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Hello. Welcome to South Today. In the programme. Shutting up shop. | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
Hampshire Police halves the number of front desks and says tweet or | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
Facebook us instead. As an old fashioned police officer myself, I | :00:16. | :00:23. | |
regret the closure, because it is there as a ser advice. Bad news for | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
birds. A disastrous nesting season if the drought continues. Ice | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
breaker to the rescue, HMS Protector saves stranded scientists | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
in Antarctica and the caught walk is calling. The paralysed model | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
picked for a high profile fashion campaign. Compielted. I don't feel | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
like it has ruined my life. In many ways it feels like it has improved | :00:45. | :00:55. | |
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The signs say we are sorry and 17 such messages went up in police | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
stations across Hampshire today, as the force halved its number of | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
front desks for good. That brings the total number of closures in the | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
County to 22. As police forces across the south try to find | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
millions of pounds of savings, it is a picture which is replicated in | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
other areas. Surrey is closing 24 police property, end mixture | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
ofisation, o stations front desks and offices. Thames Valley is | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
looking at sharing offices and Mabel doubling with with fire | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
stations. Others are considering closing smaller stations but no | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
numbers yet. Hampshire Police say without the cuts there would be | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
fewer officers on the beat. Our Home Affairs correspondent reports. | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
The door of the police station closed to the public for good. It | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
is one of 22 front desks being shut across Hampshire. The police | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
station will still be here, the police officers will be still here, | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
but people will no longer be able to drop in and see them. Think it | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
will make a difference. People will get the idea police won't be about. | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
I think they should stay open. People know where they can go, and | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
if they, like if they find anything or need help, if it is closed, | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
people just don't see the police. It has been slowly closing over the | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
years when I was a kid it was open all the time. I think it's wrong, a | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
town this size needs one. 16 of the busiest front desks will stay open. | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
But some people will have to travel further to get to them. Hampshire | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
Police say just a handful of people ever visit the desks they are | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
closing. They say most people phone or e-mail and thousands contact | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
them on Facebook and Twitter. haven't gone, we are still in | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
communities and neighbourhood, we are improving the service we are | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
given by other option, telephone, online, and that is because we must | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
keep our front officers on the street. If we can make savings by | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
doing the right thing in other areas that makes it easier for us | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
to keep bobbies on the beat. the Police Federation, which | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
represents officers, says the closures are the first of more | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
visible service cuts to come. police station doors are closing, | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
in the future police stations will be sold off, police officer numbers | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
are reducing, the service is being damaged by 20% cuts to their budget. | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
The force agrees, tight budgets mean tough choices and these | :03:32. | :03:39. | |
closures won't be the only cut back. Well, Alex is with me now. Front | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
desks are closing but the force has been working on new ways for people | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
to contact them. Hampshire has been up front about the fact they have | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
to save month and shutting front desks is tonne way, they have been | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
proactive. Particularfully the field of social media. Hampshire is | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
one of the forces that has led the way on this. In fact they have got | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
round 20,000 people following them, on things like Facebook and Twitter. | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
They do use it to interact with people. If you think back to major | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
operations, for example, when Portsmouth played Southampton in | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
the football last year, the force was tweeting all day to keep people | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
informed about possible trouble, and if you think about back to the | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
riot, the police attracted round 10,000 new Twitter followers | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
because way were tweeting what was going on, advice, updates and that | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
kind of thing. Are people using Twitter and Facebook for things | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
they would have gone to police stations for? Absolutely. We had a | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
look through the pages to find some examples of this. Here is one from | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
Facebook, someone stole the kids bikes from the garden, if anyone | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
cease a Ben 10 bike in Somers Town let me know. Another one from | :04:47. | :04:57. | |
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And the police are using these sites to get back in touch with | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
people and answer queries. It isn't fob for everybody. Some people | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
won't use these sites so police are stressing the phone is there and | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
some of the front desks will remain open. But this is a new element of | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
