:00:02. > :00:04.Welcome to South East Today, I'm Polly Evans. And I'm Rob Smith.
:00:04. > :00:09.Tonight's top stories. Are private schools getting an
:00:09. > :00:17.unfair advantage? A review of the 11-plus in Kent after it emerges
:00:17. > :00:21.that 6% of the pupils are gaining 30% of grammar school places.
:00:21. > :00:24.parents can do things, they are fortunate to be able to pray for
:00:24. > :00:26.private school education and coaching, others are not so
:00:26. > :00:29.fortunate. Maybe the system is not fair.
:00:29. > :00:32.A 20 mile an hour limit across Brighton? How the council plans to
:00:32. > :00:35.create the lowest speed city in the southeast. We'll be live in
:00:35. > :00:38.Brighton for reaction tonight. Also in tonight's programme.
:00:38. > :00:44.The Kent businessman Christopher Tappin freed on bail tells the BBC
:00:44. > :00:49.his experience of jail in the US was terrible. The worst time was, I
:00:49. > :00:54.think, towards the end of the 10 days. Without reading or writing
:00:55. > :00:58.material, you start to question your own sanity.
:00:58. > :01:04.The true story of the Sussex man who fought alongside General Custer
:01:04. > :01:10.at the Battle of Little Big Horn. # Brown sugar, why do you taste so
:01:10. > :01:20.good. # And when Mick met Keith, the Dartford school photo that
:01:20. > :01:28.
:01:28. > :01:31.captures a moment in Rolling Stones Good evening. The 11-plus test is
:01:31. > :01:33.going to be reviewed after figures revealed a third of offers at some
:01:33. > :01:36.Kent grammar schools are going to pupils from fee-paying schools,
:01:36. > :01:42.although fewer than 6% of primary age children in Kent are privately
:01:42. > :01:44.educated. Tonight the council says the review, which also looks at
:01:44. > :01:47.education as a whole within the county, will examine whether some
:01:47. > :01:57.parents may be gaining an unfair advantage by using tutors to coach
:01:57. > :02:01.their children to pass the 11-plus test. Alex Beard reports.
:02:01. > :02:05.For more than 60 years, the 11-plus has been it used to decide who
:02:05. > :02:08.qualifies for a place at grammar school, regardless of their
:02:08. > :02:13.background. But more than a third of operas at some Kent grammar
:02:13. > :02:16.schools are going to privately educated pupils. Critics of the
:02:16. > :02:20.system asked if it is fair. There are a number of questions around
:02:20. > :02:24.the whole test issue, I wanted to be as fair as possible for all
:02:24. > :02:30.members of society and take out any advantage that some people feel
:02:30. > :02:35.they may be able to give their child by throwing money at it.
:02:35. > :02:40.4491 places were available, more than 10% offered to privately
:02:40. > :02:46.educated children. In Kent, only 6% of private school children --
:02:46. > :02:52.children attend a private school. People that to pay for their
:02:52. > :02:55.education for children, they tend to do better. It is not
:02:55. > :02:59.particularly surprising. I think most people coach, you coach
:02:59. > :03:02.whether you are at private school or state school. Critics say the
:03:02. > :03:08.statistics prove that wealthy families have an unfair advantage.
:03:08. > :03:15.It is becoming more and more apparent that coaching is making a
:03:15. > :03:21.major difference. There have been a couple of studies taking place on
:03:21. > :03:23.this, demonstrating you can improve standards by up to 10%. Their head
:03:23. > :03:30.teacher of this prep-school in Leyton Green says parents will do
:03:30. > :03:32.what they can. Life is not fair. If you have a system as we do in Kent
:03:32. > :03:36.with selection, parents have the choice to do what they can for
:03:36. > :03:39.their children. Some parents can be do things and are fortunate to be
:03:39. > :03:45.able to pay for private school education and a coaching, others
:03:45. > :03:50.are not so fortunate. Maybe this system is not fair. Grammar-school
:03:50. > :03:55.remain a controversial subject, but the Kent County Council says they
:03:55. > :03:59.are looking at the coach ability of the 11-plus.
