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A hero's welcome. The rising cost of | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
some parking spaces in this one are too small. | :00:08. | :00:29. | |
For one night only, Southampton's Craig David | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
announces a homecoming concert at The Ageas Bowl. | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
It always feels amazing when I come home. Like, I am from Southampton | :00:39. | :00:48. | |
and even though people stayed where I sound moment I can't be | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
Southampton boy, it's true. And a century on, | :00:51. | :00:51. | |
a fitting tribute to the hundreds of South African troops who died | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
in the sinking of the SS Mendi. It is very emotional to be here but | :00:55. | :01:04. | |
it's also pride in the sense that they did not die in vain. | :01:05. | :01:12. | |
Mourners from the Kurdish community in Britain paid a remarkable | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
spontaneous tribute this weekend to Ryan Lock from Chichester | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
who died in Syria fighting the so-called Islamic State. | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
As his body was returned to Heathrow, they were out in force | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
to pay their respects to a man they regard as a hero. | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
Our home affairs correspondent Emma Vardy has this exclusive report. | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
You could be forgiven for thinking this was Kurdistan, | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
but actually, it was Heathrow Airport on Saturday. | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
Ryan Lock, a former chef from Chichester, for these people a | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
Ryan's sacrifice will be written in our history | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
and humanity's history, I believe personally. | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
A young man, you know, going 1000 miles | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
Ryan Lock had told friends and family he was going on | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
holiday to Turkey last year before revealing on Facebook he was joining | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
In December, he and four others came under attack from | :02:14. | :02:21. | |
so-called Islamic State fighters near the Syrian city of Raqqa. | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
It's believed that to avoid being taken hostage, | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
Ryan Lock turned his gun on himself. | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
What Isis is doing in Kurdistan is fascist things. | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
Many Kurds here today, they all lost some member of | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
their family within the last few years. | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
Ryan Lock is the third British man to die fighting alongside the Kurds. | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
His body was recovered from IS held territory. | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
In Syria, he was given full military honours by the Kurds | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
before his coffin began its long journey home. | :02:59. | :03:07. | |
It's taken some eight weeks to bring Ryan Lock's body back home via Iraq. | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
The people who have turned out today to pay their respects, | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
they did not know Ryan before he went to fight, | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
but they see him as a British man who decided to fight their cars. | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
Dozens of western volunteers are known to have joined | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
For these young men and women to feel such responsibility to go | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
out there and try to do something and unfortunately to sacrifice their | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
The British Government is against British people | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
going to join this war. | :03:45. | :03:45. | |
Do you think they should be discouraged from doing this? | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
I mean, there are enough people fighting, | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
but of course we don't want to encourage anyone to go out there. | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
They don't know what kind of battle is happening. | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
I think probably if the British Government were doing | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
what they can and what they should, maybe these people didn't have to go | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
After this colourful sendoff, Ryan Lock's family are now | :04:06. | :04:13. | |
planning a private funeral for him at home. | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
So, just who are the YPG, and who's joining them? | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
There are many different groups fighting in Syria. | :04:20. | :04:28. | |
The YPG are the Kurdish people's home grown defence forces | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
in Northern Syria, in a region known as Rojava. | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
They have become one of the key groups fighting the ground war | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
And they've been battling to liberate Syrian towns | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
and villages that have been under the control of the IS jihadists. | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
The YPG allows foreign volunteers to come and fight with them. | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
People not only from Britain, but also from other countries | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
in Europe, as well as America and Canada have joined up. | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
For the British authorities, legally though, this is a grey area. | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
The government warns people not to fight with the YPG in Syria, | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
but no one from the UK has yet been prosecuted on their return. | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
These three British men have now died in Syria with the YPG. | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
And others are still out there fighting. | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
