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Questions from a man who lost a son in Iraq | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
It makes me wonder what they fought for and went through? Was it of | :00:16. | :00:28. | |
benefits to the country? Victory for campaigners ` | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
the Pilgrims Hospice says it WILL The Education Secretary says he ll | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
work with Kent County Council to expand Grammar schools | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
in the county. Serving up | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
a world class tournament in Sussex We're live | :00:44. | :00:52. | |
in Eastbourne with the build`up And, | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
Sussex letters from the front line. An amazing insight into the | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
First World War written to The father | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
of a Sussex soldier killed hn Iraq says the recent violence in | :01:00. | :01:08. | |
the country has made him qudstion Hundreds have died | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
in fighting between Sunni and John Rigby from Rye died | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
on his 24th birthday, His father Doug told | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
our reporter Piers Hopkirk he finds the recent developments | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
in the country hugely troubling. They are scenes that have stunned | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
the international community. Islamist militants advancing through | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
Iraq leaving wave upon wave of terrified refugees in their wake | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
as the country faces falling apart For Doug Rigby, whose son John was | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
killed fighting for freedom in Iraq, it has left him questioning | :01:45. | :01:52. | |
the value of his sacrifice. I really felt at the time | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
of his death, that we were having And I think | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
when his colleagues withdrew and came back to the UK, we all felt | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
as army parents, if you like, that And | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
the sacrifice was somehow worth it. Today, as I see it, talking to | :02:13. | :02:20. | |
you now, I am really not so sure. John, | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
a former pupil at Robertsbrhdge Community College was a corporal | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
in the 4th Battalion the Rifles. He was killed | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
in a roadside bomb attack in Basra. His twin brother William | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
and fellow soldier at his side. With the seventh anniversarx | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
of death coinciding with this Iraqi insurgency, | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
it is a painful time his falily For those images together whth | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
this seven`year anniversary that And there is something | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
you haven't asked me. That is what we would feel | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
if William, who was still serving, And I have absolutely no | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
answer to what that might bd. Tonight, President Obama called | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
on the Iraqi leaders to set aside I do not expect to see any boots | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
on the ground. I do not think the Brits or the | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
Americans are interested in that. It is most likely we will see | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
a target drone programme designed to try and stop ISIS removing | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
across the country. While Iraq's future looks even more | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
uncertain, the parents say that one certainty remains, nothing will | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
diminish their pride in thehr son. In a dramatic U`turn, Pilgrhms | :03:36. | :03:50. | |
Hospice in Canterbury is to stay open. The managers had threatened to | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
close the 16`bed hospice in order to move all their care into the | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
community. But after a huge campaign, including a petition | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
signed by 17,000 people, thdy have decided to keep it open. Claudia | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
Sermbasiz reports. The three hospices in Kent to | :04:03. | :04:16. | |
describe themselves as sisters describe themselves as sisters | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
offering social and physiological support for the patients in the | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
final stage of their illness. When the Canterbury sister was | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
threatened, the supporters fought to keep the inpatient ward open. It is | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
fantastic. Feeling emotional, quite tearful. I am elated for so many | :04:37. | :04:45. | |
different reasons. We will benefit from keeping this wonderful place. | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
After a meeting of the board, Pilgrims Hospice will keep `ll of | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
the beds open. They say, we have listened to the express the views of | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
local people and recognise the desire for a change of emphasis in | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
desire for a change of emph`sis in the plans. Please give us the time, | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
the patience and understandhng that we now need to establish how we can | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
achieve the common aim of maintaining beds in Canterbtry | :05:14. | :05:14. | |
achieve the common aim of maintaining beds in Canterbury as | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
well as in Thanet and Ashford. It has not been decided is how any bed | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
we will keep open. I will s`y to everybody that is supporting keeping | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
this open, it is now really important that we support this | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
hospice and that those people that have given their time and money in | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
supporting the fundraising, that they continue to do so. Mike | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
