:00:00. > :00:08.The sun shall never set on so glorious a
:00:09. > :00:16.Welcome to South East Today. I'm Rob Smith. And I'm Natalie Graham.
:00:17. > :00:20.Tonight's top stories: 30 homes flooded in Kent and a day of
:00:21. > :00:23.disruption on the trains in Sussex ` the effects of last night's storm
:00:24. > :00:27.surge are still being felt. We're live in Faversham where the clear up
:00:28. > :00:30.continues. We still have work to do but the managers of the troubled
:00:31. > :00:32.Medway Maritime Hospital say they are making improvements.
:00:33. > :00:36.Also in tonight's programme: Memories of Mandela. People around
:00:37. > :00:44.the south east pay their respects to the former South African leader. He
:00:45. > :00:48.was amazing. He was amazing and you only had to look at him and just see
:00:49. > :00:50.what he had been through and how he felt.
:00:51. > :00:53.It's not a wind up. Inventor Trevor baylis visits a Kent school, looking
:00:54. > :00:57.to encourage more girls into science and engineering And the 40 trees of
:00:58. > :01:01.Christmas. How a Kent church has found an unusually festive way to
:01:02. > :01:04.raise some funds Good evening. The clear`up operation continues this
:01:05. > :01:11.evening following last nights tidal surge. More than 40 homes were
:01:12. > :01:17.flooded in Sandwich and Faversham as water broke over the banks of the
:01:18. > :01:21.creek. On the Sussex coast train services have been disrupted all day
:01:22. > :01:24.after the line was flooded at Newhaven harbour. In a moment we
:01:25. > :01:36.will hear about the flooding in Sussex, but first this report from
:01:37. > :01:39.Simon Jones in Sandwich. Hundreds of people have been
:01:40. > :01:44.evacuated from their homes but many headed out after midnight to see how
:01:45. > :01:51.bad the surge would be. People have been worried. They have been calm
:01:52. > :02:00.but certainly, some people are rallied. Homes and businesses in
:02:01. > :02:03.Faversham were badly hit. Sandbags. We pay higher rates than anybody
:02:04. > :02:09.around here. We are right on the creek. Nothing whatsoever. Didn't
:02:10. > :02:13.think ` things didn't look much better in the daylight. No one is
:02:14. > :02:18.going to be staying in this part of the guesthouse for a while. Take a
:02:19. > :02:21.look at the kitchen. It is underwater. If you take a look
:02:22. > :02:28.through there, the sitting room is underwater as well. In the gardens,
:02:29. > :02:37.much has been ruined. As I entered the garden and saw this, it made me
:02:38. > :02:39.feel a bit sick. The build`up yesterday was a little bit exciting
:02:40. > :02:48.and everyone was getting ready. Often we do these things and it
:02:49. > :02:54.turns into nothing. But sadly, the garden has been flooded heavily. The
:02:55. > :02:54.worst`case scenario of 3000 homes flooded in
:02:55. > :02:54.worst`case scenario of 3000 homes flood I flood%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
:02:55. > :02:58.worst`case scenario of 3000 homes flooded in Kent was avoided but the
:02:59. > :03:03.environment agency says that was down to careful planning. Do you
:03:04. > :03:07.think the worst`case scenario was overstated? No, I don't think so.
:03:08. > :03:16.What has happened is that the scheme further downstream dashed... That
:03:17. > :03:21.scheme has taken a lot of water away before it got to Sandwich. This
:03:22. > :03:25.afternoon, there has been a second tidal surge. You can see how high
:03:26. > :03:31.the river has gotten the people have come out to witness the event, which
:03:32. > :03:41.has fortunately passed off without incident. But the clean`up will take
:03:42. > :03:44.some time. Our environment correspondence is in
:03:45. > :03:50.Faversham for us. What is the situation there this evening?
