:00:00. > :00:00.European Union after 44 years of membership. That's all from
:00:00. > :00:08.Welcome to South East Today, I'm Rob Smith.
:00:09. > :00:10.He's banned single mums and benefit claimants.
:00:11. > :00:14.Now, a controversial landlord is investigated over
:00:15. > :00:18.Well, there's nothing to back down on, is there?
:00:19. > :00:22.At the end of the day it's up to me who comes into my property.
:00:23. > :00:26.Five riverside art works will form the permanent memorial to victims
:00:27. > :00:32.We'll be reporting live from Shoreham.
:00:33. > :00:36.A teenager who starved himself to death was let down by Kent's
:00:37. > :00:40.mental health services says his grieving mother.
:00:41. > :00:42.After seven breakdowns in eight months we ask
:00:43. > :00:44.if Brighton's Faulty Tower is becoming an
:00:45. > :01:04.And the famous Flying Scotsman like you've never seen it before.
:01:05. > :01:07.Kent Police are investigating the behaviour of one
:01:08. > :01:12.of the country's largest buy to let landlords, after he made a serious
:01:13. > :01:15.series of racially charged remarks about people renting his properties.
:01:16. > :01:21.Fergus Wilson, who owns hundreds of properties in the south east,
:01:22. > :01:24.told his letting agency in an email that he didn't want ?coloured'
:01:25. > :01:26.people renting his homes because they left the buildings
:01:27. > :01:31.Mr Wilson, who has also controversially banned single mums,
:01:32. > :01:33.'battered wives' and benefit claimants from renting his homes,
:01:34. > :01:36.is being investigated by the Equality and Human Rights
:01:37. > :01:38.Commission, who have condemned his remarks as like something
:01:39. > :01:43.from "the dark ages". Simon Jones reports.
:01:44. > :01:46.He owns a property portfolio worth millions.
:01:47. > :01:50.But Fergus Wilson says he's fed up having difficulty re-letting houses
:01:51. > :01:54.because of curry smells and the cost of getting rid of them.
:01:55. > :01:56.The equality and human rights commission
:01:57. > :02:06.And Pakistani and Indian people eat curry, so people
:02:07. > :02:11.put the two together and say you are anti-coloured people.
:02:12. > :02:13.We're not anti-coloured people, we're anti-curry.
:02:14. > :02:18.Well, you would say that, wouldn't you,
:02:19. > :02:22.You obviously don't believe it because...
:02:23. > :02:26.Your comments have been called disgusting.
:02:27. > :02:29.Well, that isn't the view shared by the majority of
:02:30. > :02:34.The equality commission believes the ban is unlawful.
:02:35. > :02:36.Kent Police says it is looking to see if any offences
:02:37. > :02:39.It's certainly provoked a strong reaction.
:02:40. > :02:42.He's an enormously rich man but I don't think he'll
:02:43. > :02:45.I think it's really shocking, actually.
:02:46. > :02:48.I think if you think back to the 60s and the first race
:02:49. > :02:51.relations act, it was brought in to address
:02:52. > :03:01.Where landlords were refusing to let properties to people
:03:02. > :03:04.These were the views in Maidstone town centre.
:03:05. > :03:06.It's... There's no words for it.
:03:07. > :03:08.Disgusting. That's the word, disgusting.
:03:09. > :03:11.Everybody tries to protect their property.
:03:12. > :03:13.In this day and age that kind of prejudice
:03:14. > :03:20.It's just horrific, it makes you feel sick.
:03:21. > :03:22.Fergus Wilson has previously drawn up a list of banning single mothers
:03:23. > :03:25.and fathers, battered wives and plumbers in addition to
:03:26. > :03:28.That is not racist in my view. Why?
:03:29. > :03:31.Because I am not objecting to coloured people.
:03:32. > :03:34.Part of your question you should have been asking me,
:03:35. > :03:37.and I'm sure you meant to was do you currently have
:03:38. > :03:42.any coloured people as parents?
:03:43. > :03:47.Well, there's nothing to back down on is there?
:03:48. > :03:51.At the end of the day it's up to me who goes into my properties.
:03:52. > :03:53.You have no regrets saying no coloured people?
