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Welcome to South East Today, I'm Rob Smith. | :00:06. | :00:10. | |
And I'm Chrissie Reidy. Tonight's top stories: The benefit fraudsters | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
who enjoyed a lavish Bentleys and foreign holidays are | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
jailed for seven years. Our reporter Peter Whittlesea is in Maidstone | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
with the latest. A woman who was repeatedly raped | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
when she was a child has waived her right to anonymity to urge other | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
victims to report abuse to the police. I want to speak out and | :00:27. | :00:38. | |
hopefully encourage others to come forward because justice can be done. | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
Also in tonight's programme: Will it ever happen? Backers withdraw £15 | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
million from the i360 project in Brighton. | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
English Heritage has developed a bunker mentality, giving a nuclear | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
attack shelter grade II listing. And a work of arts and crafts — the | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
Sussex museum reopening after a £2 million refurbishment. | :00:57. | :01:13. | |
A lavish lifestyle of exotic holidays, fast cars and jewels, | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
funded by the proceeds of crime and benefit fraud, came to an end today | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
for two men and a woman from Kent after they were jailed for a total | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
of seven years. Dawn Simon from Iwade also stole women's purses and | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
withdrew vast sums of cash from their bank accounts. | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
She used the stolen cash to buy a six—bedroom house, holidays to Dubai | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
and New York and three sports cars. Today a judge at Maidstone Crown | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
Court said almost every aspect of her life was tainted with | :01:44. | :01:52. | |
dishonesty. Our reporter Peter Whittlesea joins us now. | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
The police believe their criminal activity could have totalled £1 | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
million. It might not have come to light had there not been a dispute | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
between the two of them triggering an investigation into the mortgage | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
on this house which turned out to be fraudulent. She enjoyed luxury cars | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
and foreign holidays. It was funded by prolific pickpocketing and | :02:17. | :02:30. | |
benefit for. —— benefit fraud. She would go to London and target single | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
women and particularly women with pushchairs who were easily | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
distracted by their children. She watched them pay for goods and made | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
a note of their pin number and then she would take their personal | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
handbag and take cash from their accounts, quickly depositing it into | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
her own bank accounts. She used this man's bank account to launder the | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
money from criminal activities, enabling them to live a lavish | :02:57. | :03:05. | |
lifestyle. They lived in a house worth £370,000. They owned three | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
cars including a Bentley which they paid for with £140,000 of cash. They | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
owned £500,000 worth of jewellery, some of it pickpocketed. Neighbours | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
thought they were lottery winners. They had not been here that long. | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
They had a few flash cards. I do not think they worked too much —— flash | :03:30. | :03:39. | |
cars. The life of ease. They had nearly £390,000 in two bank | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
accounts. Experts say that should have raised concerns. If an | :03:43. | :03:51. | |
individual pays in large amounts of cash, suspicions have to be raised | :03:51. | :04:01. | |
with the police. Dawn Simon was sentenced to three years and Peter | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
Harvey was sentenced for 12 months. Both of them were told they would | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
spend at least half of their sentences in prison. The | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
spend at least half of their described Dawn Simon as a | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
professional pink pocket with a deeply entrenched dishonest | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
lifestyle. The police will be looking into their assets and will | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
try to confiscate them if any of them have been made through criminal | :04:24. | :04:32. | |
activity. A Sussex woman repeatedly raped when | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
she was a little girl has waived her right to anonymity to urge other | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
victims of abuse to report it to the police. Debbie Grafham now says she | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
stayed quiet about the attacks by neighbour Patrick Ryan for too long. | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
Sickeningly he told her he would leave her younger sister alone if he | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
could continue to abuse her. That was a lie. Both sisters kept their | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
ordeal secret for over 40 years. After they finally told police two | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
years ago, Ryan was jailed for 12 in June. Our home affairs correspondent | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
Colin Campbell has the story. At home in Eastbourne, Debbie | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
Grafham wants others to know that they can gain justice too. She was | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
nine when she was violently sexually abused. The sister was seven. | :05:12. | :05:19. | |
Absolute hell. He promised me that if I would let him abuse me, he | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
would not touch my sister again. He lied. Now 64, this is the man who | :05:23. | :05:33. | |
