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Welcome to South East Today, I'm John Young.

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And I'm Chrissie Reidy. Tonight's top stories: A 17`year`old is

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crushed to death and the search continues for another teenager

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feared dead as the South East was battered by hurricane force winds.

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She was a super girl, I cannot believe it. Just not fair. Tragic.

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Trees and overhead power cables were brought down with more than 40,000

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homes left without power. Our reporters have been across the

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South East all day. We'll have the latest from them in a moment.

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Also in tonight's programme: The mother who gave part of her liver to

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save her son, at the hospital she asked to be a living donor.

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Not such a crushing task after all, the machine that helps take the

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strain out of wine`making. Heavy rain and intense winds are how and

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why we saw one of the worst storms in years here in the South last

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night. Good evening. One person has

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on has been I One another is feared dead after the

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Brighton through Sussex into Kent have been left without power when

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tree branches damaged overhead cables. And Southern and

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Southeastern Trains were cancelled during rush hour because of trees

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falling on most of the lines. Rebecca Williams reports on the

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impact the storm had` on those living and working in the south

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east. Gale force winds ripped through the south`east, causing

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devastation as they pass. Across Kent and Sussex, deep dash`macro

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trees toppled and power lines came down. There was a bit of a bang and

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some flashing and some electrical flashing and we realise that the

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cables had come down. The power has been out since 5am and we have been

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cooking on a camping stove which has made things difficult but it is OK.

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Electricity was not just affected in bulk. 40,000 homes across Kent and

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Sussex were without power. It was worse because here in Dungeness they

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had to close down both reactors because debris fell onto some

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cables. It was an incredibly rare occurrence and the last time they

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had to shut down here was during the great storm 26 years ago. We need

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the wind to subside a bit but we are working on that and hopefully we

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will have a grid supply in the next 24 hours and then we will return our

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units back to service. In Dover winds reached 65 miles an hour.

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Hundreds of parked cars were smashed by waves and the port was forced to

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close for two hours. Trees were uprooted across the south`east,

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causing delays on the road and damaging houses and cars. The

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problem with this time of year is there are still leaves on the trees

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so there is more risk they will fall down and, coupled with the heavy and

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persistent rain last night which softens the earth beneath it, it

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means there is more risk of trees falling. The big clear up is now

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underway and the police are warning goes travelling home tonight to be

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extra careful on the roads. The rail network has been getting

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back to some sort of normality this evening, but at its worst the storm

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caused travel chaos to tens of thousands of road, rail, and air

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travellers as flights were cancelled, roads shut, and rail

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services suspended. Let's cross live to our Environment

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Correspondent Yvette Austin who's at Tunbridge Wells Train Station.

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Yvette, are things now back to normal?

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I am afraid not entirely. Disruption continues on the trains this

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evening. Services are few and far between. I have been speaking to

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some people who have been caught up in all sorts of problems, waiting

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one or two hours and it is not only commuters that have been affected.

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Taking a battering, the full force of the storm hit the south`east

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coast early this morning, with the biggest gust of wind 82 mph,

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recorded at Langdon Bay. Next door, the Port of Dover was closed for two

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hours. There is had to take shelter of the deal and the passengers on

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board could only wait for, conditions. We had vessels waiting

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for the port to reopen and they were able to come in after two and a half

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hours or so and we could reopen the port. Meanwhile commuters were left

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waiting as well. The high winds meant the lines were littered with

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fallen trees and today brief. This hoarding stopped a high Street train

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at Faversham from going anywhere. At midday this car park was virtually

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empty. The trains are only going to Blackfriars and not Victoria and a

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couple of trains have been cancelled in the last few minutes but there is

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no news. It is a bit of a joke, isn't it quiz`macro I can understand

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it, they have to clear the tracks but it is not too bad, is it?

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Everybody has been very patient and the lady in the ticket office is

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doing the best she can to let us know what is going on but it seems a

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bit mad to not be able to get to work. Clearing the tracks is the job

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of network rail staff. Around 100 trees fell on the lines across the

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region. Until the storm passed through and we assessed the damage

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that had taken place and cleared the roots in a safe and controlled

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manner it was the most appropriate way to restore train services today

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given the severity of the storm. The QE2 bridge was closed and the

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Sheppey crossing close as well. Hundreds of trees came down,

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blocking routes and tree surgeons were in high demand. Many falling

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branches led to power cuts and thousands of homes are left without

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electricity this evening. Normality is resuming elsewhere and the road

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bridges are open and the Port of Dover is open. Gatwick is returning

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to normal. They have had six delays, 20 cancellations and, of course, on

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the trains there is a limited service. They say that when they

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next start again they hope the rolling stock will be back in place

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and everything will be back to normal.

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And you can follow all of the developments on the severe storm by

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tuning into your BBC local radio stations or log onto our websites.

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And email us with your pictures of the storm, or you can tweet us or

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find us on Facebook. A five`year`old boy from Kent whose

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liver suddenly failed has been saved after his mother donated part of her

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liver to her son. Bertie Yelf was born with a rare liver condition and

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his parents knew that one day he would need a transplant.

