19/08/2011 South Today

Good evening. In tonight's programme, the big clean-up, the

South gets back to normal after the flash floods chaos. The painting is

called the Highland floods. Ironically, we were saving the

flood from the flood. The human rights campaign after claims that

this man will be tortured if he is kicked out of Britain. He has the

right to protect himself, no matter what he has done. One council

scraps and unpopular car parking scheme while another plans to

introduce it. Fast and dirty, the Grand Prix

The hundreds of workers and volunteers swung into action today

to clean up after yesterday's flash floods. Parks and public areas have

been sprayed with disinfectant after the flood waters engulf

Bournemouth gardens. A number of shops spend much of yesterday

mopping up, to ensure they were able to open for business today.

Their efforts were rewarded as thousands of visitors to the annual

airshow were able to move around the town freely in areas which look

like this yesterday. Hard to believe that this is the same area

24 hours ago. The gardens were under many feet of water. The

drains were overwhelmed and manhole covers blew up words. There was

traffic chaos. Our reporter spent the day watching the town go back

to normal. The flooding came as a shock. As

you say, the town looked a mess yesterday. But today it is very

different. If you look around, you will see that people are back. On

the seafront, they are gathering for the air display. It has taken

an effort though. Especially to open up the pleasure gardens, which

are behind me here. It is a vital routes to the seafront. It looks as

though all the hard work has paid off.

From first light, an army worked its way through the town's pleasure

gardens, clearing up the mess left behind by the flood. They worked

hard and quickly and by late morning, crowds were allowed back

in. It is hard to believe the 24 hours ago it was dark, pouring with

rain and this whole area was completely under water. Now it

feels almost as if nothing happened. But the memories were still vivid.

You see heavy rain, but not rivers of water running down the hills.

The flooding affected more than the town centre. They retired music

teacher found herself stranded in her summer house. -- a retired.

There was Sunder and lightning. -- thunder and lightning. It came up

in minutes, the water. And I was stranded. At this Art Gallery,

staff had to race to rescue their treasures. Water was running down

the wall of the main hallway. We have a painting by Edwin Landseer.

The painting is called a Highland floods. Ironically, we were saving

the flood from the flood. Many willing hands came forward to help

with the pleasure garden clean-up. We had offers of help from retired

people. Hoteliers, and it was a real effort from everyone involved.

On the beach, not such a good story. It is feared that sewage has

contaminated the water. People are being advised not to go in. There

has been plenty to see from the shore. The airshow, yesterday

cancelled, was in full action today. It has been very busy here today,

much to the relief of the holiday trade. The summer season does not

last that long in this country. Getting everything up and running

again has been very important for the town's business, as well as its

pride. If we will be returning to Bournemouth later. For now, back to

you. An inquiry is underway in Reading

into why homes in Whitley were flooded just months after the

completion of a scheme designed to protect them. Residents of Kingsley

Close put their faith in a �225,000 flood alleviation scheme after many

were forced out of their homes for six months in 2007. Today, the

question is why it failed its first test.

Residents here thought never again with they find themselves cleaning

up like this. But then came yesterday's rain. The water was

pouring through. The side of the room, the water was gushing from

under the floorboards. It is all still very wet. Still lots of water

coming out. This woman watched with relief as a flood alleviation

scheme was put in place earlier this year, thinking she would never

again have to put her faith in sandbags at the door. Just like

last time, they were not enough to save her. We were out of her house

for six months last time. We cannot live properly. And now it is

happening again. Today, as the council promised an inquiry

insisting that fewer homes had been affected than during the 2007

floods, water levels were back to level -- normal levels. They are

coming around to assess the damages, and I do not know whether they will

want to know. If you claim to many times, they will not want to insure

you for stump and as yesterday proved, the risk of flooding has

yet to be banished. The man and woman who died when a

car plunged off cliffs on the Isle of Wight have been named as Paul

Charles and Jacqueline Charles from Ryde. An inquest heard that they

both died from multiple injuries consistent with a fall.

Sussex police have released an e- fit of a suspected armed robber who

has been targeting mobile-phone shops. Police believe the man has

struck at shops in Brighton, Hove and Worthing. Staff at the Carphone

Warehouse were threatened with a knife by the man, who rode off on a

bicycle. Police say the shops lost thousands of pounds worth of stock.