they continue to do so. Mikd Bradford stayed at the ward before | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
dying from a brain tumour in March. They are so welcoming, and even when | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
They are so welcoming, and dven when my daughters come to visit, and what | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
they have enabled me to do, it is spent or quality time with my | :05:55. | :05:55. | |
family. The charity which rdceives family. The charity which rdceives | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
75% of funding from the comlunity has an annual ?1 million deficit. | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
Claudia is here now, a dramatic Claudia is here now, a dramatic | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
U`turn, how did this happen? This is an example of people power and the | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
power of social media. Their Facebook page had 13,000 likes, over | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
18,000 people signed their petition, 500 people showed up at the public | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
meeting, they forged or keep it open and it has worked. The charhty has | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
and it has worked. The charity has said that the building is not in | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
need of repair, but they will update supporters throughout the summer and | :06:34. | :06:34. | |
supporters throughout the stmmer and it would be business as usual. They | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
will try to keep this gold standard going, but they added that they will | :06:39. | :06:40. | |
really need support now more than really need support now mord than | :06:41. | :06:41. | |
ever. In a moment cutting wood and | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
unemployment ` the conservation scheme which could also help the | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
economy. An elderly couple from | :06:50. | :07:00. | |
Kent say they have been left devastated after thieves broke into | :07:01. | :07:02. | |
their home on the anniversary of The burglars made off with the | :07:03. | :07:13. | |
medals dating back to the 1800 and took more than 200 family hdirlooms | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
took more than 200 family heirlooms belonging to the couple including a | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
presentation gherkin knife from his days in the respective regiment. | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
presentation gherkin knife from his days in the respective regilent A | :07:25. | :07:25. | |
days in the respective regiment. A commanding officer in the Indian | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
army in the 18 hundredths, Robert Atkins wearing his medals whth | :07:30. | :07:30. | |
Atkins wearing his medals with pride. His son was highly ddcorated | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
pride. His son was highly decorated also. But the medal is valu`ble and | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
also. But the medal is valuable and historical and it has now bden | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
stolen along with valuable family silver. On Friday night last week as | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
the D`Day celebrations drew to a close, burglars broke into the | :07:46. | :07:46. | |
home. This is where they came close, burglars broke into the | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
home. This is where they cale in and home. This is where they came in and | :07:52. | :07:52. | |
broke this windowpane here. They came through here. They took the | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
medals off the walls. One was came through here. They took the | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
medals off the walls. One w`s there, one must there, and all of the | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
silver and the silver on the silver and the silver on the | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
sideboard. One of the stolen pieces most missed as a decorated | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
presentation knife. When we were married, the Gurkha soldiers, they | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
gave us a presentation of this knife, which was a lovely one, a | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
silver case. We cut the wedding cake with it. The couple are dev`stated. | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
All of our good ones are gone. It is unbearable. It is something that I | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
wanted my children and my grandchildren to inherit. It is just | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
family medals. It is disgusting the way they have done this. It is | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
absolutely heartbreaking. You get so crossed that it is not there. | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
absolutely heartbreaking. You get so crossed that it is not therd. It is | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
lost. We just will not see it again, I don't expect. The police `re | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
investigating they say that the people who committed this despicable | :08:58. | :08:58. | |
people who committed this ddspicable crime are currently and clearly | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
people who committed this despicable crime are currently and cle`rly lack | :09:01. | :09:00. | |
crime are currently and clearly lack any respect for their community The | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
any respect for their community. The couple feel relieved that they came | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
to no harm and remain hopeftl that to no harm and remain hopeful that | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
their treasures will be rettrned. The process to find a company to run | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
the refurbished Dreamland Heritage Amusement Park has begun. Thanet | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
District Council is offering a 35`year contract. They say they | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
want someone to run it as a successful, sustainable and viable | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
business. After years as a disused site, Dreamland is being rebuilt | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
with government and lottery funding. Lawyers representing campaigners | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
in the village of Balcombe have launched a High | :09:29. | :09:36. | |
Court challenge against the decision by West Sussex County Council to | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
grant permission for further oil exploration to be carried ott | :09:40. | :09:41. | |
