:00:00. > :00:00.A reminder of the day's main story... The
:00:00. > :00:10.Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage strongly denies allegations his team
:00:11. > :00:12.broke election expenses law during the bitterly fought
:00:13. > :00:20.A transgender murderer from Sussex, segregated for their own protection,
:00:21. > :00:22.was not unlawfully treated by the Prison Service,
:00:23. > :00:30.The Shadow Health Secretary calls for an inquiry into the poor
:00:31. > :00:32.performance of Coperforma, who lost the contract to run
:00:33. > :00:36.non-emergency transport across Sussex after hundreds
:00:37. > :00:44.Abandoned to die on a roadside in Kent - we check on the recovery
:00:45. > :00:46.of the dog who was so thin she was mistaken
:00:47. > :00:52.All the dog wants is some love and some food and it's obviously
:00:53. > :01:03.been totally left without any of that care.
:01:04. > :01:06.Just a year ago he was an unknown from Uckfield, now he's
:01:07. > :01:08.a big deal at the Brits - Rag'n'Bone man is up
:01:09. > :01:26.Claims that UKIP flouted electoral law during Nigel Farage's
:01:27. > :01:29.unsuccessful bid to become the MP for South Thanet in 2015 have
:01:30. > :01:34.been strongly denied by the former leader.
:01:35. > :01:37.Left-leaning pressure group Hope Not Hate is calling
:01:38. > :01:40.for Kent Police to investigate its allegations that thousands
:01:41. > :01:45.of pounds spent by UKIP were not declared to the electoral watchdog.
:01:46. > :01:48.Mr Farage has told this programme that he has been "absolutely
:01:49. > :01:55.assured" that the returns had been done".
:01:56. > :01:57.However, South-East Today has spoken with a former UKIP campaigner
:01:58. > :02:11.who claims he was paid by the party for working in South Thanet,
:02:12. > :02:18.The fight for South Thanet in the full glare of the world's press was
:02:19. > :02:22.fearsome frantic and nearly two years later that followed is still
:02:23. > :02:26.being felt. Now there are claims from a pressure group that Ukip may
:02:27. > :02:31.not have declared thousands of pounds spent on its attempts to get
:02:32. > :02:34.Nigel Farage and elected as an MP. BBC South East is booking this man,
:02:35. > :02:39.who doesn't want to be identified, he says he works for the campaign in
:02:40. > :02:43.the vital six weeks running up to the election. Definitely on the
:02:44. > :02:48.phone canvassing it was I am calling on the half of Nigel Farage and
:02:49. > :02:50.Ukip, something along those lines. At the door-to-door canvassing of a
:02:51. > :02:54.slightly different because they tried to get the local candidate I
:02:55. > :02:59.does well, but if Nigel was there he was the main focus. It was, this man
:03:00. > :03:06.is running for MP, would you like to meet in? He was paid more than ?1000
:03:07. > :03:09.bike Ukip, money he said was a disc -- wasn't declared. It is bizarre
:03:10. > :03:15.that that money wasn't registered anywhere. I was specifically working
:03:16. > :03:18.in South Thanet talk and beyond the national expense, but even so it
:03:19. > :03:23.wasn't registered anywhere I was paid that. We watched the South
:03:24. > :03:27.Thanet returns and were unable to find any entry that matched the
:03:28. > :03:29.payments. BBC south-east has spoken to three young activists who
:03:30. > :03:33.confirmed they were paid to work on-site South Thanet. It is unclear
:03:34. > :03:37.where the salaries have been declared. The rules around how much
:03:38. > :03:41.candidates can spend up elections are strict, particularly in the
:03:42. > :03:47.final weeks running up to polling day. Then a Parliamentary candidates
:03:48. > :03:52.can spend a maximum of ?8,700 plus 9p per registered voter. On South
:03:53. > :03:57.Thanet that give a maximum spend of just over ?15,000. Overspending or
:03:58. > :04:01.unknowingly not declaring all costs can lead to criminal sanctions.
