Browse content similar to 03/02/2012. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
Welcome to South East Today, I'm Polly Evans. | :00:03. | :00:04. | |
And I'm Rob Smith. Tonight's top stories: | :00:04. | :00:07. | |
Lawful killing - Sussex police are told they were justified in | :00:07. | :00:16. | |
shooting Michael Fitzpatrick dead on a Brighton street. They had a | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
moment to make that decision and they made absolutely the right one. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
An apology to the man sent home from hospital untreated - even | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
though he was having a stroke. Also tonight: | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
Bracing themselves - how our soup kitchens and hospitals are | :00:27. | :00:35. | |
preparing to look after people left out in the cold. | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
I cannot believe that I skied across Antarctica. It is ridiculous. | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
The emotional moment Felicity Aston made it across Antarctica. The Kent | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
explorer is live in the studio to tell us about her record-breaking | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
adventure. And fine-tuning - the restorer | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
:00:59. | :01:05. | ||
who's been appointed to care for Good evening. Sussex Police took | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
absolutely the right decision when they shot dead a convicted armed | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
robber in broad daylight in Brighton a year ago, according to | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
the coroner at the end of an inquest today. | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
This afternoon, a jury returned a verdict of lawful killing after | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
Michael Fitzpatrick was shot dead in the street. He'd been pointing a | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
replica gun at officers who were about to arrest him. John Young | :01:25. | :01:33. | |
reports. On A Brighton St one February | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
lunchtime almost exactly a year ago, a convicted armed robber about to | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
raise an unloaded replica gun at the police before being shot dead | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
himself. It was something that could not be avoided, a jury | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
decided today. They had a moment to make that decision and they made | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
the right one. Was there no alternative? A case that perhaps? | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
This inquest has gone through the details and shown unequivocally | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
that the detail and the plan had they used was absolutely the right | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
one, tragic though the outcome was. Michael Fitzpatrick was a very | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
dangerous man, convicted of armed robbery and hostage-taking and had | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
admitted conspiracy to murder Diana Goldsmith, who vanished from | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
Sevenoaks in 1995. He was out in Brighton, released on licence after | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
serving 17 the -- seven years of a 17 year sentence. Police suspected | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
him of several other armed robberies. On the day he died, the | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
coroner said the police officer had just two or three seconds to | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
respond. The coroner made clear that there was no evidence Sussex | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
Police had done anything wrong. The IPCC had in fact investigated and | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
concluded they had done everything pretty much right. She went on to | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
tell the jury that for those reasons she would not accept the | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
verdict of unlawful killing. The verdict they unanimously returned | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
was lawful killing. Police had been on standby to try and save | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
Fitzpatrick's like before paramedics arrived but he died in | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
minutes. John Young reporting and he joins | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
us from the scene of the shooting. John, clearly an extremely | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
sensitive inquest. It was, at one point I tried to go | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
to the front of the courtroom to have a word with the clerk but | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
found a plainclothes policeman telling me to not come any further | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
forward, which has never happened to me in court before. All of the | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
police there -- officers who gave evidence had to give so anonymously | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
behind a screen. His sense a lot of sympathy for the police. The jury | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
described their actions as exemplary and the coroner expressed | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
sympathy not only for Mr Fitzpatrick's family but also for | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
the police officers who were involved in this. | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
Thank you, John. A Kent hospital has apologised to a | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
man after he was turned away from its accident and emergency unit | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
because the doctor failed to diagnose he was having a stroke. | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
Damien Fawsett waited for five hours at Darent Valley hospital | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
before being sent home without being treated. The next day his GP | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
sent him straight to Medway Maritime Hospital where he was | :04:10. | :04:18. | |
given appropriate treatment. Steve Gaisford reports. | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
Damien was playing a geek at a Maidstone puddle when he suddenly | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
collapsed on stage -- a concert at the Maidstone pub. He was rushed to | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
Darent Valley Hospital. I couldn't remember my name or my date of | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
birth or anything like that, Susan had to answer questions for me. | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
They assessed the in-tray arch, gave me blood pressure, asked me a | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
series of questions and left me on a bed for five hours -- a tree arch. | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
Despite slurred speech and leading -- losing feeling in his body, he | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
was discharged. The next day, his GP sent him to Medway Maritime, | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
where he continues to receive treatment. To spot the signs of a | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
