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showers in the west and south. That's all from the

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

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Constantly in pain ` a rise in the number of children treated for

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arthritis and doctors warn many more could be undiagnosed. She will keep

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going until the pain becomes too much and then she will get on her

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hands and knees. She has attempted to crawl across a car park before.

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Just seven minutes to view one the wonders of the world ` is the new

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Stonehenge visitors centre feeling the strain? Superslow delivery for

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superfast broadband ` the prize for a Hampshire village that still

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hasn't fully arrived. We were used as a PR exercise by BT to promote

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their service. And it hasn't been delivered. And a blast from the past

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` a forerunner of today's electric cars built on the Isle of Wight.

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There's been a three`fold increase in the number of very young children

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being treated for arthritis by specialists in the South. Although

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it's a disease normally associated with older people, as many as one

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child in every thousand will get it. 500 children in Hampshire and Dorset

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have been diagnosed, some as young as 12 months old. It causes

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crippling pain, and sometimes blindness. Southampton General

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Hospital has seen children's appointments jump to more than a

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thousand a year. Now there's a campaign to raise awareness ` not

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just among parents but GPs too. Here's our Health Correspondent,

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David Fenton. Bella needs massages every day, injections every week and

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pain killers to keep her walking. She's three years old and has

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arthritis. She will keep going until the pain becomes too much. And then

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she will get down on her hands and knees. She has crawled across,

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attempted to crawl across the car park before because she's not wanted

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to admit that she's in pain, but the pain is obvious.

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Last year Bella spoke about her illness for this hospital film.

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Despite struggling to walk with her badly swollen joints, it took

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doctors five months to dying know her condition. I felt we were just

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being pushed away. I was just being patted on the head and nodded at, I

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was a paranoid parent. I had one say to me they couldn't see anything

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wrong with her. It referring to it just being me, when I think her knee

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was double the size. It was obvious there was something going on.

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Bella's not alone, these children have arthritis too and they have

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used art to show what it's like. It basically means trying to deal with

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your joints. And I have it and you have to do injections and they

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really hurt. They're talking a lot about how much pain they're in.

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They're talking a lot was mentioned about what they cannot do. So there

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was many words written on the picture and they had big crosses

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through it. It emphasised how limited they can be with this

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disease. For children who are being treated, the prospects are good.

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Bella's now getting better and walking more than she has ever done.

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People surrounded by flood water in a village by the River Thames are

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calling for the government to review plans for a new gravel pit and

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landfill site, which they fear could make any future flooding worse.

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Proposals to extract more gravel from fields near Sonning have been

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approved. But the fields are currently covered in flood water.

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Nikki Mitchell reports. Gravel has been extracted here for decades.

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That is why there are so many lakes here. But the next phase is worrying

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people as the proposed site is currently under water. We bought our

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houses knowing the water would come around them and we don't have a

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problem with that. What we don't to see is it being made worse for

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somebody else's profit at our expense. If you take gravel and sand

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out, which drains water well, and replace it with something that

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doesn't, floods will increase. A lot of rubble from building sites is

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recycled. The material that can't would be buried here and the fields

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would be restored. Oxfordshire's planners approved the application,

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but want the Government to make sure they're not going against national

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regulations which suggested landfill should not be in a flood zone. There

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are assessments being done, but they're being done by different

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companies who have different results. I think this needs to go to

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the Secretary of State. The company said it acknowledged the concerns,

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but is confident the works will not increase the flood risk and the

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Environment Agency has reached the same conclusion. This will affect

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thousands o' of people. No one wants to see the area closed because of

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flooding any more than it is already. The recent storms have seen

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a dramatic increase in the amount of rubbish being washed up on the

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South's beaches. In Dorset around 100 volunteers have taken part in a

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major clear`up of Chesil beach ` after it was covered in debris

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including a dead cow. They're angry that the local council didn't act

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more quickly to clear`up the beach themselves. The actress Alexandra

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Bastedo, who lived in Chichester and was best known for her role in the

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TV sci`fi series the Champions, has died at the age of 67. She was also

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an animal rights campaigner and founded the ABC Animal Sanctuary

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near Pulborough. The charity announced that she died on Sunday

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afternoon after a long illness and said she will be sadly missed by

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those who knew her and worked with her. There have been problems at the

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new Stonehenge visitor centre. Around one in three comments is

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critical of Stonehenge. The road to Stonehenge ` up to 5,000 people a

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day head to the new visitor centre, which opened just before Christmas.