:04:02. > :04:05.Nigel Farage Goldust this afternoon that while he did not complete a
:04:06. > :04:08.return to themselves he had been absolutely assured that Ukip had
:04:09. > :04:11.done them as thoroughly and professionally as it could and that
:04:12. > :04:17.he had no reason to think anything was wrong. The basic principle is
:04:18. > :04:21.fairness. What we in this country try to do as boats to the United
:04:22. > :04:25.States were huge money is spent and candidates have to be wealthy, we
:04:26. > :04:29.have tried to make a level playing field so that candidates and parties
:04:30. > :04:34.are not disadvantaged because they do not have much money. These claims
:04:35. > :04:37.about spending on Nigel Farage's campaign comes just months before
:04:38. > :04:43.the deadline for Kent Police to decide whether it is going to take
:04:44. > :04:47.action over the winning candidate, Greg McKinlay. His spending is being
:04:48. > :04:51.scrutinised by the electoral commission over accusations over
:04:52. > :04:59.illegal spending by the Conservatives around the country. In
:05:00. > :05:03.Ramsgate, this latest twist in the turbulent politics of planet has
:05:04. > :05:08.done little to inspire voters. It should be fully investigated. If
:05:09. > :05:13.there is foul play somewhere. I don't think most liberal will be
:05:14. > :05:19.that worried about it. More likely the political people who have a
:05:20. > :05:25.point to make. Of course it matters. I think they should be much more
:05:26. > :05:30.careful with the way they spend the money. A spokesman for Ukip told us
:05:31. > :05:33.that they were confident that the party had met all the regulations.
:05:34. > :05:39.Helen, Hope Not Hate are calling for a police investigation.
:05:40. > :05:45.There is not really a way of doing it under the law because police
:05:46. > :05:49.investigate candidate's spending but there is a cut. They have to start
:05:50. > :05:56.proceedings within a year of those returns being filed. We are well
:05:57. > :05:59.past that. What about the election watchdog? They only have the remit
:06:00. > :06:04.to look at party spending on a national level. There are open
:06:05. > :06:09.investigations by both the police and the electoral commission is
:06:10. > :06:11.looking at the spending of the conservative candidate, Craig
:06:12. > :06:16.McKinlay. We expect the commission report to come back soon, they are
:06:17. > :06:20.looking at it as part of a wider look at Conservative spending across
:06:21. > :06:24.the country. Once back comes back, Kent Police have a few months to
:06:25. > :06:30.decide if they are quick to take any further action. -- if they are going
:06:31. > :06:31.to take any further action. -- if they are going to take
:06:32. > :06:34.any further action. A transgender prisoner from Sussex
:06:35. > :06:36.who severely mutilated themselves while in jail,
:06:37. > :06:38.has lost a High Court appeal Christopher Hunnisett
:06:39. > :06:41.was jailed for life over the killing of a gay man,
:06:42. > :06:44.Peter Bick, in Bexhill in 2012. Hunnisett, who now identifies
:06:45. > :06:46.as a woman, wrongly believed In 2015, she attempted to perform
:06:47. > :06:49.a sex-change operation A judge ruled that the Prison
:06:50. > :06:53.Service had not acted unlawfully in keeping her segregated from other
:06:54. > :06:56.prisoners for her own protection. Our special correspondent,
:06:57. > :07:04.Colin Campbell, reports. Convicted as a man living in prison
:07:05. > :07:09.as a woman, temp two claim that they're being segregated behind bars
:07:10. > :07:11.her wrap -- her rights as a transgender women were being
:07:12. > :07:19.violated. She appeared in court via video link, dressed in a blouse with
:07:20. > :07:25.long hair. It is a sad case. Pretty appalling details of what has gone
:07:26. > :07:29.on. But a difficult case for the courts and for the prison
:07:30. > :07:32.authorities. In court, gruesome detail was given about high
:07:33. > :07:36.Christopher Hunnisett had performed an attempted sex change wealth in a
:07:37. > :07:41.prison cell in Durham. He explained how living as a transgender women in
:07:42. > :07:46.prison has resulted in her being segregated, restricting her access
:07:47. > :07:49.to education, work, church and visiting opportunities. Christopher
:07:50. > :07:55.Hunnisett was first jailed in 2002 for the murder of Sussex Preece
:07:56. > :08:00.Rommel Glazebrook. Sure what in the belief acquitted in 2010 after
:08:01. > :08:05.revealing she had been sexually abused as a teenage boy by Reverend
:08:06. > :08:08.Glazebrook. In 2012, Christopher Hunnisett was again jailed, this
:08:09. > :08:12.time for the murder of Bexhill supermarket worker Peter Bick.