:03:51. > :03:53.The floodwaters have now subsided. What happened in Faversham is behind
:03:54. > :03:58.me you've got the creek and you might be able to make out the mast
:03:59. > :04:03.from the boats. But the water rose so high that it topped over the
:04:04. > :04:08.banks and across this whole area. Properties were three or four feet
:04:09. > :04:10.underwater. 28 properties were affected in Faversham. 40 in total
:04:11. > :04:17.in Kent. I in Kent. in Kent. Sussex didn't escape
:04:18. > :04:21.destruction either. Wading rather than walking was the
:04:22. > :04:28.way to get around last night. The Maine coast road was shut as the
:04:29. > :04:33.tidal surge swept in. West Sussex Fire and rescue service tried to
:04:34. > :04:37.pump water from properties. My neighbour banged on the door last
:04:38. > :04:41.night, telling me to move my car because the road was a river. I
:04:42. > :04:46.moved my car through the water and came back. I watched my porch fillip
:04:47. > :04:50.with water. We used all the duvets and towels we had in the house,
:04:51. > :04:56.blocked it. My partner shovelled it out. The morning after the night
:04:57. > :05:00.before and the clean`up began. As well as preparations for another
:05:01. > :05:04.high tide. Sandbags were laid and other makeshift defences were put
:05:05. > :05:10.up. Sure Leopard looks like a harbour after the river burst its
:05:11. > :05:13.bank. The main runway remained open. Further east, parts of New Haven
:05:14. > :05:18.were flooded. Some were determined not to be stopped by the water. And
:05:19. > :05:22.no trains were running because of the flooding. Services between
:05:23. > :05:29.Brighton and Seaford were suspended. The river has burst its banks and
:05:30. > :05:33.that is that. No trains between the two times I need to go to. I'm not
:05:34. > :05:39.going anywhere. It has badly affected me. I can't get to work.
:05:40. > :05:44.I've been waiting for an hour. High tide crept up again this afternoon
:05:45. > :05:52.but it escaped flooding. It was nothing like the surge experienced
:05:53. > :05:58.overnight. I am now outside the Albion pub. You
:05:59. > :06:02.can see the sandbags are still out. There has been an intense mopping up
:06:03. > :06:07.operation. With me is Maria, from the pub. What has it been like
:06:08. > :06:10.today? It has been hectic but we've worked together as a team. We've got
:06:11. > :06:17.a lot done. We are ready for our Christmas parties. The water was up
:06:18. > :06:21.to three feet. When I came at ten o'clock, work had been done to get
:06:22. > :06:25.that done. Most of the damage was in the back. We have been pumped out
:06:26. > :06:30.and we have bought new fridges and we are ready to go. We've lost lots
:06:31. > :06:34.of stock but we are still smiling. Thank you very much and well done.
:06:35. > :06:38.Other properties are not in such a good position. They are still in a
:06:39. > :06:43.blackout situation. There is a lot of work to do here.
:06:44. > :06:46.A troubled Kent hospital, criticised for having one of the highest rates
:06:47. > :06:49.of unexpected mortality in the country, says its death rate has
:06:50. > :06:53.improved, but there's still more work to be done. The Medway Maritime
:06:54. > :06:56.in Gillingham is one of 11 hospitals put in special measures over the
:06:57. > :07:05.summer. The trust that runs it says it's employed more nurses and
:07:06. > :07:09.clinical consultants. They have been subjected to a series
:07:10. > :07:12.of highly critical judgements about the mortality rates, failure to meet
:07:13. > :07:16.national standards and for not having a credible clinical strategy.
:07:17. > :07:25.But now, signs that things are slowly starting to improve at this
:07:26. > :07:29.foundation trust. We've got 63 more nurses than before, that is a net
:07:30. > :07:36.effect, not just to never. We are increasing numbers of midwifes. Our
:07:37. > :07:41.vacancy rate has come down from between 9% to just under 7%. Staff
:07:42. > :07:45.are sticking with us despite everything. The trust was put in
:07:46. > :07:48.special measures after recording persistently higher than average
:07:49. > :07:52.mortality rates. In October, they were issued with a formal warning by
:07:53. > :07:56.the care quality commission, after failing all six national standards
:07:57. > :08:02.in the Trinity. And two weeks ago, the NHS regular ` regulator warned
:08:03. > :08:08.managers they would be forced out and thus they took urgent action.
