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Hello, I'm Sally Taylor. Welcome to South Today. In tonight's | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
programme: A coroner calls for changes to the | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
law after three elderly people die in separate fires without working | :00:15. | :00:25. | |
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smoke alarms. If it's heartbreaking for them to think that if not for | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
the small cost of the smoke alarm that death could have been | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
presented fulsome -- prevented. And w hear for the first time from | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
Reading's new Russian owner who tells us he will be able to build | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
on the club's success. We think we can become the top 10 club Inter | :00:41. | :00:48. | |
nationally. For Isle of Wight farmers call for more | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
of their milk to be sold on the island instead of supermarkets | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
importing it. And how to be a knight and do it right. Just how | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
easy was it for 15th century nobles to settle their differences with | :00:57. | :01:07. | |
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cold steel? A coroner has called for a change | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
in the law to ensure vulnerable people living in private rented | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
accommodation have working smoke detectors. Penny Schofield made the | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
comments after the deaths of three elderly people in West Sussex in | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
two years. In September 2010 a 64- year-old woman died after a fire at | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
her home in Penstone Park Lancing. Her smoke alarm had no battery. In | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
March this year a 65-year-old-man died in Gratwicke Road Worthing. | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
Again there was no working smoke detector. Later that month, there | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
was a similar incident in Selsey in which an 87-year-old man died. The | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
coroner said tougher measures are needed to ensure detectors were | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
wired to the mains. However, private landlords and the | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
Government said they had concerns over the costs of such a move. | :01:52. | :02:02. | |
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Roisin Gauson is in Selsey for us tonight. | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
Three deaths. Three letters asking for a change in the laws governing | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
smoke detectors. The most recent was penned following the death of | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
87-year-old Trevor Barwick. He died in a fire in the ground floor flat | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
of the building just behind me. This morning I spoke with | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
firefighters who were called to the scene. They remember one clear | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
image. They entered the flat and found the smoke detector hanging | :02:22. | :02:32. | |
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from the ceiling. Its batteries were nowhere to be seen. Penny | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
Schofield has resided over three inquests which she says it could | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
have been avoided. In at least two of the three cases, it is quite | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
clear that the individuals tried to escape the fire but it was just too | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
late. There is great public awareness around smoke detectors, | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
but it is not filtering through to those who really need this | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
protection. Therefore I feel that that responsibility should be taken | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
off the individual and put with the person who is renting the property | :03:07. | :03:16. | |
out. 65-year-old Peder Leicester died in a blaze at his home. He is | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
one of three pensioners to lose his life ever an 18th month period in a | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
fire. None of them had working smoke detectors. Now pressure is | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
mounting on the Government to give tenants a fighting chance of | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
escaping before it is too late. have a moral obligation to save | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
people. We would like to think that the landlord would have a moral | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
obligation to look after their talent and it is just one small | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
thing they could do, putting in smoke alarms, and we would support | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
any legislation that would assist that are happening. Firefighters | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
will come and carry out free home safety checks and make of | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
honourable people a priority, but this coroner wants Lem Lords to be | :04:05. | :04:12. | |
accountable by law. -- once landlord to be accountable by law. | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
I have seen so many family is devastated by the loss of their | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
loved one and it is difficult for them to dig -- deal with the fact | :04:21. | :04:30. | |
that the death could have been prevented. | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
The Department for Communities and Local Government were unable to put | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
anyone up for interview today, but in a statement Minister Andrew | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
Stunnell said too many laws and regulations would force up rents | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
for tenants and it was important to get the balance right. Building | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
regulations already require all new dwellings to have smoke alarms | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
hard-wired in, and as a result, they say accidental fire deaths | :04:47. | :04:56. | |
have halved in the last 20 years. So what's the view of private | :04:56. | :05:04. | |
landlords about a possible change in the law? They do not want any | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
laws brought am that say that smoke detectors have to be hard-wired in. | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
-- brought in. They want to see batteries that last up to 10 years. | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
The battery device is very quick and chip -- cheap to fit. A wired | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
