:00:02. > :00:04.Welcome to South East Today, I'm Lynda Hardy.
:00:04. > :00:07.And I'm Rob Smith. Tonight's top stories:
:00:07. > :00:12.He claimed he'd been kidnapped from his car at knifepoint - tonight a
:00:12. > :00:15.lawyer is jailed for lying to try and escape a drink-driving charge.
:00:15. > :00:18.We're live in the village of Wadhurst with the details.
:00:18. > :00:21.The Government apologises to a whistleblower left in fear for his
:00:21. > :00:31.life after they accidentally revealed his name to the business
:00:31. > :00:31.
:00:31. > :00:35.he was trying to expose. They would come to know how so, at take
:00:35. > :00:40.pictures of a family members, all need to my children's school. What
:00:40. > :00:42.is that about? Also in tonight's programme:
:00:42. > :00:44.The identities of five professional footballers under investigation
:00:44. > :00:47.over an alleged sexual assault in Brighton are revealed.
:00:47. > :00:52.Sir David Attenborough shows his support for the controversial wind
:00:52. > :00:55.turbine built at the Glyndebourne Opera House.
:00:55. > :00:58.And lighting up the Dark Side Of The Moon - the exhibition
:00:58. > :01:08.remembering the Sussex gig that launched one of the biggest albums
:01:08. > :01:13.
:01:13. > :01:16.Good evening. A lawyer who lied to police that he'd been kidnapped to
:01:16. > :01:20.try to escape a drink-driving charge has been jailed for 12
:01:20. > :01:23.months for attempting to pervert the course of justice. Francis
:01:23. > :01:28.Bridgeman was drunk when he crashed his Range Rover into a telegraph
:01:28. > :01:30.pole near his home in East Sussex last April.
:01:30. > :01:35.He claimed armed men had stolen the car at knifepoint, before
:01:35. > :01:39.kidnapping him in another vehicle. But detectives found CCTV pictures
:01:39. > :01:49.revealing he was unsteady on his feet as he travelled home from his
:01:49. > :01:49.
:01:49. > :01:52.job in the City. John Young reports. Arriving at Lewes Crown Court this
:01:52. > :01:58.morning with his clothes in a back, knowing that this evening he might
:01:58. > :02:02.be in prison, the Oxford educated lawyer who lied to police, judge
:02:02. > :02:07.and jury. Francis Bridgeman's downfall started as he stumbled
:02:07. > :02:12.around looking for a train to take him long after five pints in the
:02:12. > :02:17.city. At the end of his journey, his mistake, climbing into his
:02:17. > :02:22.Range Rover and smashing into a telegraph pole. He then walked home,
:02:22. > :02:26.when the police caught up with him he told them he had been kidnapped.
:02:26. > :02:30.The kidnappers he said it must have crashed the vehicle. When the
:02:30. > :02:36.police found his DNA on the are back, they charged him with
:02:36. > :02:41.perverting the course of justice. hope it send out a very strong
:02:41. > :02:45.message. If people give false information to police it will be
:02:45. > :02:53.investigated. A lot of police time has been wasted on this
:02:53. > :02:59.investigation. In what Hirst this afternoon, at next used on whether
:02:59. > :03:06.a crime of persistent deception deserve to prison. What is it going
:03:06. > :03:11.to achieve? He should have some sort of freedom and some sort of
:03:11. > :03:16.restriction on his way of life. should be given longer because he
:03:16. > :03:21.is meant to represent the law and is not doing so. I think the poor
:03:21. > :03:27.chap has probably suffered enough already actually, he did have to
:03:27. > :03:37.stop -- we do have to stop people lying to the police. The judge had
:03:37. > :03:40.
:03:40. > :03:46.Lying he said was bad enough, but continuing to rely had made it far
:03:46. > :03:56.worse. He concluded by quoting the so well to its -- Sir Walter Scott,
:03:56. > :04:00.or what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive.
:04:00. > :04:04.How did he react? Quite startling scenes. The
:04:04. > :04:09.sentence was being passed and he solely slumped forwards onto his
:04:09. > :04:15.knees and fell into the well of the dock and remained there for several
:04:15. > :04:18.minutes. He was eventually let down to the cells by the court staff.
