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Hello, I'm Sally Taylor. Welcome to South Today. In tonight's

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programme: Protecting our shores - putting the

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final touches to security arrangements for the Olympic

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sailing. Providing the golden hour - why the

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Hampshire Chinooks are vital on the front line. If you only had a very

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small pool of money and you wanted to get the maximum bang for Buck,

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you would have to spend on Chinooks. Carving their memory in stone -

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remembering the US servicemen who lost their lives in Berkshire.

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And they think it's all over - well it was after this. Find out why the

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Germans were able to score before Dorset Police and the Royal Navy

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have revealed some details of the security operation that will take

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place to protect Weymouth and Portland from any terror threat

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during the Olympic sailing events. HMS Bulwark, the Navy's flagship,

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will be based off the Dorset coast for the duration of the games.

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Today, our Home Affairs Correspondent was on board.

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They are part of Britain's Olympic ring of steel. In the air and on

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the sea, more than 1000 military personnel will support Dorset

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police military operation -- security operation. At the centre,

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a floating fortress. A highly visible deterrent and the

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operational command centre for military and police. The capability

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that we have, which makes us so suitable, is that we have extensive

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command and control facilities. Probably the best that the UK has

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and world-beating. We also have an ability to launch large numbers of

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Royal Marine is either by letter and -- land or helicopters. They

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have been to wait -- training for 12 months. The police and military

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are working together to keep 50 square miles of sea safe. For

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Dorset police it is a challenge, S65 their operation, the biggest

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they have undertaken. As well as military support, they are relying

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on 27 other police marine units to respond to any other threat. How

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realistic is the prospect of a terrorist attack? In terms of

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probability it is a low end. But it is expected to have contingencies

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to prevent it as far as possible. Despite intense security operations,

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police and military are determined not to overshadow the event itself.

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This is a sporting event around which we are providing security as

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opposed to a floating security event. We have to make sure it

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disproportionate. So, while the sailing takes the spotlight, they

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will remain in the background ready to respond if the worst happens.

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We saw there the vital job helicopters could have for security

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for the Olympics. But, of course, there's a vital ongoing role for

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the Hampshire-based Chinooks, which are in Afghanistan. The crews from

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RAF Odiham pick up the troops who are most seriously wounded. And

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their commitment is to bring soldiers the golden hour - the best

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chance of saving a life. Alastair Fee has been to see them in action.

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In Afghanistan, the Chinooks is like a flying ambulance. On his

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back. Lots of bleeding. Its group pick-up the most severely wounded.

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Each of these cabins make of the team that response to a medical

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emergency. We have the Chinooks cruise down the end and medics

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based here. At the end is the RAF Regiment, one group on standby for

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24 hours and in the air in minutes. Double word, 10. Not very exciting.

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We are pretty much contain to this room because the phone is on the

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side and when we get to shout, that is how they get in touch. There is

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a wind here across the chest. Patient is screaming and in pain.

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The medic showed me how they treat the wounded. Once, sometimes twice

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a day they are called to the battlefield. You try to detach

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yourself from it because if you get too emotionally involved it will

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start to effective more than it can do. And you just need to think,

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that is that job done, we have done the best we can and we drop them

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off at the hospital and then on to somebody else's hands to deal with.

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These helicopters are prized above all others for their power, speed

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and ability to carry more than 50 trips at a time. While budgets have

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been squeezed, there is still money for 14 Newt Chinooks. If you only

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had a very small pool of money and you wanted to get the maximum bang

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for but, you would have to spend it on Chinooks. It is effectively the

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promissory note that we provide to troops on the ground. If you go on

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the ground, you can do whatever you have to do under the knowledge that

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if something happens, we will bring the Golden hour to you. The Chinook

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has been here since the start of combat and will be here until the

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end with the medics flying with them.

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We will have more from Alistair in Afghanistan tomorrow night because

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we see how local troops are involved in the changing role in

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Afghanistan, moving from fighting insurgents to the reconstruction of

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the country. Allegations of historic child sex

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abuse, an unprecedented apology and an inquiry launched by the

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Archbishop of Canterbury - it's been a turbulent time recently for

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the Diocese of Chichester. Today, Dr Martin Warner was named as the

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new Bishop. He's pledged to continue the work to repair the

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reputation of the church. Danielle Glavin has been to meet him. Every

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human being must not only feel safe, but be safe. In his speech today,

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Dr Martin Waller said he was aware of the pain and distress of those

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who had been abused. In 1966, child abuser at Roy Cotton was ordained

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in the diocese. During the following decades it is thought he

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abused 10 boys. Last year, the Archbishop of Canterbury launched

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an investigation into child protection failings in the diocese.

