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Welcome to South East Today, I'm Natalie Graham. | :00:08. | :00:09. | |
A "gentleman's agreement" caught on tape - our exclusive report | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
on an apparent sweetheart deal between the government | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
We'll have analysis on this exclusive story | :00:17. | :00:34. | |
A prolific thief and burglar tells this programme how violent sexual | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
abuse he suffered as a child led to his life of crime. | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
Also in tonight's programme, the Sussex Police inspector arrested | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
on suspicion of having sex with a woman he met | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
Perilously close to the edge - the coastguard criticises | :00:50. | :00:57. | |
who risked their lives to take cliff-top photos. | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
don't mess with the buns. I like them like this, they cover more. | :01:04. | :01:11. | |
we meet the Sussex star of the musical based | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
A secret recording of the leader of Surrey council telling fellow | :01:16. | :01:26. | |
members to u-turn over plans to increase council tax by 15%, | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
because he had obtained a "gentleman's agreement" | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
from the government, has been given to this programme. | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
The authority had threatened to call a referendum over council tax - | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
but surprisingly backed down at the 11th hour. | :01:42. | :01:51. | |
The Labour Party accused the government at the time | :01:52. | :01:53. | |
a "sweetheart deal" - something the Prime Minister | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
However, in the recording, councillor David Hodge says | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
agreement with the Chancellor and the Secretary of State | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
that we will sort the funding out for the following year." | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
Our Political Editor Helen Catt has this exclusive report. | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
It was the row that threatened to leave the government deeply | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
embarrassed. A major Conservative council, saying it had been forced | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
into a massive tax hike, because it didn't have enough money to look | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
after its elderly and vulnerable. I think it's important that | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
politicians stand up and tell the truth, and be honest, and tell them | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
what it costs to run these services. We have to pay for the services. But | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
at the 11th hour, the 15% rise was dramatically abandoned, sparking | :02:39. | :02:40. | |
claims of a secret deal with the government. Can be Prime Minister | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
tell the house whether or not a special deal was done for sorry? The | :02:45. | :02:53. | |
decision as to whether or not to hold a referendum in Surrey is a | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
matter for them. Number ten denied a deal had been struck. David Hodgson | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
also denied any deal. Tonight, though, we can reveal secret | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
recordings of a meeting between David Hodgson and Conservative | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
councillors, which show, stations had been taking place between the | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
savvy leader and community secretary Sajid Javid just before the | :03:17. | :03:17. | |
referendum was scrapped. Brendan David Hodgson also revealed that the | :03:18. | :03:37. | |
threat of a referendum is not entirely off the referendum. | :03:38. | :04:16. | |
Labour has reacted angrily. Why shouldn't every council get this | :04:17. | :04:24. | |
sort of deal? Why is it a deal that has been done by Conservative | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
leaders in Surrey with the government? Why can't all local | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
councils have access to this sort of deal, given that social care is in | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
crisis, not just in Surrey, but all around the country? Approached by | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
the BBC today, David Hodgson had every leader, if they are any good | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
at the job, will always have these conversations to try to get a better | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
deal. He said he was still hoping the Chancellor would announce extra | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
money for Surrey in tomorrow's budget. | :04:53. | :04:54. | |
Helen, our political editor, joined us today. We broke the story earlier | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
today, what Moore has the government had to say this evening? Since then, | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
our exclusive story has been picked up by a number of newspapers and | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
websites and is really gaining traction. That is bad news for the | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
government, they will be thinking on the eve of the budget were they will | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
have to tackle some tricky spending issues tomorrow. Just before we went | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
to air, we received a statement from number ten Downing Street. It is | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
pretty bullish or stop it says as we have repeatedly made clear there was | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
no special deal for Surrey County Council and they will not receive | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
any extra funding that would not be provided to other councils. To imply | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
the opposite is simply untrue. It then goes on to talk about the 100% | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
business rate retention scheme that Surrey is part of and to reiterate | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
that conversations happen all the time. They will hope they can put it | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
to bed with that statement. I think that is unlikely. In the last few | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
seconds, we have heard from Labour, we understand they will call on | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
Theresa made to apologise and come clean. | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
A prolific Kent thief says the violent sexual and physical | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
abuse he suffered as a child, set him on a path of crime. | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
Paul McDonagh - who's waived his right to anonymity - | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
has told BBC South East Today he was repeatedly molested at | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
He committed his first crime when he was twelve years | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
old and has been arrested more than a hundred times times | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