policing, just worth mentioning in an emergency, always dial 999. | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
Thank you very much. And for a full list of the stations that remain | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
open, go to the BBC Hampshire website, the address is on the | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
screen. Now the funeral of a Bournemouth schoolboy who died | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
after being hit by a cricket ball took place today. Kyle Rees who was | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
16 and a student at Portchesterle school was head on the -- hit on | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
the head. Hundreds of family and friends came to pay their respects | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
at St Andrew's church in Bournemouth. I think there is so | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
many people are deeply shocked, and in deep grief, and I have seen this | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
shock, it is a bit like Princess Diana's event, it was just, people, | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
their gut reaction there. Southampton pub threatened with | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
legal action over ition famous name sake could be close to wing its | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
fight with Hollywood. The Hobbit pub was told it would have to | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
change its name by the company behind the up coming film of the | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
same name after being accused of copyright infringement. After a | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
campaign supported by Sir Ian McKellen, the pub could continue to | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
use the name for a feel of $100. Thousands of jobs in the solar | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
panel industry have disappeared, just in the last few months, and | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
more are under threat. It is because of the Government's | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
decision to dramatically reduce its green subsidies. That is the | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
warning from the man behind Freetricity which has seen a big | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
fall in the take up of solar panels across the region. Boiling water, | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
soon to be powered by if sun. This is one of the lucky people. Her | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
roof was big enough to qualify for free solar panels. She gets the | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
electricity, the company that installs them gets the money from | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
the Government. I would love to do it payment wise but I can't afford | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
it. If there was a case no way I would have been considering them. | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
Only got them because they are free. I am tied in 25 years but I doesn't | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
bother me. But the future isn't looking bright. It was possible to | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
get 43 pence kilowatt in December I halved down to 21 pence and there | :07:31. | :07:38. | |
are fears it could drop to 16 pence in July. I am disappointed about it. | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
We set the company up a year -and- a-half ago and the Government said | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
they would be putting this tariff in place for four year, it would be | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
reviewed annually, we were able to plan according to that. But | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
unfortunately things are different and the Government have made three | :07:54. | :08:01. | |
changes now, one with only three weeks warning. The Government | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
continues to change its policy on since di. It has meant that | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
companies like this can no longer install on smaller properties, in | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
the north it has meant houses can no longer qualify for free solar | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
panels. There is a lot of uncertainty in terms of the jobs, | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
people thinking, will I have a job in three months time? A number of | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
companies are doing, people like ourselves are looking at | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
diversifying, looking at other green products. While this woman | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
stands to benefit, it is is a gloomier prospect for the solar | :08:33. | :08:41. | |
industry. Thousands of pounds left in a Will to the New Forest Owl | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
Sanctuary which closed following an undercover operation by the BBC's | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
Inside Out is to be given to the charity which rehomed the birds. | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
The sanctuary closed in 2003 and its owner was convicted of five | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
wildlife offences. But it had been left a share of �65,000 in the will | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
of 84-year-old Vera Spear. A legal fight broke out as to where it | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
should go. Today the high court ruled it should be given to the | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
north Wales bird trust which rehomed many of the birds. Across | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
the south education chiefs are having to create thousands of new | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
school places as they try to wrestle with the spike in birth | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
rate. The squeeze is leading to the loss of some important facilities | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
for children. Our Dorset political reporter has the details. 60 years | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
soing a the UK experienced the baby boom. The population jumped by | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
500,000 and wives and sweater hearts welcomed loves ones home. | :09:40. | :09:48. | |
Guess, what, it has happened again. A jump in the birth rate pushed the | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
number of people in the country above 61 million. Now four years on | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
these children are reaching school age, but where is the extra | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
capacity? In Winchester parents are angry about temporary classrooms, | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
and in Brighton a former police station and the am mex stadium | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
could be used. In bourm there has been a record number of births with | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
2008 the highest in 30 years. 420 new primary places are needed in | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
schools that are full to bursting. More parents are unable to get | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
their child into their first second or third choice school, siblings | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