stroke, you have to act fast. to campaigns like this, more people | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
can spot the tell-tale signs of a stroke. Should we be concerned that | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
a trained doctor failed to diagnose Damien Fawsett? Things are | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
improving all the time, but what is important is that if people are | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
Rattle confused by the symptoms being present board not, they | :05:19. | :05:26. | |
should treat it as an M -- a medical emergency. Darent Valley | :05:26. | :05:36. | |
:05:36. | :05:45. | ||
But Dr's excuse at the time was that at Damien's age, he is too | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
young to have a stroke -- but the doctor's. But it is quite common | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
now for people in their 30 and forties. I am lucky that the stroke | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
was quite minor. If I had had a plot borrowed lead on a brain, | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
which most strokes do occur from, I wouldn't be talking to you now -- a | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
clot or a lesion. Damien is already back performing with his band. | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
Despite the ordeal, they are thankful he did finally get the | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
treatment he needed. In a moment: | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
Sailing by - the Medway boats joining a huge Thames flotilla to | :06:21. | :06:31. | |
:06:31. | :06:32. | ||
celebrate the Queen's Diamond The first snow of the winter is | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
forecast to land this weekend, and organisations that look after the | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
elderly and the vulnerable are already gearing up to deal with the | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
problems the freezing temperatures may bring. | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
Last winter, there were significant problems caused by the prolonged | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
icy conditions, with hospitals having to deal with a huge rise in | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
injuries from slips and falls. Our social affairs correspondent Yvette | :06:52. | :07:01. | |
Austin reports. 20th December 10, and a prolonged | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
period of snow and ice cost individuals and local authorities | :07:06. | :07:13. | |
deer -- 2010. With snow predicted in the next few days, preparation | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
is key. Some of the most reliable are the elderly. Cheery now, but | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
behind the scenes, carers are gearing up to keep it that way. | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
Because the bus will skid around too much, we cannot go out on the | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
tiny roads in Canterbury where we pick people up from. It will mean | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
people will be isolated and not be able to get out and have this hot | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
meal, which will have warmed them up well. So we will have to ring | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
all those people and be absolutely confident that they do have | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
provisions for themselves and if they don't, we will take meals to | :07:45. | :07:52. | |
them. All hospitals and health workers, it is a tough period. -- 4. | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
Around 27,000 more people die in England during the winter months | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
than at other times and in severe weather, the number rises. In 2008- | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
2009, 34,000 more people died, mostly down to heart disease, | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
strokes and breathing problems. In East Kent, the hospitals have an | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
action plan. We had tractors and a snow plough and a vehicle Macro to | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
make sure the sites are clear to allow ambulances to commend -- and | :08:19. | :08:28. | |
gritter. We also have vehicles to bring in staff members and bring | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
them in to ensure patients can still have their treatment. | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
shelters are preparing to taking the homeless. We are running a | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
winter shelter from the three months, December, January and | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
February. I don't think I am overstating it when I say that | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
without us, some people would die. In fact, I know I am not. At least | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
with the snow predicted to fall at the weekend, commuters will be | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
spared the worst, although Network Rail says this year, it has an | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
armoury of snow trains to keep lines clear. | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
Yvette Austin joins us now from the Catching Lives day shelter in | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
Canterbury. Yvette, how are people coping there? | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
Well, it is cosy and warm in here and people are getting a good meal, | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
but this is just a day centre, no one can sleepier. So what is going | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
to happen is people will be taken to church halls across the city. | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
Each night, a church hall opens its doors, Baxter volunteers and it | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
takes and the homeless. -- takes in. Lee, you have slept rough before, | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
what is it like our notes like this? It is quite cold, it is a | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
place like this that we all depend on. The staff, the people, | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
everything, because without them and without this place, we would | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
all be really cold, sleeping rough and we would have nowhere to go. We | :09:52. | :09:59. | |
all depend on coming to this place to wash our clothes, to wash, had | :09:59. | :10:07. | |
showers, and usually, we would have blankets to go out with if we | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
needed to. Thanks very much. We also have Helen. You don't look | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
typically homeless, it has done a lot the year. I did this morning | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
when I came in, I love really terrible. -- it has done a lot for | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
you. Our I have had a shower, and clean clothes, done all my washing. | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
Good luck, thank you very much. We have a happier that the snow does | :10:31. | :10:41. | |
:10:41. | :10:45. | ||
not materialise. A new ferry service from Dover to | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
Calais will open in two week's time, but the 300 jobs it will create | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
