocks as the years have
:05:28. > :05:32.gone by, not least when the package holiday destinations dried-up, with
:05:32. > :05:36.the advent of cheap flights to holiday destinations and a decade
:05:36. > :05:40.or so ago, it is fair to say Margate was a town that many people
:05:40. > :05:45.saw as being on its uppers, but now things seem to be a little bit as -
:05:45. > :05:49.- on the up, as Mark Norman reports. The crowds gathered opposite a few
:05:50. > :05:52.of the new shops that have opened in the New Town since the Turner
:05:52. > :05:57.Contemporary became a reality. A visible sign of the regeneration
:05:57. > :06:03.that has happened here and that Margate has been striving for for
:06:03. > :06:07.almost two decades. It is really exciting. It just means such a lot,
:06:07. > :06:11.to put Margate back on the map, for them and for everybody else, to see
:06:11. > :06:14.what has happened here over the last year or so. It just shows
:06:14. > :06:18.there is a lot more that has happened here. There is always
:06:18. > :06:23.negative stuff about Margate, and it is in the writ -- middle of a
:06:23. > :06:27.regeneration, it is still going on, still a lot can happen, and people
:06:27. > :06:32.who are negative that I they need to get on to do something to
:06:32. > :06:38.improve it or shut up. Latest figures available from 2009 show
:06:38. > :06:42.that day-trippers bring in �175 million a year to Thanet. 35 the
:06:42. > :06:47.businesses have opened in Margate's old town in the last 18 months --
:06:47. > :06:51.new businesses. But problems remain. 37% of retail space in the town
:06:51. > :06:57.centre remains empty. Walk along the seafront from the turn and you
:06:57. > :07:01.come to Arlington House. Empty shops, but plans for an 83,000
:07:01. > :07:05.square foot Tescos superstore. Residents say it is too big and
:07:05. > :07:09.went regenerate their end of town, it will ruin it. The small shops in
:07:09. > :07:14.this area are all very, very concerned that Tesco is going to
:07:14. > :07:17.Kevin and is going to wipe them out, because they undercut on prices --
:07:17. > :07:22.going to come in. It could sound the death-knell for other shops in
:07:22. > :07:26.the area. While Arlington House residents fight for their future,
:07:26. > :07:30.the Council are also looking at wider projects. The visit from Her
:07:30. > :07:34.Majesty the Queen has just actually completely topped all of the very
:07:34. > :07:37.positive things that have happened over the past 18 months that I
:07:37. > :07:41.think we are all very much begin forward to continuing with the
:07:41. > :07:45.regeneration projects that are still on going. It has been an
:07:45. > :07:48.exciting day for businesses in the heart of Margate. It is there up to
:07:48. > :07:57.businesses across the town and the region to build on this mood of
:07:57. > :08:02.optimism. Is there genuinely grounds for
:08:02. > :08:06.optimism? Let's talk to some people who should know. Daniel Goldman,
:08:06. > :08:09.you are a cafe owner in the town. You have been here since 2003.
:08:09. > :08:14.That's right, I have been trading since the beginning of that year.
:08:14. > :08:17.How much has it changed? Very much so. We have seen how the cafe
:08:17. > :08:22.culture has taken off and with the investment in the Turner
:08:22. > :08:26.Contemporary, the rise in visitors we have had. When you see something
:08:26. > :08:30.like 35 new businesses in the old town opening up in 18 months, is
:08:30. > :08:33.that competition of good news? is not competition, it is great for
:08:34. > :08:37.business. It is good to see and the nice thing about the old town, they
:08:37. > :08:42.are all independent traders and there is a really good feel to the
:08:42. > :08:46.town and we are getting consistent visitors. Let's talk to sue Horton.