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How will the new Bishop repair the reputation? Obviously Battista work

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in progress and until I am in post there is a lot I cannot do. But

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what I do see, looking in from outside, is that a lot of work has

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been done over a long period of time to ensure that the very best

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safeguards are in place in terms of policy. And to ensure that the

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implementation of policies is rigorous. Dr Worner told me there

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is a lot of good work being done in the diocese. When he takes up the

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post, the keen cyclist will take to his car to meet people across

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Sussex. I want to spend a good amount of time listening. Listening

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to experience of life in Sussex, of their faith and experience of God

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and also, learning from them and building relationships of trust

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which will enable us to work together in future. The new bishop

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has been serving in York. He is a traditionalist but says that all

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will be welcome. The diocese has had difficult questions to answer

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and the reputation has been tarnished, but it is hoped the

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arrival of the new bishop will herald a new beginning. Dr Warner

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says he wants everyone to feel safe at the church.

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Elections are taking place at various local councils across our

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region today. Polling stations opened at 7am this morning. About

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half of voters in the south have received a polling card. Voting

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closes at 10 o'clock tonight. And you can catch up with all the

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local election results from the south in a special programme on BBC

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One from 11:35pm tonight. Your BBC local radio station will also have

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coverage. And, of course, we'll have a full round up of the results

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tomorrow from our breakfast bulletins onwards.

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Police in Sussex, searching for a missing 96-year-old woman, say

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they've received more than 70 calls with information from the public.

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Nellie Herriott has been missing from Whitehawk in Brighton for nine

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days. Officers believe she may have got on a bus and travelled out of

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Brighton. Detectives investigating an armed

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robbery in Aldershot last year say an appeal on BBC Crimewatch has led

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to new information. In October, a man with a gun stole cash from a

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scrap metal dealer on the Stubbs Industrial estate. Hampshire Police

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received several calls following the broadcast on Tuesday night.

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Officers are still trying to find a red metal cash box that may have

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been discarded in the area. The developer behind a multi-

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million pound landmark on the Sussex coast has today welcomed

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news a local council might help pay for it. Last night we told you

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Brighton and Hove City Council was considering lending �14m to help

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build the i360 observation tower. The project has been stalled

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because the developer, who designed the London Eye, couldn't find the

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full �35m for the i360. Mark Sanders has more.

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It is hard to reach for the skies if you do not have the money. The

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i360 has only soared in the imagination because funding has not

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been secured from private investors, but now Brighton and Hove city

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council is thinking about putting millions into the tower.

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construction team is in place, we are ready to start and I think we

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will be able to start within a few months of the funding being agreed.

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We have got a two-year construction programme and we are all wearing to

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go. The i360 would rise over the West Pier. It would be 175 metres

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tall and it would carry a part of passengers to new heights. The

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project was approved more than five years ago, but the developer

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struggled to raise the money and has got around half of the �35

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million for the project. Now the council is looking to help fill the

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hole in the finances with a secured loan of �40 million. A government

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fund is also prepared to lend �3 million to get the scheme of the

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ground. We will borrow the money and then lend out to the i360 team.

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The interest difference there will probably give us, we estimate,

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half-a-million pounds per year. There also be increased business

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rates that will come back to the council and we will take 1% of

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ticket revenue. The council says there will be big benefits to the

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City of the tower is built. More visitors, jobs and money for the

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local economy. The council claims this is low risk and argues it is a

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bad business and regeneration and not an act of charity. A final

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decision is expected in July. Work's progressing on plans to

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generate tidal energy in Poole Harbour. The town's Tidal Energy

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Partnership has secured �20,000 to investigate the possibilities.

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They're going to make a film with Bournemouth University to explain

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the opportunities. Still to come in this evening's

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South Today: In fine voice - new verses for the National Anthem,

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penned by a Dorset musician for the Jubilee.

