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This is South today from Oxford. Tonight, the most successful year

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ever for A—level results. The school where every pupil achieved the

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grades they needed. A midwife who claimed she had been forced out of

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her job for raising concerns about care loses her case against the NHS.

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Later, how this glass—maker's latest design has been conceived.

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Good evening. The wait is finally over for thousands of students who

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have been receiving their A—level results from schools and colleges

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across the region. In Oxfordshire, early indications show results are

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of a similar level to last year. Around 90% of students have received

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two or more A—levels at grades A* to E. One school has seen its best ever

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results. Louise Harvey came to this school after his 11 plus exams.

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He did not get the grades to go to grammar school. —— Lewis—mac Road.

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None of his teachers could have predicted what happened today. I got

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two As and a B. Only four students here did not get the grades needed

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for university. All teachers will go that extra mile for their students.

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They know what they need and what they want. The staff here today are

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buzzing. Universities in the South have seen an increase in admissions

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for the first time since 2010. The numbers dropped with the

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introduction of tuition fees and with more people doing

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apprenticeships. I have got enough. If students do not get the results

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they want today it is not the end of the world. They can go through the

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clearing process and that is what is happening here at this university,

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calls coming through from students hoping to sign up to any of the

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available courses. Admission is here are up 3% on last year. They are

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hoping it shows a recovery. It is still worthwhile and it does

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contribute to increased earnings over time. If they have got a degree

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rather than not. Many universities like this one will run student

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hotlines into the weekend, until the clearing process ends. This bite the

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rise in fees last year many students still aspire to go to university.

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—— despite the rise. Two stars of this year's Apprentice are

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encouraging students to go to university. Here they are an The

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Apprentice. If Jason stays Project manager or not... If he is not 100%

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into it than I am sorry. I would like to be Project manager. Jason, I

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think you have lost it. Job done. Louisa is project manager. That was

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Jason's last task. He was fired at the end of the

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show. He went to Oxford University and once students from a wide range

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of backgrounds to consider going there too. I spoke to him earlier

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and asked about the hurdles that students face. First there is the

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participation of getting students from a poor background to think, I

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can do this, I can go to Oxford, and sending in the application in the

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first place. Then it is about repairing them, training them,

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polishing them up so they can go into interview in December

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effortlessly and make sure that their application is successful. You

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can go straight down the market stall and crack on with setting up a

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business but university can teach you how to think. For most people,

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being able to think faster and clearer and better is something that

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is going to help them in whatever walk of life they do, whether

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business or anything else. But with education, I think you can make

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those decisions faster, you can be more agile and perceptive. Hankie.

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—— thank you. The former BBC radio presenter David Lee Travis has been

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charged with sexual offences. He has been charged with 12 offences

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from between 1977 to 2007. It follows an investigation by

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detectives from Operation Yewtree, the enquiry set up by Scotland Yard

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after the Jimmy Savile scandal. A midwife claiming she was punished

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after whistle—blowing has had her case dismissed.

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An employment tribunal said Louise Westwood was not a victim of a

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conspiracy white managers. The NHS trust that employed her had always

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denied the accusations. What happened today? The tribunal took

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four hours to decide there was no underhand conspiracy by managers at

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the Cotswolds maternity unit to get rid of Louise Westwood. The trust

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maintained all along she was moved from her job because of Orleans and

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not because she blew the whistle. —— because of the lien. She spoke to

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managers in early 2012 and she said patients were at risk because

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another week by —— another midwife was hard of hearing. Shortly

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afterwards she was investigated for harassing that other midwife. The

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tribunal sided with the trust. I spoke to Mrs Westwood after the

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verdict. It was not the result I wanted. An independent panel made

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that decision and I will have to live with that. At least we have

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closure. A short time ago the Oxford hospitals NHS trust released a

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statement. It said, we are pleased that the tribunal raised that ——

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ruled that the accusations were unfounded. Throughout all of this

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Mrs Westwood has remained an employee of the trust but she said

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she is unsure of what she will do in the future. 50% of 11—year—olds in

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Oxfordshire are obese. The figure is lower than the

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national average of 19% but the county council is concerned about

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children putting on weight after the age of five. It has launched a

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scheme to educate people about the importance of healthy living. The

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project will see activities in parks, shopping centres and

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libraries. They have cyber cycling, who live you being, dancing. —— Hula

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Hoop. It is to show you to not have to be in a team to keep active. And

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literature is given to the parents. Thousands of sports clubs across our

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region operate on tiny budget and that means a small amount of money

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can make a very big difference. It might mean new changing rooms, new

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equipment or a new pitch. One year on from London 2012 and some clubs

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here have received their very own Olympic windfall.