:08:13. > :08:17.Christopher Hunnisett falsely claimed that the time that she had
:08:18. > :08:21.been on a mission to rid the world of paedophiles. He had obviously
:08:22. > :08:27.been my brother's torture, judge, jury and executioner all in one hand
:08:28. > :08:31.what a horrid, evil animal he is. Christopher Hunnisett took her case
:08:32. > :08:36.to the High Court after refusing to be placed on a wing for vulnerable
:08:37. > :08:40.prisoners were she posed a potential risk to convicted sex offenders. She
:08:41. > :08:45.has not been allowed to remain in the general prison population for
:08:46. > :08:49.her own safety. It is a no-win situation, but ultimately of course
:08:50. > :08:54.the solution is to find special units, to create special units, for
:08:55. > :08:57.transgender prisoners. Christopher Hunnisett claimed that her human
:08:58. > :09:01.rights had been breached, but the High Court disagreed, saying that
:09:02. > :09:03.segregation is lawful for her own protection.
:09:04. > :09:05.In a moment: Safeguarding the nation s heritage: How scores
:09:06. > :09:08.of organisations have gathered in Kent to debate crime
:09:09. > :09:18.The Shadow Health Secretary has called for a public inquiry
:09:19. > :09:20.into the controversy surrounding the awarding of a major ambulance
:09:21. > :09:25.contract to a private company in Sussex last year.
:09:26. > :09:27.Coperforma suffered a series of disastrous headlines
:09:28. > :09:30.after taking over last April, having to apologise when hundreds
:09:31. > :09:36.In July, one of Coperforma's sub-contractors went bust,
:09:37. > :09:42.In November, the NHS trust lost patience and announced
:09:43. > :09:45.they would strip Coperforma of its multi-million pound contract
:09:46. > :09:48.and bring the non-emergency transport service back in-house.
:09:49. > :09:52.Today, there were angry scenes in the Commons as the Prime Minister
:09:53. > :09:54.defended the Government's record on public-private
:09:55. > :10:01.Our Health correspondent, Mark Norman, reports.
:10:02. > :10:03.These are drivers for the NHS nonemergency patient
:10:04. > :10:06.Addressing them, the Shadow Secretary of State for Health
:10:07. > :10:09.who is making some political capital of the fact that Coperforma won't be
:10:10. > :10:12.running the service from 1st April and is calling for answers
:10:13. > :10:20.I think there are serious questions now that need to be answered
:10:21. > :10:23.and I hope that there will be an enquiry into how this contract
:10:24. > :10:26.was awarded because, clearly, it was not in the interest
:10:27. > :10:29.of taxpayer, and not in the interest of patients in this community.
:10:30. > :10:32.Over the last year, these drivers have had issues with pay,
:10:33. > :10:39.It's made them uncertain about the new contracts
:10:40. > :10:43.with the new provider, South Central Ambulance Service.
:10:44. > :10:46.At the moment, we're going through training before
:10:47. > :10:52.We are all apprehensive, especially after what's happened to us.
:10:53. > :10:56.The NHS is there for the public, not for the private people to come
:10:57. > :10:59.in and take that away because, obviously, we have experienced
:11:00. > :11:05.it first hand, that standards are not as good.
:11:06. > :11:08.And that political debate over the NHS and the way it's run
:11:09. > :11:10.was the subject of a feisty exchange at Prime Minister's
:11:11. > :11:19.So why is it that one in six of A units in England are set
:11:20. > :11:31.Back in Sussex, NHS bosses are planning for the new transport
:11:32. > :11:34.provider to start work next week and take over the contract
:11:35. > :11:39.Having recognised the problem and cancelled the Coperforma
:11:40. > :11:42.contract after just a few months, they will be hoping for a smooth
:11:43. > :11:50.Our Health correspondent, Mark Norman, is in Hove.
:11:51. > :11:52.Mark, you've highlighted problems in the NHS in Sussex,
:11:53. > :12:04.but there's news tonight of possible major changes of services in Kent.
