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Hello. Welcome to South Today. Tonight, health bosses and schools | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
defend their policy on contraception in the classroom | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
after a mother complains her daughter was fitted with an implant. | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
If a parent thinks they know everything about what their child | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
is doing, I am afraid it is not quite like that. | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
The woman recovering from a brain tumour battles for her children to | :00:32. | :00:39. | |
ascend -- attend the same school. For the Berkshire cancer centre | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
striving to keep treatment closer to home. | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
How the words of Dickens strike a chord still today. We have some | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
people in the city making hard decisions about whether to heat | :00:52. | :00:59. | |
their Frome -- their home or NHS bosses in Southampton have | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
defended their sexual health service after a 13 year-old girl | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
was given a contraceptive implant at school without her parents or GP | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
knowing. It is part of a scheme that has been running in nine of | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
the city's secondary schools since 2009. Between 2001 and 2003, 136 13 | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
to 15 year-olds in Southampton became pregnant. Southampton used | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
to have the highest teenage pregnancy rate in the UK. That | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
figure dropped to 106 between 2007 and 2009, which includes the first | :01:28. | :01:36. | |
six months of this sexual health service being introduced. 770 | :01:36. | :01:46. | |
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pupils have taken part in the scheme. | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
13 years old and pregnant, a potentially disastrous fact of life, | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
but it does happen. Southampton used to have one of the worst | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
teenage pregnancy rates in the country. To change that, drop-in | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
clinics were established at nine of the City's secondary schools, | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
giving advice on sexual health and other subjects. In some cases, | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
teenage girls below the legal age for having sex, were given | :02:14. | :02:21. | |
contraceptive implants. It quickly had an effect. Even at three | :02:21. | :02:29. | |
pregnancies in academic year was too high. We have reduced that to | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
zero in the past year. If students are sexually active, which many are, | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
they need to do something. And all of this happens in confidence, so | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
is there a danger of actually encouraging sexual behaviour in | :02:43. | :02:52. | |
under-aged teenagers? At no point was anyone encouraged to do | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
anything they were not thinking of doing in the first place. We hope | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
the children have good relations with their parents but not all | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
parents can know everything. I have a 13-year-old daughter. I trust her | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
but I am not naive enough to know that she will not want to tell me | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
everything that she is doing. It is a natural thing that young people | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
do. Some parents, though, I strongly disapprove, as does the | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
organisation the Family Education Trust. They say it is fuelling the | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
claims of promiscuity and treating parents and basic moral principles | :03:27. | :03:34. | |
with contempt. But on the streets, there is a mix of views. I would | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
not have wanted that at all without me knowing. I would not agree with | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
it. If a girl is going to go and do that she's going to find a way of | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
doing it so she may as well be saved. As a matter of principle, I | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
should know as a parent. Some views from the streets of | :03:53. | :04:03. | |
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Thank you for all of your comments. Our health correspondent is here. | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
Controversial scheme but it does seem to be working. It does. The | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
figures suggest that the rates for teenage pregnancy are coming down | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
in the city, but there'll always going to be questions about these | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
sorts of schemes when parents feel they should be told, especially | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
when GPs are not being involved, but these school clinics are going | :04:55. | :05:03. | |
on all over the country. About a third -- about a third of schools | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
are running them but because the clinics are confidential we do not | :05:07. | :05:15. | |
know how many young bulls -- girls have been fitted. Why is it being | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
done in schools? Many teenage girls feel that perhaps if they go to a | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
doctor or sexual health clinic their parents will be told. That is | :05:25. | :05:32. | |
not the case but it may put some off. The parents of a 13-year-old | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
girl may feel that they have a moral right to know if she is being | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
given an implant but actually, as far as the NHS is concerned, they | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
do not. Thank you. Former Portsmouth Football Club | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
manager Harry Redknapp has been found not guilty of tax evasion. | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
The former chairman of the club Milan Mandaric was also cleared of | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
the charges against him today at Southwark Crown Court. The pair had | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