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Everyone gets supported, from the fun seekers to those aiming big.

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This centre offers its gymnasts a spacious, well equipped playground,

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but it is not —— it has not always been that way. We have double the

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size of the building. We have been able to equip it. Our membership has

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grown to the extent we now have 1000 members, which we never dream we

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would have before. The numbers have gone through the roof. They have had

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£50,000 from sport England's fund which offers a helping hand to

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grassroots clubs. You are not talking about putting money into the

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elite athletes' clubs. It is about grassroots so everyone has an

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opportunity to go to a sports club in their local community to give

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them a platform to try to build a sports career if they want. Without

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it we could not have got to the places we have got to. What would

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you like to say to the people handing out the money? Thank you!So

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one year on from the Olympics, the money is finding its way to clubs

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like MK Springers, and it is good news for those getting to grips with

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the sport. There has been disappointment for

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Hannah England on at the World Athletics Championships. The silver

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medallist at the last championships in South Korea, 26 and from Oxford,

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finished fourth in the evening's final in Moscow, although she

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produced a strong finish in the final straight. That is all from us.

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The headlines just before 8pm. where his wife will end up. ——

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Brian. Still to come in this evening's

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South Today: Tony Husband has been enjoying a game of cricket. The

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Ashes with a difference. England against Australia over 70s. The

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first match in a three—game series. I'll tell you who came out on top in

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a moment. The Bournemouth group of Surfers

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Against Sewage are meeting now with the developers of proposed offshore

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wind farm at Navitus Bay. The proposed wind farm would have more

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than 200 turbines some 12 miles off Bournemouth's shoreline. The surfers

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want to discuss how that could affect sea conditions including the

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swell. Figures out today reveal there's

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been a big jump in the number of Romanians and Bulgarians working in

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the UK. Many nationalities still want to come here and the

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Government's focus is on trying to control the numbers arriving from

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outside the EU. A year ago it introduced new rules so workers can

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only bring a husband or wife into the UK if they earn more than

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£18,000. Only one other major Western country has a higher limit

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and campaigners say it's unfairly keeping families apart. James Ingham

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reports. After a decade in the UK, Inodeen

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Naizai has the same rights as every other Briton. But his low pay is

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stopping him living with his wife, who he married in Pakistan.

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Immigration rule changes mean he's unable to sponsor her visa. Is too

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much for my wife, for me. Life is no good for me and my wife. Anyone in

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this country wishing to be joined by their husband or wife from outside

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the EU must prove they earn £18,600 a year — more if they have children.

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The Government says that ensures couples won't become reliant on the

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taxpayer for financial support. The community is very worried. Leaders

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from communities across Southampton — representing Sikhs, Muslims and

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Christians — are campaigning to get that threshold reduced. It's causing

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the family is anxiety, depression. They're getting mentally disturbed,

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it's causing family arguments, ripping them apart, keeping them

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away from loved ones. The income threshold has been criticised by a

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group of MPs looking at migration. A High Court judge has also described

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them as onerous and unjustified. The government says it will review the

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impact of the rules are having and in the meantime has put all

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applications that don't meet the minimum requirement on hold while it

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appeals against the court ruling. The threshold is well above the

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minimum wage of around £13,000 a year. Nearly half of all working

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people would be unable to sponsor a partner based on their earnings.

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Opposition politicians agree with the need to limit immigration, but

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question the figure chosen. Obviously, the Conservatives have

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picked out a figure so that poor people can't reach it. What we say

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is, as long as you work, as long as you contribute, no figure really

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matters, as long as you are contributing to the country and not

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expecting the country to look after you. Inodeen talks regularly to his

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wife. If the rules remain the same, this is the only contact he'll have

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with her here. On to sport and Tony tends to pick

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his moments to get out of the TV studio very carefully. Two reasons

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tonight — particularly good. One is the weather and the other is to

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watch his favourite pastime, the cricket. I can see the sun is

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beaming down on you! Yes, it's glorious. We are at one of

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the most picturesque grounds in Hampshire. It has hosted the first

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test match between England and Australia. I'll have a bit more

