:00:07. > :00:10.Welcome to South East Today. I'm Polly Evans. And I'm Rob Smith.
:00:10. > :00:14.Tonight's top stories. It's officially a drought after the
:00:14. > :00:23.driest 10 months since 1888. The Sussex woman who gave birth on
:00:23. > :00:30.her sofa after being turned away from two hospitals.
:00:30. > :00:34.Upson and the terror fight. I was in quite a lot of pain. As soon as
:00:34. > :00:44.I heard the paramedics come to the door it was a relief.
:00:44. > :00:47.Also in tonight's programme: Eurotunnel accused of being
:00:47. > :00:51.unsympathetic after him refuses to let a woman suffering from cancer
:00:52. > :00:54.to postpone her trip. Barely old enough to drink a pint -
:00:54. > :00:57.the 18-year-old from Kent taking on a pub of his own. And FA Cup
:00:57. > :01:07.meltdown - Brighton self destruct as they score not one, but three
:01:07. > :01:08.
:01:09. > :01:13.own goals against Liverpool. Good evening. The south east is now
:01:13. > :01:15.officially in a state of drought. The water companies have been
:01:15. > :01:19.meeting government ministers after parts of the south east have gone
:01:19. > :01:22.through the driest 10 months since 1888. Southern Water has already
:01:22. > :01:24.applied for permits to take water from the River Medway to fill Bewl
:01:24. > :01:29.Water Reservoir, while the River Darent is already at "exceptionally
:01:29. > :01:39.low levels". There are warnings that the situation could become
:01:39. > :01:46.worse than the great drought year of 1976. Robin Gibson reports.
:01:46. > :01:51.It is February, a winter months, but the water looks wrong, even
:01:51. > :01:59.parched. The reservoir is a key asset providing water for Kent and
:01:59. > :02:07.Sussex. Today there were crisis talks with ministers. It is
:02:07. > :02:11.potentially very serious if we do not get rainfall. The purpose of
:02:11. > :02:15.having a drought summit this morning was to assess the situation
:02:15. > :02:18.on the basis that we are not going to get it and we are fully prepared
:02:18. > :02:22.for a serious problem affecting businesses and households this
:02:22. > :02:28.summer. This is how the rise of work might be expected to look at
:02:28. > :02:33.this time of year that the picture to date of the reservoir of is very
:02:33. > :02:40.different. For Kent and East Sussex it has been the driest 10 months
:02:40. > :02:48.since 1888. The reservoir is just 41% full. Equally alarming, south
:02:48. > :02:53.East Water says underground acquire -- aquifer levels are almost dry.
:02:53. > :02:58.Without rain in the next few weeks, water restrictions looks certain.
:02:58. > :03:04.We would initially see the use of hosepipes being restricted for
:03:04. > :03:09.domestic customers. We see domestic restrictions being brought in in
:03:09. > :03:13.coming summer. We do not at this stage sea restrictions for
:03:13. > :03:19.commercial use but we will have to see how the summer pans out. 1976
:03:19. > :03:24.was the year went standpipes were used in the streets. Water levels
:03:24. > :03:28.are said to be even lower in some places this year. Water companies
:03:28. > :03:34.are already considering hosepipe bans this summer. And there is
:03:34. > :03:38.advice about domestic use such as taking shorter showers and insuring
:03:38. > :03:42.full loads of laundry in washing machines. The government will
:03:43. > :03:48.increase pressure on companies to reduce leaks in the water supply.
:03:48. > :03:53.The problem is the restrictions and all the advice look definite unless
:03:53. > :04:03.nature comes to the rescue with a huge increase in rainfall within
:04:03. > :04:04.
