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John Young. And I'm Chrissie Reidy. Tonight's top stories. Drilling has | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
now begun at the site in Balcombe, where protesters have gathered for a | :00:10. | :00:18. | |
ninth day. A former soldier who lost �750,000 to online gambling says the | :00:18. | :00:28. | |
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government needs to put pressure on the industry. I've gone from being a | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
director of a financial services company to losing it all. A new look | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
for roadworkers in East Sussex. Helmet cameras to catch out | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
motorists who drive dangerously. Equestrian ecstasy. One year on from | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
a golden Olympics, international competitors go head to head at | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
Hickstead. The sound of a gentler age, the unique harp workshop taking | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
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finally started today after a week of protests at the West Sussex | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
village of Balcombe. Protestors have held a minutes' silence to mark the | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
moment. Today, as the anti-fracking protests entered their ninth day, | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
two more people were arrested as they tried to prevent lorries | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
entering Cuadrilla's site. Sara Smith has been monitoring today's | :01:26. | :01:34. | |
developments. Each lorry arriving at the site has received a similar | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
welcome. This time, though, it wasn't just shouting but a direct | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
clash between protesters and police. A man and a woman were arrested for | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
assaulting police officers, to the furious the crowd. The day had | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
started on a very different note. The news that drilling had begun | :01:54. | :02:03. | |
prompted a minutes silence. On the site, work was finally underway. The | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
search for oil is just stage one. It's a long way off any decisions | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
over whether or how to bring it to the surface being made. We are | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
drilling a six inch hole in the ground. I do want to put it in that | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
context because it sometimes gets overblown that this is a massive | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
engineering operation. That will take a month or a month and a half | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
to complete. If we find oil, we will test that oil and see what rate it | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
flows that. At the camp, numbers have been swelled by protest | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
supporters from the Northwest. Lancashire is the only county in the | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
UK with fracking has taken place so far. We are showing support here. We | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
are hoping that when the time comes for the rich to come a Lancashire, | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
some of these nice people here will come and support us. Manuel is able | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
to dash-macro boll Comte resident. feel very strongly that our village | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
is going to be turned into an industrial site. I don't think | :03:02. | :03:09. | |
people realise just what it entails. Cuadrilla's attempts to assure | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
people their plans will pose no threat were providing much-needed | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
fuel, falling here on deaf ears. The company behind all this, Cuadrilla, | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
first courted controversy when it started fracking for gas in the | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
north-west. What exactly have they done so far in Sussex? Today they | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
started test drilling for oil which they know is there - it was found | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
during exploration in the 80s. They say that if they find a significant | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
amount of oil that they can't raise by conventional drilling, they may | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
apply to frack for it. This would mean a new planning application from | :03:41. | :03:50. | |
West Sussex County Council, which could take at least nine months. The | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
company are not expecting to find any gas - it's all about oil. Now | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
the drilling has begun, what other protest is planning to do? They say | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
they are going to stay. They store have an important message to get | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
across to Cuadrilla and to the government. More tents have been | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
arriving and being pitched here during the day. Despite the scenes | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
you saw earlier, those clashes and arrests, these protests have largely | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
been very passionate but very peaceful as well. For Cuadrilla, | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
they have started drilling today but behind schedule, later than they | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
planned. They've asked for an extension to their licence. That was | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
due to run out in September, but they say they want to continue their | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
exploration works now they've started the job, they want to get it | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
done. A former city high flyer has today urged people to be aware of | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
online gambling, after he lost his wife, his children and his job over | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
his addiction. In all, Justyn Larcombe, who lives near Tonbridge, | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
reckons he's lost �750,000. He decided to speak to this programme | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
to put pressure on the industry and, as Robin Gibson reports, remind the | :04:58. | :05:06. | |
public how badly it can go wrong. He is a former soldier who has served | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
his country. The story of his downfall is simple but | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
all-too-familiar. Gambling has completely changed everything I do. | :05:16. | :05:23. | |
I've gone from being a director of a financial services company, quite | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
successful with a nice wage and nice house and cars and what everyone | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
else would see as success, a beautiful wife and 2-macro boys, to | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
losing it all. It didn't take long, he didn't need high street bookies. | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
