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A nine`year`old girl who died on Christmas Day just hours after being

discharged from hospital, probably wouldn't have been allowed to leave

if she'd been seen by a more senior doctor, a coronor has concluded.

Rhianna Rawding from Rochester was treated by a junior doctor at a

hospital in London last year, but seven hours after being sent home,

she collapsed and stopped breathing. Ellie Price reports.

A lively little person who made the best of things. Rhianna's parents

say she would still be here if she had not been sent home in hospital

last Christmas. I accept the expertise he had before him, he

thinks it would have made a difference. On a personal level I

think she was let down by the hospital. Bereavement is never easy

for anyone. When it is your child, it is very hard. Rhianna had

suffered from unary tract infections for years. But appearance a in this

instance something was not right. They said the junior doctor may not

have discussed all the information available. He was on the team

involved in trying to resuscitate her a few hours later. She died of

septicaemia. The coroner stated that every and had been brought in her

condition would have been noticed and acted on. A few hours of

observation would have made a difference. But he did not say it

would have saved her life. Two senior doctors, had they been the

person that Rhianna at in front of that evening, they would have kept

in for observation, there could have been the option of starting

intravenous antibiotics. That opportunity was denied to the family

and it is an extremely difficult thing for them to come to terms

with. The coroner said he was satisfied that since Rhianna's at

had changed its training policies and admissions guidelines.

Rhianna's family say they will consider taking further legal

action. In a landmark ruling, a couple from

East Grinstead have won the right to get married in a Scientology chapel,

after the Supreme Court ruled in their favour. The government is

deeply concerned that recognising the controversial organisation `

followed by Hollywood stars such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta ` as a

legitimate religion could have significant tax implications. Mark

Sanders reports. It is the Supreme Court that has

given Lisa and have your say the wedding they want. She took legal

action after officials failed to register the Church of Scientology

Chapel is a place for marriage. But the Supreme Court ruled that the

church was a place of meeting or religious worship. I am really

excited and I am really glad that we are finally treated equally and that

we can actually get married in a church. It is really exciting.

Scientology has attracted a number of Hollywood stars. The US enjoys

the full rights of a recognised religion. Scientologist are expected

to donate considerable sums of money. Behind me is the entrance to

the UK headquarters of the Church of Scientology in the former home of

its founder. After today's judgement the couple's solicitors that it

represented victory for the equal treatment of religions in a modern

world. It is a ruling from the highest court in the United Kingdom.

It does not apply in Scotland because Scotland is already a place

were Scientologists can get married in one of their own buildings. It

relates to England and Wales but it will apply throughout England and

Wales and it will mean that they can get married in one of their places

of religious worship. We canvassed opinion about today's ruling. If she

is Scientologist? It is the place for her to get married. Some might

argue that Scientology is not a religion. I think there is a flip

side every coin and I believe in tillage is a religion and should be

respected as so. This should be allowed to get married anywhere they

like. I am fine with that. Today's judgement is very significant and

has implications beyond the wedding plans of just one couple. And Mark

joins us from East Grinstead now. Mark, I gather the Government is

taking legal advice on this matter? Yes, an indication of how important

this ruling is. What is worrying the government is the Church of

Scientology might qualify for tax breaks for public places of worship.

Taxpayers will wonder why Scientology premises should now be

given tax cuts. As for Louise and her partner, they are celebrating

the fact that they will get the wedding they always wanted. In a

moment, how some parents in Kent could find themselves out of pocket

as changes to the bus freedom pass are proposed.