Well, a little earlier I spoke to Dr Jack Holland, | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
an international security expert from Leeds University, | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
and I asked him to spell out the risks to those thinking | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
So there's the very obvious risk to British | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
nationals who go out and fight | :05:32. | :05:32. | |
in one of the most dangerous battlefields in the world. | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
There's the risk of what happens when those people | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
come home having been battle hardened and pick up certain skills | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
and the risk of the complexities of different groups merging together | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
because not everyone draws the same lines between groups that the Brits | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
And so, is it that the British Government do not want | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
to get drawn into this in the sense that there are these | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
sensitivities with the YPG and Turkey? | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
Yes, they are certainly worried about the relationship | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
The YPG are one of the most important groups on | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
the ground for the Brits and the Americans | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
but for the Turks, that group | :06:12. | :06:12. | |
on the ground has actually been | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
a long-standing problem for the Turkish state, | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
so even though Turkey is a Nato ally, there is a very | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
different relationship with the YPG for the Turks whereas the Brits | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
and the Americans see these guys is absolutely crucial ground forces. | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
Could you see a new policy being put in place by the British Government | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
in the sense of taking a harder line with those going out to fight? | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
Belgium and Australia for example have | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
legislated against this, so in the same way as in Britain | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
you can't go abroad and support terrorism, where | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
as the relationship for going to support someone | :06:46. | :06:55. | |
for the Australians, they've just said, you cannot go | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
Hard to prosecute, but still, that's one option that's open | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
I guess the critique of that is, is it really in the public | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
interest to try and prosecute anyone? | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
Are they really a danger if they are fighting | :07:11. | :07:12. | |
Are they anything of a threat back home in the UK? | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
And how much, if you like, propaganda value | :07:17. | :07:18. | |
when a British person goes out and gets either kidnapped or indeed | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
Isis has been a pretty phenomenal fighting machine, | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
but it social media and propaganda presence has been | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
unparalleled amongst terrorist networks and any Western victim | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
There are calls for Wiltshire's Chief Constable to explain how | :07:35. | :07:44. | |
details of his force's investigation into Sir Edward Heath ended up | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
Officers have been investigating the former Prime Minister, | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
who died ten years ago, as part of a wider | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
It all started here at the gates of Sir Edward Heath's Salisbury home. | :07:54. | :08:03. | |
I'm really appealing for anybody who's been a victim of crime | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
or who is a victim of anything that may have taken place involving | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
At a cost of more than ?800,000, Wiltshire Police's investigation | :08:10. | :08:17. | |
Operation Conifer, has been trawling through every aspect of the former | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
Wiltshire Police say they have a duty to properly | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
investigate all allegations of historical sexual abuse. | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
With such a high-profile investigation, | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
there is no surprise it has come under intense scrutiny. | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
None more so than from friends like his former agent. | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
It should have stopped months and months and months ago. | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
It's our money that's being spent and it's destroying the idea | :08:48. | :08:56. | |
And today, she and others, including Wiltshire MPs, | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
are concerned about apparent leaks or briefings to the | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
Mail on Sunday about operational details in this case. | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
Yesterday, the paper claims that more than 30 alleged | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
victims had come forward and that the Chief Constable was certain | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
The Chief Constable made a promise that | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
there would be no leaks confirming numbers or any details of the | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
alleged victims and that he is responsible for this investigation. | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
But the force have refused to answer my question | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
as to where this leak or briefing came from and whether | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
was involved in the Mail on Sunday's story. | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
from the investigation but they have no links to Sir Edward Heath. | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
