:00:00. > :00:08.Good evening. the late news at 10.15pm.
:00:09. > :00:11.A man from Whitstable who has a rare bone marrow disorder is making
:00:12. > :00:18.Yevi Ilangakoon is originally from Sri Lanka, but only a tiny
:00:19. > :00:20.percentage of registered bone marrow donors in the UK are Asian,
:00:21. > :00:22.which decreases the chances of finding a match.
:00:23. > :00:36.A winter 's day of Whitstable is a world away from the Sri Lankan
:00:37. > :00:39.sunshine. But in South Asian background means he is struggling to
:00:40. > :00:46.find a bone marrow donor here in the UK. A search which is becoming
:00:47. > :00:50.increasingly urgent. Recently, we had a bone marrow
:00:51. > :00:55.biopsy and that showed that the condition had progressed and was
:00:56. > :00:58.very aggressive. It is called myelofibrosis, a
:00:59. > :01:02.disorder which disrupt the normal production of blood cells.
:01:03. > :01:08.He would get quite tired and he is losing weight quite rapidly at the
:01:09. > :01:12.moment. Which means that now it is quite imperative that he finds a
:01:13. > :01:18.donor, because, you know, that is what is going to sustain him.
:01:19. > :01:26.The money with my family managed to get a computer to raise awareness.
:01:27. > :01:31.But so far no luck. From the entire register, only 4% from a South Asian
:01:32. > :01:34.background and only 3% are from an Afro-Caribbean background. It does
:01:35. > :01:39.not mean to say that any other background cannot be a match for my
:01:40. > :01:44.dad or anybody else, but the tissue type is more likely to be from a
:01:45. > :01:50.salvation background. At the moment we find a perfect
:01:51. > :01:55.match for about 60% of white northern European patients who need
:01:56. > :02:02.a transplant but that drops to around 20% for anybody, any patient
:02:03. > :02:08.of ethnic minority. Experts say joining a register is
:02:09. > :02:11.He hopes the search will soon be over.
:02:12. > :02:14.A woman from Sussex has been given a 15 month sentence
:02:15. > :02:20.after threatening to kill horses at a yard in Shoreham.
:02:21. > :02:22.Kirsty Geoghegan, who's 25 and from Hove, tried to blackmail
:02:23. > :02:24.stable owners at Buddies Yard into paying her ?5,000.
:02:25. > :02:27.The horses had previously had their tails and manes cut off
:02:28. > :02:31.The stable owners say they're relieved the judge handed out
:02:32. > :02:46.Absolutely gobsmacked that she got a prison sentence but then ecstatic.
:02:47. > :02:53.Justice has been served. I mean, we went through a horrendous... It was
:02:54. > :02:54.absolutely horrendous, the messages that we received and everything that
:02:55. > :02:57.that we received and everything that we went through.
:02:58. > :02:59.A historic lifeboat, thought to be among the oldest
:03:00. > :03:02.in the UK has been returned to Thanet to be restored.
:03:03. > :03:05.The Francis Forbes Barton was built in 1896 and served the community
:03:06. > :03:09.It was tracked down to a field in Lincolnshire before being
:03:10. > :03:11.Thanet District Council will bid for one million pounds
:03:12. > :03:16.of Heritage Lottery funding to refurbish the vessel.
:03:17. > :03:18.The team behind Saltdean's ionic Lido development have confirmed it
:03:19. > :03:21.will open on the second Bank Holiday weekend in May.
:03:22. > :03:26.They've also announced that for the first time in its history,
:03:27. > :03:29.Earlier this week Brighton and Hove City Council granted
:03:30. > :03:31.a further ?700,000 to the project to renovate
:03:32. > :03:35.the library - housed within the art deco building.
:03:36. > :03:37.In football, all our teams are in action today:
:03:38. > :03:41.In the Championship, Brighton are playing Burton Albion,
:03:42. > :03:44.while in League One Charlton face AFC Wimbledon and Gillingham
:03:45. > :03:53.Those matches kicked off just over an hour ago.
:03:54. > :03:56.We'll bring you all the results in tomorrow's bulletin.
:03:57. > :03:59.So what's the weather doing for the rest of the weekend?
:04:00. > :04:04.Here's Georgina Burnett with the details,
:04:05. > :04:12.Good evening. It has not exactly been very heavy but there have been
:04:13. > :04:16.some snow showers. The Met office has the other weather warning in
:04:17. > :04:20.place for snow until 7pm this evening. As it turns to slash it is
:04:21. > :04:23.not too helpful on the roads. Overnight, quite a lot of cloud
:04:24. > :04:28.around. Probably more sleet than snow and some rain as well. But
:04:29. > :04:31.these are the wind continuing. Temperatures staying above freezing
:04:32. > :04:36.but it may be a little icy and the odd spot tomorrow morning so do take
:04:37. > :04:40.care on the roads. Fewer wintry showers and more rain, really. By
:04:41. > :04:44.the afternoon starting to break up a little to give us some drier spells
:04:45. > :04:48.but temperatures only getting to around four or five Celsius, perhaps
:04:49. > :04:52.in some spots 6 degrees but feeling cooler than that with the bitter
:04:53. > :04:56.east of the wind. There is change on the horizon as we head through the
:04:57. > :05:00.week NBC does temperatures gradually rising and by the middle of the week
:05:01. > :05:02.we could see double figures. So does feel after this weekend, like spring
:05:03. > :05:06.That's the news and weather from us in the South East for now.
:05:07. > :05:13.For now from all of us here have a very good evening.
:05:14. > :05:20.Good afternoon. An afternoon to snuggle up in front of the telly and
:05:21. > :05:27.watch some rugby. It's been a cold winter's day. Not just for humans.
:05:28. > :05:30.This shot was taken earlier. There was some sunshine in Scotland, here
:05:31. > :05:36.a beautiful afternoon. That was the expectation for most. It's bleak out
:05:37. > :05:40.there. A mixture of rain and snow on the radar. You have to go a long way
:05:41. > :05:43.up the hills to find settling snow. Into the evening and temperatures
:05:44. > :05:47.begin to fall again, we could see some of the white stuff turning up
:05:48. > :05:51.again at lower levels across eastern Counties of England and quite a lot
:05:52. > :05:55.of snow piling up over the Pennines in particular on a brisk wind, it is
:05:56. > :06:00.going to feel cold wherever you are with temperatures hovering close to
:06:01. > :06:05.freezing. Tomorrow another raw feeling day.
:06:06. > :06:09.Further rain, sleet and snow. Most of the snow focussed over the Peaks