:04:04. > :04:06.six or eight weeks. Well, let's cross to our reporter
:04:06. > :04:13.Fiona Irving, who has been in Westminster where there the water
:04:13. > :04:20.summit was held today. The government have come in for
:04:20. > :04:26.criticism, this situation did not happen overnight. The reservoirs
:04:26. > :04:31.was at 41% capacity, visible signs that something was wrong. And the
:04:31. > :04:35.government were criticised for delaying their long awaited water
:04:35. > :04:40.bill in December. Today the environment secretary said that
:04:40. > :04:45.they had been tackling the problem. The water companies are already
:04:45. > :04:49.taking measures which are having an impact. They're making it easier
:04:49. > :04:53.for farmers to draw water from the rivers during winter time when
:04:53. > :04:57.there is a better chance of refilling their reservoirs. But it
:04:57. > :05:02.always makes sense to come together, the different groups, to speak
:05:02. > :05:09.together about how together we can find the best way to make water go
:05:09. > :05:14.around. So for customers, being advised to take shorter showers,
:05:14. > :05:16.watched Paul Myles, what else are they being told to do?
:05:16. > :05:19.The government are telling us today a whole list of other things we can
:05:19. > :05:24.be doing. Some of them are very obvious - wash your car with a
:05:24. > :05:34.bucket and sponge instead of a hose. When we peel vegetables, not to
:05:34. > :05:35.
:05:35. > :05:39.peel them under a running tap. A Sussex woman says she had to give
:05:40. > :05:42.birth on her sofa, after being turned away from two hospitals.
:05:42. > :05:45.Tracey Morris claims she was told a maternity unit at the first
:05:45. > :05:48.hospital she went to was full and the second hospital told her she
:05:48. > :05:50.wasn't in labour. Mrs Morris, who's from Hassocks, was told by staff at
:05:50. > :05:54.the Princess Royal Hospital, in Haywards Heath, that there was no
:05:54. > :05:56.room on the maternity ward. She and her husband then set off for the
:05:56. > :06:00.Royal Sussex County Hospital, in Brighton, where they were told
:06:00. > :06:07.their baby wasn't due imminently, so the couple returned.
:06:07. > :06:11.Our News Correspondent, Paul Siegert, reports.
:06:11. > :06:15.Baby a fee is just eight days old but has already had plenty of media
:06:15. > :06:20.attention. He was due to be born at the Princess Royal Hospital but
:06:20. > :06:24.when his mother went into Labour the hospital was full so they were
:06:24. > :06:27.sent to the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton. Staff there
:06:27. > :06:32.send them home again saying that the breath was not imminent. But
:06:32. > :06:40.within minutes of arriving home, Tracey went into Labour and have to
:06:40. > :06:48.call 999. Absolutely terrified. I was in quite a lot of pain. As soon
:06:48. > :06:54.as I heard paramedics come through the door it was a relief. Lisa
:06:54. > :06:57.asked if I needed pain relief, which was good! The couple stayed
:06:57. > :07:01.there surprised that staff at the Royal Sussex County Hospital did
:07:01. > :07:07.not spot the breath was a imminent which make the whole process much
:07:07. > :07:17.more stressful than it needed to be. It was very scary. I think if it
:07:17. > :07:18.
:07:18. > :07:28.was planned and there were midwives than I do not think it would be as
:07:28. > :07:32.scary. We are disappointed with the system but if there is a baby-boom
:07:32. > :07:36.a good time you're pregnant then these things can happen. But
:07:36. > :07:41.everything turned out OK in the end and we had the paramedics here on
:07:41. > :07:46.time. So the start of of the's life may have been unconventional but
:07:46. > :07:48.the family are just glad that this is one story with a happy ending.
:07:48. > :07:50.Let's cross to our News Correspondent Paul Siegert who's
:07:50. > :07:57.outside the Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton. How have the hospitals
:07:57. > :08:02.responded to this, Paul? While the Trust responsible insists
:08:02. > :08:06.they did nothing wrong and when Tracey arrived, she was having
:08:06. > :08:09.contractions but was not close to Labour. The hospital say some
:08:09. > :08:14.people can go on like that for several days and that is why she
:08:14. > :08:17.was sent home. Of course we Tracey things did move quickly but the
:08:18. > :08:20.hospital say that a bed would have been available for her here but of
:08:20. > :08:24.course she had to phone the paramedics because things were
:08:24. > :08:28.moving a lot quicker than anyone would have liked.
