31/10/2016 South Today

Tonight, a judge sentences a lorry driver to ten years

for killing a mother and three children on the A34.

We urge you to make a personal commitment to stop

using mobile phones while driving and make our roads

Living with the stigma of h`ir loss, a teenager speaks out

It makes me feel really down about myself.

It's not just hair, it's confidence and self-esteem that goes whth it.

Pencils ready - three, thred, one, go, Wyvern ninjas.

Top of the class for Mr Emeny as he wins a national

And hold your breath, the Hampshire cliff diver

with a head for heights wins yet another world title.

"His attention had been so poor he might as well

The words of a judge as she sentenced lorry drivdr

Tomasz Kroker to ten years hn prison at Reading Crown Court todax.

He'd driven along the A34 in August at 50 miles an hour,

scrolling through music on his mobile phone as he dhd so.

As a result, his lorry ploughed into the back of a queue

of stationary vehicles, killing a mother and three children.

Today the family has appealed to all motorists

to stop using their mobile phones whilst driving.

Our first report tonight comes from Joe Campbell,

Seldom has a court seen a vhdeo as dramatic and shocking as th`t shown

here today. I have never sedn the like of it, but the pictures showed

a lorry as it hurtled at 50 miles an hour towards a queue of stationary

traffic. What made it more traumatic with the fact that seconds later we

all knew that four people wdre dead, but the family of those who died

have today connected with the police to make sure that the view hs put

out for us all to see, and they hope that will cause a sea changd in how

we handle phones while at the wheel. Hurtling towards destruction,

video released by police in conjunction with the victims

families shows Tomasz Kroker scrolling through his mobild phone

playlist, his lorry closing rapidly Moments later, children Eth`n,

Josh and Aimee were dead, together with the boy's

mother, Tracy Houghton. Their car crushed to a third

of its size, pushed In the moments Mr Kroker chose

to look at his phone, he caused a multiple vehicld

accident that endangered all surrounding road users `nd took

the lives of Tracy, Ethan, To all intents and purposes,

Mr Kroker's use of his mobile phone while driving turned his lorry

into a lethal weapon. Video seen by the judge

exposed the wider family's Video seen by the judge exposed

the wider family's emotional trauma. I thought that was the worst day

of the life, my kids being killed, but I think it was three wedks later

when I went to the funeral directors and saw them dead,

cold, in their coffins. Witnesses said Mr Kroker

was in tears after the crash but insisted his brakes had failed

until he was confronted The death toll could easily have

been far higher. Adam Pearson's car was thrown upside

down, breaking his back. Using a phone while driving is not

something minor or inconseqtential, I think it's probably the only good

thing that will come out of this, it'll change public attitudds

to using a phone while drivhng. It's a horrible case and I hope

people learn from it. The judge said to the familx

she knew her sentence could never compensate them

for their loss - her concern tonight is that nor will it this cotrage

other motorists from doing the same The family is urging motorists

to think twice before they pick up a mobile phone whilst

driving but are you guilty Steve Humphrey's been gauging

reaction in Berkshire - he's alongside

the A34 tonight. This afternoon everybody we spoke to

in Newbury knew about the dreadful crash which happened on this stretch

of the A34. After we showed people that video of the incident which was

released by the police, most people said they now believe there should

be an immediate crackdown on drivers who used mobile phones behind the

wheel. It's not the first time I'vd

seen people on their It should be more than just points

and a fine, there needs to be an educational course where they're

shown videos like this. It's just unimaginable

and they are just so innocent. Do you think more of us shotld be

worried about what other drhvers Absolutely, without a shadow

of a doubt. There needs to be some kind

of immobilisation of mobile Yeah, oh dear, so caught off

guard completely, was he? Well, he should never have been

doing it, should he? I think he's got his just ddserts

but it doesn't help those poor That's reaction from some pdople in

Newbury today. Aimee's mother,

Kate Goldsmith, called for lore using their mobile

phones behind the wheel. Our Transport Correspondent

Paul Clifton is here. There is no evidence to suggest

the number of people using a hand held mobile phone

at the wheel is going down. Yet the number of drivers ptnished

for doing so fell by half l`st last year alone, and by 84

per cent since 2011. Principally because fewer police

are out on the road looking Every force in this region has cut

the size of its roads polichng unit. The cuts that police forces have

seen, and they had to make difficult choices,

sometimes road traffic policing has been seen

as a soft target These officers save lives and we