:08:09. > :08:11.This has been a problem at the hospital for a while. The hospital
:08:12. > :08:18.are very aware of this and are taking steps to address it. But
:08:19. > :08:23.these are difficult problems to solve and it is never possible to
:08:24. > :08:27.suddenly transform a hospital overnight. The number of unexpected
:08:28. > :08:32.death at the hospital has fallen slightly over the last six months
:08:33. > :08:36.but some patients remain concerned. I've got no other place to go. I
:08:37. > :08:40.cannot go private because I'm a pensioner. I cannot afford that. So
:08:41. > :08:45.I've got to go there. I had a head injury give the date but I had to
:08:46. > :08:49.wait for a long time before they saw me. No, I would rather just wait at
:08:50. > :08:53.home, wait until the GP is open and go there. Sometimes the weight is
:08:54. > :08:58.quite long but the doctors and nurses work really hard. Sometimes I
:08:59. > :09:02.think they are understaffed. They do work really hard. I cannot fault
:09:03. > :09:06.them at all. The trust admits it has a lot of work to do but they say
:09:07. > :09:08.that doesn't mean the hospital is unsafe in the meantime.
:09:09. > :09:11.Jon is at the Medway Maritime Hospital in Gillingham. Jon, how
:09:12. > :09:18.significant is that drop in the number of unexpected deaths?
:09:19. > :09:23.It is a very small drop in the headline rate but by last year 's
:09:24. > :09:27.standards, that would bring the hospital into the expected and
:09:28. > :09:29.widely accepted range for hospital mortality although still quite high.
:09:30. > :09:51.This improvement has I am sorry. It looks like we have
:09:52. > :09:54.lost the line to chat. We apologise for that.
:09:55. > :09:57.Coming up: The latest on the trial of the Sussex couple accused of
:09:58. > :10:05.trafficking women for prostitution. People across the South East have
:10:06. > :10:08.been marking the death of Nelson Mandela, with books of condolence
:10:09. > :10:11.opened at cathedrals and town halls, prayers held and flags flown at half
:10:12. > :10:14.mast. The former South African President visited Brighton in 2000,
:10:15. > :10:23.to thank people here for their support for the anti`apartheid
:10:24. > :10:29.cause. And as Ian Palmer reports tributes have been paid across Kent
:10:30. > :10:32.and Sussex. In the crypt at Canterbury
:10:33. > :10:35.Cathedral, they are saying goodbye to a leader. Here, Nelson Mandela
:10:36. > :10:41.will be remembered as a person who brought people together. Prayers for
:10:42. > :10:47.South Africa's first black president would be made in Kent and Sussex
:10:48. > :10:51.this weekend. For black parishioners in the Medway towns, Mandela was the
:10:52. > :10:58.personification of freedom and justice. Was able to unite a lot of
:10:59. > :11:06.people and also be someone to look up to. He was a real icon and a
:11:07. > :11:09.father figure, I would say. His status is legendary and we will
:11:10. > :11:17.remember him for the rest of our lives. Nelson Mandela was a prisoner
:11:18. > :11:23.when Peter Hain was a student, organising protests against the
:11:24. > :11:29.Springboks rugby team in 1970. The campaign completed his masters
:11:30. > :11:32.degree at the university of sussex. The former Secretary of State for
:11:33. > :11:36.Wales greeted Mandela when he spoke at the Labour Party conference 13
:11:37. > :11:39.years ago. Mr Hain says we'll never see Nelson Mandela's like again. He
:11:40. > :11:45.was the indispensable figure in that transition, from the brink of utter
:11:46. > :11:52.desperate Civil War, to a nation that became healed. Peter Hain help
:11:53. > :11:55.set up the Mandela Scholarship at the University of Sussex. Today's
:11:56. > :11:59.recipient is fully aware of the responsibility that comes with a
:12:00. > :12:05.position that has the Mandela name. He tells me two things. One, I can
:12:06. > :12:14.achieve whatever goals I set myself to achieve. He brings this hope.
:12:15. > :12:19.Students at the university gave their reaction to Mandela's death.
