:00:00. > :00:13.They helped out during the fire dispute.
:00:14. > :00:14.Tonight we exclusively reveal the British Army has
:00:15. > :00:16.contingency plans in place if the Southern Rail
:00:17. > :00:29.If it helps get people to work and says a lot of grief, Soviet. Why
:00:30. > :00:33.can't they solve it? -- so be it. The drug smuggling plot that was
:00:34. > :00:35.grounded at Rochester Airport. Also in tonight's programme:
:00:36. > :00:39.A former Charlton Athletic Youth footballer on struggling to come
:00:40. > :00:41.to terms with abuse he says Why is Dickens' A Christmas Carol
:00:42. > :00:51.still so popular more The reindeer being raised in Kent
:00:52. > :01:12.at England's largest reindeer farm. BBC South East Today understands
:01:13. > :01:18.that the British Army has been asked to put contingency plans in place
:01:19. > :01:21.to step in and ensure commuters get to work if the chaos
:01:22. > :01:25.on Southern Rail continues. This programme has learned that
:01:26. > :01:28.military leave could be cancelled and soldiers instructed to drive
:01:29. > :01:31.buses to help deal with It has echoes of the way
:01:32. > :01:37."Green Goddess" fire engines were deployed during the fire
:01:38. > :01:39.brigades' dispute 14 years ago and is likely to be welcomed
:01:40. > :01:42.by the MP for Lewes and Newhaven, who told us that without this
:01:43. > :01:45.action her constituents would be Juliette Parkin has
:01:46. > :02:01.this exclusive report. They have seen packed platforms.
:02:02. > :02:06.They have seen empty platforms. Trains cancelled, delayed and days
:02:07. > :02:14.of no trains at all. This crisis has seen it all. So passengers thought.
:02:15. > :02:18.Now the Army could be drafted in. This programme understands enquiries
:02:19. > :02:24.have been made about numbers and how many could be released if needed to
:02:25. > :02:29.transport passengers on buses. Should the Army be drafted in in
:02:30. > :02:33.these situations? Seems a bit drastic, really. Seems a bit
:02:34. > :02:40.extreme. Good idea to me. If it helps get people to work and says a
:02:41. > :02:44.lot of grief, so be it. That is awful. Why can't they solve it? Why
:02:45. > :02:51.is nobody talking about it? I do not know. I give up. If it does go
:02:52. > :02:55.ahead, the move is reminiscent of the firefighter strike 14 years ago
:02:56. > :03:00.when Army personnel were drafted in using green goddess appliances from
:03:01. > :03:04.the 1950s. The Lewes MP says the current crisis is it an equally
:03:05. > :03:10.drastic low. With no trains at all on strike days for those on the
:03:11. > :03:15.Seaford- Lewes line. When I called for this weeks ago, some people
:03:16. > :03:18.laughed and said it was ridiculous. It was not: the Army to drive the
:03:19. > :03:24.trains, some people thought I asked for that but it is literally to ask
:03:25. > :03:29.for help because on strike days there is no bus replacement at all,
:03:30. > :03:32.nothing. The ongoing dispute between the RMT union and Southern over
:03:33. > :03:36.changes to the role of the guards started in April. The strikes are
:03:37. > :03:41.pledged to the worst rail disruption in 20 years. The dispute affects up
:03:42. > :03:46.to 500,000 commuters and further strikes are planned at the end of
:03:47. > :03:51.this month and in the New Year. Music is for recent weeks show only
:03:52. > :03:58.56% of Southern trains arriving on time. -- new figures. Southern is a
:03:59. > :04:01.disastrous service. The figures show they have been in steady decline for
:04:02. > :04:05.five years. It is not just about what is happening at the immediate
:04:06. > :04:09.moment. The Ministry of Defence said it does not have any plans to deploy
:04:10. > :04:15.military personnel in response to the strikes. We have learned leave
:04:16. > :04:16.may be cancelled and Army drivers could be called upon in the worst
:04:17. > :04:27.hit areas. I'd you have spoken to the local MP.
