:00:00. > 3:59:59News at Six, so it's goodbye from me, and on BBC One we now join the
:00:00. > :01:14.BBC's Good evening.
:01:15. > :01:17.A nine`year`old girl who died on Christmas Day just hours after being
:01:18. > :01:21.discharged from hospital, probably wouldn't have been allowed to leave
:01:22. > :01:25.if she'd been seen by a more senior doctor, a coronor has concluded.
:01:26. > :01:28.Rhianna Rawding from Rochester was treated by a junior doctor at a
:01:29. > :01:31.hospital in London last year, but seven hours after being sent home,
:01:32. > :01:42.she collapsed and stopped breathing. Ellie Price reports.
:01:43. > :01:48.A lively little person who made the best of things. Rhianna's parents
:01:49. > :01:54.say she would still be here if she had not been sent home in hospital
:01:55. > :01:58.last Christmas. I accept the expertise he had before him, he
:01:59. > :02:02.thinks it would have made a difference. On a personal level I
:02:03. > :02:08.think she was let down by the hospital. Bereavement is never easy
:02:09. > :02:12.for anyone. When it is your child, it is very hard. Rhianna had
:02:13. > :02:18.suffered from unary tract infections for years. But appearance a in this
:02:19. > :02:24.instance something was not right. They said the junior doctor may not
:02:25. > :02:30.have discussed all the information available. He was on the team
:02:31. > :02:34.involved in trying to resuscitate her a few hours later. She died of
:02:35. > :02:39.septicaemia. The coroner stated that every and had been brought in her
:02:40. > :02:45.condition would have been noticed and acted on. A few hours of
:02:46. > :02:48.observation would have made a difference. But he did not say it
:02:49. > :02:53.would have saved her life. Two senior doctors, had they been the
:02:54. > :02:58.person that Rhianna at in front of that evening, they would have kept
:02:59. > :03:02.in for observation, there could have been the option of starting
:03:03. > :03:10.intravenous antibiotics. That opportunity was denied to the family
:03:11. > :03:14.and it is an extremely difficult thing for them to come to terms
:03:15. > :03:19.with. The coroner said he was satisfied that since Rhianna's at
:03:20. > :03:22.had changed its training policies and admissions guidelines.
:03:23. > :03:28.Rhianna's family say they will consider taking further legal
:03:29. > :03:32.action. In a landmark ruling, a couple from
:03:33. > :03:35.East Grinstead have won the right to get married in a Scientology chapel,
:03:36. > :03:37.after the Supreme Court ruled in their favour. The government is
:03:38. > :03:40.deeply concerned that recognising the controversial organisation `
:03:41. > :03:43.followed by Hollywood stars such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta ` as a
:03:44. > :03:50.legitimate religion could have significant tax implications. Mark
:03:51. > :03:54.Sanders reports. It is the Supreme Court that has
:03:55. > :03:59.given Lisa and have your say the wedding they want. She took legal
:04:00. > :04:02.action after officials failed to register the Church of Scientology
:04:03. > :04:05.Chapel is a place for marriage. But the Supreme Court ruled that the
:04:06. > :04:13.church was a place of meeting or religious worship. I am really
:04:14. > :04:16.excited and I am really glad that we are finally treated equally and that
:04:17. > :04:21.we can actually get married in a church. It is really exciting.
:04:22. > :04:25.Scientology has attracted a number of Hollywood stars. The US enjoys
:04:26. > :04:30.the full rights of a recognised religion. Scientologist are expected
:04:31. > :04:40.to donate considerable sums of money. Behind me is the entrance to
:04:41. > :04:46.the UK headquarters of the Church of Scientology in the former home of
:04:47. > :04:50.its founder. After today's judgement the couple's solicitors that it
:04:51. > :04:54.represented victory for the equal treatment of religions in a modern
:04:55. > :04:59.world. It is a ruling from the highest court in the United Kingdom.
