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Hello, I'm Sally Taylor. Welcome to South Today. In tonight's programme. | :00:05. | :00:08. | |
A family turns on its own. Four members of a family, including | :00:08. | :00:16. | |
three teenagers, are accused of plotting to kill Grandad. | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
The debate over killing badgers as Dawson sees a rise in bovine TB. | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
She lost her husband in Afghanistan. Tonight she talks candidly of life | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
as a young widow and the importance of support from service charities. | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
And the peak of his profession - celebrating the drawings of one of | :00:32. | :00:39. | |
our great illustrators. If you do one thing really when you | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
get known for it, but if you do everything really well, people just | :00:42. | :00:52. | |
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A family of four, including two girls under 16, stood in the dock | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
today accused of plotting to kill their grandfather. Winchester Crown | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
Court heard how the family from Eastleigh ambushed the 89-year-old | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
in his front garden, beating him with bricks, all to try to get | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
their hands on their inheritance early. They had made earlier | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
attempts to kill him using methods looked up on the internet. Ben | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
Moore was in court and joins me now. What's the detail of this case? | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
family, along with another girl, stood in court today to face | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
charges of conspiracy to murder and maliciously wounding. Legal | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
restrictions mean we can't identify any of the individuals. The key | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
events took place in a Hampshire village near Winchester last | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
November. The victim was an 89- year-old grandfather. And the | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
alleged attempt to kill him involved his 48-year-old adopted | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
daughter, her 19-year-old son, along with his girlfriend, who was | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
16. The court also heard the woman's two daughters - 15 and 14 - | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
also played a significant part in the attack. The prosecution said | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
the family drove to the grandfather's house, lured him | :01:57. | :02:04. | |
outside and set about him. The youngest girl having a brick in a | :02:04. | :02:11. | |
plastic bag to hit him with. What happened to the victim? The man | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
survived, but his injuries were horrific. The court was shown | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
pictures of extensive serious injuries including blackened eyes | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
and wounds to the head. The family had called 999 and said the | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
grandfather had fallen but paramedics quickly realised it was | :02:24. | :02:32. | |
an assault and all five were arrested. When police seized the | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
family's computers they found the mother, in particular, had been | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
searching the web using phrases like "where can you hurt someone a | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
lot by hitting them", and even, ""the easiest way to kill an old | :02:41. | :02:48. | |
person." The prosecution also say the family tried to kill the | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
grandfather on other occasions, including by trying to blow up his | :02:51. | :02:59. | |
car by tampering with the fuel line and battery. All five deny the | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
charges. The case continues There are new calls tonight for a cull of | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
badgers, following an increase in the number of new cattle herds | :03:07. | :03:15. | |
testing positive for bovine TB. incidence of the disease has been | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
steadily increasing since the 1980s, but a solution seems to be as far | :03:19. | :03:27. | |
away as ever. Chris Coneybeer is on a farm near Blandform Forum. | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
You draw me on Downbarn Farm where they have a dairy herd and they are | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
only too aware of the problems of bovine TB. Latest figures show that | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
national incidence of the disease is up by 6% but in Dorset it is | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
more like 30%, and that is causing concern. | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
It is one of the trickiest and most emotionally-charged debates in | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
farming and in the last financial year, the financial bill rose to | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
more than �60 million. It is still not known how bovine TB is | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
transmitted between badgers and cattle but there is a link, and | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
when cows are infected, their commercial value end, the animals | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
are destroyed and the farmer compensated with public money. | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
Farmers generally favour culling badgers, removing them altogether | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
from areas where cattle are farmed, but others say that badgers have a | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
right to exist and another way must be found. It has an emotive debate | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
and one without apparent end. Where do we go from here? And short time | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
ago I expected to people on either side of the debate. James, you are | :04:42. | :04:49. | |
having problems with bovine TB now. We are currently under restriction | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
for bovine TB, after two years of testing for the cattle every 60 | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
days. We went clear And now, after a six-month test, we have | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
discovered we have 10 that are inconclusive. In other words they | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
have to be retested and it means we are back under restrictions again | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
so we cannot sell any animals and that the good director slaughter. | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
Simon, the trust also have cattle so you are sympathetic. We are | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
extremely sympathetic. We have 100 Sunday herd of cattle across the | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
county and we have been restricted a couple of times now. We know just | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