A Portsmouth MP is backing a campaign to stop a gay man being

deported to Uganda. Liberal Democrat Mike Hancock says the East

African state is conducting an appalling which at and the man

would be in real danger if he was not given asylum. -- which hunt.

cannot run to anybody, even the government. Trying to get news,

Robert's friends say he will be in real danger if he is sent back to

Uganda. The 32-year-old claims he was tortured by police using molten

plastic. His crime was to admit to being gay, something increasingly

condemned as on African and un- Christian in Uganda, where military

conflict is putting the Government under pressure. A picture when

prison with no judge. -- they put you in prison. In UK immigration

court has rejected the case and he is within hours of being deported.

They say I'm not gay. I tried to prove to them that I was gay.

that the problem? It is difficult to prove. All my friends, they

tried to write to them, but they never believed me. John went down

the same route, initially deported because British immigration

officials would not affect that he is gay. He is now a care worker in

Southampton. -- would not accept. If someone has enough evidence to

prove they're gay, I do not see why they are treated the way Robert has

been treated. Despite protests in Portsmouth, tonight the UK Borders

Agency said that if legal efforts failed, Robert's removal would be

pursued as a matter of priority. Nearly �27,000 has been raised for

the Jubilee Gardens Project at Salisbury District Hospital for the

South Spinal Injuries Trust. The money has been injured in -- raised

in tribute to Horatio Chapple, killed by a polar bear in Norway.

Horatio volunteer at the hospital. -- volunteer it. Still to come,

nerves of steel or butterflies in the stomach.

The join me later to find out if I will be jumping from this play in

13,000 feet in the sky. -- jumping from this play in.

Ace six-month long row over car parking charges and Salsbury came

to a head today. Wiltshire council has overturned its decision to

charge shoppers a minimum of two hours. City centre Traders says it

-- say it has driven people away, pushing some of them almost out of

business. In Poole, there are about to try the same tactic to persuade

visitors to stay longer. Andrew has been cutting hair in Winchester

Street for 17 years. His customers only need an hour's parking. When

will share council imported -- imposed a minimum to a stay, his

trade tumbled. I lost about 25% of my income. I cannot go out and eat

so often. I have not got the money in my pocket. Here is a city-centre

car park, half-empty this lunchtime. 200,000 fewer cars than normal have

visited the city this year. Today, the council overturned its own

decision. One hour parking will return. For people below the

outside Salisbury, needing to come in for the audit appointment, it is

great. -- the occasional appointment. I am here for 20

minutes and I have wasted �2.20. The council still reckon they could

lose half a million pounds of income. We have had a downturn of

trained so we have to say the no, it did not work. We have gone back

to the original arrangement. miles away, Poole is doing the

opposite. It will increase the minimum time to two hours in some

car parks. They already make a �2 million profit from parking.

want to try to encourage people to stay longer, instead of just

dashing in and out. The bruising experience here in Salsbury has

shown that even a �1 increase in short-term car park and is quite

enough to drive some shoppers away. For a quick trip to the city centre,

many do not seem prepared to take the cheaper park-and-ride bus

instead. Basingstoke in Bloom, an annual

flower contest that has been running for 50 years, will not go

ahead this year. The council's decision to cancel the competition

will save them �5,000. Some gardeners have criticised the move

saying that the event brings the community together. The council

said it was only taking a year route and the contest will be back

next to you. It is one of the most important and

influential books have recovered -- published. The King James Bible,

still a bestseller today. This here it is 400 years since it was first

translated. Translating it into English was a major undertaking.

Scholars at Winchester played a key role. To mark the occasion, a

special public exhibition is underway.

Winchester College played a vital part in the production of the

King's James Bible. These are the old classrooms were many of the

translators were educated. And this is the old school run, with a new

exhibition is about to be unveiled. -- schoolroom. It tells the story

of the Bible's evolution to the present day. The exhibits come from

archives, and in pride of place is the copy of the 1611 King James

Bible. Despite its fame, its first reception was fairly humble. It had

remarkably little impact. It is a very large book because it was

designed to be read in churches. Individuals do not have the run

copies, they continue to use translations from previous times.

