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it is bad. Welcome to South East Today, I'm Rob | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Smith. And I'm Natalie Graham. Tonhght s | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
top stories. Trying to stem the tide ` the water | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
levels rise across Kent and Sussex. And there's yet worse to cole. The | :00:16. | :00:24. | |
real worry is ground water coming up through the floor. | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
There's little they can do to stop the floods, but many communhties are | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
adopting a Dunkirk spirit. Ht's a very pleasant, people smiling and | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
chatting, sharing information. We're live in some of the worst | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
affected areas with the verx latest. Also tonight: Not enough st`ff with | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
the right skills to deliver care ` another Kent A department comes in | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
for serious criticism from the NHS watchdog. And the Sussex man who | :00:50. | :01:00. | |
spent a lifetime promoting reconciliation with Germany. | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
And the school pupils who w`lk with dinosaurs every day, making exciting | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
fossil discoveries in Ardingly. Good evening. 16 warnings, which | :01:06. | :01:18. | |
mean flooding is expected and immediate action is required, have | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
been issued across Kent, Sussex and Surrey by the Environment Agency. | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
In the Canterbury district `lone, 9,000 sandbags have been handed out | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
to residents preparing for `nother night of heavy rain and rishng | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
waters. Our environment correspondent Yvette Austin is in | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
the village of Bridge, near Canterbury, now. How is it looking? | :01:38. | :01:48. | |
It's not great for the residents. While many have escaped havhng water | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
in their front room is todax, there are warnings that many more homes | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
could flood. It is hard to hmagine that the Nailbourne River often runs | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
dry. It is a ground water fdd river and there is now so much water in | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
the ground. The residents hoped it wouldn't | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
happen, but so much rain fell overnight it was inevitable. The | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
villages of Bridge and Patrhck Spong bore the brunt of the floodhng. It | :02:18. | :02:26. | |
is a mix of sewage as well. All the way through to the kitchen Western | :02:27. | :02:35. | |
Mark yes, all over. The watdr table is so high, the sewers are | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
overwhelmed. The problem is when you get surface water pumping on top of | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
it, and the rain we have had coming into the sewage, just overflowing. | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
The sewage is knocking on to the river, the river can't cope, the sua | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
can't cope, it is flooded. @ll along the Nailbourne River, Southdrn water | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
has joined the environment `gency in the battle against the tide. | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
Business has been completelx knocked on the head. Friday night is one of | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
our busiest nights, and this happened. Another one we ard going | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
to have to write off, I'm afraid. The number of homes which flooded | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
last night is relatively low. The environment agency says manx more | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
would be underwater if it w`sn't for this emergency scheme, pumphng .5 | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
tonnes of water per second keep the Nailbourne River relatively | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
contained. In Sussex, Bach hs as deep underwater as anyone c`n | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
remember. There are warnings about trying to drive through it. The | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
River Uckfield is flooded btt the town stays dry so far. Whild there | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
is praise for the environment agency in some areas of Kent, along the | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
great Stour, people say maintenance has been neglected. The rivdr | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
doesn't need dredging everywhere, but the points at which it hs very | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
narrow, and the reeds and trees are causing restrictions, it must be | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
cleared. As people have thehr homes pumped out yet again, there is real | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
despair now. When will the rain stopped? When can people st`rt to | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
rebuild? But the forecast isn't good. | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
The water level here has now begun to drop, giving people the chance to | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
do some clearing up. It has been a fine day. It is a bit odd, some of | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
these properties have flooddd, some have stayed dry, some have water | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
coming up through the floorboards. They have got the sandbags, but when | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
it comes up from beneath, there is very little... Ian Ashton, xou have | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
escaped the flooding. You mtst feel quite relieved. Yes, we havd escaped | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
it is now, but the houses along our side, the ground water is coming up. | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
So it will probably start coming up in our house as well. It is not | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
quite under the floorboards? No The furniture is all piled up. Hs there | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
anything else you can do? Know, we have done all we can, the | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
authorities have. The water has to go somewhere, there is no space for | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
it. Everyone has been helping each other along here. Describe what has | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
been happening in the community Everyone has helped each other out, | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
we have got a lady in the ndxt terrace who is 86, we have been | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
helping her out, but she is determined to stay. Have thd | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
authority is done enough? Definitely. The fire servicd, St | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
John's ambulance. A great hdlp. We wish you all the best. The sad thing | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
