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In tonight's programme: improving the future of UK defence. | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
A team of engineers in Oxford | :00:13. | :00:13. | |
the impact of unmanned space warfare and drones. | :00:14. | :00:26. | |
road users have their say over the safety | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
And later on: why some feel what's taught in schools isn't preparing | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
young people for the real world of work. | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
Unmanned warfare should be the future of UK defence - that's | :00:35. | :00:47. | |
according to the Defence Secretary, Sir Michael Fallon, who's been | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
speaking at an engineering conference in Oxford. | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
It's as space warfare and drones, based on dragonflies | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
and underwater creatures, are being developed by scientists | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
The technology is part of a new Ministry of Defence | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
strategy, which will also involve astronaut Tim Peake. | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
Our Political Editor Peter Henley has more. | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
It flies at 45 miles an hour, and weighs less | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
Skeeter is the next generation of military drone. | :01:13. | :01:21. | |
Developed by animal dynamics, a spin off company from | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
Oxford Universities Zoology department, it uses two pairs | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
It flaps like an insect. It has interesting upshot is, it has | :01:28. | :01:38. | |
natural suspension, it can tolerate high wind and goes to the heart of | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
what we are about, looking at how you can derive higher performance | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
and high efficiency by studying natural systems. The Defence | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
Secretary said the Armed Forces are increasingly at the cutting edge of | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
technology. I want to make it easier for small high-tech companies to | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
come to defence, to bring their ideas and products and see whether | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
they can be used by the Armed Forces. It has been too slow in the | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
past, too bureaucratic, difficulties getting funding. | :02:12. | :02:19. | |
Formula 1 motor racing is another area in which British | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
research leads the world - and the Ministry of Defence | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
announced a dragons den style panel of experts to help advise | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
The chief Executive of Woking based Maclaren Ron Dennis | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
Our voices will be strong but and hopefully people will listen and | :02:31. | :02:41. | |
this is the minister pushed on me to be disruptive. | :02:42. | :02:42. | |
Also pushing the frontiers of military kit, | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
spaceman Tim Peake - an army Major - will join the panel. | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
From the Spitfire on, Britain has stepped up its | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
technology in the face of a hostile threat. | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
Now the Ministry of Defence is warning that to be | :02:55. | :03:03. | |
If we can develop these weapons, others can too. | :03:04. | :03:12. | |
A man's died after he became trapped in a shed which | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
Police and fire crews were called to Badgemore yesterday afternoon. | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
Paramedics arrived but say they were unable help him. | :03:19. | :03:20. | |
Police are treating the death as unexplained. | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
A 39-year-old woman was also seriously injured - | :03:26. | :03:27. | |
She's been treated at Stoke Mandeville hospital. | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
A man's appeared in court charged with murdering a man in Oxford, | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
who was injured in a stabbing more than ten years ago. | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
Samuel Marriot-Gray died nine years after being stabbed at a party | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
Charges have now been brought after the case was sent | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
47-year-old Leonard Morrison, who used to live on Bath Street | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
in Oxford, has been remanded in custody. | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
He's due to appear at Oxford Crown Court on Thursday. | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
Next tonight - the A34 isn't fit for purpose and needs to be urgently | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
upgraded to a motorway - that's according to some people | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
who've been taking part in a special BBC South debate. | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
This morning's event was broadcast simultaneously across our region, | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
It brought together safety and transport | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
The A34 is a major road - running north to south | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
through the region, linking to other key routes. | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
Because of that, it carries huge volumes of road freight | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
But a BBC study has shown that, despite its poor reputation, | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
the number of accidents is broadly in line with other | :04:36. | :04:37. | |
The A34 today, and who would want to be this stranded motorist | :04:38. | :04:46. | |
or the patrolman coming to the rescue, just | :04:47. | :04:48. | |
There is no room for driver error, which unfortunately leads to so many | :04:49. | :04:56. | |
incidents in that short stretch of road. | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
Hello, and welcome to this special programme. | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
This morning, BBC local radio stations along the route brought | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
together those shaping the debate about the A34. | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
Statistically, a comparatively safe road, high profile | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
accidents like this one, where a lorry driver | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
using his phone killed four members of the same family, | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
It has been shown that mixing fast traffic with slow-moving traffic is | :05:18. | :05:32. | |