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But that day came sooner than expected when Bertie took a turn for

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the worse. After rushing to hosptial with her son, Alice Yelf asked to be

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a living donor for her son. She proved to be a match and the pair

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were taken into theatre to perform the life saving operation. Claudia

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Sermbezis met them. Playing is easy for Bertie now, but

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before the transplant he was often too tired and unable to keep up with

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his younger brother. His liver condition was thought to be stable,

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and one night this summer he had a severe stomach pain and started

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vomiting blood. When the liver failed, he didn't have time to wait

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for a Domi organ because he did not really have days to wait, let alone

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weeks or months, and we would actually have lost it. Alice was

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tested and found to be a match. Two days later they were both operated

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on. During a living donor transplant one portion of the donor organ is

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removed and transplanted into the recipientpos`macro body. The liver

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is an unusual organ because both livers will start to regenerate

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cells immediately. It was very fast when it happened but seeing Bertie

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get well so quickly was marvellous. It was just fantastic from being

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slumped in a bed and not moving and not really responding. Every day to

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children are diagnosed with liver disease. When he was born he

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developed a condition that inflamed the bile ducts and scarred the

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liver. He was diagnosed at eight weeks old. I have got my son. I did

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not answer that question. Bright sparkly eyes, his skin complexion,

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he was not jaundiced any more. He has so much energy and his scooter

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is everywhere and he runs around and he shows me how he can pick up

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really heavy things. Alice has made a full recovery and her liver now

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should have completely regenerated and a bit of liver in her son should

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grow normally as Bertie grows. An MP from Kent has today called for

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a change in the law to prevent the sale of so`called legal highs after

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the death of a 20`year`old man from the county. Jimmy Guichard, who's

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from Gravesend, died earlier this month after suffering a heart attack

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and severe brain damage within hours of taking a herbal substances bought

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from a so`called head shop. The Conservative MP for Chatham and

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Aylesford, Tracey Crouch, told the Commons that tougher legislation was

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needed. Plans have been revealed that will

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see the number of firefighters in Kent reduced. The Fire Service has

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outlined proposals to cut nearly 100 posts, making savings of ?10million.

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Watches would be reduced from seven to six crew members, with fire

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engines able to go out with only three firefighters on board. The

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Fire Brigades Union have called the cuts alarming.

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Sussex Police say they are worried about the welfare of a student from

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Kenyan who has not been seen for more than a month. The student who

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studies at the University of Brighton has not been seen since

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September. They are following up reports that she may have been seen

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in the city on Saturday. For generations, picking grapes to

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make wine in the South East's vineyards involved hours of

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painstaking work by human hands. Now a machine that's the first of its

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kind in the UK has arrived in Kent to help out a bit. The machine

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harvests the grapes automatically, faster than traditional pickers

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could. It's been imported by a Lamberhurst company and was tested

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in a vineyard in Appledore this afternoon. Ellie Price has the

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It is the way grapes have been harvested for centuries, by Howard

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Ashraf by and. For a growing number of vineyards in the south`east

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things have been very similar but now it could change. It may look and

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sound like a beast but the importers of this machine say it has a

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gentle, human touch. It shakes them off. If you see the way it shakes

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them, it does not harm them at all and it is just the berries back of

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and very little leaf. It is purely ripe fruit. The machine is

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intelligent. It does not harvest berries that are not ripe. In France

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we can say that 80% of the general vineyards are harvesting with

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mechanical harvesting machinery. This field would ordinarily have

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taken 60 pickers around two hours to harvest. It has taken that machine

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two minutes. Now every grape has gone. Importers say it is

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cost`effective but is that a cost to jobs? It will actually reduce the

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need for pickers but not the need for manpower. If we can reduce the

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cost of producing grapes the vineyards will expand and it will be

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a movement from seasonal jobs to more permanent jobs. This

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award`winning estate says it is still very much a trial. The proof

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of how well it works will come out of a bottle.

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This is our top story tonight: a 17`year`old is killed as a tree

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lands on her mobile home caravan. A search continues for a 14`year`old

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boy feared Also in tonight's programme: dead off the Sussex

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coast. The storm, as you saw it, the video

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and photos you've sent us of a night that'll long be hard to forget.

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And it's only 18 days away. We've taken to the streets to tell you

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about Children In Need this year. If you think you have a story we

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should be covering, we would like to hear from you.

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Football now and it wasn't a great weekend for our teams, not one of

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them managed a win. Here's Paul Siegert with our round`up of how

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Charlton, Gillingham and Crawley all got on.

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The goalkeeper was besidepos`macro here as they kept Charlton at bay.

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There was one chance saved and then a decent opportunity was missed to

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put the team ahead. The keeper made a spectacular stop. The draw leaves

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Charlton unbeaten in four, still languishing in 19th place. Jailing

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looked on course to get their second win but two minutes after the

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half`time break there was an equaliser. Any hopes they had of

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owning a point disappeared when the substitute snatched a winner in

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second half. In league one it was a bad day for Crawley as they were

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beaten away to Stevenage. The home side went in front early on. Crawley

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had their fair share of chances. The result went beyond doubt when

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Stevenage added a second in injury time. The defeat means Crawley will

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drop a place to 12th. We have not forgotten Brighton. They

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will face Watford tonight. Their injury list was growing by the week.