Today, the government said courts should consider mitigating | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
circumstances, which may indicate an "unstable upbringing" | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
when deciding punishments for young people. | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
Our Special Correspondent Colin Campbell has this | :06:28. | :06:28. | |
Thefts, shoplifting, burglaries, loads of crime. | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
All through my life, I've committed crimes. | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
Paul McDonagh has spent more than 20 years in prison. | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
He blames his pattern of relentless offending on the treatment | :06:43. | :06:44. | |
If somebody had taught me back then, if somebody had helped me back then, | :06:45. | :06:54. | |
instead of abusing me, if they'd have helped me, | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
I could have done better in my life, I could have done a lot better | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
Some people may think that this is convenient | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
for you to talk about now, after committing so many crimes. | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
No, I ain't like that, anybody who knows me, I ain't like that. | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
I take full responsibility for what I've done, for my crimes. | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
At the age of 12, Paul was sent to Kerelaw Remand Home in Ayrshire. | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
It was supposed to be a safe haven for troublesome youngsters. | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
Instead, he says he was subjected to emotional, | :07:20. | :07:21. | |
And, yeah, torture is the only way I can explain it. | :07:22. | :07:34. | |
His older sister says she made an official complaint at the time, | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
He wasn't a bad child, he was a good child, | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
and he was a very loving and caring little boy. | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
It's like they ripped the heart and soul out of him. | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
You know, they've taken everything that was good in that little boy, | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
It was home to 72 vulnerable children. | :07:55. | :08:07. | |
But it closed in 2006 following a police investigation into sexual | :08:08. | :08:16. | |
abuse. The 2009, 400 allegations of abuse from 159 children, spending 20 | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
years. Most survivors don't become criminals, but many whose lives have | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
been very badly blighted do end up in that light. Two men were jailed | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
for abusing children at home in 2006. Paul says both targeted him. I | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
know they are not going to admit it, but I know I am in the right, he is | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
the one in the wrong. For once in my life, I know I'm right, I know I'm | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
right. Paul says he is a criminal but not a liar. He accepts he has | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
done many bad things but hopes by confronting his past he can try to | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
improve his future. You've been in contact | :08:52. | :08:52. | |
with Police Scotland - And they actually want to talk to | :08:53. | :09:04. | |
Paul about his experiences? They have confirmed they are keen to talk | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
to Paul McDonagh. It seems there is a fresh Scottish investigation into | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
the care home. Two men were arrested last month and the Scottish | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
authorities must now decide whether or not to prosecute. Paul says he | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
came forward because he wants his offenders would to justice will stop | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
he has spoken to police many times as a perpetrator of crime but he now | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
wants to give evidence as a victim. He doesn't just blame the men who | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
heard him, his abusers, he blames the entire system in Scotland for | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
history meant as a child. That seems to be backed up by a report into the | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
care home in 2009, which identified significant problems for stop | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
In a moment, the haunting real-life stories of traumatised war veterans | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
veterans adjusting to home life - told on stage in Sussex. | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
A Sussex police inspector is the subject of a major | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
investigation tonight, after he was arrested over | :10:00. | :10:00. | |
allegations he had sex with a vulnerable woman he met | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
Inspector Tony Lumb, who is based in Brighton, | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
The Independent Police Complaints Commission have taken the unusual | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
step of appealing for any women who may have been involved | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
Tony Lumb, a high-profile police officer. Now facing investigation | :10:18. | :10:34. | |
himself on suspicion of misconduct in public office. One lawyer who | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
represents victims of police abuse in power says officers need to be | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
held accountable. They are in a position of responsibility so it has | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
to be accounted for. The only two ensure you get redress is by | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
challenging the power, so that it remains within a reasonable level. | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
There have been a series of unconnected high-profile misconduct | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
cases involving police officers and Sussex. Last December, a Hastings PC | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
advertise themselves as a prostitute while off sick. In 2015, PC Lee | :11:10. | :11:18. | |
Lyons was sacked after contacting prostitute while on Judy. In 2008, | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
an inspector admitted having sex on Judy Wallach Gatwick Airport. Sussex | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
Police said it was important to come clean when things went wrong. I am | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
so disappointed at what has been reported this afternoon but I | :11:33. | :11:34. | |
absolutely believe it is the right thing to do, that the public should | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
know about it and we should be held to account and we should explain | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
when things go wrong. Pictured here with the Sussex Police and Crime | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
Commissioner, Inspector Tony Lumb has been suspended, and his home and | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
workplace in Brighton have been searched. Sussex Police says it | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
takes any report of inappropriate behaviour extremely seriously. | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