For now, his life remains under investigation. | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
In the last few hours, it's been revealed that | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
the Hampshire mother who's been imprisoned in an Iranian jail - | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
has been taken to a Tehran hospital to see a specialist neurologist. | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
For the past month, Nazanin has been complaining | :10:09. | :10:10. | |
of neck and back pains and there are concerns | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
about the nerves within her right arm and hand. | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
The young mum, from Fleet in Hampshire, is facing | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
a five-year prison sentence on what are described | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
And also later for a special announcement... | :10:21. | :10:29. | |
I've got some amazing news for all the Southamptoners out there. | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
Well, right here on Saturday, I'll be telling you | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
Frustration is growing in Berkshire over repeated delays to the opening | :10:37. | :10:44. | |
The Shinfield Eastern Relief Road has been dogged by setbacks | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
and should have been finished last summer. | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
Local businesses say it's killing their trade and residents | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
The Swan Inn at Arborfield Cross reopened for business last summer, | :10:57. | :11:05. | |
about the same time the new relief road should have opened. | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
Expected profits are down by at least 15%. | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
We've got quite a good reputation so far, | :11:13. | :11:14. | |
but to try and get here, it's impossible. | :11:15. | :11:16. | |
We lost a lot of trade when they actually stopped work for | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
a week because some of the signs never got | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
moved and basically, it closed down, | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
which no one knew it was supposed to be opened and it | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
wasn't open and it did cost is major problems. | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
When they've got that road closed, the detour is miles, so I tend | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
if I've got to go that way, I don't bother. | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
I'll go to Aldershot or somewhere instead. | :11:43. | :11:44. | |
It's a nightmare here for traffic in the mornings, | :11:45. | :11:46. | |
Melina Harrison says patients at her clinic are often late | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
We're in our 14th year here and I've never known | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
Even getting the business off the ground was easier | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
They're getting so frustrated with the traffic that | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
they actually missed their appointment and, you know, when | :12:08. | :12:09. | |
you're trying to get somebody better and maybe are rehabbing them after | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
they've had disc surgery or something like that, the timing of | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
appointments is really important to their well-being. | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
The road will serve Reading University's | :12:19. | :12:20. | |
huge new Science Park currently under construction. | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
But with so much house building also underway here, | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
it's vital to the local authorities future development plans. | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
In a statement, Wokingham Borough Council told us it | :12:31. | :12:32. | |
shares people's frustration with the delays. | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
It says it doesn't have any control over the contract but it's | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
working with Hochtief and the University | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
of Reading to get the project finished and open. | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
It says though, with complex projects like this, | :12:44. | :12:45. | |
there are always unforeseen problems. | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
Currently issues include water seeping up through the road | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
The contractor Hochtief UK has apologised for the delays and says | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
it's brought in significant extra resources to address | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
the unforeseen challenges it's facing. | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
The road should be open within the next couple of months. | :13:04. | :13:16. | |
Parking and issue but this story is very different. | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
South West Trains is having to repaint part of its car park | :13:20. | :13:21. | |
at Southampton Central station after a driver proved some | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
Jago Lawless got a penalty notice because his car overlapped one | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
And that's when he turned to his tape measure, | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
he proved that the car park doesn't actually meet | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
Keeping between the lines isn't always easy. | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
And it's even harder these days because cars are bigger, but | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
I've been to meet one man who has proved in his case it wasn't | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
It was just over a week ago, 46-year-old Jago Lawless was issued | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
a penalty notice because his car just overlapped one | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
of the spaces at Southampton Central Station. | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
My front wheel, where I had pitched the front of the car over so | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
I could actually get out of the door, the front of the car | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
had moved over an inch, two inches over the line. | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
But he felt something wasn't right and as a naval architect by | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
