01/01/2017 South East Today

Good evening. late news at 10:35.

Three men and two women have been arrested on suspicion of murder

after a man fell from flats and died in the early of hours

The man was pronounced dead at the scene after falling

through a utility room ceiling at a property in St

Police and paramedics were called to the house in Charles Road

The man had been found after falling through the roof of a room

A building which is divided into several flats.

Though it had been New Year's Eve, neighbours say they were unaware

of any disturbance until emergency teams were on the scene.

As I was pulling in, paramedic turned up.

Didn't see any lights go on, didn't see where he was going.

And as I went inside, other police cars and ambulance

There were police outside and a Soco.

And I said, that's really strange, they wouldn't all be there,

Throughout the day, police had been visiting other houses on the road.

As forensic teams work inside the building,

outside a drone has been brought in to provide pictures from the air.

We are conducting a number of enquiries at this time.

We are speaking to a number of the neighbours and people

in the area to find out exactly what has happened.

It is very early stages at this time and we still have a lot

The police are not releasing any details about the victim

until members of his family have been informed.

Police have launched an investigation tonight after three

bodies were discovered near the Port of Dover.

It follows an operation this afternoon involving

the Dover Coastguard near Langdon Cliffs,

Our reporter Amanda Akass is with me now.

Well, police were cold to lead on this by a member of the public about

half past do who was concerned about the welfare of the man they had seen

there. The area as part of the white Cliffs of Dover National Trust site.

This cross by footpath is and is very popular with walkers. Two

coastguard search and rescue teams, Holly Kaptur and lifeboat were sent

out to search in the afternoon. -- helicopter. The police did discover

the body of a man at the foot of the cliffs, but they also found a body

of another man and a woman there. of another man and a woman there.

They did not believe the deaths of the second man and woman are

related, but they are looking at the backgrounds of all the people

defined at how they died. Very mysterious.

Three quarters of passengers on the Southern network say

they don't support the ongoing strike action, according

to a survey by the Association of British Commuters.

Today is the second of the latest three-day walk outs by conductors.

But the Association argues its members are more angry

about ongoing disruption on the network, which it claims

A lot of people do support the unions.

What they try to do and what they believe in,

they just find it difficult to support the strike action.

Particularly, given the message that comes comes

from within the Government that says that all of this destruction that is

And just a reminder that BBC South East Today is hosting

a special Question Time style debate about the ongoing crisis

on Southern Rail services on Sunday the 8th of January.

If you live or work in the south east and want to be

in the audience, send an email to [email protected]

with your details and how you've been affected.

Football and Charlton Athletic left it late to rescue a point

with a 1-1 draw yesterday, while Crawley Town suffered

Southend appeared to be heading for their fourth victory in a row

after Simon Cox put them ahead midway in the first half.

But in the 89th minute, Andrew Crofts slammed in an equaliser -

his first goal since joining Charlton in July.

Dermott Drummey, Crawley's manager, was in bed with the flu so missed

His side resisted strongly for the first half,

but Oscar Threll-keld opened the scoring for Plymouth

Craig Tanner followed up with a second in stoppage time.

The defeat means Crawley drop to fifteenth in League Two.

Let's have a look at the weather with Aisling Creevey.

It certainly was a damp start to the New Year

with outbreaks of rain, but as we head through the rest

We will see a good deal of sunshine around as well,

we should also see a lot of dry weather on the cards as well.

Over the next couple of hours, we continue to see outbreaks

of rain, we continue to see further heavy pulses of rain, as well.

As we had through the night, that rain will very slowly sink away

to the south and will turn drier behind in the skies

Overnight temperatures will fall away as well as those skies clear

and we will see the risk of some overnight frosts forming

and there is also some risk of some is as well,

as temperatures fall very close to or below freezing.

There will be a lot of cloud around at first,

but as we had through the day, we will see increasing

Always just seen the odd patch of cloud coming and going.

Despite that sunshine, it is a very cold day.

Highs tomorrow five Celsius, possibly six Celsius.

Over the next couple of days, we do have a lot of sunshine on offer,

so highs tomorrow around five Celsius.

A very cold night in store for Monday night into Tuesday,

so it will extra time into Tuesday morning if you're

Certainly staying very cold and frosty over the next week.

Good evening. Well, to Bake Off 2017, the weather has been fairly

mixed, wet and cloudy in the South, colder but clearer further north.

This was taken in County Down earlier in the day, plenty of

sunshine there, but with clear skies by day, a cold nights tonight. That

will fill the south across the country, the cloud and rain clearing

through the early hours of Monday morning across that area. This is

how it is looking first thing, cold and frosty, colder than this in the

countryside, still some wintry showers for northern Scotland into

the north-east of England, so a chance of icy stretches