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Hello, and welcome to South Today from Oxford. In tonight's programme:

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The rising cost of rail travel. How the New Year will bring new prices `

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with some commuters paying ?140 more for their season tickets.

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Also tonight ` hoping for the gift of life. The 3`year`old boy who

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needs multiple organ transplants because his liver, pancreas and

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bowel are failing. And later on, popping the question

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whilst Christmas shopping, but does she say yes?

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The news was widely expected, but an increase in rail fares from the

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start of next year was never going to be welcomed by regular commuters

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` many making their final journeys today before the Christmas break.

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First Great Western and Chiltern Railways have confirmed their price

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rises, and Cross Country is also expected to confirm an increase

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shortly. But the fares are not rising as steeply as they might have

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done, after the Government imposed new rules and a cap, linking future

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increases to the rate of inflation. Adina Campbell reports. The trains

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themselves might not always arrive on time, but the annual fee increase

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does, much to the frustration of commuters who have little choice but

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to pay more. With just two days until Christmas, the news that real

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fears will increase in the New Year has come as unwelcome present. Many

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commuters travelling from here to London on a regular basis, this

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season ticket cost them thousands of pounds per year. Certainly, my

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salary will not go up by 3%, so I will lose out in real terms over the

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year. There comes a tipping point, doesn't there, when it becomes

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cheaper to move to London and other banking it. I don't really think I

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could complain too much about that. On the other hand, this is rep of

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Britain. For 11 years running, commuters have dealt with the above

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inflation rise. Just weeks ago, the government stepped in, rushing

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through regulations to limit the train company's power to increase

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fears. It has caused First Great Western abandon its plan to change

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its fear structure. Changing the formula is something that will

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likely encourage more people onto the railway and make the cost of

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travelling by rail cheaper. That is a good thing. Next year's price rise

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may be less than anticipated, but real users still say it will

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disadvantage low to medium earners whose income does not rise in line

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with inflation. An inquest into the death of Jayden

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Parkinson has been opened ` and adjourned. It's still not clear how

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the 17`year`old from Didcot died. Her body was discovered hidden

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inside a grave at All Saints churchyard in the town last

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Wednesday. An initial postmortem examination failed to establish the

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cause of death. Detectives say further tests could take several

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weeks to complete. Jayden's former boyfriend, 22`year`old Ben Blakeley

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from Reading, has been charged with her murder. A 17`year`old boy from

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Didcot has been charged with perverting the course of justice.

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People out partying in Swindon over the Christmas period are being

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warned to steer clear of drugs often called "legal highs," which police

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believe are becoming more easily available. They're particularly

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worried about three new substances which are said to be circulating in

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the area. Back in July, 23`year`old Christopher Scott died after taking

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AMT tablets in the town. Our reporter Jessica Cooper is here with

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more details. What does this latest warning from the police say? They

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say it is difficult to know what chemicals are in some of these

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drugs, and they haven't been tested, whether they are illegal is also

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question. The warning about three substances that they now are in use

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in Swindon. They are MDVP, which is a class B stimulant drug, PVP, which

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police say is being sold in crystal form, and another countries it is

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actually a controlled drug after being linked to deaths. And also

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Etizolam, which they say if mixed with other drugs or alcohol, could

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increase the risk of overdose. MP Robert Buckland is working to ban a

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particular legal high, isn't he? Yes, he is looking to ban EMT, which

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is the drug that killed Christopher Scott. The government is reviewing

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how it classifies legal highs and looking at making it easier to have

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temporary bans. But the police in Swindon are advising, in the rush up

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`` run`up to Christmas especially, to avoid legal highs and advise them

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if they know where they are being sold.

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Thames Valley Police have arrested 134 people on suspicion of

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drink`driving in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire since the start of

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December. Police are targeting drivers on the way home from nights

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out or the morning after as part of their 'Is It Worth The Risk?'

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campaign. 114 people in the Thames Valley have been charged.

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Making their Christmas wish come true would inevitably mean

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heartbreak for another family. With growing numbers of people on the

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register awaiting organ transplants, there's a fresh appeal for potential

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donors to come forward ` people prepared to declare their

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willingness to help others in the event of their own death. Angie

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Walker's spent the day with a Buckinghamshire family whose

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seriously ill son has come home for the holidays.