day, who reviews detailed measurements, he took out his own | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
measuring tape to find out what was going wrong. | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
When I first measured the entrance into the car park bay, | :14:29. | :14:30. | |
But because they have angled parking bay | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
over, the parallel with between the lines is actually only 1.978 | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
metres wide which is too small for the | :14:38. | :14:39. | |
After he highlighted the issue to South West | :14:40. | :14:49. | |
South West trains says the car park was painted out before the | :14:50. | :14:58. | |
Government advisers came in and the fee was withdrawn. | :14:59. | :15:00. | |
But it appears small parking spaces isn't | :15:01. | :15:01. | |
In general, all parking spaces are way too small for today's cars. | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
My personal opinion is that I have two | :15:07. | :15:08. | |
children with disabilities and that's even worse because if you | :15:09. | :15:10. | |
don't qualify for a blue badge, you're forced to park | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
I find that parking spaces are a bit too small because whenever | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
I go out with my fiancee, he invariably has to let me out | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
beforehand otherwise I can't open the door properly and squeeze out. | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
Jago tells me he's happy that the company is taking positive | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
steps to widen the spaces and I'm sure that | :15:28. | :15:36. | |
will be thankful that one man really had it taped. | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
Southampton's Craig David has announced he's to play a one-off gig | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
The singer shot to fame as a teenager at the end | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
of the '90s after growing up on a Southampton council estate. | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
He's currently enjoying a spectacular career comeback, | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
with a number one album, and a nomination as best solo male | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
# I feel nothing like this, like this | :15:59. | :16:14. | |
# I have felt nothing like this, like this... This is what is taking | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
Craig David back to the top. 16 years since his first album went to | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
number one, he would did it again stopped on the 1st of September, he | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
will play for founds new and old at the Ageas Bowl. The generation think | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
of people who are now discovering my music who would have only followed | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
my last album. The were kids who only just found out about my music. | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
Calling me a new kid! I loved the new kid thing, I will run with that. | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
And then there was a generation who grew up with my stuff from back in | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
1999. Last year, things really took off again for Craig David. He had a | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
residency and I be there with his DJ sets TS five which she also | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
performed at Southampton's Common people Festival. But the date at the | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
Ageas Bowl will be his first headline show in his home city. You | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
can take the boy out of Southampton but you can't take Southampton at | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
the boy and it's true. Wherever I go, as soon as I come back down the | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
avenue, I feel like I'm home and the crowd responds in that way and any | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
shows that I've done here, either at the Guildhall or at Common People, I | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
could feel that there was an ownership of coming from here and | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
we've got your back. A source on his ties with home that this afternoon, | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
Craig took the time along with his manager to talk to and perform for | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
students at the city's Solent University. When you meet your | :17:40. | :17:47. | |
favourite artist, you kind of get disappointed but I don't feel like | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
that. I was like, yeah, man! That was exciting. To see an idle but is | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
performing five metres from you, it's amazing. Craig David's story is | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
about talent and staying power. Through it all, he has never | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
forgotten his roots. Tickets for his Southampton concert go on general | :18:06. | :18:06. | |
sale this Friday. I like that line, talent and staying | :18:07. | :18:20. | |
power. We know all about that, don't we? | :18:21. | :18:22. | |
I met Craig before the FA Cup final in 2003 and I'm still here! I could | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
be on stage with him. Big Southampton fan and we will hear his | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
spots about that EFL Cup final which is going to dominate the week, | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
really. Later in the week though, so as was his concert, he was keen to | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
talk about saints. Football to start with as well tonight. | :18:39. | :18:40. | |
The two horse race at the top of the Championship saw Brighton | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
leap above Newcastle and back into top spot, although | :18:44. | :18:45. | |
could return to the top if they beat Aston Villa tonight. | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
A double from Sam Baldock in the second half at Oakwell | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
was enough to hand Albion their 20th win of the campaign, | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
Reading on Saturday, then Newcastle a week tomorrow. | :18:57. | :19:05. | |
Meanwhile with no Premier League action this weekend, | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
Good luck to Sutton United and their former Eastleigh boss | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
