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very much. That's all from the BBC News at Six. Goodbye from me. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
An island of debt ` the families in the South facing 'problem debt' with | :00:00. | :00:19. | |
We are on the great Western Railway. We are witnessing the start of its | :00:20. | :00:34. | |
transformation from a diesel railway to an electric one. | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
Calling all tiddlers ` the campaign to get the little ones | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
I fear there has been an extension in the countryside. Not the animals, | :00:42. | :00:56. | |
the young naturalists. `` extinction. | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
'We will take swift action against anyone'. | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
The words of police following an anti`slavery raid this | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
Officers say they have rescued eight men from a farm in Totton. | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
Hampshire Constabulary, supported by the National Crime Agency, arrested | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
a 27`year`old man on suspicion of knowingly holding another person | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
The eight rescued men, believed to be Romanian, | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
Latvian and Polish, have been taken to a 'survivor reception centre'. | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
Our reporter Rob Powell is in our newsroom. | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
this morning when officers executed this raid | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
on Salisbury Road in Calmore, part of an investigation into | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
Now I was in Totton at the site this afternoon. | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
I'm told the raid was actually carried out at a caravan park. | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
I spoke to two women who lived there. | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
They didn't want to appear on camera but said they thought | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
hundreds of police officers took part in this morning's raid. | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
One woman said her two young children were scared and shocked | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
They said the men taken by police weren't part of their traveller | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
community and didn't speak a lot of English, but added that they didn't | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
Well, those eight men now been taken to a survivor reception centre for | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
Police say they are all from Eastern Europe and aged between 21 and 46. | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
This afternoon we spoke to the National Anti`slavery Campaign, | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
who said migrants are vulnerable to slavery. | :02:21. | :02:28. | |
It is quite often the same, they will be offered a good job in | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
Britain. They will fall for that and be charged for recruitment fees and | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
organising transport to the United Kingdom. When they arrive, it turns | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
out the job is not quite what they imagined it would be. The pay is not | :02:49. | :02:49. | |
what it would be. Quite often their traumatised by the work they have | :02:50. | :03:40. | |
had point of view, we are looking to | :03:41. | :04:38. | |
help and support them in the work they are doing. A staff of his have | :04:39. | :04:47. | |
the same training and support. Have we got to the end of it are the tap | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
of the iceberg? That is growing across the region and country. We | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
are seeing 50% increase each year on the number of victims who are being | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
identified to the Salvation Army. The scale of | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
the South's hidden financial crisis has been highlighted today with | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
figures claiming that thousands of A new study shows that more than | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
180,000 families in the South East, 17% of the total, are failing to | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
keep up with household bills The picture | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
in the South West is similar, with almost 97,000 families, 16%, | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
unable to keep up with repayments. Among the worst affected are said to | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
be Gosport, with 24% But topping the table the Isle | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
of Wight with 35% That's more than a third | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
of families. For many visitors it is a good time | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
Island, hosting big festivals On the Pan estate in Newport, | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
no one is surprised that the Isle of Wight has high numbers | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
of families facing hard times. I'm not in debt, but I can see that | :06:02. | :06:12. | |
if it carried on like this, you would get that way. Because things | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
keep going up but your wages don't. Very hard. Especially with food, | :06:17. | :06:24. | |
because that's expensive. We just got to make the money go round. | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
The research by the Children's Society says 9 out | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
of 10 families in problem debt have had to cut back on the essentials | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
like food, clothing and heating in order to keep up repayments. | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
In the summer that might mean issues with affording new school uniform, | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
in the winter, a choice between heating and eating. | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
When we visited a young family this Christmas, they had ?10 left and had | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
to make a decision as to whether to buy food or electricity. Those are | :06:53. | :07:00. | |
the harsh realities of poverty on the Isle of Wight. | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
