:00:02. > :00:04.Welcome to South East Today, I'm Rob Smith.
:00:04. > :00:08.And I'm Polly Evans. Tonight's top stories:
:00:08. > :00:11.Police work with doctors to uncover more about the injuries that left a
:00:11. > :00:14.baby boy critically ill in hospital. We're live with the latest in
:00:15. > :00:22.Gravesend. A Sussex woman in constant pain
:00:22. > :00:26.pleads for a change in the law to allow her to end her life at home.
:00:26. > :00:28.Also in tonight's programme: the woman undergoing IVF told by the
:00:28. > :00:31.clinic her embryos have been misplaced - and they can't
:00:31. > :00:35.guarantee that they haven't been implanted in another patient.
:00:35. > :00:39.physically sick. For two or three days, I was ringing them up, saying,
:00:39. > :00:42."Have you found them yet?". A Dickens of an exhibition -
:00:42. > :00:44.celebrating the life of Kent's greatest author as his 200th
:00:44. > :00:54.birthday approaches And reunited after 60 years through
:00:54. > :01:01.
:01:01. > :01:04.Facebook - the sisters with a lot Good evening. Kent Police say
:01:04. > :01:07.they're working with doctors to discover the nature and extent of
:01:07. > :01:11.the injuries that have left a one- month old baby boy from Gravesend
:01:11. > :01:14.in a critical condition in hospital. Following angry scenes at the
:01:14. > :01:19.weekend, the police are warning local people who want justice for
:01:19. > :01:22.the boy not to take the law into their own hands. A man and a woman
:01:22. > :01:29.arrested on suspicion of assault have been released on bail. Simon
:01:29. > :01:33.Jones reports. A community in shock, praying for
:01:34. > :01:38.the little boy's recovery. I have two children of my own and if it
:01:38. > :01:44.was to happen, if something bad was to happen, I would expect everybody
:01:44. > :01:51.to be there. Looking at my little baby, he is only six Mon-Sun they
:01:52. > :01:58.keep crying every time I look at him. -- six months. He is in our
:01:58. > :02:02.thoughts and prayers. It is not a nice thing to have happened to you,
:02:03. > :02:07.yeah. Being a parent myself, I have come to show my respect for the
:02:07. > :02:11.little boy and my wishes for him, it is very upsetting. On Saturday
:02:12. > :02:15.night, more than 100 people gathered for a vigil. The mood
:02:15. > :02:19.became highly charged, with some of the crowd chanting and wanting
:02:19. > :02:23.justice for the injured a baby. Facebook page is have been set up
:02:23. > :02:28.with strong language. There has been a lot of unhelpful speculation
:02:28. > :02:32.around social media and also what is going on in the community. It is
:02:32. > :02:37.our job to establish the facts and to conduct a thorough and
:02:37. > :02:40.professional investigation. That is what we are doing and when the
:02:40. > :02:44.investigation is reaching the correct an appropriate stage, we
:02:45. > :02:49.will announce further details. But I would urge the public to remain
:02:49. > :02:54.calm. Will we will be releasing a Bates in relation to the baby's
:02:55. > :03:00.welfare and to focus on the fact that his swift recovery -- we will
:03:00. > :03:03.be releasing update. The baby was admitted to hospital with a serious
:03:03. > :03:06.condition before being transferred to London. A man and woman arrested
:03:06. > :03:12.the same day on suspicion of assault by released on bail on
:03:13. > :03:16.Friday. Over the weekend, there were a series of vigils in the area
:03:16. > :03:20.for the child. A police say they need to carry on investigations to
:03:20. > :03:24.find out why the baby had to go to hospital and if any offences have
:03:25. > :03:28.been committed. Chinese lanterns have been released to reflect the
:03:28. > :03:32.concerns of a community, and tonight, candles are being lit as
:03:33. > :03:35.the police urged the public to focus their energies of a swift
:03:35. > :03:39.recovery of the baby. Simon Jones is outside the local
:03:39. > :03:45.church, where prayers are being said for the baby boy. What's the
:03:45. > :03:49.latest on his condition? He is in a critical but stable
:03:49. > :03:53.condition. Police say they are now working with doctors to ascertain
:03:53. > :03:57.the extent of the injuries but would not be drawn on what they
:03:57. > :04:02.might be. They also say they are working with the local community to
:04:02. > :04:07.ease up the sense of calm, worrying that things may escalate, so they
:04:07. > :04:10.are appealing for people to keep calm. At the local church, they
:04:10. > :04:13.have been saying prayers and opening the doors for people to
:04:13. > :04:17.come in for a quiet mothered of contemplation and light a candle if
:04:17. > :04:21.they wish. -- moment. Simon, thank you.
