:00:10. > :00:09.Good evening. That's it.
:00:10. > :00:13.Good evening. A woman has been charged with three
:00:14. > :00:16.counts of attempted murder `nd arson with intent to endanger lifd
:00:17. > :00:19.following a house fire in C`nterbury on Friday. Pearl Ivy Thomas and
:00:20. > :00:22.three children were taken to hospital suffering smoke inhalation
:00:23. > :00:31.and minor burns. Piers Hopkhrk reports.
:00:32. > :00:35.Police continuing their investigations at this housd this
:00:36. > :00:42.morning. Neighbours here spdaking of their shop. You just don't dxpect
:00:43. > :00:46.it, do you, on your doorstep? Firefighters were called to this
:00:47. > :00:51.quiet cul`de`sac at about 3:30pm on Friday. The kids were out playing
:00:52. > :00:56.and they said, there is a house on fire. We came out and had a look. We
:00:57. > :01:01.could see smoke coming out the window. The fire brigade cale and
:01:02. > :01:04.kicked the door down. It was contained in the kitchen I think
:01:05. > :01:09.that I don't know much more. There were police out here. We went
:01:10. > :01:12.allowed to close. One woman and three children were taken to
:01:13. > :01:19.hospital and treated for smoke inhalation and minor burns. Pearl
:01:20. > :01:26.Ivy Thomas has been charged with three counts of attempted mtrder and
:01:27. > :01:34.arson with intent to endangdr life. She will appear before magistrates
:01:35. > :01:37.tomorrow morning. Police are carrying out an
:01:38. > :01:40.investigation after a man's body was found in a crashed car in Wdst Kent.
:01:41. > :01:43.The 46`year`old's body was discovered on Friday afternoon in a
:01:44. > :01:46.silver BMW which had gone down an embankment on the A229 in
:01:47. > :01:50.Knoxbridge. An investigation is now underway to try and find out how the
:01:51. > :01:52.car crashed and Kent Police are appealing for witnesses.
:01:53. > :01:56.The energy firm Cuadrilla could carry out further exploration for
:01:57. > :01:58.oil and gas in Balcombe, if the County Council approves new plans.
:01:59. > :02:01.Last summer saw weeks of protests against the company's decishon to
:02:02. > :02:04.test`drill for oil in the vhllage, but planning consent has since
:02:05. > :02:13.expired. West Sussex County Council will look at the new recommdnded
:02:14. > :02:16.proposals later this month. Several homes were flooded today
:02:17. > :02:20.after a water main burst in Crawley. 15 properties were affected when the
:02:21. > :02:23.mains burst on Scory Close hn Bewbush. Fire, police and the
:02:24. > :02:28.council were all at the scene. The pipe has been repaired and the water
:02:29. > :02:31.has now receded. The former Kent MP Jonathan Aitkin,
:02:32. > :02:34.who was jailed in 1999 for perverting the course of justice,
:02:35. > :02:38.says prisoners need mentors to bring down re`offending rates. In a new
:02:39. > :02:41.report, Aitkin, who used to be the MP for South Thanet, says the prison
:02:42. > :02:44.service needs to recruit a network of 15,000 mentors to help offenders.
:02:45. > :02:52.The Government has admitted that re`offending rates have bardly
:02:53. > :02:55.changed in a decade. Figures obtained by the BBC show
:02:56. > :02:57.that hospital patients in Kdnt are missing nearly one in ten
:02:58. > :03:03.appointments. 150,000 patients failed to show up at health trusts
:03:04. > :03:06.in the county last year. Experts have calculated the cost of each
:03:07. > :03:17.missed appointment is ?100, costing the NHS ?1 billion a year.
:03:18. > :03:21.The husband of a Kent woman who died in a boating tragedy in Brazil has
:03:22. > :03:24.returned to the country to campaign for justice. Gillian Metcalf from
:03:25. > :03:28.Tenterden was killed when two boats collided on a tributary of the
:03:29. > :03:36.Amazon river last September. Jon Hunt reports.
:03:37. > :03:41.It's the first time Mr Metc`lfe has been back to the country since his
:03:42. > :03:46.wife died. Gillian, a lawyer, was killed when two boats collided on
:03:47. > :03:51.the river. More than six months on, the family is concerned no one will
:03:52. > :03:58.ever be prosecuted. It is vdry frustrating to sit here and not be
:03:59. > :04:02.able to do anything. We just felt we were doing something for her by
:04:03. > :04:10.getting there, we were trying to push to get some justice. Brazilian
:04:11. > :04:14.TV and newspapers picked up on the story and aired their concerns about
:04:15. > :04:19.the time prosecutions were taking. It seems to us they do not really
:04:20. > :04:23.care that much. I don't likd the idea of our boat drivers continuing
:04:24. > :04:28.to be on the river because ht could happen again to anyone else. They
:04:29. > :04:31.were both very irresponsibld. The family say that returning fdlt right
:04:32. > :04:38.and they were able to reflect on the happiness they had shared bdfore the
:04:39. > :04:43.travelling. We were happy btnch and that is some consolation. It was
:04:44. > :04:49.quick and we were together `nd we were happy. Mr Metcalfe hopds his
:04:50. > :04:54.visit will prompt prosecutors to bring the case to court.
:04:55. > :04:55.Well, there may have been a few indoor Easter egg hunts tod`y. Let's
:04:56. > :05:07.get a check on the weather. With the rain clearing to the north
:05:08. > :05:12.we can expected to be a mostly dry night with quite a lot of cloud at
:05:13. > :05:18.times. It will be a fairly lild night as well, temperatures down to
:05:19. > :05:22.seven or eight Celsius. For bank holiday Monday, expect quitd a nice
:05:23. > :05:25.dead. There will be a lot of low cloud to start the day but that
:05:26. > :05:30.should break throughout the morning to give decent spells of brhghtness
:05:31. > :05:33.and eventually some sunshind as well. The air is mild and
:05:34. > :05:38.temperatures rise accordingly, all the way up to 17 Celsius perhaps for
:05:39. > :05:43.some spots, which is 63 in Fahrenheit. But watch out for some
:05:44. > :05:50.heavy, thundery showers as we head into the afternoon. More April
:05:51. > :05:54.showers on the way for the rest of the week. Some good spells of
:05:55. > :06:06.sunshine and staying fairly mild throughout. That's all from us.
:06:07. > :06:13.Hello. Well, it was another lovely sunny day across the north of the
:06:14. > :06:15.UK. What a difference over the south. The rain set in for the
:06:16. > :06:19.course of the afternoon. There's more of that to come. It has been
:06:20. > :06:20.getting heavy across southern