:00:11. > :00:15.Welcome to South East Today, I'm Natalie Graham. And I'm Rob Smith.
:00:15. > :00:18.Tonight's top stories. The NHS failure with fatal consequences, as
:00:18. > :00:24.a man with mental health issues was sent home from hospital — and then
:00:24. > :00:28.killed his wife. Macro my daughter's missing. She'll never be
:00:28. > :00:31.a holiday photos. Shall never be here, will she?
:00:31. > :00:34.Radical plans to privatise a swathe of front line services in Kent as
:00:34. > :00:38.the County Council looks to save a further £240 million. We'll have
:00:38. > :00:42.details and reaction from County Hall.
:00:42. > :00:45.Also in tonight's programme: the man who fought off a woman wielding a
:00:45. > :00:50.kitchen knife when she tried to rob his service station.
:00:50. > :00:55.Mini Me — the 3D printer in a public library which lets you create tiny
:00:55. > :00:58.replicas of yourself. And hits as you've never heard them
:00:58. > :01:19.— we're live with the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain.
:01:19. > :01:24.Good evening. A man who stabbed his wife to death in front of one of
:01:24. > :01:28.their children could have been stopped from doing so — if he'd been
:01:28. > :01:30.properly assessed by an NHS psychiatric clinic. A former
:01:30. > :01:35.soldier, Gary Walker had a history of mental health issues. He took
:01:35. > :01:38.himself to hospital with cuts to his wrists just days before the fatal
:01:38. > :01:41.incident in Broadstairs, but he wasn't admitted. A report into the
:01:41. > :01:45.case says it was a "missed opportunity". He's now in jail, and
:01:45. > :01:54.his victim's family say they'll now take legal action. Simon Jones has
:01:54. > :01:59.this exclusive report. Killed by her husband after the NHS
:01:59. > :02:06.missed the opportunity to ensure the safety of Gary Walker's family and
:02:06. > :02:08.of him. My daughter's missing. It is like my grandson said to me the
:02:08. > :02:13.other day, he was having an update, it is all right for you, none. You
:02:13. > :02:20.had your mum all your life. I had one for a short time. And you feel
:02:20. > :02:24.failed by the NHS? Yeah, yeah. Those children have been let down. Not
:02:24. > :02:29.just me, but the children. They have got no mum. Carry water had
:02:29. > :02:35.previously displayed psychotic symptoms, believing he was being
:02:35. > :02:36.harassed by the Taliban. In February, days before stabbing his
:02:36. > :02:42.life, he went into Margate with February, days before stabbing his
:02:42. > :02:47.wrists. He was put into the care of a psychiatric nurse. The psychiatric
:02:47. > :02:54.nurse failed to carry out a full assessment, concluding that Gary
:02:54. > :02:59.Walker did not pose a risk to himself or to others. They told him
:02:59. > :03:02.to go home and seek further help from the community mental health
:03:02. > :03:09.team. Begin depended report concludes,
:03:09. > :03:20.they would have been dismissed if they had not left the trust.
:03:20. > :03:24.Could what Gary Walker did have been prevented? I think it's good, and I
:03:24. > :03:29.think the reports that quite clearly. I think the NHS is doing
:03:29. > :03:34.its job properly now in taking what steps it can to put its own house in
:03:34. > :03:38.audible. Natalie's family had also told more could be done when Gary
:03:38. > :03:45.Walker sought help months before the killing. I have apologised for the
:03:45. > :03:49.two key missed opportunities to prevent this tragedy, and I have
:03:49. > :03:53.explained the actions we have taken to strengthen the skills of our
:03:53. > :03:57.staff in risk assessment, to ensure that all our staff get clinical
:03:57. > :04:02.supervision on a regular basis to review their work. Painful reading
:04:02. > :04:05.for the family, the report concludes that the violence could reasonably
:04:05. > :04:09.have been predicted, even if how far it would escalate could not.