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3`year`old Rocco Seagrove has spent much of his short life in hospital.

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He desperately needs a new liver, pancreas and bowel. That means he

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can't eat or go the toilet normally. His immune system is so low he can't

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leave the house, and spends his life hooked up to machines. It's very,

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very serious. If he gets any infections or bugs, he can die.

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Unfortunately, he does suffer a lot of infections. So, really, the

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sooner we get the donor, and the call... Fingers crossed... Without a

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donor, unfortunately, he won't survive. The number of people

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needing an organ transplant is going up all the time, but not enough

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potential donors are making their wishes known, which means every

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year, hundreds of life`saving organs are going to waste. We will always

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check the organ donor register first, but because someone isn't

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registered doesn't mean they didn't want to become a donor. So we go and

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speak to those families and ask those families to make a decision

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about organ donation, but we know only 31% of those families agree to

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it going ahead. There are currently 598 people in our region waiting for

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a transplant. 135 people's lives were saved in the past year, thanks

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to a donor. But 16 people here died in the past year because of the

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shortage of organs. It would just be a huge, life`saving relief for him.

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He would eventually be able to eat and drink ` that's the aim. And have

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a life ` he'd be able to go to nursery and to become a normal

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little boy, which he's not at the moment, and which he deserves.

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A man dressed in a Santa costume has carried out an armed robbery at a

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branch of Next in Oxford. He threatened staff with a knife at the

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store on the Oxford Retail Park in Cowley just after 9.30 this morning.

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The branch was closed briefly, and police say one member of staff was

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left badly shaken. The man who carried out the robbery is thought

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to be his 30s. He escaped on a bike towards the Blackbird Leys Bridge.

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It's crucial, life`changing work, but getting a wheelchair tweaked and

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adjusted to the individual needs of its user can take time. In

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Oxfordshire, there was a wait of up to 11 months. But the backlog's been

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cut ` and it's making a huge difference to the lives of people

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like Richard Payne, from Appleford near Didcot. As Helen Catt reports,

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Richard's among the many to benefit from a turnaround time that's now

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just five weeks. Richard Payne spends every waking

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hour in his wheelchair. He has multiple sclerosis and the chair has

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been customised to fit his individual needs. Deceit physics

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ended `` this seat is extended, because I have long legs and need

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support. I'm able to get closer to the table, which makes eating much

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easier. When Richard got his first electric wheelchair five years ago

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is, some patients were having to wait as long as 11 months, and

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having the wrong chair can be difficult. If it is not designed for

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your posture, your posture will deteriorate and you will be

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uncomfortable, and get pressure sores, so it is essential that the

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design of wheelchair specifically for your needs.

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Oxford University hospitals trust was giving funding `` was given

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funding to keep bring the waiting time down to five weeks. Staff have

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agreed to work overtime to speed up procedures. If you have the capacity

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right, then when you reduce the waiting list, you can maintain it.

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That's what we've been able to do. We have got rid of the old, as it

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were, of all the people who were awaiting longer than five weeks ``

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got rid of the backlog. But at the same time, we are seeing some

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changes as well, hopefully to improve things even further. Richard

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benefited from the faster system when he had his chair of the place

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this month. The hospital says it is confident it

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can keep the waiting time down for patients like him.

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That's all from me for the moment. The highlights of the weekend's

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football from Oxford United, Swindon Town and the MK Dons is coming up.

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I'll be back at 10.25pm. Now, here's Sally Taylor.

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shoppers had tried to take advantage, the wind and rain had

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kept most people away. Still to come on South Today:

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Overtakes you didn't get to see this year.

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Tony is here now. Moving on to sport. What is this about the

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Royals? It has been going on for a few

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weeks, one of those stories that goes under the radar. I thought it

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worth looking at in more detail. There are a few question marks over

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Redding. Reading chairman Sir John Madejski

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acknowledged that the club is looking for new investment in an

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interview with the BBC this weekend. It comes as Royals fans question the

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whereabouts of their absent owner and talks continue behind the scenes

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which could lead to a takeover. The long servants of Redding football

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club were in the directors box on Saturday. Chairman Sir John Madejski

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at the chairman... Chief Executive. BBC South has learned that the

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Royals are talking to potential investors. Formal talks have been

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going on for some weeks now. The current owner owns 51%, he should

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have bought the remaining 49% from St John Madejski Stadium, but the

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deal was not finalised. Now he may be ready to sell up.