:05:00. > :05:01.It does not apply in Scotland because Scotland is already a place
:05:02. > :05:09.were Scientologists can get married in one of their own buildings. It
:05:10. > :05:11.relates to England and Wales but it will apply throughout England and
:05:12. > :05:15.Wales and it will mean that they can get married in one of their places
:05:16. > :05:24.of religious worship. We canvassed opinion about today's ruling. If she
:05:25. > :05:29.is Scientologist? It is the place for her to get married. Some might
:05:30. > :05:34.argue that Scientology is not a religion. I think there is a flip
:05:35. > :05:38.side every coin and I believe in tillage is a religion and should be
:05:39. > :05:42.respected as so. This should be allowed to get married anywhere they
:05:43. > :05:47.like. I am fine with that. Today's judgement is very significant and
:05:48. > :05:53.has implications beyond the wedding plans of just one couple. And Mark
:05:54. > :05:57.joins us from East Grinstead now. Mark, I gather the Government is
:05:58. > :06:03.taking legal advice on this matter? Yes, an indication of how important
:06:04. > :06:08.this ruling is. What is worrying the government is the Church of
:06:09. > :06:13.Scientology might qualify for tax breaks for public places of worship.
:06:14. > :06:19.Taxpayers will wonder why Scientology premises should now be
:06:20. > :06:22.given tax cuts. As for Louise and her partner, they are celebrating
:06:23. > :06:31.the fact that they will get the wedding they always wanted. In a
:06:32. > :06:34.moment, how some parents in Kent could find themselves out of pocket
:06:35. > :06:44.as changes to the bus freedom pass are proposed.
:06:45. > :06:49.Fewer children in Medway go to good or outstanding primary schools than
:06:50. > :06:51.almost anywhere else in the country. Todays report by the education
:06:52. > :06:55.watchdog Ofsted puts Medway second to bottom in the whole country. 41%
:06:56. > :06:59.of pupils there are going to a school that needs to improve. It
:07:00. > :07:02.follows a report last year which put Medway bottom in England for
:07:03. > :07:07.standards in core subjects. Our social affairs correspondent Yvette
:07:08. > :07:13.Austin explains. It is not the first time Medway
:07:14. > :07:18.primary schools have been criticised by Ofsted. Last year as a whole they
:07:19. > :07:22.came bottom of the league table for standards in maths and English. Only
:07:23. > :07:26.now in Wolverhampton do pupils get a slimmer chance of going to a good or
:07:27. > :07:31.outstanding skill. Ofsted says it is because primary schools in Medway
:07:32. > :07:36.have not paid enough attention to children from pillar families. Those
:07:37. > :07:41.children have been overlooked, gone unseen for too long. They may be
:07:42. > :07:45.small numbers in any given school and in any given class, but taken
:07:46. > :07:51.collectively and overtime, they have underachieved. In the report Medway
:07:52. > :07:58.has 59% of primary pupils attending good or outstanding schools. Kate
:07:59. > :08:06.and she's 68%. East Sussex achieves 69%. Medway Council says it is
:08:07. > :08:13.making every effort to improve its position. We have had a new director
:08:14. > :08:18.in post, I am a new lead member, I have my colleague who is a new
:08:19. > :08:22.member for educational improvement. Working with the schools, we have
:08:23. > :08:26.had tremendous achievement since our appointment back in May. At this
:08:27. > :08:30.primary school which has been criticised in the past, parents
:08:31. > :08:37.today were fairly positive. This school is very good. My son has been
:08:38. > :08:47.diagnosed with ADHD. They have been very helpful. I am more than pleased
:08:48. > :08:50.with the school. I don't care for some of the teachers here, some of
:08:51. > :08:58.them are rubbish. Other than that, they are all right. The way to raise
:08:59. > :09:01.standards in relation is to what the government has been doing is by
:09:02. > :09:07.transforming them into academies where the schools are able to have a
:09:08. > :09:10.greater say on the curriculum, on their governing body and discipline.