are being separated and more modular classrooms, only meant to | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
be a temporary solution are becoming a permanent fixture. Other | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
important space is lost, like music rooms and libraries. This year | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
because we have one spare classroom, we have a library in a proper room. | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
Because we expect an additional class in September we loo lose that | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
for a period of four years. Short- term, you know, struggle, or loss | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
in terms of library space, but long term we will gain that back. It is | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
something campaigners are unhappy about and say the problem would | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
have been foreseen. Local authorities, or the majority of | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
them never seem to plan for this. And the minute the birth rate drop, | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
they start merging school, closing schools and I think if any | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
authority puts a school in the position of having to close down, | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
then they really need to be held to ransom over it. On a recent visit | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
to the south, Schools Minister Nick Gibbs says money is being made | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
available to meet the dehand, but as far as Bournemouth goes hemmed | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
in by protected heathland and the sea, face for new schools is | :11:32. | :11:39. | |
something the town don't have. You can see more on the Sunday Politics | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
here on BBC One. The Portsmouth based ice patrol ship HMS Protector | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
has rescued a team of scientists in danger of being cut off by bad | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
weather in Antarctica. The ship had to punch through dangerous pack ice | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
to pick up the team. It is the second drama for the ship since she | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
began her patrol. Days earlier, her sailors fought a major fire at a | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
research station in which two people were killed. These | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
photographs just sent from the ship give a glimpse of the dangerous | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
pack ice sailors had to breakthrough to rescue scientists | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
from the remote James Ross island. The Portsmouth based ice breaker | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
had landed a team of geologists on the island, but with worsening | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
weather it was decided they should be pulled out. Then prothe ship had | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
to fight through the ice to reach open water. It is unnerving, as a | :12:35. | :12:44. | |
naval officer to drive at ice,. This film showing the previous ice | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
breaker, gives an idea of the kind of conditions faced by HMS | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
Protector.. The issue we had is that Protector can break ice to a | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
depth of about a metre. Most ships can only break new ice. If it | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
becomes gracial ice, you can't break it. The risk of us becoming | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
trapped was very high. Just days before the drama in the ice, | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
sailors from the ship had fought a major fire at a Brazilian research | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
base, in which two people were killed. The ship is now back in the | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
Falklands prepare fog her next voyage down to the target tick P -- | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
Antarctic. Conservation groups in the south are warning that wildlife | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
will suffer if the drought continues. The RSPB says 2012 could | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
be a disastrous nesting season because of the lack of water. We | :13:38. | :13:46. | |
report from one wetlands site in West Sussex. These wetlands aren't | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
wet enough. At Pulborough Brooks they are worried about how the | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
drought will harm the birds that breed here. This is the problem. | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
What should be a torrent is barely a trickle. The water channels that | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
feed into the wetlands aren't flowing as they should. Birds that | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
breed on wet meadows must find their own food from hatching. | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
Invert brats get hard to find and the young are unable to fly to | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
other sources of food, until they fledge. The chicks need about six | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
weeks to two months of damp soil conditions to feed well, and to | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
turn into fully flying birds. It is the damp ground that is insect rich | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
that is the key F the ground isn't damp the birds can't access the | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
insects. And if the dry weather persist, swallows and house martins | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
which use mud to form their nests will struggle to find building | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
material, reducing the nesting success. Conservation groups say | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
this drought, and the effect it will have on the environment should | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
make households reconsider the amount of water they use. We get a | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
tonne of water every week and it costs about a pound. Now, it is | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
fashionable to cit sies the water companies but they are doing well. | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
We need to reveal it is a environmental limit. Here at | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
Pulborough Brooks they have taken measures to try to hang on the all | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
the water they can. But if there isn't heavy rain soon, spring | :15:15. | :15:24. | |
conditions for breeding waders will be poor. And still to come, we | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
catch up with Tim Dellor, ahead of his final Olympic event for Sport | :15:28. | :15:36. | |
Relief. A disabled model from Hove has been chosen as one of the faces | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
of a campaign for the fashion designer Stella McCartney. Nine | :15:41. | :15:48. | |
years ago Sophie foren -- more fan was paralysed of she has built a | :15:48. | :15:56. | |
successful modelling career. -- Morgan. Sophie Morgan is a | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