will mainly go to French workers. DFDS have joined forces with LD | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
Lines to take over the route previously operated by SeaFrance, | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
which went into liquidation in January. | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
A French ship flying under the French flag and employing French | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
seafarers. The Norman ferries will take people from Calais this month. | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
A boost for the port of Dover, but there is disappointment that the | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
jobs will not go to the British. Why can't the people who have been | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
based with DFDS here be relocated over the site? When you have a | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
specialised industry, as with shipping, where else will they find | :11:20. | :11:30. | |
them? They cannot go to Margate. January 9th, 100 and -- several | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
hundred workers were made redundant when SeaFrance went into | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
liquidation. Aberdeen and back row company announced a deal to take | :11:40. | :11:47. | |
over the group and they announced their new schedule today -- to DFDS | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
and LD Lines. Plenty believe this announcement is political. | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
believe DFDS should consider having a UK flag and using the UK workers | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
and we all understand about the French presidential election, but | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
after that is out of the way, I hope they can look at it on a | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
commercial rather than political basis and do the right thing. | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
don't think it is fair to say that has been the main influence in | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
Where the jobs have gone. The main influence is that there are 1,000 | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
French seafarers who have been made redundant and are available to | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
imply in France and the joint initiative is with LD Lines, who | :12:24. | :12:31. | |
are bad French company. DFDS will eventually run two ferries. They | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
will have to see what jobs it brings the locals. | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
Fiona Irving with that report and she joins us now in Dover. Fiona, | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
is there any hope tonight for SeaFrance workers made redundant | :12:41. | :12:51. | |
:12:51. | :12:51. | ||
These extra ferries mean they will have to staff up the DFDS of this | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
in Dover, but they do not know how many extra jobs that will mean. | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
Earlier I spoke to the vice- president of DFDS who told me the | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
ferry they are using is a French ferry, it is owned by the French | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
company LD Lines, so they will have to have an operation in Calais. | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
They do not know how many people they will meet. They will have to | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
start from scratch. SeaFrance went into liquidation despite having to | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
be bailed out by millions, so I think that there will be more jobs | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
here in the future, we just do not know how many. | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
This is our top story tonight, Sussex Police took absolutely the | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
right decision when they shot dead a convicted armed robber in broad | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
daylight in Brighton a year ago. That is according to the coroner at | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
the end of an inquest. The jury returned a verdict of lawful | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
killing over Michael Fitzpatrick who had been pointing a replica gun | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
at officers who were about to arrest him. | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
The piano man, how a Kent restorer was picked to fine-tune the Queen's | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
musical instrument. Poles apart, Felicity Aston, the | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
first woman to cross the Antarctic alone, joins us live in the studio | :14:04. | :14:13. | |
to talk about her incredible achievement. | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
In exactly four months, one of the largest public events ever held in | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
London takes place, to mark 60 years of the Queen's reign. It is | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
the Thames Diamond Jubilee flotilla, and it will sailed up the river on | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
June 3rd. 1,000 boats will take part in the parade, which will | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
measure seven miles long. It will be manned by a 20,000 people. Five | :14:36. | :14:44. | |
boats will be coming from the Medway Maritime Trust. | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
The Queen makes her way along the Thames, surrounded by a flotilla of | :14:50. | :14:58. | |
boats to celebrate her jubilee year. This was 1977. The Silver Jubilee. | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
In 2012, the Thames will once again be a focus for celebration, boats | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
following the Queen's barge, others lining the route. Among them, this | :15:09. | :15:17. | |
dhow. She belongs to a man who met the Queen was -- when she was | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
Princess in 1951. Now the but he has restored over 25 years will | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
play a role in her Diamond Jubilee. It is enormously exciting, not so | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
much for me as for the dhow. It is the dhow that is the centre of the | :15:31. | :15:39. | |
focus. I just happened to be the custodian. -- the dhow. Billed as a | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
gentleman's yacht, his life as a leisure craft was soon interrupted | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
in the war, armed with machine guns. She patrolled the Thames. While the | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
ship was never built with war in mind, many others were. So | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
desperate was the need for it tugs, ones like this were being made at | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
the rate of one a week. It is a very special craft. It does not | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
look like much but they had to build them in a real hurry in the | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
war. They were not allowed to use shipyard labour so they built them | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
in well we workshops. That is the way it has happened ever since. -- | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
railway workshops. This one was made too late for the Normandy | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