in one requires an electrician and a Certificate of once it is | :05:29. | :05:36. | |
finished. It is much more involved. As an interim or even a prominent | :05:36. | :05:46. | |
City Jewett -- Samaria, there should be a tenure battery life. -- | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
tenure battery life. The coroner says that no matter how long a | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
battery lasts, they can still be taken out, and the hard wiring law | :05:57. | :06:06. | |
would reduce significantly the chances of that happening. | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
He bought Reading Football Club for �25 million and was at the Madeskji | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
Stadium for their first match back in the Premier League. Russian | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
businessman Anton Zingarevich, at 34, is the youngest and newest | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
owner of a Premier League club, with a supermodel wife and a father | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
who is a Russian tycoon. In his first major television interview he | :06:21. | :06:30. | |
told me about his plans for the future of Reading Football Club. | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
And an official handover from the old regime to the new. The football | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
club has been built up, and now comes the challenge to build | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
further on the success. We really think we can become the top 10 | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
clubs in the UK financially, in terms of what Reading would make | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
generally. They is this football club a plaything were a serious | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
business venture? You cannot look at it and the other way. It is a | :06:59. | :07:07. | |
business. -- you cannot look at it in any other way. You have to look | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
after it. For me, I guess it is the age where you want to grow things | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
and create something, so for me, the creation is something bigger | :07:16. | :07:23. | |
and it makes me enthusiastic and it is really driving it will stop he | :07:23. | :07:33. | |
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insists -- he insists -- and My father is getting all the | :07:35. | :07:44. | |
benefits. He is worrying when there are mistakes. You have a little bit | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
with your nerves but it is fun. Relationships are critical in | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
football, so will he be a hands-on owner in daily dialogue with his | :07:53. | :08:03. | |
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manager? The business part, yes I can boss people around a little bit, | :08:03. | :08:13. | |
but in terms of the Football part of its, I will have a similar | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
understanding of where I want to be. Right now I think we are happy with | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
the relationship the way it is. are a big game against Chelsea | :08:21. | :08:30. | |
tomorrow, what of the inevitable comparisons with Roman Abramovich? | :08:30. | :08:38. | |
I do not think there is anything to compare, to be honest. He has been | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
around for a number of years and we are just starting. The last half a | :08:44. | :08:54. | |
year was good for everybody. I just hope we can keep going. Thank you | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
very much for talking to us. Thank you very much. And you will be able | :09:00. | :09:07. | |
to see a more detailed interview tonight on the BBC's Board website. | :09:07. | :09:15. | |
-- the BBC sport website. The bodies of two soldiers from the | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
South killed in Afghanistan were repatriated through RAF Brize | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
Norton in Oxfordshire today. 26- year-old Lieutenant Andrew | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
Chesterman of 3rd Battalion the Rifles came from Guildford, and | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
died on Thursday after his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb. | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
Tidworth-based Lance Corporal Matthew Smith of the Royal | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
Engineers, who was also 26, and the father of four young children, died | :09:30. | :09:39. | |
just hours later while helping to construct a new checkpoint. | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
An outbreak of the stomach bug E- coli among children at a nursery in | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
Basingstoke has caused the local authority to launch an | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
investigation as to how it occurred. Kiddi Caru in Beggarwood has | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
voluntarily closed after two children fell ill and another had a | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
suspected case of the illness. All three are now recovering. There is | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
no evidence the nursery is the source of the infection. Deep | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
cleaning is being carried out, and it will reopen as soon as | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
environmental health officers say they are happy with its condition. | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
Still to come in this evening's South Today: We'll look at how the | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
Bank Holiday weekend weather is shaping up. And if you think it is | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
a warm in shorts and T-shirts, be prepared to battle it out here in | :10:17. | :10:27. | |
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the Isle of Wight in full armour. The family of an 85-year-old great- | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
grandmother murdered in her home in Southampton have described the | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
death as "extremely cruel" and a "pointless act" against an elderly | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
and defenceless woman. Delia Hughes died after suffering several blows | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
to her head. Two people arrested on suspicion of murder continue to be | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
questioned, as Chris Robinson reports. | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
Described as having a heart of gold, this is great-grandmother Delia | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
Hughes. The 85-year-old was discovered inside her flat in | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
Southampton's affluent Ocean Village on Saturday evening. She | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
had suffered several blows to the head. Originally from Blackpool, | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
Mrs Hughes has lived in Southampton for 17 years. Today, her devastated | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