:03:54. > :03:56.Despite the backlash, he insists the ban
:03:57. > :04:12.Simon, how likely is Fergus Wilson to face legal action?
:04:13. > :04:19.Well, he is of course a big player in the property market. For example
:04:20. > :04:22.along this row of houses he owns all five properties and another couple
:04:23. > :04:26.on the other side of the road. If police were to take action it would
:04:27. > :04:30.probably have to be in incitement to racial hatred but that would require
:04:31. > :04:34.the permission of the Attorney General said that seems like quite a
:04:35. > :04:37.high bar. But an individual could decide to take their own action if
:04:38. > :04:41.they felt they were denied a property simply because of their
:04:42. > :04:44.race and the equality commission is tonight threatening its only goal
:04:45. > :04:46.action if Mr Wilson doesn't change his mind.
:04:47. > :04:49.Five different art works are to form part of a permanent
:04:50. > :04:51.memorial to the victims of the Shoreham air disaster.
:04:52. > :04:54.11 men died when a Hawker Hunter jet crashed on the A27 in Sussex
:04:55. > :05:01.A series of memorial sculptures will be installed along the banks
:05:02. > :05:04.of the River Adur close to the scene.
:05:05. > :05:07.The designs, which are in the very early stages, will honour
:05:08. > :05:10.the victims and their families, the first responders
:05:11. > :05:24.19 months after the disaster which claimed 11 lives, today the first
:05:25. > :05:30.glimpse of plans for a permanent memorial. It's been created by
:05:31. > :05:34.Brighton artist Jane Ford and David Parfitt. A series of works to sit
:05:35. > :05:38.alongside the banks of the River Adur, designed in close consultation
:05:39. > :05:44.with the victims' families. We aim for this work to achieve quite a
:05:45. > :05:49.quiet contemplation of the river and the sense of peace that it offers.
:05:50. > :05:54.The memorial will be spread over five locations including a sculpture
:05:55. > :05:59.dedicated to the first responders. A little further up the river a
:06:00. > :06:05.tribute to the community, in form a community area with stop then the
:06:06. > :06:10.east side of a toll bridge, a series of 11 art is dedicated to each of
:06:11. > :06:16.the victims. People really liked the fact that we've tried to create
:06:17. > :06:22.areas for people to go to to do their own grieving, really, to be
:06:23. > :06:27.very personal. That they can spend time walking up and down the river
:06:28. > :06:31.and just sitting in one place or not kind of gathered all in one object
:06:32. > :06:36.that interprets their grief. The town's told toll bridge a short
:06:37. > :06:40.distance from the crash site became a temporary shrine. Now, though,
:06:41. > :06:47.sure we'll have a memorial for all time. -- waste that I will have a
:06:48. > :06:49.memorial for all time. Memorials are important because people need a
:06:50. > :06:55.place to go to delay flowers or just sit all reflect. For people in the
:06:56. > :07:01.town and it is a welcome focal point for a grief which in jewels. I am in
:07:02. > :07:04.nursery manager any local nursery the children struggle with what
:07:05. > :07:07.happened, and I think it is right that there is a lasting memorial for
:07:08. > :07:12.people to go and pay respects. I think it is lovely and great and it
:07:13. > :07:15.is important to have that they're so it is not forgotten, and I think
:07:16. > :07:19.when there is something physical death it brings you back and people
:07:20. > :07:22.will always keep them in their memory. Sussex Police's
:07:23. > :07:27.investigation into the crash is ongoing. Tonight, they said they
:07:28. > :07:30.hoped to submit a file of material to the Crown Prosecution Service in
:07:31. > :07:34.advance of the pre-inquest review on June 20.
:07:35. > :07:44.Piers hub Kirk joins us now from Shoreham. How important is this
:07:45. > :07:47.memorial? Well, it's hugely important and really does fill a
:07:48. > :07:52.void here. You will remember that in the days and weeks after the
:07:53. > :07:56.Shoreham air crash this bridge became a focal point. People came
:07:57. > :08:00.here with flowers, tied ribbons onto the bridge. Those have long since
:08:01. > :08:05.been removed and a second memorial that was just down on the river bank
:08:06. > :08:10.below me, that's two has been taken down, so this memorial will provide
:08:11. > :08:14.a new and fresh focal point for the community. It will cost in the
:08:15. > :08:21.region of ?180,000, being organised and part funded by a the council,
:08:22. > :08:26.and the hope it is it will be up and ready in time for the anniversary,
:08:27. > :08:28.the third anniversary of the Shoreham air crash. Piers, thank
:08:29. > :08:38.you. Sussex business and worried he might
:08:39. > :08:49.go out of business analyst CCTV captures the criminals.
