12/01/2017 South Today

Hello, I'm sorry Taylor. Tonight, going underground, after 30 years of

talks, controversial new plans for a major tunnel near Stonehenge. This

scheme has now been proposed, it is a major disaster for the world

Heritage site. It really is. Let's take it on the table, yes. The

strike has cost the taxpayer ?60 million, but you were to cover the

cost of rail strikes in the future. Every parent's nightmare, a child

won't sleep, but can all children be taught the art of slumber? And girls

are back on the road again in the same car, sharing a fond memories of

a fond memories of the 1970s Raleigh. We decided the best bet was

to have paper knickers, so we won't have to worry about washing

knickers. Critics say it would

cause irreparable damage to a world heritage site,

but, after almost 30 years of debate, new plans

for the region's most controversial A tunnel - just under two miles long

- to bury the A303 as it passes There will also be a bypass for

the village of Winterbourne Stoke. The total cost of the scheme

is more than ?2 billion. Our transport correspondent

Paul Clifton is at the What do we know, Paul? Sourly,

successive governments have loved this idea, and then they've hated it

-- Sally. Years after the tunnel idea was resurrected, we have the

plans. Seven miles of dual carriageway, the centrepiece, a 1.8

mile tunnel. Now, put this in perspective. In decade, no other new

road in southern England has cost this much money. At ?1.4 billion, it

is more than three times the price of the tunnel, 15 times of the

Weymouth relief road. And it is profoundly controversial.

The solution, make the whole route a dual carriageway.

The National Trust hopes it will eventually look like

It actually makes a big difference to the World Heritage

We will have 1.8 miles of clear space in the World Heritage

We would look to start construction in early 2020 and have

the road open, with all its benefits, by 2024.

But some people believe the proposed tunnel is much

If they're going to put a tunnel in, it needs to be long

enough not to do any further damage to the site.

With this scheme as now has been proposed, it's a major

disaster for the World Heritage Site.

And it is a shocking indictment on our

government, that it would consider damaging

a World Heritage Site in

Winterbourne Stoke will get a much-needed bypass, perhaps

through here to the north of the village, an embankment, using spoil

Yes, we campaigned for a dual, that could be a

dual tunnel, a dual carriageway, a dual anything, but we need what's

This is the most difficult part, but the

bigger picture is an expressway to the south-west, with average speeds

The A33 follows the line of an ancient route, one of Britain's

hideous roads. But it was not until six years ago that it was the main

road, it only took that role when lorries got bigger and they had to

avoid towns. Salisbury, Shastri. The tunnel idea appeared in 1989, after

Selby is planning the government decided it was a bad idea, it was

dropped. Two years later it was back, then a public enquiry approved

it. Ten years ago the cost reached ?500 million, so it was dropped,

again. Four years ago, the idea came back three thirds time, but now the

tunnel was to be much longer and cost more than twice as much. Then,

at Stonehenge, Prime Minister David Cameron made the promise. We have

managed the nation's finances carefully, the money is there in the

budget and you will see that in the Autumn Statement on Wednesday, is

this will go ahead. So, what happens next? Public consultation starts

now, and a preferred route will be fixed this summer. The target is to

start digging in three years' time and it will take four years to

build. What are the chances of this happening, it is the third attempt?

It is without doubt one of the most controversial road schemes in the

entire country. Lots of people will hate it, locals broadly like it.

There will have to be a dual carriageway, the amount of traffic

the man said. It is a notorious bottleneck. But in transport terms,

it makes no difference whether the dual carriageway is on the ground

beneath it. The tunnel is really an environmental scheme to protect our

most famous ancient monument. Ultimately, whether it gets built

not depends on how much as a we are willing to pay to remove the traffic

from our global icon of Stonehenge. And at ?1.4 billion, it comes quite

a price tag. It is likely to go ahead, but there still time to yet

another change of heart. Paul, thank you very much.

After two days of strikes, drivers on Southern Rail

returned to work today - but not for long.

Industrial action will resume from midnight.

Tonight, we hear the story of Alex Prosser-Snelling from Horsham.

His daily commute to London has been disrupted for the last 10 months -

and it's got so bad, he now cycles for part of the route.

Two years ago, Alex Prosser-Snelling started commuting from Horsham to

London and the journey taken on a heart. For the past year it has

taken between two and five hours one-way, often requiring a route

involving car, train and bicycle. It has taken its toll and Alex and the

people with whom he usually travels. I have two small children so bedroom

is eight o'clock at night. Sometimes they will wait sometimes they won't.