is, there is more rain expected overnight, which will mean lore | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
flooding, no doubt. The RMC `` that will mean more heartache. | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
So, let's take a look at thd very latest from the Environment Agency. | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
There are currently 16 flood warnings in place ` 11 in Kdnt, four | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
in Sussex and one in Surrey. They include sections of the rivdrs | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
Medway, Darent, Ouse and Tehse. The Agency says it's working with | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
councils to deploy sandbags and temporary flood defences, btt one MP | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
say more needs to be done. H think there are still issues around | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
whether there is enough resource in for flood defence. Coordination has | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
improved enormously from thd big floods 14 years ago, but thdre is | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
still some way to go. And there's just no let`up hn the | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
forecast over the next 24 hours Another weather system bringing | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
heavy, persistent rain and gale force winds is moving in thhs | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
evening and will continue through tomorrow, although on Sundax the | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
situation will improve slightly as that rain eases. Rachel Mackley our | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
weather presenter, joins us now Rachel, we've experienced an | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
incredible amount of rain in the last couple of months, and there | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
seems to be no end in sight. What's causing it? A jet stream, a ribbon | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
of fast moving wins in the atmosphere, is particularly powerful | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
at the moment and stuck in the same position. Average speed of 200 mph | :06:58. | :07:05. | |
but at the moment it is 300 mph The Jetstream is more powerful. Because | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
it is stable, we are seeing a conveyor belt of the areas of low | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
pressure. No letup as we he`d towards the weekend and over the | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
next couple of weeks. We will have the forecast later. | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
Despite the bleak forecast `nd the rising waters, many residents are | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
putting a brave face on the situation they find themselves in. | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
Let's cross to Peter Whittlsea who's in Fordwich, where they're full of | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
the Dunkirk spirit. Faced with the worst, the pdople of | :07:30. | :07:41. | |
Bridge have pulled together. 86`year`old Jeannie was flooded out, | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
but her spirit summed up thd mood. The neighbours are fantastic, they | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
put things on bricks and th`t. I can get on with it. Getting on with it | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
was the order of the day. B`cking up the emergency services was the Red | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
Cross, providing hot food and drink for those who needed it. It is very | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
pleasant, actually. People smiling, chatting to each other, sharing | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
information, telling us what the situation is, what is happening in | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
the village, if they have got any news. It is good. The boss of the | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
local environment agency was on the scene. Those at risk of flooding | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
posed tough questions. Last week they did a fantastic job. Wdll done | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
for that. The thing that re`lly upsets me is that there is dffluent | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
in this water. Overnight, wd had 35mm is of water in West Kent, which | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
has meant significant floodhng on the Nailbourne River. We ard | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
expecting problems on the Rhver Stour at the weekend. Thankfully we | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
did not get that across the whole county, so some flood warnings will | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
come of later today. At Kingston, a brass got standard. `` a bus. | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
Instead of anger, there was a sense of resignation. There is not a lot | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
you can do, it is the rain `nd the wind, what can you do about that? We | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
have had sandbags all week. They did their job here, but unfortunately it | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
is just too strong. Back in Bridge, a team of volunteers has bedn | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
checking on the elderly and the vulnerable. They should be sending a | :09:21. | :09:29. | |
bobcat down. We are safe, if anyone needs help, we will help out. That | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
is all we can do. With more rain forecast, that community sphrit will | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
have to carry on. And if you want to keep up with the | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
latest weather and informathon, you can tune in to your local BBC Radio | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
Station, or log onto our websites. In a moment, the four policd | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
officers who've lost their jobs for manipulating crime figures. | :09:50. | :09:59. | |
Government inspectors say the Accident Emergency departlent at a | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
Kent hospital has "the potential to be unsafe". A Care Quality | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
Commission inspection found the Darent Valley Hospital in D`rtford | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
didn't have enough staff with the right skills to deliver card. But it | :10:12. | :10:20. | |
found other departments in the hospital were good. | :10:21. | :10:30. | |
This hospital was one of thd first in the country funded by a Private | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
Finance initiative. A new rdport says it is facing significant | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
challenges in accident and emergency. Not enough children's | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
nurses, high use of agency doctors, personal information on display and | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
mixed sex wards comprising privacy. Ideally, they should be havhng mixed | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
sex wards, but there were occasions that was happening. The trust knows | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
that is far from the ideal `nd they are working to make sure it doesn't | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
happen. It is not the routine, it's not the plan, but sometimes it is | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
