01/12/2011 South East Today


01/12/2011

Similar Content

Browse content similar to 01/12/2011. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!

Transcript


LineFromTo

Welcome to South East Today, I'm Rob Smith.

:00:02.:00:06.

And I'm Polly Evans. Tonight's top stories:

:00:06.:00:09.

A Kent woman died from cancer after her surgeon performed the wrong

:00:09.:00:12.

operation, an inquest hears. We're live with the details from

:00:12.:00:16.

the coroners court in Broadstairs. Caught on CCTV - a brazen robber

:00:16.:00:18.

who strolled into Sussex shops stealing cash at knifepoint is

:00:18.:00:28.

jailed. He made no attempts to hide his identity. Made no attempts to

:00:28.:00:32.

hurry the way he committed the crime. He walked in, had no regard

:00:32.:00:35.

for his victims. Also in tonight's programme:

:00:35.:00:38.

"A wonderful young man" - tributes are paid to a teenager knocked down

:00:38.:00:41.

outside his school in Sussex. Over 9,000 dangerous toys impounded

:00:41.:00:50.

at Dover, to be destroyed before they cause misery at Christmas.

:00:50.:00:53.

That is a lovely flower, Piglet. And the all-American quarterback

:00:53.:01:03.
:01:03.:01:11.

and his �2 million obsession with Good evening.

:01:11.:01:14.

A woman from Kent died from cancer after a surgeon performed the wrong

:01:14.:01:17.

operation on her, a coroner has found today. The family of Jillian

:01:17.:01:20.

Phillips from Whitstable fought for an inquest for five years, after

:01:20.:01:23.

hearing that her surgeon was facing dozens of allegations over his

:01:23.:01:26.

fitness to practice. They did so after hearing the

:01:26.:01:28.

doctor concerned was already facing dozens of allegations over his

:01:28.:01:31.

fitness to practise. Today, the coroner said there had been a

:01:31.:01:37.

series of failures leading to her death, which amounted to neglect.

:01:37.:01:40.

For the first time today, the family of Jillian Phillips had

:01:40.:01:43.

confirmation of what they long believed, that the surgery that she

:01:43.:01:47.

received at the end -- hands of David Jackson Oldman they led to

:01:47.:01:54.

her death. He carried out an operation that was irrelevant to

:01:54.:01:58.

the bowel cancer that she had and it added insult to injury. He

:01:58.:02:01.

carried out an operation she didn't need and it would never suit their

:02:01.:02:07.

purpose. David Jackson was supposed to carry out a major operation to

:02:07.:02:12.

remove a pre-cancerous polyp from Mrs Phillips's intestine, along

:02:12.:02:18.

with tissue around it. Instead, he removed only a tiny amount of

:02:18.:02:22.

tissue and the cancer developed. Neither the surgeon or anyone at a

:02:22.:02:27.

hospital told Mrs Burt or her family or what had happened. Her

:02:27.:02:32.

condition declined -- Mrs Phillips. Two years later, she died during an

:02:32.:02:37.

operation. A what we heard during the inquest, some of which the

:02:37.:02:40.

family had known, is that there were a string of failures, so many

:02:40.:02:43.

missed opportunities when Jillian Phillips actually had very good

:02:43.:02:47.

prospects of survival, and that is very hard for the family to deal

:02:47.:02:51.

with. A hospital trust has apologised to the family but they

:02:51.:02:55.

have heard nothing for -- from the surgeon. Suspended from practice,

:02:55.:02:59.

David Jackson current the runs a wedding venue practice from his

:02:59.:03:03.

home in Canterbury. He didn't set up to the inquest. The General

:03:03.:03:09.

Medical Council is investigating 25 allegations against him. Today, the

:03:09.:03:13.

inquest heard that with correct surgery, Mrs Phillips would

:03:13.:03:17.

probably have been cured completely. I just thought what might have

:03:17.:03:24.

happened, of what might have been. She has gone. But that she might

:03:24.:03:29.

have survived? Yes, she might have survived. Strong possibility that

:03:29.:03:32.

she would have survived and she would be alive today. Mrs Phillips

:03:32.:03:37.

died because she had the wrong operation, followed by a series of

:03:37.:03:40.

failures by those are supposed to be caring for her.

:03:40.:03:46.

