11/02/2017 South East Today

Good evening. the late news at 10.15pm.

A man from Whitstable who has a rare bone marrow disorder is making

Yevi Ilangakoon is originally from Sri Lanka, but only a tiny

percentage of registered bone marrow donors in the UK are Asian,

which decreases the chances of finding a match.

A winter 's day of Whitstable is a world away from the Sri Lankan

sunshine. But in South Asian background means he is struggling to

find a bone marrow donor here in the UK. A search which is becoming

increasingly urgent. Recently, we had a bone marrow

biopsy and that showed that the condition had progressed and was

very aggressive. It is called myelofibrosis, a

disorder which disrupt the normal production of blood cells.

He would get quite tired and he is losing weight quite rapidly at the

moment. Which means that now it is quite imperative that he finds a

donor, because, you know, that is what is going to sustain him.

The money with my family managed to get a computer to raise awareness.

But so far no luck. From the entire register, only 4% from a South Asian

background and only 3% are from an Afro-Caribbean background. It does

not mean to say that any other background cannot be a match for my

dad or anybody else, but the tissue type is more likely to be from a

salvation background. At the moment we find a perfect

match for about 60% of white northern European patients who need

a transplant but that drops to around 20% for anybody, any patient

of ethnic minority. Experts say joining a register is

He hopes the search will soon be over.

A woman from Sussex has been given a 15 month sentence

after threatening to kill horses at a yard in Shoreham.

Kirsty Geoghegan, who's 25 and from Hove, tried to blackmail

stable owners at Buddies Yard into paying her ?5,000.

The horses had previously had their tails and manes cut off

The stable owners say they're relieved the judge handed out

Absolutely gobsmacked that she got a prison sentence but then ecstatic.

Justice has been served. I mean, we went through a horrendous... It was

absolutely horrendous, the messages that we received and everything that

that we received and everything that we went through.

A historic lifeboat, thought to be among the oldest

in the UK has been returned to Thanet to be restored.

The Francis Forbes Barton was built in 1896 and served the community

It was tracked down to a field in Lincolnshire before being

Thanet District Council will bid for one million pounds

of Heritage Lottery funding to refurbish the vessel.

The team behind Saltdean's ionic Lido development have confirmed it

will open on the second Bank Holiday weekend in May.

They've also announced that for the first time in its history,

Earlier this week Brighton and Hove City Council granted

a further ?700,000 to the project to renovate

the library - housed within the art deco building.

In football, all our teams are in action today:

In the Championship, Brighton are playing Burton Albion,

while in League One Charlton face AFC Wimbledon and Gillingham

Those matches kicked off just over an hour ago.

We'll bring you all the results in tomorrow's bulletin.

So what's the weather doing for the rest of the weekend?

Here's Georgina Burnett with the details,

Good evening. It has not exactly been very heavy but there have been

some snow showers. The Met office has the other weather warning in

place for snow until 7pm this evening. As it turns to slash it is

not too helpful on the roads. Overnight, quite a lot of cloud

around. Probably more sleet than snow and some rain as well. But

these are the wind continuing. Temperatures staying above freezing

but it may be a little icy and the odd spot tomorrow morning so do take

care on the roads. Fewer wintry showers and more rain, really. By

the afternoon starting to break up a little to give us some drier spells

but temperatures only getting to around four or five Celsius, perhaps

in some spots 6 degrees but feeling cooler than that with the bitter

east of the wind. There is change on the horizon as we head through the

week NBC does temperatures gradually rising and by the middle of the week

we could see double figures. So does feel after this weekend, like spring

That's the news and weather from us in the South East for now.

For now from all of us here have a very good evening.

Good afternoon. An afternoon to snuggle up in front of the telly and

watch some rugby. It's been a cold winter's day. Not just for humans.

This shot was taken earlier. There was some sunshine in Scotland, here

a beautiful afternoon. That was the expectation for most. It's bleak out

there. A mixture of rain and snow on the radar. You have to go a long way

up the hills to find settling snow. Into the evening and temperatures

begin to fall again, we could see some of the white stuff turning up

again at lower levels across eastern Counties of England and quite a lot

of snow piling up over the Pennines in particular on a brisk wind, it is

going to feel cold wherever you are with temperatures hovering close to

freezing. Tomorrow another raw feeling day.

Further rain, sleet and snow. Most of the snow focussed over the Peaks