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Welcome to South East Today, I'm Rob sexual assault and rape. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Welcome to South East Today, I'm Rob Smith. And I'm Polly Evans. | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
Tonight's top stories. Noisd compensation for thousands of homes | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
if a second Gatwick runway goes ahead. Airport bosses are accused of | :00:16. | :00:27. | |
bribing locals. What is ?1000 going to do? They are not going to put new | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
windows in my house to stop the noise. It would help. Nobodx is | :00:31. | :00:42. | |
going to say no to that. Taking on extremism. After the Crawlex suicide | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
bomber, a Sussex MP asks wh`t's being done to tackle radicalisation | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
in the South East. Also in tonight's programme. The mother of a xoung | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
woman who took her own life is suing a Kent NHS Trust because shd says | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
there were no mental health beds available. Gold for kent skher | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
Charlotte Evans, guiding visually`impaired Kelly Gallagher to | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
the super`G title at Sochi. Our sports reporter Neil Bell's live | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
from Charlotte's home town, Chatham. Do you know about the new footman? | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
Of course, he is already here. He's rock royalty, she's TV aristocracy. | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
How Mike Rutherford and Downton s Lady Cora are taking to the same | :01:14. | :01:25. | |
stage in Kent. Good evening. More than 4,000 households in Sussex | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
could get ?1,000 a year in compensation for the noise, if a | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
second runway at Gatwick Airport is built. Bosses say the cash ` | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
equivalent to Band A Council tax ` would help homes most severdly | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
affected by round the clock noise from the site. A second Gatwick | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
runway is one of the options currently being considered by the | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
Airports Commission. Critics of the proposals say the latest move by the | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
airport is little more than a bribe to the local community. Sar` Smith | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
reports. Gatwick has long bden a noisy neighbour and 30 year resident | :01:55. | :02:03. | |
Ian Green is not impressed `t the compensation on offer. You get used | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
to it, but the new one will bring their planes a lot nearer. ?100 a | :02:08. | :02:15. | |
year will not help? Not at `ll. What is that going to do? They whll not | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
come round and put new windows in my house to stop the noise. Thd ?1 00 | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
would go to council taxpayers in areas like without noise levels | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
above 57 decibels, which is equivalent to standing next to | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
washing machine during a sphn cycle. We are reacting to qtestion | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
put us by local authorities and local people. We want to understand | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
how we could minimise the ilpact of a second runway. We see that | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
compensation is one part of that. Nearby villages have long c`mpaigned | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
against aircraft noise. Thex are outside the compensation arda but | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
they say that it would not work anyway. Is ?1000 compensation for | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
the complete change in infrastructure, schools, hospitals, | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
the traffic on the road, th`t people will experience? It is not. You | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
cannot give someone ?1000 bdcause they live on one side of thd road or | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
another, and say that visit that is your noise problem dealt with, it | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
does not work that way. You cannot stage as Maggie cannot take away the | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
statutory nuisance. Some ard happy with the offer on the table. It | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
would help. Nobody is going to say no to that. If that was there to be | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
taken on the back of having a second runway, then why not? Many | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
businesses believe airport dxpansion is crucial and Gatwick is ddsperate | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
for the airports commission to choose it when it exist | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
recommendations next year. Hf it does, the second runway would open | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
tenures later. Sarah Smith hs at `` ten years later. Sarah Smith is at | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
Gatwick. Will this help the chances of getting a second runway? They say | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
that they are doing it becatse they are listening to local people. There | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
is no doubt they would like the airports commission tell thdm they | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
could do this, because therd are relatively few people who lhve | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
nearby, unlike Heathrow, whhch is in a densely populated area, and it | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
would quickly become too expensive, costing about ?4 million a xear but | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
that is very little compared to what they hope that the second rtnway | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
would earn them. This is billed as the first ever summit on airport | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
noise, being held at City H`ll tomorrow in London, with thd London | :04:36. | :04:46. | |
mayor, Boris Johnson, in attendance. A Sussex MP has taken to thd floor | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
of the House of Commons, delanding to know what's being done to tackle | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
extremism in areas like Crawley The MP for the area, Henry Smith, claims | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
that radicalisation of Muslhms is becoming an increasing issud in many | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
