:00:10. > :00:12.Hello, I'm Allen Sinclair with the news in the south. Critics of a
:00:12. > :00:15.controversial waste incinerator plant for a Berkshire beauty spot
:00:15. > :00:17.claim those behind it are trying to sneak the scheme through while
:00:17. > :00:27.people's attention is elsewhere. A public consultation on the proposal
:00:27. > :00:31.
:00:31. > :00:35.began as most people were beginning Berkshire already has one waste
:00:35. > :00:41.incinerator. But now the company behind this plant wants to build
:00:41. > :00:47.another. While it will be close to a motorway, opposition figures
:00:47. > :00:53.argued that the similarity ends. The timing of it being made public
:00:53. > :00:58.is not an accident. This adventure is a completely commercial venture.
:00:58. > :01:03.It is not required in Berkshire. It is not in partnership with the
:01:03. > :01:07.district council. I am sure they are using every tactic they
:01:07. > :01:12.possibly can to get this approved, possibly by putting it in this time
:01:12. > :01:20.of year they are hoping it will take away from our ability to
:01:20. > :01:23.respond. The company denied trying to slip this out quietly. They said
:01:23. > :01:28.they did not expected to go public on the council website until the
:01:28. > :01:31.new year. People have got until the end of January to make their views
:01:31. > :01:35.known about the incinerator plans but that is not because of the
:01:35. > :01:45.Christmas holidays but simply because of the controversial nature
:01:45. > :01:45.
:01:45. > :01:48.of what is planned. Just beyond the A man in his forties has been
:01:48. > :01:51.stabbed to death at a house on Portland. Police say a 44 year-old
:01:51. > :01:54.woman has been arrested and remains in custody. They are not looking
:01:54. > :01:57.for anyone else in connection with the death. But they are urging
:01:57. > :02:00.anyone who may have seen unusual activity near the house on Park
:02:00. > :02:03.Road in the early hours of this morning to contact them. The
:02:03. > :02:05.Transport Secretary says the government is committed to reducing
:02:05. > :02:08.overcrowding on the south's railway lines. Justine Greening was
:02:08. > :02:11.speaking after it was announced that 130 new carriages are going to
:02:11. > :02:21.be built for Southern trains. It is the second big rail investment in
:02:21. > :02:26.
:02:26. > :02:30.Southern trains operates on the country's busiest services across
:02:30. > :02:37.Surrey, Sussex and parts of Hampshire. This announcement sees
:02:37. > :02:41.130 extra carriages introduced from the end of 2013. Able cost �188
:02:41. > :02:45.million. There will be longer trains on suburban services to
:02:45. > :02:49.London, Victoria. They did not have plans to make further improvements
:02:49. > :02:54.to services to places like Brighton. But the Transport Secretary
:02:54. > :02:59.signalled the possibility of more investment in future. We want to
:02:59. > :03:03.look at what more we can do to further improve capacity. We are
:03:03. > :03:07.looking at rolling-stock as he might be aware. Next year is the
:03:07. > :03:13.year when we do a long-term look about what we need in the next few
:03:13. > :03:18.years, not just months. This comes six days after South West Trains
:03:18. > :03:27.announced it will be introducing an extra 60 prefer bitched carriages
:03:27. > :03:30.on services to Waterloo. -- 60 Firefighters in south Oxfordshire
:03:30. > :03:33.have commended neighbours for raising the alarm about a fire at a
:03:33. > :03:35.house where 17 members of the same family were staying overnight.
:03:35. > :03:38.Three people at the property in Didcot were given precautionary
:03:38. > :03:41.checks by the ambulance service. The home was not fitted with smoke
:03:41. > :03:45.detectors. Neighbours also pitched in to help control the fire and
:03:45. > :03:48.care for evacuees. An Isle of Wight hospice stands to receive thousands
:03:48. > :03:51.of pounds from sales of a charity single. A group of singers calling
:03:51. > :03:55.themselves Isle of Wight Unite have recorded a version of the song, "We
:03:55. > :03:58.Are the World". Over the past few weeks they have sold hundreds of
:03:58. > :04:01.CDs of the track to raise money for the Earl Mountbatten Hospice. The
:04:01. > :04:04.song even made a brief appearance on the downloads chart. Organiser
:04:04. > :04:14.Simon Ledger chose to charity in memory of his father, who spent his
:04:14. > :04:16.
:04:16. > :04:21.We decided to use this charity because it was close to me because
:04:21. > :04:27.my father spent his final few days in the hospice. I put this together
:04:27. > :04:32.five years ago it. I got it planned and organised in three months. The
:04:32. > :04:41.recording went amazingly well. In about four hours it took the solo
:04:41. > :04:44.and choir part. CDs have gone on How is this for a takeaway? 1000
:04:44. > :04:47.curries plus side dishes and naan bread are being shipped out from
:04:47. > :04:57.Bournemouth to feed United Nations troops based in Sudan. The town's
:04:57. > :04:59.
:04:59. > :05:03.Eye of the Tiger restaurant is A hectic end to 2011. The chefs at
:05:03. > :05:08.this restaurant in Bournemouth are working particularly hard in the
:05:08. > :05:15.run up to the new year, making meals for UN troops spending
:05:15. > :05:20.Christmas in Sudan. Many of these dishes are very authentic. They do
:05:20. > :05:27.not want artificial things mixed with it. It is not exactly the same
:05:27. > :05:31.as my mum would make it in India but it is quite similar. The food
:05:31. > :05:36.will be frozen and flown to Sudan. A chef from the restaurant is
:05:36. > :05:40.travelling with the order to make sure everything gets there OK.
:05:40. > :05:45.will be taking extra spices and herbs and if anything goes wrong,
:05:45. > :05:51.he can replicate the food over there. They are used to dealing
:05:51. > :05:57.with unusual orders. They once sent an order to the United States and
:05:57. > :06:00.they are hoping this order goes down equally well. They are all
:06:00. > :06:06.from the air force and I know half of them and they will have a big
:06:06. > :06:13.grin on their faces. It will be flown out overnight on the 31st and
:06:13. > :06:21.get to Sudan in time for dinner on the year's day. -- New year's Day
:06:21. > :06:26.the year's day. -- New year's Day will stop --. Now the weather.
:06:26. > :06:32.could get some showers in the Far West and it is still very windy.
:06:32. > :06:37.That will stay with us tonight. It will be a colder night than recent
:06:37. > :06:43.times. Temperatures down to four degrees in times -- towns and
:06:43. > :06:49.cities. The best of the conditions will be on the south coast and a
:06:49. > :06:54.lot more cloud during the day it will stop strong wind and rain on
:06:54. > :07:00.and off. Feeling much colder and temperatures up to nine degrees and