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That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me and, | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Hello, I'm Sally Taylor. Welcome to South Today. In tonight's | :00:00. | :00:14. | |
programme... Motivated by mercy. A man walks free from court after | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
admitting suffocating his terminally ill mother. | :00:18. | :00:25. | |
How a lie`in saved a couple's lives as a Royal Mail van smashed through | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
the wall of their home. Opened the bedroom door. No stairs, just a | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
gaping hole looking down on top of the roof of a lorry. | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
Rejected. Plans for travellers sites in Poole are turned down. Now the | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
search continues to find other areas and nothing is ruled out. I think | :00:39. | :00:46. | |
Poole Council have got to get to the point of talking to us, rather than | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
for us. And finally living his dream. How | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
hairdresser Adam Wilde will be gracing the Wembley turf for Gosport | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
against the team that broke his heart. In the back of your head, | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
you're always hoping you might get that chance to get back into league | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
football, and it didn't work out, but it's fine. I've had a great | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
career. I'm happy with it. He admitted suffocating his | :01:09. | :01:19. | |
terminally ill mother to death, but was today spared jail. 50`year`old | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
Iain Harrison told police he'd smothered Hope Harrison in hospital | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
to put her out of her pain. Today, a judge said he had no doubt that his | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
motive was one of mercy. In a moment, we'll hear from Professor | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
Jonathan Montgomery, an expert in medical law. But first, here's our | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
Home Affairs Correspondent, Emma Vardy, who was at Winchester Crown | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
Court for the hearing. Emma, what were the circumstances of Hope | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
Harrison's death? Iain Harrison's mother had been diagnosed with | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
terminal lung cancer. She was in Dorchester Hospital and was close to | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
the end of her life. She had been in pain. She had expressed to people | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
that she wanted to die. Iain Harrison, who we can see here in the | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
sunglasses, has admitted that while he was alone with his mother, he | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
suffocated her to death to end her pain. At the time, the hospital | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
thought she died naturally. But two years later, Iain Harrison told a | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
nurse he was having counselling with what he had done. That nurse | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
reported it to the police, and so it came to court. How did the court | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
come to the conclusion that what Iain Harrison had done was an act of | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
mercy? The Judge, Judge Boney QC, said there was no evidence that Iain | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
Harrison had acted in self interest. He said that what he had done was | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
compassionate, so he gave Iain Harrison a suspended two year jail | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
sentence meaning he walked free today. But Wessex Crown Prosecution | :02:43. | :02:51. | |
Service said it was duty bound to prosecute. Today the campaign group | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
Dignity in Dying has argued that Iain Harrison's case shows our laws | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
needs to change. How much better would it have been if there was a | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
law in this country where the lady herself could have requested upfront | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
an assisted death? And that would have been looked at by health care | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
professionals, by members of the public here, without basically her | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
son having to take the law into his own hands. But in the debate around | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
euthanasia, others argue that, in places where assisted suicide is | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
legal, the risk is that people can be pushed towards this option, | :03:26. | :03:27. | |
rather than being given treatment. Quite often, people will be offered | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
the life`ending cocktail of barbiturates, but refused | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
life`saving and life extending treatment. Now, I don't think this | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
is the type of society we want in this country and this is why every | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
major doctors organisation, every major disability rights | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
organisation, and indeed both Houses of Parliament and the Scottish | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
Parliament, have rejected attempts to change the law again and again | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
and again. Today, Iain Harrison's case fell outside the sentencing | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
guidelines that were available to the court. It is a grey area, and it | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
will remain that way unless the government changes the law. Thank | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
you very much. Joining me in the studio now is Professor Jonathan | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
Montgomery, an expert in medical law from University College London. | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
Thank you for joining us. In what way, if at all, does this set a | :04:14. | :04:24. | |
legal precedent? You cannot set one in this decision. It would be if | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
this was an offence `` it would be about whether it was an offence. Are | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
you surprised at what the judge decided? It is not unique, but with | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
no evidence of self`interest, it would be similar to other lenient | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
sentences given out if there was intentional killing, different if | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
someone is believed to do it for gain. What about the message this | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
sends out, such as acting in compassion, do you receive a | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
suspended sentence? You will not automatically, but in family cases, | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
with no likelihood of anything happen again, and you can be clear, | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
which cannot be until the case comes to court, about it being compassion. | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