successful model business own irand artist. Nine years ago a car | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
accident changed her life dramatically. I just collected my | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
A-level results and was driving recklessly and lost control of the | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
car and we flipped, and landed in a field next to the road. Then the | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
car was landed on the side of the driver's side so I was crushed. | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
was left paralysed from the waist down. But this hasn't held her back. | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
My life is fantastic at the moment. I am very fulfilled, and yeah, | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
excited, soy don't feel like it has ruined my life. In many ways it | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
does feel like it has improved my life. This summer she will present | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
a BBC Three documentary focusing on road traffic accidents. No stranger | :16:43. | :16:50. | |
to television she treked through the Nicaraguan jungle, and finished | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
runner-up in Britain's Missing Top Model. A show that caught the eye | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
of Stella McCartney. Who picked Sophie to become the face of her | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
Olympic campaign for Adidas. It is as much about the impact she has on | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
non-disabled people who start to recognise that just because you are | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
disabled doesn't mean you can't have a successful career, you can't | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
be beautiful, you can't be inspiring. Sophie campaigns for | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
disabled people to be better represented in the fashion industry. | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
She designed this, the world's first wheelchair to be used in shop | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
windows. It is a wheelchair for a mannequin. The idea being to | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
improve how disabled people are represented in the high street. | :17:33. | :17:42. | |
she plans to continue to spread that message this summer. And in -- | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
an Iran spiring story. Tony, a week at Cheltenham. I had the winner. | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
Great week for Nicky Henderson, he became the most successful trainer | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
in the history of the festival. us look at the big race. Tony | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
mechanic Croy rode Synchronised to victory in the Challenge Cup, | :18:03. | :18:13. | |
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-- McCoy. Well done AP McCoy. Football and the promotion race in | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
the Championship has seen Reading force their way into conten | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
shurpbgs Southampton have been up there all along. Tay are still top | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
heading into their game at Millwall. Lee le is set to miss out. Billy | :18:32. | :18:40. | |
Sharp is likely to partner Ricky Lambert up front. A few people | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
doubted me, I can do it in the Championship, so to prove them | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
people wrong, is very good, and obviously, I have been able to | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
prove the people wrong next season if we get the chance of the Premier | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
League as well. So, what about the royal, Reading, they have charge | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
through the field. Can they maintain their momentum or will | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
they run out of steam? Tomorrow, they play Barnsley, and now the | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
side know if result goes in their favour they could be top tomorrow. | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
Let us hear from their newest signing Hayden Mullins. Try and | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
back them up and if needed, you know, if I need to help I L but I | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
know the run at the club have been on, everyone knows that in the | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
division, they are the team to stop. I am glad to be here. Some changes | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
behind the scenes at Brighton and Hove Albion. The manager Managing | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
Director is leaving the club. Martin Perry will retire in 2014. | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
On the field they face a big test at Blackpool tomorrow, Albion | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
continue to defend their unbeaten league run since the start of the | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
year. They beat Portsmouth last year and Gus Poyet is hoping to | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
learnson lessons from their previous meeting. At that time they | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
were not too bad, now they are at the top, so we learn it, they need | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
to win as well, which is going to be a very nice thing to watch. | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
Portsmouth may part company with more players before next week's | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
loan deadline. Ipswich Town confirm they have ap approached with a list | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
of available players, that is on top of the departure of Mullins and | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
Henderson, Portsmouth have retained George Thorn on a month's loan. It | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
is almost a win or bust game tomorrow against Bristol City. | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
Elsewhere this weekend, Bournemouth are at home in League One hoping to | :20:41. | :20:47. | |
run a run of five defeats. Crawley have won one game in 11. They are | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
up against Port Vale. Aldershot host Bradford. Ben Ainslie is to | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
face no more action after his behaviour at the world sailing | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
championships ch he involved in a furious altercation with a press | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
bolt in December. It led to him swimming across to remonstrate with | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
the occupants and the sailing federation disqualified him from | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
the event. They said the penalties imposed were sufficient though. | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
That news coming in in the last half hour or so. All this week we | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
have been following BBC Berkshire's Tim Dellor who has been attempting | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
to do 29 Olympic event, all in aid of Sport Relief. He has had to go | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
at everything, from shooting to synchronised swimming, all in a bid | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