:08:50. > :08:52.A NHS Trust has admitted a young man from Kent didn't receive appropriate
:08:53. > :08:54.treatment for the eating disorder which eventually led to his death.
:08:55. > :08:57.Steven Brazier, from Minster, was 19 stone when he started
:08:58. > :09:00.a healthy weightloss programme - but his weight fell to just eight
:09:01. > :09:03.The 20-year-old suffered a cardiac arrest in 2014.
:09:04. > :09:05.Tonight his mother told this programme her son's death could have
:09:06. > :09:08.been prevented if the Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care
:09:09. > :09:11.Partnership Trust had given him the mental health care he needed.
:09:12. > :09:25.By the time he died, Stephen Brazier was so thin he could barely walk. He
:09:26. > :09:28.had lost more than ten stone in just two years after starting a diet to
:09:29. > :09:35.lose weight with an after breaking his leg. He just carried on until
:09:36. > :09:39.there was no off switch with him, he just carried on. Until there was
:09:40. > :09:43.virtually nothing of him, a fraction of himself, really. He would be at
:09:44. > :09:47.the end of his tether, basically, would say that I can't go on like
:09:48. > :09:51.this, Mum, I can't keep doing this. And I have just had enough, I just
:09:52. > :09:56.wanted to die and hearing your son say that is really, really hard. The
:09:57. > :10:00.partnership trust sectioned Stephen for his own safety and he was
:10:01. > :10:03.treated for more than a year at a specialist hospital in Bromley. He
:10:04. > :10:07.seems to have improved, so the trust decided to send him back to his
:10:08. > :10:11.family. Stephen was discharged back to his home here in Minster in
:10:12. > :10:15.August 20 13th, even though the local community mental health team
:10:16. > :10:19.were owned that track are unable to taken on as a patient, from that
:10:20. > :10:23.point on his family say his mental health continued to deteriorate
:10:24. > :10:27.until his death in February 20 14. He was left with no care at all. I
:10:28. > :10:31.used to telephone the mental health people, they would tell me to ring
:10:32. > :10:33.the eating disorder service and it was just going backwards and
:10:34. > :10:38.forwards, nobody seemed to know who should be looking after him. In a
:10:39. > :10:40.statement the trust accepts that communications between the service
:10:41. > :10:45.is looking after Steven was not adequate. They say patients said
:10:46. > :10:51.expect a standard of service not provided here. And they insist they
:10:52. > :10:58.have learned. He was just a skeleton with skin stretched over him. His
:10:59. > :11:02.teeth had all come out, and it just... No... I don't want anyone
:11:03. > :11:03.else to go through that. Nobody. The trust have now reached a settlement
:11:04. > :11:33.with the breezes. -- Braziers. Over 40,000 people have signed a
:11:34. > :11:36.petition last night launched by Katie Price calling for online
:11:37. > :11:39.bullying to make case is a big crime.
:11:40. > :11:41.Price's 14-year-old son Harvey, who is partially blind,
:11:42. > :11:43.autistic and has Prader-Willi syndrome, was targeted by a troll
:11:44. > :11:48.on Twitter which has subsequently been investigated by Sussex Police.
:11:49. > :11:51.The clock has started ticking - and the UK has formally handed
:11:52. > :11:53.in the letter of notice to let the European union know
:11:54. > :12:00.Britain now has two years to negotiate terms for unwinding
:12:01. > :12:02.four and a half decades of membership - it will mean working
:12:03. > :12:06.out the rights of more than million EU nationals already living here -
:12:07. > :12:08.as well as Brits who've settled abroad -
:12:09. > :12:10.there will be haggling over the so called divorce bill,
:12:11. > :12:13.estimated by some to be as high as 50 billion pounds
:12:14. > :12:15.and the thorny question of where the UK's border checks
:12:16. > :12:21.will be carried out - Calais or Dover?