:09:11. > :09:16.Medway is under more pressure than ever before to improve performance
:09:17. > :09:22.in is primary schools. There are even more results in tomorrow? All
:09:23. > :09:27.eyes will be on Medway now. Heads rolled after last year's results and
:09:28. > :09:32.today the council has been talking in upbeat story of new staff and
:09:33. > :09:35.improved performance. Tomorrow, and other reporters out, this time from
:09:36. > :09:39.the Department of education, looking at the sat results for English and
:09:40. > :09:46.maths. These will be compared with those out last year when `` which
:09:47. > :09:59.left Medway at the bottom of the table. Parents will want to see
:10:00. > :10:03.improvements and so will Ofsted. Alan Pughsley has been named as the
:10:04. > :10:06.preferred candidate to be the new Chief Constable of Kent Police. The
:10:07. > :10:09.decision, which will need confirmation from the Police and
:10:10. > :10:11.Crime Panel, has been announced by the county's police and crime
:10:12. > :10:14.commissioner, Anne Barnes. Mr Pughsley is currently the Deputy
:10:15. > :10:17.Chief Constable of Kent Police. Long`term plans for the future of
:10:18. > :10:20.maternity and paediatric services in East Sussex have been discussed at a
:10:21. > :10:22.meeting today. Proposals did not include full consultant`led
:10:23. > :10:25.departments at both the Eastbourne District General and the Conquest
:10:26. > :10:29.Hospital in Hastings. Campaigners and the Eastbourne MP Stephen Lloyd
:10:30. > :10:33.attended today's meeting. A final public consultation will begin in
:10:34. > :10:36.January. 20 mile an hour speed limits are a
:10:37. > :10:39.step closer to being extended across Brighton and Hove. Since the
:10:40. > :10:42.restrictions were introduced in parts of the city in April nearly
:10:43. > :10:45.15,000 people have submitted their views on lower speed limits to the
:10:46. > :10:48.council. Those responses were discussed today with a further
:10:49. > :10:58.public consultation to be launched. A final decision will be made in
:10:59. > :11:07.March. The ?14 million restoration of this peer has begun. The main
:11:08. > :11:10.rebuilding work starts in January. A Conservative MP has branded the
:11:11. > :11:14.Independent Airports Commission, which is due to report next week, as
:11:15. > :11:17.a sham. The Davies Commission is to publish its short list of options
:11:18. > :11:20.for airport expansion, which could include more runways at Heathrow,
:11:21. > :11:23.Gatwick, or the Thames estuary scheme favoured by Boris Johnson.
:11:24. > :11:26.But Zac Goldsmith, the MP for Richmond Park, believes the decision
:11:27. > :11:35.has already been made, and the only option the Government is really
:11:36. > :11:40.considering is Heathrow expansion. I think the decision was made when the
:11:41. > :11:43.enquiry was announced. It was always going to rule in favour of
:11:44. > :11:48.expansion. That became cleaner on Monday when we heard the three
:11:49. > :11:52.options. What has been added in the last few days at the insistence of
:11:53. > :12:01.government will have been added for cosmetic political reasons.
:12:02. > :12:04.Our Political Editor Louise Stewart is at Westminster for us now.
:12:05. > :12:10.Louise, it's a pretty strong attack on the Government from a Tory MP,
:12:11. > :12:13.isn't it? It is. We know he does not back the expansion at Heathrow but
:12:14. > :12:18.he accuses the Chancellor of yearning after Chinese style
:12:19. > :12:27.government when it comes to this review. He says they do not want to
:12:28. > :12:32.see that that it `` because it is politically toxic. Boris Johnson
:12:33. > :12:37.would like to say it Thames Estuary hub airport. The government denies
:12:38. > :12:44.this. It says this is an independent review which is looking to report on
:12:45. > :12:48.Tuesday. Today, also Medway Council they backed a report by London
:12:49. > :12:59.council saying that closure of Heathrow would be a disaster.
