02/11/2016 South Today

Hello and welcome to South Today, I'm Edward Sault.

The top stories this evening: The motorists using their phones

at the wheel just days after a lorry driver is jailed for a fatal crash

Nowhere to turn - why this Dorset man set up his own support network

after him and his wife struggled to have a baby.

And Saints Chinese Takeaway - Reports Southampton FC

Just days after a lorry driver was jailed for killing a mother

and three children on the A34 because he was distracted

The BBC has filmed a number of drivers still using their

Tomasz Kroker was sent to j`il for ten years on Monday.

Tonight there's warnings that the police's ability to enforce

This is the horrifying video that it was hoped would persuade

people to stop using mobile phones for driving.

Tomasz Kroker's decision to use his mobile phone

cost phone the lives of Tracy Hatton,

After he was jailed for ten years on Monday, her birth mother made

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

phones while driving and make our roads

Filming by the BBC shows thd plea is being ignored.

These pictures taken this morning show a number of drivers continuing

We showed the BBC's video of drivers breaking the law to an officer

People are just not realising that when you use a phone behind

the Department for Transport has released figures showing thd use of

a mobile phone was a factor in 40 accidents in 2014.

Earlier, my colleague Steve Humphrey joined me from Chieveley to remind

us what the law says about driving with a mobile phone.

At the moment, motorists catght using their mobile phone at the

wheel gets three penalty pohnts and a minimum fine of ?100. The

government is consulting on making some quite stiff increases to those

there does need to be a big change there does need to be a big change

in this area. Ultimately, wd want to be in a position where the tse of a

hand-held mobile phone is as socially unacceptable as

drink-driving. We also need a high-profile public awareness

campaign which educates drivers just on how dangerous it is to use a

hand-held mobile phone at the wheel. With that in mind there are some

worrying figures out today `bout lorry driver still using mobiles at

the wheel. An insurance company has released the results of a strvey

carried out which shows half of all lorry drivers admit to having used a

mobile phone behind the whedl at some stage. The Road haulagd

Association says the advice is absolutely crystal clear. It says if

you are driving leave the phone alone.

Gareth Down from Weymouth was in his early 20s

when he was told he had a zero sperm count.

He and his wife went through years of fertility treatment But,

Gareth found one of the hardest struggles for him - as a man -

As part of national fertility week, he told us his story.

The GP had told me over the phone - it can't be, you're 20 years

You get this inferiority to who you are, you're a man,

you should be the one that can produce a child.

I could lose my way for this and I didn't know we could producd one by

other means. I had read up about IVF

but you don't really think about the complications

that go with it. We'd had two unsuccessful rounds

of IVF and the eggs had been As far as I was concerned,

the procedure had failed. We had the miscarriage and ht then

became my problem. As far as I was concerned,

I had lost our baby. Three miscarriages, seven

and a half, eight years and eight rounds of treatment,

she was at the end and very much of the belief that,

if the best of the best hadn't I did find as well that a lot

of groups that allowed men on had women on and men just didn't

want to speak to women. I set the group up to initi`lly

support myself and there was just me The more people joined

from around the world... It's brilliant - you can actually

unite over something, a difficult I feel it's really important for men

to be able to talk because, I wish I had done it sooner but it's

now up there for people to find and secret enough that people don't

need to know you are on it It took us eight years,

four heartbreaking miscarri`ges He really does undo all

the problems, all the pain, Just completely irrelevant when

you're holding your little liracle. I'm incredibly proud of him and it

will help others. huge thanks to them for sharing the

story with others. Earlier I spoke to Susan Sednan

from infertility Network UK, and I began by asking her why it

seems men have been forgottdn. We certainly haven't forgotten them.

I think a lot of times and then try to be strong for the partners and

legal and come forward lookhng for support themselves. I think it is

very important they reach ott and we provide support to people lhke

Gareth and everybody else ott there. It is ironic perhaps, that dxperts

say positivity can improve chances of conceiving so it almost like a

vicious circle. You want to be positive if you are having treatment

and go on with the positive attitude, and that can make a

difficult because sometimes you difficult because sometimes you

don't want to be too positive in case it feels. I know some people

that have gone through it and the stresses it puts them under. What

needs to change in the long,term and who if anyone needs to insthgate

that change? We need to change wider society's understanding of fertility

and infertility and people just don't understand the huge ilpact it

has. We are trying hard with national fertility awareness week to

awareness and also raise aw`reness awareness and also raise aw`reness

of the support but is it thdy are for people including men like

Gareth. Fascinating to talk to you, thank you.

Southampton could be about to become the latest English football club

According to global business news providers Bloomberg,

Saints have been in talks for some weeks with the Chinese Landdr Sports

Development company about a takeover said to be worth ?200 million.

The news broke this afternoon, on the eve of perhaps the club's

biggest ever game at St Marx's, tomorrow's Europa League gale

The present regime at Southampton began

when the wealthy Swiss businessman (BP ROLL?

Marcus Liebherr bought the club seven years ago,

Saints were in administration and struggling in the third tier

Now owned by his daughter K`therina, they're currently ninth

in the world's richest football league, and an attractive

Nevertheless, today's news came as a surprise at the pre-match news

conference for tomorrow's g`me against Inter Milan.

I've just come from training, but I've just come from training, but

obviously it's a great club and a worldwide club now playing hn the

Europa League so of course there's going to be addressed.

Well, TV coverage of the Premier League is in deland

across the world and it's m`king all its clubs big money.

Last season, Southampton was the 22nd richest club

in the world with revenues of nearly ?150 million.

Those revenues are almost cdrtain to grow because of the latest

Premier League TV contract , worth a staggering ?5.1 billion over

That guarantees each Premier League club a minimum of nearly

If a deal did go through, Southampton would follow cltbs

like West Bromwich Albion and Aston Villa, which are now

in Chinese hands - as the Chinese government

encourages growth in the gale at home and abroad.

Many Southampton fans have dxpressed apprehension about any

Anthony Burdett-Clark said, "every Saints fan has their heart

Marcus's Masterplan is a crtcial part of Saints ethos and success.

And Chris Terry said, "the Liebherr family has bedn great

Chinese takeover could be at best destabilising -

I am sure we haven't heard the last of that story.

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

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

Here with our regional weather forecast is Alexis Green.

He certainly has only the whdespread frost is on the cards espechally at

the countryside. A chilly nhght in the temperature already has dropped

to -1, even down in Bournemouth on the south coast we had a low of

around freezing. The temper`ture could fall slightly lower than that

in the countryside and thesd are the values in our towns and cithes. HLA

starter model with any mist and fog patches clearing swiftly. Qtickly

through the morning crew cloud will move on from the West bringhng hazy

sunshine with a high of 11 Celsius and a light south- south-westerly

breeze. The winds will change direction once again through

tomorrow night and into the early hours of Friday and Saturdax. Friday

we are expecting some outbrdaks of rain, brightening up through the

afternoon and the wind slowly changing direction. The air is

moving anticlockwise so by Saturday we expect winds straight from the

Arctic. Chilly over the weekend with the temperature struggling by day

with a brisk northerly wind not stop the temperature is coming

up to around 12. Mick Miller has the national picture.

The weather may have turned colder but for many of us today there was

abundant sunshine. This is from the end of the day from Oxfordshire

Cold