:12:20. > :12:26.He seems like such a force beyond being a human person and it is
:12:27. > :12:29.almost unimaginable. What ever he got as a student, he used it to
:12:30. > :12:34.enrich the advancement of society. As a student, and looking forward to
:12:35. > :12:37.making a difference in the lives of others. Andy Winter voted in the
:12:38. > :12:40.first democratic election in South Africa. A charity worker now living
:12:41. > :12:47.in Brighton, he says Nelson Mandela shouldn't just be remembered as a
:12:48. > :12:53.dear Grandfather of a nation. If we are not challenged on a daily basis
:12:54. > :12:56.by his struggle, if we are not made to feel uncomfortable whenever we
:12:57. > :13:01.hear the name Nelson Mandela, and if that does not drive us to seek
:13:02. > :13:12.greater good, then we will be betraying his legacy. A man who was
:13:13. > :13:15.born in a mud hut who became an international symbol of peace
:13:16. > :13:19.freedom and justice, not just in his native South Africa, but right here
:13:20. > :13:29.in the south east. Campaigners have won their three and
:13:30. > :13:32.a half years... Plans were announced in 2010 to partially demolish the
:13:33. > :13:35.1930s Grade two listed complex and build flats. Brighton and Hove
:13:36. > :13:38.councillors have now approved proposals to give the Saltdean Lido
:13:39. > :13:41.Community Interest Company a 60`year lease to operate the pool.
:13:42. > :13:44.Two Sussex footballers have been sacked by their club after being
:13:45. > :13:46.charged in relation to match fixing. Michael Boateng and Hakeem Adelakun,
:13:47. > :13:59.played for the Brighton`based Conference South team Whitehawk FC.
:14:00. > :14:01.Today the Team's Board says the 22`year`olds have been dismissed for
:14:02. > :14:05.bringing the club into disrepute. A mother has described how she was
:14:06. > :14:10.forced to work with prostitutes by her former partner. Victoria Brown
:14:11. > :14:13.said she was threatened by the father of his son, who on one
:14:14. > :14:17.occasion, through a knife towards her head.
:14:18. > :14:20.The pair are alleged to have trafficked around 50 prostitutes
:14:21. > :14:23.into the UK, alongside with three others. Our home affairs reporter,
:14:24. > :14:26.Rebecca Williams has been covering the case at Hove Crown Court.
:14:27. > :14:31.Victoria Brown today said she was scared of her former partner.
:14:32. > :14:35.Yes, she described him as having a fiery temper. She said he often got
:14:36. > :14:38.very stressed out easily. On one occasion, she said he put his fist
:14:39. > :14:43.through a wall. There was blood everywhere which terrified her. She
:14:44. > :14:50.went on to say that nine out of ten Hungarian men she said, he told her,
:14:51. > :14:52.would put her in hospital for the way she behaved. During the
:14:53. > :14:56.cross`examination, the defence barrister put it to her that she was
:14:57. > :14:59.actively and willingly involved in helping to run an international
:15:00. > :15:03.prostitution ring, a claim that she denies.
:15:04. > :15:07.And during that cross`examination, she also gave evidence about how she
:15:08. > :15:10.got involved with these alleged exploits.
:15:11. > :15:16.We even heard how there was an online next court agency set up. She
:15:17. > :15:21.denies any involvement in that. The court also heard how she would often
:15:22. > :15:24.man on the phone. She says, at the request of her partner. All of the
:15:25. > :15:31.defendants deny the charges against them in the case continues. This is
:15:32. > :15:34.our top story tonight: 40 homes were flooded in Kent, and Sussex coast
:15:35. > :15:42.train services remain disrupted, after the sea levels rose in last
:15:43. > :15:48.night's storm surge. Also in tonight's programme: the
:15:49. > :15:53.Kent church with a unique approach to Christmas.
:15:54. > :15:57.And after last nights storm surge, the weather is comparatively quiet
:15:58. > :16:06.over the next few days. Join me later for the weekend forecast.
