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Hello, I'm Sally Taylor. Welcome to South Today. In tonight's programme.

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Is it new hope for families in the battle to keep Southampton's

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childrens' heart unit open? I am feeling much more positive. But we

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will wait to see what the end of the year brings.

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Stripped of its names. The war memorial vandalised for its scrap

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metal. They are taking it for money. It's all aboard the tram with a new

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restoration project. And in the beginning was the word,

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and millions more as this man Has Southampton's Children's Heart

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Unit moved a step closer to being saved? Today an official survey of

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public opinion has revealed strong support for it. The overall plan in

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England is to have fewer, larger centres. The scale of the public

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survey was significant. 75,000 people responded to the

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consultation. The proposal that includes keeping Southampton open

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was the preferred option among more than 1,000 professional

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organisations. But it was the second most popular amongst the

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public. As Chris Coneybeer reports, many supporters hope the future of

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Southampton's unit will now be more secure.

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Aaron place with his young brother. He was born with serious heart

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problems and has had several operations already. For his mother,

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the suggestion that the heart unit at Southampton could close is a

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worry. The result of the survey has given her a new hope. The report is

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very positive for us. I feel that now we have been through that

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consultation period and the campaign, we are in a much better

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position now. I am feeling much more positive, but they will wait

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to see what the end of the Year brings. I am hoping that be will

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get the right result for us. basic percentage terms, the popular

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vote it goes to a group of heart centres that does not include

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Southampton. But local campaigns have distorted the figures add if

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you take those local campaigns out, the survey puts the local group on

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top. The professional vote in the survey is emphatically in favour of

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the Southampton group. This is part of the process in which of the

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decision-making body will come to its conclusion. It can all be be a

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good thing. If the Southampton you that was to close, the implication

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that go beyond the heart surgery team. It could affect support

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services and the prestige of the hospital. The professionals will

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advise, but ministers will have to take responsibility for this.

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results of the survey are important to the campaign, but it is just a

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survey. The actual decision on how children's heart services will be

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placed around the country will not be made until the end of the year.

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In a moment, we'll be getting a reaction from our political editor

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Peter Henley, but first, let's speak to Professor Terence

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Stephenson, President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and

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Children's Health, a key stakeholder in the report. Thank

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you for joining us. We had a lot of public consultation here, what

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value do you put on it? There are 11 million children in England and

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this report is about providing a safe and sustainable heart service

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for all 11 million children. It is inevitable that public consultation

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will throw up groups that will support their local centre, and I

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understand that. You clearly heard families in Southampton saying that

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they feel they have got more hope. Do you think that they should feel

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encouraged by the news today? clear in my mind that no decision

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has been made and no decision will be taken until towards the end of

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this year. For most of my professional life, I have worked in

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a centre that does not have children's heart surgery. I have

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had much experience of advising parents of travelling for treatment.

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Thank you for joining us. So let's now speak to our political

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editor, Peter Henley. It looks like people are taking a lot of notice

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of this public consultation. This is not an X Factor style vote

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where the organisation the gets the most support among the public is

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the one that is saved. It is much more important than that. Just

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because Leeds it got twice as many names on its petition rather than

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Southampton, it does not mean that the public have saved it. Neither

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is it the expert who will come to logical decisions about travel

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times and the best place. Politicians have to intervene, even

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if there are some ulterior motives for them. We have to leave it to

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them to come to a decision, to listen to the public and the

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experts and finally make this difficult decision.

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A war memorial in Portsmouth has been desecrated by thieves. The

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monument in Kingston Cemetery has had four metal plaques, with the

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names of civilians killed during the blitz in Portsmouth, taken from

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it. Police are investigating and local scrap metal merchants have

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been told to be on the look out. Sarah Holmes reports This is what

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the civilians war memorial should look like.

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But this is what it looks like today. That is awful. That is

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really bad. I cannot believe anybody could do such a thing.

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Money is short, and that is why they are taking it for money.

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is absolutely terrible. It is disgusting. Absolutely disgusting.

