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Figures obtained by the BBC reveal that spending on flood defences in | :00:54. | :01:16. | |
Dorset and Wiltshire fell by more than a quarter under the | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
Government's austerity savings. It's an insight into the pressures on the | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
Environment Agency which is still considering job cuts. There has been | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
extra money to deal with the aftermath of the recent floods and | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
during a ministerial visit to Hampshire today, there was no | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
shortage of ideas on how to spend it. Briony Leyland reports. | :01:32. | :01:39. | |
Piece has returned to water Lane in Winchester. It was on the front line | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
on the battle to save the city from flooding. It was fought and won with | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
a costly engineering effort. Today, a flood envoy, a minister sent from | :01:50. | :01:59. | |
number ten, came and took notes. But his... Figures they hate `` obtained | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
by the BBC show that the Wessex region, which includes Dorset and | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
Wiltshire, ?29 million was spent. Three years later, spending was down | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
to ?21 million. That is 27% lower. That does not include extra | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
government cash following this winter's storms. Of course money is | :02:21. | :02:29. | |
an issue. But we are spending millions of pounds on flooding | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
issues, and we are spending record sums on the whole flooding agenda. | :02:33. | :02:41. | |
But in Hampshire alone, it adds up to ?70 million. That money is not | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
going very far. It is a very good start. One of the villages asking | :02:46. | :02:58. | |
for a cut is Hambledon. It was exhausting. Hampshire county council | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
has promised ?2 million towards eight flood relief scheme. As the | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
flood envoy heard today, that leaves the small matter of ?1.5 million. | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
People's lives were turned upside down for eight weeks, so yes, | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
funding is desperately needed. Are you able to make any promises? I | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
have not come to make an announcement of funding. I have come | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
here to understand better the difficulties that they face. For the | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
retired naval commander who coordinated the village's flood | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
response, the visit was positive. We are getting nearer to getting the | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
check in the post. It is not quite there, but I see chinks of serious | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
light at the end of the tunnel. When the floods were at their height, the | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
prime ministers said money was no object. Here, the envoy said that | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
money does not close `` does not grow on trees. | :04:06. | :04:13. | |
A couple who died at Christmas as they used a generator to power their | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
home during storms were killed by carbon monoxide poisoning. An | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
inquest heard that Ken and Dorothy Swallow from Hurstpierpoint in West | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
Sussex, had used the generator inside their home without proper | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
ventilation. James Ingham has been following the case and is with me | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
now. James, these deaths look like being the result of a tragic | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
accident. Sadly, Sally, yes. That's exactly how the coroner described | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
the events that led to the couple dying after they went to bed on | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
Christmas Day last year. Like tens of thousands of people across the | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
south, Ken and Dorothy had lost their electricity supply ` as storms | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
and floods caused widespread power cuts. The couple's daughter, wanting | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
to help, had brought them a portable generator and BBQ to cook on. They | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
used it during the afternoon and evening of Christmas Day, without | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
any windows open. Although they turned it off before they went to | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
bed, toxic fumes had built up inside the house which gradually poisoned | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
the couple overnight. Their daughter found them dead in their bathroom | :05:05. | :05:13. | |
and bed on Boxing Day morning. This highlights just how dangerous carbon | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
monoxide can be. Yes, it's often known as the silent killer ` you | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
can't smell it, can't taste it and can't see it. So people are often | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
never aware that they're being overcome, especially if they're | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
asleep. At the time of the floods, various fire services were warning | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
people about the risk from generators which produce these toxic | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
fumes ` but tragically that message was never heeded by this couple. I | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
think people associate carbon monoxide more with boilers and | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
failure are boilers, and perhaps there wasn't much thought given to a | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
generator running indoors. Friends and family have paid tribute to the | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
couple, haven't they? Yes, their niece Natalie Swallow dexcribed her | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
uncle as a good friend and a brilliant listener who put others | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
before himself ` a Mr Dependable who was high on life. The coroner today | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
simply described this as a tragic accident. Three workmen were rushed | :06:00. | :06:10. | |
to hospital this afternoon after they were struck by lightning in | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
