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Welcome to South East Today. Tonight's top stories. A man has | :00:06. | :00:14. | |
died after gale force winds sent a tree crashing onto his van in Kent. | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
He has a wife and children, it is a tragedy. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
The port of Dover was closed as severe weather disrupted sailings. | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
Dartford's QE2 Bridge also had to shut and a pensioner was | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
hospitalised after a tree fell through her roof. | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
We're live with the latest from Tunbridge Wells. | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
Also in tonight's programme: Her breast implant ruptured three years | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
ago leaving her in permanent pain - the Kent woman campaigning for | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
government help for women affected. The Sussex mum who would rather go | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
to court than pay a �50 fine for taking her daughter on holiday | :00:46. | :00:54. | |
during term time. And the panto featuring Ugly | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
sisters Beatrice and Eugenie. It's royally bad taste say critics - oh | :00:58. | :01:08. | |
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Good evening. A man has died after a tree crashed into his van in gale | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
force winds. It happened this afternoon in Tunbridge Wells, as 70 | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
mile an hour gales battered Kent and Sussex, bringing with them | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
severe disruption. In Chipstead a pensioner had to be taken to | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
hospital after a tree fell on her roof. Meanwhile the QE2 Bridge was | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
closed for hours and the crew of a yacht had to be rescued and towed | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
into Ramsgate, after getting into difficulties in Storm Force 11 | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
winds. In a moment we'll cross live to Alex Beard in Dover. But first, | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
Simon Jones is live at the scene of that fatal accident in Tunbridge | :01:46. | :01:54. | |
Wells. What more do we know about what happened there, Simon? | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
This happened at around 12:30pm. The man was in his 50th from | :02:00. | :02:07. | |
Tonbridge. The banners at the side of the road when the tree came down. | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
Another man that was in the van emerged unscathed. The police are | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
still here and the road was closed, and the council have arrived to | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
remove the tree in what has been a busy day for the emergency services. | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
You can see how this the van was covered by the green tarpaulin is | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
lying under the weight of the big oak tree. The driver was crushed to | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
death. For those in the area, how devastating scene. It is a tragedy. | :02:35. | :02:42. | |
First day back to work. When he goes home, he has got a wife and | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
kids, they will not see their dad or their husband, it is a tragedy | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
for the family and friends. Investigations are continuing. In | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
Sevenoaks, a couple are lucky to be alive after retreating down on | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
their howls early this morning. There was a tremendous crash and I | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
thought, oh, we're that he did not come through the bedroom. I thought | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
it had gone somewhere else on the property, and that's when I came | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
and looked around. In Ramsgate, a dramatic sea riskier. This yacht | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
returned to the port buffeted by the weather her company to buy two | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
lifeboats. Two of the crew were winched to safety by the RAF and | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
three of the other crew were very relieved to be back on dry land. | :03:31. | :03:38. | |
How are you feeling? Cold, wet, tired, lack of sleep. But we are | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
believed to be back on dry land again. How scary was about there? | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
Scary! Very scary! But they have every confidence in the RNLI, and | :03:48. | :03:56. | |
they did a wonderful job. A large wave, almost a freak wave, it | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
picked up over the back of the boat, it pulled the helmsman for word | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
straight into the wheel. He had been traced to his face and chest, | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
they are not too bad, but it buckled the wheel and destroys the | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
steering system. The captain reckoned he would have got back to | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
safety alone without the freak wave. The coastguard recommended everyone | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
stay off the water. The ropes would be flying around, it would be very | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
cold because of the Winshill, it is not very nice at all. As an | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
ambulance removes the body from the crushed van of Tonbridge Wells, it | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
is a reminder of the danger of the weather. | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
The process has begun at chopping up the tree to remove it from the | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
road and it will take a couple of hours. We have just heard that this | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
afternoon, had treated him down on a house in Medway, but fortunately, | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
there were no injuries. The police are now trying to figure out what | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
happened. Alex Beard is live in Dover. And | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
Alex, the weather has caused real disruption there today, hasn't it? | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
Yes, the port had to close down for several hours because of the severe | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
weather conditions. It was unprecedented, but it was necessary | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
because the wind speed in the south-east was reaching up to 80 | :05:15. | :05:22. | |
mph. That meant for and miserable and disruptive start to the working | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
week. The effects of closing the QE2 | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
Bridge were felt by everyone today with traffic forced to share the | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
Dartford Tunnel. It was not long before there were tailbacks on the | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
