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The sun shall never set on so glorious a | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Welcome to South East Today. I'm Rob Smith. And I'm Natalie Graham. | :00:09. | :00:16. | |
Tonight's top stories: 30 homes flooded in Kent and a day of | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
disruption on the trains in Sussex ` the effects of last night's storm | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
surge are still being felt. We're live in Faversham where the clear up | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
continues. We still have work to do but the managers of the troubled | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
Medway Maritime Hospital say they are making improvements. | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
Also in tonight's programme: Memories of Mandela. People around | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
the south east pay their respects to the former South African leader. He | :00:37. | :00:44. | |
was amazing. He was amazing and you only had to look at him and just see | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
what he had been through and how he felt. | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
It's not a wind up. Inventor Trevor baylis visits a Kent school, looking | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
to encourage more girls into science and engineering And the 40 trees of | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
Christmas. How a Kent church has found an unusually festive way to | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
raise some funds Good evening. The clear`up operation continues this | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
evening following last nights tidal surge. More than 40 homes were | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
flooded in Sandwich and Faversham as water broke over the banks of the | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
creek. On the Sussex coast train services have been disrupted all day | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
after the line was flooded at Newhaven harbour. In a moment we | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
will hear about the flooding in Sussex, but first this report from | :01:25. | :01:36. | |
Simon Jones in Sandwich. Hundreds of people have been | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
evacuated from their homes but many headed out after midnight to see how | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
bad the surge would be. People have been worried. They have been calm | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
but certainly, some people are rallied. Homes and businesses in | :01:52. | :02:00. | |
Faversham were badly hit. Sandbags. We pay higher rates than anybody | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
around here. We are right on the creek. Nothing whatsoever. Didn't | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
think ` things didn't look much better in the daylight. No one is | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
going to be staying in this part of the guesthouse for a while. Take a | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
look at the kitchen. It is underwater. If you take a look | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
through there, the sitting room is underwater as well. In the gardens, | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
much has been ruined. As I entered the garden and saw this, it made me | :02:29. | :02:37. | |
feel a bit sick. The build`up yesterday was a little bit exciting | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
and everyone was getting ready. Often we do these things and it | :02:40. | :02:48. | |
turns into nothing. But sadly, the garden has been flooded heavily. The | :02:49. | :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. | :02:54. | |
worst`case scenario of 3000 homes flooded in Kent was avoided but the | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
environment agency says that was down to careful planning. Do you | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
think the worst`case scenario was overstated? No, I don't think so. | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
What has happened is that the scheme further downstream dashed... That | :03:08. | :03:16. | |
scheme has taken a lot of water away before it got to Sandwich. This | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
afternoon, there has been a second tidal surge. You can see how high | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
the river has gotten the people have come out to witness the event, which | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
has fortunately passed off without incident. But the clean`up will take | :03:32. | :03:41. | |
some time. Our environment correspondence is in | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
Faversham for us. What is the situation there this evening? | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
The floodwaters have now subsided. What happened in Faversham is behind | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
me you've got the creek and you might be able to make out the mast | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
from the boats. But the water rose so high that it topped over the | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
banks and across this whole area. Properties were three or four feet | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
underwater. 28 properties were affected in Faversham. 40 in total | :04:09. | :04:10. | |
in Kent. I in Kent. in Kent. Sussex didn't escape | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
destruction either. Wading rather than walking was the | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
way to get around last night. The Maine coast road was shut as the | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
tidal surge swept in. West Sussex Fire and rescue service tried to | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
pump water from properties. My neighbour banged on the door last | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
night, telling me to move my car because the road was a river. I | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
moved my car through the water and came back. I watched my porch fillip | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
with water. We used all the duvets and towels we had in the house, | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
blocked it. My partner shovelled it out. The morning after the night | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
before and the clean`up began. As well as preparations for another | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
high tide. Sandbags were laid and other makeshift defences were put | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
up. Sure Leopard looks like a harbour after the river burst its | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
bank. The main runway remained open. Further east, parts of New Haven | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
were flooded. Some were determined not to be stopped by the water. And | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
no trains were running because of the flooding. Services between | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
Brighton and Seaford were suspended. The river has burst its banks and | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
that is that. No trains between the two times I need to go to. I'm not | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
going anywhere. It has badly affected me. I can't get to work. | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
I've been waiting for an hour. High tide crept up again this afternoon | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