:08:46. > :08:50.Your role is to encourage regeneration not just in Margate
:08:50. > :08:54.but across Thanet. Are you genuinely seen a difference? Yes, I
:08:55. > :08:59.think it can only be good for the whole area, not just Margate, the
:08:59. > :09:03.whole of Thanet, because anyone who is investing in this area, it is
:09:03. > :09:08.going to improve the business coming into the town, investment in
:09:08. > :09:14.the can and Thanet as a whole. important is this building to
:09:14. > :09:18.actually making a difference? If you are unemployed, or 18, 19 or 20,
:09:18. > :09:23.don't feel you have prospects, does it make her any arts having
:09:23. > :09:27.international art gallery on your doorstep -- does it make any odds?
:09:27. > :09:31.I think so, it brings interesting to the area, people can focus on
:09:31. > :09:34.something else, a new career that they not -- may not have thought
:09:34. > :09:38.other the past. It is offering training opportunities to younger
:09:38. > :09:42.people and giving them more opportunities generally, and
:09:42. > :09:49.blinking back in with the trading opportunities that we delivered to
:09:49. > :09:53.the unemployed -- linking back. Thank you very much. Today of
:09:53. > :09:56.course is also the 11th of the 11th, it is Armistice Day, and the Queen,
:09:56. > :10:01.when she was touring the old town and looking at some of the new
:10:01. > :10:06.businesses, also to have tiger that scheduled to that -- talk to some
:10:06. > :10:10.war veterans and here some of that -- and here some of their stories.
:10:10. > :10:14.We have also been looking at how you have been marking your
:10:14. > :10:24.Armistice Day across the south-east. Even though the Queen's arrival was
:10:24. > :10:28.
:10:28. > :10:33.just moments away, at 11 o'clock, Margate fell silent.
:10:33. > :10:39.BUGLE PLAYS. Then a chance for veterans to share
:10:39. > :10:45.their memories with the Queen. Never in my lifetime did I ever
:10:45. > :10:51.think I would meet the Queen. Ever. What did she say to you? She just
:10:51. > :10:56.said that we did a good job and she is as proud of us as we are as
:10:56. > :11:01.proud of her. Particularly be the 11th of the 11th of the 11th, how
:11:01. > :11:03.can you top it? You can't. Acts of remembrance right across the south-
:11:03. > :11:13.east. BELL TOLLS.
:11:13. > :11:13.
:11:13. > :12:16.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 62 seconds
:12:16. > :12:20.11th November is always an extremely poignant day for veterans,
:12:20. > :12:30.a chance to look back. Here in Margate, in the future, they will
:12:30. > :12:36.
:12:36. > :12:41.remember it as the day the Queen visited Margate.
:12:41. > :12:43.Sorry, we seem to have lost the sound link to Margate. In the rest
:12:43. > :12:46.of today's news: Only nine illegal immigrants have
:12:46. > :12:49.been deported following the scandal of hundreds of sham marriages in
:12:49. > :12:52.East Sussex, according to official figures. More than 370 weddings
:12:52. > :12:57.conducted by the Reverend Alex Brown in St Leonards between July
:12:57. > :13:00.2005 and July 2009 were thought to be bogus. Last year, the Border
:13:00. > :13:04.Agency told us they'd be taking a tough stance with those who tried
:13:04. > :13:13.to gain the right to live in Britain by taking part in a sham
:13:13. > :13:16.marriage. Colin Campbell reports. They married to try and stay in
:13:17. > :13:21.this country, and for many, it appears to be working. It seems
:13:21. > :13:23.totally inadequate. I think the citizens of Hastings and the rest
:13:23. > :13:26.of the country would normally expect the consequences to have
:13:26. > :13:30.been felled by the people who committed this crime well before
:13:30. > :13:34.now, so I will be urging the Border Agency to take more serious action
:13:34. > :13:39.to get rid of the people who committed these crimes if possible.
:13:39. > :13:44.The Border Agency reviewed 379 weddings conducted by Reverend Alex
:13:44. > :13:48.Brown. Around 170 individuals, predominantly men, buried by the
:13:48. > :13:53.priest, have had residency applications rejected -- married.