been accused of evading tax in a payment to an offshore account | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
while they were both at the Fratton Park club. Our reporter Sean | :06:02. | :06:11. | |
Killick is in Portsmouth tonight. As football fans across the South | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
know, Harry Redknapp has been involved in many famous victories | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
across the years but this one was very different. In this one, at | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
stake was his liberty and the result was clear to -- the result | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
was he was cleared of tax evasion charges. He walked gear from court | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
after a jury excepted he was innocent of accepting payments from | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
Milan Mandaric be was also cleared. We must warn you, there is flash | :06:42. | :06:49. | |
photography. We have been through it these past five years. I am | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
really just looking forward to getting home and seeing my wife, | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
Sandra, and getting away from all this. It really has been a | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
nightmare. It has been five years and this is a case that should | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
never have come to court, because it is unbelievable, really. I have | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
to go somewhere to pinch myself and wake me up from the horrible dream | :07:13. | :07:20. | |
I had regarding this. As we said on the statements, I always believed | :07:20. | :07:28. | |
in the trees and also believed in British justice. It can also now be | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
reported that Mr Mandaric and Portsmouth's former chief executive | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
were cleared of tax evasion charges at a separate trial last October. | :07:36. | :07:46. | |
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They were both accused of it. This is the culmination of a five-year | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
investigation which is believed to have cost around �8 million, but | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
all the accused have now been cleared and are free to get on with | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
their lives. In Mr Redknapp's case, the speculation is that this result | :08:02. | :08:11. | |
could lead to the ultimate title of Great Dowler -- of England manager. | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
A Dorset mother who has cancer is pleading for a two young sons to be | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
allowed to attend the same school. But the youngest boy has been | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
refused a place at Mudeford Infants, where his brother goes, as the | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
school is full and the family has moved just beyond the catchment | :08:23. | :08:31. | |
area. The council says its hands are tied by the law. | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
Breakfast at this home near Christchurch. Seven-year-old | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
Charlie is happily settled in school. Four year-old daughter was | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
meant to join him last September but was turned down after an appeal. | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
Michelle Amy was first diagnosed with cancer five years ago. Last | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
year a scan revealed tumours in her brain, liver and an adrenal gland. | :08:52. | :08:59. | |
She is no longer allowed to drive. They walk and bus-ride takes it to | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
Charlie's school. As the family has recently moved out of its catchment | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
area, George could not fit in. Their right to wild children above | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
him on the waiting list. After dropping off Charlie Michelle takes | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
George to his school. -- there are 12 children above him on the | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
waiting list. The boys are very close. They know exactly what is | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
going on with me. It has affected them and George is very sensitive. | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
He is a lot different to Charlie and so for them to be in the same | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
school together would just mean so much to me. Dorset council has | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
offered places for both boys at another school but it is further | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
away and the family did not like it. The council has also discussed a | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
taxi but George would have to travel alone. I am really tired now. | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
I just want to get home. Officials say they are sympathetic but cannot | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
break the law. It has been to an independent appeals council. Ma | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
council officials but independent people have looked at this and said | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
that the legislation is clear. can cope with my illness. I just | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
cannot cope with this any longer. It is like banging my head against | :10:15. | :10:23. | |
a brick wall. I cannot deal with it any longer. Still to come in this | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
evening's South Today, how relevant is Dickens for the 21st century? | :10:29. | :10:38. | |
And the weather. Child poverty, health inequality, | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
caring for the vulnerable. All issues that Dickens spoke up for | :10:42. | :10:51. | |
still making headlines today. So the Countess of Wessex has been | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
in Berkshire today. Her itinerary included a primary school and fire | :10:56. | :11:04. | |
station. Sophie also gave a royal seal of approval to the new clinic | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
providing state of the art cancer care. | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
Royal visits, even in a Jubilee Year, are not exactly 10 a penny. | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
But this, the final destination on the Countess of Wessex's Berkshire | :11:19. | :11:26. | |
or talk today was a one-off. Be Royal Berkshire's Bracknell clinic | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
is the first time this type of treatment has been taken out of a | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
