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Hello, I'm Sally Taylor, welcome to South Today. In tonight's programme, | :00:04. | :00:08. | |
the Southampton stand-off continues. Workers accuse the council of | :00:08. | :00:18. | |
planning even more job cuts as the If we do not make a stand now, it | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
makes us look weak and all the other councils look weak and the | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
fat cats think they can rule things, it will not happen. In the studio | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
tonight, we'll hear from the leader of Southampton Council and a union | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
official. Rat problems in Reading, families | :00:31. | :00:39. | |
are forced to move out of their homes. One thing is having them in | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
the loft, that is bad enough but when you're in bed and you can see | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
them in the bedroom... Rejected, plans are thrown out to | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
develop this historic building and hundreds of houses. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
And missing a loved one on the front line, the children using | :00:51. | :01:00. | |
poetry to help them cope. Guns blazing everywhere, mothers of | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
those fighting in despair, we now realise our hearts... If the | :01:06. | :01:16. | |
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It was billed by the unions as Armageddon Day. Take a pay cut or | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
lose your job. It's the deadline for Southampton City Council | :01:22. | :01:30. | |
employees to sign new contracts. Within the hour we have heard 98% | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
of staff have now signed up to new pay terms and conditions. Today | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
workers were on the picket line again. It's the start of the eighth | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
week in a wave of rolling strikes involving refuse workers, toll | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
collectors and port health workers among others. The council wants | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
anyone on more than �17,500 a year to take a pay cut and have their | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
salaries frozen for two years. The unions rejected a new offer to stop | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
the strikes if the threshold was raised to �22,000 a year. One of | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
the more visible effects of the industrial action is around 2,000 | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
tonnes of rubbish uncollected on the city's streets. Our political | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
editor Peter Henley reports now on the battle for public opinion at | :02:09. | :02:19. | |
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From the pickets outside Southampton docks, to the radio and | :02:20. | :02:29. | |
TV airwaves. Unions refused to give us that exemption and so we went on | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
strike. The dispute has been building up to this day, and both | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
sides were pressing their case. At 5:30 any Southampton Council | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
employee who hadn't signed up to the new contract lost their job. | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
Though, with unions suggesting it was safer to sign, almost everyone | :02:41. | :02:50. | |
had done. Nearly 100% of staff have signed the contract, effectively | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
agreeing to do the same job bought for less money. And now other | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
councils are looking at trying to introduce the same idea. Among | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
those, Jedburgh in, a support health inspector who has never been | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
on strike before and we didn't have the last minute to sign the new | :03:06. | :03:13. | |
contract. I have three children and a mortgage and having a change in | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
terms and conditions unilaterally imposed upon us, it makes a big | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
difference to household income. arguments have ploughed up along | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
with the rubbish so after eight weeks, where does public opinion | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
stand? Businesses know all about wage costs. But they also know how | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
important it is to get services right. They have made their point, | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
you can see they have made it on the streets. I sympathise with them | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
but I think enough is enough. residents groups have agreed to | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
volunteer to take rubbish to the tip. I am not breaking strike, I am | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
trying to protect the interests of our city. We have a lovely city, | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
you only need to look at the Parks, it is a beautiful city. The | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
precinct is a mess. Southampton's image has been hit hard by the | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
strike with no clear winner. clearing up the high street sends | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
the message that without the bin men, look at what stage we would be | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
in so it gets the point across but cuts have to be made, it is hard | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
times and 95% of them now have accepted the pay cut. Why are they | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
still striking? With more staff than ever on strike this week and | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
on picket lines, union members have shown determination added event | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
turned their anger to a YouTube song. # All we want is the same | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
work and more pay and we ask for you to hear our safe. # councillors | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
meet on Wednesday to discuss next steps. Unions claim a secret plan | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
to cut a further 1,000 jobs, or the council leaders deny that but they | :04:49. | :04:59. | |
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know that opposition to the pay cut Joining us now is Royston Smith, | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
the leader of Southampton City Council and Andy Straker from the | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
union Unison. Royston Smith, let me start with you. 98% have signed up, | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
and around 70 people have not. Other signing up to something now | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
where they could still lose their jobs? We never said this was the | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
panacea to the entire financial crisis, but we said it would | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
protect 400 more jobs from going from the organisation. We always | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
