:00:02. > :00:05.Welcome to South East Today, I'm Polly Evans.
:00:06. > :00:09.And I'm Rob Smith. Tonight's top stories. The man killed by a
:00:09. > :00:19.falling tree in Kent is named. We talk exclusively to the rescuer who
:00:19. > :00:24.pulled his passenger from their crushed van. The treat came down on
:00:24. > :00:33.the van, and we both ran out and we saw the Richie Woodhall people in
:00:33. > :00:36.the van. -- there were two people. Beaten up on duty and accused of
:00:36. > :00:39.lying about it - now former PC Fran Croucher wants to stand for
:00:39. > :00:42.election as a Police Commissioner. We'll be reporting live on the
:00:42. > :00:45.story from Kent Police Headquarters. Also in tonight's programme: A big
:00:45. > :00:47.year age gap for the twins conceived at the same time but born
:00:47. > :00:50.five years apart. The Sussex actress trying to solve
:00:50. > :00:54.Dickens Mystery of Edwin Drood. Tazmin Merchant talks about her
:00:54. > :00:56.latest role in a new BBC adaptation. And the rare manuscript discovered
:00:56. > :01:06.in Kent which has helped Steven Speilberg recreate the First World
:01:06. > :01:13.
:01:13. > :01:16.War in his new film. Good evening. Friends and family
:01:16. > :01:24.have been paying tribute to the man killed by a falling tree in
:01:24. > :01:27.yesterdays violent storms. Chris Hayes died when his van was crushed
:01:27. > :01:31.while parked on a street in Tunbridge Wells. Remarkably, a
:01:31. > :01:34.second person in the van was pulled almost uninjured from the wreckage.
:01:34. > :01:38.Tonight we have an exclusive interview with one of the men who
:01:38. > :01:44.rescued him. Simon Jones reports. He was crushed to death as he took
:01:44. > :01:48.a break from work in his van. Chris Hayes, a father of three and a
:01:48. > :01:52.local builder. In the van, a colleague that was rescued
:01:52. > :01:56.uninjured thanks to the help of a man that Tuesday crowbar to get him
:01:56. > :02:01.out. My daughter heard that tree coming down and we could see
:02:02. > :02:05.outside that it had come across the van. Me and my friend ran out and
:02:05. > :02:09.we were not expecting to see any body in the van because it was on
:02:09. > :02:15.the side of the road, but there were two people end there. One was
:02:15. > :02:19.trying to get out. We did our best. We try to get him out. What saved
:02:19. > :02:27.his life was that he dropped his light from the floor and he bent
:02:27. > :02:31.down to get it at the same time as he was, as the tree was coming down.
:02:31. > :02:36.But Chris Hayes could not be saved. In this pub where he spent New
:02:36. > :02:43.Year's Eve, there was disbelief. are devastated. When somebody came
:02:43. > :02:51.and told be, I said, no, I could not believe it. It is totally
:02:51. > :02:58.unexpected. You go out to work and something like that happens. It is
:02:58. > :03:05.just so hard to get your head around. Not only for his blue
:03:05. > :03:09.family, but for his friends and his relatives as well. The road has
:03:09. > :03:14.been reopened, but the sign of what happened here is this tree stump,
:03:14. > :03:18.and flowers have been left on the side, as there is a card that read,
:03:18. > :03:23.Dad, I will remember the good times we had and I hope I can make you
:03:23. > :03:30.proud, I will miss you. He leaves behind a son and two
:03:30. > :03:35.daughters and his wife of 26 years. He was killed in a freak accident.