You could bet online whenever he liked, at home, sometimes in the day | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
and sometimes in the middle of the night. He became more desperate as | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
his losses mounted. And when he thought he'd run out of things to | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
sell, he remembered his military ceremonial sword will stop he'd | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
planned to leave it to his sons. cried when I left the antiques shop | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
because it hurt. But I'd spent the �200 within probably 2-macro hours | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
that afternoon. It was everything. Gambling had become my life. It was | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
a complete fabrication because those people around me didn't actually | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
know what I was doing. The online gambling industry has been blamed | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
for destroying lives and families. Justyn Larcombe says there should | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
now be a one-stop shop, an online register, so if someone signs | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
themselves up to self exclude, it shouldn't be allowed onto a gambling | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
website again. Charities agree. really important to have the self | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
exclusion mechanism that works. But the government has an opportunity to | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
change that with its new bill, by providing this one-stop shop for | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
self exclusion. We do keep an open mind about these things and are | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
always happy to try new initiatives. But gambling is an | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
activity that comes with risks associated and we'd be the first to | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
accept that. The question then is, what are the right tools and | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
mechanisms to provide the maximum number of protections for the | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
maximum number of people? He says the government should now force the | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
industry to police itself, developing its own systems to deter | :07:09. | :07:19. | |
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gambling addicts. Before too many other families lives are ruined. In | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
a moment, cutting down the number of scenes like this. Calls for speed | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
limits to be reduced on country roads, from a woman who survived a | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
smash. Roadworkers in East Sussex are to wear helmet cameras in an | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
attempt to catch motorists who drive dangerously. The county council says | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
the move is designed to protect the workers, and any evidence of bad | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
driving, such as using mobile phones or speeding, will be handed to the | :07:44. | :07:53. | |
police. He's been working for highways for the past decade but in | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
the last be years, Lee says he faces physical and verbal abuse from | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
motorists on a regular basis. That's why he's happy to wear a head | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
camera. I don't think we should have to go this far but it's the way | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
we've got to go now, it's not fair on the workforce. It's good they are | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
protecting us and realise something has got to be done about it. East | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
Sussex county council says it's been forced to ask workers to wear | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
cameras because this year they're been ten reported incidents of | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
assault. Of those, three have ended in successful prosecutions and a | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
further three are about to go to court. Only yesterday we had one of | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
our guys who mans the road closure, he had his feet driven over. It's | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
not acceptable. We will not accept that. We're working with the Sussex | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
Police and will prosecute people. Cyclists have used head camera is to | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
highlight dangerous driving. In situations where there are no | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
witnesses, footage can be crucial in securing prosecutions. But critics | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
are concerned about a surveillance society. I'm amazed people have to | :08:56. | :09:06. | |
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go round with recording devices in their hearts. Dash-macro they have | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
to because they are being threatened. I'm not a big fan of the | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
surveillance society these days. It's a sad comment will stop I'm not | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
worried about it in this instance, no. I think there's a lot of | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
aggravation on the roads which is unnecessary. The council says the | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
head cams are to improve the safety of workers and won't be used to | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
police parking offences. A 19-year-old man and a 16-year-old | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
girl have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a petrol | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
station manager, from West Kingsdown in Kent, was run down by suspected | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
fuel thieves. Lekshmanan Ashok Kumar was carried half a mile down the | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
road on the bonnet of a car when he tried to stop the driver from | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
leaving without paying for fuel on Wednesday. He's now no longer in a | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
critical condition in hospital. A man charged with the murder of | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
Michael Polding, from Sussex, has pleaded not guilty to his murder at | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
Lewes Crown Court. Ricardo Pisano also denied GBH but admitted | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
preventing his burial. Mr Polding's decomposing body was discovered in a | :10:10. | :10:19. | |
flat in Kemp Town in Brighton last July. A family doctor from Swanley | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
in Kent has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a string of | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
patients and taking intimate pictures at his GP practice. Dr | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
Barend Delport had 500,000 indecent images on his computer when he was | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
arrested at his home in Eynsford. Our reporter Jon Hunt joins us from | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
