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Welcome to South Today. In tonight's programme: | :00:02. | :00:05. | |
Living in fear of vandals. The family who have put up a cash | :00:05. | :00:15. | |
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reward to end their terror. cannot live like this. I cannot | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
take it. The UK's biggest raid on brothels. | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
Now two more leaders of a sex trafficking ring are behind bars. | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
Why cycling the South Downs is no longer as strenuous. | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
And meet the group of musicians keeping the memory of Titanic's | :00:33. | :00:43. | |
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A family say they are being driven out of their Hampshire home by a | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
series of vandal attacks. Steven and Lisa Walker have suffered tens | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
of thousands of pounds worth of damage to their Waterlooville home | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
and to their cars over the past year. The couple say that, despite | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
having CCTV footage of the vandals, no-one has been caught. They have | :01:05. | :01:15. | |
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now decided to offer a cash reward for information. | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
Steve and Lisa Walker worked for years to buy their dream home. In | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
less than a year that dream has been shattered. Their house now | :01:22. | :01:30. | |
bears the scars of an ongoing vendetta. We thought it might be a | :01:30. | :01:37. | |
random attack at first. I do not think I have upset somebody. Until | :01:37. | :01:45. | |
such time as they come forward and, like a man, for I cannot resolve | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
the problem. A week last Friday, this happened. Two men climbed over | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
their front gate, smashed up the cars and broke the front windows of | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
the house. The intruders are thought to have made their getaway | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
in a small dark hatchback car with a loud exhaust. It sped away down | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
London Road, narrowly missing another vehicle as it pulled out of | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
the bus lane. Police say the driver of that vehicle could prove to be a | :02:10. | :02:18. | |
vital witness. We are extremely concerned about the fact that it is | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
getting worse each time and we are keen to trace the people involved | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
in this. It is the latest in a string of attacks on their property. | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
Car windows have been smashed, paint has been thrown at their | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
house, and vehicles have been damaged by acid. We cannot live | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
like this are no more. We are in fear all the time now. I cannot | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
live like this. I cannot take it no more. | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
A reward of �1,000 is available for any information which leads to a | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
conviction. Police hope it will encourage someone to come forward | :02:48. | :02:58. | |
to help bring the offenders to justice. | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
A man and woman who helped run brothels across Berkshire and as | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
far as Cambridge have both been jailed at Reading Crown Court today. | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
Manjit Singh from Knowl Hill and Ai Ju Su were part of what the judge | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
described as a highly organised criminal enterprise that netted the | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
gang hundreds of thousands of pounds. Our reporter was in court. | :03:13. | :03:23. | |
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This was a very extensive operation. Yasser. It was -- yes, it wise. It | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
was the biggest ever sex trafficking operation. It involved | :03:33. | :03:40. | |
a number of forces. They targeted places -- places like a Wokingham. | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
Inside they found girls that have been brought in from countries are | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
like Thailand and China. The man behind this was jailed for three | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
and a half years just last month. The court heard this had been a | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
very sophisticated operation. Acquired properties were staffed | :03:59. | :04:07. | |
with girls and were then advertised through the internet. Manjit Singh | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
and Au Ju Su had pivotal roles. She was described as being the -- | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
Manjit Singh was described as being the Controller as the operation. | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
She told the man what was on offer and then directed them to the | :04:22. | :04:32. | |
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nearest brothel. She was jailed for some 30 months. Her husband already | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
had a community sentence at the time that he was running this | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
particular chain. He was described as someone who was moving up the | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
hierarchy and was running a series of brothels and was jailed for some | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
27 months for that particular crime and nine months for the earlier | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
offence. Surrey County Council's decision to | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
hand ten libraries over to community groups and volunteers has | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
been ruled unlawful by the High Court. Campaigners opposed the move | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
as they said vulnerable users would lose out if the plan went ahead. Mr | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
Justice Wilkie said the council's decision making was flawed as | :05:06. | :05:15. | |
training for volunteers was not fully discussed. | :05:15. | :05:22. | |
This man helped raised money for the review. -- helped raise money. | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
