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Hello, I'm Sally Taylor. Welcome to South Today. | :00:05. | :00:07. | |
In tonight's programme: Anti- abortion campaigners are accused of | :00:07. | :00:17. | |
intimidating women outside an abortion clinic. | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
It would be totally against what we stand for it to be shouting. | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
A shipping company is fined for polluting our beaches with palm oil. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
A refit and reassurance as Queen Mary II comes into her home port, | :00:30. | :00:40. | |
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but missing the name of Southampton. Southampton is the base for the | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
Cunard Line. Our Britishness will live on for ever. | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
And hoping to take the plunge for 2012 - the young swimmer who's one | :00:50. | :00:57. | |
of our torch bearers. This is a once in a lifetime | :00:57. | :01:07. | |
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opportunity. I cannot wait to tell everyone. | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
There are claims tonight that anti- abortion protestors are | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
intimidating women as they go into a Brighton clinic. The group | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
Abort67, based in Worthing, is accused of showing patients graphic | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
images of aborted foetuses and even handing out leaflets comparing | :01:19. | :01:26. | |
abortion to the holocaust. The protest this morning was held | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
outside Wistons clinic. Sean Killick has been following the | :01:29. | :01:39. | |
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story. Twice a week protesters gathered | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
outside the Wistons Clinic in Brighton, lobbying women who have | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
come from across Sussex for an abortion or advice session. The | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
clinic says that the protests have been going on for years but | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
recently they have become more intimidatory. When women come in | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
and are upset we ask them to document what has been said. | :02:10. | :02:17. | |
Clients have been called murderers, some have been forced to look dead | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
images of aborted foetuses. protesters admit to showing | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
photographs but then they verbally abusing women who make -- denied | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
verbally abusing women who come here. It is pointless and would be | :02:33. | :02:41. | |
against what we stand for to be shouting. We just hold up the | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
pictures and let people's consciousness work out the rest. | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
But the local MP says that she opposes the protests. I think it is | :02:48. | :02:58. | |
quite wrong that individual women are being intimidated and harassed. | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
I have been myself to the cleric and spoken to staff and they have | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
described how some of these women are very cheerful by the time they | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
get into the building. They have been very much upset by the | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
experience. Previously protesters outside the clinic have been | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
arrested under the Public Order Act. In recent weeks there have also | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
been counter-demonstration spy people supporting abortion. Today | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
police officers stood nearby but the demonstration passed peacefully. | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
A shipping company based in Singapore has been ordered to pay | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
almost a hundred thousand pounds for illegally dumping palm oil into | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
the sea off the Isle of Wight. Yellow lumps of the material were | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
washed up at a number of beaches in Hampshire and West Sussex earlier | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
this year. The owners of the tanker denied being responsible for the | :03:49. | :03:58. | |
leak, but today a court found them guilty, as Rachael Canter reports. | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
Bright yellow clumps of solidified palm oil discovered along the south | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
coast. Not toxic, but a hefty clean-up operation. This speech was | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
forced to close for three days. had a team out this morning working | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
from both ends towards each other picking up as much as they could. | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
This is the tanker responsible. It had recently discharged its cargo | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
of Palme D'Or in Rotterdam and Hamburg and sailed to the Isle of | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
Wight. But the cold weather caused some of the Palme D'Or on board to | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
solidify. The crew spent 10 days struggling to clean the tanks and | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
pipes. The ship was turned away from an oil refinery because of the | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
state did was in. The Maritime and Coastguard Agency carried out an | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
inspection and discovered that the yellow lumps of Pam will wear on | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
the deck. Today the judgment was welcomed. It sends out a clear | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
message to the shipping industry that they need to make sure of that | :04:59. | :05:07. | |
this thing -- this type of thing does not happen. There was the | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
shock value of this unknown substance turning up on the beach. | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
That resulted in the beach is being closed. The judge and Southampton | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
magistrates' court said that the ship was in the right place at the | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
right time carrying precisely the combination of oils later found and | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
the beaches. He said that the crew were having problems cleaning the | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
ship and is charging the material into the sea would have been an | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
obvious way to resolve it. Well, I am joined by Rachael Canter now. | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
