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Hello, I'm Sally Taylor. Welcome to South Today.

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Playing on their emotions ` the gang who conned money out of women

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I felt really upset and then really angry that somebody had chosen to do

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this to me. Rolling into Bognor Regis `

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the luxury car maker moving up Open for business ` amid warnings

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the new coastguard control room And could Portsmouth pull off a

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giant killing and beat Manchester to Three men from Portsmouth and

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another man from the Newbury area have been convicted of using one

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of the UK's biggest dating websites to trick women out of nearly

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a quarter of a million pounds. One victim handed over more than

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?174,000 to a man she met online

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at the match.com website. In fact he was a bogus profile

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made up by the scammers. Another man and a woman were

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acquitted. Police say the scam preyed on women

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emotionally. Like a quarter of ?1 million was handed over. They had

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all been members of match.com, looking for partners. They were

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targeted by fraudsters who created fake profiles of men. Women handed

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over sums between ?4000 and ?10,000 in most cases, one woman handed over

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?174,000. Much of the money was laundered through banks in Southsea.

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The Crown Prosecution Service says it will use the law to try to claw

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back the money but in many cases this is not about money but about

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women losing their dignity and their confidence.

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Dating websites have increasingly become a target for scammers,

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preying on people seeking relationships.

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Sarah`Jane Johnson from Haselmere in Surrey became a victim after she

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She lost ?300, but was close to sending the fraudsters thousands.

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She believes dating sites should do more to one people about scammers.

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He was a nice man, he looked nice, he had a good job, he was sensitive,

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in touch with his feelings, communicating on quite a deep

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emotional level. It seemed perfect but these photos were stolen, used

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by scammers to create a character with a story that Sarah`Jane

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believed. Within a couple of weeks I felt that

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I was developing feelings for this person, I was really entranced by

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his voice, it was very deep, almost hypnotic, lovely French accent. He

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weaved a complex story. He said he was in charge of a large

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construction project in South Africa and needed to pay taxes so he would

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be paid by the government for his work before returning to the UK.

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Then came the first gentle request for money. Sarah Janes sent ?300 but

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there was pressure for more and every time she became wary his calls

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and e`mails true her back in. E`mails like this one. I had a dream

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last night about us. I saw you on the pier and the wind was blowing

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through your hair and your eyes held the fading sunlight. I gently

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touched your cheek. I know this is the moment I have been waiting for

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and I pray it never ends. I was pulled back in again. Sarah`Jane was

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close to sending ?13,000 until a friend sent her aid blog full of

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similar stories and she finally realised she had been conned. I

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spent two days crying a lot of the time. I was really upset and then I

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felt really angry that somebody had chosen to do this to me. Sarah`Jane

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says she will never try online dating again. She wants others to

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learn from her mistakes. In a statement about the court case,

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match.com told us... In response to Sarah Jane's

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concerns the company added... The luxury car maker Rolls`Royce has

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tonight announced a big expansion It's to build

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a new technology centre in Bognor Regis, a stone's throw from its main

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production plant at Goodwood. It'll employ 200 people but only

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a handful will be new jobs. The Bognor unit will be

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in an area that could become an enterprise zone, offering incentives

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to the companies based there. Let's cross live to our Business

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Correspondent Alastair Fee who's The first cars rolled

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off the production line in 2003. For all its success, what they don't

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have at Goodwood is room to expand. That issue has now been solved,

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at a new site eight miles away. It has been a closely guarded secret

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but finally Rolls`Royce today confirmed its plans for the future.

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This is a significant development and the local area as well, it

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reinforces our commitment to the area and I am delighted that you all

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came here to share the great news, not only for us but also for the

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area. No change in its headquarters or the county it calls home, but it

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has found a location for a large new centre. The plan is growing and we

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needed to free up some space to give us freedom to grow even further.

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People and customer demand more and more bespoke content with

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Rolls`Royce. On the northern side of Bognor Regis, covering 30,000 square

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metres, Rolls`Royce is building a new technology and logistics centre.

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It will be bigger than four football pitches and they will not be making

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cars here but it will play an important part of its business.

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There will be a distribution centre for new cars and a workshop for car

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preparation. The choice of location means that Rolls`Royce is likely to

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be the first major company to take advantage of plans for a new

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enterprise zone. It is a major boost to our bid to become an enterprise

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zone but the mere fact that Rolls`Royce is investing so much

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money, producing a facility three quarters of that at Goodwood, in

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future will hopefully encourage a lot of companies. Rolls`Royce

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started in 1906 and became the choice of the rich and famous. The

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British company was finally bought by BMW, and they relocated to West

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Sussex. Rolls`Royce has seen a record 33% rise in sales. 2014 has

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been its West year yet. `` best. None of the employees knew of the

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announcement until this afternoon. It is pretty impressive, it will

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open up a lot of jobs for other people and hopefully we can expand.