landings. But she served the Navy until 1974. Could Chatham neighbour | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
is also taking part in the River Festival. -- her Chatham neighbour. | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
He takes two days to get this Steamboat on the move, but during | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
her working life, she rarely stopped. Supplying ships up and | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
down the east coast. It worked and served Chatham dockyard and to lead | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
close in the early 1970s, then it was retired and when to do | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
dereliction, we saved it about five years ago. Along with fellow took | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
the Kent, she will be moored in London as the Queen's barge and its | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
thousands of followers go by. And as part of the Jubilee | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
celebrations, we are running a special series of My Photo. Do you | :17:12. | :17:22. | |
:17:22. | :17:37. | ||
have a photo or video of when you It took her 59 days in storm-force | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
winds with temperatures dropping to minus 30, but Felicity Aston from | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
Birchington has become the first woman to cross Antarctica alone. | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
The 33-year-old explorer let her home last October and began her | :17:50. | :17:57. | |
solo trip at the end of November. She skied for 1084 miles from the | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
Ross Ice Shelf, arriving at the Hercules Inlet on January 22nd to | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
achieve the record. She has returned to Kent now and we will be | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
talking to her in a moment. First, let us take a look at the emotional | :18:09. | :18:19. | |
:18:19. | :18:25. | ||
moment she reached the end of an I cannot believe it. I cannot | :18:25. | :18:32. | |
believe I skied across Antarctica, it is so ridiculous! I do not | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
really know what I was expecting. It all seems to have come to an end | :18:39. | :18:49. | |
:18:49. | :18:49. | ||
a bit quick. The only thing I can think of that I want right now is | :18:49. | :18:57. | |
the hub my father had to let him know I am here. -- hug. I am really | :18:57. | :19:07. | |
:19:07. | :19:08. | ||
shell-shocked that it is over. I am done. I am on my way home. | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
It is an amazing achievement, and you said watching that, it was | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
actually quite emotional. Yes, watching those pictures back again, | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
it still makes me go a bit tearful. How do you feel now you are back | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
and can step back and think about your achievement? I do not think a | :19:26. | :19:33. | |
it has really sunk in yet. I had to focus on the day, day-by-day, I | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
could not focus on how long the entire journey was, so when I look | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
at a map of Antarctica and think I have skied across it, it still | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
seems a bit silly. It is not just like skiing downhill, this is | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
really seriously hard work. Particularly at the beginning. The | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
South Pole sits at about 10,000 feet, so you have to climb from sea | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
level right up to that height, then back down again. When you are going | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
uphill into winds towards the South Pole, it is very hard work. And you | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
were on your own for days on end, in this barren landscape. You | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
describe your shadow has you on the companion and you were talking to | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
the sun. How do you cope with it mentally? There is different ways. | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
It surprised me how instinctive it is that your brain finds coping | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
mechanisms, the plane was not even out of sight and I was already | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
talking to myself! If a very natural just to talk to myself and | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
top myself through what I was doing. Further on in the journey, I was | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
not doing that any more. I was having an internal conversation. | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
You had to literally drag everything behind you. | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
How much did it way? When I started, it was 85 kilograms. I had to | :20:52. | :20:59. | |
sledges. That is a fully grown man. When you came in and he said you | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
were wearing that jacket, we were quite shocked. That is what you | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
were wearing. A lot of people are quite surprised when they see my | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
jacket, that it is quite thin, there is no padding or insulation. | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
Underrate, I would mostly where have thermal cagoule. That is | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
because it goes against your intuition, even in those really | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
cold temperatures, you do not pile on lots of clothes, because you do | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
not want to sweat, because that is dangerous. The challenge was | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
actually keeping cool in Antarctica, not necessarily keeping warm. | :21:37. | :21:44. | |
sounds bizarre! And you have come back in one piece, congratulations. | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
He has proven his credentials by restoring pianos once owned by some | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
of the world's most famous composers, including Beethoven. | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
David Winston has now been awarded the Royal Warrant as conservator | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
and restorer of pianos to the Queen. His converted barn in Biddenden is | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
a treasure-trove of antique instruments and Katherine Downes | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
has been to see him at work. A century for special pianos. | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
Unusual, beautiful, but ravaged by time into silence. Until David | :22:17. | :22:24. | |
Winston brings them back to life. Then, they sing again. It is very | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
personal, the relationship I have the these instruments. Each one has | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
its own atmosphere and personality. And they gradually reveal | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
themselves to you if you are sensitive. You have to believe in | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
ghosts as well to work on these things. And David has restored | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