He hopes that the ruling will force a rethink at the council. Many | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
people have a raised very serious concerns and they have all been | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
dismissed. They should not do that. This is not just about libraries. | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
Any time significant changes are going to happen in public services, | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
they need to be assessed properly and they need to consult people | :05:47. | :05:55. | |
properly. The council needs to cut the library budget. Handing over 10 | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
libraries to community groups would have helped. But the judge | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
criticised the decision making, saying that they had not assessed | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
what training the volunteers would need to provide an accessible | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
service. Despite the ruling, the council was putting out a positive | :06:11. | :06:18. | |
message. The judge has not said we did not consult properly. It is all | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
about public information and training with regards to that. We | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
do believe we have consulted properly. We asked people what they | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
thought and we have got more support on this than we have got | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
those who are against. The judge will make a further ruling on the | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
issue next month. Other councils who are cutting back their | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
libraries will be watching closely, but Surrey is not giving up. The | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
council says it is committed to introducing community libraries | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
across Surrey and it says it will address the problems and next month | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
they will ask the judge if the scheme can go ahead. | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
A runner who collapsed and died after finishing the Reading Half | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
Marathon on Sunday suffered a heart attack, a coroner has reported. Ged | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
Clarke, who was 39 and from Reading, collapsed after finishing the 13.1 | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
mile course. Coroner Peter Bedford said Mr Clarke's heart attack was | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
caused by a pre-existing heart condition. He added there was no | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
link to dehydration. The keen runner ran a popular Twitter | :07:12. | :07:21. | |
campaign encouraging people to exercise at lunch times. | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
Poole Council have confirmed that they are hopeful that the Twin | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
Sails Bridge will open later this week. The �37 million structure was | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
due to open to traffic earlier this month but was delayed due to cracks | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
in the original surface. Weymouth Borough Council has voted | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
to go ahead with major repair work to the town's ferry berth. In | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
February Condor Ferries, which sails to the Channel Islands, had | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
to move services to Poole after structural changes were detected at | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
Weymouth Quay. The rebuilding work is likely to cost in the region of | :07:50. | :07:57. | |
�2 million. The ferry service is worth more than �7.7 million to the | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
local economy. It supports around 232 jobs. The aim is for work to be | :08:00. | :08:09. | |
complete by next March. The life has gone out of the ferry | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
port. It is two nonsense cracks appeared in the harbour structure | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
and Condor Ferries were forced to move their operations to pool. It | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
is the council's parsed de -- it is the castle's job to fix it. To date | :08:25. | :08:32. | |
major repairs were carried out. brings a lot to the local economy | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
and that for a -- is why we are committed to working closely with | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
Condor Ferries to make sure that we have a solution in place within the | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
timetable that we sat. But you cannot guarantee it will be ready | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
in time? You can never guarantee anything when you are talking about | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
engineering works. Condor Ferries have told the council they want to | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
return, but are concerned about the poor facilities at the port. The | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
council are looking at external funding, such as external grants. | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
Local businesses say it is vital that Condor Ferries returned. | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
was on the council I would be doing whatever I could to keep them. We | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
need our council to go out there, lobby and work to get them back for | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
the better facilities than they have got at the moment. Bizmac are | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
said today that they continue to liaise -- Condor Ferries are saying | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
today that they will continue to liaise with the poor. No one knows | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
when Condor Ferries will report to Weymouth. The departure has left a | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
big hole in the local economy. As one councillor put it today, we | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
need to crack on with the solution. Plans to protect and improve | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
Poole's beaches have gone on show. Poole Borough Council want to | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
improve facilities from Sandbanks to Branksome Dene Chine whilst | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
conserving the natural environment. People are being invited to view | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
