26/07/2014 South Today

Good afternoon, I'm Jo Kent. is finally in town.

Hampshire's police force and its fire service are to become

the first in the country to share strategic headquarters.

Around 100 senior police officers and support staff are to john fire

officers at Hampshire Fire and Rescue's Eastleigh headpuarters

in a move which will save more than a million pounds a year.

It's a move which has come `bout because of pressure on budgdts.

But although cost cutting, the hope is to provide an improved sdrvice.

We will save ?1.2 million, ?600 000 for both service but on a d`ily

basis we can work at looking at opportunities and in the longer term

we will be training together and we will be training as senior teams to

manage major incidents in the county so we are bringing

our services together and we are better prepared for major

The Home Office has given a million pounds to make it happen.

As well as sharing headquarters police units will be based `t 1

They've stressed no jobs will be lost as a result of it.

The sharing of sites is becoming more common.

In Salisbury, police have rdcently moved into council offices.

Around 100 senior police officers will be based

It's hoped the move will happen in the autumn of next year.

Members of the seamen's union have held the latest in a series

of protests in Portsmouth over the low wages they say Condor

The union claims the company pays Ukrainians on

its Portsmouth, Poole and Wdymouth routes as little as ?2.35 an hour,

Condor says its wages meet all internathonal

regulations, and that even Ukrainians at entry level e`rn four

A grand old lady on the Isld of Wight celebrated

It is the oldest pier in the country, and as Briony Leyland

Ryde Pier has been reaching out to travellers since 1814.

Extending half a mile across Ryde Sands, it was

the country's first pier, solving the problem of the resort bding

The sea captains in Portsmotth wanted to get away

from the hoi polloi and quite a lot of them built houses over here

so that when they were not `ctually working they could come and relax.

It quickly became an attraction in its own right and soon many other

The done thing was to be sedn walking along,

And there was a small chargd of tuppence.

In recent decades the attractions of the pier have faded

It is still a vital port for the ferry company that owns it,

bringing one million passengers per year to the island.

In the last five years we h`ve probably spent in the region

From that, 3.5 million was literally to rebuild the promenade pidr.

That is all from us. We are back to of Wight.

That is all from us. We are back to moral at five o'clock. Have a lovely

evening. `` we are back tomorrow. A bit of a change on the way, in

fact it has already started in the north and west of the UK. It will be

cooler, temperatures slipping back to where they

cooler, temperatures slipping back to where they should be for this

time of the year. Some sunshine but also some outbreaks of rain. Ahead

of this crowd, some sunshine and heat, 29 in Southampton but only 16

in the Western Isles. Heavy rain for a time overnight working its way

deep words -- eastwards. Elsewhere, largely dry, particularly in

southern counties. Warmer in the south-east, 18 or 19 degrees. Any

rain on the eastern side of England doesn't last too long. The western

side of Scotland will be quite wet, that rain slipping south into

Northern Ireland later on. The further south, it should be a

pleasant afternoon, temperatures down on recent days, in the low to

middle 20s. Still quite warm and fairly humid in the southeastern

corner. If you get a bit of sunshine, a