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Welcome to South East Today, I'm John Young. | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
And I'm Chrissie Reidy. Tonight's top stories: A 17`year`old is | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
crushed to death and the search continues for another teenager | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
feared dead as the South East was battered by hurricane force winds. | :00:18. | :00:26. | |
She was a super girl, I cannot believe it. Just not fair. Tragic. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
Trees and overhead power cables were brought down with more than 40,000 | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
homes left without power. Our reporters have been across the | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
South East all day. We'll have the latest from them in a moment. | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
Also in tonight's programme: The mother who gave part of her liver to | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
save her son, at the hospital she asked to be a living donor. | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
Not such a crushing task after all, the machine that helps take the | :00:48. | :00:57. | |
strain out of wine`making. Heavy rain and intense winds are how and | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
why we saw one of the worst storms in years here in the South last | :01:02. | :01:13. | |
night. Good evening. One person has | :01:14. | :01:14. | |
on has been I One another is feared dead after the | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
Brighton through Sussex into Kent have been left without power when | :01:17. | :06:48. | |
tree branches damaged overhead cables. And Southern and | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
Southeastern Trains were cancelled during rush hour because of trees | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
falling on most of the lines. Rebecca Williams reports on the | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
impact the storm had` on those living and working in the south | :06:59. | :07:10. | |
east. Gale force winds ripped through the south`east, causing | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
devastation as they pass. Across Kent and Sussex, deep dash`macro | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
trees toppled and power lines came down. There was a bit of a bang and | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
some flashing and some electrical flashing and we realise that the | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
cables had come down. The power has been out since 5am and we have been | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
cooking on a camping stove which has made things difficult but it is OK. | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
Electricity was not just affected in bulk. 40,000 homes across Kent and | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
Sussex were without power. It was worse because here in Dungeness they | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
had to close down both reactors because debris fell onto some | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
cables. It was an incredibly rare occurrence and the last time they | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
had to shut down here was during the great storm 26 years ago. We need | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
the wind to subside a bit but we are working on that and hopefully we | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
will have a grid supply in the next 24 hours and then we will return our | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
units back to service. In Dover winds reached 65 miles an hour. | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
Hundreds of parked cars were smashed by waves and the port was forced to | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
close for two hours. Trees were uprooted across the south`east, | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
causing delays on the road and damaging houses and cars. The | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
problem with this time of year is there are still leaves on the trees | :08:32. | :08:45. | |
so there is more risk they will fall down and, coupled with the heavy and | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
persistent rain last night which softens the earth beneath it, it | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
means there is more risk of trees falling. The big clear up is now | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
underway and the police are warning goes travelling home tonight to be | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
extra careful on the roads. The rail network has been getting | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
back to some sort of normality this evening, but at its worst the storm | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
caused travel chaos to tens of thousands of road, rail, and air | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
travellers as flights were cancelled, roads shut, and rail | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
services suspended. Let's cross live to our Environment | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
Correspondent Yvette Austin who's at Tunbridge Wells Train Station. | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
Yvette, are things now back to normal? | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
I am afraid not entirely. Disruption continues on the trains this | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
evening. Services are few and far between. I have been speaking to | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
some people who have been caught up in all sorts of problems, waiting | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
one or two hours and it is not only commuters that have been affected. | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
Taking a battering, the full force of the storm hit the south`east | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
coast early this morning, with the biggest gust of wind 82 mph, | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
recorded at Langdon Bay. Next door, the Port of Dover was closed for two | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
hours. There is had to take shelter of the deal and the passengers on | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
board could only wait for, conditions. We had vessels waiting | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
for the port to reopen and they were able to come in after two and a half | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
hours or so and we could reopen the port. Meanwhile commuters were left | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
waiting as well. The high winds meant the lines were littered with | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
fallen trees and today brief. This hoarding stopped a high Street train | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
at Faversham from going anywhere. At midday this car park was virtually | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
empty. The trains are only going to Blackfriars and not Victoria and a | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
couple of trains have been cancelled in the last few minutes but there is | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