:13:00. > :13:03.Some parents in Kent fear they could be left hundreds of pounds out of
:13:04. > :13:06.pocket, if plans to limit the number of free bus journeys for
:13:07. > :13:09.schoolchildren go through. At the moment, there are around 27,000 11
:13:10. > :13:13.to 16`year`olds using the "Freedom pass". The scheme costs the County
:13:14. > :13:16.Council ?13.5 million a year. But the proposed changes could save them
:13:17. > :13:25.around ?4 million a year. Simon Jones is in Maidstone now ` Simon,
:13:26. > :13:32.how would the changes work? At the moment, if you are aged
:13:33. > :13:36.between 11 and 16, your parents will pay ?100 for the sparse and you get
:13:37. > :13:40.free travel all year on the buses. In future you will still have to pay
:13:41. > :13:45.?100, but the difference is the amount of travel you can make will
:13:46. > :13:51.be capped at ?350. After that you will have to pay for each individual
:13:52. > :13:53.journey. Home time on the buses but worried parents believe their
:13:54. > :14:00.children's freedom could be taken away. I think it is bang out of
:14:01. > :14:10.order, really. It is going to put more pressure on parents. It is
:14:11. > :14:14.getting ridiculous. This woman's youngest children walk to school but
:14:15. > :14:22.her teenage daughter relies on the Freedom pass. They do not have any
:14:23. > :14:26.choice. She has to go to school. She has no source of income, it will
:14:27. > :14:30.come out of my pocket and my husband's pocket. I do not know
:14:31. > :14:34.where we will find it. There are fears more parents could take to
:14:35. > :14:41.their cars leading to even more congestion. But the council says
:14:42. > :14:45.hard times mean tough decisions. We, as the county council, are under
:14:46. > :14:50.considerable pressure as a result of the cut in revenue support grant
:14:51. > :14:54.from government. We have to provide education, we have to provide
:14:55. > :14:59.highways, social care for so `` adults, all those things. In
:15:00. > :15:06.Maidstone some sympathy over difficult choices. I am a parent but
:15:07. > :15:09.you know as a parent you have to pay out for things. I would say that the
:15:10. > :15:16.parent would have to pay for it rather than the general taxpayer.
:15:17. > :15:22.The government should pay for it because they cannot expect the
:15:23. > :15:26.children paid `` to pay for it. It comes on the day campaigners warn
:15:27. > :15:31.cuts to the funding of buses are reaching critical levels. The
:15:32. > :15:42.problem is that buses do not have ring `fest `` ring `fest `` ring
:15:43. > :15:48.fenced provision. The plans will be discussed on Friday.
:15:49. > :15:51.Kent county council is keen to point out it is one of the few places in
:15:52. > :15:57.the country offering a subsidy of this kind, that it does not have to
:15:58. > :16:01.do it legally. Also it is planning to expand it to people in education
:16:02. > :16:09.up to 19. But despite the concerns, these changes look to get the
:16:10. > :16:15.go`ahead later this week. It is 6:45pm. A nine`year`old girl who
:16:16. > :16:19.died on Christmas Day just hours after being discharged from hospital
:16:20. > :16:23.probably would not have been allowed to leave has she been seen by a more
:16:24. > :16:26.senior doctor, a coroner has concluded. Rhianna Rawding was
:16:27. > :16:34.treated by a junior doctor at a hospital in London last year. Giving
:16:35. > :16:37.him the send off he deserves ` the friends of an Eastbourne war veteran
:16:38. > :16:43.appealing for people to attend his funeral. We have a misty and foggy
:16:44. > :16:52.night in store. Join me later for the forecast.
:16:53. > :16:56.If you have a story you think we should be covering on South East
:16:57. > :16:58.Today, we'd like to hear from you. You can call us on 0845 300 37 47,
:16:59. > :17:11.or send us A Sussex businesswoman says she's
:17:12. > :17:17.been left ?20,000 out of pocket after a sophisticated computer fraud
:17:18. > :17:21.hacked her bank details. But Amy Thomsett says she has been told by
:17:22. > :17:23.her bank that they won't reimburse the money stolen ` because they
:17:24. > :17:26.believe she acted negligently by failing to have secure enough
:17:27. > :17:33.anti`virus software on their computer systems. Chrissie Reidy has
:17:34. > :17:36.tonight's Special Report. This family run business regularly
:17:37. > :17:40.use Internet banking but now they have become a victim of Internet
:17:41. > :17:50.fraud after criminals act into the business of and still nearly
:17:51. > :17:56.?20,000. `` business account. What if it happens again? What if they
:17:57. > :18:03.take more money. The hacker sent Amy and e`mail containing a virus. Once
:18:04. > :18:10.it lodged on the fraudsters to set up a mirror image of her ranking
:18:11. > :18:14.page. They were used `` able to use the letters she tied together for
:18:15. > :18:23.her password. The bank said she has acted with negligence by giving away
:18:24. > :18:29.for details. Do you not feel naive that you give
:18:30. > :18:36.away fool information? You have to give three digits and we did that.
