23/03/2017 South Today


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I'm Tom Hepworth, you're watching South Today,

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to the victims of the Westminster terror attack.

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A whole lot of work, the councils struggling to patch up

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and catch up with a backlog of potholes, want to know

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A chill on the breeze over the next couple of days but a promising

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weekend. Your full forecast coming up shortly.

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Flags have been flying at half mast today, in tribute

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to the victims of yesterday's attack at Westminster.

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Searches have been carried out in Brighton and the region's police

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forces are reviewing security arrangements.

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The Prime Minister has praised the efforts of Bournemouth East MP

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Tobias Ellwood for his actions in trying to save the life

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Across the South, tributes have been paid to those who died

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or were injured in yesterday's attack, with flags at half-mast

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at civic buildings, including here at the Guildhall in Portsmouth.

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Police forces have paid their respects to PC Keith Palmer

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This was the minute's silence at Surrey police

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Officers at Sussex police headquarters also stood

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And there has been praise for those who tried to help at the scene,

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including Bournemouth East MP Tobias Ellwood.

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The Prime Minister in the Commons reflecting on the fact that

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Mr Ellwood's brother Jonathan was killed during a terrorist

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Not only did he show huge professionalism in putting his past

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training to the use and the hope that he had of rescuing the life

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of PC Keith Palmer, but of course, it was in the middle of a terrorist

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attack, and our right honourable friend is somebody who knows

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the trauma and tragedy of losing somebody in a terrorist attack.

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Tobias Ellwood had tried to save the life of PC Keith Palmer.

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He gave him CPR and tried to stem the flow of blood from his wounds.

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Tony Davies, a former soldier and now a boxing coach,

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I was shouting, weak pulse, he's got a weak pulse!

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Meanwhile, officers investigating the attack have

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carried out searches or arrests at locations, including ones

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And forces across the South say they are reviewing security

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arrangements in light of this attack.

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The condition of the region's roads is getting worse.

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If your car has been damaged going over a giant

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pothole this winter, perhaps to you that's

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But new figures came out today which detail just how many

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Earlier I asked our transport correspondent

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We're on one of the main roads into Southampton.

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Right in the path of students cycling from the university.

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At the end of winter here it can feel like driving

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Claims against councils for damage are at record levels.

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The weather has done its worst but the Councils

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Well, today we've learned how far behind they are falling.

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The Department for Transport published a list for the percentage

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of roads where maintenance should be considered, for each

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Twenty percent of local roads, one in five, needs repair.

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Ten years ago, the figure was much lower: 13 percent.

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Now this might come as a surprise to people who live here,

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but Wiltshire is the opposite end of the spectrum.

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Just one in six of their roads are listed as needing repair.

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In between comes Surrey, West Sussex, and Dorset.

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Paul, what sort of roads are we talking about here?

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We're talking about roads maintained by local councils, Tom,

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not the national routes run by the Highways Agency.

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So urban streets, country lanes, the local roads that

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As council budgets get squeezed, and funding from central government

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falls, the road maintenance industry has been warning for years

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Next week an industry survey will again show the backlog runs

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to ?12 billion, with thousands of miles likely

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Councils say the gap between the money they need,

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and the cost of keeping roads up to a reasonable standard,

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Two men managed to break into Portsmouth's Spinnaker Tower

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and parachute from the top of the one hundred

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The activity is known as Base jumping and the police say

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the pair put themselves in considerable danger.

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Anjana Gadgil is live in Portsmouth tonight,

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On the 9th of March at 9.15 - two men forced their way

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into the Spinnaker Tower behind me and base jumped off it it -

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that means they jumped off and used either a parachute or a wingsuit

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to slow themselves down as they reached the ground.

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Hampshire Police are trying to trace the two -

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you can see CCTV images here as they climbed the 570

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The tower is 170 metres tall - with the viewing deck at 110 metres.

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The police say the men put themselves in significant danger

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and would like to speak to anyone who recognises them.

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Base jumping is an extreme sport and has grown

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hugely in popularity - here you can see

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the world's tallest building - the Burj Khalifa in Dubai in 2014.

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And there has been an incident here before -

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back in 2005 just before the tower was opened.

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It's clearly highly dangerous but it isn't illegal -

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but causing damage to gain access to a property is and that's

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The funeral has taken place of a man from Chichester who died fighting

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Ryan Lock died in December during a gunfight.

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He'd travelled to the country last year to fight the so-called

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It's thought he may have taken his own life to avoid being captured.

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Friends and family gathered yesterday for a private service.

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A government minister has been asked to decide if nine local councils

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It would save millions of pounds, but would getting rid

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of local councillors make decisions less, well...

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Our Political Editor Peter Henley reports.

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Olive bottling in deepest Dorset. Olives Et Al have their production

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Buying the best olives from around the world

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and exporting globally, too, but they rely on local councils

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Getting a decision can take too long, they say, and as a result,

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the county's businesses aren't prospering as they should be.

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It's trying to find the right mouth, the right person to speak to.

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And inevitably, when you have spoken to one, you have to speak

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And I think this whole idea about trying to streamline the local

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authorities into just two will simplify that beyond belief.

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From Sturminster Newton to the world, the olives bottled

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here travel down in Dorset's superhighway, the A35.

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And according to the leader of Dorset Council, reducing nine

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councils to two will really help keep the wheels of the

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Surveys have shown that in general, people quite like decisions

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That's what we're seeing with Brexit.

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But in a modern, increasingly complicated world, it's

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one way of saving money and providing simplicity.

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Three councils are against the merger and the Christchurch MP

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Christopher Chope has been urging the Secretary of State not

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Can we have an early debate on how to prevent ineffective and wasteful

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councils seeking to seize by compulsion the assets and powers

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of their financially sound neighbours.

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He's talking about this man, the council leader in Bournemouth.

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The criticism is that overturning years of history to form one

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new super council in the urban east of Dorset will lead

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I think with the right councillors doing the job that they are elected

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to do and being accountable to local residents, it's the local residents

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The mayors' portraits tell the story of changing local

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We'll find out soon whether the government wants that

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Peter Henley, BBC South today, Bournemouth.

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Football and Portsmouth's Chief Executive has said fans should be

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cautiously optimistic after it was confirmed Pompey

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were entering formal talks to sell the club to the former Disney boss

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Tonight, we can reveal that the US investment firm Inner Circle sports

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are advising him on the deal, they've previously acted on sales

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of other English clubs including Liverpool.

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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 Sarah Farmer's here with your weather forecast.

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We have quite a breezy night ahead of us. Much of a region stays dry

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overnight with quite a lot of cloud overhead, but there is an exception,

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coastal areas seeing outbreaks of rain. Blustery conditions, gales

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along the coast. This easterly breeze will cross the region, taking

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the chill off some no frost tomorrow morning but still a chilly start.

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Cloud around first time and some dampness but gradually brightness

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developing, one to sunny spells possible in the afternoon.

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Temperatures will peak 11 or 12 degrees but with the easterly wind,

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this will take the edge off the temperatures. For the weekend, a

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settled team, high pressure in charge. On Saturday, it will remain

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fine and the winds will ease down. A pleasant day for Saturday. Let's

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look at the summary, cloudy skies but brightness at times tomorrow.

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Saturday will be the brighter weather continue into the second

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part of the weekend. 1415 degrees. Still quite breezy. Here's Thomas

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with the national picture.

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