:00:07. > :00:12.Good evening. The insurance company Hastings
:00:12. > :00:17.Direct has announced it is creating 140 jobs in Sussex. The insurance
:00:17. > :00:26.broker employs over 1100 staff at its site in Bexhill. These new jobs
:00:26. > :00:30.follow 300 roles already created there in recent months.
:00:30. > :00:39.It is the largest employer in this part of Sussex with over 1,000
:00:39. > :00:44.people working here already. announcing we are recruiting in the
:00:44. > :00:50.next few months. Mostly in the local area. There will be a range
:00:50. > :00:55.of positions available up to senior managers, so it is great news.
:00:55. > :01:00.asked month, nearby Hastings failed to win millions in investment from
:01:00. > :01:05.the government. Earlier this year, the Saga group opened a centre in
:01:05. > :01:12.the town with the creation of 800 jobs. Will today's announcement
:01:12. > :01:17.boost the fortunes of Bexhill? is fantastic news for local jobs.
:01:17. > :01:22.There is not much employment here. It is positive. Probably not enough
:01:22. > :01:29.to make a difference. Everybody needs jobs, especially young people
:01:29. > :01:34.like me. A lot of people work there. It might low unemployment here.
:01:34. > :01:39.to an increase in customers, there will be an extra 140 chances to
:01:39. > :01:42.find a job here in the new year. A man has been charged with the
:01:42. > :01:46.attempted abduction of a 12-year- old girl in St Leonards. It is
:01:46. > :01:48.after the girl was approached and allegedly grabbed by a man in a car
:01:48. > :01:51.on Eversfield Place yesterday morning. 45-year-old Raymond Paul
:01:51. > :01:55.Slack, of St Leonards, has been bailed to appear at Lewes Crown
:01:55. > :01:59.Court in April. Just a quarter of 999 calls
:01:59. > :02:02.received by Kent Police in the last year were genuine emergencies.
:02:02. > :02:05.Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act show the force
:02:05. > :02:14.received more than 260,000 emergency calls in the period 2010
:02:14. > :02:17.to 2011. But only 67,000 required an immediate response. The Home
:02:17. > :02:27.Office asks people with less urgent inquiries to dial the non-emergency
:02:27. > :02:28.
:02:28. > :02:32.number 101. Star For Gillingham Football Club
:02:32. > :02:37.have expressed relief that police have dropped an investigation into
:02:37. > :02:41.alleged racist abuse by the manager towards Crawley Town manager Steve
:02:41. > :02:50.Evans. It was said to have taken place after the teams met on Boxing
:02:50. > :02:58.Day. Five bookings and two sending as
:02:58. > :03:02.off. It was a robust if not a very festive clash. But what followed
:03:02. > :03:10.was a claim of a racially aggravated comment, which could
:03:10. > :03:16.spark more unwelcome debate. In a statement today, Gillingham said
:03:16. > :03:21.they were aware of the unfounded allegation made by a member of
:03:21. > :03:25.staff at Crawley Town football club, but they were prepared to defend
:03:25. > :03:29.the club and manager Andy Hessenthaler. They said they were
:03:29. > :03:35.disappointed that the allegation has been made and put in the public
:03:35. > :03:41.domain. Over the past few months, allegations of racism in football
:03:41. > :03:45.have dominated the back pages and now the front pages. Last month,
:03:45. > :03:51.the Fifa President said that racism should be settled with a handshake
:03:51. > :03:55.after the game. The England captain John Terry is facing a racially
:03:55. > :04:01.aggravated public order charges. And another player was banned for
:04:01. > :04:05.eight matches after an incident. Tonight, Sussex Police said the
:04:05. > :04:14.original complainant did not want to take matters further and the
:04:14. > :04:19.case has been dropped. An ancient yew tree has amazed
:04:19. > :04:24.experts at Wakehurst Place in Sussex. Nobody had paid much
:04:24. > :04:31.attention to the tree, but experts say it dates to 1391 and the
:04:31. > :04:40.discovery has rewritten the garden's history.
:04:40. > :04:45.A symbol of immortality and rebirth. The yew tree's colour in winter
:04:45. > :04:53.gives hope at a time that the landscape is brown. The collection
:04:53. > :04:57.of trees here is renowned, but the yew trees have a new importance.
:04:57. > :05:05.This one dates back to 1620 and is a clue to what lies a few yards
:05:05. > :05:09.away, the jewel in the ground. landscape architect said those
:05:09. > :05:14.trees are in a straight line. I have not notice. The challenge is
:05:14. > :05:21.how to find out how old they are. There is a technique, the age of
:05:21. > :05:28.trees, and it looks at the annual rings and how far apart they are.
:05:28. > :05:33.This one goes back to 1391. discovery of such an old tree has
:05:33. > :05:38.effectively rewritten the history of Wakehurst Place. It's was a
:05:38. > :05:43.shock and revelation. We are in a flat part of the garden. When we
:05:43. > :05:49.did archaeology, I can tell you we are six feet above the normal soil
:05:49. > :05:55.level. I imagined that was done by manual labour in Elizabethan times,
:05:55. > :06:02.to know it was 200 years before his startling. It seems the way curse
:06:02. > :06:08.family built themselves a landscape gardener earlier than thought --
:06:08. > :06:14.the family resident at Wakehurst Place. I found in old archive
:06:14. > :06:22.photographs in the 1950s, an old tree, and I will stop you on this
:06:22. > :06:27.lot. It is just about here. -- this spot. We thought the garden should
:06:27. > :06:34.be celebrated for the plant collectors in the 19th century. We
:06:34. > :06:39.now think this is a rare example of a garden 600 years earlier. It is
:06:39. > :06:43.just unlocking the key to the past. More history is yet to come.
:06:43. > :06:50.More history is yet to come. We can check the weather.
:06:50. > :06:56.It has been cloudy and mild. The rain will clear tonight. It will be
:06:56. > :07:03.back tomorrow. We are holding on to the winds, but it is mild for the
:07:03. > :07:08.time of year. We had a cold front spreading eastwards. You can see
:07:09. > :07:14.the isobars. The winds have been breezy for everybody. The
:07:14. > :07:19.temperatures are still in double figures. They are well above
:07:19. > :07:28.seasonal averages. Clear skies, but despite the temperature staying
:07:28. > :07:36.mild, initially, a dry start, but it will not stage dry for long. We
:07:36. > :07:42.are holding on to the winds. Up to 25 miles per hour. Temperatures
:07:42. > :07:46.might be one degree down on today. And the rain will stay in to