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We're looking for potential investors, and that never stops.

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Are you making headway among? I think so, I think we are raking very

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good progress indeed. On the field, they lost their second

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consecutive home game, caught napping by Wigan who were to nil up

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after only 12 minutes. They missed a penalty in the second

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half, but then another Russian of the club headed one back. Delay to

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hit the post, but Wigan held on. Is it fair to say you are a little in

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the dark as to what the long`term plan can be?

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A long`term plan is to get Redding football club into the Premier

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League. It takes is a little bit of time to get it right. We'll get

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there because we know what we want to achieve.

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The games come thick and fast over Christmas. The names in the

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directors box to be changing, too. Want to watch over 2014, and there's

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more analysis on that on the BBC website.

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After a blistering start to the Premier League season, Southampton

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are now without a win in six games they led at home yesterday against

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Spurs through Adam Lallana. Emmanuel Adebayor volleyed in the first of

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his two goals on the day to level. Jos Hoiveld put through his own net,

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but Saints bounced straight back, Lallana set up Lambert for 2`2. But

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Adebayor got the winner. Southampton are ninth.

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And so to something of an MK Dons revival to

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report. Stephen Gleeson and a breathtaking opening goal. The

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second goal came from Ben Rees. Having Patrick Bamford on loan from

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Chelsea has been brilliant for the MK Dons, and he scored his 15th goal

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of the season to make it 3`0. He could be heading back to London, so

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enjoy him while he is here. At Swindon, it started well, with a

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goal in the first half. Swindon hit back, and then a cool finish from

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Michael story gave Town some festive cheer. Something has clicked with

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Oxford United, the manager says some of his players

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had ten days to save their careers. He criticised the culture of morning

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and said he has to stop it quickly. Basingstoke Bison got the better of

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Bracknell Bees in a Premier League ice hockey encounter decided by only

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one goal on Saturday night. Joe Miller scored what turned out to be

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the winner as Basingstoke secured second spot going into the festive

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period. They won the second game of the double`header 5`0 on Sunday.

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Just a point behind the Bison are the Guildford Flames. We look

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forward to a busy period of sport over Christmas. Lots of goals, match

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of the day, the football league show, and I'll be here on the 27th

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with the full football round`up. The weather is full outside, and it

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still making the headlines today. And if you look back over the year,

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it has dominated the headlines this year on many occasions.

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Snow in January and all sorts, didn't we? . Alexis Green has been

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looking back at some of the weather extremes.

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It really windy here on the Isle of Wight, but nowhere near as windy as

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it was back in October. That brought winds of 99 mph. Across the

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Atlantic, to weather systems merged and began to pick up speed as they

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were swept along by the jet stream. On the 27th of October the storm hit

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southern England, and it wasn't trees that bore the brunt. In

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Christchurch a family was walking with a shock. Four o'clock in the

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morning, my daughter started screaming saying a tree had come

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down on the road. I looked out the window and there it

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was. It has crushed three cars. When he starts to violently rotate a

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tornado can form, and evidence suggests that is what happened

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earlier this year on healing island.

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I just heard and felt this howling wind and it felt like the roof was

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going to come through the house. Then it was just gone in a blast.

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On a smaller scale, rotation at their country this phenomenon,

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commonly known as a duster. Mac they commonly car on sunny days, and this

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one was filmed in Basingstoke in September.

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I had my camera with me and I was about 40 feet away from it. I was

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beginning to get covered by the falling debris, but it just tracked

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diagonally and went through this gap with was a couple of hedges and that

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was it, it was gone. Remember the long hot summer?

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High`pressure settled over the UK in July, sending temperatures over 28

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Celsius for 19 consecutive days... It was nice to come out and get a

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nice breeze. It's too hot for me, I can't do anything.

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I need a siesta in the afternoon. And build services reported

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increased call outs, but to resign was booming.

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This year was all about the staycation. Do not wish you were in

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Spain? Now.