:13:53. > :13:57.But only nine have been deported. Worryingly, 27 have vanished. Over
:13:57. > :14:01.a year ago, the Border Agency sounded optimistic about tracking
:14:01. > :14:05.down the offenders. We would have to be able to find most of them if
:14:05. > :14:09.not all of them, but if you are in the country illegally and you know
:14:09. > :14:13.that, sometimes people disappear and you have to work that bit
:14:13. > :14:17.harder to find them. Most of the sham weddings involved east
:14:17. > :14:24.European women marrying West African men who wanted to cheat the
:14:24. > :14:32.system. This lady was paid �1,500 cash to marry a Nigerian who was
:14:32. > :14:36.facing deportation. I think he wanted to documents. For working.
:14:36. > :14:40.The UK Border Agency say the 170 people that got married here then
:14:40. > :14:43.applied for residency, which has been rejected, still have the right
:14:43. > :14:48.for appeal and that that action will be taken once procedures are
:14:48. > :14:54.exhausted. 70 suspected bogus marriages have now been deemed to
:14:54. > :14:58.genuine. Loving relationships, not marriages of convenience.
:14:58. > :15:00.In other news, a man who was caught on CCTV swinging a cat around his
:15:00. > :15:03.head has handed himself in to Margate police station. The
:15:03. > :15:07.pictures coming up are quite upsetting. They were filmed in
:15:07. > :15:12.Ramsgate last month. RSPCA officers are now questioning the man in
:15:12. > :15:14.connection with the incident. An inquest has heard that a woman
:15:14. > :15:18.from Kent died after her learner- driver daughter accidentally ran
:15:19. > :15:21.her over when she had fallen to the floor during a lesson. 41-year-old
:15:21. > :15:26.Susan Duke suffered serious head injuries in July when her 17-year-
:15:27. > :15:31.old daughter Lauren Duke reversed over her in a car park in Cuxton.
:15:31. > :15:41.She was taken to hospital but died two days later.
:15:41. > :15:44.
:15:44. > :15:47.Witnesses to come forward on the A new smartcard that makes it
:15:47. > :15:50.quicker and easier for passengers to buy train tickets is being
:15:50. > :15:52.trialled from today in Sussex. It's called "the key" and, like London's
:15:53. > :15:56.Oyster card, is designed to be topped up. Southern Railways have
:15:56. > :15:57.launched the pilot scheme on the line from Brighton to Seaford as a
:15:57. > :16:00.greener alternative to paper tickets.
:16:00. > :16:02.A fierce campaign is underway against plans for a windfarm in
:16:02. > :16:04.Sussex. A development company called Galliford Try Renewables
:16:04. > :16:07.wants to erect five turbines to generate enough electricity to
:16:07. > :16:10.supply Polegate and the nearby village of Westham. Protestors say
:16:10. > :16:16.the turbines would be far too big and blight the area. Our
:16:16. > :16:20.environment correspondent Yvette Austin reports.
:16:20. > :16:25.Lying at the foot of the South Downs, the fields of Shap them. The
:16:25. > :16:30.views across to the Pevensey Levels. Amongst residents, the concerns are
:16:30. > :16:34.that the landscape will be wrecked by giant wind turbines. No. 1 would
:16:34. > :16:38.be there, number two behind the big house on the skyline, number three
:16:39. > :16:43.where the Masters, number four over there and number five a bit further
:16:43. > :16:47.to the right -- where the mast is. They are too big, too close, they
:16:47. > :16:52.will impact, they will make too much noise and disturb people's
:16:52. > :16:54.lives day and night. This won't generate enough electricity to be
:16:54. > :16:59.worthwhile and the children and grandchildren, of which I have a
:16:59. > :17:03.few, will have to pay the bill. It will come out in their electricity
:17:03. > :17:08.bills and their taxes, and they will get very badly -- bad value
:17:08. > :17:14.for money. The five turbine is will be clearly seen for miles around.
