:00:06. > :00:09.Good evening. It's been revealed Kent Police has
:00:09. > :00:13.the second highest number of officers in the country with
:00:13. > :00:15.criminal records. 49 officers and police community support officers
:00:15. > :00:21.have convictions for offences including robbery, supplying drugs
:00:21. > :00:23.and perverting the course of justice. It's the second largest
:00:23. > :00:27.force in the country behind the Metropolitan Police, which had the
:00:27. > :00:30.most number of officers with criminal records.
:00:30. > :00:34.One person is in a life threatening condition, another seriously
:00:34. > :00:36.injured after a car crash in Lingfield. Surrey Police are
:00:36. > :00:43.appealing for witnesses after a Peugeot 106 travelling down Ray
:00:43. > :00:46.Lane collided with a telegraph pole at 8:30pm last night.
:00:46. > :00:49.With just over 200 days to go before the Olympics, the minister
:00:49. > :00:52.with overall responsibility for the Games says Kent is one of the most
:00:52. > :00:57.prepared parts of the country outside of London to take full
:00:57. > :01:06.advantage of them. Hugh Robertson, who is also the MP for Faversham
:01:06. > :01:09.and Mid Kent, says the county is leading the way. We were the county
:01:09. > :01:12.that invented the school games, they are being rolled out
:01:12. > :01:17.nationally. There are going to be many businesses in Kent that can
:01:17. > :01:23.benefit from contracts. We are close to the Games geographically,
:01:23. > :01:25.you can access them from Ebbsfleet into Stratford. Also there are many
:01:25. > :01:27.Kent athlete in the games themselves.
:01:27. > :01:30.In this afternoon's football league games, Brighton have shocked
:01:30. > :01:32.Championship leaders Southampton 3- 0 at the Amex. Teenager Jake
:01:32. > :01:35.Forster-Caskey opened the scoring and Matt Sparrow grabbed the other
:01:35. > :01:38.two. Charlton's match against Brentford kicked off late due to
:01:38. > :01:41.crowd congestion but Michael Morrison won it for the Addicks. In
:01:41. > :01:45.League Two, Tyrone Barnett rescued a point for leaders Crawley at
:01:45. > :01:49.Oxford. While Danny Jackman's goal was enough for the Gills who had
:01:49. > :01:52.Joe Martin sent off against Aldershot.
:01:52. > :01:55.2012 is the bicentenary of the birth of Kent novelist Charles
:01:55. > :01:59.Dickens, and to celebrate his work, pupils at a school in Rochester are
:01:59. > :02:09.hard at work preparing to stage the musical Oliver in the very house
:02:09. > :02:16.
:02:16. > :02:20.where he spent the last years of Rehearsing a popular classic, and
:02:20. > :02:24.for the pupils of this school near Rochester, once the House where
:02:24. > :02:28.school -- Charles Dickens lived and died, their production of Oliver
:02:28. > :02:32.Twist has added significance. They are due to stage it on the
:02:32. > :02:37.bicentenary of one of the birth of one of the most famous authors of
:02:37. > :02:42.all time. We could not do it on any day other than the two hundredth
:02:42. > :02:45.birthdate of Charles Dickens. As a school, we are very con-trick --
:02:45. > :02:50.conscious of having a hand of history in our shoulders. We live
:02:50. > :02:54.and operate in Charles Dickens' house. The title role is played by
:02:54. > :02:59.a 10 year-old Tyler, and his connection with the author does not
:02:59. > :03:04.stop there. He recently acted the part of the young Dickens in an
:03:04. > :03:09.episode of songs of Praise. It was really exciting, because it was
:03:09. > :03:14.really fun, and I learnt quite a few things as well. Dickens lived
:03:14. > :03:18.at clouds Hill for more than 14 years and wrote several of his
:03:18. > :03:22.novels there. As such, the school could be said to be the ultimate
:03:22. > :03:27.place to study and perform his work. The pupils are very aware of the
:03:27. > :03:31.connection with Dickens, and they are anxious to do him justice.
:03:31. > :03:36.than 150 pupils from the school are due to perform Oliver Twist on 7th
:03:36. > :03:46.February, exactly 200 Bay -- 200 years to the day of Charles
:03:46. > :03:46.
:03:47. > :03:53.It has been a break, a breezy, raw feeling day, mostly dry but that
:03:53. > :03:58.will not last. Tomorrow, heavy rain for us all and gale-force winds.
:03:58. > :04:03.Low-pressure in control today. Isolated showers, but mostly dry in
:04:03. > :04:09.the south-east. Breezy westerly winds around 20 miles an hour,
:04:09. > :04:14.temperatures in single figures. Initially, dry as we go through the
:04:14. > :04:19.first part of tonight, but as the early hours come in, we have a band
:04:19. > :04:26.of heady -- heavy rain coming East. It will be noticeable winds, Gayle
:04:26. > :04:29.forced along the south coast. -- gale-force along the south coast.
:04:29. > :04:34.Temperatures feeling cooler under the unsettled weather. Tomorrow,
:04:34. > :04:42.the rain stays with us throughout the morning, it will clear up
:04:42. > :04:46.eventually. The winds are -- the winds are blustery along the coast.
:04:46. > :04:55.It is feeling significantly cooler under the unsettled weather, and