:08:28. > :08:38.Coming up: The bedside computers revolutionising patient care at
:08:38. > :08:40.hospitals in Kent. A Kent man is tonight accusing
:08:40. > :08:44.Eurotunnel of a lack of sympathy, after it refused to allow him to
:08:44. > :08:47.postpone his family holiday for a year while he wife has treatment
:08:47. > :08:49.for cancer. Mark Everest's wife Susan, from
:08:49. > :08:55.Bearsted, was diagnosed a month after they had booked the train
:08:55. > :09:01.tickets to France for this summer. But Eurotunnel say if they don't
:09:01. > :09:05.travel this year, they'll lose the booking. Simon Jones reports.
:09:05. > :09:09.So isn't Everest begins treatment for breast cancer on Friday,
:09:09. > :09:13.meaning the family holiday to France this August cannot go ahead.
:09:13. > :09:19.They asked Eurotunnel if they could use to ticket next year but the
:09:19. > :09:26.company said no. I was apprehensive about telling Susan because there's
:09:26. > :09:30.enough at the moment for her to deal with without that. And we were
:09:30. > :09:34.so pleased with ourselves for having organised it fairly and paid
:09:34. > :09:40.for it early so we did not have the annual question of where we were
:09:40. > :09:45.going to find the money. Can you afford to blow could again? Note, I
:09:45. > :09:50.cannot do that. It is not going to happen this year because of
:09:50. > :09:54.chemotherapy and radiotherapy that she faces. And after all that, next
:09:54. > :09:59.summer she really will need a holiday. An e-mail to the family
:09:59. > :10:09.from Eurotunnel representatives said they were sorry to hear of the
:10:09. > :10:17.
:10:17. > :10:22.When you buy any kind of ticket for any journey, you are effectively
:10:22. > :10:26.saying, either I'll pay a lot of money to get flexibility or I'm
:10:26. > :10:32.prepared to accept some quite stringent terms and conditions in
:10:32. > :10:36.return for a good price. And I'm afraid it's a tragedy strikes, it
:10:36. > :10:39.is up to the company to decide whether or not to be flexible.
:10:39. > :10:48.family say they are not asking for a refund, just a bit of
:10:48. > :10:52.understanding. I think Eurotunnel has been a jobs with about this.
:10:52. > :11:01.But Eurotunnel says in fairness to all customers, they have to uphold
:11:01. > :11:05.the terms and conditions of tickets. Simon Jones joins us. What have
:11:05. > :11:09.Eurotunnel had to say this evening's lone the past hour they
:11:09. > :11:13.said they had to treat all their customers the same. They say if you
:11:13. > :11:18.book your tickets well in advance then you do get them cheaper,
:11:18. > :11:22.sometimes three times as cheap as of the last minute. But with that
:11:22. > :11:26.comes a reduced flexibility as in this case. Eurotunnel's say the
:11:26. > :11:30.family can transpire that tickets to other members of the family or
:11:30. > :11:35.give them to friends. Other family say they do not want to do that,
:11:35. > :11:38.they say they want to get some kind of quid note from Eurotunnel. They
:11:38. > :11:43.say they're not trying to get adult paying for the ticket but simply
:11:43. > :11:47.want to travel in one year's time. They say a credit note would allow
:11:47. > :11:51.them to do that and they would be happy to pay any increase in ticket
:11:51. > :11:53.price. The British National Party has
:11:53. > :11:57.stated its intention to field candidates for the newly created
:11:57. > :11:59.job of Police Commissioner in Sussex. BNP leader Nick Griffin has
:11:59. > :12:01.said that criminals should live in fear, not the innocent victims and
:12:01. > :12:07.that people want an alternative to what he calls the present
:12:07. > :12:13."politically correct PCs". A Labour candidate for the job says it would
:12:13. > :12:16.be a disaster for community relations if the BNP was elected.
:12:16. > :12:26.A radar station in Kent which played a vital role in the defence
:12:26. > :12:27.of Britain during the Second World War goes up for auction today.