said that. But these rumours around that you are thinking of actually | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
cutting even more... There are not rumours, there was a PowerPoint | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
presentation. It was made by a chief executive to the offices | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
which said if you did nothing else and you only ever handled the | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
crisis by job cuts, that is what it would take. But it will not be that. | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
I want to establish, 90% has signed up thinking they have got new | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
contracts that all they have got jobs, they have got them, will they | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
be able to stay in them? I do not know he will be in what job in the | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
next year, I cannot predict what will happen. So you're not ruling | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
out job cuts? We never said that at the start. This is not new. If 90% | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
of workers are signed up, why are you striking? We have been telling | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
our members for eight weeks to sign the new contract. Our legal advice | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
is that even though they have signed those new contracts, or to | :06:26. | :06:33. | |
put the our members will have a claim for unfair dismissal. There | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
was not the choice of signing it or not, either way you go to work. The | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
council made it clear if you do not sign the contract, do not come to | :06:42. | :06:50. | |
work. We will not give advice to our work is to walk away. Strike | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
will continue this week and will take advice on the future. You are | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
thrown away concessions, you did not put them to your members. In a | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
sense, they are worse off with these contracts? That is not | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
entirely true. Our members at a meeting last week overwhelmingly | :07:08. | :07:17. | |
endorse the actions that Unite and Unison had suggested. They have | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
been forced to sign this. That is what the unions are saying. | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
unions are saying an awful lot of things. If they do not sign the | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
contract, they get dismissed effectively. If they do not sign | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
them, they no longer work for the organisation. Absolutely but if you | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
go to work, you sign a contract, you will have a job. We are saying | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
that the new terms and conditions come in on a set date, three | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
months' notice to sign up to them, and there is a job for everyone. | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
Nobody will be sacked. But even before the dismissal notices, | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
should you have someone St sitting down with the unions saying that | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
these are the issues and problems, can we work through this together? | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
Are you suggesting we did not do this? Five times we did that. | :08:06. | :08:14. | |
did you not sit down and work this through? Councillor Smith has just | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
said he met with us five times. From November through to April to | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
resolve this issue, it takes five meetings? You did not speak in any | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
meeting and he refused to engage and would not come up with any | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
options. You said, it is not for us to find solutions and you sat in | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
every one of the meetings and look at your shoes, Andy. That is why we | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
cannot negotiate with you. That is because councillors may does not | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
understand negotiation. The bit mean sitting silent... Coming into | :08:43. | :08:52. | |
a meeting saying they will withdraw for 15 minutes and when they come | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
back, can you tell us if you're up in a grim it? That is not a | :08:56. | :09:03. | |
negotiation. Can I put this to both of you. People have lost confidence | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
in the council and workers. Rubbish on the streets and so on. How much | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
more do they have to put up with? It is in your hands, both of you, | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
to sort this out. How much longer will it go on for? Andy, how long | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
will it go on for? I do not know. The problem is we need to have a | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
negotiated settlement to this. We will not put up with our members | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
being dismissed and put on worse terms and conditions. Royston Smith, | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
can you work together? I have offered again today in the | :09:37. | :09:45. | |
agreement we have suggested. We will not sack one third of | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
employees. But is what we started this process. Are you meeting | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
tonight? We are not that we have offered to have meetings. We will | :09:52. | :10:01. | |
leave it there. Families in the Southcote area of | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
Reading have been moved out of their homes while the council deals | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
with a major rat problem. One woman who was bed-ridden after a stroke | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
was even bitten by one of the rodents and moved to hospital. | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
Let's join Joe Campbell in the garden of one of the families | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
affected. The people so they have had problems with rat here for a | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
while but it was not until somebody was admitted to hospital that the | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
police became involved and the council may have to start clearing | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
the rats from the area. People who have been moved out today so there | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
should have happened a long time Today was moving day for the | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
Sullivans. And it couldn't come soon enough for the family driven | :10:41. | :10:49. | |
from their home by a rat invasion. We have had thats on the bed, in | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
the kitchen, everywhere. -- rats on the bed. You name it, everywhere. | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
The council has been working to clear possible nest sites from a | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
neighbouring garden. But the rats have already branched out from here, | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