raped them. Patrick Ryan targeted the sisters in 1973. He lived in a | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
flat above their home. They only disclose what happened to them in | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
2011, 40 years later. We stayed quiet for too long. Once it was out | :05:44. | :05:52. | |
in the open, I just wanted justice done. I did not want to be scared | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
all for it to be a secret any more. Patrick Ryan was jailed for 12 years | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
in June. He was found guilty of 11 sexual offences. The judge described | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
what had happened to them as harrowing. There was no forensic | :06:08. | :06:15. | |
evidence, no independent witnesses, but their own evidence for strong | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
enough to convicting. Both sisters say the jailing of their abuser has | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
made a big difference. He has been punished now. It is a relief. For | :06:23. | :06:30. | |
me. To carry that around with me anymore, I don't have to. All the | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
time he was abusing us, he told us to keep our eyes open, even though | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
was really hard when he was doing that to you. I thought, I will keep | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
them open in court. It is my turn to watching the frightened now. I am | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
not afraid of him anymore. —— to watch him the frightened now. They | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
hope their story will inspire others to speak out. | :06:57. | :07:06. | |
Coming up: It's officially business —— it's a fishy business — how a | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
series of specially—constructed passes are revitalising stretches of | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
the Medway for the first time in a century. | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
The main financial backer of the i360 tower in Brighton has pulled | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
out leaving a £15 million in the project's budget. The tower, which | :07:24. | :07:25. | |
would stand 150—metres high and offer panoramic views across the | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
city and coastline, has been touted as a significant part of the city's | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
regeneration plans. The i360 visitor attraction was first suggested eight | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
years ago. The total estimated cost is £38 million. The architects | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
behind it believe if it were built, it would attract 165,000 more | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
visitors to the city a year. John Young is on the site now. | :07:50. | :07:59. | |
This is the latest saga in what to do with the land in front of the | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
iconic but derelict West Pier. Even the land in front of it waiting for | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
the tower to go up into the sky. It is beginning to show signs of | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
dereliction. Let us look at the history. In 2003, the West Pier went | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
up in smoke. There was no hope for its restoration. Within a couple of | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
years, this was suggested, the i360 tower soaring into the sky. Not | :08:25. | :08:32. | |
enough money was found but then some backers came forward with £15 | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
million. The council said they would lend £15 million at no risk to the | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
council taxpayers. Yesterday disaster. It emerged those backers | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
have pulled out leaving only the council with their loan and another | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
backer with £3 million. The question for the council earlier was, what do | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
they think? We are confident in the people behind the i360 tower. They | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
delivered the London eye very successfully. Eight years for a | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
project like that. This one here is not a long period. Do you really | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
think it is going to happen? I do. The architects said that they still | :09:11. | :09:18. | |
confident as well. They have three people in their sights who they are | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
hoping will come forward with the money. There was a hope this would | :09:20. | :09:28. | |
be up by 2012, then 2015, that is clearly not going to happen either. | :09:28. | :09:35. | |
A man has died following a fire at a flat above a shop in Gillingham. It | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
broke out in James Street at 3am this morning. The first and second | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
floors were alight by the time crews arrived. Firefighters gave the man | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
first aid but he died at the scene. 21 pupils and two members of staff | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
have been taken to hospital after being exposed to chemical fumes at a | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
school in Hove today. The children aged between 11 and 12 were | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
complaining of breathing difficulties, itchy eyes and sore | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
throats at Cardinal Newman School. They were taken to the Royal | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
Alexandra Children's Hospital in Brighton. | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
A man has been jailed for eight years after being found guilty of | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
beating an electrician to death in a Dartford takeaway. Ben Mahoney | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
suffered catastrophic head injuries following an argument at a kebab | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
shop in April and was pronounced dead at the scene. 29—year—old | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
Edward Ives of no fixed address was found guilty of manslaughter at | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
Maidstone Crown Court. Police say the fight was fuelled by alcohol. | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
Here's a file obnoxious individual. He has a long history of violence # | :10:27. | :10:36. | |