:04:28. > :04:32.Why is she calling for what most people think are pretty drastic
:04:33. > :04:37.measures? -- you have spoken. Even when it is not a strike we have seen
:04:38. > :04:40.services disrupted and cancelled, replacement buses coming and going
:04:41. > :04:44.all day and when it is a strike date, with no trains at all between
:04:45. > :04:49.here and Seaford there are no buses either. That is why the MP is
:04:50. > :04:54.calling for the Army to be drafted in. But despite what we now know,
:04:55. > :04:58.despite what we have discovered the day about Army personnel being
:04:59. > :05:04.counted and assessed for the role, we know, we understand Maria
:05:05. > :05:08.Caulfield has had nobody from the government to confirm or deny this.
:05:09. > :05:11.You could argue the government acknowledged the Army needed to be
:05:12. > :05:15.drafted in and it is for the government to acknowledge a crisis,
:05:16. > :05:21.and the government says their priority is to tackle the misery
:05:22. > :05:23.that unions are forcing on the commuters, and the unions themselves
:05:24. > :05:25.blames Southern for forging ahead with a system which they say is not
:05:26. > :05:29.safe. Thank you. If you have strong feelings about
:05:30. > :05:31.the strike and its consequences we'd like to invite you to take part
:05:32. > :05:34.in a special Question Time-style It's being held on Sunday
:05:35. > :05:38.the 8th of January. If you live or work
:05:39. > :05:44.in the South East and want to be in the audience, send an email
:05:45. > :05:49.to bbcraildebate@bbc.co.uk with your name, address,
:05:50. > :05:52.daytime phone number and tell us how The man whose
:05:53. > :05:58.organs saved four lives His family appeal for more young
:05:59. > :06:08.people to go on the organ register. Two men who smuggled ?2.4 million
:06:09. > :06:11.worth of cocaine into the UK have been found guilty of taking part
:06:12. > :06:17.in an elaborate drug smuggling plot. A light aircraft carrying millions
:06:18. > :06:21.of pounds worth of the Class A drug Things unravelled for the criminals,
:06:22. > :06:29.though, when the pilot was seen by officers
:06:30. > :06:31.from the National Crime Agency and Met Police leaving the aircraft
:06:32. > :06:34.and walking into the hotel carrying Sara Smith reports
:06:35. > :06:44.from the Old Bailey. This is what cocaine with a street
:06:45. > :06:50.value of almost ?2.5 million looks like. Here it is packed by officers
:06:51. > :06:55.after a man supposed to whisk it away from Rochester was arrested. He
:06:56. > :06:59.claimed he had no idea they were drugs in the shopping bags he picked
:07:00. > :07:04.up will stop the jury at the Old Bailey did not believe him. --. The
:07:05. > :07:08.jury at the Old Bailey did not believe him. They were picked up
:07:09. > :07:15.from a small airport in northern Holland arriving in Rochester at
:07:16. > :07:18.quarter past 12. At the controls a Dutch national who told police he
:07:19. > :07:21.was here on business. The prosecution said that was just a
:07:22. > :07:31.useful camouflage for smuggling activities. Left, left, left! Three
:07:32. > :07:34.men were jailed earlier this year, one of three dramatic chase on the
:07:35. > :07:38.other macro 26 of the smuggling cocaine from Anna -- from a
:07:39. > :07:43.helicopter from Holland into yielding. Small airports are being
:07:44. > :07:52.targeted by those hoping to slip into the country on notice. Normally
:07:53. > :07:55.they will have law enforcement present and -- minimal law
:07:56. > :07:59.enforcement present and it is possible then to land without any
:08:00. > :08:03.real difficulty, without encountering somebody from the
:08:04. > :08:05.border force or the police. John had taken the cocaine in a suitcase and
:08:06. > :08:11.booked into the neighbouring holiday Inn hotel. Then the drugs were
:08:12. > :08:17.transferred to two shopping bags. His van was parked in the adjacent
:08:18. > :08:21.retail park and had a hidden compartments designed into the
:08:22. > :08:26.seats. But both men were arrested within minutes. At the drugs been
:08:27. > :08:30.sold on, said the organised crime partnership, which oversaw the
:08:31. > :08:33.operation, they would have generated money to fund further criminality.
