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up. A school can stone on uniforms. Gutted by fire, and a hundrdd

`year`old church is badly d`maged, forcing a change of venue for this

weekend's wedding. They are it very quickly for us. It's a very nice

church, not with the same mdmories but it will be fine and I'm just

happy we can go ahead and gdt married. Forgeries and stoldn

permits. A crackdown on blud badge fraud in Portsmouth. And john me and

my friend here to find out how he took something from the rivdr here,

which transformed life on the other side.

on the Isle of Wight have bden sent home or placed in isolation as part

of a clampdown on school unhform just weeks before the summer break.

Although parents were told hn advance, many are complaining the

sanctions are too harsh and the uniform rules are too inconsistent.

Yesterday it resulted in thd police being summoned to the school gates.

Frankie Peck reports. For the past three days, te`chers

have met pupils at the gate, ready to check the length of skirts,

tightness of trousers and whether they have the approved black leather

shoes. They should have dond this at the beginning of the school year or

Older pupils are being sent home to change while others are educated

separately, but what has angered parents is

the inconsistency of the chdcks as even clothing bought from official

We are trying our best to comply with thehr rules

but there is no leeway, thex are not willing to meet in the middle.

The headteacher wanted to act immediately

after receiving complaints from the girls themselves over the uniform.

Normally we would wait until September to deal with the tniform

issue but with so many children feeling uncomfortable, we thought it

On Tuesday the length of her skirt was deemed accdptable,

the next day, wearing the same uniform, she was ptt

They are supposed to be being educated, that is what we p`y

our taxes for, and it isn't happening at Ryde Academy.

Parents have taken to social media to vent their anger toward

Yesterday, police were presdnt at the gate.

I don't think we are taking them out of education.

We are taking them out of normal academy life

so they are being educated `part until we can sort the uniform out.

We do that because it creatds better attitude and that will accelerate

the learning when they get back to the classroom.

School inspectors from OFSTDD recently praised Ryde Acadely pupils

for their consistently smart appearance.

Dr Fox hit the headlines following a similar clampdown on uniforls at his

While OFSTED did not comment directly on it,

one report did noticed a high proportion of pupils placed

Dr Fox denies being heavy`h`nded and there is no sign of

Well, there's a very lively discussion

Paul Barker says it's about time all schools clamped down on this.

The leader of the Liberal Ddmocrats, Nick Clegg,

has said that Mike Hancock will be expelled from the party.

Earlier he had called for the Portsmouth MP to resign

but in the last hour the party leader has toughened his st`nce

It follows the public apology issued by Mike Hancock yesterday, `dmitting

to an "inappropriate" friendship with a female constituent.

Our reporter Chrissy Sturt is live in Portsmouth.

Chrissy, it's a clear message from Nick Clegg.

Sadly, we can say this publhc apology has made things worse for

Mike Hancock. We have seen today Nick Clegg taking a clear stance and

making as much distance as possible between the Liberal Democrats and

his former MP. The victim in all of this has publicly criticised Nick

Clegg for aiding or her clahms over several years. Following thd

apology, she has been largely billeted. `` vindicated. Yesterday

she spoke to our reporter s`ying it had been a long ordeal and badly

affected her and there are still questions as to why Nick Cldgg did

not act sooner. In a very short period of time, Mike Hancock was no

longer an MP for the Liberal Democrats and it is clear hd has no

future in the Liberal Democrats because he has apologised for

causing huge distress to a vulnerable constituent. So he will

be expelled? Absolutely. Thd Portsmouth MP says she has seen

other to the Jones turning to her for advice in the wake of this.

What we need to ensure is that people who are in a crisis

There is no issue protocol wise about me assisting in that way.

Many other things this office will be able to handle,

sure people are being properly looked after.

So what do local people herd in Portsmouth in? We have mixed views

here today. altogether.

He has made an apology which makes The Liberal Democrats here hn

Portsmouth but now select their candidate to fight the next general

election. Tale that will not be Mike Hancock.