dangerous. What can we do? There is a role for technology | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
in this and we will await the results of Highways England's | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
safety review of the road to see whether there is a role | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
for average speed cameras, Even as the broadcast got underway, | :05:42. | :05:43. | |
came news of a four-vehicle crash. Well, the road is now flowing freely | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
once more and this morning's accident was what police describe | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
as a minor shunt with But within minutes, traffic | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
was trailing back for several miles It is already at overcapacity | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
and traffic levels, car and lorry, With demand, you have new systems | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
with people now buying online, the van market has really | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
grown in volume. For road users and the families | :06:11. | :06:12. | |
of those who have died here, People living in a village | :06:13. | :06:21. | |
in Buckinghamshire say 'everything is converging' on their quiet part | :06:22. | :06:29. | |
of the countryside. Network Rail and HS2 | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
representatives will meet people living in Charndon, | :06:32. | :06:32. | |
later this week, to discuss plans Charndon, is a quiet village | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
on the Buckinghamshire/ Come the next two years it will | :06:36. | :06:58. | |
change something completely different. And it will become a | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
village which I do not think people will really want to live in. | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
Chandon residents have been fighting ther nearby HS2 route | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
so long the signs have faded, now the East West trainline | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
plus a planned Expressway between Oxford and Cambridge | :07:13. | :07:14. | |
It seems as if everything is converging on this, what was, a very | :07:15. | :07:31. | |
quiet part of the countryside. And nobody is happy about it. | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
want to build a maintenance depot - right next to a childrens' | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
playground, bus stops and a war memorial. | :07:40. | :07:40. | |
It would be used for five years during the construction | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
But an HS2 maintenace depot already has approval in Calvert - | :07:44. | :07:54. | |
Why can't it be sited where there are compounds served better by the | :07:55. | :08:03. | |
road infrastructure. The roads are small and not a good condition, they | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
certainly could not take the volume of HGVs and workers cars that East | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
and West Railway meet. Both companies will meet residents | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
in Charndon this week. Sir Roger Bannister has been made | :08:16. | :08:37. | |
a Companion of Honour The 87-year-old, who lives | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
in Oxford, made history by being the first person to run | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
a mile in under four minutes. He went on to be | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
a successful neurologist. He was knighted in 1975 | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
for services to sport. Fellow Companions of Honour, | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
include the physicist Triple Olympic rowing champion | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
Andy Triggs-Hodge has announced his retirement | :08:58. | :09:07. | |
from international competition. The 37-year-old won two Olympic | :09:08. | :09:08. | |
titles in the coxless four in Bejing and London, | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
before joining the eight to win He was born at Halton Hospital near | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
Aylesbury but now lives in Oxford. A dog in Bicester has been propelled | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
to fame after being described Buffy's grin has attracted the | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
attention of national media groups. The Jack Russell even | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
has her own Facebook page. Hello, Buffy! | :09:30. | :09:53. | |
MUSIC PLAYS I posted a picture on a daytime | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
programme and somebody contacted me from the press office and they were | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
smitten with a photograph with the big smiley face. It has gone crazy. | :10:05. | :10:13. | |
# Whether you are brother, staying alive. There is more pictures of | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
Buffy than me and my brother. She has a massive box of toys at the | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
back of the room so they are from friends and family when we go away | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
on holiday we bring her something back. She has been in the Daily Mail | :10:27. | :10:35. | |
online, the Mirror online and the Metro online. She is very laid back, | :10:36. | :10:43. | |
she is 14 this year so she is a little old lady. Everybody loves | :10:44. | :10:51. | |
her. Absolutely loves her and the family adore her. She is quite a | :10:52. | :11:02. | |
character. # Staying alive! She smiles so much because she is so | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
loved and is a happy dog. She loves her life and enjoys living with us. | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
# Staying alive # A kebab van from Thame has | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
been named the best - Ata-lay scooped the title in front | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
of more than one thousand business The founder of the awards - | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
Ibrahim Dogus - praised the awards for celebrating businesses | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
with a Middle Eastern background - saying kebabs contribute | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
2.8 billion pounds to the UK Pancake races have been taking | :11:29. | :11:30. | |
part across our region It was due to have an Agatha | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
Christie theme but not The event also raises money | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
for local charities. I'm back with the headlines at eight | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
and another bulletin at ten thirty. Anjana Gadgil is next with the rest | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
of today's news stories. Coming up, Tony is here with the | :11:54. | :12:13. | |
sport and the weather is not getting any better. Today we had some | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
blustery rain. Tomorrow will be very similar. I will have the details for | :12:20. | :12:21. | |
you shortly. A care worker from West Sussex, | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