:12:22. > :12:24.A few minutes ago in Brussels, the United Kingdom's permanent
:12:25. > :12:28.representative to the EU handed a letter to the president of the
:12:29. > :12:34.Confirming the government's decision to invoke article 50 of the Treaty
:12:35. > :12:42.The Article 50 process is now underway.
:12:43. > :12:44.And in accordance with the wishes of the British
:12:45. > :12:47.people, the United Kingdom is leaving the European union.
:12:48. > :12:50.The referendum last summer saw a significant majority vote
:12:51. > :12:54.to leave in the south east, a margin of 55 to 45.
:12:55. > :13:01.In Gravesham, more than 65% voted to leave.
:13:02. > :13:03.But in Brighton and Hove it was a colpete reversal -
:13:04. > :13:08.Well, let's cross live to Brighton and speak
:13:09. > :13:13.There's a mass rally there tonight by so-called
:13:14. > :13:16.'remainers' who aren't happy - but there are many parts
:13:17. > :13:19.of the south east that will be celebrating the triggering
:13:20. > :13:33.Well, absolutely, as you said these are the rest of the country voted to
:13:34. > :13:37.leave the EU. Certainly many people I have spoken to since that in June
:13:38. > :13:41.have been saying why aren't we getting on with it but today the
:13:42. > :13:44.Article 50 process has begun, so I went to speak to some of those whose
:13:45. > :13:49.businesses are most directly affected by EU legislation.
:13:50. > :13:58.These Sussex cattle could be among the last to be revealed their whole
:13:59. > :14:01.lives under EU rules. The official start to the downtown to Brexit is
:14:02. > :14:05.welcome news for the farm owner. Absolutely delighted. Who wouldn't
:14:06. > :14:11.be? Now just wants to get on with it. She hopes it will be a chance
:14:12. > :14:15.for farmers to get more control over their land. It will be very
:14:16. > :14:18.positive. It is everything that we need to do. I think we had to stop
:14:19. > :14:22.having people who actually don't know about farming calling around
:14:23. > :14:28.over our fun telling us what we can't do. I think some of that will
:14:29. > :14:34.go with the demise of the common agricultural policy. But this farm
:14:35. > :14:38.in west mauling in Kent where they plant 1 million lettuces a week, the
:14:39. > :14:43.mood is less buoyant. For businesses like ours it is the uncertainty that
:14:44. > :14:48.really damages the business. It relies on a steady stream of migrant
:14:49. > :14:51.workers stop Nick says Brexit can be an opportunity but the government
:14:52. > :14:56.needs to act quickly. We need decent trade agreements, if the EU is our
:14:57. > :15:01.biggest sale export market and we need access to workers, pick the
:15:02. > :15:05.crops and we need a scheme, so they say we will get this game but they
:15:06. > :15:11.are talking around 2020. What happens in 2019? How do crops get
:15:12. > :15:16.picked in 2019? In Gravesend market today, some relief that breaks it
:15:17. > :15:20.was finally underway. We voted a democratic right out and it is just
:15:21. > :15:23.starting going through. The deal is done, let's break away and become
:15:24. > :15:28.Britain again. It will be a good thing. It actually prove that we
:15:29. > :15:33.don't actually need to rely on European money or European laws to
:15:34. > :15:40.make our country a success, that it was before. Society without lyrics,
:15:41. > :15:44.I think, is a society at all. We have found out I into a corner where
:15:45. > :15:49.there is no comeback. There are some in the south-east those who believe
:15:50. > :15:53.triggering Article 50 remains the wrong choice. My concern is much
:15:54. > :15:59.more of a cultural one. Nicholas says he believes it still could be
:16:00. > :16:05.stopped. We are a microcosm here of Europe, we have polls and Spaniards
:16:06. > :16:10.and Italians working here, and they are all under 30 and they are future
:16:11. > :16:12.is up what exactly is coming down the line for the south-east will be
:16:13. > :16:21.decided over the next two years. Well, the feelings are still running
:16:22. > :16:24.high, a small protest here earlier outside Hove town hall from those
:16:25. > :16:31.who wanted to remain. There is going to be a lot in those two years in
:16:32. > :16:35.those negotiations. Wings like those farmers balancing migration, making
:16:36. > :16:40.sure migrant workers come in to help with the Phils buyers not too many.
