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Hello, good evening, I'm Tom Hepworth.

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You're watching South Today, good to have you with us.

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Dirty, dangerous and illegal - an increase in fly-tipping

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in the south, more than 100 incidents are recorded every day.

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A Sussex school leads the call for a rethink

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We are having to make devastating cuts at the moment, I am not

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replacing staff as they leave, I lost three members of staff last

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year. Fly-tipping, the scourge

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of the countryside, Last year alone there were more

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than 37,000 individual incidents across the south,

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up 10% on the previous year. It adds up to just over 100

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incidents of fly-tipping every day. And it's costing council tax payers

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dearly, nearly ?2 million a year. Some local authorities

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like Hampshire have introduced People living in West Berkshire have

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been banned from using the tip in Reading after their council

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stopped contributing to its costs. Fiona Williams is desperate

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to clear out her garage. She lives in Mortimer

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and used to take the rubbish black wheelie bin to

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the complex in Reading. But since West Berkshire Council

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cut its funding to Reading, she and thousands like her now face

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a much longer drive. I have to travel to Newtown Road,

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which is about at I find it really frustrating

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the council didn't sort something out before

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they withdrew the funds West Berkshire Council's

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plan was to expand this recycling centre in Padworth,

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extending its opening hours and allowing people to take

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general waste there. But that requires

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planning permission, It's been delayed

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because we've had a threat In order to be able to resist

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the judicial review, we need to do deeper analysis

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of the effects of extending Padworth Way centre's capacity

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to take general waste. This is extremely frustrating

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for our residents in the east of the district, and I'm

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frustrated as well. The Council's environmental

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assessments will be costly and likely to take another

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six months to complete. In the meantime, the environment

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elsewhere is suffering, with longer car journeys

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to the tip and with an increase in fly-tipping

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by those who can't be

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bothered with the drive. So what's Fiona going

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to do with her garage? So this year at least,

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the spring cleaning will have A 26-year-old man from Hampshire has

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appeared in court in Basingstoke, charged with 16 counts of serious

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sexual offences against children Michael Ian Lee Gibbons

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from Dickens Way in Yateley is accused of committing offences

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against seven children in North Hampshire and Berkshire

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from 2009 onwards. He was bailed to appear

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at Winchester Crown Court in April. Thousands of head teachers,

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representing more than a million students, have written

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to the government calling for a rethink on its new funding

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formula for schools. Consultation on the proposals,

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which were drawn up to make Gillian Hargreaves has been speaking

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to one head teacher in West Sussex Tanbridge House in Horsham

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in West Sussex provides outstanding education for its pupils,

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even though it is one of the worst ?2000 less per child

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than some other schools. It had hoped to be

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a winner when a new way of allocating cash was announced

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by the government, giving more money to rural areas and less

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to inner cities. But when the head looked at his

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school's finances, he found he So we've just got another e-mail

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coming in, and that's With only hours to go before

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the government enters public consultation, Jules White is one

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of thousands of head teachers who have written to their MPs,

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saying they can't manage and the new

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formula is flawed. We are having to make

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devastating cuts at the moment. I'm not replacing

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staff as they leave, I lost three members of staff

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last year, it could rise Maybe four or five members

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of support staff, that administration, support staff, staff

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who also help our most vulnerable youngsters, we can't

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afford them going forward. Under this new funding

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formula, he will receive But his costs for things

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like pay, national insurance, heating and lighting

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have risen to ?220,000. So now the school is

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?40,000 worse off, even It is unprecedented

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for thousands of heads to come together like this

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without trade union coordination. But that's a measure

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of both the fear and the fury teachers

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feel about the cuts The government says the funding

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formula is a fairer way to help all It's promised to help those

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in difficulties and is spending a At the moment it's

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hard to see how both When you think of public art,

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this might be the sort of thing As tastes change and technology

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develops, what should public art look like in the digital age,