:03:35. > :03:39.Simon Jones reporting, he is in Tunbridge Wells for us now, and
:03:39. > :03:42.what more have we heard from the family? The police say the family
:03:42. > :03:47.are struggling to come to terms with this sudden and unexpected
:03:47. > :03:50.loss and speaking to some of his friends today, the overwhelming
:03:50. > :03:54.emotion is one of utter disbelief. One neighbour who heard the tree
:03:54. > :04:00.falling Down said that if the van had been packed one metre in front
:04:00. > :04:03.or behind, this tragedy could have been avoided. A post-mortem
:04:03. > :04:08.examination will happen tomorrow. The investigation will continue and
:04:08. > :04:11.they are appealing for witnesses. This is not the end of the bad
:04:11. > :04:16.weather, the wind is picking up again tonight in Tunbridge Wells,
:04:16. > :04:19.and the QE2 crossing will be closed from 10pm, unlikely to reopen
:04:19. > :04:21.before the morning, so more problems ahead.
:04:21. > :04:24.Thank you. A Kent police officer who was
:04:24. > :04:28.assaulted while on duty, and then accused of making the story up,
:04:28. > :04:31.says she now intends to stand for election as a Police Commissioner.
:04:31. > :04:39.Fran Croucher was taken to court accused of wasting police time -
:04:39. > :04:43.but was acquitted in October. Now she's resigned from the force, and
:04:43. > :04:47.is also planning to sue the organisation. Fiona Irving reports.
:04:47. > :04:52.It is during a stop and search checked in Kent in 2010 that she
:04:52. > :04:55.said she was punched and kicked unconscious. I remember a light
:04:56. > :05:00.been shown in my eyes and when I came to, my eyes were extremely
:05:00. > :05:04.painful and there was a lot of swelling. I could taste blood in my
:05:04. > :05:11.mouth. I was also aware that I could not sit upright, buy-back was
:05:11. > :05:17.hurt, my lower back. I had immense pain in my left side as well.
:05:17. > :05:20.happened almost two years ago on 14th January in 2010. She was found
:05:20. > :05:25.unconscious by colleagues while on duty in Swan Lake. Two weeks later
:05:25. > :05:29.she was arrested, accused of falsely claiming she was attacked.
:05:29. > :05:32.It was not until October the next year after a ten-day trial at
:05:32. > :05:39.Maidstone magistrates court that she was cleared of wasting police
:05:39. > :05:42.time. In summing up, the district judge said, I cannot accept that
:05:42. > :05:50.she endeared herself and late in the mud pretending to be
:05:50. > :05:54.unconscious. She was assaulted and I find her not guilty. Fred police
:05:54. > :06:00.officer has resigned from the force and is considering suing Kent
:06:00. > :06:04.Police for neglecting their duty in pursuing a of their attacker.
:06:04. > :06:08.is an extensive case log that shows how she would be successful and
:06:08. > :06:12.there are a number of hurdles she would have to overcome, but she may
:06:12. > :06:16.have limited options. This may be one of the options that could give
:06:16. > :06:23.her an opportunity to obtain a substantial award and that might be
:06:24. > :06:29.why she is pursuing its down this route. I feel utterly betrayed. I
:06:29. > :06:34.counted these people as a second family at one point. The police has
:06:34. > :06:39.been a huge part of my life. Leaving them now is almost like a
:06:39. > :06:43.bereavement in some way. She says she is looking to run for Police
:06:43. > :06:49.Commissioner at elections later this year. She still wants to serve
:06:49. > :06:55.a community she has been hoping for over a day kid.
:06:55. > :06:59.-- over a decade. Fiona is in Kent Police headquarters now, what are
:06:59. > :07:05.the police saying? They say that she is still subject to an internal
:07:05. > :07:09.misconduct hearing and she remains employed by Kent Police until the
:07:09. > :07:14.first February Viner resignation takes place. They say it is
:07:14. > :07:16.inappropriate to comment further at this time. She says she cannot
:07:16. > :07:20.complain to the IPCC, The Independent Police Complaints
:07:20. > :07:23.Commission because she was a serving officer at the time. Her
:07:24. > :07:28.father has also said he cannot complain because he is related to a
:07:28. > :07:32.serving officer. This adds to the confusion from her, but when she
:07:32. > :07:40.was attacked on duty, she ended up in court trying to defend herself,
:07:40. > :07:50.but she had not made it up. Come in up: Away to beat the rising
:07:50. > :07:53.cost of oil, a syndicate helping to keep prices lower.