parts of the South East. Mr Smith says there have been concerns about | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
extremism in Crawley for many years. Last month a man from the town, | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
Abdul Waheed Majid, became the first British man to carry out a suicide | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
bombing in Syria. Here's our Home Affairs reporter, Rebecca Whlliams. | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
He was suspected to be the first British suicide bomber in Sxria The | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
case of Crawley man, Abdul Waheed Majid, has led to fears over the | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
radicalisation of Muslims in the south`east. Today, the MP for | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
Crawley stood up and House of Commons to ask what was being done | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
to tackle extremism. Can yot say what increased steps are behng taken | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
to meet the threat to securhty from British`born foreign fighters coming | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
back from Syria, and how local communities in this country can be | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
better supported where they identify radicalisation? Henry Smith believes | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
radicalisation is to be addressed across the country. His Crawley | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
constituency has been at thd heart of the debate in recent years. In | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
2007 three men from Crawley were jailed for their part in a terrorist | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
plot to stop last month, it is believed that a man from Cr`wley | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
drove a lorry packed with explosives into a prison in Aleppo. And another | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
man was arrested at Gatwick on suspicion of receiving terrorist | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
training abroad. But some pdople in the Crawley community feel | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
victimised. Nobody here has been medicalise? I cannot see th`t | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
happen. There is absolutely no way people would come to the mosque | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
anywhere in the amended kingdom with any intention of a man offering | :06:36. | :06:43. | |
prayers. Henry Smith describes his Crawley constituency as a global | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
community living in one place. He says many UK residents aren't coming | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
`` travelling abroad and becoming radicalised, and that is a big issue | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
for UK security. People say that it does not worry them, but it does, it | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
does. It is always in the b`ck of your mind. I am sure that there are | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
many other places around thd country that have the same issues as well. | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
In Crawley, they have had a community meeting to discuss | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
Syria`related issues. Henry Smith says although it is a small minority | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
that is radicalised abroad, extremism is an issue that needs to | :07:24. | :07:34. | |
be addressed. In a moment, we take an exclusive look at England's | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
oldest lifeboat station, at Newhaven. | :07:37. | :07:47. | |
The controversial practice of live animal exports have resumed from the | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
Port of Ramsgate today. The trade was suspended there two years ago, | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
after more than 40 sheep didd. Thanet District Council stopped the | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
exports ` but that decision was overturned by the High Court. This | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
morning dozens of people turned out to demonstrate their anger. Peter | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
Whittlesea reports. Band live exports! As live animal exports | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
resume at Ramsgate, so, too, do the protests. Campaigners meet the | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
lorries head`on to try and stop this illegal trade. This close`up shows | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
the lengths that some will go to. But, the majority just wantdd the | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
strength of their feelings to be heard. There is no need for it at | :08:29. | :08:37. | |
all. If they have to transport them, why don't they kill them first and | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
send them on freezer lorries? They have the travel on that boat with | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
all that heat, and nothing to drink. The only reason it is done hs | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
because they make a few pounds more per sheet. It is greed over | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
compassion. In September 2002, two sheep found and more than 40 had to | :08:59. | :09:10. | |
be destroyed. `` drowned. Today RSPCA inspectors were an airport as | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
the lorries arrived. We did a full inspection of one of the lorries. We | :09:16. | :09:24. | |
have been up and down, all tiers, up one side and down the other hand I | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
was quite satisfied with thd special. Thanet district Cotncil, | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
which claims that the court must a legal battle to ban against live | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
exports, and campaigners sahd that they will protest, as long `s live | :09:36. | :09:45. | |
exports continue. More rail passengers in East Kent could have | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
access to high speed trains if plans go ahead to make existing sdrvices | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
faster. The BBC has learned that Southeastern is working on plans for | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
a coastal loop which would join up the services which currentlx start | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
from Dover and Ramsgate. Thd rail operator says that as well `s | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
calling at more stations, it would mean shorter journey times for many | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
passengers. Hilary Lister, the record breaking quadriplegic sailor | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
from Kent, is about to embark on a new challenge ` crossing thd Indian | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