the volume of people coming in. It's the latest in a series of problems | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
for the hospital. In 2012, there was a ?1.5 million government b`ilout. | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
Last year, merger plans collapsed, adding to financial problems. The | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
accident and emergency department here is one of the busiest hn the | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
south`east, currently dealing with 100,000 patients per year. This new | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
report has found that, although other areas of the hospital are seen | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
as mostly good, there are significant challenges, particularly | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
here in a and E. We are alrdady advertising for more notices with a | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
paediatric collocation. `` lore nurses. We have been successful in | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
recruiting more middle gradd doctors. We have gone into Durope, | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
other places, to recruitment or grade doctors. The patients today | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
gave positive reviews. I thhnk they are very good. You can't be`t them. | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
My care was fine. I can't complain. I didn't have any problems. The | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
inspectors and knowledge progress is being made and they will return in | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
the next few months. `` acknowledge. More than 20 jobs could go `t East | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
Sussex Fire and rescue servhce as they look at saving more money. The | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
Authority will consider its budget at a meeting later this month and | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
may ask for the public's vidw on four proposals to change thd service | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
over the next five years. It comes after the Government announced it's | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
reducing its funding grant. An assistant priest from Sussex who | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
is also a retired teacher, has been charged with 24 sex offences against | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
two boys. Reverend Christopher Howarth, who was suspended from Holy | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
Cross church in Uckfield, is alleged to have sexually assaulted the boys | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
from the age of ten over an eight`year period. Mr Howarth was a | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
teacher at Uckfield Community Technology College until 2007. | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
About 100 to 150 posts at Brighton and Hove City Council would be cut | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
in budget plans released today, outlining how it plans to s`ve 22 | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
million. The report is based on an assumed council tax rise of 2%. The | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
current proposed increase in council tax is 4.75%, which would h`ve to be | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
agreed in a referendum. Four Kent Police officers who were | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
arrested as part of an investigation into the alleged manipulation of | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
crime figures have been dislissed by the force. The officers, who have | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
not been named, were found guilty of gross misconduct following `n | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
internal investigation. Piers Hopkirk is at police headqu`rters | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
now in Maidstone. What has the reaction been to the dismissals It | :13:35. | :13:42. | |
has been very guarded, becatse those 4`macro officers are all appealing | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
against their sackings. This dates back to a police investigathon into | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
corruption in 2012. They were accused of getting suspects to admit | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
to offences they haven't colmitted to bolster the crime statistics The | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
Crown Prosecution Service ddcided not to charge them but therd was an | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
internal disciplinary procedure The result, all four were found guilty | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
of gross misconduct and thex were subsequently sacked, although as I | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
mentioned they have appealed. Has the Kent police and crime commission | :14:15. | :14:24. | |
had anything to say? The commissioner has been as gu`rded as | :14:25. | :14:34. | |
anyone else. Ann Barnes was elected on a pledge of ensuring the | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
statistics were robust and that the force could be judged properly by | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
crime statistics. She said today that because of the appeals, she | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
could not comment. It will be interesting to hear what shd says | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
once these appeal procedures are concluded. | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
Our top story tonight: Rising water levels across Kent, Sussex `nd | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
Surrey have led to 16 flood warnings being issued by the Environlent | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
Agency. Residents in the worst affected areas are preparing for | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
more heavy rain and further flooding tonight. Another devastating injury | :15:04. | :15:13. | |
blow for Sussex athlete Crahg Pickering, as his winter Olxmpic | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
hopes are dashed. And the Stssex School pupils whose dinosaur | :15:20. | :15:20. | |
discoveries are making history. A 95`year`old minister from | :15:21. | :15:32. | |
Herstmonceux has been awarddd a German medal for his years of work | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
promoting peace and reconciliation. Reverend Geoffrey Beck recehved the | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
Cross of the Order of Merit at a ceremony at his former colldge in | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
Oxford for the part he playdd in setting up a memorial to Ad`m Von | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
Trott, a German diplomat exdcuted by the Nazi regime for his part in a | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
plot to assassinate Hitler. Sara Smith has tonight's special report. | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
The target may have survived but the damage was clear. This was Hitler's | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
bunker after the assassinathon attempt of 1944. Ten minutes, two | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
foot of wall... The story of the conspiracy was dramatised in this | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
Tom Cruise thriller. Reverend Geoffrey Beck was in his 80s when he | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
realised that one of the conspirators, Adam von Trott, had | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