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The weekend result ` an overflowing car park and a very long wait to get

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in. The system here of transporting people to Stonehenge is extremely

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inefficient. It doesn't work. We spent about an hour here waiting

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back and forth and we spent exactly seven minutes out of an hour and

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half that we were here on site at Stonehenge. Visitors ride in

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trailers behind a Land Rover to reach the stones. But there aren't

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enough to meet demand. Buses have been hired to carry people the mile

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and a half to the stones. They share the road with people who prefer to

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walk. We will have more buses arriving to enhance and supplement

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the service that we are offering at the moment. On one busy day as the

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car park overflowed, English Heritage simply closed the gates,

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with traffic backing up on near by roads. It is appalling and you know

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it was foreseen by local people, but you know they didn't want to listen.

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There is no doubt the new visitor centre is an improvement on the

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outdated huts beside the stone circle, but these are more than

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teething troubles. English Heritage will have to get more people to the

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stones more quickly before the really big numbers of people arrive

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in spring. The citizens advice bureau said it is dealing with more

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people struggling with pay day loans. There are questions about

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whether new government regulations for lenders will curb the worst of

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the practices. People come to us, they come us to when they're in

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crisis. It's when those pay day loans have stacked up. They probably

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have more than a handful of pay day loans, they may ?6,000, ?10,000 on

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pay day loans at an interest rate of you know 1,000% and where are people

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going to get to the end of that? They can't. Inside Out will have the

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full story and we see people stranded by the swollen River

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Thames. The body of a man has been found in Fareham. A 41`year`old

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woman has been arrested in connection with the death. The house

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was cordoned off while a forensic examination took place. Still to

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come: Maybe it is an old wreck, but it has had its moment. And this

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battery`powered car designed on the Isle of Wight. It was decades ahead

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of its time. A shmpshire town that was promised superfast broadband

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three years ago says BT still hasn't got them all connected. The town won

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a competition called the race to infinity run by BT. Despite beating

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other towns, many people are still waiting for a fast internet

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connection. Outside Whitchurch, Paul runs a photography business and

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there is no shortage of work, but it is on the return from the job that

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his problems begin. He needs the internet, it is so slow the process

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can take hours. It is painfully slow, it is intermittment. We do our

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wedding alup withes `` albums on line and the speed sois that slow I

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have had to leave them uploading over night. The town should be an

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example for others. It entered and won a competition run by BT called

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the race for infinity. The prize ` superfast broadband for all. But the

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celebrations soon came to an end, three years on and that promise

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still hasn't arrived. Then the pub was the centre of the campaign. We

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were promised faster broadband for all the premises in the exchange

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area. It is awfully frustrated. We were used as a PR exercise by BT to

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promote their service and it hasn't been delivered. The roll out

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stalled, deadlines were missed and some estimate that 20% of homes and

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businesses are still in the internet slow lane. BT says the majority of

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homes do have access to superfast broadband and that these cabinets

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will soon have the whole town connected and it will investigate

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any issues and said it will meet with residents in the coming weeks.

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Online speed tests confirmed just how bad the service for some still

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is. Connections can be as low as one or two megabits per second. In

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theory a Superfast package would be up to 70. Until that is available,

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the frustrations will continue. The most senior officer at the Isle of

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Wight council is set to have his pay cut by more than ?10,000. The

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authority has already scrapped the role of Chief Executive and other

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changes to senior management and services are planned in the drive to

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save money. Funding cuts isn't the only major issue the council is

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having to deal with. Laura Trant reports. In times of austerity it no

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surprise the Isle of Wight Council is making savings. But it's the

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Managing Director who will be next in line to tighten his belt. Dave

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Burbege has taken on extra duties and faces a pay cut of more than

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?12,000 from his ?123,000 salary. If our MD can bring his salary down

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below 100,000, then so can others and they can move forward. The

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council has a large budget gap and proposed areas of saving are cutting

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down on senior managers and removing free car parking and reducing

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residential care for older people. The council has another pressing

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problem ` the Island's schools. With some of the lowest GCSE results and

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the worst level of secondary school pupil absences in the country,

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Hampshire County council has been brought in to run Children's

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Services. A council report describes its schools as in a "parlous state"

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Children's outcomes were temporarily damaged by the recent schools