really need to see investment to make sure people think they will be

caught when they use a mobile behind Having two cameras in the c`b made

a huge difference in this c`se. Forward facing cameras are puite

common - they cost no But fitting one facing the driver

is more unusual. Obviously it's the boss watching

everything they do and not lany employees have that kind of scrutiny

but on the other hand many drivers also welcome it because it

exonerates them at the time of an incident and demonstrates they were

doing the right thing or not doing something they might

have been accused of, We know that texting whilst

driving impairs reaction times more than being

at the legal drink-drive lilit. IAM Road Smart, the Institute

of Advanced Motorists, said the courts are playing catch up

with society's views on this. Sentencing is out of kilter

with public opinion. It supports stronger

penalties and more police. The drink-driving battle

has largely been won. Because it is regarded

as socially unacceptable. Using a mobile phone

whilst driving does not Until it does, and until drhvers

fear they might be caught, there will be more terrible stories

like this one. A woman from Sussex

who lost all of her life savings to con artists

is warning other people When Sandra - whose identitx we ve

concealed - realised she'd been the victim of fraud,

she got in touch with the BBC. She played along with the scam,

so our Inside Out programme Initially he'd written

to tell Sandra, whose identity we have concealed,

she'd inherited a huge sum of money. Over the last five months,

posing as a bank manager called Jai with another man posing

as a Hong Kong solicitor, they have scammed Sandra out

of her entire life savings, convincing her to pay them

?59,000 in fictitious fees. Jai tells Sandra time is running out

and offers to put his money towards one final payment

which he says will unlock With no savings left, that

would mean her getting into debt. One psychologist says this

is a common scamming tactic. "I'm helping you with these

deadlines and crises, I though Jai was

someone that I spoke to a lot and funnily enough,

were even friends. And you can see more

on that on Inside Out - Appearance is incredibly

important to most teenagers, so imagine what it must be

like to lose your hair to alopecia. Anna Robinson was 11 when she first

noticed her hair falling out. Now, at 16 she's lost half of it -

and says there's a real stigma This weekend, Anna's mum Cl`ire had

all of her hair shaved off , to try to raise awareness

about the condition. Claire has chosen to go

bald, but her daughter Alopecia doesn't make me ugly but it

makes me feel it and it makds me feel really down about myself

and one of the things peopld don't realise is it's not just hahr,

it's confidence All I want is a head full of hair

and I can't even have that. For five years she kept

her condition secret. Only those closest

to her knew, until now. Hair loss seems to be

such a taboo subject, it's really stigmatised and we don't

talk about it. Every time I did speak about it

even to my mum, I would be hn floods Claire's aim is to raise money

for the small charity which aims The charity welcomes people speaking

out, like Olympic gold medallist While in everyday life she often

wears a wig, Anna has several wigs

but she would also like to be able to walk around bald

with the same confidence. I want people to be aware that hair

loss is a normal thing. I think alopecia needs to bd

normalised and that stigma needs to go because you can walk down

the street and see someone with a full head of hair

and it's like, cool, that's great, that's normal,

and you should also be able to walk down the street and see somdone

with no hair and think Southern Railway has warned unions

that it will withdraw its offer Stay with us as we mark Halloween.

There's spooky goings on and the case of the haunted swimming pool in

Worthing. If I mention school and maths,

fun is probably the last But fun is exactly what maths has

turned into at Wyvern College near Eastleigh, thanks

to the Numeracy Ninjas. That's the name of a mental

arithmetic programme which has transformed the subject -

not only at Wyvern, but at thousands It's just earned Will Emeny,

the teacher behind it, a prdstigious We sent Lewis Coombes back to school

to find out more. Right, pencils ready. Three, two,

one. 30 questions in five minutes

at the start of every lesson. I needed something that would be fun

and like a Game for them and I thought I had done martial `rts as a

kid and what better than a belt system to level up?

Each correct answer is awarded a point.

The more right answers you get, the better

And when it comes to mental arithmatic, the Year 7 pupils

at Wyvern College have developed into quite the Ninja Warriors.

We did a research study last year that showed the numeracy ninjas

boosted their numeracy by 70% for the average student. Some students

it was greater than that. The questions are set to be

challenging and the oldest pupil sitting at the back found

it harder than most. OK, times tables answers ard 42 I

like how we do with at the start of the lesson because it gets ts ready.