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and is it relevant? Ed Sault has been to see one work

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in Worthing tonight. On a street corner in Worthing,

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an array of artistic We've got two cameras, one

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which is a motion detection camera, And then we have a motion detection

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infrared camera, which is pointing out towards the audience in the

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street, and that then brings that information in, goes through some

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software and processing to then give the visual output, which is then

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projected onto the windows. This is all part of

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a plan to invest in creative arts and culture

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in the West Sussex town. The council has invested

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in this building to help We actually are managing to produce

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over 70% above the national average in creative arts here in Worthing,

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which is really, really exciting. And so the council is really

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pleased to put some money It's a bit like a Jacuzzi

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bubble of creativity. As for this latest installation,

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it's certainly stopping I've never seen anything

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like this in Worthing before, but I like to dance,

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so I think this will be fun. And the council will be hoping that

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too, as modern technology has a hand It is very impressive, let's bring

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in the gents are men. Thank you the talk numbers. Adam, you live in

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Worthing. How important is it seeing this? I been living in Worthing but

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two years but I've met some inspiring people, friendly bunch of

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people, it is a great opportunity to present our artwork amongst all the

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other opportunities taken place in Worthing. It is ripe and ready to

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go. Jim, we saw you in the film, plus a technicality. How relevant is

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art like this in the digital age? It is really relevant, we are using

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technology you would normally find in home, we've got cameras. We're

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putting them into a different environments, getting other people

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to experience them, in a situation they wouldn't expect. At a time when

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eyes and budgets, how can he justify spending on this? From the

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experience of what we've seen people using them today and going forward,

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we found people have come along, discovered the playful nature of the

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installation and they've gone away feeling very engaged. Jim, Adam,

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best of luck. You can see this art installation here in the centre of

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Worthing until the 2nd of April. When you are 87, you need to be

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a little careful about activities But Pat Adams from Sonning has

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thrown caution to the wind. She told staff at her retirement

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home she'd like a visit from her rather high profile

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neighbour, George Clooney, The Hollywood heart

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throb duly obliged. He's a very nice man, very handsome

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man. And he can call any time he likes. I thought, I've shaken hands

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with George Clooney, I don't think I will ever wash my hands again, but

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of course I will. And this is a day I will always remember for the rest

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of my life. I think she held her composure well.

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That's the latest, thanks for being there.

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We'll be back with bulletins in BBC Breakfast tomorrow morning,

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but now Sam Fraser's here with your weather forecast.

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Some lovely spring sunshine across a region today, but we had some chilly

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winds and showers. The next few days, will continue with that mixed

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theme. For tonight, so cloudy skies were rain arriving to western parts.

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Over the coming hours, that cloud built, the rain band is out to the

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west, pushing its way into the early hours. Western parts waken up to a

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wet start. Under the cloudy skies, temperatures not dropping much below

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five Celsius. A windy night to come. And do tomorrow morning, that band

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of rain moves its weight east across the region, fragmenting so the rain

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becomes lighter all the time. By the afternoon, some brighter skies

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developing. Some sunshine too. Eight Celsius is Tamara's top temperature,

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but would lighter winds, it won't feel as chilly as today. Looking to

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Thursday, overnight, showers will last through the day, so Laurini out

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of the Thursday was cloudy skies, temperatures still in single

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figures. Into Friday, it has a brighter picture, the threat of rain

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receding all the time. gradually improve through Friday and

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the weekend isn't looking bad. Heavy rain, snow and ice are all in

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the forecast once again. It was quite a wintry scene today,

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especially in Scotland. Some very cold looking winter skies here, and

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we had some snow falling at times in West Lothian. For a while earlier

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today, there were quite a few showers running through central

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Scotland, all in that cold air. Right now, we have two areas of

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cloud, one in northern Scotland and this deepening area bringing heavy

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rain into south-west England and Wales overnight, with snow over the

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hills. That wetter weather will move into the

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