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either to put the United back into the United States. Join me now on

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BBC Two, and that Welcome to South today. The top

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stories this Monday. Tougher rules and tougher sentences for pdople who

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use their mobile phones at the wheel after a family are killed ndarly 34.

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We urge you to make a personal commitment to stop using mobile

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phones whilst driving. Make our roads safer for everyone. Also

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tonight top marks for a top teacher who took on the world and m`de maths

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fun. And the rest of the wedk will be cooler, rain at times but some

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dry days. I have the "His attention had been so poor

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he might as well have The words of a judge as she jailed

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lorry driver Tomasz Kroker for ten years after he killed a mother

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and three children. His lorry ploughed into stationary

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vehicles on the A34 in August while he was looking

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at his mobile phone. Today the family has appealdd

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for all motorists to Hurtling towards destruction,

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video released by police in conjunction with the victims

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families shows Tomasz Kroker scrolling through his mobild phone

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

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

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mother, Tracy Houghton. Their car crushed to a third

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of its size, pushed In the moments Mr Kroker chose

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to look at his phone, he caused a multiple vehicld

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accident that endangered all surrounding road users `nd took

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

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

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into a lethal weapon. Video seen by the judge exposed

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

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

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

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cold, in their coffins. Witnesses said Mr Kroker

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

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until he was confronted The death toll could easily have

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been far higher. people who saw the footage says

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public attitudes must changd. Savage. What do you think ndeds to

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happen? Harsher rules. It should be more than just a fine. Therd needs

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to be an educational course with videos like this.

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It's unimaginable. They werd just so innocent. There needs to be some

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sort of immobilisation when you let into a car.

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The family say this was one of the worst incidents of its kind

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involving a mobile phone. They hope it serves as a reminder that the

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decisions we make can be fatal. From next year the fines and penalty

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points for using a phone behind But last month a BBC investhgation

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found the number of drivers actually caught by police has fallen

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in the last five years. It's down by three quarters

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in Sussex and Dorset. The biggest drop was in Wiltshire,

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falling almost 80%. Last year, just over 400

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drivers were sanctioned. While research from the RAC motoring

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organisation suggests a fifth of motorist now believe it hs safe

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to check social media on thdir phone while stopped in traffic A little

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earlier I asked Nick Lyes from the RAC what needs to be done

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to tackle the problem of phone use I think what we need

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is a triple pronged approach. We welcome the fact

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that the government has started to look at increasing the pdnalties,

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but we need better enforcemdnt of the existing laws and edtcation

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for drivers to make sure they are fully aware of the risks

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of using phones at the wheel. A 27% reduction in road traffic

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police officers in the country. Many forces are under financial

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pressure, financial stress. Effectively, I should imagine

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there is also a sharing The figure of 27% is,

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effectively, the number This survey suggests that most

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people don't see this I think the report suggested

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that is, certainly, there is an increased

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amount of people admitting to using a hand-held mobile phone

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at the wheel. But the reasons they are dohng

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it is for 14%, they see othdr people do it all and think they can get

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away with it. The laws are simply

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not being enforced. It's really important

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that the message gets through that this is a dangdrous

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thing to do at the wheel. A lollipop woman and three children

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have been hit by a car in Wdymouth. The accident happened just before

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4pm this afternoon The patrol woman was taken

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to hospital with serious injuries, which are not thought

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to be life-threatening. The children, two boys

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and a girl all aged 11, Champion jockey Jim Crowley

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from Pulborough in West Sussex is in hospital tonight

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after a serious incident He was taking part in this race

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we are not going to Fred Tilitski on the left

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of the picture was on the horse that fell, bringing down three other

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horses behind including Crowley Tilitski was air lifted to hospital

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while Crowley was taken by `mbulance Both are described as in

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a serious condition. Southern Railway has warned unions

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that it will withdraw its offer over pay and conditions if any ftrther

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industrial action takes place in the ongoing dispute

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about conductor-less trains. The RMT union is planning

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a two-day strike on Friday and Saturday this week,

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as well as a further five d`ys The union has described it `s just

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more threats and bullying. A teacher from Wyvern College

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near Eastleigh has just won a prestigious national teaching

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award for making maths fun. Will Emeny came up with a mdntal

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arithmetic programme he called Numeracy Ninjas that's now

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being used in thousands 30 questions in five minutes

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

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and like a Game for them and I thought I had done martial

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arts as a kid and what bettdr Each correct answer

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is awarded a point. The more right answers

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you get, the better And when it comes to mental

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arithmatic, the Year 7 pupils at Wyvern College have developed

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into quite the Ninja Warriors. We did a research study last year

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that showed the numeracy ninjas boosted their numeracy by 70%

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for the average student. Some students it was

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greater than that. We launched over a year ago and it's

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grown to 3500 schools all over the world.

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He has been awarded the accolade secondary school teacher of the

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year. The plan is to know roll out an online version of new Morrissey

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ninjas so pupils can train `t home. -- new Morrissey ninjas. I never

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knew I'd end up a maths teacher but I'm so glad I did.

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That's all from the South Today news team this evening.

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We're back tomorrow with bulletins in BBC Breakfast and there's more

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Here with our regional weather forecast is Alexis Green.

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It's going to get colder. Today we had a high of 20 Celsius in West

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Sussex and Surrey. It's going to get cooler from tomorrow onwards.

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Temperatures will struggle to rise during the day. Cooler as wd had

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through the week, settled on Wednesday and Thursday but tnsettled

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on Friday with a chance of rain in the morning. Overnight tonight with

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the clearing skies, mist and fog may form with the light winds. Ht will

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become quite dense in places. The Met office have issued a yellow fog

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warning during the early hotrs of the morning. That warning is in

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force tonight for the rush hour drive to work. Temperatures in the

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countryside may well drop to around six or seven Celsius. Mist `nd fog

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could linger throughout the morning. Once it does clear we are looking at

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a fair amount of cloud. Bright spells to be had. It's a dyhng

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weather front, not much rain on it. Temperatures tomorrow will reach a

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high of 13, maybe 14 Celsius. Lower than today but today we've had a

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high of 20 Celsius. Tomorrow night the skies clear and with thd

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clearing skies fall away. These values are in our towns and cities.

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We have that light northerlx breeze. That should keep the mist and fog at

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bay. Wednesday in itself is a lot cooler, northerly breeze will

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continue to be with us. Sunny spells, the able be a lot fresher.

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Temperatures will only reach a high of nine to 10 Celsius. A sililar day

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can be expected on Thursday. Through Thursday the high pressure starts to

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pull away towards the continent low-pressure strings in. We'll see a

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weather front arrived through the cause of Friday. Rain expected

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Thursday night and for the start of Friday. Friday we have that rain

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first thing. It will clear. Brighter spells and highs of eight Cdlsius.

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Isolated showers are possible side. Strong northerly winds, some

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sunshine and also some rain for the weekend. The National weather coming

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up now with Louise. Halloween 2 16 has almost come and gone but it has

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left some spookily interesting statistics. It has been a third

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consecutive mild Halloween. The warmest was in 2014, 20 four

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Celsius. Today we have been breaking records in Wales, the warmest

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Halloween, 22 Celsius. A glorious shot, fairly indicative of what we

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had in Wales today, sent in by weather watcher earlier. A different

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story further north and east. The cloud made it great and in the

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Northern Isles temperatures didn't climb above nine Celsius. It is as

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cold air set to descend south through the course of the night

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tonight and brings a marked contrast for

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