I know people who've lost their jobs because of it and I know people who

to have a house move, people who've lost their relationship, the impact

is appalling. Alexeev a passenger representative on board said by

government to improve the government. He said the service is

not a normal franchise operations of the government should take greater

responsibility. When you buy your ticket, the money goes to the

government, said this is not a franchise, it's a contract and the

Department for Transport keeps revenue. Southern Dem commentate

you, it is a taxpayer who pays. It is the taxpayer that will pay the

extra compensation per season ticket holders, so this starts at the door

of the Department for Transport, namely to intervene much more

actively to get a resolution to this long-running dispute. Passengers who

like cannon fodder, we just wanted resolved and that really is a that

advancement -- responsibility for the Department for Transport.

It's been revealed that the government is to put clauses

in new rail franchise agreements that will allow employers to claim

back any revenue they may lose because of industrial action over

The Department for Transport say modernisation is needed,

but the RMT say taxpayers shouldn't be forced to foot the bill.

The role of guards is the cause of months of strike

Meanwhile, in Liverpool, plans by Merseyrail

to introduce the scheme are also proving controversial.

Today, the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn spoke

about the dispute to our political editor Peter Henley.

Southern Rail has to fess up and deal with the issue.

They've run a bad service, they've run short trains,

they've cancelled trains, they've still been paid

by the government to do it

and it is a very odd sort of contractual

government pays them whether they run

the service or not, and the

government retains the fare income from it.

The RMT tell us today that the government

new contracts for Northern Rail, for South West Trains, saying they will

reimburse them for future strike action.

Would you allow that to happen, do you agree with that?

seems a very odd way of doing things because

government is then abdicating their responsibility on that.

Surely it is up to the franchisee, where they run

a service, to run it properly and to have good

relations with its staff, rather than have this back-up with

the government saying, it doesn't matter how

bad your relationships get, you will continue to get your

Is it the safety issue that you are backing the union on?

Because in Liverpool, they are introducing

driver only trains, and this is a Labour authority.

They've come to an agreement, I assume, on that in

Let's go back to the issue of Southern.

The safety issue, you've got packed trains, you've got one

driver with four seconds to decide whether or not the train is safe to

It only wants one mistake, somebody's hand trapped in a door,

bag trapped in a door, not spotted, we've got a dangerous situation.

The RMT say they are in dispute about driver operated trains on

I want them to come to an agreement on it, everywhere.

And let's just go back to the issue of

Southern, they've run a terrible service.

They've disrupted a lot of people's lives, and the strike is a

result of all of that service problem.

Surely it is up to the government to encourage Southern and

the union to get together and make an agreement on the safety issue,

just as much as I'm sure Joe Anderson in

Liverpool has come to an

How many of your MPs would join you on a Southern

They know it sends the wrong message to the

Well, the message to commuters is simply this, we want a

rail system that works, we want everyone to

nobody's interest to have a strike, it is in nobody's interests to have

disruption, but that's what happens when a company doesn't

recognise that there are legitimate safety concerns.

Later, warnings of icy conditions tonight.

Here's Alexis braving the wintry conditions.

Snow has been falling in many places, but wanted clears, big issue

tonight will be ice. I will have the details for you shortly.

Many of you may have seen snow today.

In some parts of the South, it's been a light flurry

And, as temperatures drop, people are being warned to stay safe

in the icy conditions, Let's join Ben Moore in Reading,

Yes, I'm sorry to disappoint you, we had quite a lot of snow and sleet at

about five o'clock until six o'clock, it cause a lot of problems,

but now we barely got a rather cold drizzle. It seems like a lot of

people left to work early expecting the snow, and it has calmed down.

But other travel, the airport around Southampton and Gatwick have

survived their dusting of snow, any problems they have were because by

those flights that were cancelled at Heathrow. The message from them is

do check before you travel. As Alexis just mentioned briefly, the

big problem tonight is going to be ice. The local authorities across

the South are saying this now that has fallen has melted, a lot of

water on the roads, with the freezing temperatures and night,

very icy conditions expected tomorrow. When the road will be

busiest at rush hour. The message is, do check everything, take the

roads, check the airports before you travel tomorrow. Whilst we may have

survived the worst night, it could cause trouble tomorrow. Alexis is

coming up shortly. Now, yesterday, we had an exclusive

insight into the work of the Children's Sleep Service in

Southampton. They treat highly unusual sleep

disorders, conditions In a moment we'll hear just why

childhood sleep is so important, first Chrissy Sturt reports

on another difficult case. He's very cheeky, since he was

a baby he was walking early, talking Ever since he was born,

Lucas has woken He screams and screams and screams

and screams and we don't know what's It's like he's almost having

a fit, you can't even You've literally just

got to let him ride He struggles the next day,

his behaviour is really changing. He's not getting

the sleep he should. He should be getting at least

12, 13 hours a night. You never get a chance to actually

catch up on your sleep, you need to sleep for months,

I think, to be able to feel normal Lucas's broken nights seem severe,

but this family don't meet the strict criteria for a referral

to the Southampton sleep clinic. It would absolutely not be

right for every child with a sleep problem

We should only be seeing probably 5% or

less of children with sleep problems.

