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Hello, I'm Sally Taylor. Welcome to South Today. In tonight's | :00:05. | :00:07. | |
programme: Delays at A&E. Ambulances with | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
patients queue at hospitals, but where is the hold-up? | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
Dreams for the future of the Solent's historic forts as a | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
businessman buys all three. All aboard the magical mystery bus | :00:20. | :00:30. | |
for a grand day out, but where is this tour going? I really fancied | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
going around the world but I'd think this is second best. | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
And another change at Bournemouth as manager Lee Bradury is sacked | :00:38. | :00:46. | |
after 14 months in the job. It is East Enders on C. It is one drama | :00:46. | :00:54. | |
after another. The The queues are still there and | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
they're getting worse. Last year South Today reported on the long | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
delays for ambulances arriving at A&E outside some hospitals in the | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
South. Well, now Managers at South Central Ambulance Service claim | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
ambulances aren't reaching life threatening emergencies in time | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
because they're still being held up at hospitals. It seems that nothing | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
much has improved after BBC South carried out a Freedom of | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
Information request to access the latest performance results. Emma | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
Vardy is here with more details. When Ambulances arrive at A&E, the | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
government says patients should be in the care of the hospital within | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
15 minutes. But in the South this target is often being missed. | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
Figures we've obtained under FOI show last month ambulances were | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
waiting for more than 400 hours at Southampton General Hospital, their | :01:39. | :01:49. | |
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worst month for more than two years. Meanwhile the Royal Berkshire | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
Hospital's had more delays than any other served by South Central, more | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
than 2,000 hours over the past year, and delays were up by a third | :01:56. | :02:05. | |
compared with last winter. We could have anything from 10 patients in a | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
queue. Our staff will look after more than one patient at a time so | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
one ambulanceman could be looking after up to four patients and | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
delays can be up to one hour. Managers say delays at A&E are | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
affecting South Central Ambulance Service's times. On more than 50 | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
occasions last month, patients in the most serious conditions were | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
left waiting more than half-an-hour for an ambulance, calls that should | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
have been attended in under eight minutes. In the first half of last | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
year the Royal Berkshire Hospital paid out more than �176,000 in | :02:29. | :02:39. | |
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fines. The local hospital has to pull its finger out. You cannot | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
have this. I understand there are a considerable number and what they | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
are saying is they are looking at the details. You must not look at | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
the details when bombs are falling. People in ambulances are very ably | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
dealt with but it is only suitable up to a certain level of whatever | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
is going on with them. So what's causing these delays? Hospitals say | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
they've had an exceptionally busy winter, but at the Royal Berkshire | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
Hospital there has been some suggestion that ambulance crews are | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
taking breaks when they should be ready to respond to other calls, | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
something ambulance staff have dismissed as nonsense. | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
Some hospitals like the Queen Alexandra in Portsmouth have found | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
ways to bring delays down. It deploys extra nurses at times of | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
high demand. And uses private companies to look after patients in | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
the queue on the hospitals behalf, freeing paramedics up. Now the | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
ambulance service wants others to do the same, and says it's going to | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
be increasingly robust in challenging hospitals over delays, | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
so its crews can get back to answering life threatening calls | :03:34. | :03:44. | |
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Hundreds of staff working for Hampshire based video games | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
retailer GAME learned today they're to lose their jobs as the company | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
goes into administration. It's been struggling with mounting debts for | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
months. Staff at the headquarters in Basingstoke were told the grim | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
news this morning, and late this afternoon workers in shops across | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
the country learned which would be saved and which would close. | :04:06. | :04:15. | |
How are people inside feeling? do you think? Crap. | :04:15. | :04:24. | |
Do you have any specific news about what is happening with jobs? | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
comment. After months of speculation the | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
facts were as grim as staff here in Basingstoke had feared. The company | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
had over reached itself and today the administrator agreed it was | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
operating too many high street stores while shoppers have | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
increasingly been buying games online. A handful of jobs have been | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
lost at the headquarters but the axe has fallen on the shops | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
themselves. 277, almost half the stores, have been closed from | :04:42. | :04:49. | |