family paid an emotional tribute to the woman they described as the | :11:04. | :11:14. | |
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kindest person anyone could wish meet. | :11:15. | :11:25. | |
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Two neighbours who lived above Mrs Hughes' flat in Atlantic Close have | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
been arrested on suspicion of her murder. It's been revealed they are | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
37-year-old Tim Tritta, who was arrested on Sunday, and his | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
pregnant 29-year-old girlfriend, Crystal O'Dell, who was detained | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
yesterday. Detectives have been given an extra 24-hours to question | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
Mr Tritta. Meanwhile, the search for evidence, including the murder | :11:43. | :11:53. | |
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weapon, continues. Passenger aircraft have made 28 | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
emergency landings in the last two years because they were running low | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
on fuel, according to the Civil Aviation Authority. They included a | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
full emergency at Southampton and two Virgin Atlantic flights to | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
Gatwick that had to switch to another airport. Our Transport | :12:04. | :12:11. | |
Correspondent Paul Clifton is here. This sounds unusual. | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
When a plane is running low on fuel, the pilot warns air traffic control | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
and it is given immediate priority over other aircraft to land. | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
According to the Civil Aviation Authority, 28 incidents in two | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
years include an Embraer jet diverted to Southampton. When it | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
couldn't land at once it declared a Mayday, that's a full emergency, | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
because fuel was so low. Two Virgin Atlantic flights coming | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
in to land at Gatwick in January were affected by bad weather. They | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
were delayed and low on fuel, and had to transfer to Stansted to land | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
more quickly. Don't planes have to carry enough fuel to cope with | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
things like blocked runways and bad weather? Often, like the Virgin | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
planes, the cause is a diversion to another airport because of bad | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
weather. It's up to an aircraft captain how much fuel he takes on | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
board. Legally, pilots entering British airspace have to carry | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
enough fuel to complete their journey, plus enough in reserve to | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
allow them to reach an alternative airport, plus enough to allow for | :13:01. | :13:10. | |
30 minutes circling before being However, adding more fuel adds more | :13:10. | :13:19. | |
weight, and therefore more fuel is burned, costing more money. | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
Aviation is having a very tough time in the current economic | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
climate and the pilots' union says crews are under pressure to keep | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
costs down as far as possible. airline might have an aggressive | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
your policy, but the risk of that can be low if other airlines do not | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
have that policy, if they are carrying more reserved fuel. If the | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
aircraft is able to push the other airplanes out of the way, that we | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
have a knock on effects and if the other good things have low fuel | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
situations, it can be an escalating issue. A spokesman for Virgin | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
Atlantic said that the fuel management procedures exceed all | :14:00. | :14:10. | |
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28 emergency their endings in two years might sound high, but the | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
total number of a fuel related images he endings in the two years | :14:16. | :14:26. | |
before that was slightly higher. When you do your shopping, do you | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
ask the question, whereabouts has the milk come from? Well, dairy | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
farmers on the Isle of Wight are urging consumers to do just that. | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
And here's why. Here's a pint of milk produced and sold on the | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
island. Here's one produced on the mainland and shipped over to the | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
island. The farmers say 80 % of the milk they produce is shipped off | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
the island on ferries at the same time as milk from the mainland is | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
imported. Briony Leyland reports on the campaign to urge consumers to | :14:48. | :14:55. | |
think local. Justin Birch is a man with a plan | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
and he needs to be. With current milk prices, he reckons he loses | :15:00. | :15:08. | |
about 5p for every litre is cows produce. His hope is that | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
processing and selling all of the Isle of Wight smelled close to home | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
will give a vital boost to the island's farmers. The problem at | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
the moment is there is a lot of cheap milk that is coming over and | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
it has a lot of the discount stuff that the supermarkets is selling. | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
That needs to be ousted and then our milk can sit alongside the | :15:33. | :15:40. | |
supermarket standard milk. The island without dairy cows would be | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
quite a big place. That is what could happen if we keep getting | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
milk coming in from the mainland. At the moment there are 15 dairy | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
farmers and this time next year there could be seven. Test go is | :15:53. | :16:03. | |
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the only -- Tesco is the only supermarket to stock local milk. | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
have got to give the public in the supermarkets the opportunity to | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
make a choice about whether they buy milk from the island or from | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