M25. With gale-force 11 wins in the Channel, the Port of Dover close | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
completely for several hours. The harbour was too dangerous to enter. | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
It is very unusual, about once every 18 months, something like | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
that happens. It is quite were rare. The mother and ships that we have | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
are very well designed. -- the modern ships. They put out | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
stabilisers and people are given tea and coffee on board and we look | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
after everybody as much as we can. There were huge waves in Sandgate | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
as well. Back on dry land, difficult driving conditions on the | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
M20 as the wind and the rain reduced visibility. At the | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
aerodrome, this plane was attended by the storm. And the gales ripped | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
up the trees and pulled down over head cables and Crawley. The winds | :06:31. | :06:38. | |
left little untouched. Why Dover is fully open this evening, no real | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
reported to lazier. The QE2 Bridge is open again and traffic is | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
flowing but there are still some delays on the M25 anti-clockwise | :06:48. | :06:57. | |
Now many of you have been sending Now many of you have been sending | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
your pictures of the storm. Colin Miles took this picture of the | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
shoreline at Folkestone being battered by waves. Phil Ridgeon | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
spotted this bus trapped behind a fallen tree in Mayfield in East | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
Sussex. Denise Body ventured out into her own garden in Meopham to | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
survey the damage there. Ian Batten said a mini tornado took the roof | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
off his summer house in Herne Bay and deposited against the back of | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
his bungalow 50 feet away. Steve Morris came across this tree around | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
lunchtime blocking the road on the outskirts of Crawley. And Anthony | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
Fairhall photographed the damage done to the roof of Chartham | :07:26. | :07:36. | |
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Primary school near Canterbury. Still to come: They can't | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
scientists offering new hope to people that cannot recognise their | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
own face. -- the scientists in Kent. A mother from Dartford whose breast | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
implant ruptured over three years ago says she's still in pain after | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
silicone leaked into her body. Catherine Kydd, was given implants | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
made by the French company PIP, which used industrial grade | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
silicone. The French Government has agreed to fund the removal of | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
implants from women affected there but the UK Government says there's | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
no evidence to suggest it's necessary here. Catherine is now | :08:10. | :08:18. | |
campaigning for that to change, as Fiona Irving reports. | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
Catherine says it was low self- esteem that led her to get breast | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
implants. Within months of surgery, one of for implants ruptured. | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
felt like it was a slip to the site. I just used to constantly wear a | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
bra, so you don't feel uncomfortable. In 2004, she paid | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
�4,000 for breast augmentation and was given PIP breast implants. | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
Months later, her breasts felt uncomfortable. It was only in 2009 | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
that an ultrasound revealed when a free implants had ruptured. She had | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
them removed, but has told some of the silicone had spread to her | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
lymph nodes. It is uncomfortable all the time and you can feel it. | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
It is like a burning. Concerned over an increase of rupturing, the | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
French government is paying for women to get their PIP implants | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
removed. After a review by the UK government, the Health Secretary | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
said they will follow clinical advice for Britain and overseas. | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
That clinical advice has consistently been that it is not | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
advisable for women routinely to have the implants removed, because | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
the risk associated with an operation of that kind would | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
outweigh the benefit of removing these implants. Catherine has set | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
up a Facebook side to support the thousands of other women that are | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
worried about the implants. If I was told I would have industrial so | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
let them put in me, I would never have had it done, as would none of | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
the 50,000 women. If that is what you knew you were getting, you | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
would not sign on the dotted line. I would not recommend anyone having | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
it done at all. The Prime Minister has given his | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
backing to a family from Biggin Hill who are campaigning for | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
tougher action against people who drive under the influence of drugs. | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
14-year-old Lillian Groves was run over and killed last year. Her aunt | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
Michaela Groves has been lobbying David Cameron since, and the Prime | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
Minister says he now wants to see drug testing kits in every police | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
car so that drivers can be tested at the road side. | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
A decision on whether to allow a workers' co-operative to take over | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
the ailing cross-Channel ferry operator SeaFrance has been delayed | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
until next week. The debt laden firm is threatened with liquidation | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
after takeover offers were rejected last year. A French court had been | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
