05/05/2014 BBC Oxford News

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Good evening. I'm Caroline Richardson with the latest news from

South Today. The South's biggest ever wind farm project is at the

centre of another controversy today. Backers of the Navitus Bay project

have confirmed fishing and diving firms are in line for compensation

if they have to stay away from the site during construction. Navitus

says it is standard practice for off`shore developments. But some

people in the tourism industry say they should be compensated too.

Steve Humphrey reports. It is a big wind power plan,

generating big arguments. The people behind Navitus Bay want to build 194

turbines off the south coast, each 200 metres tall. They would be 13.3

miles from Bournemouth. Today the debate has been stoked up by the

emergence of this letter indicating that Navitus Bay may pay

compensation to some fishing and recreational diving businesses that

might be affected by the offshore wind farm. People involved in

tourism say that they should also be eligible for compensation. They

point out that research done FORCEDYELLOW It will create what we

think is an industrial landscape, rather than the landscape I can see

out of my window here. I think what we would like to see is a full

economic impact analysis for the regional economy. This wind farm is

very unusual because it is located so close to a really valuable

tourism economy. Navitus says that they are proposing to help diving

and fishing businesses that incur increased costs, but not the wider

tourism industry. We have done detailed tourism studies and

analysis. Similar to the twenty`two other wind parks around the UK, the

impact on tourism is really a perception. There

nursery, they will not have the equipment for the children. So it

will be fantastic if someone can actually save this nursery. Until

2009, the centre was funded by the West Sussex charity the Camelia

Botnar Foundation. But since then, it has been independent and running

on its own reserves and fundraising. But now it can no longer afford the

?250,000 annual running costs. It has been very difficult. We have

tried very hard to get somebody else involved to help us in our plight,

but unfortunately, with the present economic climate, it is not really

possible to get anyone to help to the extent that we need it. In

March, another children's charity, the Rainbow Centre at Fareham, said

it faced closure and launched an appeal for ?150,000 ` which it has

now almost reached. The Camelia Botnar Children's Centre has begun a

formal one month redundancy consultation with its 20

professional carers ` most of whom have worked here for more than a

decade. The trustees have held a meeting with staff to update them on

the situation and they have been told that, if no new backers are

found, this centre will close in July. Sean Killick, BBC South Today,

Goring`by`Sea. The New Forest naturalist Chris

Packham's campaign to protect migratory birds on the island of

Malta has triggered a parliamentary debate on the issue. The BBC

wildlife presenter was questioned by Maltese police while making a

documentary. It followed a complaint by a group of hunters that he and

his crew had breached their privacy by filming them.

The prehistoric White Horse, on the hill near Uffington in Oxfordshire,

is getting a face`lift this bank holiday. Volunteers have been

invited to help re`chalk the giant figure, which has started to turn

grey over the winter. To get the stones back into good condition they

will use a method which has not changed since it was created 3,000

years ago. Now it is time for the weather with

David Braine. Hello, good evening. After the

warmth and the sunshine of today, it is fresher and also much more

unsettled for this week ahead. Generally, we are going to see a lot

of cloud around, there will be showers, if not longer spells of

rain, and also quite breezy with the winds from the west or south`west.

There will be rain overnight and it will be slow to clear first thing

tomorrow morning. It will dwell for a time, particularly across parts of

Berkshire and Oxfordshire. Temperatures overnight, 11`12

degrees. It will clear and then tomorrow morning, for at least half

of the day, it will be bright and dry with sunny spells, quite a lot

of cloud around. Then the showers will develop and get going in the

afternoon, particularly in the north. Top temperature, 16 degrees.

The outlook is unsettled. Breezy again on Wednesday with the risk of

a few showers and more persistent rain turning up on Thursday. Have a

good night. That is all from us for now. More on

the BBC News website. We are back at 10:20PM.

The sunshine today for the bank holiday produced the highest

temperature of the long weekend in eastern England today, at 20

Celsius. But to the west, the