At this one stop advice centre they're seeing a big case load | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
of people with debt problems and they're clear about some | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
We are a holiday island so we have a lot of seasonal work. When that | :07:09. | :07:18. | |
disappears, people who stay on the island find themselves without | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
employment. There are a lot of zero hours contracts. That affects | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
peoples ability to budget the money `` people's. | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
The Island has been given 'assisted area status'. | :07:31. | :07:32. | |
The council hopes that will help attract investment Those | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
We're encouraging the chamber of commerce to encourage people to | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
start businesses here on the island. We are setting up apprenticeships. | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
Those struggling with debt are being urged to seek advice from the many | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
Earlier I spoke to Joe Surtees from the debt charity StepChange, which | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
co`authored the report with the Children's Society, and I started | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
by asking him if this was evidence that people were struggling. | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
I think it's quite clear from the research that we did | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
on the Children's Society that hundreds of thousands of people | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
across the UK and thousands of people in the South East are | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
I mean, we may be coming out a very difficult recession but that doesn't | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
There are still hundreds of thousands of people who have | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
Is it still linked to high unemployment or is not as simple as | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
50% of the people who come to StepChange are in problem debt | :08:30. | :08:37. | |
because they have become unemployed or had their hours cut. | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
But there are other factors involved as well, particularly rising bills | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
on things like rent and utilities, that are really hitting people hard. | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
The Isle of Wight is up 35%, which is one in three families, | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
How is it impacting on families and particularly children? | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
We focused very specifically on children in this research. | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
We found that about one in five children were bullied | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
at school because of their parents' debt problems. | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
We found about 58% were worrying about their parents' debt problems, | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
which obviously is something that none of you want to hear. | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
We are recommending a couple of angles that | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
For example, a breathing space scheme giving better protection to | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
families in debt but also for debt collection agencies to pay | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
more attention to the presence of children in a household | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
Do you think this is going to get worse or improve? | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
I'm afraid I can't make a prediction like that but what I can say is that | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
there is action the Government could and should take to improve | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
the situation and, if it does, hopefully things will get better. | :09:43. | :09:51. | |
The mother of a 28`year`old man who died after | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
being hit by a police car in Reading last week has said his family's | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
Father of two Aston Maclean Williams was involved in a collision | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
on Wokingham Road in the early hours of Wednesday | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
morning as a Thames Valley Police car responded to an emergency call. | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
The Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating the | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
A lorry fire on the A27 near Portsmouth has caused long | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
Five fire engines tackled the blaze on the flyover above | :10:21. | :10:28. | |
The vehicle was completely destroyed. | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
No one's believed to have been inside at the time. | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
Still to come in this evening's South Today: | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
We'll get the latest forecast for the next few days from Alexis. | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
There is rain over the next few days but it is also looking pleasant for | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
those still on their summer holidays. | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
A police investigation is underway into the cause of a car fire | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
on a remote country lane in Hampshire, which left | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
a woman and two young children seriously injured in hospital. | :11:03. | :11:12. | |
Forensic investigators have spent most of the day here to gather | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
evidence about what happened on this quiet country lane. Alan was the | :11:17. | :11:24. | |
first person on the lane. They saw the car engulfed by fire. Her son | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
put out the flames on the women's legs. I saw this young cat against | :11:30. | :11:38. | |
the window in the car. `` kid. I opened the door and burnt my hand so | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
I had to let go of it. He fell out and put his hands up and said | :11:45. | :11:53. | |