tonight. That's 2,100 people being made redundant. As the market moves | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
to digital downloading and the market moves towards the internet | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
then you simply do not need that many stores. That is one of the big | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
problem is. What's left of the company is now | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
up for sale, with the administrators keen to say that | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
they believe a smaller company operating a more tightly controlled | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
business plan is viable and that potential buyers are out there. | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
objective is to sell the business as a going concern. There is a good | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
prospect of a sale. There is a good prospect that a large proportion of | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
jobs can be saved. Not all shareholders are happy with | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
the solution being pursued, but with debts of over �100 million, | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
time for talking had run out. Game grew big and quickly, but its | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
competitors were playing by different rules. Much of what they | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
sell here is now traded successfully online. Today's grim | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
news means staff here at the headquarters and in the stores | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
across the country, at least know what the administrators are trying | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
to achieve. If it is sold as a going concern, it will be a much | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
leaner player. A pupil at one of Surrey's top | :05:55. | :06:02. | |
public schools has been arrested over child pornography allegations. | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
Police have confirmed they've been questioning a 16-year-old boy from | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
Charterhouse School on suspicion of making indecent images of a child. | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
It relates to material allegedly found on a computer. The boy has | :06:10. | :06:20. | |
been released on bail. The destroyer HMS Liverpool | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
returned to Portsmouth for the last time today. She's being | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
decommissioned on Friday after 30 years' service, which includes the | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
Iraq war in 2003, and last year's Libyan blockade. | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
She's steamed hundreds of thousands of nautical miles across the globe. | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
But this was her final voyage. Her decommissioning pennant trailed in | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
the water behind her. A yard for every year she's served. Nicknamed | :06:42. | :06:49. | |
the Crazy Red Chicken, this is a ship that's made people smile. | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
has got a great sense of humour. The ship's company throughout her | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
life has always been an extremely happy bunch of sailors. Despite | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
whatever they are asked to do they have always worked together and | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
they are a real family and that is what makes a special. When HMS | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
Liverpool was ordered the Royal Navy thought it would take four | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
years to build her... Commissioned three decades ago, HMS | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
Liverpool was built in Birkenhead. This is a training exercise, but | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
last year off-Libya she became the first Royal Navy warship to be | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
fired on since the Falklands conflict. In 2000 she escorted the | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
Invincible supporting the campaign in Kosovo. And in 2003 she escorted | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
the Ark Royal during the assaults in Iraq. There have also been | :07:35. | :07:44. | |
humanitarian missions. Sporadic eruptions from the angry and | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
unpredictable volcano... In 1997 she was called to the Caribbean to | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
help evacuees. It is 30 years and this was my first ship so you have | :07:54. | :08:01. | |
a bond with it for that time. It is quite happy and sad. It is a | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
homecoming really. I am really proud of what the ship and the | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
ship's company had achieved and what I have achieved. I am only at | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
the start of my career and I look forward to the rest of it. | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
Looking on as she docked for a final time, her replacements. These | :08:15. | :08:22. | |
Type-45 destroyers will be the navy's most powerful ships ever. | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
After 30 years of service HMS Liverpool will be formally | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
decommissioned on Friday in front of a crew and their family members. | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
It looks set to be a very fond farewell. | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
She'll remain in Portsmouth after she's decomissioned and will be | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
sold to the highest bidder. An entrepreneur from the South is | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
promising to create jobs and growth in Portsmouth after purchasing the | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
three historical forts in the Solent. Mike Clare bought Spitbank | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
Fort in 2009, but now he's added No Man's Land Fort and Horse Sands | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
Fort to his property portfolio. His company Clarenco plans to turn them | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
into luxury hotels and a museum. Georgina Windsor is live in | :09:01. | :09:10. | |
Southsea tonight. You can see over my shoulder, there | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
is Spitbank Fort, in the distance there is no man's Land Fort and | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
over here is Horse Sands Fort. They have all come under the ownership | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
of Mike Clare who made his money in beds. In 1987 he started with one | :09:23. | :09:30. | |
store and buy 2008 p at 250. When he sold shares in that company | :09:30. | :09:37. | |
Dreams, he made himself a small fortune. He started investing in | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
property like office buildings but he wanted to expand into buildings | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