:04:18. > :04:22.Sussex Police have suggested that throughout his trial he had
:04:23. > :04:29.actually feigned illness, but one thing that was not in doubt is that
:04:29. > :04:33.his wife is seriously ill with cancer. The judge said that he took
:04:33. > :04:35.it into account but with a case like this a prison sentence was
:04:35. > :04:38.inevitable. A Sussex whistleblower who passed
:04:38. > :04:41.on allegations of corruption in Nigeria on condition of anonymity
:04:41. > :04:44.says he's been left in fear for his life after the British Government
:04:44. > :04:46.revealed his identity. Dotun Oloko was subsequently targeted by
:04:46. > :04:48.private investigators, who followed his children to school, after
:04:48. > :04:54.accusing a firm of investing overseas aid in companies suspected
:04:54. > :05:03.of money laundering. The International Development Secretary
:05:03. > :05:07.has apologised unreservedly, as Simon Jones reports.
:05:07. > :05:14.He warned the Government it may have been invested -- investing in
:05:14. > :05:21.corruption. Instead of investigating a report, the people
:05:21. > :05:28.who like accused placed me on their investigation. Dotun Oloko found
:05:28. > :05:32.out every aspect of his own life was placed under investigation.
:05:32. > :05:39.They came to my house, took pictures of me and my family,
:05:39. > :05:42.followed me to my children's school, what is that about? I have not seen
:05:42. > :05:48.-- I cannot see how an investigation into me has anything
:05:48. > :05:53.to do but my children. He gave the Department of International
:05:53. > :06:01.Development a dossier saying that money invested in Nigeria was being
:06:01. > :06:04.handled by money -- by companies suspected of mummery London. This
:06:04. > :06:09.firm and hired a security firm that photographed him at home and his
:06:09. > :06:15.children's school. It department for international development
:06:15. > :06:21.denied there had been a leak. should have find out what was going
:06:21. > :06:26.on. He should have investigated it with more diligence than he did.
:06:26. > :06:31.The department said that it inadvertently sent on the dossier
:06:31. > :06:35.unaware that his name could be found in at the records. It has
:06:35. > :06:40.apologised and reversibly. This organisation in Africa says
:06:40. > :06:44.whistleblowers must be protected. We need to make sure that if anyone
:06:44. > :06:48.comes forward and says there is a problem, we make sure that they are
:06:48. > :06:53.protected right from the start so that we can follow it the right
:06:53. > :06:57.procedures. Without those, families could feel threatened. At some
:06:57. > :07:03.point, I feel I will have to pay the price for what I have done.
:07:03. > :07:07.Retribution. There will be some form of retribution. The company
:07:07. > :07:11.Dotun Oloko has raised concerns about has refuted entirely his
:07:11. > :07:17.allegations and says it knows no reason why his life should be in
:07:17. > :07:20.danger. I understand the Department for
:07:20. > :07:23.International Development has ordered an immediate review.
:07:23. > :07:27.No one was available for interview today that they have made it clear
:07:27. > :07:33.that what happened should not have happened. They have offered an
:07:33. > :07:37.unreserved apology and a sorry for the distress that has been caused.
:07:37. > :07:42.They said that in future whistleblowers must be sure that
:07:42. > :07:46.their anonymity must be protected. Dotun Oloko made it absolute clear
:07:46. > :07:50.that he did not want his name to be revealed, that did happen and he
:07:50. > :07:53.said it has had a devastating affect on his life.
:07:53. > :08:01.In a moment, how our top sportsmen and women are shaping up to
:08:01. > :08:04.represent Britain at the Olympic One of the six footballers arrested
:08:04. > :08:08.in connection with an alleged sexual assault in Sussex has been
:08:08. > :08:11.eliminated from the police enquiry. No further action will be taken
:08:11. > :08:14.against Brighton and Hove Albion defender Tommy Elphick.
:08:14. > :08:19.But the five other footballers arrested yesterday remain under
:08:19. > :08:23.investigation and have been released on bail. They include an
:08:23. > :08:31.England under-21 international, and the son of a Premier League manager.