Sara Smith reporting, and she joins us live from Broadstairs. What

:03:46.:03:49.

happens next to the surgeon David Jackson?

:03:49.:03:53.

He hasn't worked for the trust for around three years and he has been

:03:53.:03:58.

suspended from practising at all, while the GMC investigation

:03:58.:04:01.

continues. One surprising thing that happened at the inquest today,

:04:01.:04:05.

the pathologist who carried out the post-mortem apologised personally

:04:05.:04:10.

to the family. He said that when he gave the cause of death has been

:04:10.:04:14.

natural causes, he now thinks he was wrong and has looked at the

:04:14.:04:17.

reports by experts in the cancer and he says what he should have

:04:17.:04:20.

given as the cause of death, and what he now believes is what it was,

:04:20.:04:24.

was because Mrs Phillips did not receive the operation which would

:04:24.:04:31.

have saved a life. -- her life of.

:04:31.:04:34.

An armed man who brazenly robbed a string of newsagents in Sussex has

:04:34.:04:36.

been jailed for three and a half years.

:04:36.:04:38.

Chris Moodey was captured on CCTV threatening shopkeepers at

:04:38.:04:41.

knifepoint, before stealing cash from the till. Katherine Downes has

:04:41.:04:45.

the details. Casual and unhurried, Chris Moodey

:04:45.:04:49.

acts like just another regular customer, even waiting patiently to

:04:50.:04:58.

hand over his money. But once the tale is open, he strikes. He robbed

:04:58.:05:02.

three other shops in Brighton in a similar fashion this summer. On two

:05:02.:05:08.

occasions, he threatened shops that with a knife. Here, he directs the

:05:08.:05:11.

blade at the shopkeeper while calmly filling his bag. He leaves

:05:11.:05:16.

as though nothing has happened. Perhaps he was bowled, unashamed of

:05:16.:05:21.

the way he committed the crimes. He made no attempts to hide his

:05:21.:05:24.

identity, no attempts to hurry the way he committed the crime. He

:05:24.:05:29.

bought in, had no regard for his victims, took his time and walked

:05:29.:05:34.

out without any fear of being convicted -- he walked in. Because

:05:34.:05:38.

of CCTV, we got to be the end. accomplice, Rachel soirees, seen

:05:38.:05:42.

here helping herself to the contents of a tale, has been given

:05:42.:05:48.

a six-month suspended sentence. Chris Moodey was sentenced to three

:05:48.:05:51.

and a half years, what the police say is a justifiable sentence for

:05:51.:05:53.

one of the county's most brazen thieves.

:05:53.:05:57.

In a moment: The scientists hoping to prevent

:05:57.:06:07.
:06:07.:06:09.

the spread of HIV with genetically Staff have paid tribute to a

:06:09.:06:12.

"wonderful young man, who spread joy and delight to all who knew

:06:12.:06:15.

him", after a pupil was hit by a Land Rover near his Sussex school.

:06:15.:06:18.

13-year-old William Avery-Wrightt was knocked down as he crossed the

:06:18.:06:21.

road outside Worth School in Crawley. A man's been arrested on

:06:21.:06:23.

suspicion of causing death by careless driving. Simon Jones

:06:23.:06:30.

reports. Flowers at the School to mark the

:06:30.:06:34.

life of a boy described by his teachers as full of energy and fun,

:06:34.:06:40.

someone who spread joy. A keen golfer, those who knew William are

:06:40.:06:44.

shocked at a life cut short. real losses of a young man cut off

:06:44.:06:49.

before he has even had chance to fulfil his life, and a huge loss to

:06:49.:06:53.

his parents. That is my overwhelming Phillip -- feeling

:06:53.:07:00.

today. How will you remember him? lot of fun, a lot of good banter

:07:00.:07:05.

that we had. He was knocked down crossing this road, which leads

:07:05.:07:09.

from the school to the sports pitches. William was taken to East

:07:10.:07:14.

Surrey Hospital, where he died. Here at the school, they have held

:07:14.:07:18.

a special service to mark his life. They are also offering support for

:07:18.:07:24.

the pupils and the boy's family. The members of this club will miss

:07:24.:07:28.

him terribly, because it was a valued member. He took part in most

:07:28.:07:33.

things. -- he was. Only this morning, three guys have been in

:07:33.:07:40.

with youngsters and they are devastated by the news.

