:00:00. > :00:11.We will keep you updated on the Typhoon as it heads towards Vietnam
:00:12. > :00:19.Stopped from hiking prices. Thames Water is told it cannot increase
:00:20. > :00:23.bills by an extra ?29. Life after the armed forces, the new drive to
:00:24. > :00:28.help ex`service personnel get civilian jobs.
:00:29. > :00:35.They were supposed to keep the grass short, but sheep are being blamed
:00:36. > :00:49.for destroying flowers and cards left by relatives in a graveyard.
:00:50. > :00:55.Households are feeling the squeeze. Energy costs keep going up and wages
:00:56. > :00:59.are not following suit. The next planned hike for families looked
:01:00. > :01:04.like water bills but the regulator Ofwat has told Thames Water there is
:01:05. > :01:11.no justification for a ?29 increase in bills next year.
:01:12. > :01:17.At a time when the cost of living keeps rising, today, a rolling in
:01:18. > :01:20.favour of the consumer. Thames Water wants us to pay significantly more
:01:21. > :01:25.for what comes out of the tap but for now at least that plan has dried
:01:26. > :01:32.up. On the High Street customers say they are paying too much. Very high.
:01:33. > :01:42.I do not even look at the price any more. The average Thames Water
:01:43. > :01:53.household bill is around 350 port `` ?354. Ofwat says Thames Water cost
:01:54. > :01:57.have increased but only by about ?7. The utility company is already
:01:58. > :02:03.allowed to put up bills next year by 1.4% above inflation. Thames came
:02:04. > :02:06.forward and they said that there are cost pressures that they had felt
:02:07. > :02:10.during the five years that were not taken into account at the tender
:02:11. > :02:14.prices were set. Have examined all of those cost pressures you look
:02:15. > :02:22.carefully and we do not think there is enough evidence to justify a
:02:23. > :02:26.price increase `` really carefully. Thames Water says the rise is
:02:27. > :02:36.necessary to pay for charges to transfers sewers and bad debts. The
:02:37. > :02:41.company said it will review the decision before deciding on its next
:02:42. > :02:44.step. That could be an appeal. Until then, today's decision will be seen
:02:45. > :02:50.as a rare victory for household ills.
:02:51. > :02:53.A former president of Abingdon's Chamber of Commerce has been cleared
:02:54. > :02:58.of 20 charges of sexual offences against young girls. Paul Townsend
:02:59. > :03:04.had faced a string of allegations by four girls will stop he has issued a
:03:05. > :03:08.short statement then it had been the worst 15 months of his life. He
:03:09. > :03:12.thanked family and friends for their support.
:03:13. > :03:17.Cleaners working on First Great Western chains that run through the
:03:18. > :03:26.south have taken further strike action `` trains. Members of the
:03:27. > :03:31.rail union RMT who work for the subcontractor MITIE are striking
:03:32. > :03:34.over wages and zero hours contracts. First Great Western says customers
:03:35. > :03:39.should not face any disruption as the strike carries on over the
:03:40. > :03:44.weekend. These workers staged a noisy demonstration inside the
:03:45. > :03:50.company's headquarters in Swindon. Our demands are that we be brought
:03:51. > :03:53.back in`house. Stop this exploitation through zero hours
:03:54. > :03:57.contracts and pay the minimum wage. People cannot survive on the money
:03:58. > :04:03.they are being paid. At the very least, give them sick pay, holiday
:04:04. > :04:08.pay, the minimum wage, free travel on the train that other members of
:04:09. > :04:16.staff get. For many the route from the armed forces back to seventh St
:04:17. > :04:20.`` civilian life can be tough, but a new organisation is trying to make
:04:21. > :04:23.it easier. It is as a result of the
:04:24. > :04:25.Buckinghamshire Armed Forces Community Covenant which was signed
:04:26. > :04:31.last year to link servers and civilian communities. 18 businesses
:04:32. > :04:36.have already backed the move. Life on the front line. As the
:04:37. > :04:42.warehouse operations manager, Chris supplies specialist electronic and
:04:43. > :04:46.aerospace parts. In the Falklands, he's applied petrol and ammunition.
