:00:00. > :00:07.Welcome to South East Today, I'm Natalie Graham.
:00:08. > :00:12.Tonight's top stories - life in jail for committing murder
:00:13. > :00:15.over a Facebook post - the judge branded John Dickson's
:00:16. > :00:23.We'll be live at Maidstone Crown Court with the details.
:00:24. > :00:25.An aeroplane crashes into the sea off Shoreham -
:00:26. > :00:29.two men have to swim to shore to safety.
:00:30. > :00:32.There's a suggestion that the plane has lost power and the pilot has
:00:33. > :00:36.glided the plane safely onto the water.
:00:37. > :00:39.Also in tonight's programme - the primary school asking parents
:00:40. > :00:42.to donate toilet rolls - the head teacher says
:00:43. > :00:47.The nurse sacked for preaching Christianity to patients at a Kent
:00:48. > :00:50.hospital takes her case to an employment tribunal.
:00:51. > :00:52.And remembering the English defeat at the hands of the Dutch
:00:53. > :01:09.A judge has branded the murder of a man over a Facebook post
:01:10. > :01:12.as "totally senseless", and issued a warning
:01:13. > :01:18.27-year-old John Dickson was today sentenced to life in prison
:01:19. > :01:20.for the murder of Carl Gregory in Broadstairs last October.
:01:21. > :01:24.Dickson held his victim in a choke hold for two minutes.
:01:25. > :01:28.It followed an argument over a picture and comment
:01:29. > :01:31.Gregory had posted online, referring to his former girlfriend.
:01:32. > :01:36.In sentencing Dickson to a minimum of 18 years,
:01:37. > :01:39.Judge Adele Williams called it a "futile online row".
:01:40. > :01:45.The picture posted on social media - too graphic to show here -
:01:46. > :01:49.that sparked a row that led to a meeting that left a man dead
:01:50. > :01:55.The image was published as a joke by Carl Gregory last October.
:01:56. > :01:58.Within hours, he'd been choked to death by John Dickson from Margate.
:01:59. > :02:00.Today, the judge gave him a life sentence
:02:01. > :02:07.Carl Gregory's death is an absolute tragedy that has had a devastating
:02:08. > :02:11.impact on his family and his friends.
:02:12. > :02:14.He was a popular, well-liked, hard-working young man
:02:15. > :02:17.who had his whole life in front of him.
:02:18. > :02:20.That life was cruelly cut short by John Dickson.
:02:21. > :02:23.Following an exchange of angry words on social media,
:02:24. > :02:27.Carl Gregory met two men at Westwood Cross shopping centre.
:02:28. > :02:34.The 27-year-old gardener put his victim innate choke hold
:02:35. > :02:46.After letting him go, he began stamping on his head.
:02:47. > :02:51.In her sentencing statement, the judge said that Carl Gregory
:02:52. > :02:54.was goaded into going into the Westwood shopping centre
:02:55. > :03:00.She went on to say that this illustrates
:03:01. > :03:03.the dangers of social media because of the speed
:03:04. > :03:09.I do think the message from here is if you are posting online,
:03:10. > :03:11.people can get inflamed very, very easily and therefore,
:03:12. > :03:13.I always think it's best to think before you post.
:03:14. > :03:15.Following sentencing, Carl Gregory's family issued
:03:16. > :03:21.The last six months have been a nightmare for all of us.
:03:22. > :03:24.Carl was a loving son, grandson, brother and friend to many people
:03:25. > :03:27.and we miss him every day. In sentencing, the judge told
:03:28. > :03:30.Dickson he must serve at least 18 years in prison.
:03:31. > :03:34.She added, you may never be released from jail.
:03:35. > :03:37.Ian Palmer is in Maidstone now ? Ian, the judge described
:03:38. > :03:46.this as a futile row and it escalated quickly.
