09/04/2017 South East Today

Good evening. Kennedy, BBC News at Vimy Ridge.

12,000 runners have taken part in the eighth Brighton marathon.

Stuart Hawkes won the men's race, Helen Davies, the women's.

Chrissie Reidy was there watching the action

As the sun beamed down on Brighton for the annual marathon, expectant

At Preston Park, some 12,000 runners set off just after 9am, all ages,

abilities and of course all the usual colour

spurred on by the many spectators along the route.

This is his third time doing the Brighton one but he's done

six marathons in the last couple of years.

He's actually just on the Manchester one last weekend.

I've not been to Brighton before so it is a lovely place.

While others got a different soaking but with shade in

short supply it was a welcome cooldown.

BBC Sussex presenter Neil Pringle got in on the action as did

Although for some it was all too much.

A lot of the runners are now coming in over the finish line.

Some are running, many are walking, some are even hobbling.

They have completed the 26 mile route, a phenomenal achievement.

First marathon so it is a good effort, pleased with it.

Long training sessions and pleased to be over.

How long? 3.45.

Are you ready for a lie down? Yes.

After pounding the streets for 26 miles, it was time to

It took me ten minutes to get from the finish to me.

I am hoping to walk off the couch, that is the plan.

A triumphant day and millions of pounds raised for charity.

Passengers leaving Brighton railway station are facing

This was the scene a short while ago.

A fault on a train between Brighton and Preston Park has blocked some

of the London bound lines and signalling problems are also

Police are appealing for witnesses following an assault in Sheppey,

after which two men were taken to hospital with stab wounds.

A fight reportedly broke out between a group of men

inside The Talk of the Town pub in Leysdown and by the sea wall,

in The Promenade, at around nine o'clock on Saturday evening.

It's not believed the injuries are life-threatening.

Kent Police are continuing their inquiries after fragments

of human bone were found at a house in Gillingham.

Forensic officers searched the property in Kingsnorth Road

following the discovery on Friday night.

Police say they're treating the matter as unexplained.

The fragments are being forensically analysed to determine their age.

Gillingham hover just one point away from the League 1

relegation zone despite their draw against Millwall yesterday.

Charlton were successful at home, but in League 2.

Gillinham's goalkeeper saved the struggling League 1 side from

Millwall's Steve Morison attempted to put them one up but it was

Morison tried again but once again, Holy was there.

It was Gillingham who opened the scoring midway through

This was Joe Quigley's first goal for the club.

Millwall equalised though just five minutes later.

Morison finally finding the target from a Jed Wallace rebound.

Ricky Holmes's goal six minutes in got Charlton off to a

good start but a Southend corner allowed John White to head in his

reply five minutes later, equalising the score.

Nathan Byrne's cross was flicked on by Jake Forster-Caskey

before the ball came off Southend defender Adam Thompson in the

Crawley's Dean Cox scored from close range from a Lewis Young cross

to put them ahead in the 20th minute at home to Plymouth Argyle.

A Mark Connolly foul followed by a Graham Carey penalty

James Collins was sent off his second yellow card 11

before full-time and Argyle's Ryan Taylor scored a dramatic stoppage

Now, it's been a beautiful day across the region.

Let's see how the week ahead is looking with Sara Thornton.

Some of us inland especially enjoyed some real warmth

It has been a bit cooler on the coast with an onshore

breeze but we all managed to see glorious sunshine for most of the

If you enjoyed the warmth I'm afraid it's all change.

Much cooler in the coming days although predominantly dry as we

We've got a cold front sinking towards us at the moment

from the north and west of the UK, slowly making its way

into Kent, Sussex, the London area as we head

into the early hours of tomorrow morning.

In fact, we will stay dry but bits and pieces of cloud slowly sinking

their way in and across us as we go through the early hours of tomorrow.

A southerly wind for much of the night before that comes in and

As we start, not long after breakfast tomorrow,

we get more of that north-westerly setting in.

Some sunshine to start but it will feel much

Althoguh we've lost the onshore breeze.

We get some cloud bubbling up in the afternoon

If you're in the sunshine, not feeling unpleasant, if

you're in the cloud, 12 or 13 degrees with that

It will feel quite a shock to the system.

In the coming days, as I say, it will be dry.

When you are in the sunshine not too unpleasant but the

temperatures staying in the low teens.

We'll be back with another update for you at 10.20pm.

For now though, from all of us here, have a good evening.

Good evening. If you can use a smelter describes the weather it

would be owed a barbecue, and why not? Beautiful blue skies with highs

of 25 degrees, yes, there was more cloud further west, and it was thick

enough for some rain in the far north-west of Scotland. You can see

this old snow on the tops of the mountings, and there might be a

fresh dusting on the higher ground through the night and I, thanks to

this weather front which is coming this way steadily south -- through

the night overnight. Sleet and snow showers on the tops of the hills and

the mountings, and this brings a band of cloud and