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Hello. Welcome to South Today. Tonight: 30 years ago he kidnapped | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
and abused two young girls. How advances in DNA led to his | :00:12. | :00:20. | |
conviction. No ifs, just butts - sales surge as | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
gardeners prepare for the worst. use it for everything so we don't | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
use - because we are on a meter as well! | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
Plans for almost 200 wind turbines off the Sussex coast. Will they | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
become a reality? All fired up, the children testing | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
out the Titanic exhibits inside the new Sea City Museum. I like driving | :00:43. | :00:53. | |
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the Titanic. You have to keep in A man who carried out sex attacks | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
on two young girls in Hampshire 30 years ago has been jailed for 16 | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
years. David Bryant was eventually caught because of advances in DNA | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
testing developed by a forensic team that has since been disbanded. | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
In the 1980s, David Bryant snatched and assaulted the two under fives | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
as they played outside their homes in Gosport and Southampton. He then | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
moved to Cumbria where, in the '90s, he abused two more young children. | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
In July 2010, a team of cold case detectives from Hampshire Police | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
reviewed the DNA evidence. The following May Bryant was matched to | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
all four crimes after the Forensic Science Service traced him through | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
a DNA sample from one of his relatives. Today, he was jailed | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
after pleading guilty to four counts of kidnapping and indecent | :01:47. | :01:55. | |
assault. A stranger of the most dangerous | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
kind. David Bryant targeted young girls at random, kidnapping and | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
sexually abusing them. In August 1982, David Bryant snatched a five- | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
year-old girl as she played outside her home in Gosport. He took her to | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
some boarded-up houses where he indecently assaulted her. In May | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
the next year, another victim. This time the girl was three and was | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
taken from outside her Southampton home, returning hours later with | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
her clothes dishevelled saying she had been with a doctor. Speaking as | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
an adult, she said, "When I hear an ice-cream van playing its music, I | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
am left with chills all over my body. I am left remembering what | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
happened to me at a very young age." For almost 30 years no-one | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
knew who had committed these crimes, then cold case detectives began a | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
review of historic sexual offences. They loaded DNA from the two crime | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
scenes on the national database and it matched two cases of child | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
kidnap and abuse in Newcastle in the 1990s and it matched Bryant. | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
For us, it proves the benefit of reviewing cold cases and keeping | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
abreast of advances that have been made in areas such as DNA | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
technology and taking advantage of those. This is an old police E-fit | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
of the suspect. Now he looks like this. David Bryant, a taxi driver | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
who was living in Cumbria, and who thought he would never be caught. | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
Even when questioned by detectives he refused to admit what he had | :03:22. | :03:31. | |
done. Tell us how you went about doingit? No comment. This is the | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
time to give some explanations to people who deserves explanations. | :03:37. | :03:45. | |
You're the only one who can tell us. No comment. Your opportunity? | :03:45. | :03:54. | |
comment. He used every technique in the book to avoid detection. David | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
Bryant represents every parents' nightmare. | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
Our reporter is here with me. A successful result for police, but | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
now that team of course has been disbanded? Operation Galaxy was the | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
team of cold case detectives set up by Hampshire Police to review | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
historic sexual offences. They reviewed 3,000 cases and brought | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
eight successful prosecutions including the Bryant one. The force | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
said the team wasn't disbapblded because of police budget -- | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
disbanded because of police budget cuts, but because it was a pilot | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
project and it had reached its natural conclusion. | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
With the closure of this Forensic Science Service, what sort of | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
impact is that going to have on cases like the Bryant one? | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
Forensic Science Service made that DNA match which led police to | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
Bryant. But the Government which owns it says it is inefficient, it | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
was losing �2 million a month so it is being wound up. Police forces | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
are contracting out their forensic work to private firms, or they are | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
doing it in-house. That may work out cheaper. The Prospect union has | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
described it as a mockery and one former Police Minister has other | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
concerns. The real problem is the Forensic Science Service used to | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
make money on the bog standard stuff to reinvest in ground- | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