:03:47. > :03:54.So quickly that the argument played itself out, the events play
:03:55. > :03:58.themselves out in a matter of hours. In a single day. Which is what
:03:59. > :04:03.concerned the judge so much. She described John Dickson as a cold and
:04:04. > :04:07.calculating and very dangerous individual who showed Carl Gregory
:04:08. > :04:09.no mercy and not a flicker of remorse or regret for what he has
:04:10. > :04:12.done. A light aircraft has
:04:13. > :04:14.crashed into the sea off Emergency services were called
:04:15. > :04:19.shortly before 4pm this afternoon. Two people escaped from
:04:20. > :04:21.the submerged plane - They swam ashore after it came down
:04:22. > :04:29.ten metres from the beach. I was just surprised
:04:30. > :04:31.and you can't believe it, you just see a plane and you know
:04:32. > :04:34.something is going to happen. It was so quick, it all happened
:04:35. > :04:38.so quick, the thing was to run to it to see if there was anything that
:04:39. > :04:41.you could do. On arrival at the scene, a small,
:04:42. > :04:44.light aircraft was just off Two people within the plane have
:04:45. > :04:51.swum ashore and thankfully would only appear to have minor
:04:52. > :04:54.injuries, just in shock. Accounts of witnesses
:04:55. > :04:57.that has seen the event, suggesting the plane has lost power
:04:58. > :05:01.and the pilot has glided the plane Our reporter Claudia Sermbezis
:05:02. > :05:08.is live at the scene. Claudia, the emergency
:05:09. > :05:21.services are still there? That's right. The reason being you
:05:22. > :05:26.can clearly see now the plane is resurfacing and what they want to do
:05:27. > :05:31.is they want to hopefully drag it out now, back onto the beach,
:05:32. > :05:35.because they want it out of the water as quickly as possible because
:05:36. > :05:38.of the environmental implications of leaving it in there. They are hoping
:05:39. > :05:43.in the morning they can begin then taking it away from here. The
:05:44. > :05:46.eyewitnesses I spoke to said it was absolutely incredible, they said it
:05:47. > :05:50.was very surprising rather than shocking. They saw this plane sort
:05:51. > :06:01.of glide in apparently with no engine is working and the pilot
:06:02. > :06:03.ditched it into the sea and everybody said it was a textbook
:06:04. > :06:05.landing, the two men literally walked out of the plane, apparently
:06:06. > :06:06.unharmed and when you look at the plane, there, it really is
:06:07. > :06:18.incredible. A man who he was living with
:06:19. > :06:22.actually murdered his father, coming up.
:06:23. > :06:25.Pupils at an East Sussex primary school were asked to bring in toilet
:06:26. > :06:28.rolls and pencils today - after parents were told finances
:06:29. > :06:34.The children were taking part in a non-uniform fundraising day,
:06:35. > :06:36.but instead of donating money, they were asked to
:06:37. > :06:40.The head teacher at St John's Primary in Crowborough says schools
:06:41. > :06:43.everywhere are being put under huge financial strain.
:06:44. > :06:45.Our Education Correspondent Bryony Mackenzie reports.
:06:46. > :06:49.Basically, we've asked them to bring in essentials,
:06:50. > :06:53.so things like pencils, rubbers, sellotape, pens, paper.
:06:54. > :06:57.Right down to tissues, toilet roll and these are things
:06:58. > :07:01.that actually we are struggling now to be able to afford.
:07:02. > :07:06.People will listen to that and think that's quite shocking.
:07:07. > :07:10.To be fair, it is meant to be quite shocking.
:07:11. > :07:13.?500 worth of essentials, money that can now be spent elsewhere.
:07:14. > :07:18.This school says funding cuts are hitting them hard.
:07:19. > :07:23.If we can divert money from buying these sorts of essential resources,
:07:24. > :07:26.we can then fund the education of our children to a greater extent,
:07:27. > :07:29.so making the curriculum interesting for them rather than having to worry
:07:30. > :07:34.and monitor loo rolls and glue sticks.
:07:35. > :07:39.We have protected schools' budgets and we are putting record
:07:40. > :07:45.So why are schools claiming a funding crisis?
:07:46. > :07:49.There's ?40 billion in the school budget but more pupils and increased
:07:50. > :07:52.contributions means that schools will get less money per pupil over
:07:53. > :07:59.And how that pot of money is shared is changing with some getting up
:08:00. > :08:03.to 3% more and others getting 3% less money.
