05/03/2017 South East Today

Detectives investigating the death of a baby girl in Sheerness say

they believe she may have been newly born and are appealing

The remains of the little girl were found in Broadway

The remnants of a small fire were also found at the scene.

This morning, police officers carried out a fingertip search

trying to find any forensic evidence after the remains of a newly born

baby girl were discovered on a patch of grass

The detective leading the investigation has appealed

to the child's mother to contact him.

She's potentially just had a baby without any medical assistance.

Clearly, on any view, this is a desperate act.

I'm concerned for her emotional and physical well-being

and I would urge her to be either contact us, who will

treat you sensitively, or get medical help.

As churchgoers arrived for mass, the area around

St Henry and St Elizabeth was still cordoned off.

The events were marked by a special prayer.

And if it is a young infant, the poor mother.

There's obviously a whole story behind this, we don't yet know

anything about it and again we need to support them with our prayers.

The police believe the baby's body was left between ten and 12

Last night a resident said he also spotted a fire.

I saw flames, and I saw a figure behind the stairs,

standing there, sat down again, went back to the window.

The flames were out and the person that was by

The police say anyone with any information should

Relatives of those who died in the Zeebrugge ferry disaster have

gathered at a church in Belgium today to mark the 30th

193 people died when the Herald of Free Enterprise,

which was bound for Dover, capsized in March 1987.

The bow doors on the ferry had not been closed properly and water

entered the car deck shortly after it left port.

A service will be held in Dover tomorrow.

A 46-year-old man from Gillingham has been arrested on suspicion

of manslaughter and supplying a controlled drug after the death

She died at an address in Livingstone Road on Friday night.

3,500 homes in Burgess Hill were left without water this morning

Six homes were flooded in the town after the pipe burst

Engineers from South East Water have spent the day repairing the damage.

We have managed to get everyone back in supply,

there have been a high number of customers affected originally.

We have quickly got them back in supply.

What we are doing now is we are working hard

to repair the main as safely and quickly as possible.

Football now and Brighton lost further ground on Championship

leaders Newcastle after a heavy loss at Nottingham Forest.

With a round up of the weekend action, here's Piers Hopkirk.

Brighton started brightly but Glenn Murray's early effort

Forest capitalised, with Zach Clough's shot giving them

the league despite Brighton's protestations of offside.

All hope of a fightback was lost when keeper David Stockdale

gifted Forest a second, Ben Osborne capitalising.

Lewis Dunk brought down Ben Brereton in stoppage time.

Zach Clough burying the penalty to inflict Brighton's heaviest

Gillingham eased their relegation worries with a valuable win at Bury.

Bradley Dack's drive opening the scoring.

He then supplied the corner for Cody McDonald to add a second.

Stuart Nelson denied Jacob Mellis, then James Vaughan's spectacular

overhead kick gave Gillingham some late jitters.

They held on, though, to claim all three points.

Charlton went down to their fourth straight League 1 defeat.

Michael Smith nodding home Aaron Phillips' cross to give

Jordan Botaka brought the game level but the Addicks

John-Joe O'Toole driving home the winner for the cobblers.

Meanwhile, Crawley held League 2 leaders Doncaster to a goalless draw

thanks in large part to keeper Glenn Morris.

His heroics doing Crawley a valuable point.

A look at the weather with Elizabeth Rizzini.

It's been a very mixed day of weather.

We had a band of heavy rain through the morning,

followed by some sunny spells, some heavy showers in the afternoon

all accompanied by some strong gusts of wind across particularly

As we head through the new working week, it's going to be staying

pretty unsettled but there will be lots of dry and bright

weather through the start of the week, Monday,

Tuesday, lots of dry weather, always the chance of a few showers

here and there and some longer spells of rain at times.

The winds will be lighter than today's, and it is going

to start to feel milder on Wednesday, any brightness

will really help to lift the temperature then.

Still a few showers to come overnight tonight,

particularly further east then they will gradually fade away.

And it will turn mostly fine tomorrow morning,

still perhaps a little bit of drizzle toward

Quite a chilly start to the day as well, particularly

Into tomorrow morning, a mostly bright start,

We do have this band of rain just out towards the south coast and it

could be that it creeps onshore at times but most likely

likely going to stay dry, quite cloudy towards the coast.

Some sunny spells into the afternoon, also the chance

of a few showers and lighter winds than today.

Tuesday is looking mostly dry and bright, there will be some

sunshine but there is another band of heavy rain on Tuesday that is

So top temperatures up to 12 degrees by the time we get Wednesday.

That's all for now, I'll be back at 10.20pm.

Hello, as was the case on Saturday there was a lot of whether around

today. Showers for some, some saw the staff of postcard material, for

others it was more Christmas card material. We had pictures like that

quite widely across the Midlands and Wales as well. This weather system

has been here for a good part of the day in Wales and the North Midlands

and southern England. It is not that warm underneath that particular

front. Some winter arenas about some of the rain as it clears away to the

near continent. In the south-west we have already seen gusts of 60 miles

an hour. That could be a feature of the first part of the night and then

it gets a bit