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Who is good to replace that? council says it will aim to replace

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the plaques by a remembrance day. But the important thing is that

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people do not forget what they stood for. It is very sad, but the

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important thing is the names. Their names are remembered, they will be

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remembered. We will remember them. To stop further thefts, the council

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has removed metal plaques from other areas of the cemetery.

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A Hampshire woman says she is prepared to risk her life to find a

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cure for her potentially life threatening allergy. Nicola Tribe

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from Farnborough is allergic to many fruits and vegetables. She has

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a condition called Oral Allergy Syndrome which affects her mouth

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and throat. Now Nicola is preparing to undergo revolutionary treatment

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which could bring about a cure. Alexis Green has been finding out

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more. There are many types of allergy.

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20 million people in the UK suffer from some sort of allergy and

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health experts say it is becoming more and more common. Nicola Tribe

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suffers from Oral Allergy Syndrome which affects her throat and mouth.

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There are certain foods she mustn't eat. As if that's not enough to

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contend with, she also reacts to birch tree and grass pollen.

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Meaning that Nicola falls into just 2% of the population with food

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allergies. I get blisters on my tongue, my tongue swells. Nicola is

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a sports teacher and a keen runner. She started with mild hayfever

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symptoms which are developed into a life-threatening condition. Like

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Aled - -- My allergies have really affected my athletics. I have had

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to put that on hold at the moment. I have become quite chesty. When I

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was competing, it caused me great difficulty. She has been running

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for half an our and this is what happens. I often break out in hives

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when I am exercising, especially during hayfever season. I am very

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allergic to birch pollen. She will soon be undergoing immunotherapy,

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monthly injections of tree extract under the skin. If it works, she

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will not be relied on this cocktail of drugs every day. We are trying

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to improve her tolerance. After one year, she will require less

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medication. After three years, she will not require anything. There is

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hope for Nicola for the future. But for today, her struggle goes on.

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I'd love running out here. I love running in the outdoors. It is

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becoming a battle between me the trees.

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Still to come in this evening's South Today. Living the dream,

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Albion's golden start to the season. An inquest jury has returned a

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verdict of accidental death after a Royal Marine died following a night

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time training exercise in the Solent. Sergeant Andrew Pearson was

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one of a group of marines carrying out the exercise last January. The

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court heard a utility vest he had been wearing had not been strapped

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on properly. He fell trying to scale the RFA ship Fort Rosalie and

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drowned. One month on from the opening of

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the A3 Hindhead Tunnel, work is now underway to restore the countryside

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around the Devil's Punch Bowl in Surrey, It will create the largest

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area of lowland heath in southern Britain by returning the route of

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the old road to nature. Our Transport Correspondent Paul

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Clifton is live there tonight. Paul. Quiet here, isn't it? Until last

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month, 30,000 vehicles a day crossed through here to Hindhead.

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It was the biggest bottleneck on the road between Portsmouth and

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London. Now the new tunnel is open, work has begun to dig up the old

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road and cover it over. How do you remove all trace of a once busy

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road? You do it with this. A machine that's grapes up 700 tonnes

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a day. The waste material is not taken away from the site, it is

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moved down the road and dumped. this stuff that we are digging up

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with be moved away to restore the landscape to what it was in the

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1830s. So you are taking the landscape back to the mid- 19

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century? This is the ancient of fraud from Portsmouth. It has been

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here for perhaps thousands of years. The road was the Tory us for its 10

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mile traffic jams. -- was notorious. Next spring, it will be planted in

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Heather. Ind 2 years, it will start to and in five years, you will not

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know that there was a broad here. In Hindhead, the village is

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changing. It is hoped that this work will start the rejuvenation of

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a community once torn apart by traffic but which has now lost all

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his passing trade. I have been reporting here for more than 20

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years and this is the first time I have not had to shout over the roar

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of the traffic. You can see how the board has been trapped -- the road

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has been cut into the side of the devil's Punchbowl. This will all be

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filled in and the contours will be restored. It will be done this year,

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the heather planting will be completed next spring.