:04:47. > :04:56.As a Staff Sergeant serving in the commando machine `` Marines. He left
:04:57. > :05:01.the forces but found the work `` found work in logistics. We have had
:05:02. > :05:06.to be adaptable due to the nature of some of the jobs we have had us the
:05:07. > :05:12.places they go and the things we have had to do. It takes some time
:05:13. > :05:18.when you think back to what you were doing when you were getting bombed,
:05:19. > :05:21.it feels like 1 million miles away. This is one of 18 businesses in the
:05:22. > :05:29.county which supports taking on extra military staff. Disciplined, a
:05:30. > :05:38.logical mind, our industry suits itself to military. A good eye for
:05:39. > :05:44.detail. The most recent figures show that in the months of April, May and
:05:45. > :05:51.June 2012 of the 2700 personnel who left the armed forces around 83%
:05:52. > :05:54.found employment within six months. Buckinghamshire County Council is
:05:55. > :05:58.hoping to start sessions allowed to this one in Bicester singing
:05:59. > :06:06.together businesses and ex`servicemen. It enables them to
:06:07. > :06:10.stay within the county. There are over 200 personnel who leave the
:06:11. > :06:16.service every year here, that is a colossal number, if we can keep
:06:17. > :06:18.those individuals who want to work, and they are definitely employable
:06:19. > :06:22.because they have skills and expertise and they have had the
:06:23. > :06:28.training, it is a win, win situation. Chris says army skills
:06:29. > :06:31.are transferable and no matter whether he is serving overseas or in
:06:32. > :06:38.the warehouse he still gets the buzz from his job.
:06:39. > :06:41.Officials in Oxford are trying to take control of a stretch of river
:06:42. > :06:47.bank near the city's train station in a bid to stop boat mooring on the
:06:48. > :06:51.Thames. The idea has been dubbed an overreaction by boat owners who said
:06:52. > :06:56.it is a lack of residential moorings in the city centre area. The City
:06:57. > :07:00.Council says it wants to introduce charges for strict temporarily
:07:01. > :07:09.moorings claiming that people living nearby have complained. Our reporter
:07:10. > :07:14.jointly. Tell me about this. `` joins me. It is a stretch of river
:07:15. > :07:18.bank that runs up to Oxford station. It is in two parts. There
:07:19. > :07:23.is a bit by the bridge where about four ports are moored. Then you have
:07:24. > :07:26.something that goes behind the back of the houses. The problem is that
:07:27. > :07:32.nobody knows who owns it and the City Council says it has been up to
:07:33. > :07:35.them to do the maintenance. It says it has had complaints from residents
:07:36. > :07:41.who have concerns about problems they have had from some `` about
:07:42. > :07:46.some boaters. We have had rubbish dumped here and there have been
:07:47. > :07:56.complaints of noise, or fumes from boats. We had open petrol cans on
:07:57. > :08:03.the embankment. Somebody decided to plant a caravan at the bottom of the
:08:04. > :08:09.garden. The boat owners dispute that and say that nobody has moored along
:08:10. > :08:13.their 1987. They say that the trend that the grass and keep the area
:08:14. > :08:18.clean, picking up litter, and they would be willing to pay fees to the
:08:19. > :08:23.council. If we are evicted from this place, we will be looking to sue the
:08:24. > :08:28.council and individual councillors. We will base its on the grounds of
:08:29. > :08:36.our rates to a home and employment. These are our homes. `` our rights
:08:37. > :08:40.to employment. The Environment Agency has said to them that that
:08:41. > :08:44.site is not truly suitable for long`time moorings and it wants to
:08:45. > :08:54.pretend visitor moorings which they think would bring in about 400,000
:08:55. > :09:00.pounds a year to the council. A service has been held near Royal
:09:01. > :09:04.Wootton Bassett to remember at the 447 `` 446 servicemen and women who
:09:05. > :09:11.have died in Afghanistan since the conflict began.
