:00:00. > :00:14.Good afternoon. The coastgu`rd and on BBC One, time for the news
:00:15. > :00:18.Good afternoon. The coastgu`rd and the local council are warning
:00:19. > :00:22.visitors to stay away from the cliff edge at Birling gap, after ` series
:00:23. > :00:25.of falls in the cliff face over the last week. On Tuesday, the
:00:26. > :00:28.especially high tide caused a severe fall in the chalk cliffs after a 30
:00:29. > :00:32.foot crack appeared. A high number of tourists are predicted to visit
:00:33. > :00:35.the area this weekend because of the warm weather. Mark Sanders reports.
:00:36. > :00:39.Some people are prepared to risk it all to get close to the edgd and
:00:40. > :00:42.another person went beyond the safety tape just to take a picture.
:00:43. > :00:46.All this near the spot wherd a massive section of cliff gave way a
:00:47. > :00:50.few days ago. There's still some people who are perilously ndar and I
:00:51. > :00:53.would plead with them, please keep back from the edge, because it is
:00:54. > :00:57.not just themselves that thdy're putting at risk. The Nation`l Trust
:00:58. > :01:00.has put out a warning to kedp people away from the edge, because many
:01:01. > :01:04.more visitors are expected to come to Birling gap during the good
:01:05. > :01:08.weather to see how the coast is being reshaped. We have comd down to
:01:09. > :01:11.see all the erosion. We havd heard about it. People said it was very
:01:12. > :01:15.dramatic. As much has come down in about six weeks as generallx takes
:01:16. > :01:18.seven years, so the difference is quite stunning. But there's nothing
:01:19. > :01:22.we can do, it's nature and that s the way it's going to be. The RNLI
:01:23. > :01:26.is also urging anyone venturing out to any beach next to cliffs to be
:01:27. > :01:29.cautious. If they're down on the beach and there is a rockfall, look
:01:30. > :01:33.out, they're going to be in serious trouble. And that doesn't jtst
:01:34. > :01:36.happen on the Birling gap or the Beachy Head area. That can happen
:01:37. > :01:39.anywhere along the coast. As we know, along the years there have
:01:40. > :01:43.been lots of rockfalls and sadly life has been lost. At Birlhng gap
:01:44. > :01:51.the advice from National Trtst is for people to stay at least five
:01:52. > :01:54.metres away from the cliff ddge Police are continuing their search
:01:55. > :01:58.for a missing Tonbridge man, whose family fear is dead. Kent Police are
:01:59. > :02:01.using radar equipment on thd River Medway after divers failed to find
:02:02. > :02:04.anything yesterday. 25`year`old Kieron Knowlden hasn't been seen
:02:05. > :02:10.since he left a bar after a night out with family and friends a week
:02:11. > :02:14.ago. Police and fire crews have been investigating a chemical sphll on
:02:15. > :02:18.Dover's seafront. A lorry w`s involved in a crash with a car just
:02:19. > :02:20.before 1 o'clock this lunchtime and the blue substance was leakdd.
:02:21. > :02:25.Firefighters used breathing apparatus to clear it up. They say
:02:26. > :02:29.there's no danger to the public The winter storms that hit the country
:02:30. > :02:32.caused the greatest loss of trees in a generation in some areas `ccording
:02:33. > :02:35.to the National Trust, with two sites in the South East badly
:02:36. > :02:38.affected. Specimen trees were damaged or blown over at both
:02:39. > :02:42.Scotney Castle in Kent and Nymans in Sussex. Woodlands, parks and gardens
:02:43. > :02:48.cared for by the trust have seen the worst damage in two decades. The
:02:49. > :02:50.Kent skiing guide Charlotte Evans has helped partially`sighted
:02:51. > :02:54.paralympian Kelly Gallagher to sixth place at her first event at the
:02:55. > :02:57.Winter Olympics. The pair mhssed out on a medal place in the womdn's
:02:58. > :02:59.downhill for visually`impaired athletes earlier today. But
:03:00. > :03:03.Britain's Jade Etherington `nd her guide Caroline Powell took the
:03:04. > :03:06.silver. Two south east rugbx players have been named in England's side to
:03:07. > :03:09.play Wales tomorrow. Joe Mahler who started his career at Haywards
:03:10. > :03:13.Heath, and Dylan Hartley, who went to school in Crowborough and played
:03:14. > :03:18.for the town's rugby club, will both start in the penultimate Six Nations
:03:19. > :03:21.match. Confidence is high in the group and whoever we play, whoever
:03:22. > :03:25.comes off the bench, we've tsually got a good pack out on the field. As
:03:26. > :03:29.ever, evolving from the Irish game, we need to look to gain domhnance.
:03:30. > :03:33.Our scrum creaked a bit and I struggled with the hook of the ball,
:03:34. > :03:46.so there is still things to work on and improve. Football and Brighton
:03:47. > :03:54.got off to a good start agahnst Reading. After that the vishtors
:03:55. > :04:01.managed to equalise. Gillingham and Crawley are level at 0`0. It has
:04:02. > :04:06.been a glorious afternoon. Here is the weather with Elizabeth. We have
:04:07. > :04:12.seen plenty of sunshine tod`y and tomorrow too there will be `nother
:04:13. > :04:17.glorious spring day for most of us. Tonight it will be clear and dry and
:04:18. > :04:22.that breeze will continue. So it will keep any frost at bay.
:04:23. > :04:30.Temperatures down to five Cdlsius inland. So plenty of sunshine
:04:31. > :04:34.tomorrow. Wall to wall sunshine in many case. We have got that
:04:35. > :04:42.southerly breeze, so coastal areas will stay cool. Temperatures up to
:04:43. > :04:46.16 degrees. Maybe even highdr than that. So feeling very warm hn the
:04:47. > :04:51.sunshine. The sunshine will continue into next week. But there whll be
:04:52. > :04:54.variable amounts of cloud and it will feel cooler.
:04:55. > :04:58.match. -- they are very dusty. Some patchy drizzle to the west of Wales.
:04:59. > :05:03.For the rest of England and Wales, mainly clear skies, but a patchy fog
:05:04. > :05:07.towards the south-west later overnight. Temperatures hold up
:05:08. > :05:11.above frost level in the breeze but it will still feel fairly chilly.
:05:12. > :05:13.Tomorrow, the cloud stays with us in