Ocean. She is planning to s`il from Mumbai in India to Muscat in Oman. | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
She is only able to move her head and sails using three straws to | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
control the boat. For this adventure, she will be sailhng with | :10:24. | :10:35. | |
another woman, Nashwa Al Kindi. The Kent skier Charlotte Evans has | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
helped win Britain's first Gold medal at the Winter Paralympics She | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
guided the visually impaired skier Kelly Gallagher to take the super`G | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
title at Sochi. And there could be more glory. The pair are gohng to | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
compete for another medal tomorrow. Our sports reporter Neil Bell joins | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
us from Charlotte's home town of Chatham. Neil, what a brillhant | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
achievement. Back in 2010, Charlotte Evans suffered a serious injury that | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
could have ended her career, but she let at the challenge of working with | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
Kelly, and their remarkable partnership has produced Te`m GB's | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
first ever alpine skiing gold medal. Travelling down a near verthcal icy | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
slope at 62 demands on our requires skill and courage, and guidhng a | :11:20. | :11:21. | |
partially sighted skier down with you is a real talent. Charlotte | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
Evans has been working with Northern Ireland's Kelly Gallagher for three | :11:28. | :11:29. | |
years and today, their partnership struck gold. We will be ready to | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
start again tomorrow. And hopefully another goal. I dream so hard about | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
being in the centre on the podium. We had always been second and third | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
all the time, then this is started winning more races. Today wd got to | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
stand in the centre. Charlotte learned to ski at Chatham dry slope | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
along with the rest of her family. Absolutely ecstatic. It is | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
fantastic. I was sitting at the bottom of her bed and she w`s | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
sitting watching it. We could not sit still. We had every teldvision | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
in the house on. It is fant`stic. Kelly back `` Kelly Gallaghdr for | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
Great Britain gets this slalom under way. Having won the first ever Team | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
GB panel of the gold, Charlotte and Kelly have three more event still to | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
come, and one of their rivals later will be Kent teenager Milly Knight. | :12:30. | :12:41. | |
But it would be no surprise if there was more success around the corner. | :12:42. | :12:49. | |
Charlotte was a star pupil down the road at Kent College. She h`s had | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
congratulatory Tweets from David Cameron, the prime Minister, Helen | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
Grant, the sportsman as and from Victoria Beckham, but I guess that | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
posh spice was or was going to be keen on her skiing. `` was `lways. | :13:05. | :13:18. | |
The mother of an anorexia stfferer who took her own life is suhng a | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
Kent health trust because she says there were no NHS beds available for | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
mental health patients in Mddway. Lisa Inkin was 21 when she stepped | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
in front of a tube train, she was on her was to a private hospit`l at the | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
time. Her mother, Sherry Inkin, says she is now taking legal acthon | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
against Medway Partnership NHS Trust. It comes as council leaders | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
in Medway have written to the Government urging that a decision to | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
close a local mental health unit at Medway Hospital is reversed. | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
Chrissie Reidy reports. Lis` Inkin was 21 when she committed sticide | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
last year forced up she thrdw herself in front of a train at | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
Victoria station. She was anorexic and had mental health probldms. She | :13:51. | :13:52. | |
is being treated at a mental health unit 50 miles away in West London. | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
If they had more beds locally she would never have been there. She | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
would probably have been more content, we would have been able to | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
visit more frequently. All of her care was a shambles. This is why | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
Lisa's family are planning legal action against the Medway | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
Partnership NHS Trust. Along with the Signet hospital. The | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
controversial decision to close the mental health unit at Medwax was | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
taken in November, 2013. Thd decision to close the unit was | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
approved either Health Secrdtary, but in January the following year, | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
councillors wrote to Jeremy Hunt asking him to reconsider. It is | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
never ideal for a person with a mental health problem to be a long | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
way from their friends and family and from the professionals who know | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
them the best. So, where we see this increased use of out of are` | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
placement, we are concerned that this is not always in the bdst | :14:50. | :14:51. | |
interests of the individual concerned. We were walking on | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
eggshells for the whole timd. We thought, when she got taken in under | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
their care, that they would make her better. And they didn't. And she was | :15:05. | :15:14. | |
deeply, deeply unhappy. There is more about that story tomorrow | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
morning on BBC radio Kent jtst after seven o'clock. John and Clare will | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
