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Welcome to South East Today. I'm Rob Smith. And I'm Natalie Graham. | :00:04. | :00:07. | |
Tonight's top stories: Could the public sector strikes | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
close Gatwick? Passengers are warned of major delays when border | :00:11. | :00:21. | |
staff take industrial action next week. I certainly hope it would not | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
mean the airport closing for a period of time. But it would be | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
foolish of anyone to rule that Act. Highlighting domestic violence, as | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
shocking figures show 15,000 women were abused just in Brighton last | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
year. We report live from the city. Also in tonight's programme: | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
Hoping they'll meet again - Dame Vera Lynn offers a reward, and high | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
tea, for anyone who can find her treasured Remembrance brooch. | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
The Sussex animal chairty working to free the bears kept caged in | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
India. And ice dancing in the open air - a | :00:50. | :01:00. | |
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new attraction brings a touch of Good evening. Gatwick Airport could | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
be forced to close because of next week's planned strikes by public- | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
sector workers. That is Lydia of the call MP Henry Smith. He says | :01:18. | :01:25. | |
the passengers, already likely to face significant destruction, could | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
end up finding the airport closed. Tonight the UK Border Agency says | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
it is examining all options to keep our borders saved and that the army | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
could form part of the response. Delays seem inevitable for arriving | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
passengers at Gatwick on Wednesday and that the area's MP thinks the | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
area could, in the worst case, be forced to close. I certainly hope | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
it would not mean the airport closing for any period of time but | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
I think it would be foolish of anyone to rule that out. I have | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
confidence in Gatwick Airport to manage these contingency problems. | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
They are working closely with the Home Office and Department of | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
Transport to ensure that airport operations remain as smooth as | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
possible despite what I think is quite reckless strike action. | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
the airport says it is creating extra at space and seating for | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
arriving passengers and says it will be on hand to help the most | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
vulnerable. Gatwick managers today did not raise the prospect that the | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
airport may have to close but they did admit that it is going to be a | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
challenge if the strikes go ahead and that they are preparing for the | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
worst. They are drafting in hundreds of volunteers. They will | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
not be able to staff the border but they will be able to manage any | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
queues. The Government should pull out all the stops and bring in | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
anyone who can help prices people and because, frankly, it is bad | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
enough for foreign visitors getting through Heathrow anyway. If they | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
are going to be subjected to delays unprecedented scale, and trapped in | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
planes while it is happening, it will be awful. Not only is | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
disruption expected at the UK border at Gatwick Airport, | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
passengers at the port of Dover could face disruption and workers | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
at the Dartford River Crossing may walk out, also. I think a lot of | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
things will grind to a halt, particularly if you are going | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
abroad. There will be chaos. understand that they want to get it | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
all sorted but for God's sake, don't keep on going on strike. It | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
upsets the whole country. The UK Border Agency says it is bring the | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
managers, contractors and staff from overseas to help keep the | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
borders running and they are even considering asking the army for | :03:42. | :03:49. | |
help. Almost 15,000 women in Brighton and | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
Hove experienced domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking in the | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
last year according to the latest Home Office figures. Today the city | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
hosted an event to highlight the issue. The White Ribbon Campaign is | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
calling for the elimination of violence against women. Activists | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
say it is the biggest issues affecting women today. They are | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
calling for the Government to do more. | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
I had been in their intimate relationship with my partner... | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
Joanna is a survivor of domestic violence. I suffered a lot of abuse | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
and it culminated in an attempt on my life, and rape. Over the last | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
year in Brighton, it is estimated that 5,300 women experienced | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
domestic violence. 2,700 were victims of sexual assault. 6,600 | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
experienced stalking. I have just got this. Don't talk to me like | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
this. Hard-hitting campaigns have in recent years appeared more | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
frequently on our screens. In Britain one organisation that | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
supports victims of domestic abuse told us it's resources are being | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
stretched. Things like poverty, unemployment, homelessness | :05:04. | :05:12. | |
definitely have an impact on making it worse, exacerbating the problem. | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
That is a fact. We cannot get away from the fact that these are issues | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
at the moment. Joanna's experience of reporting her abuse was positive. | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
It is a scary thing to do, to call the police. And I would like | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