:07:40.:07:45.

William's Head Teachers says he should death -- his death has

:07:45.:07:47.

shocked the entire community and they are deeply saddened by the

:07:47.:07:52.

tragic event. Police are appealing for witnesses, particularly a

:07:52.:07:55.

motorcyclists seen travelling behind the Land Rover. A 62-year-

:07:55.:08:00.

old man from Haywards Heath was arrested on suspicion of causing

:08:00.:08:05.

death by dangerous driving and has been released on bail until January.

:08:05.:08:07.

Motorists caught drink-driving in Kent this Christmas could lose

:08:07.:08:11.

their licence within 90 minutes. Kent Police launched their annual

:08:11.:08:15.

drink-drive campaign today. Officers say drivers found to be

:08:15.:08:19.

over the limit could be tried via a video link. If found guilty, the

:08:19.:08:22.

magistrate could take away their driving licence immediately.

:08:23.:08:25.

South East Water has applied for a drought order to help refill

:08:25.:08:27.

Ardingly Reservoir, following several months of unusually dry

:08:27.:08:32.

weather. And Thames Water customers have been told to conserve supplies,

:08:32.:08:35.

after the company was forced to use an underground reserve for the

:08:35.:08:41.

first time since 2006. Trading standards officers in Kent

:08:41.:08:44.

are preparing to destroy 9,500 dangerous toys seized at the Port

:08:44.:08:50.

of Dover. It's thought the poorly- made items were destined for sale

:08:50.:08:54.

on the black market as Christmas presents.

:08:54.:08:58.

Chrissie Reidy joins us live from Dover now. How significant is this

:08:58.:09:03.

seizure? Put it this way, this is the

:09:03.:09:08.

biggest dangerous toys and seizure made by Trading Standards at Dover,

:09:08.:09:13.

rather in Kent, in the past five years. Marquise von Trading

:09:13.:09:17.

Standards and due described this as a tragedy waiting to happen -- Mark

:09:17.:09:21.

is from. It is a lorry load of danger waiting to hit the streets

:09:21.:09:25.

of Kent and the south-east. We have come inside for a better luck. This

:09:25.:09:30.

looks very cuddly, what is your concern? As you say, it is a cute

:09:30.:09:34.

toy but it is stuffed with used rags, and I don't want to think

:09:34.:09:38.

about what they have been used for. It has also got electric Senate,

:09:38.:09:43.

accessible to the children if they take the batteries out -- Electric

:09:43.:09:48.

has been it. It is not legal. this wire was found in the back of

:09:48.:09:53.

a doll. What is your concern? is a cycle helmet that was being

:09:53.:09:56.

imported, but it has got no strength at all, it is complete

:09:56.:10:01.

rubbish, as you can see? We know it came from China, at you know where

:10:01.:10:09.

it was destined for? A -- you know. The kind of warehouses where people

:10:09.:10:13.

have -- with small businesses can buy a stock from. You think that

:10:13.:10:17.

when people buy this they know it is dodgy? I don't know if they know

:10:18.:10:22.

it is dangerous but I suspect they know it will be cheap. The messages

:10:22.:10:26.

cheap does not necessarily mean good, you can get good quality

:10:26.:10:30.

stuff for a good price -- of the message is. This will not be going

:10:30.:10:33.

into homes across the south-east, it will all be destroyed.

:10:33.:10:35.

Britain's only Green-led local authority has announced

:10:35.:10:37.

controversial budget plans today, that include significant council

:10:37.:10:42.

tax rises. The Green Party's budget for Brighton and Hove would see

:10:42.:10:48.

council tax rise by 3.5% both this year and next. But the party plans

:10:48.:10:54.

to cut almost �35 million pounds from its general budget by 2014.

:10:54.:10:58.

It says 120 jobs are due to go in the next year, but it's promising

:10:58.:11:04.

to try to avoid compulsory redundancies.

:11:04.:11:08.

Local people say the council tax rise will hit them hard. In his day

:11:08.:11:15.

and age, we can't afford it all the time. It is ridiculous. There is a

:11:15.:11:21.

lot of wasted a lot of departments and I think they should find other

:11:21.:11:26.

ways of raising money -- of waste in a lot of department.