:04:21. > :04:24.A woman from Sussex wants a change in the law to allow her to end her
:04:24. > :04:27.life at home surrounded by friends and family, rather than have to
:04:27. > :04:29.spend thousands of pounds to go to a clinic abroad.
:04:29. > :04:33.Jackie Meacock has a condition which isn't life-threatening, but
:04:33. > :04:36.the constant pain has made her want to die. She's kept a video diary to
:04:36. > :04:42.publicise a subject which she says too many people in authority won't
:04:42. > :04:47.talk about. John Young reports. This is Jackie Meacock's story,
:04:47. > :04:50.recorded on home video camera. You won't see how in the paper, she
:04:50. > :04:57.doesn't represent any campaigning group, but she wants these pictures
:04:57. > :05:05.on the local news to keep alive a debate about death. I am not
:05:06. > :05:12.feeling that good. I then a lot of pain and shaking. -- I am in. I am
:05:12. > :05:17.exhausted already. And I have only been up about an hour so far.
:05:17. > :05:27.pain and shaking comes from a condition which is not fatal, but
:05:27. > :05:32.the pain relief injections barely work any more. I want to be asleep
:05:32. > :05:35.and not in pain, so I count the hours for half butt stake, 9
:05:35. > :05:40.o'clock to come around, until I wake tomorrow morning when it all
:05:40. > :05:44.comes around again -- half past eight. Jackie Meacock lives alone
:05:44. > :05:48.in a flat in Brighton close to her daughters. Earlier this year, she
:05:48. > :05:52.watched her husband die of cancer. She can just about cope outside,
:05:52. > :05:57.she stays with her daughter some weekends, but says nothing is easy
:05:57. > :06:07.any more. She has contemplated suicide but is frightened she will
:06:07. > :06:14.
:06:14. > :06:21.mess it up. I am tired. I am in pain. Every waking moment. I can't
:06:21. > :06:24.deal with it any more. For Jackie Meacock, this could be the way out,
:06:24. > :06:29.the Dignitas -- Dignitas Clinic in Switzerland, where patients can end
:06:29. > :06:35.their lives by taking a mixture of chemicals surrounded by lap once.
:06:35. > :06:40.It is a step taken by Tony Clements, who lived in deal, but it costs
:06:40. > :06:44.around �10,000, a price Jackie says she cannot afford, and to ask for
:06:44. > :06:50.help is risky. Michael Irwin, a retired GP, was recently questioned
:06:50. > :06:54.by police when he said he was willing to help a woman from
:06:54. > :06:58.Eastbourne travel there. Sussex, it seems, is the county ready for the
:06:58. > :07:02.debate, with one of the highest proportions of over 85s in the
:07:02. > :07:07.country. But many people in authority seemed to be reluctant to
:07:07. > :07:10.talk about this subject. Jackie Meacock's MP told they are the
:07:10. > :07:17.phone he would be happy to raise it behind the scenes at Westminster
:07:17. > :07:24.but it is too emotive to talk about on camera. Charities say if they
:07:24. > :07:28.spoke about it publicly, they risk elevating a condition which isn't
:07:28. > :07:32.terminal and associating it with suicide. I even spoke to the
:07:32. > :07:35.consultant to give Jackie Meacock have paid medication. He said he
:07:35. > :07:39.probably would come on camera but when he discussed it with his
:07:39. > :07:43.bosses, they told me he had changed his mind. It has been left to
:07:43. > :07:47.pressure groups to keep an eye on coverage and fill the vacuum. One
:07:47. > :07:51.group, unable to comment on Jackie Meacock's case itself, but keen to
:07:51. > :07:55.say this. I think society are talking about this, people are
:07:55. > :07:59.talking about this and taking matters into their own hands but
:07:59. > :08:03.decision-makers are turning a blind eye. Others argue we can't let a
:08:03. > :08:07.handful of heartbreaking cases influenced the law. The law should
:08:07. > :08:10.protect people and the present law does that, which is why I think it
:08:10. > :08:13.should remain in place and what we should concentrate on is how we
:08:13. > :08:18.improve the care for patients, support for their families in what
:08:18. > :08:23.is obviously a very distressing circumstances. My mum has been than
:08:23. > :08:28.a lot of bad news regarding treatment. We have tried so many