Surrey. It happened in Park Lane in Camberley at around one o'clock. The | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
men were on the back of a lorry unloading scaffolding. Two of them | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
were thrown from the truck ` one landing twelve feet away. He also | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
suffered burns to his hands, the second worker hurt his back, while | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
the third was described as walking wounded. A nationwide appeal for | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
information by detectives probing a murder mystery in a picture`postcard | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
West Sussex village has generated fresh leads. Murder squad officers | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
hunting the killer of grandmother Valerie Graves say they received 20 | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
calls after the appeal on last night's Crimewatch programme. Steve | :06:41. | :06:48. | |
Humphrey reports. It was a dreadful event, recreated on TV to try and | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
catch a killer. Detectives believe that someone may have been watching | :06:55. | :07:03. | |
her as she prepared to go to sleep. Grandmother Valerie Graves died | :07:04. | :07:05. | |
after being repeatedly hit by a hammer. The 55`year`old had been | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
looking after a house in West Sussex while the owners were away last | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
Christmas. She was staying at the property with other members of her | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
family. None of the others were aware of the attack on to the | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
following day. You end up asking why. Who would hurt someone so | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
lovely? I am not over the shock yet. I don't think we ever will be. She | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
is going to miss her grandmother so much `` miss her grandchildren so | :07:38. | :07:46. | |
much. Sussex police say there was a good response to the appeal on | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
Crimewatch. We have had some interesting appeals. We will be | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
following up eight calls. The hammer it used to kill her was found 800 | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
yards from the house where she was murdered. We need to know if anyone | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
has had a hammer stolen or lost a hammer similar to that. A ?10,000 | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
reward is being offered for information that leads to the | :08:12. | :08:12. | |
conviction of Valerie's killer. The energy company Cuadrilla has won | :08:13. | :08:24. | |
planning permission to carry out further exploratory drilling for oil | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
in Balcombe. Of course the West Sussex village was at the centre of | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
angry protests last summer. Cuadrilla says it has no intention | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
of carrying out fracking in Balcombe now or in future. West Sussex | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
councillors gave the go`ahead despite pleas from campaigners at a | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
noisy meeting in Horsham. Roz Upton reports. | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
This was never going to be a quiet committee. Cuadrilla's application | :08:46. | :08:56. | |
raised 889 objections. We already have evidence that this is already | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
leaking. How can they already consider putting more pressure into | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
the area around and already leaking well? It makes little sense. | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
Cuadrilla's exploratory drilling just outside Balcombe brought many | :09:13. | :09:20. | |
protests. The new planning permission granted today allows | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
Cuadrilla to take flow testing. We do not need to hydraulically | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
fracture, because it is naturally fractured. The water should flow. In | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
is whether it flows at a commercially viable rate. | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
Campaigners feel let down by West Sussex county council. This is a | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
petition. It is 5500 people saying no. It is a nail in the coffin of | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
local democracy that this was an ignored. I think it is | :09:56. | :10:04. | |
disappointing, but I do not think that they speak for all of the | :10:05. | :10:12. | |
people of Balcombe. By Sussex county council's approval is subject to | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
conditions. They must reconsider access routes. More efforts must be | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
made to protect water quality. The energy company Cuadrilla has won | :10:23. | :10:33. | |
planning permission to carry A decision's due imminently on | :10:34. | :10:45. | |
whether 40 new houses can be built at Arreton on the Isle of Wight. A | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
meeting of Isle of Wight Council's planning committee is underway. | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
They've been recommended to give the proposal conditional approval. The | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
council wants more homes built in villages, such as Arreton, that have | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
existing facilities. Campaigners from Dorset handed in a petition to | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
ten Downing Street today, in a last ditch effort to save the Portland | :11:03. | :11:04. | |
Coastguard Helicopter. 100,000 people have signed the petition, | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
which calls for the government not to abolish the service in 2017. | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
Currently, the plan is to have fewer bases and replace the helicopter | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
with a modern one. South Dorset MP Richard Drax is concerned about the | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
decision. Still to come in this evening's South Today. Happy | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
Hocktide! The unusual ancient tradition that involves Tuttis and | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
orange men. John Moreland and Chris Jarvis were knocked off their bikes | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
in Purley on Thames in February. This man was sentenced to ten years. | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
His sentence was reduced. John's fiance hopes to launch a review | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
