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That is all from BBC News At Six, I will be back with more from | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
Edinburgh Hello. I'm Sally Taylor. Welcome to | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
South Today. In tonight's programme: It's had three heads in two years. | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
A failing school on the Isle of Wight gets a warning from the | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
Government. But can the new man turn it around? | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
Why would I want to put my reputation on the line if I didn't | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
think I could do it? But like all things, it is a challenge. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
Abusive comments. The family subjected to online trolling after | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
losing a loved one at the Orchid care home. It is painful and | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
hurtful, and it will never leave me. Welfare concerns. Could tough new | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
laws prevent horses being dumped to fend for themselves? | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
And on a roll. The Hampshire snowboarder with the Olympics in his | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
sights. South Today can reveal the | :00:47. | :01:04. | |
Government has reprimanded the company running a troubled school on | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
the Isle of Wight, saying its performance has been unacceptable. | :01:08. | :01:16. | |
Sandown Bay Academy, which was put into special measures in the spring, | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
has had three headteachers in the last two years. It's one of more | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
than 70 academies run by the Academies Enterprise Trust. | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
Ministers have officially warned the Trust that further action would be | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
taken if there weren't improvements. The Trust has had similar warnings | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
for some of its other academies. We'll hear from the Trust in a | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
moment. First, Briony Leyland reports from Sandown. | :01:36. | :01:46. | |
Have a good evening. Work hard. He is a new face at the school gates, | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
but he is an old hand at turning around struggling schools. He | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
prefers to see himself as a catalyst for change. He was brought here from | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
Manchester to be interim principal of what he believes can be a great | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
school. You confident it can be done? No doubt about it. Why would I | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
want to put my reputation on the line if I didn't think it could be | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
done? But like all things, it is a challenge, and my job, working with | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
the sponsor, is to identify the part which everybody plays in that | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
process, and that is what I will do. As the holes in the door suggest, | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
leaders have come and gone. Eric Jackson is the third head in the | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
last two years. It has been a turbulent time for the school. | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
Ofsted published an inspection report in March that put the school | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
into special measures. The temporary principle was made permanent to | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
oversee the improvement. The government issued a warning, and | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
GCSE results improved in August, but they were still below that of the | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
previous school. 11 days ago, Ofsted published its third report, saying | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
the school was still in special measures. It emerged the principal | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
had already been replaced by another interim appointment, Eric Jackson. | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
He won't be staying long`term. He says he is here to restore pride and | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
to pave the way for his successor. Parents at a forum last night | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
welcomed his arrival. It has been positive, very transparent as to | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
what will happen. No stone has been unturned, and I have come away | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
reassured. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. It is not this | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
meeting, it is the next meeting and the meeting after that to see how | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
things improve. Sandown isn't the only school on the Isle of Wight to | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
face criticism from Ofsted. Four of the six secondaries are either in | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
special measures or failing. Ryder Academy is deemed to be inadequate. | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
There may be problems among academies, but there are problems | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
among all schools. What we have got to do on the island is get the | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
Academy is right and the rest of the schools, which with the exception of | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
one, I'm not good enough. At Sandown, Eric Jackson's promise is | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
that he won't let down any pupil or parent, but as his time on the | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
island begins, he knows building confidence in this school and others | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
on the island is a huge task. Earlier, I spoke to David Fuller | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
from the company that runs the school, AET, and I asked him what | :04:33. | :04:43. | |
was going wrong. There are a number of challenges that we have faced | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
over a period of time, and we have had to make some decisive decisions | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
in the way to take it forward. That certainly since April, there have | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
been some really encouraging signs, and improvement in terms of quality | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
of teaching and the work that the staff are putting into the school, | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
into the Academy, and also in terms of the results this summer, 6% | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
higher than the previous summer, well above the national. And the | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
A`level results were the best they have had, so some encouraging signs, | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
but that is not to put aside the fact that there are a lot of | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
challenges. There are, and I want to pick you up on a couple of things. | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