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Thank you. The first purpose-built disabled

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beach huts in the country were opened along Bournemouth's seafront

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today. Local residents provided advice throughout the design and

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their build. The four Boscombe huts can accommodate up to four

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wheelchair users. A piece of Southampton history is

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being restored to its former glory. Three 1930s' trams are being moved

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out of storage and on to the site of the proposed Aeronautica Museum

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in the city's docks. It is hoped they will be used to transport

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visitors to the �15 million attraction. Andrew Giddings reports.

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Back on the streets of Southampton for the first time in decades.

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Restoration has been proposed for a number of years, but these trams

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have finally become out of retirement. Southampton has got

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great heritage and great history that we need to make more of. This

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is a first step to see whether we might once again see a tram

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operating in Southampton. Try arms were once a familiar sight in many

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of our towns and cities. In Southampton, they were replaced by

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buses in the 1950s. But they are still fondly remembered.

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travelled on these things, it is so exciting. I travelled on these

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trams down Southampton High Street. We have got the site, we have got

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the assets and we have the enthusiasm. All that is needed is

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money and years of loving restoration.

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A 50 metre observation tower could be open in Weymouth in time for

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next year's Olympic sailing events. Councillors in the town have

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approved plans for the �3 million visitor attraction. It would

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contain a rotating pod that would hold 50 people. Simon Clemison

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explains. London, Blackpool, Portsmouth, and

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now Weymouth could have its own power. Our passion for looking at

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the world from above seems only to have grown since the invention of

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the left. Part of the idea behind the tower

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is to try to make this pier a more attractive place to come. At a cost

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of around �3 million, it will rise up about 170 ft into the air.

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Visitors will be able to climb into a glass pod which will then slowly

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make its way to the top from where they will be able to fully

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appreciate this stretch of the Dorset coast. I come from the --

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from the a Portsmouth, and the spinnaker tower is much nicer.

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There is a lot of competition, so I do not know are there will be a

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queue of people going there. company which owns the Sea Life

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Park have put forward plans to the Borough Council. The attraction is

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not being built for the Olympics, but if it is completed in time, the

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owners know that the world will be tuning in. We're very confident

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about it. We are experienced in building visitor attractions. We

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are confident that it will be ready and operational in time for the

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Olympics. Whatever you may think of it, this is a major addition to the

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skyline and a big departure for a seaside resort trying to rebrand

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itself for the 21st century. It is going to be good. Sport, and

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a golden start for Albion. I could smell and upset last night,

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but I did not know which game. Fantastic for Brighton.

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There were 17,000 fans inside the Amex to see if Albion could pull

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off an upset. It would be a long and exciting night, commentary from

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Martin Fisher. Craig Mackail-Smith is in! It hit

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the post. Agonisingly close. Will he be as effective on this right

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hand side? Craig Mackail-Smith to the back post. Five minutes into

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extra-time and Brighton's record signing breaks the deadlock. A

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chance to get a shot away. No time for the corner! Brighton have

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pulled off one of the shocks of the round. We need to keep things calm.

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We have had a dream start. It is getting bigger and better. At the

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same time, we need to make sure that we keep playing as we are.

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Second half, and there was still low score, I thought we were on top

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of them. What a fantastic game, it was great, we are heading in the

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A Well done Brighton. Southampton have pulled out of a

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deal to sign Bristol City defender Liam Fontaine. The player is still

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shaking off an ankle injury. Meanwhile Reading have signed the

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Queens Park Rangers and Latvian defender Kaspars Gorkss. He has

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agreed a three-year deal at the Madejski Stadium and arrives amid

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fans' calls for reinvestment in the team, a team that hasn't had a

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great few days. The Royals slumped at League One

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Charlton in a round-one tie last night. Paul Benson catching a

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dosing defence with the first. Jason Euell then headed Charlton

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into a 2-0 lead, and although Shaun Morrison got one back, Reading went

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out. Bournemouth were not disgraced against Premier League opposition,

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but West Brom were too strong at Dean Court. They were two up by

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half time through Jerome Thomas and Marc-Antoine Fortune. Steve Lovell

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made it 2-1, but Albion quickly scored two more. Lee Bradbury's men

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go out. Crawley conceded two goals in four minutes at Crystal Palace,

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both from Wilfried Zaha in a round one defeat.