:09:12. > :09:15.It is one of six fields of remembrance that have been planted
:09:16. > :09:18.across the UK this year. There are 46,000 individual crosses which have
:09:19. > :09:24.been planted by serving members of the military and local school
:09:25. > :09:29.children. We have had a service of dedication and the two`minute's
:09:30. > :09:34.silence. Guests planted their own individual crosses to remember young
:09:35. > :09:41.ones. Among one was Emma, who lost her fiance in Afghanistan last year.
:09:42. > :09:46.He was very caring, always kind. He always put other people before
:09:47. > :09:52.himself. Generally a very kind man. This is the cross that Emma
:09:53. > :09:57.planted. She says she is going to keep his memory alive with help from
:09:58. > :10:01.the Royal British Legion for her daughter, who is now 16 months old.
:10:02. > :10:07.The garden will be open until the 18th of November.
:10:08. > :10:10.Network Rail has urged anyone who witnesses people trespassing on a
:10:11. > :10:15.real way line to contact British Transport Police. It is after we
:10:16. > :10:19.were sent this picture of a woman crossing the tracks at Reading West
:10:20. > :10:24.Station. There is a footbridge to cross the line safely.
:10:25. > :10:29.A charity has been given a government grant of more than
:10:30. > :10:34.?18,000 to help tackle rough slipping in Oxford. Around 12 people
:10:35. > :10:39.are estimated to be sleeping on the streets each night. The charity will
:10:40. > :10:44.give the money to find accommodation and provide them with longer term
:10:45. > :10:47.help to solve their housing problem. It is part of a ?20 million fund to
:10:48. > :10:55.tackle homelessness across the country.
:10:56. > :11:00.Quidditch was one is simply a mythical game played only in the
:11:01. > :11:05.world of Harry Potter. Not any more. This weekend 16 teams are heading to
:11:06. > :11:10.Oxford to take part in the largest tournament of Quidditch ever stage.
:11:11. > :11:15.Outside the world created by JK Rowling, players still need to score
:11:16. > :11:19.points with a quaffle and catch the snatch, although flying broomsticks
:11:20. > :11:24.are not included. The event will be staged at University Parks this
:11:25. > :11:29.weekend. Our top story, Thames Water's plans
:11:30. > :11:35.to add an extra ?29 to household bills have been blocked by the
:11:36. > :11:38.regulator Ofwat. Thames Water was the only water company out of the
:11:39. > :11:43.gene to ask foreign entities. Stay with us and we will find out what
:11:44. > :11:56.the weather has in store. shipbuilding closure and the issue
:11:57. > :11:58.of care homes. Still to come in this evening's
:11:59. > :12:00.South Today: Preparations for tonight's concert
:12:01. > :12:03.that pays tribute to those who fought in past and present
:12:04. > :12:06.conflicts. Relatives of people buried in a
:12:07. > :12:09.Berkshire churchyard say the decision to use sheep to control
:12:10. > :12:13.the grass and plants is an act of vandalism. Floral tributes have
:12:14. > :12:18.been eaten by the animals with urns and graves damaged as they've
:12:19. > :12:21.foraged for food. But the Church authorities say all they've done is
:12:22. > :12:23.return to a traditional way of caring for the site in the face of
:12:24. > :12:35.rising maintenance bills. The idea of the Lord as the good
:12:36. > :12:44.shepherd may be a familiar one to Christians. It is disrespectful.
:12:45. > :12:46.But the relatives of those buried in this Berkshire church yard never
:12:47. > :12:49.imagined their loved ones would share their final resting place
:12:50. > :12:55.with a rather more literal flock. I was really upset. It bought a lump
:12:56. > :13:01.to my applied. Behind the I have to answer, two uncles and a cousin and
:13:02. > :13:04.the sheep are just wandering all over their graves. The sheep
:13:05. > :13:16.arrived at the behest of the recently retired vicar. In the past
:13:17. > :13:29.a contractor has been employed to keep the grass under control, but
:13:30. > :13:32.there are no funds available. Using the animals, they say, harks back
:13:33. > :13:40.to the past when often sheep might safely graze in churchyards. It was
:13:41. > :13:45.banned of traditional way when it was just a mound of earth and not
:13:46. > :13:51.when people spend a lot of money on gravestones and people still come
:13:52. > :13:55.here to visit. The mess made by the sheep is terrible. Today, some of
:13:56. > :13:58.the sheep were being moved out and the damage they've caused made good.