what it is like and how demoralising it can be. The actual | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
problem is how to deal with it. Farmers in general favour of cull. | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
Why is that. I feel our circumstances were a closed herd, | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
in other words we have not bought any cattle in, and even after going | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
clear, six months later we find we have inconclusive animals. We feel | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
it must be the wildlife that have brought the disease into the farm | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
or that the FA may have already been on the farm and nothing has | :05:59. | :06:06. | |
been done about it. Simon, others disagree, yourself included. If you | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
make the decision that it is badgers that are the problem, then | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
a cull will go some way to eradicating badgers, but if the | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
problem is bovine TB, then you should treat the disease. How far | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
off are we from getting a vaccine will be effective in cattle? | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
probably would be our long-term aim but we just feel is it right that | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
we should have diseased wildlife robing our farm, not only affecting | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
our cattle but also her own species. To risk is that the evidence | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
suggests that if you take out badgers from an area, other badgers | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
or move in, some will be affected and some will not. What you end up | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
with instead of discrete areas of infected badgers, you end up with | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
badgers infected across the whole of an area and have become far | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
worse. So for scientific reasons we think or cold could make things | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
worse. A badger cull was meant to start in west Wales and round about | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
now but it has been put on hold while the review is carried out. | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
That will look at the sides involved and results will be | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
followed with keen interest by the farmers and wildlife experts. I | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
should point out that the milk from all tasered fault is pasteurised so | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
it is absolutely safe to drink. A West Sussex company that supplies | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
products for loft conversions has ceased trading. The Loft Shop, | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
whose headquarters are in Littlehampton, employs around 40 | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
staff across 19 stores. Bosses say they hope to refund customers who | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
have placed orders with them, if they can't supply the products. | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
Lightning has struck Gatwick Airport and several houses across | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
the South this afternoon. In West Sussex fire crews are still at the | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
scene of a house fire in Crawley after it was hit. Let's go to our | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
newsroom - Sarah-Jane Bungay has been following developments. When | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
did the strikes begin? Well, it appears they began off the South | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
Coast around 11.30 this morning - by 1pm they'd reached Havant in | :08:01. | :08:08. | |
Hampshire. A chimney there was destroyed on a house in Cross Way - | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
neighbours across the road from the property said they had heard a | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
massive bang and then their front room lit up like someone was using | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
a flash on a camera. This was the scene in Bognor Regis - sent in by | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
Hayley Bickell. And there was a real thunderstorm in Brighton - | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
this was the dramatic scene there captured by artist Linda Boucer. | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
She Tweeted to say her whole studio shook during the thunder and | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
lightning. There was a lightning strike on the control tower at | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
Gatwick Airport - flights were delayed for about 25 minutes but no | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
equipment was damaged. I gather firefighters have been at a house | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
in West Sussex too? Yes, they were called to a detached house in the | :08:50. | :08:59. | |
Maiden Bower area of Crawley where fire took hold. For punts that | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
tended and it seems there was a direct hit to the roof and the | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
lining went straight through. This is what one of the fire officers | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
told us. It is very unfortunate and very unlucky. We do get lightning | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
strikes, but not very often. It is quite a rare event. Both owners | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
were at work. Obviously they were contacted and are now here but came | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
home to the devastating scene. finally, just what commuters don't | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
want - cancellations on the line between London Victoria and | :09:30. | :09:37. | |
Brighton. There are also issues west of London in the Reading and | :09:37. | :09:47. | |
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Newbury areas. Controversial plans to merge two | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
secondary schools in Surrey have been pulled after fierce opposition | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
from parents. Kings International College in Camberley is in special | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
measures. The council wanted to secure its future by merging it | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
with nearby Tomlinscote School. But governors there rejected the idea. | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
The council says it is withdrawing the plans following that vote and | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
the end of a public consultation. Still to come. As preparations for | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
the South Coast Proms get under way, a young widow tells us about the | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
importance of supporting service charities. | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
Another wave of strikes began in Southampton this morning as more | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