hospital environment and put on the patient's' doorstep. If you have to | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
attend some met regularly, it is important that Wiki travelling to a | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
minimum and make sure people can park and walk-in easily and there | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
is little waiting time for people. Linda Jones certainly experienced | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
that. Unable to drive, she had to take an Olympic train and bus | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
journeys for chemotherapy, until this clinic opened a short walk | :11:56. | :12:05. | |
from her home. By I used to go for treatment at 10am. I would be | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
indoors by it for 30 pm in the afternoon, so that is a whole day. | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
-- 4:30pm. I just used to go to bed then because it just takes it out | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
of you. Today's visit was the royal icing on the cake for what is | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
already a major success. The clinic is very much Bracknell's own. | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
People have donated works of art. You can find televisions scattered | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
around which have been paid for by a local charity. And there are no | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
shortages of volunteers wanting to help here. But while today | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
Bracknell may have had something to celebrate, the clinic's �29 million | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
price tag in currently difficult financial Times means this is a | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
success unlikely to be repeated anywhere else in the near future. | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
Reading and Bournemouth have been voted as the towns which most | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
deserve to be given city status. 12 per cent of people responding to | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
the YouGov online survey chose Reading to become a city while the | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
same number chose Bournemouth. Both towns are among 26 places competing | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
to become a city as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee | :13:09. | :13:19. | |
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celebrations. Sport and Chris is here. I would think Saints fans are | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
feeling a little unhappy today. FA Cup and the Premier League, a | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
difficult balance. Saints were favourites to win the replay last | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
night. They knew they had a Premier League team in the next round. | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
Unfortunately, it did not go their way. Southampton missed out on an | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
FA Cup tie against Premier League Bolton after losing their fourth | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
round replay 3-2 at home to Millwall. Saints fell behind to | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
Liam Trotter's goal, before Adam Lallana equalised before half-time. | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
Rickie Lambert then hit his 20th of the season to put Saints ahead. But | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
Dany N'Guessan returned to haunt his old club with the equaliser and | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
former Bournemouth winger Liam Feeney won it for Millwall in the | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
last minute. In last night's Football League | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
action, there were important wins for Bournemouth and Crawley but we | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
start our round-up with Portsmouth, who were not able to lift | :14:08. | :14:15. | |
supporters' spirits in the face of the ongoing off-field uncertainty. | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
A resilient Portsmouth just failed to hang on to a point at high- | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
flying Birmingham. There was a good save in the first half but the home | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
side upped the pace after the break and teenager at Nathan Redmond | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
fired home what proved to be the winner just five minutes from time. | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
Bournemouth recorded their fork home win in Evra as two late goals | :14:36. | :14:43. | |
saw off Exeter. Matt Tubbs scored on his second debut. They are now | :14:43. | :14:50. | |
at two points outside the play-offs. Dubs sealed the points. -- Matt | :14:50. | :14:57. | |
Tubbs. It is a great thing for him to score on his debut at home. One | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
was also pleased with Dermot's debut. | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
The loss of Matt Tubbs brief note issue for Crawley as they topped | :15:06. | :15:16. | |
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the Cheltenham off the top of League 2. What ensured the points | :15:17. | :15:27. | |
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for the Red Devils with the last goal. This win is down to the fans. | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
They gave us heroics yesterday and today to get the game on. | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
And do not forget that from midnight tonight there will be | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
extended highlights of each of those league matches on the new | :15:38. | :15:47. | |
look BBC Sport website. A top official from the British | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
Olympic Association has been in Surrey to discuss the potential | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
local legacy from the summer's London games. BOA chief executive | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
Andy Hunt met with councillors to talk about life after the Olympic | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
road-race cycling at Box Hill, and a scheme to get young people in to | :15:59. | :16:06. | |
watch the games itself. There are 2,800 schools in the | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
south-east of England that will benefit from the ticket share | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
scheme, free tickets for young people to go and see a sport for | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
the Games. You may remember we are following a | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
theatre, an athletics club and a primary school to see if there are | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
wider benefits from the Olympic sailing events which will be held | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