You say that things are improving, but you are still in special | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
measures. Nine months, and you haven't improved, and you say that | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
the GCSEs and exams are up, but when it was Sandown school, it was doing | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
better, it was when you took over that it started to fail. We are | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
comparing different situations at that stage, and I am not get to sit | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
and defend the fact that we did get a pre`warning letter, and we agree | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
with the situation that it wasn't improving fast enough, and that is | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
in terms of the Ofsted situation. There are definite signs of | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
improvement, but the pace of change has not been where we wanted it to | :06:05. | :06:13. | |
be, and in terms of the pre`warning letter, we have had a few of those, | :06:14. | :06:23. | |
have had other schools. You have had five at the academies you have run. | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
Is that not worrying? It is. So why are you getting so many of these | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
warning letters? If we can put it into perspective, we have had five | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
warning letters. We have nearly 80 academies across England, some of | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
them in the most challenging areas of the country. We were encouraged | :06:44. | :06:53. | |
by Michael Gove. Sandown was a challenging school. It was in a | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
situation in the previous Ofsted framework where it got a certain | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
grade, and we are in a different framework now. We are not happy and | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
content with the rate of progress that it has made. So let me ask | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
other half of the parents. You are asking them to trust you know, | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
because they have nowhere to send their children. And it is a big ask. | :07:16. | :07:23. | |
I am a father of five children myself, and education is vitally | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
important. Parents want to make the right choices. I am confident now | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
through the action that we have taken, and it is very decisive | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
action, recognising the fact that the progress isn't as quick as we | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
would like it to be, that we have taken the action and putting a very | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
experienced person who we are absolutely confident has the | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
abilities, the track record and the ability to be able to take this | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
Academy forward at a greater pace than it has been improving of late. | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
David Fuller, thank you very much for joining us. | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
One of the first schools to open under England's free school | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
programme is facing closure if it does not come up with a convincing | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
improvement plan in the next two weeks. The Discovery New School in | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
Crawley was put into special measures earlier this year, and in | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
September it was judged not fit for purpose. The school says it's making | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
every effort to address the issues. The daughter of a pensioner who died | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
after suffering neglect at a West Sussex nursing home says abusive | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
comments she's received from anonymous online bullies have added | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
to her distress. 77`year`old Jean Halfpenny was one of 19 unexplained | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
deaths among residents at the Orchid View home in Copthorne. Her | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
daughter, Linzi Collings, says she's disgusted by online claims that she | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
was to blame for her mother's death and trying to make money from it. | :08:42. | :08:51. | |
Rebecca Williams reports. Neglected and mistreated, Jean died | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
as result of the care she received at view nursing home. But her | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
daughter Linzi Collings says that she has been targeted by online | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
trolls. It is just ignorant, because until | :09:02. | :09:16. | |
you are in that situation yourself, you cannot know what you would do. | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
It just makes you angry, really, that someone has felt that they | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
could comment on something they know nothing about. A coroner ruled that | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
five elderly residents died as a result of the care they received in | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
Copthorne. View nursing home has now opened with a different name under | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
new management. The court heard that residents had been left out of reach | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
of their call bells, on their own in bed for hours, sometimes with faeces | :09:50. | :09:57. | |
on their hands. Sometimes they were repeatedly given the wrong | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
medication. It completely took over every minute of our lives for a | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
year, said to have someone just making glib comment like that is | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
just not helpful. Cases of Internet abuse have risen dramatically in | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
recent years. Nicola Brooks from Brighton became a target of hate | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
mail after posting messages of support for the X factor star | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
Frankie Cocos. You always get people who behave this way, because it is | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
anonymous. They can hide behind their computer screens. They do it | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
to get a reaction from people. Linzi says that the run`up to | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
Christmas is a difficult time since her mother died, and messages like | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
this make it harder. The head of finance at Surrey Police | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
has been dismissed for gross misconduct. Paul Bundy was sacked | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
after the force found he had mishandled internal information and | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
failed to disclose a change in personal circumstances. Surrey | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
Police say the misconduct wasn't related directly to the financial | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