:04:09. > :04:12.Joining us now from Central London is Marjorie Wallace from the mental
:04:12. > :04:15.health charity Sane. Marjorie, what's to blame here — the
:04:15. > :04:25.individual who didn't assess Mr Walker properly, or failures in the
:04:25. > :04:29.system? The individual, certainly not. She should not have been left
:04:29. > :04:33.with that kind of decision. I think it goes beyond an individual, and it
:04:33. > :04:38.is actually the system that seems to fail, and do so again and again. We
:04:38. > :04:41.rely so much a community mental health teams. Many of them don't
:04:41. > :04:45.have the skills and resources to deal with compensated cases such as
:04:45. > :04:50.that of Gary Walker, and this was really an unforgivable list of
:04:50. > :04:54.opportunities in which he was actually ringing up, asked for help,
:04:54. > :04:58.his GP was asking for help, and the services did not respond. I gave up
:04:58. > :05:02.appointments and weeks ahead and did not respond to this crisis. This
:05:02. > :05:05.isn't an isolated case, we've reported on similar ones recently,
:05:05. > :05:09.such as Nicola Edgington, who killed her own mother in Sussex, and after
:05:09. > :05:13.release went on to kill again. The NHS says it is learning the lessons
:05:13. > :05:19.of these tragedies and putting its house in order — do you think it is?
:05:19. > :05:23.We have been following enquiries into cases like this over about 20
:05:23. > :05:27.years, and we do not see many of the lessons being learned. It is
:05:27. > :05:31.actually not just a lesson to be learned, it is a lack of common
:05:31. > :05:35.sense and judgement, and the fact that we are relying more and more on
:05:35. > :05:39.treating people, however disturbed they may become, in the community,
:05:39. > :05:44.because we are closing down more and more psychiatric head. There should
:05:44. > :05:48.have been a red alert system for someone with that degree of violence
:05:48. > :05:52.in the past, that he would have been in a system whereby the moment he
:05:52. > :05:56.sought help, he would have been taken into hospital, seen a
:05:56. > :06:00.consultant psychiatrist, which he did not, and was probably assessed
:06:00. > :06:04.for medication which he was not, and given the therapy he should have had
:06:04. > :06:09.to control his anger. Thank you very much for joining us.
:06:09. > :06:12.Radical plans that could lead to the privatisation of a swathe of front
:06:12. > :06:15.line services across Kent have been approved by county councillors this
:06:15. > :06:19.afternoon. Kent County Council needs to save almost £240 million over the
:06:19. > :06:23.next five years — that's 10% of the authority's total budget. The ruling
:06:23. > :06:25.Conservatives believe they can save £40 million by reducing
:06:25. > :06:29.administration costs, and millions more by putting services out to
:06:29. > :06:40.tender to be run by private sector companies.
:06:40. > :06:47.We will apply real commercial rigour and make a decision by April of next
:06:47. > :06:51.year in who is best able to continue to deliver good quality services,
:06:51. > :06:54.whether in—house, in the public sector, or the charitable voluntary
:06:54. > :06:58.organisations, or the private sector. That is an ongoing programme
:06:58. > :07:01.which hopefully will deliver some substantial savings. So which
:07:01. > :07:04.council services could in future be run by private companies? Kent
:07:04. > :07:06.County Council will look at outsourcing the county's libraries.
:07:06. > :07:09.Then there are things like adult education, foreign language courses
:07:09. > :07:12.and apprenticeships which come under the umbrella of Community Learning
:07:12. > :07:16.and Skills. And some residential care homes for the elderly could
:07:16. > :07:20.also be run by private companies. Union leaders say they fear the move
:07:20. > :07:27.will damage services for some of the most vulnerable people in the
:07:27. > :07:31.county. They shouldn't be making cuts, they
:07:31. > :07:36.should be providing services for local communities. Why should the
:07:36. > :07:41.poorest and the most deprived areas have their services cut? It is
:07:41. > :07:44.wrong. Charlie Rose joins us from County Hall in Maidstone. Why is
:07:44. > :07:55.Kent County Council under so much pressure to cut spending? Well, this
:07:55. > :07:57.is all about central government imposing heavy cuts on local
:07:57. > :08:04.government budgets, so councils like Kent would argue it is hard for them
:08:04. > :08:06.to keep front line services as they are, and they need to look at new
:08:06. > :08:10.ways of delivering those services. Critics would argue, however, that
:08:10. > :08:15.the outsourcing and privatisation of these services will result in a loss
:08:15. > :08:19.of quality, and things being done on the cheap. One thing is sure, the
:08:19. > :08:24.breadth and scale of what is happening here is huge. This is a
:08:24. > :08:26.significant and historic development in the way Kent County Council
:08:26. > :08:29.delivers its services. Thank you very much. The details of these
:08:29. > :08:33.proposals will be finalised by April, but every major change will
:08:33. > :08:36.still need to be voted on by the full council.