daddy. I held his hands for 20 minutes. I didn't know where the car | :11:54. | :12:07. | |
was going to go. It's just as well I moved them as the car ended up where | :12:08. | :12:18. | |
they were and started exploding. The boy was airlifted to Southampton | :12:19. | :12:20. | |
Hospital where he is being treated for life`threatening injuries. His | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
mum and sister are also being treated in hospital. Detectives are | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
hoping to speak to her some point later although her condition is | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
described as serious. Next of kin have been informed and specially | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
trained officers are providing support. The focus of the police | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
investigation now isn't because of the fire into this quiet corner of | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
Hampshire. It's been revealed that applications | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
to build new homes on the South's green belt have been steadily rising | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
since the Coalition Government was Figures for the South East, | :12:59. | :13:00. | |
which includes Hampshire, Sussex, `` in 2010, the number | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
of residential projects securing And, by this year, | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
that figure had gone up to 388. In the South West, | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
which includes Dorset, Almost doubling, by this year, | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
to 59. The figures, | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
from Dorset construction and planning analysts Glenigan, come | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
at a time when planning battles In the next half hour, | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
a special meeting of Waverley Council will consider planning | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
for up to 8000 homes before 2013. Cranleigh in Surrey is the biggest | :13:35. | :13:52. | |
village in England. It has a population of 12,000 and is prime | :13:53. | :14:00. | |
for commuters. It is in the front line for a debate over new | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
development. There has been an application to build 425 homes on | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
these fields. It is a topic that is generating a lot of heat in high | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
street. Yes, we need houses and it is good for the community and | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
businesses but there is a limit. Cranleigh is the village. Long may | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
it stay so. When you start digging into green belts, how far do you go? | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
Definitely in favour is Jodi May, who spent six months living in a | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
tent when he was on the council's housing waiting list. We were on the | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
list for a year and they have. I've known people to be honoured for two | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
three years. The council has not yet made up its mind about the | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
application to build on the fields. It is very easy to become a limpet | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
and not want things to change but and not want things to change but | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
really things must change because if really things must change because if | :15:00. | :15:01. | |
we are all called, we don't use as many shops and if you walk down the | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
high street, you will find a lot of empty or closing shops. The | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
Government once wrote 8000 new homes built up until 2031. We have to look | :15:14. | :15:22. | |
at the sustainability. Where is the traffic going? We can't create | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
water, where the water supply coming from? The sustainability is vital. | :15:29. | :15:36. | |
The Government is looking out for possible scenarios including one | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
plan for large numbers of new houses at the April drone with the BBC's | :15:40. | :15:49. | |
top tier programme is filmed. Over the next few years, we're going to | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
CEC is of battles over where they are built. `` see a series. | :15:56. | :16:06. | |
It's a challenge which would impress Isambard Kingdom Brunel ` | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
electrifying the intercity track of his Great Western railway, a mile | :16:10. | :16:11. | |
800 trains a day travel along the line, transporting tens of | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
Now there is a key piece of machinery to transform | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
the line from diesel to electricity, a factory on wheels. | :16:20. | :16:21. | |
Our transport correspondent, Paul Clifton, was given exclusive | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
From clocking on at the Swindon depot to starting on`site takes five | :16:26. | :16:33. | |
But when this factory train gets going, it is impressive. | :16:34. | :16:49. | |
These piles hold the gantries on which power lines | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
It is the first stage of the transformation | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
We have come through the test and commissioning phase | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
`` hammer. This ?40 million train is called Brunel. | :17:04. | :17:19. | |
It carries everything it needs to dig holes, mix and pour concrete, | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
erect overhead gantries and install wires. | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
What we've got to do is install 18,000 of these piles | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
We can pile while the adjacent route remains | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
open which means that services can still run through the evening | :17:34. | :17:35. | |
The train creeps over a level crossing at walking pace. | :17:36. | :17:43. | |
The location for each new pile is fixed by satellite. | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
So this GPS is accurate to 15 millimetres? | :17:47. | :17:48. | |
But despite all the fancy kit, measuring still comes | :17:49. | :18:01. | |