:12:27. > :12:35.built to provide long range early warning for the Thames Estuary and
:12:35. > :12:45.the south eastern approaches to London. It had a guide price of
:12:45. > :12:47.
:12:47. > :12:49.�135,000 to �140,000. The former wife of Lord Lucan has
:12:49. > :12:51.denied claims that her children may have travelled to Africa and that
:12:51. > :12:54.her husband had set up a new life there. The Lord infamously
:12:54. > :12:56.disappeared in the 1970s after the murder of his children's nanny. The
:12:56. > :12:58.claims of an African connection have been made by a witness who
:12:58. > :13:01.worked for Lord Lucan's close friend, John Aspinall. Lady Lucan
:13:01. > :13:05.has said her children couldn't have travelled abroad as they were wards
:13:05. > :13:12.of court. But lawyers have told the BBC that in fact a court could have
:13:12. > :13:16.allowed them to go to Africa. Instructions were to make
:13:16. > :13:23.arrangements for John Bingham, also known as Lord Lucan, to see his
:13:23. > :13:27.children. And to do that I had to book his two eldest children on
:13:27. > :13:29.flights to Africa. And you can find out the full story of what may have
:13:29. > :13:34.happened following Lord Lucan's disappearance on Inside Out on BBC1
:13:34. > :13:37.A Hastings publican has been jailed after he admitted imprisoning his
:13:37. > :13:40.girlfriend and subjecting her to an attack that lasted for several
:13:40. > :13:44.hours. Having beaten her unconscious, Toby Goater branded
:13:44. > :13:49.his partner on the leg with a fork, heated with his cigarette lighter.
:13:49. > :13:57.Sara Smith is in Hastings for us now. This all took place inside the
:13:57. > :14:00.pub Goater managed didn't it? That is right. It was after hours
:14:00. > :14:06.and in the pub that he punched and kicked his girlfriend during
:14:07. > :14:10.argument until she was unconscious. She lay on the floor in the pub and
:14:10. > :14:15.he used his cigarette lighter to he Tupper four, an ordinary dining
:14:15. > :14:19.four, and he branded her on the leg with it. He did it several times,
:14:19. > :14:24.also burning her with a cigarette lighter. Several hours later she
:14:24. > :14:27.managed to get to where call for help and he denied he did anything
:14:27. > :14:33.and tried to damage the CCTV footage in the pub but police
:14:33. > :14:39.marriage to recover the images and they showed the entire assault. The
:14:39. > :14:44.officer explained what the victim had been through. She was rendered
:14:44. > :14:49.unconscious from one of the blows during a 4 1/2 hour period. She was
:14:49. > :14:52.somewhat unaware of what was going on during that period but in the
:14:52. > :14:57.days afterwards she was particularly traumatised for not
:14:57. > :15:02.knowing what had actually occurred while she was unconscious. What
:15:02. > :15:06.actually happened in court? He was given a two-and-a-half year
:15:06. > :15:09.jail sentence and a restraining order to stop him contacting his
:15:09. > :15:15.fictive. She said today that was she was pleased he had gone to
:15:15. > :15:16.prison, she had been damaged both mentally and physically by the
:15:16. > :15:21.ordeal. This is our top story tonight.
:15:21. > :15:24.The South East is now officially in a state of drought. The water
:15:24. > :15:26.companies have been meeting government ministers after parts of
:15:26. > :15:29.the region have gone through the driest ten months since 1888.
:15:29. > :15:31.Southern Water has already applied for permits to take water from the
:15:31. > :15:35.River Medway to fill Bewl Water Reservoir.
:15:35. > :15:39.Also in tonight's programme: He was only 18. The Kent teenager
:15:40. > :15:42.who's barely over the legal drinking age, taking on his own pub.
:15:43. > :15:48.And talk about an own goal! Brighton lose 6-1 to Liverpool in
:15:48. > :15:51.the FA cup, hitting the back of their own net three times.
