:00:00. > :00:10.more on the BBC News Channel. We are back with the late news at 10.
:00:11. > :00:14.A specialist team set up to prevent suicides on cliffs in East Sussex
:00:15. > :00:19.A specialist team set up to prevent suicides on cliffs in East Sussex
:00:20. > :00:22.say they may be forced to close at the end of the month.
:00:23. > :00:25.The Beachy Head Chaplaincy Team has been credited with saving hundreds
:00:26. > :00:29.of lives in the last ten years but it says a shortfall
:00:30. > :00:32.in funding has coincided with increased demand for its services.
:00:33. > :00:40.The task of recovering a body at Beachy Head this afternoon. It is
:00:41. > :00:44.all too common tragedies like this inspired the creation of the Beachy
:00:45. > :00:49.Head chaplaincy team. With staff given redundancy notice yesterday,
:00:50. > :00:54.its time is running out. If we are not here, I have two ask, who will
:00:55. > :00:59.do it? If nobody else can step into the breach, intentionally we will
:01:00. > :01:10.see a huge increase in the number of deaths here. 20 staff and volunteers
:01:11. > :01:16.help patrol the cliffs every week. Nobody is in doubt that this is
:01:17. > :01:20.valued. But for it to continue the need the value in peoples hearts to
:01:21. > :01:29.be translated into value in our bank. A specialist mental health
:01:30. > :01:38.nurse works alongside emergency services. They provide an excellent
:01:39. > :01:45.service. It would be a shame to lose them. The chaplaincy sanely
:01:46. > :01:49.prevented 364 suicides last year alone. Up now the team needs an
:01:50. > :01:52.intervention of their own. A 69`year`old man has been arrested
:01:53. > :01:55.after shots were fired in Bexhill Armed police were called to
:01:56. > :01:59.Turkey Road after reports that a man It is believed the man was
:02:00. > :02:04.a licensed gun holder but officers are investigating
:02:05. > :02:06.whether a crime was committed. The UKIP leader and South East MEP
:02:07. > :02:10.Nigel Farage has given his strongest hint yet that he will stand in Kent
:02:11. > :02:13.at the next general election. He told the BBC it was a distinct
:02:14. > :02:17.possibility he would contest The current MP Laura Sandys is
:02:18. > :02:26.standing down for personal reasons. I am going to stand in the
:02:27. > :02:31.south`east of England because that is where I am from. One of the
:02:32. > :02:33.things voters don't like about the big parties is the way candidates
:02:34. > :02:42.are parachuted in all of the country. Thanet South is a distinct
:02:43. > :02:46.possibility. That is as far as I will go.
:02:47. > :02:49.A charity in Calais claims migrants hoping to cross the channel to Kent
:02:50. > :02:52.have issued the authorities with a list of demands including housing.
:02:53. > :02:54.Earlier this week, bulldozers and armed police cleared
:02:55. > :02:58.The migrants now say they won't leave Calais
:02:59. > :03:02.A mother from Sussex is trying to raise
:03:03. > :03:05.awareness of a virus that caused her daughter to be born blind, epileptic
:03:06. > :03:08.Lucy Pearman developed Cytomegalovirus, or CMV,
:03:09. > :03:23.Adds nearly two, much of this girl's short life has been a
:03:24. > :03:27.struggle. Despite her smiles, she is blind and severely brain damaged
:03:28. > :03:32.because of the CMV virus. Was she only knew she was carrying out after
:03:33. > :03:38.the birth. It is the first we had heard of it. My husband and I did
:03:39. > :03:45.not know what CMV was. Now, Lucy and her family, including her
:03:46. > :03:49.grandmother, are trying to raise awareness of the common virus. 80%
:03:50. > :03:54.of us may have it and it is mostly harmless, with symptoms similar to a
:03:55. > :03:59.common cold. What it can be devastating to unborn babies,
:04:00. > :04:02.leaving around 900 born in the UK every year with permanent
:04:03. > :04:17.disabilities. Spread through bodily fluids, the prevention messages
:04:18. > :04:22.aimed at mothers with young Don't share anything you can
:04:23. > :04:35.exchange bodily fluids. With no effective vaccination or treatment,
:04:36. > :04:39.it is a message that they hope will help others in future.
:04:40. > :04:42.The Mid Sussex MP Nicholas Soames has paid tribute to his mother,
:04:43. > :04:44.the last surviving child of Sir Winston Churchill,
:04:45. > :04:49.Mary Soames, who was born at Chartwell ` the
:04:50. > :04:52.family home in Kent ` died yesterday evening after a short illness.
:04:53. > :04:57.Her son said she was a truly remarkable woman.
:04:58. > :04:58.Before we get the weather, these pictures of what looks like a
:04:59. > :05:06.The cloud formation was seen over Eastry near Deal this morning.
:05:07. > :05:16.Gravesend managed to get 21 degrees today. Quite a mild night to follow.
:05:17. > :05:24.As the cloud builds, it ends up as a mild night. Temperatures down to ten
:05:25. > :05:29.or 11. Tomorrow, quite a cloudy day with some spots of drizzle around.
:05:30. > :05:35.They might become heavier as we head into the afternoon. The temperatures
:05:36. > :05:40.are more disappointing than today. The humidity will be up, so it will
:05:41. > :05:45.be feeling quite sticky tomorrow. We hold onto the wet weather for most
:05:46. > :05:49.of the week. Tuesday will be quite showery. Still quite cloudy.
:05:50. > :05:53.Wednesday, longer spells of rain. Thursday, slightly improving
:05:54. > :05:55.picture, but certainly feeling very different to this last weekend.
:05:56. > :06:07.We are back at 10:45pm. Enjoy your evening. Goodbye.
:06:08. > :06:14.Hello. Most of us have enjoyed at least one day of lovely weather this
:06:15. > :06:19.weekend. That weather will be harder to come by this week. It has been up
:06:20. > :06:25.and down. Yes, rain or showers at times. Drier, sunny weather, turning
:06:26. > :06:29.cooler. Signs are that by the end of the week temperatures will recover.
:06:30. > :06:35.We have seen rain today in Glasgow, Edinburgh, western fringes of the UK
:06:36. > :06:39.too. The cloud will spread east overnight, with further outbreaks of
:06:40. > :06:44.rain into the west. Temperatures are in double figures as Monday begins.
:06:45. > :06:48.We get the sunshine - a lot of cloud around. Some patchy rain. You can
:06:49. > :06:53.see there are gaps within this. It is not raining everywhere. There may
:06:54. > :06:59.be glimmers of brightness to begin the day. Sunshine will be hard to
:07:00. > :07:05.come by. We follow this area of thicker cloud, hill rain, mist and
:07:06. > :07:09.murk into Scotland too. It is not an inviting start to the day. We keep
:07:10. > :07:11.plenty of cloud and gradually take some showery rain further east
:07:12. > :07:12.across the