:16:07. > :16:10.Science, engineering and maths are seen as some of the most important
:16:11. > :16:14.and fastest fastest growing sectors in the UK economy. But despite the
:16:15. > :16:20.demand, comparatively very few women are taking up the challenge, and
:16:21. > :16:23.opting for a science based career. Looking to change all that, one
:16:24. > :16:26.girls' school in Kent, the Simon Langton Grammar in Canterbury, has
:16:27. > :16:28.invited the famous inventor Trevor Baylis, creator of the clockwork
:16:29. > :16:35.radio, to inspire the next generation.
:16:36. > :16:40.I managed to get some sign that of the instrument that was my Eureka
:16:41. > :16:42.moment... From that moment, the wind`up radio was born, turning
:16:43. > :16:51.Trevor Bayliss into a household name. On a visit to Canterbury, the
:16:52. > :16:54.inventor was encouraging students, particularly girls, to pursue a
:16:55. > :16:58.career in science and engineering, saying their bright ideas of the
:16:59. > :17:03.future could change the world. When you start looking at history, you
:17:04. > :17:07.suddenly find that there are some remarkable inventions that are being
:17:08. > :17:12.created by women. What we have to do is make sure that society realises
:17:13. > :17:17.that there are so many things that we take for granted and yet the
:17:18. > :17:26.creators of those inventors don't get the credit given to people who
:17:27. > :17:30.do art and painting. I thought it was amazing. He is definitely very
:17:31. > :17:35.inspiring. You normally see men doing things like that. It would the
:17:36. > :17:38.equal if women did it as well. It's like encouraging you to get
:17:39. > :17:45.involved. If you have an idea, don't just give up as if... Like he said,
:17:46. > :17:50.someone might invented snakes and you will think, I have that idea.
:17:51. > :17:54.Why didn't I carry on with it? Just 7% of engineering graduates in the
:17:55. > :17:57.UK are women. Trevor Bayliss says that has to change and that cultural
:17:58. > :18:07.Revolution should start in the classroom.
:18:08. > :18:14.Now back to the death of Nelson Mandela. Tributes to the former
:18:15. > :18:17.South African President have been pouring in across the South East.
:18:18. > :18:27.Mark Norman has been speaking to residents of Kent and Sussex about
:18:28. > :18:30.their memories of meeting him. The apartheid regime in Nelson
:18:31. > :18:34.Mandela and exiled South Africans who fought the system. That included
:18:35. > :18:39.the Williamson 's. She was a journalist, he a barrister. Now
:18:40. > :18:44.living in West Sussex, both acknowledge the impact Mandela had
:18:45. > :18:47.on their lives. If you lived in South Africa in the 60s and 70s, you
:18:48. > :18:52.would have thought this system was never going to end. Other than
:18:53. > :18:59.through a ghastly, bloody civil war. And then Mandela just changed all of
:19:00. > :19:03.that. Words cannot describe the debt we have to Mandela and the love that
:19:04. > :19:08.everybody has four Mandela. From his Rochester home, this world`renowned
:19:09. > :19:12.Toastmaster, recalls shaking President Mandela's hand at an
:19:13. > :19:16.after`dinner speech in London. No one has got the presence of Nelson
:19:17. > :19:22.Mandela. No one will ever have the presence of Nelson Mandela. Having
:19:23. > :19:30.served 27 years, 17 in solitary confinement, a man that, kept
:19:31. > :19:36.himself saying, moved from hatred to peace in the world. How do you do
:19:37. > :19:41.it? You have got to be someone very, very special and we have lost
:19:42. > :19:46.very, special man. A hugely successful business career and a
:19:47. > :19:51.lifelong friend of Bishop Desmond Tutu, beating Mandela was one of the
:19:52. > :19:58.most significant moments in her life. We were very cautious with
:19:59. > :20:02.photographs because I knew his eyes were damaged by his time in prison.
:20:03. > :20:08.But he was amazing. You only have to look at him and see what he had been
:20:09. > :20:13.through and how he felt. That is the man the world has been waiting to
:20:14. > :20:17.see. After 27 years in jail, Mandela emerged to become South Africa's
:20:18. > :20:21.first black president and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. For those who
:20:22. > :20:24.sought ` fought the same course, he will be remembered as the man who
:20:25. > :20:32.brought about change without bloodshed.