Rachael, what are the wider implications for other shipping | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
companies? As we heard from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency in | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
my report, there was no significant environmental impact. However, | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
there was a significant clean up operation by the local authority, | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
at a cost to the taxpayer. This judgement sends out a clear message | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
that shipping companies need to have proper procedures in place for | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
when a ship becomes contaminated in this way. They can't just discharge | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
material into the sea. And what have the tanker's owners had to | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
say? Pretty Time Shipping is operated by a Singapore-based | :06:07. | :06:14. | |
company. It had denied the charges but was today fined �20,000 and | :06:14. | :06:21. | |
told to pay additional legal costs of �75,000. It said today this was | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
a one-off incident and promised that it will never happen again. It | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
says it operates a zero-tolerance policy towards environmental | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
pollution. Meanwhile Thames Water has been | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
fined �30,000 for being responsible for releasing sewage into a North | :06:35. | :06:42. | |
Hampshire stream. More than 7,000 fish died in the Silchester and | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
Foudry brook near Tadley as a result of the contamination. The | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
incident has been described as "catastrophic" by the Environment | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
Agency who dealt with the clean-up. Meanwhile Thames Water says it was | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
a deeply regrettable incident that had serious consequences on the | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
environment. A man has been charged with the | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
murder of a baby in Worthing. A post mortem examination revealed | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
11-month-old Crystal Hall-Hummell sustained a head injury, in May. | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
She was taken to St Thomas' hospital in London but later died. | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
27-year-old Jerome Edwards from Midhurst has been remanded in | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
custody to appear at Lewes crown court tomorrow. | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
A man's been found guilty of armed robbery after threatening a | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
Portland taxi driver with a handgun. Colin Paul Douglas tied the driver | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
up before stealing money from garages in February. He's now been | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
convicted of 18 offences in the Weymouth and Dorchester area, | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
including another armed robbery at Abbotsbury Road Post Office in | :07:29. | :07:37. | |
March where he stole thousands of pounds in cash. | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
A serial rapist has been sent to prison for 18 years, with the judge | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
calling him a dangerous man who'd shown not a shred of remorse. | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
Michal Tejkowski, who moved to Brighton from Poland last October, | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
raped two women in Brighton and sexually assaulted another in Kent. | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
Sussex Police have praised his victims for giving evidence against | :07:54. | :08:03. | |
him. Mark Sanders reports. This is Michal Tejkowski, a | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
predatory serial rapist, following his first victim in Brighton. In a | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
three-month period this year he attacked three women. A few moments | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
after these images were taken, he assaulted a 17 year-old A-level | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
student. He tractor from the street into this park and raped her. He | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
struck again within a month, raping a 25 year-old woman in this | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
supermarket car-park. She had been working as a prostitute. Then in | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
May he sexually assaulted a pensioner at a park in Maidstone. | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
He was picked out in an identity parade by his 67 year-old victim. | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
DNA evidence linked him to the rapes in Brighton. Make no mistake, | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
Michal Tejkowski it is an extremely dangerous man. He has raped two | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
women and sexually assaulted another in a period of just three | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
months and we are delighted to have caught him to ensure that he stops | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
reoffending again and is now behind bars for a long time. Michal | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
Tejkowski was found guilty on all charges at Lewes Crown Court. The | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
judge sent him to prison for 18 years. In sentencing, the judge | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
told him that his actions and caused devastating effects both | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
physical and emotional for his victims. He is shown not a shred of | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
remorse are any spark of human compassion. He was a thoroughly | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
dangerous man. The three victims took the stand at his trial. The | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
detective who led the investigation said today that he and his team | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
were humbled by the courage and strength of the women in giving | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
evidence against their attacker. Four teenagers have been arrested | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
on suspicion of criminal damage following attacks on buses in | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
Bournemouth. The Yellow Buses were damaged and windows smashed while | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
passengers were on board. The council now says it won't be | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
evicting any tenants caught, as previously stated. The boys have | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
