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Hello I'm Jo Kent with the news in the south. A Royal Marine based at | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
the Poole headquarters of the Special Boat Service has been named | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
as one of two servicemen killed in Afghanistan. Captain Tom Jennings, | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
who was 29 and married with two children, was caught in an | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
explosion and on a road south of Kabul three days before Christmas. | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
He was described as a true leader, selfless in his professional | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
approach, dedicated and humble. The battle to find and eliminate | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
Taliban bomb-making factories has been a top priority for our troops | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
in Afghanistan. Today, the army has revealed that soldiers from the | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
south have been involved in the discovery of explosives in Helmand | :00:43. | :00:50. | |
British Afghan troops discovered 27 improvised explosive devices and | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
other bomb-making equipment in an operation that began just before | :00:53. | :01:00. | |
Christmas in the Nad-e Ali district of Helmand Province. Soldiers from | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
the south's Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment were amongst 280 | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
British troops involved in the operation working alongside 550 | :01:05. | :01:13. | |
members of the Afghan security forces. Altogether nearly a ton of | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
explosives were found and they were destroyed in a spectacular | :01:16. | :01:26. | |
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explosion the sent out a visible Any discovery of the components is | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
helpful. We want to make the districts safer. For the long term, | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
we have demonstrated improving Afghan capability. | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment has been helping to train | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
Afghan police and the latest security operation was planned and | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
led by Afghan security forces. Tragically, one African policeman | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
was killed by an IED during the operation in the Nad-e Ali district. | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
The discovery and destruction of so many IED's is being seen as a | :01:54. | :02:04. | |
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significant success. If 44-year-old woman has been charged with murder. | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
A man was found dead on Wednesday morning. The woman from Torquay | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
will appear before Bournemouth magistrates tomorrow. | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
Sussex Police are searching for three men who pretended to be | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
delivering a parcel before bursting into an elderly couple's home and | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
robbing them. It happened yesterday evening in Woodingdean on the edge | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
of Brighton. The men, who are white and in their thirties, tied the | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
couple up and locked them in their bedroom before stealing money and | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
jewellery. Sussex Police say they believe it is an isolated incident | :02:33. | :02:43. | |
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but are increasing patrols in the area. | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
It was a terrifying ideal for them both. They are bearing up very well. | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
There were no weapons involved. They had slight injuries in given | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
what happened to them that is a relief. | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
A man has appeared in court charged with wounding with intent after a | :02:59. | :03:07. | |
man was stabbed in the throat in Allotment holder from Eastleigh in | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
Hampshire is taking his local council to court over a rent rise. | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
Just over a year ago rent on the allotments went up by 60%. Now a | :03:14. | :03:23. | |
court will have to decide whether that is reasonable. An average | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
Proctor he used to cost �25 a year but it went up to �40 last year. | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
Alex decided that was unreasonable and is mounting a legal challenge. | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
He discovered previous cases where allotment holder successfully | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
argued in court that rent rises should be in line with the increase | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
in other council services. Having looked at the prices of increases | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
for things like swimming pools, the local increase was 9% of the two | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
years. We had a difference of between 9% and 60%. Eastleigh | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
council told us the average cost of allotment is only 80p per week and | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
that includes the use of water and electricity. Rents are hard for the | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
over-sixties. The legal challenge is set for February. -- rents a | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
Sussex Police officers and civilian workers have been told not to | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
charge their mobile phones and other electrical appliances at work | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
to cut costs. The force is looking to save �50 million by 2015. It | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
says the ban will help to cut its electricity bill. | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
Doctors have described her as a walking miracle. Serita Shone is | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
back at home in Weymouth after an horrific accident during her first | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
bobsleigh training session with the British team left her with a broken | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
back. She spent seven weeks in hospital in Germany. Mike Bushell | :04:43. | :04:51. | |
went to meet her. Serita Shone dream was to emulate | :04:51. | :04:58. | |
their team of 10 -- 2002. Reaching speeds of 80 mph on the eyes, it is | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
her passion but it almost cost her her life. There were a few points | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
where I thought I was not going to make tomorrow, the hallucinations | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
from the dregs, I thought I was dying. I remember saying out loud, | :05:11. | :05:18. | |
amide dying? This is my job as a brake man. This is my of their | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
driver. She had only decided to switch to bobsleigh in the summer | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
and had won a place in the British squad. Talk us through what | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
happened. The bobsleigh was on top of you. A we went up into the | :05:34. | :05:41. | |
corner, it's a sort of peeled off. I came down and die was underneath | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
the bobsleigh. My back hit the ice first and everything else came in. | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
I have never felt pain like it. Bits of bone had broken off here. | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
This is how her spinal cord was bent. When they push my vertebrate | :05:56. | :06:04. | |
back... It has been rebuilt. Most people think I am mad. My family | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
are telling me not to get back into one of those! Having a relatively | :06:10. | :06:20. | |
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normal Christmas is fantastic. The band of rain will move eastward. | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
There is a possibility of drizzle once this main rain band clears its | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
weight was the North Sea. And sprigs of drizzle are possible and | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
so be a cloudy night but a very mild night. A low of six-11 degrees | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
Celsius. A mild day for tomorrow with a lot of cloud around, one of | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
two bright spells. The risk of Patty drizzle still around. -- | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
patchy drizzle. The wind is breast through the afternoon coming in | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
from the south-west. For New Year's Day, there is the risk of a shower | :06:56. | :07:03. | |
throughout the afternoon and they will be hit-and-miss. There is the | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
risk once again tomorrow night for a New Year's Eve of some patchy | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
drizzle, it is a mild night to come. Showers are times particularly | :07:11. | :07:15. |