29/01/2017 South Today

For years he's been battling the post traumatic after effects

Today, the local community gave a huge boost to

Roger Lewis' recovery, by re-uniting him

A fundraising campaign has covered the cost of flying them

halfway round the world, to be with their father

Back together after 15 years, Roger left his daughters in Australia

after marital break-up and mental health problems brought on

by his experiences serving in Kosovo.

My illness got worse and I was building up a dependency

on alcohol and had got to the stage where

things were really bad, I came back to the UK,

a real hard decision, because I was balancing the

well-being of my children with having me around,

against my needs to get medical help.

Roger's health means he is unable to fly, so his

partner Amanda decided to get the girls to him instead, and grant

crowdfunded their fair on the Gold Coast to the Isle of Wight.

They met their youngest siblings for the first

It's like a dream, it's really weird to see our dad, too, to walk

We haven't used that word in 15 years.

The girls say they don't care what happened in the

I think we had a really long time been really, really angry.

I don't know about you but it's got to

the point where it was kind of like welcoming you going to have one dad,

you have one biological dad and you're going to have him in your

life or you're not going to have him in your life and I wanted him in my

Roger says he turned a corner three years ago,

when he got involved in the charity Combat Stress.

They gave me the tools and understanding of

what's going wrong, physically, and mentally come inside my body.

That causes flashbacks, the hallucinations,

The family have a lot of people to thank,

and a lot to catch up on over the next three weeks.

Police in Portsmouth have begun a murder investigation,

after officers were called to reports

She died at the scene shortly afterwards.

Two women, both from the city, have been arrested.

Human remains have been found in a park in Southampton.

A cordon is in place while Hampshire Police

investigate the discovery close to the River Itchen

The family of a man who went missing in July have been informed.

An award-winning young film maker from Hungerford

says he can compete with big movie studios,

despite only having a tiny budget to work with.

Drew Casson has used digital technology to craft his latest

action film on a shoestring, and is also using the internet

On top of that, he's drafted in a host of YouTube stars,

to reach out to new audiences. James Ingham reports.

The British military have issued a nationwide evacuation.

Britain descends into an alien apocalypse.

This is a familiar horror theme, but The Darkest Dawn is the work of

a new generation, making films differently.

Nobody's ever taught me how to hold a camera, frame a shot,

how to make a plane look like it crashes on the computer, so I

The society we live in today, with the technology that is

available, and a lot of its free, the only

available, and a lot of its free, the only thing you're limited

The film's being produced by a small,

independent company, with backing from the somewhat larger

Pinewood also recognises that there was a whole generation of

talent and not just a new generation of talent

but a new generation of platform

through which you can access the audiences.

Hello, friends, welcome back to my channel.

Some of the new audience may be fans of the

YouTube stars in the cast, like Jerry Wallis, Mawaan Riswan

They've grown a huge following from people who love their

This is kind of my first real acting experience,

Three, two, one... Action!

Part of the film was shot in Berkshire and Oxfordshire.

the film will be distributed digitally,

This is how the Indies now take on the giants of film,

feeding their production straight to viewers' screens.

Emily Wood has your weather forecast.

Hello, it is looking rather unsettled for the week ahead but for

tonight we still have a lot of cloud around with some patchy light rain

and drizzle and a bit of mist and fog rolling through the night. Not

cold, loads of five and 9 degrees. A great start to tomorrow, some patchy

drizzle at first and some dry weather for a time, but then further

outbreaks of rain pushing in from the west during the afternoon, but

still miles for the time of year with highs of 11 Celsius. Tuesday,

cloud and outbreaks of rain, some bright weather for a time on

Wednesday that more rain on Thursday.

There's more on the BBC News website.

Our next update is tonight at 10.20pm.