the mainland. They probably believe that most of the milk in the | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
supermarkets is Ireland milk. the major supermarkets have stores | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
on the Isle of Wight. -- most off. Some say they are willing to talk | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
to farmers but others stress they say they -- that they are ready do | :16:33. | :16:43. | |
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He farmers have been handing out these cards, asking supermarkets to | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
take in local milk. I would like to say that most of the milk comes | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
from local farmers but I very much doubt it. What you pay a few extra | :16:54. | :17:03. | |
pence a litre? Definitely. It keeps the money on the island. By paying | :17:03. | :17:11. | |
extra your supporting the local farmers and that, that is fine. | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
Dairy farmers feel like an endangered breed. The hope on the | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
island is that the support from shoppers and supermarkets, they can | :17:18. | :17:27. | |
look forward to a more secure future. We are still recovering | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
from the local -- wonderful success of the Olympics and now we are | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
looking forward to the Paralympics. Our expectations are going to be | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
just as high. I think it could be a famous year for a Paralympic | :17:40. | :17:50. | |
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athletes. -- for our Paralympic athletes. | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
It was where Team GB claimed their first gold of the 2012 Olympics, | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
and now the Paralympic rowing team are hoping they can repeat that | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
success at Eton Dorney in the next few weeks. The team are hotly | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
tipped medal favourites and have been training hard ahead of their | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
events at the Paralympics. Today Emma Vardy watched them in action | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
at the lake in Caversham. Training with an audience as the cameras | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
were allowed in one more time. For make, this will be his first | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
Paralympics. He only got into a boat just over two years, taking up | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
rowing after losing his legs in an explosion while serving with the | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
army in Afghanistan. It is an emotional three years from | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
virtually serving in Afghanistan and being in hospital to crawling | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
back to full health and recovery. This is a reward for that. Near it | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
spent a year recovering at the military rehab centre Headley | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
caught with the belief that his injuries would not stop him taking | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
part in sport. I set out very early on with the determination and the | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
attitude that this was not going to change how I approach to life. If | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
anything it was going to drive me on to achieve and two more in my | :19:00. | :19:07. | |
life. Meanwhile, and the four man boat, this woman from Oxford is the | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
voice driving the screw on. She is an able-bodied athlete chosen for | :19:13. | :19:20. | |
this mixed crew. I remember thinking, what can they do? The | :19:20. | :19:27. | |
difference is that I can still demand as much as I was on an able- | :19:27. | :19:35. | |
bodied crew. One of the reasons Britain's paralympic growers are | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
such contenders, it is because of this centre here. Many of the | :19:41. | :19:51. | |
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athletes will train here. Becoming AGB Roller is demanding. You sort | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
of have to give up some things but you gain so much. Her team has | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
already proven in their category they are the boat to beat, having | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
won at the world champion just last year. Now they are hoping next | :20:05. | :20:15. | |
could be Paralympic gold. Tomorrow night we'll have the goals | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
from tonight's Football League action. Portsmouth fans saw a brand | :20:17. | :20:27. | |
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new side take a point from their The former Hampshire team-mate | :20:29. | :20:38. | |
Simon Jones produced a brilliant delivery. All players are wearing | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
the name of Tim Maynard on their back. He died earlier this summer. | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
Meanwhile, are only 51 overs were possible on the first day at | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
Taunton. In Division Two at Grace Road, Hampshire are up against the | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
bottom side, less sure -- Leicestershire. Tomorrow night, | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
Chris will have all of the golds from tonight's Football League | :21:02. | :21:12. | |
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action. Tonight, Michael Appleton good candidate to draw no beta, on | :21:13. | :21:23. | |
loan from went -- Reading when they travel to Colchester. -- tonight | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
Michael Appleton could hand a debut to Jordan Obita, on loan from | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
Reading when they travel to Colchester. The Cherries are at | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
home to MK Dons at the Goldsands Stadium. And Aldershot have their | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
first home game of the season at the Ebb Stadium. They host Exeter | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
City. There's full coverage of all the games on BBC local radio. | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
Sailing's greatest Olympian has admitted he hasn't written off | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
competing in the 2016 Games, Ben Ainslie is now in San Francisco | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
preparing to take part in the America's Cup series and if all | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
goes well could be a British entry in 2015, but the Lymington | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
yachtsman told the BBC he would love to be In Rio if it was | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
possible. He'll be 39 and would almost certainly race in a | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
different class if he was to compete. I think he is just teasing | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