:08:34. > :08:45.The two men have not yet been sentenced. The judge said he would
:08:46. > :08:50.not sentenced today but he would in three months and a provisional date
:08:51. > :08:54.was set of the 3rd of February. He told the men they should both be
:08:55. > :08:59.prepared for very long sentences. The maximum tariff for a crime like
:09:00. > :09:04.this is 20 years in prison. The border force today said they used a
:09:05. > :09:07.mix of radar and surveillance to track light aircraft coming into the
:09:08. > :09:11.country to stop other people trying to use a similar route to the one we
:09:12. > :09:15.heard about today, to bring drugs into the country. STUDIO: Thank you.
:09:16. > :09:19.Five Sussex police officers put under investigation over the death
:09:20. > :09:22.of a 32 year-old man in Haywards Heath will not
:09:23. > :09:26.Duncan Tomlin died after being put into a van after he was
:09:27. > :09:29.The Independent Police Complaints Commission passed the files
:09:30. > :09:32.on the sergeant and four constables to the Crown Prosecution
:09:33. > :09:35.Today the Sussex police federation said it was "pleased"
:09:36. > :09:44.and "delighted" the officers would not face prosecution.
:09:45. > :09:47.Payments have been made to former residents of a Church of England
:09:48. > :09:49.children's home in Kent where girls were drugged and abused
:09:50. > :09:53.An independent review into events at Kendall House near Gravesend
:09:54. > :09:55.was launched last year and revealed ill treatment and sexual
:09:56. > :09:59.It concluded that the women should receive payments.
:10:00. > :10:02.However one former resident who received ?1,000 described
:10:03. > :10:09.Court cases in France have revealed that attempts have been made
:10:10. > :10:11.to smuggle children as young as two on ferries between
:10:12. > :10:18.In one case seven migrants, including four children,
:10:19. > :10:20.were driven from Calais to Dieppe to board a ferry.
:10:21. > :10:22.They were found when French customs officials heard noises coming
:10:23. > :10:28.from secret compartments inside the vehicle.
:10:29. > :10:31.A former Charlton Athletic youth footballer who says he was abused
:10:32. > :10:34.as a teenager while at the club has spoken to this programme about how
:10:35. > :10:37.he's still struggling to come to terms with what happened to him.
:10:38. > :10:41.Over the past few weeks, club after club has announced
:10:42. > :10:43.it is investigating claims of abuse within the sport.
:10:44. > :10:45.Last month the Football Association formally announced an internal
:10:46. > :10:55.inquiry into historical sexual abuse in the game.
:10:56. > :10:57.As of yesterday the National Police Chief's Council said
:10:58. > :11:03.And 148 clubs spanning all tiers of the game are now involved.
:11:04. > :11:11.Our reporter Lauren Moss has been to meet Paul Collins at his home.