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Good access to the new site will be critical. Two infrastructure sites

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are run the way and they are both designed to reduce congestion. More

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than 200 people will be based at the technology and logistics centre,

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which is expected to open in 2016. David Myers is from the Bognor Regis

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regeneration board. What do you hope will be the knock`on effect of this

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announcement? We are very excited to have Rolls`Royce in Bognor Regis and

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we think the knock`on effect will be important. The enterprise initiative

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we set up is going to attract new businesses into the town and we are

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very hopeful that there will be other motor sector businesses on the

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back of this. Surely to incentivise new businesses you are going to need

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the enterprise zone status. We are very confident it will happen but

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the government is still making up its mind, but we have very good

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structure within the Regis, just under 100 acres of land available

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for industrial abutment, and we believe that will offer companies

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are a lot of advantages to come into Bognor Regis very quickly.

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A boost for employees today at Goodwood and hopefully a new chapter

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in the fortunes of Bognor Regis. As you may have heard, the Duke and

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Duchess of Cambridge say they're delighted with the news they're

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expecting their second child. The news that Prince George will be

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getting a baby brother or sister was welcomed in Bucklebury,

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the Berkshire village where Kate I hope she keeps better health this

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time because she was quite poorly with Prince George. I think they are

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fantastic parents and, yeah, another little baby. It is good news for the

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village of course, people are thrilled around here. Lovely!

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Still to come in this evening's South Today...

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Could Portsmouth pull off a giant killing and beat Manchester to

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Ashya King is tonight in Prague hospital of planned proton beam

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treatment, after a legal order which had made him a ward of court was

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removed. Denby was taken from Southampton General Hospital earlier

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this week and doctors had questioned the benefit of the proton therapy.

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`` Ashya was taken. We have seen a war of words between Southampton

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General Hospital and the clinic in Prague over this proton beam

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therapy, whether it is really necessary. The doctors here say it

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will not do Ashya any harm but equally it will not do anything they

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could do with their normal radiotherapy.

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There was no benefit in Ashya's case for proton radiotherapy.

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We do not say it was unacceptable treatment.

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In Ashya's case, with the type of tumour that he has,

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because we need to irradiate the spinal cord and most of the

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brain because of the tumour, the advantages you would get from proton

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radiotherapy are not as great. Is this just the hospital trying to

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defend itself? I think there is a point in that but also generally

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medically they think they are in the right word in the last half an hour

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they say they wish Ashya well in Prague and I hope he makes a full

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recovery. He is over there and likely to start therapy soon.

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That is their treatment of choice and according to current knowledge

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it should spur some of the effects of treatment .

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I understand Portsmouth City Council is writing to the family to ask

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about their schooling ` because classes went back this week and

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those children are still abroad. Clearly exceptional circumstances,

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but the council wants to know they are not losing out

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and may even be sending some home education packs out, if they can get

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an address for them. Police are continuing to question

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two people about the murder of a mother`of`five who was stabbed

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to death on a New Forest farm. The body

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of Pennie Davis was found in a field A 37`year`old man, arrested on

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suspicion of assisting an offender, A 24`year`old woman is still in

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custody, and police have been given extra time to question a 22`year`old

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man on suspicion of murder. A new coastguard control room

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started taking responsibility Next week it will replace Portland

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coastguard as well. It marks the end

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of a hugely controversial process, strongly opposed

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by coastal communities, coastguards It will be responsible

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for coastal safety from Beachy Head in East Sussex right down to Topsham

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in Devon, but also have overall The coastguards' union has warned

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that a loss of local knowledge Our Transport Correspondent Paul

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Clifton reports. This is the National Maritime

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operations centre. When a Mayday signal is received the Coast Guard

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teams, life guards and helicopters, will be run from here. Unlike older

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centres, from here you can't see the sea. You can barely see daylight.

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Does that really matter? Air`traffic controllers at Swanwick can't see

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aeroplanes. Today good communications is all about

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computers. So the old Coast Guard base at Lee on the Solent will close

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later this week. Portland will close a week later. Mark Robb away used to

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work at Portland. `` Rodaway. Half the coastguards in some areas have

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applied for voluntary redundancy. The national coastguard agency has

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not brought a lot of the staff with them and that is a lot of experience

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that will not be transferred to this new centre and that will affect

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ultimately operations in the future. This place was built as a fire

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service headquarters but it was never used for that. Since 2008 it

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has stood empty, rented by government at ?120,000 a month. I

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suspect this is to do with money. It is not all to do with money. To be

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fair, it did not need modernising, if that is the word, but I think

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they modernised too far. Nearly 50 coastguards will work it, increasing

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to 100 in a year's time, combination of national control Centre and the

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20 47 `` 20 47 macro centre for the south coast. `` 24/7.

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Pensioners from the South who were sold "shared appreciation mortgages"

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have called for help in getting banks to change what they describe

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Inside Out South has been investigating after being told

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by some homeowners they have been left trapped in their properties.

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When Brian Daughtry retired after working for charities abroad he had

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little in the way of a pension so he was tempted by the offer of a

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?35,000 interest`free loan from the Bank of Scotland in return for a 75%

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share in any increase in the value of his New Forest home.

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Since then property prices have soared and if he sold the house

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tomorrow he would have to give the bank more than ?232,000. Thousands

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A group action against the banks failed before the

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details could ever be assessed in court.