everybody to know that they are the most of where people right now. | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
Celebrities like Keira Knightley have lent their support to raise | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
the profile of the consequences of domestic violence, a crime said to | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
affect one in four women. Sorry, we did not agree to that. That was not | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
in the script. Our reporter is live in Brighton. | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
Is it the same picture across the county? The charity that respect to | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
here in Brighton are adamant that there has been an increase in the | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
number of referrals here in Brighton. The figures Sussex Police | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
have given us appear to show a slightly different picture. Over | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
the last year 16,000 women have got in contact with Sussex Police to | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
report domestic violence. The year before there were 17,000 calls. | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
Sussex Police said this has nothing to do with a decrease in the ground | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
but everything to do with the crime being and reported which is why | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
they are urging victims to get in contact with them. | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
Coming up, a huge imbalance in Kent's adoption services. The local | :06:32. | :06:40. | |
authorities strongly criticised again. | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
Dame Vera Lynn is offering a reward and the chance to have afternoon | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
tea with her to anyone who helps find a much treasured bridge that | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
she lost earlier this month, one which was given to her by Field | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
Marshal Montgomery 35 years ago. Dame be read lives in Sussex and | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
she was wearing the brooch at the Royal Albert Hall during the | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
Festival of Remembrance before she noticed it was missing. | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
This is the bridge that has gone missing. The number eight it stands | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
for the aides army the Desert Rats and it was presented to Dame Vera | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
Lynn by their wartime commander Field Marshal Montgomery. It is a | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
little gold pin, an oblong, and amid on the front is a little eight | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
in little diamonds. Monty had it made in honour of Dame Vera Lynn's | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
role in boosting trips' morale during the vital campaigns in North | :07:34. | :07:43. | |
Africa. She was known as the forces' sweetheart then and now. | :07:43. | :07:51. | |
Will meet again... Aged 94, she was wearing it at this year's Festival | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
of Remembrance. I was out there with the boys and Montgomery | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
presented it to me at the Albert for many years ago. And I was | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
wearing in this year at the Armistice Night and it obviously it | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
came off and was lost. distinctive, unique and of course | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
highly personal. But the bridge is not particularly valuable in its | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
own right. Dame Vera Lynn is offering a nominal award of �150 | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
but also something no amount of money could buy, afternoon tea with | :08:26. | :08:35. | |
her to celebrate its return. A legal secretary from East Sussex | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
has admitted stealing almost �500,000 from clients' accounts. | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
25-year-old Leanne Harris from Whitesmith near Lewes worked at | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
Arscotts Solicitors in Hove from 2008 until last year. Hove Crown | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
Court was told one of her two victims was an elderly woman. The | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
owner of the East Kent Gazette and Medway News has announced that both | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
newspapers are likely to be closed down next month following an | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
attempt to sell them to the Kent Messenger Group falling through. | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
Northcliffe Media said it was no longer financially viable to | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
continue publishing the papers. More than 35 people will be | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
affected and closure is subject to staff consultation. | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
A stolen van at dumped in -- dog dumped in Kent last week has been | :09:20. | :09:28. | |
reunited with its owner. Staff at the RSPCA Leybourne Animal Centre | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
where it was treated said it was the theorist dog they had ever seen. | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
Overall, young people in the South East of the least affected by | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
unemployment in the UK, 5% compared to Archers % nationally, but there | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
are areas that so that the worst rates in the UK. In one area, 11% | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
of in people are unemployed. In Hastings it is 11.8 % and in Thanet, | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
13.8 %, compared to places like Tandridge in Surrey, Tunbridge | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
Wells and Canterbury, which have little use in Parliament. In Medway | :10:04. | :10:12. | |
there are more than 2,300 people currently looking for work. | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, was there today | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
and the Government have said they are going to put �1 billion into | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
solving used in employment. -- youth unemployment. The young | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
people I have been speaking to do not really understand the politics | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
behind this scheme or how it will be paid but they understand the | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
figures and they say if the Government is going to guarantee | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
half their wages for six months companies will find that very | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
attractive and employ them. For the last three years Luke | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
Parsons has been unemployed. He believes the Government's plan to | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
give employers pay a subsidy of �2,275 will help young people like | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
him get a job. I would love it, so I am not sitting indoors doing | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
nothing to. I would rather be in a job. Everyone would appreciate that. | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