Some breaking news now. Two people have suffered breathing difficulties | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
after the spillage of a large quantity of white powder across a | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
road in Hove around 5pm this evening. East Sussex Fire and rescue | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
say 100 metres squared of road has been affected, and it is being | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
treated as a hazardous incident. Police, paramedics and the | :12:21. | :12:22. | |
Environment Agency are on the scene. We will have more in the late news | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
bulletin this evening. A people smuggler who tried to bring | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
an Albanian woman into the UK through the Channel Tunnel has been | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
jailed for three years. Nicolae Chirvas hid the woman | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
in a specially adapted engine She was discovered when he was | :12:36. | :12:37. | |
stopped by officials in France. Border Force said it | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
was a "particularly A South East hospital is in the top | :12:42. | :12:42. | |
20 per cent in the country - according to the NHS Staff Survey, | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
which has been published today. The Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
Trust in Redhill was rated highly by its staff as a place to work | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
and receive treatment. They said they felt their work made | :12:57. | :12:58. | |
a difference to patient outcomes. One of the major bits from that is | :12:59. | :13:10. | |
it says would you be treated here or would you want a member of your | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
family to be treated here, and I think that is probably one of the | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
biggest gauges about what it is like to work in the place. Would you want | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
your family to come here and be treated or would you yourself be | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
treated, and that is also very positive for us. So they are | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
indicators that we are on the right track. | :13:28. | :13:28. | |
Kent Police are investigating the death of a man whose body | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
was found near Tunbridge Wells railway station. | :13:32. | :13:33. | |
Officers were called to the first floor of Torrington car park at four | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
o'clock this morning, after smoke was seen coming | :13:37. | :13:38. | |
The death is being treated as unexplained. | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
Our Correspondent Mark Norman joins us live from the car park - | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
and Mark this car park has something of an unwanted reputation - | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
a number of serious crimes have been committed there? | :13:48. | :13:56. | |
That's right, a serious sexual assault and a rape, the murder of a | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
17-year-old schoolgirl, her body was stuffed into a suitcase, and now | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
this unexplained death of what we believe to be a rough sleeper. | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
Firefighters called to this car park behind me in the centre of Tunbridge | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
Wells at four o'clock this morning, they call the police and the place | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
had been conducting the investigation here for the last 15 | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
hours. This is the car park in Tomic Wells where a man lost his life last | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
night. The police are still investigating what happened at the | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
copper remains closed. In a statement, police confirmed some of | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
those details, saying the death was unexplained, the car park will | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
remain closed for several hours while they carry out their | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
investigation. This is not the first time Kent Police have investigated a | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
serious crime in this car park. In 2007, there was a rape and sexual | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
sort. A year before, a 17-year-old schoolgirl had been found murdered | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
and stuffed into a sick case and a stairwell in this car park. Terry | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
Evans was discovered and a ramp in April 2006, 12 days after she | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
disappeared. A homeless man was found guilty of her murder. | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
Jewellers were told she had been lured to the stairwell where he had | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
been sleeping rough. It is a series of crimes that have left their mark | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
local people. Yes, I don't ever park in there, certainly if I was on my | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
own I would not, not after the things that have happened in the | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
past few years, and I wouldn't want my daughter going in there. I think | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
all car parks this size have a sinister edge to them, I would not | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
really want my wife parking there with the children. It is anaesthetic | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
blackspot, so now it is a human blackspot. It is horrible, I wish it | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
wasn't here. This is a busy town centre car park used by shoppers and | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
commuters, and police are appealing for anyone with information to come | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
forward. So still no indication of whether the police are considering | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
this a suspicious case. You can see the tape is still there, still no | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
indication of when they are going to lift that. I spoke to one rough | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
sleeper who says they will continue to sleep here tonight because of the | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
safe police presence. But they are not sure whether they will continue | :16:12. | :16:12. | |
to sleep after that. The leader of Surrey council told | :16:13. | :16:14. | |
fellow members to u-turn over plans to increase council tax by 15%, | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
because he had obtained a "gentleman's agreement" | :16:20. | :16:21. | |
from the government. The authority had threatened to call | :16:22. | :16:23. | |
a referendum over council tax - Labour accused the government | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
of offering Surrey a "sweetheart deal" - | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
something the Prime Minister Also in Tanak's programme... Join | :16:30. | :16:41. | |
me, Sophie Louise Dare, when I will be talking about Tim Firth's new | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
musical, the girls, Gary Barlow, and getting naked. It was a sunny, mild, | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