responsibilities that went with his job, and didn't involve leaks to the | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
media. Stay with us. Still to come in this | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
evening's South Today: breathtaking. The Southampton snowboarder on a | :11:15. | :11:16. | |
roll for the Olympics. Figures released to the BBC show | :11:17. | :11:27. | |
that, in one month alone, the South Western Ambulance Service which | :11:28. | :11:29. | |
serves Wiltshire and Dorset raised concerns about families with young | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
children about 80 times. In the majority of cases they were alarmed | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
by parents drinking or taking drugs. It's left them worried about the | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
ability of some adults to look after youngsters who've injured | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
themselves. Children have died in some of the most serious cases seen | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
in Dorset. Simon Clemison has this exclusive report. | :11:52. | :11:59. | |
With a bottle or glass of something at home fast catching up on a night | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
in the pub, this is a 19 you might recognise. But what if you are the | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
parent of a young child who needs your help. One mother says she is | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
never touching a drop of alcohol again. Telling a journalist her | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
story directly was too much, but through e`mails, she has answered | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
some of my questions. In one of the most extreme cases, she began | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
drinking at lunchtime, and had eventually had 14 cans of cider, | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
falling asleep on the sofa. Meanwhile, her baby had stopped | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
breathing. When she was told he was dead, she said she couldn't stop | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
crying and screaming, urging other parents not to end up empty and | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
lost. She says she believed if she hadn't been drunk, she might have | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
noticed her young son was not well, and might have been able to get help | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
sooner. Alcohol will dull the senses, and you might miss things | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
happening around you. The child might be doing their normal things, | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
but the parent might not notice that they have had a fall, or wandered | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
off out of the house. Figures I have been given showed that on 81 | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
occasions in June alone, paramedics raised concerns about families with | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
young children, where in the majority of cases, parent in their | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
view had had too much to drink or had taken drugs. In 46 of those | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
cases, the youngsters were aged under five, and of those, 21 were | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
less than one`year`old. They parents dialling 999 may not be able to | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
follow instructions given over the phone. A nurse helping in the | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
campaign says that she has seen 24 cases of a parent dying where a | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
mother or father has been incapable. We are trying to make people think | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
about the level of alcohol. One or two glasses might be OK, but if they | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
are drinking the whole bottle or started drinking at lunchtime, that | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
will have a cumulative effect on their ability to parent. Whether | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
staying in stead of going out drinking makes someone a more | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
responsible parent is now open to question. | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
A trial has begun of a man accused of assisting an offender after a | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
27`year` old father was stabbed at a party in Hampshire. Simon Warton | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
died from his injuries in the Dove Close area of Waterlooville after a | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
disturbance at a party in the early hours of April 12th last year. In | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
December Sean Bailey was jailed for life for his murder. Today the jury | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
at Winchester Crown Court heard how Cahill, who is charged with | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
assisting an offender, hid Bailey in his flat and bought him food and | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
clothing to avoid his arrest. Cahill denies the charge. | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
It's a phrase you may not have heard before ` fly`grazing. That's when | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
horses are dumped in fields without the landowner's permission and left | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
to fend for themselves. And today it's been debated in Westminster. 46 | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
horses were rescued in Alton earlier this year. Now the RSPCA and the | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
East Hampshire MP Damian Hinds are calling for tougher rules to allow | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
localauthorities to remove fly`grazing horses. Caroline | :14:58. | :15:09. | |
Richardson reports. Tinker and Murray were abandoned | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
when they were far to young to fend for themselves. Murray was found | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
tethered next to his mother who had died. Cally had been beaten. She was | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
bald, riddled wtih lice and pregnant. She was rescued just in | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
time and gave birth to a healthy foal at this RSPCA sanctuary in | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
Surrey. We are finding large fields of horses that have been left | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
fly`grazing and are not receiving proper care. The grass at this time | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
of year doesn't have the nutrition in it, and they need supplementary | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
feeding. Sometimes the field can have hazardous plants or bad fences. | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
Two months ago, 46 horses were rescued from a field near Alton. | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
Charities can only rescue animals which are seriously neglected. Local | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
authorities lack the power to act swiftly before their welfare becomes | :15:54. | :16:02. | |
a concern. Most importantly, I believe we need to make enforcement | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
less odorous. That is the most critical immediate challenge, | :16:09. | :16:10. | |
especially across`the`board in Wales. | :16:11. | :16:20. | |
