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:00:00. > :00:00.Welcome to South East Today, I'm Rob Smith.

:00:07. > :00:15.Police put Hazelwick school in Crawley into lockdown

:00:16. > :00:19.after a group of travellers park up on the playing field.

:00:20. > :00:20.Given a terminal cancer diagnosis

:00:21. > :00:23.but now in remission - this Kent woman says new clinical

:00:24. > :00:36.I could walk again, I was getting my strength back and I gradually it was

:00:37. > :00:38.coming back into the human race, when I thought I was dying.

:00:39. > :00:41.Also in tonight's programme: A Kent man held on death row in the Congo

:00:42. > :00:44.for eight years is finally released - we have an exclusive report.

:00:45. > :00:46.A year on from re-opening, Hasting Pier celebrates

:00:47. > :00:54.its successes, and appeals for help in keeping it going.

:00:55. > :01:00.Celebrating the colours of the C indoors. Artist Simon Patterson

:01:01. > :01:10.brings a major exhibition to the Sussex coast.

:01:11. > :01:16.A school in Crawley was put into lockdown this afternoon,

:01:17. > :01:20.after up to 30 caravans and vehicles belonging to a group of travellers

:01:21. > :01:24.A padlock was cut off the gates of Hazelwick School just

:01:25. > :01:27.The headteacher took the decision to keep the pupils,

:01:28. > :01:30.some of whom are in the middle of exams, inside for

:01:31. > :01:44.The traveller was quickly occupied the school sports field adjacent

:01:45. > :01:50.classrooms. The school with them to lock down saying they were concerned

:01:51. > :01:54.for people safety. Students sitting Latin and PE exams had to take them

:01:55. > :01:59.in another school hall and three year groups who would normally leave

:02:00. > :02:04.school to get lunch had to remain in their classrooms. I am angered and

:02:05. > :02:09.frustrated. There is absolutely no getting away from the fact it has

:02:10. > :02:13.been a very difficult day and certainly having that number of

:02:14. > :02:20.people illegally on your ground is very annoying. And worrying? Very,

:02:21. > :02:22.yes. The school said it did not tell periods immediately what was

:02:23. > :02:26.happening because it focused on child safety but the lack of

:02:27. > :02:31.information cause concern for some parents. To get messages from my son

:02:32. > :02:35.that there were people on the premises and we are locked in a

:02:36. > :02:40.classroom or are in lockdown, to use the word, and when asked them what

:02:41. > :02:46.they can do he said we can go to the toilet if there are four of us. You

:02:47. > :02:51.were worried? Yes, I was. By 5pm the travellers began to go and they were

:02:52. > :02:56.served with a notice which required them to leave immediately. The

:02:57. > :03:01.Conservative parliamentary candidate for the -- praised the police for

:03:02. > :03:05.their swift response. They clearly did not have concerns about the

:03:06. > :03:11.impact this has on the students, many of whom are taking exams and

:03:12. > :03:14.saw any disruption to that is unacceptable and I am glad Sussex

:03:15. > :03:18.Police acted quickly to move them on. I tried talking to the

:03:19. > :03:21.travellers as they left, one told me they would not have set up camp

:03:22. > :03:24.there if they knew it was school property.

:03:25. > :03:26.Jon Hunt is at the school for us now.

:03:27. > :03:32.Jon, are the travellers still there?

:03:33. > :03:39.They are still leaving and it is taking some time for some of the

:03:40. > :03:43.people to return to the site. They have returned, hooked up the

:03:44. > :03:48.caravans and complying with the requirement to leave. It would

:03:49. > :03:53.appear the traveller I spoke to earlier did not want to appear and

:03:54. > :03:57.give me an interview but he did say they are now moving to Scotland. He

:03:58. > :04:01.said they had been at a party locally and he complained he said

:04:02. > :04:06.they had been told to go but they have nowhere to go. The school says

:04:07. > :04:07.it is happy he emergency procedures worked and it could minimise the

:04:08. > :04:15.impact on the school day. A Kent woman who has been

:04:16. > :04:17.battling mesothelioma - a form of cancer

:04:18. > :04:19.that is usually deadly - for almost a decade is finally

:04:20. > :04:22.in remission, after an experimental Mavis Nye from Whitstable had