:16:41. > :16:44.There are also things like what to do with the border at Dover? How
:16:45. > :16:54.does that still flow smoothly Mr Mark and help the tourism
:16:55. > :17:01.industry... Helen, thank you. You can join in the debate online.
:17:02. > :17:04.A Sussex business owner says he fears he may have to stop trading
:17:05. > :17:07.after burglars targeted his shop for a third time in seven years.
:17:08. > :17:09.The gang escaped with power tools worth about ?10,000
:17:10. > :17:11.from Ben Mitchell's industrial unit in Uckfield.
:17:12. > :17:13.Now he says his insurance premiums have risen so much,
:17:14. > :17:15.the future of his ten-year-old business at risk.
:17:16. > :17:17.He's hoping that CCTV will help catch the criminals.
:17:18. > :17:26.These men break into the Department, it is the third burglary here
:17:27. > :17:34.They left with high value power tools we stock.
:17:35. > :17:49.Bare body, combination drill set, ?1000.
:17:50. > :17:52.Ben Mitchell open a shop ten years ago but has insurance premiums
:17:53. > :18:00.are so high, he may have to give it up.
:18:01. > :18:03.I don't want to give it up, I'm a local guy
:18:04. > :18:08.I feel I owe it to my family, and staff, to carry on.
:18:09. > :18:16.the futures' in the balance.
:18:17. > :18:19.Sussex Police have asked anyone who witnessed the man or a
:18:20. > :18:22.white van in the area around the time of the burglary, or anything
:18:23. > :18:28.suspicious in the time leading up to it to
:18:29. > :18:43.It's 10 minutes to seven, this is our top story tonight:
:18:44. > :18:47.Kent Police are investigating a landlord after racially charged
:18:48. > :18:49.remarks. Also in tonight's programme:
:18:50. > :18:51.the faulty tower - its Brighton's breakdown prone
:18:52. > :18:56.tourist attraction becoming And after a cloudy day today, the
:18:57. > :19:04.sun is back tomorrow. Highs of 20 even. The forecast coming later.
:19:05. > :19:07.There has been a sharp rise in reporting of animal
:19:08. > :19:10.cruelty in the south east, according to the RSPCA -
:19:11. > :19:13.with recent shocking cases including a dog that was kept chained up
:19:14. > :19:17.for the first 18 months of its life - and another that was thrown
:19:18. > :19:20.from the back of a van at 70 miles an hour.
:19:21. > :19:24.The animal charity investigated more than 12,000 cases
:19:25. > :19:30.East Sussex saw the largest increase in allegations,
:19:31. > :19:37.And with more than 5,500 reports in Kent,
:19:38. > :19:39.the county had the fifth highest number nationally.
:19:40. > :19:44.Ian Palmer has tonight's Special Report.
:19:45. > :19:48.Benji is a west Highland terrier cross. Chained up in a yard with a
:19:49. > :19:49.German Shepherd, his early life cross. Chained up in a yard with a
:19:50. > :19:57.German Shepherd, his early life was full of misery and pain. I knew they
:19:58. > :20:00.were tied up, separately, in a garden. Benji one side, the Alsatian
:20:01. > :20:05.and the other side, and I never knew if they could get to each other.
:20:06. > :20:12.Benji the owner went to court. The RSPCA cared for him until he was
:20:13. > :20:19.well enough to be be homed. She needed a companion to have grieved
:20:20. > :20:23.for her brother. She met him in October, one of the many cases RSPCA
:20:24. > :20:27.dealt with in the south-east last year. Many mistreated Alan Mills in
:20:28. > :20:32.the region come to this shelter in Brighton stop in 2016 the number of
:20:33. > :20:39.cruelty cases in East Sussex rose by nearly 30%. Why those numbers go up,
:20:40. > :20:42.it may be people having more confidence in contacting us. Maybe
:20:43. > :20:46.they see things online as well. We have certainly seen the impact of
:20:47. > :20:50.social media in how people communicate the RSPCA. There are
:20:51. > :20:54.many extreme cases of animal cruelty. One of the most shocking
:20:55. > :20:59.involved Snoopy the female lurcher, found dumped on a busy road.