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about that. But you mentioned that I've got a beaming smile and the sun

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is beaming down. Now, they say good things come to

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those who wait. Southampton striker Rickie Lambert waited a long time

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for his England debut. But he made the most of his big chance last

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night. It took the 31—year—old just two minutes and 47 seconds to score

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on his debut. His goal proved to be the winner in England's 3—2 defeat

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of Scotland. King of the back pages — and the

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headline writers' darling. Rickie Lambert's achievement last night

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spread delight around the world of football. It also sparked an

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explosion of ecstatic tweets in Twitter feeds across the South. The

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former beetroot factory worker's call—up at 31 had come late — but an

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hour into the match he came off the bench to replace fellow Scouser

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Wayne Rooney. But how's this for making up for lost time, after just

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under three minutes on the Wembley pitch?

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Lambert's header proved to be the decisive moment in the game and —

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but for a bobble off the turf and the width of a post — he very nearly

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bagged another. He could have scored three! I had the post. A little nick

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took it off my foot a little bit but I'm thankful to have scored a goal.

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For the fans at one Southampton pub today, the Lambert glow showed no

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sign of fading. It went absolutely mad in here. When he hit the post

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later, it went mad again. It was all about Lambert last night, not

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England. When Lambert came on, he was there for three minutes, scored

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a brilliant goal. Excellent game. Back training with Saints today,

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Lambert's smile said it all! How are you feeling? I'm all right,

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OK. Lambert was not doing interviews

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today but one of his Southampton team mates was more forthcoming.

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Everyone was very happy for him, everyone was buzzing. We said

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congratulations to him but it wasn't really a surprise for us because we

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knew that if he played more than 30 minutes, he would score goals. Most

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pundits thought Lambert's selection for England was as a stopgap. But

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with his appetite for goal, who knows? At 31, maybe international

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life is just beginning for St Rickie. Fantastic. A full

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Southampton Premier League preview is coming up tomorrow.

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A Hampshire golfer is into the last 16 of the US Amateur championship

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after two wins in the match play part of the competition. Neil

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Raymond has just gone onto the course in his match against

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Australia's Nathan Holman. You may remember Neil, who plays at

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Corhampton Golf Club, topped the stroke play leaderboard at the event

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at Brookline. He is going very well indeed. That is one England—is truly

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a battle. How about another one? It's the first test match of a

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three—year match series in the England and Australia over 70s. Is

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truly were bowled out short time ago. This is the first of a three

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match series. —— Australia were bowled out. Let's talk to the two

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captains. Hugh Miller and Gordon Ives. Tell us about these matches,

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how they've come about. Senior figures involved over the years

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thought it was a logical move that when the Australians were coming

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over and invited us to pay test cricket we would take them up on the

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challenge. —— played test cricket. Gordon, great to have you over

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here. A big travelling contingent? There's 17 in the squad, plus

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ladies. We thoroughly enjoyed the hospitality. It's been so fantastic

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every game we've played. A good one today but unfortunately, one to

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England and zero to us at the moment but it's going to change in the

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test, hopefully. Two more test matches to go. We'll turn the

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tables. We lost the toss. I was going to bat today but it was fair

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enough. It's a good batting wicket. They would be expecting 250 to get

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out today. They only got 160 so we're in there for sure! It's been

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an English summer so far for the Ashes! I have to stop you because we

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could go on all night. We'll go to the bar in a second. England won the

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first one, they go to Crawley for the second. I harbour hopes that

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maybe one day I will play cricket for my country still!

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There is a future for you but the immediate future is behind you!

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Do you remember chemistry lessons in school? Getting to grips with Bunsen

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burners, test tubes and a pipette! In full scale laboratories there's a

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lot of glass equipment and some of it is very specialised. Professor

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David Phillips had a unique piece of glassware he used in chemistry

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demonstrations and when it broke, he turned to Southampton University for

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help. He joined me earlier on the sofa and the first thing was to

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reveal what was so special about his glass item. So, this is the item, in

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fact, which is the unusual piece of glassware. It's a baby!It is and if

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you look carefully, you can see it is a male baby. This is Mike. It's

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not the first one you've had, because your accident prone, I

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understand. I had one for many years, which was made in

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Southampton, also, and he went with me to a big lecture in Berlin just

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before Christmas and, alas, did not make it. So we had a funeral in

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Berlin. Let's bring in the glass—blower. Have you ever been

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asked to make anything as strange as this? Know, without doubt.It's all

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hand—blown, isn't it? Is that tricky? Yes. We make each part

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separately so we made the arms, the legs, the head all separately and

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then put together. It's putting it all together that is the tricky bit.