breaking new techniques, the sort of things that are now solving | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
crimes from 20 years ago. But if the private companies aren't | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
reinvesting in new technology, in five or ten years' time, we will | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
lose the opportunity to solve crimes, using techniques that | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
haven't been developed yet. response, the Government says | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
police forces can achieve greater efficiencies by contracting out | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
their forensics. Hampshire Police say they don't expect the closure | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
of the FSS to affect their forensic work. | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
The computer games retailer Game has confirmed that 22 stores in the | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
South are to close after the business went into administration. | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
The retailer which has its headquarters in Basingstoke made | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
the announcement this morning. 277 shops will close nationally | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
including two each in Crawley, Bournemouth and Southampton. Some | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
stores will remain open until a buyer is found. | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
Anti-capitalist campaigners who have been occupying grounds outside | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
Bournemouth University for more than two weeks have left the site. | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
Members of Occupy movement wanted to meet the university's Chancellor | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
who is also head of the new Supreme Court to talk about the removal of | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
demonstrators from St Paul's Cathedral. It follows a possession | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
order by Talbot Village Trust which owns the land near Talbot campus. | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
The protest ended peacefully. Now, with the drought declared, | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
gardeners are making plans for the coming months. Retailers say they | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
have seen a big rise in the number of water butts being purchased with | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
one DIY chain reporting a 160% increase on sales last year. Not | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
everywhere faces hosepipe bans which come into the force from the | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
end of next week, but we are all being urged to save waters and the | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
suppliers are under pressure to take action. | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
They may not be the most bright or beautiful things in garden centres, | :07:02. | :07:10. | |
but water butts are among the most desirable at the moment. Sales of | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
butts were up 800% last week. bought two. We thought there was | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
going to be a water shortage. I wouldn't be without them now. | :07:19. | :07:26. | |
have got three, but we would like a couple more. It's so expensive | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
using the water from the tap. And also because of the oncoming | :07:30. | :07:39. | |
drought. At these allotments, they are lucky enough to draw water from | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
an underground source but they take water conservation very seriously. | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
They are not filling up, they are not filling up. I have water butts | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
at home and they are all empty. the clouds aren't gathering, | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
perhaps the answer is to choose plants that like it hot. This | :07:56. | :08:06. | |
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garden centre is seeing increased demand for drought-resistant plants. | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
These are drought-tolerant. Again, very prolific and low maintenance. | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
Are they selling well? Very well. For all those who observe hosepipe | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
bans there will be those who ignore them. A survey by B&Q suggests | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
nearly 20% will carry on regardless and only 15% say they would report | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
a naughty neighbour. Those who do breach the ban risk �1,000 fine as | :08:31. | :08:38. | |
people are asked to think carefully about how their garden grows. | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
So what are the water companies doing? One measure is to install | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
water meters. Southern Water is half-way through a five-year | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
programme of installing them in 500,000 homes across its area. | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
Chris Robinson asked Jon Crooke whether meters will make people | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
think twice. People are aware then that they are paying for what they | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
use as opposed to the way that they pay, not having an impact on how | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
much water they use. We find that people do tend to change their | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
behaviour and think more about how they use water and try and do more | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
water efficiency within their own homes. It is going to cost you a | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
lot of money to install these? is not building a reservoir, but it | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
is doing something similar, all designed to help save water. So | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
there is a cost. We think in terms of the cost, it is a lower cost | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
than some of those other solutions we could have done. Equally, it is | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
good for the environment because it reduces demand for water and helps | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
preserve the water that we do have in the environment. | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
This scheme will probably cost around �100 million to do. We will | :09:44. | :09:52. | |
save around 18 million litres of water per day. What reaction have | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
you had from your customers? Most customers really understand the | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
reason why we are doing it. And accept that it is the right thing | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
to do, paying for what you use is the right thing to do. Do you think | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