The RSPCA is currently caring for 1800 rescued horses. 600 of those | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
are currently in private stables. The charity is fast running out of | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
space and resources to care for any more. Caroline Richardson, BBC South | :16:30. | :16:31. | |
Today, Chobham. After three days without gas, the | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
Dorset village of Lytchett Matravers has now had its supply fully | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
restored. More than 650 properties were affected when the gas pressure | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
dropped on Sunday. Southern Gas Networks set up a help point in the | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
village hall. Customers will get an automatic credit on their gas bill | :16:45. | :16:45. | |
as compensation for loss of supply. Helicopter crews from the | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
Portsmouth`based carrier HMS Illustrious are now flying sorties | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
to identify which villages in the western Philippines are in most need | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
of aid supplies. Some communities are still waiting for help to reach | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
them more than a fortnight after they were battered by Typhoon | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
Haiyan. It's also been an anxious wait here for families with | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
relatives in some of the worst`hit areas. Jo Kent reports. | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
Help arrives at last. A team of Royal Engineers from HMS Illustrious | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
receive a hero's welcome. They've brought tools and materials needed | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
to rebuild this destroyed school. There are two strands to what you | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
can provide, the first being aided and food that can feed the | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
population. The second is the rebuilding project, helping them get | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
their fishing boats back, and so on. The plight of the island of | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
Calagnaan was spotted yesterday on one of the ship's helicopter | :17:40. | :17:41. | |
reconnaissance missions. HMS Illustrious has taken over from | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
another Portsmouth`based ship, the destroyer HMS Daring, which was | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
first to arrive in this remote area of the Western Phillippines. We have | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
been able to really visit some of the outlying islands, the smaller | :17:51. | :17:52. | |
communities, where some of the most needed things such as food and water | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
have not been able to get through. As they fly over, the helicopter | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
crews spot people on the ground. They've written signs pleading for | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
help. In the coming days, the helicopters will return to | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
distribute aid. There is always that doubt in the back of your mind, is | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
there an eyelid that you have not touched upon? The eyelid communities | :18:11. | :18:20. | |
are well structured and organised. The islanders do tend to tell us if | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
there is a more deserving islands near them. | :18:24. | :18:25. | |
Meanwhile, a family from the New Forest has had news of their | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
relatives. This is all that is left of Sheila Fitzgerald's family home. | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
Miraculously those sheltering there, her close family, all survived, | :18:32. | :18:33. | |
although members of her extended family are now known to have died. | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
The crew of HMS Illustrious will be here for at least three weeks, | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
helping to rebuild homes and communities, hoping to restore some | :18:42. | :18:42. | |
sense of normality. Six`year`old Sophie Rolf from | :18:43. | :18:53. | |
Totland Bay on the Isle of Wight, who was diagnosed with an inoperable | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
brain tumour last year, has died. Sophie and her parents appeared on | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
South Today last month when a team from her KissyPuppy charity ran the | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
Great South Run to raise funds for children's respite care on the | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
island. Her father Aaron paid tribute, saying their "beautiful | :19:08. | :19:09. | |
butterfly" had passed away. All our thoughts go to her parents | :19:10. | :19:20. | |
on a very sad day. Portsmouth fans are gathering at | :19:21. | :19:28. | |
Fratton Park tonight for a match against Southend. But it's the | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
goings`on off the pitch which will dominate their conversation. As we | :19:32. | :19:33. | |
reported last night, Guy Whittingham was sacked as manager yesterday | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
afternoon. Despite the current run of four defeats, the move came as a | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
surprise to many. Sean Killick joins us live from the ground. Sean, it a | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
shock for everyone, including Guy Whittingham himself? | :19:46. | :19:53. | |
Yes, and his replacement Andy Orford is currently behind closed doors | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
here tonight preparing to take his first ever team talk as manager. It | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
is not something he ever expected to do this evening. He was the club's | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
academy manager, now he is the caretaker manager. He said it would | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
be a proud moment to lead out the team, but not what he expected. He | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
says his thoughts on Guy Whittingham will remain private, but the fans | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
have been more outspoken. After a few dodgy results, wise decision. | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
Losing four in a row, I don't think is right for the job. Very | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
disappointed for Guy and his family. But I wish they would have given him | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
longer. I'm joined now by chief executive Mark Catlin. This club is | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
run by the fans for the fans, it is a cooperative, so is this typical of | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
the fans' short`term knee jerk reaction? It was a considered | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
business decision. Results and performances have not been up to the | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
level that we expected. The decision was made by the board to dismiss | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
Guy. He is a legend at the club and will continue to be one. Above all | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
else, he is a great man, a fantastic coach, a good manager, but these | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