to demonstrate the grass roots sports activity is happening on our | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
doorstep. We will see him in action performing his last challenge, he | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
is in the ring for boxing, let us look at what he has achieved during | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
the week. So seven o'clock on Monday morning, I have to start | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
with trampolining. Keep your legs together. It is tiring. Above the | :21:54. | :22:04. | |
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target. Don't take too long. Five? I'm impressed really impressed. | :22:06. | :22:14. | |
Yeah. Try and get the string to touch your face as well. A sport | :22:14. | :22:24. | |
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which looks so simple yet is so The longest two minutes of my life. | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
I am a novice when I want comes to sitting on this bike. Lower | :22:35. | :22:45. | |
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yourself into it. Are you all right in there Tim. It is very unstable. | :22:46. | :22:56. | |
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22 sports down. 23 is causing me a In at the deep end. Not enough for | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
him he has one last challenge. He is at Reading Amateur Boxing Club | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
tonight. Have you had a good week. You look exhausted already mate. | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
Tony, I have done 28 of my 29 sports for this Sport Relief | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
Olympic challenge, and here is a sport I have never done before. | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
Boxing. I'm not well suited o to it. I am going to struggle. Who do I | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
fight? That is big question, bring on Mick gooding, I have had many a | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
disagreement with him in the commentary box. We have finished | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
round one. I think I am up on points. We will see at the end. | :23:40. | :23:47. | |
done boxing before? No. You a bit older. I think have two rounds left | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
in me. You think you have two rounds. I don't think have. What is | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
the art to being a great boxer. Ask these chaps down here. I have never | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
done it before. You have to be brave. We have a crowd. Barnsley | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
against Reading. They had a good result at Doncaster, they need to | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
keep that unbeaten run. Hopefully surge into the automatic promotion | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
sports. Less talking, more abshurpbgs that the bell. We will | :24:16. | :24:26. | |
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be under way with round two. Here we go. -- less talking more action. | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
That is the bell. Jabbing away. Excellent. To think those two will | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
be commentating tomorrow. If they are in one piece. Are they still | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
going to be friends at the end of that? If you have been inspired by | :24:43. | :24:51. | |
Tim's efforts you can donate money by logging on to Sport Relief .com. | :24:51. | :24:58. | |
That has been our entertainment for the night. I think there is a | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
height disadvantage. I am glad they height disadvantage. I am glad they | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
had the guards on. Now the weather. Are we going to get what we were | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
hoping for for mother's day. We might see some sunshine but there | :25:09. | :25:16. | |
will be a lot of rain. We do have a weather picture for you Hilary | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
captured the flowers in Bournemouth gardens to brighten up a grey day. | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
So it was very grey indeed. One or two bright spells today. Taking a | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
look at the weekend, there will be that much-needed rain. Some | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
brightness on offer, more so on Sunday, a cooler feel to things, | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
particularly later on on Sunday with a northerly wind. Tonight the | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
cloud stays with us. And it will arrive during the second half of | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
the night. So a lot of cloud initially. You can see the weather | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
front slipping, prach -- patchy in nature, and temperatures staying | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
mild under the cloud and in the rain. So we start the day tomorrow | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
on a damp and soggy note. The band of patchy rain merges into a longer | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
spell of rain. Sort of round late afternoon, that south-east corner | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
could stay wet for much of the day. Elsewhere one or two showers. | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
Blustery conditions with the showers and a high of ten or 11. | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
The winds coming in from the south- west. Tomorrow night, the showers | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
will tend to fade away, the skies will clear which means temperatures | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
take a plunge to freeing, a low of four or five, the risk of a touch | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
of frost in the countryside, with temperatures hovering round the | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
freezing mark under the clearing skies, so a chilly start to the day | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
on Sunday but high pressure builds in, that means the conditions | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
brightens up. Late evening sunshine but we will see showers, hit-and- | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
miss some areas could stay dry and one or two bright and sunny spells. | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
Monday, a bit of cloud to start the day. One or two bright spells and | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
through the afternoon and a similar condition on Tuesday, with high | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
pressure pushing in, but you can see the winds are coming in from | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
the west, it won't be a cool day, it won't be that, the winds won't | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
be that light in fact, if I can can get my words out. High pressure | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
remains in charge. Conditions start to improve into next week. | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
Temperatures start to rise, the winds will stay brisk but we get | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
that much-needed rainfall over the weekend. In time for Monday. If you | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
don't like the rain, think of the birds we reported on earlier, they | :27:26. | :27:29. |