things will get worse over the summer? We will have to wait and | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
see. Whether we get some rain or not. We need to plan and make sure | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
that if we take these steps now, there is more opportunity for us to | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
have water later into the period. Jon Crooke and the forecast coming | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
up later in the programme. Health bosses in West Sussex have | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
confirmed a new hospital planned for Littlehampton won't be built | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
after all. Campaigners say the town has many new houses and a large | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
elderly population which needs a community hospital. But NHS Sussex | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
is planning more community services based in GPs' surgeries. | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
Plans to open up one-way streets to cyclists in parts of Brighton have | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
been given the go-ahead. It means cyclists will be able to ride in | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
both directions along 12 streets in the North Laine area of the city | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
from late summer. It is part of plans to discourage cycling on | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
pavements and the narrow passages which lead to the Laines. | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
Stay with us. Still to come: Reham will be here with the weather and | :11:08. | :11:15. | |
Tony is in Aldershot tonight with all the sport. | :11:15. | :11:22. | |
Aldershot Town, known as The Rising Phoenix. Tonight, it is all about | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
Aldershot football club which went out of business 20 years ago this | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
week. They are looking back on it ahead of tonight's game with | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
Bristol Rovers. All the sport here shortly. | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
One of the South's MEPs is calling for a referendum on whether to | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
build a large offshore wind farm eight miles off the coast of | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
Brighton. The proposed Rampion Wind Farm would have up to 195 turbines. | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
It is one of nine new proposed offshore wind farms, another is | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
close to the Isle of Wight. There's already a public consultation under | :11:57. | :12:04. | |
way, but UKIP MEP Marta Andreasen says that is not enough. | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
The horizon in Brighton as it is now and as it could be. The wind | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
farm would be visible from the shore. Underground cables would | :12:11. | :12:21. | |
link it to an inland substation 28 miles away. It is no done deal. | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
E.ON will need Government approval. Yes, people can find out the | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
details about this. If they are really opposing the project, this | :12:29. | :12:36. | |
is not the right place to express their disagreement so to speak. | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
E.ON says 4,000 people have attended the consultation and they | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
are listening to the feedback. People have their concerns, that is | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
the purpose of this consultation exercise so people can come and air | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
their views, they can raise their concerns. Of course, we can talk | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
them through it. It will be a first for Sussex, so I asked people what | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
they made of it. REPORTER: What do you think? It is | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
an eyesore. It could be like a tourist attraction. It could bring | :13:02. | :13:09. | |
people to the area. It is a bloody eyesore! You would be against it? | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
Absolutely. I don't object to them. I don't live here. So I haven't got | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
to look at it all. Environmental groups say eyesore or not, it is | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
needed unlike a referendum. We have to get real. Climate change | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
is a real threat to future humanity and unless we start taking action | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
and responsibility just like we are having to do economically, we have | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
to do that environmentally as well. But Marta Andreasen says hundreds | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
have complained and she will fight for them. | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
Two Sussex men have been honoured for their work in making | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
Commonwealth war graves more accessible. Terry Denham and Mike | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
Cole have used satellite imaging to map 24,000 War Cemeterys across the | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
world. Now, as a result of their work, people can log on and see | :14:00. | :14:08. | |
where their relative is buried. It has never been easier to locate | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
the resting place of a loved one who died serving their country. | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
These three men, two from Sussex, have spent years making it possible. | :14:17. | :14:27. | |
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REPORTER: How does this work? try it. We type in the name of the | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
largest commissioned cemetery in the world - Tyne Cot - and you can | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
see where the cemetery is. Click on "location". Here we have an aerial | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
view of the cemetery. Or you can scroll around the area to see what | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
the area is like. Around 1.7 million people died serving the | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
Realm during both World Wars. They rer -- their remains are scattered | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
in every corner of the globe. 20,000 cemeteries and their | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
satellite position were found so anyone can find them. Today, their | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
efforts were recognised during an awards ceremony at St James's | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
Palace. The quest began six years ago after a trip to a War Cemetery | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
in France. I researched where the cemetery was. I found the location | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