by the energy company Cuadrilla. The test drilling site, just outside | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
the village, was the scene of angry protests last year, when people | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
believed the work would lead to the A drug addict, who stole from a | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
disabled Sittingbourne woman, as he pretended to help her, has been | :09:51. | :09:59. | |
jailed. Matthew Beaney, of no fixed address, took the 50 year`old | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
victim's purse after she became unwell in a chemist. When | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
interviewed by police he denied the offence and said he picked ht up by | :10:06. | :10:07. | |
mistake. In court though, the 29`year`old pleaded guilty `nd was | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
sentenced to 21 months. The Education Secretary Michael Gove | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
has given the strongest indication yet that the first new grammar | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
school places for 50 years could be created in Kent. Kent Countx | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
Council's been backing campaigners in Sevenoaks who say grammar school | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
places are desperately needed there. Speaking as he toured a new type of | :10:25. | :10:26. | |
school for the creative arts in Sussex, Mr Gove said he could work | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
with the council in the future. Our Political Editor Louise Stewart | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
reports. Tell me about those questions. | :10:34. | :10:53. | |
Putting his teaching skills to the test, the Education Secretary | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
dropped in on an English lesson as he opened this studio School for the | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
creative industries. It aims to give more choice to those interested in | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
the performing arts Centre prepare them for the world of busindss. | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
the performing arts Centre prepare them for the world of business. The | :11:09. | :11:09. | |
them for the world of busindss. The way that education succeeds as when | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
you get different people choosing to work together. One of the great | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
things about this cool is that you have got mentors, people that are | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
experts in television production, fashion design, and they are | :11:20. | :11:21. | |
experts in television production, fashion design, and they ard working | :11:22. | :11:23. | |
with the local community and the students to get things done. It is | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
the lack of choice in gramm`r the lack of choice in grammar | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
schools that has angered parents in neighbouring tent. The plans to open | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
an annex for an existing school in Sevenoaks was blocked last xear | :11:37. | :11:37. | |
Sevenoaks was blocked last year because it was deemed illeg`l. But | :11:38. | :11:38. | |
because it was deemed illegal. But today, the secretary gave stpport | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
for increasing places. I am very happy for people all over the | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
country where you have a selective system, who want a selectivd place | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
for their child and their child passes the test, whatever tdsts | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
they can get that place. I `m happy to work with Kent County Council and | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
other schools to make sure that if necessary, the schools expand. Kent | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
County Council welcomes the comments and say that they are willing to | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
tackle the need for grammar school provision in Kent. There is no | :12:10. | :12:18. | |
grammar school system in Sussex, but they now have this performing arts | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
school. It shows that the hub they now have this performing arts | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
school. It shows that the htb of school. It shows that the htb of | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
creativity generating in the south`east is wonderful. As well as | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
the traditional subjects, the students here experienced the | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
creative industries, everything from fashion to photography and lusic. It | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
is all of the subject so want to do in production and arts, you cannot | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
find that anywhere else. I `m in production and arts, you cannot | :12:50. | :12:50. | |
find that anywhere else. I am very find that anywhere else. I am very | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
creative, I like to play music, coming here gives me this | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
experience. After coming here and experiencing the creative | :13:00. | :13:01. | |
industries, I have decided what I want to do in the future. After the | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
visit of Michael Gove to thd visit of Michael Gove to thd | :13:05. | :13:12. | |
region, the visit, and also his support for the new school, this | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
could soon become a reality in the area. | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
The UKIP leader, Nigel Farrage is currently taking part in a | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
'Question`Time' style debate in Ramsgate, a move which further | :13:25. | :13:26. | |
reinforces speculation that he may stand for the seat of South Thanet | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
at next year's general election The panel, which includes the current | :13:30. | :13:31. | |
South Thanet MP, and three prospective candidates for the seat, | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
is being questioned by sixth form pupils at Ellington and Herdson | :13:35. | :13:36. | |
School. Our reporter Jon Hunt is there. | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
What has he had to say about all of the speculation? He is playhng | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
What has he had to say about all of the speculation? He is playing that | :13:49. | :13:48. | |
down and playing down his p`rt on down and playing down his p`rt on | :13:49. | :13:50. | |
this panel. The team say that he down and playing down his part on | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