:08:36. > :08:39.In a moment: let's frack, burn coal and build nuclear power stations —
:08:39. > :08:50.the UKIP leader Nigel Farage has the answer to all our energy problems.
:08:50. > :08:56.A worker at a service station in Ashford who managed to fight off a
:08:56. > :08:59.woman wielding a kitchen knife, despite suffering injuries to his
:08:59. > :09:02.hand, has been awarded for his bravery. Michael Whybrow endured a
:09:02. > :09:06.30—minute attack from Anna Chambers, after she came into his garage
:09:06. > :09:14.demanding money. She's now been jailed for six years, as Fiona
:09:14. > :09:17.Irving reports. This is the moment Michael Whybrow
:09:17. > :09:23.tussled with a woman wielding an eight inch knife. She then managed
:09:23. > :09:28.to get her other arm around my neck, and was pulling me down. I
:09:28. > :09:33.think that is when I lost a little bit of grit, and she managed to pull
:09:33. > :09:38.the knife back, and so she cut me right across these forefingers. As
:09:38. > :09:42.the woman started wielding the knife, Michael push the panic button
:09:42. > :09:47.and locked the doors. The whole attack was captured on CCTV. With
:09:47. > :09:50.such compelling evidence, 29—year—old Anna Chambers pleaded
:09:50. > :09:56.guilty. Last week, she was jailed for six years for an attack that
:09:56. > :10:00.left Michael traumatised. I couldn't sleep. I was suffering from sleep
:10:00. > :10:04.deprivation. I didn't sleep properly for a number of weeks. I was
:10:05. > :10:13.basically thinking of what could have happened, what would have
:10:13. > :10:17.happened if it had gone wrong, and that. In a bizarre moment caught on
:10:17. > :10:22.camera, Chambers fetched kitchen roll to stem the blood from
:10:22. > :10:26.Michael's hand. He has been given a high Sheriff award for bravery. He
:10:26. > :10:32.has stayed extremely calm and be unable to control the situation long
:10:32. > :10:32.enough to keep himself safe and call the emergency services, and we've
:10:32. > :10:39.been able to come here and control of the situation, restraint
:10:39. > :10:43.and detained there. She wasn't threatening the shop, she wasn't
:10:43. > :10:47.threatening my boss, she was threatening me personally. That
:10:47. > :10:52.doesn't work. I protect myself, and that's what I've done. That's how I
:10:52. > :10:56.treat it. I was protecting myself, and I dealt with at the way I think
:10:56. > :11:02.I should have done. Michael says he is amazed to have been given and
:11:02. > :11:05.award, and just did what anyone else would have done.
:11:05. > :11:09.Detectives investigating allegations of racial abuse on a train in Sussex
:11:09. > :11:13.have released CCTV images of a woman they want to speak to. The incident
:11:13. > :11:16.started on the platform at Lancing, and continued on the train until the
:11:16. > :11:21.alleged victim ——a 16—year—old girl — got off at Brighton station.
:11:21. > :11:25.A man who broke into the home of a woman in her 80s and raped her has
:11:25. > :11:28.been jailed for ten years. Daniel Hewett, who's 23, pleaded guilty to
:11:28. > :11:34.attacking the pensioner in Hove in May. Claudia Sermbezis joins us from
:11:34. > :11:37.Hove Crown Court. Claudia, the circumstances around this case
:11:37. > :11:45.really are shocking. The victim was subjected to a horrific attack. That
:11:45. > :11:51.is right. This is a really horrible story. It was the early hours of May
:11:51. > :11:55.25, the victim, an 82—year—old woman, was asleep in her bed in her
:11:55. > :12:00.home, when she woke up suddenly and saw Daniel Hewett, 23, standing
:12:00. > :12:04.above her in her bedroom. He then raped her in what the police
:12:04. > :12:09.describe as a sustained attack, and a very horrible attack. He then sat
:12:09. > :12:13.down on her bed and told her all about his life and fell asleep in
:12:13. > :12:17.her bed. She then managed to go to a neighbour, who called the police.