road he is a vile individual. Unfortunately, he picked on the | :10:36. | :10:45. | |
wrong guy. The UKIP Leader and South East MEP | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
Nigel Farage has given his strong backing to the controversial | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
extraction of shale gas and oil. The party's energy spokesman criticised | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
some of those who protested against exploratory drilling at Balcombe in | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
West Sussex and described them as eco—freaks at UKIP's annual | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
conference. Mr Farage said fracking was too good an opportunity not to | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
exploit. Shale gas is a gift horse we should not knocking the mouth. I | :11:06. | :11:14. | |
know there are concerns about it as there are concerns about every | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
extracting industry. Looking at America, they have managed this. | :11:16. | :11:23. | |
There has been no serious level of water pollution, methane leaks or | :11:23. | :11:31. | |
anything else. Nigel Farage wanted to talk about fracking. It seems his | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
leader's speech was overshadowed by one of his own MEPs. He wanted to | :11:36. | :11:43. | |
concentrate on fracking. I think positive reaction to his leader's | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
speech largely until this afternoon things took a turn. One of his many | :11:47. | :11:56. | |
people use —— one of his NEP is said that women who did not been behind | :11:56. | :12:07. | |
their fridges were sluts. The party whip has been removed from Godfrey | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
Bloom which means he can no longer sit as a UKIP MEP. There will be a | :12:10. | :12:18. | |
disciplinary hearing. Brighton is hosting the labour friends tomorrow. | :12:18. | :12:25. | |
That is right. As gather tomorrow, they will hoping it goes more | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
smoothly than UKIP's today —— the Labour Party's conference tomorrow. | :12:30. | :12:37. | |
Ed Miliband's message was that they would repeal the bedroom tax, the | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
the coalition. It means those living on benefits, if they have a spare | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
bedroom, they can use some of their benefits if they do not choose to | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
downsize # road they can lose. Critics say, how can they afford | :12:53. | :13:07. | |
this? —— they can lose. It is cost efficient. There will be a hedge | :13:07. | :13:16. | |
fund tax cut. George Osborne's tax relief for certain share | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
transactions and issues in the construction industry around tax | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
loopholes, it is a clear costed set of commitments to end the bedroom | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
tax. It is unfair and it is hitting disabled people and tens of | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
thousands of families across the south—east. It is not working | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
because families are getting behind on their rent and facing eviction. | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
It shows a Labour Party determined to tackle the cost of living crisis. | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
This is a first episode of what you will see in our conference. Labour | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
introduced the bedroom tax to people in private accommodation in 2008. | :13:52. | :13:59. | |
People in the South East struggling to afford a home, they might say, | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
why should we help people on benefits? What you see is two thirds | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
of the people affected by the bedroom tax disabled people. The | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
whole idea of it was that people could move to other properties but | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
they're not the properties available. It is not going to work. | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
It is unfair and it is not going to work and it is hitting the | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
disabled. What we need to do is build more housing, including any | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
south—east. That would be a central part of the things we are talking | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
about this week that I will conference —— at our conference. We | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
need to tackle the housing crisis. What would you say to appeal to | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
people in the south—east? You do not have a single MP in the region. | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
Labour will tackle the cost of living crisis. We will tackle the | :14:49. | :14:57. | |
companies that overcharge you and we will have fairer taxes. It is a | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
Labour Party that has learnt lessons and is firmly on your side. Thank | :15:01. | :15:11. | |
you. Thank you. That was the leader of the Labour Party Ed Miliband. | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
This is our top story tonight: two men and a woman have been jailed for | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
a total of seven years after being found guilty of theft and benefit | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
fraud. Dawn Simon lived a lavage lifestyle. —— lavish. These stained | :15:26. | :15:38. | |
grass windows have ended up in Los Angeles. Today has been sunny and | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
warm. A bit more cloud this weekend but it is staying in the same vein. | :15:42. | :15:54. | |
Join me later for the full forecast. A £2.4 million scheme has been | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
officially opened today to improve the river Medway for both wildlife | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
and its visitors. It's the latest stage to be completed in a project | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
to build special passes around its locks to help water and what lives | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
in it flow more freely. Our environment correspondent Yvette | :16:07. | :16:14. | |
Austin has tonight's story update. This lot near Maidstone, taking | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
boats up the river as it has done for more than 250 years. Nowadays | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
there is not just navigation for industry in mind. Its latest rebuild | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