:08:28. > :08:35.things -- avenues. She still has paid injections, which are not
:08:35. > :08:44.working. -- she still has pain injections. How life is more Finn,
:08:44. > :08:47.pain and sadness. That is my life. A sad story for everyone. But it is
:08:47. > :08:53.one that Jackie Meacock believes needs to be told what she still has
:08:53. > :08:56.the strength to tallied. -- while she still has the strength to tell
:08:56. > :08:59.There is more more information about the issues raised by Jackie
:08:59. > :09:02.Meacock's story on the health pages of the BBC website. There there are
:09:02. > :09:05.also links to sites that provide support to people affected by
:09:05. > :09:08.terminal illness. In a moment: It's been blamed for
:09:08. > :09:16.causing mini-earthquakes, but we're on the verge of seeing the
:09:16. > :09:20.controversial practice of fracking An investigation is underway after
:09:20. > :09:24.it emerged staff at a Kent clinic specialising in IVF may have lost a
:09:24. > :09:27.woman's frozen embryos. Alison Austen-Hennessy was told that her
:09:27. > :09:33.embryos had been misplaced while in storage and she says bosses can't
:09:33. > :09:36.guarantee that they haven't been implanted in another patient.
:09:36. > :09:39.Alison, who's from Ramsgate, has a four-year-old son, Roman, thanks to
:09:39. > :09:47.IVF and had hoped to have a second after spending thousands of pounds
:09:47. > :09:52.on fertility treatment. Alex Beard reports.
:09:52. > :09:55.It was while signing routine papers that her IVF Clinic in Canterbury
:09:55. > :10:00.that Alison Austen-Hennessy was told the embryos she had hoped
:10:00. > :10:04.would give her her second child had gone missing. I was physically sick.
:10:04. > :10:09.For two or three days, I was ringing them up and just saying,
:10:09. > :10:14.have you found them yet? I expected them to be found. But they never
:10:14. > :10:17.were. It has been four weeks and her initial shock has turned to
:10:17. > :10:22.concern that they may have been implanted in another woman. They
:10:22. > :10:25.said I may never find bed, which is a bit of a worry, because if
:10:25. > :10:30.somebody has been implanted with the wrong embryos, then
:10:30. > :10:34.realistically, those children could be out there, going to school.
:10:34. > :10:40.Alison was storing her eggs at the Brae Burn Clinic in Canterbury.
:10:40. > :10:43.Tonight, they said they have a robust processes for handling and
:10:43. > :10:46.storing embryos and are carrying out a full investigation. They say
:10:46. > :10:51.they are confident that no errors have been made with him Plantation,
:10:51. > :10:56.but questions remain. It is very unlikely they have been put in to
:10:56. > :10:58.anybody else. The likelihood is that the consent process and the
:10:59. > :11:03.duration of storage was exceeded, in which case they had to be
:11:03. > :11:07.disposed of, but there are ways of going about it and proper paper
:11:07. > :11:12.trails must be in place. I need answers and I haven't had them
:11:12. > :11:15.Kebabou would have thought they would have come in by now. -- and I
:11:15. > :11:20.would have thought. There is no good scenario, I have to deal with
:11:20. > :11:28.it and move on from it, because they have gone. After having her
:11:28. > :11:32.son, Alison Hadley has two embryos remaining but says the impact of
:11:32. > :11:36.losing her most viable two means it will be some time before she takes
:11:36. > :11:39.her last and though the chance at expanding her family.
:11:39. > :11:43.-- only chance. A man jailed in connection with the
:11:43. > :11:46.Securitas robbery has been ordered to pay more than �1 million. Ian
:11:46. > :11:51.Bowrem was jailed last year for concealing cash taken in the �53
:11:51. > :11:54.million heist. If he doesn't pay more than �1.1 million in the next
:11:54. > :11:57.28 days, he'll have to serve an extra five years in jail.
:11:57. > :12:01.The rate of staff sickness at Kent County Council has fallen by over
:12:01. > :12:04.20% over the past four years. Managers say the fall is due to a
:12:04. > :12:14.crackdown, but unions claim stress and anxiety among staff have risen
:12:14. > :12:14.