:07:53. > :07:59.The husband of a Kent nurse killed when a lorry crushed her car says
:07:59. > :08:02.the two year jail sentence given to the driver is an insult. 71-year-
:08:02. > :08:05.old Rose Parsons from St Marys Bay died in the summer of 2010. It
:08:05. > :08:09.happened when the lorry went through a red light and overturned
:08:09. > :08:12.onto her car at junction 10 of the M20. Colin Coveney pleaded guilty
:08:12. > :08:22.to causing death by careless driving - but found not guilty of
:08:22. > :08:25.
:08:25. > :08:30.dangerous driving. Jon Hunt reports. I cannot do anything else but think
:08:30. > :08:33.of her every day. I did when she was alive. And I do now.
:08:33. > :08:39.Terry Parsons was married to Rose for 53 years. Since she's gone, he
:08:39. > :08:46.says he's given up on life, altogether. They don't really make
:08:46. > :08:55.any body like that these days, I don't think. She was so caring,
:08:55. > :08:58.thoughtful, it is really, it has just finished me. The investigation
:08:58. > :09:02.found that the driver had passed through this set of traffic lights
:09:02. > :09:06.while they were still red. Rose Parsons had pulled out from the
:09:06. > :09:11.next junction on the roundabout, but Colin was travelling too fast
:09:11. > :09:14.to stop and his lorry overturned ploughing into a vehicle. Colin
:09:14. > :09:17.Coveney was jailed for two years after pleading guilty to causing
:09:17. > :09:24.death by careless driving, but Mr Parsons can't understand why the
:09:24. > :09:32.jury found him not guilty of dangerous driving. I think it's an
:09:32. > :09:39.insult to my wife, actually, because she was hard-working, she
:09:39. > :09:41.was a great nurse. I feel bitter about it, because you get more than
:09:42. > :09:44.that were not paying the poll tax. Causing death by careless driving
:09:45. > :09:52.can carry a maximum sentence of five years. Dangerous driving up to
:09:52. > :09:56.14 years. But the two crimes are legally quite different. That
:09:56. > :10:01.something is considered dangerous driving, at a speed of the us to a
:10:01. > :10:07.competent, careful driver that what they have done it is dangerous. --
:10:07. > :10:12.it must be obvious to a competent, careful driver. If your attention
:10:12. > :10:14.is directed away from the road for a considerable period, that would
:10:14. > :10:17.amount to dangerous driving. Parsons says he's not seeking
:10:17. > :10:27.vengeance, but believes a jail term of 3-4 years would be more
:10:27. > :10:28.
:10:28. > :10:31.appropriate for the man who took his wife's life.
:10:31. > :10:33.A 30-year-old man has been arrested following a hit and run incident
:10:33. > :10:37.that left a police officer unconscious. The officer was
:10:37. > :10:40.carried 300 metres on the bonnet of a car when he was hit while on
:10:40. > :10:42.patrol in Southborough last month. A woman has also been arrested on
:10:42. > :10:45.suspicion of harbouring a wanted criminal.
:10:45. > :10:48.A 22-year-old from Surrey has been extradited to Greece to face
:10:48. > :10:51.charges for a brutal attack on a British holidaymaker. Footballer
:10:51. > :10:55.Robbie Hughes needed four life saving operations after he was
:10:55. > :10:58.beaten into a coma outside a nightclub in Crete in 2008. Joseph
:10:58. > :11:04.Bruckland is the last of six men from Sussex and Surrey to be
:11:04. > :11:08.extradited. The other five remain on bail in England but could now
:11:08. > :11:11.face trial within months. A father and his two daughters have
:11:11. > :11:15.denied attempting to murder one of the women's former lovers by
:11:15. > :11:17.beating him with a baseball bat, and running him over with a car.
:11:17. > :11:22.Barry Gordon suffered a fractured skull, severe chest injuries and
:11:22. > :11:25.brain damage in the attack in Whitehawk in Brighton in July.