:12:05. > :12:09.That's right. We have been hearing from staff at the hospital in
:12:10. > :12:13.Canterbury who were telling us they're a possible major changes
:12:14. > :12:19.being planned because of issues around staffing levels, changes
:12:20. > :12:23.around medical admissions, possible plans to downgrade the urgent care
:12:24. > :12:26.centre at the hospital, already downgraded from an accident and
:12:27. > :12:32.emergency a few ago, and turn it into a major minor injuries unit. I
:12:33. > :12:36.ever, I have had a long discussion with the trust he tell me that this
:12:37. > :12:39.assembly contingency planning and that they are looking at worst-case
:12:40. > :12:44.scenarios and that there are hospitals are safe and fully
:12:45. > :12:47.staffed. I said are you planning for possible worst-case scenario in the
:12:48. > :12:51.next week's or months, and they didn't get a straight answer. The
:12:52. > :12:53.trust only that the hospitals are safe and staffed and this is simply
:12:54. > :12:57.contingency planning. Air accident investigators say
:12:58. > :12:59.they will publish their final safety report into the Shoreham air
:13:00. > :13:01.disaster next week. 11 men died when a vintage
:13:02. > :13:03.Hawker Hunter jet crashed Families of the victims
:13:04. > :13:07.have been calling for the publication of the findings
:13:08. > :13:10.by the Air Accidents Sussex police are also investigating
:13:11. > :13:14.the role played by pilot Andy Hill, A Sussex factory worker has been
:13:15. > :13:20.charged with making online threats against the MP
:13:21. > :13:25.for Eastbourne on Facebook. 50-year-old Mark Sands,
:13:26. > :13:26.who lives in Eastbourne, is accused of sending an "offensive,
:13:27. > :13:36.indecent, obscene or menacing Well, let's cross live
:13:37. > :13:53.to our correspondent Yvette Austin, 50-year-old Mark stands, accused it
:13:54. > :13:57.sending an offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing message to the
:13:58. > :14:01.Eastbourne MP temp one. Sussex Police said that he will appear
:14:02. > :14:07.before Hastings magistrates next month. In a separate case,
:14:08. > :14:11.73-year-old man is being held by West Sussex Police in connection
:14:12. > :14:12.with allegations that two MPs received offensive messages on
:14:13. > :14:15.social media last year. Increasing numbers of vulnerable
:14:16. > :14:17.child migrants are returning to Calais, putting their lives
:14:18. > :14:19.at risk trying to cross the Channel by getting
:14:20. > :14:21.on lorries bound for Kent. That's the warning today given
:14:22. > :14:24.by aid charities to an influential They say some unaccompanied minors
:14:25. > :14:30.who have family in the UK have now lost faith in the system
:14:31. > :14:47.and are taking matters You have the papers that you could
:14:48. > :14:49.appeal? Yeah, yeah. At the start of the week the chair of the Home
:14:50. > :14:53.Affairs Select Committee went to Dunkirk and Calais to speak to
:14:54. > :14:58.children who had applied to come to did UK under a scheme called the
:14:59. > :15:02.Dublin regulation. Today, more questions in Westminster. In Dunkirk
:15:03. > :15:06.on Monday I spoke to a 13-year-old and 14-year-old who had been
:15:07. > :15:11.rejected for dubs and applications, both of whom said they had nothing
:15:12. > :15:15.in writing at all and just an oral decision from someone at the centre,
:15:16. > :15:20.so he didn't even know why it was they had been rejected. When the
:15:21. > :15:25.Calais Nolan as The Jungle close, more than 2,000 children were moved
:15:26. > :15:29.to centre to cross France. 750 were given permission to come to the UK
:15:30. > :15:33.because they had family here were considered to be extremely
:15:34. > :15:38.vulnerable. Some children refused permission to claim the applications
:15:39. > :15:42.were judged fairly. We have seen children coming out of the camp,
:15:43. > :15:46.moving back to Dunkirk and Calais and taking their lives into their
:15:47. > :15:50.own hands against. Many local authorities here say taking in more
:15:51. > :15:55.children has big financial implications. It is almost chipping
:15:56. > :15:59.and egg about capacity. We have children's home providers, Kerry
:16:00. > :16:02.even support providers saying we can find you some advisers and some
:16:03. > :16:07.accommodation, but that has to be paid for. In response to the
:16:08. > :16:11.concerns of the charity, it says it needs to find the balance between
:16:12. > :16:15.enabling legitimate children become to the UK and ensuring that local
:16:16. > :16:20.authorities have the capacity to for them. -- to care for them.