Paul Doswell, the Surrey club take on Arsenal tonight live on BBC One. | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
Oxford United's cup dreams ended on Saturday and we start | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
Three and a half thousand Oxford fans were in the north-east aiming | :19:24. | :19:36. | |
for a giant-killing at the home of Premier League opposition. For the | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
first hour, that seemed highly unlikely after Stewart Downing was | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
bundled over in the box, Grant Leadbeater scored from the box. | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
United had been unable to weather the early storm and it got worse. | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
Acrobatics put Middlesbrough two up before the break. But it was far | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
from over. Chris Maguire placed this free kick perfectly to pull a goal | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
back just after the hour mark. The momentum of that goal was ensemble. | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
Within 60 seconds, they swept forward again and although Maguire's | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
effort was boiled, Toni Martinez followed up to level the scores. A | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
replay would have been the right reward for Oxford's endeavours, but | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
four minutes from time, their hearts were broken. We've got one big | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
semifinal coming up that we're all looking forward to and then to be | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
fair, we have about 16 cup finals is well on the way, so we've still got | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
two great opportunities to have a little bit of success this year and | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
we're not going to let go of that. In the two, Portsmouth remain on | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
course for the play-offs but ahead of a huge travelling contingent, | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
they fell behind at Barnet through this free kick. Inspiration was in | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
short supply until Conor Chaplin stepped up late in the game with a | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
brilliant long-range effort, probably his best. In week one, MK | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
dons were beaten at home by this goal at the Stadium MK. A big game | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
for Reading the championship tomorrow night. | :21:04. | :21:03. | |
It was a successful weekend for some of the country's top | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
university sports stars in the British Universities | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
Rhys Gray from Southampton University took the honours | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
with this performance in the elite men's trampoline. | :21:15. | :21:16. | |
The 22-year-old is a former Great britain trampolinist who left | :21:17. | :21:18. | |
the national programme to pursue his academic studies. | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
And a reminder this week is all about the EFL Cup final. | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
Southampton take on Manchester United on Sunday in their first | :21:26. | :21:27. | |
major cup final at Wembley for 38 years. | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
We'll be building up to Wembley where Claude Puel's men | :21:32. | :21:33. | |
go for glory and we want to hear from you, wherever you might | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
How will you be watching the game, how far have you come to be here. | :21:37. | :21:44. | |
Give us a shout via our Facebook page. | :21:45. | :21:46. | |
We would love your video messages to the team. | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
We will play them out on Friday night. It's each week for | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
Southampton. We will look forward to that. | :21:55. | :21:56. | |
It was a terrible maritime disaster but the sinking of the SS Mendi | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
is a story that remains largely unknown in the UK. | :22:00. | :22:01. | |
More than 600 people lost their lives when the troopship | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
went down off the Isle of Wight exactly a hundred | :22:05. | :22:06. | |
Most of those onboard were black South Africans, | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
travelling to France to assist the allies. | :22:10. | :22:11. | |
Today their loss was commemorated at a service attended | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
by Her Royal Highness Princess Anne in Southampton. | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
I'm driving to honour lost countrymen, members of the South | :22:17. | :22:33. | |
African Navy have sailed 6000 miles to Southampton to commemorate a | :22:34. | :22:35. | |
tragedy their nation has never forgotten. In February 1917, the | :22:36. | :22:45. | |
trip ship the S S Mendi was on the last leg of her journey from Africa | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
to France. She carried members of the South African native labour | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
corps, forbidden to bear arms, they were recruited to build trenches, | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
railways and roads for the Allied forces. In thick fog, south of the | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
Isle of Wight, the Mendi collided with the much larger ship. There was | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
effectively cut into by the impact, take relatively quickly in only a | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
matter of minutes so many of those who lost their never even made it | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
out into the water. Many of those who did drowned and many of these | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
men had never even seen the sea, let alone been to see before. It must've | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
an incredibly harrowing experience. More than 600 men died. A few bodies | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
washed ashore and were buried but most were lost at sea, their names | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
recorded here in Hollybrook Cemetery. Natalia is here on a | :23:33. | :23:40. | |
pilgrimage to remember her relatives, the Reverend Isaac Job. | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
Survivors said he calmed the men as the ship went down saying to them, | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