:12:17. > :12:21.The police found him still asleep in their bed, and she was arrested.
:12:21. > :12:24.They say she has been very dignified through the last four months, and
:12:24. > :12:28.that today's sentencing has given her some closure. Thank you.
:12:28. > :12:32.The leader of the UK Independence Party and South East MEP, Nigel
:12:32. > :12:35.Farage, says it's time to scrap the Climate Change Act and promote
:12:35. > :12:39.fossil fuels and nuclear energy in Kent and Sussex, to ensure the
:12:39. > :12:42.lights stay on. On the eve of his party's annual conference, Mr Farage
:12:42. > :12:46.claimed Labour and the Conservatives had allowed Britain's energy policy
:12:46. > :12:49.to be controlled by Brussels. But climate change experts say his
:12:49. > :12:52.comments are "political sensationalism" which fail to grasp
:12:52. > :13:02.the scale of the global crisis we could face. Our political editor
:13:02. > :13:05.Louise Stewart has the details. Nuclear power at Dungeness, a
:13:05. > :13:13.coal—fired power station at Kingsnorth near Rochester, these are
:13:13. > :13:16.symbols for some old—fashioned energy polluting the planet. But our
:13:16. > :13:20.wind farms like this one the ants to our energy needs? Not according to
:13:20. > :13:24.Nigel Farage. I look at the fact that we have had a nuclear power
:13:24. > :13:31.stations is 19 six the one, I look at the Romney marshes, compulsory
:13:31. > :13:34.purchase, and the ugliest wind farm I think in the whole United Kingdom,
:13:34. > :13:37.which produces hardly any energy at all and massively adds to
:13:37. > :13:42.everyone's fuel bills. I look at Kingsnorth, coal—fired power station
:13:42. > :13:46.being closed down under EU directives. You realise the reason
:13:46. > :13:49.the lights may go out is we don't control our energy policy, Brussels
:13:49. > :13:54.does, and we are saying, that reject the Climate Change Act. The Climate
:13:54. > :13:58.Change Act he would like to see scrapped sets out plans to cut
:13:58. > :14:03.emissions in the UK, including the 2050 target which commits the UK to
:14:03. > :14:07.reduce emissions by at least 80% from 1990 levels. The carbon budget
:14:07. > :14:10.is designed to cap the amount of greenhouse gases emitted over a
:14:10. > :14:13.five—year period, and a plan requiring the government to examine
:14:13. > :14:16.the climate change risks and a strategy to address them.
:14:16. > :14:21.Campaigners say the act is essential, and accuse Mr barrage of
:14:21. > :14:23.trying to score political. I think that smacks of
:14:23. > :14:27.trying to score political. I think provocative politics, as we have
:14:27. > :14:32.come to expect from UKIP. It is ridiculous, and it is based on false
:14:32. > :14:34.facts and evidence. We know that investing in fossil fuels won't
:14:34. > :14:39.guarantee that the lights will stay on, and we are far better off
:14:39. > :14:42.investing in renewable. We asked residents in Medway towns if they
:14:42. > :14:47.were more concerned about cheap energy being green. I think he is
:14:47. > :14:56.right, actually. I think it should be scrapped, because then we could
:14:56. > :15:01.get more power. Where are we going to get coal and nuclear energy from?
:15:01. > :15:06.It's running out. Wind is a perfect solution, is it not? Mr barrage
:15:06. > :15:10.claims the UK's energy policy has been run by Brussels, and said that
:15:10. > :15:14.both Labour and the Conservatives have failed to defend British
:15:14. > :15:20.interests. I can see why having Cameron or Milliband is going to
:15:20. > :15:25.affect the current crazy energy policy. Frankly, we finished up with
:15:25. > :15:28.a very bland form of politics in this country. All major parties
:15:28. > :15:33.agree the UK faces an energy shortage, but not how to use tackle
:15:33. > :15:36.it. Running up to the next election, voters will have to decide who they
:15:36. > :15:39.trust most to keep the lights on. Louise joins us from Westminster.