:12:14. > :12:17.as a result. When Pfizer pulled the plug on its
:12:17. > :12:19.research facilities at Sandwich in Kent - with the loss of thousands
:12:19. > :12:22.of jobs - earlier this year, critics warned the UK's
:12:22. > :12:25.pharmaceutical industry was facing long-term decline. Today, the Prime
:12:25. > :12:29.Minister David Cameron has set out Government plans to promote life
:12:29. > :12:31.sciences in the UK. In February, Pfizer announced it was to close
:12:31. > :12:36.its entire research and development facility in Sandwich, which
:12:36. > :12:38.currently employs 2,400 people along with 1,700 contractors. Local
:12:38. > :12:40.politicians and businesses claimed that without significant action
:12:40. > :12:46.from the Government, job losses from Pfizer and the knock-on
:12:46. > :12:50.effects could cost the local economy �380 million. That would be
:12:50. > :12:53.nearly 9% of the region's total output. Today, the Government says
:12:54. > :12:57.it hopes its new strategy will help make areas like east Kent among the
:12:57. > :13:07.best places in the world for companies to invest in the research
:13:07. > :13:07.
:13:07. > :13:13.and development. 10 months ago, we were told that Pfizer place --'s
:13:13. > :13:16.facility would be closing, and we now have of the future of decide to
:13:16. > :13:20.part with Pfizer still employing around 500 people as the anchor
:13:20. > :13:24.tenant. This and that's bad is going to further encourage
:13:24. > :13:28.investment in life sciences -- be so bad then today is going to
:13:28. > :13:31.further encourage investment and life sciences and I would hope that
:13:31. > :13:33.is going to be businesses to what will operate out of Sandwich in
:13:33. > :13:37.Kent. Pfizer initially announced that it
:13:37. > :13:40.would leave Sandwich by the end of 2012. Today, the Government
:13:40. > :13:43.announced �180 million to bring new medical technologies to market in a
:13:43. > :13:47.move that should speed the take-up of new medicines and make the
:13:47. > :13:50.country more attractive to big pharmaceutical firms. Critics say
:13:50. > :13:53.that today's initiative shows that the remaining 500 Pfizer scientists
:13:53. > :14:01.and the thousands of employees who will have to leave the firm have
:14:01. > :14:03.been badly served by the Government. I doubt very much that investment
:14:03. > :14:08.of 180 million will attract scientists back to the United
:14:08. > :14:13.Kingdom, but what it will do is it will support and stimulate existing
:14:13. > :14:18.community, a very -- of a very excellent scientists and will help
:14:18. > :14:24.them move forward and take their idea from the laboratory to the
:14:24. > :14:27.chemical. -- clinical. I'm joined now from Westminster by
:14:27. > :14:30.the Conservative MP for Dover & Deal, Charlie Elphicke. Isn't this
:14:30. > :14:34.a case of the Government shutting the stable door after the horse has
:14:34. > :14:38.bolted? Well, we were told less than a year ago about the Pfizer
:14:38. > :14:47.decision, and did less than a year, we have seen massive progress -- in
:14:47. > :14:51.less. We have seen an enterprise zone, deals for Sandwich, and today,
:14:51. > :14:58.a 180 million pad catalyst Fund to help life sciences at the UK and
:14:58. > :15:01.eddies Kent. The ash in East Kent. We have seen top scientists leave
:15:01. > :15:06.Britain, and critics say this investment is not enough to bring
:15:06. > :15:13.them back. It is very much but about big pharmaceuticals, which is
:15:13. > :15:17.a dying business model overtired -- not a bad. It is not just Sandwich,
:15:17. > :15:22.it is Harlow and Loughborough, they have moved out. The model is
:15:22. > :15:28.changing, into collaborations between higher education
:15:28. > :15:32.institutions and small businesses. But it is a long-term process, this,
:15:32. > :15:37.in encouraging the speeding up of getting drugs out onto the market.