due to decide today on the legality of the union-backed takeover bid, | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
which is the last one on the table to rescue the firm. | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
A Sussex coach company says demand for a sightseeing trip around the | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
M25 has created more than twice the amount of interest they had | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
expected. Brighton and Hove Buses began advertising the four-hour | :10:57. | :11:04. | |
trip around the motorway in October. The firm is now having to add extra | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
dates for the tour. A mother from Sussex who took her | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
daughter out of school to go on holiday is preparing to go to court, | :11:12. | :11:22. | |
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after refusing to pay a �50 fine on Sarah Netley, from Peacehaven, says | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
travelling during term-time was the only way she could afford a family | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
holiday to Majorca. But the headteacher had refused permission | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
saying it was not an exceptional case. Lynda Hardy has more. | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
Looking back at their holiday photographs, Sarah and her daughter | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
Emily's happy memories of time awake has been tarnished by what | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
followed. Last summer, Sera wrote to the school are looking for | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
permission to take her on holiday with her grandparents at the end of | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
the school term. That was refused due to Emily's sickness a week | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
previously and that the request to take her out of school was not | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
deemed an exceptional circumstance. But Sarah says they cannot afford | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
to go away during the school holidays at nearly double the price. | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
The price was a major issue, the other issue was that I suffer | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
extreme anxiety and agoraphobia. I did not want to travel at peak time | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
with lots of people around, so it was the perfect time to go after | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
the exams are finished and they were ending the terms. But that | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
five day absence from school resulted in a 50 pound find that | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
Sarah, whose on benefits, says she cannot afford to pay and her | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
parents that paid for the holiday should not have to pay. | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
completely sympathise with parents and the additional cost that they | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
incur. These are levied upon them by the travel agencies. However, he | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
does not negate the fact that a day out of education could have | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
significantly detrimental impact on their child's outcomes. She faces a | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
court importance at the end of the month that could result in a larger | :13:02. | :13:11. | |
fine. -- court appearance. It could be up to one as an pounds. -- | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
�1,000. Rail passengers travelling between | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
Hastings and Ashford say they're angry that work to repair a tunnel | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
will lead to the closure of a 26- mile stretch of line for nine weeks. | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
The closure will begin on Monday, to enable maintenance work to take | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
place on the Ore Tunnel. But MPs are criticising Network Rail for | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
the disruption it will cause. Ian Palmer is live in Hastings and | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
passengers there are unhappy, aren't they Ian? | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
Yes, exactly, they are not celebrating a very happy new year. | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
Rail users and the south-east, season-ticket holders have been at | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
the head with a 6% increase in travel costs, and for that money, | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
if you're on the Sussex coast, you get a very long bus journey. | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
The tunnel is the only way of getting to Ashford by rail from | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
Hastings. The MP for the Kent town says there isn't it for nine weeks | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
is a disaster. We just had to two of the quietest weeks of the year | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
on the railway, surely they could have started the work earlier when | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
fewer people were travelling on the railways. Some of the inconvenience | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
could have been mitigated. Plans to carry out work on the tunnel was | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
revealed by Network Rail in September last year and it says the | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
maintenance work is essential. Travellers will be offered a bus | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
service instead, but at 18 minutes, the journey will be twice as long. | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
According to the town's leader, visitors may avoid Hastings | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
altogether. Ashford International is are linked to the Continent, and | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
we will see travellers from all over Europe coming to Hastings and | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
Britain and getting off the Eurostar at Ashford and being put | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
on a country bus to Hastings and that is not the image you want to | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
present of Hastings as a tourist town. Regular travellers on the | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
Sussex liner not impressed by the imminent closure. The last time | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
this happened a few months ago, a 45 minute journey to two-and-a-half | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
hours. Network Rail could provide a service between Ryan - for it, but | :15:13. | :15:20. | |
the company says this option would not speak cost-effective. -- | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
between right and Ashford. This option did not go down well | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
with locals, and Network Rail say that drainage repairs that need to | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
be done are essential and it will stop the need for any further | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
repairs to be done at any time in the near future. It will make | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