springlike day today but it is all change for tomorrow, wet and windy. | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
I will have all the details on the forecast late in the programme. | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
A group of visitors who took a series of pictures of themselves | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
lying right at the edge of cliffs in East Sussex have been criticised | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
by the coastguard for what it describes as reckless | :17:09. | :17:10. | |
It's the latest in a series of incidents in which people have | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
been photographed in a perilous position on a stretch of coast | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
where there have been several huge cliff falls. | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
Tonight, the RNLI issued a fresh warning to visitors to stay away | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
From Seaford, Sara Smith has tonight's Special Report. | :17:24. | :17:32. | |
The views might be magnificent, but standing this close to the edge is | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
putting yourself in peril, said those who patrol these cliffs. This | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
group can't resist getting right up to the crumbling cliff edge. Even | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
peering over to the beach many metres below. One sitting right on | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
the edge. Walking along the top, it's clearly very tempting to get | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
close to the edge and look out, but it's from down here that you can see | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
just how dangerous that might be. The cracks are clear, and anyone who | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
lives near here knows the seven sisters are eroding, sometimes | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
particularly dramatically, such as here at Berling gap. There are lots | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
of signs and even fenced sections, but is it enough to keep people | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
safe? The trouble is you can't fence off the whole of the coastline | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
relief and stop this is the problem. The problem is you expect adults to | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
act as adults, and not do stupid things. Threw actually I was | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
thinking that myself earlier, but I thought I must be careful of not | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
going to near the edge, because we could get a terrible landslide. | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
Common sense should rule, that you don't go too close to the edge. Over | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
the years, coastguards have tried time and again to warn people. We'd | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
always urge people to keep a good five metres away from the cliff edge | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
at any time of year. The danger isn't just on the clifftop. There | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
was also a danger underneath. The message, enjoy the beauty of the | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
cliffs, but from a distance. Sarah joins us live now from seafood. The | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
cliffs are particularly dangerous at this time of year. Yes, the UK | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
coastguard told us that the problem at the moment is because of all the | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
recent rain over recent weeks, the cliff edges are particularly | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
vulnerable. They look of those photographs and said the people in | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
them are incredibly lucky that the cliffs did not give way under their | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
weight. Having said that, there is never a good time to be that close | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
to the edge, the Cosby cracks can go back several feet. And one of the | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
biggest problems they face is people taking selfies or taking pictures of | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
each other and getting closer and closer to try and get the dramatic | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
shot, as they put it, and some people might find this hard to | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
believe. That is not actually worth putting your life at risk just to | :19:54. | :19:55. | |
get the perfect photo. Pink Mist is the haunting story | :19:56. | :20:08. | |
of three young soldiers trying to adapt to home life | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
while suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after serving | :20:12. | :20:13. | |
in the army in Afghanistan is being told in a critically | :20:14. | :20:15. | |
acclaimed play which opens For 13 years, from 2001, | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
the UK was involved in the conflict against the Taliban | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
and fighters from al-Qaeda. It's estimated that one in 25 | :20:23. | :20:23. | |
veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan And one in five service | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
personnel are likely to suffer from depression, | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
anxiety or substance misuse. The play - at the Devonshire | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
Park Theatre - is based Three boys going to Catterick for | :20:33. | :20:48. | |
basic new recruits, crows, they called us. The bee stings and | :20:49. | :20:56. | |
learnings and drills all hazardous, but already there. It's an intense | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
performance, part drama, Parker about the poem, with all the actors | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
on stage throughout. -- part dramatic poem. It is a very physical | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
experience with carefully choreographed movement from | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
beginning to end. I was very honoured really because it is a | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
massive part, and the play is phenomenal. The response we get from | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
people who it might mean something to, whether they were out there or | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
their parents might have been, it needs a lot to them, and people who | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
don't know much about war. We humanise those affected are really | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
does kind of touch people and stuff. I have never had that as an | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
experience, when you come out and people are thanking you. The writer | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
Owen shares was inspired by 30 interviews he undertook with | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
soldiers who had returned from service in Afghanistan. The play | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
deals with the physical, emotional and psychological effect on the men | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
who served, and, importantly, the women who support them. Who wants to | :21:54. | :22:03. | |