:11:25. > :11:28.Patrick Lyons and his daughters Louise and Katie Lyons all deny
:11:28. > :11:38.unlawfully and maliciously wounding him. The trial continues at Hove
:11:38. > :11:41.
:11:41. > :11:44.Crown Court. A Sussex father is celebrating the
:11:44. > :11:47.birth of twins - born five years apart. Confusingly, while Floren
:11:47. > :11:50.Blake was born in November, her brother Ruben has already started
:11:50. > :11:53.school. The pair were conceived in the same cycle of IVF treatment -
:11:54. > :11:56.but some of the embryos were held back. So five years after Ruben was
:11:56. > :11:59.born, and somewhat against the odds, Floren was safely delivered. John
:11:59. > :12:02.Young explains. Meet the twins - the miracle twins,
:12:02. > :12:11.some would say. Reuben, who started school today and Floren, his twin
:12:12. > :12:16.sister, with plenty of catching up to do. All thanks to IVF. We were
:12:16. > :12:26.lucky the first time that it worked, incredibly lucky, and they do not
:12:26. > :12:26.
:12:26. > :12:31.think we would be lucky again. its they were, and now, the
:12:31. > :12:38.grandparents are taking it all in. There five years apart! How can
:12:38. > :12:42.they be twins?! It is like a science-fiction film! How can you
:12:42. > :12:46.have the eggs kept for five years and have another baby? It is not
:12:46. > :12:49.something you would consider. how can twins be born five years
:12:49. > :12:52.apart? Some may dispute that they ARE, strictly speaking, twins but
:12:52. > :12:55.the medics who made it happen at Southmead Hospital in Bristol have
:12:55. > :12:58.no problem with the claim. More than six years ago, several eggs
:12:58. > :13:01.were taken from their mother, and fertilized by their father's sperm.
:13:01. > :13:05.The result: five embryos - one successfully put back into the womb
:13:05. > :13:09.to create Reuben. The surviving ones kept in a freezer. Last year,
:13:09. > :13:14.one of those "spares" was still healthy enough to go back into the
:13:14. > :13:18.womb, too. Floren was born in November. A bit much for Reuben to
:13:18. > :13:21.grasp at the age of five, perhaps. He tells his friends that his twin
:13:21. > :13:31.came from the freezer with the chips and the chicken. The
:13:31. > :13:32.
:13:32. > :13:40.consultant?? Is a bit more precise. We did the embryos out of the
:13:40. > :13:44.freezer and they began to grow and we put them back into the womb.
:13:44. > :13:47.Happily, she got pregnant. So, keep an eye out for them next time they
:13:47. > :13:51.visit their grandparents in Sussex. But this is one set of twins that
:13:51. > :13:55.won't be in a twin buggy. John Young joins us now from
:13:55. > :13:58.Brighton, where the twins' father is from. John, the medics say this
:13:58. > :14:07.is actually a very sensible way to go about having a family, if you
:14:07. > :14:12.use IVF? That's right, they say if you go down the route of IVF, it is
:14:12. > :14:17.better to carry one child rather than twins or triplets. Triplets
:14:18. > :14:21.are much riskier. That is a message echoed by the family. They want to
:14:21. > :14:29.publicise the work that hospitals do and they wanted to thank the
:14:29. > :14:34.staff and to acknowledge that that they had been very, very lucky.
:14:34. > :14:39.The top story tonight: Friends and family had paid tribute to the man
:14:39. > :14:43.killed by a falling tree in yesterday's violent storms. Chris
:14:43. > :14:48.Hayes from Tunbridge died when his ban was crushed on the street in
:14:48. > :14:55.Tunbridge Wells. Also tonight, Tamzin Merchant on
:14:55. > :14:59.her starring role in the BBC Dickens extravaganza.
:14:59. > :15:03.And it's like something out of a movie, the forgotten manuscript
:15:03. > :15:09.that has made public by in his story and that has been advising
:15:09. > :15:12.Steven Spielberg on his new movie, War Horse.