:08:31. > :08:35.Peter Whittlesea has more. As a club, Brighton and Hove Albion
:08:35. > :08:39.are reduced to being on the Spotlight for matters on and off
:08:39. > :08:44.the pitch, but this is the first time they have hit headlines in
:08:44. > :08:48.this way. For players and one former player have been arrested
:08:48. > :08:58.for allegations of sexual assault, and today their identities were
:08:58. > :09:05.revealed. The most well-known is He has risen through the Segal's
:09:05. > :09:12.squads. Less well-known is George Barker.
:09:12. > :09:17.He has also come up through the youth teams.
:09:17. > :09:21.Then some peel is just 19. Compared with the others, he is a newcomer,
:09:21. > :09:26.having been a former trainee with Chelsea.
:09:26. > :09:29.Tom Rogers -- Anton Rodgers comes from a footballing family. His
:09:29. > :09:35.father Brendan is the boss of Swansea.
:09:35. > :09:40.Finally, Steve Cook, a 20-year-old defender who was on the Seagull's
:09:40. > :09:44.books and tell you joined Bournemouth earlier this month.
:09:44. > :09:49.Legal experts say arrests are in the initial stage of police inquiry,
:09:49. > :09:57.which may or may not lead to charges. The police will follow up
:09:57. > :10:03.any lines of inquiry that perhaps a rise after any interviews. Or
:10:03. > :10:07.perhaps following up evidence or lines of inquiry. This afternoon,
:10:07. > :10:13.Tommy Elphick was eliminated from the police inquiry. The other
:10:13. > :10:16.footballers have been released on police bail until 21st March.
:10:16. > :10:19.A man has been found guilty at Lewes Crown Court today for the
:10:19. > :10:22.murder of a homeless man. 49-year- old Mark Watson stabbed Russian
:10:22. > :10:27.immigrant Alexandre Sokolnikov to death in Eastbourne last February.
:10:27. > :10:29.He'll be sentenced next month. A man's been airlifted to hospital
:10:29. > :10:32.with life-threatening injuries after a collision between a lorry
:10:32. > :10:35.and a car. There've been long tailbacks on the M20, M25 and M26
:10:35. > :10:41.motorways this evening, after the accident on the coastbound section
:10:41. > :10:44.of the M20 near Maidstone. Kent Police are investigating the crash,
:10:44. > :10:47.and the lorry driver has been arrested.
:10:47. > :10:50.Drivers caught speeding outside two primary schools in Kent were given
:10:50. > :10:53.the choice today between accepting a �60 fine and three points on
:10:53. > :10:58.their licence, or facing questions from the children to explain what
:10:58. > :11:00.they'd done. Several motorists were stopped for
:11:00. > :11:09.speeding outside Barham and Chartham primary schools, near
:11:09. > :11:12.Canterbury including a young woman driving at 38 miles per hour.
:11:12. > :11:18.think if more people who were caught speeding came to speak to
:11:18. > :11:22.the children, it might make them more aware. It is their personal
:11:22. > :11:29.response to your speeding. It makes you feel quite awkward. You do not
:11:29. > :11:32.know how to answer their questions. With the London Olympics just a few
:11:32. > :11:34.months away, Kent tourism bosses are appealing for an army of
:11:34. > :11:37.volunteers to help travellers find their way to the games. The
:11:37. > :11:40.Olympics Minister and Kent MP Hugh Robertson helped launch the search
:11:40. > :11:50.for 300 Kent Games Greeters this afternoon, as our Olympics Reporter
:11:50. > :11:50.
:11:50. > :11:55.Chrissie Reidy explains. atmosphere here is wonderful.
