24/12/2016 South Today

Good evening. I'm Katharine Da Costa.

Three people have been rescued from a care home in Worthing

Local crews needed backup after reports people were still inside.

One person was treated in hospital after breathing in smoke.

It happened at Hollywynd residential home in St Botolph's Road.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

Police are searching for a motorist who hit a 71-year-old man

It happened on Shinfield Road yesterday at around 4:45pm.

The man suffered serious injuries and has been taken

to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.

An investigation's under way after a dog attack

in the New Forest left three alpacas with serious injuries.

The animals were mauled around the neck by at least

It's the second attack in two months,

and a community has rallied round to raise money to help.

To have these animals back at home is nothing short

A second dog attack in just two months left all three

They had I think it was five hours' worth of surgery,

where they had a team of vets working on them.

They were all losing a lot of blood, so it was really, really critical

to get them all into a vet's as soon as we could.

There are 80 alpacas at Petlake Farm, but Oberon,

Aragorn and Theo are especially valuable as the three stud

Their owner Brian now wants changes to the law

to give them more protection.

Laws that we work tp at the moment were written back in the 1950s

when there weren't alpacas around, so alpacas are not classed

as agricultural livestock, so not afforded the same protection

These alpacas will now remain on medication

until the end of the year, but following such a dreadful attack

some good news has come out of it, as the local community have now

More than ?1,200 has been raised online since the attack,

which police continue to investigate.

Scientists from Oxford say the Arctic region is experiencing

They've recorded temperatures of just below freezing,

rather than the more usual level of about minus 30.

The mild conditions are caused by a powerful air current

Experts at Oxford's Environmental Change Institute claim such

temperature surges will become more frequent because of climate change.

A group of volunteers from Oxfordshire have been helping

to spread a little cheer among elderly and vulnerable

Ray Collins from Wantage has put together 120 hampers from food items

Ray and his team are also organising a Christmas meal for 60 people

who may have been a victim of crime or suffering from loneliness.

It is just trying to break that cycle of loneliness.

They make friends at the dinner, the police as well

come back and say how chuffed people are.

Just today I have had three people come back and say how

chuffed their neighbour was just to get one of these hampers.

As I say, it just reminds them that people are thinking

It helps me a lot, it is money-saving, they do not have

to go out shopping and spend all my little pennies

So, yes, it comes as a surprise but it is very handy.

Finally, one of the South's most famous museums has posted

# Ding dong merrily on high... #.

This is the Christmas message from the Ashmolean in Oxford.

The video features exhibits coming to life and singing and has

been viewed and shared thousands of times.

The post thanks the curators and staff, but is keen to stress no

artefacts were harmed in the making of the short film.

We have a mild Christmas Day but it will also be windy.

As we head through the night tonight, the cloud is thickening,

it is drawing in that milder air, a bit of patchy rain

and drizzle perhaps, maybe some hill fog in places,

but it will be mild, with the lows dropping down

So, mild, but perhaps a murky start to Christmas Day.

We tend to see a fair amount of cloud through the day,

though you might see a few bright spells here and there.

But it is damp at times through the day tomorrow,

but it is ever so mild, one of the mildest

Christmas days on record, despite a strong blustery wind.

Brighter but chillier as we head into Boxing Day.

Hello. Nice and toasty both inside and out. It even struggling to snow

across the Scottish hills, it's so mild outside, whether you like it or

not. It's all thanks to this storm, big windstorm in the North Atlantic.

It is drawing up warm air from the southern climes. You can see the

Azores, warm air moving in our direction. It's here to stay. Just

in time for Christmas. Cloudy with bits of rain in the centre pushing

through across parts of Scotland, western part of the UK. It could be

quite heavy, that rain, for a time. The real story is how my old tonight

and into tomorrow is going to be. First thing in the morning, 10-11d

across the