:15:37. > :15:43.What does it mean for Pfizer in the short term? In the short term, we
:15:43. > :15:47.know there will be 500 jobs secure on that side and there is a good
:15:47. > :15:51.story to attract more jobs, and we know there will be much faster
:15:51. > :15:55.movement from developing drugs to getting them to the patient. That
:15:55. > :15:58.is really important, to pep up confidence in UK life sciences
:15:58. > :16:01.industry. Thank you. Although the Government are putting
:16:01. > :16:03.research and development at the heart of their science policy,
:16:03. > :16:06.investment returns from researching new drugs have fallen nearly 30% in
:16:06. > :16:07.the past year at the world's top pharmaceutical companies,
:16:07. > :16:17.highlighting the productivity dilemma facing companies like
:16:17. > :16:18.
:16:18. > :16:20.Pfizer. You can follow the story on our political editor's blog.
:16:20. > :16:24.One of the most controversial planning applications in recent
:16:25. > :16:27.years will go before Kent County Council this week. The authority is
:16:27. > :16:30.due to consider whether to allow prospectors to explore for onshore
:16:30. > :16:33.gas in east Kent. Opponents of the application claim that the mining
:16:33. > :16:41.method known as fracking - which has already been blamed for causing
:16:41. > :16:46.minor earthquakes in Lancashire - could be used. Lynda Hardy reports.
:16:46. > :16:52.What may lie below the ground here is what is causing controversy. The
:16:52. > :16:57.company called Coastal Oil and Gas Ltd wants to drill a borehole 1.5
:16:57. > :17:01.kilometres below the ground to look for gas that might be trapped in
:17:01. > :17:05.the coal shale that lies beneath, but there is fears about the
:17:05. > :17:09.initial drilling and what will happen if gas is found. If they
:17:09. > :17:14.find what they are looking for, this could lead on to the
:17:15. > :17:21.exploitation by cord -- hydraulic fracking of anywhere within the
:17:21. > :17:28.district that is bounded up by Eastry, Sandwich, deal, and that
:17:28. > :17:32.really alarms as Faust --. This is what she is afraid of. If gas is
:17:32. > :17:36.added early tests, it might lead to extraction wearer pipeline is late
:17:36. > :17:41.night hundred feet underground. A process called fracking sees a
:17:41. > :17:44.mixture of water, lubricants and sand forced into the rock, causing
:17:44. > :17:49.it to Fracture and release their gas. It is that process that is
:17:49. > :17:54.found to have probably caused small earthquakes near Blackpool in the
:17:54. > :17:57.summer. But one expert says that shouldn't be a major concern.
:17:57. > :18:01.always recognised as a potential hazard of the technique, but we are
:18:01. > :18:05.talking about very small earthquakes, very low magnitude,
:18:05. > :18:09.not likely to be felt by many people and very unlikely to cause
:18:09. > :18:14.any kind of damage? The company who want to drill here say the main
:18:14. > :18:23.target is Colebeck gas, not shale gas, which would not require
:18:23. > :18:26.fracking. The decision will be considered tomorrow.
:18:26. > :18:31.The top story tonight: the press have been said for her baby boy
:18:31. > :18:34.from Gravesend left in a critical condition in hospital -- prayers
:18:34. > :18:38.have been said. A Kent Police said they are working with doctors to
:18:38. > :18:43.discover the nature and extent of their one-month-old's injuries.
:18:43. > :18:47.Also tonight, the sisters separated us children in the 1950s reunited
:18:47. > :18:52.thanks to the internet. Anders snow nudges into the north
:18:52. > :18:58.of the country, that I will be looking at our chances of getting a
:18:58. > :19:00.dusting or dollop in over the next few weeks -- and as snow.
:19:00. > :19:05.A major exhibition dedicated to Charles Dickens opens at the Museum
:19:05. > :19:09.of London at the end of the week. It's likely to be one of many, as
:19:09. > :19:11.in February, it will be 200 years since the man some say was the
:19:11. > :19:14.greatest Victorian novelist was born. Dickens grew up in Chatham,
:19:14. > :19:17.where his father worked in the Naval Dockyard. The county inspired
:19:17. > :19:21.some of his most famous works, including the north Kent marshes,
:19:21. > :19:25.which featured in the sinister opening to Great Expectations. He
:19:25. > :19:29.returned to spend the last years of his life at Gads Hill Place near
:19:30. > :19:39.Rochester, where he died. He wrote five of his books there. Robin
:19:40. > :19:45.