than 300 council workers started a week long walk out. Previous | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
strikes by refuse collectors and street cleaners have led to piles | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
of rubbish gathering on the streets. They are walking out again, along | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
with parking enforcement officers, library staff and toll collectors | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
on the Itchen bridge. They are angry about proposals to cut their | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
pay. The council says it will prevent redundancies. | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
Pilots with Virgin Atlantic Airways are on the brink of announcing the | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
dates of a series of strikes, which would be the first in the company's | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
history. That's unless a pay dispute is resolved by today. It | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
comes at a time when hundreds of new jobs are being created by the | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
company in West Sussex. Virgin is based in Crawley, and is currently | :10:56. | :11:06. | |
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training around 500 new staff to work as cabin crew. Evacuate, | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
evacuate! It is their first week training as cabin crew and they are | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
already learning about one of the most important roles they will have | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
in their new jobs. For almost 30 years, Virgin Atlantic or from | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
their airline from this base in Crawley and they are now an | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
integral part of the local economy. We have added 450 new jobs this | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
year, of which about 350 are based here. This is our home and it has | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
been our home from day one. Richard operated his first flight from | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
Gatwick to New York. You have people like Virgin with their | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
global headquarters but then their supply chain and the people like | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
going to supporting them. On the back of that, the connectivity of | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
the route that Virgin operates means we see many businesses based | :11:55. | :12:05. | |
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here he would not consider being anywhere else. This is how the | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
airline sells itself to the public. It's at first sell tickets and sell | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
the company ethos to new staff, who seemed to bite into it, even in the | :12:15. | :12:22. | |
first week. But first they have to pass five weeks of intensive | :12:22. | :12:29. | |
training before being allowed to fly as Virgin crapping to -- cabin | :12:29. | :12:39. | |
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One woman decided that full-time carers need some time off and a | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
little pampering so she found some money to send 22 carers on an all- | :12:51. | :13:01. | |
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expenses trip to London. Darren Blakeman's life is looking after | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
his mum. Jo suffers from severe breathing difficulties and needs | :13:04. | :13:14. | |
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constant care. When did you last go on holiday? Last real holiday was | :13:14. | :13:21. | |
before dad died, 5.5 years ago. My life changed completely, not be | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
about to go to work, and that put you into feeling depressed because | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
he's not feel you're getting life as a carer. But today he's excited | :13:31. | :13:38. | |
at the prospect of having two whole days off. When you are carried you | :13:38. | :13:45. | |
never go home from work because I'm his work. I think he deserves a | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
break. He and 21 other carers from Southampton are being treated with | :13:51. | :14:00. | |
a free trip to London - so not too far from home. Some feel slightly | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
guilty, excited, so mixed emotions. Some of the people have never had a | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
break before. We have a trip on the London Eye, a posh hotel for | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
afternoon tea, going to see a musical. All these have been given | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
by London businesses he recognised the role that carers play. Two days | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
off in five-and-a-half years doesn't seem like much, but for | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
Darren and the rest of the group, who knows when that next break will | :14:27. | :14:37. | |
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Sport now. The Island Games are well under way. | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
There was a great opening ceremony on Saturday night and lots of | :14:48. | :14:55. | |
people there. 4000 competitors but a good high standard of competition. | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
On the track, times that would have claimed gold medals in the past | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
will not even get competiors on the podium this time around. Meanwhile | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
the presence of three internationals in the shot put, | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
meant disappointment for one islander. In the first of a series | :15:08. | :15:17. | |
of reports from the Games this week, Roisin Gausin has been to Sandown. | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
Garry Newton steps up in front of a home ground at this year's Island | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
Games. He is no stranger to top- level competition. In 2006 he got | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
an England call up for the beach football World Cup. Weeks later he | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
was diagnosed with cancer. You can sit down of thing that is it, but I | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
didn't, I reflected for a few hours and thought, not to have to do, | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
have to go into hospital and get it done. After that and it come out | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
stronger than ever. That is exactly what he has done. Turned his hand | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
to track and field, proving he can hold his own amongst international | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
competition. And medal will have been a fairy-tale ending but he was | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
not to be. He missed out other podium finish by just two cms. | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
is into ridges was in my mind from the third round and I did not quite | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
get it. I did throw another throw which I thought would be enough but | :16:13. | :16:20. | |