:11:55. > :12:03.People just love to come and sit around. Peter Shore is so
:12:03. > :12:07.passionate about Kent that for the last six max here he he has
:12:07. > :12:11.dedicated to hours to become a Kent greater. With lots more visitors
:12:11. > :12:18.going to descend on the county during the Olympics and Paralympics,
:12:18. > :12:23.the search is on for at 300 more gritters. We want enthusiastic
:12:23. > :12:28.locals who love for their love. It saves the visitor time and money
:12:28. > :12:32.because they can find out within an hour or so what might well take
:12:32. > :12:40.them a day or so to find out on their own. Games gritters will be
:12:40. > :12:46.deployed all over the county. -- gritters. It takes just 10 minutes
:12:46. > :12:50.on the high-speed link to the Olympic Park. It is relatively
:12:50. > :12:57.quiet here today, but come to light thousands of visitors are expected
:12:57. > :13:01.to come through here. Millions of people will be coming through the
:13:01. > :13:07.county, through the ports, through the airport, through the stations,
:13:07. > :13:17.and we want to make sure that their experience is really tip-top.
:13:17. > :13:21.what make ship -- makes an ideal gritter? This is a once-in-a-
:13:21. > :13:26.lifetime opportunity to go to the public and tell everyone why you're
:13:26. > :13:30.so passionate about Kent. As the gateway to the Olympics, it is
:13:30. > :13:34.hoped that the extended welcome will encourage more people to
:13:34. > :13:39.return to the county after 2012. If you're interested in
:13:39. > :13:41.volunteering, you can find out how on our website. And later in the
:13:41. > :13:44.programme we'll hear how our Olympic and Paralympic athletes are
:13:44. > :13:54.preparing, with just over six months to go until the London Games
:13:54. > :13:55.
:13:55. > :13:59.begin. This is our top story tonight.
:13:59. > :14:03.A lawyer who lied to police that he had been kidnapped to try and
:14:03. > :14:07.escape a drink-drive charge has been jailed for 12 months. Francis
:14:07. > :14:13.Bridgeman claimed that armed men stole and crashed his Range Rover.
:14:13. > :14:20.In reality, he had driven it into a telegraph pole.
:14:20. > :14:28.Also intimate's programme. -- tonight's.
:14:28. > :14:33.Commemorating the launch of a And it looks like being a rather
:14:33. > :14:41.nondescript weekend, dry, mild and than a cloudy but will there be any
:14:41. > :14:43.sunshine? Join me later to find out. The naturalist and film-maker Sir
:14:43. > :14:48.David Attenborough is world famous for his commitment to the
:14:48. > :14:51.environment. He's been a high- profile supporter of the
:14:51. > :14:56.controversial new wind turbine at Glyndebourne Opera House near Lewes
:14:56. > :14:59.and was guest of honour at its official opening today. At 70
:14:59. > :15:01.metres high, it's taller than Nelson's Column, and it's hoped it
:15:01. > :15:08.will produce 90% of the energy Glyndebourne needs, thereby cutting
:15:08. > :15:11.carbon emissions there by half. But local people who opposed the
:15:11. > :15:15.project at a public inquiry say it's an eyesore that has no place
:15:15. > :15:22.on the Sussex Downs. Our Environment Correspondent Yvette
:15:22. > :15:30.Austin has the latest in our Switched On series.
:15:31. > :15:34.The 1, 2, 3... CHEERING.
:15:34. > :15:38.An unusual performance for Glyndebourne's standards, but one
:15:38. > :15:42.it hopes will make its huge difference to the famous opera
:15:42. > :15:46.house's reputation. When the power to improve the estate's
:15:46. > :15:50.environmental credentials -- wind power. With the endorsement of an
:15:50. > :15:56.influential figure. It is a joy to be involved in something working
:15:56. > :16:01.with nature and not against it. Of all other ways of raising the power
:16:01. > :16:06.that we all need for either motor cars or for our houses and so on,
:16:06. > :16:11.this is the most friendly towards the natural world. It took six
:16:11. > :16:15.years to get this far, building finally came after a big campaign
:16:15. > :16:22.against the scheme and even a public inquiry. Some local people
:16:22. > :16:26.still object. Thalamus -- hour society has only ever objected to
:16:26. > :16:29.one and this is the one, we feel it is the wrong combination and will
:16:29. > :16:37.produce very little but its visual impact is very significant. You
:16:37. > :16:41.could see it over quite a different -- distance. But it takes a lot of
:16:41. > :16:44.electricity to run an opera house and Glyndebourne says the Turbine
:16:44. > :16:48.will cut its carbon dioxide emissions by 1,000 tonnes per year.