lets other users of the waterway bypass the whole lock system. They | :16:29. | :16:39. | |
used to be difficult. We used to have to get out and carry the boats. | :16:39. | :16:47. | |
Now we can go straight through. It is easier. It is bringing more | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
people to the river. It is great. It is not just for fun. The overall | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
health of the river is in mind too. The passes have been designed with | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
fish in mind, the base is constructed in a similar way to | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
this. You can see Whitewater, turbulent water. That has been | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
created by a series of plastic are full. —— plastic baffles. They break | :17:12. | :17:22. | |
up the water which gives fish and escalator to the top. The aim is to | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
see more fish upstream, including those that migrate such as salmon. | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
By putting the passes in and allowing fish to breed and spawn in | :17:31. | :17:40. | |
new areas of the river, it means we will get a wider fish population and | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
far more fish. This is the eighth block on the Medway to get a fish | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
pass. The aim is for all tend to have them to give fish and can use a | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
free ride from Tunbridge Wells to the sea. —— and canoes. | :17:54. | :18:07. | |
Six of the earliest and most important surviving examples of | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
English stained glass, dating back to the 12th century, have gone on | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
show at the Getty Museum in California. It's the first time the | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
ancient and delicate artworks have been moved from their setting high | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
in the windows of Canterbury Cathedral. And it's been an | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
extraordinary removal job — considered by experts to be among | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
the most treasured works of medieval painting, the panels are | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
irreplaceable. Caroline Feraday reports from Los Angeles. | :18:28. | :18:38. | |
The ancestors of Christ, since 1184 they have looked over Canterbury | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
Cathedral, among the oldest panels of stained glass in the UK, they are | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
now going on display for four months in the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
They have never left the country before. We had to have all kinds of | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
guarantees and insurance. I see them as six pilgrims telling Canterbury | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
stories on the other side of the world. They have remained here as | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
part of the great South window. While restoration works are under | :19:08. | :19:15. | |
way, and ambitious project was launched for them to be flown to Los | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
Angeles. The ancient glass was transported in specially designed | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
containers. It is like a Russian doll. The stained glass panel was | :19:24. | :19:34. | |
surrounded by phone and box and then more foam and another box. You could | :19:34. | :19:41. | |
throw these things off the back of a lorry and nothing would happen. | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
Nothing did happen. Visitors have the opportunity to interact and see | :19:44. | :19:51. | |
the glass in the context of its original setting. In the cathedral, | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
obviously, they are installed up high. Originally, they were | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
installed 50 feet above the floor. Having them here displayed lower so | :20:02. | :20:11. | |
you can see the detail in the medieval work. It is a slice of | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
Canterbury's rich history in this iconic American modern museum. | :20:15. | :20:26. | |
When you hear the words English Heritage and grade II listing, you | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
tend to think of neo—classical Georgian buildings or perhaps an | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
Elizabethan manor house. Not a 1950's concrete nuclear bunker. | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
However, Gravesend's Civil Defence Bunker has been listed because it | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
constitutes a rare example of post—war architecture, created at a | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
time when the threat of atomic war was a very real one. Ian Palmer has | :20:40. | :20:50. | |
more. It is the mushroom cloud everyone | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
fears. Man—made destruction capable of turning the world into an | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
inferno. For so powerful schoolchildren were told how to | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
protect themselves against nuclear attack —— a force so power. In the | :21:04. | :21:12. | |
event of a nuclear war, 35 men and women would have taken cover this | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
defence bunker in Gravesend. 60 years after it was conceived, it has | :21:17. | :21:24. | |
been given listed status. It is quirky, something different. It is | :21:24. | :21:31. | |
hard to believe that in 1954, councils, the threat of nuclear war | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
was so great that people were opening these bunkers. The civil | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
defence bunker is right beneath my feet. It was built at a time when | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
nuclear Armageddon was a real possibility. Built in 1954 and | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
closed in 1968, it was reopened again in 2000. Now it has been given | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
grade two listed status and it has more protection than ever. | :21:58. | :22:06. | |
Instructed for the Royal Observatory, volunteer members... | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
This is a training exercise in Kent. Dozens of them would have been | :22:11. | :22:18. | |
dotted around the south—east. Public tours are held every month here in | :22:18. | :22:24. | |
Gravesend. Here we have the communications room. There was | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