Fewer children in Medway go to good or outstanding primary schools than

almost anywhere else in the country. Todays report by the education

watchdog Ofsted puts Medway second to bottom in the whole country. 41%

of pupils there are going to a school that needs to improve. It

follows a report last year which put Medway bottom in England for

standards in core subjects. Our social affairs correspondent Yvette

Austin explains. It is not the first time Medway

primary schools have been criticised by Ofsted. Last year as a whole they

came bottom of the league table for standards in maths and English. Only

now in Wolverhampton do pupils get a slimmer chance of going to a good or

outstanding skill. Ofsted says it is because primary schools in Medway

have not paid enough attention to children from pillar families. Those

children have been overlooked, gone unseen for too long. They may be

small numbers in any given school and in any given class, but taken

collectively and overtime, they have underachieved. In the report Medway

has 59% of primary pupils attending good or outstanding schools. Kate

and she's 68%. East Sussex achieves 69%. Medway Council says it is

making every effort to improve its position. We have had a new director

in post, I am a new lead member, I have my colleague who is a new

member for educational improvement. Working with the schools, we have

had tremendous achievement since our appointment back in May. At this

primary school which has been criticised in the past, parents

today were fairly positive. This school is very good. My son has been

diagnosed with ADHD. They have been very helpful. I am more than pleased

with the school. I don't care for some of the teachers here, some of

them are rubbish. Other than that, they are all right. The way to raise

standards in relation is to what the government has been doing is by

transforming them into academies where the schools are able to have a

greater say on the curriculum, on their governing body and discipline.

Medway is under more pressure than ever before to improve performance

in is primary schools. There are even more results in tomorrow? All

eyes will be on Medway now. Heads rolled after last year's results and

today the council has been talking in upbeat story of new staff and

improved performance. Tomorrow, and other reporters out, this time from

the Department of education, looking at the sat results for English and

maths. These will be compared with those out last year when `` which

left Medway at the bottom of the table. Parents will want to see

improvements and so will Ofsted. Alan Pughsley has been named as the

preferred candidate to be the new Chief Constable of Kent Police. The

decision, which will need confirmation from the Police and

Crime Panel, has been announced by the county's police and crime

commissioner, Anne Barnes. Mr Pughsley is currently the Deputy

Chief Constable of Kent Police. Long`term plans for the future of

maternity and paediatric services in East Sussex have been discussed at a

meeting today. Proposals did not include full consultant`led

departments at both the Eastbourne District General and the Conquest

Hospital in Hastings. Campaigners and the Eastbourne MP Stephen Lloyd

attended today's meeting. A final public consultation will begin in

January. 20 mile an hour speed limits are a

step closer to being extended across Brighton and Hove. Since the

restrictions were introduced in parts of the city in April nearly

15,000 people have submitted their views on lower speed limits to the

council. Those responses were discussed today with a further

public consultation to be launched. A final decision will be made in

March. The ?14 million restoration of this peer has begun. The main

rebuilding work starts in January. A Conservative MP has branded the

Independent Airports Commission, which is due to report next week, as

a sham. The Davies Commission is to publish its short list of options

for airport expansion, which could include more runways at Heathrow,

Gatwick, or the Thames estuary scheme favoured by Boris Johnson.

But Zac Goldsmith, the MP for Richmond Park, believes the decision

has already been made, and the only option the Government is really

considering is Heathrow expansion. I think the decision was made when the

enquiry was announced. It was always going to rule in favour of

expansion. That became cleaner on Monday when we heard the three

options. What has been added in the last few days at the insistence of

government will have been added for cosmetic political reasons.

Our Political Editor Louise Stewart is at Westminster for us now.

Louise, it's a pretty strong attack on the Government from a Tory MP,

isn't it? It is. We know he does not back the expansion at Heathrow but

he accuses the Chancellor of yearning after Chinese style

government when it comes to this review. He says they do not want to

see that that it `` because it is politically toxic. Boris Johnson

would like to say it Thames Estuary hub airport. The government denies

this. It says this is an independent review which is looking to report on

Tuesday. Today, also Medway Council they backed a report by London

council saying that closure of Heathrow would be a disaster.