as several families, including the Sullivans, know. I woke up in the | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
middle of the night and I heard the rat chewing, and a sore about | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
coming through here. He scuttled off into my airing cupboard. | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
Alison Sullivan watching today's work, it's all a bit late in the | :11:19. | :11:26. | |
day. I had a letter on Monday last week that there was no problem with | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
rats and in two days later, they are asking us to move out until | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
they find us something permanent. Three years, something has been | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
going on. One thing is having them in your loft, that is bad enough | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
but when you're actually in bed and can see them in your bedroom... | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
Contractors have spent the afternoon baiting local sewers and | :11:47. | :11:54. | |
reassuring people the matter is now in hand. We have checked the poison | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
and we will replace it. Some though remain to be convinced the | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
authorities are even now truly on top of the problem. The council | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
says it is working with local people with what it accept to be a | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
problem. You can see all this vegetation which has been cleared | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
to try to get rid of the potential area for rats' next. But they are | :12:16. | :12:25. | |
not gone yet. -- rats' nests. People said they saw Iraq and then | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
we saw one about that big. The Government is to ask companies | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
to bid to run the search and rescue helicopters at Lee-on-Solent in | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
Hampshire and Portland in Dorset. The helicopters are privately run | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. The new contract | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
will be for up to five years. A longer term private finance deal to | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
replace all search and rescue helicopters with new aircraft fell | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
through last winter. Meanwhile, a final decision on the future of | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
coastguard stations, including those at Lee-on-Solent and Portland, | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
is expected before Parliament's summer recess. It's been reported | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
that the Government's had second thoughts about closing all but | :12:55. | :13:05. | |
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three of the UK's stations. Still to come, pedal power, the special | :13:08. | :13:16. | |
Passenger numbers at Gatwick Airport rose by over 150,000 last | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
month, that's an increase of 5.2% compared to last June. The airport | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
handled a total of 3.2 million passengers during the month. The | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
increase was driven by a rise in flights to and from European | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
destinations. Today Lufthansa announced they will start operating | :13:33. | :13:43. | |
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two flights a day to Frankfurt from October. | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
A barrister has been telling a court of the moment he says he was | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
threatened by one of the brothers behind the failed Lapland New | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
Forest theme park. Henry Mears from Coombe Road, Brighton is alleged to | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
have leaned over barrister Gary Lucie inside the courtroom as | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
others were leaving and made comments which were taken as a | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
threat of violence. He was jailed in March for his role in running | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
the attraction. Let's join our reporter Allen Sinclair in our | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
Caversham studio. This is a contempt of court hearing, | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
so no jury, just a judge listening to evidence before making a ruling. | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
I think most of us remember the Lapland New Forest theme park. Set | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
up down at Ringwood just before Christmas 2008. It collapsed after | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
a few days following thousands of complaints that it wasn't at all | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
like what had been advertised. The two brothers behind the venture, | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
Henry and Victor Mears from Brighton, were prosecuted by Dorset | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
Trading Standards for false advertising, and they were | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
sentenced to 13 months in prison back in March. But today's court | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
hearing relates to two alleged incidents that happened in court | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
shortly before the trial got under way last November. The prosecution | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
barrister Gary Lucie, who was due to take the case, claims he was | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
threatened by the younger of the Mears brothers, Henry Mears, once | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
in the courtroom itself, and again outside moments later. The judge | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
believed the threats were serious enough that Mr Lucie was forced to | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
step down from the case and another barrister was hurriedly brought in | :15:01. | :15:08. | |
to run the trial. What have we learned today about the nature of | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
the alleged threat? The first inside court is supposed | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
to have happened during a break, when everyone was leaving the room. | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
Victor Mears had been taken ill. Mr Lucie described Henry Mears leaning | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
over him as he sat at the desk writing. Mr Mears than allegedly | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
said: "Mechanisms are in place to hold those responsible for this and | :15:26. | :15:36. | |
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He was talking about Victor. Mr Lucie said Mr Mears' tone and body | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
language was threatening and that was backed up by the court logger | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
who was nearby. He said: "It was not 'I'm going to get you', it was | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
more subtle than that". Then moments later outside court, Mr | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