:04:23. > :04:25.already been through four rounds of chemotherapy

:04:26. > :04:27.after being diagnosed in 2008. She was told there were no more

:04:28. > :04:30.treatment options left when she was offered the chance

:04:31. > :04:32.to go on the trial. Two years later, there

:04:33. > :04:35.is no sign of the cancer, and she says it feels

:04:36. > :04:39.like she is back with the human race, where she had

:04:40. > :04:42.felt she was dying. Our health correspondent

:04:43. > :04:47.Mark Norman has more. Around eight years ago Mavis Nye

:04:48. > :04:50.was told she had just three months to live

:04:51. > :04:51.after being diagnosed She underwent four years

:04:52. > :04:57.of chemotherapy, and after each I couldn't walk, I had

:04:58. > :05:03.a walking frame, I just Her husband, Ray, had worked

:05:04. > :05:10.at Chatham Dockyard in the 1950s. Mavis believes she inhaled asbestos

:05:11. > :05:13.dust when washing his clothes. Mesothelioma is frequently

:05:14. > :05:15.a death sentence. It's a cancer that typically

:05:16. > :05:18.develops in the lining of the lungs, It can take up for 30 years

:05:19. > :05:26.to emerge and we are seeing a spike in numbers -

:05:27. > :05:32.more than 2600 people Asbestos used in the dockyard

:05:33. > :05:38.and schools in our region has caused More sufferers have received

:05:39. > :05:45.financial compensation here than any other part of the UK,

:05:46. > :05:48.and over a 10-year period almost Mavis and Ray had all but given up

:05:49. > :05:53.hope of beating the cancer when Mavis took part

:05:54. > :05:55.in a clinical trial. She finished that trial last

:05:56. > :05:57.June and, remarkably, I could walk again,

:05:58. > :06:02.I was getting my strength back and gradually I would come back

:06:03. > :06:05.into the human race, Incredibly good news

:06:06. > :06:08.for Mavis and her family, and all the more remarkable

:06:09. > :06:11.as when we spoke to her three years ago she expressed her desire to help

:06:12. > :06:14.find a cure, any cure. The scientists conducting this trial

:06:15. > :06:22.are now moving to a third and final stage based on that success

:06:23. > :06:25.and they are recruiting more The science tells us in theory this

:06:26. > :06:30.could work so we will undertake this trial and hopefully that evidence

:06:31. > :06:37.will be used to make the decision whether all our future patients

:06:38. > :06:40.in the setting of failed in terms of previous treatments,

:06:41. > :06:44.should have immunotherapy We are very excited

:06:45. > :06:54.about immunotherapy as a new area of cancer research, and being able

:06:55. > :06:57.to harness the power of the body's own immune system and turn

:06:58. > :07:01.that against cancer. Mavis says she owes her life

:07:02. > :07:04.to the NHS and she hopes the new trial will bring hope

:07:05. > :07:06.to others suffering And lets be clear -

:07:07. > :07:23.a clinical trial should not Of course it should not. It might

:07:24. > :07:27.give doctors a opportunity to see how we can treat a particular

:07:28. > :07:31.disease in the future and patients may benefit from a future treatment

:07:32. > :07:36.but it may be no better or worse than what we have had. Many patients

:07:37. > :07:41.end trials like this have exhausted all treatment avenues and patients

:07:42. > :07:45.often have -- may have to give up its future of time to take part in

:07:46. > :07:51.clinical trials. But what is potentially so exciting is it helps

:07:52. > :07:56.doctors find yours. These sorts of things can predict I think and we

:07:57. > :08:01.wish them the best of what with it. -- can help doctors find cures.

:08:02. > :08:04.In a moment, the first film showing the true horror

:08:05. > :08:06.of the First World War is given a live musical accompaniment

:08:07. > :08:20.A former soldier from Kent who has been held on death row

:08:21. > :08:22.in the Democratic Republic of Congo for 8 years has

:08:23. > :08:30.He was jailed in 2009, accused of spying and murder.

:08:31. > :08:32.He's always maintained his innocence, and insists confessions

:08:33. > :08:36.Joshua French is now in hospital in Norway,

:08:37. > :08:40.Today, his mother spoke exclusively to this programme about her relief.

:08:41. > :08:47.Joshua French back in better health, but with a death

:08:48. > :08:52.After almost eight years in a Congolese prison his condition

:08:53. > :09:00.His mother, who had campaigned tirelessly for his release,

:09:01. > :09:02.was this week told by Norway's Prime Minister her son

:09:03. > :09:12.I feel like laughing the whole time because I'm so happy.

:09:13. > :09:18.We are kind of in a state of unbelief that this

:09:19. > :09:23.Joshua and his friend was sentenced to death in 2009 after a driver

:09:24. > :09:31.Both men said they had been ambushed by unknown gunmen.