:03:59. > :04:04.Is this a similar starry for all grammar schools across Kent? There
:04:04. > :04:08.is quite a split between East and West Kent. In west end there are
:04:08. > :04:12.the Super selective grammar schools, the ones that take the highest
:04:12. > :04:18.scoring pupils from the 11-plus. Tonbridge Grammar had the highest
:04:18. > :04:21.number of places offered to prep school students, 40% of their
:04:21. > :04:25.September intake. A number of grammar school places is set to
:04:25. > :04:28.increase here after the council voted to build a new satellite
:04:28. > :04:31.grammar-school, the first in decades.
:04:31. > :04:33.Brighton and Hove could be set to become a 20mph city with every
:04:33. > :04:36.residential road apart from main routes operating within a
:04:36. > :04:38.restricted speed limit. The Green administration said the scheme will
:04:38. > :04:43.help improve road safety, reduce air pollution and encourage more
:04:43. > :04:45.people to use sustainable transport. However the police are warning the
:04:45. > :04:49.scheme will have to be self- enforcing, and opposition
:04:49. > :04:59.councillors claim a blanket ban is over the top. Our reporter Jon Hunt
:04:59. > :04:59.
:04:59. > :05:03.is in the city. Where did this idea come from? Schemes like this have
:05:03. > :05:06.been introduced in other parts of the country, in fact Brighton and
:05:06. > :05:10.Hove City Council have been running two pilot schemes in two particular
:05:10. > :05:14.part of the city. They say they have been a success and they hope
:05:14. > :05:17.by rolling out the 20 miles an hour zones across the whole of Brighton
:05:17. > :05:21.and Hove, they will be able to reduce the number of casualties by
:05:21. > :05:25.as much as 10%. It is claimed that up to 100 road
:05:25. > :05:30.casualties per year could be prevented by slowing the city down.
:05:30. > :05:34.I think it is a question of safety first of all. Particularly for
:05:34. > :05:38.Georgian in domestic areas. There is evidence from other places that
:05:38. > :05:46.shows that accident rates fall. Also you take pressure off the hope
:05:46. > :05:51.-- health service, it has been shown you can save money by
:05:51. > :05:57.introducing 20 mile an hour zones. As is public safety campaign shows,
:05:57. > :06:02.reducing speed does save lives. me at 30, there is around an 80%
:06:03. > :06:09.chance I will live. Brighton and Hove council wants to go further.
:06:09. > :06:13.Introducing ever actually city-wide 20 mile an hour speed limit. It
:06:13. > :06:20.will cost �1.5 million to induce and opponents say it is over the
:06:20. > :06:24.top. Is that everywhere? Pretty much, a few exceptions. I live in
:06:24. > :06:28.Patcham village, and from Patcham village to be here, I have to
:06:28. > :06:33.bright -- drive at 30 miles an hour, and a worthy I find it quite slow.
:06:33. > :06:39.This would be too slow for my joke. Getting around town, from job to
:06:39. > :06:45.job, dropping the bluff, just to slow. The pedestrian and cyclist I
:06:45. > :06:50.spoke to were more convinced. Excellent, because the children who
:06:50. > :06:57.were hit it would not get anything like the damage that they do. If it
:06:57. > :07:01.is at 30 or 50. I cycle quite a lot so I am wary of drivers. It is just
:07:01. > :07:04.residential areas, so I do not see why not. The city is being
:07:04. > :07:08.consulted on the idea. The council leader says if the overwhelming
:07:08. > :07:12.response is let -- negative, the plans will be shelved.