:15:51. > :15:55.If you have a story you think we should be covering on South East
:15:55. > :15:57.Today, we'd like to hear from you. Today, we'd like to hear from you.
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:16:13. > :16:17.your text message starts with the Could the days of the traditional
:16:17. > :16:20.paper chart at the end of your hospital bed be numbered? A new hi-
:16:20. > :16:22.tech system being brought into use at hospitals in East Kent means
:16:22. > :16:27.computers will monitor patients' welfare and alert their doctors if
:16:27. > :16:30.there is a problem. The system works by recording patients' vital
:16:30. > :16:33.signs onto bedside computers which can actually analyse the data,
:16:33. > :16:36.compare it to information held on other computers across the hospital
:16:36. > :16:40.and, should it find anything out of the ordinary, send out an urgent
:16:41. > :16:49.alert to medical staff. Peter Whittlesea has tonight's Special
:16:49. > :16:59.Report. While in hospital every patient is
:16:59. > :17:00.
:17:00. > :17:05.observed to ensure their condition does not deteriorate. From March,
:17:05. > :17:10.instead of writing a crucial data down on paper, it will be put
:17:10. > :17:14.straight into an iPhone which will automatically alert doctors if the
:17:14. > :17:18.patient is in danger. We do not have to go to the telephone and
:17:18. > :17:21.make a call to the doctors and wait for the doctors to ring us back.
:17:21. > :17:25.This will go straight through to the doctors and they will have the
:17:25. > :17:28.observations in front of them so they can interpret the more clearly
:17:28. > :17:36.and action them in a much quicker way and a much more effective way
:17:36. > :17:41.for the patient that we are looking after. Training is under way and
:17:41. > :17:47.the trust which runs the hospital says research that shows clinical
:17:47. > :17:52.observations can be done 40% faster using specially designed
:17:52. > :17:57.applications. Patient data will be encrypted so confidentiality is not
:17:57. > :18:02.compromised. Each member of staff will have a unique password. He it
:18:02. > :18:06.is about keeping patients safe. This will cost �500,000 but it will
:18:06. > :18:11.keep patients safe and ensure they have a good experience while they
:18:11. > :18:15.are in hospital. The current system causes a lot of extra work for
:18:15. > :18:21.nurses and this will give them more time and freedom to give hands-on
:18:21. > :18:26.care to our patients. The system will go live across hospitals in
:18:26. > :18:36.East Kent next month. The trust says it is an early morning system
:18:36. > :18:36.
:18:36. > :18:39.-- early warning system which will save lives.
:18:39. > :18:42.He's barely old enough to have a pint himself but a teenager from
:18:42. > :18:45.Gillingham looks likely to become one of the youngest pub landlords
:18:45. > :18:48.in the country, just three weeks after his 18th birthday. Lewis
:18:48. > :18:53.Marriott has recently been granted a license and says he's looking
:18:53. > :18:57.forward to taking over behind the bar at The Cannon in Garden Street.
:18:57. > :19:02.It's been run by his grandmother for 30 years, but now she's in line
:19:03. > :19:06.for a well-earned break. Katherine Downes has been to meet him.
:19:06. > :19:11.There is always something to do in a pub and if you think there is not
:19:11. > :19:16.anything, look for it, find it and clean it! Learning from the best,
:19:16. > :19:22.Lewes Marriott has his licence and is now his grandmother's apprentice
:19:22. > :19:28.behind the bar in the family pub. We have had the pub for 30 years
:19:28. > :19:34.and I have always been in the pub. We have always been in here and
:19:34. > :19:39.grown-up in the pub. We worked in here when we were little, we used
:19:39. > :19:43.to bottle up. We have always been here and based around here.