down to a spirit level, a tape measure and boots on the ballast. | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
This is the biggest railway investment | :18:08. | :18:09. | |
in the western route since Brunel did his work 176 years ago. | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
We're investing a huge amount of money to electrify the route to | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
ensure that by December 2016, we have faster, greener trains. | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
The train works up to five times faster than conventional gangs of | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
track workers, taking years off the modernisation of the Great Western. | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
The pricetag for the whole project, around ?1.5 billion. | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
The team will work westwards at one mile a night, | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
reaching Oxford, Newbury, Swindon and eventually Bristol | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
In the past, this would have required five years | :18:52. | :19:01. | |
But by breakfast time, trains will be running again. | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
Here's tonight's ties in the Capital One Cup, | :19:05. | :19:41. | |
which includes home games for Brighton, Portsmouth and Reading. | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
It's all change, particularly for Bournemouth tonight. None of the | :19:48. | :19:59. | |
starters from Huddersfield are expected to be revealed. | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
Here's tonight's ties in the Capital One Cup, | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
which includes home games for Brighton, Portsmouth and Reading. | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
It's the new Dons, against the old ones, whichever way you look | :20:16. | :20:17. | |
Sir Robin Knox Johnston and his crew aboard Grey Power have been forced | :20:18. | :20:27. | |
to retire from the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland sailing race | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
The boat suffered mast damage in tricky off shore conditions. | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
Two boats have pulled out so far from the 20 plus field. | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
The leading yacht Oman Sail is now on the trip South | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
and leading the fleet home at an average pace of 27 miles per hour. | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
Hampshire's game against Worcestershire in the | :20:48. | :20:48. | |
Royal London Cup was abandoned last night with only 25 balls bowled. | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
Meanwhile Surrey are in action at Edgbaston today in another rain | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
Tim Linley took the only wicket to fall as | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
The home side was 134 for 1 when the rain came. | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
Unfortunately there's no time set for resumption. It is still wet. | :21:13. | :21:23. | |
They've got some great gear now to get matches back on but we're not | :21:24. | :21:24. | |
sure about tonight. We are facing an extinction | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
in the South's countryside. It's not a rare bird or rodent | :21:30. | :21:31. | |
but a worrying decline So say nature campaigners who have | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
launched an education campaign to get young | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
people away from their computer In just one point, lots of wildlife | :21:38. | :21:55. | |
to discover. `` pond. It is important for children's | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
developments including physical and cognitive. But the Hampshire | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
wildlife trust says there is evidence that children aren't | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
exploring the outdoor cinema. Children are spending a lot less | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
time outdoors and more time indoors using technology. `` the outdoors | :22:16. | :22:25. | |
any more. They don't understand what is on the doorstep. A lot of my | :22:26. | :22:33. | |
friends play games on gadgets inside and miss out on the fun outside. The | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
campaign tries to inspire families to get out and get their hands. T | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
and explore nature. They have celebrity backing. There has been an | :22:45. | :22:55. | |
extension on my lifetime, the young naturalist. As much as they can | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
learn a lot in the classroom and online, what they would develop | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
without meeting at first hand is a deep`rooted affinity for the | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
subject. Wildlife enthusiasts here hope that more people get to love | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
the great outdoors when it's not whether for ducks. There have been a | :23:16. | :23:25. | |
fuchsia worse today. Graham Fielder took this shot | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
of Portchester Castle in Jo Haill took this shot | :23:31. | :23:32. | |
of her two favourite things, Archie the horse and a rainbow | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
in Petworth, West Sussex. And moody skies over Horton Tower in | :23:39. | :23:47. | |
Dorset photographed by Mike Ludwig. Some heavy showers today but they | :23:48. | :24:02. | |
are easing through the night. Tomorrow is a better day than today | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
as showers won't be as frequent or heavy. Tonight, still the risk of | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
the odd shower with tomorrow. Showers could be heavy but | :24:12. | :24:46. | |
they would be as frequent, with a high of 21 Celsius. Under clearer | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
skies, temperatures will be a little lower than tonight, perhaps down to | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
single figures in the countryside. 12 to 16 Celsius in cities. | :25:00. | :26:17. | |
We could easily get two of us in that. Good night. | :26:18. | :27:54. | |
MUSIC: "It Don't Mean A Thing" by Duke Ellington | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
celebrating the music of Count Basie and Duke Ellington. | :27:58. | :28:15. | |
We've got factory boys and butchers' apprentices and office clerks | :28:16. | :28:18. | |
Don't stop moving! If you go back you'll die! | :28:19. | :28:24. |