There are other cases where people have gone to jail. Where do we stand | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
as far as the law is concerned? You cannot take someone's like, whether | :05:24. | :05:31. | |
a doctor or family member, and when the Crown Prosecution Service | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
decides whether to prosecute in lesser sentences, such as assisted | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
suicide, they could decide not to prosecute, but a possible murder | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
case is different. There are two sides to this emotive debate, many | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
people seriously ill challenging that right to die? And in the mean, | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
there is a lot of public sympathy for people in that position, but | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
also anxiety that some people who do not want to die may be pressured | :06:01. | :06:08. | |
into it. It is whether safeguards could be put in place to reassure | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
everybody. Could that change? It likely could change, there is one | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
case for the Supreme Court, with one man who died in tragic | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
circumstances, his wife is taking the case to the Supreme Court, | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
judgement is awaiting very soon. Thank you very much for being with | :06:30. | :06:37. | |
us. Thank you. A couple say an extra ten minutes in | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
bed probably saved their lives this morning. The lie` in meant they | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
weren't downstairs in their house when a truck smashed through their | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
front wall. The Royal Mail lorry has now been removed from the property | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
while surrounding homes are made safe. Dani Sinha has been speaking | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
to the couple. Well, I was about to go downstairs. | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
Feeling a bit rough with the cold. About quarter to six. Lucky I | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
didn't, because about 5`10 minutes later, we heard a mighty crash. That | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
lie`in saved Len from getting caught up in this. His wake`up call came in | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
the form of a 7.5 tonne lorry crashing into the lounge. Cutting | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
off the staircase, leaving two of them trapped upstairs in the | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
bedroom. Neighbours called the emergency services. I think he broke | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
down and cried. I was upset. I did break down a bit, because, five | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
minutes later, I was about to go downstairs. And he would have been | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
downstairs. I would have been either under the lorry or whatever. I don't | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
know. A miracle no one was hurt. Firefighters rescued the couple | :07:31. | :07:32. | |
through their bedroom window. And amazingly, the lorry driver escaped | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
without injury too. Police are now looking into what caused the crash. | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
The blinds on the window flew across the room. And I looked out. We saw | :07:41. | :07:49. | |
our car completely 90 degrees. Opened the bedroom door, no stairs, | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
just a gaping hole looking down on top of the roof of a lorry. Now | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
staying with friends, volunteers have been helping the couple contact | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
their insurance company. They have been in the process of selling the | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
house, with an offer accepted. But they acknowledge plans to move may | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
be put on hold. Firefighters have now removed the Royal Mail lorry. | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
But it may be some time before they are able to return to the property. | :08:15. | :08:28. | |
The thorny issue of where to put sites for travellers and gypsies has | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
been generating more heated arguments. Many communities say they | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
have suffered when convoys of caravans have arrived at | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
unauthorised encampments on their doorsteps. Today, Poole Council | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
tried to get planning permission for two temporary sites to give | :08:40. | :08:41. | |
travellers passing through somewhere to park up. But after an outcry from | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
local people, the proposals were firmly kicked out. | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
Let's get some common`sense and with draw this idiotic planning | :08:48. | :08:48. | |
application. Local residents objected. It is doing the right | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
thing for right reasons. Some local businesses said they would move out | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
if the site was allowed near their buildings. Hi`macro directors would | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
have to consider moving the business to a more appropriate location. Even | :09:03. | :09:11. | |
the gypsy Council said no. We objected this application on grounds | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
of contamination, noise pollution and traffic. Council officials argue | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
this absolutely ecstatic. Delighted. We | :09:20. | :09:45. | |
have listened to all the evidence, giving Craig consideration. This was | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
not the right site. Following this decision, Poole Council said it will | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
continue to search for a suitable temporary travellers site. It will | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
look at the possibility of using land outside of the borough. The | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
issue with that is, under current legislation, we cannot move gypsies | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
and travellers outside of the borough boundary under the current | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
criminal Justice act, so we have been having meetings with ministers | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
and MPs to try to get the law changed. This was local democracy in | :10:23. | :10:31. | |
action. Officials now have to go back to the drawing board. | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
Still to come in this evening's South Today... | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
Gosport Borough are packing their bags for Wembley. CHEERING. | :10:41. | :10:54. | |
There's criticism from some parents groups that reforms of education for | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
children with learning disabilities are being rushed through. And | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
families are being informed of complex changes too late. There are | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
more than 20,000 children in the region who receive extra support at | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
school. But from September, health and education authorities will work | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