but it escaped flooding. It was nothing like the surge experienced | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
overnight. I am now outside the Albion pub. You | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
can see the sandbags are still out. There has been an intense mopping up | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
operation. With me is Maria, from the pub. What has it been like | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
today? It has been hectic but we've worked together as a team. We've got | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
a lot done. We are ready for our Christmas parties. The water was up | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
to three feet. When I came at ten o'clock, work had been done to get | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
that done. Most of the damage was in the back. We have been pumped out | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
and we have bought new fridges and we are ready to go. We've lost lots | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
of stock but we are still smiling. Thank you very much and well done. | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
Other properties are not in such a good position. They are still in a | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
blackout situation. There is a lot of work to do here. | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
A troubled Kent hospital, criticised for having one of the highest rates | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
of unexpected mortality in the country, says its death rate has | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
improved, but there's still more work to be done. The Medway Maritime | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
in Gillingham is one of 11 hospitals put in special measures over the | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
summer. The trust that runs it says it's employed more nurses and | :06:57. | :07:05. | |
clinical consultants. They have been subjected to a series | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
of highly critical judgements about the mortality rates, failure to meet | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
national standards and for not having a credible clinical strategy. | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
But now, signs that things are slowly starting to improve at this | :07:17. | :07:25. | |
foundation trust. We've got 63 more nurses than before, that is a net | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
effect, not just to never. We are increasing numbers of midwifes. Our | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
vacancy rate has come down from between 9% to just under 7%. Staff | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
are sticking with us despite everything. The trust was put in | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
special measures after recording persistently higher than average | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
mortality rates. In October, they were issued with a formal warning by | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
the care quality commission, after failing all six national standards | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
in the Trinity. And two weeks ago, the NHS regular ` regulator warned | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
managers they would be forced out and thus they took urgent action. | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
This has been a problem at the hospital for a while. The hospital | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
are very aware of this and are taking steps to address it. But | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
these are difficult problems to solve and it is never possible to | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
suddenly transform a hospital overnight. The number of unexpected | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
death at the hospital has fallen slightly over the last six months | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
but some patients remain concerned. I've got no other place to go. I | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
cannot go private because I'm a pensioner. I cannot afford that. So | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
I've got to go there. I had a head injury give the date but I had to | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
wait for a long time before they saw me. No, I would rather just wait at | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
home, wait until the GP is open and go there. Sometimes the weight is | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
quite long but the doctors and nurses work really hard. Sometimes I | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
think they are understaffed. They do work really hard. I cannot fault | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
them at all. The trust admits it has a lot of work to do but they say | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
that doesn't mean the hospital is unsafe in the meantime. | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
Jon is at the Medway Maritime Hospital in Gillingham. Jon, how | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
significant is that drop in the number of unexpected deaths? | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
It is a very small drop in the headline rate but by last year 's | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
standards, that would bring the hospital into the expected and | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
widely accepted range for hospital mortality although still quite high. | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
This improvement has I am sorry. It looks like we have | :09:30. | :09:51. | |
lost the line to chat. We apologise for that. | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
Coming up: The latest on the trial of the Sussex couple accused of | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
trafficking women for prostitution. People across the South East have | :09:58. | :10:05. | |
been marking the death of Nelson Mandela, with books of condolence | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
opened at cathedrals and town halls, prayers held and flags flown at half | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
mast. The former South African President visited Brighton in 2000, | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
to thank people here for their support for the anti`apartheid | :10:15. | :10:23. | |
cause. And as Ian Palmer reports tributes have been paid across Kent | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
and Sussex. In the crypt at Canterbury | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
Cathedral, they are saying goodbye to a leader. Here, Nelson Mandela | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
will be remembered as a person who brought people together. Prayers for | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
South Africa's first black president would be made in Kent and Sussex | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
this weekend. For black parishioners in the Medway towns, Mandela was the | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
personification of freedom and justice. Was able to unite a lot of | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
people and also be someone to look up to. He was a real icon and a | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
father figure, I would say. His status is legendary and we will | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
remember him for the rest of our lives. Nelson Mandela was a prisoner | :11:10. | :11:17. | |
when Peter Hain was a student, organising protests against the | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