:11:12. > :11:19.Playing football was his dream. A dream he said was shattered by the
:11:20. > :11:24.abuse he suffered at the hands of talent scout Eddie Heath while he
:11:25. > :11:28.was a teenager at Charlton Athletic. He always said, how are you? Slap
:11:29. > :11:32.your leg and he would move his hand up to the top of my thigh and
:11:33. > :11:36.squeeze me. But his hand would go deeper than what he should have
:11:37. > :11:41.done. I would normally go, just quiet, look to my left and look and
:11:42. > :11:45.see if the play was looking and nine out of ten times it was as if they
:11:46. > :11:49.knew and they were looking like it was all quiet and I would go quiet
:11:50. > :11:54.and it would carry on as normal like nothing had happened. Pohl said the
:11:55. > :12:00.abuse went on for years. I would have cramp and he would, we would go
:12:01. > :12:06.on to a little room and rub you down. He would make sure he rubbed
:12:07. > :12:09.you down quite high. He would get aroused by things, you could tell he
:12:10. > :12:14.was very aroused and at times I lay there and thought, I hope somebody
:12:15. > :12:18.is going to know, door. When he walked away from football he locked
:12:19. > :12:23.his medals in the garage. Three days later, he wants to look at them at
:12:24. > :12:36.-- again and show his wife for the first time. I feel proud. You should
:12:37. > :12:43.be proud. It is such a long time. I feel hurt, I feel very hurt. A lot
:12:44. > :12:52.of effort... Feels good to see them again. It has been a long time. Yes.
:12:53. > :12:57.Since last month when other former players came forward saying how they
:12:58. > :13:01.were abused when children, the NSPCC has received more than 1700 calls.
:13:02. > :13:04.Paul has kept the memories of what happened to him locked up in a
:13:05. > :13:09.garage where he grew up more than 30 years ago. He believes his story,
:13:10. > :13:15.like many others may only be the tip of the iceberg. It is not just a
:13:16. > :13:18.football problem. These paedophiles will always gravitate towards
:13:19. > :13:23.situations where they can get access to young people. I would not be
:13:24. > :13:30.surprised if we do see as the story evolves over the weeks and months to
:13:31. > :13:35.come other sports and other areas of society similar problems coming to
:13:36. > :13:38.light. In a statement, Charlton Athletic said there is an internal
:13:39. > :13:40.investigation under way in the club and they are taking the matter
:13:41. > :13:46.seriously, working alongside the police. Everything comes out in the
:13:47. > :13:51.end. Somebody like me and all the hundreds of people out there Tom he
:13:52. > :13:54.could have been stopped on the spot and penalised and put in prison for
:13:55. > :13:58.what he had done and other people would not have been hurt. The
:13:59. > :14:00.investigation is thought to be the biggest in history and continues.
:14:01. > :14:07.Lauren, what does Paul Collins want to see happen now?
:14:08. > :14:13.We saw how upsetting it was for him to talk about this. Finally speaking
:14:14. > :14:17.out about this has been incredibly traumatic. Eddie Heath died in the
:14:18. > :14:22.1980s. But it was clear meeting him today how much he carries around
:14:23. > :14:26.with him every day. He said it has had a big impact on him and the life
:14:27. > :14:29.of his family. He said he will need to talk to somebody and probably
:14:30. > :14:32.will need counselling at some point but getting those medals at today
:14:33. > :14:37.and going through them was a big step forward. He said he would even
:14:38. > :14:41.like to start playing again. The main thing for him now is he wants
:14:42. > :14:48.more checks carried out by parents and clubs on people who leave their
:14:49. > :14:54.children with people and who the clubs employ. Grass roots football
:14:55. > :14:57.clubs have renewed their commitments to safeguarding children and the
:14:58. > :14:59.football league is meeting people to work out how this could ever have
:15:00. > :15:04.happened. Lauren, thanks very much. This is our top story tonight: This
:15:05. > :15:06.programme understands that the British Army has been asked
:15:07. > :15:09.to put contingency plans in place to step in and ensure commuters get
:15:10. > :15:12.to work if the chaos We've been told military leave
:15:13. > :15:17.could be cancelled with officers but you'll find red noses aplenty
:15:18. > :15:41.at England's biggest reindeer farm At the moment Christmas Day looks
:15:42. > :15:44.mostly dry and very windy and mild. The details coming up in the weather
:15:45. > :15:46.forecast a little later in the programme.
:15:47. > :15:48.If you have a story you think we should be covering
:15:49. > :15:51.on South East Today, we'd like to hear from you.