But the Labour Party says the devil is in the detail and only one in 20 | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
youngsters will qualify for the new scheme. The scheme that is being | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
done on the cheap. But worse, I hear they're going to try to pay | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
for it by squeezing working people's tax credits. That is all | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
wrong. We should have a proper tax and bankers' bonuses to fund a | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
proper skin to get 100,000 young people back to year. Gavin says a | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
Prince's Trust work programme changed his life. The 12 week | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
course gave him the skills he needed to get a job. Cash | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
injections only work if they are backed up by training. When I | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
started the course I was hanging around with a lot of gangs and | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
stuff. On the streets all the time. I lived in a derelict house. I was | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
panicking because I had got my girlfriend pregnant and I did not | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
know what to do with no job. Very low income on benefits and most at | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
forwards for me at all. I walked out of the cause with a full-time | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
job. The course Gavin went on is not cheap. With one of career | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
specialist for every job seekers. But the charity which runs them | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
says the success rate is high so long term it is value for money. | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
The careers specialists I have spoken to said they welcomed the | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
subsidy companies will get for employing 16-24 year-olds but to | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
ensure this is not just a short- term quick fix for six months it | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
needs to be backed up by training and it also needs to be centred in | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
the places where unemployment is the highest. | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, joins us now. | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
As you know, there are many areas of deprivation in the South East, | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
alongside the prosperous parts. There are many young people at | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
their with few prospects. Who will take them on as a result of your | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
incentives? For the first thing is you need to see this in the light | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
of a few features. Using employment is not something that started when | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
this Government arrived. -- youths unemployment. It was already at | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
record levels so we have a big programme to resolve. If one of the | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
things that we know is that employers tell us constantly it is | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
a bit too expensive to employ somebody who has never had any real | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
work experience, so the idea behind the package is to build on some of | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
the stuff we are doing, first and foremost, CBI asked for a National | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
Insurance holiday. This �2,275 will go wrong way to clear out that | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
national insurance payment. They will not have to make that and | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
there will be a bit of extra money besides. I agree about the training | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
point made earlier. It is not enough to get somebody a job and | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
subsidise it, which is why the Future Jobs Fund that the last | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
Government did was such a disaster. You need to increase the number of | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
work-experience places so people go into a business for two months | :13:52. | :13:59. | |
are... I am afraid we have lost Iain Duncan Smith. | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
A highly critical report into adoption services in Kent says the | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
authority has lost its grip and that the deterioration in services | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
should have been recognised. The report by the former head of | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
Barnardo's, Martin Narey, pointed out a huge imbalance between the | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
number of children waiting to be adopted and the number of families | :14:14. | :14:21. | |
available to take them. Our social affairs correspondent | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
reports. Ron Mills runs a successful dog | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
kennels. Ten years ago, he and his wife wanted to start a family. They | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
began the adoption process but gave up. It was too complex and lengthy. | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
Three years ago they tried again, wanting a brother or sister for | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
their daughter. It was very exciting to start with because you | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
think, there is a chance of us getting a child. Hopefully, that | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
would not take that long. But we were just totally disillusioned by | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
the whole process. The time taken for a family to adopt a child he is | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
just one of many criticisms contained in today's damning report. | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
It highlights a desperate imbalance between the number of children | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
wanting and the number of families waiting. The situation has been | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
worsening. In the year ending 2007, the number of children adopted in | :15:11. | :15:18. | |
Kent stood at 93. In 2009 it had fallen to 78. By 2011, the figure | :15:18. | :15:25. | |
had plummeted to 57. The council had lost a grip. It is not my | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
suggestion that staff are not working hard, but they are not | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
working productively. There needs to be more urgency in getting | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
parents in Kent to adopt the children in Kent who are waiting | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
for adoption. If they do not do this there will BA prices. | :15:40. | :15:48. | |
council admits improvements must be made. I think there has been a lack | :15:48. | :15:55. | |
of brokers across the council to support in the adoption service. | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
Seven years ago 135 children were adopted. Last year it was 59. With | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
renewed energy, focus and forget we can get back to those numbers. | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