:16:21. > :16:24.Well, our reporter Simon Jones is in Dover for us now.
:16:25. > :16:27.Simon, there seems to be no clear consensus on how to deal
:16:28. > :16:29.with the vulnerable children arriving in Calais.
:16:30. > :16:32.On Monday, Yvette Cooper told me she was shocked at the conditions in
:16:33. > :16:36.which some children were living over in Dunkirk. At the Home Affairs
:16:37. > :16:39.Select Committee today is one of the MPs bid to the charities that many
:16:40. > :16:43.people did not believe that some of those claiming to be children were
:16:44. > :16:47.actually children. What they did seem united on was the belief that
:16:48. > :16:51.they need to tackle the people traffickers. Save the children said
:16:52. > :16:55.today they could not going to the Cabot Dunkirk and speak to children
:16:56. > :16:59.for fear that those children would face reprisals from the traffickers,
:17:00. > :17:01.another sign that this situation is extremely difficult to resolve.
:17:02. > :17:14.Nigel Farage has strongly denied claims his party broke electoral
:17:15. > :17:27.expenses law during the 2015 campaign in South Thanet.
:17:28. > :17:30.Also in tonight's programme: Just a year ago he was an unknown
:17:31. > :17:34.from Uckfield, now he's a big deal at the Brits - Rag'n'Bone Man is up
:17:35. > :17:50.We are expecting storm Doris opened next day. Warnings for us in the
:17:51. > :17:53.south-east about gale force winds with travel disruption expected. I
:17:54. > :18:11.will have the details for you later in the programme.
:18:12. > :18:12.Plundering shipwrecks, robbing ancient buildings,
:18:13. > :18:14.and illegal metal detecting - just some of the crimes
:18:15. > :18:16.that our most significant historical sites are subject to.
:18:17. > :18:20.But today more than 50 organisations have gathered in Kent to discuss how
:18:21. > :18:22.to make our shared national heritage less vulnerable to
:18:23. > :18:24.Research from English Heritage found nearly
:18:25. > :18:27.a fifth of all listed buildings are affected by crime each year.
:18:28. > :18:29.Across the country that works out as 70,000.
:18:30. > :18:31.Here in Kent there are nearly 18,000 listed buildings -
:18:32. > :18:33.and 11 protected shipwrecks, more than anywhere
:18:34. > :18:38.Claudia Sermbezis has tonight's Special Report.
:18:39. > :18:48.Eight 2,000 and -- 2,000 year old ball stolen, a statue Tunbridge
:18:49. > :18:53.Wells Park and two weeks ago to diapers and alleged with removal
:18:54. > :19:01.from a sunken warship. Heritage crime is a big business. A lot of
:19:02. > :19:07.stuff has been left behind over thousands of years, whether it be
:19:08. > :19:11.features in the landscape, objects in the ground. It is a shared
:19:12. > :19:16.cultural resource. The launch of heritage watch and the introduction
:19:17. > :19:21.of the countryside is using modern technology to help us protect the
:19:22. > :19:24.past. The app is intended to encourage people to report
:19:25. > :19:33.suspicious behaviour or prime around heritage sites. He opens up the app
:19:34. > :19:36.and if it is safe to do so takes a picture. It is a scheme that this
:19:37. > :19:42.estate manager could have benefited from two years ago. Two statues were
:19:43. > :19:46.stolen from Coddington house. They were very fine lead statues and we
:19:47. > :19:50.had done our best to secure them and they had some alarms, but the
:19:51. > :19:55.thieves were clever and managed to remove them from the plinths and
:19:56. > :20:01.take them away and we never saw them again. Leeds Castle is an isolated
:20:02. > :20:05.rural estate and for the curator there is always an element of risk
:20:06. > :20:09.when deciding to put things on display. It is so important to keep
:20:10. > :20:14.in contact with other heritage organisations about heritage crime
:20:15. > :20:18.that goes on, not only damage to buildings and structures, but also
:20:19. > :20:22.theft from our interior collections because once something is gone it
:20:23. > :20:27.really is gone and these things tend to be one and are irreplaceable. It
:20:28. > :20:33.is hoped the new scheme will lead to more heritage crime convictions.
