:00:11. > :00:13.Hello, I'm Jo Kent. A 33 year-old Lithuanian man has appeared in
:00:14. > :00:16.court charged with murder after a stabbing in Littlehampton on
:00:16. > :00:19.Christmas Day. Vaides Juras appeared at Worthing Magistrates
:00:19. > :00:22.today. He has been remanded in custody to appear at Southwark
:00:22. > :00:31.Crown Court tomorrow. 38 year-old Bronius Juras died from a single
:00:31. > :00:35.stab wound to the heart. Police have been given an extra 36 hours
:00:35. > :00:38.to question a 44 year old woman following the death of a man at a
:00:38. > :00:41.house on Portland. Dorset Police are not looking for anyone else in
:00:41. > :00:45.connection with the gap but are appealing for anyone with
:00:45. > :00:48.information to come forward. A mindless and despicable act - is
:00:48. > :00:53.how police are describing an incident in North Hampshire in
:00:53. > :00:56.which seven racing pigeons were found beaten to death. It happened
:00:56. > :00:59.after an individual or group of people broke into the shed in which
:00:59. > :01:09.they were housed on allotments in Whitchurch near Andover during
:01:09. > :01:12.
:01:12. > :01:17.It was a cruel and violent attack. The racing pigeons lived in a shed
:01:17. > :01:22.here on allotments at Whitchurch. After being beaten to death, they
:01:22. > :01:26.were thrown around the allotments. The owner was too upset about what
:01:26. > :01:31.had happened to be interviewed. Other allotment holders were
:01:31. > :01:36.shocked at the brutality. He was distraught and almost in tears.
:01:36. > :01:42.They were a family to him. He looks after them and turns up here twice
:01:42. > :01:52.a day. We are all upset. Damage was done to other allotments here as
:01:52. > :01:58.well. Mine included. Three or four others. He has lost a number of his
:01:58. > :02:03.birds and he has lost about �1,000 in value. It is his hobby and his
:02:03. > :02:08.animals and he is obviously very upset. Police believe the people
:02:08. > :02:13.responsible might be proud about what they did. Anybody that has any
:02:13. > :02:18.information, we think they might be talking about what has happened. If
:02:18. > :02:24.you hit anybody talking about anything, pass it on to us. Another
:02:24. > :02:27.six pigeons that were in the shed Three men have been arrested
:02:27. > :02:30.following an attempted armed robbery at a shop in Sussex. A man
:02:30. > :02:34.armed with a knife threatened the cashier at the Premier Store in
:02:34. > :02:44.Brighton yesterday afternoon. But as he left, he was tackled by a 75
:02:44. > :02:45.
:02:45. > :02:48.year-old customer and forced to leave the store empty-handed. A
:02:48. > :02:53.Farnborough taxi driver was threatened at gunpoint at just
:02:53. > :02:59.after midnight on Christmas Day. A man with an airgun demanded money.
:02:59. > :03:04.He is described as white, between 5 ft 10 and 6 ft tall with a medium
:03:04. > :03:14.and athletic build. It is thought he is aged from mid- teens to early
:03:14. > :03:25.
:03:25. > :03:28.twenties and was wearing a grey A seven year-old boy from
:03:28. > :03:30.Southampton who had a rare form of eye cancer was only diagnosed
:03:30. > :03:33.thanks to a routine eye test. Laurence Smith had retinoblastoma
:03:33. > :03:36.in his left eye. His aunt, an optician, noticed the problem back
:03:36. > :03:39.in April, 2009. Thanks to her, Lawrence was diagnosed early and
:03:39. > :03:42.things are now looking better for him and his family. A boisterous
:03:42. > :03:45.seven year old, making the most of his Christmas holidays to play with
:03:45. > :03:47.his toys. Just over two and a half years ago, he was diagnosed with a
:03:47. > :03:51.rare form of eye cancer called retinoblastoma. Only a regular
:03:51. > :03:55.check-up with an optician, also his aunt, led to the diagnosis. To hear
:03:56. > :04:03.that your child has any kind of cancer, it was just disbelief and
:04:03. > :04:07.such a shock. 50 children in the UK are diagnosed each year. He was
:04:07. > :04:12.diagnosed early but still had to have seven months of chemotherapy
:04:12. > :04:20.and radiotherapy in Southampton General and Great Ormond Street
:04:20. > :04:25.Hospital. They normally brings some games. The be Cancer Trust says
:04:25. > :04:29.just half of parents take their children to regular eye tests.
:04:29. > :04:35.is important all children have their eyes tested before they start
:04:35. > :04:39.school and if they have got any problems with our eyes turning in
:04:39. > :04:43.or out it is important to get that checked. The parents are confident
:04:43. > :04:47.he will make a full recovery and want to make more people more aware
:04:47. > :04:52.of the disease so other families do not have to go through what they
:04:52. > :04:55.Drinking and driving arrests have soared during the festive period
:04:55. > :04:58.according to figures from two police forces in the south. More
:04:58. > :05:01.than 400 people have been arrested in Hampshire and the Thames Valley
:05:01. > :05:06.on suspicion of driving under the influence of drink or drugs. The
:05:06. > :05:09.figures in the Thames Valley are 12% higher than last year. More
:05:09. > :05:12.than 100 new homes could be built in Oxford. The plans to build
:05:12. > :05:14.houses and new community centres in Cowley and Northway will be
:05:14. > :05:22.submitted early next year. The housing association Green Square
:05:22. > :05:25.and TV presenter Kevin McLeod's A new community sport facility has
:05:25. > :05:28.opened at Oxford City Football Club. The �2.1 million project at Court
:05:28. > :05:31.Place Farm includes a full-sized artificial football pitch, six
:05:31. > :05:34.floodlit netball courts and a club house with six dressing rooms and a
:05:34. > :05:44.lounge area. Most of the funding came from the Football Foundation
:05:44. > :05:49.
:05:49. > :05:53.and grants from Sport England and Fantastic. It is these huge boost
:05:53. > :05:59.for Oxford City Football Club for a start and for the area as a whole.
:05:59. > :06:03.It is a massive undertaking we have done. What we are looking at is a
:06:03. > :06:06.fantastic facility. We have got nothing like it in all of
:06:06. > :06:16.Oxfordshire and we are very proud Oxfordshire and we are very proud
:06:16. > :06:21.We have still got some blustery showers lingering fruit tonight but
:06:21. > :06:29.they will gradually clear as we head through the overnight period.
:06:30. > :06:34.We cannot rule out some more during the night. Temperatures taking a
:06:34. > :06:40.tumble to three and four degrees in towns and cities. The eastern side
:06:40. > :06:44.of the region is doing quite well but already cloud coming from the
:06:44. > :06:51.West and early in the morning we will get patchy rain and persistent
:06:51. > :06:56.rain pushing east. Temperatures tomorrow up to 11 degrees. When it
:06:56. > :07:02.that rain disappears, eastern parts could get a chilly day ahead. A wet
:07:02. > :07:05.and soggy day tomorrow. New year's Eve will be cloudy and breezy with
:07:06. > :07:10.a handful of showers. Probably dying out by the time we get to