:07:12. > :07:15.The schemes would be introduced mainly in residential areas, but
:07:15. > :07:20.main roads like this one down to the seafront and the London road
:07:20. > :07:22.behind you up to Preston Circus would also be included,
:07:22. > :07:27.interestingly the police say the schemes would have to be self-
:07:27. > :07:31.enforced. The council had to rely on the goodwill of motorist. --
:07:31. > :07:40.hopes to rely on the goodwill of motorists. In a moment: They built
:07:40. > :07:43.their house from straw, the Kent When Christopher Tappin was
:07:44. > :07:47.extradited to the US earlier this year on charges of plotting to sell
:07:47. > :07:51.weapons parts to Iran, it re- ignited the row over whether the UK
:07:51. > :07:54.hands over its citizens to other countries too easily. The retired
:07:54. > :07:58.Kent businessman has now spoken about his time in prison,
:07:58. > :08:01.describing his first 10 days in solitary confinement as terrible.
:08:01. > :08:05.Mr Tappin, who's been released on $1 million bail, says he's never
:08:05. > :08:15.had any connection with terrorism and claims he is the victim of a
:08:15. > :08:16.
:08:16. > :08:20.sting operation. Our political editor Louise Stewart has more.
:08:20. > :08:23.Christopher Tappin was released from prison in New Mexico on bail
:08:23. > :08:28.on Wednesday. Now he has spoken out about what it was like being kept
:08:28. > :08:34.in solitary confinement. Without reading or writing material, you
:08:34. > :08:39.start to question your own sanity. I felt that I was reaching a stage
:08:39. > :08:44.where I needed professional help. And I was going to ask to see the
:08:44. > :08:48.doctor. At one particular stage, because mentally, I felt, it was
:08:48. > :08:53.very difficult to cope with. belt comes with conditions. He has
:08:53. > :08:57.to wear a tracking device, he can only travel in Houston and a pastor,
:08:57. > :09:01.and has had to surrender his passport. The United -- the United
:09:01. > :09:11.States Attorney's Office have published documents supporting his
:09:11. > :09:11.
:09:11. > :09:16.release, and his wife wrote to the Mr Tappin says he wants to clear
:09:16. > :09:20.his name as soon as possible. not a terrorist. I have never had
:09:20. > :09:26.any connections with terrorism. I am just appalled that things could
:09:26. > :09:32.come to this stage, especially in my life now, when I'm 65, been
:09:32. > :09:35.retired for four years. Mr Tappin faces trial for conspiring to
:09:35. > :09:40.export batteries for surface-to-air missiles from the US to Iran,
:09:40. > :09:44.charges he devised -- denies. not know the batteries were fork
:09:45. > :09:50.missiles or destined for Iran. case of Mr Tappin, who has already
:09:50. > :09:53.spent eight weeks in prison without trial, highlight the issue of the
:09:53. > :09:59.extradition treaty between the UA - - US and UK. Mr Cameron recently
:09:59. > :10:03.rated with President Obama. Mr Patten will face trial in autumn
:10:03. > :10:06.and if found guilty will spend the rest of his life in jail.
:10:06. > :10:08.Brighton & Hove City Council has backed down over plans to
:10:08. > :10:11.dramatically increase parking charges. The cost of seafront
:10:11. > :10:14.parking rose from �4 to �20 a day just over three weeks ago, angering
:10:14. > :10:17.business leaders. The Green-run council hoped it would encourage
:10:17. > :10:20.visitors to use public transport, or park elsewhere. They've now
:10:20. > :10:23.decided to introduce a new 8 hour tariff costing �15 in the seafront
:10:23. > :10:25.high zone, where there is high congestion and pollution.
:10:25. > :10:28.People living in the south-east have higher than average rates of
:10:28. > :10:31.depression and self harm. The latest figures from mental health
:10:31. > :10:33.analysts show that an increasing number of people are reporting to
:10:33. > :10:35.their GPs with depression and related problems. The Sussex
:10:35. > :10:39.Partnership NHS Trust says it's particularly concerned about the
:10:39. > :10:43.number of young people not in education, employment or training.
