23/04/2017 South East Today

With the Conservatives holding twenty seven of twenty nine

seats in the south east - today opposition parties have

revealed that tactical alliances and voting could be used

One Liberal Democrat candidate in a marginal East Sussex

constituency has told the Sunday Politics Programme

that he won't agree to a formal alliance with other parties -

but has called on the wider electorate to lend him their vote

The Conservatives holding all but two seats here.

So will informal tactical alliances between opposition parties

Be used to break the Tory stranglehold?

That the clear we are not talking about a single electoral pact, what

we are talking about is the possibility for collaboration and

cooperation at a local level and -- in just a handful of constituencies

in the best way to do that is make sure the anti-Tory vote not split.

Today Ukip leader Paul Nuttall admitted the party may not put

candidates up against some pro Brexit MPs.

What I don't want to see happen is good Brexit MPs, not fly by night

ones, people who have campaigned for years for Brexit, I don't want to

In the south east's second most marginal seat - Eastbourne

Lib Dem candidate Stephen Lloyd said there would be no formal alliance

to take on the Conservatives, but welcomed tactical voters.

I am seeing you know that I am the only one who can beat the Tory

candidate so please lend me your vote and I will respect it and I

will do my best to win. But it is the only rate will. This is the

choice around who we want to be leader, maybe want to be in Europe

negotiating to make sure that we get right deal in Europe for the British

people and particularly my constituency.

Defending a majority of just over 1200 in Hove

Labour's Peter Kyle said there would be electoral surprises in store.

I believe it is going to be a maverick election where you will see

very surprising results up and down the country.

All parties have till June eighth To influence the direction

of the electoral tide Piers Hopkirk, BBC South East Today.

And you can follow the election campaign over the coming

weeks and find out more about the candidates

on our Radio stations Kent, Sussex and Surrey

and on our websites, bbc.co.uk/kent, /sussex or /surrey.

A family from Kent say they feel devastated after items

belonging to their baby - who'd died recently - were stolen.

A blanket, toy and car seat were inside a Ford Fiesta that was

The parents say the belongings hold huge sentimental value

Detectives are appealing for witnesses.

One person's been taken to hospital after a fire at a block

Firefighters were called to the four storey building

in Leslie Street in Eastbourne just after ten o'clock last night.

Three people were rescued and six others were led to safety.

Football now and Gillingham's relegation worries continue

after their defeat to Fleetwood Town.

Here's Peter Whittlesea with a round up of the weekend's goals.

A win against promotion chasing -- chasing Fleetwood would have

eliminated debtors and the own goal eliminated debtors and the own goal

that term than just that. Ashley Hunter at other ideas, bringing the

game level with his left foot drive. The Gill responded through a free

kick, Rory Donnelly 's firsts goal since August. Fleetwood pressed with

this long. Kyle Dempsey compounded the pain, firing home in the 92nd

minute. The Gill is still not certain about avoiding the drop.

Charleston consigned Tessa Field through the 26 defeat of the season,

they then doubled the lead through top scorer Ricky Holmes, his 12th

goal of the campaign. Chesterfield a consolation, Rhys Mitchell and

eventually punishing and Haddix defensive mix-up. James collects

figures team into the lead against Carlisle and doubled the advantage

not long after. Carlisle were not about to lie down, the game level

just before half-time. Carlisle made it three when Reggie Lamberth

through the crawly defence to give the Cumbrians elite. Crawley went

out of it, Jimmy Smith grabbing an injury time point to allay any

relegation fears. Today turned out to be quite a

pleasant end to the weekend, certainly much warmer than the

weather we were expecting in the week ahead. As we head to tonight we

have mainly clear skies actually, and it is looking largely dry, too.

Temperature wise under the clear skies managing to get a bit lower in

rural spots. We could see those down into the low single figures but for

some of us they will stay up into seven, eight, 9 degrees. A largely

dry night followed by a largely dry morning, bring this first thing we

could see some sunshine of the way through until lunchtime but that

cloud start to build and we also see some outbreaks of rain. The bulk of

which would be until later on in the day. There will be some westerly

wind as well. Temperature is up to 14 or 15 degrees tomorrow, but it is

Tuesday and Wednesday that we are expecting some rather heavy showers

at times. They could have a wintry element to them, probably some hail

and Thunder makes them but towards the end of the leak thing settle

down so it is only a bit of an end of April blip.

We'll be back after the national news at 10.20.

We had a beautiful day across most of UK today, but there's a taste of

winter on the way. Even a little bit of snow. Its forecast for one or two

places. This is the forecast tonight. We're watching this cold

front, this will line, this weather front. Everything to the north of

that line is cold as dreaming straight from the Arctic. --

streaming straight from the