:20:33. > :20:36.We're joined now by Peter Hain, the Labour MP who was very well known as
:20:37. > :20:41.an anti`apartheid campaigner. His parents campaigned alongside them
:20:42. > :20:45.some Mandela in the 1950s in South Africa. `` Nelson Mandela. When you
:20:46. > :20:51.came over and you were a student at Sussex union, Sussex University, who
:20:52. > :20:59.campaigned very publicly for change in South Africa. Yes. There was a
:21:00. > :21:04.big student campaign. Sussex University was the centre of it. It
:21:05. > :21:08.had many exiled South Africans studying there, including the former
:21:09. > :21:14.set president who succeeded Nelson Mandela. As were many others from
:21:15. > :21:19.the African National Congress. There were lots of active students,
:21:20. > :21:23.British students, who sent coaches around the country, for example
:21:24. > :21:27.demonstrating against the all`white South African Springboks tour, that
:21:28. > :21:32.was heavily disrupted by protests in 1969 slash 1970. It was a campaign
:21:33. > :21:38.which I lead. Sussex was a centre of anti`apartheid agitation and
:21:39. > :21:42.important in the overall campaign. Nelson Mandela came to Brighton for
:21:43. > :21:46.the Labour Party conference in 2000. Given all of that history, it must
:21:47. > :21:51.have been an incredible day for you. It was. It was a magical moment for
:21:52. > :21:56.me. I showed him in to see the Prime Minister in the hotel on the
:21:57. > :22:05.Brighton seafront. Then experiencing him speaking to the conference,
:22:06. > :22:10.there in person. Many people had not had the privilege of getting to know
:22:11. > :22:14.him. We were a stubborn `` we were astonished that there he was,
:22:15. > :22:20.speaking a few yards away. It was a magical moment. Talking of magical
:22:21. > :22:24.moments. Can we go back to 1991? Your whole life until that point had
:22:25. > :22:29.revolved around the fight. The parents had been forced out of South
:22:30. > :22:34.Africa. You campaigned so vigorously that you didn't get to beating
:22:35. > :22:40.yourself until 1991. What was that moment like? What was he like when
:22:41. > :22:45.you met him face face? As always, when you `` when he meets someone
:22:46. > :22:49.who hasn't met before, you are the most important to him. It seems
:22:50. > :22:57.genuine, unlike other celebrities and figures who you sense put it on.
:22:58. > :23:02.I also had my mother with me. She was at his trial in Pretoria in 1962
:23:03. > :23:06.as an anti`apartheid activist. Often the only white person in the white
:23:07. > :23:11.section of the public gallery. They used to salute each other. Being
:23:12. > :23:15.reunited, here with him, and meeting there for the first time in
:23:16. > :23:19.Parliament was something that I almost felt wasn't happening to me!
:23:20. > :23:22.It was one of those it will never happen moments. He seemed to be
:23:23. > :23:33.imprisoned for all of his long, bleak years. The apartheid state and
:23:34. > :23:36.all its evil, was so impotent. `` omnipotent. You wondered whether he
:23:37. > :23:40.would ever come out. We are going to move on to sport.
:23:41. > :23:43.It's an FA Cup weekend and Dover Athletic have the chance of some
:23:44. > :23:46.giant killing, and taking a place in the third round of the competition.