:10:43. > :10:46.East Kent is to get a �35 million boost as part of a scheme to try to
:10:46. > :10:50.get the economy moving again and reduce unemployment in the wake of
:10:50. > :10:53.last year's Pfizer pullout. Expansion East Kent, launched this
:10:53. > :10:56.morning, will offer interest-free loans to businesses in the hope it
:10:56. > :11:03.will create 5000 sustainable jobs and stimulate more than �300
:11:03. > :11:13.million in associated investment over the next four years. Ellie
:11:13. > :11:13.
:11:13. > :11:17.Price reports. We are going to do away with some
:11:17. > :11:22.of the old buildings, building a hand -- brand new health spa.
:11:22. > :11:26.Thinking big, with the prospect of a free loan on the horizon,
:11:26. > :11:30.Baypoint have already worked out how they might spend the money.
:11:30. > :11:35.will be creating about 20 jobs by the time we open this summer anyway,
:11:35. > :11:40.and that is fantastic in itself. We will be able to create another 80
:11:40. > :11:46.plus casual work on top of that if we get funding. 15 sec downsized
:11:46. > :11:56.its operations its -- when adviser downsized his operation in Kent, it
:11:56. > :11:58.
:11:58. > :12:02.came at the cost of 5000 jobs. have got to make the very best use
:12:02. > :12:08.of every pound of that �35 million, to make sure we support the right
:12:08. > :12:11.enterprises, the right businesses, but will grow it and survive in
:12:11. > :12:17.difficult trading conditions. And most importantly have them but
:12:17. > :12:20.ability to repay. The South East is considered to be paved with gold.
:12:21. > :12:24.And government in the past have never realised that East Kent has
:12:24. > :12:28.got deprivation that looks quite similar to some part of the North.
:12:28. > :12:32.But we have got the opportunities of the south-east and that is what
:12:32. > :12:37.we have got to maximise. Companies here welcomed the scheme. But this
:12:37. > :12:43.week it was announced Britain was in a double-dip recession. The road
:12:43. > :12:50.to economic recovery is still a long one.
:12:50. > :12:55.Ellie is at Baypoint in place -- Sandwich, how is this scheme being
:12:55. > :13:00.received? Do business people I spoke to in the meeting in Margate
:13:00. > :13:07.seemed optimistic, and they are here at Baypoint as well. It that -
:13:07. > :13:11.- that is significant because the company's business plan is based on
:13:11. > :13:18.redeveloping this side which used to be the social club for the
:13:18. > :13:22.company finds it. The unemployment rate is one of the highest in the
:13:22. > :13:27.south-east in Thanet, so there was under Mr of hope but there is still
:13:27. > :13:29.a long way to go. -- there are some glimmers of hope. This is our top
:13:29. > :13:32.story tonight. Kent County Council is to review
:13:32. > :13:35.the 11-plus test after figures revealed a third of offers at some
:13:35. > :13:38.Kent grammar schools are going to pupils from fee-paying schools,
:13:38. > :13:40.despite fewer than 6% of primary age children in Kent being
:13:40. > :13:42.privately educated. The review will include looking at whether some
:13:42. > :13:44.parents are gaining an unfair advantage through coaching their
:13:45. > :13:54.children. It's not just any school photo,
:13:55. > :13:56.
:13:56. > :14:04.this was when Mick Jagger and Keith After a wet and windy week, further
:14:04. > :14:07.heavy and persistent rain around Ever since the Big Bad Wolf
:14:07. > :14:10.threatened to blow down the little pigs house by huffing and puffing,
:14:10. > :14:14.the idea of using straw as the primary building material for your
:14:14. > :14:17.home hasn't seemed like a particularly great one. But, that's
:14:17. > :14:20.not stopping them at a farm near Canterbury from building what's
:14:20. > :14:23.believed to be the world's first terrace of houses out of straw,
:14:23. > :14:31.which will be used as holiday cottages. Our environment
:14:31. > :14:36.correspondent Yvette Austen has tonight's Special Report.