no news. It is a bit of a joke, isn't it quiz`macro I can understand | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
it, they have to clear the tracks but it is not too bad, is it? | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
Everybody has been very patient and the lady in the ticket office is | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
doing the best she can to let us know what is going on but it seems a | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
bit mad to not be able to get to work. Clearing the tracks is the job | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
of network rail staff. Around 100 trees fell on the lines across the | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
region. Until the storm passed through and we assessed the damage | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
that had taken place and cleared the roots in a safe and controlled | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
manner it was the most appropriate way to restore train services today | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
given the severity of the storm. The QE2 bridge was closed and the | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
Sheppey crossing close as well. Hundreds of trees came down, | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
blocking routes and tree surgeons were in high demand. Many falling | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
branches led to power cuts and thousands of homes are left without | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
electricity this evening. Normality is resuming elsewhere and the road | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
bridges are open and the Port of Dover is open. Gatwick is returning | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
to normal. They have had six delays, 20 cancellations and, of course, on | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
the trains there is a limited service. They say that when they | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
next start again they hope the rolling stock will be back in place | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
and everything will be back to normal. | :12:01. | :12:02. | |
And you can follow all of the developments on the severe storm by | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
tuning into your BBC local radio stations or log onto our websites. | :12:06. | :12:17. | |
And email us with your pictures of the storm, or you can tweet us or | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
find us on Facebook. A five`year`old boy from Kent whose | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
liver suddenly failed has been saved after his mother donated part of her | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
liver to her son. Bertie Yelf was born with a rare liver condition and | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
his parents knew that one day he would need a transplant. | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
But that day came sooner than expected when Bertie took a turn for | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
the worse. After rushing to hosptial with her son, Alice Yelf asked to be | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
a living donor for her son. She proved to be a match and the pair | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
were taken into theatre to perform the life saving operation. Claudia | :12:50. | :12:57. | |
Sermbezis met them. Playing is easy for Bertie now, but | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
before the transplant he was often too tired and unable to keep up with | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
his younger brother. His liver condition was thought to be stable, | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
and one night this summer he had a severe stomach pain and started | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
vomiting blood. When the liver failed, he didn't have time to wait | :13:16. | :13:25. | |
for a Domi organ because he did not really have days to wait, let alone | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
weeks or months, and we would actually have lost it. Alice was | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
tested and found to be a match. Two days later they were both operated | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
on. During a living donor transplant one portion of the donor organ is | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
removed and transplanted into the recipientpos`macro body. The liver | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
is an unusual organ because both livers will start to regenerate | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
cells immediately. It was very fast when it happened but seeing Bertie | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
get well so quickly was marvellous. It was just fantastic from being | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
slumped in a bed and not moving and not really responding. Every day to | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
children are diagnosed with liver disease. When he was born he | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
developed a condition that inflamed the bile ducts and scarred the | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
liver. He was diagnosed at eight weeks old. I have got my son. I did | :14:19. | :14:27. | |
not answer that question. Bright sparkly eyes, his skin complexion, | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
he was not jaundiced any more. He has so much energy and his scooter | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
is everywhere and he runs around and he shows me how he can pick up | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
really heavy things. Alice has made a full recovery and her liver now | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
should have completely regenerated and a bit of liver in her son should | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
grow normally as Bertie grows. An MP from Kent has today called for | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
a change in the law to prevent the sale of so`called legal highs after | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
the death of a 20`year`old man from the county. Jimmy Guichard, who's | :15:03. | :15:04. | |
from Gravesend, died earlier this month after suffering a heart attack | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
and severe brain damage within hours of taking a herbal substances bought | :15:09. | :15:17. | |
from a so`called head shop. The Conservative MP for Chatham and | :15:18. | :15:18. | |
Aylesford, Tracey Crouch, told the Commons that tougher legislation was | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
needed. Plans have been revealed that will | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
see the number of firefighters in Kent reduced. The Fire Service has | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
outlined proposals to cut nearly 100 posts, making savings of ?10million. | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
Watches would be reduced from seven to six crew members, with fire | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
engines able to go out with only three firefighters on board. The | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
Fire Brigades Union have called the cuts alarming. | :15:43. | :15:51. | |
Sussex Police say they are worried about the welfare of a student from | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