:19:45. > :19:52.It is a collection of prints, writings and paintings, evoking
:19:52. > :19:57.time and place. Putting the right there in his historical context. --
:19:57. > :20:06.Reuter. But some might argue that nothing can do that quite as well
:20:06. > :20:14.as the work of Charles Dickens himself. Merry Christmas! Here he
:20:14. > :20:18.is, and he sounded like an angel. Smell that goes. Some of Charles
:20:18. > :20:24.Dickens's best descriptive writing memorably conjures up the streets
:20:24. > :20:29.and street life of Victorian London. It is the focus of this exhibition.
:20:29. > :20:35.For Dickens, the city fed his egg - - imagination, and each night as he
:20:35. > :20:45.walked out onto the streets, he was energised by what he saw, what he
:20:45. > :20:45.
:20:45. > :20:49.heard as he walked the streets. Mummy! Mommy expire could but the
:20:49. > :20:54.landscape, the people and the townships of north Kent, where he
:20:54. > :20:58.spent some of his childhood, were also a huge inspiration. -- but the
:20:58. > :21:02.landscape. Dickens's featured them in some of his novels, five of
:21:02. > :21:07.which were written in this Swiss chalet, which used to be sited at
:21:07. > :21:11.Gad's Hill Place, where Dickens spent the last years of his life.
:21:11. > :21:16.He loved to go rowing on the Medway and Great Expectations is set in
:21:16. > :21:21.the marshes around the Medway. That river he loved, but the Thames was
:21:21. > :21:26.a much more dubious river to him. It was associated with death,
:21:26. > :21:29.murders and the drownings. exhibition will be an appetiser for
:21:29. > :21:33.the year of many celebrations. The two hundredth birthday of the man
:21:33. > :21:43.some claim is not just great, but maybe the greatest writer of them
:21:43. > :21:46.
:21:46. > :21:49.It was a fantastic weekend for the south-east's football clubs, with
:21:49. > :21:52.Charlton, Crawley and Gillingham all making it through to the third
:21:52. > :21:57.round of the FA Cup, and Brighton moving into the Championship
:21:57. > :22:06.promotion play-off positions. Our sports reporter Neil Bell joins
:22:06. > :22:10.us from Chatham. Neil, the draw for the next round has thrown up some
:22:10. > :22:13.intriguing ties - especially for the Gills?
:22:13. > :22:15.Yes. Not only did they get a home tie
:22:15. > :22:18.against Premier League oppostion in Stoke, but also a long-awaited
:22:18. > :22:22.return visit for one of the clubs most popular managers, Tony Pulis.
:22:22. > :22:26.He was instrumental in the club's '90s revival. It would be easy,
:22:26. > :22:29.however. The last time they met six years ago in the championship, they
:22:29. > :22:32.were on level terms, there are now were on level terms, there are now
:22:32. > :22:36.60 places between them. Despite being up against higher the
:22:36. > :22:41.copper -- opposition, this was an impressive performance by
:22:41. > :22:47.Gillingham. It gives them a home tie against Stoke City and the
:22:47. > :22:49.chance for Andy Hessenthaler to pit himself against the man who brought
:22:49. > :22:52.himself against the man who brought him to Gillingham, Tony Pulis Ross
:22:52. > :22:56.Stott baby it has written the stars that he would come back. -- maybe
:22:56. > :23:00.it was written in the start that he would come back. Tony has done a
:23:00. > :23:04.great job there and it will be a great day when he comes back.
:23:04. > :23:07.Charlton continued their fine run Charlton continued their fine run
:23:07. > :23:07.with a relatively routine and women with a relatively routine and women
:23:07. > :23:13.setting up an intriguing tie at setting up an intriguing tie at
:23:13. > :23:20.Fulham. Crawley are no strangers to giant-killing it, but has no
:23:20. > :23:23.intention of being on the wrong end of it. They now have a home tie
:23:23. > :23:28.with championship club Bristol City. If I am honest, initially
:23:28. > :23:32.disappointed. When you have the opportunity for a large away game,
:23:32. > :23:36.we wanted to be one away, or an easy winner ball won at home. We
:23:36. > :23:40.brought out a club that the middle, and it will be a difficult game,
:23:40. > :23:44.but you have got to fancy your chances.
:23:44. > :23:47.Brighton may not be playing the flowing football they are capable
:23:47. > :23:52.of but their new-found resilience and a neat finish by Will Buckley
:23:52. > :23:55.made it four back row wins from five. They shouldn't fear a visit
:23:55. > :23:59.five. They shouldn't fear a visit by Wrexham in January.