:14:36. > :14:42.Deep in the heart of the Kentish countryside, a couple's rural idyll
:14:42. > :14:47.and the dream turned to Reality. The Straw come from just five miles
:14:47. > :14:52.down the road, and all the wood we are using his copyist locally.
:14:52. > :14:58.is eco-friendly but it is also a serious construction being made to
:14:58. > :15:02.last, and the builders are learning on site. We are the world's first
:15:02. > :15:05.ever terraced straw bale houses. We are all learning together. We are
:15:06. > :15:10.being taught how to put the Bale's together and keep the walls are and
:15:10. > :15:14.it is very exciting. For the past 15 years, Ray has been refining
:15:14. > :15:18.straw bale building techniques. It's definitely not going to blow
:15:18. > :15:22.down, it is very starlet. There are Pham -- houses in America built in
:15:22. > :15:27.exactly the same way as this that had been in existence for over 100
:15:27. > :15:32.years, so they are pretty solid. It is all fastened together with long
:15:32. > :15:37.wooden poles, and then we get up seven bales high, there will be a
:15:37. > :15:40.box that goes all the way round. Straw buildings are getting popular.
:15:40. > :15:47.There are straw council homes in Lincolnshire and this is the Romney
:15:47. > :15:51.Marsh visitors' centre. The heating is just a wood-burning stove. So
:15:51. > :15:58.given the straw bale walls, which, you can see, there is a cut out
:15:58. > :16:02.here, which provide excellent insulation, it all so, as we are
:16:02. > :16:06.close to a wheel main road it provides sound insulation so you
:16:06. > :16:11.cannot hear much. The colleges will be led to people for holidays,
:16:11. > :16:14.giving them a straw experience. are not on a mission to change
:16:14. > :16:19.anything, it is just nice that people can holiday and see what it
:16:19. > :16:23.is like to live in a straw building. See that it works just as well as a
:16:23. > :16:27.conventional building, but gives you a really nice building to live
:16:27. > :16:37.in. The homes are to be lime and rendered and ready for use in the
:16:37. > :16:39.
:16:39. > :16:42.In his day the author Rudyard Kipling was one of the biggest
:16:42. > :16:44.stars in the British Empire, and when relaxing at his home at
:16:44. > :16:49.Batemans near Burwash, he liked nothing more than pottering around
:16:49. > :16:54.the pond on a little paddle boat. Sadly the original was lost many
:16:54. > :16:57.years ago, but today an exact replica was launched. And guest of
:16:57. > :17:00.honour at its launch today was the 82-year-old godson of Kipling's
:17:00. > :17:10.wife, who played on the original boat all those years ago. Robin
:17:10. > :17:16.
:17:16. > :17:20.Yes, this really is Rudyard Kipling, author of the Jungle Book, and the
:17:21. > :17:26.Just So stories. The first Englishman to win a Nobel Prize for
:17:26. > :17:30.literature, and he is messing about in the boat he spent the money on.
:17:30. > :17:34.He was Uncle to me, and I knew he had written books, because I was
:17:34. > :17:42.given them by his wife at Christmas and birthdays. But it never
:17:42. > :17:47.occurred to me he was any more than an uncle, and he wrote books.
:17:47. > :17:54.remembers playing in a boat in the 1930s, aged just six or seven. But
:17:54. > :18:03.now in his eighties, Miles, godson to a red jacket and's wife, has
:18:03. > :18:05.returned to Obama to whip -- witness its -- he has returned to
:18:05. > :18:12.Batemans to witness it reincarnation. There was one
:18:12. > :18:16.occasion when he join me in the boat, and I remember the day. I had
:18:16. > :18:24.difficulty in turning! We had a photograph of Kipling in the bird -
:18:24. > :18:28.- boat. It is all we had, and from that, we scaled up, we thought he
:18:28. > :18:32.was about five foot six and three scaled everything from that.