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reorganisation Schools felt abandoned because of council

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failings And an infusion of people is needed to energise the system,

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along with stringent improvement targets. My nephew has started

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school and is coming along well. But it does worry you. It is my

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grandchildren now, but I'm as concerned for them as I was for my

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own. And very poor. My daughter goes to one that is classed as good. But

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the secondary school, if I was to choose one, I would struggle. Today

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the council's employment committee recommended to approve the managing

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Director's pay cut. It's expected that ` along with numerous other

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cuts will be rubber stamped in February. Recents fear that floods

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could result in additional homes in their area. The area which is less

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prone to flooding is already being targeted by visitors. Our

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correspondent is at a public meeting there. Ress dents angry at this idea

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aren't they? `` residents. Yes, hundreds are expected here for a

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parish council meeting to here Llan plans for `` ` plans for 600 new

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homes. They fear a decision could result in many hundreds more. Arun

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district council last week agreed 580 new homes will be built in the

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district in the next 15 years. It was originally proposed 1,000 would

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be built on the West Bank of Arun at Littlehampton and 2,000 other would

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go. But recent flooding of those areas caused councillors to rethink

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the precise allocation. That's caused anxiety in the areas where

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there is less of a flood risk. They're worried their quota could

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now be increased. There is a fear that that might very well happen,

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yes. Where are the houses that were going to be built in the flooded

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area now going to be built? And we may well find ourselves

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disadvantaged in that respect. Tonight developers will be outlining

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plans for 600 new homes. Residents fear added pressure on

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infrastructure specially roads, but the council says development can

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bring benefits too. We are looking to see how we can use new

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development which we have to provide for to help deliver some of those

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improvements that people would like to see. The existing bypass was

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actually funded by development itself. So there is a good example

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of what can be achieved. Well the developers who will make the

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presentation here say their plan will bring benefits, including jobs,

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open spaces and infrastructure. The meeting starts in the next hour and

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I will report on it in our programme at 10.30 tonight. Thank you. And now

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sport and Tony is here and we start with boxing and great success. Yes

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Ebony Jones is off to Serbia for another event and got another gold

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medal. She is a star to watch for the future. Jones is celebrating

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more international success in the ring. The teenager from Heart of

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Portsmouth boxing club won gold at the European Nations Cup, beating an

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opponent from Russia in the final. It's Ebonie's latest success after a

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gold at the European championships last year and a bronze medal at the

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world championships. Southampton fans saw more speculation about

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their left back Luke Shaw in the Sunday papers yesterday, one report

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said Manchester City were bidding ?30 million for him. Last week a

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source told me Shaw was highly unlikely to go anywhere anytime

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soon. Another Saints star Adam Lallana got the winner against West

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Brom on Saturday. Adam Lallana scoring the only goal and handing

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his mum a very public happy birthday greeting. Onto the football league

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action and we start with Portsmouth's trip to Oxford.

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Enjoying your time? Ritchie Barker would be enjoying it more if they

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could get more victories. Pompey kept a clean sheet, but they're just

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one point above the Football League trap door. Chances at a premium. At

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It is at times not our job to entertain other people's fans, but

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to grind out results and become more difficult to beat and do the right

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things. Nigel Atkins kept smiling even with Reading's season

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threatening to unravel. But they're back after beating Watford. They

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have made a bid for Hull's Jack Hobbs. A fig FA cup tie was in the

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players mind at Wigan, Bournemouth undone by the cup holders. The boss

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said it was an un`Bournemouth like display. The second goal Fortune

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didn't get hold of his shot and Ward helped it in. And there was nothing

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the keeper could go about Gomez's third. Several local sailors

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featured prominently amongst the podium finishers at the pre`Olympic

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regatta in Rio's Guanabara Bay. Lee`on`Solent's Alain Sign and Dylan

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Fletcher took gold in the 49er class, their victory came after

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complaints from several sailors about the unhygienic water

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conditions, and debris in the bay leading to problems in races. Giles

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Scott won in the Finn. And Lymington's Nick Thompson took

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silver in the laser. Aldershot Farnham and District runner Emilia

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Gorecka made a terrific debut to her senior cross country career on

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Saturday at the Great Edinburgh Run event. The 19`year`old finished

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third in the women's 6 kilometre run, she had held second placed for

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much of the event before her legs tired near the finish. Charlotte

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Purdue was 5th. In the men's 8 kilometre race Andy Vernon from

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Fareham was second. Well done to them and not bad weather up there.