:15:12. > :15:16.As the cost of oil rises ever higher, Bryan Shaw from a man from
:15:16. > :15:23.Kent has found a way to keep prices a little lower by setting up a
:15:23. > :15:26.syndicate for people who use oil for their domestic heating. While
:15:26. > :15:28.the typical cost of a litre of heating oil is 60p for individual
:15:28. > :15:34.customers, for households making relatively small orders of less
:15:34. > :15:38.than 500 litres, a premium is charged. That bumps the cost up to
:15:38. > :15:41.62p. However if you bulk buy - the cost drops to 55p a litre - saving
:15:41. > :15:45.the 120 people who've joined up to the scheme hundreds of pounds a
:15:45. > :15:50.year. Lynda Hardy reports. Bryan Shaw shows me the 2,500 litre
:15:50. > :15:58.oil tank in his garden that heats his home. That was becoming
:15:58. > :16:04.increasingly more expensive to fill. It led him to start up a heating-
:16:04. > :16:09.oil buying syndicate. Every time I topped up, which is a minimum of
:16:09. > :16:14.500 metres, they put a premium on the prize. I spoke to some
:16:14. > :16:19.neighbours and they experience the same problem. I decided to talk to
:16:19. > :16:24.a few neighbours in the street and I've got my daughter lives three
:16:24. > :16:28.houses away, so she was eager to join as well. I started with about
:16:28. > :16:31.10 houses. That ten has grown to 128 homes in the syndicate over the
:16:31. > :16:35.last six years. Stretching far beyond his own village in Stansted
:16:35. > :16:38.from Erith down to Shipbourne. With more members, the former money
:16:38. > :16:41.trader is in a strong position to approach heating oil providers on
:16:41. > :16:51.behalf of the syndicate, and negotiate the best price for a bulk
:16:51. > :16:56.
:16:56. > :17:01.deal. I joined about two years ago. I get 5p, approx 5p per litre of,
:17:01. > :17:05.which is a massive when you take as much oil as I do. I found the
:17:05. > :17:08.delivery is previously were unreliable. The creation of a
:17:08. > :17:11.syndicate isn't new across the south east for heating oil
:17:11. > :17:16.customers. Many live in more rural areas, where connecting to the main
:17:16. > :17:21.grid might be too expensive or even impossible. It's a growing trend in
:17:21. > :17:26.the domestic heating oil market, because people have seen big price
:17:26. > :17:32.rises in winter, especially in winter 2010, there was a rise of 70
:17:32. > :17:34.%. It is understandable that people are coming together and two
:17:34. > :17:37.syndicates trying to get a better deal. That makes Bryan Shaw's
:17:37. > :17:47.bargaining skills very valuable indeed to his neighbours and beyond,
:17:47. > :17:55.
:17:55. > :17:57.meaning much cheaper prices to heat After the success of Great
:17:57. > :18:04.Expectations over Christmas, the next big Dickens TV adaptation in
:18:04. > :18:08.this bicentenary year is The Mystery of Edwin Drood. And the
:18:08. > :18:12.woman at the heart of the dark tale of obsession and desire is Sussex
:18:12. > :18:15.actress Tamzin Merchant. After featuring as Catherine Howard in
:18:15. > :18:18.the Tudors, she has an increasingly high profile - and she's taking
:18:18. > :18:22.advantage of that to support a Kent charity that helps provide
:18:22. > :18:32.education for struggling communities in Africa. Sara Smith
:18:32. > :18:32.
:18:32. > :18:36.has been to meet her. It is so absurd! What is so absurd?
:18:37. > :18:41.Girls and servants scuffling around giggling! It is a novel that
:18:41. > :18:46.Dickens never finished, with an ending written for this adaptation.