the plans today at Upton Country Park. | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
Still to come in this evening's South Today: | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
Would you take a dip in the sea at Hampshire's Stokes Bay? I am an | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
endurance swimmer and later I will be telling you about the challenge | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
as I will be taking this year and introducing due to my swim mate. | :10:20. | :10:29. | |
Wait for me! -- introducing you to my swimming mates. | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
A Sussex artist has beaten off competition from hundreds of others | :10:32. | :10:39. | |
to win a commission of Olympic proportions. As part of the build | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
up to the London games, Pascal Anson from Brighton was chosen to | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
design a new livery for a fleet of British Airways planes. From | :10:45. | :10:53. | |
tomorrow they will be in operation around Europe. | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
Feast your eyes are on this a new aircraft design, celebrating the | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
2012 Olympic Games. The winning designer is a Pascal Anson, who was | :11:05. | :11:14. | |
influenced by Tracey an end. We had our ups and downs, I can assure you. | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
It is because we had to get it right. It took 950 man hours to | :11:20. | :11:27. | |
paint this their bus. The goal was not to decorate, but to transform. | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
I take a bus from London to Brighton. A plane flew over one day | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
when I was near Gatwick and then bird flew over and they appeared to | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
be the same size even though one was I have got further away. That | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
is something that has been in my mind for a while and I wanted to | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
translate it into this idea. idea will be -- the design will be | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
able emblazoned on planes that will fly World Wide. You have to admit | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
that it is a rather subtle. Is it too subtle, perhaps? What is wrong | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
were being understated? Why has everything got to be over the top? | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
You can see that it is different and it has retained the identity of | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
British Airways. It is not just the plane taking off, but Pascal | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
Anson's career as well. Now, we may have seen the best of | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
it for now at least, but the recent good weather has tempted many of us | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
to get out of the house and enjoy the great outdoors. Unfortunately | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
for some, the mind may be willing, but the body? Well, that can be a | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
different matter. But now a new initiative being trialled in the | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
South Downs National Park could bring a fresh lease of life to the | :12:41. | :12:51. | |
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young at heart. A lovely day for a cycle in the | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
South Downs, but on closer inspection, this is no ordinary | :12:57. | :13:07. | |
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It is an electric bike aimed at bringing the world of two wheels to | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
a wider audience. It does not matter how many it is or whether | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
you are unfit for her how old you are. Practically anyone can have a | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
goal -- can have a go. We have grannies that have been able to go | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
cycling for the first time with their grandchildren. The South | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
Downs National Park is home to the first electric bike that work for | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
the southeast of England. It has four points stretching to Midhurst. | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
It is a pilot scheme in the Lake District. I know other facilities | :13:46. | :13:53. | |
just outside the park are looking at this. This is promoting | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
sustainable transport and recreational tourism. What we are | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
trying to do is reduce visitor traffic by card to the South Downs. | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
We -- by automobile. We put the spots in rural locations where | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
people can get out and enjoy the countryside. And now I think it is | :14:12. | :14:19. | |
time to recharge. It is hoped that more venues will join the network, | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
ASDA -- either as higher points are charging spot. It will give people | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
a chance to stop and recharge their batteries. | :14:30. | :14:40. | |
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Look at the Athletic reporters we have! Let's go on to sport now. | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
Summer is the classic game for the summer. Cricket season is almost | :14:51. | :15:01. | |
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The Chairman of Hampshire cricket spoke passionately last night about | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
the financial challenges ahead for the club. Rod Bransgrove was | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
addressing BBC Radio Solent's cricket forum at the Rose Bowl. | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
Hampshire have cut their budgets going into their new season in | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
Division Two of the championship. The county are close to finalising | :15:22. | :15:29. | |
a deal which will see a new hotel built at the Ageas Bowl. We have | :15:29. | :15:39. | |
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not been properly -- profitable up till now. To move forward to the | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
next stage meant quite a significant be investment in the | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
business. This business has to operate on a positive level and has | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
to be profitable. Surrey and Sussex start the season on Thursday. | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