:09:32. > :09:35.In 2013 Joshua's friend was found dead in the cell they shared.

:09:36. > :09:37.A postmortem found suicide as the cause of death but in 2014

:09:38. > :09:40.Joshua was found guilty of his murder and given

:09:41. > :09:46.Throughout his time in prison there had been a high-profile

:09:47. > :09:48.campaign in Norway to try and secure his release and yesterday

:09:49. > :09:50.the Norwegian Prime Minister announced they had come

:09:51. > :10:02.to an agreement with the Democratic Republic of Congo.

:10:03. > :10:06.Joshua French has spent eight years in prison under a very tough

:10:07. > :10:12.conditions and it has been a very trying experience for him, his

:10:13. > :10:16.family and all those close to him. It has also been a very demanding

:10:17. > :10:21.case for both Congo and Norway and we are happy we have now found a

:10:22. > :10:27.solution. Surviving on death row has taken its toll. Joshua had been

:10:28. > :10:31.slipping on a dirty mattress in the corridor and on one occasion harmed

:10:32. > :10:41.himself so badly other inmates had to perform surgery on him. He was

:10:42. > :10:44.released on humanitarian grounds. He was not eating and he would not have

:10:45. > :10:47.gone on much longer because he was not ingesting food so that was one

:10:48. > :10:52.of the major problems and lack -- connected to the stress he was under

:10:53. > :10:55.was having a serious impact on his mental and physical health.

:10:56. > :11:03.For the back home he is now receiving medical care he so

:11:04. > :11:13.A 17-year-old boy from Medway has died -- free and back home.

:11:14. > :11:14.A 17-year-old boy from Medway has died

:11:15. > :11:19.A pickup truck hit a parked car and a garden wall

:11:20. > :11:22.on the A2 London Road in Newington just before 10'oclock last night.

:11:23. > :11:25.The teenager was a passenger in the truck and died at the scene.

:11:26. > :11:28.Three other people were injured and are being treated in hospital.

:11:29. > :11:29.Water services were restored today to around 3500

:11:30. > :11:32.households near Lewes, after a mains pipe burst overnight.

:11:33. > :11:34.Six schools had to close as a result.

:11:35. > :11:36.It's the second major incident to affect the same stretch

:11:37. > :11:39.South East Water say they will consider compensation

:11:40. > :11:41.on a "case by case basis" if people contact them.

:11:42. > :11:44.Education is being seen as one of the major policy battlegrounds

:11:45. > :11:46.during this general election campaign, with the Conservatives

:11:47. > :11:48.pledging to maintain budgets and allow the expansion of grammars

:11:49. > :11:51.- a topic that's especially hotly debated in the south-east.

:11:52. > :11:55.The other parties accuse the Tories of having cut budgets in real

:11:56. > :11:58.terms in recent years, and claim they can't be trusted

:11:59. > :12:00.Our education correspondent Bryony MacKenzie has been talking

:12:01. > :12:04.to candidates about their policies and how they want to get your vote.

:12:05. > :12:08.In a way the school canteen is a bit like the big education

:12:09. > :12:13.It's all about selection and funding.

:12:14. > :12:16.Talking to schools over the past year, we have heard about parents

:12:17. > :12:18.being asked to pay for more than just the usual snacks.

:12:19. > :12:20.According to the National Audit Office, who scrutinise spending,

:12:21. > :12:23.they found schools face 8% real terms spending cuts,

:12:24. > :12:29.The parties have got their payment cards out, but will their figures

:12:30. > :12:36.6.9 billion on additional education funding, both

:12:37. > :12:42.Britain now has 134 billionaires, and we would be looking to tax some

:12:43. > :12:45.more of those people at a more appropriate rate.

:12:46. > :12:53.While it's tempting to say we will make the corporate giants

:12:54. > :12:56.pay for it, we'll make business pay for it, the fact is that there

:12:57. > :13:02.Kent has the highest number of grammars in any county,

:13:03. > :13:06.and Sussex children are applying for places too.

:13:07. > :13:09.On average, 3% of children at Kent grammars are on free school

:13:10. > :13:10.meals, compared to 13% in the county's

:13:11. > :13:19.How do parties feel about selection and education?

:13:20. > :13:24.I think grammar schools are the complete antithesis

:13:25. > :13:28.of everything I believe that education should be for and about.