:11:26.:11:29.

councillors cutting a lot of money that goes into services that people

:11:29.:11:33.

actually need and I tend to believe the council is quite good and if

:11:33.:11:37.

they need to increase it in order to provide the services, then that

:11:37.:11:42.

is probably what they need to do. So what's the background to the

:11:42.:11:45.

budget proposals? Brighton's Green administration say they have to

:11:45.:11:47.

deal with a predicted cut in Government funding of almost 10%,

:11:47.:11:51.

which equates to the loss of �10.5 million pounds. But it's turning

:11:51.:11:54.

down a �3 million Government grant being offered to local authorities

:11:54.:11:57.

that agree to freeze council tax, arguing that instead it can raise

:11:57.:12:06.

�4million with the council tax rise. Opposition councillors say they are

:12:06.:12:10.

making a big mistake. Government are offering 3.1 �4

:12:11.:12:16.

million and they are proposing to turn it away -- �3.1 million. They

:12:16.:12:20.

are saying no thank you, and they are going to ask the taxpayers to

:12:20.:12:25.

pay an extra 3.5% because they want to tear this money down. This is

:12:25.:12:29.

wrong, particularly at this time. Let's cross live to Brighton to

:12:29.:12:34.

speak to Bill Randall, the leader of Brighton and Hove City Council.

:12:34.:12:38.

How can you ask families to pay more in council tax at a time when

:12:38.:12:43.

it's getting harder and harder to make ends meet? Well, we have been

:12:43.:12:48.

asked to absorb cuts from the Government of almost �35 million

:12:48.:12:54.

over the rest of this council. We needed to meet the needs of those

:12:54.:12:57.

with the greatest need in the City, the vulnerable, the old, young

:12:57.:13:02.

people, people in care, homeless people, we have had a future rise

:13:02.:13:06.

in homelessness, and to do that in the face of those cuts, we need to

:13:06.:13:11.

raise the council tax. Government are offering you �3

:13:11.:13:18.

million above why look a gift horse in the mouth and take that money?

:13:18.:13:21.

For one year only, so if we take it this year, we start from a lower

:13:21.:13:24.

base next year and would have to break even higher raises in council

:13:24.:13:29.

tax or cut even more jobs to meet the demands. There is no

:13:29.:13:33.

sustainable future in it. You say you want to protect the most full

:13:33.:13:38.

bore residents. Raising council tax hits low-of middle income families

:13:38.:13:45.

hard, family is that cannot afford this -- families that cannot afford

:13:45.:13:50.

this. You are always Lamdassem in the Government for their lack of

:13:50.:13:57.

fairness. The average increase in the City is 57p per week, those at

:13:57.:14:00.

the top will pay more, those at the bottom will pay less for start

:14:00.:14:07.

those right at the bottom, but those just above that will do.

:14:07.:14:13.

of those right at the bottom. 57p per week on average and it will

:14:13.:14:17.

be put to good use. Do you think the people who voted UN would have

:14:17.:14:23.

voted for this? I do, actually, yes. So er if you held a referendum, you

:14:23.:14:27.

would be confident people would support this? I really do think

:14:27.:14:31.

they would. What we are doing is keeping the pledges from the

:14:31.:14:34.

manifesto and the first of those was to help, as far as we possibly

:14:34.:14:39.

could, but vulnerable people in the City. You didn't say you were going

:14:39.:14:44.

to raise council tax. We didn't but we think it is justified. Thank you.

:14:44.:14:48.

The Greens hope their plans will be passed in February. But with their

:14:48.:14:51.

23 councillors opposed by 13 Labour members and 18 Tories, there's no

:14:51.:14:54.

guarantee they'll be able to force their budget proposals through

:14:54.:15:02.

without changes. It is nearly 6:45pm. Our top story

:15:03.:15:04.

tonight: A mother from Whitstable died from

:15:05.:15:07.

cancer after a surgeon at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital performed

:15:07.:15:10.

the wrong operation on her, a coroner has found today. The family

:15:10.:15:13.

of Jillian Phillips fought for five years for an inquest, after hearing

:15:13.:15:16.

the doctor was facing dozens of allegations over his fitness to

:15:16.:15:18.

practice. Also in tonight's programme:

:15:18.:15:21.

The pensioner looking for the lovely woman he met on the bus -

:15:21.:15:27.

hampered only by the fact he doesn't actually know her name.