outside the surgery in Swanley now. Jon, how were Dr Delport's crimes | :10:36. | :10:46. | |
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discovered? Police learned about these crimes when the mother of a | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
female child contacted them to say that Doctor Delport had taken | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
intimate photographs of her when she'd only come in to complain of a | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
stomach ache. He was arrested at his home and detectives there discovered | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
this huge stash of photographs, some downloaded off the Internet, some | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
taken during medical examinations. Today, he pleaded guilty to 26 | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
offences, which included three counts of indecent assaults on | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
children, and 12 counts of taking indecent images of children. Dr | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
Alison Milroy is from NHS England. You were involved in this | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
investigation. This was a monumental breach of trust. Speaking as a GP | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
myself, and someone that works at NHS England, trying to make sure | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
that the GPs give the best possible care they can, I'd like to say we | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
are devastated by what this individual doctor has done. His | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
behaviour was unacceptable. I'm sorry to anybody who has been harmed | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
by his behaviour. I'd like to say a big thank you to anybody who came | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
forward, most particularly to the mum who raised the very first | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
concern with the police. If anybody has concerns about their care from | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
Dr Delport, there's a confidential NHS helpline. I believe the number | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
will be on your website. I will give details in a moment. What issues | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
does this phrase about the taking of photography during medical | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
examinations? The positive things that have come out of the | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
investigation that we've started things like we've developed a policy | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
for medical photography in general practice, which has already been | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
shared with the GPs in Kent and Medway. It makes it clear to GPs | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
what is appropriate to photograph and the proper way to do it. But in | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
addition, if there are concerns that come out of the investigation about | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
the way that GPs are supervised, we will make sure this is shared with | :12:42. | :12:50. | |
the NHS as a whole. As we heard, there are details on our website if | :12:50. | :13:00. | |
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you've been affected by this case or host its biggest ever Pride event | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
with over 100,000 people expected to join the celebrations. It's 40 years | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
since Brighton's first gay pride march in 1973 and some would like to | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
see the political message of the 70s still to play a prominent part. | :13:17. | :13:26. | |
Juliette Parkin reports. Pride is proud of its past. Fuelled by what | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
was regarded as homophobic legislation of the Thatcher years, | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
the gay community in Brighton marched for their rights in the | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
early 90s, and some feel the event has lost a key message. P stands for | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
pride but it also stands for politics as well. People think | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
that's a dirty word, but we are in a country where the Queen is the head | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
of Commonwealth, and 41 out of 54 of those countries, homosexuality is | :13:52. | :14:02. | |
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illegal there and in 2-macro it's a capital offence. This is a gay pride | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
march in London in 1979. It was the first UK city to host the event. | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
Brighton saw a sore dash-macro minority take to the streets in 73. | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
Today the event is much bigger and more flamboyant, so has it become | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
more party than protest? It's not just about a party, it's a | :14:23. | :14:31. | |
celebration. We've had two weeks of arts and film, history, walks, we've | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
had an exhibition at the library. With thousands expected on the city | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
's streets, policing Pride is a major operation, this year involving | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
over 200 officers. It's been very difficult. It really has stretched | :14:46. | :14:53. | |
what is going on in Balkan. That said, if somebody needs a police | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
officer they will get one. They are setting up today ahead of tomorrow's | :14:58. | :15:06. | |
event. But the party comes with a price tag, and this year it is | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
expected to be around �500,000. Ticketing the event in recent years | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
has helped raise funds and control numbers. It is hoped Pride's past | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
will not stop the party. Juliette is at Madeira Drive, where the parade | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
starts tomorrow. Juliette, we're expecting lots of colour and | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
celebration tomorrow, but some are hoping there will be more to it than | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
that. That's right. This stretch of sea front is expected to be packed | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
with people, not only taking part in the parade but also those who come | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
down to watch. Nobody is saying I don't have fun and don't enjoy the | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
party, they are saying that Brighton is such a liberal city, that is | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
something to be celebrated. But campaigners are saying, let's not | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
forget those communities across the world who don't enjoy such freedom, | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
where it's still illegal to be gay. There will be a political message | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
during the parade in support of gay in Russia who are currently | :16:02. | :16:12. | |
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experiencing depression. Our top story tonight. Energy company | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