Springboks rugby team in 1970. The campaign completed his masters | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
degree at the university of sussex. The former Secretary of State for | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
Wales greeted Mandela when he spoke at the Labour Party conference 13 | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
years ago. Mr Hain says we'll never see Nelson Mandela's like again. He | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
was the indispensable figure in that transition, from the brink of utter | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
desperate Civil War, to a nation that became healed. Peter Hain help | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
set up the Mandela Scholarship at the University of Sussex. Today's | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
recipient is fully aware of the responsibility that comes with a | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
position that has the Mandela name. He tells me two things. One, I can | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
achieve whatever goals I set myself to achieve. He brings this hope. | :12:06. | :12:14. | |
Students at the university gave their reaction to Mandela's death. | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
He seems like such a force beyond being a human person and it is | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
almost unimaginable. What ever he got as a student, he used it to | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
enrich the advancement of society. As a student, and looking forward to | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
making a difference in the lives of others. Andy Winter voted in the | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
first democratic election in South Africa. A charity worker now living | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
in Brighton, he says Nelson Mandela shouldn't just be remembered as a | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
dear Grandfather of a nation. If we are not challenged on a daily basis | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
by his struggle, if we are not made to feel uncomfortable whenever we | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
hear the name Nelson Mandela, and if that does not drive us to seek | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
greater good, then we will be betraying his legacy. A man who was | :13:02. | :13:12. | |
born in a mud hut who became an international symbol of peace | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
freedom and justice, not just in his native South Africa, but right here | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
in the south east. Campaigners have won their three and | :13:20. | :13:29. | |
a half years... Plans were announced in 2010 to partially demolish the | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
1930s Grade two listed complex and build flats. Brighton and Hove | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
councillors have now approved proposals to give the Saltdean Lido | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
Community Interest Company a 60`year lease to operate the pool. | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
Two Sussex footballers have been sacked by their club after being | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
charged in relation to match fixing. Michael Boateng and Hakeem Adelakun, | :13:45. | :13:46. | |
played for the Brighton`based Conference South team Whitehawk FC. | :13:47. | :13:59. | |
Today the Team's Board says the 22`year`olds have been dismissed for | :14:00. | :14:01. | |
bringing the club into disrepute. A mother has described how she was | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
forced to work with prostitutes by her former partner. Victoria Brown | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
said she was threatened by the father of his son, who on one | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
occasion, through a knife towards her head. | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
The pair are alleged to have trafficked around 50 prostitutes | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
into the UK, alongside with three others. Our home affairs reporter, | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
Rebecca Williams has been covering the case at Hove Crown Court. | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
Victoria Brown today said she was scared of her former partner. | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
Yes, she described him as having a fiery temper. She said he often got | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
very stressed out easily. On one occasion, she said he put his fist | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
through a wall. There was blood everywhere which terrified her. She | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
went on to say that nine out of ten Hungarian men she said, he told her, | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
would put her in hospital for the way she behaved. During the | :14:51. | :14:52. | |
cross`examination, the defence barrister put it to her that she was | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
actively and willingly involved in helping to run an international | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
prostitution ring, a claim that she denies. | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
And during that cross`examination, she also gave evidence about how she | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
got involved with these alleged exploits. | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
We even heard how there was an online next court agency set up. She | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
denies any involvement in that. The court also heard how she would often | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
man on the phone. She says, at the request of her partner. All of the | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
defendants deny the charges against them in the case continues. This is | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
our top story tonight: 40 homes were flooded in Kent, and Sussex coast | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
train services remain disrupted, after the sea levels rose in last | :15:35. | :15:42. | |
night's storm surge. Also in tonight's programme: the | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
Kent church with a unique approach to Christmas. | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
And after last nights storm surge, the weather is comparatively quiet | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
over the next few days. Join me later for the weekend forecast. | :15:58. | :16:06. | |
Science, engineering and maths are seen as some of the most important | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
and fastest fastest growing sectors in the UK economy. But despite the | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
demand, comparatively very few women are taking up the challenge, and | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
opting for a science based career. Looking to change all that, one | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
girls' school in Kent, the Simon Langton Grammar in Canterbury, has | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
invited the famous inventor Trevor Baylis, creator of the clockwork | :16:27. | :16:28. | |
radio, to inspire the next generation. | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
I managed to get some sign that of the instrument that was my Eureka | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
moment... From that moment, the wind`up radio was born, turning | :16:41. | :16:42. | |
Trevor Bayliss into a household name. On a visit to Canterbury, the | :16:43. | :16:51. | |