That leaves a care gap of families like this.

Too complex for health visitors, but not severe

enough Cathy's team at Southampton's sleep disorder service.

enough for Cathy's team at Southampton's

The answer is to train more community nurses

who can visit families in their own homes.

Rachel has now received such specialist help.

The vast majority of children can be taught how to

settle themselves to sleep that night and how to settle themselves

back to sleep when they wake up at night, which they will do naturally.

Cathy's aim is to train many more community nurses to meet these

You've got to be living it to realise how stressful and how bad it

Not only is the child not sleeping, the parents aren't

And we all know what that feels like, maybe on one tonight,

And we all know what that feels like, maybe on one night,

but what we don't know what that feels like it if it is happening for

Even though he's tired, and he tells me he's tired,

It can break marriages, it can ruin families, it

Earlier, I spoke to Dr Cathy Hill, who runs the clinic,

and she began by explaining why sleep is so important for children.

So, I think the starting point is, children spent half their lives

So, I think the starting point is, children spend half their lives

If there wasn't something fundamentally important about that,

So sleep cuts through everything in terms

terms of your mental health, so we tend to be only interested

in sleep when we're not getting it, and we

forget that when we are asleep, there are lots of amazing things

happening in the brain and in the body.

So, example, healing, learning, things that you've learned

in the day are actually stored away in your brain,

So, when this goes wrong, it has a big impact later in life,

Well, that's a really interesting question, potentially yes.

That information and research has just

started to evolve, but there's some very interesting data that suggests

So what is it, then, that triggers the sleep

So there is a whole array of sleep disorders in

The one that we most commonly see is what we call

behavioural insomnia, and the main principle

to understand that is that

all children, in fact all of us, naturally wake up multiple times

We don't remember it, they're often brief awakenings.

And what children have to learn to do is settle back to sleep after

And that's why it often goes wrong in young

And it's interesting what you have said in the films we've

seen, that children can learn and do learned how to sleep

seen, that children can learn and do learn how to sleep

So, is it our fault as adults that we are not teaching them

There's often reasons we can find as to why

Sometimes perhaps a child has got a physical illness,

and that makes it much, much harder for parents

And one of the top tricks for young children, and the

parents of young children, is to teach the child to self

soothe, to settle themselves to sleep at the

And how do you do that, what are the tricks?

Because there's something called sleep hygiene you talk about?

One of the things we say to parents is

imagine when your child naturally wakes at perhaps 11 o'clock at

Does their bedroom look exactly the same as when they

settled to sleep at the beginning of the night?

And almost always when we see children in clinic, there is

Whether it is the light show on the ceiling

when a child is falling asleep, the music that is playing,

the parent that is sitting alongside them,

And imagine yourself, if you woke up and your

room suddenly look different, you would struggle

You are one of only a few centres in the UK, you've got a huge waiting

You can't take all the referrals that come to you.

How frustrating is it that you can't help

practically every day, saying, when am I going to be seen?

And that's very frustrating, but obviously we

have the resources we have, we'd love to have more resources, and we

So it all comes down to money, does it?

And, if you'd like to find out more or support

Dr Hill and the team at the Southampton Child Health

Health Sleep Clinic, visit their website on

On to sport, with football. Saints won a 1-0. How we feeling? They will

feel all right, good results. There's just something in the back

of a mind which is they have some good chances maybe when 2-0,

Liverpool didn't do too much. They will be stronger at Anfield. That's

not complain, it's needed that is good. -- lets knock on playing, it

is good. 30 years ago Liverpool came out

on top when these two sides contested the semifinal

of the same competition. Last night it was Southampton

who dominated for long The only concern that they didn't

score more in this first leg. A minute after missing

out on a chance, Nathan Claude Puel's men were

playing with a flourish, something Saints fans haven't

always seen this season. Redmond nearly doubled

the lead before the break. A two-goal advantage

to take to Anfield Cedric made the wrong

choice here with a great And late on, Redmond

came agonisingly close Should they have got

more than one goal? Hopefully we can do the same

in a fortnight's time. Definitely should have had more

than one, but they should have had more than one as well,

more than We stopped the rot, we had a draw

at the weekend, we've got Fantastic game against a great

team, great players. I think it is the first

time since the beginning of the season, Liverpool, with

the one chance here in the game. Jurgen Klopp bemoaned

his side's lack of For Saints, Wembley is one step

away, but that is still a big We will be at Anfield

in a couple of weeks. Reading hope to secure a 9th home

win in 13 matches in the EFL Jaap Stam's men will no doubt be

hoping for a performance to erase memories of that 4-0 defeat

at Manchester United in the FA Cup. It will be a different game tonight,

and more important, that 4-0 defeat you mentioned at Old Trafford made

the headlines, but priority number one is promotion to the Premier

League. Reading so good in the championship, here at home where

they are looking for a six consecutive win. They will have to

do it without their captain Paul McShane, Cullen Harriet also out.

