:00:02. > :00:06.Welcome to South East Today, I'm Rob Smith.
:00:06. > :00:09.And I'm Polly Evans. Tonight's top stories:
:00:09. > :00:12.A Kent woman died from cancer after her surgeon performed the wrong
:00:12. > :00:16.operation, an inquest hears. We're live with the details from
:00:16. > :00:18.the coroners court in Broadstairs. Caught on CCTV - a brazen robber
:00:18. > :00:28.who strolled into Sussex shops stealing cash at knifepoint is
:00:28. > :00:32.jailed. He made no attempts to hide his identity. Made no attempts to
:00:32. > :00:35.hurry the way he committed the crime. He walked in, had no regard
:00:35. > :00:38.for his victims. Also in tonight's programme:
:00:38. > :00:41."A wonderful young man" - tributes are paid to a teenager knocked down
:00:41. > :00:50.outside his school in Sussex. Over 9,000 dangerous toys impounded
:00:50. > :00:53.at Dover, to be destroyed before they cause misery at Christmas.
:00:53. > :01:03.That is a lovely flower, Piglet. And the all-American quarterback
:01:03. > :01:11.
:01:11. > :01:14.and his �2 million obsession with Good evening.
:01:14. > :01:17.A woman from Kent died from cancer after a surgeon performed the wrong
:01:17. > :01:20.operation on her, a coroner has found today. The family of Jillian
:01:20. > :01:23.Phillips from Whitstable fought for an inquest for five years, after
:01:23. > :01:26.hearing that her surgeon was facing dozens of allegations over his
:01:26. > :01:28.fitness to practice. They did so after hearing the
:01:28. > :01:31.doctor concerned was already facing dozens of allegations over his
:01:31. > :01:37.fitness to practise. Today, the coroner said there had been a
:01:37. > :01:40.series of failures leading to her death, which amounted to neglect.
:01:40. > :01:43.For the first time today, the family of Jillian Phillips had
:01:43. > :01:47.confirmation of what they long believed, that the surgery that she
:01:47. > :01:54.received at the end -- hands of David Jackson Oldman they led to
:01:54. > :01:58.her death. He carried out an operation that was irrelevant to
:01:58. > :02:01.the bowel cancer that she had and it added insult to injury. He
:02:01. > :02:07.carried out an operation she didn't need and it would never suit their
:02:07. > :02:12.purpose. David Jackson was supposed to carry out a major operation to
:02:12. > :02:18.remove a pre-cancerous polyp from Mrs Phillips's intestine, along
:02:18. > :02:22.with tissue around it. Instead, he removed only a tiny amount of
:02:22. > :02:27.tissue and the cancer developed. Neither the surgeon or anyone at a
:02:27. > :02:32.hospital told Mrs Burt or her family or what had happened. Her
:02:32. > :02:37.condition declined -- Mrs Phillips. Two years later, she died during an
:02:37. > :02:40.operation. A what we heard during the inquest, some of which the
:02:40. > :02:43.family had known, is that there were a string of failures, so many
:02:43. > :02:47.missed opportunities when Jillian Phillips actually had very good
:02:47. > :02:51.prospects of survival, and that is very hard for the family to deal
:02:51. > :02:55.with. A hospital trust has apologised to the family but they
:02:55. > :02:59.have heard nothing for -- from the surgeon. Suspended from practice,
:02:59. > :03:03.David Jackson current the runs a wedding venue practice from his
:03:03. > :03:09.home in Canterbury. He didn't set up to the inquest. The General
:03:09. > :03:13.Medical Council is investigating 25 allegations against him. Today, the
:03:13. > :03:17.inquest heard that with correct surgery, Mrs Phillips would
:03:17. > :03:24.probably have been cured completely. I just thought what might have
:03:24. > :03:29.happened, of what might have been. She has gone. But that she might
:03:29. > :03:32.have survived? Yes, she might have survived. Strong possibility that
:03:32. > :03:37.she would have survived and she would be alive today. Mrs Phillips
:03:37. > :03:40.died because she had the wrong operation, followed by a series of
:03:40. > :03:46.failures by those are supposed to be caring for her.
:03:46. > :03:49.Sara Smith reporting, and she joins us live from Broadstairs. What
:03:49. > :03:53.happens next to the surgeon David Jackson?