who is accused of stealing money from a pensioner she was looking | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
after, has told a jury the man lent her cash | :12:31. | :12:32. | |
because she had lost her bank card 39-year-old Theresa Stratton | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
from Littlehampton is accused of stealing ?130 from 74-year-old | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
David Skerritt at his But she said she only took | :12:41. | :12:42. | |
?10 with his permission Theresa Stratton denies | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
theft and the trial The company responsible | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
for maintaining accommodation for military families has promised | :12:50. | :12:59. | |
improvements after taking It follows complaints | :13:00. | :13:01. | |
from several forces' families, including some who claimed | :13:02. | :13:09. | |
their accommodation was poor. was considering terminating | :13:10. | :13:18. | |
its multi-million pound contract. The company says the new contractors | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
will deliver a more efficient Millions of chickens were officially | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
allowed to roam free again today. They've been cooped up in farms | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
and homes all over the country since early December to protect them | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
from an outbreak of bird flu. Today the government | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
relaxed the rules. And some farmers have | :13:39. | :13:39. | |
taken the decision not to release their birds even though | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
they're now free to do so. Roger Finn joins us now | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
from Woodlands near Totton. Roger, it all sounds | :13:47. | :13:48. | |
a bit confusing. I will try and explain. Just over | :13:49. | :14:02. | |
here in the darkness there is now a boundary of great significance for | :14:03. | :14:04. | |
anybody who keeps chickens. Here the controls have been relaxed. Chickens | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
are free to roam. That is the situation in most parts of the | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
country but here we are in a zone designated by the government as | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
posing a higher risk of bird flu. On this side, chickens have still got | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
to be kept indoors. The reason is that here we are within five | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
kilometres of an area that has a big population of aquatic wildfowl and | :14:28. | :14:29. | |
they are the problem. Wild ducks and geese have caused | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
a major bird flu epidemic Scientists say the particular | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
strains of some of these birds spreading this winter is not | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
harmful to humans, but it is highly infectious | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
and deadly to birds. That is why all flocks have been | :14:46. | :14:47. | |
forced inside for the last 12 weeks, including these | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
on a farm near Romsey. Even though these could now go free, | :14:51. | :14:58. | |
because the farm is not in a higher-risk zone, | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
the farmer has decided It might be a smaller chance | :15:03. | :15:04. | |
but there is still a chance my chickens might get this | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
disease and it would wipe them out So talking to other | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
producers alike, they are The welfare of the | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
chicken comes first One consequence | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
is this farm and many others now lose their | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
free range status. That normally attracts a premium | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
of 40 extra pence per dozen. Many supermarkets have said | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
they will continue to pay free The farmers are hoping customers | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
will be understanding. They are still high welfare, | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
they still roam freely in the barn A single case of bird flu means | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
the whole flock has to be destroyed, with no compensation | :15:40. | :15:51. | |
and no insurance. It is devastating for | :15:52. | :15:52. | |
the farmer and his business. We are sorry some farmers | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
will experience a loss in We keep it under constant | :15:56. | :15:57. | |
review so that requirement for housing is not extended | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
longer than it has to be. The hope is the chickens | :16:02. | :16:03. | |
will be back in this field and dozens of others | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
like it across the South in a couple of months, | :16:08. | :16:09. | |
when the weather has warmed up and the wild geese and ducks have | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
started heading off. Now, what did you learn at school | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
that's proved useful in your job? New research shows many young | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
scientists, IT workers and engineers believe a lot of what they studied | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
is little use in the real world. The Baker Dearing Educational Trust | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
says almost half of the young people it surveyed believe technical skills | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
would have been much more useful than subjects | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
like history or geography. The Trust promotes University | :16:41. | :16:42. | |
Technical Colleges to help Nikki Mitchell reports | :16:43. | :16:44. | |
from one college in Reading. From this device I connect | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
with that device... He is one of a number of former UTC | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
students who have secured apprenticeships with | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
networking specialist, Cisco. His employer sends him | :17:02. | :17:03. | |
back regularly to help I am trying to get them to use | :17:04. | :17:12. | |
the technical skills they already have but at the same | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
time we are giving them the technical knowledge | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
at the same time. In my old school I would never have | :17:20. | :17:21. | |
days like this where we basically All of it is practical, | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
even in the normal day-to-day lessons it is not just | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
sitting by a computer. It is practical and | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