:16:48. > :16:52.Obviously, there is a balance needed, if you don't want to see
:16:52. > :16:55.them across all of the Sussex Downs but where there are roads and man-
:16:55. > :17:01.made structures, they should put them up. We have a big problem and
:17:01. > :17:05.this, I hope, will encourage others to do likewise. Wind power is of
:17:05. > :17:09.course controversial. The arguments against are that noise, what the
:17:09. > :17:13.turbine is look like and how much they cost. But for Glyndebourne,
:17:13. > :17:15.based say this will supply around 90% of its electricity and will
:17:16. > :17:25.give them an environmentally friendly record and that is why it
:17:26. > :17:26.
:17:26. > :17:30.The clock is ticking for athletes in the south-east hoping to
:17:30. > :17:33.represent Britain at this summer's Olympic and Paralympic Games.
:17:33. > :17:38.On Sunday, you can catch up with the progress of half a dozen
:17:38. > :17:44.competitors from Kent and Sussex in a special Olympic Dreams programme.
:17:44. > :17:47.But Neil Bell can give us a sneak preview now, he is in Chatham. Neil,
:17:47. > :17:53.the tension is really starting to rack up now for our top sportsmen
:17:53. > :17:55.and women. The absolutely, when you get this close to the Games,
:17:55. > :17:58.anything you do and don't do can have a bigger impact on your
:17:58. > :18:01.prospects. Not surprisingly, many of our
:18:01. > :18:05.competitors are heading south for some warm-weather training and we
:18:05. > :18:08.caught up with some. For many competitors, the next few
:18:08. > :18:11.months will be the most important of their sporting lives.
:18:11. > :18:16.Preparation and performance must be timed precisely so they make it to
:18:16. > :18:22.London and then produced their best. Martin Brockman is a Commonwealth
:18:22. > :18:28.Games bronze medallist, keen to improve, so we sent javelin thrower
:18:28. > :18:32.Steve Backley to give him a hand. One question I have to Askew. You
:18:32. > :18:37.are a decathlete, the 10 events, you must be mad. It is a silly
:18:37. > :18:41.idea! I used to just do the high jump, I was quite good, but I just
:18:42. > :18:46.got bored. The problem now for Martin Brockman is how to master so
:18:46. > :18:49.many different events. My coach said to me, you can do the hurdles,
:18:49. > :18:53.the high jump for the pole vault, three of the harder events anyway,
:18:53. > :18:58.so why don't you learn to throw and you could be a good decathlete. I
:18:58. > :19:03.am still learning to throw but it is going well so far. While Martin
:19:03. > :19:07.Brockman's challenge is obvious, Sophia Warner has more difficult --
:19:07. > :19:12.different obstacles to overcome. This mother of of two has dedicated
:19:12. > :19:16.her life to win a sprint medal at the Paralympic Games, but cerebral
:19:16. > :19:20.palsy makes even the simplest things complicated. Yesterday, even
:19:20. > :19:26.at my age, I hopped up for the first time without holding on and I
:19:26. > :19:29.felt I should have my parents with the! Not even has -- Sofia has
:19:29. > :19:33.given up her job and so has her husband, to help look after the
:19:33. > :19:38.children. And there would be nice and I hope, the door is open for
:19:38. > :19:42.the possibilities and other things could come along but all in all, I
:19:42. > :19:45.hope she is happy. The result of all their dedication and
:19:45. > :19:48.determination will soon be clear with the game's just six months
:19:48. > :19:57.away. You can see more on those stories on the Olympic dreams
:19:57. > :20:02.programme this Sunday at 5pm on BBC One, and it starts at 5pm. Martin
:20:02. > :20:09.has improved his personal best in the javelin and Sophia Warner has
:20:09. > :20:12.shaved one 10th of a second off her best time.