:03:53. > :03:58.He hasn't worked for the trust for around three years and he has been
:03:58. > :04:01.suspended from practising at all, while the GMC investigation
:04:01. > :04:05.continues. One surprising thing that happened at the inquest today,
:04:05. > :04:10.the pathologist who carried out the post-mortem apologised personally
:04:10. > :04:14.to the family. He said that when he gave the cause of death has been
:04:14. > :04:17.natural causes, he now thinks he was wrong and has looked at the
:04:17. > :04:20.reports by experts in the cancer and he says what he should have
:04:20. > :04:24.given as the cause of death, and what he now believes is what it was,
:04:24. > :04:31.was because Mrs Phillips did not receive the operation which would
:04:31. > :04:34.have saved a life. -- her life of.
:04:34. > :04:36.An armed man who brazenly robbed a string of newsagents in Sussex has
:04:36. > :04:38.been jailed for three and a half years.
:04:38. > :04:41.Chris Moodey was captured on CCTV threatening shopkeepers at
:04:41. > :04:45.knifepoint, before stealing cash from the till. Katherine Downes has
:04:45. > :04:49.the details. Casual and unhurried, Chris Moodey
:04:50. > :04:58.acts like just another regular customer, even waiting patiently to
:04:58. > :05:02.hand over his money. But once the tale is open, he strikes. He robbed
:05:02. > :05:08.three other shops in Brighton in a similar fashion this summer. On two
:05:08. > :05:11.occasions, he threatened shops that with a knife. Here, he directs the
:05:11. > :05:16.blade at the shopkeeper while calmly filling his bag. He leaves
:05:16. > :05:21.as though nothing has happened. Perhaps he was bowled, unashamed of
:05:21. > :05:24.the way he committed the crimes. He made no attempts to hide his
:05:24. > :05:29.identity, no attempts to hurry the way he committed the crime. He
:05:29. > :05:34.bought in, had no regard for his victims, took his time and walked
:05:34. > :05:38.out without any fear of being convicted -- he walked in. Because
:05:38. > :05:42.of CCTV, we got to be the end. accomplice, Rachel soirees, seen
:05:42. > :05:48.here helping herself to the contents of a tale, has been given
:05:48. > :05:51.a six-month suspended sentence. Chris Moodey was sentenced to three
:05:51. > :05:53.and a half years, what the police say is a justifiable sentence for
:05:53. > :05:57.one of the county's most brazen thieves.
:05:57. > :06:07.In a moment: The scientists hoping to prevent
:06:07. > :06:09.
:06:09. > :06:12.the spread of HIV with genetically Staff have paid tribute to a
:06:12. > :06:15."wonderful young man, who spread joy and delight to all who knew
:06:15. > :06:18.him", after a pupil was hit by a Land Rover near his Sussex school.
:06:18. > :06:21.13-year-old William Avery-Wrightt was knocked down as he crossed the
:06:21. > :06:23.road outside Worth School in Crawley. A man's been arrested on
:06:23. > :06:30.suspicion of causing death by careless driving. Simon Jones
:06:30. > :06:34.reports. Flowers at the School to mark the
:06:34. > :06:40.life of a boy described by his teachers as full of energy and fun,
:06:40. > :06:44.someone who spread joy. A keen golfer, those who knew William are
:06:44. > :06:49.shocked at a life cut short. real losses of a young man cut off
:06:49. > :06:53.before he has even had chance to fulfil his life, and a huge loss to
:06:53. > :07:00.his parents. That is my overwhelming Phillip -- feeling
:07:00. > :07:05.today. How will you remember him? lot of fun, a lot of good banter
:07:05. > :07:09.that we had. He was knocked down crossing this road, which leads
:07:10. > :07:14.from the school to the sports pitches. William was taken to East
:07:14. > :07:18.Surrey Hospital, where he died. Here at the school, they have held
:07:18. > :07:24.a special service to mark his life. They are also offering support for
:07:24. > :07:28.the pupils and the boy's family. The members of this club will miss
:07:28. > :07:33.him terribly, because it was a valued member. He took part in most
:07:33. > :07:40.things. -- he was. Only this morning, three guys have been in
:07:40. > :07:45.with youngsters and they are devastated by the news.
