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Hello and welcome to South Today, I'm Jo Kent.

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The top stories tonight: After decades of indecision,

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plans for a tunnel past Stonehenge are revealed.

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But the scheme is still controversial.

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The ?60 million strike, that's what the Southern Rail

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dispute has cost the taxpayer, but are you willing to cover

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There is an ice warning overnight tonight. Slippery surfaces are

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possible and I will have the details for you shortly.

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It's the South's most controversial road scheme.

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After almost 30 years, new plans have been published

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It would be just under two miles long and would bury

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the busy A303 as it passes the World Heritage site.

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But it's going to cost more than ?2 billion.

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The tunnel idea first appeared in 1989.

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After years of planning, the government dropped the scheme.

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A public inquiry lasting almost a year approved it.

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Ten years ago the cost reached $0.5 billion,

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Four years ago the idea came back for a third time.

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This time a longer tunnel, costing more than twice as much.

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Then, at Stonehenge, Prime Minister David

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We have managed the nation's finances carefully, the money

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is there in the budget and you will see that

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in the Autumn Statement on Wednesday, so this will go ahead.

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Well, that was a couple of years ago.

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So is it now finally likely to happen?

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Here's our Transport Correspondent, Paul Clifton.

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Successive governments have loved this idea,

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In decades, no other road in southern England has

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At ?1.4 billion, it is more than three times the price

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of the Hindhead tunnel, 15 times of the Weymouth relief road.

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The solution, make the whole route a dual carriageway.

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The National Trust hopes it will eventually look like this.

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It actually makes a big difference to the World Heritage Site.

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

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But some people believe the proposed tunnel is much too short.

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If they're going to put a tunnel in, it needs to be long enough not to do

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It is a shocking indictment on our government,

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that it would consider damaging a World Heritage Site in this way.

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Winterbourne Stoke will get a much-needed bypass,

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perhaps through here to the north of the village,

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We campaigned for a dual, that could be a dual tunnel,

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

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This is the most difficult part, but the bigger picture

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

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Public consultation starts now, and the preferred route

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The target is to start digging in three years' time and it

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will take four years to complete, so 2024.

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Ultimately, whether this gets built not depends on how much

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as a nation we are willing to pay to remove the traffic from our global

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At ?1.4 billion, it doesn't come cheap .

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

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in new rail franchise agreements that will allow employers to claim

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back any revenue they may lose because of industrial action over

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The role of guards is the cause of months of strike

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Today the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn spoke

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about the dispute to our political editor Peter Henley.

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

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

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

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by the government to do it and it is a very odd sort

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of contractual relationship where the government pays them

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whether they run the service or not, and the government retains

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The RMT tell us today that the government is inserting

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clauses in new contracts for Northern Rail,

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for South West Trains, saying they will reimburse them

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

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No, I don't agree with that, it seems a very odd way of doing

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things because it seems as though the government is then abdicating

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

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Because in Liverpool, they are introducing driver

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only trains, and this is a Labour authority.

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

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Let's go back to the issue of Southern.

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

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with four seconds to decide whether or not the train

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

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

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The RMT say they are in dispute about driver operated

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

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Clearly it is up to the government to encourage Southern and the union

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

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just as much as I'm sure Joe Anderson in Liverpool has come

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A BBC investigation has found that ambulances were called

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to Winchester prison, more than 150 times last year.

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Research shows that call outs to jails nationally have gone up

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The prison reform trust says it's down to growing violence

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One union says it can take a long time for a crew to simply

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It can take up to 40 minutes just to get through the security and then

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when you we make the decision to take a patient to hospital

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you have got to have two guards accompany you in the ambulance

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to have to find the guards and you have to get out

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of the prison so it can take 40 minutes to an hour

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Football next, and Reading were beaten at home in the league

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for only the second time this season tonight

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when they lost 1-0 to Queen's Park Rangers.

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To make matters worse, it was a former Reading striker

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Japp Stamms Reading have missed an opportunity to narrow the gap

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between themselves and Newcastle in an automatic promotion spot.

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A first-half goal from former Reading man Jamie Mackie

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was a crucial moment, a well taken close range finish.

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Reading huffed and puffed, but bar a couple of Yann Kermorgant

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A first home defeat in three months but now nine days off until the next

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championship game for Reading at Derby County.

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Back in 1970 Bron Burrell was the youngest driver

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in the World Cup Rally from London to Mexico, now half a century later

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At the age of 72, and living in Milford on Sea in Hampshire,

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she's planning to re-stage the first leg of the rally this April.

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John Maguire went to see her training.

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Wembley 1970, had a car rally marks the handover

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of the World Cup hosting duties from England to Mexico.

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

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We were away for six weeks, it seemed like a lifetime.

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It wasn't a lifetime, it was a flash.

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Gosh, there is us in our lovely green C dresses and red jackets.

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On the ramp, we are starting our huge adventure.

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The team was well-prepared, mechanically and personally.

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We decided the best bet was to have paper knickers,

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so we could discard them, not worry about washing.

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Such ingenuity might return as almost 50 years on,

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she has recently bought the original car, nicknamed Puff the Magic wagon,

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What a shame, Tish is no longer with us.

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She hasn't driven competitively since the early 70s,

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In April they will drive to Portugal once again,

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It's a bit more control because of health and safety.

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You can't do what we used to do, please do have one night

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The sport may have changed, but the car and especially

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the driver look as fast and furious as ever.

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Many of you may have seen snow today.

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

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

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West Sussex and Surrey, along with Berkshire and North

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and East Hampshire all saw rather more than that.

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But in the main, the region appears to have escaped the heavy falls

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That's all from the news team for this evening and we will take a look

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at the weather now. Any more snow to come?

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A chance we could have snow showers overnight tonight and through the

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rush hour tomorrow morning. The big thing tonight is the ice. Where we

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have had rain and sleet and snow the ground is wet and temperatures

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falling away rapidly. The Met office have issued an ice warning and there

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could be disruption to travel. Tonight with the clearing skies

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there is a chance of a few snow showers from northern and eastern

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areas but otherwise it will stay dry. A widespread frost and

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widespread ice on untreated surfaces. Temperatures in town and

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cities dropping below zero. A cold and frosty start to the day tomorrow

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with plenty of sunshine on offer. There will be a bitterly cold North

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westerly wind which will take off the edge of these temperatures. It

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will feel closer to 2 degrees given the significant wind-chill. Tomorrow

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night there at the risk of the odd snow shower here and there and we

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hold on to the north-westerly wind on Saturday and it feels very cold.

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It should be mainly dry with note. If that's not your sort of

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thing, Sunday will be cloudier and

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