:20:34. > :20:35.An emaciated dog found abandoned in Maidstone is now
:20:36. > :20:37.receiving specialist care at an RSPCA animal centre.
:20:38. > :20:40.Officers say they believe the female lurcher was just hours from death
:20:41. > :20:46.Snoopy, as they've called her, was so thin she was mistaken
:20:47. > :20:50.Officers say they were shocked at her condition and believe she had
:20:51. > :20:52.been deliberately starved and kept in a confined space.
:20:53. > :21:08.If Snoopy hadn't been found last Thursday evening,
:21:09. > :21:11.it is almost certain she would have died during the night.
:21:12. > :21:13.She was left shivering and starving on Wooley Road in Maidstone,
:21:14. > :21:15.but miraculously, passing motorists rescued her.
:21:16. > :21:17.Now, RSPCA officers are trying to find out
:21:18. > :21:22.I mean, she could have escaped, but how extreme she is,
:21:23. > :21:24.if she had been a stray, she would have been scrounging
:21:25. > :21:29.She doesn't appear to have had any food for a considerable time.
:21:30. > :21:32.All the dog wants is some love and some food and it's obviously
:21:33. > :21:34.been totally left without any of that care.
:21:35. > :21:37.Snoopy is now being looked after at Leybourne RSPCA centre.
:21:38. > :21:41.Because she's so thin, there's every chance
:21:42. > :21:47.When Snoopy was found she weighed just over ten kilograms.
:21:48. > :21:50.The average weight for a dog like her is about 15 to 16
:21:51. > :21:56.kilograms, so she still has a long way to go.
:21:57. > :21:58.Snoopy is being fed five times a day.
:21:59. > :22:01.Since she was rescued she has now put on nearly half a kilogram.
:22:02. > :22:04.With a dog this emaciated, you can't just give her a big load
:22:05. > :22:08.That will cause problems in the long run.
:22:09. > :22:12.It needs to be fed little and often and you just kind of take it as it
:22:13. > :22:19.comes and let her put on weight at a manageable rate, esentially.
:22:20. > :22:25.The RSPCA says it will be a slow and steady recovery and its officers
:22:26. > :22:32.will continue their search to find out who mistreated her.
:22:33. > :22:35.Only a year ago, Rory Graham was an aspiring blues singer,
:22:36. > :22:37.almost unknown outside of his hometown of Uckfield.
:22:38. > :22:40.Today, he's on the fast track to becoming a global star under
:22:41. > :22:44.His debut single, Human, has already gone platinum,
:22:45. > :22:48.selling more than 600,000 copies in the UK alone.
:22:49. > :22:52.It has also reached the Top 10 in 29 countries around the world.
:22:53. > :22:54.His debut album, also called Human, was released this month
:22:55. > :22:57.and is already officially the fastest selling male debut
:22:58. > :22:58.album of the decade, selling 117,000 copies
:22:59. > :23:06.He's already been named the Critics' Choice at this year s Brit Awards
:23:07. > :23:10.and he's hotly tipped to pick up another tonight.
:23:11. > :23:13.Lizo Mzimba is on the red carpet at the O2 in London for us now.
:23:14. > :23:30.Well, it has been an amazing evening so far. Rag'n'Bone Man already named
:23:31. > :23:38.the winner of the critics's choice awards. That is picked by industry
:23:39. > :23:43.expert and critics. Look at the people who have won before, the
:23:44. > :23:47.likes of Sam Smith, a Dell and Rag'n'Bone Man has been selling huge
:23:48. > :24:00.numbers of albums. His debut album outsold the rest of the top ten that
:24:01. > :24:01.together on a distributor. -- put together.
:24:02. > :24:08.He's never had a singing lesson, but tonight he's likely to become
:24:09. > :24:11.one of the UK's best-known musicians # But I'm only human after all.
:24:12. > :24:14.likely to become one of the UK's best-known musicians.
:24:15. > :24:21.The singer-songwriter from Uckfield took the name Rag'n'Bone Man
:24:22. > :24:22.from the 1960s sitcom Steptoe and Son.
:24:23. > :24:28.But this former care worker isn't fazed by the call of fame.
:24:29. > :24:30.I don't know about dreaming about being the stage here.
:24:31. > :24:33.Like, I used to watch it all the time, but I never
:24:34. > :24:46.Like I say, I just carry on doing what I'm doing.