:08:04. > :08:07.This school will lose money in both cases so what to do parents think
:08:08. > :08:17.It's a shame that the education system has become such that,
:08:18. > :08:23.fundamentally, education is no longer free and that worries me.
:08:24. > :08:27.The Department for Education said overall, East Sussex schools
:08:28. > :08:32.will receive more money from next year.
:08:33. > :08:36.The school is now considering permanent donation
:08:37. > :08:45.Our Education correspondent, Bryony MacKenzie is here now -
:08:46. > :08:48.The school clearly feel they are struggling.
:08:49. > :08:53.Bryony, what else has the Department for Education said tonight?
:08:54. > :08:58.The government has said it believes this new system is fairer and the
:08:59. > :09:03.schools I spoke to says there are a lot of positives in the change. But
:09:04. > :09:10.this is the point, the part of Perth pupil funding is going to get
:09:11. > :09:14.smaller over the next few years. That's why wreath seen schools
:09:15. > :09:18.clubbed together and being their own government on behalf of the area.
:09:19. > :09:22.Education conference is coming up in the next few weeks and there will be
:09:23. > :09:24.some tough questions for Justine Greening as to how she is going to
:09:25. > :09:27.plug this gap. A Sussex teenager has been
:09:28. > :09:29.speaking about the weeks he spent living with the man
:09:30. > :09:32.who murdered his father, without Speaker he now says he feels angry
:09:33. > :09:41.and unable to trust anyone. 19-year-old Kane Manning
:09:42. > :09:43.from Portslade, moved in with Colin Gale after his dad
:09:44. > :09:46.Mark - a former bomb disposal Gale pretended to be one
:09:47. > :09:50.of Mark Manning's best friends - and lied about his movements
:09:51. > :10:01.on the day his victim went missing. Kane Manning was left vulnerable and
:10:02. > :10:09.devastated after the loss of his father. Without my dad, it's very
:10:10. > :10:15.hard. I have got my mum and she is there for me. It's not the same. I
:10:16. > :10:19.had an lot of bonding with my father. He needed somewhere to live
:10:20. > :10:25.and turned to a long-standing family friend, Colin Gale. I thought Colin
:10:26. > :10:31.has got four kits and his close to my dad and when dad goes away
:10:32. > :10:36.sometimes, I stay with Colin. I thought he is the sort of person I
:10:37. > :10:40.could trust. Mark Manning worked for a mine-clearing charity supported by
:10:41. > :10:45.the late Princess of Wales, last seen on the 19th of April in 2014.
:10:46. > :10:53.Three days later, reported missing by his family. In June 2014, police
:10:54. > :10:58.change the enquiry to a murder investigation. His remains were
:10:59. > :11:02.eventually found in undergrowth in Sussex last May, more than two years
:11:03. > :11:07.after he disappeared. He'd been beaten to death by Colin Gale after
:11:08. > :11:11.a row over a substantial debt. Kane Manning did not realise Colin Gale
:11:12. > :11:17.had anything to do with his father's disappearance until police
:11:18. > :11:23.discovered the body. I feel angry, shameful. He brainwashed me. He lied
:11:24. > :11:27.and lied. I was 16 years old and of course people are gullible when you
:11:28. > :11:32.are 16. Just take advice from the older person.
:11:33. > :11:34.I can look back right now and say to myself,
:11:35. > :11:44.Colin Gale was convicted of manslaughter last month.
:11:45. > :11:46.A nurse who looked after a mother from Dartford before
:11:47. > :11:49.she was discharged from hospital just hours before she died has told
:11:50. > :11:52.an inquest today that she did tell the doctor in charge that
:11:53. > :11:54.Sian Hollands was experiencing chest pains.
:11:55. > :11:57.Previously Dr Kamran Khan said that if he had been made aware of those
:11:58. > :12:01.symptoms he would have considered the possibility of a pulmonary
:12:02. > :12:04.embolism - which caused Sian's death in 2015.
