14/09/2014 South Today

Hello, good evening, I'm Tom Hepworth.

A young boy with a brain tumour whose parents took hhm

from hospital in Southampton against medical advice, is set to bdgin

Ashya King's parents were arrested in Spain after an international

Tomorrow the five`year`old will begin proton

The treatment targets the dose of radiation more accuratelx than

traditional radiotherapy, but isn't currently available

Thames Valley Police have charged another man with child sex

It follows a series of dawn raids earlier this lonth.

Mohamed Imran, who's 37 and from Springcliffe Street in Bradford

in West Yorkshire, is the eleventh man to be charged

under Operation Articulate, in connection with child explohtation.

Fishermen and sailors have paid tribute to Portland Coastgu`rd

A flotilla of vessels sailed into Weymouth Harbour last night

Organisers said it was to thank the team for 35 years of service.

The station will be replaced by the new National Maritime Operations

Centre near Fareham in Hampshire which will operate alongsidd nine

It was the first place in the south to hold a referendum

But the blueprint which sets out where residents want

new houses, shops and businesses to be built hn Thame

in Oxfordshire, is being ch`llenged 16 months on from the vote.

Campaigners want to prevent homes being built on a green spacd called

Nine Elms, which was origin`lly earmarked for development.

There are a lot of our petitioners, the people who signed

a petition against this devdlopment, a lot of them voted yes

They are saying they did not understand exactly the consdquences

of the neighbourhood plan when it was being drawn up.

You have to look at the plan as a whole and the vote has to bd whether

You cannot piecemeal take it apart because obviously if you take one

bit out it has implications for other parts of the plan.

People who put money into a co`operative solar f`rm

in Hampshire, have started seeing their investment producing power.

But it's unlikely that other groups will be able to follow

their example ` as government subsidies and investment incentives

They are sun`worshippers with a difference.

These are the people who invested in this new solar farm near Lylington.

As the sun beats down, they are smiling because it is looking

Much bigger than I thought ht was going to be but it is hidden

from everything, it is right near the sea getting a nice cool

It has all happened in a fidld which was once a gravel pit.

After planning permission w`s granted with no objections, nearly

Once you have built a renew`ble energy project like this thdre are

no fuel costs, it is just the snm that powers it and is is wonderful

This solar farm has cost of the cooperative ?2.6 million

Altogether 450 people have hnvested between the ?250 and ?100,000 each.

This investment actually gives a very good rate of return ` an

average of eight and a half percent in the short term which you cannot

Since this solar farm was btilt the government has put up more

hurdles in the path of people who want to follow suit.

By reducing subsidies and tax incentives.

There will be higher fences and you might well trip over some

This is a co`operative which prides itself

Instead of using normal lawn mowers are going to get sheep to trim

Events have been taking place in Buckinghamshire this weekend to

Some of his most enduring characters took part in a sky dive

to raise money for Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's charity which

Around 40 oompa loompas frol across the country took part in thd event.

Let's get the weather forec`st now with Dan Downs.

It has been quite a dry September so far and not a great deal of change

It is mainly dry and by the middle part of the wdek I

think we will start to see ht feeling a bit warmer as well.

If you have been paying attdntion to our pressure charts you will

already know that high pressure has been dominating our weather

This low pressure system behng kept at bay out to the south`west.

Not a great deal of change over the next few days but those systems do

move slightly, allowing the air flow to come in from the South E`st.

So a slightly warmer directhon hence those warmer temperattres

As we go overnight, some cloud around and it max be

thick enough to introduce one or two light spits and spots of drhzzle

but for most I think it will be a dry night and our temperatures

A murky start for some but cloud will clear and sole breaks

with some sunshine coming through particularly into the afternoon

Temperatures reaching the hhgh teens, maybe just into the low 0s.

Further into the week there is not a great deal of change on Ttesday

but you will start to noticd those temperatures creeping up

There is the chance of the odd isolated shower cropping

up here or there but in the main it is staying dry.

That's the latest, thanks for being there.

We will be back with the late news at 10:20pm

but from the weekend team, have a very good evening, bye bye for now.

Still, some clear spells in western areas. If you spot stepping into

single figures but foremost, it will not be a cold night. It a rather

murky and grey start to Monday. Still, the far north-east of

England, into eastern Scotland, whereas elsewhere, slow improvement.

It brightens up into the afternoon. There will be the odd shower around.

Not so much for the South of England and Wales, here, mainly dry, but

there will be some showers around for the North into the East

Midlands. If you catch one of those it could be heavy and slow moving.

Variable cloud with the odd, like shower, and a lot of cloud in

Scotland,