:24:47. > :24:49.I don't feel like that weight on my shoulders or anything.
:24:50. > :24:52.# Every word you say has been hanging over my head #.
:24:53. > :24:54.Already named Critics' Choice winner for 2017,
:24:55. > :24:56.a title previously held by Brighton's James Bay
:24:57. > :24:59.and Tom Odell, for the first time ever a Critics' Choice winner has
:25:00. > :25:05.been nominated for Best British Breakthrough Artist.
:25:06. > :25:09.For Brighton, you know, we are known for Nick Cave and Fatboy Slim.
:25:10. > :25:13.But to have someone as cool as Rag'n'Bone Man as well now...
:25:14. > :25:17.I think when you listen to his voice, it's a global voice.
:25:18. > :25:20.It's not just like a chart voice, it's not an overproduced track,
:25:21. > :25:25.it's an absolutely beautiful emotive track and it's quality.
:25:26. > :25:36.You can catch him on tour in Brighton on 20th May.
:25:37. > :25:52.A lot of highlights from tonight are likely to include performances from
:25:53. > :25:57.the likes of Ed Sheeran, little mix, Katy Perry, but for Rag'n'Bone Man
:25:58. > :26:02.this is probably the going to be a night he will never forget. Iqbal
:26:03. > :26:09.are already talking about next year's BRIT Awards when they are
:26:10. > :26:13.tipping him to be nominated in many different categories because of its
:26:14. > :26:21.outstanding talent. He does have an extraordinary voice.
:26:22. > :26:27.Widespread travel disruption is expected and the reason for that is
:26:28. > :26:31.gale force winds. There will also be some heavy rain that the winds are
:26:32. > :26:35.expected to be a problem. The reason is they are going to be developing
:26:36. > :26:40.through the day so inland we could well be seeing gusts up to 60 mph
:26:41. > :26:44.and we will see a second wave of those winds during the early part of
:26:45. > :26:48.the afternoon, so particularly for the later rush-hour, the advice is
:26:49. > :26:52.to check on the latest weather forecast before you travel. Through
:26:53. > :26:56.tonight, it is a more calm picture, the winds will pick up a little bit
:26:57. > :27:01.and will be some rain but for the most part a calmer than it will be
:27:02. > :27:05.tomorrow. Very mild with overnight temperatures of nine or 10 degrees.
:27:06. > :27:12.Warnings eyed about the winds valid the day tomorrow. It is going to be
:27:13. > :27:16.a blustery start. We have this cold front around and behind it and it
:27:17. > :27:20.will be feeling a lot cooler. The first wave of the strong winds
:27:21. > :27:25.happens in the morning. From about eight o'clock we start to see the
:27:26. > :27:28.rain, really strong gusts and that will clear through and during the
:27:29. > :27:32.early part of the afternoon we are expecting the winds to pick up
:27:33. > :27:39.again. Along the south coast we could see gusts up to 70 miles an
:27:40. > :27:45.hour. The wind is from a westerly direction, 20 or 30 miles an on
:27:46. > :27:49.average. To take care in the first part of the day. The top
:27:50. > :27:56.temperatures of ten or 11 achieved by midday. It will feel cooler as
:27:57. > :28:00.that's front passes through. Overnight temperatures of around two
:28:01. > :28:04.or three degrees, in rural spots there maybe a touch of frost. The
:28:05. > :28:09.winds will start to ease off and a much more calm day is expected as we
:28:10. > :28:12.go through the day on Friday. Temperatures by the afternoon 910
:28:13. > :28:17.degrees but the westerly winds will ease off, once again 15 or 20 miles
:28:18. > :28:22.an hour. Looking towards the weekend, there will be rain around
:28:23. > :28:26.first thing on Saturday morning but that will clear. After dark some
:28:27. > :28:32.rain. For something more cloud around will be unsettled into the
:28:33. > :28:35.new week. But the main uses storm Doris will arrive tomorrow is do
:28:36. > :28:40.take care if you plan to travel. That visit from us at the moment. I
:28:41. > :28:42.will be back with the ladies at 10:30 p.m.. I will see you tomorrow.
:28:43. > :28:43.Have a very good evening. ..as Drive, Five To Five and
:28:44. > :28:56.Nightfall fight for the win.