all been released on bail. Yellow Buses say it will reinstate the | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
service in West Howe this evening. Still to come in this evening's | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
South Today: As we've seen a lot extreme weather around the country, | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
Alexis has a detailed forecast for the south. | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
The winds in the south have been strong gusting up to 56 mph. This | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
is Brighton this afternoon, where there were gusts of 46 mph. The | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
heavy rain and strong winds will continue this evening and tonight. | :10:23. | :10:30. | |
I'll have more details later in the programme. | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
Gatwick has stepped up preparations to ensure flights can land and take | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
off safely in snow and ice. Last year flights were grounded in | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
severe weather. The airport has now doubled its snow clearing fleet and | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
claims it can clear as much snow as Oslo airport, which one of Europe's | :10:44. | :10:54. | |
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snowiest cities. A report by the National Housing Federation claims | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
an entire generation has been locked out of the housing market | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
across much of the south. Chichester has been named the least | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
affordable place in the region. The average house price is nearly 20 | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
times the average local income. South Buckinghamshire came third in | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
the list. The fight to stop 2,000 homes being | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
built on farmland near Winchester is on again, two months after the | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
plans for Barton Farm were thrown out by the Secretary of State. | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
Councillors will discuss plans to build on the land this evening. | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
More than a thousand people signed a petition against the proposed | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
development. But Winchester City Council says while the specific | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
application by Cala Homes was rejected, Barton Farm is still a | :11:30. | :11:39. | |
preferred site. We're staying here and we're | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
continuing to provide tremendous economic benefit to everybody in | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
Southampton. This was the emphatic statement from Peter Shanks, | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
president and managing director of Cunard Line today. He was eager to | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
reassure people that despite removing the name Southampton from | :11:51. | :11:58. | |
its fleet, Cunard isn't looking to base its luxury liners elsewhere. | :11:58. | :12:06. | |
Chrissy Sturt reports. Two months ago Cunard scrapped the | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
name Southampton off its fleets. Since then local businesses and | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
politicians have been questioning the commitment of the company to | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
the city. One of Southampton's MPs is demanding a meeting with the | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
Cunard president to clarify the situation. So does Cunard regard | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
Southampton as the Home Park -- home port? I can reassure everyone | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
that Southampton is the base for the Cunard Line. Our Britishness | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
will live on for ever. But moving with the Times, we also want to | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
offer weddings at sea. We have had tremendous interest in that. But we | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
can reassure everyone of the economic benefit that would bring | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
to the region and that will continue. Today the Queen Mary was | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
showing off her lavish new look. Some of the lucrative contracts to | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
update the furnishings have been one locally. A reminder of why the | :13:02. | :13:09. | |
connection is so prized. The market is a demanding one with regulars | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
expecting to see new carpets and colours in their favourite ships, | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
making the Updates an endless process. So how long did it take to | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
refit all pectin hundred cabins? Amazingly, less than two weeks. | :13:22. | :13:29. | |
Only 12 days in a German dry dock. But why not here? With a ship this | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
size we need to take it out of the water and there is not a dry dock | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
large enough to do that in the UK. A lot of our British engineers and | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
designers did most of the actual work in the cabins. So we get the | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
British work but we can only do it in Germany. Parts of the industry | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
have been struggling during the economic downturn but cruising | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
seems pretty much recession-proof. On board the ship there will be | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
2500 people on every trip, paying on average �3,000. The crews today | :14:02. | :14:09. | |
was again fully booked. Even this suite - with an eye-watering price | :14:09. | :14:19. | |
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tag of �12,000 per person, per week. Did I notice her slipping in and | :14:22. | :14:29. | |
little cocktail?! Now all we have all this brought to | :14:29. | :14:39. | |
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light. There was a Football League board meeting and the parent | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
company of Portsmouth had gone into administration. There were | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
discussing a possible points deduction for Portsmouth. But the | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
club is still waiting to hear if that is likely to be imposed. No | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
decision was taken today. At 34 and blighted by an Achilles | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
injury which saw him miss virtually a year in the game, the career of | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