together to assess all of a child's needs. The care plan will also be | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
extended up to the age of 25 rather than ending at 19. But as Katy | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
Austin reports, there are concerns that families and councils aren't | :11:21. | :11:29. | |
ready for the changes. Because of delays, September's | :11:30. | :11:31. | |
change from statements to education health and care plans only became | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
law this month. And trials of the new scheme have only just finished, | :11:36. | :11:43. | |
six months before it's rolled out. Luka has autism. As does his | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
brother. His mum, Tanya, runs a website helping parents to | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
understand special needs. She is worried time is too short to prepare | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
for the reforms. I can't imagine that it's going to be ready by | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
September. Just because it's so huge. It's been rushed from the very | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
beginning. I don't really know a practical reason that is for the | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
benefit of parents why it can't be delayed for six months. Tanya also | :12:11. | :12:18. | |
worries about low parent awareness. They don't understand what the | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
reforms are. And local authorities are not helping. Her concerns are | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
shared by a parent` led volunteer group in Hampshire. With limited | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
government funding, they are now informing parents how to get | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
support. This information session was for parents with Down's syndrome | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
children. They told me they feel left in the dark. I have to be | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
honest, I didn't really know anything at all. And what I do know | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
is almost hearsay. I want to know more about the education reform and | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
how it will impact my son. Understanding kind of what the | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
changes will mean for my child when she goes to school. It can be quite | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
tricky. At the moment, there's still a lot of confusion out there. And | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
there hasn't been a lot of communication, either from the | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
government or from the local authority in Hampshire. And as a | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
result of that, there is a lot of miscommunication and a lot of | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
confusion, both with parents and professionals. So we just want to | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
make sure that they are given information that will help them make | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
the right decisions for their child. While parents struggle to understand | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
the changes, local councils have the job of implementing them, working | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
with local health services much more. Hampshire County Council | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
admits it will be a challenge. I think we've got all the building | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
blocks ready to make these reforms work. But they are complicated | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
reforms, they are difficult, and we will need time to make sure those | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
changes can bed in. And they will not bed in quickly. While the | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
technical side of the reforms is still being finalised in | :13:43. | :13:44. | |
Westminster, thousands of families across the South wait to see how the | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
changes will affect their child's education. | :13:49. | :13:58. | |
We got a comment from the Department for Education, who say they have a | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
significant package of support in place to prepare for reforms, | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
including a ?70 million grant for local authorities and ?30 million to | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
help support payments. A West Sussex girls' school was | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
evacuated this afternoon after a fire in one of the toilets. `` ?30 | :14:17. | :14:24. | |
million to support parents. The blaze broke out just before | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
three on the second floor of the Millais School in Horsham. More than | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
30 firefighters were called to the scene. No`one was hurt. An | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
investigation has begun into the fire's cause. | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
HIV tests that can give a result in just 60 seconds are now being done | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
in churches and community centres across Hampshire. It's hoped they | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
will help diagnose many hundreds of people who have the condition but | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
don't know it. The first tests are being done in Southampton. Others | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
will be held in Portsmouth and Aldershot. Here's our Health | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
Correspondent David Fenton. Irene is a sexual health worker and she's | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
about to have an HIV test. A tiny drop of blood is all that's needed. | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
It is then mixed with the chemicals. About 1500 people in Hampshire have | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
HIV. And another 300 are undiagnosed. So what we know is | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
about 20% of people living with HIV don't know about their HIV status. | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
And so they are potentially out there living with HIV and not | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
getting the support that they could be accessing to help them to live a | :15:18. | :15:25. | |
better, more healthily life. Within a minute, Irene 's results have | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
become clear. The single blue dot means she doesn't have HIV. Two blue | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
dots would mean she does. JOHN HURT: There is no danger that | :15:39. | :15:47. | |
has become a threat to us all. `` now a danger. Attitudes to HIV and | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
AIDS have come a long way in the last few decades. But many people | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
still put off being tested, especially if it involves going to a | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
sexual health clinic. Now these tests are being offered in community | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
centres, like this one, to make them more accessible and less scary. | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
Interest in the subject... Peter Halliwell was diagnosed with | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
HIV 30 years ago. He now runs training programmes to raise | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