:15:39. > :15:43.Louise, you also asked Nigel Farage whether he's going to stand for
:15:43. > :15:49.parliament in Kent — did he give you an answer? Well, that is right. It
:15:49. > :15:51.has to be said, UKIP did very well at local elections, although much
:15:51. > :15:55.dilapidation, they still don't have a single MP at Westminster. I did
:15:55. > :16:01.ask him, given the success in Kent, where they are now the party of
:16:01. > :16:06.opposition, whether he would stand as rumours are going, at the next
:16:06. > :16:09.general election in Kent. He told me his focus is on the European
:16:09. > :16:14.elections next year. He refused to be drawn. I am not a betting woman,
:16:14. > :16:17.but if I were, I think I would have a wager on the fact he will stand at
:16:17. > :16:22.the next election, and it is most likely to be in Kent. I might join
:16:22. > :16:27.you ! Thank you very much. The time is quarter to seven.
:16:27. > :16:30.Our top story tonight: A report into the case of a former soldier who
:16:30. > :16:36.stabbed his wife to death says it could have been prevented if he had
:16:36. > :16:39.been properly assessed in an NHS psychiatric clinic. Former soldier
:16:39. > :16:41.Gary Walker went to the hospital with cuts to his wrists just days
:16:41. > :16:44.before stabbing his wife, but was not admitted.
:16:44. > :16:48.Also in tonight's programme: Fancy being born again? In plastic? Now
:16:48. > :16:55.you can, thanks to a new facility in a public library! And I'm at the
:16:55. > :16:59.assembly all theatre in Tunbridge Wells with the ukelele Orchestra of
:16:59. > :17:00.Great Britain. If you want a bit of feel—good factor and a bit of a
:17:00. > :17:09.surprise, don't go anywhere. Environmental campaigners say it's a
:17:09. > :17:12.disaster that a huge chunk of ancient woodland in Kent will now be
:17:12. > :17:18.destroyed after a High Court ruling that quarry can go ahead there.
:17:18. > :17:21.Oaken Wood is at Barming, near Maidstone. It's been essentially
:17:21. > :17:25.untouched since 1600, and that continuity means that it is the sort
:17:25. > :17:28.of habitat that supports endangered species like bats, dormice, and
:17:28. > :17:31.reptiles. It will affect a total of 81 acres of woodland — which
:17:31. > :17:33.campaigners say simply cannot be replaced Our environment
:17:33. > :17:47.correspondent Yvette Austin has our story update. Designated as ancient
:17:47. > :17:52.woodland, this is what the residents have been fighting to save form or
:17:52. > :17:58.than three years. 81 acres, mostly chestnut coppice, will now go to
:17:58. > :18:03.make way for a quarry. This is the start of the buffer zone, so from 50
:18:03. > :18:07.metres into here into this ancient woodland in front of us is where the
:18:07. > :18:13.quarry will be. A High Court challenge withdrawn today over
:18:13. > :18:15.concerns of high costs. Devastated. Such a big visible in them. I don't
:18:15. > :18:19.really feel that justice has been done today, but I don't think there
:18:19. > :18:24.is nothing to do. I think this is the end. Yellow macro today's brief
:18:24. > :18:28.hearing, final attempt to stop a local firm extending hermitage
:18:28. > :18:32.quarry in arming to the West. A public enquiry held last year found
:18:32. > :18:39.in favour of the plan, which the company say will supply stone for
:18:39. > :18:42.the next quarter of a century. Next year, we will form a tunnel through
:18:42. > :18:45.that cliff face, which gives us access to the new quarry area, and
:18:45. > :18:53.we will then progressively quarry and reinstate over 25—year is in
:18:53. > :18:57.different phases. All the processing equipment remains here. By
:18:57. > :19:03.reinstating, they mean filling in and replanting. The firm has argued
:19:03. > :19:09.all along that what goes in will be far better for diversity than the
:19:09. > :19:12.cop being taken out. If it was OK —— trees, I guarantee you, no matter
:19:12. > :19:17.what was on, it would have to be gold or Pat Gallagher to dig that
:19:17. > :19:21.up. But it is a woodland. It could be a lot, lot better. Campaigners
:19:21. > :19:27.and the Woodland Trust, who supported them, say the decision
:19:27. > :19:36.could set a precedent for more ancient woodland to be lost.