us. When he came up the water, he said he was not sure how far he | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
could take it. He even treated today and said he was going to | :22:04. | :22:14. | |
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focus on the America's Cup first There is a change coming in the old | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
weather front. I would give you the weather front. I would give you the | :22:23. | :22:31. | |
bad news in the -- in a second but first I want to show some pictures. | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
Hazel Steele sent in this picture of cows lying down under cloudy | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
skies at Compton Abbas in Dorset. But the skies brightened up nicely, | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
as demonstrated by David Canning's picture taken in Tadley in | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
Hampshire. And Jasper the cat enjoyed the afternoon sunshine at | :22:42. | :22:52. | |
Poole in Dorset. Thanks to Malcolm Lowe for sending that in. Today we | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
had a bit of everything. We saw the cloud and the sunshine. We have | :22:58. | :23:05. | |
some showers coming but they will ease as the evening goes on. The | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
weather front has worked his way across and brought up fairly cloudy | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
skies. It was, for some of us, a bit of a miserable afternoon. You | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
can see that this was earlier this afternoon, a band of rain worked | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
its way in from the South West and moved across parts of Oxfordshire | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
and Berkshire. They are easing away and for the rest of us it will be a | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
dry night with clear spells. The breeze will be picking up and it | :23:35. | :23:44. | |
will bring us a muddy field for the night. -- a muddy field. A breezy | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
day tomorrow. We are looking at some decent spells of sunshine and | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
a mostly dry day. We could see the odd shower but most of us will | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
avoid them. Much brisker winds tomorrow and temperatures will be | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
at best 21 or 22 Celsius. We are holding on to the dry and bright | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
weather on Thursday, but parts of southern England will have some | :24:08. | :24:15. | |
cloud mating in with some rain. It is tied in to this area of low | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
pressure which will be sitting with us for the bank holiday weekend. | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
Friday starts off at fairly light, but you can see the showers are | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
starting to creep in from the West. Friday afternoon will have the | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
weather are going downhill and it does not bode too well for the | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
weekend or even for Monday. There will be some bright and sunny | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
spells in between the showers but it will be nothing like last | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
weekend but I suppose that is good if you do not like the humidity. | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
Enjoy the next few cent shiny days - a grope next few sunny days, | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
because it will not last. -- enjoy the next few sunny days because it | :24:55. | :25:05. | |
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will not last. Now Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
of Wight is one of the South's most impressive castles dating back to | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
the 11th century. But its traditional piece and quiet will be | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
shattered this week. For the next few days the grounds will be | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
transported back to the 1400s where a quartet of medieval knights from | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
the four corners of the country will battle it out to prove their | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
mettle. Alexis Green went to find out what's involved in a good old | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
fashioned melee. I am an -- I am a real actor | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
because it is a great pursued. do it because I love English | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
history. I have an interest in weapons. I do it for the love of | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
weapons. I do it for the love of medieval weapons. The four men will | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
recreate the excitement of medieval combat. Did competition entails -- | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
Intel but I have to knock the crest off the helmet of the night. I must | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
keep my dragon on my helmet and I must strike theirs down before they | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
ketamine. Families are able to meet the night -- before they knock my. | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
Families are able to cheer on their favoured competitor. It is like a | :26:04. | :26:11. | |
Formula One concept with skills in which we can prove who is better | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
with the weapons. This is the equivalent of having a small child | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
on your back. Here you are wearing about six stone of armour so after | :26:20. | :26:27. | |
a few minutes you are dripping in sweat and absolutely exhausted. | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
Determined tests they are skills and bravery. People are often -- | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
the tournament test their skills and bravery. People are surprised | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
that there were Marshall Aad books written at the time describing how | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
to get through with a lot of speed and efficiency. But it is fantastic. | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
We come here every year. -- it is fantastic. We like the castle and | :26:51. | :26:57. | |
we like the fighting. Barely and. Really professional -- brilliant. | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
It really professional and the children just love it. From the | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
knights of old to not so old, all will be worn out by the action and | :27:06. | :27:14. | |
excitement here at the castle. If I love the way he is just dragging | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
his sword up the road. The tournament is on until Thursday | :27:20. | :27:26. | |
the 23rd. It is on from 10am until 5pm. We have got a glimpse. It was | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
like the sunshine was coming in and out. Typical British summer. In and | :27:31. | :27:37. |