things happen in football, and the board took the decision in the best | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
interests of the football club. Victory tonight would have lifted | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
the club to mid`table, so shouldn't he have been given more time? There | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
is always that argument, but the tipping point is that we are nearer | :21:34. | :21:41. | |
to relegation than the play`offs. Through his initial six or seven | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
months of being in charge, the expectation levels rose, and it is | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
sad, but there was a clear lack of confidence amongst the players for | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
the last few games, and the board took the view that the only way of | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
addressing that was to get a new manager in. Thank you very much. | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
Kick`off has been delayed here this evening until 8pm due to an accident | :22:04. | :22:11. | |
on the A3. Thank you very much. And the | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
Portsmouth game is one of several fixtures for local teams tonight. | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
The Winter Olympics in Russia is now under three months away, and one | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
Southampton snowboarder has medals firmly in sight. Billy Morgan is one | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
of the world's best slope`style snowboarders, and is thought to be | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
one of the only people ever to pull off three mid`air flips. Tony | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
Husband has been to meet him. Sometimes, sports men and women can | :22:41. | :22:41. | |
do something very special. Billie Morgan's triple rodeo is the | :22:42. | :23:01. | |
stuff of legend among snowboarders. This video has been viewed almost a | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
million times on YouTube. From the slopes of Colorado two back home in | :23:07. | :23:15. | |
Southampton, Billy has played the video over almost as many times. | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
Massive butterflies in my stomach, but once I dropped in to do it, you | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
don't have time to be scared. So it is mainly before the time most | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
scared. Billy was one of the world's top snowboarders in a | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
category known as slope style. He will make his debut if every. He is | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
at that and skills learned as a childhood gymnast, and has always | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
had a taste for extreme sports. When I went skiing at school, a friend | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
said that we should try snowboarding. I reluctantly agreed, | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
and then I absolutely loved it, and I was addicted to it. And here I am. | :23:53. | :24:00. | |
This is one of the first places I started doing my 180s and 360s. The | :24:01. | :24:08. | |
long road to the Olympics began here at the Southampton Alpine Centre. | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
When he gets to the Aims, he will be a genuine medal contender. I am | :24:15. | :24:23. | |
working on a few new triples. I am hoping it will go as well as it can, | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
and I am proud to go, and if I can get on the podium, that will make it | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
all the better. Billy is recovering from a knee injury, and will step up | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
his training next month. He knows that success may depend on one | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
crucial factor. It all depends on whether you land on your feet on the | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
day, I think. Stay on your feet, and you could be an Olympic legend, too. | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
A sort of grasp of breath in here when he does that. It is incredible. | :24:54. | :25:02. | |
Billy, don't worry, I have plenty of ironing back home you can do. Good | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
luck. Onto the weather. No snow here, she | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
says hopefully? Thankfully not. But a little bit of | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
a change. We are looking at some less cold air arriving. Dan Smith | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
captured a mallard duck coming in to land in Petworth in West Sussex. Tim | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
Balmer took this photo of a red squirrel in the sun on Brownsea | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
Island. And Ginny Boxall captured her dog Lois taking in the warmth of | :25:29. | :25:30. | |
the sun in Alton in Hampshire. We are looking at increasing cloud | :25:31. | :25:43. | |
through the course of tonight. There could be some hill fog and mist in | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
places. After midnight, we will start to see the rain arrive. | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
Temperatures falling to around three Celsius. Definitely not as cold as | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
last night, but feeling chilly in the rain and cloud. Behind, there | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
may be some brighter conditions for areas such as Oxfordshire and | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
Buckinghamshire. Elsewhere, still holding onto a lot of cloud, with | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
temperatures reaching nine or 10 Celsius. Behind the rain, less cold | :26:14. | :26:22. | |
than it has been. Tomorrow evening will see similar conditions, | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
outbreaks of light and patchy rain. Hill fog is a possibility, as is | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
missed. We hold on to the cloud, but less cold temperatures. A cloudy, | :26:31. | :26:38. | |
murky, drizzly start to the day, and we hold onto those conditions for | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
much of the day, despite high pressure being in charge of much of | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
our weather. A cold front will move its way southwards across the | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
country. A lot colder as we head towards the weekend, with a squeeze | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
on the isobars. Through the rest of the week, we're all looking at the | :26:57. | :27:08. | |
Outlook. Missed, hill fog. There could be some brightness for | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
Northern areas tomorrow afternoon, and then on Thursday we hold onto | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
the cloud and drizzle. The mild air disappears as we head towards the | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
weekend, with the weather front moving through on Friday. Colder for | :27:22. | :27:23. | |
the weekend with brisk winds. Be with us tomorrow night, because | :27:24. | :27:32. | |
we have front row tickets for one of the most unusual locations for a | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
play did you can imagine, a busy commuter Rahway Station, telling a | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
wartime evacuation story. Be with us for that tomorrow night at 630. Good | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
night. | :27:44. | :27:45. |