:12:05. > :12:09.Instead, he discharged her from the Darent Valley Hospital.
:12:10. > :12:11.The hospital Trust has since accepted seven failings that
:12:12. > :12:19.Glitches in Dartford Crossing's online payment system have saved
:12:20. > :12:25.According to the National Audit Office, Highways England cancelled
:12:26. > :12:28.or decided not to issue penalty charge notices to some drivers
:12:29. > :12:31.because technical problems meant there was uncertainty over who had
:12:32. > :12:35.Highways England says there has been now substantial progress
:12:36. > :12:43.A nurse sacked for gross misconduct after patients complained
:12:44. > :12:46.she "preached" Christianity at them has taken her case
:12:47. > :12:51.Sarah Kuteh was dismissed after two warnings about what managers
:12:52. > :12:54.at Dartford's Darent Valley Hospital called inappropriate behaviour.
:12:55. > :12:58.In one complaint a patient said she implied he'd only be cured
:12:59. > :13:00.if he believed in God. But Mrs Kuteh said she'd only talked
:13:01. > :13:03.about her religion to comfort those preparing for surgery.
:13:04. > :13:17.Sarah Kuteh's job included filling out questionnaires with patients but
:13:18. > :13:20.when it came to asking whether they had a religion to make sure any
:13:21. > :13:24.religious requirements were understood prior to surgery, it
:13:25. > :13:28.didn't end with a simple tick in the box. She admits engaging people in
:13:29. > :13:33.conversation. The hospital Trust says her manner was inappropriate
:13:34. > :13:43.but she doesn't agree. Where do you draw the line? Who do I talk to, at
:13:44. > :13:47.what stage to carry on talking to the patient and at what stage do you
:13:48. > :13:52.think, we shouldn't go there. There is a line that isn't quite distinct.
:13:53. > :13:56.She was sacked after ignoring warnings after a list of complaints.
:13:57. > :14:01.Patient said she preached and made them feel awkward. One cancer
:14:02. > :14:05.patient due to have major surgery, said he was told that if he prayed,
:14:06. > :14:16.he'd have a better chance of survival. Another was given a Bible.
:14:17. > :14:24.He said he'd been subjected to religious fervour. It's totally
:14:25. > :14:26.inappropriate, for someone to use that opportunity someone receiving
:14:27. > :14:33.care to push their religious beliefs them. I would rightly expect to be
:14:34. > :14:37.fired for that sort of misconduct. But Sarah Kuteh says she was
:14:38. > :14:40.offering comfort and usually only brought her Christianity up if the
:14:41. > :14:46.patient had initiated the conversation. A fundamental question
:14:47. > :14:52.about freedom, for people like Sarah Kuteh to go to work, to be a nurse
:14:53. > :14:58.in the workplace and to speak about their faith naturally. Sarah Kuteh
:14:59. > :15:01.is claiming unfair dismissal and seeking reinstatement and
:15:02. > :15:02.compensation. The tribunal judge will give his decision in the coming
:15:03. > :15:05.days. Well, Sara joins us live now.
:15:06. > :15:07.Sara, the Trust has insisted this is not about Mrs Kuteh's
:15:08. > :15:18.religious beliefs, hasn't it? It says it certainly is not that she
:15:19. > :15:23.held those beliefs but the way she conveyed them to the patients which
:15:24. > :15:26.was a problem. She said the conversations were excessive,
:15:27. > :15:30.unwanted and nonconsensual. She had been asked to stop and been given
:15:31. > :15:33.official warnings but she had not. She even suggested the only reason
:15:34. > :15:38.she hadn't acted in the same way when she was in intensive care was
:15:39. > :15:43.because patients there were generally unconscious and couldn't
:15:44. > :15:48.communicate with her. The Trust said it had no choice but to dismiss her.
:15:49. > :15:55.The time is nearly quarter to seven and this is our top story. A murder
:15:56. > :15:59.over a Facebook post has been branded totally senseless and futile
:16:00. > :16:04.by the judge. John Dickson has been jailed for life for choking Carl
:16:05. > :16:06.Gregory to death in a car park in Broadstairs last October.