inventor was encouraging students, particularly girls, to pursue a | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
career in science and engineering, saying their bright ideas of the | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
future could change the world. When you start looking at history, you | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
suddenly find that there are some remarkable inventions that are being | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
created by women. What we have to do is make sure that society realises | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
that there are so many things that we take for granted and yet the | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
creators of those inventors don't get the credit given to people who | :17:18. | :17:26. | |
do art and painting. I thought it was amazing. He is definitely very | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
inspiring. You normally see men doing things like that. It would the | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
equal if women did it as well. It's like encouraging you to get | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
involved. If you have an idea, don't just give up as if... Like he said, | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
someone might invented snakes and you will think, I have that idea. | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
Why didn't I carry on with it? Just 7% of engineering graduates in the | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
UK are women. Trevor Bayliss says that has to change and that cultural | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
Revolution should start in the classroom. | :17:58. | :18:07. | |
Now back to the death of Nelson Mandela. Tributes to the former | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
South African President have been pouring in across the South East. | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
Mark Norman has been speaking to residents of Kent and Sussex about | :18:18. | :18:27. | |
their memories of meeting him. The apartheid regime in Nelson | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
Mandela and exiled South Africans who fought the system. That included | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
the Williamson 's. She was a journalist, he a barrister. Now | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
living in West Sussex, both acknowledge the impact Mandela had | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
on their lives. If you lived in South Africa in the 60s and 70s, you | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
would have thought this system was never going to end. Other than | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
through a ghastly, bloody civil war. And then Mandela just changed all of | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
that. Words cannot describe the debt we have to Mandela and the love that | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
everybody has four Mandela. From his Rochester home, this world`renowned | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
Toastmaster, recalls shaking President Mandela's hand at an | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
after`dinner speech in London. No one has got the presence of Nelson | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
Mandela. No one will ever have the presence of Nelson Mandela. Having | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
served 27 years, 17 in solitary confinement, a man that, kept | :19:23. | :19:30. | |
himself saying, moved from hatred to peace in the world. How do you do | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
it? You have got to be someone very, very special and we have lost | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
very, special man. A hugely successful business career and a | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
lifelong friend of Bishop Desmond Tutu, beating Mandela was one of the | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
most significant moments in her life. We were very cautious with | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
photographs because I knew his eyes were damaged by his time in prison. | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
But he was amazing. You only have to look at him and see what he had been | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
through and how he felt. That is the man the world has been waiting to | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
see. After 27 years in jail, Mandela emerged to become South Africa's | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
first black president and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. For those who | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
sought ` fought the same course, he will be remembered as the man who | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
brought about change without bloodshed. | :20:25. | :20:32. | |
We're joined now by Peter Hain, the Labour MP who was very well known as | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
an anti`apartheid campaigner. His parents campaigned alongside them | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
some Mandela in the 1950s in South Africa. `` Nelson Mandela. When you | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
came over and you were a student at Sussex union, Sussex University, who | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
campaigned very publicly for change in South Africa. Yes. There was a | :20:52. | :20:59. | |
big student campaign. Sussex University was the centre of it. It | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
had many exiled South Africans studying there, including the former | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
set president who succeeded Nelson Mandela. As were many others from | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
the African National Congress. There were lots of active students, | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
British students, who sent coaches around the country, for example | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
demonstrating against the all`white South African Springboks tour, that | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
was heavily disrupted by protests in 1969 slash 1970. It was a campaign | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
which I lead. Sussex was a centre of anti`apartheid agitation and | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
important in the overall campaign. Nelson Mandela came to Brighton for | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
the Labour Party conference in 2000. Given all of that history, it must | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
have been an incredible day for you. It was. It was a magical moment for | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
me. I showed him in to see the Prime Minister in the hotel on the | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
Brighton seafront. Then experiencing him speaking to the conference, | :21:57. | :22:05. | |
there in person. Many people had not had the privilege of getting to know | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
him. We were a stubborn `` we were astonished that there he was, | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
speaking a few yards away. It was a magical moment. Talking of magical | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
moments. Can we go back to 1991? Your whole life until that point had | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
revolved around the fight. The parents had been forced out of South | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
Africa. You campaigned so vigorously that you didn't get to beating | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