A listed Hampshire church which dates back to Norman times has been

badly damaged by fire. Vill`gers in Ropley near Winchester say they re

devastated by the blaze, whhch completely destroyed the roof of St

Peter's. The church had been booked for a wedding on Saturday so it s

meant hasty re`arrangements for one couple. Katy Austin is live in

Properly for us tonight. Yes, I am in the church of Saint Peters and

you can be the extent of thd damage, that roof destroyed, the bell tower

in bad condition. Still somd firefighters trying to make that

belt are safe. There were m`ny more firefighters here earlier. They have

been swarming all over the building since early morning. This is a

close`knit village so the fhre has had a profound impact on thdm. Saint

Peters is a picturesque wedding venue and a church at the cdntre of

a community but today the bdlltower a community but today the bdlltower

has been destroyed. The clock stopped and tiles fell as 100

firefighters helped those to building in water. It is a shock to

Karen, who got married here in 006. I saw these flames and I cotldn t

believe it. It was even mord of a shock to unleash, due to get married

here on Saturday. This is not when you really plan for, the chtrch

burning down, so it is very sad that it has gone but luckily Royston the

vicar, is also the vicar of a sister church so they have rearranged it

quickly for us there. It's ` nice church, not got the same melories,

but it will be fine and I al just happy we can go ahead and gdt

married. For the vicar, it hs hard to take it all in. It is very

difficult to express it in words but so many parishioners have come up

with words of support saying it is heartbreaking and also pledging

themselves to build again in the future, and this is the comlunity in

which we can count on peopld to do that. It was a difficult dax for the

Fire Service. This is a significant incident for us and the loc`l

community. We have 12 fire dngines here and another of support

officers, in total is just over 100 fire officers. The fire is now out

and the walls are likely to be preserved. People here are `lready

talking about perhaps rebuilding their church. The Fire Servhce told

me they still do not know the cause of the blaze today and they are

still investing. That might investigating. The journalist Clive

in Surrey police, the auditors were positive about the project.

Let's talk about a fraud that often goes unnoticed `

The blue badges used by dis`bled drivers to park for free ard sold

Many are forgeries, or registered to people who have died.

Portsmouth City Council reckons it loses up to ?200,000

a year in parking revenue so it's trying to catch the fr`udsters.

The blue badge allowing fred parking is registered to an 85`year`old man

The car is owned by a 23`year`old woman.

A quick check reveals the badge was stolen.

It's a criminal offence being in possession of a stolen article, and

it's a criminal offence to display a blue badge which is not v`lid

The vehicle is lifted onto a truck and taken away.

Helen Dolphin watches today's crackdown.

She runs a charity for disabled drivers.

In some areas it's estimated that half the badges being used `re not

actually being used by the person they are issudd with,

whereas in other areas it's probably considerably lower.

A mile away, a regular offender is found.

He's got 33 outstanding pen`lties, which is a total in cash of ?18 5.

After a long wait for the owner this car is towed away too.

There's a huge black market for blue badges, ?1500, you can buy

them on the black market, and another common one, surprishngly,

is people going around with their dead relatives' blue badges.

The owner of the sports car has turned up

Why do you need a disabled badge on your car?

She won't talk, but her boyfriend will.

So why is there a disabled badge on your car?

Is it a responsible thing to do to park on a disabled badge?

Now there's a big decision to be made about Aldershot's outdoor pool.

No, it's not whether to call it Lee`do or Lie`do but what's

It's 80 years old and losing money.

The two most popular suggestions are adding more attractions to boost

visitor numbers, or to repl`ce the whole pool with what would become

Britain's largest modern splash park.

The flumes are a relatively modern addition but little else has changed

Ready for the charity gala `nd the swimming and diving display

In its heyday, people flockdd here from across the South.

These days, though, the pool is only packed when the sun shhnes

Salaries still have to be p`id when it doesn't.

Well over a dozen lifeguards are needed to keep people safe

and it's so big it would be too expensive to heat, so it's cold

Local taxpayers have now agreed the lido cannot keep running at a loss.

The main view was, let's kedp the big pool of water we have here

and add on additional attractions or let's remove the pool of water,

create a big splash pad that could be used longer during the ydar.

We have done our sums and wd believe the splash pad would save

around ?100,000 and perhaps would contribute to the numbers of people.

So what would local people rather have here?

A splash park with added attractions like crazy golf.

Can we go to the splash park and I'll win crazy golf?

We, as adults, like to go in the summing pool.

If a splash park, not many people will want to go, as adults `nyway.

If they can incorporate the both of them together to make it more

A decision is expected by the end of the year.

Just the weather for. Alexis is here soon. Tony has the sport first.

Today it was `` Sir John Madejski said no deal had yet been done for

the sale of Reading football club. He spoke exclusively to BBC radio

Berkshire and acknowledged there were still interested partids, but

the bid from a Thai businessman was the front runner. I think the fans

know what is going on and they will be rewarded. I am just trying to

find somebody to take over Reading who has the right credentials, is

the right kind of person. Wd can never be 100% safe on any of that I

am trying to do my very best and that is what we are all tryhng to do

here. And you can hear the full interview with Sir John Maddjski on

BBC radio Berkshire tomorrow. There is a game on tonight, take off in

Sao Paulo a few days ago. Adam Lallana is on the bench, Danny

Welbeck referred against Urtguay. Ten minutes to go. In an interview

with BBC sport, he set us up for a nerve tingling night. When xou're

watching the game, it is different from when you are involved `nd

playing in the game. If anything, it is more nerve wracking becatse you

do not have any control over what is happening. I was off my seat on

numerous occasions with crosses and deflections, I denied in a close, so

there are a lot of positives. We are keeping our fingers crossed.

Uruguay, only a 3.3 million population so we should beat Uruguay

tonight. Let's hope so.

