16/04/2014 South Today

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A drunk driver who stole a car and killed two cyclists while speeding

has been jailed for ten years. Alexander Walters was two and a half

times over the drink drive limit, and driving at twice the speed limit

when he crashed into John Morland, who was 30, and 39`year`old Kris

Jarvis in February this year at Purley`on`Thames in Berkshire.

Walters pleaded guilty to a string of offences including death by

dangerous driving. Joe Campbell was at Reading Crown Court.

It was an evening cycle ride that ended in tragedy. John Morland and

Kris Jarvis were riding on the pavement when a BMW smashed into

them from behind. Its driver was driving at almost 70 mph in a 30 mph

zone. Two lives were taken by a reckless

individual and as a result, the lives of so many have been turned

upside down. They were just doing a hobby beloved, they had everything

to live for, beatable families, children and partners that would

give anything to have them back. Police had already been following

the car. They had been alerted by the man Walters had been spending

his life with for ten years. He was under the influence of

alcohol and having taken cocaine. He was a disqualified driver and had no

insurance and his manner of driving led to their deaths.

Walters had a string of offences going back many years, including

bomb hoaxes. What angered the family with previous convictions for

drink`driving. He has been put on side for

drink`driving. To say he has remorse, how do all

that carry these people? An investigation into what happened

that evening is still going on. They have looked at radio logs from the

time but have yet to finish interviewing members of the public

after a recent fresh appeal for witnesses.

It kills someone almost every half an hour and is the second largest

cause of cancer`related deaths. But one in three of every negative test

carried out with a home kit is actually wrong. Now a charity is

calling for that test to be changed. Many people don't realise they have

bowel cancer until it's at an advanced stage. Everyone over 60 is

sent a testing kit in the post but many don't return them. In the last

year in Dorset alone nearly 82,000 people were sent kits. More people

here returned the kit than in any other part of the country, 66%. More

than 76,000 people were sent kits in Hampshire, 64% returned theirs. But

it's the high rate of cases which that test doesn't detect which has

lead to the charity Beating Bowel Cancer calling for changes. Briony

Leyland reports. At the age of 61, Norma is happiest

living life in the fast lane. She and her husband own a superbike team

which has won plenty of silverware for its speed but last year Norma

was forced to slow down after treatment for bowel cancer. She'd

done a DIY test sent to her in the post. The results were clear but a

few months later she saw worrying signs.

I saw some signs of blood on the toilet tissue and it is dark blood,

not terribly noticeable as being blood. But I am quite aware of my

body so I did notice it was blood. I went to the doctors, he examined me

and said I am sure it is nothing major but I would like to get you

checked out by a bowel specialist. It turned out Norma had a 10cm

tumour. She's come through major surgery but it could have been very

different. If I hadn't gone to the doctor at

that time, it is quite worrying to think I could have just at nor did

and maybe I wouldn't be here now. Pretty scary. Because I'm not ready

to go yet. Nobody is getting a free drink on me yet either. I got too

much dancing to do. And too much racing.

The fact that Norma's original test failed to pick up the cancer isn't a

surprise to experts. The test which relies on stool samples isn't

completely reliable. All it does is look for presence of

trace amounts of blood that we cannot see with the naked eye. That

means that if growths are not bleeding, that test won't pick them

up. The charity Beating Bowel Cancer is

lobbying for the urgent introduction of a new, more accurate test. The

NHS says it is being piloted from this month and increasing screening

take up is a big priority. One reason for low take up is

embarrassment ` that's an emotion Norma is urging everyone to

overcome. Lots of people probably wouldn't

want to talk about it. I don't care. If I can save one life I talking

about it, hey Ho. Norma de Bidaph ending that report

from Briony Leyland. A little earlier, I spoke to Mark Flanagan

from the charity Beating Bowel Cancer. I began by asking him what

he thought was wrong with the current test.

The current test is sometimes too complex and it might be putting

people off because it is putting to on a set of cardboard three days a

week. `` putting to. We want a new test that could potentially save

more lives. More people who do the screening the better. Part of the

problem is the embarrassment that goes around the subject.

How do you break that taboo? We need to break the taboo, we need to lift

the lead and normalise it like we did with breast cancer many years

ago. We need to get the same conversation

so I'm afraid we need conversations about bowls and bottoms and blood

and to. `` to. Doing so could save thousands of lives.

Our message is always do the screening test but we are looking

for a more accurate test. We simply want a better test to be introduced.

We know that rolling that note will save lives. Do the current test but

we want to see a better more accurate test for the future that

will lead to more people doing the test because they will understand it

and ended easy to do. A stolen car. Luke Hayward was

sentenced to nine years for critically injuring PC Gareth

Browning in the Whitley area of Reading in November. Haywood

admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent at Reading Crown

Court. PC Browning was critically injured and remains in hospital in a

stable condition. Rail routes in Hampshire, Wiltshire

and Dorset are almost the only lines operating without taxpayer subsidy,

according to new industry research. With passenger numbers growing by

10% in three years, they also have the highest income from passengers.