It was not until the 18th century that this began to become the

accepted Bible but everybody wanted to use. Five scholars from

Winchester helped in the translation including John Harmer,

Warden of the college. His quarter Barnes is beside the college window.

The exhibition includes several European Bibles that he used to

help with his own translation. of the things that happened in the

16th century was that the general level scholarship had gone up and

up and up, the general level of linguistic scholar tough --

linguistic scholarship. There was more attention to the detail and

nuance of words. The exhibition includes a host of Bibles with

historical significance, from some of the earliest, to this oddity,

one of the hideous Bibles over- produced. All 10 volumes of the

Paris polyglot, weighing over 17 stone. So heavy that it was never

bored and it is now very rare. -- never balked. The exhibition is on

for a month. The show an air show returns for

the 22nd year this weekend and is being billed as the biggest and

best yet. The show starts tomorrow. -- Shoreham Airshow. They will

recreate a real battles and dog fights and there will be the chance

to parachute from a specially erected tower if you're feeling

brave. Talking of feeling courageous, we will join Sarah now,

on day two of the Bournemouth air festival. After yesterday's washout,

the weather has been much more favourable. Much going on. Sarah is

there for us now. Earlier, we saw you about to take to the skies for

you skydiving. I'm dying to know, did you jump? Well, I am now firmly

back down on the ground, safe and sound. That flight was a little bit

on the at times. I spent the morning with the Tigers parachute

display team. They're one of the display teams taking part in the

Bournemouth air festival. Organisers are expecting up to one

million people to come down here and enjoy the festivities over the

four day event. We have seen the Red Arrows today and wing walkers,

and there is so much more to come. Today was the day to go up into the

sky for me. Good morning. I am the team commander for the Royal

Regiment parachute display team. We will go to miles out and throw

ourselves out of the aircraft. -- two miles up. I still do not like

it on the motorway. I'll tell my mum about this later! This is the

main parachute. It is 330... We do demonstrations of parachuting at

different shows. We are representing the army and putting

it in the public eye. There are different sides to the army, it is

not just going out to fight. �5,000 per square inch. In layman's terms,

a baby elephant could hang off of that. I did not think I would get

much sleep last night. I ate breakfast as well. I have not had a

cup of tea, but I thought I would feel more nervous about it than I

Apology for the loss of subtitles for 40 seconds

That was incredible. Just the pressure, coming down, it is so

fast, so cold. And in the Parachute goes up and you get the sense of

calm. -- and then the parachute. I'm reliving it, just watching it

back it is bringing a shiver to my spine. I'm going to go and compose

myself and I will be back later with the full weather forecast.

butterflies in my stomach were going one I saw you leap out of the

aircraft! I really felt for you. It was fabulous. Catch up with you

later. She is such a brave girl.

The weather forecast will be spot on. She has been there. She has

seen at! Talking of bravery and courage, you

need to be fairly gutsy to have a go at motocross. That is what we

will start with tonight. Tens of thousands of motorsport fans will

head to a field outside Winchester this weekend for one of the biggest

motocross events that we have ever seen. The British Grand Prix is

taking place and there could be a new champion. Organisers hope it

will become a regular fixture. This is the kind of the star which

you would expect in a national park. But this weekend, the western end

of the South Downs hosts high- octane sport.

Apart from when we are up here, nobody is allowed up here. Nobody

can see this view. We're bringing thousands to sample the National

Park. Fears of noise pollution and destruction to locals proved

largely unfounded. It joins a number of music festivals taking

place nearby. You need to get revenue from wherever you can,

toilets, hotels, carpenters. We have used every one local. If

people can get jobs, they will spend money. If you spend money,

then the economy will recover. the British team in Swanmore, a

local round the World Championship is a welcome addition. Shall the

foreigners hour area as opposed to dusty places that we go to. -- our

area. Qualifying takes place tomorrow. The big races on Sunday

afternoon. It will be a spectacle, guaranteed.