on my computer. I plotted it into my sat-nav and went there. When I | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
came back, I was so moved by the occasion that when I came back I | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
decided to plot a few more. Terry and Bruce were working on UK sites. | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
They started at the top in alphabetical order. I started from | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
the bottom in alphabetical order and we eventually met about | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
Yorkshire, I think! LAUGHTER The information is on the Commonwealth | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
war grave commission website. Since its launch two months ago, people | :15:58. | :16:06. | |
have been able to find the graves of lost family members. I may -- it | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
may be surprising to realise not everyone knows where their loved | :16:12. | :16:20. | |
one is buried. It's difficult to put a price on the importance of a | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
family member being able to go and touch the grave of their loved one. | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
Countless hours have gone into finding these cemeteries. The work | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
continues. They are now spreading their location into South Africa | :16:37. | :16:45. | |
and Canada. It's big, white and can carry 70 | :16:45. | :16:52. | |
people at a time. What is it? The Sealife Tower! It's moving closer | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
to completion and today the equipment which will lift the | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
observation platform 50 metres into the air was put into place. It will | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
offer a bird's-eye view of the Dorset coast. | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
Just why is everyone looking skywards? It's not the big orange | :17:10. | :17:19. | |
ball which has been making early appearances, it is this tower. | :17:19. | :17:27. | |
Weymouth can be seen from a whole new perspective. It will be lovely. | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
It looks a bit scary at the moment. Good for Weymouth? I think so. | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
People will come a long way to see it and have a go on it. Hoisting | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
the two large cylinders which weigh 16 tonnes and house the engine room | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
into place was a delicate job. Although there are some who don't | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
like the look of it, the �3.5 million tower does offer a new | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
selling point for the resort. Speaking to one of the engineers | :17:56. | :18:04. | |
this morning, they could see over to Abbotsbury this morning. It is a | :18:04. | :18:11. | |
fantastic view. The viewing platform will hold 70 people and | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
will rise off the ground in the next few weeks. The view looks | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
fantastic today. Imagine what it is going to be like when you are | :18:18. | :18:25. | |
inside this and you are revolving around 360 degrees 50 metres up in | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
the air. We don't know the price for the tickets, but I understand | :18:30. | :18:37. | |
they will be less than �10. There will be some great views of | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
Dorset. Now, on to sport. A special night for football fans in | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
Aldershot. 20 years ago, the town's football club was shut down after | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
going bankrupt. A new club was born and Aldershot Town has now climbed | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
its way up the football Pyramid into the Football League. Tonight, | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
the new club honours the old one and Tony is there at the Ebb | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
Stadium tonight. Quite an emotional night tonight? | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
It is. We have lots of ex-players from Aldershot Football Club who | :19:06. | :19:14. | |
are going to be here. Since 1992, 92 English football clubs have had | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
some kind of insolvency process to go through. The mistakes of what's | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
happened in the past continue to happen in football. It is something | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
that the game financially still has to address. Tonight, they are | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
remembering the past and here is the matchday programme. Lincoln | :19:28. | :19:36. | |
City here the last game that was played and then Cardiff City away, | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
the last-ever game the old football club played. That was '92. It felt | :19:42. | :19:49. | |
like goodbye at full-time... 25th March 1992 and after 66 years, time | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
finally ran out for Aldershot Football Club. This is how South | :19:53. | :20:03. | |
Today reported it at the time. NEWSREEL: The talk of 11th hour | :20:03. | :20:11. | |
saviours came to nothing... The club had had a long battle with its | :20:11. | :20:18. | |
finances. Two years earlier, a potential saviour appeared. I went | :20:18. | :20:27. | |
into property. Property is dead as a dodo. But the investment proved | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
short-lived with debts of �1.2 million and Aldershot became the | :20:34. | :20:41. | |
first professional football club to leave the league mid-season. Let's | :20:41. | :20:48. | |
talk to a couple of people who remember 20 years ago, a former | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
Southampton and Aldershot player. What a difficult time it was when | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
the club went out of business? was very tough for all the players, | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
staff and the supporters and the players, we weren't sure if we were | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
going to have a fixture. We turned up, we wanted to keep our careers | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
going, we wanted to keep the club going but it was very difficult. In | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
the end, the inevitable happened. You turned up for the auction when | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
they sold off the stuff. We have some pictures. It was an emotional | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
time? It was. I wanted a me moan toe of the club that I was very | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
happy at. I was bidding tonne boardroom table and was outbid. I | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
wanted something from the club. It was a very happy club. Good to have | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
you here. Graham was a supporter back then, now very much involved | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