Our Transport Correspondent Paul Clifton is here. Talk us through the

figures. The routes run by South West Trains

effectively make a payment to government of two pence for each

passenger on each journey, after taking into account the cost of

running both trains and the tracks. Almost all other rail routes require

a subsidy. Last year SWT paid ?283 million to government ` that's more

than the train company and Network Rail combined spend on running the

services. So it depends on your political views ` do you call this a

profitable railway or do you call it a tax on travel? Either way, it's

rare anywhere in the world. There are some very big differences

in the amount of subsidy needed to balance the books.

Across the country, the average passenger fare is just over ?5. As

more passengers pay increasing fares, the amount of subsidy `

government's share of the railway's running costs ` has dropped by 10%

in three years. But there are wide variations. In England the taxpayer

contributes ?2.19 per passenger journey. That compares with ?7.60

per journey in Scotland and more than ?9 in Wales. Here, we have many

of the busiest railway lines, and we have the most daily commuters, so

perhaps it's not surprising. But we're also getting some of the

biggest investment, with the Reading rebuild, electrification through the

Thames Valley, Crossrail extended to Reading, a new link to Heathrow and

new Thameslink services to the south coast. The railway here is booming.

Dozens of fire fighters are tackling a large heath fire in Dorset

tonight. The blaze broke out, earlier this afternoon, at the Moors

Valley Country Park, near Ringwood and Verwood. Five fire engines, five

land rovers, and an all`terrain vehicle are at the scene. Dorset

fire officers say they do not know how the fire started. Still to come

in this evening's South Today: hello, I am John find out how I am

helping train medical staff. An attempt by poachers to haul

hundreds of fish out of Christchurch Harbour in giant nets has been

thwarted by bailiffs. What's being described as a well organised gang

were operating from the shore near Coastguard Way in Mudeford. They

were using nets almost a mile long to trap fish and its understood they

had a refrigerated van on stand`by to take away their haul.

It was here in Christchurch Harbour that a group of poachers using

illegal nets were caught by bailiffs. The fish that had been

netted including Bass, sea trout and mullet. The long nets were seized. I

character lies that `` I character lies that is very serious.

We have a drive to reduce poaching. The police and Environment Agency

were called here to assist. This utility company owns the fishing

rights. At the moment, everything possible is being done. Anglers who

catch fish like salmon and sea trout have to put them back. We have been

under pressure for a number of years and not just from illegal fishing

but we started a campaign with the Environment Agency to mount

operations to stop poaching and we have seen a good increase in fish

caught illegally since then and fish in the river which has been very

good. An investigation into what happened

here on Monday his continuing. Once that has been completed, a decision

will be made about what action to take when those involved.

They may look like plastic dummies but, for staff being trained at

Portsmouth's Queen Alexandra hospital, they're as close as it

gets to treating real`life patients. The hospital has spent ?40,000 on

two state of the art human replicas. The adult and baby can be programmed

to display a range of life`threatening symptoms. This

report by David Allard begins with an exercise involving the plastic

replica of a baby. Baby Toby is in trouble. He's on a

ventilator and his breathing tube has come out. His oxygen levels are

dropping. The scenario is real enough but Toby isn't. He's a

?10,000 plastic replica baby. The keypad is a computer so I am

programming the computer to respond to what the doctors and nurses are

doing to the baby. When they managed to get the chip backend, the oxygen

levels come back up. It's the first thing time I have done skeins of

doing so it is very useful. With the European Working Time

Directive coming and, simulation is coming along. It is good for them to

work together and identify their rules.

And Toby's not the only new mannequin helping to train staff.

With his blinking, breeding, even talking, John here is one of the

most sophisticated voters at the hospital. `` sophisticated devices.

In this scenario, the team must deal with a patient complaining of severe

pain and breathing problems. The voice is coming from trainer Emma,

observing behind the glass. It is a completely safe learning

environment. Nobody gets hurt. If my daughter was coming and, I would

want people to know exactly what they are doing so it is that sense

of security and raises patient safety.

Practicing procedures on these state of the art simulators is as close as

you can get to real life. But aren't they just a bit, well, creepy?

I have come to love them. I'd even say good morning and good night to

them now so I quite like them. A little bit creepy. Architecture

has the power to divide opinion. What one person loves, another might

well hate. We'd like to know which buildings you have strong views on,

good or bad, so we can compile a list of the top five most loved and

most hated. Here's Ben Moore to explain.