hands-on, as well. How useful do students | :17:34. | :17:35. | |
here think more traditional subjects like history | :17:36. | :17:36. | |
and geography might be Don't get me wrong, it could be, | :17:37. | :17:38. | |
but not for me personally. This is more like tech science | :17:39. | :17:52. | |
that is what I prefer doing. The educational trust which promotes | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
UTCs says half of youngsters already employed in science, computing | :17:58. | :17:59. | |
and engineering think traditional subjects are largely useless | :18:00. | :18:01. | |
for the world of work. With industry struggling | :18:02. | :18:03. | |
to keep up with the speed of technological advance, what hope | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
do schools have without We can put that innovation into | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
the hands of the students themselves They will continue to be at the edge | :18:11. | :18:22. | |
of things being done in the industry when they join those | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
particular organisations. There is a great mix | :18:26. | :18:27. | |
in schools, some schools are fantastic, ordinary | :18:28. | :18:29. | |
schools, secondary schools, at bringing | :18:30. | :18:30. | |
the curriculum to life | :18:31. | :18:32. | |
and making it real. But I don't think it is widespread | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
enough and therefore some schools are not doing enough | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
with employer partners, because headteachers are accountable | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
to the performance tables. But I think there needs | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
to be just a rethink The National Union of | :18:42. | :18:43. | |
Teachers is sceptical. It believes if all schools | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
were properly funded the quality of vocational education | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
would significantly improve anyway. Tony is here. And I am here! I | :18:52. | :19:06. | |
imagine you did sport when you were at school. Indeed, quite a lot of | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
that. I was never good at mathematics but I do know the value | :19:13. | :19:20. | |
of three points. We know a bit about Chris Hughton and his past with | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
Newcastle. He said it was his best achievement as a manager, getting | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
Newcastle promoted to the Premier League. Here he is as Brighton | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
manager and rapper Benito is in charge of Newcastle, both gunning | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
for the title and automatic promotion and the Premier league is | :19:36. | :19:36. | |
where they want to be. It's the biggest match | :19:37. | :19:38. | |
of the championship season so fdar of Rafa Benitez's Newcastle | :19:39. | :19:47. | |
if they win tonight at the Amex. The Albion have won | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
three of their last four as they bid to earn a place | :19:53. | :19:54. | |
in the Premier Legaue - 20 years after almost dropping out | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
of the football league altogether. Earlier I spoke to Johnny | :19:58. | :19:59. | |
Cantor at the Amex. He explains why these two are at the | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
top of the tree. It is the second consecutive | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
sell-out at the AMEX. It pits first against second, | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
the best home record against the best away record | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
in the championship. It also pits the best defence, | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
the Seagulls, with 17 clean sheets this season, against the best | :20:15. | :20:16. | |
attack in the division, the Magpies, who have already scored | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
64 goals this season. The fans and players know | :20:20. | :20:21. | |
something's got to give. What we would put in | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
front is a strong team with a lot of good players and | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
always it is tougher to play this Of course, a win is not | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
just three points. It is the confidence | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
as well, it is a big thing. We know three points is always | :20:41. | :20:53. | |
important in the league, Johnny. But if Brighton got the win | :20:54. | :21:01. | |
tonight it could be very significant on several | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
fronts, couldn't it? Not only would the gap | :21:05. | :21:05. | |
between Brighton and Newcastle be at four points | :21:06. | :21:15. | |
but they would also have a 9-point gap between them and third placed | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
Huddersfield. It would also put more pressure | :21:19. | :21:19. | |
on Newcastle this evening, because Newcastle have to go | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
to Reading on Tuesday and before that they also have to | :21:23. | :21:24. | |
travel to third-placed Huddersfield | :21:25. | :21:26. | |
on Saturday, as well. As we approach the last ten games | :21:27. | :21:28. | |
of the season you feel both sides will want the momentum | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
going into the final run-in and obviously end up with those top | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
two vital places for promotion. And the game is live | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
on BBC Sussex with Johnny and Warren Aspinall tonight, | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
kick off is 7.45. Murry Baldock will start for the | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
Albion. Elsewhere tonight Portsmouth | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
could break into the automatic promotion places in League Two | :21:52. | :21:53. | |
if they win at home to Morecambe They need Carlisle to lose to go | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
third. There's also a trip to Bradford | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
in league one for MK Dons BBC local radio has full live | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
commentary of all the matches. Cricket news and Surrey fast bowler | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
Tom Curran has been called into the England one-day squad | :22:09. | :22:10. | |
for the tour of the Caribbean, The 21-year-old has impressed | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
while touring Sri Lanka with the England Lions, | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
but is now heading to the West Indies for the series, | :22:16. | :22:17. | |
which begins on Friday. The Portsmouth-based team hoping | :22:18. | :22:19. | |
to win international sport's oldest trophy for Britain for the first | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
time have debuted their boat Earlier this month you may remember | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