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Greenham Common, in Newbury, is probably best known for the women's

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peace camp in the 1980s. But long before the cruise missiles were

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moved in, the area had been a major US air force base. Thousands of

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American troops were stationed there in the run-up to D-Day. Just

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a few months before the war ended nearly 50 men lost their lives in

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two horrific air crashes above the base. Now, Newbury's Royal British

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Legion and the Greenham Common Trust have raised enough money to

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have a new stone memorial carved by hand. Chrissy Sturt reports.

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Every year, relatives of the American airmen based here in World

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War to cross the Atlantic. The men lost their lives into tragic

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accidents. Just six months before the war

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ended, 33 m men died in a glider like this one. The road was

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released, the glider went straight down, no one knows why. Just three

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Two B-17 bombers collided above Greenham Common, 16 american crew

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died. Now painstaking work is underway in this Newbury workshop

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to create a fitting tribute to the men. For Joss, one of the few

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masons in the country still hand carving, it's an honour to be

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involved. It just feels fantastic to be able to be part of it.

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Basically I love anything to do with history. Anything I can give,

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any of my skills I can give to the public is a thing... It's a

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passionate thing, its heartfelt and I enjoy doing it. "I'm doing this

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for something, I'm doing this for a group of people who really fought

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for this country and you know they deserve the best they can get for

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You have to be patient and precise? Yes. Joss is working to a design

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was created by another local artist. Did you feel quite a

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responsibility? I did, yes. Needed to get this right. You just want it

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to work for all the parties concerned. Dean and common the air

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base is now a busy and thriving business park but the story of the

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men has not been forgotten. The memorial will be placed here and

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opened by a member of the royal family later in the year. The bands

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that will be performing at the Olympic torch relay evening events

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this summer have been announced. Young Guns will play to crowds in

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Oxford and Reading on July 9th and 10th. Wretch Three-Two will perform

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over the following days in Salisbury, Weymouth, Bournemouth

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and Southampton. Before Rizzle Kicks takes up the baton to play in

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Portsmouth, Brighton and Guildford. Details of how to get tickets are

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yet to be announced. You will be first in the queue? Yeah, I would

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like that. We have been learning a lot in the newsroom this afternoon.

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They are born performers. There is a lot happening tonight. Dorset-

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based event rider William Fox-Pitt could still win the richest prize

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in the sport, despite the cancellation of the Badminton Horse

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Trials, which were due to start tomorrow. The world number one, who

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is expected to form part of Team GB at the London Olympics, will pocket

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just under �220,000 if he wins three consecutive titles within the

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Rolex Grand Slam series. He won at Burghley last September, and in

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Kentucky last week. But his potential windfall has been put on

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ice. Organisers have confirmed that the prize will roll over to next

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year's Badminton Horse Trials in 2013. It's Olympic Thursday and

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tonight we're featuring the European Tae Kwon Do champion,

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Aaron Cook from Dorset. He's defending his title in Manchester

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this week, although just a year ago a disastrous performance in the

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world championships put his Olympic dreams in doubt. He took a drastic

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decision. And it seems to have paid off. He has been destined for the

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top since he was a child. We featured him as a seven-year-old in

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1998 when he was winning silverware then. I practised very often.

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has it always been an easy ride for the athlete? Four years ago he

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missed out on a medal at the Beijing Games. I did not think the

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judging would be so bad. I could not believe it. What did I have to

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do to score points? And then last year he crashed out of the world

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championships in the last round. He left the GB performance programme

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and became self funding with the help of his parents. Two weeks

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later I had another competition, I trained harder than ever, I wanted

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to do it right. I have now been fighting all around the world,

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training with some of the best people and trying to get my

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abilities up. He trains full time in Manchester but still has some

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noticeable support from back home. My grandmother lives down there and

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she keeps will be newspaper cuttings. They are really

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supportive down there. A gold medal in London would be a front page

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headline worth keeping. We wish him good luck and we will follow his

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progress in the build up to the Games this summer. There was no

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play on day two of Hampshire's county championship match against

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Northants. Meanwhile, Sussex's Pro Biz county ground played host to

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the touring West Indians today. But as you can see the weather

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prevented them taking to the middle for nets. The Windies are here for

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a three test series starting later this month. They'll begin the tour