:19:36. > :19:39.The thought of seeing a "Mini Me" staring back at you from the
:19:39. > :19:43.mantelpiece may not be everyone's cup of tea. But thanks to new 3D
:19:43. > :19:46.technology, people in Brighton are walking away from the city's library
:19:46. > :19:49.with tiny replicas of themselves. As part of the Brighton Digital
:19:49. > :19:53.Festival, people can walk inside a giant statue of a pregnant woman to
:19:53. > :20:04.have themselves scanned and "reborn" as a little plastic person. As you
:20:04. > :20:10.do ! It's all very bright. Brighton. Juliette Parkin has been to find out
:20:10. > :20:13.how it works. A 3D printer busily and meticulously
:20:13. > :20:17.replicating a person. Made from corn starch, a form of biodegradable
:20:17. > :20:22.plastic, this tiny army of all shapes and sizes is taking Brighton
:20:22. > :20:24.by storm. We have noticed that a lot of people have heard about 3D
:20:24. > :20:28.printer, but have never of people have heard about 3D
:20:28. > :20:34.it. We wanted to come up with something immersive, and engaging,
:20:34. > :20:38.that would grab people's attention. The scanner uses technology from an
:20:38. > :20:41.old video game console, polling gap and colour data, which is then
:20:41. > :20:48.processed on a computer and sent to print. All of this technology is
:20:48. > :20:52.encased in the frame of a pregnant woman. Technology is usually
:20:52. > :20:56.associated with very angular, masculine things, and I wanted to
:20:56. > :21:03.put something a bit more the opposite, curvy, feminine, fertile.
:21:03. > :21:08.The price tag on a mini view is £20, and £45 for the family set. But the
:21:08. > :21:13.attractions have no shortage of interest. I want to try out the
:21:13. > :21:18.latest technology, be part of it. It is an art installation as well. A
:21:18. > :21:21.Mini Me. It's a bit accurate for my liking ! It's the sort of thing I've
:21:21. > :21:27.seen on television, but it sort of feels like the future has arrived
:21:27. > :21:31.now. Encased in a work of art, it produces a tiny 3D printer. Form.
:21:31. > :21:36.But will we eventually see this kind of technology used more widely in
:21:36. > :21:40.the home? It is emerging technology, and something that is certainly
:21:40. > :21:44.happening. You can buy printers online, and I think one of the big
:21:44. > :21:48.High Street electronics shops is going to start selling them soon.
:21:48. > :21:51.This sort of thing isn't practical for the study, but it will be
:21:51. > :21:59.touring around the city until early October, leaving a band of tiny
:21:59. > :22:05.followers in its wake. Staying in Brighton, and onto
:22:05. > :22:08.football, and Brighton and Hove Albion drew 0—0 against QPR last
:22:08. > :22:11.night in the Championship. The Seagulls went close early on, but
:22:11. > :22:14.Keith Andrews failed to keep his drive down. Former Premier League
:22:14. > :22:18.side QPR then had a goal disallowed — Shaun Wright—Phillips was offside
:22:18. > :22:21.when he passed to Joey Barton to tap in. Then a Barton free kick was
:22:21. > :22:27.superbly saved by Brighton keeper Tomasz Kuszczak to keep the game
:22:27. > :22:30.goalless. I don't think I pronounce his name right !
:22:30. > :22:33.They've played Sydney Opera House, New York's Carnegie Hall, and
:22:33. > :22:38.tonight, the Assembly Hall Theatre in Tunbridge Wells. The Ukulele
:22:38. > :22:40.Orchestra of Great Britain's world tour comes to Kent tonight,
:22:40. > :22:48.performing tracks from Nirvana to Adele, classical to hard rock. The
:22:48. > :22:51.group has inspired thousands of new ukulele players, with even the
:22:51. > :22:55.Education Secretary Michael Gove said to be learning the instrument.
:22:55. > :23:02.Chrissie Reidy joins us at the Assembly Hall Theatre. Chrissie.
:23:02. > :23:06.You are so in for a treat this evening. Let me introduce the
:23:06. > :23:11.Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. They have been together 28 years.
:23:11. > :23:16.They are the originals, the first ukelele Orchestra. Any ideas of
:23:16. > :23:20.George Formby and the ukelele, you can throw them out of the window,
:23:20. > :23:23.because this is a whole new take on the ukulele. You might be surprised
:23:23. > :23:28.by what you hear. If I come across to George, the founding member, what
:23:28. > :23:30.are you going to play for as? We're going to start with a piece by Daft
:23:30. > :24:09.Punk. So it's all singing as well.