comes a year after a highly critical Ofsted report into | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
children's services as a whole left the council in shock. It has been | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
working to put matters right since then and this latest report is part | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
of that process of identifying the problems and tackling them. It is | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
expecting a drop sheer numbers will increase significantly over the | :16:27. | :16:34. | |
next few years. -- adoption numbers. This is our top story tonight: | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
Gatwick Airport could be forced to close because of next week's | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
planned strikes by public sector workers. Crawley MP Henry Smith | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
says that passengers, who are already likely to face significant | :16:41. | :16:48. | |
disruption, could end up finding the airport closed. | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
Also tonight, the world powerboat champion and world speed record | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
holder, and he is only 11! And will it be cold and icy or warm | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
and spicy this weekend? If you want to know the weekend weather, join | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
me later in the programme. A Sussex charity has begun a | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
mission to rescue bears kept in appalling conditions in zoos in | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
India. There are 198 zoos in the country and at least half contain | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
captive sloth bears. Two years ago our reporter joined the team from | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
International Animal Rescue as they went out to save the last dancing | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
bears from the streets. Now they have turned their attention to | :17:31. | :17:41. | |
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malnourished bears kept in cramped cages. | :17:41. | :17:49. | |
They were once a familiar sight on the streets of India. But years ago, | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
once they stopped dancing, there was nowhere for them to go, so many | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
ended up in zoos in very poor conditions. Like these two. When | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
the team from Sussex and then there were severely malnourished. They | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
should have weighed 85 kilos. has taken nearly a year to get them | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
out. We had to go through all the rigmarole of going through each of | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
the Government, getting permission to do it. These are four bears that | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
we do go out at the weekend that are just living in a small box. | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
They can't even get in the cage to clean the cage out so they are just | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
living on their own faeces, which is awful. Now at the bears have | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
been taken to a rescue centre. I travelled to India with Alan Knight | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
two years ago to witness the end of a 400 year-old tradition of dancing | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
bears. We said we would help you and we did. The handlers were | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
offered new jobs, the best -- bears given freedom to roam in the | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
centuries. I think you will remember when we arrested that last | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
there. He has fitted in beautifully and there'll be pictures of him a | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
romping around in the wonderful sanctuary. The charity has a lot of | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
support from people in Kent and Sussex. We have a fantastic trustee | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
in Sussex to is a dentist and he has been out to India and carried | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
out a writ canal treatment on the up bears. One Kent benefactor | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
recently donated half a million pounds. The charity now it hopes to | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
rescue dancing bears in Nepal. It is just a month to go until | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
Christmas and what could be more Christmassy than a real outdoor ice | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
rink, all lit up like Santa's grotto? Rob has dashed outside the | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
studios here in Tunbridge Wells into the Calverley Grounds, where | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
they have built an ice rink, and they have some celebrity skaters to | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
open it with a gala event this evening. Rob, it all sounds very | :19:45. | :19:53. | |
glamourous. It is a bit chilly. I wish I had | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
potato John! This is real ice. It is not a plastic ice rink. -- I | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
wish I had a coat on. You can see how good the ice is because we have | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
Jodeyne Higgins and so Sean Rice skating here. Jodeyne was Johnson | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
Beharry's partner in the latest series of dancing on ice. Come over | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
here and say hello. They reached the semi-finals in that competition. | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
Jodeyne, what do you think of this? It is lovely to be outside skating | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
like this. What a privilege and, to get to try it. You are Canadian by | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
birth, so skating outside is how it should be done? I learned how to | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
skate on the outdoor rink. Said to be right this when I am told it is | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
amazing. Let's talk quickly about Johnson Beharry. He's a hero, isn't | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
he? Unbelievable gentleman. To get a chance to work with him is | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
incredible. He taught me a lot about life. Sean, you're a champion | :20:58. | :21:04. | |
skater as well. U2 have competed internationally. You are also on | :21:04. | :21:12. | |
the ice dancing tour. Wheat grew up together. We have been together for | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
20 years. It is like we are brother and sister but not really! I love | :21:16. | :21:23. | |
my wife. We have are the youngsters from one of the local schools | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
singing carols here tonight. What do you think of this? It is really | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
festive and Christmassy, isn't it? Yet, it is. There is the ice rink | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
here and we have all the choir's singing here. It is very nice and a | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
really good atmosphere. completely agree. It is all really | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
great that they are opening an ice rink here in Tunbridge Wells. | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