Kenyan who has not been seen for more than a month. The student who | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
studies at the University of Brighton has not been seen since | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
September. They are following up reports that she may have been seen | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
in the city on Saturday. For generations, picking grapes to | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
make wine in the South East's vineyards involved hours of | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
painstaking work by human hands. Now a machine that's the first of its | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
kind in the UK has arrived in Kent to help out a bit. The machine | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
harvests the grapes automatically, faster than traditional pickers | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
could. It's been imported by a Lamberhurst company and was tested | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
in a vineyard in Appledore this afternoon. Ellie Price has the | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
It is the way grapes have been harvested for centuries, by Howard | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
Ashraf by and. For a growing number of vineyards in the south`east | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
things have been very similar but now it could change. It may look and | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
sound like a beast but the importers of this machine say it has a | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
gentle, human touch. It shakes them off. If you see the way it shakes | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
them, it does not harm them at all and it is just the berries back of | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
and very little leaf. It is purely ripe fruit. The machine is | :17:06. | :17:13. | |
intelligent. It does not harvest berries that are not ripe. In France | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
we can say that 80% of the general vineyards are harvesting with | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
mechanical harvesting machinery. This field would ordinarily have | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
taken 60 pickers around two hours to harvest. It has taken that machine | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
two minutes. Now every grape has gone. Importers say it is | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
cost`effective but is that a cost to jobs? It will actually reduce the | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
need for pickers but not the need for manpower. If we can reduce the | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
cost of producing grapes the vineyards will expand and it will be | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
a movement from seasonal jobs to more permanent jobs. This | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
award`winning estate says it is still very much a trial. The proof | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
of how well it works will come out of a bottle. | :18:06. | :18:14. | |
This is our top story tonight: a 17`year`old is killed as a tree | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
lands on her mobile home caravan. A search continues for a 14`year`old | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
boy feared Also in tonight's programme: dead off the Sussex | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
coast. The storm, as you saw it, the video | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
and photos you've sent us of a night that'll long be hard to forget. | :18:29. | :18:37. | |
And it's only 18 days away. We've taken to the streets to tell you | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
about Children In Need this year. If you think you have a story we | :18:40. | :18:48. | |
should be covering, we would like to hear from you. | :18:49. | :19:04. | |
Football now and it wasn't a great weekend for our teams, not one of | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
them managed a win. Here's Paul Siegert with our round`up of how | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
Charlton, Gillingham and Crawley all got on. | :19:14. | :19:22. | |
The goalkeeper was besidepos`macro here as they kept Charlton at bay. | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
There was one chance saved and then a decent opportunity was missed to | :19:30. | :19:37. | |
put the team ahead. The keeper made a spectacular stop. The draw leaves | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
Charlton unbeaten in four, still languishing in 19th place. Jailing | :19:42. | :19:52. | |
looked on course to get their second win but two minutes after the | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
half`time break there was an equaliser. Any hopes they had of | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
owning a point disappeared when the substitute snatched a winner in | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
second half. In league one it was a bad day for Crawley as they were | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
beaten away to Stevenage. The home side went in front early on. Crawley | :20:10. | :20:21. | |
had their fair share of chances. The result went beyond doubt when | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
Stevenage added a second in injury time. The defeat means Crawley will | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
drop a place to 12th. We have not forgotten Brighton. They | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
will face Watford tonight. Their injury list was growing by the week. | :20:37. | :20:50. | |
The visitors will provide a stern challenge. It will be a good test | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
for us but we want to be up there so we have to challenge ourselves | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
against the best of the league. Watford are the best of the league | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
but it is a good challenge and hopefully we will get three points | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
away. We asked you to send us in video and | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
pictures of how the storm affected you, and as always, you've not let | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
us down. You've sent in a whole range of images, from horizontal | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
trees to people almost swept off their feet, Sara Smith has been | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
taking a look at your images. The worst of the wind may have | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
headed across the North Sea but this video in Hove illustrates that the | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
work begins now assessing the damage. Kevin Sharp in Saint | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
Leonards caught the aftermath of a tree torn down in the street. At | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
least two cars Baron dash`macro damaged, possibly beyond repair. | :21:39. | :21:48. | |
Trees have trapped cars and blocked roads. For those questioning the | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
numbers of cancellations of trains this morning, this scene in Burgess | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
Hill acts as the perfect explanation. On the beach today some | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