be speaking to the solicitor representing the family. Our top | :15:25. | :15:34. | |
story tonight: Thousands of households affected by noisd from a | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
possible second runway at G`twick Airport would be given ?1,000 a year | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
in compensation if it is buhlt. Critics of the proposals sax this is | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
little more than a bribe, btt Gatwick bosses say they're listening | :15:45. | :15:46. | |
to people's concerns. Also hn tonight's programme: the only way is | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
Wessex ` how a group of school children managed to secure `n | :15:51. | :15:52. | |
exclusive interview with Prhnce Edward ahead of his 50th birthday. | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
And the mechanic and the cotntess ` how Mike Rutherford and Downton s | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
Lady Cora are sharing the s`me stage in Kent. Newhaven Lifeboat crew were | :16:03. | :16:16. | |
called out more than 50 timds last year ` making it one of its busiest | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
years ever. But one search proved unsuccessful. 14`year`old Dxlan | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
Alkins lost his life after being swept out to sea despite a six hour | :16:28. | :16:35. | |
search by the Sussex crew. The lifeboat station in Newhaven was | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
founded in 1803, 20 years bdfore the RNLI was formed, making it the | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
oldest lifeboat station in Dngland. Since the station was established, | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
19 medals for gallantry havd been awarded to the crew. Funded entirely | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
through charitable donations, it costs the RNLI around ?215,000 a | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
year to run a station like Newhaven. Our Correspondent Mark Norm`n has | :16:52. | :16:59. | |
been talking to some of the crew. It was wild and feel some night on the | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
sea... I personally do not have lots of fear out there. I respect the | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
sea. You will neither, ever be did. I suppose sometimes the most | :17:13. | :17:14. | |
courageous thing you do is get on board the boat in the first place. | :17:15. | :17:23. | |
We are just normal guys who enjoy what we do, and want to givd | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
something back. # they want to bring my man back to | :17:27. | :17:34. | |
me. There has been a lifeboat station at | :17:35. | :17:43. | |
Newhaven for more than 200 xears. This scrap work is a historx of the | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
men who have missed their lhves to save ships and souls at sea. `` risk | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
their lives. Some lost their lives, trying to do just that. | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
The Cox Lane today, has givdn more than 30 years on paid service to the | :18:01. | :18:09. | |
Royal National lifeboat institution `` coxswain. At school I was an | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
apprentice boat builder and got interested that way and joint at 17. | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
2013 was one of the busiest years for call`outs, but the year ended | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
with the attempted rescue of a local boy, 14`year`old Dylan Alkins, who | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
was swept into the waves during a huge storm before Christmas. I knew | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
exactly where we were going to, we got a call, and we was off, five | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
minutes, another three minutes to get there. And we had a six`hour | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
search. What made this search so dramatic was seeing the lifdboat | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
uprating within metres of the sea wall and the beach. There w`s no God | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
as being their half a mile off all stop we had to be ready to hopefully | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
get a hold of him. To be re`dy to go in, just in case he did appdar, and | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
with the waves coming off the breakwater, hitting us the other | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
way, as well. Despite a hugd effort from the emergency services, Dylan | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
Alkins was not found, and hhs body still has not been recovered from | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
the sea. We just wanted to find him, because it was closure for the | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
family. When it is a child, that the job has affected quite a few of us. | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
At the station. We did the very best we could, but that was not the | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
outcome we wanted. There has been praised for their efforts from the | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
family of Dylan Alkins, the other emergency services, and a hdlicopter | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
rescue team including the m`n on the end of the rope. Generally we do not | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
get to see the lifeboat in such close proximity in such horrendous | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
sea stays. The skill and se`manship involved in maintaining that, it was | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
fantastic. Newhaven lifeboat, it is a tribute to be the coxswain of that | :20:06. | :20:13. | |
boat. Each of us has the runway of doing those things, and I hope that | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
I am keeping up with the coxswains of the past, and doing the best job | :20:19. | :20:36. | |
that I can. # Oh, dear Lord, above, hear our cry. | :20:37. | :20:48. | |
A group of schoolchildren from East Sussex have secured the onlx TV | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
interview the Earl of Wessex, Prince Edward is giving to mark his | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
fiftieth birthday. The pupils from Hove Park School ` who are taking | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
part in the School Report project ` wrote to the Prince directlx and to | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
their surprise, he agreed. They were invited to meet him at Buckhngham | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
Palace for their exclusive hnterview to mark his big day. Prince Edward a | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
stunning 50 so we went to Btckingham Palace to interview him. `` is | :21:18. | :21:27. | |
turning 50. I have to say that I was very lucky with the skills that I | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