Time to catch up with one of football's top professionals now. | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
Jason Roberts's achievements in the sport go far beyond the pitch. His | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
work for charity saw him awarded with an MBE in 2010. This week he | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
has visited one of Reading's disabled soccer schools, run by the | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
club's community programme, and he's been setting his sights on a | :16:09. | :16:18. | |
return to the Premier League. Did you score any goals today? What | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
a perfect day! Footballers are required to be ambassadors for | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
their game and few do it better than Jason Roberts. He is visiting | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
a school near Reading. It is a school for children with specialist | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
educational needs. And Reading embrace it as part of their | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
community programme. Lots of people here get the opportunities that | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
they may not get other places. They have a qualified coach and get to | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
see professional football at the end of the day. But the question is, | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
can the team make the Premier League? I think so! Roberts has | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
certainly made an impact since arriving from Blackburn in January. | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
There was no case of me coming to Reading to have an easy life were | :17:05. | :17:12. | |
to think that I wanted to be a championship player. You have to | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
respect the lead and play in it before it -- because you want to | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
get to the next week. He is a really good and he does some names | :17:19. | :17:27. | |
like kicking or something. -- he does some moves. I would like to | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
take a lot of credit but the credit has to go to the manager and the | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
team. I am enjoying the football, there is no doubt about it. When | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
you go into a team that is attacking it is an easy job. I am | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
34 now. He is not finished yet. Roberts has an eye on the Premier | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
League, and it could be sooner rather than later. And you can hear | :17:50. | :17:58. | |
more from Jason after he plays pipes in the -- after he plays and | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
the afternoon. That will be on Radio 5 Live. | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
Britain's top two Formula One drivers will be at the Goodwood | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
Festival of Speed this year. Lewis Hamilton returns to the Sussex | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
circuit along with Jenson Button both racing McLarens. They are one | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
of seven formula one teams who will be at the festival at the end of | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
June. World Champion Sebastian Vetell from Red Bull is due to be | :18:17. | :18:18. | |
there as well. Children in Hampshire have been | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
taught to play new sports by Paralympic hopefuls. School | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
children met several Paralympians at an event in Holbury near Fawley. | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
They were taught to play Boccia and Goalball. It's one of 12 similar | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
events taking part across the county ahead of the 2012 Paralympic | :18:30. | :18:36. | |
Games. For then it will be great because they will pick up sports | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
they did not know they could do were that they were good at and | :18:40. | :18:47. | |
they might make new friends. If it helps in their lives in any way | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
than it is great. He is a great athlete, a really good. | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
David Walliams has set the pace in endurance swimming, but Hampshire's | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
Anna Wardley can match him stroke for stroke. She has already swum | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
the channel and broken two metres of ice to take part in ice swimming | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
competition. Rather her than me! Yet she only took up the long | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
distance sport four years ago, having been a breaststroke swimmer | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
doing lengths in the swimming pool. Now she is taking on her biggest | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
challenge yet. I have been to meet her on the beach in Gosport where | :19:14. | :19:24. | |
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It is she the's war fat, which is We filmed her two years ago, | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
preparing for the World Ice swimming championships in Russia. | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
It might be warmer now, but looks can be deceptive in Gosport. When | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
it gets to this time of year, most people are considering dipping a | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
toe in the water. It feels like it is getting warm up to me. It is | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
about nine degrees. I have not paper checked -- I have not checked | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
it recently. Her next big challenge is to swim around five different | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
islands. 60 miles around the Isle of Wight. It will take me in the | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
region of 30 hours. That is a huge undertaking to prepare for, | :20:26. | :20:36. | |
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I am ready! Are you coming or what! I hate cold water. I do not even | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
turn the taps cold in the shower. With a bit at gentle encouragement, | :20:50. | :21:00. | |
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actually I think she is pushing me, I have gone numb. I cannot feel | :21:05. | :21:12. | |
anything! Well, that was not so bad. I did it. But for an hour, the huge | :21:12. | :21:19. | |
challenges still ahead of her. How far it did you say it was? About | :21:19. | :21:29. | |