:15:27.:15:33.

How very thoughtful you are, PDA to. Could grieve, tie them together,

:15:33.:15:37.

Piglet. Can you tie at not -- could Greek.

:15:37.:15:39.

And the strange case of the Cincinnati Bengal obsessed with the

:15:40.:15:47.

Ashdown Bear. How an all-American football star fell in love with

:15:47.:15:49.

Winnie the Pooh. Scientists in Kent are working on a

:15:50.:15:52.

special project using tobacco plants to make a cream that could

:15:52.:15:56.

help prevent HIV infection, by forming a barrier to the virus.

:15:56.:15:59.

Experts at East Malling Research say using the plants will mean

:15:59.:16:02.

reduced costs for the drug, making it more affordable for developing

:16:02.:16:06.

countries. A total of 34 million people world-

:16:06.:16:10.

wide suffer from HIV, including more than 90,000 here in the UK.

:16:10.:16:15.

Around 25% of them are believed to be undiagnosed. Yvette Austin has

:16:15.:16:23.

our special report to mark World Aids Day.

:16:23.:16:27.

This is a highly scientific Green House, the light, temperature and

:16:27.:16:32.

carbon dioxide levels are precisely controlled to maximise planned

:16:32.:16:36.

performance. And it is a sealed unit. These tobacco plants are

:16:36.:16:40.

genetically modified to produce a drug to help prevent the spread of

:16:40.:16:45.

HIV. A key gene was originally founded a bacterium and now it is

:16:45.:16:50.

being put into the plans for production. That is the infection

:16:50.:16:57.

process, and eventually what will happen is they will develop into

:16:57.:17:03.

Schuettler it's, like we have here, and we will move it -- the little

:17:03.:17:07.

sheet. It will eventually generate a whole plant that has been

:17:07.:17:12.

genetically modified. The drug is called a protein at this stage and

:17:12.:17:15.

the plant they excrete sit through its roots. We now that the protein

:17:15.:17:20.

drug is being processed through the plant -- we know. What they tried

:17:21.:17:24.

to do is maximise the root production so we can get the

:17:24.:17:29.

protein out of the roots. We can do that by collecting the nutrients

:17:29.:17:33.

that pass over the plant roots. You can see here the about of routes

:17:33.:17:38.

that these plants are generating and a protein will be exuded from

:17:38.:17:46.

them -- the event of roads. It will be collected at the end, when we'll

:17:46.:17:49.

get the drug illegally experiment. Upper the solution has to be

:17:49.:17:54.

purified, and what is left is the drug. That can be added to other

:17:54.:17:59.

ingredients to make a cream, which is hoped it will form a barrier to

:17:59.:18:04.

infection. In normal case of infection, the Aids virus will

:18:04.:18:08.

penetrate through the skin and attack at target cell. But if this

:18:08.:18:13.

drug is used, the idea is that it coats the Aids virus and so when it

:18:13.:18:18.

tries to attack the target cell, it simply can't make the connection

:18:18.:18:23.

have the infection is prevented. It is a straightforward method and

:18:23.:18:27.

compared to conventional drug manufacturing, far cheaper. Having

:18:27.:18:33.

been genetically modified, these plants contain a powerful anti- HIV

:18:33.:18:38.

drug and the whole process is self- sustaining, because each plant

:18:38.:18:42.

would generate around 1,000 seats which will form the basis of the

:18:42.:18:46.

next production line. If the project is successful, we will end

:18:46.:18:51.

up with a manufacturing process for drugs against HIV under very cheap

:18:51.:18:57.

and simple scale. By real hope is that when it does work, we will be

:18:57.:19:00.

able to transfer this technology to developing countries, where there

:19:00.:19:04.

is a lot of expertise in growing plants that we will have a simple

:19:04.:19:08.

process for extracting that he refined the final drug. There is

:19:08.:19:13.

still a lot of work to do, but human trials could be just three

:19:13.:19:23.
:19:23.:19:25.

It's a modern-day Brief Encounter - this time set on a bus in

:19:25.:19:28.

Canterbury. The leading man? 81- year-old widower Bill Houghton. The

:19:28.:19:33.

leading lady? Unknown. They met. They hit it off. They

:19:33.:19:36.

went their separate ways. So how, wondered Bill, could he follow it

:19:36.:19:39.

up and see her again, when he didn't even know her name? Nick

:19:39.:19:45.