in the club. Your abiding memory? Sad. When you lose a football club, | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
it is something you never believe is going to happen. It did here. | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
What we learnt from that, we learnt so much that we could co-ordinate | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
into the new club. You must never ever forget your history. All right. | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
Thank you very much. Aldershot v Bristol Rovers here this evening. | :21:59. | :22:07. | |
Portsmouth are up against Hull, Michael Appleton targeting two wins | :22:07. | :22:16. | |
this week. There will be a first game in charge for Paul Groves, the | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
Bournemouth caretaker manager as they go to Stevenage. He was put in | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
temporary charge yesterday. If we move on to Sussex, League Two, | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
Crawley could go back into the automatic promotion places when | :22:29. | :22:37. | |
they travel to Bradford. Lots of football, all the goals | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
tomorrow night. They are remembering special times here at | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
Aldershot. There is a picture behind the goal, you won't be able | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
to see it, it is of one of the saviours of Aldershot. They do | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
remember their history. They are also hopefully looking forward to a | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
bright future as well. Now, as you may well know, next | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
month will see a host of ceremonies and events to mark the centenary of | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
the world's most famous shipping disaster, the sinking of the | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
Titanic. There will be more permanent reminders with two new | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
museums. In Belfast the �90 million Titanic signature building opens on | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
Friday. It is on the site of the shipyard that built the liner. | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
Among the attractions is a re- creation of the Titanic's grand | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
staircase. Southampton will have its new Sea City Museum which | :23:26. | :23:34. | |
charts Titanic, the impact the disaster had on its own port. It's | :23:34. | :23:41. | |
given guests a sneak preview. Shiny new interactive exhibits for | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
the latest attraction. Southampton Sea City Museum has opened its | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
doors for a few special guests. is to get some feedback while we | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
have some time to correct things or adjust things, like sound levels. | :23:55. | :24:01. | |
It will be difficult to make changes to that once we are open. | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
The museum will tell the whole story of Southampton's relationship | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
with the sea, but for this year, the 100th anniversary of RMS | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
Titanic is taking centre stage. This is a soft launch for the new | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
museum. They are inviting people to test all the interactive displays | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
to see if anything needs changes before the official launch on April | :24:25. | :24:35. | |
10th. It is proving very popular. like driving the Titanic down The | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
Solent. You have to keep in the deep part. I like all the models of | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
the boat. Really fun. It's taken five years to get to this stage. | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
Judging by the enthusiasm of these visitors, those behind the project | :24:49. | :24:57. | |
are hopeful it will all sail smoothly. | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
A special South Today two weeks today, we will be live there. So | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
today, we will be live there. So make sure you are with us. | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
On to the weather. No rain on the horizon? No rain on the horizon. I | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
am struggling to come up with more words to describe this sunny | :25:14. | :25:21. | |
weather. I tweeted and I got some contributions. "It's a vitamin D | :25:21. | :25:31. | |
:25:31. | :25:42. | ||
immersion" and another said, "It's sun-seational!" -- sun-sational!" | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
A clear view of the region as you can see from the satellite picture | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
taking earlier. Even now, those clearing skies are with us so it | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
will be a chilly night once again. Cold and dry with a touch of ground | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
frost. The winds are very light and the skies are clear, particularly | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
out in the countryside. Temperatures once again a re-run of | :26:04. | :26:11. | |
last night, so close to freezing. The mist and fog not so much of an | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
issue as we head towards Wednesday. Wednesday is an exceptionally warm | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
day. We are expecting highs of 22 Celsius for a lot of spots. Further | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
east, we could be exceeding 23 Celsius. That is not really | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
breaking any March records. We have recorded highs of 25.6 Celsius in | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
1968, so that was the warmest March on record. On Wednesday evening, | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
there will be a little bit of cloud floating in. Temperatures around 6 | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
Celsius. Then on Thursday, it is again a very warm and very dry | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
scene, no sign of that rain all because of high pressure. That high | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
is pushing west all the while. So we are having a more of a northerly | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
flow as we head towards the end of the week into the weekend. So | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
Friday is a little bit cooler with a bit of cloud floating in. It is | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
still well above the seasonal average. Saturday, however, | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
considerably cloudier and certainly much cooler, but it is essentially | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
dry. So we are looking at very warm temperatures tomorrow, pretty warm | :27:13. | :27:19. | |
on Thursday, not so bad on Friday, Saturday and Sunday will be much | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
cooler. That is a big drop in temperature. | :27:24. | :27:32. |