:00:12. > :00:14.Good evening, I'm Laura Trant, with the news in the South.
:00:15. > :00:16.Hundreds of people across the region are celebrating their inclusion
:00:17. > :00:21.They include some of our sailing and hockey medal winners
:00:22. > :00:24.from the Rio Olympics, a mum who has fostered 25
:00:25. > :00:26.children, and a former BBC South Today presenter.
:00:27. > :00:34.There's an MBE in today's honours list for Judy Dayton,
:00:35. > :00:40.I don't expect any rewards for doing the job I do.
:00:41. > :00:45.Judy has provided long-term, placements for 25 children,
:00:46. > :00:49.including babies with serious medical problems.
:00:50. > :00:52.Most of our babies are damaged in one way or the other.
:00:53. > :00:58.Judy has adopted three of the children she has cared for,
:00:59. > :01:03.including Louise, the first youngster she fostered back in 1982.
:01:04. > :01:07.I don't know where I would have been or where I would have ended up had
:01:08. > :01:10.I not stayed with my mum, so it's definitely been...
:01:11. > :01:15.Also celebrating today is Bruce Parker, who receives
:01:16. > :01:20.the MBE for his charity and community work.
:01:21. > :01:24.Before his retirement, he presented BBC South Today for 35 years.
:01:25. > :01:28.He's currently chairman of the Friends of Winchester Cathedral.
:01:29. > :01:33.I'm thrilled to bits, actually, and I am also quite pleased that
:01:34. > :01:37.I loved doing the day job and that was reward enough,
:01:38. > :01:39.but having it for charity, that's really superb.
:01:40. > :01:43.In the sporting world, Olympic sailors Saskia Clarke
:01:44. > :01:50.They won gold in the women's 470 dinghy event in Rio.
:01:51. > :02:06.You know, to be an MBE is an insane thing and it's hugely humbling.
:02:07. > :02:08.Also receiving MBE is a Weymouth sailor and Olympic gold medallist
:02:09. > :02:11.Giles Scott and Southampton sailor Ian Walker, who won
:02:12. > :02:14.And there are honours for all the members of the women's
:02:15. > :02:17.hockey team, who won gold in Rio, amongst them three
:02:18. > :02:21.A fire has destroyed part of the Coate Agricultural
:02:22. > :02:25.It's been closed for decades, but artefacts including
:02:26. > :02:30.Firefighters are unable to get on site to assess the damage
:02:31. > :02:39.But historians are hoping most items will be saved.
:02:40. > :02:42.And tonight a fire started in the restaurant inside the M
:02:43. > :02:46.The shop was closed at the time but the wider shopping
:02:47. > :02:49.New Year, same problems, as another three-day strike
:02:50. > :02:51.by Southern conductors is causing widespread disruption
:02:52. > :02:56.Members of the RMT union walked out at midnight.
:02:57. > :02:58.Southern's parent firm, Govia Thameslink, is in dispute
:02:59. > :03:01.with the RMT and Aslef unions over changes to the role
:03:02. > :03:07.The RMT is staging the latest 72-hour walkout
:03:08. > :03:16.Another six-day strike is set for the 9th of January.
:03:17. > :03:19.Bournemouth have ended the year on a high with a 3-0 win
:03:20. > :03:23.Eight years to the day after Eddie Howe was named caretaker
:03:24. > :03:25.manager, Benik Afobe, Ryan Fraser and Joshua King scored,
:03:26. > :03:27.moving the Cherries to tenth in the Premier League,
:03:28. > :03:30.a place behind Southampton, who were beaten 2-1
:03:31. > :03:35.Their day was made worse when Virgil Van Dijk was sent off
:03:36. > :03:42.And in League One, Oxford United's first meeting with Walsall for 16
:03:43. > :03:44.years ended in anticlimax, with a goalless draw
:03:45. > :03:50.More than 1,000 people have welcomed in the New Year early,
:03:51. > :03:57.at a family-friendly rave in Worthing.
:03:58. > :04:00.Midnight struck at six o'clock this evening in the town's Assembly Hall.
:04:01. > :04:02.The party was organised by a dad who says it's hard
:04:03. > :04:08.With kids in tow, all ages could party, including older generations.
:04:09. > :04:10.97-year-old Vera Chalmers was the oldest guest,
:04:11. > :04:17.Let's find out how the weather is looking for the New Year,
:04:18. > :04:29.Good evening. We had a rather grey day and that sets us up for quite a
:04:30. > :04:32.cloudy night. We could see the cloud giving a bit of light rain and
:04:33. > :04:36.drizzle but there will be a band of more persistent rain pushing in from
:04:37. > :04:41.the north-west towards dawn. With all of the cloud, mist and fog,
:04:42. > :04:46.temperatures well above freezing, up at around seven or 8 degrees. The
:04:47. > :04:50.rain could be heavy at times tomorrow, turning wintry over higher
:04:51. > :04:56.ground. Temperatures not too bad. Highs of eight or nine. Then we get
:04:57. > :04:57.some properly cold air, so Monday drier and brighter but noticeably
:04:58. > :05:05.colder. We are back tomorrow. In the
:05:06. > :05:07.meantime, a very happy New Year. Goodbye.
:05:08. > :05:16.wonderful New Year. You can keep up with all the best. Happy New Year.
:05:17. > :05:23.Good evening. As we head through the final few hours of 2016 the weather
:05:24. > :05:30.is on the change. We've got called her swooping in and there is a
:05:31. > :05:34.weather front bringing a soggy New Year's Eve. It is raining across
:05:35. > :05:37.southern Scotland and Northern Ireland and that will push south as
:05:38. > :05:41.we head towards parts of northern England. Showers moving in from the
:05:42. > :05:50.North Southwark could be icy stretches across there. Adding
:05:51. > :05:51.further south, mostly dry with a drizzly spell, that rain