Miles has been to meet him. It was the start of what would

:19:45.:19:50.

become a very emotional journey. Legs tired from a day out, Bill

:19:50.:19:58.

looked around for a seat. A polite nod, a quick smile and down he sat.

:19:58.:20:07.

This lady was sat on the bus. I sat next to her. We got talking. She

:20:07.:20:11.

was a very beautiful woman, a good- looking lady. I think there was an

:20:11.:20:14.

attraction for both of us. I was attracted to her and she was

:20:14.:20:18.

attracted to recover I got that feeling. She had a similar smile to

:20:18.:20:28.
:20:28.:20:30.

my wife. A dead thing she wants me to be on my own. She turned around

:20:30.:20:35.

at just before she left -- I don't think. And she gave me a smile and

:20:35.:20:40.

that is what made me think I have got to find that this woman. This

:20:40.:20:45.

is how he went about it, putting an advert in the local paper, ending

:20:45.:20:51.

it with "wanting to see you". He got no response, so he put in

:20:51.:20:56.

several others. Finally, the last one called for a meeting at 7:30pm

:20:56.:21:03.

at the Marlowe Theatre. He waited. And he waited. And he waited. But

:21:03.:21:08.

she was a no-show. I was just hoping she would turn up. So the

:21:08.:21:13.

tactic failed this time, but... think it is really lovely. I would

:21:13.:21:18.

definitely answer the advert. think I would just keep catching

:21:18.:21:22.

the bus to see if I met her again. I think it is lovely and really

:21:22.:21:30.

romantic and this week. I could manage, I get through life. But it

:21:30.:21:33.

would be nice to have somebody lovely like her.

:21:33.:21:36.

That was Bill Houghton, from Westgate, speaking to our reporter

:21:36.:21:40.

Nick Miles. Let's hope he finds her, if she

:21:40.:21:43.

wants to be found. He won fame as the first Harvard

:21:43.:21:48.

graduate ever to play in the Superbowl. But former Cincinnati

:21:48.:21:51.

Bengals star Pat McInally wasn't only obsessed with offence and

:21:51.:21:59.

defence and touchdowns and yardage. I am totally across that. He also

:21:59.:22:03.

had a thing about Kanga and Piglet and Rabbit - and Pooh. It may be a

:22:03.:22:06.

long way from the States to the Ashdown Forest, but it didn't stop

:22:06.:22:09.

him from building a huge collection of memorabilia - which is now up

:22:09.:22:15.

for auction. Lynda Hardy reports. How we are very thought for you are,

:22:15.:22:22.

Piglet. Good grief, tie them together, Piglet. Can you tie a

:22:22.:22:32.
:22:32.:22:32.

knot? I cannot. Who is there? Unmistakably Pooh and his friends.

:22:32.:22:38.

Now Beek -- meet one of their biggest fans, not least because Pat

:22:38.:22:43.

McInally is 6 ft 7. He has been Abass ing a collection of a AA

:22:43.:22:47.

Milne item since he made his first many as an American football star.

:22:47.:22:51.

I went to a school that was across the street from Disneyland and we

:22:51.:22:55.

would go almost every day, the glorious days of innocence and I

:22:55.:22:58.

would spend hours in the theatre on a main street, where they showed

:22:58.:23:03.

Winnie the Pooh and the blustery day, and I fell in love with it.

:23:03.:23:07.

much so that he collected nearly 100 items of Pooh memorabilia,

:23:07.:23:12.

almost all of which is now up for auction, including the author's

:23:12.:23:16.

writing from his Sussex home at photos of his son, the original

:23:16.:23:22.

Christopher Robin, at his Pooh Bear, alongside his grandfather, who ran

:23:22.:23:27.

a school amp -- it Westgate on Sea. We believe there has never been a

:23:27.:23:32.

single collection of this quality assembled. Pieces do show up of the

:23:32.:23:36.

various things, but these are the collections. The books are the

:23:36.:23:42.

finest collection -- edition and it is original artwork. All this might

:23:42.:23:45.

never have been if it had not be the Ashdown Forest setting the

:23:45.:23:48.

scene for young Christopher Robin, seen here with his friends, whose

:23:48.:23:57.

antics with his bare inspired his father to write the stories. It

:23:57.:24:01.

should appeal to a wide range of Winnie the Pooh fans, from this

:24:01.:24:10.

