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:00:00. > :00:11.Good afternoon. Residents in Yalding That's all from me, stay
:00:12. > :00:14.Good afternoon. Residents in Yalding have reacted angrily to the news a
:00:15. > :00:18.government department has tweeted an MEP in the South East to tell her
:00:19. > :00:22.the UK can't apply for fundhng from the EU to support flood victims
:00:23. > :00:26.Yalding was one of the worst areas affected back in December. Parts of
:00:27. > :00:30.the village were submerged hn water a metre deep. The Liberal Ddmocrat
:00:31. > :00:39.MEP Catherine Bearder says Defra messaged saying the EU Solidarity
:00:40. > :00:43.fund wasn't applicable to the UK. I cannot understand why they want that
:00:44. > :00:50.their hand up and say they `re considering claiming. We're coming
:00:51. > :00:54.perilously close to the end of the ten weeks. They don't actually have
:00:55. > :00:58.to take the money in the end is a finally can manage. But if xou don't
:00:59. > :01:06.claim in those ten weeks yot have lost it. A Kent MP is distrhbuting
:01:07. > :01:09.ballot papers today for what he believes is the country's fhrst
:01:10. > :01:12.constituency`wide referendul on whether the UK should stay hn the
:01:13. > :01:15.EU. Mark Reckless says he'll ensure every constituent in Rochester and
:01:16. > :01:19.Strood has the chance to vote. The MP believes it'll be the biggest
:01:20. > :01:23.opinion poll held on the issue. The first mosque in Kent with a
:01:24. > :01:26.minaret tower and a dome has opened. It's cost half a million potnds to
:01:27. > :01:29.transform the building in Gillingham. The place of worship has
:01:30. > :01:32.been used as a mosque since the 1970s. The refurbished building can
:01:33. > :01:37.hold more than 150 worshippdrs and is open to people from all faiths.
:01:38. > :01:44.Charlie Rose reports. It looks like their prayers have been answered. A
:01:45. > :01:52.new mosque for Gillingham. The first with eight dome and a minardt tower.
:01:53. > :01:57.It gives the creation form ` distance that this is a house of
:01:58. > :02:04.worship. Probably the most hmportant day in our life in a Gillingham It
:02:05. > :02:09.is a crucial part of our life. For decades this is how the mospue
:02:10. > :02:13.looked. Now the overhaul has provided a purpose`built pl`ce of
:02:14. > :02:25.worship, of which the Muslil community can be proud. Of course it
:02:26. > :02:30.is very pleasing for us. A shining beacon raising Eagles spirits.
:02:31. > :02:33.Football now and there's a full programme of league fixtures for our
:02:34. > :02:36.teams this afternoon. Charlton face a tough trip to the Championship
:02:37. > :02:40.leaders Leicester. Brighton travel to Millwall who languish at the
:02:41. > :02:43.bottom of the table. In League One, Gillingham who've lost their last
:02:44. > :02:46.two games, are away at Bristol City. Crawley play their first hole league
:02:47. > :02:46.game of the year against Peterborough.
:02:47. > :03:01.And the weather. We have a bit of an East West
:03:02. > :03:09.divide. More in the way of sunshine to the West. There are a few showers
:03:10. > :03:17.lurking but there are few and far between. Temperatures reachhng seven
:03:18. > :03:25.or eight Celsius. The light winds will continue through the nhght and
:03:26. > :03:32.a frost is likely way from coast. Temperatures down to two or three
:03:33. > :03:40.Celsius overnight. Tomorrow it starts off quite well but it becomes
:03:41. > :03:43.increasingly cloudy. We also have a strengthening winds ahead of rain
:03:44. > :03:46.which will reach us just before sunset. Tomorrow temperaturds will
:03:47. > :03:56.reach eight or nine Celsius. It is the first official dax of
:03:57. > :04:10.spring today. We will be back at tea`time.
:04:11. > :04:16.Hello there. The first day of March, and quite a wintry chill to
:04:17. > :04:21.the first thing, but conditions have improved a lot, a lot of sunshine
:04:22. > :04:28.have there, so the daffodils you can see behind me, a good sunny Saint
:04:29. > :04:32.David's day across Wales. We will hold onto the sunshine for many
:04:33. > :04:36.places. A fly in the ointment is showers across western areas,
:04:37. > :04:41.developing through the afternoon. Across the south-east, particularly
:04:42. > :04:45.East Anglia, a great start, that area of low pressure continuing to
:04:46. > :04:49.push out into the North Sea. Quite a deal to be a generally, temperatures
:04:50. > :04:54.slowly climbing, but the winds are light, pleasant in the sunshine A
:04:55. > :05:00.few showers across Wales, north west England, wintriness to higher
:05:01. > :05:03.ground. Rain and cloud beginning to Bush in towards the west of Northern
:05:04. > :05:08.Ireland later in the afternoon. For Scotland, a day of sunshine and
:05:09. > :05:10.showers. Far more in the way of sunshine and showers, looking