yourself until 1991. What was that moment like? What was he like when | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
you met him face face? As always, when you `` when he meets someone | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
who hasn't met before, you are the most important to him. It seems | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
genuine, unlike other celebrities and figures who you sense put it on. | :22:50. | :22:57. | |
I also had my mother with me. She was at his trial in Pretoria in 1962 | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
as an anti`apartheid activist. Often the only white person in the white | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
section of the public gallery. They used to salute each other. Being | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
reunited, here with him, and meeting there for the first time in | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
Parliament was something that I almost felt wasn't happening to me! | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
It was one of those it will never happen moments. He seemed to be | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
imprisoned for all of his long, bleak years. The apartheid state and | :23:23. | :23:33. | |
all its evil, was so impotent. `` omnipotent. You wondered whether he | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
would ever come out. We are going to move on to sport. | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
It's an FA Cup weekend and Dover Athletic have the chance of some | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
giant killing, and taking a place in the third round of the competition. | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
The Conference South side travel to League One MK Dons. Meanwhile | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
Crawley's new manager John Gregory will be hoping to inspire the Reds | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
to victory at Bristol Rovers. In the Championship Brighton can get | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
their promotion campaign back on track with victory over leaders | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
Leicester City. The While Charlton will drop into the relegation zone | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
if they lose at Yeovil following four defeats in their last five | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
league games. In League One, Gillingham could move | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
into the top half of the table with victory over bottom club Notts | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
County. Jake Hessenthaler, the son of former manager Andy, could | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
receive his first league start for the club, he came on as a second | :24:18. | :24:25. | |
half sub last weekend. I will give everybody a chance and if I think | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
the senior player may be is not doing what I would like, I will then | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
think about putting more of the young ones on at times. But the | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
timing is got to be right format. Most of us settle for one Christmas | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
tree. But a church near Ashford is packed with them from aisle to | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
altar. It's all part of the Hothfield | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
Christmas Tree festival, one of the events which herald the countdown to | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
December 25th. When people ask if Singh Margarets | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
Church has its Christmas tree object, the answer comes, yes. `` St | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
Margaret's church. It is the first chance for people to | :25:07. | :25:21. | |
feel really Christmassy. They come in and it looks beautiful and stop | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
they can then really start to get the Christmas spirit. For three days | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
at the start of December, the 13th century church becomes a forest of | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
Christmas trees. I just cant believe it. I wish I could live here. I love | :25:34. | :25:44. | |
the trees because of their sparkle. The children like it. There are | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
baubles and sparkling lights. Everyone's happy. Aren't they, | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
Sarah? They just think it's magical. They cannot believe we have so many | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
trees in the church. They are all dressed in a different way. I hope | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
they take a little bit of the magical spirit of Christmas back | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
with them. The festival runs until Sunday when the trees will be sold | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
off, all to help raise the remaining ?15,000 for the church roof's | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
?140,000 repair fund. Three days when decoration and restoration go | :26:19. | :26:28. | |
hand`in`hand. I'm starting to feel all Christmassy | :26:29. | :26:30. | |
now. Are you already? Let's take a look | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
at the weather. Today has been settled. The winds | :26:36. | :26:45. | |
have been easing off after last night 's gale force winds. It has | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
been settled and we stayed dry. We've seen some sunshine. It is much | :26:49. | :26:59. | |
calmer. The risk of coastal flooding easing off. A high`temperature six | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
or seven degrees today. Yesterday, we saw gusts of around 50 mph. | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
Through tonight, we will be staying mostly settled. Actually, frost | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
free. There may be a little bit of light, patchy rain and drizzle. | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
Also, when we see clearer skies, mist and fog patches. Temperatures | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
peaked staying above freezing. Four or five degrees on Saturday. High | :27:24. | :27:30. | |
pressure will be building. The winds continued to ease off. Quite a bit | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
of cloud cover around any mist will be slow to clear. Temperatures will | :27:35. | :27:42. | |
start to recover. Temperatures will go up to nine or 10 degrees. Really | :27:43. | :27:50. | |
light winds. Through tomorrow night, we've got lighter winds where | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
we will see clearer skies. Mist and fog will form. Quite a bit of cloud | :27:56. | :27:58. | |
cover. The chance we could see some light, patchy rain and drizzle. | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
Mostly, we will be staying dry. Look at these temperatures. Overnight | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
lows of seven or eight degrees. Very mild indeed. Much more of the same. | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
We will be settled. High pressure is building. Lots of cloud cover. More | :28:12. | :28:15. | |
brightness by the time we get to the afternoon. Top temperatures of ten | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
or 11 degrees. Into the new week, it will be staying settled with some | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
light winds and some sunshine to get into the middle of the week. | :28:26. | :28:32. | |
Have a good weekend. Goodbye. Goodbye. | :28:33. | :28:34. |