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two and a half miles? Let's do it. I am just getting over that. | :21:30. | :21:40. | |
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wonder you are called! You even had socks on! I had boots on. I have | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
never been so cold. And good luck to her. She deserves all of the | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
support she can get. She could set a world record, which is | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
extraordinary. It is kicking off in May and goes all the way to October. | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
She is a brave girl. It was nine degrees. I would like to see you | :22:05. | :22:15. | |
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get in there. It is funny that you did that peace! -- of it is funny | :22:15. | :22:25. | |
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We had some mining today. For fresh rubber we had some lightning today. | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
There were some Hell's -- we had There were some Hell's -- we had | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
some lightning today. We also had some hailstones. We will have some | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
sunshine and the nights will be pretty chilly. Patchy rain tonight. | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
Those are the showers we have seen today. A few heavy bursts here and | :22:49. | :22:59. | |
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there. In Northern most areas will have a risk of a touch of frost and | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
the countryside. There is a possibility of some of fog patches | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
under the clearing skies. A cloudy start almost tomorrow. It will be a | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
day much like today. Showers will be hit and miss and could be on the | :23:14. | :23:21. | |
heavy side. A wintry mix in some places, expect a high of nine | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
Celsius in southern areas. Where we have the wintry mix, a high of just | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
five degrees. A complete contrast in temperatures. Tomorrow night we | :23:31. | :23:39. | |
will see the rain sink its way south. Over held up areas, may be | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
the odd wintry foolery. A bit of snow here and there but not | :23:43. | :23:50. | |
mounting to much. -- the odd wintery flurry. The weather front | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
will gradually clear. An improving picture. Some sunshine by the | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
afternoon and Friday start on a dry and bright note. The weather front | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
is sinking its way south. It will stay with us first been on Saturday | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
morning. You can see the weather front gradually clearing off. High | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
pressure is not far away. It will be an improving picture on Saturday | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
with some sunshine for the afternoon. We can expect some | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
showers tomorrow with a bit of Hilde mixed in for good measure. A | :24:24. | :24:34. | |
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bright start to Friday with some Tonight we begin a series of | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
special films on the Titanic ahead of the centenary of the ship's | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
sinking. A group of musicians in the South is keeping the memory of | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
Titanic's crew alive in song. White Star Line-up tells the story of the | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
ill-fated liner from the perspective of those who made the | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
ultimate sacrifice and those who were left behind. More than 500 | :24:52. | :25:02. | |
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people working on the ship lost The songs sound as though they | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
could have been written just after Titanic sank. But White Star Line- | :25:09. | :25:18. | |
up only formed three years ago. I met two members of the group, Jeff | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
Henry and Barry Wake, in Northam in Southampton, close to the now | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
closed White Star Brewery. Like many of the crew, Jeff was born in | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
Northam. When news came through of those who were lost this area was | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
devastated. The story of the crew and their sacrifice has really been, | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
to a certain extent, superseded by the Hollywood movies telling the | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
story of the rich and famous. you imagine what they felt? There | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
is no welfare state or benefits. It is destitution. Besides the loss of | :25:49. | :25:57. | |
your brother, husband, father, some streets last seven or eight people. | :25:57. | :26:05. | |
-- is some streets are lost seven or eight people. | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
Members of the group have paid from their own pockets to record a CD. | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
They break even now but the greatest reward is the reaction | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
from their audience. This woman came up to me afterwards and she | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
had lost a grandfather on the ship. She wanted to say how much she | :26:19. | :26:29. | |
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enjoyed the show. You think, I have rarely connected to someone and it | :26:31. | :26:41. | |
:26:41. | :26:45. | ||
means something. -- I have really connected to someone. Although the | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
group has only performed locally, their CDs are selling well at the | :26:48. | :26:58. | |
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Molly Brown Museum in Denver in the White Star Line-Up will play a | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
memorial concert at the Turner Sims in Southampton a week tomorrow, | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
that is Wednesday the 11th of April. And tomorrow evening on South Today | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
Tom will tell you about one of the heroes of the disaster. This man, | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
Sir Arthur Rostron, was the captain of the Carpathia. His quick | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
thinking ensured more than 700 people were rescued from lifeboats | :27:20. | :27:23. |