:13:59. > :14:22.Repairing relationships between the church and local families may be a
:14:23. > :14:24.rather harder task. Southampton manager Mauricio
:14:25. > :14:26.Pochettino has been named Premier League Manager of the Month for
:14:27. > :14:29.October. The Argentinian steered Saints to two home wins and a draw
:14:30. > :14:33.at Manchester United during the month and his side moved as high as
:14:34. > :14:36.third in the table on some match days. Saints host Hull City
:14:37. > :14:43.tomorrow at St Mary's, hoping to extend their unbeaten league run to
:14:44. > :14:50.eight games. For many of the region's clubs
:14:51. > :14:53.tomorrow is FA cup first round day. For Portsmouth manager Guy
:14:54. > :14:56.Whittingham it's also a year since he became boss. He's seen the club
:14:57. > :14:58.come out of administration and he's overseeing a steady and cautious
:14:59. > :15:08.rebuilding project under community ownership. I've been to Fratton
:15:09. > :15:13.Park for a chat with him. He put a smile on the faces of Pompey fans
:15:14. > :15:18.20 years ago and now he is doing it again. It has been a year of change
:15:19. > :15:24.will Guy Whittingham. Massively. With everything that has happened
:15:25. > :15:29.with the club, from being at the lowest point in its history to now
:15:30. > :15:35.coming through to a point where we've got great support, the fans
:15:36. > :15:42.have rallied around us. Not only on the pitch, but ours to still be
:15:43. > :15:50.here, that is a massive achievement. Management inevitably changes
:15:51. > :15:57.someone as well. It is impossible to keep everyone happy. You have to
:15:58. > :16:00.get people to do things you don't want them to do and you have to
:16:01. > :16:06.crack the whip. The City of Portsmouth has had a grim week with
:16:07. > :16:10.job losses in store at the dockyard. It has not gone unnoticed at
:16:11. > :16:14.Fratton Park. There will be support from ours. We want to make sure
:16:15. > :16:22.that the people that have supported us, we support them. People really
:16:23. > :16:27.do rallied round in hard times. Pompey go to Stevenage tomorrow in
:16:28. > :16:34.the FA Cup first round with a six` game unbeaten run behind them.
:16:35. > :16:39.Where ever they try and do, we will be ready for them. The cup has
:16:40. > :16:47.bought some special days and some of those special moments will be
:16:48. > :16:50.sacrificed for long`term stability. It's a big weekend for non league
:16:51. > :16:52.Brackley Town who play in Conference North. They travel to
:16:53. > :16:55.Gillingham tomorrow. It may not be the first time the club have
:16:56. > :16:58.reached round one, but the Gills are the first league side to play
:16:59. > :17:01.them in a competitive match. Salisbury will have hopes of
:17:02. > :17:04.reaching the second round when they host Dartford. Oxford have an home
:17:05. > :17:08.tie, too, along with MK Dons. Two big games in the Championship
:17:09. > :17:11.tomorrow as well. Reading in fifth host Harry Redknapp's QPR who are
:17:12. > :17:14.third. Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe returns to Burnley for the first
:17:15. > :17:17.time since leaving the club to return to the south coast.
:17:18. > :17:21.London Irish are at Newcastle in rugby's LV Cup this weekend.