:07:45. > :07:47.William's Head Teachers says he should death -- his death has
:07:47. > :07:52.shocked the entire community and they are deeply saddened by the
:07:52. > :07:55.tragic event. Police are appealing for witnesses, particularly a
:07:55. > :08:00.motorcyclists seen travelling behind the Land Rover. A 62-year-
:08:00. > :08:05.old man from Haywards Heath was arrested on suspicion of causing
:08:05. > :08:07.death by dangerous driving and has been released on bail until January.
:08:07. > :08:11.Motorists caught drink-driving in Kent this Christmas could lose
:08:11. > :08:15.their licence within 90 minutes. Kent Police launched their annual
:08:15. > :08:19.drink-drive campaign today. Officers say drivers found to be
:08:19. > :08:22.over the limit could be tried via a video link. If found guilty, the
:08:23. > :08:25.magistrate could take away their driving licence immediately.
:08:25. > :08:27.South East Water has applied for a drought order to help refill
:08:27. > :08:32.Ardingly Reservoir, following several months of unusually dry
:08:32. > :08:35.weather. And Thames Water customers have been told to conserve supplies,
:08:35. > :08:41.after the company was forced to use an underground reserve for the
:08:41. > :08:44.first time since 2006. Trading standards officers in Kent
:08:44. > :08:50.are preparing to destroy 9,500 dangerous toys seized at the Port
:08:50. > :08:54.of Dover. It's thought the poorly- made items were destined for sale
:08:54. > :08:58.on the black market as Christmas presents.
:08:58. > :09:03.Chrissie Reidy joins us live from Dover now. How significant is this
:09:03. > :09:08.seizure? Put it this way, this is the
:09:08. > :09:13.biggest dangerous toys and seizure made by Trading Standards at Dover,
:09:13. > :09:17.rather in Kent, in the past five years. Marquise von Trading
:09:17. > :09:21.Standards and due described this as a tragedy waiting to happen -- Mark
:09:21. > :09:25.is from. It is a lorry load of danger waiting to hit the streets
:09:25. > :09:30.of Kent and the south-east. We have come inside for a better luck. This
:09:30. > :09:34.looks very cuddly, what is your concern? As you say, it is a cute
:09:34. > :09:38.toy but it is stuffed with used rags, and I don't want to think
:09:38. > :09:43.about what they have been used for. It has also got electric Senate,
:09:43. > :09:48.accessible to the children if they take the batteries out -- Electric
:09:48. > :09:53.has been it. It is not legal. this wire was found in the back of
:09:53. > :09:56.a doll. What is your concern? is a cycle helmet that was being
:09:56. > :10:01.imported, but it has got no strength at all, it is complete
:10:01. > :10:09.rubbish, as you can see? We know it came from China, at you know where
:10:09. > :10:13.it was destined for? A -- you know. The kind of warehouses where people
:10:13. > :10:17.have -- with small businesses can buy a stock from. You think that
:10:18. > :10:22.when people buy this they know it is dodgy? I don't know if they know
:10:22. > :10:26.it is dangerous but I suspect they know it will be cheap. The messages
:10:26. > :10:30.cheap does not necessarily mean good, you can get good quality
:10:30. > :10:33.stuff for a good price -- of the message is. This will not be going
:10:33. > :10:35.into homes across the south-east, it will all be destroyed.
:10:35. > :10:37.Britain's only Green-led local authority has announced
:10:37. > :10:42.controversial budget plans today, that include significant council
:10:42. > :10:48.tax rises. The Green Party's budget for Brighton and Hove would see
:10:48. > :10:54.council tax rise by 3.5% both this year and next. But the party plans
:10:54. > :10:58.to cut almost �35 million pounds from its general budget by 2014.
:10:58. > :11:04.It says 120 jobs are due to go in the next year, but it's promising
:11:04. > :11:08.to try to avoid compulsory redundancies.
:11:08. > :11:15.Local people say the council tax rise will hit them hard. In his day
:11:15. > :11:21.and age, we can't afford it all the time. It is ridiculous. There is a
:11:21. > :11:26.lot of wasted a lot of departments and I think they should find other
:11:26. > :11:29.ways of raising money -- of waste in a lot of department.