:21:00. > :21:04.Emaciated, she was close to death. Happily, sleepy as a new home.
:21:05. > :21:08.People say they are distressed to hear people are still being
:21:09. > :21:11.mistreated in Kent and East Sussex. My reaction is complete horror. I
:21:12. > :21:14.can't imagine who these people are. The only have to look at the dog to
:21:15. > :21:19.just be a macro wants to love it, really. I don't understand these
:21:20. > :21:22.people who throw animals out of cars and things like that. It's
:21:23. > :21:27.heartbreaking to think that in the so-called nation of animal lovers
:21:28. > :21:31.that this is going on. It is still training to get him back. On the
:21:32. > :21:35.Sussex coast, Benji loves his training. The development continues
:21:36. > :21:39.to astound the people he loves. The two-year-old Westie is very
:21:40. > :21:53.fortunate, but for every Benji there are many more animals who are not.
:21:54. > :21:56.Brighton's I360 remains a 'fantastic addition to the city',
:21:57. > :21:58.that's the message this evening from the City Council,
:21:59. > :22:00.as the troubled attraction reopened today after the seventh incident
:22:01. > :22:17.The 450 foot tower cost ?42 million to build that has been shut for a
:22:18. > :22:20.total of 11 days since opening last August. John is by the tower.
:22:21. > :22:26.John, the City Council's opinion on all this really matters?
:22:27. > :22:33.It really is, Rob, and that is because the City Council, ie local
:22:34. > :22:37.taxpayers, then the building many millions of pounds and if it the
:22:38. > :22:41.project will fail that that will have to be repaid I council tax
:22:42. > :22:45.payers and that money is being repaid to the council already so it
:22:46. > :22:48.is all ticking over nicely but today we asked for a detailed breakdown on
:22:49. > :22:52.the numbers of visitors. We were not given that buts told that targets
:22:53. > :22:53.weren't being met, that visitor numbers were well within target
:22:54. > :23:01.parameters. A damp afternoon in March was never
:23:02. > :23:04.going to pull in vast crowd but people were still booking today for
:23:05. > :23:08.a ride that is increasingly becoming a talking point for the wrong
:23:09. > :23:11.reasons. What was meant to give the city a cutting edge new image has
:23:12. > :23:18.now created something of an image problem. The pictures of a temporary
:23:19. > :23:22.loo being hastily assembled went global. It turned out to be one of
:23:23. > :23:27.three breakdowns in four days. The brief incident in December followed
:23:28. > :23:31.with a more serious incident in February and another last Sunday. We
:23:32. > :23:34.were greatly disappointed it was broken down, and if it keeps
:23:35. > :23:38.breaking down as frequently as that it is not great, is it? What effect
:23:39. > :23:41.is it happening on your decision whether to use it or not? I don't
:23:42. > :23:46.want to get stuck out there, particularly! I was disappointed to
:23:47. > :23:49.see that there were technical failures but I think everything has
:23:50. > :23:54.teething problems, doesn't it? It doesn't worry me. Will it fall this
:23:55. > :23:58.goal that there will it fall from the sky question mark now. It is an
:23:59. > :24:04.attractive attraction for Brighton. That was certainly the message given
:24:05. > :24:08.back in October when receiving the approval of the Duke of Edinburgh,
:24:09. > :24:12.with an incident free ride for him. Today neither the City Council or
:24:13. > :24:17.the owners gave interviews but a spokeswoman for the i360 gave the
:24:18. > :24:22.Russian visitor numbers were on target. The City Council said it was
:24:23. > :24:28.convinced the finances were robust. It does remain however denied one
:24:29. > :24:31.puzzle about this. In the past breakdowns have been committed to
:24:32. > :24:35.computer problems meaning that safety equipment is kicked in early,
:24:36. > :24:38.reassuring if you like. On this occasion though the owners have
:24:39. > :24:43.simply not explain what the problem was other than saying it was
:24:44. > :24:46.technical. I pushed today, was at a computer glitch today? Or something
:24:47. > :24:51.structural? They simply would not stay. The night the message from the
:24:52. > :24:55.i360 is everything that has been tested is fine, it is perfectly
:24:56. > :25:03.safe, and it is nominated for three awards and is open for business.