Some parents in Kent fear they could be left hundreds of pounds out of

pocket, if plans to limit the number of free bus journeys for

schoolchildren go through. At the moment, there are around 27,000 11

to 16`year`olds using the "Freedom pass". The scheme costs the County

Council ?13.5 million a year. But the proposed changes could save them

around ?4 million a year. Simon Jones is in Maidstone now ` Simon,

how would the changes work? At the moment, if you are aged

between 11 and 16, your parents will pay ?100 for the sparse and you get

free travel all year on the buses. In future you will still have to pay

?100, but the difference is the amount of travel you can make will

be capped at ?350. After that you will have to pay for each individual

journey. Home time on the buses but worried parents believe their

children's freedom could be taken away. I think it is bang out of

order, really. It is going to put more pressure on parents. It is

getting ridiculous. This woman's youngest children walk to school but

her teenage daughter relies on the Freedom pass. They do not have any

choice. She has to go to school. She has no source of income, it will

come out of my pocket and my husband's pocket. I do not know

where we will find it. There are fears more parents could take to

their cars leading to even more congestion. But the council says

hard times mean tough decisions. We, as the county council, are under

considerable pressure as a result of the cut in revenue support grant

from government. We have to provide education, we have to provide

highways, social care for so `` adults, all those things. In

Maidstone some sympathy over difficult choices. I am a parent but

you know as a parent you have to pay out for things. I would say that the

parent would have to pay for it rather than the general taxpayer.

The government should pay for it because they cannot expect the

children paid `` to pay for it. It comes on the day campaigners warn

cuts to the funding of buses are reaching critical levels. The

problem is that buses do not have ring `fest `` ring `fest `` ring

fenced provision. The plans will be discussed on Friday.

Kent county council is keen to point out it is one of the few places in

the country offering a subsidy of this kind, that it does not have to

do it legally. Also it is planning to expand it to people in education

up to 19. But despite the concerns, these changes look to get the

go`ahead later this week. It is 6:45pm. A nine`year`old girl who

died on Christmas Day just hours after being discharged from hospital

probably would not have been allowed to leave has she been seen by a more

senior doctor, a coroner has concluded. Rhianna Rawding was

treated by a junior doctor at a hospital in London last year. Giving

him the send off he deserves ` the friends of an Eastbourne war veteran

appealing for people to attend his funeral. We have a misty and foggy

night in store. Join me later for the forecast.

If you have a story you think we should be covering on South East

Today, we'd like to hear from you. You can call us on 0845 300 37 47,

or send us A Sussex businesswoman says she's

been left ?20,000 out of pocket after a sophisticated computer fraud

hacked her bank details. But Amy Thomsett says she has been told by

her bank that they won't reimburse the money stolen ` because they

believe she acted negligently by failing to have secure enough

anti`virus software on their computer systems. Chrissie Reidy has

tonight's Special Report. This family run business regularly

use Internet banking but now they have become a victim of Internet

fraud after criminals act into the business of and still nearly

?20,000. `` business account. What if it happens again? What if they

take more money. The hacker sent Amy and e`mail containing a virus. Once

it lodged on the fraudsters to set up a mirror image of her ranking

page. They were used `` able to use the letters she tied together for

her password. The bank said she has acted with negligence by giving away

for details. Do you not feel naive that you give

away fool information? You have to give three digits and we did that.

We have a ten digit password. As criminals use more sophisticated

techniques, cyber crime attacks are becoming more common. 57% of us use

Internet banking. This year .Mac last year online fraud cost the UK

economy ?465 million. Some experts think banks need to work harder to

keep up the cyber criminals. Banks are there to make bigger profits.

They are making these by not giving customers the security advisers they

need. If they can make a customer to pay for the cost, it does not cost

them anything. NatWest told us that the business were a victim of a

sophisticated fraud. The Internet as part of modern life. The criminals

are head of the banks. They have reported the theft to police and

they remain hopeful they will recover the stolen money.

The friends of an Eastbourne war veteran who died last month are

appealing for people to attend his funeral tomorrow, to give him the

send off he deserves. Former Bomber Command pilot, Robert Argyle died at

the end of November, at the age of 92. He has no family and very few

surviving friends. Robin Gibson has this report.

