27/12/2016 South East Today

Good evening. late news at 11pm.

There have been demands today for more help for homeless people

here in the south-east after a rough sleeper was found dead in a

The man, who was in his 40s, was discovered on Christmas Eve.

But as the local council is asked to do more,

It says it doesn't have the funds to give any extra help.

Chatham High Street was much busier when his body was found

Now there are calls for the council to improve the way it

looks a homeless people in the very cold weather.

Medway Council currently has severe weather protocol which effectively

kicks in after three days of forecast of sub zero situations.

We have seen this year when it was sub-zero,

sub-zero and one Celsius, and the protocol didn't kick in,

According to the Kent homeless charity Porchlight,

the number of people sleeping rough in the county has almost

doubled in the past year, with the number of under

25-year-olds who are homeless tripling.

It is thought to be similar picture in Sussex, with 144 rough

Medway Council says it is constrained by how

The national protocol is three days of cold weather.

If we actually dealt with it we could intervene,

for example, after one day, but what it would mean

is we would have to pay the entire cost of those interventions

and that is quite expensive, and we just do not have

the resources at a time when our money is being so much

As for the man who died on Christmas Eve, the cause

A family is having to find another home after a fire destroyed much

of their bungalow in Minster on the Isle of Sheppey.

The fire at the back of the building in Highfield Road quickly

The owners were out at the time but are now having to find

The fire is believed to have been accidental.

A man's appeared in court, accused of deliberately

26-year-old Daryll Rowe was arrested in Brighton

He failed to answer bail, but after being arrested

again he appeared before Newcastle Crown Court,

where he was charged with seven counts of causing

grievous bodily harm, and one count of

Three shotguns and luxury watches were among items stolen from a home

They were taken from a property in Nightingale Road in Allington off

Football - and although there was a narrow 3-2 defeat for Crawley

at Leyton Orient yesterday, the other south-east

Charlton boss Karl Robinson celebrated his first win thanks

to a neat finish from teenager Ademola Lookman and a

stoppage-time goal from Gillingham's Baily Cargill earned them

Meanwhile, Brighton and Hove Albion moved back to the top

of the Championship following a comfortable 3-0 win

The victory lifts the Albion two points clear of rival Newcastle

and stretches their unbeaten run to 17 games, as Neil Bell reports.

Another big crowd at the Amex came full of the expectation

and the Albion players clearly had a spring in their step

following an excellent run, masterminded by boss Chris Hughton.

Brighton began positively and went ahead following some sublime skill

and a wonderful strike from Sam Baldock, followed by some

equally impressive celebrations from his team-mates.

Brighton continued to dominate but had to wait until the second

half to increased their lead, a rash challenge on Stevens allowed

Glen Murray to calmly score from the penalty spot for his 13th

A clumsy challenge from QPR skipper Onuoha saw him sent off with more

Perhaps it was inevitable Brighton's third came

He celebrated his excellent strike by holding aloft

a picture of his father, who died shortly before Christmas.

Brighton rarely came under pressure, but when they did keeper

David Stockdale came to their rescue.

The Albion's brilliant run shows no sign of ending,

and automatic promotion to the Premier League

Well, that's it from me, the national weather forecast

shortly, but first let's get the picture in the south-east

Good evening. It was a very cold this morning. We have had plenty of

sunshine throughout the day and that will change through the night and

for the next few days as Falkirk becomes an issue. The Met office

have eschewed the weather warning -- as the Falkirk becomes an issue.

Through the night and we will see clear skies at first and

temperatures will fall away but as the fog starts to develop the hover

around freezing first thing tomorrow. A murky start and much of

that mist and fog is quite stubborn, taking until around lunchtime and

then it lets into low cloud. A grey afternoon. Temperature is similar to

today. Things are very settled at the moment and we stick with the dry

weather with high round but that fog reforms on Wednesday night so

Thursday will again be quite difficult for travelling first thing

and will lead to a cloudy and cold day. The outlook shows

Good evening. It's a wintry night out there. Temperatures as low as

minus three in one or two places already. For some of us the frost

never shifted all day long. This shot was taken in Somerset. Tonight,

some frost free places in Scotland. Fog will develop as we work through

the night. It becomes wide spread. That's the issue in the morning,

disruption certainly possible with a lot of people on the move. Check out

local radio stations for the latest updates. Warnings in force from the

Met Office. Parts of south-west Wales and England seeing early

sunshine. Generally a lot of freezing fog around, which will be

hard to shift through the day, as we'll see in a moment. The odd

pocket of frost further north. Temperatures higher in Northern

Ireland and Scotland. Drizzly rain across the western Highlands.

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