we are the sons of Africa, let us die like brothers. It is very | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
emotional to be here, but it is also pride in the sense that they did not | :23:55. | :24:01. | |
die in vain. 100 years later, they are brought to life with this | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
commemoration. Though long honoured in South Africa, in the UK, the | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
recognition for trips lost on the Mendi have taken time, the story | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
only becoming more known after the wreck was discovered by an Isle of | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
Wight diver in 1974. It is just a horrendous story of loss of life. | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
Almost half the loss of the number of the Titanic and here it is of the | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
Isle of Wight. There are two ways of looking at it. Either it was covered | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
up by the Admiralty for propaganda reasons and row or we have to look | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
the other aspect of was it because they were black people and they were | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
considered, you know, not as important as white people and | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
unfortunately we had to consider that aspect. Now the story of the SS | :24:45. | :24:52. | |
Mendi is being taught to a new generation and in the centenary | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
year, two nations stand together to remember the contribution and | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
sacrifice of men who died far from home in very different things. -- | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
very different times. Remembering the SS Mendi and those | :25:05. | :25:13. | |
who lost their lives. Moving ahead to the weather now. Very mild today | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
with a high of 17 Celsius. That is around 8 degrees above the seasonal | :25:20. | :25:20. | |
average. So, we sat some sunshine today and | :25:21. | :25:35. | |
through the course of this week, we will have some brighter spells here | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
and there. But there will be a great deal of Plaid as well and the chance | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
we could have some outbreaks of rain. Mild start to the week but | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
turning cooler with a brisk, called Westerly winds from Thursday | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
onwards. Through the course of two nights, there will be a good deal of | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
cloud, outbreaks of rain here and there. Could be on the heavy side as | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
well with one or two heavy bursts and president for a time before | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
temperatures fall away by Don to around nine or 11 Celsius so a mild | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
night. It cloudy start to the date tomorrow. Slow, improving picture | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
has to ring for the morning, we will start to see one or two brighter | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
spells more likely the further north and west you are. Generally, cloud | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
tomorrow and another mild day but today's temperatures, culturally | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
different from tomorrow. High today of 17, high tomorrow of 12. Through | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
tomorrow night and the early hours of Wednesday morning, the winds will | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
increase from the south-west. Quite a cloudy night tomorrow night with | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
outbreaks of light and patchy rain. Drier interludes as well with | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
temperatures falling away to around nine or 10 Celsius. A cloudy day on | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
Wednesday. Outbreaks of rain at times and winds will strengthen to | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
touch the force. Even stronger winds inland with one or two brighter | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
spells. Highs of ten to 11 Celsius. On Thursday we start to drop in | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
Calder, Westerly air. That will bring us an area of low pressures of | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
the chance of deals and again. A real squeeze on the isobars. Very | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
cold winds coming directly down from the north and there will be spells | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
of rain during the course of Thursday daytime with a great deal | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
of cloud so a fresh feeling take and it will also feel very cold on | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
Friday with it the chance of the wintry showers. A bit of sweet and | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
even the stall shower here and there with height of 8-7 Celsius. Frost on | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
early Saturday, wet for a time and showers on Sunday. | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
That's always got time for this evening. There is more at 10:30pm | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
tonight and will be back tomorrow at 6:30pm tomorrow. Join us then if you | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
can, but have a lovely evening. Good night. | :27:41. | :28:11. | |
You're sponsored to swap clothes? I don't get that. | :28:12. | :28:13. | |
Maybe you wear your mother's clothes? Cool. Yeah, finally. What? | :28:14. | :28:16. | |
I don't get it, what does she wear? No, no... | :28:17. | :28:18. | |
Like, she wears someone else's. Cool, yeah. No, she's... | :28:19. | :28:20. | |
OK, that's too complicated. Do another one. | :28:21. | :28:22. | |
So, like, you get sponsored to let people lick stuff off you for a day. | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
Ugh. No, but, like, you get these flavoured... Not going to happen. | :28:27. | :28:28. | |
You take a selfie and post it on social media or whatever, | :28:29. | :28:37. | |
and then people have to pay to guess who it is? | :28:38. | :28:43. | |
That's a no-brainer, we love the secret selfie. | :28:44. | :28:45. | |
'For better ideas, get your free fundraising kit now.' | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
Alex and Steph are on a mission to help people | :28:51. | :28:53. |