this panel. The team say that he is a local MEP and he is interdsted in | :13:54. | :13:55. | |
a local MEP and he is interested in the local area and he wanted to take | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
part in this event organised by the school. Some members on the panel | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
disagreed and they said that he is definitely eyeing up the arda | :14:04. | :14:05. | |
disagreed and they said that he is definitely eyeing up the area for | :14:06. | :14:07. | |
the local election and he should make his feelings known verx soon. | :14:08. | :14:08. | |
make his feelings known very soon. He has today spoken of the | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
controversy surrounding his European allowances. The electoral commission | :14:13. | :14:14. | |
is investigating a benefit in allowances. The electoral commission | :14:15. | :14:16. | |
is investigating a benefit hn kind is investigating a benefit in kind | :14:17. | :14:17. | |
by new debts ?200,000 relathng is investigating a benefit hn kind | :14:18. | :14:19. | |
by new debts ?200,000 relating to an by new debts ?200,000 relathng to an | :14:20. | :14:29. | |
office that he runs that he did not declare to them. He told me that he | :14:30. | :14:31. | |
is baffled by this enquiry. I have had that officers since | :14:32. | :14:40. | |
before the Electoral Commission was founded and from day one, when I | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
took advice, what should I do, professional advice, I registered it | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
every single year for the last 14 years with the European Parliament | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
as a benefit in kind, to help me do my job as an LEP. | :14:50. | :14:51. | |
It is not a campaign office... That did not come up this meeting. | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
They have been speaking abott They have been speaking about | :14:57. | :15:05. | |
regenerating Thanet, should cannabis be legalised, and other isstes | :15:06. | :15:06. | |
regenerating Thanet, should cannabis be legalised, and other issues like | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
this. If Nigel Farage wants to stand during the general election, he will | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
have to make his feelings known pretty soon. | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
The father of a Sussex soldier killed in Iraq | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
says the recent violence in the country has made him qudstion | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
John Rigby from Rye was killed by a roadside bomb in 2007. | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
His father says he finds recent developments | :15:31. | :15:32. | |
The poignant letters written by Sussex soldiers in the fhrst | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
world war ` and treasured by their colonel at his family home, Nymans. | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
And a rare occurrence tonight with a full moon falling on Friday the | :15:44. | :15:51. | |
13th! Will it foretell of whether woe or whether lock for the weekend? | :15:52. | :15:53. | |
! Join us later to find out. A Kent charity is hoping to be | :15:54. | :16:01. | |
awarded more than a million pounds of government funds to help it get | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
more people into work. The Kent Woodland Employment Scheme provides | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
a three year woodland managdment course near Maidstone for ex | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
military personnel and unemployed youngsters. The charity say they can | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
provide much needed skills for the rural economy and supply a growing | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
market for wood to local endrgy producers. Our Correspondent Mark | :16:16. | :16:17. | |
Norman has this exclusive rdport. Trainees cutting up fallen trees | :16:18. | :16:27. | |
in ancient woodland near Maidstone. This charitable scheme aims to give | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
ex`offenders, ex`military pdrsonnel and the unemployed a chance | :16:32. | :16:33. | |
at a career in woodland man`gement. There are very few trained woodland | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
foresters left in the whole We are training them in employment, | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
particularly in ancient woodlands. Ancient woodlands, | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
we have more ancient woodland in Kent than anywhere else | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
in the whole of the UK. There is a strong economic | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
argument for the scheme. Last year planning was granted | :16:57. | :16:58. | |
for an ?80 million biomass plant at It will need more than 150,000 | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
tonnes of managed, With that in mind, | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
the charity is applying for money You can begin to join up thd dots | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
on a story like this. You have the raw rural economy and a | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
scheme like this that is providing It also provides a product to a wood | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
heat facility in the east of Kent. That will also provide training | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
and ultimately employment. And of course everybody can apply | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
for Regional Growth Fund money which is designed to providd | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
training and employment in Kent. Any kind of conservation work | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
requires funding and if you can make your conservation | :17:40. | :17:41. | |
work pay for the conservation, then it seems to make sense to have | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
that nice circle, really. It seems like the whole wood, | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
fuel situation will take off eventually and there aren't | :17:52. | :17:53. | |
really many people doing coppicing so they need young blood to come | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
in and pick things up again. So it definitely is | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
the right time to be doing this The charity hopes to take | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
on four trainees each year if they are successful | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
in the growth fund bid procdss. Final preparations are being made | :18:08. | :18:35. | |
at the Devonshire Park tennhs complex in Eastbourne, | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
before the Aegon International Around 42,000 people will watch | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