off Dorset. The Government wants to see a lasting legacy from the Games. | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
So is that being delivered? Simon Cleminson returns to our three | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
organisations to assess the progress so far. The long-term | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
benefits of the Olympics may be hard to imagine that the painters | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
at least have a lasting legacy. They are from the Portland young | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
offenders' institution, learning new skills before their final | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
release. It has given me the chance to come outside and give something | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
back to the community, give me a chance to do a bit of work. | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
relief road was never an official Olympic Project but no one doubts | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
it is vital this year, and for our athletics club it has meant | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
inheriting some useful new storage containers. But they tell me they | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
definitely need a new track and far from bringing in new volunteers, | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
the games may be a diversion. were hoping a lot of people would | :17:13. | :17:21. | |
come here and volunteer for this will dropping. We think they are | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
volunteering for the Games instead. Where will the Corby? For our | :17:26. | :17:34. | |
infants and juniors, the reality of the Olympics is beginning to emerge. | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
A primary school, again not an official project of the Games but | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
the new building will be used by the sailors before the children | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
move in. You might look at the sailing and think, how many of them | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
are actually going to be future skippers, but the ability to work | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
together and share a sense of purpose is something to take into | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
their future life. They can almost touch the Olympics here and the | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
future benefits they may bring. London Irish have announced that | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
long-serving forward Nick Kennedy is to leave the club at the end of | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
the season. The 29 year-old second- row has agreed a deal to move to | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
the French side Toulon. Kennedy has played more than 200 games for | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
Irish since his debut in 2002 and has seven full England caps to his | :18:20. | :18:28. | |
name. By moving to Toulon he will not only have some rise weather but | :18:28. | :18:38. | |
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will be a team-mate of Jonny Wilkinson. We can look forward to | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
this weekend's sport. This week we are marking the 200 | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens. He was born in Portsmouth, | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
of course, but another city in the South celebrated its connection | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
with the famous author today. The writer's great-great-grandson Ian | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
Dickens was in Brighton to unveil a plaque on the site of what was the | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
Bedford Hotel, now the Holiday Inn. Dickens often stayed at the Bedford, | :19:00. | :19:06. | |
which, in its heyday, was a magnet for royalty and celebrities. | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
He is probably best known for the stories and characters he created | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
but Charles Dickens was also a passionate campaigner for shares | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
will justice. Then refuse journalism and novels he | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
highlighted the inequality in society. David, you have been | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
looking at how Dickens' desire to make things better it is reflected | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
in the city today. Yes, the life-expectancy of men | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
from the Charles Dickens moored in Portsmouth is seven years less than | :19:37. | :19:44. | |
the men off the Drayton and Farlington ward. The question of | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
how we look after the less advantaged members of society is at | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
the forefront of debate right now as the welfare reform bill goes | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
through Parliament. Dickens had never heard of incapacity benefit | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
or disability living allowance but he did get passionately about | :19:58. | :20:05. | |
helping the most vulnerable. Who is, sir, I want some more. | :20:05. | :20:12. | |
I have some more, sir? Blues, Sir, Can I might have some more? | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
plaintive plea of Oliver Twist begging for food in the workhouse. | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
Probably the best-known line in all of Dickens was not work. Oliver's | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
story has gripped and shocked pupils at Charles Dickens Junior | :20:25. | :20:33. | |
School. It would be horrible and miserable. He lived in a care home | :20:33. | :20:40. | |
and he was just poor. Life was not that good. Dickens's' depiction of | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
the appalling conditions many endured came from first and | :20:44. | :20:51. | |
experience. His Honour was Dales -- jailed over unpaid debts and at the | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
age of six he was sent to work s one a factory. City life fascinated | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
and appalled him. He felt sympathy, P D, a sort of anguish at some of | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
the things he saw. He cared very much about education and was active | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
in philanthropic works in improving housing. He raised money for | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
children's hospitals. He did a huge amount. The Eve Buckland estate, | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
close to the Dickens birthplace in Portsmouth. It is peppered with the | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