:25:04. > :25:07.the famous Flying Scotsman like you've never seen it
:25:08. > :25:12.For the first time in the UK, these models go show on at the Kent
:25:13. > :25:14.and East Sussex Railway in Tenterden, alongside
:25:15. > :25:16.an exhibition of 30 other lego models, charting
:25:17. > :25:21.the history of Britain. Claire Cottingham's been to visit.
:25:22. > :25:23.The Flying Scotsman drives ahead, to spell 50 years
:25:24. > :25:28.It's the world's most famous steam locomotive,
:25:29. > :25:31.but at eight metres long, it's not quite how people
:25:32. > :25:36.Made entirely out of Lego, with three Pullman carriages,
:25:37. > :25:42.I mean, Pullman cars didn't have sleeping compartments,
:25:43. > :25:47.there's a little bit of artistic licence but the detail's fantastic,
:25:48. > :25:50.there's cigars on the bar, there's loo roll in
:25:51. > :25:51.the toilets and there's chains there, it's
:25:52. > :25:55.You look inside it and every little detail is there.
:25:56. > :25:57.You can see where all those 250,000 bricks went.
:25:58. > :25:59.These impressive models, which originate from artists'
:26:00. > :26:01.drawings, were made using hundreds of thousands of Lego bricks,
:26:02. > :26:05.and for the first time in the UK they go on show at the Kent
:26:06. > :26:09.and East Sussex Railway in Tenterden this weekend.
:26:10. > :26:12.It is opening up our living museum, which is what we are,
:26:13. > :26:16.You know, we've got here a history of Britain
:26:17. > :26:18.and we are the history, you know, we are a social
:26:19. > :26:21.history piece down here, so really exciting to have something
:26:22. > :26:24.that is so widely recognised down here at the station.
:26:25. > :26:27.The locomotive itself was built by an artist
:26:28. > :26:31.called Nick Barratt, and it took nearly
:26:32. > :26:42.With 250,000 bricks on display, it's truly a sight to behold.
:26:43. > :26:47.That's great, isn't it? Looks fantastic. Now some good news in the
:26:48. > :26:54.weather. Tomorrow there will be some sunshine
:26:55. > :26:57.and what is not to love? Earlier a bit more cloud cover around but
:26:58. > :27:02.actually still really quite mild for the time of year. Top tempter of 16
:27:03. > :27:08.degrees, average for the time of year being 11 or 12. Going through
:27:09. > :27:12.tonight we hold onto a lot of that Clark but for tomorrow it brightens
:27:13. > :27:16.up and as I mentioned by the afternoon we could see highs of 20
:27:17. > :27:23.or 21 degrees. Warm for the time of year. Tonight, cloud, but perhaps
:27:24. > :27:27.some drizzle and temperatures dropping only to ten or 11 degrees
:27:28. > :27:31.and those are the sorts of values we would expect to see in the afternoon
:27:32. > :27:35.at this time of year. Clouds at first then but quickly we see
:27:36. > :27:41.brightness and again by the brightness leg-macro afternoon
:27:42. > :27:45.wheeze see temperatures in the top teams, a little bit cooler along the
:27:46. > :27:51.coast perhaps but they're reaching highs of 15 or 16 degrees. Further
:27:52. > :27:57.north potentially 1920 degrees. Thursday into Friday we see
:27:58. > :28:03.mildness, but the most part dry as well. A bit more cloud cover as well
:28:04. > :28:06.towards the hours of Friday -- early hours of Friday and we see a weather
:28:07. > :28:10.front passing through quickly, a lovely dry and bright and two-day on
:28:11. > :28:22.Friday. Looking towards the weekend one of two halves. Sunshine back on
:28:23. > :28:30.Sunday. Saturday you'd like to see more showers but fine on Sunday and
:28:31. > :28:32.the same in the new week. Lots of sunshine tomorrow, maybe highs of
:28:33. > :28:36.21! You have made our day! That's it for
:28:37. > :28:43.now, back for 1030 -- 6:30pm.