:18:46. > :18:50.It might attack the original conclusion, but it has, perhaps, as
:18:50. > :18:54.strong role for a woman. wonderful thing about her is that
:18:54. > :18:59.she has a mind of her own, a strong will and a bit of a temper,
:18:59. > :19:08.sometimes, which I love, because so many women in Dickens's novels do
:19:08. > :19:11.not show much backbone. Brother, you must force her! It is
:19:11. > :19:18.not the first time that Tamzin Merchant has donned historical
:19:19. > :19:23.dress. She was in The Tudors and was also in pride and prejudice.
:19:23. > :19:26.You will all dress in the French fashion like me when you come in.
:19:26. > :19:32.One of the things that drew her to Dickens was that despite its
:19:32. > :19:37.setting, it is a modern tale, a thriller. The characters are very
:19:37. > :19:42.Dickensian, they're quite characterised and grotesque,
:19:42. > :19:48.sometimes. They are very funny, a lot of the time. The interesting
:19:49. > :19:54.thing about The Mystery of Edwin Drood is that it is a story about
:19:54. > :19:57.stalking and drugs. But her later story is not a character, she is a
:19:57. > :20:02.patron of the Tunbridge Wells charity that provides education and
:20:02. > :20:05.work opportunities for people in rural Uganda and Kenya. She first
:20:05. > :20:11.learnt about this project soon after graduating from Cambridge
:20:11. > :20:17.University. As a warm and you're just completed my education and
:20:17. > :20:23.gone through university, I found it incredibly moving understanding
:20:23. > :20:29.that in Uganda and Kenya out, so few women had given the opportunity
:20:29. > :20:32.to actually follow through with education and actually pursue the
:20:32. > :20:36.right that they have to an education. That really moved me and
:20:36. > :20:42.made me want to be involved and make a difference. She plans a trip
:20:42. > :20:46.to Uganda this spring. The Mystery of Edwin Drood was broadcast next
:20:46. > :20:48.week. As the opening ceremony to the
:20:48. > :20:52.London Olympic games looms ever closer, one former Olympian from
:20:52. > :20:58.Kent - who rode for Britain at the Mexico Games in 1968 - has been
:20:59. > :21:01.reflecting on his former glories. 45 years ago, Reg Barnett from
:21:01. > :21:05.Shoreham near Sevenoaks competed in a nail biting race at Hernehill
:21:05. > :21:15.Velodrome which concluded with a spectacular photo finish. For the
:21:15. > :21:17.
:21:17. > :21:22.first in our My Photo series this year here is Reg's story.
:21:22. > :21:30.This is the most iconic a fall of the pictures I have ever seen. It
:21:30. > :21:35.shows me competing with the two great sprinters a world cycling. It
:21:35. > :21:45.was in 1967. It was Hernhill in London. It was my home track and
:21:45. > :21:48.the crowd were going mad. The photographer is and the people that
:21:48. > :21:53.attended after the track, the mechanics, the masseur, they said
:21:53. > :21:59.it was the best finished they had seen at the Champion of Champions
:21:59. > :22:03.sprint ever. Obviously, the season later this photograph, we went on
:22:03. > :22:07.to the Olympics. You're talking about a different ball-game
:22:07. > :22:14.altogether. I wanted to get rid of this are finishing second bit, but
:22:14. > :22:20.unfortunately, when we went to the Olympics, it was a case of working
:22:20. > :22:26.everything out what I wanted to do, and I came up to the quarter-finals
:22:26. > :22:32.and I collided with about 25 metres to go. I finished in second place
:22:32. > :22:35.to a French man. It seemed like I was destined to be the bridesmaid
:22:35. > :22:38.instead of the bride! That was the story behind Reg
:22:38. > :22:48.Barnett's photo. We'd like you to send us your memorable photos or
:22:48. > :22:58.
:22:58. > :23:01.It lay unread for years, and was almost thrown away twice. But now a
:23:01. > :23:04.manuscript written by a Kent Geography teacher - based on two
:23:04. > :23:08.years he spent in the trenches of the first world war as a private
:23:08. > :23:10.soldier - has been published. Called The Platoon, its
:23:10. > :23:13.significance was only spotted through a chance encounter between
:23:13. > :23:17.a relative of the author, and one of the historians who helped
:23:17. > :23:27.Stephen Spielberg with advice on his latest movie, War Horse. Peter
:23:27. > :23:30.