:11:29. > :11:33.councillors cutting a lot of money that goes into services that people
:11:33. > :11:37.actually need and I tend to believe the council is quite good and if
:11:37. > :11:42.they need to increase it in order to provide the services, then that
:11:42. > :11:45.is probably what they need to do. So what's the background to the
:11:45. > :11:47.budget proposals? Brighton's Green administration say they have to
:11:47. > :11:51.deal with a predicted cut in Government funding of almost 10%,
:11:51. > :11:54.which equates to the loss of �10.5 million pounds. But it's turning
:11:54. > :11:57.down a �3 million Government grant being offered to local authorities
:11:57. > :12:06.that agree to freeze council tax, arguing that instead it can raise
:12:06. > :12:10.�4million with the council tax rise. Opposition councillors say they are
:12:11. > :12:16.making a big mistake. Government are offering 3.1 �4
:12:16. > :12:20.million and they are proposing to turn it away -- �3.1 million. They
:12:20. > :12:25.are saying no thank you, and they are going to ask the taxpayers to
:12:25. > :12:29.pay an extra 3.5% because they want to tear this money down. This is
:12:29. > :12:34.wrong, particularly at this time. Let's cross live to Brighton to
:12:34. > :12:38.speak to Bill Randall, the leader of Brighton and Hove City Council.
:12:38. > :12:43.How can you ask families to pay more in council tax at a time when
:12:43. > :12:48.it's getting harder and harder to make ends meet? Well, we have been
:12:48. > :12:54.asked to absorb cuts from the Government of almost �35 million
:12:54. > :12:57.over the rest of this council. We needed to meet the needs of those
:12:57. > :13:02.with the greatest need in the City, the vulnerable, the old, young
:13:02. > :13:06.people, people in care, homeless people, we have had a future rise
:13:06. > :13:11.in homelessness, and to do that in the face of those cuts, we need to
:13:11. > :13:18.raise the council tax. Government are offering you �3
:13:18. > :13:21.million above why look a gift horse in the mouth and take that money?
:13:21. > :13:24.For one year only, so if we take it this year, we start from a lower
:13:24. > :13:29.base next year and would have to break even higher raises in council
:13:29. > :13:33.tax or cut even more jobs to meet the demands. There is no
:13:33. > :13:38.sustainable future in it. You say you want to protect the most full
:13:38. > :13:45.bore residents. Raising council tax hits low-of middle income families
:13:45. > :13:50.hard, family is that cannot afford this -- families that cannot afford
:13:50. > :13:57.this. You are always Lamdassem in the Government for their lack of
:13:57. > :14:00.fairness. The average increase in the City is 57p per week, those at
:14:00. > :14:07.the top will pay more, those at the bottom will pay less for start
:14:07. > :14:13.those right at the bottom, but those just above that will do.
:14:13. > :14:17.of those right at the bottom. 57p per week on average and it will
:14:17. > :14:23.be put to good use. Do you think the people who voted UN would have
:14:23. > :14:27.voted for this? I do, actually, yes. So er if you held a referendum, you
:14:27. > :14:31.would be confident people would support this? I really do think
:14:31. > :14:34.they would. What we are doing is keeping the pledges from the
:14:34. > :14:39.manifesto and the first of those was to help, as far as we possibly
:14:39. > :14:44.could, but vulnerable people in the City. You didn't say you were going
:14:44. > :14:48.to raise council tax. We didn't but we think it is justified. Thank you.
:14:48. > :14:51.The Greens hope their plans will be passed in February. But with their
:14:51. > :14:54.23 councillors opposed by 13 Labour members and 18 Tories, there's no
:14:54. > :15:02.guarantee they'll be able to force their budget proposals through
:15:03. > :15:04.without changes. It is nearly 6:45pm. Our top story
:15:05. > :15:07.tonight: A mother from Whitstable died from
:15:07. > :15:10.cancer after a surgeon at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital performed
:15:10. > :15:13.the wrong operation on her, a coroner has found today. The family
:15:13. > :15:16.of Jillian Phillips fought for five years for an inquest, after hearing
:15:16. > :15:18.the doctor was facing dozens of allegations over his fitness to
:15:18. > :15:21.practice. Also in tonight's programme:
:15:21. > :15:27.The pensioner looking for the lovely woman he met on the bus -
:15:27. > :15:33.hampered only by the fact he doesn't actually know her name.