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Tonight it's Aldershot Town's delayed first round tie at West Ham.

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Listeners in the BBC Surrey region can follow all the action live from

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Upton Park. And the goals from that game and,

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indeed, all of Tuesday's fixtures, including Brighton's win over

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Sunderland, are on the Football League show at 11.30 tonight on BBC

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Sussex remain top of Group A in the CB 40 League despite last night's

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loss to Kent at Hove. Meanwhile, Hampshire's chances of staying in

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division one of the county championship appear to be receding

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championship appear to be receding after being bowled out for 179 in

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their rain affected match with Worcestershire.

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At Grace Road a century from Steve Davies helped Surrey build a big

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lead over Leicestershire on first innings.

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Hundreds of England's top bowls players are in Worthing for a

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fortnight for the Bowls England National Championships. This year

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the competition has made a comparatively radical move to

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create a more trendy image. But some traditionalists are not happy.

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some traditionalists are not happy. Sean Killick has been finding out

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more. Wearing Burgundy trousers may seem

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harmless, but it is a radical set here. For decades, players have

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been required to wear white, but the dress code has been changed.

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But some here are seeing dead in a different sense. I'm a

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traditionalist. White shirt and club tie. They do not look nice.

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think it is prudent, it is everybody an identity. -- I think

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it is brilliant. It is very encouraging, especially for the

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youngsters. The bold stride is aimed at modernising the game's

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image. It is a fashion, it is the thing to do. Perhaps of this has an

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important place in bowling. Worcestershire claimed that the

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national title for peers. Other events continue until Sunday with

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an even wider range of colourful trousers expected to be stepping

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out onto the greens. Big change.

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Very controversial. We did it up in cricket.

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It has taken a long time for them to be part of the game in cricket.

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What this carefully. What are your plans over the next

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few days? Well, let me tell you what David Bathurst from West

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Sussex is up to. He's doing a spot of reading. In fact, quite a lot of

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reading. He'll be reading aloud from the

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King James Bible for five days, without sleep. Mark Sanders saw him

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start at the church in Barnham. After a hug from his daughter, it

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all began. It is now at 9 o'clock. I am rows starting my reading. In

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the beginning... He will be reading aloud from the King James Bible for

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the next 10 deep -- five days. With the support of his family, he aims

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to break a world record. I think he would do really well. It will be

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difficult not to have sleep. rested on the 7th day... Just

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before he started, he explained what was involved. I have to be

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continuous for five days, I am not allowed to go to bed. I am allowed

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a 20 minute rest ofs after four hours activity. What sort of man

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takes on a challenge like this? have done a lot of long recitations

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of the past. I have recited the entire works of Gilbert and

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Sullivan from memory. Marathon at recitals. I have the suspicion that

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he is a better have a brain box. Yes, it is a bit unbalanced. He is

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very clever, very articulate, but he cannot put up a notice board at

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home or bring home operator of milk -- or remember to bring home a pint

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of milk. Spare a thought for him as you go to bed tonight.

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Presumably you can go to the church and support him. I hope it all goes

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well for him. He is probably in the right place considering the rain

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Yes, we have had some lovely sunshine today, but we have got wet

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weather on the way. Lovely sunshine to take us through the evening for

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most of us. But another band of rain is waiting to come in. We have

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a yellow morning in place for the Met Office. There are untrue that

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thundery misprint -- pipping him from the West. That is where the

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row see the heaviest downfalls. Temperatures of 12 up to 15 degrees

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overnight. That band of blame will continue his way East would during

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the course of the day tomorrow. A sunny start the day tomorrow,

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particularly during the early rush our period. Gradually, once that

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rain clears, there will be more showers arriving from the West.

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Temperatures of 20 or 21 degrees. Those evening showers should fade

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away and overnight, clear skies, but cloud increasing from the south.

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An area of low pressure is arriving from the south of bringing more wet

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weather. That alone will continue to move up towards the east of the

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country. The eastern part has seen the worst of the wet weather on

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Friday. Further west, likely to see some heavy showers. Soggy and cool

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conditions where ever you are. For those of you heading to the Reading

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