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The banks argued technicalities until the legal funds ran out.

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The way it has turned out is very unfortunate.

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I am really in a difficult situation.

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Both banks say they can't change the mortgage terms and that

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at the time pensioners were advised to take independent advice

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but they say they do try to help people who are trapped in homes that

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And you can see Jon's full report on Inside Out tonight at the later time

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It's one of the biggest fleets of green buses in Europe,

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and today a specially built filling station was opened for Reading's

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The state`of`the`art facility was built with a grant

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from the Department of Transport, and, as Ben Moore reports,

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the drive to be eco`friendly is catching on in the town.

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When Reading buses need to fill up with gas they do just that.

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The depot's new ?1 million natural gas station has been paid for

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We find Reading is a great place to trial new ideas

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because it is willing to take on that risk and innovation and we want

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other cities across the UK, who can also access funding if they choose,

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to take a look at what is happening here.

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There are 34 such buses and all are now in service.

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But if eco`friendly travel is your thing the bus is not

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Of the town's 216 black cabs, 113 are being converted to hybrid

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natural compressed gas at a cost of ?370,000.

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For once there will not be the finger pointed at taxis

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and say, look, there's a polluting vehicle going along the road.

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We will be cleaner, which can only improve the image

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Does that mean fares are going to go down?

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As two forms of transport go green there is a spirit of collaboration.

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We fuel our buses in a great hurry in the evening

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when they come off service so in the day this depot is largely

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empty and the fuelling facility is sitting here unused and has

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enormous capacity for providing gas for road vehicles other than buses.

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This is ultimately a commercial venture `

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But with taxis converting too it seems the commitment to go green

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There is a lot of emphasis on the future generation of players for

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England and Portsmouth in football. Portsmouth stepped up

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its bid to become the first City Three cities are in the running

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for not only the title, but over ?1.5 million of Sport England money

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to spend on developing the game. As I discovered earlier,

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Portsmouth is going all out to win. Pompey is a name synonymous with

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both a city and its football club. It is worn in Naas, Pompey. It is

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not just put all, it is Pompey football. How can we give it up

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after all these years? When you talk about Pompey you don't know whether

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you are talking about the city or the football club. The blues, we are

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the best in the land! Or we were. The spirit of the fans was clear to

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see. Today was all about making it

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official and becoming Sport ?1.6 million will be awarded to

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invest in the grassroots level For that kind of money we should

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have a big impact on the game. We live it and we breathe it and for

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that to be recognised elsewhere would be fantastic. We would be able

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to do all of the projects we wanted to do for year. Manchester and

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Nottingham are also in the running. The decision will be made next week.

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As for Pompey, we all know what they are looking for. And if they win

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they will hold the title for two years. The ultimate goal is to find

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the next generation of talent. They performed well off the pitch

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but not quite as well on it. They were beaten 2`0 at Burton Albion.

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They fell behind after just two minutes, the manager criticising

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this defending. This good strike took Burton to another win. Michael

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Appleton's men are still in the League two relegation zone.

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Dorset event William Fox`Pitt in the burly horse trials over the weekend,

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here he is, a perfect show`jumping round moved him up in the rankings

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but it was not quite enough. It is worth a mention for the rugby as

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well, London Welsh got heavily beaten in the opening fixtures of

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the season, and London Irish were narrowly beaten.

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It is only the beginning of the season. Now the weather, Alexis is

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here. We have an area of high pressure well established over the

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UK. It was a misty and murky start in

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some places and the mist and fog tonight could be more dense than in

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other areas. Clear skies means temperatures will fall away in the

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countryside into single figures, seven or eight Celsius. Ten to 13 in

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the towns and cities. A cooler, fresher feeling night than last

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night. Temperatures similar each night this week, cooler in the

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countryside. Lots of sunshine initially tomorrow and as the day

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wears on we will see a lot more cloud in eastern areas. West is best

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for the sunshine, with a high of 21 Celsius. Slightly cooler along the

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south coast with the breeze. Through the course of tomorrow night it

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stays right again under clearing skies. Temperatures falling away the

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single figures in the countryside. A low of 11 to 14 in the towns and

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cities. Much of this week stays dry thanks to this area of high pressure

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well established over the UK. I can't promise wall`to`wall sunshine

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but recent amounts at times. Western areas faring best for the sunny

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spells, eastern areas have cloud creeping in from the North Sea and

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the English Channel. We will have chilly nights and a misty and murky

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start. The fog could be quite dense and take its time to clear.

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Wednesday, sunny spells, bit more cloud on Thursday, but all in all

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quite pleasant thanks to the high pressure, and temperatures on Friday

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around 19. Throughout the summer you will

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notice that Alexis has been mentioning some events. We are going

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to talk about social media. We are starting a new events section

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on our Facebook page. Every week I will pick one at random. I will not

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be able to pick everyone. It will be called Don't Rain On My Parade. .

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That is it for ask, more from us at 8pm and 10:25pm.

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Have a good evening. `` from us.

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