:15:52. > :15:55.You can call us on 0345 300 37 47, or send us an e-mail to south
:15:56. > :15:58.We are also on Facebook, or you can tweet us -
:15:59. > :16:09.The family of a man who died in a freak accident in Crawley just
:16:10. > :16:12.before his 22nd birthday are appealing for more young people
:16:13. > :16:26.Jack Berger after slipping on the pavement and hitting his
:16:27. > :16:29.head died, but speaking for the first time on TV, his girlfriend
:16:30. > :16:32.and mother have told us how knowing that his organs have been used
:16:33. > :16:35.to save four people's lives is the only thing that has
:16:36. > :16:41.At the moment 146 people across Sussex are on the transplant
:16:42. > :16:44.waiting list and in Kent there are 129 people.
:16:45. > :16:49.people across both counties have died while waiting
:16:50. > :17:06.Here is a cast that I have made Jack for his birthday. -- card. Sadly he
:17:07. > :17:10.never got to see it and he never had the day out I had planned for us to
:17:11. > :17:13.go to Brighton. Jack with just 21 when he died after he slipped on the
:17:14. > :17:18.pavement while walking his girlfriend home. He signed up to the
:17:19. > :17:22.organ donor register a couple of years earlier. Now his friends and
:17:23. > :17:27.family have been told he has saved the lives of four people. He slipped
:17:28. > :17:32.off the curb and fell backwards and hit his head. I felt scared and
:17:33. > :17:39.helpless because I could not do anything and I did not want to touch
:17:40. > :17:42.him and cause any more damage. Today I feel happy that he has saved so
:17:43. > :17:48.many people. Even though his life could not be saved. When Jack
:17:49. > :17:52.slipped and fell six weeks ago he was quickly airlifted to hospital in
:17:53. > :17:57.London, meaning his lungs, liver and both kidneys could successfully be
:17:58. > :18:03.transplanted, saving the lives of four people. It is everybody's worst
:18:04. > :18:08.nightmare to lose a son or a daughter. It is not sometimes a
:18:09. > :18:12.thing people would want to think about. They feel like they would not
:18:13. > :18:17.want a part of them taken. It affects so many people. All those
:18:18. > :18:21.people he has saved and their families now, and all of us knowing
:18:22. > :18:29.that he did that, that is our greatest comfort. We are so proud of
:18:30. > :18:33.him. He is our hero. It is a myth that young or old people should not
:18:34. > :18:38.be on the register and are not able to join the register... That is not
:18:39. > :18:42.the case. We need everybody to join, no matter what your age. Jack
:18:43. > :18:46.potter-macro family said they are determined to share his story in the
:18:47. > :18:58.hope others will sign up and save lives like he did. -- Jack's family.
:18:59. > :19:01.Now for many of us Christmas isn't quite Christmas without a dose
:19:02. > :19:04.of Charles Dickens alongside the mince pies and this year
:19:05. > :19:06.a version of his tale, "A Christmas Carol",
:19:07. > :19:07.is being performed at the Dickens Museum.
:19:08. > :19:10.It's said that the story of Scrooge helped popularise some
:19:11. > :19:13.of our own traditions, like eating turkey instead of goose.