:23:59. > :24:04.Those that they cup-ties will take place over the weekend of 6th
:24:04. > :24:08.January and the 7th, and let's hope all of the teams will get through -
:24:08. > :24:13.- bows FA Cup ties. It is always the way with the FA
:24:13. > :24:16.Cup combat and Tony Pulis coming back to Gillingham, who could have
:24:16. > :24:22.predicted that question our it would be popular with everyone, but
:24:22. > :24:24.did well with most people. Abbottabad Crawley, they are like
:24:24. > :24:29.Manchester City ex-pats -- and what a bad.
:24:29. > :24:33.A virtually. What about the weather?
:24:33. > :24:37.Is it all systems go for the south- east have to get some snow?
:24:37. > :24:41.Actually, no. For the next few days, we have a distinct lack of
:24:41. > :24:44.precipitation and by the time we get someone Thursday, the air is
:24:44. > :24:49.back to a south-westerly and that is bringing milder air from the
:24:49. > :24:51.Atlantic. So it will be falling as rain by the time we get
:24:51. > :24:56.rain by the time we get precipitation on Thursday. Outside
:24:56. > :25:01.of that, although it is jolly windy and cold, it will give us plenty of
:25:01. > :25:05.sunshine, so feeling very chilly by day and by night, but the rest of
:25:05. > :25:11.this weekend even into next week, I don't think we will be getting the
:25:11. > :25:15.batches of snow just yet. But it will feel very cold, with 16 hours
:25:15. > :25:22.of darkness overnight tonight and the clear skies Kebabou surprises
:25:23. > :25:27.that it will get close to freezing. -- the clear skies, no surprises.
:25:27. > :25:32.We are still going to get an air temperature of one or two degrees,
:25:32. > :25:37.and that means the ground will get to sub-zero, down to minus too, so
:25:37. > :25:41.that water on the ground will turn to ice, and elsewhere a widespread
:25:41. > :25:45.frost away from the coast. A very cold start tomorrow but we have got
:25:45. > :25:48.beautiful sunshine. The afternoon will see a little bit more cloud
:25:48. > :25:53.that we could get a little light shower, but it will be rain or
:25:53. > :25:57.drizzle and most places will stay dry, and we will see some sunny
:25:57. > :26:02.places in the afternoon, but don't expect any of that sunshine to feel
:26:02. > :26:08.especially warm. Six or seven, what we had today, is what we had
:26:08. > :26:12.tomorrow, but what those 15-20 mph winds, the wind chill will be a
:26:12. > :26:15.significant feature for the next few days. Tomorrow, they get even
:26:15. > :26:20.stronger and with a few weather fronts coming through, staying dry
:26:20. > :26:23.back but less likely for a frost tomorrow night, but into Wednesday,
:26:23. > :26:28.the north-westerly will make it feel very chilly, despite lots of
:26:28. > :26:32.sunshine. The wind is a big feature this weekend on Thursday, it brings
:26:32. > :26:37.in some rain as well. First they will be the only day of getting
:26:37. > :26:41.significant wet weather -- Thursday. Friday, we get up the sunshine back
:26:41. > :26:46.again. Into the weekend, we will tend to see the north-westerly
:26:46. > :26:50.still keeping the temperatures at or slightly below average, but we
:26:50. > :26:56.should see plenty of dry backward and lots of sunshine as well. So
:26:56. > :26:58.for the rest of this week, lots of sunshine but it is very cold by
:26:58. > :27:03.sunshine but it is very cold by both day and night. A very windy
:27:03. > :27:08.with some wet weather on Thursday. But no snow.
:27:08. > :27:11.A few. I shouldn't say that, I know people love it.
:27:11. > :27:14.Tomorrow and South East Today, the heart-warming tale of two sisters
:27:14. > :27:17.reunited after 60 years apart, thinking they would never see each
:27:17. > :27:20.other again. Jan and Evelyn from Gravesend were
:27:20. > :27:23.separated when they were just toddlers in the 1950s and the
:27:23. > :27:26.sisters have spent the last 60 years thinking that they would
:27:26. > :27:29.never see each other again. While Evelyn stayed with her mother
:27:29. > :27:31.in Kent, Jan was adopted by a family in Canada. But now, thanks