:17:14. > :17:18.Each one would be 415 ft tall, from its base to the tip of the top
:17:18. > :17:23.blade. That is more than twice the height of Nelson's Column and
:17:23. > :17:29.almost as tall as the London Eye. Supporters say they are a must for
:17:29. > :17:33.future energy needs. Solar power and offshore wind are not going to
:17:33. > :17:36.make up enough to make the sort of cuts in carbon emissions we needed
:17:36. > :17:40.the timescale we need, so we need to be thinking about the
:17:40. > :17:44.environment and not our own backyards. The Government wants 15%
:17:44. > :17:49.of all other energy to be from renewables by 2020. The current
:17:49. > :17:53.figure is less than 4%. The company behind the project says it feels it
:17:53. > :17:56.is helping to meet the target and says it has carried out extensive
:17:56. > :17:59.studies and consultation with a leading environmental bodies and
:17:59. > :18:03.they have not objected to the scheme.
:18:03. > :18:06.It's the opening round of the FA Cup this weekend with several of
:18:06. > :18:08.the south-east's clubs in action. Charlton travel to Halifax on
:18:08. > :18:12.Sunday, and tomorrow Crawley go to Bury, with Gillingham away at
:18:12. > :18:16.Bournemouth. The Gills will be without their loan strikers Jo
:18:16. > :18:19.Kuffour and Frank Nouble. That means a big chance for their
:18:19. > :18:28.teenage goalkeeper, Paulo Gazzaniga, who is standing by to deputise for
:18:28. > :18:32.the injured Ross Flitney. We have been at Bournemouth before, played
:18:32. > :18:37.there many times, played them in the FA Cup. I remember it was the
:18:37. > :18:41.day I got carried off with my injury. So we have got them result
:18:41. > :18:43.Bournemouth, it is one we look forward to and have no fear of
:18:43. > :18:47.going there. Four years ago, Hastings teenager
:18:47. > :18:51.Jack Barlow had never been near a racetrack. Next week he sets off
:18:51. > :18:54.for Dubai determined to return home as a World Champion. If that wasn't
:18:54. > :19:04.enough, the 16-year-old has set himself a five-year dealine to
:19:04. > :19:04.
:19:04. > :19:09.break into Formula One, as he told Neil Bell.
:19:09. > :19:12.The conditions may have been a bit murky this morning, but Jack
:19:12. > :19:17.Barlow's aim is crystal clear. Ever since he came across a go-kart
:19:17. > :19:19.track on a family holiday for years ago, he has been hooked, and has
:19:19. > :19:24.established themselves as one of the most outstanding prospects in
:19:24. > :19:28.the country. Next week, he takes off -- he heads off to take up some
:19:28. > :19:32.of the best around in Dubai at the world finals. You have to learn
:19:32. > :19:36.your place, you can't buy your way into it. You did pretty well last
:19:36. > :19:41.year, can you do better this year? Last year was a really good year, I
:19:41. > :19:45.was leading on the RAST -- last lap and finished 4th, but I feel like I
:19:45. > :19:49.have matured and have a really good chance this year. During his brief
:19:49. > :19:54.but highly successful career, Jack has met his heroes Lewis has up --
:19:54. > :19:57.Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button, they also began go-karting. Victory
:19:57. > :20:01.in Dubai would be a massive boost to his chances of joining them in
:20:01. > :20:04.Formula One. You see a lot of drivers now, Jenson Button and
:20:04. > :20:08.Lewis Hamilton have won the Formula One title, and ever since then, go-
:20:08. > :20:12.karting has got a bit begat and everyone wants to be like Jenson
:20:12. > :20:18.Button and Lewis Hamilton and guided tour. It is just money,
:20:18. > :20:22.because sometimes you can't fund four or �5 million of to get into
:20:22. > :20:27.F1, but that is what Jack wants to do. At if it doesn't work out, we
:20:27. > :20:32.can say we tried. We have had for grid years of racing it, it has
:20:32. > :20:37.brought us closer together, caused arguments as well, about money, but
:20:37. > :20:40.he loves what he does. Competition in motor sport is intense and
:20:40. > :20:46.worldwide, but it Jack Barlow continues his current rate of
:20:46. > :20:51.progress, success appears to be a racing certainty.