I liked because it's challenging. At the beginning I got red and then I

got Brown. Did anyone get the blackbelt? Congratulation 's. We

lost it a year ago and it's grown to 3500 schools all over the world

The success of Mr Emeny's brainchild has been

rewarded with the accolade of Secondary School Teacher

of the Year at a national teaching awards ceremony.

The plan is to now roll out an online version of Numeracy Ninjas

For those pupils at Wyvern, Mr Emeny has become a significant figure

I never knew I would end up a maths teacher but I'm so glad I dhd

because I love the job. Go, numeracy ninjas! Congratulations to him and I

would think from his whole class. We will move on to sport. It's not a

happy story to start with, hs it? Yes, we know the dangers of the

sport of horse racing. The champion jockey Jim Crowley was one of two

rushed to hospital after a serious incident at Kempton Park. Wd will

not show you the accident. That is the worst that fell at the left of

the picture, the other forcds, including Jim Crowley on

Electrified. He was taken to St George's Hospital at tooting. That

is the remainder of the racd. Both men described as being in a serious

condition. We will have an tpdate on that on our late news, if wd have

one. We can go to football now. We'll start with a look at the top

of the EFL championship table. Brighton and Hove Albion

cemented their position in second with a victory Chris Hughton

described as right up there with the best in his

time as Albion manager. Hughton's Albion are second only

to his former club Newcastld And look out for Reading,

Jaap Stam said top ten was ` big stretch in the summer -

the Royals are fifth. Norwich goalkeeper Michael LcGovern

had a bad day and his mistake allowed Glenn Murray to get

the first of his three on the day. The on-loan striker headed

a second on the hour mark Then Murray completed his h`t-trick

as Albion marched to a ninth game A super finish coming up

from Anthony Knockart compldted It's a special result because we're

up against at top team and ht was our day to day. I think the second

goal was the big one becausd at that stage they had to open up. Ht starts

and a real good opportunity from Glenn and then from that first page,

you have a good Norwich teal that are chasing the game.

So here's the rest of the weekend's football.

The Royals notched up anothdr victory and it was a Nottingham

Forest old boy who set them on the way.

Gareth McCleary first to re`ct to John Swift's long shot.

Jaap Stam singled out the goalkeeper for praise afterwards.

Welsh full-back Chris Gunthdr hadn't scored a league goal in over five

years but his finish secured all three points.

Seven wins now for Stam, a promising opening

Bournemouth had excelled in recent weeks but away from home

they are not quite hitting the same highs and they were undone

by a fabulous goal from former Southampton player

The Cherries hit the bar twhce but were eventually beaten

when Stewart Downing arrived first to effectively finish the g`me

These games we want to come in and challenge ourselves

Chelsea were the last team to win at St Mary's in February

Eden Hazard put them one up before the break.

A curling effort from Diego Costa wrapped up the points and S`ints'

focus switches to the visit of Inter on Thursday.

In League Two Portsmouth are back on the front foot.

Conor Chaplin may be over fhve foot five but he leapt to the rescue

as Pompey won at Cambridge, a game which saw Amine Ling`nzi sent

The ten men held on and Pompey are fifth.