Friendly, quiet, dignified, that is how Robert is known and is

remembered by the people who lived alongside him in the last years of

his life. It is only since he died that many of them have found out he

was a bomber pilot who served in Europe and Burma. I was felt there

was something I did not know about him. I realised he was not going to

talk about it. It would have been so interesting to know more about us

live will stop as with many people when I have been to the funeral, the

facts you learn about them, it is too late to ask them questions

about. He threw `` flew more than 30 missions in Europe. He died with no

close relatives or lifelong friends around to pass on the story he kept

so quiet. He was an extremely creative man to have `` courageous

man to have flown so many missions. Eastbourne is now home to this

memorial to the men of bomber command. It is placed here on Beachy

head, the last piece of land they sobbed as they head and of `` headed

off on their missions. The friends of Robert Arguelles are now making

sure his passing is marked. They hope the whole East `` Eastbourne

community will come together to honour him. It would be absolutely

first`class. It was a real honour to know him. He was a real gentleman.

We have had lots of telephone calls. I think we have got standard

bearers. Eastbourne RAF. The funeral is tomorrow at Eastbourne

crematorium. All hoping it will be a fitting goodbye.

In sport, Sussex and England wicketkeeper ` Matt Prior says

England can't "sulk, moan or whinge" about the situation they find

themselves in in the Ashes series. England have been comprehensively

outplayed in the first two Tests by Australia. The next match starts on

Friday morning in Perth, where England will be aiming to win for

the first time in 35 years to start their comeback. We know we have got

to turn things around very quickly. We have to start this test series

again, a clean slate. We have to come here firing on all cylinders to

get a result. Good luck. He's one of the country's leading

fantasy artists ` producing mythical works for Iron Maiden album covers,

stage sets and also for the author Terry Pratchett. But Melvyn Grant,

who's from St Leonard's, has now turned his hand to writing and he's

just published his very first novel. Ian Palmer has been to meet him.

There was a time when painting an oil, brush and canvas, but like

Melvin's fantasy pictures, the artist has developed. Join the main

character was the hardest thing he has ever done. I wanted to get him

just right. He is always at the something, he is just a little

devil. If you imagine a little boy, he has terrible toilet sense of

humour like little boys will stop but multiply it by a factor `` by

the fact that he is a baboon. He has designed many book covers over the

years. These images were designed for the writer Terry Pratchett. He

liked what I did for him. He said he has just had the first print, which

he signed and sold for a lot of money. I said, I have not seen it

yet. The artist's most high`profile work has been for the band I made

in. `` Ireland maiden. `` Iron Maiden. However the band hold strict

control over their figure Eddie. I would have made a more alien`like.

This came about because I imagine the head being split into because

that is one `` what they wanted. If I do a cover for a book and the art

director says, that is horrible. I know I have done it right! His first

book is available for download on Kindle.

He has got an eye, I will give him that. Let's have a look at the

weather. Rachel is here. There has been a lot of stories unfold today,

impacting on flights. We have had lots of dense fog. Tomorrow will be

more of the same. We are staying dry today for tomorrow. It will turn wet

and windy for Freddie and the recount. First there is `` thing

this morning, it was frosty. It cleared slowly through the morning.

By the afternoon, finally be so some sunshine. Top temperatures are

around eight or nine degrees. We had gentle southerly breezes. Through

tonight, much more of the same again, later skies and `` clear

skies and lighter winds. Temperature of the sea is a little bit above of

the land. Further inland were getting temperatures close to

freezing. Again, similar for tomorrow. Some will have a frosty

start, plenty of fog around. Why the afternoon it will stay cold and

cloudy as well. We will have mist and four, an area of high pressure

will slip away. We will see the wind picking up, that Mr unfold will lift

through the morning into. `` mist and fog. We will have highs of

around eight or nine Celsius tomorrow. The wind will pick up as

we go through tomorrow night. Looking at temperatures as we go

through tomorrow night, more cloud cover around and some outbreaks of

rain. Temperatures will be dropping a degree or so from the D10 values,

very mild indeed. `` the daytime. On Friday we will see the rain. It will

be windy as well. Temperatures holding up to double figures. Highs

on Friday of around 11 degrees. As we head to the recount, that band of

rain clears. On Saturday it will be a drier picture. Over the next

couple of days, all change. The wind will pick up and be was the return

of the rain. We are back at 10:25pm. Goodbye.