great hat as well. Some of these people have come down to watch. Why | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
have you come down here tonight? is very exciting for Tunbridge | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
Wells to have the ice rink. Really looking forward to going on it. | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
Maybe not benedict! Tunbridge Wells is the place to be. We will be back | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
here in three or four minutes because Kaddy is going to be doing | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
the weather for us from here and it will be a first from SAD is today, | :22:14. | :22:22. | |
the weather on ice. We cannot wait! Brighton and Hove Albion manager | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
Gus Poyet admits that several of his players have been playing with | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
injuries recently. The Seagulls suffered a demoralising defeat at | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
south coast rivals Southampton last weekend and Poyet wants his team to | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
respond against Coventry at the Amex. | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
Crawley will be hoping to keep the pressure on League Two leaders | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
Southend with victory at Rotherham. The Reds' 4-1 win over Oxford last | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
weekend took their unbeaten run to 11 games. Tyrone Barnett and Matt | :22:44. | :22:51. | |
Tubbs both now have ten goals for Frank Nouble and Jo Kuffour come | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
back into contention for Gillingham's home clash against | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
Bradford. The strike pair were unavailable for the FA Cup first- | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
round replay as part of their loan agreement. Midfielder Chris | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
Whelpdale may miss out after picking up a chest infection. | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
He may not be old enough to drive a car, but Ben Jelf from Kent has a | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
string of power boating championships to his name, at the | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
age of just 11. He has been driving power boats since he was just eight | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
years old. Now an old hand, he has won both the 2011 World and | :23:19. | :23:26. | |
European Powerboat Championships in the under 16 category. And he is | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
also the world speed record holder. He is the third generation of | :23:29. | :23:39. | |
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powerboat racers in the family. He may still need his father's help. | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
But once 11-year-old Ben Jelf gets on the water, he is very much his | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
own man. His racing has taken him all over the UK and now far beyond. | :23:50. | :23:58. | |
This one, this is my world champion won. And this one up here is the | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
European one. How I have been so successful is my father helping me | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
and the whole of the team. And how I have won it is trying to be the | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
best. Ben is following in the family's footsteps. His grandfather | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
began the tradition and his father and uncle were both world-class | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
powerboat racers, but the signs are that bent maybe the best in the | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
family yet. -- Ben. He has grown up with it, the same as I did. As soon | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
as he was old enough, I bought him his first boat, which was not a | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
very good one, but he took to it very well. He has just gone on and | :24:42. | :24:48. | |
got better and better. You must be very proud? Of course. For him, | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
what he has done this year is fantastic. There is there more he | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
could have won. Not content with winning the British, European and | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
world titles, a couple of years -- weeks ago, he spent a new speed | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
record. I met Gina Campbell while I was there and she was the daughter | :25:06. | :25:13. | |
to might speed idle Donald Campbell. I never did it to him all my racing | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
career and he is just setting new records all the time. | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
remarkable achievements may well be unique. His goal in 2012 is to win | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
the sailor of the year award at the Boat Show, then defend all the | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
titles he won this year. That is all from me this evening | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
but we did promise you weather on ice so let's go back to rock and at | :25:36. | :25:46. | |
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the elite Kaddy in Tunbridge Wells. The how is she getting on? I do not | :25:47. | :25:56. | |
think I should have told the The weather across this weekend. | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
The wind is going to be very strong. On Saturday nights they are going | :26:02. | :26:10. | |
to be gusting up to 45mph or 50mph but the only time it is not windy | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
is this evening and that is where the temperature is dropping very | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
quickly. In the last few hours it has dropped about five degrees so | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
it is getting colder. Could get mist patches, even a tiny hint of | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
frost on the ground, but most places are going to be frost-free | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
and by the end of the night the wind is increasing and the air will | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
get mixed up and temperatures we only get down to 5-7 degrees. So it | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
just a tiny chance of frost. Into tomorrow, it will be a lovely day | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
if you can get out of the wind. The wind starts of at 50mph, by the end | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
of the day it will be 20mph, by tomorrow night, even stronger. But | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
it will be a lovely sunny day with temperatures getting up to even 14 | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
degrees, so it is still mild for the time of year. Into tomorrow | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
night, this is when the wind will peak. This is when I am expecting | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
gusts of even 50mph. Although we get a weak weather front and the | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
end of the night, it will only give us a sprinkle of rain. Other than | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
that, most places will stay dry and leave us with a lovely sunny day | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
for Sunday. So windy for the next few days but plenty of sunshine and | :27:22. | :27:32. | |
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And you did not sit over at all! really like it! That is as before | :27:33. | :27:37. |