Cuadrilla has started drilling at the site in Balcombe as | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
anti-fracking protesters gathered for a ninth day. Two people were | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
arrested as scuffles broke out between campaigners and the police. | :16:22. | :16:32. | |
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Still to come Drdot-macro we watch a Kent woman who had to be cut out of | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
her car after another vehicle slammed into the back of her on a | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
rural road is backing a campaign to reduce the speed limit through her | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
village. Becky Dunster has joined more than 500 other villagers to try | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
and reduce the speed limit between Matfield and Brenchley. At the | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
moment it's the national limit of 60mph. Last year, more than 1,200 | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
people died on rural roads in the UK. That's nearly double the number | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
who died on urban roads. But despite the high number of deaths on rural | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
roads, urban roads have three times more accidents. Rebecca Williams has | :17:22. | :17:31. | |
tonight's Special Report. It was a lucky escape. Becky Dunster had just | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
parked outside her house when another car crashed into her. Her | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
head smashed through the windscreen, and she is now calling for a change | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
to the road speed limit, along with fellow residents. I didn't know if I | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
was going to get out of the car. I didn't know if that was it, because | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
I was so trapped. I was bleeding everywhere. I just didn't think I | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
was going to survive it. When the accident happened on this country | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
road in Matfield, where more than 500 residents have signed a petition | :18:01. | :18:08. | |
to change the speed limit from 60 mph to 30 or 40 mph. I think the | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
drivers themselves are confused. Suddenly changes to 40 and then it | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
goes back to 30. There's so many examples of that throughout Kent and | :18:16. | :18:26. | |
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Sussex. Last year in Kent there were over 4000 collisions, 50 people died | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
and 474 were seriously injured. But it would seem you are more likely to | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
have a fatal accident on a rural road man in an urban area. That's an | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
issue the government is addressing. Last year they outlined proposals to | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
change speeds and country roads from 60 to 40 mph. However, in January it | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
was decided that any decision should be made at local level, with the aim | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
of ensuring country roads are safe. They can be narrow, twisting, there | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
can be hills with lots of blind spots. Drivers can think because | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
there's less traffic and because it's a beautiful place to be that | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
it's actually a lot safer than it is. Drivers really do need to think | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
about their speed on rural roads. Kent county council insist they do | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
all they can to keep road users safe. They say fatalities have | :19:11. | :19:21. | |
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fallen significantly in recent years. It's a heavenly sound often | :19:28. | :19:38. | |
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thought of with being part of an ancient age. It's an ancient | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
instrument, harps were used 4000 years ago in ancient Persia, but | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
they're still in demand today. And if you want to buy one, chances are | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
it might be made at Godstone in Surrey, where the country's only | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
pedal harp manufacturers have just taken on a couple of new | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
apprentices. If it sounds like this and looks like thisdot-macro then it | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
was most likely made here in Godstone. They are the only UK | :20:05. | :20:15. | |
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manufacturers of the pedal harp. price of a harp has come down | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
enormously. Some Victorian hops, you could have bought a small village | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
for the price of them! They aren't the cheapest of instruments to take | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
up, it's true, but making them as a craft that takes years to learn, | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
something one of the apprentices understand all too well. It's been | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
difficult. When you are young you think you can do it but there's a | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
lot to it. I make the bodies of the instruments. The bodies similar to | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
an acoustic guitar. It is where the sound is produced. That sound is | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
perhaps more familiar in an orchestra, but one of their hearts | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
made it into mainstream music as it took to put stayed with the band | :21:03. | :21:11. | |
Florence and the machine. And it's a complicated bit of kit. It is made | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
up of around 2000 pieces of metal that take up to 12 weeks for the | :21:15. | :21:22. | |
team to make and can cost upwards of �10,000. Despite their cost, the | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
team receive a steady order for the instruments, which has allowed them | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
to train up two apprentices, so the skills needed to make a pedal harp | :21:30. | :21:40. | |
are not lost. It makes you want to fall asleep but we've got a crack on | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
with some sport now. Love it or hate it, we're up and running again. The | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
new football season begins in earnest this weekend with all four | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
of the south east's clubs in action tomorrow. Neil Bell joins us from | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
Chatham. Neil, there was high drama when the Gills were promoted as | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
League Two champions in May, what are their prospects up in League | :21:57. | :22:07. | |
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optimism around these parts, and they are the return of strikers Cody | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