:19:43. > :19:46.miss walked down to Medway Council on the day he turned 18 two-handed
:19:46. > :19:51.his application for a licence and it arrived three weeks later. He
:19:51. > :19:56.works behind the bar every Saturday learning his trainer -- learning
:19:56. > :20:01.his trade. He poured a pint very nicely. Very polite and treat
:20:01. > :20:04.everybody with respect. It is nice that a lone man is trying to show a
:20:05. > :20:09.bit of ambition and do the right thing. I know how hard it was for
:20:09. > :20:14.him at home to try and do the exam and everything that now he has
:20:14. > :20:20.passed it he can be a landlord which is a big achievement. Are you
:20:20. > :20:24.proud? Yes. A backstreet pubs like this are a dying breed and his
:20:24. > :20:29.grandmother hope that handing the pumps over to her grandson was
:20:29. > :20:33.secured his future. This week two pubs are closing and I feel it is
:20:33. > :20:38.such a shame. Maybe it is an age thing but I think a pub is a
:20:38. > :20:46.community and we have to look forward, not back. You is also
:20:46. > :20:50.dreams of a career in the police but he says he will be the one
:20:50. > :20:53.behind the bar. Now here's a question for you, name
:20:53. > :20:57.a football team that scored four times but still lost their game 6-1.
:20:57. > :21:00.The answer remarkably is Brighton and Hove Albion. It was, its fair
:21:00. > :21:04.to say, a disappointing day for Sussex football as both the Albion
:21:04. > :21:06.and Crawley Town crashed out of the FA Cup. And Brighton's 6-1 defeat
:21:06. > :21:13.at Liverpool was especially memorable, for all the wrong
:21:13. > :21:17.reasons, Neil Bell reports. The Brighton players were well
:21:17. > :21:20.aware that their trip to Anfield was a bit special but few could
:21:20. > :21:28.have guessed what was in store for them even though they found
:21:28. > :21:33.themselves a goal down thanks to a header. They held their nerve and a
:21:33. > :21:36.low drive level things up. Gus Poyet seemed happy on the sidelines
:21:36. > :21:44.but he was powerless to prevent the forthcoming onslaught which began
:21:44. > :21:54.just before half-time -- half-time with Liam Bridcutt's opening -.
:21:54. > :22:00.
:22:00. > :22:05.Then he scored another. And another. It is FA Cup history. A we have had
:22:05. > :22:09.six goals tonight and Brighton have scored four of them! There was
:22:09. > :22:12.still time for Lewes worries to grab a goal for Liverpool on a
:22:12. > :22:17.sobering afternoon for the thousands of Albion fans watching
:22:17. > :22:22.in pubs back in the city. It was a fantastic achievement to get this
:22:22. > :22:27.far and there is a great season and a new ground. It is great for
:22:27. > :22:32.football. A day like today, one of those things. Three own goals, we
:22:32. > :22:38.are in the history books! Earlier Crawley to con Stoke City in the
:22:38. > :22:44.biggest game by far in their stadium. An early sending-off
:22:44. > :22:47.raised emotions and expectations. A hot it disputed penalty,
:22:47. > :22:53.confidently dispatched but Crawley behind. Surely behind the interval
:22:53. > :22:57.stoker doubled their advantage. Crawley put in a stormy finish but
:22:57. > :23:01.could not reduce the deficit leaving fans to reflect on another
:23:01. > :23:06.memorable Cup campaign. messages I am getting is that we
:23:06. > :23:10.did ourselves pride today and sometimes it does not work for you.
:23:10. > :23:13.If it doesn't work against a Premier League club, never mind.
:23:13. > :23:21.further Cup glory for Brighton and Crawley but promotion still very
:23:22. > :23:24.much on the cards. Brighton do not do things by
:23:24. > :23:27.halves! Charlton's lead at the top of
:23:27. > :23:30.League One is down to six points. The Addicks went behind in the
:23:30. > :23:33.first half at Tranmere following Ryan Brunts first ever goal but
:23:33. > :23:35.rallied after the interval and levelled things up when Michael
:23:35. > :23:38.Morrison's header hit the crossbar and just crossed the line.
:23:38. > :23:41.Gillingham must have hoped their recent poor run was over on
:23:41. > :23:44.Saturday when Chris Whelpdale gave them the lead at Port Vale, But the
:23:44. > :23:48.home side hit back with two goals in the last nine minutes. The
:23:48. > :23:52.Gills' losing streak now extends to six league and cup games.