after meeting police liaison representatives. We will do the | :11:44. | :11:52. | |
whole thing again. He has had a criminal life from 17. He still | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
hasn't changed. We want to repeal it to a higher sentence. Ten years is | :12:00. | :12:14. | |
nothing for two people. Salisbury, Portsmouth and Chichester have all | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
got them and could Worthing be next? I'm talking about 20mph speed limits | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
which it's claimed can cut accidents and reduce pollution. Pedestrians | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
are seven times more likely to be fatally injured if hit by a car | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
doing 30 compared to 20mph. A Government study found accidents | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
dropped by around a fifth after Portsmouth lowered its speed limit. | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
The road safety charity Brake says eight out of ten people now think 20 | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
should be the default speed limit around schools, residential areas | :12:38. | :12:39. | |
and town centres. The issue is proving contentious in Worthing | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
where an opposition group called "20 Is Pointless" has been formed. Let's | :12:43. | :12:54. | |
join Sean Killick live in Worthing. I am in Pevensey Road, and at the | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
moment, cars can travel through here 30 mph. If that changes, they will | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
be reduced 20 mph in term `` in common with other residential | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
areas. The main roads would not be affected, but it has divided | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
opinion. There is a campaign on either side. First of all, why do | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
you want this change? Ella macro sadly, we have the highest numbers | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
of injuries to pedestrians and cyclists of anyone in West Sussex. | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
Since we started the campaign, we have also found that people have | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
contacted us and said that they are fed up of rat running on the | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
streets. We want to make residential streets safer, quieter and more | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
pleasant. This has been done across the UK. 11 million pet `` 11 million | :13:45. | :13:56. | |
people live in areas like this. They try to introduce this into | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
Portsmouth, and ended up with six more fatalities. When the traffic | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
slows down, it can jest 's roads. It creates more pollution, and to | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
signpost the whole town is going to cost ?350,000 in times of austerity. | :14:13. | :14:21. | |
The local bus company is campaigning against it as well. Ella macro our | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
main concern is whether our bus routes are affected by it. I will | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
not be able to keep to the current timetable. That means having to | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
reduce the services or running it not as far. You cannot go as far at | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
20 mph as you can at 30. It will mean a poorer service to the public. | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
Your bus `` your pain could been fewer buses. We do not see a reason | :14:52. | :14:59. | |
why you would have to choose. We want both. We have looked at the bus | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
route and compare them to the roads which are included in this campaign | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
and hardly any of the bus routes are included. They just do not stack up. | :15:10. | :15:17. | |
It is important that we have a bus service in Worthing. We have people | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
who rely on it. If you slow traffic down, buses are going to go slower. | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
You have to try and keep that to the regular timetables. Every house in | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
the borough is being sent a voting slip on this, and they have two send | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
them back by July 31. Now it is time for the sport. Former | :15:41. | :16:00. | |
Southampton midfielder Matthew Oakley fears Mauricio Pochettino | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
could decide to leave this summer if a top`six club comes calling The | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
Argentinian still has a year left on his contract at St Mary's but has | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
been linked with a move to Tottenham and has brushed aside talk over his | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
future for now. Pochetinno's been a revelation at the club but on last | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
night's Late Kick Off, Oakley admitted it would be tough for him | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
to turn a club like Spurs down. He has done a fantastic job, and he is | :16:22. | :16:29. | |
in demand. Southampton fans will be not looking for him to leave, but | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
when a tight `` when a team like Tottenham come calling, if offered | :16:36. | :16:43. | |
the job, he would take it. Aldershot Town will be playing on one of the | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
best pitches in the country next season The Conference side who came | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
out of administration last year will be gifted Chelsea's Stamford Bridge | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
pitch for free. It'll start to be laid next month when Chelsea's | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
current season ends. The Premier League giants already pay reserve | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
games at the Recreation Ground. This summer will see the first staging of | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
the Invictus Games. It's a Paralympic`style event in London for | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
injured servicemen and women. 100 members of the team will be selected | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
and today Prince Harry was in Wiltshire building his British team. | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
He was visiting a Help for Heroes centre in Tidworth and our reporter | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
Fiona Lamdin was there. Reunited with his fellow servicemen. Prince | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
Harry knows that everyone here has a story to tell. Jamie jumped from a | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
