19/03/2017 South Today

Good evening, I'm Jo Kent. stories on the BBC News Channel.

Human trafficking is happening around us, but could you spot

That's a question shoppers have been asked in Portsmouth this weekend

by a charity raising awareness of modern day slavery.

This is Maria, just one of thousands of people working in Britain

Brought here by a wealthy family, she was forced to work

She managed to escape, but many others can't.

Which is why the organisation Stop the Traffik wants us all to be

on the lookout for signs of such abuse.

It's about equipping the community and the general public

with the ability to understand that this does exist.

You are looking for anything that looks a bit untoward,

people that might seem a bit malnourished,

people that feel may be afraid if they are doing agricultural work

They might not be wearing the right equipment,

they might not be taking breaks, so it's so varied.

This is an important and unacceptable crime

that is taking place in our community that we must deal

with and it is important that we join together in partnerships.

If they're something that gives you concern,

we will take that information, treat it confidentially and we

It's thought only one in five people living in slavery

here are ever discovered, but better public vigilance could be

A man has been arrested after a series of armed

robberies in Christchurch in Dorset yesterday evening.

Two people were assaulted and goods stolen from a Co-Op

store, a service station and another convenience shop.

The 23-year-old suspect was arrested on the M3 in Hampshire,

A technology company in Basingstoke has signed a multi-million pound

deal to produce life-saving medical monitors for the Armed Forces.

The contract also secures jobs for the firm as Ben Moore reports.

When there's a serious injury in battle, time is rarely

on anyone's side but the aptly made Tempus Pro monitor is designed

to buy patients and medics precious minutes, even hours that can make

In Monty Python terms, it's a machine that goes ping.

You can just use it for pulse and blood pressure but it does lots,

For example, I can transmit the data about the patient to the next level

of care so the hospital is ready to receive that casualty and can see

Medical tools can be plugged in to do things like ultrasound

or complex operations and the ?14 million deal

with the MoD is not only big for those on the front line but also

It is helping sustain 16 high-quality engineering

and professional jobs in the Basingstoke and also

manufacturing jobs and as a result of this contract and other things

we've been doing, we've hired another 20 engineers

This will save lives not only because it's got real

utility as a bit of kit, but because we are capturing

all that data, can analyse it and see if we can

Nearly 500 monitors have already been deployed with twice that

still on order and given its early success, the Tempus might not

remain an exclusively military piece of kit for much longer.

Football now - if you don't want to know the score turn

A trip to White Hart Lane ended in defeat for Southampton -

Christien Eriksen and Dele Ali put Spurs ahead.

James Ward-Prowse's goal was consolation for Saints.

You can see the action on Match of the Day two which follows us.

15,000 runners took to the streets in Reading this

morning, for it's big annual Half marathon.

Well the rain held off for them, but looks like it's

Here's Dan Downs with our weather forecast.

We have showers moving in at the moment and temperatures tonight are

no lower than 10 Celsius. A grey start tomorrow with heavy burst of

rain at times and we keep the wind. A mild day with temperatures

reaching 11 Celsius. Once that rain clears through and the skies break,

it will be a cold night down to three Celsius. The risk of some

frost and bright with showers on Tuesday. That is it from us this

evening. We are backing BBC breakfast, good night.