:23:47. > :23:50.The Conference South side travel to League One MK Dons. Meanwhile
:23:51. > :23:53.Crawley's new manager John Gregory will be hoping to inspire the Reds
:23:54. > :23:56.to victory at Bristol Rovers. In the Championship Brighton can get
:23:57. > :24:00.their promotion campaign back on track with victory over leaders
:24:01. > :24:03.Leicester City. The While Charlton will drop into the relegation zone
:24:04. > :24:06.if they lose at Yeovil following four defeats in their last five
:24:07. > :24:10.league games. In League One, Gillingham could move
:24:11. > :24:14.into the top half of the table with victory over bottom club Notts
:24:15. > :24:17.County. Jake Hessenthaler, the son of former manager Andy, could
:24:18. > :24:25.receive his first league start for the club, he came on as a second
:24:26. > :24:30.half sub last weekend. I will give everybody a chance and if I think
:24:31. > :24:33.the senior player may be is not doing what I would like, I will then
:24:34. > :24:37.think about putting more of the young ones on at times. But the
:24:38. > :24:41.timing is got to be right format. Most of us settle for one Christmas
:24:42. > :24:45.tree. But a church near Ashford is packed with them from aisle to
:24:46. > :24:49.altar. It's all part of the Hothfield
:24:50. > :24:56.Christmas Tree festival, one of the events which herald the countdown to
:24:57. > :24:59.December 25th. When people ask if Singh Margarets
:25:00. > :25:06.Church has its Christmas tree object, the answer comes, yes. `` St
:25:07. > :25:21.Margaret's church. It is the first chance for people to
:25:22. > :25:26.feel really Christmassy. They come in and it looks beautiful and stop
:25:27. > :25:30.they can then really start to get the Christmas spirit. For three days
:25:31. > :25:33.at the start of December, the 13th century church becomes a forest of
:25:34. > :25:44.Christmas trees. I just cant believe it. I wish I could live here. I love
:25:45. > :25:50.the trees because of their sparkle. The children like it. There are
:25:51. > :25:55.baubles and sparkling lights. Everyone's happy. Aren't they,
:25:56. > :25:59.Sarah? They just think it's magical. They cannot believe we have so many
:26:00. > :26:03.trees in the church. They are all dressed in a different way. I hope
:26:04. > :26:07.they take a little bit of the magical spirit of Christmas back
:26:08. > :26:12.with them. The festival runs until Sunday when the trees will be sold
:26:13. > :26:18.off, all to help raise the remaining ?15,000 for the church roof's
:26:19. > :26:28.?140,000 repair fund. Three days when decoration and restoration go
:26:29. > :26:30.hand`in`hand. I'm starting to feel all Christmassy
:26:31. > :26:35.now. Are you already? Let's take a look
:26:36. > :26:45.at the weather. Today has been settled. The winds
:26:46. > :26:48.have been easing off after last night 's gale force winds. It has
:26:49. > :26:59.been settled and we stayed dry. We've seen some sunshine. It is much
:27:00. > :27:05.calmer. The risk of coastal flooding easing off. A high`temperature six
:27:06. > :27:10.or seven degrees today. Yesterday, we saw gusts of around 50 mph.
:27:11. > :27:13.Through tonight, we will be staying mostly settled. Actually, frost
:27:14. > :27:17.free. There may be a little bit of light, patchy rain and drizzle.
:27:18. > :27:23.Also, when we see clearer skies, mist and fog patches. Temperatures
:27:24. > :27:30.peaked staying above freezing. Four or five degrees on Saturday. High
:27:31. > :27:34.pressure will be building. The winds continued to ease off. Quite a bit
:27:35. > :27:42.of cloud cover around any mist will be slow to clear. Temperatures will
:27:43. > :27:50.start to recover. Temperatures will go up to nine or 10 degrees. Really
:27:51. > :27:55.light winds. Through tomorrow night, we've got lighter winds where
:27:56. > :27:58.we will see clearer skies. Mist and fog will form. Quite a bit of cloud
:27:59. > :28:02.cover. The chance we could see some light, patchy rain and drizzle.
:28:03. > :28:07.Mostly, we will be staying dry. Look at these temperatures. Overnight
:28:08. > :28:11.lows of seven or eight degrees. Very mild indeed. Much more of the same.
:28:12. > :28:15.We will be settled. High pressure is building. Lots of cloud cover. More
:28:16. > :28:20.brightness by the time we get to the afternoon. Top temperatures of ten
:28:21. > :28:25.or 11 degrees. Into the new week, it will be staying settled with some
:28:26. > :28:32.light winds and some sunshine to get into the middle of the week.
:28:33. > :28:34.Have a good weekend. Goodbye. Goodbye.