:16:07. > :16:09.Also in tonight's programme - a piece of Dambusters history
:16:10. > :16:11.washes ashore in Kent - the bouncing bomb which
:16:12. > :16:22.It's been the warmest day of the year so far with 22 degrees in Kent.
:16:23. > :16:28.Will it last? Details in the forecast a little later.
:16:29. > :16:32.A mother from Burgess Hill says she's terrified her daughter
:16:33. > :16:34.with end up dead because there are no mental health inpatient
:16:35. > :16:39.Tracey Hodgson's daughter Vicki has overdosed more than a dozen times
:16:40. > :16:42.in the last year but has been sent home from hospital each time.
:16:43. > :16:44.In the past 12 months, the average occupancy rate
:16:45. > :16:49.for mental health beds in Sussex has been more than 98% -
:16:50. > :16:53.That compares to 80% three years ago.
:16:54. > :16:58.The CQC says the highest safe level for any hospital is 85%.
:16:59. > :17:07.Amanda Akass has tonight's special report.
:17:08. > :17:11.Tracey Hodgson lives in fear that one of her daughter's regular
:17:12. > :17:20.overdoses will end up being her last. I constantly wonder how she is
:17:21. > :17:26.going to live, will that phone call beat to say that she has succeeded
:17:27. > :17:30.in killing herself? Most of the time she takes overdoses, it's a cry for
:17:31. > :17:34.help. She says she has been told there are no beds fought Vicki 12
:17:35. > :17:42.times in the last year, the last one just two weeks ago. I've called an
:17:43. > :17:48.ambulance, 19 hours to be seen, they talk to her for an hour and sent her
:17:49. > :17:53.home because there wasn't a bed. And then within days, she does the same
:17:54. > :18:00.again. Vicki herself didn't want her face to appear on camera. All you
:18:01. > :18:08.want to do is feel safe and yet you are kind of fobbed off. I do worry
:18:09. > :18:12.sometimes that one day, I will do something that, even if it's not
:18:13. > :18:17.intentional, I'll take a really big overdose or I'll cut myself and I
:18:18. > :18:20.panic. There's been a long-standing agenda to reduce the number of
:18:21. > :18:25.psychiatric beds because it's a most expensive part of the care. For one
:18:26. > :18:33.person in a bed for a year, you can treat, they say, minimally 44 people
:18:34. > :18:38.in the community. 70 adult mental health patient beds here, out of 600
:18:39. > :18:43.across the whole of Sussex, a reduction of 10% in the last three
:18:44. > :18:46.years. Demand for services has never been greater but they are committed
:18:47. > :18:51.if someone really need a bed to finding one as soon as possible,
:18:52. > :18:54.they say. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry are
:18:55. > :19:01.highlighting the issue today, a campaign in listing celebrities. The
:19:02. > :19:05.government is investing ?11 million to make sure the right local
:19:06. > :19:06.services can be put in place but Tracey says such statements just
:19:07. > :19:16.make her angry. The bouncing bomb found
:19:17. > :19:28.in Reculver, Herne Bay. Credited with helping to bringing
:19:29. > :19:31.the Second World War to a close. They were tested off the north Kent
:19:32. > :19:35.coast and now a large piece of those bonds has been discovered on the
:19:36. > :19:42.seashore, causing much excitement at her and a museum. -- Herne Bay
:19:43. > :19:50.museum. A fragment of a test bomb has been
:19:51. > :19:58.discovered and it's causing quite a stir. Wow! That some find! Can't
:19:59. > :20:03.believe I've come on the very day after they picked this up. We have
:20:04. > :20:09.to get to the high tide, it comes out there so we can wade in and find
:20:10. > :20:12.the bombs. Through the film, millions know about barns Wallace
:20:13. > :20:18.and his bouncing bomb and how it was tested. At the time, it was top
:20:19. > :20:27.secret, even the air crews could only guess what their task was going
:20:28. > :20:33.to be. This was a few days before they went out on the dambusters
:20:34. > :20:40.raid. It was spinning backwards 500 revolutions per minute. 60 feet only
:20:41. > :20:44.above the sea. Yesterday, the beach was cordoned off and bomb disposal
:20:45. > :20:48.teams were called in to make sure the fragment was safe. We were all
:20:49. > :20:54.sitting here wondering what was going on so I sent my husband off to
:20:55. > :20:59.go and check it out. He had a word with the police and she told us it
:21:00. > :21:05.was a bomb that had been washed up. We were all really excited. I didn't
:21:06. > :21:10.break this half, it was already broken off but these are parts of
:21:11. > :21:15.it. The concrete can still be seen on the inside. Proof that this
:21:16. > :21:21.episode of history will never be forgotten.