went to, and looking back on it I realise that I was very lucky. So it | :21:32. | :21:41. | |
is yes and no. What do you think some of the most memorable loments | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
of the last 50 years have bden? There have been a lot. Firstly, it | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
would have to be my wedding day Having done so much work to create | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
it. It was great fun. It was over far too quickly. And you want | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
understand that, but it will come to you one day, and you will fhnd out | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
what it is like. What would you most like for your birthday? I would like | :22:05. | :22:12. | |
to try and play at down a bht, if I can, just to celebrate it qtietly | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
would be nice but I don't think I going to get the chance to do that. | :22:18. | :22:24. | |
It was better than I expectdd it to be. I went through the motions | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
before today, one minute I was excited, the next minute I was like, | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
my God, what is he going to be like? It was an amazing experiencd. We are | :22:37. | :22:45. | |
the BBC News School report, at Buckingham Palace. | :22:46. | :22:53. | |
And you can see stories by other young reporters from around the UK | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
on the BBC News School Report website. He's rock royalty, she s TV | :22:59. | :23:06. | |
aristocracy. But Mike Rutherford, of Mike and the Mechanics, and | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
Elizabeth McGovern, who plaxs Lady Cora in Downton Abbey, who sings | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
with her own group, are both performing on the same bill in | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
Tunbridge Wells tonight, from where our reporter Jane Witherspoon joins | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
us. It is a strange pairing, isn't it? You would think so, wouldn't | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
you? Who would know that thdy would be sharing the stage? They look set | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
to be a bit of a mixed crowd tonight. I bet they have ond thing | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
in common and I am not talkhng Downton Abbey, they are herd to rock | :23:40. | :23:51. | |
out. With seven albums and 00 million record sales, Mike `nd the | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
Mechanics are still entertahning crowds as they celebrate thd 25th | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
anniversary tour of The Livhng years. My parents probably thought, | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
my God, what am I doing with this job, but it has been fun, great fun. | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
43 years in the business and still enjoying it. What does it fdel like | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
to be here in Tunbridge Wells? It is the highlight of my career. It has | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
all been leading up to this. It will be good fun. We have had good | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
reactions. We can back thred years ago, and it was a little bit cold, | :24:32. | :24:38. | |
but looking at the future. @nd it is a new career for his warm up act, | :24:39. | :24:47. | |
Sadie and the Hotheads. You might recognise | :24:48. | :24:49. | |
Lady Cora from Downton Abbex. I can see Downton Abbey fans, but what I | :24:50. | :25:05. | |
see is just an audience that has no expectation of that. And shd cannot | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
wait to meet the crowd tonight. Every place we have been such a | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
distinct and different char`cter, and personalities you have `nd the | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
you have, has just made it so much fun. An unlikely pairing, btt one | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
that the audience at the Assembly Halls will enjoy. I was lucky enough | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
to listen to the sound check, and it is pretty cool. As the crowds start | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
to arrive, I think it is tile for us to get ourselves into what's the | :25:38. | :25:45. | |
main show. `` in to watch. Ht was a funny weekend weather`wise? We have | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
the top temperatures in the UK, in Kent. Yes, we had temperatures | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
reaching 20 Celsius in Gravdsend. Not everyone in the UK seeing those | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
temperatures but all of us over the coming week will see high pressure | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
in charge of things. We will see variable amounts of cloud cover | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
It is going to be breezy during the afternoon with the potential for | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
some mist and fog. There was some sunshine around earlier, but more | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
cloud cover as we went throtgh the afternoon. Temperatures cooler than | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
yesterday but still decent for the time of year, at around 15 Celsius. | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
The wind, humming from chilly, north`easterly direction. Wd have | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
some high pressure around tonight, so that cloud cover will be | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
thinning. There will be the potential for some patchy r`in and | :26:41. | :26:48. | |
drizzle. And some quite brisk coastal winds. Starting the day | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
tomorrow, quite a lot of cloud cover, but it should stay dry. By | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
the afternoon it will becomd quite bright. High pressure firmlx in | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
control of things tomorrow. An overcast start, but by the | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
afternoon, similar temperattres to today, at around 13 Celsius. As you | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
can see, because of these north`easterly breezes, temperatures | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
along the coast, around nind Celsius. It be a mild into | :27:14. | :27:22. | |
Wednesday, with a little bit more sunshine on Wednesday, and high | :27:23. | :27:24. | |
temperatures of 16 sources, and remaining settled as we head through | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
the week, and staying settldd as well, for the weekend. | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
We have been stunned into shlence. I will be back at eight o'clock and | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
that 10:25pm. I will see tolorrow. Goodbye. | :27:42. | :27:45. |