:17:22. > :17:24.Meanwhile, you may remember we featured the Ball Kids who were
:17:25. > :17:28.being trained in Hampshire for this week's ATP finals in London. Well,
:17:29. > :17:32.they've been hard at work looking after the world's top tennis
:17:33. > :17:35.players on court at the O2. Here's just one of them, India Taylor, who
:17:36. > :17:53.we featured on the programme last month. It's not always a glamourous
:17:54. > :17:56.job. This time next week it will be
:17:57. > :17:59.Children in Need night. South Today will be live from the national
:18:00. > :18:02.motor museum at Beaulieu. This year we have a special theme, James Bond,
:18:03. > :18:06.and I'll have a special presenter for the night to work with.
:18:07. > :18:12.Yes, its Samantha Bond who played Miss Moneypenny in the Pierce
:18:13. > :18:15.Brosnan films. Earlier I caught up with Sam to have a chat about her
:18:16. > :18:24.film career. I began by asking her about her connections to the south.
:18:25. > :18:28.My second job was at the Nuffield Theatre in Southampton and I was
:18:29. > :18:32.there for eight months and did nine plays. I finished that in the
:18:33. > :18:38.summer and the BBC gave me my first television role, which was Maria in
:18:39. > :18:43.Mansfield Park. We shop that in the New Forest. The following summer
:18:44. > :18:48.the BBC cast me in the first ever Miss Marple, which was shot in the
:18:49. > :18:54.New Forest. I thought that what the BBC were going to do. I thought,
:18:55. > :18:57.this is great been an actress. You go to the New Forest for three
:18:58. > :19:06.months in the summer. When it didn't happen, I thought what have
:19:07. > :19:16.I done wrong. The Bond films, they are tiny part in my career `` tiny
:19:17. > :19:22.parts in my career. This behaviour could qualify as sexual harassment.
:19:23. > :19:26.Sunday you will have to make good on your innuendos. You do have a
:19:27. > :19:37.lot of fun and there was a lot of partying that goes with it. What
:19:38. > :19:45.about Danton? It is colossal. I didn't come in until the last
:19:46. > :19:50.episode of the first series. By the time he `` by the time I started
:19:51. > :19:55.shooting, you could feel it. He walked onto the set and you thought,
:19:56. > :20:02.this is a hit. It had a quiet glow about it. You and I can go away on
:20:03. > :20:07.an extended trip somewhere. The baby can be adopted by a childless
:20:08. > :20:14.couple and they are made very happy and the baby is happy, and you
:20:15. > :20:21.are... Well, if not happy, at least free. And the other hit his
:20:22. > :20:26.Outnumbered. That adults try to follow a script and the children
:20:27. > :20:31.make it up as they go along. Is it scary to do that? It was terrifying
:20:32. > :20:36.at the beginning. The little girl was the frightening one. She would
:20:37. > :20:44.come out with things that was so left`field that you couldn't think
:20:45. > :20:51.of anything to say back. Have you ever been a bridesmaid? A couple of
:20:52. > :20:57.times. But never bride? I haven't. Why? I wasn't as lucky as your
:20:58. > :21:03.mummy. I didn't want to say yes to the first man who asked me. When
:21:04. > :21:09.you were money penny, you kissed the James Bond. Or was it like,
:21:10. > :21:40.just between us? It was absolutely lovely!. It took about four`and`a`
:21:41. > :21:43.half hours. On Sunday the nation will once
:21:44. > :21:46.again pay tribute to those who have fallen in past and current
:21:47. > :21:49.conflicts but there will also be acts of remembrance away from the
:21:50. > :21:51.war memorials themselves. Tonight sees the return of the Hampshire
:21:52. > :21:55.Festival of Remembrance which aims to mirror the national event at the
:21:56. > :21:57.Albert Hall. Let's cross to Alexis Green, who is outside Southampton
:21:58. > :22:01.Guildhall. Rehearsals have been ongoing all afternoon. The event
:22:02. > :22:08.starts in around 45 minutes' time. There is a 120 strong choir,
:22:09. > :22:14.military bands will be performing as well. The man directing them