:19:14. > :19:16.So we sent our reporter Ian Palmer to Rochester to find out why
:19:17. > :19:19.the Medway storyteller's tale is still so popular more than 170
:19:20. > :19:37.Christmas would not be the same without the tale known to millions
:19:38. > :19:38.around the world as a Christmas Carol. I have the ghost of Christmas
:19:39. > :19:46.past. Long past? No, your past. 48 Doughty Street in Bloomsbury
:19:47. > :19:48.is where the author and his family once lived and enjoyd
:19:49. > :19:51.the festive season for themselves. Charles Dickens himself enjoyed
:19:52. > :19:53.Christmas immensely. He grew up in a family
:19:54. > :19:55.that celebrated it. Even if they were going
:19:56. > :19:57.through one of the harder times, they really enjoyed
:19:58. > :20:01.celebrating Christmas. So he drew that into his
:20:02. > :20:04.own life as an adult in his own family with his wife
:20:05. > :20:07.Catherine and their growing family This was a very special day
:20:08. > :20:16.in the calendar for him. In the lead up to Christmas
:20:17. > :20:19.the house is being decorated as it would've been
:20:20. > :20:22.in Victorian times and his most famous festive work,
:20:23. > :20:23.A Christmas Carol, is being performed
:20:24. > :20:25.in each of the rooms. I'm here to warn you there is yet
:20:26. > :20:29.a hope and a chance for you to There was a Victorian
:20:30. > :20:36.tradition of reading ghost stories at Christmas but the real
:20:37. > :20:39.darkness was inspired by a report into child labour
:20:40. > :20:42.and exploitation. He wrote A Christmas
:20:43. > :20:45.Carol in order to raise awareness of the
:20:46. > :20:52.destitution around him. When he was not in his London
:20:53. > :21:01.residency would often be found in his country house in high near
:21:02. > :21:11.Rochester. He bought the house for a princely sum of ?1987 and 56 and he
:21:12. > :21:16.died of a stroke in 1870. I am mortal and liable to fall. His take
:21:17. > :21:18.on Christmas will be told as long as there are tongues to tell it and
:21:19. > :21:23.ears to listen. Think of reindeer, and you probably
:21:24. > :21:31.picture a rural scene in Lapland, deep within the Arctic Circle
:21:32. > :21:33.surrounded by snow. You probably don't
:21:34. > :21:35.picture them in Kent - but there is in fact a reindeer
:21:36. > :21:38.farm, the largest in England, On average, reindeer live
:21:39. > :21:46.between 15 to 18 years old. Each winter, male reindeer
:21:47. > :21:49.shed their antlers - and yes, many of them do have red
:21:50. > :21:53.noses, just like Rudolph! That's thanks to the large number
:21:54. > :21:56.of red blood vessels there. We sent our reporter
:21:57. > :22:12.Bryony MacKenzie to Betherden Dashing, dancing, prancer, Comet,
:22:13. > :22:17.Cupid, Donna, Blitzen and Rudolf! Pulling Santa's sleigh with 100 more
:22:18. > :22:23.to help. Why have reindeers captured our imagination? I like stroking and
:22:24. > :22:34.petting them. They are lovely and cute. They are so fluffy. They fly
:22:35. > :22:41.high. And they have magic things. What makes them fly. Mike is one of
:22:42. > :22:47.the only UK breeders but they are animals built for colder climates.
:22:48. > :22:54.They make a cracking noise as they are walking and it is all about when
:22:55. > :22:57.you are in the natural, winter blizzards you cannot see through,
:22:58. > :23:05.you can hear the ones in front going click, click, click. He has mud on
:23:06. > :23:10.his nose. They are social. This seven-month-old, Wobbles, has taken
:23:11. > :23:14.it to the extreme. It is not know he is a reindeer. His mother rejected
:23:15. > :23:18.him as soon as he was born. He has been hand fed on a bottle every two
:23:19. > :23:22.hours and when I try and bring him back to mum, she says I do not want
:23:23. > :23:26.to know. He came into the house like you had to do and grew up with the
:23:27. > :23:30.dogs. We have eight dogs and he has shared the beds and biscuits.
:23:31. > :23:34.Tomorrow is the last day to see the reindeer. They close on Christmas
:23:35. > :23:38.Eve, so Rudolf and friends can get a bit of chat site before sleigh
:23:39. > :23:44.pulling on the busiest night of the reindeer calendar. -- shut eye.