trouble much safer. The top story tonight: And man has | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
died in Tonbridge Wells after a tree crashed into his car in storm- | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
force winds and the south-east. A pensioner was hospitalised when a | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
tree fell on our house near Sevenoaks. The bad weather caused | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
the Port of Dover and the QE2 Bridge to close. | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
Coming up later, in the wake of the stormy weather, we have all of the | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
details for you for the wind speed in the next 24 hours and the | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
weather forecasts for the rest of the week. | :16:10. | :16:18. | |
Also tonight: It is royally offensive say critics, ho, no, it's | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
not, the pantomime in trouble for calling the ugly Sisters Beatrice | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
and Eugenie. For most of her adult life | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
Jaqueline Aldridge has been unable to recognise members of her own | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
family. That's because Jaqueline suffers from prosopagnosia or "face | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
blindness". It's a condition that affects one in every 250 people. It | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
can cause acute embarrassment and frustration and in the most severe | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
cases, sufferers are unable even to recognise pictures of themselves. | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
Now experts at the University of Kent are looking for volunteers to | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
help develop a new type of therapy. Charlie Rose has our Special Report. | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
Recognising the human face is fundamental to all our lives. It's | :17:02. | :17:12. | |
how we know who someone is, who we love, who we hate and who we fear. | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
Can you tell me he this is? imagine if that ability was taken | :17:18. | :17:27. | |
away. I don't know, they're just all blonde. Jacqueline suffers from | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
a condition called prosopagnosia or face blindness. To recognise faces | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
quickly and efficiency, you need to integrate all the different parts | :17:36. | :17:44. | |
of the face very rapidly. Many sufferers for some reason do not | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
have that ability. When I met my boyfriend, I was attracted to him, | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
and we started dating, but three weeks after we started going out, I | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
introduced him to a friend, and she said, he's really good-looking! I | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
had no idea! He was confident, funny, clever. I don't think deeply | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
about people's faces, because they don't keep them in my mind. And in | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
it's most extreme form - sufferers don't even recognise their own | :18:11. | :18:20. | |
family or even their own face. is the nastiest one of all. This is | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
me! It is a phase, not my face, it is a face. Well experts at the | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
University of Kent are developing a special technique which they | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
believe may help the condition. This small part of the brain | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
highlighted in red is the area which is particularly important for | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
face processing. The hope is by stimulating it with a small | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
electric charge, the increased blood flow and activity will help | :18:41. | :18:51. | |
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restore some of that lost function. The next step is to seek some | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
participants in the research, some volunteers to come to university to | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
undergo some stimulation and see if their ability to recognise is | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
changing. And the university is asking anyone who feels they might | :19:08. | :19:18. | |
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suffer from face blindness, to get The South East's leading football | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
clubs have ended the holiday period on a high, with three wins and a | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
draw in yesterday's fixtures. The outstanding performance came from | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
Brighton who beat Championship leaders Southampton 3-0 at the Amex. | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
Neil Bell has our round-up of the action. | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
It has not looking good for Brighton, a tough afternoon was | :19:46. | :19:53. | |
suggested, but when Ricky Lambert was sent off, it all came good. The | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
Albion went ahead. Mats Barrett doubled the advantage with an | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
unstoppable shot. It was spiraea that created a fine victory after | :20:03. | :20:12. | |
some pinball in the box. It popped up by my right foot and I put it | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
away. A great feeling. But fans were brilliant. I am happy to do it | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
for the fans. Charlton moved five points clear at the top with | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
Michael Morrison's brave header putting the addicts in front and | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
Denny Green making the game safe for the delightful finish before | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
the whistle. Gillingham had to work hard for | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
their lead, but some nimble footwork from Danny Jack man and a | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
precise shot put them ahead. The Gills held on to maintain their | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
promotion push. It is one of the best results of the season. We | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
needed to bounce back from the disappointment on Friday. That is | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
going down to 10 men which made it very difficult for us. Crawley got | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
into a model allowing Oxford to go ahead. Not for the first time in | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
recent weeks, Tyrone Burnett came to the rescue with an awesome folly | :21:10. | :21:17. | |
in stoppage time. The weather is the big story of the | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
day, so let's find out what is happening for the rest of the | :21:20. | :21:29. | |
After today's severe storms, it will ease off. Some blustery winds, | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
but nothing like earlier today. Tomorrow, must be dry. Until the | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
first part of tomorrow, there will still be a weather warning for a | :21:40. | :21:47. | |
severe winds. Even through tonight, 50-60 mph. Today, some deep low- | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