play war? Who wants to play war? My son leaves for Afghanistan very, | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
very young and comes back and not in a good way. I've got a 17-year-old | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
son in real life, so I can really relate to what that must be like. | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
Fishermen blowing on their fingerless gloves, the current | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
pulling their fishing lines tied. That's how it was the morning when | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
the three of us did what boys always have, and left our homes. War and | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
its aftermath laid bare at the Devonshire Park Theatre until | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
Saturday. Robin Gibson, BBC South today, Eastbourne. | :22:47. | :22:48. | |
Now onto a rather different kind of stage production. | :22:49. | :22:50. | |
Calendar Girls - the legendary story of the Womens Institute members | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
who stripped off for charity - has been a hugely successful | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
Now it's been turned into a musical - called The Girls - | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
It stars an actor from Bexhill who's already enjoyed a glittering | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
Sophie-Louise Dann has had parts in Made in Dagenham | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
Now she's just been nominated for a prestigious award | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
for the role, which involves taking her clothes off - | :23:14. | :23:15. | |
Don't mess with the bones. I like them at this, they cover more. Don't | :23:16. | :23:35. | |
touch the composition! The story of the WIA ladies posing nude for a | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
calendar for charity has Origi been a box office hit. Now a new musical | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
produced by Gary Barley Gunn Barlow. It is an unusual nomination because | :23:44. | :23:57. | |
all six women have been nominated as a whole. And I think that is | :23:58. | :24:05. | |
testament to the piece. We are an entity. It is this fantastic force | :24:06. | :24:18. | |
of nature on stage. The production features original music by Gary | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
Barlow. For Sophie, working with the star has been a big thrill. I'm not | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
going to lie, I am a huge take that fan! That he is a fantastic singer | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
songwriter, and he and Tim have got this alchemy, with Tim's wit and | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
knowledge of structure, theatrically, if you will. Gary has | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
enhanced some great numbers for stop has he popped in the dressing room? | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
Yeah, he has. I'd had a selfie! A selfie with Gary Barlow in my | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
dressing gown, what more can a girl wish for? It is a true tale, which | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
took the world by storm, and Sophie says she finds taking her clothes | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
off on stage liberating and empowering. The premise is that | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
nobody looks the camera. It's as if there is an outside I just capturing | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
a moment of beauty. And if you want to witness that moment, the | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
musical's taking bookings until July. She's brave! Let's move on to | :25:24. | :25:33. | |
the weather now, Rachel, and other lovely spring day. | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
Not going to be tomorrow, as ever the weather gives with one hand and | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
takes with the other. Today lots of sunshine and by the afternoon | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
temperatures for us were reaching highs of around 12 degrees. Several | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
degrees above the seasonal average. For the next couple of days, | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
although it will be wet, it will be turning a little bit milder. By | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
Thursday and Friday we could even see temperatures reaching highs of | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
14 or 15 degrees. As we go through the night, initially we have those | :26:04. | :26:06. | |
clearer skies, but then that cloud cover starts to thicken and | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
eventually we will be seeing the rain fall heavy at times for stop it | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
does mean overnight damages only dropped a couple of degrees to | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
around six or 7 degrees. So very mild, if wet and windy, as we start | :26:19. | :26:20. | |
the day-to-day tomorrow. We will see the rain throughout the | :26:21. | :26:28. | |
day, we have that westerly wind that stays with us and even when it tries | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
up a bit by the afternoon, lots of cloud cover around. But again very | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
mild for the time of year. Normally we would expect to see highs of | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
around seven or 8 degrees but by tomorrow afternoon all of us will | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
widely see highs of 1213. Wednesday into Thursday, again there will be | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
further outbreaks of rain, potentially heavy at times for stop | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
the winds pick up, so another very mild might, in some cases | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
temperatures hardly changing, dropping to nine, perhaps even 10 | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
degrees. Milder still as we start the day on Thursday but generally a | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
dry day for stop lots of cloud around but by the afternoon with as | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
much milder air we could even see highs of 14 or 15 degrees. Again, it | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
will be a mild picture as we go into Friday. Both days for Thursday and | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
Friday bites another bid by the afternoon. As we look towards the | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
weekend, further outbreaks of rain, turning rather wet and windy but for | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
the next couple of days I'm afraid the rain and the wind back again for | :27:24. | :27:25. | |
tomorrow but staying mild. Changeable! We will be back for the | :27:26. | :27:36. | |
later evening update. That is it from me this evening. Goodbye. | :27:37. | :28:10. | |
I could be a boxing champ, AND build your computer. | :28:11. | :28:11. | |
I am more than just the beard or the nation's favourite dish. | :28:12. | :28:17. | |
There's 4 million different ways to understand what British Asian is. | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
mixed with fish and chips and visions of five rivers, | :28:23. | :28:25. | |
this is a modern-day collision. That's just how we're living. | :28:26. | :28:28. | |
I could be a boxing champ, AND build your computer. | :28:29. | :28:32. | |
We are everything that the past has made us, and we are the future. | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
We've found a place to call our own. Not one city, not one town. | :28:37. | :28:41. |