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Where was that bay? I think we will be saying it a lot. Better get used

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to that. Did you know that cars were once manufactured on the Isle of

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Wight. Forty years ago, the concept of a small, battery powered city car

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was revolutionary. The car passed its safety tests with flying

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colours, but after four years the business collapsed. In the first of

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three reports about the south's forgotten car makers, our Transport

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Correspondent Paul Clifton looks at a car that was ahead of its time.

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The electric Enfield 8000. If you've not heard of it before, don't worry.

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Most people haven't. Even on the Isle of Wight, where it was designed

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and built. But in the 1970s it featured on the children's programme

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Blue Peter. Cars like this may be the answer to towns and cities of

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future. It's given me many years of service. Today Barry owns three of

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them. Why do you keep three of these cars? Because I love them. When I

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was in the town I had a lead coming through the window to the back of

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it. To plug it in and go? Yes. It has done less than 6,000 miles?

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Kilometres. Oh, it iskph teshgs it hasn't been very far? No. A team of

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12 people made the car in this old hangar that once stood beside Cowes

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airport. The electricity council ordered 60 cars, which had a top

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speed of 48mph. The Queen Mother tried one. Well... Hidden at the

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back of Barry's garage is one of the early models. Well! My goodness. A

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blast from the past. John designed and built it. It was very

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aerodynamic, which was important. And the whole formula, the whole

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concept was very advanced, as you might say. The first five cars were

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built on the island. After a strike by the workers, production was moved

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to a Greek island and the cars were shipped back to Cowes forfeiting

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out. But this car had the similar problems as today's electric cars.

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It cost twice as much as a mini and its range was less than 60 miles.

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Just over a hundred cars were built and a handful remain. This one has

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seen better days. They also made this car, a luxury saloon. Only one

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was built. Barry owns this one too. When you left this project, what

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else did you do? I became a deck chair attendant! And then? Well, one

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day I was on the deck chair, yes yes, any way, I designed Fuss 2,

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which brought the world land speed record back to Britain. John's

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design reached 650mph. But the Enfield 8,000 was way ahead of its

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time, paving the way for today's electric city cars. A great looking

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car. Tomorrow we are are going to look at what was called the scout

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car. You might know about that. It was before the First World War and

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made in Salisbury. Paul is loving this series. On to the weather. What

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is it looking like? Well it is unsettled, some rain, was some

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sunshine as well and ice. Raymond's dog is getting ready for

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the next bout of rain. Alan took this photograph of tufted ducks on

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the lake. We had some beefy showers today and tonight further showers

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associated with that, some quite gusty wind and even some thunder and

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hail. Once the showers disappear, there the risk of ice on untreated

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surfaces. So the showers could be heavy and thundery, pushing in from

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the South West. Moving east. Eastern areas holding on to the ground and

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`` cloud and rain. And there is a Met Office yellow warning in force

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for icy stretches on untreated roads. Temperatures tonight down to

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two Celsius in towns and city, but down to freezing in the countryside.

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So there may be a frost first thing in parts of Dorset and ice with mist

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and fog patches. The mist and fog patches may struggle to lift during

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the morning. But they will clear, as will the rain in the east and the

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cloud and we will see some sunny spells developing. In fact a pretty

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decent day, probably the best day of the working week with temperatures

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up to five to eight Celsius. The winds light tomorrow as well.

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Tomorrow night we see further rain. Not amounting to much. Patchy rain

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and maybe some hill fog as well, with taechltds `` temperatures down

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to three to eight Celsius. The winds pick up speed on Wednesday and that

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is due to a weather front pushing in from the west. A gusty wind is

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expected with wind gust of 30 to 40mph. Inland up to 20mph. The rain

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band lingering for much of the day on Wednesday and clearing overnight

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into Thursday. So it will be a soggy and windy day on Wednesday. Here is

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your outlook for the rest of the week. A lot of sunshine tomorrow

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after a damp start in the east and an improving picture and on

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Wednesday we see a lot of rain and strong winds. Further showers, could

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be thundery for Thursday and fry. `` Friday. Thank you. More at 8 and 10.

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25. Tomorrow in sport. A big FA Cup tie, because the winners play

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Liverpool, born mouth play Burton. Join us tomorrow. Good night.

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