:13:29. > :13:33.I believe education is about young people

:13:34. > :13:36.and parents choosing a school, it is not about a school

:13:37. > :13:43.These would not be the grammar schools of old.

:13:44. > :13:46.I went to the secondary modern myself, which was more

:13:47. > :13:50.These will be a mix of schools, probably in metropolitan areas,

:13:51. > :13:53.where those who are academically gifted will have more of a chance

:13:54. > :13:57.The canteen brings us back to that old adage -

:13:58. > :13:59.there's no such thing as a free lunch.

:14:00. > :14:04.The Conservatives say never mind lunch, it's free

:14:05. > :14:10.With education a key issue, and with clear differences,

:14:11. > :14:14.there is lots of choice on offer for.

:14:15. > :14:17.Bryony is outside the Weald of Kent grammar school in Tonbridge tonight.

:14:18. > :14:25.Bryony, grammars is huge issue this election?

:14:26. > :14:34.Absolutely. In 2015 that there was a practical radio silence on grammar

:14:35. > :14:38.schools and David Cameron's Conservatives said they were not

:14:39. > :14:42.very interested in expanding grammars and then the school was

:14:43. > :14:48.allowed to build an annex down the road and now these have become key

:14:49. > :14:54.issues for the parties, especially the Conservatives and Labour. The

:14:55. > :14:57.other big issue is funding and the Conservatives yesterday announced ?4

:14:58. > :15:02.billion, Labour said ?5 billion and the Lib Dems have said ?7 billion

:15:03. > :15:07.more funding for schools if they are elected. We are still to hear from

:15:08. > :15:14.you tip and the And greens but there have been some big promises and we

:15:15. > :15:24.can expect to hear more on that. -- yet to hear from Ukip. A school in

:15:25. > :15:29.Crawley was put into locked down this afternoon after a group of

:15:30. > :15:34.travellers parked up in the playing fields.

:15:35. > :15:39.Also tonight, Hastings celebrates one year since opening its peer and

:15:40. > :15:42.setbacks -- they ask for help to maintain it.

:15:43. > :15:46.And today we have thunder and lightning and many finish with

:15:47. > :15:52.sunshine. Does not bode well for the weekend? I will tell you later in

:15:53. > :15:54.the fourth cast. -- does that bode well?

:15:55. > :15:58.As the First World War raged in 1916, a film was shown in halls

:15:59. > :16:02.It was the first time cameras had been sent into the trenches,

:16:03. > :16:04.and revealed the horror of the Battle of the Somme.

:16:05. > :16:06.It's said some people fainted as they watched.

:16:07. > :16:08.One of the pioneer cameramen was Geoffrey Malins,

:16:09. > :16:12.On Sunday his silent film will be accompanied by a live

:16:13. > :16:14.orchestra at the showing at St Mary in the Castle.

:16:15. > :16:22.Robin Gibson has tonight's special report.

:16:23. > :16:33.They're simple, stark and shocking, even today, after 100 years of news

:16:34. > :16:35.documentaries and feature films which tell the same story.

:16:36. > :16:42.The Battle of the Somme was a first for the British public.

:16:43. > :16:45.In August was its first public screening, 1916.

:16:46. > :16:49.And within six weeks of its release something like 50% of the then UK

:16:50. > :17:02.Geoffrey Malins, who came from Hastings, was the most prominent

:17:03. > :17:16.His silent film was accompanied by an orchestra or piano

:17:17. > :17:22.The Imperial War Museum commission this new score as it restored

:17:23. > :17:29.I was involved with the restoration of the film back in the mid 2000s.

:17:30. > :17:36.And I obviously knew about Malins and the fact

:17:37. > :17:39.he was born in Hastings, and I thought at some point it

:17:40. > :17:42.would be fitting to bring it back to his hometown.

:17:43. > :17:45.So it will be a unique moment on Sunday, when the restored version

:17:46. > :17:51.of the film plays in the period surroundings of St Mary

:17:52. > :17:53.in the Castle to the sound of the Hastings Sinfonia.

:17:54. > :17:58.Our conductor is to play with a click track so the music is

:17:59. > :18:02.We can't be playing explosions seconds behind the film.

:18:03. > :18:04.So I know our conductor has been practising a lot

:18:05. > :18:26.in his garden in London, trying to get it exactly right.

:18:27. > :18:30.We know the great film-maker never returned home here to the town

:18:31. > :18:36.But after 100 years, his greatest achievement is coming

:18:37. > :18:52.home to be seen and heard in the way was intended.