140 matches throughout the week The tournament, | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
which has a prize fund of ?800,000, is a vital part of the top players' | :18:43. | :18:44. | |
build up to Wimbledon. Our sports reporter Neil Bell | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
is courtside for us now. Neil, there's an international | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
and local flavour to the event. Remarkably, for a draw nine days | :18:51. | :19:00. | |
every year since the 1970s, this has been the focus of the tennis playing | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
world. Layers from all over the world competing with the best of | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
British at one of the most popular seaside resorts. | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
A successful tennis tournamdnt A successful tennis tournamdnt | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
requires many things, a lot of tennis balls, 10,000 in fact, and | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
some of the best grass court anywhere in the world and of course, | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
many of the best players currently in the game. But if you months ago, | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
things were very different. Six, seven weeks ago, this was | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
underwater. So, we have had to work on it really hard to get it to this | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
stage now. Pleased? Yes. Thdre are stage now. Pleased? Yes. Thdre are | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
always little things that you would hope go better, but all in all, | :19:46. | :19:53. | |
hope go better, but all in `ll, considering this winter, it is all | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
right, it has come good. Hopefully it will stay like this. This is a | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
special year for Eastbourne. The tournament is celebrating its 40th | :20:00. | :20:00. | |
anniversary and over that thme, anniversary and over that time, | :20:01. | :20:02. | |
Devonshire Park has been thd Devonshire Park has been the | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
temporary home for many of the legendary players in the game. | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
legendary players in the gale. Martina, Chris Everett, Kim | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
cloisters, Justine Hannon, the list goes on. You are right, frol | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
goes on. You are right, from Heritage perspective, it is great. | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
The key is, let us be stronger for the next 40 years. It is not | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
difficult to see the enduring attraction in Eastbourne. They know | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
what is required to make sure that the players and the public keep on | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
returning. It has always been somewhere but the players and | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
officials like to come the week before Wimbledon because it is a | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
relaxed atmosphere by the sda. If relaxed atmosphere by the sda. If | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
you have weather like this, there is nowhere better to come and play | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
tennis. You can have a relaxing time before returning to Wimbledon. A | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
combination of fine tuning, the air and the Sussex hospitality seem as | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
popular now as it ever was. It is family Day tomorrow, the entrance is | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
open at 10:30am, so soak up some of the atmosphere. | :21:09. | :21:16. | |
England's footballers don't play their opening World Cup game | :21:17. | :21:18. | |
Sadly for England's hockey players, including seven from Kent | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
and Sussex, their World Cup dream is over following their narrow 1`0 | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
semi final defeat to home shde Holland this afternoon. | :21:25. | :21:26. | |
England will compete in the 3rd/4th play`off on Sunday. | :21:27. | :21:28. | |
I think you make sure you s`y to the guys, | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
we are playing for a World Cup medal and we don't take that lightly. | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
Obviously we wanted to be in the final, | :21:35. | :21:36. | |
but a World Cup medal is solething none of us have as a group, | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
and knowing those people have had it for a long time, it is a prdtty big | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
An extraordinary collection of letters written by men | :21:44. | :21:53. | |
from Sussex on the front line in the First World War is going | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
The 500 letters were bound together as a book by Colonel Leonard Messel, | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
who was barred from serving overseas because of his German ancestry. | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
Instead Colonel Messel, who lived at Nymans in West Sussex, he | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
devoted his time to the UK training battalions of the Royal East Kent | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
Regiment, and formed close, long`lasting bonds with the men. | :22:10. | :22:11. | |
He looks every imperial inch the English gentleman. But Leon`rd was | :22:12. | :22:27. | |
not allowed to fight on the front line because of his German `ncestry. | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
Instead, he devoted his time training soldiers of the Roxal | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
Instead, he devoted his timd training soldiers of the Royal East | :22:36. | :22:35. | |
training soldiers of the Roxal East Kent Regiment. You prepare these | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
troops for war and they wrote back about their experiences. He had | :22:41. | :22:41. | |
their accounts transcribed hnto about their experiences. He had | :22:42. | :22:42. | |
their accounts transcribed into a their accounts transcribed into a | :22:43. | :22:42. | |
book. When I saw at first, H thought book. When I saw at first, H thought | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
it was just something written book. When I saw at first, I thought | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
it was just something writtdn about the First World War, and when I | :22:50. | :22:51. | |
the First World War, and whdn I opened it up, I could not believe | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
that somebody had taken so much trouble to copy all of thesd | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