Reading third, QPR down in 17th, a win and they will move up to three

pints of second-place Newcastle. The weather isn't a worry, there has

been talk of snow. Cold and wet, but snow won't be an issue denied. The

goals at 10:25pm. Alex Thomson says his last chance

of winning the Vendee Globe races rests with a ridge of high pressure

close to the finish line off He still lies around 250 miles

behind the leader in the single There's less than a week

remaining for the front pair, Thomson and Armel le Cleach

as they sail north The Frenchman is maintaining his

lead despite the Gosport sailor gaining more speed

in the last few hours. Back in 1970 Bronwyn Burrell

was the youngest driver in the World Cup Rally from London

to Mexico, now half a century later she's been reunited with her car

and is competing again. At the age of 72 and living

in Hampshire village of Milford on Sea, she's planning to re-stage

the first leg of John Maguire caught up

with her in training. Wembley 1970, had a car rally marks

the handover of the World Cup hosting duties from England to

Mexico. Sir Alf Ramsey waves them off, and in car 20, three women

about to start a 16,000 mile race. We were away for six weeks, it

seemed like a lifetime. It wasn't a lifetime, it was a flash. Gosh,

there is those in our lovely green dresses and red jackets. On the

ramp, we are starting our huge adventure. We were young. I think I

was the youngest. The team was well-prepared, mechanically and

personally. We decided the best bet was to have paper knickers, so we

could discard them, not worry about washing. Such ingenuity might return

as almost 50 years on, she has recently bought the original car,

nicknamed Puff the Magic wagon, and they are ready to race again. What a

shame, she is no longer with us. She will love it. We are going to miss

her, we have to change a tyre. Should we take her out? See if we

can still do it. She hasn't driven competitively since the early 70s,

but you would never guess. In April they will drive to Portugal once

again, this time in a classic car rally. It's a bit more control

because of health and safety. You can't do what we used to do, please

do have one night sleep, not any more. The sport may have changed,

but the car and especially the driver looked as fast and furious as

ever. Come on, go, girls. Fearless! What a

ride. OK, onto the weather, you want to know what's going on. Still the

risk of snow and ice is the big issue.

Angela Walters took this photo of the snow settling

in the Chilterns this evening near Princes Risborough.

David Ryves sent us this picture via twitter of the snow

And Dot Williams took this picture of her snow man in Thatcham.

A few centimetres over the Chilterns and higher ground in Oxfordshire.

Overnight, once the rain, sleet and snow clears, there is a big risk of

ice on untreated surfaces. So the chance of one to snow showers

drifting in from the north-west, but mainly dry overnight tonight, and

through clearing skies, temperatures will fall away into minus figures,

even in towns and cities. In the countryside we could see a low of

minus four Celsius. A cold, frosty and very icy start to the day

tomorrow, the ground is damp. A big risk of ice do stay tuned to your

local radio station for the latest on the travel. Through the morning

tomorrow, we may see the odd snow shower, particularly the eastern

part, Berkshire, Surrey and also west Sussex, but otherwise a dry day

with plenty of sunshine, with feeling cold, bitterly cold north

westerly breeze digging in. Temperatures up to around four to

seven Celsius but feeling more like two or three, given the wind-chill.

Tomorrow evening and overnight, the chance we could have the odd snow

shower. It should stay dry and once again, with a light wind, a

widespread frosty start Saturday. Cold temperatures as well, falling

to around -1 Celsius in urban areas. Cold, frosty potentially icy start

to the weekend, but Saturday should be mainly dry, although there will

still be that keen northerly wind driving in that Arctic air, taken

the edge of temperatures. Feeling chilly with the weather front moving

south on Saturday, which may produce a wintry weather. Some rain and

sleet moving its way south across the country. As we look ahead to the

rest of the week, and into the weekend, lovely sunny conditions

both tomorrow and Saturday, although that cold, strong northerly winds.

That starts to ease over the weekend and we draw in some slightly milder

air from the Atlantic. Sunday, the chance of rain, also some rain on

Monday, but the ..and keep telling yourself

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