:00:09. > :00:10.Good evening. I'm Katharine Da Costa.
:00:11. > :00:12.Three people have been rescued from a care home in Worthing
:00:13. > :00:17.Local crews needed backup after reports people were still inside.
:00:18. > :00:21.One person was treated in hospital after breathing in smoke.
:00:22. > :00:24.It happened at Hollywynd residential home in St Botolph's Road.
:00:25. > :00:32.The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
:00:33. > :00:34.Police are searching for a motorist who hit a 71-year-old man
:00:35. > :00:45.It happened on Shinfield Road yesterday at around 4:45pm.
:00:46. > :00:49.The man suffered serious injuries and has been taken
:00:50. > :00:51.to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
:00:52. > :00:53.An investigation's under way after a dog attack
:00:54. > :00:56.in the New Forest left three alpacas with serious injuries.
:00:57. > :00:58.The animals were mauled around the neck by at least
:00:59. > :01:01.It's the second attack in two months,
:01:02. > :01:04.and a community has rallied round to raise money to help.
:01:05. > :01:09.To have these animals back at home is nothing short
:01:10. > :01:14.A second dog attack in just two months left all three
:01:15. > :01:24.They had I think it was five hours' worth of surgery,
:01:25. > :01:26.where they had a team of vets working on them.
:01:27. > :01:30.They were all losing a lot of blood, so it was really, really critical
:01:31. > :01:33.to get them all into a vet's as soon as we could.
:01:34. > :01:35.There are 80 alpacas at Petlake Farm, but Oberon,
:01:36. > :01:37.Aragorn and Theo are especially valuable as the three stud
:01:38. > :01:42.Their owner Brian now wants changes to the law
:01:43. > :01:49.to give them more protection.
:01:50. > :01:58.Laws that we work tp at the moment were written back in the 1950s
:01:59. > :02:01.when there weren't alpacas around, so alpacas are not classed
:02:02. > :02:10.as agricultural livestock, so not afforded the same protection
:02:11. > :02:13.These alpacas will now remain on medication
:02:14. > :02:16.until the end of the year, but following such a dreadful attack
:02:17. > :02:19.some good news has come out of it, as the local community have now
:02:20. > :02:23.More than ?1,200 has been raised online since the attack,
:02:24. > :02:25.which police continue to investigate.
:02:26. > :02:27.Scientists from Oxford say the Arctic region is experiencing
:02:28. > :02:31.They've recorded temperatures of just below freezing,
:02:32. > :02:33.rather than the more usual level of about minus 30.
:02:34. > :02:36.The mild conditions are caused by a powerful air current
:02:37. > :02:40.Experts at Oxford's Environmental Change Institute claim such
:02:41. > :02:43.temperature surges will become more frequent because of climate change.
:02:44. > :02:46.A group of volunteers from Oxfordshire have been helping
:02:47. > :02:48.to spread a little cheer among elderly and vulnerable
:02:49. > :02:55.Ray Collins from Wantage has put together 120 hampers from food items
:02:56. > :03:04.Ray and his team are also organising a Christmas meal for 60 people
:03:05. > :03:12.who may have been a victim of crime or suffering from loneliness.
:03:13. > :03:16.It is just trying to break that cycle of loneliness.
:03:17. > :03:18.They make friends at the dinner, the police as well
:03:19. > :03:20.come back and say how chuffed people are.
:03:21. > :03:23.Just today I have had three people come back and say how
:03:24. > :03:25.chuffed their neighbour was just to get one of these hampers.
:03:26. > :03:28.As I say, it just reminds them that people are thinking
:03:29. > :03:33.It helps me a lot, it is money-saving, they do not have
:03:34. > :03:36.to go out shopping and spend all my little pennies
:03:37. > :03:48.So, yes, it comes as a surprise but it is very handy.
:03:49. > :03:51.Finally, one of the South's most famous museums has posted
:03:52. > :04:23.# Ding dong merrily on high... #.
:04:24. > :04:26.This is the Christmas message from the Ashmolean in Oxford.
:04:27. > :04:28.The video features exhibits coming to life and singing and has
:04:29. > :04:30.been viewed and shared thousands of times.
:04:31. > :04:33.The post thanks the curators and staff, but is keen to stress no
:04:34. > :04:36.artefacts were harmed in the making of the short film.
:04:37. > :04:40.We have a mild Christmas Day but it will also be windy.
:04:41. > :04:42.As we head through the night tonight, the cloud is thickening,
:04:43. > :04:45.it is drawing in that milder air, a bit of patchy rain
:04:46. > :04:47.and drizzle perhaps, maybe some hill fog in places,
:04:48. > :04:50.but it will be mild, with the lows dropping down
:04:51. > :04:53.So, mild, but perhaps a murky start to Christmas Day.
:04:54. > :04:56.We tend to see a fair amount of cloud through the day,
:04:57. > :04:59.though you might see a few bright spells here and there.
:05:00. > :05:01.But it is damp at times through the day tomorrow,
:05:02. > :05:04.but it is ever so mild, one of the mildest
:05:05. > :05:06.Christmas days on record, despite a strong blustery wind.
:05:07. > :05:14.Brighter but chillier as we head into Boxing Day.
:05:15. > :05:20.Hello. Nice and toasty both inside and out. It even struggling to snow
:05:21. > :05:26.across the Scottish hills, it's so mild outside, whether you like it or
:05:27. > :05:31.not. It's all thanks to this storm, big windstorm in the North Atlantic.
:05:32. > :05:36.It is drawing up warm air from the southern climes. You can see the
:05:37. > :05:41.Azores, warm air moving in our direction. It's here to stay. Just
:05:42. > :05:45.in time for Christmas. Cloudy with bits of rain in the centre pushing
:05:46. > :05:49.through across parts of Scotland, western part of the UK. It could be
:05:50. > :05:53.quite heavy, that rain, for a time. The real story is how my old tonight
:05:54. > :05:57.and into tomorrow is going to be. First thing in the morning, 10-11d
:05:58. > :05:58.across the