piano as belonging to some of music's most famous ghosts. Chopin | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
and Beethoven. Why was first taken into the room were Beethoven's | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
piano was and they have a look at it, it was just sitting in this | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
room on its own in a museum in Budapest. And really, it made my | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
hair stand on end. The history of this piano and what stories it | :23:08. | :23:16. | |
could tell. It is just mind- boggling. So, when concert pianist | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
draw at -- Daniel Greenwood bought a piano that belonged to a famous | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
19th century composer, he knew he had to leave it to David to restore. | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
There are few people in the world like David in that there are very | :23:29. | :23:39. | |
few people specialising to this level, so there are not very many | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
more sought-after. It is a special thing. David has now been given the | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
Royal Warrant, he has been working on instruments for the royal family | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
for 11 years, to warrant his recognition of the quality of his | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
work, though it means he cannot talk about as well commissions. | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
are not allowed to say exactly what specific instrument you worked on, | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
or where. Can you not tell me if any of these pianos belonged to the | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
Queen? I cannot tell you anything. So which one do you think looks | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
like the Queen's piano? David is not letting on. | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
One of the best jobs of July, you just cannot talk about it! -- jobs | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
of your life. The weather has already claimed a | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
sporting casualty this weekend, Gillingham's home tie against | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
Hereford has been called off. Despite the pitch being covered | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
since Monday, it has frozen. For the games scheduled to go ahead, | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
Brighton and Hove Albion could move closer to the Championship play-off | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
places with victory over Leicester at the Amex. The Albion are | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
undefeated in their last seven League and cup games and they will | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
hope Will Buckley can continue his good form. | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
A in League 1, Charlton going to their home game with Rochdale with | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
a ten-point lead at the top of the table. There midweek draw ended | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
their run of four successive league winds. | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
Crawley Town will hope that the sale of top scorer Matt Tubbs will | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
not derail their promotion challenge. They travel to Bradford | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
having dropped out of the promotion play-off places for the first time | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
since September. But will they get snowed off? That | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
But will they get snowed off? That is the question. | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
We can run but we cannot hide, winter is catching up. For the last | :25:27. | :25:34. | |
few weeks, it has been galloping towards spring. Every week, we are | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
gaining 25 minutes of daylight, in fact just today, we had just over | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
nine hours worth of delight. In four weeks' time, he can add | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
another two hours on to that. An extra hour in the morning and one | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
in the evening, just in four weeks' time. But of course, winter is now | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
slowly working its way into us. Last night was the coldest night we | :25:55. | :26:03. | |
have had, for some of us, for 13 months. It got down to minus seven | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
or minus eight. Similar temperatures tonight. You may also | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
have heard the rumour of snow, it is not really a rumour any more. | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
Tomorrow night, around eight or nine in the evening, we will see | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
some snow falling, lasting all through the night and we could we | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
Cup on Sunday to five to ten centimetres of snow. Because it is | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
a weather front, it is likely to affect all of us in the south-east. | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
That is Saturday night into Sunday. Before then, some thicker cloud, | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
there could be the occasional flick or two. But many of us will her | :26:39. | :26:46. | |
have clear skies and temperatures once again in towns, minus three or | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
minus four. In the countryside, minus six or minus seven. Yet again, | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
a bitterly cold start to the day tomorrow. We will still see some | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
sunshine but there will be a bit more cloud tomorrow. You could | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
still see the odd snowflake here or there. He it is tomorrow evening | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
when the proper snow starts to arrive. It will be eight or nine | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
o'clock tomorrow evening. It could turned to sleet or even rain | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
halfway through the night, but by Sunday, it turns back to snow again. | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
Starting to settle as well, up to ten centimetres. Through the day on | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
Sunday, we could still see another couple of centimetres. This weekend, | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
we could be needing to get the sledges out. If you are at all | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
worried and need more information on the weather or travels where you | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
are, tune into your local BBC Kent, are, tune into your local BBC Kent, | :27:39. | :27:46. | |
Surrey or Sussex radio. I just feel cold thinking about it! | :27:46. | :27:52. | |
On Monday, what happens when former EastEnders star Tamsin athlete went | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
down to Gravesend to find out what people there had to say about | :27:57. | :28:03. | |
Charles Dickens. We're trying to find out what | :28:03. | :28:12. | |
people know about Charles Dickens. Do you know Oliver Twist? | :28:12. | :28:18. |