Hampshire all-rounder, Dimitri Mascarenhas, could have been | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
written off. But this season he battled back to rediscover his form. | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
Today, he was rewarded with a two year extension to his contract, | :15:08. | :15:17. | |
which will also see him resume his captaincy of the Twenty20 side. He | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
spent his playing life with Hampshire, signing in 1996 aged 18. | :15:22. | :15:29. | |
He is the longest service -- longer serving player in the county. | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
never wanted to leave so from that perspective, it is great. We have | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
some great youngsters and hopefully I can help with their development. | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
They have been highs and lows. He was part of the Hampshire team to | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
lift the trophy in 2005 and was made captain in 2008. The year | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
later he led Hampshire to victory in the Lord's final against Sussex | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
in the Friends Provident Trophy. But a series of the Achilles | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
injuries meant that he played just half a match all season in 2010. | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
But this summer he had a dramatic return to form. It has been a tough | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
yet -- Tapia with injury. The club wanted to see if I could get | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
through but a has proved my wife. His Hampshire career to date has | :16:16. | :16:24. | |
seen him play 460 matches. He has made eight centuries and 48 1/2 | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
centuries and has taken 772 wickets. The announcement today insures it | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
is not over yet. After Saturday's game, he called it | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
the worst decision he's seen in many a year. And now it seems | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
Reading manager, Brian McDermott, was absolutely right in that | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
assessment. It's emerged the referee from Saturday's game | :16:41. | :16:42. | |
against Blackpool has admitted his offside decision, in disallowing | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
Simon Church's early goal was the wrong call and has offered an | :16:45. | :16:54. | |
apology to Reading. Very disappointing. There was a | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
gold incident which was blatantly on side and we could have had a | :16:57. | :17:04. | |
penalty. We have been let down as far as the officials are concerned. | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
It is a good thing, the referees need to come out and say that. It | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
is one of those things. It was the wrong decision and they know that | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
now. We can move on from that. The Royals have a sell out game | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
against West Ham on Saturday - we'll look ahead to that tomorrow. | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
To sailing now and the World Championships in Perth. Things are | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
really hotting up in the Finn class. Weymouth's Giles Scott is in second | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
place with triple Olympic gold medallist Ben Ainslie from | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
Lymington in third. There are four more races to go before the medal | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
race on Sunday. Weymouth windsurfer, Bryony Shaw, has slipped from | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
second to fourth following her three races today, while in the | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
men's 470, Luke Patience and Stuart Bithell - who are also Weymouth | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
based - are second overall despite their worst race yet, where they | :17:40. | :17:50. | |
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capsized and placed 28th. But of course that is their worst | :17:54. | :18:01. | |
result and they can discount that. Their second overall still. But | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
that is not the biggest sports news of the day. | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
It all happened today by email. The first of our torchbearers were | :18:07. | :18:15. | |
announced. I bet there's a few excited people tonight, Jo? | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
Some of our most inspiring people have been rewarded with the chance | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
to carry the Olympic Torch. It will arrive in in our region on July the | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
9th next year. The torch will travel through more than a hundred | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
towns and cities including Weymouth, Brighton and Reading. | :18:31. | :18:32. | |
Roisin Gauson has been in Bournemouth meeting a school-girl | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
who's proving to be a real Olympic inspiration. | :18:38. | :18:45. | |
In scenes that seems like this will be coming to a street near yellow - | :18:45. | :18:52. | |
- near you. The Olympic torch will travel to many destinations in the | :18:52. | :19:01. | |
South before making its way to London. Today it becomes a human. | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
And it is incredibly exciting to think these people standing over | :19:07. | :19:17. | |
there will be carrying an Olympic torch. | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
Alice type from Bournemouth and was one of the lucky people to get the | :19:21. | :19:29. | |
e-mail today. It was amazing. I did not believe it. Then we had another | :19:29. | :19:39. | |
phone call and I just thought, this is brilliant. Alice is a swim or | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
the trains for mordant 15 hours a week. Her regime is only just got | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
back on track. She spent 18 months and a wheelchair following an | :19:48. | :19:55. | |
operation on a club foot. parents are proud of their children | :19:55. | :20:02. | |
but she's just having a really hard time with surgery and it has been | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
quite bleak at times. But for her, this has been a wonderful plus to | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
all the negatives she has experienced. She thoroughly | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
deserves it. Back in the water, Alice wasted no time regaining her | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
form. Within two weeks she was selected for the UK school games | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
and now she is training for the Paralympics and the team trials in | :20:26. | :20:33. | |
March. Some swimmers turn up and some days they are quite lethargic | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