:18:53. > :18:57.The newly-rebuilt Hastings Pier is celebrating its one year

:18:58. > :19:03.anniversary this weekend - an extraordinary year which has seen

:19:04. > :19:05.the pier nominated for a prestigious architectural award,

:19:06. > :19:08.seen 350,000 visitors and played host to numerous events.

:19:09. > :19:12.But the pier costs just under ?800,000 a year to run.

:19:13. > :19:15.A large chunk of that money goes towards replacing 2,000 nuts

:19:16. > :19:19.and bolts each year - as they become worn down by the sea.

:19:20. > :19:22.All of that money is raised entirely voluntarily by 5,000

:19:23. > :19:26.Chrissie Reidy joins us from Hastings -

:19:27. > :19:36.Chrissie this is a huge amount of money to raise every year.

:19:37. > :19:40.Are the trustees of the pier confident it can be found?

:19:41. > :19:48.Bullock, getting the pier to point it is financially viable is a tall

:19:49. > :19:52.order and trustees today told me there have been teething problems

:19:53. > :19:57.but it is effectively a new business that relies solely on public

:19:58. > :19:59.donations. Trustees estimate it will be four years until the pier is self

:20:00. > :20:15.funding. Risen from the ashes Hastings Pier

:20:16. > :20:21.has been brought back to life. It is a pier for the people paid for by

:20:22. > :20:25.the people, costing ?800,000 each year to keep afloat it has been a

:20:26. > :20:29.challenging first 12 months. When that's not some things have worked

:20:30. > :20:34.very well, others not so well and know we have a plan in place for a

:20:35. > :20:38.format your project were we will make it completely self funding. You

:20:39. > :20:52.get around 100 days a year to make it a money to fund 365 days. It is

:20:53. > :20:56.more of a venue than most peers and visitors have visited but it is a

:20:57. > :21:00.20,000 nuts and bolts underneath holding it together. The sea is

:21:01. > :21:06.dissolving it and saw that as 20,000 nuts and bolts and we will have to

:21:07. > :21:10.check close. Who, apart from the Victorians, would be crazy enough to

:21:11. > :21:16.build a structure in such a corrosive environment that could be

:21:17. > :21:20.subject to an earthquake 's 365 days of the year? Built mostly using a

:21:21. > :21:27.lot of lottery funding, the pier was about breaking the mould. It needed

:21:28. > :21:33.reinvention, it had become obsolete. In effect, the previous 19th-century

:21:34. > :21:38.model had reached the end of its, it had reached itself by date. Voted

:21:39. > :21:44.pier of the year age a few months ago has not disappointed. The

:21:45. > :21:50.building you can see behind me is very important and it fits very

:21:51. > :21:55.well. It is what Hastings is about, blank canvases for everyone to work

:21:56. > :21:59.on and it is a wonderful space. Historically there were a lot of

:22:00. > :22:04.concerts and tea dances and you meet lots of lovely men and women who let

:22:05. > :22:09.their partners -- they met their partners here so I think we should

:22:10. > :22:12.have some more tea dancing! The weather may not have been in the

:22:13. > :22:17.mood for celebration but the people's the pier has a bright

:22:18. > :22:22.future. If you have never been here it

:22:23. > :22:28.really is vast different, a vast, venue space. When it comes to

:22:29. > :22:33.encouraging people onto the pier it means they can think outside the

:22:34. > :22:39.box. It got pier of the year if you months ago and is up for another

:22:40. > :22:42.war, the equivalent of the Oscars in the architectural world. They will

:22:43. > :22:49.find out in the next few months -- up for another award.

:22:50. > :22:52.From the Museum of Modern Art in New York to the Tate -

:22:53. > :22:55.British artist and Turner Prize nominee Simon Patterson's work has

:22:56. > :22:57.featured in some of the world's most famous collections.

:22:58. > :23:00.His most known work is his map of the Stars, The Great Bear,

:23:01. > :23:03.a re-imagining of the famous London Tube map, with famous names

:23:04. > :23:06.He's now behind the new exhibition at the De La Warr Pavilion

:23:07. > :23:10.in Bexhill - his first solo show in the UK for almost a decade,

:23:11. > :23:12.and made with the help of Bexhill Sailing Club.

:23:13. > :23:15.and made with the help of Bexhill Sailing Club.