:22:15. > :22:19.joins me now. This festival has not been in Southampton for a while. It
:22:20. > :22:23.has been seven years and we are delighted to be involved in its
:22:24. > :22:28.resurrection. How is it similar to the event at the Albert Hall? We
:22:29. > :22:38.have a band and choir on stage and the event is centred around a
:22:39. > :22:48.concert of commemoration. In `` there was also a service of
:22:49. > :22:52.remembrance. I look after 12 bands and we have bought some of them
:22:53. > :23:01.together to form a band of around 60 to perform one cheque `` on
:23:02. > :23:14.stage. There will be military music and we also have the Southampton
:23:15. > :23:19.Philharmonic Choir. Thank you. Well, the seeds are starting to fill up
:23:20. > :23:24.in the Guild Hall. There are 1,000 seats that have nearly sold out. If
:23:25. > :23:29.you miss the event, you can tune into BBC Radio Solent for a
:23:30. > :23:38.highlight show. Talking of whether, if you are out and about it is
:23:39. > :23:41.looking pretty good. This weather front brought torrential downpours
:23:42. > :23:46.throughout the course of the morning and in the afternoon. We
:23:47. > :23:51.did have some thunder in that rain, but tonight we will see it move
:23:52. > :23:57.towards the North Sea and temperatures will fall into single
:23:58. > :24:02.figures. We are looking at lows of between four and eight Celsius. A
:24:03. > :24:08.cold start and the risk of frost. At around 7 o'clock tomorrow
:24:09. > :24:16.morning it is chilly and it will be around four Celsius. Temperatures
:24:17. > :24:25.will rise, but a band of rain will push its way in. It could be heavy
:24:26. > :24:31.and one last until midday. Once it clears, and showers will follow.
:24:32. > :24:38.Maybe some sunshine with a high of 11 degrees Celsius. Tomorrow night,
:24:39. > :24:43.clear spells are possible. One or to showers for the south`west, but
:24:44. > :24:48.it will be a chilly night and we are expecting a widespread frost
:24:49. > :24:53.with temperatures falling to three Celsius. A chilly night to come and
:24:54. > :24:58.a chilly start to Remembrance Sunday. Whether you are at
:24:59. > :25:03.Portsmouth, Bournemouth or Winchester Cathedral, conditions
:25:04. > :25:10.are looking good. It will be a cold, crisp and sunny day, so wrap up
:25:11. > :25:15.warm. We are expecting a wet day tomorrow and squally rain. The Met
:25:16. > :25:18.Office had issued a yellow weather warning. They could be some
:25:19. > :25:24.localised flooding and thunderstorms. A sunny and cold day
:25:25. > :25:34.on Sunday. What on Monday and Tuesday will be drier, but slightly
:25:35. > :25:55.colder. Back to the studio. You can hear the highlights of that concert
:25:56. > :25:58.on BBC Radio Solent on Sunday. He's been delivering the local
:25:59. > :26:01.paper in his Dorset village since 1942, but this weekend Ted Ingram
:26:02. > :26:03.is finally hanging up his delivery bag. 93`year`old Ted is the world's
:26:04. > :26:06.oldest and longest`serving paperboy. He's been doing his round in
:26:07. > :26:19.Winterbourne Monkton for an incredible 71 years. We wish him a
:26:20. > :26:22.very long and happy retirement. So a week to go until Children in
:26:23. > :26:25.Need and our special outside broadcast from the Beaulieu Motor
:26:26. > :26:31.Museum. As I was with a Bond girl and among all those Bond cars, we
:26:32. > :26:37.just had to have a look around. Here we are ` the National Motor
:26:38. > :26:44.Museum where we will be presenting this year's Children in Need. What
:26:45. > :26:56.car are we going to arrive in? There are lots, let's have a look.
:26:57. > :27:07.Your mere presence opens doors for you and has then taken off. this
:27:08. > :27:16.will be great fun. You cannot be serious. Come we have this one? It
:27:17. > :27:30.is not fast enough. I have got a better idea. Good driving bond. You
:27:31. > :27:37.know what you're doing. I like a bit of speed. Daniel Craig, eat
:27:38. > :27:44.your heart out. I thought you were brilliant. That next Friday,
:27:45. > :27:48.Children in Need. We are back on Monday. That's it for now, goodbye.