Macdonald and the big man, Adebayo Akinfenwa, they struck up a great | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
understanding three seasons ago. On paper it seems like a great idea to | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
reunite them and, while Cody Macdonald has had a couple of quiet | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
years, big Bayo was in impressive form last season with 17 goals for | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
Northampton Town. And 31 now, gone away and scored a lot of goals. I've | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
got a bit more experience to pass on to the younger strikers. I'm looking | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
forward to this season, it should be fun. Elsewhere in League One, | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
Crawley Town take on cash strapped Coventry City. While in the | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
Championship, Charlton Athletic travel to newly promoted | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
Bournemouth. After a summer of intrigue and rumour, Brighton fans | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
will be delighted to get back to action. Tomorrow's trip to Leeds | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
will be new head coach Oscar Garcia's first competitive fixture. | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
I'm very excited to go there, to start there. I would prefer to start | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
here with all the fans playing at home but we have to play against all | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
the teams in the championship. We have two start there and will play | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
there. This time last year, millions of people were celebrating the | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
success of our equestrian team at London 2012. Many of those medal | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
winners, together with most of the rest of the world's best | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
competitors, are at Hickstead in Sussex. Indeed, this afternoon our | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
show-jumping team competed in this country for the first time since | :23:30. | :23:40. | |
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winning gold. Lovely weather, huge crowds and some superlative riding | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
from a variety of British competitors made London 2012 one of | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
the most memorable Olympics ever for our home-grown horse men and women. | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
Today, many of them were at Hickstead, the UK's premier | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
equestrian centre. You hear a lot from the foreign guys who are here, | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
it's nicely old-fashioned, a lot of traditional things are happening | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
here and it's a completely different show to Rotterdam or other places. | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
It's got its own character, the ring is unique in itself. The crowds are | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
great here. We love coming here. Many of today's competitors are | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
Hickstead regulars but, remarkably, Olympic hero Scott Brush has never | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
competed in Sussex before. He's very impressed. You don't get too many | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
grass rings now, with the way the weather can affect it. It's really | :24:33. | :24:40. | |
hard to keep it perfect. I must say, if you do get a grass rings that is | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
well maintained and looked after, it is the best service for horses to | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
jump on. There's no doubt attendances this weekend will have | :24:47. | :24:54. | |
been boosted by last summer's success. When we went up to the | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
Olympic Park, seeing the smiles on the faces of the kids, they were | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
loving it. You can't buy that, you can't create that in a classroom, | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
the NHS can't deliver that sort of medicine. That, for me, was very | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
special. It didn't really hit me properly until the parade in | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
London, where so many of the placards just said thank you. | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
seems very likely there will be more British success to cheer over the | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
next couple of days. Plenty of top-class sporting action this | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
weekend. Kent and Sussex cricketers are in action, the show-jumping at | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
Hickstead and the football. Take your pick. We need some decent | :25:32. | :25:41. | |
yesterday. Yesterday turned out to be the warmest day in August we've | :25:41. | :25:48. | |
had since 2003. Today we managed to reach the mid-20s. Canterbury got up | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
to 26 Celsius. On the flip side, Brighton struggled to get to 22. A | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
bit of a south-westerly breeze around today as well. That continues | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
through the weekend. It gets quite a bit stronger tomorrow. It will be | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
cooler over the weekend but the main picture will be sunshine and showers | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
will stop tonight, we've got a fair amount of showers left in clusters. | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
Not all of us will see those. There should be some sunny spells all the | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
way through this evening. Temperatures down to about 15 or 16 | :26:18. | :26:26. | |
tonight. Somewhat cooler than last night. In the middle of the night | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
those showers will clear away and we are left with some remnants of | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
cloud. Tomorrow we have further bands of showers moving in through | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
the morning. Again, not all of us will have those. There's a fair | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
amount of sunshine around tomorrow, so it could be quite pleasant. The | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
showers move off in the afternoon, leaving us with a pleasant | :26:45. | :26:52. | |
afternoon. Temperatures only just reaching the low 20s. The | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
south-westerly breeze really picks up tomorrow. We're looking at the | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
breezy day along the Dover Straits. Tomorrow night we've got a fair | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
amount of cloud through the night, but it should be largely dry. Cooler | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
again, temperatures down to 14 or 15. Sunday, it should remain largely | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
dry. Monday, we've got quite a wet day ahead, some rather heavy rain is | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
on the cards. It should start to clear from the south-west. Tuesday, | :27:19. | :27:24. |