been to the same Oxford college as him. Along with a colleague he set | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
up a memorial and scholarshhp to preserve his name. We wanted to | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
commemorate this person who had been anti`Hitler. We began to be aware | :16:30. | :16:42. | |
that young Germans as well `s young British were not aware that there | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
had been opposition in Germ`ny to Hitler. His efforts have now been | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
recognised by the German government in the form of the medal aw`rded to | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
him at this ceremony at his old college. In 1937 As a young man in | :16:53. | :17:05. | |
1937 Rev Beck was travelling home from Austria when he had his first | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
real impression of what was happening in Europe. We stopped in | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
the fairly early morning in Cologne station. And I got out onto the | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
platform and it was full of uniformed young people. It was a | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
lovely sunny morning but thd atmosphere just felt evil. Hn the | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
decades after the war he went on a series of church visits behhnd the | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
Iron Curtain. Arriving in Czechoslovakia at the time of the | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
Prague Spring. The aim, to offer support and friendship to those | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
persecuted for their beliefs. I was cautious. I had been educatdd back | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
in the Nazi times and you knew what things you could not talk about In | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
1944, Trott and his conspir`tors were all executed. Reverand Beck | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
wants to make sure that thehr efforts are remembered. | :17:44. | :17:54. | |
Pupils at a Sussex school h`ve found that they are walking with, and | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
over, dinosaurs every day. Lessons at Ardingly College have led to a | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
series of important and rard finds of fossils. They came about because | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
it turns out the rock, disttrbed by excavating rubble under a ndw | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
building, dates back to the Cretaceous period, and it's adding | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
new detail to the picture of what Sussex was like 140 million years | :18:13. | :18:14. | |
ago. Juliette Parkin reports. Who would have thought it? These | :18:15. | :18:30. | |
giant creatures roaming the Sussex landscape millions of years ago It | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
would have been a Mediterranean climate. A far cry from the | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
conditions which these pupils are searching in for their remahns. OK, | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
everyone. This is the kind of thing you are looking for. On exc`vated | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
rubble from building work, there has been scientific discovery. Ht is | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
learning well beyond the lab. We found several bones and an hguanodon | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
tooth, which we had to get out of the lock. It is very exciting. There | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
is that thing where you are unique in the world because you have got | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
this find. Not many period will `` people experience the excitdment of | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
that. This is definitely a dinosaur bone. Since October, there has been | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
some significant finds on the site, including bones, teeth and scales. | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
These are really rare. A lot of the local sites where these werd found | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
back in the 1830s and 1840s, all of those sites have now been fhlled | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
in, they are no longer access a bull. So finding dinosaurs hn this | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
area is actually very important `` longer access of all. It is not the | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
first time dinosaur fossils have been unearthed in this part of the | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
south`east. In 1822, a doctor from Lewis found, with some help from his | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
wife, the first fossil teeth of the iguanodon in Cook field, not far | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
from Ardingly. The aim is now to build up an even better picture of | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
these ancient beasts in Sussex by asking local villagers to gdt | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
involved in searching an arda which local experts call a rocky treasure | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
trove of ancient fossils. The Sussex athlete Craig Pickering | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
says he's devastated to havd to pull out of the Winter Olympics with a | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
last`minute back injury. Thd 27`year`old from Crawley was due to | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
compete in the two`man and four`man bobsleigh in Sochi. It's a bitter | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
blow for the former 100`metre sprinter who also missed London 2012 | :20:37. | :20:37. | |
through injury. Neil Bell rdports. Whilst his GB team`mates were | :20:38. | :20:52. | |
soaking up the atmosphere in the opening ceremony today, Crahg | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
Pickering was back at home coming to terms with his latest injurx | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
setback. Part of a team that wasn't really supposed to qualify for the | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
Olympics, to help them achidve that was a massive high. That is why the | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
disappointment... They are three of my best friends. That is probably | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
the hardest thing to take. H had a bad injury two years ago whhch I | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
came back from. To have a sdcond disc though is not a good shgn. | :21:17. | :21:24. | |
Craig 's initial back injurx ended a promising career in athletics | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
prematurely, forcing him to miss London 2012. His remarkable | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
conversion to bobsleigh meant that just 18 months after his first run, | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
he joined an elite group of British athletes to be selected for a winter | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
and summer games before this weekend 's unexpected news. For an `thlete | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
like Craig, it is difficult to replace someone like that. Ht is | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
very disappointing news for everybody. Former Olympians | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
including Kelly Somerton and Denise Lewis have been quick to support | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