Our villages, towns and cities have been changing and evolving even our

narrow lifetimes and we want to know what you think we have done a good

job. This is grey old ports mouth and

this is the grey new building. There is that age old pair of 60s

architecture when concrete and steel were do regular `` fashionable. Even

if a skyscraper has just sprung up near you we will scrutinise it. Your

opinion and does matter. When it comes to buildings, those in charge

are listening. This used to be the site of one of the most unpopular

buildings in the series, the IMAX in Bournemouth. It was once the most

unpopular building in the South. Some are just as controversial. The

construction of these flats in Oxford were described as like

putting a skyscraper next to Stonehenge. There is even a judicial

review into how it got planning permission. But we want to hear

about eye candy as well as I saw as `` eyesores. Some buildings won't be

with us much longer. This is a popular building in Bracknell band

is due to be demolished. But we are building more now than we have ever

done in the past to let us know what you think should be abolished and

what should be kept. So let us know the buildings you

love, and the buildings you hate. And we'll be following up on some of

your suggestions. Poole Museum is transforming itself

into an acoustic music venue this year. On selected evenings, the

gallery which houses their famous iron`age logboat will stay open late

for what they're calling The Logboat Sessions. These are unplugged

acoustic music evenings for up to 70 people, no microphones, no fancy

lighting. Poole council is funding the museum costs and the musicians

keep the door takings. It's just a beautiful setting. It's

great. It's great being noisy in museums. I used to work in libraries

and made too much so I had to move on. It's a romantic setting. We are

in a 19th`century warehouse so the acoustics are beautiful. It is such

an easy sell to the artists. Come and play the key front in a

19th`century warehouse next to a thousand`year`old boat. Everyone

wants to do it. I don't think I've played anywhere

completely acoustic for a while. This environment is quite unique.

It's a really old building full of history full of ghosts, probably.

It comes from my budget for arts development and then also we have a

donations system for the tickets so the audience comes along and all the

audience money again goes to the artists to make sure they get a

living wage. You are so used to hearing recorded

music that you maybe lose touch with how the sound of strings and wood

vibrating should sound. Especially with MP3s The next Logboat Session

is tomorrow night with Hattie Briggs from Oxford taking centre stage.

In cricket's County Championship, Sussex made it two wins out of two,

with their first success at Edgbaston in 32 years. Sussex

captain Ed Joyce completed his second hundred of the game, to lead

his team to a seven wicket win over Warwickshire. They chased down their

target of 330 well before lunch. And in Division Two, Michael Carberry

hit a welcome century, as Hampshire registered their first win of the

season at Gloucestershire. Having bowled the home side out for 332 at

Bristol, Hampshire polished off the chase two wickets down, with

Carberry and James Vince in the runs.

Surrey Storm are celebrating after completing the Netball Super League

season with an unbeaten record. The Guildford`based franchise won 12 and

drew two of their 14 matches, which ensure they finished top of the

table during the regular campaign. Tamsin Greenway's side now face a

play`off semifinal against Hertfordshire Mavericks on Easter

Monday. Some of the sailing stars of the

future are in action of the cost of Dorset this weekend and a

17`year`old is looking to add the national title to the European crown

she won last year. She is aiming to follow her twin sister and elder

brother who bought one of the national title. It would mean a lot

because I've always been just behind somebody, never quite winning

anything and things have gone quite well for me in the last year or so.

I have trained hard over the winter so with love to come away with the

same as my brother and sister. Let us move on to the weather

forecast. Two things I have noticed is that the sun is getting stronger

and the pollen count, I don't normally get my symptoms until

later. We start off with true pollen and

did we get grass pollen. Don't be deceived by the strength of the sun,

go out with the sun cream just in case. Let us take a look at your

lovely weather pictures. Spike at Earnley beach refusing to come home.

This picture was taken by Heather brooks.

Richard Jacobs captured this close up of a goldfinch in the sunshine at

Braishfield in Hampshire. Dandelion at Fleet Pond by Roy

Venkatesh. We will put those pictures online if you keep sending

them on. It will stay dry with lots of

sunshine tonight and with those clear skies, temperatures will

plunge into single figures. We are looking at a little more cloud

coming in from the west. Temperatures won't be as low as they

were last night but we could have some pockets of frost. The wind is

fairly light so we may have some mist and fog patches first thing

tomorrow morning. Maybe a frosty start tomorrow morning. In the

afternoon, we cold on the sunshine. `` hold an.

The cloud will increase initially and then it will melt away through

Friday morning. There will be a frost so gardeners aware. If cold

and frosty start to the day on Friday and the good news is that

high pressure is holding an. If with that high pressure in charge, it

means the bank holiday starts off on a decent note. It is a weekend of

two halves. Friday and Saturday of the King the best but then turning

unsettled on Sunday `` looking their best. A threat of rain later and

that Brett arrives through the course of the day on Sunday. Here is

the outlook. We are expecting things to turn wet and windy. Monday will

see some showers at times. When you go, Portsmouth got the rain

light to turn themselves into the biggest team in see all and group in

the country. It has been quite a year for them.

It certainly has. How would you best describe this year? When we first

came here the club was broken and we had to fix it.

It has not been an easy task on or off the pitch. I hope that we may be

safe, Saturday. Of the page, it has been quite a transformation. We have

taken what was a broken business and transfer and lots of its

profitability and we are now ahead of the plan.

Andy Awford has come an, he has won three games on the Spain, it will be

hard not to give him the job full`time.

They have all done a this job and we are very grateful.

Andy Awford will be sealed later with 350 Pompey fans.

Thanks very much. That's all from us this evening. We are back at 8pm and

again at 10:25pm. Make the most of the sunshine, it is going to be a

lovely evening. Definitely, enjoy. Good night.