awareness of the condition. People hold onto some negative ideas around | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
HIV. Nowadays, it's very, very different to how it was in the past. | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
It's no longer seen as a terminal condition, it's a chronic condition. | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
Someone newly diagnosed with HIV, and a healthy immune system, could | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
have a near normal life expectancy. It's hoped the speed and simplicity | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
of these new tests will encourage more people to come forward. | :16:39. | :16:46. | |
They're outdated, filthy and too cold to swim in. Just some of the | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
complaints people living in Reading have made about their local swimming | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
pools. Hundreds of people have signed an online petition calling | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
for improvements. The Caversham mum behind the campaign has told our | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
reporter, Nikki Mitchell, people are going to neighbouring towns to swim, | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
because pools in Reading are so grubby. | :17:07. | :17:08. | |
I've had somebody say it's a shame we can't take a photograph of the | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
smell in the changing rooms. The temperature of the pools are too | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
cold. And the list of complaints goes on, with many people backing up | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
their comments with photographs. Not one of Reading's six public pools | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
has escaped criticism. The changing rooms, there is scum in the corners, | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
haven't been cleaned for a long, long time by the look of it. The | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
swimming pool could do with a big refurbishment. The floors are | :17:33. | :17:34. | |
disgusting and the showers, the curtains are just not very nice. I | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
think it's just very dated, with a lot of Reading Borough Council | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
facilities really haven't moved on in 40 years. It's swimmers who are | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
moving on instead. Driving to places like Coral Reef in Bracknell, or to | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
Maidenhead and Windsor. Clare Newman's petition for improvements | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
in Reading has around 700 signatures so far. It angered me that people | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
feel that they have to drive out of town, drive somewhere else, and | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
invest in somebody else's borough just to be able to go swimming and | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
have somewhere nice and clean, comfortable, warm where they can | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
take their kids and feel happy about doing so. The social charity which | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
runs Rivermead leisure pool has promised new play and water features | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
and a full redevelopment of the changing rooms in time for the | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
summer holidays. Reading Borough Council says it is | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
fully aware there are a number of issues that need addressing at pools | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
in the borough with some facilities dated and increasingly difficult to | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
look after. The council says it is actively looking to improve things, | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
but it needs to balance this need for investment against ?40 million | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
in savings that it has to make over the next three years. | :18:41. | :18:53. | |
I learned to swim at Reading Baths. `based experience? Good. | :18:54. | :19:04. | |
And a big weekend ahead? It is a massive cup final for | :19:05. | :19:13. | |
Gosport Borough. It is very exciting for them, of two `` off too FA | :19:14. | :19:28. | |
Trophy Final. And things started to feel that little bit more real for | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
everyone involved earlier. Players and staff boarded the coach at | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
Privett Park, eagerly anticipating what the next few days might bring. | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
It should be a special day. It should be really, really good. We've | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
been supporting Gosport since the early 80s. I never thought I'd ever | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
see them at Wembley. It's going to be a great day for the time, for the | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
club, and I'm so excited. 10,000 from Gosport and more, hopefully. | :19:52. | :19:53. | |
It's going to be amazing. Among the Gosport party is Adam | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
Wilde. The 34`year`old has been a fixture on the non`league football | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
scene since the turn of the century, playing for a host of clubs across | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
the south. His dreams of a long professional career never quite | :20:05. | :20:06. | |
materialised. So he now owns a hairdressing salon. As I found out | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
on a visit to his shop this week, the game and the opposition is | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
especially poignant for him. Adam Wilde owns his own ear salon, | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
but all he can think about is a trip to Wembley. `` hair salon. And | :20:20. | :20:27. | |
playing on this important football field. I will be a bag of | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
nervousness, goodness knows what I will be like the walking onto the | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
pitch and living every boy's dream, it will be nerve wracking. This FA | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
Trophy Final is extra special, he may cut hair now, but 15 years ago | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
did not quite make the grade as a professional footballer, out of all | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
clubs Cambridge United. I was only 21, 22, playing league football and | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
you are released, your heart is broken, really, back to the reality | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
of going to work, get a job, , normal sort of person. So getting | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
back into that and playing for other sites was quite hard to take. | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
Leaving Cambridge, his full`time career may have been over, but he | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
had a successful non`league career playing for the likes of Salisbury | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
and Worcester, then Gosport. You're always hope and you will get that | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
chance to get back into league football, and it did not work out, | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
but it is fine, I've had a great career and am happy with it. This | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
Sunday, Gosport and big underdogs, with Adam likely on the wing. No one | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