that were more fun. It has been a �3.5 million project | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
and a labour of love for the millionaire Mike her. His family | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
live on the Isle of Wight and these thoughts have -- Fortes have always | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
intrigued him. We want to create employment in the Solent and we | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
want to make it a destination so people will get to know where they | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
are. They have been nothing for decades and no one has really owned | :10:06. | :10:13. | |
all of them. We thought it was a great opportunity. I am not quite | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
sure what will happen but we are excited. His general manager is the | :10:18. | :10:26. | |
man who is charged with making Spitbank Fort into destination | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
hotels. Horse Sands Fort is derelict at the moment and that | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
will be turned into an historic time capsule for people to see how | :10:33. | :10:40. | |
the Fortes would have been. No Man's Land Fort will have a similar | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
thing as Spitbank Fort where it will be turned into an exclusive | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
venue and also a hotel for so people can come and stay. We will | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
put this on board. Bought in 2009, finally in 2012 Spitbank Fort will | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
open to the paying public but with quite a price tag, �800 for two | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
people to have dinner and bed and breakfast. He made a success of | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
Dreams and we hope that he can do the same for these faults in the | :11:09. | :11:10. | |
Solent. One of Britain's most congested | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
motorways has become a major marketing tool for a business in | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
Brighton. A company has launched what's thought to be the first tour | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
of the M25 taking in sights such as South Mimms services and the | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
Dartford Crossing. And according to the company it's a sell out, so | :11:24. | :11:32. | |
what is the appeal for tourists? This is part of the motorway | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
network, M25 past Junction 4... some it is the road to hell or the | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
biggest car park in the world but for others the and 25 is a day out | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
in itself. They to get people joined today's bus tour around one | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
of Britain's most hated motorways, but why? I really wanted to go | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
around the world are now have not when they did so I think this is | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
second best. It is round the and 25. It is something we would never | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
normally do. This section of the motorway was first completed in | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
1977... Every mile of the motorway cost �7.5 million to build. At one | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
point it is 12 lanes wide and its longest traffic jam was last year | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
with a 40 nine-mile tailback. The man behind the door says that he is | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
involved because somebody needs to stick up for this motorway. Because | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
we are sitting in a coach you can look over the walls and fences and | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
see a lot of the interesting sites around the motorway which if you | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
were driving you would just this. We are two hours in and we have the | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
opportunity to stretch our legs and sample the delights of everything | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
South Mimms services as to offer. It did not take long. Back on the | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
bus one of the highlights was the Dartford Bridge and four hours flew | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
by and we were on the home straight at placket lane. I have had a | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
really good day. It has been absolutely fantastic -- fascinating. | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
As the coach does offer towards the rush-hour traffic you wonder at the | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
venues will change. Still to come: We have the weather | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
for you. Sunny and dry weather on offer this | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
week and the unbroken sunshine and exceptionally warm weather has been | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
putting smiles on many of our faces and we have been out getting | :13:23. | :13:33. | |
reaction from businesses to say Police are appealing for | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
information after a man was killed in a car crash in West Sussex. An | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
82-year-old man died when his car, a Peugeot 207, left the road and | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
hit a tree on the outskirts of Upper Beeding. Sussex Police want | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
to hear from anyone who saw the car on the A2037 on Friday evening at | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
around 10.45. The man from Henfield hasn't been named. | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
A woman from Weymouth has been jailed for biting off part of a | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
man's ear. 28-year-old bank manager Samantha Williams attacked the man | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
outside the Cutter Hotel in the town last May. Williams was | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
sentenced to 15 months in prison after being found guilty of | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
grievous bodily harm. New figures show almost a third of | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
cigarettes bought in Crawley are from illegal sources. The tobacco | :14:12. | :14:13. | |
manufacturer Philip Morris commissioned research between | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
October and December last year. It found more than 30% of cigarettes | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
smoked in the town were either counterfeit or smuggled in without | :14:21. | :14:31. | |
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duty being paid. Let us move on to support. Tony is | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
in the studio with meat. We are going to start with football and | :14:38. | :14:48. | |
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Ballmer. The manager sacked. There have been lots of changes. Lee | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