:23:52. > :23:54.A pair of young lions have arrived in Kent to start a new life, after
:23:54. > :23:59.being rescued from a travelling circus in France. Brutus and
:23:59. > :24:01.Clarence are twins, born on Christmas Eve four years ago. Both
:24:01. > :24:05.suffered injuries while in the circus, having been whipped and
:24:06. > :24:15.beaten as cubs. They will now live at Wingham Wildlife Park near
:24:16. > :24:16.
:24:16. > :24:20.Canterbury. That sounds like a Disney story! We
:24:20. > :24:22.need to find out what is happening with the weather. After the drought
:24:22. > :24:29.announcements, do we have deluges announcements, do we have deluges
:24:29. > :24:33.of rain? Not yet had not for a long time. We
:24:34. > :24:39.have been declared a drought area as has most of the South East of
:24:39. > :24:43.England. I have found out where the water has gone. Scotland has
:24:43. > :24:49.pinched it! During the course of the last year they had 25% more
:24:50. > :24:53.rainfall than average whereas we had a 25% less than average.
:24:53. > :24:59.Normally we get far less this column but there is not always that
:24:59. > :25:03.great a difference. We will get a bit of rain on Wednesday but it
:25:03. > :25:07.will only be a little bit. It is nothing like what we really need.
:25:07. > :25:12.We need weeks of steady and heavy rain and we will not get that in
:25:12. > :25:16.the near future. What we will have his some warm weather. We have warm
:25:16. > :25:26.air coming up from the Azores and the tropics. It will come over the
:25:26. > :25:26.
:25:26. > :25:30.country in a few days' time. It will relieved if the temperatures.
:25:30. > :25:36.As Forest the rest of the evening and the night are concerned it will
:25:36. > :25:41.be dry with some breaks in the cloud from time to time. It could
:25:41. > :25:45.well be that we get temperatures very close to freezing, just a
:25:45. > :25:49.touch of ground frost in a few spots. Most places should stay
:25:49. > :25:53.above freezing. Tomorrow there is a fair amount of cloud but it will be
:25:53. > :25:58.thin cloud and then maybe some hazy sunshine coming through from time
:25:58. > :26:02.to time. It will be mild. But there will be quite a stiff breeze
:26:02. > :26:09.picking up during the course of the day. That will temper the feel of
:26:09. > :26:19.it and it will feel a bit chilly. Tomorrow night we will stay dry
:26:19. > :26:19.
:26:19. > :26:22.again with more in the way of cloud. Those temperatures are not far from
:26:22. > :26:27.where they should be during the daytime, and let alone it during
:26:27. > :26:33.the night! We will stay in the mild side for the next few days. Monday
:26:33. > :26:36.will be a chilly night. Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy but mostly
:26:36. > :26:40.dried. There will be a weather front coming through on Wednesday
:26:40. > :26:45.to give us a very different day. They will give us some cloud that
:26:45. > :26:49.some outbreaks of rain. It is only a warm front so we will suck up
:26:49. > :26:55.that warm air that a short -- showed at the beginning so there
:26:55. > :27:01.will be temperatures into double figures towards the end of the week.
:27:01. > :27:03.We will take that mild weather. We will take that mild weather.
:27:03. > :27:06.Thank you very much! Let's recap tonight's top national
:27:06. > :27:08.and local news stories: The Home Secretary Theresa May has
:27:09. > :27:12.told MPs that the relaxation of Britain's border checks went far
:27:12. > :27:14.further than revealed last year. Ms May said the official report found
:27:14. > :27:15.that border security checks had been suspended regularly and
:27:15. > :27:19.applied inconsistently since at least 2007.
:27:19. > :27:21.The South East is now officially in a state of drought. The water
:27:21. > :27:25.companies have been meeting government ministers after parts of
:27:25. > :27:28.the South East have gone through the driest ten months since 1888.
:27:28. > :27:30.And teenager Lewis Marriott from Gillingham looks set to become one