:20:51. > :20:56.He has got bags of conference. -- confidence.
:20:56. > :20:59.A woman from Eastbourne is on track to raise �1 million for charity.
:20:59. > :21:02.Margaret Fox has spent the last 30 years raising hundreds of thousands
:21:02. > :21:05.for local charities. Today, she hopes to raise the final �3,000
:21:05. > :21:08.needed to reach the �1 million target. It is all in aid of the air
:21:08. > :21:12.ambulance and I hope everyone out there could come down and give us
:21:12. > :21:17.their support and help us raise that one million, because this is
:21:17. > :21:21.my final push, and that I have got my million. That is all I want out
:21:21. > :21:25.of life. That is it from the studio, I will be back on Monday, but from
:21:25. > :21:28.all of us here have a good weekend. I will have you back to Margate,
:21:28. > :21:33.where the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have spent the day
:21:33. > :21:37.visiting the Turner Gallery, the old town and back row people. --
:21:37. > :21:41.the RNLI. What a memorable day for the people there.
:21:42. > :21:47.Yes, hopefully you can he be now, we have but another coin in the
:21:47. > :21:53.meter. -- he may now. This is an international picture from the
:21:53. > :21:57.Canadian artist Jack Walker. The theme of the expected -- exhibition
:21:57. > :22:02.is of nothing but youth, and you can see all sorts of work by great
:22:02. > :22:07.pop artists by Peter Blake and David Hockney and Henry Moore and
:22:07. > :22:12.even original paintings by Turner himself of. Watercolours are part
:22:12. > :22:16.of Kent and local wildlife and so forth. Cheek by jowl is a work like
:22:16. > :22:22.this, a photograph of youngsters from the technology college then by
:22:22. > :22:26.the road. -- down the road. There has been a whole palette for the
:22:26. > :22:31.Queen and the Duke to look at today. Once they had been in the gallery,
:22:31. > :22:36.they moved into the RNLI the building to see the work being done
:22:36. > :22:39.there, and our reporter is that the building now.
:22:39. > :22:43.This lifeboat station has been here a lot longer than the gallery, it
:22:43. > :22:48.was built in 1970 died after the previous Lifeboat Station was
:22:48. > :22:54.washed away -- 1979. The peer was washed away in a storm. This boat
:22:54. > :22:58.will go out in all weathers. -- pier. They told me today that royal
:22:58. > :23:01.visit or no royal visit, if they had had an emergency call today,
:23:01. > :23:10.they would have answered it and I think they are all pretty pleased
:23:10. > :23:14.that it didn't happen. It was Queen Victoria who made the
:23:14. > :23:19.lifeboat service Royal in 1854. Today's Queen had a glimpse of how
:23:19. > :23:24.the modern service operates, meeting the 30 volunteer crewmen as
:23:24. > :23:30.well as fundraisers and supporters. It is fantastically special for the
:23:30. > :23:34.table volunteers here. The RNLI is a charity, we are run by its
:23:34. > :23:38.volunteers, so to meet the Queen is a record for the effort they put in.
:23:38. > :23:44.The royal couple also met a former sailor who had served under Prince
:23:44. > :23:49.Philip 60 years ago in the Navy. actually said, you are the second
:23:49. > :23:52.person we have met who served on that. They met them in the old town
:23:52. > :24:02.this morning. Up are those without a royal appointment, it was getting
:24:02. > :24:05.