Lucie was in a group when Henry Mears apparently put his arm around | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
his shoulders and talked about punching him in the face. That was | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
apparently said in a jovial way, and there were other people present | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
but reflecting on it later, Mr Henry Mears himself has given | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
evidence as well and is denying this? He is. He's told the court | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
he's well known in West Sussex as a straight-talking but polite and | :16:09. | :16:17. | |
civil man. He suggested what he actually said to Mr Lucie was: "I | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
think trading standards, when you look at all this, should be made | :16:20. | :16:29. | |
responsible if anything happens to him. Again, talking about Victor. | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
He is very, very ill". The judge has heard all the | :16:32. | :16:42. | |
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evidence and she's due to make a ruling tomorrow. The anchor of the | :16:44. | :16:51. | |
Kiwi to have been returned to the city in south London. It left south | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
London for the last time nearly three years ago. Since then, plans | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
to converted to a tourist attraction in Dubai have been put | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
on hold. It's stood empty and abandoned | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
since the doctors and nurses moved out in 2006 but plans to restore | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
the former King Edward VII Hospital in Midhurst in West Sussex have | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
been turned down. A development company had put forward a plan to | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
transform the Grade II listed building. The trade-off, an extra | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
250 homes to be built in the grounds. But for the new South | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
Downs National Park Authority that was too high a price to pay, as | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
Sean Killick now reports. For 100 years, this Grade II listed | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
building, the King Edwards VII Hospital, helped people get better. | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
But now it's in an unhealthy state itself. The cure could be to | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
renovate the building and turn it into assisted care living | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
apartments. The roof now leaks on this building | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
and in some places such as here in the library, there's quite a lot of | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
damage already. The developers say that shows the need for restoration | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
work to begin as soon as possible. But renovation comes at a price. To | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
help fund the project, an enabling development of 267 houses and | :17:55. | :18:02. | |
apartments would be built in the pressure on local infrastructure | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
Today the plan was rejected, and campaigners say temporary repairs | :18:08. | :18:17. | |
should now be carried out. It is not going to fall down, the | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
developer am sure will come back with a mock -- a much more | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
acceptable scheme. The building can be mothballed, it will not | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
deteriorate any further, the owner is obliged to maintain it while it | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
is mothballed. But the developer said it would not | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
be going back to the drawing board. The enabling development is the | :18:40. | :18:47. | |
only viable proposal to bring about restoration of what has been | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
recognised as important by everybody so we will be launching | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
an appeal as soon as possible. Because we genuinely believe these | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
are exceptionally sensitive proposals that will deliver the | :18:57. | :19:04. | |
long-term future of these heritage buildings. | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
Some remarkable poems have been published that give a powerful | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
insight into the emotions of children from military families | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
when their relatives are serving on the front line. It's been produced | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
at Bovington Middle School in Dorset, where around one in three | :19:14. | :19:23. | |
children have relatives in the forces. Steve Humphrey reports. | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
With so many youngsters from army families at Bovington Middle School, | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
no-one was surprised that some chose military themes when they | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
began a poetry project. The best of the poems have been included in a | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
new book, which will be launched at the Bovington Tank Museum this | :19:35. | :19:44. | |
evening. Suffering is neither great nor could but I will make sure | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
people are remembered for the more. Guns blazing ever more, the mothers | :19:47. | :19:54. | |
in despair. We now realise that our hearts may never repair if the | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
things continue to flower. I thought it was easy to let my | :19:58. | :20:04. | |
feelings come out. I really respect all the soldiers who have gone out | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
to Iraq and places like that but I wrote about how I felt and that is | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
what I did. Some people like to keep their feelings locked in | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
themselves but in a book, you can express them. | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
Much of the inspiration for the youngsters' creativity has come | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
from Sussex poet, Brian Moses, who has been holding special poetry | :20:22. | :20:32. | |
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workshops. A poem can make you smile, laugh, Sade, shiver, think, | :20:32. | :20:41. | |
wonder. Some of the poems in the book really do touch these emotions. | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
Children often see poetry as dry and boring but Brian Moses is | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
incredible how he presents it and inspires children to think in a | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
different way. The children's poems do not just reflect military themes, | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
they have also written about guinea pigs, teachers, even the stars at | :20:58. | :21:05. | |
night. I remember the night sky, tiny lanterns, breathtaking. The | :21:05. | :21:12. | |
world changed that night, I remember. Beautiful poems by those | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
children at Bovington Middle School in Dorset. Poetry can be very | :21:15. | :21:25. | |