:18:32. > :18:37.Appropriately, the National Trust's manager here went on a sponsored
:18:37. > :18:43.three men in a boat style grow on the Thames to raise the money.
:18:43. > :18:49.is bringing history to life, it is something he used and had fun in,
:18:49. > :18:52.so the public to come to Batemans should have the same experience.
:18:52. > :18:59.past master of children's story writing, offering a simple pleasure
:18:59. > :19:01.to youngsters of the future. Tippling in a boat!
:19:01. > :19:04.All the south-east's leading football clubs are in action
:19:04. > :19:07.tomorrow with both Crawley and Gillingham still in the hunt for
:19:07. > :19:09.promotion from League Two. The Gills know that they must win at
:19:09. > :19:12.Northampton to have any realistic chance of making the promotion
:19:12. > :19:14.play-offs. They go into the game four points adrift, with two games
:19:14. > :19:17.to go. Crawley Town will be promoted for
:19:17. > :19:23.the second successive season if they beat struggling Hereford and
:19:23. > :19:26.rivals Torquay fail to win. It's 13 games since the Reds' last defeat
:19:26. > :19:27.in League Two, and the club is expecting a big crowd at the
:19:27. > :19:33.Broadfield Stadium Brighton complete their first
:19:33. > :19:36.season back in the championship with a trip to Barnsley. The Albion
:19:36. > :19:39.will be aiming for their first victory for over a month and even
:19:39. > :19:42.though they can no longer be promoted, manager Gus Poyet insists
:19:42. > :19:45.it will be a good test of the players' character.
:19:45. > :19:49.Despite already clinching the League One title, Charlton will be
:19:49. > :19:52.keen to increase their lead at the top with victory at Preston. The
:19:52. > :20:02.Addicks have won their last five games and need just three points
:20:02. > :20:04.
:20:04. > :20:08.from their last two matches to reach 100 points for the season.
:20:08. > :20:12.The Battle of Little Big Horn is one of the famous ones in the Wild
:20:12. > :20:16.West, where General Custer and his troops were wiped out. But there
:20:16. > :20:20.were a few survivors, and among them was a Brighton man called
:20:20. > :20:26.Henry Holden, who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honour and
:20:26. > :20:30.returned to live in Sussex. The Battle of Little Bighorn, also
:20:30. > :20:37.known as General Custer's last stand against Native American
:20:37. > :20:41.triumphs. -- tribes. It ended in defeat. Until now, little was known
:20:41. > :20:47.of a man from Brighton called Henry Holden who served alongside Costa,
:20:47. > :20:50.but historians say his role should be recognised. He was awarded the
:20:50. > :20:56.Congressional Medal of Honour, which is American's highest honour
:20:56. > :21:00.for bravery. In fact, 15 it soldiers were awarded that medal.
:21:00. > :21:04.General Custer was outnumbered, outwitted and was killed during the
:21:04. > :21:10.battle. Henry Holden, who was part of the Seventh Cavalry, played a
:21:10. > :21:13.key role helping other troops. went under appalling fire from some
:21:13. > :21:18.Indian sharpshooters to get ammunition for people on the line.
:21:18. > :21:23.He did that several times. He was slightly wounded in the process.
:21:23. > :21:28.Henry Holden spent 20 years in the US military. In 1891, he returned
:21:28. > :21:34.to Brighton and lived here in white hawk road with his wife of. Henry
:21:34. > :21:39.Holden's wife Anna died in April 1884, but six months later, he
:21:39. > :21:43.married his second wife, Frances little, a widow who was his next-
:21:43. > :21:48.door neighbour. They moved here it took 45 Rugby place, where they
:21:48. > :21:53.lived with her two children. He died on 14th December, 1905, and is
:21:53. > :22:03.buried in Brighton. Historians are hoping his bravery and terrorism
:22:03. > :22:06.will be remembered. -- bravery and heroism.