not quite. It does put the pressure on, just a small amount. His wife | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
Emily is also competing for the Isle of Wight. Her time in the 100 | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
metres would have won gold two years ago but the show she had to | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
settle for 5th. It is another example of this huge rise in | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
standards being seen. Tonight, Gary is up again. This time it is in the | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
discus but he will have to throw in excess of 40 metres to beat him | :16:42. | :16:52. | |
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Meanwhile Rhodes have had their football team kicked out of the | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
games following their defeat against Jersey last night in | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
Newport. Two players were sent off, and the Island Games committee | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
today banned the Greek island's football players from the next two | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
tournaments, such was the level of misbehaviour. | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
Kent beat Surrey in the Twenty20 last night, meanwhile Hampshire | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
reclaimed top spot in the Southern Group with a win over Sussex. | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
Shahid Afridi showed why the Royals were so keen to add him to their | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
side this summer, helping them to a good start- although he was | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
dismissed by Monty Panesar straight after that six. Hampshire's total | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
of 126 for 8 looked a little short, but some fine bowling, notably from | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
Imran Tahir and Afridi, saw Hampshire bowl Sussex out for just | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
91. Monty the last man to go. Some football news, Bournemouth | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
have signed Portsmouth goalkeeper Daryl Flahaven on a one-year | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
contract. Meanwhile, as their players return for pre-season, | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
Brighton have unveiled plans for a state-of-the-art training ground | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
near Shoreham in West Sussex. Albion currently train on sports | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
grounds at the University of Sussex, just across the road from the new | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
Amex Stadium. The planned site at Marsh Barn Lane will include indoor | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
and outdoor facilities, plus accommodation for young people | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
attending residential courses. A formal planning application should | :18:01. | :18:10. | |
be submitted by the end of the year. Another sign that brighter not | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
going places. The move to the stadium, player signings. | :18:15. | :18:23. | |
A whole new era. When I was a child and I loved books, I loved the | :18:24. | :18:31. | |
illustrations. These illustrations of this particular illustrator have | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
excited and terrified children for around 80 years but many people do | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
not know his name, Mervyn Peake. Mervyn Peake drew pictures for | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
Treasure Island, Alice In Wonderland and in his own | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
Gormenghast books. The artist is buried in West Sussex, so his | :18:47. | :18:55. | |
supporters are making sure his name is remembered in the county. | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
I held my hand and the horrible creature cryptic... A scene from | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
Treasure Island turned into a beautifully detailed picture. | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
Meryvn Peake brought characters to life in line drawings. Not just | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
from Treasure Island but the Grimm Brothers fairy tales and his own | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
series, Gormenghast. Yet his name gets forgotten. He is almost too | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
talented for his own good. If you do well one thing really what you | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
get known for it but if you do everything really well people | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
cannot keep track of you. For a time, Peake lived in the shadows of | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
Arundel Castle. Some claim it's the setting of his eerie Gormenghast | :19:33. | :19:40. | |
series. There's no doubt the area was a great inspiration. The sheer | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
beauty of the place was significant. It is pretty hard to see anywhere | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
that is an attractive to the eye. He would write his pieces having | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
been inspired by the countryside. It is the centenary of his birth | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
and in Chichester they are remembering him. At the Pallant | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
House and Otter Galleries, exhibitions are under way to | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
celebrate the man who covered everything from poems to the war. | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
He had a magazine commission to make drawings of the inmates at the | :20:11. | :20:19. | |
Belsen concentration camp. There is also captain slot Abort, the more | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
fun side to his work. Mervyn Peake died of Parkison's disease aged 57, | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
he was buried in Burpham. Towards the end of his life he could no | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
longer work - a time of frustration for a man used to doing so much. | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
This weekend sees the second South Coast Proms, a musical gala in | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
Portsmouth to raise money for the Royal Navy and Royal Marines | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
Charity. This year it will spend �5 million helping service personnel | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
and their dependants. Someone who knows the work of the charity is | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
Kirianne Curley, who's husband Stephen died last year while he was | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
serving in Afghanistan just months after the birth of their son | :20:55. | :21:04. | |
William. I'm delighted to say she is with me in the studio. I wanted | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
to start with a quote from your husband. This is quite | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
extraordinary. He said not living life on the edge, you're taking up | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
too much room. To live by the sentiments? Absolutely. He very | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
much believe that if you weren't making the best of yourself you are | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