Craig on twitter, together with local sprinter Adam Jimmy Lde. Being | :21:58. | :22:08. | |
that close, going through the process of getting your kit, | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
preparing the sled, doing drills with the guys, making the body | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
weight, it is an absolute nhghtmare. To come home as the result of an | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
injury as well, I can only feel for the guy, he must be devastated. | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
Having worked so hard to make it to the Olympics, his next challenge is | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
to get fit again and hopefully push on to South Korea in 2018. | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
Horrible news. Chilling travel north to take on | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
Carlisle tomorrow, hoping to end a disappointing run of results. `` | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
Chillingham. Inform striker McDonald appears to be back at the form he | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
showed in his successful first stay with the club. He is looking a real | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
threat, a real team player. He is our best striker, no doubt `bout | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
that. He is a handful, any chance he gets I want him to take. I want | :23:03. | :23:10. | |
everything. Weather permitthng, Brighton and Hove Albion, whth one | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
win in five games, take on Doncaster Rovers. Charlton athletic play | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
Birmingham city at the Valldy. Crawley town visit the leaddrs | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
Brentford. Stay tuned to BBC One this dvening ` | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
in half an hour, a special BBC South East documentary asks whethdr our | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
seaside pleasure piers will enjoy a new golden age or whether they've | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
had their day. Focusing on Hastings Pier, the programme takes us from | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
1814 to the present day and beyond as it charts the rise, fall and | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
possible rise again of thesd quintessentially British | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
attractions. What's interesting about Hastings is | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
that there is a need that attractions on the pier, to get | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
people to pay the toll to w`lk onto the pier. So this is the first pier | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
that capital letter Birch btilt with a pavilion at the Pier head. | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
That's The End of the Pier Show tonight at 7:30pm here on BBC One. | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
Back to our top story, therd are currently 16 flood warnings across | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
Kent, Sussex and Surrey, me`ning flooding is imminent in those | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
places. Peter is in Ford whhch, a village outside Canterbury. What is | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
the situation there? The colmunity has been under threat of flooding | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
for the last month. The watdr is now coming over the quayside. M`ny of | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
the properties have sandbags, waiting for the worst. The | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
environment agency are saying that water levels tomorrow could be the | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
highest people have seen in living memory. People have kept a sense of | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
humour. The pub has publishdd a local bulletin saying that this town | :24:47. | :24:48. | |
is to be twinned with Venicd. Joining me now, the landlord. The | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
community spirit has been good. It has been really, really good. Most | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
people in the village, from the town, they always come down and see | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
if we are OK. It's amazing, really. Have the authorities done enough? | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
More than, I would say. We have had environmental agents, policd, fire | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
engines... But you must be worried about tomorrow? Hesitation `` if the | :25:22. | :25:32. | |
level is higher than 201, it is getting a bit scary. The environment | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
agency say that 100 homes in Canterbury will be at risk | :25:39. | :25:47. | |
tomorrow. Gratitude macro `` Rachel, tell us the worst. What is | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
going on? There will be some sunshine, but | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
yes, as we go through tonight, further heavy rain. A welcole and | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
brief respite from the rain. Temperatures today have been eight | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
or nine degrees. The wind whll continue to pick up tonight. At the | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
moment, 15`20 mph, much stronger tonight. The reason is this | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
deepening area of low presstre along the south coast. 50`60 mph. It will | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
turn very wet and windy. As ever, there is an amber warning from the | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
Met office. 15`20 millimetrds of rain falling on to saturated ground. | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
Through tonight, heavy, persistent rain and gale force winds for us | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
all. Turning unsettled. Temperatures relatively mild, only dropphng a | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
couple of degrees from the daytime value, but a wet and windy picture | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
overnight. The rain will move through really quickly. At the start | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
tomorrow, temperatures of 6`7 degrees. Fairly heavy showers. Even | :26:51. | :26:57. | |
some sunshine, particularly during the afternoon, when we see the | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
showers moving through quickly. The reason for that, still an average | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
wind speed of 30 mph, gusting at 40`50 mph along the south coast The | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
showers very heavy indeed. We will continue to see showers frol | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
Saturday over into Sunday. Temperatures staying pretty mild. | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
Lows of four ` five degrees. Sunday, more of the same. The showers will | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
be significantly lighter, btt in the week strong winds and heavy rain. | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
Some heavy showers around for the weekend, I'm afraid. | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
What can we say? Stay tuned to our bulletins to night and throtgh the | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
weekend. Good luck. Make thd best of the weekend. | :27:43. | :27:47. |