:20:12. > :20:15.Turning to football and Gills fans around here will be hoping the
:20:15. > :20:18.club's recent striker crisis is over. Jo Kuffour looks likely to be
:20:18. > :20:20.fit to face AFC Wimbledon tomorrow, after several weeks out through
:20:20. > :20:24.illness. I bumped into Danny Kedwell garage this morning and he
:20:24. > :20:26.was optimistic he would also be involved in the game, as is his
:20:26. > :20:30.manager. It is all about the pain threshold, really, how much pain
:20:30. > :20:34.you can take in training. If he has no problems, but there is a good
:20:34. > :20:40.chance he could be involved. It will be a late shout on Danny
:20:40. > :20:44.Kedwell. Charlton will be hoping to complete a Sheffield double after
:20:44. > :20:50.beating Wednesday last week, taking on a Sheffield United at the Valley
:20:50. > :20:54.tomorrow. In League Two, Crawley could return
:20:54. > :20:57.to top spot with victory at struggling Plymouth. Scoring goals
:20:57. > :21:00.has been the problem recently, but there's some good news tonight as
:21:00. > :21:03.striker Tyrone Barnett is still with the club, having turned down a
:21:03. > :21:06.move to Championship Blackpool. He should be available for the game.
:21:06. > :21:10.After a traumatic few days off the pitch, Brighton will be looking
:21:10. > :21:13.forward to getting back to business at Peterborough. And it would be
:21:13. > :21:16.the ideal time for former Posh striker Craig Mackail Smith to
:21:16. > :21:18.rediscover his goalscoring touch. The very best of luck to all on our
:21:18. > :21:21.side, it will be interesting to see who is in the Brighton squad
:21:21. > :21:24.tomorrow. Neil, thank you very much.
:21:24. > :21:28.It went on to become one of the most successful albums ever made,
:21:28. > :21:31.but it was to a bunch of fans at the Brighton Dome that 40 years ago
:21:31. > :21:35.in 1972 Pink Floyd first played the songs that went on to be released
:21:35. > :21:40.as The Dark Side Of The Moon. Since then, it's sold 50 million
:21:40. > :21:43.copies, making it the sixth best- selling album of all time in the UK.
:21:43. > :21:48.And it was huge in the States, too, remaining in the US Billboard album
:21:48. > :21:52.chart for an astonishing 741 weeks. An exhibition marking the 40th
:21:52. > :21:57.anniversary of the gig at the Dome has been put together, and our
:21:57. > :22:01.reporter Alex Beard is there. Alex, no-one could have guessed that
:22:01. > :22:06.night the impact that Dark Side Of The Moon would go on to have.
:22:06. > :22:11.No, they couldn't. It was their 8th studio album so they couldn't have
:22:11. > :22:15.predicted how big it got, 50 million copies sold worldwide. When
:22:15. > :22:20.they played the debut here at the Brighton Dome in 1972, it has
:22:20. > :22:28.actually called the Eclipse, it was and remained until 1973 on its
:22:28. > :22:30.official launch. MUSIC: "Money" by Pink Floyd.
:22:30. > :22:40.# Money. # Get away.$$NEWLINE Before we go,
:22:40. > :22:40.
:22:40. > :22:44.It dominated the charts here and in the US. Even the band members move
:22:44. > :22:54.Dark Side Of The Moon was something special. I certainly knew that
:22:54. > :22:56.
:22:56. > :23:06.something quite magical was happening. I remember looking at
:23:06. > :23:14.the final listing and saying, "That is good, that is very good.
:23:14. > :23:19." at the age of 18, this photographer captured live but on
:23:19. > :23:24.and off the stage. I am very happy with the stills
:23:24. > :23:29.from the Brighton Dome, they were a very early effort from me, my first
:23:29. > :23:36.band shot, I would say, so in spite of the flash not working very well,
:23:36. > :23:42.I thought I caught a candid at Bosnia. The cover of the album was
:23:42. > :23:48.recently voted the best cover of all time, and it was in this for 40
:23:48. > :23:53.years ago that it was heard live for the first time.
:23:53. > :23:58.But all did not run smoothly. The band's revolutionary sound
:23:58. > :24:02.equipment caused a blackout halfway through the geek. The truth is that
:24:02. > :24:07.it was a load of untested kier, brought in and plug in and it was
:24:07. > :24:12.sort of overload -- gear. It went wrong after half-an-hour and it
:24:12. > :24:17.went wrong on the bass riff of Money, which is the most important
:24:17. > :24:21.piece, really, in the whole thing. Images from the band of that night
:24:21. > :24:26.and throughout their career sit across from their unique album
:24:26. > :24:30.covers, perhaps not as iconic as Dark Side Of The Moon.