wasting an opportunity. So I felt that when he was killed you very | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
much handed the baton to me to continue that. It was pertinent for | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
me to take that on board and instil it in William. You're young son. It | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
is quite interesting that you talk of the need for a widow's handbook. | :21:45. | :21:52. | |
What you mean by that? I think when Stephen was first killed, my | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
visiting officer came, Absolut fantastic, talked me through the | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
process of what would take place. When you have just suffered a pseud | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
shock when you have injured the news I have been given, it went | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
over my head and did not register. I think you would be so pertinent | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
for some kind of guide to be put together in order for those moments | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
when I have that panic, to be up to go through what. I suppose, in a | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
sense, you get the wonderful emotional support that you need, | :22:21. | :22:28. | |
but does it more the practical side? It was those things such as I | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
would go to bed and I had a very young baby, struggled slipping | :22:32. | :22:39. | |
anyway. Three in the morning I wake up and think, I need to cancel his | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
phone contract, has the car got its committee? Any family has job roles | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
and it was taking those on board. What about the financial side? | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
was something that did not register. I panicked about what am I going to | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
do about money? Fortunately, we were incredibly lucky that we have | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
the inside to take out private insurance but there are many people | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
out there that do not do that still. Although the danger element is very | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
much there. Although I was told, this amount of money is coming to | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
you, it does not register. When you are in that state of shock cure in | :23:19. | :23:26. | |
a blind panic. Expenses just go on. They made hugely. You have to think | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
about fuel costs, at my phone bill went through the roof, making do | :23:31. | :23:38. | |
arrangements, calling people abroad. In a sense, do these sort of | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
service charities that we're talking about helped in that? Did | :23:44. | :23:51. | |
you get help from them? Yes. Initially, I received some cheques | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
through which took that huge pressure off and created a huge | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
buffer for me to take a breath and say, right, there is that amount of | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
money. You have to approach charities. They don't have the | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
jurisdiction to approach you. You have to find them and I found that | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
a bit difficult. You want to go to Afghanistan, why? It comes down to | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
that hole, when you see flies up the side of the road, and you know | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
they have been laid by family and friends of the lost. It is that | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
whole thing. Stephen Spender a halt last two months of his life living | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
in Afghanistan and I very much feel it would honour him. Thanks so much | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
for coming in this evening. And the South Coast Proms takes place at | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
Whale Island in Portsmouth this Friday and Saturday. Doors open | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
from five o'clock. Adult tickets are �20, with the money going to | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
the Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity. More details online at | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
southcoastproms.com. I will be hosting it and Kirianne | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
is also going to be there. It is an outdoor event and we need the | :25:01. | :25:11. | |
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We have had some pretty hefty - has today. One of pure captured this | :25:11. | :25:21. | |
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picture of the lightning striking Plenty of thunder in the forecast | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
today. By opening as well. Not for all of us. Western parts avoiding | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
those downpours. But look at the Greens and delays out towards the | :25:45. | :25:51. | |
east. Plenty of heavy downpours there. They have left us and moved | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
to the east coast. I think for tonight we have some drier and | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
cooler conditions. For the remainder of this evening, we will | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
see one or two bits and pieces of patchy rain and drizzle at times. | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
The cloud gradually clearing and melting through the course of the | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
night. He will seek clearance guys developing and the temperatures | :26:14. | :26:22. | |
tumbling further. -- dives clearing. A bit of a fresh and night. A fresh | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
a start to the day tomorrow as well. Some lovely sunny spells to get the | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
day going. The cloud will build and we will see some showers moving | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
from the West as the day goes on. Temperatures a bit cooler than | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
today. Highs of 20 degrees. That is average for this time of year. | :26:42. | :26:48. | |
Tomorrow evening, some lovely evening sunshine to enjoy. Any | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
showers will fade away for another quiet night, a back to clear | :26:51. | :26:59. | |
whether once again. With high pressure building through the end | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
of this week, it means we will see some rather fine, settled | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
conditions to take us through the end of the week and into the | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
weekend. We should stick with the dry conditions and the outside | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
chance of a shower. Through Thursday, it does look like we | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
should see some sunshine, for the most part pleasant and fine. That | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
is how we round of the week, staying with the fine and bright | :27:25. | :27:34. |