�2,000 book from the author to his son got that and this Vespers

:24:10.:24:15.

priced at �75. Pat says he is happy that his collection will be spread

:24:15.:24:19.

amongst the next generation of Pooh fans, keeping the story that

:24:19.:24:26.

started in Sussex alive. Well, it is no surprise, he is a

:24:26.:24:32.

marvellous bear. 6 ft 7, he is a big chap. It has

:24:32.:24:36.

been a very wet drought today, that is fair to say?

:24:36.:24:40.

It has. Actually pretty mild for the time of the year. The rain

:24:40.:24:43.

cleared for a time but it is back as we move through tonight but will

:24:43.:24:49.

clear reggae through the Ali hours clear reggae through the Ali hours

:24:49.:24:52.

of the morning. -- clear again. Tomorrow has a cold start, it will

:24:52.:24:56.

change very little with some good sunshine as well. Today was a wet

:24:56.:25:00.

start, the rain clearing away for a time but the weather front pushed

:25:00.:25:03.

back northwards as we move through the afternoon with some heavier

:25:03.:25:08.

pulses. You can see the widely spaced isobars, the westerly wind

:25:08.:25:13.

is very light, between five-10 mph, had temperatures still several

:25:13.:25:20.

degrees above average for the time of year. We would probably be

:25:20.:25:24.

seeing it much lower this time of the year. As we move into tonight,

:25:24.:25:28.

the rate will stay for us all, up to any inch of rain fall expected -

:25:28.:25:34.

- the rate will stay. It will clear in the early hours of the morning,

:25:34.:25:38.

still quite a lot of cloud around, temperatures around three degrees

:25:38.:25:44.

with a touch of ground frost as we move into tomorrow. The cloud cover

:25:44.:25:47.

is a round that it will clear, more the way of brightness, those

:25:47.:25:52.

isobars indicating how like the wind will be staying. A cloudy and

:25:52.:25:56.

cold start to the day, as we move through into the attitudes of good

:25:56.:26:00.

spells of sunshine. What will be noticeable, the temperatures,

:26:00.:26:04.

significantly cooler than today, ranging between six and nine

:26:04.:26:08.

degrees, so single figures. The dry weather will not last for long.

:26:08.:26:12.

Tomorrow night, we are seeing further rain spreading eastwards,

:26:12.:26:17.

it will be heavy for us all. The wind will pick up again to around

:26:17.:26:22.

30 mph, gale-force gusts, particularly along the south coast.

:26:22.:26:26.

Temperatures a bit milder than tonight, between 5 and eight

:26:26.:26:30.

degrees. The rate will stay with us as we move towards the weekend, I'm

:26:30.:26:35.

afraid -- the rain. Temperatures recovering, around 11 or 12. It

:26:35.:26:40.

will clear for at time as we move into Saturday afternoon, but as we

:26:40.:26:45.

move to the latter part of the week, the rain will be back again, with a

:26:45.:26:49.

win the picture. Temperature still mild for the time of the year, 11

:26:49.:26:54.

or 12, and by the time we get a bad day, it is said to be cold and

:26:54.:26:56.

day, it is said to be cold and bright again -- get a mandate.

:26:56.:27:03.

There is nothing like the bed should of re in! -- the mention of

:27:03.:27:04.

rain. Let's recap tonight's top stories.

:27:05.:27:08.

The Governor of the Bank of England has warned high street banks that

:27:08.:27:10.

they're heading into another financial storm, and urged them to

:27:10.:27:17.

take precautions. The mother from Whitstable died

:27:17.:27:20.

after a surgeon performed the wrong operation on her, a coroner heard

:27:20.:27:23.

today. And an armed man who robbed a

:27:23.:27:26.

string of newsagents in Sussex has been jailed for three and a half

:27:26.:27:28.

years. Chris Moodey was captured on CCTV threatening shopkeepers at

:27:28.:27:30.

knifepoint, before stealing cash from the till.

:27:30.:27:33.

That is it from us for now. I will be back with the 8pm and the

:27:33.:27:35.

Download Subtitles

SRT

ASS