:15:33. > :15:37.How very thoughtful you are, PDA to. Could grieve, tie them together,
:15:37. > :15:39.Piglet. Can you tie at not -- could Greek.
:15:40. > :15:47.And the strange case of the Cincinnati Bengal obsessed with the
:15:47. > :15:49.Ashdown Bear. How an all-American football star fell in love with
:15:50. > :15:52.Winnie the Pooh. Scientists in Kent are working on a
:15:52. > :15:56.special project using tobacco plants to make a cream that could
:15:56. > :15:59.help prevent HIV infection, by forming a barrier to the virus.
:15:59. > :16:02.Experts at East Malling Research say using the plants will mean
:16:02. > :16:06.reduced costs for the drug, making it more affordable for developing
:16:06. > :16:10.countries. A total of 34 million people world-
:16:10. > :16:15.wide suffer from HIV, including more than 90,000 here in the UK.
:16:15. > :16:23.Around 25% of them are believed to be undiagnosed. Yvette Austin has
:16:23. > :16:27.our special report to mark World Aids Day.
:16:27. > :16:32.This is a highly scientific Green House, the light, temperature and
:16:32. > :16:36.carbon dioxide levels are precisely controlled to maximise planned
:16:36. > :16:40.performance. And it is a sealed unit. These tobacco plants are
:16:40. > :16:45.genetically modified to produce a drug to help prevent the spread of
:16:45. > :16:50.HIV. A key gene was originally founded a bacterium and now it is
:16:50. > :16:57.being put into the plans for production. That is the infection
:16:57. > :17:03.process, and eventually what will happen is they will develop into
:17:03. > :17:07.Schuettler it's, like we have here, and we will move it -- the little
:17:07. > :17:12.sheet. It will eventually generate a whole plant that has been
:17:12. > :17:15.genetically modified. The drug is called a protein at this stage and
:17:15. > :17:20.the plant they excrete sit through its roots. We now that the protein
:17:21. > :17:24.drug is being processed through the plant -- we know. What they tried
:17:24. > :17:29.to do is maximise the root production so we can get the
:17:29. > :17:33.protein out of the roots. We can do that by collecting the nutrients
:17:33. > :17:38.that pass over the plant roots. You can see here the about of routes
:17:38. > :17:46.that these plants are generating and a protein will be exuded from
:17:46. > :17:49.them -- the event of roads. It will be collected at the end, when we'll
:17:49. > :17:54.get the drug illegally experiment. Upper the solution has to be
:17:54. > :17:59.purified, and what is left is the drug. That can be added to other
:17:59. > :18:04.ingredients to make a cream, which is hoped it will form a barrier to
:18:04. > :18:08.infection. In normal case of infection, the Aids virus will
:18:08. > :18:13.penetrate through the skin and attack at target cell. But if this
:18:13. > :18:18.drug is used, the idea is that it coats the Aids virus and so when it
:18:18. > :18:23.tries to attack the target cell, it simply can't make the connection
:18:23. > :18:27.have the infection is prevented. It is a straightforward method and
:18:27. > :18:33.compared to conventional drug manufacturing, far cheaper. Having
:18:33. > :18:38.been genetically modified, these plants contain a powerful anti- HIV
:18:38. > :18:42.drug and the whole process is self- sustaining, because each plant
:18:42. > :18:46.would generate around 1,000 seats which will form the basis of the
:18:46. > :18:51.next production line. If the project is successful, we will end
:18:51. > :18:57.up with a manufacturing process for drugs against HIV under very cheap
:18:57. > :19:00.and simple scale. By real hope is that when it does work, we will be
:19:00. > :19:04.able to transfer this technology to developing countries, where there
:19:04. > :19:08.is a lot of expertise in growing plants that we will have a simple
:19:08. > :19:13.process for extracting that he refined the final drug. There is
:19:13. > :19:23.still a lot of work to do, but human trials could be just three
:19:23. > :19:25.