:24:09. > :24:13.Probably not what would expect from the ukelele. What is going on? There
:24:13. > :24:17.is clearly a surge. We have lots more people playing, even Michael
:24:17. > :24:22.Gove. Lots of children playing, Mumford and Sons, leaving it is
:24:22. > :24:27.having a resurgence? I think it is. We have been playing for 28 years.
:24:27. > :24:31.We can't take all the blame for the current resurgence? ! And because we
:24:31. > :24:35.have been all over the place, from Sydney Opera House to the North
:24:35. > :24:39.Pole, and Connie Hall a couple of times, clearly something is going
:24:40. > :24:46.on, and it might actually have something to do with the performers
:24:46. > :24:51.and the way they sing and play. Really? They make the audience have
:24:51. > :24:57.a good time and feel like they have a good time. It is easily been
:24:57. > :25:01.around for a long time, the two two, but it seems to catch peoples
:25:01. > :25:08.information. Well, it is popularly technophobes like myself ! Yellow
:25:08. > :25:10.macro lets hear a bit more. A bit of scat singing, written by an Irish
:25:10. > :25:36.performer. OK, so they are completely sold out
:25:36. > :25:42.the night here at the assembly hall into Ridgewell is, but hopefully we
:25:42. > :25:46.will have given you a bit of their unique talent. Don't go anywhere,
:25:46. > :25:51.because there is more later. We did a lot of jiggling while that
:25:51. > :25:54.was going on ! Infectious stuff will stop Rachel's here, and you have
:25:54. > :26:00.been promising the weekend will be lovely. The good news is, that is
:26:00. > :26:05.for today. We will see some sunshine tomorrow. Hang on in there. Today, a
:26:05. > :26:09.miserable, great day, without breaks of rain throughout the afternoon.
:26:09. > :26:14.Tomorrow, it looks like it will still be dry and much warmer for the
:26:14. > :26:17.weekend as well. The reason is this area of high pressure building, and
:26:17. > :26:21.we will see that come up from the south—west. It will be warm and
:26:21. > :26:26.moist, so quite a bit of cloud cover around, but by Sunday, some
:26:26. > :26:30.sunshine, and for the East, temperatures in the low 20s. Today,
:26:30. > :26:34.quite a different story. Lots of loud, highs of around 15 or 16
:26:34. > :26:38.degrees. South—westerly winds strengthening throughout the day.
:26:38. > :26:42.The rain is mostly clearing as we go into tonight, and we have clear
:26:42. > :26:45.skies developing as well. Winds ease off, and temperatures drop to single
:26:45. > :26:53.figures, particularly in rural areas. Lots of eight or nine degrees
:26:53. > :26:57.areas. Hill fog as you start the day tomorrow. That will burn back pretty
:26:57. > :27:00.quickly and some decent spells of sunshine. The window stays light,
:27:00. > :27:05.and by the afternoon, temperatures are around average for the time of
:27:05. > :27:09.year. Quite a different feel to today. Highs of around 15 or 16
:27:09. > :27:14.degrees. We will continue with that trend towards the weekend as well.
:27:14. > :27:20.Try into Saturday, temperatures not quite as chilly as the night. Widely
:27:20. > :27:23.in double figures, with lows of around ten or 11 degrees. On
:27:23. > :27:27.Saturday, at the day starts, missed will burn back. High pressure will
:27:27. > :27:32.stay with us, and in the East, we have the best in terms of sunshine.
:27:32. > :27:37.Top temperatures around 19 or 20 degrees. When we see the sunshine,
:27:37. > :27:41.but Italy into Sunday, quite a warm story. Overnight temperature is into
:27:41. > :27:46.Sunday drop to around nine or 10 degrees, and for Sunday, you will
:27:46. > :27:51.see highs of around 20 or 21 degrees. Into the new week, that I
:27:51. > :27:54.pressure stays with us. We have been promised some dry and bright
:27:54. > :27:59.weather, and the good news is we will still see it for tomorrow.
:27:59. > :28:04.Heading into the weekend, topped average just 20 or 21. That's jolly
:28:04. > :28:07.good news ! She did not and you down. We're going to celebrate their
:28:07. > :28:09.sunshine by going straight back to the Ukulele Orchestra of Great
:28:09. > :28:11.Britain. Goodbye.