:23:30. > :23:36.Whittlesea has more. What is it? It is a horse they
:23:36. > :23:41.found in no man's land. A miraculous horse. The historian
:23:41. > :23:46.that helped Steven Spielberg turn War Horse into an accurate film
:23:46. > :23:51.about the First World War has published a book revealing its
:23:51. > :23:57.cherished family manuscript that was a first-hand account of the
:23:57. > :24:02.Battle of the Somme. Two mornings later, Blake crawled out to Brixham
:24:02. > :24:07.a wild flowers he had seen growing. His thoughts turned to his girl
:24:07. > :24:12.when he got back to every man's land. Joseph John Stuart Senior on
:24:12. > :24:17.the far right is the man behind the manuscript. He went to the Somme in
:24:17. > :24:21.July 1916, but it was while he was on a school trip to France that he
:24:21. > :24:26.was adviser could be a greater significance to the family document.
:24:26. > :24:31.The manuscript came into my family when Joseph John Stuart died. We
:24:31. > :24:35.thought that the manuscript was a novel, but the trouble was, he did
:24:35. > :24:40.not read like a novel, it was that a page turner, and they did not
:24:40. > :24:46.know what to do with it. It was when the manuscript was given to
:24:46. > :24:50.Andrew, he suggested it was a diary and not a novel. So impressed by
:24:50. > :24:55.this private account, he has woven the human touch is from this
:24:55. > :24:59.manuscript into what is likely to become a Hollywood blockbuster her.
:24:59. > :25:04.The great thing about having the script in front of me was the fact
:25:04. > :25:08.that while I was working on the script of War Horse and on the
:25:08. > :25:14.movie itself, I was able to bring a little bit of Joseph's experience
:25:14. > :25:20.to the screen. Now 40 years after his death, many will get an insight
:25:20. > :25:30.into life in the trenches thanks to John just have Stuart to until
:25:30. > :25:34.recently was just an unknown It is very windy outside, so we
:25:34. > :25:44.have called in Michael Fish, the expert!
:25:44. > :25:46.
:25:46. > :25:54.Went is a big feature, nothing like yesterday. -- the wind is a big
:25:54. > :26:00.feature. It will die down tomorrow. We have these strong winds at the
:26:00. > :26:04.moment. The wind came from the south-west and today, and tomorrow
:26:04. > :26:12.they will come from the north-west. Different areas affected. There
:26:12. > :26:17.could be cuts of up to 55 mph. -- Goss says. Into Friday command into
:26:17. > :26:23.the weekend, there is an area of high pressure building itself
:26:23. > :26:27.across us. It is enough to calm things down. The isobars move apart
:26:27. > :26:32.and things should settle down. It would be a while before this
:26:32. > :26:36.happens. Today, we started OK, but some cloud came down from the
:26:36. > :26:41.north-west bringing outbreaks of rain. Those outbreaks of rain will
:26:41. > :26:50.be with us for the rest of the night, as well as the strong wind.
:26:50. > :26:56.Gusts of 55 mph. A mile tonight, lowest temperatures of seven, eight
:26:56. > :27:02.or nine degrees. Tomorrow morning, some showers around on and off. A
:27:02. > :27:06.lighter showers, places staying dry. Gradually come as the day moves on,
:27:06. > :27:11.starting windy, the wind will ease away as the time goes on. The wind
:27:11. > :27:16.is strong enough to make it feel chilly tomorrow. Eight or nine
:27:16. > :27:20.degrees. Tomorrow evening, the sky will clear and we will have a cold
:27:20. > :27:24.night and there will be some frost in rural areas with temperatures of
:27:24. > :27:28.three a 4 degrees. Things will settle down as we head towards the
:27:28. > :27:31.end of the week. Mostly dry with sunny intervals and temperature is