:23:45. > :23:50.They need their rest, don't they? It is for life, not just for Christmas,
:23:51. > :23:51.reindeers. Football and Charlton
:23:52. > :23:53.are still looking for a win under The Addicks lost 3-1
:23:54. > :23:56.against Millwall last night in League One,
:23:57. > :23:58.meaning six games in Robinson has yet to taste victory
:23:59. > :24:06.since he took over in November. This programme understands
:24:07. > :24:10.that the British Army has been asked to put contingency plans in place
:24:11. > :24:13.to step in and ensure commuters get to work if the chaos
:24:14. > :24:20.on Southern Rail continues. Let's cross back live
:24:21. > :24:22.to reporter Juliette Parkin If the army are brought
:24:23. > :24:39.in could this be a turning It is unlikely to be any more than a
:24:40. > :24:43.sticking plaster in this crisis, which has gone on for months, with
:24:44. > :24:47.the unions, Southern and the government blaming each other and
:24:48. > :24:53.numerous talks have broken down with ACAS. No locations have been
:24:54. > :24:57.discussed, but Maria Caulfield says she would like the army to help in
:24:58. > :25:02.the worst hit areas such as here and seafood. We have often seen no real
:25:03. > :25:06.services here at all. Passengers say they are desperate and want a
:25:07. > :25:08.long-term solution, but it seems that is not going to come in the
:25:09. > :25:17.near future. OK, thanks. Now the weather. What is the chance
:25:18. > :25:24.of a white Christmas? I guess that is a no, Rachel. At the moment as we
:25:25. > :25:28.look to Christmas for us in the south-east it should be drier. We
:25:29. > :25:33.will get to that in a moment. Today was a lovely day. A small ridge of
:25:34. > :25:37.high pressure with top temperatures of eight or nine. Down on the
:25:38. > :25:41.valleys from yesterday, but feeling lovely. They were not denied, clear
:25:42. > :25:48.skies for the most part, and again, quite chilly. Two or three degrees
:25:49. > :25:53.in rural spots. It is going to be a dry and cold start tomorrow. You can
:25:54. > :25:56.tell from the tightly spaced isobars as we had through the day that it is
:25:57. > :26:00.increasingly blustery and eventually you can see rain to the West, we
:26:01. > :26:04.will start to see that as we go through Friday evening. Top
:26:05. > :26:08.temperatures on Friday again reaching highs of single figures,
:26:09. > :26:14.eight, 9 degrees. Feeling different to today. Wind is picking up as we
:26:15. > :26:18.get into Christmas Eve. Storm Barbara mostly affecting North of
:26:19. > :26:22.Scotland. Take care of your travelling north. For us a blustery
:26:23. > :26:26.night. The strength of the wind, pushing the rain through and behind
:26:27. > :26:30.that, clearing skies and temperatures not quite as cold as
:26:31. > :26:35.tonight, maybe dropping to three or four degrees, six or seven on the
:26:36. > :26:40.coast. Looking to the Christmas weekend, this is Christmas Eve. For
:26:41. > :26:44.the most part we should stay dry and very mild as we go over into
:26:45. > :26:49.Christmas Day itself. Temperatures could reach highs of 15 or even 16
:26:50. > :26:54.degrees. Mostly dry with heavy rain over into Boxing Day. 16 degrees?! I
:26:55. > :26:57.know! No white Christmas. Throughout the year we've been
:26:58. > :26:59.speaking to celebrities who live in the South East and those who've
:27:00. > :27:09.been passing through. We always like to hear a Christmas
:27:10. > :27:11.message and tonight we kick off with Nigel Kennedy.
:27:12. > :27:14.Happy Christmas, South East Today and all of you cats
:27:15. > :27:22.Hello, I'm Jane Beedle from the Great British Bake Off.
:27:23. > :27:25.I'd like to wish all the viewers of BBC South East Today
:27:26. > :27:30.Hello, my name is CeeLo Green and I'd like to wish you all a very
:27:31. > :27:38.merry Christmas from South East Today.
:27:39. > :27:45.An eclectic bunch. Indeed. A couple more tomorrow. That is it from me
:27:46. > :27:46.for tonight. I will be back at half past ten. I will see you then.
:27:47. > :27:48.Goodbye.