:19:25. > :19:28.It's a modern-day Brief Encounter - this time set on a bus in
:19:28. > :19:33.Canterbury. The leading man? 81- year-old widower Bill Houghton. The
:19:33. > :19:36.leading lady? Unknown. They met. They hit it off. They
:19:36. > :19:39.went their separate ways. So how, wondered Bill, could he follow it
:19:39. > :19:45.up and see her again, when he didn't even know her name? Nick
:19:45. > :19:50.Miles has been to meet him. It was the start of what would
:19:50. > :19:58.become a very emotional journey. Legs tired from a day out, Bill
:19:58. > :20:07.looked around for a seat. A polite nod, a quick smile and down he sat.
:20:07. > :20:11.This lady was sat on the bus. I sat next to her. We got talking. She
:20:11. > :20:14.was a very beautiful woman, a good- looking lady. I think there was an
:20:14. > :20:18.attraction for both of us. I was attracted to her and she was
:20:18. > :20:28.attracted to recover I got that feeling. She had a similar smile to
:20:28. > :20:30.
:20:30. > :20:35.my wife. A dead thing she wants me to be on my own. She turned around
:20:35. > :20:40.at just before she left -- I don't think. And she gave me a smile and
:20:40. > :20:45.that is what made me think I have got to find that this woman. This
:20:45. > :20:51.is how he went about it, putting an advert in the local paper, ending
:20:51. > :20:56.it with "wanting to see you". He got no response, so he put in
:20:56. > :21:03.several others. Finally, the last one called for a meeting at 7:30pm
:21:03. > :21:08.at the Marlowe Theatre. He waited. And he waited. And he waited. But
:21:08. > :21:13.she was a no-show. I was just hoping she would turn up. So the
:21:13. > :21:18.tactic failed this time, but... think it is really lovely. I would
:21:18. > :21:22.definitely answer the advert. think I would just keep catching
:21:22. > :21:30.the bus to see if I met her again. I think it is lovely and really
:21:30. > :21:33.romantic and this week. I could manage, I get through life. But it
:21:33. > :21:36.would be nice to have somebody lovely like her.
:21:36. > :21:40.That was Bill Houghton, from Westgate, speaking to our reporter
:21:40. > :21:43.Nick Miles. Let's hope he finds her, if she
:21:43. > :21:48.wants to be found. He won fame as the first Harvard
:21:48. > :21:51.graduate ever to play in the Superbowl. But former Cincinnati
:21:51. > :21:59.Bengals star Pat McInally wasn't only obsessed with offence and
:21:59. > :22:03.defence and touchdowns and yardage. I am totally across that. He also
:22:03. > :22:06.had a thing about Kanga and Piglet and Rabbit - and Pooh. It may be a
:22:06. > :22:09.long way from the States to the Ashdown Forest, but it didn't stop
:22:09. > :22:15.him from building a huge collection of memorabilia - which is now up
:22:15. > :22:22.for auction. Lynda Hardy reports. How we are very thought for you are,
:22:22. > :22:32.Piglet. Good grief, tie them together, Piglet. Can you tie a
:22:32. > :22:32.
:22:32. > :22:38.knot? I cannot. Who is there? Unmistakably Pooh and his friends.
:22:38. > :22:43.Now Beek -- meet one of their biggest fans, not least because Pat
:22:43. > :22:47.McInally is 6 ft 7. He has been Abass ing a collection of a AA
:22:47. > :22:51.Milne item since he made his first many as an American football star.
:22:51. > :22:55.I went to a school that was across the street from Disneyland and we
:22:55. > :22:58.would go almost every day, the glorious days of innocence and I
:22:58. > :23:03.would spend hours in the theatre on a main street, where they showed
:23:03. > :23:07.Winnie the Pooh and the blustery day, and I fell in love with it.
:23:07. > :23:12.much so that he collected nearly 100 items of Pooh memorabilia,
:23:12. > :23:16.almost all of which is now up for auction, including the author's
:23:16. > :23:22.writing from his Sussex home at photos of his son, the original
:23:22. > :23:27.Christopher Robin, at his Pooh Bear, alongside his grandfather, who ran
:23:27. > :23:32.a school amp -- it Westgate on Sea. We believe there has never been a
:23:32. > :23:36.single collection of this quality assembled. Pieces do show up of the
:23:36. > :23:42.various things, but these are the collections. The books are the
:23:42. > :23:45.finest collection -- edition and it is original artwork. All this might
:23:45. > :23:48.never have been if it had not be the Ashdown Forest setting the
:23:48. > :23:57.scene for young Christopher Robin, seen here with his friends, whose
:23:57. > :24:01.antics with his bare inspired his father to write the stories. It
:24:01. > :24:10.should appeal to a wide range of Winnie the Pooh fans, from this
:24:10. > :24:15.�2,000 book from the author to his son got that and this Vespers
:24:15. > :24:19.priced at �75. Pat says he is happy that his collection will be spread
:24:19. > :24:26.amongst the next generation of Pooh fans, keeping the story that
:24:26. > :24:32.started in Sussex alive. Well, it is no surprise, he is a
:24:32. > :24:36.marvellous bear. 6 ft 7, he is a big chap. It has
:24:36. > :24:40.been a very wet drought today, that is fair to say?
