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Two families have been left homeless after a fire in Kent. It | :00:11. | :00:20. | |
broke out on Christmas Day in Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
Fire investigators say it was probably caused by a discarded | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
cigarette, as Peter Whittlesea reports. This CCTV footage shows | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
the start of a fire on Christmas Day. Two families have been forced | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
to leave their homes. Paps Alison says of her 13-year-old son had not | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
raised the alarm so quickly the situation would have been far worse. | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
I could have been coming out in a body bag because I was upstairs | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
asleep in the back bedroom. Kent Fire and Rescue said the fire | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
started on his property, the likely cause was a carelessly discarded | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
cigarette, it then spread to the neighbouring house. The intensity | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
of the heat was so great it melted electrical wiring and a gas pipe | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
into the house. That then started leaking and fuelled the fire. The | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
fire started in serene a's garden, today she was packing up and moving | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
out so repairs can be done. But she will never forget the moment she | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
returned on Christmas Day to see her house on fire. When we pulled | :01:26. | :01:33. | |
up I felt sick. Shaking, I couldn't believe it. She has been found | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
temporary accommodation but because her neighbours rented from a | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
private landlord they are staying with relatives until their home can | :01:39. | :01:49. | |
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Five people have been arrested after a man was attacked from | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
behind and stabbed in the throat in Sussex. It happened last night, as | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
the victim walked past a church in Crawley. He's in a stable condition | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
at the East Surrey Hospital in The family of a Kent serviceman | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
killed by an explosion in Afghanistan say they'll treasure | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
the memories and achievements of a fantastic life. Squadron Leader | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
Anthony Downing was flown home after the explosion last Thursday | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
but died the following day. He was 34. Before joining the RAF he was | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
an active member of the Dover Grammar School Combined Cadet Force | :02:14. | :02:24. | |
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as well as cycling and running clubs in Deal. Sussex Police | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
officers and civilian workers have been told not to charge their | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
personal mobile phones or other electrical appliances at work. The | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
force is looking to save �50 million by the year 2015 and says | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
the ban will help to cut its electricity bill. A midwife from | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
Kent had to put her professional skills to the test by delivering | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
her own baby daughter, after the speed of her labour took everyone | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
by surprise. Claire Clarke-Wood gave birth in her bathroom in | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
Hawkhurst, using a hand-held mirror to help deliver baby Esmay, who was | :02:58. | :03:08. | |
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born three weeks early. Fiona She has delivered thousands of | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
babies at work but never expected to deliver her own. On December | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
11th Claire Clarke-Wood's contractions came on fast. Her baby | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
daughter was not going to hang around. About 6:30am they got | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
really strong and regular and I thought I should check to see what | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
stage we were at. We did, then I realised we were further Ron then I | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
realised. So we rang the midwife and realised Esmay was on her way, | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
then she arrived with the aid of my mother's make-up mirror guiding me | :03:46. | :03:55. | |
through. It was really amazing, really special. For Dad, Tim, there | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
was not much time or need to be scared. If anyone could deliver | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
their own baby it would be the superwoman called my wife. It was | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
not possible to love this woman more than I did, I did not think it | :04:10. | :04:18. | |
possible, but after watching what she did, I am overwhelmed by how | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
amazing my wife is! The family planned to emigrate to Australia in | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
new year but coming three weeks early, Esmay made sure she spent at | :04:28. | :04:38. | |
least one Christmas in Kent. I hope my baby was not getting any funny | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
ideas watching that! Wildlife experts in Kent are caring for | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
dormice at risk of dying in the cold winter weather because they're | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
too small to go into hibernation. They're among Britain's most | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
endangered animals, and, as Dan Maclaren reports, the South East is | :04:54. | :05:02. | |
their last remaining stronghold. Inspecting a letter of dormice | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
reset -- rescued from the winter. Because of the late winter many | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
dormice had a batch of young he could not hibernate so this | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
wildlife centre near Canterbury is doing all it can for protected | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
species. Most of our dormice are fast asleep outside underground but | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
the animals in here are orphans, or underweight from this year that | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
have to be looked after because they are not heavy enough to | :05:28. | :05:37. | |
hibernate. 15.5 grams, very good, she has put weight on. The young | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
are often weighed to check if they are growing, or 20 brought to the | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
centre were found to be underweight. They are being fed a special diet. | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
The centre's work with them does not stop there. A we are keeping | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
them through the year because if we let them hibernate they will | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
probably die, so we feed them and they will have babies next year and | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
we will reintroduce those babies to sites where they have gone. | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
They are one of our most endangered species. It is hoped through the | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
use of nest boxes they can gradually be reintroduced to the | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
Midlands and northern Britain where they have suffered habitat loss in | :06:19. | :06:29. | |
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The wind has been mild so far. Will it stay mild? -- the winter. It was | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
showery and windy today. Increasingly dry, so to Morrow has | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
a dry start which will be short lived by the afternoon. It will be | :06:41. | :06:50. | |
increasingly wet. Today, blustery winds picking up, showers and low | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
pressure in control of things. Top temperatures around 8, 9 degrees. | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
As we move through tonight the showers will be lingering initially, | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
eventually clearing, leaving us with clear skies and the | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
temperatures will then drop to lows of three, four degrees. We start | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
tomorrow with some ground frost and brightness, particularly in Kent, | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
but this warm front will spread eastwards with heavier pulses of | :07:14. | :07:21. | |
rain. The isobars have widened, the winds will ease off. Increasingly | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
wet by the afternoon, temperatures raising -- ranging between six and | :07:26. | :07:33. | |
a decrease. It will feel cooler. The rain clears and it will be a | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
cloudy, mild picture with temperatures hardly changing from | :07:36. | :07:46. |