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The visitors will provide a stern challenge. It will be a good test

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for us but we want to be up there so we have to challenge ourselves

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against the best of the league. Watford are the best of the league

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but it is a good challenge and hopefully we will get three points

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away. We asked you to send us in video and

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pictures of how the storm affected you, and as always, you've not let

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us down. You've sent in a whole range of images, from horizontal

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trees to people almost swept off their feet, Sara Smith has been

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taking a look at your images. The worst of the wind may have

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headed across the North Sea but this video in Hove illustrates that the

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work begins now assessing the damage. Kevin Sharp in Saint

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Leonards caught the aftermath of a tree torn down in the street. At

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least two cars Baron dash`macro damaged, possibly beyond repair.

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Trees have trapped cars and blocked roads. For those questioning the

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numbers of cancellations of trains this morning, this scene in Burgess

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Hill acts as the perfect explanation. On the beach today some

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dogfish had been washed ashore. Steve Williams posted this video of

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their attempts to return them to the water. The blustery weather which

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followed the storm provided perfect sporting conditions for some. If the

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trains are not warning and the roads are blocked, you might need to find

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other ways to get around. Roger Hogg sent this picture of scaffolding in

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Eastbourne and the breakages closer to home it means there will be

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plenty of DIY called for this half term. As the waves crashed and the

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seas boiled, many found themselves unable to resist witnessing the

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elements first`hand and capturing the beauty of the power of nature,

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even if it meant risking a soaking. Rachel has been forecast now. There

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are pictures that explain how this happened.

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Yes, thank you for all of the pictures that you sent in. As you

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can tell, the strength of the wind, just look at the clear blue skies.

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The storm moved quickly and it brightened up quickly behind it.

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There was a lot of sunshine from about 10am. This picture here in

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Dover. We have got huge waves crashing over the pier. We saw gusts

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of 70 or 80 miles per hour. There were some really dramatic scenes

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across the south`east. The reason was this area of low pressure. We

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can go to the weather chart here. It was deepening out to the west of us

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and we widely sought 40 or 50 millimetres of rainfall. As we

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started the day that storm hit around two or three in the morning.

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The winds were really picking up. The strongest guts were six or seven

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in the morning. In Kent we had 82 mph recorded in Langdon Bay. This

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puts it in context with the wind speeds across the UK. Really windy

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but from about 10am it cleared to the east and behind it a lot of

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sunshine. Heavy and squally showers but because of the wind they moved

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through very quickly. Temperatures were always quite mild. The

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overnight lows only dropped to 15 or 16 degrees. Even though the winds

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have eased off they have still been Gayle force. They are going to

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continue to ease off in the next few days but it will always be quite

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blustery. It will feel a lot cooler as well. As we go through tonight

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there are still some showers around but they are moving through very

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quickly. It will be cooler than it has been of late. We have clearer

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skies. The lows will drop to single figures. Chile starts to tomorrow.

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Karma picture. It will be bright with a few showers around. They will

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be lighter than today. These are the sort of values we would expect to

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see at this time of the year. The wind has really eased off. Tonight

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we will stay dry and the picture will be cooler than it has been of

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late. Clearer skies. Chile on Wednesday. We start off bright and

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we have more clout in the afternoon. The reason is more rain. Nothing

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like we have seen in the last few days because things are coming down

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significantly. Thank you very much. That is what we want to hear.

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Now, before we go, it's that time of year when we start to think about

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Children In Need. And this year, there's a new way you

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can raise money. We took to the streets to explain.

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We are raising money. For Children In Need. November 13. It is a night

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of comedy. It is for charity. We are waving our feed to avoid bad

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publicity. We can't charge them? We wouldn't we could. We are not

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allowed to. Let us explain. Do join Rob Smith at the Trinity

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Theatre in Tunbridge Wells on Wednesday 13th November for a

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one`off night of comedy and music in aid of Children In Need. Tickets are

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?13 with ?10 going straight to the charity. You can get your tickets

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online or by calling the box office. Let us have a quick recap of the

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news that is making the headlines. At least four people have died in

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one of the worst storms to hit the UK in more than 20 years. Among them

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are 17`year`old Bethany Freeman who was in a mobile home that was

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crushed by a falling tree and a 14`year`old who is feared dead after

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being washed out to sea in New Haven yesterday.

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Homes were left without power cables were brought home and hundreds of

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cars damaged at Dover by the waves. That is all from us. I will be back

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at 10pm. Have a lovely evening. Goodbye.

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This is Malcolm, who owns Iceland. He's the one

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that's going to present us with the ten grand. When we win it.

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You've just got to make it as bearable

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Here we are in the PR nerve centre of Iceland

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at the end of 96 hours of total hell.

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But we haven't tested for dog or cat either.

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Iceland Foods - Life in the Freezer Cabinet.

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