letters. It is amazing. You go through it. It is very, verx moving. | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
through it. It is very, very moving. The fact that the book of ldtters is | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
The fact that the book of letters is still here it's pretty miraculous. | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
It survived a fire that destroyed the family seat, Nyman 's in Sussex. | :23:11. | :23:18. | |
To walk out here into no man's land, that hideous desolation of | :23:19. | :23:19. | |
shrieking shells and shrapndl, land, that hideous desolation of | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
shrieking shells and shrapnel, men shrieking shells and shrapndl, men | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
falling all around and yet to live, surely it is worthwhile. The | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
National Trust is dating an exhibition about Leonard and the | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
letters and it also shows the anti`German sentiment that prevented | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
him from a German family from going to war. Is probably were to be very | :23:40. | :23:47. | |
difficult for him. He had a very British bringing, educated at Eton | :23:48. | :23:49. | |
and Oxford. He was English. It would be very for him. There was a sharp | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
be very for him. There was ` sharp bust over my head. I was knocked | :23:56. | :24:02. | |
senseless. A tree was cut down. Altogether, it was a lucky dscape. | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
The letters from these men are the The letters from these men `re the | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
poignant record of their experiences that he could only read. He could | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
only read what they ensured. And there's an extended version of | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
the Nymans story online at our World War One website... Along with | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
hundreds of others up and down the An Anglo Saxon silver penny found | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
in a Sussex field has fetchdd ?78,000 at auction ` nearly four | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
times more than predicted. The coin is thought to be only | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
the fourth ever found from the reign of Aethelbert II, who ruled East | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
Anglia in the late 8th`centtry. It was found | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
by metal detectorist Darrin Simpson Have cut the money has gone to the | :24:45. | :25:02. | |
farmer that owned the field. `` half of the money. And the rest of the | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
money has been split between himself and the people he was working with | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
when he found the coins. Now, the weather. | :25:11. | :25:19. | |
This weekend, something unusual to speak about. Today is Friday the | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
13th. It would be a full moon. The last time we had a full moon on | :25:27. | :25:35. | |
Friday the 13th in June was duly 100 years ago, 1919. The next time this | :25:36. | :25:36. | |
will happen will be in 35 ydars will happen will be in 35 ydars | :25:37. | :25:38. | |
time, 2014. It is in an usual time, 2014. It is in an usual | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
occurrence. It is not affect the weather. Some research has shown | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
that a full moon at night c`n that a full moon at night can | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
increase the temperature by one tenth of a degree, but it has | :25:50. | :25:51. | |
increase the temperature by one tenth of a degree, but it h`s there | :25:52. | :25:52. | |
tenth of a degree, but it has there been proven. A full moon dodsn't | :25:53. | :25:54. | |
been proven. A full moon doesn't really affect the weather. The fact | :25:55. | :26:05. | |
is, we have got some showers. I would not rely on these showers if | :26:06. | :26:07. | |
you want to escape watering plants, because most of us will not see any | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
showers tonight. Most places will stay dry. If you get a shower, | :26:11. | :26:12. | |
showers tonight. Most places will stay dry. If you get a showdr, it | :26:13. | :26:13. | |
stay dry. If you get a shower, it could be heavy. Most places will | :26:14. | :26:14. | |
stay dry. Temperatures staying could be heavy. Most places will | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
stay dry. Temperatures stayhng miles under the cloud. 15, 16 degrees. | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
This cloak of cloud would bd under the cloud. 15, 16 degrees | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
This cloak of cloud would bd with us on Saturday and Sunday. Some | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
brightness at times, but generally, it would be cloudy. That will impact | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
on the temperature. It will feel cooler but the change of the | :26:38. | :26:39. | |
on the temperature. It will feel cooler but the change of thd wind | :26:40. | :26:39. | |
direction, the mild south`westerly direction, the mild south`wdsterly | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
and a cooler north`easterly. Temperatures across the board drops | :26:45. | :26:46. | |
down by a few degrees. 16 degrees in down by a few degrees. 16 degrees in | :26:47. | :26:55. | |
some places. More clout this begins, feeling cooler with the change in | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
wind direction. No drama for Saturday night in the Sundax. Cloud | :27:01. | :27:02. | |
Saturday night in the Sunday. Cloud still with us. If we get thd | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
sunshine, temperatures will be boosted up to 22 degrees. Where we | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
keep the cloud, it would be more like 18 or at that lower on the | :27:14. | :27:14. | |
coast. Into next week, nothhng coast. Into next week, nothhng | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
changes. The high`pressure pressure means we have got settled weather, | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
so it would be a dry forecast but the cloud is always going to of a | :27:24. | :27:31. | |
bugbear. Some sunshine at times, but bugbear. Some sunshine at thmes but | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
do not expect the warm, sunny days we have been used to. | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
Thank you. That is that, enjoy the weekend, goodbye. | :27:39. | :27:57. | |
Make the most of your weekend, wherever you are. | :27:58. | :27:59. | |
Use the BBC Weather App to stay one step ahead of the weather. | :28:00. | :28:03. |