Thrilling. It should be a cracking weekend. Football, and Southampton

hope to continue their 100% start to the championship tomorrow. They

won 5-2 on Tuesday and will be bidding to extend their unbeaten

run to 10 matches. Millwall stand between then -- between them and a

milestone. It will be the greatest league to watch this season. The

competitive nature of every single game, you have to be on your game

all the time. Decisions would go against you, they will call for you.

They shot can go narrowly past the post. -- they will go for you.

Brighton have agreed to sign Ryan Harley. He should complete his move

next week. Albion are aiming for a 4th straight victory after

Wednesday's when at Cardiff. -- win. Elsewhere in the championship,

Reading are at home to Barnsley. Boosted by the return of Simon

Church to the squad after a thigh injury.

Portsmouth would give a first start to their new signing. Pompey will

go to Bristol City in midweek. Bournemouth have made along the

strip of the season to Carlisle without their captain. He was sent

off in the midweek defeat to Stevenage. He is now suspended. In

Lee two, Crawley could go top and Tom Davies is in line for a recall.

The side look to continue their unbeaten run. Finally, Aldershot

have travelled to more can. Dean Holdsworth has a fully-fit squad

from which to choose. We will have the best of the

football on Monday. In cricket, he rather later

scorecards from the county championship matches. The batsmen

England at the Rose Bowl next week? Yes, a one-day international.

Look forward to that. Shall we do the weather? 0 was

seaming wobbly. -- Sarah was seaming wobbly. -- Sarah was

seaming wobbly. This photograph from Christopher

Morris. Thank you. Another dog walker, selected by the Sun on the

seafront earlier this morning. -- so low whetted by the Sun.

Shall we join Sarah? Are you OK now, Sarah?

I have steadied up. The Tigers are performing again this evening but I

will not be joining them. So many displays still to come here at

Bournemouth. If he cannot make it down, here are some ideas of what

down, here are some ideas of what you can get up to.

Feel the testosterone as Monster Feel the testosterone as Monster

trucks face-up at the four by four Motor Show this weekend. Have a go

at flamenco or belly dancing and enjoy it live world-music in Bognor

Regis tomorrow. Showcasing original work by local

artists, this at Hampshire Open Studios across the county. -- visit.

In the shadow of Arundel Castle, 10 days of drama and music from

Shakespeare to live bands. It is all but the Arundel Festival.

Discover what it is like to be part of a lifeboat crew and enjoys some

watery antics at Lymington Lifeboat watery antics at Lymington Lifeboat

watery antics at Lymington Lifeboat Station's Open Day this Sunday.

Plenty going on across the south and of course, this weekend, the

weather is not looking too bad either. What a difference a day

makes. After yesterday's deluge, today has been nicer. You can see

from the satellite picture that we started with good blue skies

overhead. Gradually seeing more and the way of cloud but much of that

cloud was high cloud. Hazy sunshine rather than brilliant blue skies.

Going through this evening, the cloud is building and we are not

ruling out the chance of the odd shower. Overnight tonight, Sat to

be milder than last night. Looking at temperatures between 13 and 15.

Into the early hours of tomorrow morning, we may see some showers

propping up. Perhaps a shower or two to greet us. As the day

continues, we will see things drying out and some good, sunny

breaks. Bright intervals through much of the day. Sunny spells to be

enjoyed. Into the thing period, we will start to see another shower

two propping up. Overnight, there are few more in store. Most of us

staying dry. Another mile might ahead. -- mild night. Looking ahead

to Sunday, not as bad as we thought. We will see a pretty decent day

with some dampness first thing. Sunny spells, but warmer. Monday,

we will have a weather alert in place, issued by the Met Office.

Going into overnight period, that is when we could well see some

heavy, possibly thundery showers. For Tuesday, it looks like we will

see some rather wet conditions. So it will be all eyes on the skies in

Bournemouth for the next few days. Hopefully not because of bad

weather but because of those weather but because of those

beautiful displays. Don't get yourself a stiff orange

juice. You deserve it after what you have done today?! -- go and get

yourself. One brave lady.

Rather than my. But is it from us. If you're

listening to Radio Berkshire on Sunday, join me between 11:00am and

2pm. Somewhere in Caversham.

I will have to crawl through all the pubs to find she.