Bradbury inherited the job from Eddie Howe. It has been difficult | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
for him this season and the axe fell. Lee Bradbury's 14-month reign | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
as Bournemouth manager ended yesterday, in an apparent dispute | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
over bringing two youth team coaches onto his staff with the | :15:04. | :15:13. | |
first team. Bradbury was fired by Chairman Eddie Mitchell, who's gone | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
on holiday after deciding to dispense with a manager who he gave | :15:16. | :15:26. | |
a new three-year contract to in January. | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
Lee Bradbury's car-parking space late Bacon today. He said his | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
goodbye to the players, while fans were also died jesting the news. | :15:37. | :15:45. | |
This club is EastEnders on Sea, one drama after another. We have a team | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
of talented individuals for this level but they have not gelled as a | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
team. I was amazed when he was given a 3.5 year contract. I think | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
that was madness. I don't know what he has done wrong. Bradbury was | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
fired after resisting attempts to move the youth team pairing of | :16:05. | :16:13. | |
coaches into the full team set-up. Paul Groves has stepped into the | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
hot steep temporarily. It is something I have been involved in | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
and of this clique to a degree whetted my appetite. It is | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
something I have experienced, I have a good knowledge about, and | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
been involved in the coaching side. Letter see how things develop. | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
Groves is now a leading contender for the job full-time. He has eight | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
games to prove his credentials, starting tomorrow at Stevenage. In | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
the Championship, Southampton maintained their five-point lead at | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
the top with a 2-0 home victory over Doncaster. Billy Sharp got | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
both the goals against his former team - the first a thumping header | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
from a corner, the second an equally emphatic finish after a | :16:55. | :17:05. | |
defensive mistake. That Saints' fourth win in a row. | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
Reading proved that their defeat at Peterborough was only a hiccup with | :17:08. | :17:16. | |
a fine victory against Blackpool. What a shot - Jobi Macanuff. Ian | :17:16. | :17:26. | |
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Harte on the follow up. Then deep cross Alex Pearce header 2-0. | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
Mikele Leigertwood got the winner and Reading go second. Look at | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
third place West Ham, they failed to win again this weekend. | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
Southampton have a nine-point advantage over West Ham who play | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
their game in hand tomorrow night. What a game in store when Reading | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
play at Okehampton. Away from the race for automatic | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
promotion, Portsmouth prop up the table, but Brighton remain very | :18:00. | :18:08. | |
much in the play off race. Here's the rest of the weekend action. | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
Brighton rode their luck at the City Ground but looked on course | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
for a valuable three points when Sam Vokes put them in front after | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
the hour. Down to 10 men and did to the final minute, not him Forest | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
finally made the pressure came when Joel Lynch levelled but Albion are | :18:26. | :18:36. | |
still four. Today the pitch was perfect so there is no excuse. We | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
need to sort out the few things away from home because I don't like | :18:40. | :18:49. | |
it. Portsmouth's hopes of avoiding the drop suffered a major shock at | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
Coventry. Crawley took the lead against Robben just before half- | :18:53. | :19:01. | |
time. But Steve Evans was not happy, even after that goal from Billy | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
Clarke. Two more goals have probably right back in the | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
automatic promotion frame. They came from Gary Alexander from the | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
spot and then it was sealed by Pablo Mills. With a game in hand, | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
Crawley of fixing their sights on a second successive promotion. On to | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
rugby and London Irish were beaten on their return to Premiership | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
action at Reading's Madejski Stadium yesterday. Leicester won | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
41-32, Irish down to ninth in the table now. Meanwhile, Bournemouth | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
are on course for promotion from National League Three - they had a | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
nail biting win against Chinnor at Chapel Gate on Saturday, where a | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
late comeback saw them win by one point, in front of more than a | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
thousand fans. After more than ten years of | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
dispute, a motorcross company has won the right have a permanent home | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
at a site in Hampshire. Three Maids Motocross Ltd has been given | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
permission to use Three Maids Hill near Winchester. However 244 | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
residents objected and many can't believe it's got the go ahead. | :19:56. | :20:05. | |
Catharina Moh reports. It is a sport you either love or | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
hate. Active participants cannot get enough. Local residents simply | :20:09. | :20:16. | |
wanted to stop. This is Three Maids Hill near Winchester. It has been | :20:16. | :20:22. | |
the centre of controversy since motocross racing began here in 2004. | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
In 2009 a permanent plan was rejected because of noise. Three | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
Maids Motocross Ltd appealed and now a government planning inspector | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
has ruled in his favour. News has not been welcomed by staff at a | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