burning plane. Others here were caught in sniper attacks in Iraq, or | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
lost legs to bombs in Afghanistan. A gym full of inspiring stories. | :17:27. | :17:44. | |
United by their dream to take part in the Invictus games, the first for | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
wounded soldiers. Over 200 wounded British personnel have applied to | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
take part in the games next September. Today, Prince Harry is | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
here to kick off its selection process. Training hard next door, | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
despite the circular ball, this is wheelchair rugby. This is one of | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
eight sports at the summer games. They all come from a physically | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
active background, and through sport, what you can do is connect | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
them with who they are again and express themselves physically. They | :18:09. | :18:10. | |
understand more about what opportunities still exist and what | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
they can do rather than what they can't do. | :18:14. | :19:14. | |
chance to compete together. The Sussex batsman Luke Wells carried | :19:15. | :19:15. | |
his bat today of oranges. Caroline Richardson | :19:16. | :20:09. | |
explains. John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. The son of King Edward | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
III. It all started soberly enough. A tradition where the town's | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
commoners are called to court. Those who don't show up are rounded up by | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
the tutti men. Here they are with their tutti poles. More of them | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
later. They are forced to pay a penny fine. The commoners' wives pay | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
with the case. That is where it starts to unravel. Good morning, | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
madam. Over the centuries, there seems to be more kisses and fewer | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
fines. The tutti wenches help the tutti men, and anyone could find | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
themselves in an embrace. The procession is led by the orange man. | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
He hands out oranges to the commoners' wives. I take them round | :20:51. | :20:59. | |
to the other houses. We are giving out oranges. Why oranges? Well, this | :21:00. | :21:08. | |
has been happening here. It is always happened. Rumour has it that | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
every place you stop after they have a drink. They have a coffee, | :21:13. | :21:21. | |
whiskey, Sherry. Oh yea, all you people. Today's Hocktide is an equal | :21:22. | :21:31. | |
opportunities affair. The tutti men are women. That does not stop them | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
demanding a kiss. That is Eileen's husband. We are female tutti men. We | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
are called tarty ladies. We go round the houses, providing an | :21:42. | :21:54. | |
orange. Anyone who is trying to escape, they can through windows. | :21:55. | :22:03. | |
The tutti polls from medieval times. This was made to make life | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
pleasanter for us. It is a tough job. All that drinking and bonhomie. | :22:10. | :22:19. | |
This is a wine they have in Bordeaux for lunch. As they go, tankards in | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
hand, it is maybe a little bit clearer how it has evolved over the | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
centuries. That is an old tradition and one I | :22:27. | :22:36. | |
have never heard of! Any excuse for a drink! We have had a lot of | :22:37. | :22:45. | |
lightning through Hampshire and Dorset. Lots of lightning strikes in | :22:46. | :22:55. | |
different places. We've had some lovely sunsets recently, here is one | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
from last night taken by Andy Lions at the Lifeboat Station in Swanage. | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
Geoff Linton took this photo of an iris in the rain in Sturminster | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
Marshall. And Phil Little took this picture of the ominous clouds in | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
Farnborough this afternoon. We are expecting a number of storms this | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
evening. We will have some mist and fog patches. Very similar to last | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
night. The showers will disappear and with the light winds, the chance | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
of mist and fog tomorrow. Temperatures falling to seven to | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
nine Celsius. Tomorrow is a decent day. One the mist and fog lifts, the | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
sunshine will break through. Not wall`to`wall son. The odd stray | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
shower, and temperatures will reach six he `` 16. Pleasantly warm in the | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
sunshine with the light southerly winds. Tomorrow, all change. It will | :23:48. | :23:58. | |
be fragmented and on and off. Temperatures down to nine to 10 | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
Celsius. Yet again, eight Frost free night with mild temperatures. A wet | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
start for some on Sunday. `` Thursday. A weather front sinks its | :24:11. | :24:19. | |
way in. There will be rain at times on and off throughout the day. The | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
good news is, I pressure starts to build into Friday and into the bank | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
holiday weekend. As we look forward to the rest of the week, sunny | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
spells for the bank holiday weekend. It will be mainly dry, the odd | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
shower expected. Overnight frost. Gardeners beware! As we look ahead | :24:38. | :24:45. | |
to the rest of the week into the bank holiday weekend, it is going to | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
be a decent day. The odd stray shower with light winds. Rain and | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
off on Thursday. Quite an damp day, and a rumble of thunder. Thursday | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
and Friday starting to dry out. Friday and Saturday drying out, | :25:02. | :25:12. | |
turning a lot drier. We will be back here at half past six. In tomorrow | :25:13. | :25:24. | |
nights ` how an initiative to teach archery to blind and visually | :25:25. | :25:26. | |
impaired people in Bournemouth is hitting its mark. Thanks for | :25:27. | :25:27. | |
watching. Goodbye. | :25:28. | :25:30. |