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this weekend with a three day game against Sussex. Sussex confirmed

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today that England players Matt Prior and Monty Panesar will play

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in the match. Remember the famous Barry Davies commentary line, where

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were the Germans? Well it was a case of where were the Great

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Britain team at last night's olympic test event after a late

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return to the field of play saw the second half start without them. The

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Germans capitalised on the opportunity, waltzing down the

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pitch to score while many of the GB players were still coming out of

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the tunnel. The game had been goalless until that point, but

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Germany went on to win 3-1. officials are using this event to

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set a marker down of what they would expect. Our changing rooms

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were a little bit further than what we would expect. This happened in

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the Australian match but they waited for their opponents to turn

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up whereas the Germans were not so charitable. Well seeing it is a

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test event. That cannot happen this summer! They said the dressing room

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was a bit far away. That is the sort of thing you learn in test

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events. A klaxon goes and the have to be on the pitch? That right and

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the clock just starts come -- that just how it happens. Unfortunately

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they lost that one. Great Britain's women beat China 3-0 earlier. The

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men are playing India at the moment. Now we shall go straight on to the

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weather. For the bank holiday weekend it is not looking too bad

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at all. There is a potential for some rain on the south coast but

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all in all it should be pretty good. Now we have some whether or

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pictures from today. An ornamental heron under an umbrella in John

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Horne's garden in Bishopstoke. Brian Harris took this photo of the

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low lying cloud over Ventnor on the Isle of Wight. And Ray Passmore

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captured the watery woodlands on Studland. There were a few showers

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dotted around today. It will feel a lot cooler with an northerly wind

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coming in from deep Atlantic. There will be some sunny spells, most

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likely on Sunday and Monday. That cloud and showers will linger for a

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while. A few showers will be dotted around elsewhere. And TriStar for

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some tomorrow but still a few showers around. These are more

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likely further north. The weather front will die away southwards

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across the country. The south coast will see sunny spells. Inland there

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will be some patches of sunshine. Winds will be light. Tomorrow night

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the fragmenting weather front will slip its way southwards

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reinvigorating for parts of the south coast some showers. Overnight

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temperatures are starting to drop. The weather front could sit across

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the south coast first thing on Saturday but that is then expected

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to sink southwards and we will see sunshine on Saturday afternoon. It

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will feel cooler over the weekend. A widespread frost developing on

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Saturday night. Into minus figures. On Sunday there will be lots of

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sunshine on offer and the able and minds of cloud but staying

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predominantly dry. Monday is looking pretty good as well. A good

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deal of brightness and sunshine and remaining mostly dry. Thank you

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very much. A musician from Dorset has written two new verses of the

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national anthem to celebrate the Queen's diamond jubilee. Roger

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Brookes from Poole had never written a song before but he wanted

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to express how he felt about the Queen. Last night it was performed

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for the first time by the voice community choir in Bournemouth, and

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we were there. Tom Hepworth has this. Many of us are hoping to hear

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a lot more of this over the summer. NATIONAL ANTHEM. Our athletes are

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usually only treated to the first verse of the national anthem but a

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local composer has added two more verses. I thought most people do

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not know beyond the first verse and often end up humming to the rest of

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it. I thought the Queen has done a marvellous job and nobody seems to

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marvellous job and nobody seems to marvellous job and nobody seems to

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Bet is a pillar of our national life but how many of us are no all

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the words or even some of them? We the words or even some of them? We

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asked people in Bourne mouth to sing it for us. I probably know the

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first verse but I am not going to sing it for you. I know the first

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verse but I am not going to sing it. I cannot sing to save my life.

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national anthem has changed over the years. Fusing the verse about

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crashing rebellious Scots these days. -- FE you saying the verse.

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sent my suggestions off to Her Majesty and received thanks back

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which I took to be the green light. It is not the first time a composer

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from our region has written a national anthem. This man brought

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And don't forget we have a special programme helping to celebrate the

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Queen's Diamond Jubilee this Sunday. We have behind-the-scenes action of

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how Salisbury and Sherborne prepared to meet the Queen when she

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visited earlier this week. The programme is called The Queen And I,

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it's on BBC One this Sunday at 4.15, and features people in the south

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who've met Her Majesty during her reign. Now I just want to tell you

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about something happening tomorrow night. We have got a special

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