:18:37. > :18:38.We have a ten digit password. As criminals use more sophisticated
:18:39. > :18:49.techniques, cyber crime attacks are becoming more common. 57% of us use
:18:50. > :18:56.Internet banking. This year .Mac last year online fraud cost the UK
:18:57. > :19:01.economy ?465 million. Some experts think banks need to work harder to
:19:02. > :19:07.keep up the cyber criminals. Banks are there to make bigger profits.
:19:08. > :19:11.They are making these by not giving customers the security advisers they
:19:12. > :19:18.need. If they can make a customer to pay for the cost, it does not cost
:19:19. > :19:27.them anything. NatWest told us that the business were a victim of a
:19:28. > :19:34.sophisticated fraud. The Internet as part of modern life. The criminals
:19:35. > :19:37.are head of the banks. They have reported the theft to police and
:19:38. > :19:58.they remain hopeful they will recover the stolen money.
:19:59. > :20:03.The friends of an Eastbourne war veteran who died last month are
:20:04. > :20:06.appealing for people to attend his funeral tomorrow, to give him the
:20:07. > :20:10.send off he deserves. Former Bomber Command pilot, Robert Argyle died at
:20:11. > :20:13.the end of November, at the age of 92. He has no family and very few
:20:14. > :20:19.surviving friends. Robin Gibson has this report.
:20:20. > :20:23.Friendly, quiet, dignified, that is how Robert is known and is
:20:24. > :20:27.remembered by the people who lived alongside him in the last years of
:20:28. > :20:31.his life. It is only since he died that many of them have found out he
:20:32. > :20:37.was a bomber pilot who served in Europe and Burma. I was felt there
:20:38. > :20:41.was something I did not know about him. I realised he was not going to
:20:42. > :20:46.talk about it. It would have been so interesting to know more about us
:20:47. > :20:50.live will stop as with many people when I have been to the funeral, the
:20:51. > :20:55.facts you learn about them, it is too late to ask them questions
:20:56. > :21:01.about. He threw `` flew more than 30 missions in Europe. He died with no
:21:02. > :21:06.close relatives or lifelong friends around to pass on the story he kept
:21:07. > :21:15.so quiet. He was an extremely creative man to have `` courageous
:21:16. > :21:18.man to have flown so many missions. Eastbourne is now home to this
:21:19. > :21:22.memorial to the men of bomber command. It is placed here on Beachy
:21:23. > :21:28.head, the last piece of land they sobbed as they head and of `` headed
:21:29. > :21:31.off on their missions. The friends of Robert Arguelles are now making
:21:32. > :21:38.sure his passing is marked. They hope the whole East `` Eastbourne
:21:39. > :21:42.community will come together to honour him. It would be absolutely
:21:43. > :21:52.first`class. It was a real honour to know him. He was a real gentleman.
:21:53. > :22:02.We have had lots of telephone calls. I think we have got standard
:22:03. > :22:06.bearers. Eastbourne RAF. The funeral is tomorrow at Eastbourne
:22:07. > :22:14.crematorium. All hoping it will be a fitting goodbye.
:22:15. > :22:17.In sport, Sussex and England wicketkeeper ` Matt Prior says
:22:18. > :22:20.England can't "sulk, moan or whinge" about the situation they find
:22:21. > :22:23.themselves in in the Ashes series. England have been comprehensively
:22:24. > :22:26.outplayed in the first two Tests by Australia. The next match starts on
:22:27. > :22:30.Friday morning in Perth, where England will be aiming to win for
:22:31. > :22:41.the first time in 35 years to start their comeback. We know we have got
:22:42. > :22:44.to turn things around very quickly. We have to start this test series
:22:45. > :22:57.again, a clean slate. We have to come here firing on all cylinders to
:22:58. > :23:00.get a result. Good luck. He's one of the country's leading
:23:01. > :23:04.fantasy artists ` producing mythical works for Iron Maiden album covers,
:23:05. > :23:07.stage sets and also for the author Terry Pratchett. But Melvyn Grant,
:23:08. > :23:10.who's from St Leonard's, has now turned his hand to writing and he's
:23:11. > :23:14.just published his very first novel. Ian Palmer has been to meet him.