:23:16. > :23:33.Using the sea of Bexhill as a blank canvas seascape is the artistic

:23:34. > :23:37.spectacle which looks set to draw clouds to the De La Warr Pavilion

:23:38. > :23:42.pavilion this Saturday. We have smoked bones with different coloured

:23:43. > :23:45.smoke and the idea of that is we let them off so the detainees go between

:23:46. > :23:50.the smoke and the smoke is different colours and it will be out very

:23:51. > :23:56.interesting and fascinating spectacle -- the boats go between

:23:57. > :24:01.them. It features an anthology of work from Turner prize nominee Simon

:24:02. > :24:07.Patterson. It gives a nod to local fraudsters, charlatans and

:24:08. > :24:12.fantasists including Charles Dawson, and Grey owl, the top name of

:24:13. > :24:18.Hastings born Archibald Laney who passed himself off as a Native

:24:19. > :24:23.American. Making art, sometimes the way everyone thinks of artists as

:24:24. > :24:26.charlatans but they are not. The problem is artists often struggle

:24:27. > :24:31.much more with what is the value of what they do, what is the purpose,

:24:32. > :24:37.what is the function of it? The show takes the visitor on a mini safari

:24:38. > :24:40.through pavilion using drawings, sculptures, photographs and video.

:24:41. > :24:46.In keeping with the travel theme this is one of the highlights, the

:24:47. > :24:52.Yuri Gagarin count. It symbolises his expeditions as an astronaut.

:24:53. > :25:00.What is the significance of the kites? It is more about the idea of

:25:01. > :25:07.sculpture and naming an object. To nail the name on the wall is a

:25:08. > :25:11.ridiculous exercise. So if you fancy exploring the

:25:12. > :25:13.unusual you can take a safari at the De La Warr Pavilion until the 3rd of

:25:14. > :25:25.September. Looks rather lovely. Well, what will

:25:26. > :25:33.be whether to? Georgina is with us. The weekend is not looking too bad.

:25:34. > :25:37.We have all sorts, thunder, hailstorms, lightning. But it looks

:25:38. > :25:47.much better for the weekend. Let's look at some of our weather watcher

:25:48. > :25:51.pictures. Very grey sky, I imagine it is actually raining in that

:25:52. > :25:55.picture. Later in the day in the late afternoon we started to see

:25:56. > :26:01.blue sky coming through and many finishing the day with some late

:26:02. > :26:06.sunshine. Thank you for those pictures and keep those coming in.

:26:07. > :26:10.As we head through tonight, most of the showers should clean away and we

:26:11. > :26:19.are left with clear spells, still a favourite of cloud through the

:26:20. > :26:24.night. -- fear come out. If you're an early bird tomorrow it

:26:25. > :26:28.is likely to be chilly frosting, some showers but they are pretty

:26:29. > :26:32.isolated so you could miss them all together and lots of sunshine.

:26:33. > :26:39.Sunshine and showers tomorrow but you may have a dry day. A bit more

:26:40. > :26:45.breezy tomorrow also. That drops off through Saturday night and a further

:26:46. > :26:50.quiet night, largely dry and quite good for stargazing. Sunday and lots

:26:51. > :26:55.of sunshine, looking largely dry, a lovely day to get out and about with

:26:56. > :26:58.temperatures reaching 18 Celsius and a lot less breezy as well so quite

:26:59. > :27:05.pleasant on Sunday. I want to quickly showed you the temperature

:27:06. > :27:10.is what it is Monday's temperatures that are of most interest and we

:27:11. > :27:14.could see them reaching the low 20s. A bit more closely on Monday but

:27:15. > :27:16.still pretty warm start to the week. We like lots of sunshine over the

:27:17. > :27:21.weekend! Before we go - here's Natalie Graham

:27:22. > :27:33.with the details of our special It is a political battle over

:27:34. > :27:38.security, trade and immigration. It is a battle over the future of the

:27:39. > :27:42.NHS. And it is a battle over how to fund and run our schools.

:27:43. > :27:49.Politicians from the main five parties will be fighting it out here

:27:50. > :27:51.on bank holiday Monday, maybe 29th, and we would like you to be part of

:27:52. > :27:57.the debate. -- maybe 29th. If you live or work

:27:58. > :28:00.in the South East, and you'd like to be in the audience,

:28:01. > :28:13.send an email to... That is on bank holiday Monday.

:28:14. > :28:17.Right, that's it from me for this week.

:28:18. > :28:37.I will see you on Monday. And I am back at 10:30pm. Have a nice.

:28:38. > :28:43.dazzling designs and inspiring ideas.

:28:44. > :28:48.Daily coverage of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017.