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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. |