pressure moving across Scotland. This brought along some very heavy | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
rain with downpours of up to 10 mm in one Allah. Put the wind was | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
gusting up to 80 mph on the south coast. Temperatures today, quite | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
mild, and double-figure years, 12 degrees, 54 Fahrenheit. Feeling | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
significantly cooler in the stormy weather. The rain during through | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
the after being and it will be dry tonight. Temperatures dropping to | :22:19. | :22:28. | |
three or four degrees. The winter but he's off. Still quite blustery. | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
The best of any brightness across the UK, but tight isobars. Some | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
blustery, a westerly winds. More cloud cover into the afternoon | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
ahead of the further rain overnight into a Thursday. Temperatures, | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
several degrees down, seven-eight degrees. At cool, blustery picture. | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
Tomorrow night, further outbreaks of rain with the wind picking up | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
and gusts of up to 60 mph again. With unsettled weather, | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
temperatures reaching six degrees. A wet start for Thursday, the rain | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
will increase and then it will be dry and bright into the evening. | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
Drier start for Friday. The wind will ease off three tonight and | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
into tomorrow. into tomorrow. | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
When Beatrice and Eugenie stepped out in front of the worlds media at | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
Prince Williams marriage to Kate Middleton this summer, they | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
couldn't have been prepared for the international storm of ridicule | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
over their choice of outfits - and their hats. But a pantomime in Kent | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
is coming in for some serious criticism over its decision to call | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
the ugly sisters in their version of Cinderella - Beatrice and | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
Eugenie. Offensive and disloyal? Or just good clean fun? Peter | :23:38. | :23:48. | |
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Whittlesea reports. As first appearance as go, the | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
abuses just make quite an entrance. But one line has made this | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
pantomime not just, goal, but controversial. We are Beatrice and | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
Eugenie. We have just arrived. is the only time that a name check | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
each other, but one former royal correspondent says that this is in | :24:10. | :24:18. | |
poor taste. I think it was a cheap and nasty joke against two young | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
members of the Royal Family that have no way of hitting back at | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
these people. Since last year's Roy Whiting, having a pop at the | :24:27. | :24:35. | |
Princess's has almost become a national pastime. Guess so I am? | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
Expect this reference to Beatrice's had crept into a comedy Christmas | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
Special on BBC One. It is no wonder the stars at the pantomime can't | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
understand what all fuss is about. Someone said that it is on Fox News | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
in America. It has gone worldwide! It is incredible! But if people | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
cannot take a joke, that is a real shame. But it's funny! This pair | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
have performed as Witney, Britney, Trinian's Susanna, and say there is | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
nothing personal about the names. What you think they would think of | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
it? I think they would love it. younger royals are doing wonders | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
for this country at the moment, you see that across Prince William, | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
Prince Harry, the Princess of York, they are carrying on the family | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
tradition, modern for the modern world and they would love the show. | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
More than 50,000 people have come to seek the pantomime at the | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
Marlowe Theatre and not one official complaint has been | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
received. The writer is the say that this shows audiences | :25:44. | :25:51. | |
understand the poking fun is part of any pantomime. | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
Well you've been commenting on this story on our Facebook site. It is | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
severely split. Marie says, it's only a pantomime. | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
Lawrence says she saw the pantomime, it is brilliant, funny, it should | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
not be taken seriously. Ian says that it in fares the | :26:12. | :26:22. | |
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Princess's are likely and it is -- ugly and it is not nice. | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
Another reviewer says they are the best and pantomime dame they have | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
ever seen, it is the spur to pantomime, and the theatre looks | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
great! And other prisons says it is | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
knowing where to draw the line and I think it is wrong, unkind and | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
could be taken as insulting. If in doubt, leave it out. | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
Thank you. We return to the top story, that is the news that a man | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
has died after retreat crashed into his van in storm-force winds this | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
afternoon and Tonbridge Wells. 70 mph gusts battered Kent and Sussex | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
bringing severe disruption. Simon Jones is in Tonbridge Wells | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
for us now. There are concerns tonight there could be more trees | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
falling tonight. Yes, the reason the street is | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
closed tonight is because the police fear that another tree could | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
come down. In the last half an hour, they started chopping up the one | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
that came down on this van and we have seen aid trucks take away the | :27:21. | :27:28. | |
first load. We have also had trees coming down years have an axe -- | :27:29. | :27:32. |