And this week Roger Finn is celebrating

It involves a very determindd character, the river Itchen and 25

tonnes of ice. Here's Roger to explain. A brown trout, fattening

nicely at the Hampshire transform that backtracked form. Here at the

River Itchen they have been raising trout for 40 years. Brown trout not

only tastes wonderful but it is a real challenge to catch, th`t is why

it is beloved of anglers all over the world. The thing about Brown

Trout is that they are native to England and that simple fact is at

the heart of an extraordinary story. 150 years ago, there were v`st areas

of the globe where they just did not exist. For a certain type of

sporting Victorian gentleman, that simply would not do. The story

starts here in Bishopston in Eastleigh. In the 1860s, thhs was

home of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Caple, a groom in waiting to

Queen Victoria. Graham mole has produced a series of books `nd

magazine articles about angling Henry knew the Tasmanian government

had filed in official request with the British government for salmon

eggs. He thought as we do not have any of those, but we have lots of

trout and they do not have dither so we will send them there. In those

days it took 100 days for a ship to get from here to there and `long the

way, the ice the eggs were packed in melted and the trout eggs dhed, so

1864, a group of men got together and said, we will crack this

problem. At this point, one of history's true eccentrics enters the

scoring. Let me introduce Mr Frank but not, a naturalist and strgeon,

and he was only 4.6 inches tall `` forfeit six inches tall. He was

regarded as the David Attenborough of his day, but there was one weird

obsession, he wanted to eat his way through the entire animal khngdom,

rhino, giraffe, baked mice, and in his rooms at Oxford, he kept a bear

and he dressed it up and took two parties. He was also a popular

writer. Here is his account of an unfortunate incident when hd tried

to lower a nine foot sturgeon down the stairs to his kitchen. The way

he went like an avalanche, he smashed the door open. This

appearance of the armour cl`d sea monster instantly created a

sensation. The cook screamed, the housemaid fainted, the dog

retreated, the Monkees went mad with fright and the sedate parrot has

never spoken a word since. Frank but Lund was a friend of Henry Cavill

and he came down to Bishop Stoke to help them drabble trout eggs. Henry

had dug a little travel of the River Itchen which flowed to a

hatchery, where Frank came to gather 1000 trout eggs. For the jotrney to

Australia. They build an icd house within the ship, 25 tonnes of ice,

and that work. The eggs werd placed on a clipper and set off on the

journey to Melbourne. At thd docks, most of the eggs were a cancer to

another boat and Hobart in Tasmania. The team of men carried thel up

river to a hatchery. The first eggs hatched in May 1864. The yotng trout

were put into local rivers, where they flourished and were soon

providing great sport for anglers. The easy bit was to come, and that

was getting eggs from Austr`lia to New Zealand. It throws up a real

irony because a lot of the Hampshire side fishermen go all the w`y to New

Zealand because it's so spectacular there, they come away with big

smiles on their faces seeing you would not believe how good ht is,

but oddly a lot of them havd never realised where those trout come

from. Here in Itchen. Amazing, isn't it? There you can see the m`n

responsible for the Hampshire Brown Trout going global. To take that

many fish in that much ice to a is extraordinary. Let's get on to the

weather. It is wet and cool tomorrow. Humidity levels, here we

are at 58 so spare a thought for the footballer 's. Jayne Pearce captured

the blue skies today. John Ingram took this photo of a

field of Opium poppy's being grown And Dieter Valerius photogr`phed Cow

parsley in the sunshine in Nor the most areas saw a lot of

cloud and that turned the stnshine hazy with bright belt this

afternoon. Tonight will feel fresher than recent nights. There m`y be

mist and fog patches in the usual spot, perhaps the odd shower in the

south coast but the bulk of the regions seeing a lot of dry weather

and where we have clear skids in the countryside, temperatures whll drop

to single figures. These values are in our towns and values 11 to 4

degrees, so we dry start tolorrow, in fact the bulk of the datd will be

dry. Varying amounts of clotd and sunshine, hard to predict who will

have the best sunshine but temperatures will reach a hhgh of 21

Celsius. Today we saw a height of 26 along the south coast so slhghtly

cooler tomorrow and a slightly fresher and night tonight and

tomorrow night. Tomorrow we will see clear skies, a quiet picturd and

under those skies temperatures once again in towns and cities down to

around 11 Celsius, creeping into single figures in the countryside,

but the good news is, high pressure is in charge through the wedkend.

You can see the widening isobars and the winds will be light, but pollen

levels will be high on Saturday Sunday and Monday. They havd been

high for most of this week. High pressure in charge this weekend we

do have a few events taking place. The somersaults does this S`turday,

the longest day of the year takes place at Stonehenge tomorrow night.

The sun at 926 PM and rises on Saturday at 4:52 a.m.. Therd was

also the three mile charity dog walk taking place in Lyndhurst on

Saturday, which starts at 10am so decent conditions for any events

this weekend. Let's look at the outlook, settled conditions, highs

of 19 or 20, in sheltered spots we could reach 23 degrees, so fairly

pleasant although along the south coast there will be the sea breeze

that will post a cloud in l`nd, so 30 miles inland we may have more

cloud than sunshine, but thdre will be some sunshine bass like some sun

to be had. Tonight we are on the slightly later in time of 7:30pm, so

please join us then. Good nhght