nearby stud farm. They keep up to 80 horses onside. We have this huge | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
amount of dust on a dry day like today and it gets carried across | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
the road but the wind and these young horses will get a full face | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
full every day that the motor crosses on. It is a great deal of | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
work for us and means that a lot of that land is unusable during the | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
weekends or would they use it. motocross confuse as it is hard to | :21:01. | :21:11. | |
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The volume of the noise is not the issue, it is just how annoying it | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
is. Three Maids Motocross will be providing noise and does management | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
plans and locals will be monitoring the situation, but for now it looks | :21:31. | :21:40. | |
like motocross is back on track. We teach it American football on | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
Friday night. I have been out most of the day saw a need to hear how | :21:46. | :21:55. | |
they got on. I cannot find out the score anyway. I would love to know. | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
Also, Sport Crilly, well done to everybody who did the mile. -- | :22:00. | :22:07. | |
export relief. I was in Southampton. It was packed. | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
Summer seems to have come early to the south and it's given the | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
tourism trade a welcome boost. In places the temperature has been 10 | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
degrees higher than the seasonal average. Open air attractions in | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
West Sussex are making the most of the sunny snap and some say visitor | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
numbers have increased by 25%. Danielle Glavin has been enjoying | :22:27. | :22:37. | |
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the warm weather. At the 18th Polly, a little Greek | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
easily cooled down but the visitors had to stay above the waterline -- | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
the 18th Polly. We do not look very far away but it is wonderful. | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
Absolutely fantastic, I wish we could have it all the time. It is | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
better than on the Continent at the moment. It does help when you come | :22:58. | :23:07. | |
out to the sort of places. Over recent weeks, they had been | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
roadworks which caused takings to pull but as the sun shone, the | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
visitors returned. They're just making the most of it. Especially | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
in springtime, after a long winter of very short days, the long days | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
are stretching out really nicely with this weather. People just want | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
to get out. At the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, some of | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
the star attractions with three to the shade. In the vegetable garden | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
there were some impressive sun hats on show. I was thinking I would be | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
wearing it in the summer but suddenly I knew in March, which was | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
quite a surprise. Visitor numbers were up by 25% compared to the same | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
weekend last year but they are not celebrating yet. Normally, nature | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
has a habit of the evening itself out. The last thing you want is a | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
wig June or July and then everything goes pear-shaped. We do | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
live by the weather in that respect. Let us hope that we get a little | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
bit of rain by night but the days are nice like this. On a Monday in | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
March, the promenade and beach I'd usually empty, but sun-seekers were | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
around and traders hope it marks the start of things to come. | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
It is absolutely stunning outside, a gorgeous weekend. And it is going | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
to carry on. It is, and be warmer than the more southerly part of | :24:35. | :24:45. | |
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Europe. Why go anywhere? But what you do one a day like this? What | :24:45. | :24:55. | |
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about this? Well, nothing, I think! If you had some magnificent | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
magnolias they may be turning rapidly from pink to break tonight | :25:16. | :25:23. | |
because it is could be a very chilly night. Cold and cleaner and | :25:23. | :25:33. | |
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stained dry. -- staying dry. Even in the towns and cities it is down | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
to three or four Max Celsius. A little bit of grass Frost and | :25:39. | :25:46. | |
perhaps some localised air frost. A stunning start to Tuesday. Unbroken | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
sunshine again and temperatures doing very nicely. To date we | :25:50. | :25:57. | |
managed to get 20 Celsius and tomorrow perhaps even 21 Celsius. | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
Into the evening once again, it will be a mixture of cloud and some | :26:02. | :26:10. | |
clear spells. Towards the north and west we may have some very chilly | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
conditions. Through the middle of the week we still have high | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
pressure with us but the mist and fog is not going to be much of an | :26:17. | :26:24. | |
issue. The wind springs ran to more of a naughty direction by the end | :26:24. | :26:31. | |
of the week which means it's going to be a cool weekend in comparison | :26:31. | :26:38. | |
-- 8 northerly direction. By Friday we may have a little bit more cloud | :26:38. | :26:45. | |
feeding him. But it is going to be a warm and dry as well as sunny | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
week ahead. Warm by day, Chile by night and a cooler weekend ahead. | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
But it is just around average for the time of year so it is not | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
particularly cold. But a lot cooler than what we have become used to. | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
Wednesday is tipped to be the warmest day this week, at 23 | :27:06. | :27:16. | |
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Celsius. On Saturday, back to what Tomorrow night, we had a sneak | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
preview of Southampton's mutes the City Museum, where the focus is on | :27:26. | :27:33. |