we were on the island to see Sir Ben Ainslie's Landrover BAR | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
unveil R1, as it is known. Now it's becoming a familiar sight | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
off the coastline, as crucial early From the symbolism of unveiling | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
their race boat to the show of strength on the water, | :22:36. | :22:46. | |
Land Rover BAR are now sound in the boat they hope will win | :22:47. | :22:48. | |
Britain the Americas Cup. It is 15 metres, or 50 | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
feet long, and has been designed with engineers | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
from their title sponsors. They are used to providing high | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
spec off-road vehicles. Now the same technology is helping | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
one of the most technically There is still rope on board, | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
but the six-strong crew have 130 metres of hydraulic | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
pipes and over 1,000 metres of cabling to connect sensors | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
and video cameras. I think we can see a lot | :23:12. | :23:13. | |
of the upgrades coming together and increasing the performance markedly, | :23:14. | :23:22. | |
which is where we need to be. The Americas Cup journey | :23:23. | :23:24. | |
for the Portsmouth-based This will probably be | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
the most developed boat from launch we run | :23:31. | :23:39. | |
through the whole campaign. We have a lot of upgrades | :23:40. | :23:41. | |
we are currently engineering and developing and now the focus moves | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
towards bringing those to the boat. Hundreds of hours of | :23:45. | :23:46. | |
practice will follow. Back in Portsmouth the analysis | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
for the most marginal of for the summer's America's | :23:52. | :23:53. | |
Cup racing. Congratulations to the gold medal | :23:54. | :24:05. | |
winning British hockey team today. Maddy Hinch from West Sussex were | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
among those at Buckingham Palace to receive an MBE from the Duke of | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
Cambridge. Maddy said she was less nervous lining up for the final | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
against the Netherlands but as we can see, she enjoyed a good chat. | :24:18. | :24:19. | |
It was a very special day for a former South Today presenter. | :24:20. | :24:28. | |
Mr Bruce Parker, for services to charity and to the community in | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
Hampshire. Bruce Parker has been awarded | :24:33. | :24:33. | |
the MBE by Prince William Bruce presented for BBC | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
South for 35 years. He's chairman of the Friends | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
of Winchester Cathedral and involved with the Hampshire and Isle | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
of Wight Air Ambulance, and Leukaemia Busters in | :24:44. | :24:45. | |
Southampton, among other charities. Congratulations, Bruce. 35 years of | :24:46. | :24:57. | |
South Today. Very impressive. Now the weather. | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
Yes, not therefore that long! Well, you never know. Lovely sunshine this | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
morning. You went for a run in the rain. When it was still sunny. And | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
then it started raining. I just had a pancake! This was early this | :25:16. | :25:24. | |
morning in Dorset. Lewis Horsley captured the sunrise in Bloodworth. | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
And Paul sent this picture from Hampshire. We had some lovely | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
sunshine this morning. The rain spread north and east in the region | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
and slowly easing up to night and it will be quite chilly in the | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
countryside. We might see a local frost in the countryside. In towns | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
and cities, those 3-5 C, the windfall in lighter in the early | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
morning. Very light this morning. A dry and sunny start to the day | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
tomorrow. Very quickly the cloud will turn the sunshine hazy and | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
rainbow in golf the southern coastal counties. This rain will be very | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
patchy so there will be some dry interludes, especially further north | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
in much of the day. Temperatures reaching a high of 8-9 C. Feeling | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
cold with the increasing breeze and rainfall tomorrow. The wins tomorrow | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
night will become very strong. It could touch gale forced along | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
coastal stretches, even inland areas. A chance of a wintry shower | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
in the early hours of Thursday morning and temperatures falling to | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
freezing. The winds will ease first thing on Thursday. Very much like | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
today and tomorrow, some sunny spells to start Thursday. The | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
difference is it should mainly be dry in the course of the day. One of | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
the better days this week. But brisk wind from the West, or Southwest. | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
Mainly dry, some sunny spells and the odd isolated shower. Before we | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
look at the outlook we will talk about tomorrow. It is the first day | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
of spring in meteorology. Three days of spring before summer rise in | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
June. Enjoy the springlike conditions on Thursday. But we will | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
have some rain tomorrow. It could be heavy and persistent at times. Sunny | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
spells on Thursday, that is the mainly dry day of the week with | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
brisk wind. Friday, we are looking at outbreaks of rain in the course | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
of the day. Moving northwards across the region. Over the weekend, quite | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
unsettled at times, a cool feeling to things, some rain at times and | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
some sunshine jihad as well. The rain could be happy here and there. | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
-- could be some sunshine around as well. We are back at half past six | :27:31. | :27:37. | |
tomorrow. Hope you will be watching. Good night. Good night. | :27:38. | :27:39. |