:24:40. > :24:43.It has. Actually pretty mild for the time of the year. The rain
:24:43. > :24:49.cleared for a time but it is back as we move through tonight but will
:24:49. > :24:52.clear reggae through the Ali hours clear reggae through the Ali hours
:24:52. > :24:56.of the morning. -- clear again. Tomorrow has a cold start, it will
:24:56. > :25:00.change very little with some good sunshine as well. Today was a wet
:25:00. > :25:03.start, the rain clearing away for a time but the weather front pushed
:25:03. > :25:08.back northwards as we move through the afternoon with some heavier
:25:08. > :25:13.pulses. You can see the widely spaced isobars, the westerly wind
:25:13. > :25:20.is very light, between five-10 mph, had temperatures still several
:25:20. > :25:24.degrees above average for the time of year. We would probably be
:25:24. > :25:28.seeing it much lower this time of the year. As we move into tonight,
:25:28. > :25:34.the rate will stay for us all, up to any inch of rain fall expected -
:25:34. > :25:38.- the rate will stay. It will clear in the early hours of the morning,
:25:38. > :25:44.still quite a lot of cloud around, temperatures around three degrees
:25:44. > :25:47.with a touch of ground frost as we move into tomorrow. The cloud cover
:25:47. > :25:52.is a round that it will clear, more the way of brightness, those
:25:52. > :25:56.isobars indicating how like the wind will be staying. A cloudy and
:25:56. > :26:00.cold start to the day, as we move through into the attitudes of good
:26:00. > :26:04.spells of sunshine. What will be noticeable, the temperatures,
:26:04. > :26:08.significantly cooler than today, ranging between six and nine
:26:08. > :26:12.degrees, so single figures. The dry weather will not last for long.
:26:12. > :26:17.Tomorrow night, we are seeing further rain spreading eastwards,
:26:17. > :26:22.it will be heavy for us all. The wind will pick up again to around
:26:22. > :26:26.30 mph, gale-force gusts, particularly along the south coast.
:26:26. > :26:30.Temperatures a bit milder than tonight, between 5 and eight
:26:30. > :26:35.degrees. The rate will stay with us as we move towards the weekend, I'm
:26:35. > :26:40.afraid -- the rain. Temperatures recovering, around 11 or 12. It
:26:40. > :26:45.will clear for at time as we move into Saturday afternoon, but as we
:26:45. > :26:49.move to the latter part of the week, the rain will be back again, with a
:26:49. > :26:54.win the picture. Temperature still mild for the time of the year, 11
:26:54. > :26:56.or 12, and by the time we get a bad day, it is said to be cold and
:26:56. > :27:03.day, it is said to be cold and bright again -- get a mandate.
:27:03. > :27:04.There is nothing like the bed should of re in! -- the mention of
:27:05. > :27:08.rain. Let's recap tonight's top stories.
:27:08. > :27:10.The Governor of the Bank of England has warned high street banks that
:27:10. > :27:17.they're heading into another financial storm, and urged them to
:27:17. > :27:20.take precautions. The mother from Whitstable died
:27:20. > :27:23.after a surgeon performed the wrong operation on her, a coroner heard
:27:23. > :27:26.today. And an armed man who robbed a
:27:26. > :27:28.string of newsagents in Sussex has been jailed for three and a half
:27:28. > :27:30.years. Chris Moodey was captured on CCTV threatening shopkeepers at
:27:30. > :27:33.knifepoint, before stealing cash from the till.
:27:33. > :27:35.That is it from us for now. I will be back with the 8pm and the