names of popular characters from his fiction. But what we didn't | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
have made of the knowledge that this area now ranks as one of the | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
most socially deprived in the south-east? Recent figures show | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
almost 60% of children in the Charles Dickens ward are living in | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
poverty. We might not have the ball houses as such as they had in | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
Dickens's time but we do have people having to make difficult | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
decisions at the moment, for example about whether to heed their | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
home or to eat. Portsmouth food bank is the -- one of the busiest | :21:58. | :22:06. | |
in the country. If they have not get much money and they can see a | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
little bargain there, they can purchase it and it all helps to go | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
towards the community. But breaking the cycles of poverty here is a | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
bigger challenge. And fortunately, even if you are in receipt of all | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
of your benefits, that does not necessarily if you out of poverty, | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
and I think if everyone helps children to raise their | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
expectations and know they can go one to succeed, that is something | :22:31. | :22:39. | |
everyone can do. That begins with helping parents. This family | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
learning session is funded by the council. It teaches numeracy, | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
literacy and practical skills like cooking on a budget. They teach you | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
the ways that your children are learning in their classes as well | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
so if they bring her work home or ask questions, you can explain it | :22:56. | :23:05. | |
to them. The best part is when the kids come over, because it is | :23:05. | :23:12. | |
quality time. Does anybody know... I think Charles Dickens would have | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
been very proud of what we are doing here. We are bringing | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
families and children together, improving skills for children and | :23:20. | :23:27. | |
parents. What we do is recognised by employers as well. Back in | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
school, it is not rule but Free Books being handed out. Dickens's a | :23:33. | :23:40. | |
new his words had the power to change lives for the better. | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
A around 4,000 free copies of Oliver Twist are being handed out | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
in Portsmouth and improving literacy is a priority for the | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
council. One fifth of children in the city are reaching expected | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
reading levels, according to the Department for Education. It is | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
hoped that the Dickens 200 events will help to springboard those | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
dealers. Tomorrow is our last film and that looks at the City's Higdon | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
begins heritage. If you want to find out more, go to | :24:10. | :24:20. | |
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Find out a lot more about Charles Dickens and the films we have done | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
on the website. I have really enjoyed these films. I have learnt | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
something. Make sure you are with us tomorrow. On to the weather. You | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
were commentating last night. Birmingham Portsmouth. We got in | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
the car at 10:30pm, minus 6. The s, the temperatures were the lowest | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
around that time last night. -- Yes. I thought it was not as cold as it | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
was going to be this morning. wind has increased and the bitter | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
legal east wind is taking the temperature down. We might have | :24:56. | :25:06. | |
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Here are your temperatures for last night. It was not the coldest night | :25:22. | :25:29. | |
of the winter. That was last week. Even in parts of Hampshire, minus | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
four and five Celsius. It will be pretty chilly tonight. We still | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
have that Met Office Level 3 weather warning for the cold which | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
will affect the vulnerable. Be prepared if you are heading out. | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
For the rest of the week, frosty nights and the chance of snow | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
tomorrow and through the early hours of Friday. A lot of cloud | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
overnight tonight and pretty chilly but not as cold as last night. | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
Despite the cloudy skies, a widespread frost. More so for the | :25:58. | :26:07. | |
grass. Temperatures plunging to Myers figures. -- minus figures. | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
Perhaps down to minus four in the countryside. If there is going to | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
be any brightness it will be for western areas. Temperatures will | :26:16. | :26:23. | |
struggle to rise despite the win being lighter than today. Bury it | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
all changes tomorrow night. Cold air over the country meeting these | :26:27. | :26:34. | |
mild weather system, moving east wood and southward. It could | :26:34. | :26:44. | |
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The snow risk stays with us on Friday. This weather front is | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
sinking its way South and eastwards. It could be a tough and Graf -- | :26:52. | :26:59. | |
rush hour drive to work on Friday morning. There is that Met Office | :26:59. | :27:07. | |
cold snow warning. A drier picture on Saturday as the weather front | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
retreats north and west. Some sunny spells for particularly the further | :27:10. | :27:16. | |
south and east you are. The summary for the rest of the week. A cold | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
day tomorrow but not as cold as today. The potential for snow | :27:20. | :27:25. |