enough food and water for just 14 days. English Heritage is hoping the | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
bunker's new status will encourage more people to explore Britain's | :22:33. | :22:42. | |
Cold War history. All our football league teams are in | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
action tomorrow. And after three successive draws, Brighton and Hove | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
Albion return to the Amex to take on Bolton Wanderers. Oscar Garcia and | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
his management team believe they're starting to put their own stamp on | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
the team and that wins will come. They are a fantastic team. They did | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
fantastically well last year to finish fourth. They played a brand | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
of football that was renowned. It is only being tinkered with. We would | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
like to add certain things, putting our own style on things. Hopefully | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
that is coming together. In the other Championship fixture, | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
Charlton take on Millwall at The Valley, with a 12.15pm kick off. In | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
League One, Crawley Town travel to Colchester and Gillingham welcome | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
Bradford City to Priestfield. They're both 3pm kick—offs. | :23:24. | :23:31. | |
With the Turner, the Towner and the Jerwood, not to mention the De la | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
Warr Pavilion, the south east has built up a reputation for exciting | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
modern art galleries and now another joins the list in the so—called | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
string of pearls, the Ditchling Museum. Opening tomorrow after a | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
£2.3 million redevelopment, it showcases the work of the arts and | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
crafts movement that centred in the Sussex village at the beginning of | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
the last century. Sara Smith reports. | :23:50. | :24:05. | |
An old village school and a farmer's ban, join together to | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
create a landmark museum. There is work here from painters, sculptors, | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
typesetters. The one thread that binds it all together is that the | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
artist chose to live and work here in Ditchling. The first to arrive in | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
1907 was Eric Gill, sculptor and typographer, he formed a catholic | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
guilt here whose members said about furnishing its chapel. Another | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
member Edward Johnston designed the typeface for the London Underground | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
company. Others crafted in precious metals such as this silversmith. | :24:37. | :24:45. | |
There is a quality across all of their work and they use materials in | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
an honest and truthful way. They wanted everybody to be surrounded by | :24:51. | :24:59. | |
beauty in their homes and lives. The museum has been transformed from the | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
one set up in the old school has nearly 30 years ago. Now it can take | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
its place among the string of pearls, galleries stretching from | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
Margate, Hastings, Bexhill and Eastbourne. Here the architecture | :25:13. | :25:20. | |
aims to reflect the artists. They are interested in religion and | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
politics, as well as craft. We have tried to incorporate those things. | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
The most dramatic space is the one housing the press where they printed | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
their political pamphlets and that is a slightly chapel like space | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
talking about their interest in religion but it also has Windows | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
setting it in its context. The doors open to the public tomorrow. | :25:45. | :25:54. | |
We had been promised some lovely weather. The sun did shine today. | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
Over the weekend, it is staying pretty warm. A bit more cloud around | :26:00. | :26:09. | |
than originally hoped. Changeable week. The weekend promises to be | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
turning warmer. South—westerly winds which are bringing quite a lot of | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
cloud particular for the mornings. Earlier today we had clear blue | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
skies and lighter winds. Temperatures doing pretty well. When | :26:21. | :26:29. | |
we saw the sunshine, it felt almost warm. Very warm for the time of | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
year. This evening, plenty of late evening sunshine, clearer skies | :26:34. | :26:42. | |
initially. We start to see more cloud rolling in towards dawn. | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
Temperatures not quite as chilly as last night. First thing for the | :26:45. | :26:52. | |
weekend, Saturday morning, a little bit of an overcast start. Light and | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
patchy rain and drizzle in the morning. By the afternoon, we will | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
see decent spells of sunshine. With the lighter winds and warmer air, | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
temperatures possibly reaching 21 degrees. Very similar to tonight as | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
Saturday night. Clearer initially and more cloud towards | :27:09. | :27:18. | |
dawn. Very warm as you start the day on Sunday. High pressure firmly in | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
control of things. Where we see the sunshine by the afternoon, highs of | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
21. The good news, as we going to the new week, it is staying settled | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
and warm. Over the weekend, more cloud than initially hoped but warm | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
and some sunshine too. Not too bad, is it? I will be here | :27:36. | :27:42. | |
at 10:25pm. Goodbye. | :27:42. | :27:46. |