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David, you use it for educating, helping people to understand

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science, but have you got to have something like that to make this

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more educating and interesting? You don't have to bid if you can engage

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your audience with seeing something unusual, it helps. But it does a

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real experiments so there is some real science here. And, of course,

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they find this very attractive. The adults as well as the children, I

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assume? Well, we're all children at heart. The serious side about how

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you use this is about jaundice in babies, isn't it? Yes, about ten

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percentage babies are born with jaundice and it really needs to be

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treated. It was discovered by accident in the mid—1950s that if

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you use blue light on a baby, it will convert the yellow substance,

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which is a breakdown product of red blood cells, into a water—soluble

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form so you can get rid of it in the way that you and I would recognise.

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How does that manifest itself in your glass baby? This is just a

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separating phenomenon. He might object to it being described as

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that. In the legs, I have a fat solution of the authentic material

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that is the cause of jaundice in newborn babies. Above I have some

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water. You can see that it will not go in the water. If you radiate this

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with blue light or ultraviolet light or both, this converts into a form

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which will dissolve in water. So I can show you that if you like. I

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have to take his dummy out. Here is the light. I have to put it there.

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It takes about two minutes so we need to radiate for about that

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length of time. So we're going to let that radiate and come back to it

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in a second. So, you've been doing that for a couple of minutes. That

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should be long enough, I hope. So now what I have to do is see if the

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yellow colour will go into the water. I have to mix it. Which you

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wouldn't do with a normal baby, of course! Don't do this at home! With

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any luck, it has been long enough that some, if not all, of the yellow

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colour has gone into the top layer. It has now gone into the water

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layer, so now little Mike can do exactly what nature intended and get

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rid of it. That is incredible and it really does show exactly what will

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happen. I suppose the worrying thing now is, as far as you're concerned,

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Lee, you can make the baby but what if he wants an adult? I would kindly

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invite him to go somewhere else! It's fabulous to meet you. Professor

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David Phillips and Lee Mulholland, thank you. It's fascinating.

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I loved Lee's face. It was a picture! We go onto the weather now.

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Sarah is here. Gorgeous again. Yes, we have a mixed bag. Many of us

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stayed dry. A beautiful butterfly spotted by

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Beryl Matthews today at Wakehurst Place Gardens, near Ardingly.

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An action shot of a Canada goose coming into land. Taken by Dan Smith

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in Midhurst. And a moody feel to this one — taken

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at the top of the South Downs by Katarina Hutchings.

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We have had some showers and there are still a few in the mix for this

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evening. It will fade away, so we'll see dry conditions for a time before

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we see more wet weather into the early hours. The showers feed

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through the M4 corridor, easing away later, and then we'll see the cloud

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building in from the West during the early hours with patchy outbreaks of

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rain and perhaps some heavy bursts. We start tomorrow with the grey,

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damp feel and perhaps one or two more heavy bursts in the mix. In the

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sunshine, feeling pleasant, with highs of 23, but still some showers

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later in the day. Tomorrow evening, the rain eventually cleared through

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and we are left with some dry conditions overnight. Temperatures

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are still muddy and perhaps some mist and Merck. Dry and bright

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conditions but a band of weather will bring us some windy conditions.

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The wet weather will sweep through during the latter part of Saturday.

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Isobars still tightly packed. One or two showers in the mix but still the

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wind is pretty strong and gusty. We have weekend events to look forward

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to. For the National Feast of Lanterns

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on the Somerley Estate in Ringwood it looks like we'll see a dry spell

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tomorrow evening, as things get glowing. The event runs right

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through this weekend, so expect some rain at times. And for the Rewind

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Festival in Henley on Thames, it should be dry for a time on Friday

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evening, but wellies at the ready for Saturday! We do have the wet

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weather to come. Take a look at your summary for the next few days.

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Tomorrow, rain to start, becoming drier into the evening. A bright

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start to Saturday but the wet weather sweeps in from the West with

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very strong winds at times, particularly along the coast. Sunday

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looks blustery with one or two showers in the mix.

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Tomorrow night, we look into the future, quite literally, about how a

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pair of glasses in an app could help in the developing world.

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