:21:22. > :21:25.It's 350 years since the Dutch launched an audacious attack
:21:26. > :21:30.They sailed a vast fleet up the River Medway and subjected
:21:31. > :21:32.the English navy to one of its most humiliating defeats.
:21:33. > :21:34.England was still reeling under financial pressure
:21:35. > :21:37.from the Great Plague and The Great Fire of London
:21:38. > :21:40.in September 1666 - when in June 1667 the Dutch sailed
:21:41. > :21:43.to Chatham and caught the English unprepared,
:21:44. > :21:46.capturing King Charles II's flagship the Royal Charles.
:21:47. > :21:49.It's estimated the Dutch lost up to 150 men in the battle,
:21:50. > :21:57.Robin, they've just announced plans to commemorate the Battle of Medway
:21:58. > :22:10.Yes. Just been the end of a press conference announcing this. They say
:22:11. > :22:15.they are expecting tens of thousands of Dutch people to come here in June
:22:16. > :22:19.for a festival of art, music, sport and culminating in a giant firework
:22:20. > :22:23.display. How is this story remembered? Earlier this week, I
:22:24. > :22:27.travelled to Amsterdam to find out how the history of our little bit of
:22:28. > :22:30.the world figures in their national story.
:22:31. > :22:33.It was a time when Britain did not rule the waves.
:22:34. > :22:42.What with the great plague and the Great Fire of London, the
:22:43. > :22:45.flashy but impoverished restored King Charles II was stuck in a war
:22:46. > :22:50.with the Dutch he didn't have the money to fight.
:22:51. > :22:53.The argument was all about trade, yes, just like our
:22:54. > :22:59.But at the heart of that in the 17th century
:23:00. > :23:10.were ships and sea power, both here in Holland and at home.
:23:11. > :23:12.So when you wanted to force someone to negotiate,
:23:13. > :23:20.they did things a little bit differently.
:23:21. > :23:25.In a nutshell, the Dutch made the king look stupid by
:23:26. > :23:28.attacking his fleet more or less in their backyard and picking his
:23:29. > :23:33.flagship, a forgotten piece of history at home.
:23:34. > :23:35.What about here in the middle of Amsterdam?
:23:36. > :23:39.We fought about two or three wars and we won both of them.
:23:40. > :23:42.Came over, sunk loads of our ships and stole our flagship.
:23:43. > :23:48.Are you shocked? I'm sorry.
:23:49. > :23:54.So, what a wonderful job we did, isn't it?
:23:55. > :23:58.You can uncover the story of what happened on the River Medway
:23:59. > :24:01.all those years ago here at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
:24:02. > :24:04.They have more pictures, more artefacts than perhaps you'll
:24:05. > :24:11.Artists of the golden age of Dutch painting depicted
:24:12. > :24:16.the dash into the Medway, of fighting on land and sea
:24:17. > :24:20.with fire ships destroying the British fleet at anchor.
:24:21. > :24:24.The hero was the Dutch commander Michiel de Ruyter.
:24:25. > :24:28.And to the victor went both spoils and trophies.
:24:29. > :24:31.And this is just absolutely spectacular.
:24:32. > :24:37.It's the stern carvings of the Royal Charles,
:24:38. > :24:39.the flagship captured by Michiel de Ruyter.
:24:40. > :24:42.This is the coat of arms of English king, so it is
:24:43. > :24:45.as personal as it can be. A bit like taking the King's crown
:24:46. > :24:49.and using it as a trophy? Yeah.