dogfish had been washed ashore. Steve Williams posted this video of | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
their attempts to return them to the water. The blustery weather which | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
followed the storm provided perfect sporting conditions for some. If the | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
trains are not warning and the roads are blocked, you might need to find | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
other ways to get around. Roger Hogg sent this picture of scaffolding in | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
Eastbourne and the breakages closer to home it means there will be | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
plenty of DIY called for this half term. As the waves crashed and the | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
seas boiled, many found themselves unable to resist witnessing the | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
elements first`hand and capturing the beauty of the power of nature, | :22:43. | :22:54. | |
even if it meant risking a soaking. Rachel has been forecast now. There | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
are pictures that explain how this happened. | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
Yes, thank you for all of the pictures that you sent in. As you | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
can tell, the strength of the wind, just look at the clear blue skies. | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
The storm moved quickly and it brightened up quickly behind it. | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
There was a lot of sunshine from about 10am. This picture here in | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
Dover. We have got huge waves crashing over the pier. We saw gusts | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
of 70 or 80 miles per hour. There were some really dramatic scenes | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
across the south`east. The reason was this area of low pressure. We | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
can go to the weather chart here. It was deepening out to the west of us | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
and we widely sought 40 or 50 millimetres of rainfall. As we | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
started the day that storm hit around two or three in the morning. | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
The winds were really picking up. The strongest guts were six or seven | :23:53. | :24:02. | |
in the morning. In Kent we had 82 mph recorded in Langdon Bay. This | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
puts it in context with the wind speeds across the UK. Really windy | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
but from about 10am it cleared to the east and behind it a lot of | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
sunshine. Heavy and squally showers but because of the wind they moved | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
through very quickly. Temperatures were always quite mild. The | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
overnight lows only dropped to 15 or 16 degrees. Even though the winds | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
have eased off they have still been Gayle force. They are going to | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
continue to ease off in the next few days but it will always be quite | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
blustery. It will feel a lot cooler as well. As we go through tonight | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
there are still some showers around but they are moving through very | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
quickly. It will be cooler than it has been of late. We have clearer | :24:52. | :25:00. | |
skies. The lows will drop to single figures. Chile starts to tomorrow. | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
Karma picture. It will be bright with a few showers around. They will | :25:06. | :25:14. | |
be lighter than today. These are the sort of values we would expect to | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
see at this time of the year. The wind has really eased off. Tonight | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
we will stay dry and the picture will be cooler than it has been of | :25:24. | :25:31. | |
late. Clearer skies. Chile on Wednesday. We start off bright and | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
we have more clout in the afternoon. The reason is more rain. Nothing | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
like we have seen in the last few days because things are coming down | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
significantly. Thank you very much. That is what we want to hear. | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
Now, before we go, it's that time of year when we start to think about | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
Children In Need. And this year, there's a new way you | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
can raise money. We took to the streets to explain. | :25:55. | :26:04. | |
We are raising money. For Children In Need. November 13. It is a night | :26:05. | :26:13. | |
of comedy. It is for charity. We are waving our feed to avoid bad | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
publicity. We can't charge them? We wouldn't we could. We are not | :26:21. | :26:31. | |
allowed to. Let us explain. Do join Rob Smith at the Trinity | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
Theatre in Tunbridge Wells on Wednesday 13th November for a | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
one`off night of comedy and music in aid of Children In Need. Tickets are | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
?13 with ?10 going straight to the charity. You can get your tickets | :26:42. | :26:48. | |
online or by calling the box office. Let us have a quick recap of the | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
news that is making the headlines. At least four people have died in | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
one of the worst storms to hit the UK in more than 20 years. Among them | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
are 17`year`old Bethany Freeman who was in a mobile home that was | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
crushed by a falling tree and a 14`year`old who is feared dead after | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
being washed out to sea in New Haven yesterday. | :27:12. | :27:13. | |
Homes were left without power cables were brought home and hundreds of | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
cars damaged at Dover by the waves. That is all from us. I will be back | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
at 10pm. Have a lovely evening. Goodbye. | :27:23. | :27:50. | |
This is Malcolm, who owns Iceland. He's the one | :27:51. | :27:53. | |
that's going to present us with the ten grand. When we win it. | :27:54. | :27:55. | |
You've just got to make it as bearable | :27:56. | :27:58. | |
Here we are in the PR nerve centre of Iceland | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
at the end of 96 hours of total hell. | :28:03. | :28:05. | |
But we haven't tested for dog or cat either. | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
Is this the warmest supermarket around? | :28:11. | :28:12. | |
Iceland Foods - Life in the Freezer Cabinet. | :28:13. | :28:17. |