:24:30. > :24:34.This exhibition continues for another two months. Some of the
:24:34. > :24:39.visitors today were huge fans, others just curious, but everyone
:24:39. > :24:44.recognises at least one image. Well, we could do with some
:24:44. > :24:48.sunshine over the weekend, will we get any? Michael Fish is with us
:24:48. > :24:50.now. I'll leave that until later. It
:24:50. > :24:53.I'll leave that until later. It will be a nondescript weekend, as I
:24:53. > :24:58.said, and that does mean perhaps a lack of sunshine, but more than
:24:58. > :25:04.that, affair that of cloud around. There is some good news on the way,
:25:04. > :25:08.but it will be windy. We had cloud today, the thickest of the whole
:25:08. > :25:12.country was on the eastern side and it also produced some outbreaks of
:25:12. > :25:15.rain. We had most of the heavier rain to the north but one or two
:25:15. > :25:20.burst came along from time to time, the heaviest in the northernmost
:25:20. > :25:25.parts of Kent and we have just seen some breaking out in East Sussex.
:25:25. > :25:29.It is going to be a cloudy night, increasingly breezy and it will
:25:29. > :25:32.stay cloudy and a bit damp and drizzly from time to time. Not as
:25:33. > :25:38.much rain as one would call a nuisance rain, not even getting the
:25:38. > :25:43.windscreen wipers working, but some spit sunspots every now and again.
:25:43. > :25:48.Temperatures not falling below six or seven degrees. A good deal of
:25:48. > :25:52.ground -- ploughed through tomorrow, or again some rain here and there,
:25:52. > :25:57.and come the afternoon, the chance of a Klinar or two of brightness.
:25:57. > :26:02.It will be a very mild day, temperatures of the 10 of 11, but
:26:02. > :26:06.tempered by the fact that it will be windy. Gusts could get up to 40
:26:06. > :26:11.mph over the hills and the coast. Tomorrow evening, more of the same,
:26:11. > :26:15.the odd spot of rain, but mostly dry with a good deal of cloud, and
:26:15. > :26:19.temperatures will not fall buried below. The lowest temperatures will
:26:19. > :26:24.be like tonight, six or seven. That is the sort of temperature one
:26:24. > :26:29.would expect in the daytime, let alone at night. The reason, of warm
:26:29. > :26:32.air introduced, a warm front bringing in a warm sector and it
:26:32. > :26:37.felt the cold front comes down, as it does on Sunday, we will stay on
:26:37. > :26:41.the mild side -- until. The wind will spring a round to the South
:26:41. > :26:46.West, bringing air from green land so it will feel very different, and
:26:46. > :26:50.the unsettled team continues as it turns wet and windy on Tuesday. A
:26:50. > :26:53.couple of mild days followed by a couple of chilly days, all of the
:26:53. > :26:56.time windy with strong westerly winds, and that will be reflected
:26:56. > :26:58.in the night-time temperatures, chilly night with some night-time
:26:58. > :27:00.chilly night with some night-time frosts and couple of mild ones as
:27:00. > :27:05.well. Not looking too bad.
:27:05. > :27:08.Just before we go, a quick recap of tonight's top stories:
:27:08. > :27:10.A dissident Republican has been jailed for life for the murder of
:27:11. > :27:13.two soldiers outside a military barracks in Northern Ireland.
:27:13. > :27:16.Another man was cleared of playing a part in the ambush.
:27:17. > :27:19.A lawyer from Sussex who lied to police that he'd been kidnapped to
:27:19. > :27:23.try to escape a drink-driving charge has been jailed for 12
:27:23. > :27:26.months for attempting to pervert the course of justice.
:27:26. > :27:28.And with the London Olympics just six months away, Kent tourism
:27:28. > :27:35.bosses have launched an appeal for 300 volunteers to help travellers