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Animals needed help to stay. Mac luckily she's not pink, lots of pink

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pigs can get some/ . But before the warm summer, easterly

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winds brought one of our coldest spring is on record. At the

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beginning of the year, snow brought much of the South to the halt, or at

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least two more leisurely pursuits. Extreme weather always produces some

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great photos. Take a look at this lightning photographed by South

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today viewers back in October. You look back on the weather and

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think, I remember that, but looking back at that, I don't remember much

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of it. I remember at the cricket at the role, cricketers were wearing

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hats and gloves. As you know, every day we bring you

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a high quality service. But sometimes it doesn't always go

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according to plan. Here are our South Today bloopers

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for this year. Enjoy! And join me later as we look at

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boulders from Mars and rockets and vacuum cleaners. I'm going to bring

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you an idiot's gate to space. Did I say vacuum cleaners?

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Journey later in the programme when I'll get... Straight in the eye.

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That's what we do, we make the budget up as we go along. No, no,

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no, no. Will more people be getting the

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centres? To To HE LAUGHS I'm so sorry.

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What's it like, Chris? Or even Steve, his brother.

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There's none need to get too close. That's fine. I'm going to back away

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a little bit. I had a little funny turn there, it got all exciting.

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Like this? SHE LAUGHS bloodlust. That made any environment much

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easier to working. Is a big need for a local shop and

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as part of Hampshire was mac I think so.

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I think there is a big need for a local shop with local food a day

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reasonable price. Rian Shropshire here?

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We're in Berkshire, actually. And those are the ones we can show

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you. I want to show you this. It's Christmas shopping that turned into

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a wedding proposal for a one`woman on Saturday. If flash mob broke out

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into a dance. The groom to be got up and joined in as he went into the

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store with his girlfriend, Laura. Your tower there on the pretext of

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doing some festive shopping. Guess what? At the end of the song, he

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does this dash he gets down on one knee and pops the question. And it

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was... It has got to be. Yes. Congratulations, Laura and Daniel.

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Now the weather: yes, we saw costs of 90 mph.

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We're going to experience very strong winds through the course of

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tonight. We have a lull tonight, but it turns very windy with further

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rain. You can see the gusts coming in. Areas east of the Isle of Wight,

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gusts wraps up to 85 miles per, and inland gusts of up to 60 mph. The

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rain eventually clears, and the winds gradually ease by Don

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tomorrow. Still very windy conditions. Winds increasing around

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ten or 11 o'clock tonight. Either side of midnight there could be

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gusts on the south coast of up to 90 mph, inland up to 60 mph. Tomorrow

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we can expect those of around four or five Celsius. Temperatures will

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be above freezing Tom and we are expected some sunny spells but also

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some heavy showers. If you catch a shower that could be a lot of fun or

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he'll next in. Those will continue, most likely for the South East.

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Temperatures will reach six up to nine Celsius. The winds brisk but

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not as strong as today are tonight. Through the early hours of Christmas

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day there will be a few showers, maybe the odd winter remix. There

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could be sweet or hill, even the odd snow shower, but it should not

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settle. Temperatures fall to one or two Celsius. A few showers on

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Christmas Day, that will set the theme for the rest of the week.

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There will be deals and heavy rain tonight. Stay tuned to your local

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BBC radio station for the latest in the travel situation. And not just

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tonight we will see heavy winds and rain fall. Looking ahead to Friday

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we have another deep area of low pressure pushing in from the

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Atlantic. You can see the isobars. Deals on the circles and very heavy

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rain at times. Want to be aware of. Stay tuned to your local radio

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station. It's a tradition on South Today that

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we end the last full programme before Christmas with a carol.

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This year, our choice is Silent Night performed by the Military

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Wives Choir from Aldershot. Christmas is a time for families,

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but many of the singers in the group have partners away on duty in

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Afghanistan. So for them ` and you ` we wish you a safe and very happy

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Christmas from all of us here at South Today. Good night.

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# Silent night! Holy night! # All is calm all is bright.

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# Round yon virgin mother and child. # Holy infant so tender and mild.

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# Sleep in heavenly peace. # Sleep in heavenly peace.

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# Silent night! Holy night! # Son of God love's pure light.

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# Shepherds quake at the sight. # Glories stream from heaven afar.

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# Heavenly hosts sing Alleluia. # Christ the Saviour is born.

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# Christ the Saviour is born! # # Silent night!

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Holy night! # Son of God

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# Radiant beams from thy holy face # With the dawn of redeeming grace

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# Jesus Lord at thy birth # Jesus Lord at thy birth #.

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