:24:05. > :24:11.the best base for the best view -- It is part of my culture. She is my
:24:11. > :24:15.Queen and that is why I am here. This whole school turnout for the
:24:15. > :24:19.visit. They are so excited, it is fantastic. One other children said
:24:19. > :24:24.he knew he would recognise that because he had seen his face on the
:24:24. > :24:29.money, which I thought was charming. -- he knew he would recognise their
:24:29. > :24:35.because he had seen her face on money. As the Queen toured the old
:24:35. > :24:40.town, one Posy was presented by a boy born 11 years ago today, his
:24:40. > :24:48.11th birthday on the 11th of the 11th. She asked if it was my
:24:48. > :24:53.birthday and I said yes. It might not have been the nicest day to be
:24:53. > :24:57.beside the sea, but it didn't seem to put anyone off. I have seen the
:24:57. > :25:01.Queen today for the first time in my life, so happy to see how.
:25:01. > :25:11.first time I have seen how come to Margate. Something I have not seen
:25:11. > :25:13.
:25:13. > :25:19.before. Mid-afternoon, having made everyone's day, she was off, back
:25:19. > :25:23.to the royal flight home. And I think it did make everyone's
:25:23. > :25:28.day that the Queen was here, in their town, walking around Margate
:25:29. > :25:32.and they really felt... Sarah, thank you very much. There
:25:32. > :25:35.were thousands and thousands of people in the area looking at what
:25:35. > :25:40.was going on, taking photos, and we know that because the hundreds of
:25:40. > :25:48.you have been up loading them to our Facebook page. We can take a
:25:48. > :25:52.look now. If you want another look, go to Alla Facebook page. -- our.
:25:52. > :25:57.If you have taking your own, you can add them to the collection, we
:25:57. > :26:01.would like to be able to see all of them. If we take a look here, this
:26:01. > :26:06.is one of J M W Turner's paintings and you can see that beautiful blue
:26:06. > :26:11.sky in the background. Sadly, we didn't have that today in a Thanet.
:26:11. > :26:15.Will it improve over the next day? Rachel has all the latest.
:26:15. > :26:17.It certainly was a dull and damp picture today. As we move through
:26:17. > :26:20.picture today. As we move through tonight, we have further rain that
:26:20. > :26:24.will clear through tomorrow and it will be that dry and brighter
:26:24. > :26:27.picture over the weekend and it did in the week. The reason is we have
:26:27. > :26:31.a cold front spreading eastwards, which will clear through the
:26:31. > :26:34.morning tomorrow and we will start to draw much milder air from the
:26:34. > :26:38.near Continent, so temperatures will be around what we would
:26:38. > :26:43.normally see in May. As we move into tonight, we will hold onto
:26:43. > :26:47.that cloud, some light patchy rain and drizzle where the cloud get fit.
:26:47. > :26:51.Overnight temperatures very mild for the time of year, hardly
:26:51. > :26:55.changing from the daytime values. As we move through tomorrow morning,
:26:55. > :27:00.the rate will clear eastwards, brightening up into the afternoon -
:27:00. > :27:04.- the rain. Very mild the time of the year, highs of around 16
:27:04. > :27:08.degrees, 61 in Fahrenheit. It is worth mentioning that tomorrow is
:27:08. > :27:16.your opportunity to film Something For the BBC's film Britain in a day,
:27:16. > :27:20.you can see more at the website. Tomorrow night forestay dry, cloud
:27:20. > :27:24.going away, lows of around nine degrees. Remembrance Sunday will be
:27:24. > :27:29.more in the way of hazy sunshine as we move into the afternoon, while
:27:29. > :27:34.for the time of that year, up to 14 degrees, 16 as you move towards
:27:34. > :27:37.London. Into the new week, and more in the way of sunshine but
:27:37. > :27:40.temperatures 10 average for the time of the year, highs of around
:27:40. > :27:43.time of the year, highs of around 12 degrees. A dry and brighter
:27:43. > :27:47.picture all round. Rachel, thank you very much. That
:27:47. > :27:50.is all we have time for this evening. It has been a really, full
:27:50. > :27:54.day in Margate, people have really enjoyed the royal visit from Her
:27:54. > :27:58.Majesty the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip. It has
:27:58. > :28:01.been a day of colour and excitement that we will leave you with some
:28:01. > :28:11.images that show you exactly what has been going on with the Royal
:28:11. > :28:18.