Some sad news, Dave Lanning has died, famously describing the first

live darts final on TV in 1884. He started his career on the

Bournemouth Echo. Staying with hockey tomorrow night

we'll have a special report from the Netherlands where two

of team GB's hockey stars are now Sussex's Maddie Hinch

and Surrey's Sophie Bray were part of Team GB's gold medal winning

team against the dutch This weekend Maddie,

from West Chilitington, was up against Sophie

and our cameras were in Utrdcht to see what life after Rio

had brought for them. Now to someone who always

seems to be looking down on the opposition, Hampshird cliff

diver Gary Hunt is on top Hunt, who's from Eastleigh

and trained at the Quays Diving centre in Southampton

won his sixth world title, following the final competition

of the season in Dubai. Although that dive placed hhm

second, a string of wins throughout the series

secured the overall win. The sport - which sees divers jump

from a 27 metre high platform and reach a speed of

65 miles per hour - is so extreme that only

around 50 people in the world have enough technical skills

to take part. I heard him talking on the radio

about having to change from diving head to coming down with yotr feet

first, so that was difficult and look at that, Hurford! It t`kes my

breath away, that -- perfect. As you can hardly fail to h`ve

noticed, tonight is Hallowedn - the night when the spirits,

not to mention young trick To mark the occasion,

Richard Latto has been delvhng into BBC South's archives in search

of ghostly goings-on. And he's breathed new life

into some weird and wonderftl tales of the unexpected -

starting in Worthing with the case 1976 and the long hot summer

had us diving into the swimming pools to cool off

but there was one that was perhaps Swings our baskets

around, moves things. Things that suddenly appeardd,

suddenly disappear. Sadly this pool has now

been shut down, probably because of the hauntings,

so if you see a ghost here wearing armbands and looking lost,

you will know why. You have the sensation

there is somebody behind you but you turn around

and nobody is there. This is Quarry Road in Winchester

and it was here in 1972 that She had two exorcisms

but the spirits refused to leave. The first thing I saw was a lady,

a nun up in my bedroom. She was dressed in black and I just

glanced across and saw her at the end of the bed,

towards the wardrobe. I couldn't say anything,

under my breath I said oh mx God You have held two exorcisms

but without much success. I wouldn't say without succdss

for the simple reason that when I first went there,

it was apparent that somethhng evil was there and that evil has

been done away with. Not many people know it

but according to records Botrnemouth is the ghoul capital of the South,

known for its nightlife and also its afterlife nightlife

and as reporter Tim Hirst found out when he met a family from Whnton,

there is a particularly nasty The television was pushed over,

fireplace was pushed over and a disco ball was thrown

across the room. She rang me and said

please come home, things Then a neighbour picked the phone up

and said you must come home, And it seems that possessed houses

in Bournemouth were very colmon Mike Purton set out

the case for another John and Edith Upshaw lived

here with their son and with It was an ordinary life unthl a few

weeks ago everything changed. First thing that happened

here was that the electricity supply began to fluctuate and then

the lights would begin to swing There haven't been many ghost

reports on South Today for ` long time, so maybe these things just

don't happen any more, Wonderful spooky stories thdre from

Richard. Let's move on to the weather because we have a H`lloween

deal, haven't we? What will it be like? Very mild. Today we h`d a high

20s Celsius but tomorrow will be cooler. Let's look at the phctures.

Shazz Hooper photographed some eerie looking trees in the New Forest

John Tweddell captured a pulpkin in Emsworth Town Square.

And Dot Williams took this picture of a narrow boat at Newbury Wharf

which had been transformed in to the Creepy Cruise.

Today we had mild temperatures, are high of 20s Celsius in West Sussex

and sorry. In the rest of the week it is set to get cooler, especially

Wednesday and Thursday when we could just reach double figures, so

turning cooler and unsettled -- settled on Wednesday and Thtrsday

but unsettled on Friday. Tonight there will be missed in fog and the

Met Office have issued a dog warning, tonight and tomorrow

morning it should clear the temperatures may drop to six or

seven. A foggy start to tomorrow, once the fog clears its an hmproving

picture but still a fair amount of cloud and patchy rain moving south,

not amounting to two much btt there will still be a lot of cloud, one or

two bright spells and highs tomorrow of 14 Celsius, a contrast to today

because the northerly breezd will set in. The route tomorrow night,

once the rain has cleared your looking at clearing skies are living

temperatures to fall away into single figures. Wednesday whll be a

chilly start, those of four or five Celsius. Wednesday is a dry day the

air will be cooler and fresher with temperatures reaching up to 11

Celsius, so struggling during the day, feeling to the west th`t

northerly breeze but the brdeze will be light and remains light on

Thursday. Thursday morning we may have a bit of frost in the

countryside, high pressure pulling away. This low pressure in the North

will bring rain on Thursday night into Friday, moving south and east

and Friday is a wet start to the day but improving, showers expected with

some bright spells and a high of 13 Celsius. The weekend, isolated

showers, turning breezy on Saturday and cooler on bonfire night.

Tomorrow we will talk about the role milk Revolution, milk straight from

the Co-op helping to turn around profits for farmers. Thank xou for

watching tonight. Good night. If you trust me not

and I trust you not, then what is the point

in this marriage at all? Life holds very few things

which are genuinely worth having. If you don't possess them,

everything else is worthless.