expected us to win. And no one expected us to win. With a group of | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
players, we perform better under pressure and when we are up against | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
it and it will be the same against United in the final. There will be | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
no fear cuts this Sunday, Adam will be living the dream. `` there will | :22:01. | :22:08. | |
be no hair cuts. Good luck to them. And BBC Radio | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
solid all have a special song tomorrow. `` BBC Radio Solent. | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
Reading striker Jason Roberts has confirmed he's to retire from | :22:21. | :22:22. | |
football due to injury. Roberts helped the Royals to promotion in | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
the 2012 season after arriving from Blackburn, but also played for Wigan | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
West Brom and Bristol Rovers and had a loan spell at Portsmouth. The | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
36`year`old has tried in vain to recover from a hip injury and hasn't | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
played since December 2012. British Swimming are considering a | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
formal appeal against the decision by UK Sport to turn down their | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
requests for funding to be reinstated to the Aldershot based GB | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
Synchronised swimming squad. The team are currently in Paris | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
competing in the French Open, their first ever international competition | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
together. This afternoon, the duet finished qualifying in ninth place. | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
But say that if they don't receive any funding this will be there last | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
ever event. The number of young girls doing synchronised swimming, | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
and I accept its not everyone's sport, has doubled since London. | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
It's doubled! So that's an indication of how inspirational | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
London has been. Those young children have got nowhere to go, | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
because that is no funding for them to compete and represent their | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
country at European, World and Olympic level. | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
Staying with Olympics for the moment. Olympic sailor Paul Goodison | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
hasn't ruled out another shot at an Olympic medal in Rio in 2016. | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
Goodison won gold in Beijing in 2008. But injury ruined his chances | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
of a repeat at Weymouth and Portland two years ago. He's currently part | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
of Ben Ainslie's Extreme 40 team, competing this week in Oman and he's | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
keeping his options open with the next Games over two years away. At | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
the moment, I don't really know what's in my sailing career coming | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
up in the next three or four years. I've obviously got a good idea where | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
I'd like to be in two or three years time. But at the moment, everything | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
is just kind of waiting to see how it pans out and see how I feel as | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
the Olympics get closer. See what other opportunities arise and where | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
my heart lies. At the moment, I've got no real desire to get back in my | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
laser to go laser racing. So really enjoying the other sailing and we'll | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
see where that leads. Paul Goodison sailing in all man | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
this week `` Oman. He is a very good hairdresser, did | :24:19. | :24:26. | |
you get your fear cuts `` hair cut? No, I didn't. And the weather next? | :24:27. | :24:39. | |
I will just lie in the middle of this. | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
And we have some lovely pictures. Today is the Spring Equinox in | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
astronomical terms. Here we have some pink blossom in Portsmouth | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
captured by Bradley Hawkins. The strong winds were blowing the sand | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
about on Studland beach. Picture by Robin Boultwood. And a male | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
Bullfinch taken today in Milborne St Andrew in Dorset by Heather Hogg. | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
We are expecting rain overnight and once it pushes through, it will turn | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
colder through the course of the night. That rain band could be | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
heavy, but whisking through on a brisk south`westerly wind and, once | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
the skies clear, temperatures fall rapidly. A very chilly start to | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
tomorrow, articulate for northernmost areas, old and above | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
freezing along the south coast. A dry start with lots of sunshine | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
tomorrow, possibly some showers, more likely in northern and western | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
areas, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
elsewhere dry and decent sunshine. Breezy with a high of 10`11dC. We | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
had a high of 12 today, so temperatures the press with the | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
cooler air. We are expecting showers tomorrow night, even longer spells | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
of rain at times, donning wintry over hills, maybe some snow over the | :25:58. | :26:06. | |
Cotswolds. Elsewhere, falling as hail or sleet. But mainly rain. A | :26:07. | :26:14. | |
chilly start to Saturday, the risk of some frost. A weather front | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
pushes through on Saturday, some showers drifting inland in the | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
afternoon. Showers becoming few and far between on Sunday, and we are | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
sheltered down in the south, showers more likely for the northern part of | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
the country and the wind will ease. Through the rest of the week, we | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
expect some showers few and far between, once the band of rain | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
pushes through tonight, colder air behind it, staying cold until the | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
early part of next week. The middle of next week, milder air returns and | :26:51. | :26:57. | |
turns more settled. Tomorrow, we see some of the | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
wonderful ways you have been raising money for Sport Relief, including a | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
teacher revealing his sporting alter ego to his pupils. Join us tomorrow | :27:08. | :27:15. | |
if you can. Thanks for watching. Good night. Good night. | :27:16. | :27:19. |