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powerful, really help you. And in I went down a canoe the wrong way | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
on a river. All the talk about the Olympics | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
these days focuses on London 2012. But a very special Games has just | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
taken place. The Special Olympics gives competitors with learning | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
difficulties the chance for sporting glory, and last week's | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
Games in Athens brought success for a canoeist from Hampshire who beat | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
the odds to take gold. Neil Hartley needs to be determined and it has | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
prepared him for the Special Olympics with two sprint kayak | :21:57. | :22:05. | |
medals. it was easy to see he has got the aggression made false | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
printing. That is what you need, it is not easy to paddle the boat, | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
they are quite hard work. You have got to be determined. How does it | :22:14. | :22:21. | |
feel to have a couple of medals? Fantastic. Breathtaking. He trains | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
exceptionally hard, he is really committed to everything he does in | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
the canoeing, he has been training every single week for the past | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
three years. He was in hospital for two day before running to Greece | :22:32. | :22:39. | |
attached to a drip getting a stomach bug. The Bengals are the | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
latest successes in his sporting career which are helping in other | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
parts of his life -- the medals. has got out there and seen the new | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
concept of what to do with life and what he wants, he has got a greater | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
sense of determination, brilliant to see. He is the new staff is | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
canoe Club in Southampton and his inspiring others to follow in his | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
wake. Well done to Neil there, they are | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
very proud of him. Cricket, the defending Twenty20 champions | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
crushed rivals Sussex to secured top spot ahead of the quarter- | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
top spot ahead of the quarter- finals but then on the final day of | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
the -- first day of the championships, Hampshire were put | :23:21. | :23:29. | |
in a spin like Monty Panesar, -- by in a spin like Monty Panesar, -- by | :23:29. | :23:37. | |
Monty Panesar. They made a shaky start in their reply. 27 minus 24 | :23:37. | :23:45. | |
their thing. In Surrey, the home side have they advantage, they are | :23:45. | :23:54. | |
Portsmouth have signed Greg Halford on a three-year deal from Wolves. | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
Meanwhile, the former Southampton manager Stuart Gray is said to join | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
Pompey as the new first-team coach. He has since worked for several | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
clubs in both the Premier League and the Football League. Staying | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
with football, power chair football is a growing sport for wheelchair | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
users and a new club was given a boost with a special tournament in | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
Reading, it is a collaboration and fills a gap in the market before | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
the previous clubs have been in Swindon and Watford, and provides a | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
level playing field because able bodied players are welcomed to take | :24:29. | :24:39. | |
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If that is great. And now for a I thought it was hot this morning. | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
A lovely start to the day. A bit sticky yesterday. More of that | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
today. A lovely picture to start. View from Dungy Head towards Durdle | :24:51. | :24:59. | |
Door, taken this morning by Heather on the Kennet and Avon Canal just | :24:59. | :25:09. | |
east of Newbury, sent in by NJ A lot more cloud this evening so a | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
cloudy end to a fine day. It should stay dry for most of us but the car | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
but steadily increasing through this evening and overnight, | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
particularly from the South West. We may see a bit of dampness in | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
places, but the vast majority should stay dry. A bit more on Cup | :25:27. | :25:34. | |
doubles to sleep once again -- a bit more uncomfortable to sleep. | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
This double feature sitting over France, it is creeping into the | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
seven most areas and bring a bit of rain through tomorrow. I think it | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
is easing its way through tomorrow evening and it is gone by Wednesday. | :25:45. | :25:53. | |
Tuesday morning, we have the rain into Dorset and Hampshire, and | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
increasing in to Sussex. A few isolated showers but the further | :25:57. | :26:04. | |
north you are, he should escape dry. 22 Celsius the top temperatures for | :26:04. | :26:11. | |
tomorrow. The rain is slow to clear, perhaps in two late evening and | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
elsewhere should ease away fairly quickly. Some clear breaks so a | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
better night to come. Fresher conditions, around ten Celsius our | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
at minimum by the early hours. Staying similar to today so some | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
sunny spells and perhaps a bit of cloud bubbling up and temperatures | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
in the low to mid- twenties. Almost the same on Thursday. A lot of dry | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
weather to come. Temperatures not too bad either, we have to put up | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
with the rain tomorrow, not huge amounts and then it is dry and warm | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
for the rest of the week with some good, decent sunny spells with | :26:45. | :26:52. | |
temperatures not bad. We can live with them. Through the week, low | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
twenties to the mid- twenties and tomorrow because of the north- | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
easterly wind, it will feel a bit cooler and things should improve | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
into Thursday and by Friday, things are looking to go downhill because | :27:07. | :27:17. | |
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Persistent but gentle rain, you make it sound almost bearable! Make | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
sure you were with us tomorrow because Tony Dunwoody doing what he | :27:21. | :27:28. |