:22:06. > :22:09.Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are of course among the biggest rock
:22:09. > :22:12.stars in the world, and their musical partnership famously
:22:12. > :22:14.started after they bumped into each other as teenagers on the platform
:22:14. > :22:17.at Dartford railway station. What's less well known is that they
:22:17. > :22:21.already knew each other from primary school. And now the class
:22:21. > :22:23.register, and a photo of the first intake of pupils at the then new
:22:23. > :22:33.Wentworth Primary School in Dartford 61 years ago, including
:22:33. > :22:41.
:22:41. > :22:50.Mick and Keith, has turned up. Roz The Rolling Stones formed 50 years
:22:50. > :22:55.ago this year. It was the beginning of a legend. Happy to oblige, Mick
:22:55. > :22:58.Jagger, Keith Richards... volatile friendship between Mick
:22:58. > :23:02.Jagger and Keith Richards is older still. Here they are, aged seven,
:23:02. > :23:08.at primary-school in Dartford. Wentworth School has released their
:23:08. > :23:11.class photo from 1951. Mick Jagger's highlighted on the look
:23:11. > :23:16.left, Keith Richards is on the right. Both have cheeky schoolboy
:23:16. > :23:20.grins, and look at those knees! Not so different from the seven year-
:23:20. > :23:23.old at the same school today. The pupils here may not listen to the
:23:23. > :23:28.Rolling Stones but they are proud to be linked with them. They went
:23:28. > :23:33.to Wentworth, which we are going to now, and also it make grammar went
:23:33. > :23:36.to proper grammar and I'm going there as well. -- Mick went to
:23:36. > :23:40.Dartford Grammar and I'm going there as well. You think, they
:23:40. > :23:46.might be sitting in the same seats that he was sitting in! It is the
:23:46. > :23:51.first time that this photo has been shown to the public, along with
:23:51. > :23:55.this register featuring its famous alumni. We have an injury for
:23:55. > :24:01.Michael Jagger, his father was Basil. -- an injury. Two places
:24:01. > :24:08.underneath him, we have Keith Richards. Who was also brought up
:24:08. > :24:15.in the same road. With such icons in their school
:24:15. > :24:25.Heritage, who knows whether two musical legends of the future are
:24:25. > :24:28.
:24:28. > :24:32.in class at Wehmeyer today! I think they might be a bit of wet
:24:32. > :24:36.weather this weekend. After a wet and windy week, today
:24:37. > :24:42.was not too bad. Adria and brighter picture but it will not last. Rain
:24:42. > :24:45.is on the way for the weekend, heavy and persistent. It arrives on
:24:45. > :24:50.Saturday and stays throughout Sunday. The bulk of the unsettled
:24:50. > :24:56.weather stayed to the rest of us today. The south-westerly winds
:24:56. > :24:58.eased off, and even some decent spells of sunshine for us all
:24:58. > :25:05.throughout the afternoon. In the best of the bright is, temperatures
:25:05. > :25:11.not feeling too bad. 30 tonight, plenty of sunshine through the
:25:11. > :25:17.evening. The cloud is feeding through until dawn, it will stay
:25:17. > :25:20.dry but breezy. A mild night. Initially dry for Saturday but very
:25:20. > :25:24.quickly a band of heavy and persistent rain is pushing
:25:24. > :25:34.northwards, it will stay bright throughout the day. The winds will
:25:34. > :25:35.
:25:35. > :25:41.be picking up as well. -- it will stay eight rainy throughout the day.
:25:41. > :25:45.Very blustery winds. With the wind and rain, it will be feeling cooler.
:25:45. > :25:52.It stays wet and windy overnight into Sunday. Temperatures it's
:25:52. > :25:59.pretty mild as a result. For Sunday, a wet and windy picture. Eventually
:25:59. > :26:03.by the afternoon, the rain will be clearing. Cloudy and damp afternoon,
:26:03. > :26:07.temperatures about 12 degrees. Monday sees blustery showers, and
:26:07. > :26:13.the heavy rain will be back for Tuesday. Similar story will be back