:24:50. > :24:52.A movie revived interest in 1667 in Holland.
:24:53. > :24:55.It graphically portrayed the brutality for those
:24:56. > :25:01.But the Dutch invaders, it seemed, were
:25:02. > :25:05.under strict instructions not to harm civilians.
:25:06. > :25:09.There is this story that some of the Dutch troops, when
:25:10. > :25:15.they had landed, kicked in the door of the church of grain and those who
:25:16. > :25:19.heard about this story said, this is not going to happen and the king
:25:20. > :25:22.sent his own carpenter to repair the door.
:25:23. > :25:25.Many people say, "I didn't know the Dutch did this in the 17th
:25:26. > :25:30.century and how amazing that you have a battle in such
:25:31. > :25:37.What an endeavour, in a way, to do this."
:25:38. > :25:42.The greatest prize, Chatham dockyard was saved from destruction
:25:43. > :25:47.by the solid resistance of gun batteries and the arrival of the
:25:48. > :25:50.enforcements saw the Dutch head for home.
:25:51. > :25:54.In June, they will be back in numbers to commemorate the 350th
:25:55. > :25:58.anniversary of the greatest battle you've never heard of.
:25:59. > :26:13.Behind me is the castle with the Dutch attack was eventually stopped.
:26:14. > :26:17.They do remember it there, they re-enact it every year and that's
:26:18. > :26:21.going to be the focal point of the great firework display. It will be
:26:22. > :26:27.called Medway in flames, music and fireworks on the banks and no doubt,
:26:28. > :26:28.a giant international party. STUDIO: We look forward to that. Spectacular
:26:29. > :26:38.stuff. It's been an incredibly warm day. A
:26:39. > :26:42.glorious afternoon, a taste of summer. Temperatures reached 22
:26:43. > :26:44.degrees with clear blue skies during the afternoon, even along the coast,
:26:45. > :26:54.temperatures in the top teams. The cloud stayed well to the west
:26:55. > :26:56.and we had a warm, southerly airflow. Across-the-board,
:26:57. > :27:05.temperatures reaching highs of 21 degrees. Through tonight, initially,
:27:06. > :27:10.we will stay dry and that a bit more cloud around and potentially some
:27:11. > :27:14.drizzle but of course, staying mild. Temperatures only dropping to around
:27:15. > :27:19.ten or 11 degrees and these are the sorts of values we normally expect
:27:20. > :27:25.to see during the afternoon. Once again, very mild as we start the day
:27:26. > :27:28.for Friday. A bit of a different day, first thing, this cold front
:27:29. > :27:32.around, not really a lot of heavy rain but a slightly different feel
:27:33. > :27:37.during the morning. A good deal of cloud around and at times, some
:27:38. > :27:41.drizzle. By the afternoon, once again, the sunshine will be back
:27:42. > :27:49.again and temperatures very mild for this time of year, if a touch cooler
:27:50. > :27:54.than today. We will also notice the winds will be picking up tomorrow
:27:55. > :27:58.around 15 to 20 mph so slightly fresher as we go from Friday to
:27:59. > :28:05.Saturday. Temperatures again in single figures but still eight or 9
:28:06. > :28:09.degrees. One of two halves for the Saturday, more cloud and at times,
:28:10. > :28:12.some showers, some could be quite heavy. They clear and high pressure
:28:13. > :28:18.back for Sunday but quite a chilly start. This is what it looks like, a
:28:19. > :28:23.lot of blue on the map for Saturday and then high pressure builds back
:28:24. > :28:27.again. Sunday afternoon, temperatures comfortably around 15
:28:28. > :28:31.or 16 degrees. It stays lovely and bright for the next week. The
:28:32. > :28:34.sunshine back again for tomorrow, not quite as warm as today. Lots of
:28:35. > :28:46.sunshine and staying warm. Not a bad forecast at all. I will be
:28:47. > :28:53.back with the APM and late news. See you tomorrow. Goodbye. -- 8pm.
:28:54. > :28:58.Call the police! Is anyone hurt? Is anyone in the car?