14/04/2017 South East Today

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A man is recovering after being stabbed in the jaw in St Leonards

Sussex Police say emergency services were called to Quebec Road

after reports of a dispute just before 5.30pm.

The victim's injuries aren't life threatening.

One man has been arrested and is being questioned.

There's a warning tonight to people hoping to travel by rail over

Southern, Southeastern and Gatwick Express are all taking

advantage of the absence of commuters to carry out

It's a bank holiday weekend, so it must mean engineering works

and at the heart of most of the disruption for those

in the south-east is the huge Thameslink programme

at London Bridge, now four years in, and due to be completed next summer.

On the Friday and Saturday, for both the Charing Cross

and Cannon Street lines, they won't be travelling

through London Bridge here, and on the Sunday morning,

we reopen the Charing Cross services but the Cannon Street

services remain closed, and will reopen for the start

At Tonbridge today, most trains have been running,

although it has been replacement buses for those

Millions of pounds are being spent on 200 engineering projects this

Easter, with the south-east one of the worst affected regions.

Among other disruptions, there are no Southern trains

There is no Gatwick Express and Southeastern services

But as Network Rail points out, the holiday means the number

of people using the trains drop by half, and on the whole,

passengers are sympathetic over the timing of the engineering works.

There would be hell to pay if they did it in peak hour

when people are trying to get to and from work, so yes,

the work has got to be done, so we have to put up with it

They need to do it, but if they can minimise as much as possible

the effect it will have, but yes, I understand it.

Everyone should be happy, they're not working and they're

The main challenge, making sure all the work

A man was airlifted to hospital this afternoon after a car hit

It happened just after 3pm on the A296 near the

He was taken to the Kings College Hospital in London.

Three other people were treated at the scene.

Football, and promotion is closer than ever for Brighton tonight.

They won and half an hour ago their arch rivals Newcastle only

drew thanks to a last gasp Leeds United goal.

These are the two goals from Anthony Knockeart that put

smiles on the Seagulls fans faces at Wolverhampton.

The only frustration was that their other rivals,

So all eyes now on Monday's crunch match at home to Wigan.

Meanwhile, in League One Gillingham at home beat Bristol Rovers 3-1.

Charlton Athletic drew 1-1 against Coventry City.

In League Two, it was a 0-0 draw for Crawley hosting Cheltenham.

There's a treat in store for fans of Regency piano music

A piano that King George IV himself may have played has been bought

at auction and returned to the city after an absence of 175 years.

He was perhaps the greatest royal patron of the arts.

George IV loved dining, drinking, dancing and music.

His piano, extremely expensive and flamboyant, like the king.

When we heard that this piano was coming up for sale

we thought, "This is something we absolutely must acquire".

And so I'm absolutely delighted that it's back

here for the first time in 175 years.

Built in 1821 by Thomas Tomkison, rosewood inlaid with brass.

The piano has only been back a couple of days.

This painting shows its original position in the entrance hall.

There's so much detail on this piano and these mythological creatures

were only identified the day before yesterday as griffins

and griffins were sacred to the god Apollo and,

of course, Apollo is so synonymous with music.

It is wonderful having this back, because hopefully,

if we make it fully playable, it will be the only historical

instrument original to this building that can be played.

Sold for ?62,000, it was solely funded by grants and trusts.

The piano may have been played by composer Franz Liszt

The national weather in a moment. Here is Nina with the rest of our

Easter weather. Thank you very much, Jon. There is a weak weather front

on its way. A sprinkling expected tonight. Clouds were gathering

through this afternoon. It will be hit and miss. Nothing too

significant, but a damp feel to the end of the night with cloud around.

So not as cold as recent nights with temperatures dropping to eight or

nine Celsius. We start off fairly overcast. Still a few showers first

thing tomorrow morning, but once they have cleared away the cloud

will break up, it will brighten up and we will see sunshine, but left

with a cool north-westerly breeze so it will feel chilly throughout the

afternoon even with the sunshine, we are looking at highs of 12 to 13

Celsius. The forecast for Easter day has been problematic and at the

moment we're thinking it should be mainly dry and bright during the

morning, but the afternoon brings thicker cloud and rain and

temperatures 12 to 13 Celsius.