but we never have that problem with Alice. She is ranked top five in | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
every event she has entered. So she stands quite a good chance of at | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
least try telling if not potentially doing even better. | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
feel really fast in the water and I'm so competitive. I always want | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
to beat everyone around me and beat myself. Her dreams may lie in the | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
swimming pool but from July next year, she will get an Olympic | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
experience which will stay with her for life. It is just a once-in-a- | :21:09. | :21:17. | |
lifetime opportunity. I cannot wait to tell everyone. | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
Hundreds of other people across the South have also been receiving | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
emails today telling them that they'll be running with the torch. | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
Among them, Gillian Skeet from Romsey. She was nominated by her | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
daughter Lucy for the work she does both as a career to her family and | :21:29. | :21:38. | |
also as a foster mum. I have already started getting | :21:38. | :21:46. | |
calls from my son's about trying to get fit. One plays rugby for a | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
local team so I will be off to a few rugby matches and maybe running | :21:52. | :22:00. | |
around the pitch! It is a huge responsibility. | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
We would love to hear from anyone else out there because there are | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
hundreds of people across the South and we would like to get in touch | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
with as many of them as possible. So get in touch with us if you | :22:13. | :22:22. | |
received one of those e-mails. It would be great to year from you. | :22:22. | :22:32. | |
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Let us know. He was known as Mr Basingstoke. Who was he, and why is | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
he still so fondly remembered today, 10 years after his death? It has | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
been 10 years since bother -- Arthur at would died but he is | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
still well-known as a local historian, journalist and Freeman | :22:54. | :23:03. | |
of the borough. Into doesn't he was awarded an MBE for his outstanding | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
services to the local area. would be jolly pleased. It is | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
appropriate that he should be on it in his old part of the town. He was | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
Mr Basingstoke and it is a great reminder that he was very much the | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
soul of the town for many years. now joins the likes of Oliver | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
Cromwell and Jane Austen, honoured with a plaque in Basingstoke for | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
their connections with the history of the town. This is the church she | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
was christened that, married in and where his funeral was held. He was | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
a member of the choir here for 70 years. This is the 19th plaque we | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
have put up but it is an exception. It was for a man he was entirely at | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
Basingstoke man without really having an national profile. But his | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
huge contribution is that he really raised people's awareness of the | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
town they Lipkin, that it has an interesting history. -- they live | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
in. It was here at the Basingstoke Gazette were Arthur spent much of | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
his working life as a journalist. He was 86 but he kept writing for | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
the newspaper right up until his death. He would come up to our | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
offices with his dog for his weekly column. So when he passed away | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
there were a lot of people present in tributes. The church was packed. | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
Arthur at would died at his home in Basingstoke in 2002. And almost a | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
decade on, many people still recalls seeing him walking his dog | :24:36. | :24:45. | |
around the town he dedicated his life to. | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
Honouring Mr Basingstoke today with that special plaque. And let's go | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
on to the weather now. It has been released stormy. Quite frightening | :24:55. | :25:04. | |
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pictures from Scotland. It has been incredibly windy. I | :25:07. | :25:16. | |
felt as if I was going to blow over at lunchtime! My chickens were | :25:16. | :25:24. | |
hanging on for dear life! Robin Boultwood from Swanage | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
captured the Sandbanks ferry battling through the choppy waters | :25:26. | :25:35. | |
at midday today. Blustery conditions today, but a lot quieter | :25:35. | :25:45. | |
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tomorrow. These are the gusts we have had to date in our region. | :25:48. | :25:56. | |
Inland areas gusting up to 46 miles an hour. Tonight the rain and the | :25:56. | :26:04. | |
wind will ease but we still have some rain around. The wind | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
gradually dying down. But temperatures will plunge into | :26:08. | :26:16. | |
single figures. And there is the risk of some ice on untreated | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
surfaces. Lots of sunshine on offer tomorrow, a complete contrast from | :26:22. | :26:29. | |
today. Though there is the outside chance of a straight shower. | :26:29. | :26:39. | |
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Damages of six or seven degrees. -- temperatures. Tonight, and even | :26:39. | :26:49. | |
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colder it is Saturday night. A freezing start to the day on | :26:51. | :27:01. | |
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Saturday morning. But again a lot of sunshine on offer. On Sunday the | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
range makes a return and the wind will pick up. It will be a damp day | :27:08. | :27:17. | |
on Sunday with a weather front tracking its way south and east. We | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
could have some strong wind again next week and we are keeping a | :27:21. | :27:31. | |
close eye on the situation. Just to let you know in the | :27:31. | :27:37. |