:23:15. > :23:21.There was a time when painting an oil, brush and canvas, but like
:23:22. > :23:26.Melvin's fantasy pictures, the artist has developed. Join the main
:23:27. > :23:30.character was the hardest thing he has ever done. I wanted to get him
:23:31. > :23:38.just right. He is always at the something, he is just a little
:23:39. > :23:40.devil. If you imagine a little boy, he has terrible toilet sense of
:23:41. > :23:48.humour like little boys will stop but multiply it by a factor `` by
:23:49. > :23:51.the fact that he is a baboon. He has designed many book covers over the
:23:52. > :23:56.years. These images were designed for the writer Terry Pratchett. He
:23:57. > :24:05.liked what I did for him. He said he has just had the first print, which
:24:06. > :24:11.he signed and sold for a lot of money. I said, I have not seen it
:24:12. > :24:22.yet. The artist's most high`profile work has been for the band I made
:24:23. > :24:32.in. `` Ireland maiden. `` Iron Maiden. However the band hold strict
:24:33. > :24:38.control over their figure Eddie. I would have made a more alien`like.
:24:39. > :24:44.This came about because I imagine the head being split into because
:24:45. > :24:53.that is one `` what they wanted. If I do a cover for a book and the art
:24:54. > :25:00.director says, that is horrible. I know I have done it right! His first
:25:01. > :25:09.book is available for download on Kindle.
:25:10. > :25:15.He has got an eye, I will give him that. Let's have a look at the
:25:16. > :25:21.weather. Rachel is here. There has been a lot of stories unfold today,
:25:22. > :25:30.impacting on flights. We have had lots of dense fog. Tomorrow will be
:25:31. > :25:34.more of the same. We are staying dry today for tomorrow. It will turn wet
:25:35. > :25:42.and windy for Freddie and the recount. First there is `` thing
:25:43. > :25:45.this morning, it was frosty. It cleared slowly through the morning.
:25:46. > :25:53.By the afternoon, finally be so some sunshine. Top temperatures are
:25:54. > :25:56.around eight or nine degrees. We had gentle southerly breezes. Through
:25:57. > :26:10.tonight, much more of the same again, later skies and `` clear
:26:11. > :26:15.skies and lighter winds. Temperature of the sea is a little bit above of
:26:16. > :26:17.the land. Further inland were getting temperatures close to
:26:18. > :26:23.freezing. Again, similar for tomorrow. Some will have a frosty
:26:24. > :26:28.start, plenty of fog around. Why the afternoon it will stay cold and
:26:29. > :26:33.cloudy as well. We will have mist and four, an area of high pressure
:26:34. > :26:39.will slip away. We will see the wind picking up, that Mr unfold will lift
:26:40. > :26:47.through the morning into. `` mist and fog. We will have highs of
:26:48. > :26:52.around eight or nine Celsius tomorrow. The wind will pick up as
:26:53. > :26:55.we go through tomorrow night. Looking at temperatures as we go
:26:56. > :26:59.through tomorrow night, more cloud cover around and some outbreaks of
:27:00. > :27:06.rain. Temperatures will be dropping a degree or so from the D10 values,
:27:07. > :27:13.very mild indeed. `` the daytime. On Friday we will see the rain. It will
:27:14. > :27:19.be windy as well. Temperatures holding up to double figures. Highs
:27:20. > :27:23.on Friday of around 11 degrees. As we head to the recount, that band of
:27:24. > :27:29.rain clears. On Saturday it will be a drier picture. Over the next
:27:30. > :27:38.couple of days, all change. The wind will pick up and be was the return
:27:39. > :27:47.of the rain. We are back at 10:25pm. Goodbye.